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Somfin posted:NO loving WAY. You can do it, play the game now and string the bad guy along, it is literally the best "gently caress you" moment in all of gaming history.
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Sorry I should really add content, here, Sleeping dogs is really not as good as I remembered, the combat's bland and repetitive, the shooting is heavy but not fun,and the story's fyucking terrible by the halfway point and falls apart completely by the end. Wei shen's a whiny idiot and gets everyone around him killed, Winston's ok but gets wasted literally halfway through the game and there's no buildup it happens too fast to even affect the player, Jackie's a moron and everyone else is a cliché,big smile lee literally turns up towards the end of the game, says about three lines and suddenly he's the bad guy you have to kill. The driving's terrible and the city itself is empty and soulless, I know the game was canned and then brought back by squeenix right? Well it feels like they just left poo poo in the game without actually wondering whether it needed to be there.
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I just picked up The Division. This game is really loving racist and lays the class warfare on pretty thick. Am I crazy for seeing this? It just seems so obviously a dogwhistle for all those thug hating, poor hating survivalists, it makes me really uncomfortable to play at all. gently caress. Edit: what are the chances I can get a refund from Sony for this poo poo? knobgobblin has a new favorite as of 17:22 on Nov 26, 2016 |
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Nov 26, 2016 17:13
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there wolf lmao posted:I just picked up The Division. This game is really loving racist and lays the class warfare on pretty thick. Am I crazy for seeing this? It just seems so obviously a dogwhistle for all those thug hating, poor hating survivalists, it makes me really uncomfortable to play at all. gently caress. No, the Looter enemies being a bunch of dark-skinned people in urban clothes who brag about killing cops has been A Thing since the game came out
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Nov 26, 2016 17:26
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there wolf lmao posted:I just picked up The Division. This game is really loving racist and lays the class warfare on pretty thick. Am I crazy for seeing this? It just seems so obviously a dogwhistle for all those thug hating, poor hating survivalists, it makes me really uncomfortable to play at all. gently caress.
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Nov 26, 2016 17:30
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Guy Mann posted:No, the Looter enemies being a bunch of dark-skinned people in urban clothes who brag about killing cops has been A Thing since the game came out "B b b but they are obviously white voice actors!" "They are wearing dark masks under their color coded hoodies and flat brimmed caps, how can you tell their skin color?" "But they're Rioters, of course they're bad! Its okay that you can loot and pillage and kill (with "government sanction") though." Ugh, I've been reading reactions to this game after buying and not before. I regret this purchase. Lunchmeat Larry posted:Tom Clancy man, you know what you're getting Yeah, its been forever since I played a Tom Clancy game, and I've never read a book of his. I still should have seen this coming.
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Nov 26, 2016 17:31
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Max posted:Witcher 3 is good, but gets very, very long in the tooth. I definitely reached a "gently caress these side quests" moment and decided to mainline things. And then the main story quest threw more required side quests at me. Skellige is what drags Witcher 3 down, mainly its annoying geography. Other than that it's pretty 
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Nov 26, 2016 17:34
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Tom Clancy man, you know what you're getting does he even look at these game plots or just sign away his name to every ip ubisoft churns out that has guns?
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Nov 26, 2016 17:35
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Nov 26, 2016 17:36
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Blind Sally posted:F.E.A.R.: Extraction Point: again, any combat involving ghosts. also, seeing twenty soldiers rush towards you in a subway, getting ready for an awesome fight, then having the spooky ghost girl appear and disintegrate them all before you can do anything. "you're safe now"?? go away, Alma, let me have fun playing this game. I found Extraction Point to be pretty mediocre. Something about the balance of the combat felt off to me somehow, and the plot is just a giant hamster wheel. I liked Perseus Mandate better, even though it's technically worse.
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Nov 26, 2016 17:38
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Sproggiwood is a great little turn-based roguelike but the interface being designed for phones and tablets is a pain because even if you can mostly play using keyboard shortcuts there are still a bunch of design decisions based around working on a tiny screen that are inconvenient, like not being able to see weapon and item stats without clicking on the them. Also it does that thing that seems to be endemic to multiplatform games where the PC version is more expensive than the mobile version despite being the exact same program; it launched at $14.99 on Steam but was only $9.99 when it launched on Google Play and the iOS App Store, and right now it's on sale for $4.49 on Steam but only $1.99 on mobile. I kind of regret buying it just because I basically paid more for an inferior version of the game.
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Nov 26, 2016 18:00
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Action Tortoise posted:does he even look at these game plots or just sign away his name to every ip ubisoft churns out that has guns? He's dead but for a while before he died a lot of his output were ghost writers anyway.
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Nov 26, 2016 18:07
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Guy Mann posted:No, the Looter enemies being a bunch of dark-skinned people in urban clothes who brag about killing cops has been A Thing since the game came out The looter group uses a caucasian model with white, hispanic and black voice actors - the same with all four enemy factions. Of the three factions lead by white men two of them are villainous because of privilige and wealth the game explicitly talks about.
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Nov 26, 2016 18:37
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Nov 26, 2016 18:40
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There are problems with the Division 's government blowjobs, but the enemies are about as diverse as you can get. It only comes down to Hunting Blacks when you ignore the game, read Polygon and project your weird poo poo.
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Nov 26, 2016 18:44
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I just bought The Division too, and your handler? superior officer? Faye Lau makes me laugh so hard every time she does her "I don't know anything, or do anything, or ever really impart any useful information, but everything I say is a cool oo-rah line about how The Div Gonna Give It To Ya" schtick. It's so bad that I was immediately endeared to the police captain guy you recruit when he responded to one of her toughguy lines with a half-laughing ". . . Right."
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Nov 26, 2016 18:57
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Man, Faye drags down every scene she is. Just completely straight oo-rah for the Division bollocks that's played without any sort of irony.
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Nov 26, 2016 19:11
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Yeah I really haven't been in a position to see the looters faces clearly, I could be mistaking the color of their skin. Oops, looks like I'm the racist. But the whole government blowjob you mentioned thing is still a huge turn off - but it's something I should have expected.
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Nov 26, 2016 19:32
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Phlegmish posted:Skellige is what drags Witcher 3 down, mainly its annoying geography. Other than that it's pretty It was honestly the 7 Dwarfs quest when you go to the isle of the Mists that made me turn the game off for a while. I was there to get poo poo done, not do another escort mission.
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Nov 26, 2016 19:35
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there wolf lmao posted:Yeah I really haven't been in a position to see the looters faces clearly, I could be mistaking the color of their skin. Oops, looks like I'm the racist. But the whole government blowjob you mentioned thing is still a huge turn off - but it's something I should have expected. Yeah, I mean don't get me wrong I can understand people coming down on games which would do this poo poo genuinely, but the Division goes out of its way to make the groups - both villain and heroic - very diverse. The "Caucasian model with face and body concealing stuff" was another step in that, precisely so people wouldn't get stuck on the racial politics. I guess that hasn't really worked though.  It's just aggravating because you get people like Guy Mann who read Polygon, think they can get an epic burn in and shriek about the game while clearly having not actually played it for five minutes. Even the guys who "brag about killing cops" are - again - Caucasian models with three different voice sets. The only faction in-game with a single ethnicity in its voice set are the Cleaners, who go from Gruff Bronx to Whiny Bronx rather than the aforementioned white/black/Hispanic stuff.
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Nov 26, 2016 19:40
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Yeah I only played about an hour last night, so the breadth and depth of my observations is pretty low. I'm gonna give it another chance tonight without my initial impressions and see how I like the game.
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Nov 26, 2016 19:44
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there wolf lmao posted:Yeah I only played about an hour last night, so the breadth and depth of my observations is pretty low. I'm gonna give it another chance tonight without my initial impressions and see how I like the game. Sure sure, no worries. Cheers for staying so chill.  Like I said, I won't ever defend its portrayal of the government and lack of the Agent's accountability, but diversity in its cast and side stories is one that's worth treating with a bit of patience. It just surprised me a lot to see an Ubisoft open world game, of all things, to be making that kind of push without slapping itself on the back.
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Nov 26, 2016 19:49
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I really dunno what people's problem with Witcher 3's combat is. My first playthrough was on hard and barring stuff like fighting a wraith and a fiend way over my level at one point, I was never having some issue killing things or getting Geralt to move how I wanted. 
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Action Tortoise posted:signs have secondary modes. the force push turns into a multidirectional push, the trap turns into a turret that fires at enemies and draws aggro, the shield becomes a bubble shield that actually heals your guy as it takes hits. dunno what the brainwash one's secondary is I only ever use it to calm my horse down. Secondary brainwash one is used in conversations.
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Nov 26, 2016 19:50
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:The driving's terrible and the city itself is empty and soulless, I know the game was canned and then brought back by squeenix right? Well it feels like they just left poo poo in the game without actually wondering whether it needed to be there. And you've totally lost me here. You should eat a pork bun!
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Nov 26, 2016 20:05
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sleeping dogs: karaoke simulator
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Nov 26, 2016 20:06
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poptart_fairy posted:Sure sure, no worries. Cheers for staying so chill.
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StandardVC10 posted:I found Extraction Point to be pretty mediocre. Something about the balance of the combat felt off to me somehow, and the plot is just a giant hamster wheel. I liked Perseus Mandate better, even though it's technically worse. Between the ghosts ending encounters before they can even begin and your escort buddy, Holiday  , helping you out in combat, I've felt like I've had a lot less to do. Nearly finished it, though, so I'm looking forward to what Perseus Mandate's got to offer.
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there wolf lmao posted:High-5 for a reasonable discussion about a sensitive subject on the internet. That doesn't happen that often. Poptart fairy is a hellthread refugee who materializes in any thread about video games that even casually mentions anything involving race or gender, nothing about them is reasonable or could even be called a discussion. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Maxwell Lord posted:And you've totally lost me here. You should eat a pork bun! City sucks *folds arms*
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Guy Mann posted:Poptart fairy is a hellthread refugee who materializes in any thread about video games that even casually mentions anything involving race or gender, nothing about them is reasonable or could even be called a discussion. I'm not familiar with their history, but from what I've seen this instance seems to go against your previous judgments? I'm just looking for a discussion about the game and not something like this call out.
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:Sorry I should really add content, here, Sleeping dogs is really not as good as I remembered, the combat's bland and repetitive, the shooting is heavy but not fun,and the story's fyucking terrible by the halfway point and falls apart completely by the end. Big Smile Lee personally appears around halfway through, when Wei becomes a Triad leader, but the game's been building to him for a long time. All through all of the earlier stuff with Dogeyes they're talking about how he's backed by Big Smile Lee, and he's linked to most of the plot missions. He's not at all out of nowhere. The bigger problem with the story is that it's very clearly incredibly rushed, especially towards the end, and leaves a ton of poo poo unexplored and unexplained. Never addresses why Big Smile Lee apparently has a bunch of a rival Triad working for him, for example, or what happened to Ricky and Vivienne. More importantly they never really give a conclusion to the storyline of Wei getting too involved in the Triads and potentially joining them for real; they spend a ton of time on it, and then he's just suddenly a cop again and it's all good and fine. It also goes straight from finding out Commissioner Pendrew was crooked and sold you out, to finding out he's now untouchable, to... suddenly finding a perfect piece of evidence against him. IN THE SAME CUTSCENE. Very clearly like 5 hours of the game dropped there.
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Didn't Sleepy Pups have a last minute redesign when they lost the True Crime license?
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Blind Sally posted:Between the ghosts ending encounters before they can even begin and your escort buddy, Holiday I'd say the biggest point in its favor is that you can use the dual pistols for pretty much the whole game.
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dordreff posted:Big Smile Lee personally appears around halfway through, when Wei becomes a Triad leader, but the game's been building to him for a long time. All through all of the earlier stuff with Dogeyes they're talking about how he's backed by Big Smile Lee, and he's linked to most of the plot missions. He's not at all out of nowhere. I think sleeping dogs should have either just been a straight up crime game with the player as a triad or just a straight up cop game (true crime) trying to do both just didn't work at all, I literally turned up at triad missions in a loving police car having mown down a street full of people, covered in blood and none of my triad buddies or the police ever gave a poo poo, there was literally no penalty at all, I know it's a videogame but jesus lol.
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Sleeping Dogs is a Hong Kong action movie and that "divided loyalty" trope is really loving common.
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Somfin posted:I specifically play all games as a naive earnest poo poo because I'm 100% positive that there's no way the devs actually considered the 'play along so as to get as close as possible to the bad guy and then loving take him down' path.
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Shadow Warrior 2: the main character has a bunch of spectacularly lovely, banal one-liners and won't just shut the gently caress up.
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dordreff posted:Shadow Warrior 2: the main character has a bunch of spectacularly lovely, banal one-liners and won't just shut the gently caress up. Is the main character still Lo Wang? Because he's always been an Asian Duke Nukem.
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I guess witcher 3 is a real mehhhhhhh for me, I just can't really explain why I don't like it.
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