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WickedHate posted:San Andreas is the best GTA imo, but even so, that game was pretty much all about CJ getting dicked around by other people until the very end. Ehh, there is some of that, but for every mission CJ gets dicked around on, there's another he's cool with, and still another he outright initiates. And he at least seems to be having fun on some of them, unlike Niko or Marston. Byzantine has a new favorite as of 06:34 on Jan 26, 2017 |
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Byzantine posted:Ehh, there is some of that, but for every mission CJ gets dicked around on, there's another he's cool with, and still another he outright initiates. And he at least seems to be having fun on some of them, unlike Niko or Marston. A fair chunk of the San Fierro and Las Venturas missions are at CJ's initiative, or at least have some spin of his devising in the mix like getting the rival Tong to follow his car out of town while Woozie gets out of dodge safely. Even the ones where he's forced into doing stuff usually at least imply he's doing it his/your own way.
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Jan 26, 2017 06:57
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John Murdoch posted:I like the people who complain that Borderlands 2 is literally nothing but memes, but their definition includes completely original jokes and callbacks to those jokes. This is some sort of weird thing that gets spread around by people who have never played it. When it started coming up repeatedly about a year after the game came out, I thought it seemed odd that it didn't match my experience with the game it all so I looked it up. There's a big list of references the game makes on its wiki and the actual meme section is this tiny part at the bottom which almost entirely consists of challenge names and short enemy lines you're pretty unlikely to even hear. None of it is in quest dialogue.
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Jan 26, 2017 07:15
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FredMSloniker posted:This would belong in the other thread, but one of my pet peeves is when games simultaneously deride and include a game element. It's not funny to talk about how sewer levels suck, but it's especially not funny to talk about how sewer levels suck in a sucky sewer level. If you're going to make the joke in the first place, have the protagonist refuse to go into the sewer or something. Even though I barely play GW2 anymore (beta plus 3 years is enough), I will defend their mission style and say that it is the best MMO to date. Everything is so natural and fluid.
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Digirat posted:This is some sort of weird thing that gets spread around by people who have never played it. When it started coming up repeatedly about a year after the game came out, I thought it seemed odd that it didn't match my experience with the game it all so I looked it up. There's a big list of references the game makes on its wiki and the actual meme section is this tiny part at the bottom which almost entirely consists of challenge names and short enemy lines you're pretty unlikely to even hear. None of it is in quest dialogue.
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Me, my wife and brother in law all got Borderlands 2 for free and are playing throught it now for the first time and it's definitely not very meme-y in a reference sense. I dont even know if i've caught a reference to a meme, maybe a throwaway line? Tiny Tina is a little too "lol random" but the humor is mostly just goofy hit or miss.
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Most people's problem with the game isn't the comedy. It's the loot.
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FredMSloniker posted:It's not funny to talk about how sewer levels suck, but it's especially not funny to talk about how sewer levels suck in a sucky sewer level. If you're going to make the joke in the first place, have the protagonist refuse to go into the sewer or something. I'm not going down there! It smells like poo gas.
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Inzombiac posted:Even though I barely play GW2 anymore (beta plus 3 years is enough), I will defend their mission style and say that it is the best MMO to date. Everything is so natural and fluid. I loved adventuring in GW2. Other MMO's just kind of feel like there's an area in between quest hubs, but GW2 had so much stuff to discover and cool cosmetic rewards for completing areas. I really think they knocked it out of the park and if their dungeons had of been better they would have utterly killed it. Best subscription style as well
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Digirat posted:This is some sort of weird thing that gets spread around by people who have never played it. When it started coming up repeatedly about a year after the game came out, I thought it seemed odd that it didn't match my experience with the game it all so I looked it up. There's a big list of references the game makes on its wiki and the actual meme section is this tiny part at the bottom which almost entirely consists of challenge names and short enemy lines you're pretty unlikely to even hear. None of it is in quest dialogue. People are conflating memes and references. The latter being technically different from the former is what the writers latched onto and whinged about to deflect criticism.
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The memes where terrible but the story itself was also very weak, it also completely ruined the older characters as well, Lilith in particular was just a junkie and it was just odd that Roland gets killed given the context of the world, and the explanation of it was that the new U's aren't actually canon or something. It didn't help that some pre-sequel's dialogue just seemed like sour grapes. The loot was completely terrible as well, its like they where trying to make it pseudo MMO and it just didn't work at all. The higher difficulties where just horrifically unbalanced, no testing seemingly went into them. I'd describe BL2 as aggressively mediocre, good for one playthrough but not much else.
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Claptrap is the most loathsome character in gaming history, and I don't give a gently caress if annoying is what they were going for. If so, they nailed that better than anything else in the series.
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Alteisen posted:the explanation of it was that the new U's aren't actually canon Yeah, the writer has no idea what the word 'canon' means outside of fandom definitions, and doesn't want to take credit for accidentally building a really interesting little society of immortals. The plot holes could have been papered over with a line about disconnecting someone from the system or him literally having no money or whatever else, but no, "that whole thing in the game doesn't loving exist" is easier. Goddamn why am I still mad about that.
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Somfin posted:Yeah, the writer has no idea what the word 'canon' means outside of fandom definitions, and doesn't want to take credit for accidentally building a really interesting little society of immortals. The plot holes could have been papered over with a line about disconnecting someone from the system or him literally having no money or whatever else, but no, "that whole thing in the game doesn't loving exist" is easier. I think I mentioned it in this thread before, but the first time I played BL2, I figured Hyperion was luring vault hunters and hiring people to kill them to nickle-and-dime their way to even more riches, and thought that was really clever. I came up with a more clever plotline than the writers of BL2 by ACCIDENT. EDIT for content since I forgot this wasn't the dragging things down thread: In Dead by Daylight, if you're playing as a survivor, the camera is in front of the four survivors with yourself in the center, so you can see which character everyone's playing as. If you're playing as the killer, the camera view is roughly 20 feet behind the survivors' camera, behind the head of your killer. Even before the game has actually started, they know you're off screen watching them and they can't see you 
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Alteisen posted:It didn't help that some pre-sequel's dialogue just seemed like sour grapes. I'm still slightly irritated by what they did with Torque in TPS. In Borderlands 2 the joke was that this hyper macho, hyper muscular, hyper testosterone-laden lunkhead was actually a perfect gentleman who was the most progressive character in the entire game. It was organic, funny and made the banter in missions and free roam interesting to listen to. In The Pre-Sequel they have him ranting about the concepts of friendzoning and misogyny while you trudge through grey corridors. Like c'mon guys, you already had a great concept there, don't turn him into an actual lecture.
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Danaru posted:I think I mentioned it in this thread before, but the first time I played BL2, I figured Hyperion was luring vault hunters and hiring people to kill them to nickle-and-dime their way to even more riches, and thought that was really clever. I came up with a more clever plotline than the writers of BL2 by ACCIDENT. This would make complete sense. Jack wants you dead, but he's so confident that you're no true threat to him and that he can kill you whenever he wants that he doesn't bother disconnecting you from the new U stations, and at the end he dies because Angel disconnected him. Or they could have made the New U stations be run by one of the other interplanetary megacorporations, who don't care about Jack wanting you dead but Jack himself refuses to use the inferior products of a competitor.
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poptart_fairy posted:I'm still slightly irritated by what they did with Torque in TPS. In Borderlands 2 the joke was that this hyper macho, hyper muscular, hyper testosterone-laden lunkhead was actually a perfect gentleman who was the most progressive character in the entire game. It was organic, funny and made the banter in missions and free roam interesting to listen to.
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That may be it! Haven't played either for a while.
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Terrible Opinions posted:I don't believe Torgue appears in the pre-sequel. I'm pretty sure what you're talking about happened in the D&D themed DLC. There's a sidequest where you roll a thing off a cliff for him near the beginning of the game. Olive! has a new favorite as of 12:43 on Jan 26, 2017 |
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Terrible Opinions posted:I don't believe Torgue appears in the pre-sequel. I'm pretty sure what you're talking about happened in the D&D themed DLC. I'm pretty sure he gives you at least one mission in, like, one of the intial big areas, sometime around where you deal with jump pads and O2 tanks for the first time. I recall his dialogue where he comments on his past misogyny and all that. e:f;b
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Alteisen posted:The memes where terrible but the story itself was also very weak, it also completely ruined the older characters as well, Lilith in particular was just a junkie and it was just odd that Roland gets killed given the context of the world, and the explanation of it was that the new U's aren't actually canon or something. The New-U's are a Hyperion system, and Roland's gang aren't exactly working for Hyperion interests anymore  . Iirc, you're hacked into the New-U system in Borderlands 2.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:The New-U's are a Hyperion system, and Roland's gang aren't exactly working for Hyperion interests anymore Exactly! That's the sort of thing that should have been in the game. Instead the lead writer declared the entire New-U system to not have actually been in the game.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:The New-U's are a Hyperion system, and Roland's gang aren't exactly working for Hyperion interests anymore Anthony Burch said outright that new u stations don't exist in the game world only in the metagame, despite his own characters loving acknowledging them. Anthony Burch is a pathetic hack
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Danaru posted:Anthony Burch said outright that new u stations don't exist in the game world only in the metagame, despite his own characters loving acknowledging them.
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Febreeze posted:Tiny Tina is a little too "lol random" but the humor is mostly just goofy hit or miss. Tiny Tina was awesome when she was 90% more wigger before Gearbox suddenly reversed course on that aspect out of virtue signaling. I mean, I wanna note here, I'm normally super into the whole idea of calling out "problamatic" poo poo, but Gearbox and Anthony Burch in particular are a bunch of hypocrites who's only interest in social justice is preening.
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Well borderlands was mentioned in a thread so I guess it's time to read the exact same creepy hate wank about anthony burch I've read probably fifteen times on the forum already.
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Digirat posted:Well borderlands was mentioned in a thread so I guess it's time to read the exact same creepy hate wank about anthony burch I've read probably fifteen times on the forum already. But he's an unfunny sjw cuck who 
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WickedHate posted:wigger
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Len posted:But he's an unfunny sjw cuck who It's a fun word salad of terms that basically mean "Ignore this person's opinion" For actual content I'm going to take a trip back in time to Half-Life 2 and how it was one of the first games I played where there was a noticeable change in the sound of gunfire beyond a certain distance.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:well, there's a word I haven't seen in a while I realized how hosed up it was when I realized how the word began.
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Alteisen posted:Its especially bad with Sweet since CJ basically builds an empire by that point but Sweet can't shut the gently caress up about the HOOD HOMIE. I so wanted CJ to grab him by the throat and scream "Your 'homies' don't give a poo poo about you! They ran like little bitches when you got busted! The people who've actually had my back are the guy loving our sister, a blind Triad and a loving CIA agent! Forget about that shithole and let's go make millions managing our rap star!"
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:well, there's a word I haven't seen in a while I just checked and it is not the 90's and I am not in middle school so what the hell
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codenameFANGIO posted:I just checked and it is not the 90's and I am not in middle school so what the hell I know, I know, but I couldn't think of anything else to concisely get the idea across. That's pretty unambiguously her whole "gag" in vanilla Borderlands 2.
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i'm replaying MGSV atm and i keep noticing how in bright daylight the game simulates light refraction and things in the distance get wavy. it's a cool effect. i'm also appreciating that the environment objects can give off a noise alert to guards if you're not paying attention and bump into an empty jug or some debris in the room next to them. Edit: WickedHate posted:I know, I know, but I couldn't think of anything else to concisely get the idea across. That's pretty unambiguously her whole "gag" in vanilla Borderlands 2. i've only seen bits here and there of Tiny Tina but i thought they were going for Ellen Page's way of talking in Juno.
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WickedHate posted:Tiny Tina was awesome when she was 90% more wigger before Gearbox suddenly reversed course on that aspect out of virtue signaling. Go the gently caress home and think about your life if you just unironically used "virtue signaling" to complain about a change in characterization in a video game.
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To get us in topic instead of dog piling wickedhate. I like how the ps4 takes screenshots when you get a trophy. Normally it's a black screen or something bland but I got the one in RE7 for blocking an enemy attack only I died, so the screenshot is just the trophy alert and the game over screen and it made me chuckle.
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Nier: Automata is a platformer by Platinum games with Taro Yoko at the helm. People are going to be curious about its origins and play Nier...people are going to be playing Drakengard because of Nier. People are going to be attempting Ending E on Drakengard in 2017. I feel like this post also needs go to the Schadenfreude thread because the levels of suffering are going to spike into infinity and I cannot wait.
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Was that ending the rhythm game battle against giant space babies Typing that out I actually don't even know if that really happened or that was just a fever dream I made up
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Saint Freak posted:Was that ending the rhythm game battle against giant space babies Giant salt woman. And then drakengard 3 was against five giant flower women
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Taerkar posted:For actual content I'm going to take a trip back in time to Half-Life 2 and how it was one of the first games I played where there was a noticeable change in the sound of gunfire beyond a certain distance. This contributed to one of my favorite moments in that game, towards the end. You open a door out onto a big tunnel. One side is a dead end, the other side has some soldier shooting at you incredibly ineffectually from a long distance away. So you head that way and BAM a strider pops out behind you and poo poo poo poo gotta run for cover. Describing it makes it sound really uninteresting but at the time it was really exciting.
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