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exquisite tea posted:All the original great beat-em ups were conceived out of 80s zeitgeist fears of organized crime and urban decay, now in today's political climate I think the opportunity is there for a modern revival where you beat down nazis and corporate shills with razor-lined briefcases. I'd buy that for a pretty penny.
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exquisite tea posted:All the original great beat-em ups were conceived out of 80s zeitgeist fears of organized crime and urban decay, now in today's political climate I think the opportunity is there for a modern revival where you beat down nazis and corporate shills with razor-lined briefcases. This just made me think of a sequel to Liberal Crime Squad where you play as The Liberal Elite and pay protesters and maybe it's a real-time strategy game about using ~*~violent protests~*~ to disrupt True Conservative America? I dunno, I'm spitballing here.
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Healbot posted:I'd buy that for a pretty penny. *zenny
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exquisite tea posted:All the original great beat-em ups were conceived out of 80s zeitgeist fears of organized crime and urban decay, now in today's political climate I think the opportunity is there for a modern revival where you beat down nazis and corporate shills with razor-lined briefcases. Totally would be down for this. Final Fight's next game should be this. The mayor of Earth suplexing nazis.
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Rexroom posted:https://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20753235853?page=3#post-58 The xim/controller split is real and it kinda sucks. Most of the CoD goons I play with use the xim and they wreck. I occasionally top leaderboards but it's rare. Though I guess tbf, stux is a top tier cod goon and uses a gamepad.
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Make a god sim where you are given control of the almighty POTUS twitter account.
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I doubt anyone who reads this thread wouldn't already know about it but Pillars of Eternity 2 was announced formally and has a kick starter on fig here that is already at about 190% of the funding goal. Pretty neat for CRPG fans.
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Wasn't PoE2 already fully funded and they were just doing the thing on fig for more cash? I like Obsidian and their games a lot but poo poo like "well if we get 100k more dollars we'll do more voiceover than we planned!! seems kinda dumb. Oh we got x dollars I guess we can increase the level cap arbitrarily!
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Fire Emblem heroes is good and fun. Repeatedly murdering the dumb characters from fates and loli dragons with the OG green cavalier and friends is cool and good.
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suuma posted:Wasn't PoE2 already fully funded and they were just doing the thing on fig for more cash? Essentially what they were crowdfunding was adding multiclassing to the game, along with having a French and German translation at launch. I'd guess they figured "it'll cost us another $1.1 million to add these things" and that was the crowdfunding goal. After that, it's basically, "what can we do with more money?" Add another $200,000 worth of voice acting? Sure, why not. Spend more development resources developing, writing, and voicing a new companion? Okay. My read on it was that, if they didn't meet their crowdfunding goal, they would have had the funding to release Pillars of Eternity 2, but the crowdfunding lets them add new stuff. Either that or it's a cynical ploy to gauge consumer interest, what do I know? exquisite tea posted:Looking forward to reading more paragraphs of some turbonerd's embarrassing D&D roleplay. Pillars of Eternity is good 
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The crowdfunding could also assist obsidian if they want to move towards publishing in-house. Something the devs have talked about, mentioning CDProjekt as an inspiration.
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Tyranny definitely felt like it would have benefited a lot from extra development time, so if self-publishing helps em make that time it would be cool and good.
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Does PoE do anything that interesting or is it 100% medieval fantasy europe all the way through? Because I tried to play it when it came out and I got to the first town and found out I'd be spending the next several hours dealing with like, a mean lord of fantasy village, and my eyes glazed over. I'm glad the sequel has gone for a different setting.
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exquisite tea posted:Looking forward to reading more paragraphs of some turbonerd's embarrassing D&D roleplay. [matrix loading room scene gun scene but it's all your dragon age posts]
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Red Bones posted:Does PoE do anything that interesting or is it 100% medieval fantasy europe all the way through? Because I tried to play it when it came out and I got to the first town and found out I'd be spending the next several hours dealing with like, a mean lord of fantasy village, and my eyes glazed over. I'm glad the sequel has gone for a different setting. No and it's made worse by every new area being accompanied by a Lord Infodump who drops 21 paragraphs of lore on you within the opening minutes of each zone.
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It has some interesting history/lore poo poo but it does suffer from being incredibly dry
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PoE introduces a fictional premise then subverts that fictional premise, and whether or not you care depends on your predisposition towards fictional premises
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Red Bones posted:Does PoE do anything that interesting or is it 100% medieval fantasy europe all the way through? Because I tried to play it when it came out and I got to the first town and found out I'd be spending the next several hours dealing with like, a mean lord of fantasy village, and my eyes glazed over. I'm glad the sequel has gone for a different setting. Yes and no. The "mean lord of fantasy village" thing is actually an early-game side quest and the actual important part is everything you're learning about the Hollowborn during that. You're free to ignore it and move on. Act 2 takes place in a much larger city and is mostly about faction politics and whether or not it's cool to do science using people's souls, and then the third act gets all "the true nature of the gods" and poo poo. The White March expansions have more interesting main plots, I think, but PoE definitely goes beyond "there is an evil lord and he is being a dick to his town of mud farmers" pretty early. That said, the setting is your standard fields-and-forests pseudo-European fantasy. There are some weirder elements under the surface but by and large that's what the Dyrwood is all about. I agree that it's a very good thing it's moving to another part of the world for the sequel. The Deadfire Archipelago is all about inhospitable islands with crazy climates, giant sea monsters, pseudo-Inuit dwarves, and big seafaring dudes with shark teeth. They apparently want to make factions a bigger deal and make them matter throughout the whole game instead of just in the middle, too. exquisite tea posted:No and it's made worse by every new area being accompanied by a Lord Infodump who drops 21 paragraphs of lore on you within the opening minutes of each zone. PoE2 is (thankfully) stealing Tyranny's "hover over highlighted words for lore" thing to help prevent infodumps, especially for returning players who are going to know a lot of it already. Harrow fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Feb 3, 2017 |
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Never forget: one of Metal Gear Solid's major installments had a villain named Hot Coldman
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The villain of Final Fantasy Adventure is just named Dark Lord. And then they remade that game and gave everyone a ton of dialog and tried to make the characters less 1 dimensional but left him with the name Dark Lord and people wondering if he was going to do something evil.
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Lizard Wizard posted:Never forget: one of Metal Gear Solid's major installments had a villain named Hot Coldman Still waiting on Yes Noman and In Outman.
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Nasgate posted:Fire Emblem heroes is good and fun. Repeatedly murdering the dumb characters from fates and loli dragons with the OG green cavalier and friends is cool and good. I uninstalled it after 10 minutes
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Phantasium posted:The villain of Final Fantasy Adventure is just named Dark Lord. There is a villain in Tecmo's (extremely weird and bad) Secret of the Stars named Badbad.
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How difficult is it to get 100% compendium in SMTIV Apocalypse? I know the original had a few demons locked behind NG+ cycles but I was curious if Apocalypse did as well, but this is the first time in my life I've been let down by GameFAQs. Not a single entry for Apocalypse.
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exquisite tea posted:There hasn't been a beat 'em up worthy of the title since like, that fan remake of Streets of Rage 2. Dunno when that came out but I had a blast with the Scott Pilgrim beat `em up back on the 360.
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exquisite tea posted:There hasn't been a beat 'em up worthy of the title since like, that fan remake of Streets of Rage 2. Was that before or after Castle Crashers? That game was pretty good. Nasgate posted:Fire Emblem heroes is good and fun. Repeatedly murdering the dumb characters from fates and loli dragons with the OG green cavalier and friends is cool and good. I'm bitter because that game got an android release out of the box and I'm still waiting for super mario run Lizard Wizard posted:Never forget: one of Metal Gear Solid's major installments had a villain named Hot Coldman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6m1_i1neoI
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I downloaded Fire Emblem Heroes but I honestly don't see myself playing a lot of it because I really, really hate gacha games. I understand you gotta make money somehow but I've never found a gacha game that I felt like I could have fun with without either a) uninstalling and reinstalling to reroll my initial pull for literal hours or b) spending money on essentially gambling. There are gacha games out there that I'd spend like $20 upfront to have a version without gacha mechanics. Like, Terra Battle? That game's fun as hell, but the gacha poo poo just kills it for me.
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exquisite tea posted:All the original great beat-em ups were conceived out of 80s zeitgeist fears of organized crime and urban decay, now in today's political climate I think the opportunity is there for a modern revival where you beat down nazis and corporate shills with razor-lined briefcases. In Ninja Warriors you are a Robot Ninja and you must stop the bad guy who is some kinda corrupt tyrant with an evil government/corporation/loosely affiliated group of evil municipalities (it's not super-clear) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvSsnf0BOWc Close, but not quite...
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Harrow posted:I downloaded Fire Emblem Heroes but I honestly don't see myself playing a lot of it because I really, really hate gacha games. I understand you gotta make money somehow but I've never found a gacha game that I felt like I could have fun with without either a) uninstalling and reinstalling to reroll my initial pull for literal hours or b) spending money on essentially gambling. Those aren't video games, they're glorified gambling machines that don't pay out and they should be illegal.
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In Training posted:I uninstalled it after 10 minutes Same
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In Training posted:Those aren't video games, they're glorified gambling machines that don't pay out and they should be illegal.
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exquisite tea posted:All the original great beat-em ups were conceived out of 80s zeitgeist fears of organized crime and urban decay, now in today's political climate I think the opportunity is there for a modern revival where you beat down nazis and corporate shills with razor-lined briefcases. This was why I liked Double Dragon Neon, it had the fidelity of a modern game (polygonal characters on hand-drawn backdrops) but the aesthetic was a knowing wink towards 80s pop culture and games without becoming a Kung Fury monkey cheese smorgasbord. Chomp8645 posted:Still waiting on Yes Noman and In Outman. Colonel Campbell's military friends General Specific and Private Public
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Linnaeus posted:Even without the gacha crap, the maps I played were exceptionally dull and you could only field 4 characters (lol). They also decided not to get a good character artist for some reason. Yeah, and with a series with pretty great sprite/animation work for the little encounters, there was 0 of that in the tutorial I played.
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Nasgate posted:Fire Emblem heroes is good and fun. Repeatedly murdering the dumb characters from fates and loli dragons with the OG green cavalier and friends is cool and good. Also I pulled Camilla and Abel who are just destroying everything in sight
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They half are, Japan outlawed one particularly egregious form a few years ago and all the F2P mobile companies hastily patched it out.
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