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Bust Rodd posted:Unpopular Video Game Opinion: This is the 2nd time I'm bringing up this franchise but it is completely baffling to me that in 2017 so many games get voice acting so very, very wrong when the Soul Reaver: Legacy of Kain games just knock it the gently caress out of the park and these are 15-20 year old games. I do miss those games. It's a shame they lost direction since the first Blood Omen, but your take is spot-on. Professional voice actors kick the poo poo out of getting ordinary actors to read parts. I can maybe see putting somebody with a very distinctive voice (e.g. Martin Sheen) in play, but if they're just movie actors, all putting them in a game is supposed to do is drum up sales. There are occasional exceptions: I didn't care for Mr. Blond in Red Dead Redemption but thought he did a great job as Daud in Dishonored. One of the other funny things was on PS2 Soul Reaver 2 had an outtakes reel which was mostly just goofy filler, but there was one part where Michael Bell and Simon Templeman (sic?) were doing a readthrough and Bell just starts laughing that Templeman has to read three pages of dialogue and says "Poor Simon. He has to read a novel and I just give him a prompt. 'And?' 'He did what?' " I miss Kain. gently caress you, Eidos. gently caress you for bringing aliens into a vampire game and so much more. drat horror queefs posted:Fact. That's a bold claim, mister.
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I dont remember quake 2 adding much to anything, it was a pretty underwhelming id game even at the time.
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Feb 22, 2017 19:57
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I played Quake 2 in software mode then one day I bought a Diamond Monster Voodoo 2 and it was the most amazing thing to have ever existed at the time.
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Feb 22, 2017 20:05
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The new Devil May Cry remake was actually really good.
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Phlegmish posted:i haven't finished either of the first two fallouts dont bother, the endings are not the best part of them anyway
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Feb 22, 2017 20:13
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Quake 4 was good.
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Feb 22, 2017 20:14
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Maya Fey posted:I dont remember quake 2 adding much to anything, it was a pretty underwhelming id game even at the time. quake 2 was a pile of crap. modded quake 1 was where it was at for a long time. i dont even remember any quake 2 mods
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a bone to pick posted:The new Devil May Cry remake was actually really good. Yeah. Sometimes i play a game and like it and later hear how lovely and horrible it was and I'm confused.
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I don't think that DmC is bad, and even the now dead DmC thread agreed that it was a fine action game, it just didn't need to be a DmC game. it's just that the story/lore reboot was billed as an improvement to Dante's goofy bullshit (the reason he is so beloved) but it was this weirdly political slant that contains a LITERAL sniper rifle abortion as well as a Fox News boss fight, and even more damning, we were given a combat system that was more on par with God of War than with Devil May Cry. Going from DMC4 to DmC was absolutely disappointing for who wanted a very high skill ceiling. I just replayed both of those games and they honestly both hold up fine, but I will always skip every cutscenes in DMC forever.
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touhou shmups are trash compared to cave shmups dodonpachi is better than battle garegga and YGW's rank systems are the cancer of shmups e: also, something that shouldnt be controversial: g-darius is the best darius game Das Butterbrot fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Feb 22, 2017 |
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Feb 22, 2017 20:47
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Joining the Institute in Fallout 4 is the most logical and moral choice but the retards at Bethesda made it the only "evil" ending.
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Maya Fey posted:I dont remember quake 2 adding much to anything, it was a pretty underwhelming id game even at the time. Quake 2 had COLORED LIGHTING. 
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Feb 22, 2017 21:05
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MOBA's are the pinnacle of competitive online gaming and very fun, but esports is solely the realm of autisms and i respect people less if they enjoy it.
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a bone to pick posted:Joining the Institute in Fallout 4 is the most logical and moral choice but the retards at Bethesda made it the only "evil" ending.
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WAY TO GO WAMPA!! posted:How did the Brotherhood ending end? I thought that was supposed to be "evil" too? I think you have to kill the Railroad? Which, all things considered, isn't really "evil" because they were a tragically misguided movement. It's like evil-lite, or diet evil.
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Maya Fey posted:I dont remember quake 2 adding much to anything, it was a pretty underwhelming id game even at the time. There's an interesting documentary about id somewhere on youtube that stresses after Quake was released (and Romero started sniffing his farts and left) how John Carmack only really cared about pushing new technology limits at the expense of the games themselves.
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wolf3d > doom ones a stealth action game the other is a "just shoot it until it dies lol"
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Bust Rodd posted:I don't think that DmC is bad, and even the now dead DmC thread agreed that it was a fine action game, it just didn't need to be a DmC game. it's just that the story/lore reboot was billed as an improvement to Dante's goofy bullshit (the reason he is so beloved) but it was this weirdly political slant that contains a LITERAL sniper rifle abortion as well as a Fox News boss fight, and even more damning, we were given a combat system that was more on par with God of War than with Devil May Cry. Going from DMC4 to DmC was absolutely disappointing for who wanted a very high skill ceiling. I just replayed both of those games and they honestly both hold up fine, but I will always skip every cutscenes in DMC forever. the fox news boss owns really hard though as does the club level
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SpaceClown posted:wolf3d > doom Wolfenstein isn't stealth in the slightest wtf.
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Irradiation posted:Wolfenstein isn't stealth in the slightest wtf. Doom is the stealth game
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Irradiation posted:Wolfenstein isn't stealth in the slightest wtf. wolf3d is definitely all about the stealth and utilizing ambushes to your advantage.
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in F4 i think the railroad is supposed to be the clearcut good choice, but their morals are placated on the idea that androids are human, when they're factually not. You can watch the human-like ones being assembled. They're made specifically to increase the limited labor pool of the institute, and that's basically it. The institute is dumb for needing realistic synths for whatever reason, but the railroad is dumber for making the liberation of androids their hill to die on, and it makes bethesda really dumb for thinking that making the good guys idiots and the "bad" buys a bunch of well meaning nerds fully intent on improving life on the surface for humans, and the Brotherhood Of Steel East Coast Division having clearly reverted to their roots of morally grey militaristic technology hoarding, are the closest thing to an organized overt bad guy
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lol @ people discussing fallout 4 to this degree like bethesda put that much thought into it
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basic hitler posted:in F4 i think the railroad is supposed to be the clearcut good choice, but their morals are placated on the idea that androids are human, when they're factually not. You can watch the human-like ones being assembled. They're made specifically to increase the limited labor pool of the institute, and that's basically it. The institute is dumb for needing realistic synths for whatever reason, but the railroad is dumber for making the liberation of androids their hill to die on, and it makes bethesda really dumb for thinking that making the good guys idiots and the "bad" buys a bunch of well meaning nerds fully intent on improving life on the surface for humans, and the Brotherhood Of Steel East Coast Division having clearly reverted to their roots of morally grey militaristic technology hoarding, are the closest thing to an organized overt bad guy Yeah and there are missions with the Institute that show that a lot of the synths that the Railroad reprogram end up being bandit leaders and other wasteland scumbags. imo the Railroad has good intentions but overall they're horribly misguided and don't benefit the world at all, just pumping fake humans into it that are just as lovely as real humans. Its like Bethesda was trying to show each faction is morally ambiguous (besides the minutemen) but hamfisted the endings to show a clear bias towards certain factions.
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bag em and tag em posted:The death of the space flight sim genre is a tragedy. X-Wing and Descent: Freespace were kicking rad and we need more of that in our lives. The x-wing thing on PS VR was really good for a free, short tech demo. If they made it a full game that was more of the same with a bit of polish and a storyline, maybe multiplayer dogfights, everyone that bought the vr helmet would buy it and people on the fence about vr might be persuaded to buy a helmet. But it seems like disney hate money or something else they would've released the original star wars films on blu ray with a bit of cleaning up and better audio tracks already.
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SpaceClown posted:lol @ people discussing fallout 4 to this degree like bethesda put that much thought into it i know reading as much as what i posted is asking too much, in all sincerity, but my post is basically pointing out the obvious and kind of criticizing bethesda. can't speak for everyone else but i'm not terribly happy with how Bethesda writes morality when Obsidian and CD Projekt Red consistently show them up. It's still fun to talk about because I haven't done a BoS or Railroad run yet, and maybe they flesh out enough to justify their stupidity, but the BoS seems straight up fascist and the railroad so incredibly misguided that I kind of can't believe bethesda missed the mark so hard
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FPS games that limit you to holding like 2 guns in single player are trash. gently caress you I wanna be a super soldier with all the guns in the world.
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arma is great fukc u
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someone gave me a free ARMA key, and i redeemed it, but i have never installed it or played it, ever. Is it worth my time? I don't mind tactical stuff but im not super thrilled about it, and i know that's arma's shtik. is there a fun game underneath the tryhard nonsense?
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basic hitler posted:i know reading as much as what i posted is asking too much, in all sincerity, but my post is basically pointing out the obvious and kind of criticizing bethesda. can't speak for everyone else but i'm not terribly happy with how Bethesda writes morality when Obsidian and CD Projekt Red consistently show them up. bethesda needs to stop trying to tell stories. their strength is creating big fantasy world simulations, not linear stories. i put many hundreds of hours into the elder Scrolls games going back all the way to Daggerfall, and i have never bothered to beat a single one of them. the "main quest" was always the most boring aspect! if Bethesda wants to make a good Fallout game they should do a procedural map of the entire wasteland United States, and fill it with randomly generated bandit factions and cities. let everyone explore their hometown as the wastelands. maybe throw a story somewhere off in the corner, but dont put too much effort into it.
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Paperboy was better on the NES than in the arcade.
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Rutibex posted:bethesda needs to stop trying to tell stories. their strength is creating big fantasy world simulations, not linear stories. i put many hundreds of hours into the elder Scrolls games going back all the way to Daggerfall, and i have never bothered to beat a single one of them. the "main quest" was always the most boring aspect! They'd sure stand a better chance if they dropped all the chosen-one b.s. that basically redounds to a depressing, fatalistic world. In the words of Creeper, I don't want to work, I just want to bang on my drum.
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basic hitler posted:someone gave me a free ARMA key, and i redeemed it, but i have never installed it or played it, ever. Is it worth my time? I don't mind tactical stuff but im not super thrilled about it, and i know that's arma's shtik. is there a fun game underneath the tryhard nonsense? yeah but you'll probably give up because it takes a long time to git gud.
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basic hitler posted:someone gave me a free ARMA key, and i redeemed it, but i have never installed it or played it, ever. Is it worth my time? I don't mind tactical stuff but im not super thrilled about it, and i know that's arma's shtik. is there a fun game underneath the tryhard nonsense? No
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Rutibex posted:bethesda needs to stop trying to tell stories. their strength is creating big fantasy world simulations, not linear stories. i put many hundreds of hours into the elder Scrolls games going back all the way to Daggerfall, and i have never bothered to beat a single one of them. the "main quest" was always the most boring aspect! If they do that they really badly need to be joint ventures with better storytellers. New Vegas is a legitimately good fallout game where the story is the main draw The New Vegas thread in games is still active with tons of discussion with ropekid/josh sawyer sharing his thoughts since he was a senior or lead game designer on it. People still talk about and argue about which sides and stories are the best, not merely the least lovely. I get what you're saying and TES works as a cumulative experience most of the time.(excrpt pblivipn straight up sucks except maybe a few dark brotherhood moments), but fallout deserves to be more than "elder scrolls, but post apocalyptic retro futurr"
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the key to enjoying arma is to play through the campaign to get a feel for it and then play scenarios arma 3 has a bunch of randomly generating scenarios that are super fun. i recommend dynamic recon ops and dynamic universal war system rebirth.
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I just have arma 1 and no intention of paying for anything soon except maybe contributing to the pillars of eternity 2 fundraiser if they do slacker backer
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the witcher 1 does video game sex better than any of the mass effects
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Rutibex posted:bethesda needs to stop trying to tell stories. their strength is creating big fantasy world simulations, not linear stories. i put many hundreds of hours into the elder Scrolls games going back all the way to Daggerfall, and i have never bothered to beat a single one of them. the "main quest" was always the most boring aspect! For real tho.
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The Railroad is the best faction in Fallout 4 and are the one I stuck with for a marathon playthrough after getting all the other faction endings.
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