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All of this talk of GOTYs and not a single mention of A House of Many Doors? 
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Mar 6, 2017 04:13
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I started playing Gears of War. I am not enjoying it Is it ever explained why the aliens have the same shape and gear as the human soldiers?
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Mar 6, 2017 04:15
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In Training posted:Ah thank you! Handy to know. The one thing it has over PSX version is Maria mode which was fun to try out but doesn't feel very essential either I was a little bummed that Maria mode in the PSP one is a different version than on the Saturn. I mean, it's a better, more well-balanced mode, but still! Guy Goodbody posted:I started playing Gears of War. I am not enjoying it It's tantalizingly hinted that they're a genetic experiment gone wrong in Gears 2 I believe, then they forgot they did that and made them aliens again. Gears has... problems. The first one was pretty fun and a great UE3 showcase, impressive for its time, but it hasn't aged well at all, and the sequels are basically pointless. Just like Halo and Fable and anything else MS gets their hands on.
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Mar 6, 2017 04:22
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Titanfall 2's multiplayer is incredible. Doom's wishes it'd be this fast-paced and frantic. I started playing Battlefield 1's multiplayer too. While trying to figure out the controls I accidentally threw a grenade across the map and a few seconds later it killed someone. That was cool.
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Mar 6, 2017 04:22
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GUI posted:Titanfall 2's multiplayer is incredible. Doom's wishes it'd be this fast-paced and frantic. I'm pretty sure the Doom devs didn't give a gently caress about the multiplayer and neither should you.
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Mar 6, 2017 04:29
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Dewgy posted:It's tantalizingly hinted that they're a genetic experiment gone wrong in Gears 2 I believe, then they forgot they did that and made them aliens again. Gears' (back)story is really dumb and obviously made up on the fly. quote:Gears has... problems. The first one was pretty fun and a great UE3 showcase, impressive for its time, but it hasn't aged well at all, and the sequels are basically pointless. Just like Halo and Fable and anything else MS gets their hands on.
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Mar 6, 2017 04:30
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Lurdiak posted:I'm pretty sure the Doom devs didn't give a gently caress about the multiplayer and neither should you. They were banking on the MP being a Big Deal (hence the multiple alphas and beta) and the SP bombing actually. quote:Bethesda’s VP of PR and marketing Pete Hines has said that he was “surprised” by just how much people took to DOOM’s single-player campaign.
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Mar 6, 2017 04:31
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Dewgy posted:Gears has... problems. The first one was pretty fun and a great UE3 showcase, impressive for its time, but it hasn't aged well at all, and the sequels are basically pointless. Just like Halo and Fable and anything else MS gets their hands on. Halo 3 has better gameplay than Halo, even if the story is a lot dumber
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Mar 6, 2017 04:33
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Bethesda, the publishers, are different from Id, who worked on the single-player campaign. The multiplayer was farmed out to a different team entirely. Also that quote just proves my consistent belief that the people at Bethesda proper don't actually know how to make good games. People thought Doom looked like dogshit from the multiplayer beta, and that attitude was why Bethesda didn't want to release early copies to reviewers, only trusted influencers, until Nvidia of all places released a single-player gameplay video that showed it was actually fun
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Mar 6, 2017 04:37
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StrixNebulosa posted:All of this talk of GOTYs and not a single mention of A House of Many Doors? sorry but Night in the Woods is goty
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Mar 6, 2017 04:42
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Sakurazuka posted:Apparently I wasn't even pronouncing Hylian properly I was in fourth grade when Ocarina of Time got really big and me and my friends all pronounced it "oh-car-in-a" for like a year. Also it wasn't until I was an adult that I realized that the Mario enemies weren't named "Latuki" and "Bomb-Omb", which is especially bad considering that I saw the Mario movie in theaters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmVeZEB-Qmg&t=10s
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Mar 6, 2017 04:48
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we are sex bomb bomb
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Mar 6, 2017 04:50
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Guy Mann posted:I was in fourth grade when Ocarina of Time got really big and me and my friends all pronounced it "oh-car-in-a" for like a year. Wait, what
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Mar 6, 2017 04:50
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GUI posted:They were banking on the MP being a Big Deal (hence the multiple alphas and beta) and the SP bombing actually. That's Bethesda, and no doubt they pushed for the Multiplayer aspect in the first place, but I'm talking about the devs.
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Mar 6, 2017 04:54
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one of the zora in botw sounds a lot like joseph jostar
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Mar 6, 2017 04:58
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Real hurthling! posted:one of the zora in botw sounds a lot like joseph jostar  E: River City Ransom Underground interim stability patch posted:Fixed numerous stability / control issues when invoking exit modals in all screens Apparently this patch is mostly meant to rearrange how data is stored to pave the way for a huge loving upcoming patch. Lurdiak fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Mar 6, 2017 |
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Mar 6, 2017 05:13
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If a game isn't available on PC, it doesn't exist.
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Mar 6, 2017 05:34
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I'm finding that I'm really annoyed with myself for not liking Breath of the Wild, for some reason
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Mar 6, 2017 05:35
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I pre-ordered Nier: Automata just now. :O
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Mar 6, 2017 05:42
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Ciaphas posted:I'm finding that I'm really annoyed with myself for not liking Breath of the Wild, for some reason I'm a huge fan of its world and exploration but I'm hating weapon durability. I gave it the benefit of the doubt before I played it but I honestly think weapons are WAY too fragile. So far I'm like 10 hours in and 95% of the weapons I find don't last two fights. I still like the basic idea but I think they went way too far with the fragility. I'm also still loving the game. I usually burn out on "just go explore" worlds quickly but this one's pretty legit. I just dread combat because I rarely feel like I come out having gained anything, or even broke even.
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Mar 6, 2017 05:49
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i'm halfway through botw i guess and i have a strong feeling the last two "dungeons" are going to be just like the first two. i still want to explore the rest of the map but i don't want to get into any more fights, either. burning out fast the build up to the elephant was cool because it's raining non-stop and the zora king/link's dead zora wife/the jojo zora were cool. + the trek though zora river canyon and the lynel fight heck yeah. and the elephant fight with the prince and 360 waterfall boosted sightscope trick shots hai hai hai but then the bird is um. go into town. go to the shooting gallery. talk to a guy once. now you're at the bird okay. well then
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Mar 6, 2017 05:50
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the only gears of war game i've played is gears of war 2 and it was a lot of fun and really goofy and it's weird to me that the series tried so hard to be serious when the best parts where when you were shooting enemies inside of a giant worm and everyone was shouting about being trapped in a giant worm and you escaped by using your chainsaw gun to chainsaw your way out of a giant worm, and not the parts where a character had to kill his wife because cliff bleszinski wanted to make a controversial political statement that would lose all meaning in a few years
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Mar 6, 2017 05:50
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Doctor Spaceman posted:I thought they went back to genetic experiments at one point. GUI posted:They were banking on the MP being a Big Deal (hence the multiple alphas and beta) and the SP bombing actually. Gears and Halo both seem to be part of this weird zeitgeist in videogames where all at once people were being tasked to create these elaborate, intricate backstories for their shootman games...all of which was told through comics and novels and ARG websites and absolutely nowhere in the actual games themselves. I don't know when or why this became the thing to do but it always struck me as dumb as hell. Like I don't mind if a game decides to eschew ~deep lore~ in favor of focusing on gameplay, especially in a shooter, but you can always tell that games like this really want you to care about things like who the Locust are and what the deal with that creepy facility is but nah, gotta buy the official tie-in whatever to learn about that poo poo.
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Mar 6, 2017 05:51
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the gears of war developers gave so much creative control over the series to the book writer that she pretty much decided which characters lived or died. apparently they were gonna kill off an old military guy in gears of war 3 but she liked the role he had in the universe, so they killed the goofy cowboy man instead
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Mar 6, 2017 05:54
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Ciaphas posted:I'm finding that I'm really annoyed with myself for not liking Breath of the Wild, for some reason i am both totally addicted to it and also kinda annoyed at it because i've been playing so much of it and dealing with the same few issues over and over. i don't like the shrines. they vary in quality and length too much. I would have preferred the shrines in a region to be combined into a single dungeon-like experience with some unique theming and maybe some npc stories to break up the monontony of grinding puzzles for life and stamina and there are too few main dungeons and some optional ones would have really helped. i hate the inventory system, especially when you can't pick up a new shield or bow because there is no button press to drop them and you have to use the menu. I also think they start you off with way too little stamina. they should have halved the stamina drain while running imo. the whole world is built around the stamina system for climbing but theres no reason that link shouldn't be able to sprint for much longer. the stamina bar is also really obtrusive but i'm not as annoyed by it while i play. lastly, they should have some way to size up your enemy's level before you engage with them. that said, everything else is superb. i'm really impressed and I can only hope they bring the same fresh thinking to mario later this year. Real hurthling! fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Mar 6, 2017 |
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Mar 6, 2017 05:55
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The original premis of Gears is super awesome. That humanity went out and colonized this planet and built a thriving civilization over hundreds of years. And then it turned out that hostile aliens had been hibernating deep underground since before they ever got there. Like, all the gleaming cities that were built, were built thinking they were alone on this planet. But it was never their planet. The locust had been there the whole time, doing what locust do: hibernating deep underground. Insects have lifespans measured in days and weeks, and yet cicadas sleep for 13-16 years before swarming to the surface. Gears is about what if a hostile humanoid race worked like cicadas. And that's a cool episode of star trek.
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Mar 6, 2017 05:56
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The Colonel posted:the gears of war developers gave so much creative control over the series to the book writer that she pretty much decided which characters lived or died Was it Karin Traviss? It seemed like everybody was hiring her to write their tie-in fiction for a while. You've got to be aware that you hosed up somewhere along the line when even George Lucas thinks you suck too much to be allowed to write Star Wars novels.
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Mar 6, 2017 05:57
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Gears of War depicts a future in which humans have helicopters, chainsaw guns, and laser satellites, but not ground penetrating radar or seismographs. So instead they rig up some kind of one use only, handmade sonar bomb. Also, I really can't stress enough how much I hate it that the enemies and your allies have the exact same silhouette.
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Mar 6, 2017 05:59
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Real hurthling! posted:i am both totally addicted to it and also kinda annoyed at it because i've been playing so much of it and dealing with the same few issues over and over. The thing for me is I can't quite suss out why the game isn't appealing to me I did find myself irritated at the limited stamina, the inventory system and the framerate problems but I would have thought those wouldn't be killers for me. Maybe they are! Maybe I'm just that shallow when it comes to games nowadays! It'll be an interesting experiment to see how I feel about NieR: Automata tomorrow evening. Still an open world RPG but with more action and less exploration/survival elements. Maybe that'll help explain why I didn't grab onto Breath of the WIld, here.
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Mar 6, 2017 06:02
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I'm not really attaching to Horizon Zero Dawn either, and the common thread between the two games seems to be open world and exploration, so all I can conclude for sure is maybe I don't like those sorts of games anymore?? It's baffling that I don't know exactly why I dislike games 
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Mar 6, 2017 06:03
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The Colonel posted:the only gears of war game i've played is gears of war 2 and it was a lot of fun and really goofy and it's weird to me that the series tried so hard to be serious when the best parts where when you were shooting enemies inside of a giant worm and everyone was shouting about being trapped in a giant worm and you escaped by using your chainsaw gun to chainsaw your way out of a giant worm, and not the parts where a character had to kill his wife because cliff bleszinski wanted to make a controversial political statement that would lose all meaning in a few years Holy drat, in Gears 3 when friggin' Dominic sacrificed himself and "Mad World" started playing and everything was going in slow motion, I was thinking, "Seriously?" I'm not spoiling because that story had thoroughly gone off the rails in that game and also I'm pretty sure no one cares in this thread. I'm linking it look at this dumb BS also comedy option, I can't tell if the uploader was being ironic in their description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBvDC9v5vyc
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Mar 6, 2017 06:03
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oddium posted:i'm halfway through botw i guess and i have a strong feeling the last two "dungeons" are going to be just like the first two. i still want to explore the rest of the map but i don't want to get into any more fights, either. burning out fast Real hurthling! posted:i am both totally addicted to it and also kinda annoyed at it because i've been playing so much of it and dealing with the same few issues over and over. Breath of the Wild: The Phantom Pain
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Mar 6, 2017 06:05
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Guy Mann posted:Breath of the Wild: The Phantom Pain Someone repost that drawing of an older, head-impaled Link
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Mar 6, 2017 06:05
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Ciaphas posted:I'm not really attaching to Horizon Zero Dawn either, and the common thread between the two games seems to be open world and exploration, so all I can conclude for sure is maybe I don't like those sorts of games anymore?? One day I woke up and discovered I couldn't play JRPGs anymore. I used to eat those things up, I played so much Chrono Trigger I had every character at level 99, then all at once I just...didn't want to play them anymore. I think it was Rogue Galaxy where I was like "actually I'm not having any fun with this, and I don't think it's just this particular game."
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Mar 6, 2017 06:07
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the controls and options in PP were good enough that i never got annoyed in it but i can see what you mean i've gotten back into jrpgs lately but now i limit myself only to modern ones with quality of life features like control over when you fight battles. My 20 ps1 jrpgs on vita are probably never gonna get finished Ciaphas posted:I'm not really attaching to Horizon Zero Dawn either, and the common thread between the two games seems to be open world and exploration, so all I can conclude for sure is maybe I don't like those sorts of games anymore?? horizon had me really into it but i stopped playing more than a mission or so a day when i got zelda cause of the new system fever and i'm having a hard time getting back into it idk. Real hurthling! fucked around with this message at 06:11 on Mar 6, 2017 |
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Mar 6, 2017 06:08
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Kai Tave posted:I think it was Rogue Galaxy where I was like "actually I'm not having any fun with this, and I don't think it's just this particular game." are you sure about that seriously i pretty much never see anyone say rogue galaxy doesn't at least have some really awful chunks
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Mar 6, 2017 06:10
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Rogue galaxy grabs you hard at the start and straight up murders your interest in it after about 4-5 chapters
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Mar 6, 2017 06:11
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GUI posted:Titanfall 2's multiplayer is incredible. Doom's wishes it'd be this fast-paced and frantic. Titanfall 2 multiplayer is indeed a ton of fun. I've burnt out on it because of playing probably 150 hours of it with goons but those were some good times. They did a great job with all the abilities and the map design. Bounty hunt was a nice new game type that hasn't been done before. I'd say the only major flaw is too few maps.
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Mar 6, 2017 06:13
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bloodychill posted:Titanfall 2 multiplayer is indeed a ton of fun. I've burnt out on it because of playing probably 150 hours of it with goons but those were some good times. They did a great job with all the abilities and the map design. Bounty hunt was a nice new game type that hasn't been done before. I'd say the only major flaw is too few maps. yeah it was my most played game from launch until February.
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Mar 6, 2017 06:14
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Wamdoodle posted:Holy drat, in Gears 3 when friggin' Dominic sacrificed himself and "Mad World" started playing and everything was going in slow motion, I was thinking, "Seriously?" It's also meant to be a callback to a trailer for the first game, for some reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy8LRlS1SCc
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Mar 6, 2017 06:15
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