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Real hurthling! posted:Rogue galaxy grabs you hard at the start and straight up murders your interest in it after about 4-5 chapters I did the noir planet with the dog and it was great and then I stopped playing because it was boring again
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I got Horizon on Wednesday and have already put 30 hours into it, so that's about 6 hours a day. This year I've already beaten Doom, Superhot, The Witness (minus the challenge), Watch Dogs 2, Mafia III, and Nioh. I think I may complete more games this year than in any other previous
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Real hurthling! posted: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. Playing more than one open world game at a time is on my "never do this ever" list because I will burn out fast on the style of game. I'm sticking to Horizon until I finish it and playing puzzle games and R6 Siege when I feel like taking a break. When I finish it, then and only then does it become Zelda time but I might stick Nier in between to take a short break from the open world format.
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bloodychill posted:I might stick Nier in between to take a short break from the open world format. Uh, you may want to take a closer look at that one
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The Colonel posted:are you sure about that Oh it does, I remember tons of bland hallways and random encounters and poo poo and for every cool concept that made me want to play some more it was met with at least two other things I found kind of insufferable, but I also bounced off of Dragon Quest VIII and that game isn't really bad. I never beat FFX but I remember liking it, but after that I just kinda gradually cooled on modern JRPGs even though I know there are supposed to be some good ones out there.
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i am 1/2 way through nioh (4th region) and i'm waiting for it to shake things up. i heard the end levels get wacky. i play about a mission a day, only takes like an hour. afaik nier's world its just space to travel through doing the linear story its not going to be the same as zelda or hzd which seem to have much more potential for getting lost doing gently caress all in a map corner for hours and hours
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Kai Tave posted: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. For people who don't know, Karen Traviss wrote a bunch of Star Wars novels about the Mandalorians. The people from whom Boba Fett got his armor. Because it the Star Wars universe, so Boba Fett's armor needs multiple novels of backstory. She built them up as this very militaristic, martial, warrior society. They were better sword fighters than the Jedi, and in fact could kill tons of Jedi anytime they wanted, but didn't even bother because it was so easy. They had special swords that lightsabers couldn't cut, and were much better than lightsabers, which were for pussies. Basically, she wrote the Mandalorians to be the most OP super soldiers of all time. Then the Star Wars cartoon had an episode set on Mandalor. In the Star Wars canon, the cartoon is higher level than the books, so if the cartoon and the books disagree, the books are wrong and whatever the cartoon says is canon. In the cartoon episode, Mandalor is a peaceful social democracy. There's some right-wing extremists who want everything to be more like the great martial past, but it's explained that that past is just a myth, Mandalor was never home to crazy warrior world, and all the extremists get defeated by the Jedi and go to jail After that episode came out, Karen Traviss publicly announced that she would never write another Star Wars novel again
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She also wrote tons and tons of stories where Jedi were huge assholes and totally deserved to be killed by the heroic clone troopers because the clone troopers were clones of a MANDALORIAN so they had free will and honor, despite the movies blatantly showing that to not be the case. Then when someone asked her why she writes Jedis as such dickheads in her books, she basically said if you don't hate Jedi you're a nazi. I wonder what exactly the Star Wars book publishing division was like where you could have someone like that writing major stories for your official line and no one says "Hmm this is kinda the opposite of what our brand is about."
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Real hurthling! posted:i am 1/2 way through nioh (4th region) and i'm waiting for it to shake things up. i heard the end levels get wacky. i play about a mission a day, only takes like an hour. well there are sidequests that can have you running all over the place but you're right that it's not really an open-world gently caress around game to the same degree zelda and hzd are
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Karin Traviss is basically a run of the mill mil-scifi writer which means she likes writing books about how badass soldiers are and how everybody who isn't a martial honor manly man making hard decisions is, as Guy Goodbody puts it, a huge pussy and/or actively a hindrance to the right and proper manly military men who make all the right decisions something something code of honor brothers etc. In that respect she's a perfect fit for both Gears and Halo, but the stuff she wrote for Star Wars was bad even by the standards of Star Wars fiction which might seem like a bar so low you couldn't limbo under it and yet. It was the equivalent of taking a masturbatory internet discussion about how the Empire are actually the good guys and the Rebels are terrorists and turning it into official fiction.
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Lurdiak posted:She also wrote tons and tons of stories where Jedi were huge assholes and totally deserved to be killed by the heroic clone troopers because the clone troopers were clones of a MANDALORIAN so they had free will and honor, despite the movies blatantly showing that to not be the case. Then when someone asked her why she writes Jedis as such dickheads in her books, she basically said if you don't hate Jedi you're a nazi. The funny thing about this is that there is a mandalorian in KotoR who fits her version and he's a decent enough character but he's uh also pretty evil so... yeah. Actually fitting for the mil sci fi race to be kinda bad guys in comparison to the Jedi.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Uh, you may want to take a closer look at that one What Real Hurthling said.
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bloodychill posted:The funny thing about this is that there is a mandalorian in KotoR who fits her version and he's a decent enough character but he's uh also pretty evil so... yeah. Actually fitting for the mil sci fi race to be kinda bad guys in comparison to the Jedi.
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Also at one point there was a Gears of War official comic that claimed that there were some kind of "breeding camps" were women were enslaved to breed super soldiers, and while that kind of stuff could be justified in a horrific dystopian sci fi setting, I have no idea how it made its way into Gears of War as something the good guys do.
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Lurdiak posted:Also at one point there was a Gears of War official comic that claimed that there were some kind of "breeding camps" were women were enslaved to breed super soldiers, and while that kind of stuff could be justified in a horrific dystopian sci fi setting, I have no idea how it made its way into Gears of War as something the good guys do. It's like 40k in that there are no good guys.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:It's like 40k in that there are no good guys. 40k is not a setting anyone should want to emulate. Anyway as I recall Cliffy B was like "Holy poo poo that is not canon at all, you guys."
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Lurdiak posted:Also at one point there was a Gears of War official comic that claimed that there were some kind of "breeding camps" were women were enslaved to breed super soldiers, and while that kind of stuff could be justified in a horrific dystopian sci fi setting, I have no idea how it made its way into Gears of War as something the good guys do. Fun fact about the Halo novels, it turns out that the Covenant interrupted a human civil war. A bunch of frontier planets were rebelling against the United Nations, and the war was basically insurrectionists doing suicide bombings and then the UNSC showing up and massacring insurrectionists. That's why Master Chief was created, to fight that war. Doctor Spaceman posted:It's like 40k in that there are no good guys. I have read a couple Halo novels, and both of them were worse than any 40k novels I've read. And I read 40k novels, so my standards ain't exactly high
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Doctor Spaceman posted:I laughed my arse off at how overwrought that scene was, it was fantastic. I remember Mad World coming up a couple of times in the series' ads and I thought that was such a huge tonal whiplash, at least for me. I never saw the story as anything more than dumb dialogue between action scenes. Lurdiak posted:Also at one point there was a Gears of War official comic that claimed that there were some kind of "breeding camps" were women were enslaved to breed super soldiers, and while that kind of stuff could be justified in a horrific dystopian sci fi setting, I have no idea how it made its way into Gears of War as something the good guys do. Oh yeah there was this dumb poo poo too, lol. Like they were trying to be a low rent 40,000K or something and even then Warhammer has nothing like that. At least I don't think so. That is a deep well of silly lore.
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Guy Goodbody posted:Fun fact about the Halo novels, it turns out that the Covenant interrupted a human civil war. A bunch of frontier planets were rebelling against the United Nations, and the war was basically insurrectionists doing suicide bombings and then the UNSC showing up and massacring insurrectionists. That's why Master Chief was created, to fight that war. Originally Halo was supposed to take place in the same universe as Marathon, so I'm not sure how that all ties in. 40k novels are not particularly good but yeah they put Halo to shame if only because they have so much fluff to draw upon.
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Guy Goodbody posted:Fun fact about the Halo novels, it turns out that the Covenant interrupted a human civil war. A bunch of frontier planets were rebelling against the United Nations, and the war was basically insurrectionists doing suicide bombings and then the UNSC showing up and massacring insurrectionists. That's why Master Chief was created, to fight that war. Master Chief and all the other first-wave Spartans were also made by kidnapping children with genetic makeups compatible with all the untested soldier enhancements that they were slated to undergo. In order to cover this up all of the kids were quick-cloned to create duplicates that would replace them, only this process was incredibly unstable and made the clones all die of various cancers within a few years. So then all the kidnapped children essentially got indoctrinated and experimented upon, with a bunch of them dying in the process, and the rest being turned into Spartans. So basically Halo is Warhammer 40K and the Spartans are literally 40K Space Marines and you'd never loving know any of this just by playing the first Halo because it tells you literally none of this, I'm not sure they even touch on any of this stuff until maybe you start getting into Reach and the games after that where Halsey makes the jump from novel-only to a character in the games.
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Wamdoodle posted:Oh yeah there was this dumb poo poo too, lol. Like they were trying to be a low rent 40,000K or something and even then Warhammer has nothing like that. At least I don't think so. That is a deep well of silly lore. Yeah, 40k has some terrible poo poo and the Imperium is specifically supposed to be this terrible xenophobic war machine that unknowingly feeds the daemons their power through rage but at least there are no weird rape cults outside the poo poo that Slaaneshi cults and the Dark Eldar have. And those are definitely the "badder" guys.
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Wamdoodle posted:Oh yeah there was this dumb poo poo too, lol. Like they were trying to be a low rent 40,000K or something and even then Warhammer has nothing like that. At least I don't think so. That is a deep well of silly lore. I read some of the oldest 40k sourcebooks and it's a shame the series went and took a turn for the up-its-own-rear end serious dumb poo poo, it was way more charming when it was Judge Dredd Fights Orcs.
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Lurdiak posted:I read some of the oldest 40k sourcebooks and it's a shame the series went and took a turn for the up-its-own-rear end serious dumb poo poo, it was way more charming when it was Judge Dredd Fights Orcs. It's still pretty silly 
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Doctor Spaceman posted:I thought they went back to genetic experiments at one point. Gears multiplayer DM is one of the worst things I have ever played. raditts fucked around with this message at 07:02 on Mar 6, 2017 |
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The best piece of fiction in either the Halo or Gears series was that one live-action trailer for Halo ODST
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raditts posted:Gears multiplayer DM is one of the worst things I have ever played. It was some of the slowest drat DM, also Guy Goodbody posted:the enemies and your allies have the exact same silhouette. drove me up the dang wall.
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The Colonel posted:never forget the originator of hosed up backstory only communicated in novelization Pffff. 
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Lurdiak posted:Pffff. What are you talking about, blaster master gives you the entire "story" in the instruction manual quote:"This game is about a guy named Jason. It even has an attract mode cinematic that depicts the whole story in still pictures.
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I really want to know if that's the plot for the Blaster Master remake that's coming out soon.
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corn in the bible posted:sorry but Night in the Woods is goty That and Horizon are my wife's picks, I haven't played NitW enough to say one way or the other but I trust her so yeah, this year has already been one of the best years for games in recent memory, it's insane
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GUI posted:Titanfall 2's multiplayer is incredible. Doom's wishes it'd be this fast-paced and frantic.
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I wish they'd release a "Doom 2016: Singleplayer Only" version so I could shave 40-some GB off the install size.
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Jay Rust posted:Phoenix Wright has been interesting, because usually it's the defence attorneys who are depicted as slimy slimeballs in media, not the prosecutors Red Bones posted:I really want to know if that's the plot for the Blaster Master remake that's coming out soon. they've actually shown the protagonist carrying a frog in some of the promo art, so probably
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Endorph posted:Probably a cultural thing. In Japan trials are pretty much show things where even if you're found not guilty you're expected to beg for forgiveness from society, and it's really difficult to get a not guilty without irrefutable proof you couldn't have done it. Probably has to do with their crime rate being much lower. Defense attorneys are looked upon even more poorly in Japan than in the US, which is what makes the Phoenix Wright series so interesting. It's basically a criticism of Japan's legal system disguised as a rad adventure game.
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Lurdiak posted:FirstAidKite is going to buy me a pizza and take me to a movie. Cool, really swell of you to give me money to buy you a pizza and movie tickets 
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