If you want to talk about graphical styles that don't work, just look at this monstrosity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYrUR1kiPF8
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Please send help I can't stop playing Spelunky
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 03:24 |
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StrixNebulosa posted:Please send help I can't stop playing Spelunky You sound perfectly healthy to me
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codenameFANGIO posted:You sound perfectly healthy to me I keep dying in the jungle
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StrixNebulosa posted:I keep dying in the jungle You can beat it. I believe in you.
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 03:42 |
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I played Spelunky every day for three months and I could never beat the fourth world
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 03:42 |
Find a kali altar in a place with lots and lots of cavemen.
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 03:43 |
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The spelunky secret: kill shopkeepers/sacrifice damsels/start from the beginning instead of using the shortcuts
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 03:47 |
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codenameFANGIO posted:You can beat it. I believe in you. Thanks! With practice I am getting better at not dying when a frog looks at me funny. Help Im Alive posted:The spelunky secret: kill shopkeepers/sacrifice damsels/start from the beginning instead of using the shortcuts I've managed to kill a shopkeeper precisely once so far, so... again, practice will make perfect. .... I also didn't know you could sacrifice damsels, so, uh, I guess I'll try that?
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 03:51 |
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you'll know when and where you can sacrifice them
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 03:53 |
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The teleporter is the worst item I've picked up in this game by far
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 04:02 |
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Just finished Breath of the Wild. That was a wild ride. I'd still say I like Majora's Mask a little more as a package and Wind Waker comes in right behind BotW, but that's more speaking to how incredible those two games are than taking anything away from Breath. Major complaint would be that it lacks interesting characters. A few are standouts (Sidon) but overall the story and characters didn't hold up to something like Wind Waker. It's a massively impressive game though, and really redefines what an open world game can be.
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 04:49 |
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Can we extrapolate the quality of Mass Effect Andromeda from its launch trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6PJEmEHIaY
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 05:03 |
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Seems like a movie worth watching
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 05:53 |
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Can we extrapolate the quality of Mass Effect Andromeda from its launch trailer It's kinda hard to buy into the emotional thrust of the game ("fight for a new home!" "Save the humans!" "Find a new golden world!") when it's entirely their fault they are in that galaxy in the first place. 'We tried to colonise a galaxy and things went wrong' is more of a farce than a drama.
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 06:45 |
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Is that show good? my wife likes it. its watchable except when they sing.
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 06:54 |
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every mass effect game moved futher away form what i wanted from a bioware scifi thing. i'm gonna try to give this one an honest shot but i've not liked anything that studio has done in a long time now.
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 06:56 |
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I finally made it to the Ice Caves in Spelunky! ...and found out what the yetis do. By being flung into a row of mines.
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Real hurthling! posted:every mass effect game moved futher away form what i wanted from a bioware scifi thing. i'm gonna try to give this one an honest shot but i've not liked anything that studio has done in a long time now. What do you want from a bioware sci fi thing? ME:A seems to be closer to the tone of ME1 than the other two games.
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Red Bones posted:What do you want from a bioware sci fi thing? ME:A seems to be closer to the tone of ME1 than the other two games. A finished kotor game
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 07:57 |
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Star Wars isn't sci fi
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 08:19 |
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Jay Rust posted:Star Wars isn't sci fi Star wars is in fact sci fi
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 08:20 |
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Andrast posted:Star wars is in fact sci fi It's fantasy with a sci-fi backdrop
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Almost nothing is sci-fi if the metric is that it needs to be based on real science.
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 08:22 |
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StrixNebulosa posted:It's fantasy with a sci-fi backdrop Also known as sci-fi
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 08:22 |
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Lurdiak posted:Almost nothing is sci-fi if the metric is that it needs to be based on real science. It's less that it needs to be directly grounded in scientific findings, and more that it needs to be plausible. Lightsabers just don't make any goddamned sense, let alone the force, and it really works more as a fantasy story told with starships instead of boats. ...So, soft sci-fi. Andrast posted:Also known as sci-fi Soft sci-fi.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Soft sci-fi. which is a subgenre of sci-fi
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StrixNebulosa posted:It's less that it needs to be directly grounded in scientific findings, and more that it needs to be plausible. Lightsabers just don't make any goddamned sense, let alone the force, and it really works more as a fantasy story told with starships instead of boats. Teleportation doesn't make any goddamn sense either, and faster than light travel will never be possible, so that eliminates pretty much all popular sci-fi.
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 08:26 |
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Knights who cast magic face off against an evil empire, but it has spaceships and aliens instead of horses and elves
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 08:27 |
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This is the dumbest argument I've ever been involved with on the internet. Andrast posted:which is a subgenre of sci-fi Technically true! ...Speaking of, I wish more games were set in space/were sci-fi, because it's just so much more interesting than "here's more forests and fields for you to tramp around in, complete with swords and sorcery" and I know fantasy can be well done, but it's just the most boring stock setting you can get these days. I say, fully aware that sci-fi games usually consist of endless gray corridors.
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StrixNebulosa posted:This is the dumbest argument I've ever been involved with on the internet. There are tons of interesting fantasy settings out there and you can do a lot with the genre but games generally go with the most boring stuff imaginable
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 08:30 |
I'd rather play a game set in a vanilla Tolkien setting than a game set in a Tolkien setting but elves have antenna and green skin and dwarves are called Bompkos there's like 2 or 3 original races. Obviously something genuinely original is best.
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 08:33 |
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Lurdiak posted:Almost nothing is sci-fi if the metric is that it needs to be based on real science. I think the rule is that it's sci-fi if they try to explain it? So Mass Effect is a lot closer to sci-fi because all the technology is justified by the fictional mass effect zero gravity science, whereas Star Wars never (until the whole midichlorians thing) tries to explain how anything within the story works, because that isn't the focus. The focus is on this hero's journey, fantastic adventure, saving the universe. I think it becomes more difficult to quantify when it comes down to games, though, because imo the core idea behind sci-fi is "how would humans respond to [new scientific discovery]". Like, that's the thing that underpins all science fiction; how would humans respond to sentient robots; how would humans respond to time travel; etc. And different quests and stories within Mass Effect touch on those ideas, and some of the stories don't. Like the main plot is always "save the galaxy", but within that you often go on asides to cover AI sentience, or the ethics of cloning or stuff like that. I think that qualifies Mass Effect as sci-fi, at least sometimes. Genres are just artificial categories anyway, nothing is ever going to fit perfectly into them.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Technically true! the badass star ocean setting of "technically this takes place in a science fiction world with space travel and laser guns but, we're not going to give you any of those and also you're on a planet with fantasy forests"
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 08:34 |
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Lurdiak posted:Teleportation doesn't make any goddamn sense either, and faster than light travel will never be possible, so that eliminates pretty much all popular sci-fi. Teleportation is actually mathematically possible, and while faster than light travel is impossible given our current knowledge and relativity, many mathematicians and physicists hold out hope that there could be a method to do it beyond our current understanding of how the universe works so "will never be possible" is short-sighted in my opinion. We'll blow ourselves up before we ever figure it out though, if it's even possible. In any case, a lot of genre fiction that is hard sci-fi actually sticks to rules like these. In movies and video games, I'm pretty sure the Alien universe actually tries to stick as closely to known science as possible though we still have no method of implementing suspended animation. bloodychill fucked around with this message at 08:38 on Mar 12, 2017 |
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Lurdiak posted:I'd rather play a game set in a vanilla Tolkien setting than a game set in a Tolkien setting but elves have antenna and green skin and dwarves are called Bompkos there's like 2 or 3 original races. I love how much you could post this exact same thing in Traditional Games and it would make just as much sense.
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 08:34 |
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Just set everything in the real world. Real history is cool.
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 08:35 |
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There aren't enough RPGs and stuff set in contemporary settings imo, especially if you discount jrpgs set in schools or with one as a regular location
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 08:41 |
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^^^Also I wholeheartedly agree with this and have fond memories of playing Parasite Eve.Jay Rust posted:Just set everything in the real world. Real history is cool. This is actually something that depresses me about the Assassin's Creed series in that it's one of the only major video game franchises to even pay lip service to some cool periods in history that would make great settings for games, but they spoil it by using them to make Assassin's Creed games instead.
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Jay Rust posted:Just set everything in the real world. Real history is cool. Shadow hearts was cool
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