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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Oh yeah 100% agreed. The Witcher is good, but goons seem to think it's ***high art*** for some reason. The writing is boilerplate but for a big RPG that's about as good as you're gonna get. Video game writing is generally garbage, though there are notable exceptions and things are changing. sooo the witcher is "as good as you're gonna get" and yet you have an issue with people saying it's good...? please don't elaborate
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Witcher 2 is more interestingly written imo. It creates an imaginative world that successfully captures the real shortcomings and hypocrisies and confusions of historical existence. Witcher 3 is far more of a predictable hero quest stapled on to some well observed personal relationships. They're both looking better than the DA and MA series these days though probably because the best days of CDProjekt are still ahead of them.
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Codependent Poster posted:Does Zelda have any softcore sex scenes though? I hope so! I haven't found all the flashback scenes yet.
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I just wanna say I genuinely love that whole scene in the Jaal's rear end video maybe there's hope?
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Schlesische posted:ME3 is a really good game until the last hour of the singleplayer campaign. it's like the writer had a minor stroke and just forgot what the series was actually about (characters and setting), wanting to do something kind of high concept? which would've been a hard pivot to execute gracefully at any point, let alone when you're in possession of a primary school reading level scrawling the outline onto the back of a bar napkin in like 10 minutes
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Mar 20, 2017 00:20
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i'm gonna marry cora and be her wife
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cams posted:i'm gonna marry cora and be her wife I am afraid you are not, cams. Cora will take no wives.
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CottonWolf posted:I am afraid you are not, cams. Cora will take no wives. there, she will have me.
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Zane posted:Witcher 2 is more interestingly written imo. It creates an imaginative world that successfully captures the real shortcomings and hypocrisies and confusions of historical existence. Witcher 3 is far more of a predictable hero quest stapled on to some well observed personal relationships. They're both looking better than the DA and MA series these days though probably because the best days of CDProjekt are still ahead of them. witcher 2 has the potential to be a (for games) interesting, human story and the pieces are there but due to time, or budget the execution is kind of fumbled, particularly in the last act. it's also attached to a mechanically far less consistent game. don't get me wrong, i love it, but it could be so much more. you're right, witcher 3's plot turns into something a lot more by the numbers (it even has that loving 'blue energy beam going into the sky' trope) but it was plainly given the time it needed and feels more fulfilling as a result. witcher 1 is honestly pretty underrated; it's ropey as hell and there are places like the swamps where the pace just grinds to a screeching halt, but it's pretty well rounded. that being said i didn't play it on launch when it was apparently even more ropey and broken
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Mar 20, 2017 00:28
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it would be real cool if people stopped throwing spoilers out
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cams posted:it would be real cool if people stopped throwing spoilers out it would actually be really cool if we got more spoilers
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spoilers are good
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The Witcher 3 has a lot of stuff going on and the story is way too long IMHO, but thematically it's about... fatherhood and preserving wisdom as you age into irrelevance? Which is a weird direction to take a franchise centered around being an immortal cooldude with a magic dick, but kind of brilliant.
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Apparently my squadmates don't wear their helmets on Eos. Obviously the Ark was loaded full of replicants instead of actual humans. Ryder is a slave to humanity.
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Nifft posted:Apparently my squadmates don't wear their helmets on Eos. Obviously the Ark was loaded full of replicants instead of actual humans. Ryder is a slave to humanity. There's a menu option that can change when helmets are displayed.
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Nifft posted:Apparently my squadmates don't wear their helmets on Eos. Obviously the Ark was loaded full of replicants instead of actual humans. Ryder is a slave to humanity. Wait, that's the default setting? Why make that the default setting?
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What if Bioware took the ending criticisms so seriously that they only worked on the last hour of the game for the past 4 years.
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If only there were an option that everyone was in full hard suit and helmet all the time. Even on the Tempest and Nexus. And especially in the sex scenes.
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exquisite tea posted:The Witcher 3 has a lot of stuff going on and the story is way too long IMHO, but thematically it's about... fatherhood and preserving wisdom as you age into irrelevance? Which is a weird direction to take a franchise centered around being an immortal cooldude with a magic dick, but kind of brilliant. Yeah. The games great, but it would have been greatly served by having the Novigrad section being about a 10th as long as it is.
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Hello Mass Effect fans. I've played every mass effect game on the 360 but recently swapped over to PS4. Is there any relationship between any previously saved data or is that all tied to my EA account? I did see someone on Twitter mention multiplayer bonuses for playing Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age (whatever the last one was called) which I played on Xbox consoles. I've avoided this thread and any googling/news sites like the plague so apologies if this is commonly repeated.
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The reason why witcher is *high art* is because most goons don't read real books
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The whole you being Pathfinder instead of Cora thing is genuinely kinda hosed up. Now, okay, it's one thing if the line of succession wasn't all that solid and Cora was more like, "Well, I'm most likely and qualified to have to step in if Alec bites it...but the fact is that I don't know for sure if Alec will pick me and nothing is set in stone here." But she (and everyone else) seems genuinely taken aback that Ryder Sr. could have had anyone other than Cora in mind for the position at all, so it's basically that he led her on with false assurances and gave everyone the impression that he would honor the chain of command, but then just went "haha bitch you thought" at the last second.Grondoth posted:Wait, that's the default setting? Why make that the default setting?
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witcher 3 is like shepherd me:a is like niftu cal
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I Am A Robot posted:What if Bioware took the ending criticisms so seriously that they only worked on the last hour of the game for the past 4 years. An entire rainbow of endings to choose from!
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Houdini posted:Hello Mass Effect fans. I've played every mass effect game on the 360 but recently swapped over to PS4. Is there any relationship between any previously saved data or is that all tied to my EA account? I did see someone on Twitter mention multiplayer bonuses for playing Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age (whatever the last one was called) which I played on Xbox consoles. i like that the "heart" dialogue options seem to be the human centric, caring for your people options, while the logical options are your more "we are an invading alien race, we need to respect everything" stuff. very interesting.
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fridge corn posted:The reason why witcher is *high art* is because most goons don't read real books Unwritten Kotaku article: The Witcher 3, greatest masterpiece since Joyce's Ulysses?
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male shepard is the default if you quickstart edit: actually, it might be random?
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Ages posted:An entire rainbow of endings to choose from! Actually they did the *laziest thing* and merely inverted the colors Red, Blue and Green endings and turned the star child upside down
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cams posted:there are rewards for having played me3 (and dragon age inquisition) but no save importing, you start fresh. the only decision you make regarding past ME games is the gender of your shepard. i believe it is female by default and that is canon so Thanks for the quick reply although that Dutch model guy/Mark Meer is my only true Shepard
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BrianWilly posted:The whole you being Pathfinder instead of Cora thing is genuinely kinda hosed up. Now, okay, it's one thing if the line of succession wasn't all that solid and Cora was more like, "Well, I'm most likely and qualified to have to step in if Alec bites it...but the fact is that I don't know for sure if Alec will pick me and nothing is set in stone here." But she (and everyone else) seems genuinely taken aback that Ryder Sr. could have had anyone other than Cora in mind for the position at all, so it's basically that he led her on with false assurances and gave everyone the impression that he would honor the chain of command, but then just went "haha bitch you thought" at the last second. Yeah Alec is a real piece of poo poo imo.
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Milky Moor posted:male shepard is the default if you quickstart
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cams posted:oh, weird. i just assumed it was the default cause when i went to "custom character" it was the option already selected. i've found some people saying that scott ryder seems to have a male shepard and people who are saying sarah gets female shepard
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Admiral Ray posted:Yeah Alec is a real piece of poo poo imo. I know I've been picking the dialogue options that talk about how DadRyder was kind of a dick to his family and others. Seems to fit the 'focus on work' mentality. That said, Cora does raise the issue of 'why you and not me', so I'm going to assume it will come up later.
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eonwe posted:witcher 3 is one of the greatest games ever made I really couldn't get into the Witcher games. I tried with all of them but I really just don't like Geralt that much and something about the setting rubs me the wrong way but I can't put my finger on it. Plus when the first one came out I remember hearing about the whole "sex trading card" thing and it made the game sound juvenile, never really got past that perception. People fairly give Bioware heck for their sort of stapled-on, formulaic romance-arc-ending-in-sex-scene thing but that didn't sound any better.
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Generic Monk posted:witcher 1 is honestly pretty underrated; it's ropey as hell and there are places like the swamps where the pace just grinds to a screeching halt, but it's pretty well rounded. that being said i didn't play it on launch when it was apparently even more ropey and broken It had load times in excess of 10 minutes at launch, longer for large hub areas. The plot also kinda meandered all over the place to the point that a third of the way through I had completely forgotten what I was supposed to be doing. Witcher was extremely lucky to be released during an particularly nasty RPG drought, as if it was released in that state today it would be considered nothing more then another failed crappy RPG. Thankfully, CDProjekt realized how lucky they had gotten from the massive sales and pulled out all the stops for Witcher 2 & 3, which is why they are rightly considered must haves.
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Tunzie posted:I know I've been picking the dialogue options that talk about how DadRyder was kind of a dick to his family and others. Seems to fit the 'focus on work' mentality. I hope she tries to fight you for leadership like Sten did in DA:O.
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BrianWilly posted:The whole you being Pathfinder instead of Cora thing is genuinely kinda hosed up. Now, okay, it's one thing if the line of succession wasn't all that solid and Cora was more like, "Well, I'm most likely and qualified to have to step in if Alec bites it...but the fact is that I don't know for sure if Alec will pick me and nothing is set in stone here." But she (and everyone else) seems genuinely taken aback that Ryder Sr. could have had anyone other than Cora in mind for the position at all, so it's basically that he led her on with false assurances and gave everyone the impression that he would honor the chain of command, but then just went "haha bitch you thought" at the last second. End of prologue spoilers: Maybe this is revealed in game at some point, but I wasn't exactly sure whether the transfer of Pathfinder authority (by which I mean SAM) is meant to have saved Ryder's life. That was my read on the weird cutscene that happens afterwards with all the neurons dying then regenerating.
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Milky Moor posted:male shepard is the default if you quickstart I can't remember which one, but one or two of the ME games were random in choosing a male or female when you quickstarted. I'm still undecided if I want to play Scott or Sara with this game.
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