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RoboRodent posted:One of the collectibles is ancient coffee mugs. The guy you trade them in for a reward is convinced the ancients used them for ceremonial shaving. Little touches like that. That sounds really great and just made me hate Fallout 4 even more with the Baseball guy who talks about the game being about gladiatorial murder. Does War for the Overworld have a torture chamber? I'll admit that I'm a sick gently caress and I loved all the unique animations in the first game.
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Drunken Baker posted:Does War for the Overworld have a torture chamber? I'll admit that I'm a sick gently caress and I loved all the unique animations in the first game. It does indeed. Most of the DK1 staples are there in one form or another. The best addition is the construct you can use to replace walls you've dug out.
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So I finished NIght in the Woods, really great game. I like that the miracle rats I've been taking care of have multiplied like crazy and have infested the entire town.
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Away all Goats posted:Good thing we got the Force Unleashed games where you're basically playing a guy with a colored baseball bat that can perform combos against enemies. With a Lightsaber. Except when the game grinds to a halt by throwing people who are somehow immune to the Force at you and you are forced to smack them with your glowstick until they die of shame
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QuietLion posted:I'm very late to this game, but Psychonauts is just so fantastic and weird at the same time. I've only completed up to Levitation training, but all the campers have so much personality. Plus Kitty has a lot of Psychonauts is great from start to finish, I hope the sequel's good. Content : All the references to fallout 1 and 2 in New vegas are really standing out to me, more so than when I first played NV, the old lady in novac (who was once in the enclave) mentions crashing a vertibird in Klamath which made me smile. Also Marcus turning up and talking about looking for a geck with a tribal was cool.
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Apr 7, 2017 13:14
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:Psychonauts is great from start to finish, I hope the sequel's good. I had to kick him out of my party because he kept gunning down my team mates. Ended up just using a bunch of dogs instead.
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Gorilla Salad posted:Are they doing that to keep their K/D ratio? Was talking to a guy at work about this and he says that for Virtua Fighter 5 each player would have a face icon next to their name that was based on their connection history, which functioned like a reputation. If you kept dropping out of fights because of your connection or because you were a ragequitting wuss, either way you'd end up with a face icon that was sad (or red, whatever the exact system was I dunno) so that other players knew you were a risk to start a match with.
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scarycave posted:I had to kick him out of my party because he kept gunning down my team mates. gently caress that guy, Cassidy and Sulik bros4lyfe
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scarycave posted:I had to kick him out of my party because he kept gunning down my team mates. Yeah it's a shame they didn't make mutants the right kind of fast till new vegas, Cassidy was always my fave but he was modded in right? (so hard to remember what's modded and what's vanilla in any fallout game lol)
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Cassidy was the bar/store owner with a heart problem that would close up shop and follow you in FO2.
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:Yeah it's a shame they didn't make mutants the right kind of fast till new vegas, Cassidy was always my fave but he was modded in right? (so hard to remember what's modded and what's vanilla in any fallout game lol) It always surpruses me how much NV supermutants can just haul rear end. Theyre se goddamn fast and their charge attacks cover a distance of anywhere->right up to your face.
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Dr Snofeld posted:It does indeed. Most of the DK1 staples are there in one form or another. They basically have everything and just change the models. So the Dark Mistress is now the Succubus. The Imp is now a Gnarling, etc.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:It always surpruses me how much NV supermutants can just haul rear end. Theyre se goddamn fast and their charge attacks cover a distance of anywhere->right up to your face. Just how they should be, classic lumbering mutants are good but they're outclassed by their sprinting superiors.
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In Persona 5, the standard loading animation is a black screen with a picture of the protagonist's head, with a hand on his chin in a thinking pose in the bottom-right corner of the screen. While you're spending time with your girlfriend, however, it has pink love hearts floating off of it  .
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All of the loading screens in Persona 5 are amazing. From the Palace transitions to the "in the present day" fast forwards... Extremely well done.
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The persona games always had a unique aesthetic to their UI but 5's is so drat good.
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RagnarokAngel posted:The persona games always had a unique aesthetic to their UI but 5's is so drat good. I'm wondering, is this because of something they specifically do differently? Like, is the UI designer more explicitly part of the art team than they are in, say, a Final Fantasy game?
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John Murdoch posted:Do you also still have to deal with people cheating onto inaccessible rooftops? RoboRodent posted:HZD has very quickly become a favourite game of mine. I think it's kind of a shame it's been overshadowed a little. Everything about it is just very satisfying for me. The combat is tight, the story is wonderful. I wasn't expecting such a lovely little bit of sci fi.   Even the vendor loot is neat. Keigel posted:He doesn't go inside. He doesn't talk to the owners or another agent. He is making this offer to the building itself. I don't think thats how real estate works; but then, Kiryu owns many buildings, and i own none. What do I know?
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Cleretic posted:I'm wondering, is this because of something they specifically do differently? Like, is the UI designer more explicitly part of the art team than they are in, say, a Final Fantasy game? The UI in P5 is leaps and bounds ahead of anything else in the series. I think that Atlus figured that, since turn-based RPG's have become almost a novelty and they weren't going to innovate the actual gameplay all that much, they'd might as well go for broke on style in this particular entry.
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Since Persona takes place in the "real world" and deals with a lot of collective unconscious stuff in its themes it can do a mishmash of art styles that give it just this utterly bizzare but familiar feel. Same goes for the catchy pop music. Another little thing I like about Persona 5 is how it indicates if you already own a demon or not. If it's a demon you own then it's name appears when you target them in battle, if you dont have them yet it will just give a generic description like "weird floating dog" or "holy avenger".
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Lobok posted:Was talking to a guy at work about this and he says that for Virtua Fighter 5 each player would have a face icon next to their name that was based on their connection history, which functioned like a reputation. If you kept dropping out of fights because of your connection or because you were a ragequitting wuss, either way you'd end up with a face icon that was sad (or red, whatever the exact system was I dunno) so that other players knew you were a risk to start a match with. What game was it only allowed frequent ragequitters to play with other frequent ragequitters?
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Agents are GO! posted:What game was it only allowed frequent ragequitters to play with other frequent ragequitters? It's not related to disconnects, but Max Payne 3 had a Cheaters Pool for multiplayer: http://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/35441/taking-aim-at-cheaters-in-max-payne-3.html
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Agents are GO! posted:What game was it only allowed frequent ragequitters to play with other frequent ragequitters? League of Legends (cursed be it's name) also silently drops you into the rear end in a top hat pool if you get too many negative reports.
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I've also just started psychonauts (three hours in). Oh man that secret room milla's mind scared me. I hope I can go back and help her through it 
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Greatbacon posted:League of Legends (cursed be it's name) also silently drops you into the rear end in a top hat pool if you get too many negative reports. I think most MOBAs have something like this - DOTA 2 has the low priority pool where people who get too many negative reports on their play are forced to play with other poor performers, and also take longer to find games. This results in people selling accounts which have good standing and high match making ratings so that instead of having to do well and earn the rank to play with a particular level of players, you can just buy into that level. I've never understood the ego surrounding these games - recently I played a game where someone on the other team abandoned the game, which forfeits the match for that team. All except one member of that team left the game, and the other person insisted that our team leaves so that they don't get a loss on their play record. TheMostFrench has a new favorite as of 10:35 on Apr 9, 2017 |
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ilmucche posted:I've also just started psychonauts (three hours in). Oh man that secret room milla's mind scared me. I hope I can go back and help her through it Oh god just wait till the end, the horrifying imagery gets cranked up a lot.
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One of the interesting things about how psychonauts depicts mental health is that it's more about the management of mental trauma rather than the lack of it. You could have a reasonable debate (not in this thread) about how truly "healthy" Milia's party-all-the-time or Sasha's fixation on order and control are as coping mechanisms are as long as they do the job of keeping things managed.
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Greatbacon posted:League of Legends (cursed be it's name) also silently drops you into the rear end in a top hat pool if you get too many negative reports. They actually don't do that, for a couple of good reasons. Something something, everyone's an rear end in a top hat in MOBAs, etc.
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I'm pretty sure Overwatch also nudges you toward other assholes (reported and muted players) during matchmaking.
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John Murdoch posted:They actually don't do that, for a couple of good reasons. Something something, everyone's an rear end in a top hat in MOBAs, etc. Read as: they don't want reported players to quit playing and stop giving them money.
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RyokoTK posted:Read as: they don't want reported players to quit playing and stop giving them money. Well according to goons literally everything Riot does is in the name of $$$ so what else is new.
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Nier: Automata I'm pretty sure I just witnessed a Fatal Frame 2 reference in Ending B.
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Action Tortoise posted:Nier: Automata There's an explanation for what you saw.
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Guy Mann posted:Normally doing the same boss battle four times in a row in rapid succession with only minor variations would be tedious, but Raz's stupid little victory dance made me look forward to each one. I love that victory dance. I think Milkman Conspiracy and Milla's level (the one where most of it was on the levitation ball) were my favorites. Dammit, now I think I'm going to need to play Psychonauts again.
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m2pt5 posted:I love that victory dance. i love steve blum's deadpan delivery for all the neighbors in the milkman level
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John Murdoch posted:Well according to goons literally everything Riot does is in the name of $$$ so what else is new. Is there any game company this isn't true of?
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m2pt5 posted:I love that victory dance. I love that he stole it from the bully near the start of the game.
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2house2fly posted:Is there any game company this isn't true of? Well..yes. For some it is a passion, that they get paid to do what they love is certainly a perk of course. Undertale and Stardew Valley's creators both spring to mind as examples of.
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2house2fly posted:Is there any game company this isn't true of? Well I'd like to think it's the majority of them, though certainly not all. Though I also don't mean "company likes to make money off their game" so much as "a red light blinks urgently in China (for that is where Riot's not-so-secret corporate overlords are located) indicating that sales of skin X are down, so Riot is instructed to immediately buff that champion and, perhaps for good measure, nerf their counters too". The reverse must also surely be true: When Riot says "this champion was overpowered, so we nerfed them" only a fool would take that at face value. What they actually mean is "when this champion gets played, the other 9 players buy fewer skins, so we had to do something about it". If you put on those glasses from They Live, League of Legends and everything surrounding it would just say BUY SKINS over and over.
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