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Aleph Null posted:The Let's Play turned into a Book was a great idea, but yeah. I don't think I even made it to where he meets the Celibate Succubus. No planescape had an actual novelization. It's really weird to act as if that reflects on the game though.
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Apr 18, 2017 21:01
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I'm playing it on Switch and maybe half the time it won't let me skip, or will let me skip a few seconds before the cutscene finishes anyway.
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Apr 18, 2017 21:09
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Inzombiac posted:Load all the gold into an exploded corpse and carry a gib out with you. actually, back when Old World Blues came out, I found a way to get all the gold out of the casino without being as much of a cheating bastard 1. Take rank 2 of the Implant GRX perk (it's like five - ten free Turbos a day or something) 2. Take whatever perks increase the duration of the implant 3. Use them all and limp out of the vault 4. keep running. There'll be a part that you need to jump over, that you can't jump over. drop all the gold bars and hope they hit the platform you need to jump onto. 5. pick them up and crawl your way out of the vault this way took way too long, but it can be done if you're stupid.
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Apr 19, 2017 00:14
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MisterBibs posted:Avellone is the kind of writer who huffs his own farts. I wouldn't go quite that far but he does seem to have his own personal little infatuations that he can run away with without an editor to tell him to cut it out. Josh Sawyer is pretty guilty of that too, he's so in love with subverting your expectations that Pillars of Eternity was almost self-parody in how often you would get a quest that ended up with the bad guy actually being good and the good guy actually being bad, and Ceasar's Legion and the huge infodumps that accompanied them in New Vegas are more or less entirely because he's a history major who loves Rome. It was especially silly when the actual cultures native to the Mojave like the Native Americans and Mexicans, both of which were pretty big in the pop iconography of the 1950s which Fallout draws so much from, were relegated to one settlement of cliche natives and a stereotypical Mexican mechanic. Action Tortoise posted:Binary Domain's PC port is weird, guys  PRESS  BUTTONRagnarokAngel posted:No planescape had an actual novelization. It's really weird to act as if that reflects on the game though. I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not but there totally was a novelization of Planescape: Torment. Though apparently it wasn't very good and deviates from the game in that The Nameless One actually chooses a name for himself early on.
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Apr 19, 2017 00:16
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MisterBibs posted:Avellone was responsible for both of these, if I remember correctly. He hated that the bulk of people played as some sort of shooter with some level of speech ability, so he designed a DLC to specifically gently caress with those builds. I'm gonna buy you a hotdog.
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Apr 19, 2017 00:25
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Morpheus posted:Oh you mean one of the best cRPGs with an actual modicum of character development? Yeah. He's also probably the guy that didn't want Super Mutants to just be a post-apocalyptic version of Orcs that are Chaotic Evil to the max and can't be reasoned with or even interacted with. Action Tortoise posted:Binary Domain's PC port is weird, guys Sadly the PC port doesn't play nice with my current processor even though it worked fine with my old one. Testekill has a new favorite as of 00:43 on Apr 19, 2017 |
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Apr 19, 2017 00:39
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Guy Mann posted:I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not but there totally was a novelization of Planescape: Torment. Though apparently it wasn't very good and deviates from the game in that The Nameless One actually chooses a name for himself early on. I wasn't, I meant there was one, I think my lack of a comma made you read my intent backwards sorry. I was trying to say "No, planescape had a novelization"
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Apr 19, 2017 00:44
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There was also a Baldur's Gate novelisation which was unreadable garbage.
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Apr 19, 2017 00:47
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I think I speak for all right-thinking individuals when I say that ShadowCatBoy, Capitan Garlic, and Chris Avellone need to write a new CRPG.
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Apr 19, 2017 01:02
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Screaming Idiot posted:I'm gonna buy you a hotdog. 
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Apr 19, 2017 01:57
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Screaming Idiot posted:I'm gonna buy you a hotdog. It'd still be more palatable than anything written by Avellone. (and if my EE made me have to go to the hospital because of food impaction, I wouldn't need drugs to knock me out and get it removed. Just have someone talk about Knowing and Zerthimon for an hour.) MisterBibs has a new favorite as of 02:54 on Apr 19, 2017 |
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Apr 19, 2017 02:51
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Testekill posted:Sadly the PC port doesn't play nice with my current processor even though it worked fine with my old one. i'm gonna have to wait playing it until i get a proper mic so i can catcall my boys all the time.
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Apr 19, 2017 02:56
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Guy Mann posted:Josh Sawyer is pretty guilty of that too, he's so in love with subverting your expectations that Pillars of Eternity was almost self-parody in how often you would get a quest that ended up with the bad guy actually being good and the good guy actually being bad, and Ceasar's Legion and the huge infodumps that accompanied them in New Vegas are more or less entirely because he's a history major who loves Rome. Josh Sawyer designed (I think) precisely one quest in Pillars Of Eternity, and has said before that he has no interest in subverting players' expectations (for example, he designed the casino games in New Vegas to go in the player's favour more often than in real life because he considers winning big at the casino to be a power fantasy just like knocking a raider's head off with a lead pipe)
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Apr 19, 2017 03:04
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Guy Mann posted:
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Apr 19, 2017 05:25
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Needs a full stop after the last word. "He can tie rope. Don't ask me how, he just can, that's all."
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Apr 19, 2017 05:46
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I don't mind the invisible walls too much in Nier Automata, but I hate the ones in front of places that are reachable. Here's a ledge, it's right in front of you and you can jump to it. Here's another one, oops no you can't get to it, idiot.. Hope you enjoyed running through those caves because you're gonna have to again. I spent a while thinking I was loving up the jump from the elevator to the operators in the bunker but I'm pretty sure there's just a wall there for no reason. I don't like Weight of the World as much as Ashes of Dreams but I've only gotten A so maybe there's better versions.
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Apr 19, 2017 05:51
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Mass Effect: Andromeda: "Pathfinder, this area can be mined for resources. You can extract the minerals via your mining interface." Yes, SAM, thank you. That's why I opened the mining interface in a mining area. "Pathfinder, this area can be--" YES SAM THANK YOU.
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Apr 19, 2017 06:26
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Gitro posted:I don't mind the invisible walls too much in Nier Automata, but I hate the ones in front of places that are reachable. Here's a ledge, it's right in front of you and you can jump to it. Here's another one, oops no you can't get to it, idiot.. Hope you enjoyed running through those caves because you're gonna have to again. I spent a while thinking I was loving up the jump from the elevator to the operators in the bunker but I'm pretty sure there's just a wall there for no reason. The bunker has some dumb fuckin' invisible walls, but there's a forgivable reason for them.
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Apr 19, 2017 06:28
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Gitro posted:
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:oh man. quoting this for posterity 2B fair, Ashes of Dreams is a really good song.
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Apr 19, 2017 10:34
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MisterBibs posted:It'd still be more palatable than anything written by Avellone. Learn to chew so your awful opinions on super mutants don't vanish after you choke on your next hot dog. Also the unbroken circle of zerthimon is awesome.
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Apr 19, 2017 10:39
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Anything longer than WoW quest text has Bibs frothing and twitching on the floor, so maybe I oughtta be more understanding.
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Apr 19, 2017 10:43
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Gitro posted:I don't like Weight of the World as much as Ashes of Dreams but I've only gotten A so maybe there's better versions. This post makes me feel like I'm losing hope. In my body and my soul.
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Apr 19, 2017 12:23
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Y'all can just scroll past his posts and not do the same hotdog burn page after page. I don't agree with his points either, but I don't like seeing dog piling here on anyone.
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Apr 19, 2017 12:42
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Action Tortoise posted:Y'all can just scroll past his posts and not do the same hotdog burn page after page. I don't agree with his points either, but I don't like seeing dog piling here on anyone.
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Apr 19, 2017 12:49
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He could just swallow his pride for a change.
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Apr 19, 2017 12:57
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I don't understand what's going on with all this hotdog talk,guess i'd better ketchup.
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Apr 19, 2017 12:58
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Noooooo
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Apr 19, 2017 13:14
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I appreciate this frank discussion.
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Apr 19, 2017 13:19
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What kind of goons make fun of hot dogs? Fat goons, skinny goons, goons that climb on rocks?
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Apr 19, 2017 13:34
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Motherfucker, did I start a pun chain? 
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Action Tortoise posted:Motherfucker, did I start a pun chain? In the game of puns, weiner takes all.
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Apr 19, 2017 14:49
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Just attemped the speedrun achievement in The Last Guardian. Didn't manage it in 5 hours, but I did halve my time to 7. Really annoying trying to be quick in that game as you can get badly screwed on RNG if Trico just isn't feeling like following your instructions. Especially trying to make him dive, that was the worst.
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spit on my clit posted:actually, back when Old World Blues came out, I found a way to get all the gold out of the casino without being as much of a cheating bastard Even easier: pick up all the gold, use a stealth boy, and slooooooowly stealth around a column in the room as Elijah walks in. The timing is tight as hell, but you can crouch-walk over to where he walked in from before he realizes you're gone and raises the forcefield. Then he's trapped and you're right by the elevator! Plus you can leave some C4 in the vault. Boom boom, motherfucker.
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I've been playing Homefront: The Revolution and I'm enjoying it. The friendly rebels are decent enough as a distraction for you to get the drop on dudes, and I like you can recruit them and they'll let you know about grenades and enemy patrols, vehicles and poo poo you might not have seen. They also freak out and dash for cover when they detect a sniper, yelling out warnings and such. It's neat. However, they do not distinguish enemy snipers from friendly ones. So you can be walking along peacefully when a couple of nearby allies will lose their collective poo poo about a sniper that has you all zeroed in, and after taking cover with them you'll come to realise the sniper they're terrified of is the friendly one that has spawned 15 feet away in full view, chilling out with his laser beam dancing idly and harmlessly over the distance. They don't engage friendly snipers, but still act like they're a real threat to them. This results in some pretty cool advances on enemy patrols that are going swimmingly until a rebel sniper decides to help out and aims in the same direction. Your AI squad mates will detect a sniper has pointed a gun in their general direction and take cover from their own guy meaning they're ignoring the very dangerous enemies who are now lethally flanking them with zero effort. "This squad of 6 soldiers, 2 heavy gunners and a drone tank are dangerous. I'd best hide behind this low brick wall. Ah, relative safety to fire from. Wait, gently caress, Frank has a sniper rifle and is firing from behind me, better jump over the wall and get some cover from him, exposing myself completely to the withering enemy fire because we all know what a poo poo shot he is." Also, friendly AI and civilian AI seem ok at running from enemy grenades but are suicidal when it comes to your grenades. As in, they don't seem to detect your thrown explosives at all, frustratingly, which means that certain objectives that require thrown/planted explosives are nearly always a gamble in the streets because civilians will get scared and hug the thing you have just strapped a pipe bomb to, and absolutely refuse under any circumstances to leave. The game penalises you if you kill too many civilians. I found a secondary objective that required 2 pipe bombs to destroy, and I attached one to it and immediately 4 civilians went into "oh poo poo just got real" panic mode and ran up to the objective and cowered around it. I tried pushing them away without luck, so blew it up anyway. 4 dead. Got a warning. Whatever, attach next pipe bomb and 2 more civilians round the corner, see me with IED detonating phone in hand and freak out, and yep, run and hide next to planted pipebomb. Goddamn it. princecoo has a new favorite as of 17:33 on Apr 19, 2017 |
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Apr 19, 2017 17:24
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There's so many things to do in Persona 5 and nowhere near enough time. At least it has a skip cutscene button though so my next playthrough should go smoother
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Apr 19, 2017 18:10
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Len posted:There's so many things to do in Persona 5 and nowhere near enough time. At least it has a skip cutscene button though so my next playthrough should go smoother New game+ has you keep your social stats through the next playthrough, so you'll have more than enough time with the time freed up not having to grind those out.
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Apr 19, 2017 18:21
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I'm going to use that free time to make more dumb jokes and dunk on people because trying to get max relationship points my first time through was a fool's errand anyway.
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Apr 19, 2017 18:44
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Len posted:There's so many things to do in Persona 5 and nowhere near enough time. At least it has a skip cutscene button though so my next playthrough should go smoother Persona 5 does actually give you nearly enough time to do everything in the first go, but it requires you to exploit mechanics you'd have no idea existed without a guide. The Fortune and Temperance links are crucial for freeing up your schedule and you probably can't complete the dungeons in a timely manner without the goodies from the Death link's SP-boosting accessories. Then there's the fact that nearly half the links boost your stats as well, so if you spent all your time grinding up a particular stat on the side-activities instead then that's wasted points. And over it all, the face of That loving Cat and its demands for excessive slumber looms large.
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Poulpe posted:New game+ has you keep your social stats through the next playthrough, so you'll have more than enough time with the time freed up not having to grind those out. Yeah that's what I'm banking on at this point. I could probably have followed a guide from beginning to end and got it all but 
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