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ImpAtom posted:"Hey, what if a bunch of libertarian assholes tried to make their own underwater city free of the ~parasites~ goes about as well as you expect." Also, meta-commentary about predestination and the illusion of choice in video games.
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bioshlock
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# ? May 3, 2017 18:41 |
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Terper posted:
Trails is good
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# ? May 3, 2017 18:43 |
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From YCS, a very long time ago:quote:they should call it bayoushock because it's about underwater cities quote:no they should call it dioshock because it's about holy divers
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# ? May 3, 2017 18:44 |
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Sakurazuka posted:Oh yeah did the like three whole choices you had to make in the game actually matter at all? Also lol at the first being, 'throw baseball at black guy or not'. I think they cause cosmetic changes on the player character and/or Elizabeth? The only one I can think of is that if you let the one guy stick a knife through your hand then your hand is bandaged up.
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# ? May 3, 2017 18:44 |
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What's the scoop on Flinthook? Is it the next Spelunky or Nuclear Throne, or should I save my money and beat the games I already own (*cough*persona 5)?
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# ? May 3, 2017 18:47 |
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KingSlime posted:What's the scoop on Flinthook? It is not on the level of those games but its okay.
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# ? May 3, 2017 18:48 |
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What little I've seen of Flinthook looks pretty fun but probably not "put down Persona 5 for a while to play this" fun
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# ? May 3, 2017 18:48 |
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I looked at some videos of Flinthook, my initial opinion is that the visuals are really busy and it looks hard to play.
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# ? May 3, 2017 18:49 |
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MM Zero is so hard I can't even kill the first boss
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# ? May 3, 2017 18:49 |
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one of my friends thinks flinthook is insanely good, but he's also my friend that gets super psyched about every single small studio indie game you've never heard of, buys them and gushes how great they are for 2 hours and then never touches them again, god bless him
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# ? May 3, 2017 18:49 |
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Flinthook looks like it has fun movement and I wish it was just a game with levels and time trials.
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# ? May 3, 2017 18:49 |
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Sakurazuka posted:MM Zero is so hard I can't even kill the first boss We've all been there my friend. MMZero is just bullshit hard.
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# ? May 3, 2017 18:51 |
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Saint Freak posted:There's always a Hitler, a steampunk robot bird drill thing(?), and a lighthouse. Yeah but I didn't like Peace Walker
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# ? May 3, 2017 18:53 |
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Hmm I better hold off until I beat P5 then I am barely on the third palace lol, playing 1-3 hours every other day is getting me nowhere I guess I can do horizon or nioh next given that plus offerings have been consistently poo poo for the past few months (tearway might be ok though)
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# ? May 3, 2017 18:53 |
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average playtime for persona 5 is 80 hours on any difficulty so don't expect to finish it anytime soon
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# ? May 3, 2017 18:54 |
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Recently I visited my nephews and last I remembered they were into LEGO. It turns out that my info is way out of date as they're no longer into lame LEGO but into COBI which is a LEGO knock-off that produces military sets. The company apparently went all-in and recreates tanks, planes and trucks based on real models. The list is pretty insane.
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# ? May 3, 2017 19:05 |
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KingSlime posted:What's the scoop on Flinthook? It looks cool but I feel like I'm gonna see it in a Humble Bundle / Monthly within a year.
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# ? May 3, 2017 19:06 |
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Shindragon posted:We've all been there my friend. MMZero is just bullshit hard. That whole first stage is pretty good at making you feel like you're terrible at Mega Man.
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# ? May 3, 2017 19:15 |
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I need to go back to Yoshi chat to present this: These baby Yoshi have boots, have no saddle, have... diaper? e: however, the Yoshi kids in the first Paper Mario do have saddle/shell. Since they are Yoshi kids and not Yoshi babies the situation may be different. Olive! fucked around with this message at 19:25 on May 3, 2017 |
# ? May 3, 2017 19:22 |
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actually those are the severed heads of mushroom people attached to their saddles a la witcher 3 trophies
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# ? May 3, 2017 19:24 |
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Flinthook has a lot going for it but ultimately seems to fall apart due to how they approached the rouge-lite elements of the game. Quick overview: Flinthook is a 2D rouge-lite wherein you play a space bounty hunter hunting down space pirates by attacking different space pirate ships. It's a silly setting but works well enough. You are assigned a bounty and have to take on a series of increasingly more difficult ships with semi-randomized rooms (the rooms are pre-fab but they are placed randomly), with the defeat of each ship bringing you a little closer to your bounty. Once you take on enough of the smaller ships, you attack the bounty ship and will be presented with a boss fight. If you die at any point, it's back to the beginning of the bounty (though you can take a trip to the black market to buy some permanent upgrades). Also, the game is hella hard. The movement and combat is Flinthook's strongest feature. There are hooks placed all over the rooms and you use them to quickly whip your little bounty hunter around. This mechanic is used to navigate trap rooms without taking damage and stay mobile to avoid shots during combat. The grappling feels snappy and good and mostly does what you want it to. You can also slow down time briefly which gives you a little more air-control and lets you set up difficult shots on your foes. Combat rooms give you waves of enemies to deal with and there seems to be a decent amount of variety with what they throw at you. The music and overall aesthetic is also worth mentioning as being pretty great. Flinthook has some really fun and energizing tunes. While those elements are good, though, the negatives ultimately made me lose interest pretty fast. One is that, as was mentioned above, the art style is a little busy. This can lead you to taking environmental damage that doesn't seem particularly fair just because your brain couldn't register spikes fast enough. Especially not good in a game that ostensibly is about speed and style. Biggest issue for me though was the difficulty, or rather, the difficulty spikes. Like I mentioned above, dying at any point during your bounty will reset you back to the beginning. And a single bounty can take 20-30 minutes to reach the boss (and it wouldn't surprise me if it got longer in the late game). The majority of the game isn't too tough, but the boss fights are absolute bitches. It really sucks to drop 30 minutes into a run, then do 20% damage to the boss and have to start all over. This obviously isn't unique in the genre, Binding of Isaac and Nuclear Throne both have similar expectations of the player, but I don't really find Flinthook interesting enough overall to want to repeat the same content over and over. So yeah, it's worth checking out, but I don't know that it'd be for everyone.
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# ? May 3, 2017 19:26 |
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There has been a lot of retconning in the Mario lore, I learned in the past week that the Koopalings (Iggy, Wendy, etc.) are no longer considered Bowser's legitimate children because of the existence of Bowser Jr.
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# ? May 3, 2017 19:26 |
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Flinthook being a rogue-lite is what made me not immediately buy it, honestly. I'd love more good action games with unique mechanics that aren't rogue-lites, but I see that trend isn't quite dead yet. At least we'll always have Shovel Knight.
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# ? May 3, 2017 19:29 |
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it was just the other day i realized that one of the koopa kids being named "morton koopa jr." implied that bowser's first name is morton
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# ? May 3, 2017 19:28 |
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I know I'm the one that asked, but all this flinthook chat is really just making me want to go play Nuclear Throne some more I loving love Nuclear Throne
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# ? May 3, 2017 19:29 |
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Just tell me his name is still Mario Mario.
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# ? May 3, 2017 19:29 |
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Harrow posted:Flinthook being a rogue-lite is what made me not immediately buy it, honestly. I'd love more good action games with unique mechanics that aren't rogue-lites, but I see that trend isn't quite dead yet. On the flip-side I'm always jonesing for more good rogue-lites and the premise I read makes the game go straight onto my buy list after I'm done with exams! KingSlime posted:I loving love Nuclear Throne Hell yeah.
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# ? May 3, 2017 19:32 |
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I got TumbleSeed and it's really pretty and good but it's insanely difficult on account of its control scheme
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# ? May 3, 2017 19:32 |
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:There has been a lot of retconning in the Mario lore, I learned in the past week that the Koopalings (Iggy, Wendy, etc.) are no longer considered Bowser's legitimate children because of the existence of Bowser Jr. I just interpret that as Bowser being such an evil prick that was so angry at his kids' failure to kill Mario that he disowned them. Cowcaster posted:it was just the other day i realized that one of the koopa kids being named "morton koopa jr." implied that bowser's first name is morton Ah, but James Bond is James Bond Jr.'s uncle. You can draw the same conclusions as to what that implies happened between James Bond and his brother's wife, with Bowser and whatever unseen siblings he has. raditts fucked around with this message at 19:35 on May 3, 2017 |
# ? May 3, 2017 19:33 |
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I should go back to nuclear throne because I was into it for a day or two beat it then went and played something else I usually get pretty hooked on those kinds of games so idk why I wasn't more into it
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# ? May 3, 2017 19:47 |
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Palpek posted:Recently I visited my nephews and last I remembered they were into LEGO. It turns out that my info is way out of date as they're no longer into lame LEGO but into COBI which is a LEGO knock-off that produces military sets. The company apparently went all-in and recreates tanks, planes and trucks based on real models. The list is pretty insane. Your nephews are turning into idiots and you are watching from the sidelines.
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# ? May 3, 2017 19:51 |
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Help Im Alive posted:I should go back to nuclear throne because I was into it for a day or two beat it then went and played something else you beat it after a day or two of first playing it? maaaan it took me a few weeks, maybe months
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# ? May 3, 2017 19:53 |
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And by that I mean WWII nerds that will probably spend their school life in a locker.
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# ? May 3, 2017 19:58 |
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haveblue posted:From YCS, a very long time ago: I would appreciate a videogame based on the music video of holy diver where RJD wanders around the ruins of an old church with a sword or whatever. That Sega CD Make My Video game but it's Holy Diver. "yeah I'll put the shot of the dude in the red robes with the weird animated lizard eyes right after the dude turning into rats; hell yeah"
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# ? May 3, 2017 20:00 |
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Healbot posted:And by that I mean WWII nerds that will probably spend their school life in a locker. I spent my school life in a locker and I'll have you know it's actually quite comfortable there once you learn how to dislocate your arms for more maneuverability!
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# ? May 3, 2017 19:59 |
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Man I'd rather make my own tank, and have it be rainbow colored because otherwise I don't have enough Lego. And then the tank would go into a dock and split into a space ship and go on adventures to find the gi joes and other randomly mishmashed toys that I had.
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# ? May 3, 2017 20:00 |
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I have 2 (3 if my awful brother doesn't want one) Quake Champions closed beta invites if anyone wants them. I also bought a 4-pack of the arena FPS Reflex Arena on Steam and have been sitting on two of the keys for a few years. PM me if you want either of these things.
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# ? May 3, 2017 20:04 |
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No one should ever use Dark Souls as a baseline for insanely hard games when MM Zero exists.
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# ? May 3, 2017 20:06 |
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yall, mario kart owns
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