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Jay Rust posted:The Witcher 3 does a bit of "force you to choose between two things while having incomplete information", which is the cheapest way to make a player feel bad. I like it in the context of the witcher poo poo sucks there, and sometimes things just go bad and you do what you can
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May 3, 2017 21:05
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Snak posted:I quit Mass Effect 3 after the game tricked me into lying to someone I wanted as an ally. The game was like "tell them about thing" or "tell them about other thing" and I was like, well, they will probably get mad when I them about thing, so I will tell them about other thing first, and then after I told them about other thing, the conversation was over and 20 seconds later they were like "we found out about thing! you loving lied to us and hid this, we're enemies now". And I was like wow gently caress this poo poo. If you lie to Wrex about curing the genophage, then he will eventually find out because he's smart. If Wrex is dead and Wreav is the Krogan leader in his place, then nobody will discover the cure was sabotaged.
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May 3, 2017 21:09
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Palpek posted:Yes, you need to investigate things thoroughly. *Geralt kneels in front of a pile of porn magazines* "Hm, could be a pervert, or a basilisk" *Geralt examines a bottle of lotion* "I can probably track the scent" eonwe posted:I like it in the context of the witcher Even though terrible things constantly happen to everyone for no reason, the game's at least really good at giving you a sense of agency. The only time I rolled my eyes was a situation where both dialogue options led to a fist fight where a cutscene eventually plays where Geralt is knocked down by some guy just long enough for his friend to murder another npc. Lurdiak fucked around with this message at 21:13 on May 3, 2017 |
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Cowcaster posted:please note i am not complaining that the "sprites are too big" in the sense that they look bad or anything just that they took up too much space to the relative size of the screen, which wouldn't have been a problem on the snes because the snes had a standard definition 640x480 to work with. i looked it up and the GBA's screen was 240 pixels by 160 pixels. that's not a lot of room to work with guys yeah I'm not trying to passive aggressively bash your opinion, your comment just reminded me of my friend and his frustrating refusal to play the X series, Zero series, or 7-8 He got on the worldwide leaderboards for the randomized strings of level in 10 (or was it 9 that had that mode?) Someone who is that into Mega Man is really doing themselves a horrible disservice by avoiding what I think are the best games in the entire franchise! He's the same fucker who hasn't played Bloodborne due to laziness rather than lack of interest though so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised.
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exquisite tea posted:If you lie to Wrex about curing the genophage, then he will eventually find out because he's smart. If Wrex is dead and Wreav is the Krogan leader in his place, then nobody will discover the cure was sabotaged. somewhere in the world is a dude who shot mordin in the head to sabotage the genophage cure, then killed wrex in "self-defense" when he came seeking restitution and vengeance I hope he feels terrible
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May 3, 2017 21:13
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According to that ME3 analytics graph only about 3% of players shot Mordin to sabotage the cure, so there's hope for us all.
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May 3, 2017 21:12
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Monkey Fracas posted: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" You joke and while this was never official and it was released only in Japan, there was a game with lots of heavy metal/Dio references: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Diver_(video_game)
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exquisite tea posted:According to that ME3 analytics graph only about 3% of players shot Mordin to sabotage the cure, so there's hope for us all. Isn't that kind of a "blow up megaton" thing, like the only reason anyone would do it is to see what happens and then reload their save.
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May 3, 2017 21:16
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Lurdiak posted:Isn't that kind of a "blow up megaton" thing, like the only reason anyone would do it is to see what happens and then reload their save. It's legitimately painful to watch if you let the conversation run its full course. I MADE A MISTAKE!
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May 3, 2017 21:16
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While we talk about writing just lol at the obnoxiousness of Megaton. "We built a town around an unexploded atomic bomb, gee it would really suck if something happened to it".
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May 3, 2017 21:19
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Palpek posted:While we talk about writing just lol at the obnoxiousness of Megaton. "We built a town around an unexploded atomic bomb, gee it would really suck if something happened to it". ya, fallout definitely isnt a subtle writing style of game
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May 3, 2017 21:22
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Lurdiak posted:Yeah it's kind of like the problem that plagued superhero comics since the late 90s, where everyone thinks this inherently goofy genre needs to "grow up" because they simultaneously are too jaded to enjoy it as the cutesy escapism it's supposed to be but also unable to let it go because of nostalgia, so all these people who grew up as fans of superhero comics become writers and start writing stuff like "Toy-themed Superman villain Toyman is a child molester" and "Teenage superheroes accidentally cause the death of hundreds of children" and "This random comedy villain is a serial rapist" and just gore everywhere, because that's mature and realistic! *man in tights flies into space in background to fight sentient sun* This definitely still happens. Look at the Flintstones, and Archie.
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May 3, 2017 21:23
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does the bomb give them energy or something. i didn't finish fallout 3
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May 3, 2017 21:25
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codenameFANGIO posted:This definitely still happens. Look at the Flintstones, and Archie. Yeah, people have been thinking they're clever for making grim versions of childish things for a long time. oddium posted:does the bomb give them energy or something. i didn't finish fallout 3 No, the bomb is just inexplicably at the center of a big crater which gave the early settlers shelter from the elements and they just... never got around to moving it in the 200 years since they settled there???? Fallout 3 is really bad.
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oddium posted:does the bomb give them energy or something. i didn't finish fallout 3
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May 3, 2017 21:25
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I thought they worshiped the bomb
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FirstAidKite posted:I thought they worshiped the bomb A few crazy people did
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May 3, 2017 21:27
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Fallout, with things like Juan Cruz and the Hubologists, is a game that always makes total sense.
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May 3, 2017 21:28
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Someone set up them
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May 3, 2017 21:27
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They built a city around an unexploded, quasi-religious nuclear bomb because that's a cool location to visit in a videogame. HTH.
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May 3, 2017 21:29
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Mordja posted:They built a city around an unexploded, quasi-religious nuclear bomb because that's a cool location to visit in a videogame. HTH. It isn't cool to visit, though.
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May 3, 2017 21:30
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Lurdiak posted:Anime. gently caress
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May 3, 2017 21:31
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Mordja posted:They built a city around an unexploded, quasi-religious nuclear bomb because that's a rad location to visit in a videogame. HTH.
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May 3, 2017 21:32
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Mordja posted:They built a city around an unexploded, quasi-religious nuclear bomb because that's a cool location to visit in a videogame. HTH. Too bad it wasn't cool
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May 3, 2017 21:36
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i like how in the fallout 3 megaton questline, even though the game lets you target guns, if you shoot the gun out of mr. burke's hand before he shoots the sheriff, the game doesn't know how to handle it so they both walk out and the sheriff just immediately dies for no reason it's kind of hilarious and i can understand why it happens but i'm sad they really didn't take that part of VATS targeting into account to let you pull an outcome where both of them survive
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May 3, 2017 21:37
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I tried that too lol. I don't believe I've ever seen a lamer sequence than Lucas Simms telling me I'm about to see Megaton justice in action and then running up to Burke, politely informing him he's under arrest and immediately turning his back to a man who's shown himself willing to blow up an entire town, and getting killed in one shot like the punk that he is.
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May 3, 2017 21:42
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I mean I guess it sucks that the Sheriff dies, but unfortunately for him that Duster of his has +1 Charisma and +5 Small Guns and looks cool so like... I'm not gonna, like, leave him alive
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May 3, 2017 21:46
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Everything in Fallout 3 was lame. Remember the vampires? Remember the town of obnoxious kids?
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May 3, 2017 21:47
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May 3, 2017 21:51
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Lurdiak posted:Yeah, people have been thinking they're clever for making grim versions of childish things for a long time. The new Flintstones rules, though.
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May 3, 2017 21:53
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i'm pretty sure the new flintstones is not un-self aware of how weird and dumb its very concept is, considering the panels i've seen posted online of it
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May 3, 2017 21:53
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I played New Vegas first and then tried to go back to FO3 years after I played New Vegas, which was a mistake My first partner character died from walking off of a cliff
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May 3, 2017 21:54
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So many advantages of living next to a huge hole with an atomic bomb in it, the list just goes on and on. You can dry laundry on it, it gives you shade, you can worship it. Man, this bomb does so many interesting rational things. I guess somebody could think of using it for its intended puprose and pay you, player character big bucks to do it but that's crazy talk and totally not the blatant reason why this poo poo exists in the script.
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The Colonel posted:remember the tenpenny tower quest where the ending that's portrayed as the good one later has the ghouls murder everyone inside and stuff their bodies in the basement, including the people who were always cool with them Eat the rich
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May 3, 2017 21:56
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Monkey Fracas posted:I played New Vegas first and then tried to go back to FO3 years after I played New Vegas, which was a mistake i really like new vegas. looking back on it now, it has a lot of issues, for me some of the biggest are how cherchez la femme is very limited and the few times you do get to use it are sort of weird, but compared to fallout 3 probably one of the biggest things that makes me dig it more is that it has such a stronger, funnier and more human cast of followers, while everyone in fallout 3 was either one note or horribly loving dull Serf posted:Yeah that ending is the good one, what's the deal. they murder the friendly radio show guy who isn't even weird or a dick!! The Colonel fucked around with this message at 22:00 on May 3, 2017 |
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Lurdiak posted:Yeah it's kind of like the problem that plagued superhero comics since the late 90s, where everyone thinks this inherently goofy genre needs to "grow up" because they simultaneously are too jaded to enjoy it as the cutesy escapism it's supposed to be but also unable to let it go because of nostalgia, so all these people who grew up as fans of superhero comics become writers and start writing stuff like "Toy-themed Superman villain Toyman is a child molester" and "Teenage superheroes accidentally cause the death of hundreds of children" and "This random comedy villain is a serial rapist" and just gore everywhere, because that's mature and realistic! *man in tights flies into space in background to fight sentient sun* In a lot of cases, the fairy tales the Witcher series draws from were pretty hosed up to begin with and only became childish with retellings as we decided maybe telling children stories with that much murder in them wasn't the best idea in the world. Weirdly, I think Witcher 3 wallows in its misery less than Witcher 2 did, though Witcher 3 definitely comes out of the gate bleak as hell (especially the whole Baron storyline). It morphs into a much more optimistic heroic fantasy later on, though a couple of the side quests (like the one you recently encountered) dip back into the "Everything sucks and there's nothing you can do about it" well.
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Ometeotl posted:The new Flintstones rules, though. Holy poo poo I just looked this up and it's amazing.
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Harrow posted:In a lot of cases, the fairy tales the Witcher series draws from were pretty hosed up to begin with and only became childish with retellings as we decided maybe telling children stories with that much murder in them wasn't the best idea in the world. Yeah I don't think there's anything remotely as bleak in Skellige and that even features a major massacre as a plot point. (I guess there might be a way to totally bork the investigation quest?) But Novigrad takes you to some dark places. Forget it, Geralt, It's Novigrad
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