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I suspect the actual reason isn't "fantasy stuff is DUMB" but that an enemy who is capable of killing anything it looks at in a single glance would not be very fun in games, which is also why basilisks that show up elsewhere also tend to either be missing that ability or turn people to stone. They could not use a basilisk but when your entire gimmick is mythological creatures it's not surprising when you do.
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The Colonel posted:there was praise for its art style??? i didn't wanna dump on it because they probably just didn't have the resources for a style that actually mimics old 80s sci-fi mecha anime, but lol Maybe not for the public at large but I distinctly remember a bit of weird goon praise of it, seemingly just for what it was trying to do.
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Harrow posted:Get mad at Dandelion, who probably wrote all of those and is also kind of a bellend. Nah, Dandelion writes the quest logs, not the bestiary entries. I have absolutely no attachment to the "correct" way to do any mythic creature, (although if you change every single aspect at some point I might wonder why you even named them after that thing) nor do I think The Witcher does a bad job with their creature designs or lore, but I do not like anyone who tries to say "this is the REAL version of this made-up thing, not like those fake ones". I said it was a pet peeve! ImpAtom posted:I suspect the actual reason isn't "fantasy stuff is DUMB" but that an enemy who is capable of killing anything it looks at in a single glance would not be very fun in games, which is also why basilisks that show up elsewhere also tend to either be missing that ability or turn people to stone. They could not use a basilisk but when your entire gimmick is mythological creatures it's not surprising when you do. Like I said, their basilisks could breathe fire and fly (wait, I think they do fly?) and I wouldn't mind, I just used them as an example of a pattern that shows up a lot in the bestiary. It's especially bad for the vampire one.
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i think it would kind of make sense for a vampire in a setting where vampires aren't repulsed by garlic and crosses to joke about people holding goofy myths about them that aren't even true in-universe, i don't think that's dumping on pop culture either as much as it is a character conveying world info. iirc the guy who's conveying it is just kind of a dude with a smart mouth
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Lurdiak posted:Nah, Dandelion writes the quest logs, not the bestiary entries. I guess the fact that it's in-universe is what makes it better for me. People have a bunch of stupid ideas in-universe about these monsters, but Witchers know better. The bestiary isn't saying "all you other pop culture things have it wrong," just "all these stupid non-Witchers don't know poo poo about monsters."
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Harrow posted:I guess the fact that it's in-universe is what makes it better for me. People have a bunch of stupid ideas in-universe about these monsters, but Witchers know better. The bestiary isn't saying "all you other pop culture things have it wrong," just "all these stupid non-Witchers don't know poo poo about monsters." Yeah, I get it. I laugh whenever Geralt completely bullshits some idiot about monster/witcher lore when he spares a nice monster. "Oh yeah I convinced the imp to go back to the country to piss in milk, as is tradition."
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I finished the first Dark Souls 3 DLC (and, unknowingly, a bit of the second DLC that I thought was a continuation of the first), and I liked it a lot! I don't know what the complaints about it might look like, aside that it's still just more Dark Souls? I liked the new enemies: certain enemy types seemed to have some sort of tactical AI, and it was cool figuring it out. It's a snow level, of course, so it gets free points for looking amazing: even the rotten village full of pustules and screaming crow-men looked good. I guess the final boss is approaching parody at this point, by having three phases, but I beat them on my second try by selling out and summoning other players, no skin off my back. Two bullshit moments do come to mind: walking across thin branches of a giant tree while being pelted with great arrows that explode, and those crow knight guys were a pain. Thankfully there's only like four of them. So yeah, looking forward to playing the second DLC tonight or tomorrow!
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Lurdiak posted:Nah, Dandelion writes the quest logs, not the bestiary entries. Old Man Narrator Dandelion in the loading screens is hilariously bad, I wouldn't have known that was even supposed to be him until someone in the forums mentioned it
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Old Man Narrator Dandelion in the loading screens is hilariously bad, I wouldn't have known that was even supposed to be him until someone in the forums mentioned it Yeah the VA for Dandelion was always a really weird choice in Witcher 1 and 2 and in this game he sounds worse than ever. I'm glad young Dandelion at least got a new VA that actually sounds like his character should instead of like an elderly cowboy.
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Just finished playing through a romhack of Mario 64, Last Impact. Got all 130 stars. Wouldn't recommend it.
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:Just finished playing through a romhack of Mario 64, Last Impact. Got all 130 stars. Wouldn't recommend it. How many A-presses did it take
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Lurdiak posted:Yeah the VA for Dandelion was always a really weird choice in Witcher 1 and 2 and in this game he sounds worse than ever. I'm glad young Dandelion at least got a new VA that actually sounds like his character should instead of like an elderly cowboy. i'm pretty sure dandelion's va has been the same guy for the whole series? the new guy was probably old dandelion
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Cowcaster posted:i'm pretty sure dandelion's va has been the same guy for the whole series? the new guy was probably old dandelion I don't know, I could be wrong but I remember noticing that Dandelion sounded really weird the first time he showed up in the first Witcher game.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:How many A-presses did it take 1, give or take ~0.5
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Lurdiak posted:I don't know, I could be wrong but I remember noticing that Dandelion sounded really weird the first time he showed up in the first Witcher game. my mistake, he was played by a different guy for the first game, but he did have the same VA for 2 and 3
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:Just finished playing through a romhack of Mario 64, Last Impact. Got all 130 stars. Wouldn't recommend it. Was it real? Is this reality?
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Cowcaster posted:my mistake, he was played by a different guy for the first game, but he did have the same VA for 2 and 3 I wonder if the bad narrator is the guy who played him in the first game then. That would explain everything.
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oddium posted:what's bad about old dande i mean i don't mind him at all but he definitely does not craft the illusion that "oh yeah this is just that one guy, but a lot older". they just straight up sound like two different people Cowcaster fucked around with this message at 23:47 on May 4, 2017 |
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haveblue posted:I'm reflexively hesitant to buy a game with "sexy" in its title but the GB quicklook was intriguing. It made it look like the entire game is Clock Town from Majora's Mask. There's nothing skeevy in the game, if you're wondering. The reason behind the name is that the creator of the casino wanted to name it after the two most notable elements of gambling: it's unbearably alluring nature (sexy) and it's tendency to lead to ruin (brutale).
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hi everyone i'm back from my trip and E3 is already 6 weeks away so I'm gonna get the E3 thread ready for.. monday i guess?? apparently there might even be stuff on the weekend this year. i guess they want to stretch this laffy taffy as thin as possible
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Thinking about the Simlish versions of real world music in Sims games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjWdBRh0jAM
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Sakurazuka posted:The only one I've played of those is Rapture and I enjoyed it but everyone else in the PS4 thread hates it. I'm a sucker for those sort of melancholy stories though and since there's nothing else to it it depends entirely on how much you enjoy that and wether the slow walking pace annoys you. I have to give The Chinese Room credit, they may not make good games but their titles are stellar. In a world of meaningless one-word titles that make it impossible to tell apart a Prototype from an Infamous, A Machine For Pigs and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture are  Lurdiak posted:These witcher bestiary entries should really be less sassy about getting the myths and creatures they appropriate wrong. It's like "unlike what stupid idiot morons think, basilisks can't turn people to stone". Hey guys, you're the ones getting it wrong... Maybe take it down a notch. Witcher doesn't hold a candle to Japanese RPGs playing a game of telephone with European mythology as filtered through D&D. Their kobolds are dogs. The Colonel posted:there was praise for its art style??? i didn't wanna dump on it because they probably just didn't have the resources for a style that actually mimics old 80s sci-fi mecha anime, but lol I have to give 100ft Robot Golf credit, whoever they outsourced their animation to did a pretty good job. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdPQ22OylFg Lizard Wizard posted:Thinking about the Simlish versions of real world music in Sims games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqdlQFAirCo Those Sims pseudo-adventure games they put out on consoles and handhelds were surprisingly fun at the time.
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Yeah Kobolds being little lizard dudes is pretty recent. I don't really know why the change was made. Maybe people felt bad about beating up doggies? I always liked Zelda's weird humanoid beastmen. Instead of being orcs or ogres or trolls or whatever they're all pigmen, boar men, hyena men, etc. I guess Bulblins and Bokoblins are closer to the traditional medieval fantasy savage humanoids, but they still feel pretty distinct and fun.
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I started playing Resident Evil Revelations 2. How the heck does that game have framerate issues? It's just walking down hallways. And I'm not a framerate guy, poo poo's got to get really bad before I notice
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If only there was some kind of trick you could use when designing a horror game to minimize performance issues. Some sort of fixed... camera.
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Lurdiak posted:If only there was some kind of trick you could use when designing a horror game to minimize performance issues. Some sort of fixed... camera. OK yeah but then you'd have a fixed camera and that's terrible
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Guy Goodbody posted:I started playing Resident Evil Revelations 2. How the heck does that game have framerate issues? It's just walking down hallways. And I'm not a framerate guy, poo poo's got to get really bad before I notice God is trying to warn you
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Lurdiak posted:To be more serious, even though I didn't overall care for the story, I thought Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles did some very interesting things with the fog robbing people of their memory so they forget what they're even trying to do, and the world is kind of caught in this terrible existence where no one really has a past. Like at one point a character murders his father because he forgot why he was seeking him out or who he was and let rumors about his dad as a dangerous warrior shape his perception of his quest, so he eventually believed he was trying to stop him. yeah it's just too bad that crystal chronicles is the kind of game where you skip everything so you can get back to beating up monsters with your bros like seriously, it's a very specific genre of game where you really don't want to put in story, or cutscenes, or really anything other than an extremely tenuous reason for why you're out punching progressively more powerful poo poo with your best friends ImpAtom posted:I suspect the actual reason isn't "fantasy stuff is DUMB" but that an enemy who is capable of killing anything it looks at in a single glance would not be very fun in games, which is also why basilisks that show up elsewhere also tend to either be missing that ability or turn people to stone. They could not use a basilisk but when your entire gimmick is mythological creatures it's not surprising when you do. tellthattobaldursgate1.txt Fur20 fucked around with this message at 03:31 on May 5, 2017 |
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Guy Goodbody posted:I started playing Resident Evil Revelations 2. How the heck does that game have framerate issues? It's just walking down hallways. And I'm not a framerate guy, poo poo's got to get really bad before I notice it was originally a 3ds game wasn't it? it might just be how the game was built to run
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Cowcaster posted:it was originally a 3ds game wasn't it? it might just be how the game was built to run The first one was, not the sequel. Sam Faust fucked around with this message at 03:49 on May 5, 2017 |
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Quest For Glory II posted:hi everyone i'm back from my trip and E3 is already 6 weeks away so I'm gonna get the E3 thread ready for.. monday i guess?? Oh no is the E3 PC Gaming Summit Conference Whatever back again this year? Has anything ever really been announced there?
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The White Dragon posted:yeah it's just too bad that crystal chronicles is the kind of game where you skip everything so you can get back to beating up monsters with your bros I don't agree with that at all. I think Crystal Chronicles stages are long enough that downtime between them is kind of appreciated, even with friends, unless they're jerks. Not that the story or gameplay is that stellar or anything.
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Viewtiful Jew posted:Oh no is the E3 PC Gaming Summit Conference Whatever back again this year? Has anything ever really been announced there?
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Guy Goodbody posted:OK yeah but then you'd have a fixed camera and that's terrible Only if you hate good and fun things.
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