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Lurdiak posted:I'm just saying the references seem as out of place as if they were in a Dark Souls game. And no, things obviously based off Berserk don't count. Are you trying to say that Dark Souls doesn't have random pop culture references? I mean, I guess it isn't super obvious pop culture but it does reference a bunch of anime stuff. Generally quite blatantly.
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Lurdiak posted:I'm just saying the references seem as out of place as if they were in a Dark Souls game. And no, things obviously based off Berserk don't count. 
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Oh man, I'm somehow more excited by the new Euro Truck DLC than I am by anything else releasing this month? What's happened to me? What kind of a gamer am I?
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The pop culture stuff in Witcher 3 is fine. "Durden the Tailor" being the Novigrad fight club champion is a really good example of how well they handle them. They didn't model the NPC to look exactly like Brad Pitt down to wearing his jacket, they didn't have him rattle off fifty Fight Club lines, and he didn't pop up in a dozen quests to go "hey guys do you get the joke yet?" People who read or saw Fight Club get it and maybe chuckle and move on, people who didn't are none the wiser and don't suffer anything for it. They had to name the guy something; would it have really made the game substantively better for him to have a made-up fantasy name like Gyrgynthorpe or a generic name carefully chosen not to be a reference to any existing media property living or dead?
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StrixNebulosa posted:Oh man, I'm somehow more excited by the new Euro Truck DLC than I am by anything else releasing this month? What's happened to me? What kind of a gamer am I? An ascended one
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Sakurazuka posted:This is me. y-yeah bioshock am I right 
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DLC Inc posted:I suppose Prey semi-counts as a new Metroid Ehhhh kind of stretching it. It still really feels more like a System Shock game done with a very neat style. If you are really hard up for some metriod AM2R is really good along with some middling to really fun SNES Super Metriod rom hacks floating around.
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I didn't realise you were supposed to climb the fences in the tutorial of Hitman. Based on what I'd been doing on the boat I hid behind a crate and threw something that made a dude come away from his post and look at the back of the car. Then I just stole his uniform and wandered right in like I'd always been an employee! 
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May 12, 2017 13:05
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Speaking of mid-00s TV gaming cruft, remember how MTV had a show that was basically just machinima music videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YFoUlyHOs4 FirstAidKite posted:Are you trying to say that Dark Souls doesn't have random pop culture references? King's Field had an NPC dressed like Eric Cartman from South Park.
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May 12, 2017 13:05
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Samuringa posted:Wait, rewind just a bit to the Hitman chat - If SE is officially killing it, is there a chance it could be rendered unplayable due to the Always Online? People say that it kicks you off stages sometimes if there's a connection failure or that even if there is a way to play it offline it doesn't keep track of stuff so I was wondering. Late last year they patched in a more robust offline mode so that is probably the fall back.
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May 12, 2017 13:20
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This is probably exciting for rhythm game fans, maybe? http://www.siliconera.com/2017/05/12/gitaroo-man-parappa-rapper-developers-team-announce-project-rap-rabbit/
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May 12, 2017 14:18
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When are we getting Oddworld Abe's Exodus? Feel like that that has been teased for a while now.
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May 12, 2017 14:20
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God yes Even if it turns out to be a mobile game.
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May 12, 2017 14:21
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oh gently caress yes just got an email for the Quake Champions closed beta. Anyone else playing this yet?
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The Walrus posted:oh gently caress yes just got an email for the Quake Champions closed beta. Anyone else playing this yet? It's not closed anymore, they're calling this a Stress Test but afaik this is basically a soft release
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Phantasium posted:This is probably exciting for rhythm game fans, maybe? Oh baby!
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May 12, 2017 14:23
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Other neat thing that I saw this morning, a Furi physical edition. And a not so neat thing in that Alan Wake is being delisted on the 15th due to expiring music licenses.
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Samuringa posted:The only Wild Arms I played was 5 and I remember hating every single bit of it even though I was big into anime and jrpgs at the time. That's a bad example of the series cause it's dogshit
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May 12, 2017 14:39
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The Walrus posted:oh gently caress yes just got an email for the Quake Champions closed beta. Anyone else playing this yet? It's quake 3 but with bad microtransaction and grind
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corn in the bible posted:It's quake 3 you could add a lot of negatives after that and I'd still play it.
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May 12, 2017 14:47
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How about Quake 3 with pointless unbalanced character variance
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corn in the bible posted:by the way ffx2hd has a roguelike in it Anyone remember the weird pseudo-roguelike mode in Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring? I bought that game because it was a fighting game with FF characters but played the hell out of the weird tower dungeon crawl mode that I didn't expect to be there.
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May 12, 2017 14:50
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I'm sure we can all agree that it'll be a tragedy if Rap Rabbit doesn't appear in Playstation All Stars Battle Royale 2.
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The Walrus posted:you could add a lot of negatives after that and I'd still play it. But quake 3 already exists
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Harrow posted:Anyone remember the weird pseudo-roguelike mode in Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring? I bought that game because it was a fighting game with FF characters but played the hell out of the weird tower dungeon crawl mode that I didn't expect to be there. hell yeah
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Harrow posted:Anyone remember the weird pseudo-roguelike mode in Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring? I bought that game because it was a fighting game with FF characters but played the hell out of the weird tower dungeon crawl mode that I didn't expect to be there. That game ruled.
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Harrow posted:Anyone remember the weird pseudo-roguelike mode in Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring? I bought that game because it was a fighting game with FF characters but played the hell out of the weird tower dungeon crawl mode that I didn't expect to be there.  Anyone play the precursor to that mode in the Tobal series? I feel like I'm the only one who knows those games existed.
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May 12, 2017 15:14
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Tobal was the game I got for free with my expensive FFVII demo.
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Wamdoodle posted:
Tobal 2's RPG mode was fantastic. Shame that it never came out in the US, though both of them were a great time.
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May 12, 2017 15:29
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Now I'm just thinking about all the weird old PS1 games I had that no one talks about anymore. Stuff like Tomba, Blasto, Jersey Devil, Azure Dreams, Brave Fencer Musashi and Monster Rancher.
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No One Can Stop Mr. Domino
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It's criminal nobody has done a monster rancher style game with Spotify support.
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Guy Mann posted:Speaking of mid-00s TV gaming cruft, remember how MTV had a show that was basically just machinima music videos. I remember Cinematech, which was on G4 (I think?) and was just a bunch of random clips of weird poo poo from Japanese games. I liked that one.
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Tomba is legitimately amazing. I need another game like that.
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FauxLeather posted:I'm sure we can all agree that it'll be a tragedy if Rap Rabbit doesn't appear in Playstation All Stars Battle Royale 2. It'd be a tragedy if Playstation All Stars Battle Royale 2 became a thing
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Tobal No. 1 was a good rear end fighting game with a cool quest mode thrown in there. I think my brother and I put more time in to Tobal because after ffvii came out and we beat it like a year later we still played Tobal until the first Guilty Gear came out. I mained the old guy who was not Master Roshi I was also bummed Tobal 2 never came to US.
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I still think it's hilarious that Cloud is in Smash Brothers but not in Playstation All Stars.
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Harrow posted:Anyone remember the weird pseudo-roguelike mode in Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring? I bought that game because it was a fighting game with FF characters but played the hell out of the weird tower dungeon crawl mode that I didn't expect to be there. It taught me the concept of "buy low, sell high"
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The best thing about that roguelike mode was the hilarious-rear end ending.
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corn in the bible posted:by the way ffx2hd has a roguelike in it It also had a spreadsheet game where you managed a Blitzball team and all of the actual games were just simulated.
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