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I actually keep a little spreadsheet with my backlog and average playtime (from howlongtobeat) explicitly so that I can just go through something shorter every now and then, especially after a long JRPG. The recent ones were Trine 2 (which I dropped, anyway) and Transistor (which I found kind of disappointing but did finish).
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Sakurazuka posted:I'm currently trying to go through some short games that I've had sitting around on my hard drive forever so I can beat them and delete them. I'm always running out of space and I have a million indies I've played for five minutes at most. My PS4 is a slightly more expensive hard drive for indie games.
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May 22, 2017 16:39
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That's awesome. I didn't know such a website existed. I am going to use that. So unbelievably handy
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May 22, 2017 16:39
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Turns out the fastest way for me to go through my backlog was to delete and sell stuff.
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May 22, 2017 16:41
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Finally started playing Stellaris over the weekend. It's really fun. The research events are great, loving the stupid ceramic vessel.
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May 22, 2017 16:41
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Yeah I mean sometimes I look at stuff and think there's zero chance of ever playing it again so that's an easy way to make some space.
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May 22, 2017 16:42
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twin peaks revival has made me 100% positive lynch played deadly premonition
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May 22, 2017 16:50
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So, Farcry 5 got it's first teasers, for everyone who's stoked for Ubisoft next open world game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JauiKyWRziE Doesn't show much, as teaser tend to, except that it's taking place in Hope County, Montana, some sort of inner city with a dark secret, full trailer to be released this friday(26).
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May 22, 2017 17:46
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I loved Far Cry 4 because it was my first one so I hadn't been burned out yet. It's been a long while since the last one (gently caress Primal) so this is one Ubisoft series I actually am looking forward to. Good to get off those islands and into Montana which should be.....interesting
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May 22, 2017 17:56
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Especially what looks like some form of modern day Montana as opposed to wild west like everyone thought.
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May 22, 2017 17:58
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I mean, unless you can ride a bear, Far Cry 5 will actually be worse than Primal, so
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May 22, 2017 17:58
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There are bears in Montana. One can hope.
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May 22, 2017 18:05
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Far Cry Primal missed a golden opportunity to be about cavemen and dinosaurs rather than boring scientifically accurate land mammals. Like the ball was on the 1 yard line, Ubisoft.
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May 22, 2017 18:06
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Ubisoft presents: Flintstones Simulator 2019.
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May 22, 2017 18:12
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A Flinstones MMO would be dope.
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May 22, 2017 18:13
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Ubisoft might have their last press conference at this e3, at least with Yves Guillemot. End of an era.exquisite tea posted:Far Cry Primal missed a golden opportunity to be about cavemen and dinosaurs rather than boring scientifically accurate land mammals. Like the ball was on the 1 yard line, Ubisoft. Ubisoft's editorial board hates fantasy and space age sci-fi themes in their AAA games. So any game wanting a big budget needs to be either grounded in history or have a framing device for the fantastical content. For example, For Honor was originally going to have an animus-like simulator for the gameplay before they had a natural disaster make vikings and samurai fight each other.
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There was a leak recently on Reddit from someone who participated in a focus group session last year, that this tease jives with. Here's a relevant snippet:quote:The idea of doing it in Montana was the predominant idea -- like many of you, we were kind of led to believe at first that it would be a Wild West motif, just to see what we thought of that idea -- but that changed when they started to show us character profiles and other collateral. The general thrust of this game is that it will take place in present day, and feature the protagonist taking on a Jim Jones or David Koresh-like religious cult in a small town in Montana that's been populated by, essentially, Doomsday-preppers bent on furthering their cause. So, modern-day weaponry and modern-day vehicles, plus a hilly, mountainous backdrop. Honestly, it sounded at the time like they were using that to their advantage, given that when you think of Far Cry you kind of think of mountains and hills and the kind of backdrop Montana has in spades.
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May 22, 2017 18:20
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So it's gonna be Far Cry: RED STATE. I would probably play that.
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Snak posted:So it's gonna be Far Cry: RED STATE. presuming that focus group story is what we get, that would be loving great and would likely be a far better "jim jones horror game" than Outlast 2 was trying to be. Sunning posted:Ubisoft's editorial board hates fantasy and space age sci-fi themes in their AAA games. So any game wanting a big budget needs to be either grounded in history or have a framing device for the fantastical content. For example, For Honor was originally going to have an animus-like simulator for the gameplay before they had a natural disaster make vikings and samurai fight each other. they hate sci fi poo poo yet they crammed that loving bullshit animus into everything? Maybe it's a good thing this company is going to be under hostile takeover.
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May 22, 2017 18:26
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Would've been better if Far Cry 5 was just set in The Glade of Dreams from Rayman.
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DLC Inc posted:presuming that focus group story is what we get, that would be loving great and would likely be a far better "jim jones horror game" than Outlast 2 was trying to be. They're probably gonna Bioshock Infinite it.
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May 22, 2017 18:30
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Oh wow, FC5 is literally in Montana. I thought that was a joke.
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May 22, 2017 18:32
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Lurdiak posted:They're probably gonna Bioshock Infinite it. I mean, all they have to do is Far Cry 3 it. present murdering your friends and joining the doomsday cult as a valid and reasonable choice.
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May 22, 2017 18:33
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Lurdiak posted:They're probably gonna Bioshock Infinite it. It's honestly amazing how many video game endings are literally "no John, you ARE the demons" and these are often vaunted as the pinnacle of storytelling.
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Snak posted:I mean, all they have to do is Far Cry 3 it. That's not really what that game did. It's more that they inexplicably reveal the native people helping you fight the bond villains are secretly insane and evil at the last possible moment. So yeah, Bioshock Infinite. The game expects you to get owned by choosing to murder your friends because you're so into the power fantasy, and then ha, you died, owned b1tch. exquisite tea posted:It's honestly amazing how many video game endings are literally "no John, you ARE the demons" and these are often vaunted as the pinnacle of storytelling. It can be done poignantly, especially the first few times it was done in a genre where you're not supposed to examine your gameplay actions. But man is it getting tired.
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May 22, 2017 18:37
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Games have only had stories for about, one or two years now. Writers don't know what they're doing yet.
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So um, I ordered Injustice 2 on Thursday, I'm on Amazon Prime so you'd expect a next-day delivery but it didn't turn up on Friday or Saturday or Sunday or till 6pm on Monday. I got home from work at half 5 and made a complaint for the first time in years to Amazon about how it hadn't turned up yet. They've refunded me the money and gave me an extra month prime but low and behold at 6:20 the courier turns up at my door. So now I've got an essentially free copy of Injustice 2 sitting in front of me, should I feel bad?
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Macarius Wrench posted:So um, I ordered Injustice 2 on Thursday, I'm on Amazon Prime so you'd expect a next-day delivery but it didn't turn up on Friday or Saturday or Sunday or till 6pm on Monday. I got home from work at half 5 and made a complaint for the first time in years to Amazon about how it hadn't turned up yet. They've refunded me the money and gave me an extra month prime but low and behold at 6:20 the courier turns up at my door. So now I've got an essentially free copy of Injustice 2 sitting in front of me, should I feel bad? Well now that you've admitted to your crime online, yes.
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May 22, 2017 18:41
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No rip off billion dollar corporations as much as you like
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May 22, 2017 18:41
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What are the chances that Far Cry 5 will feature a hilariously out-of-touch portrayal of Native Americans
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Lurdiak posted:That's not really what that game did. It's more that they inexplicably reveal the native people helping you fight the bond villains are secretly insane and evil at the last possible moment. So yeah, Bioshock Infinite. I mean, it still did that thing I'm saying. Obviously, yes, that wasn't the offensive part about it, but I think in a nut shell it shows how out of touch the writers were. I did not play Bioshock Infinite.
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Snak posted:I mean, it still did that thing I'm saying. Obviously, yes, that wasn't the offensive part about it, but I think in a nut shell it shows how out of touch the writers were. In bioshock infinite, turns out the people fighting against the nazis are just as bad as the nazis.
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May 22, 2017 18:49
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'All people are terrible' is actually an important lesson to learn though.
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Saint Freak posted:'All people are terrible' is actually an important lesson to learn though. Maybe for a college libertarian.
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Saint Freak posted:'All people are terrible' is actually an important lesson to learn though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70A6zDv_wC0&hd=1
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As maybe not the biggest Far Cry fan (or at all, since the only one I earnestly tried was 3), to me it just seems like they keep making the environments for each game more pedestrian and less exotic. But I also already live in a rural American hellhole so I don't exactly want to explore that in a videogame.
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May 22, 2017 19:01
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The antagonist is gonna be, what, cannibals? Some cult? Not a lot of pirates in Montana.
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All the people writing stories now are the kids that grew up watching the morally black and white movies in the 80s like Goonies and Indiana Jones so they're all cynical and feel the need to act out on their disillusionment by pulling gotcha antiheroes and forgoing objectively good people in their media. The pendulum will swing as the gen z-ers get tired of all of the brooding and grow up to write stories about things that aren't abysmal and gen x and millennials will play them on their VR rigs as old people for nostalgia and to beat back the depression.Phantasium posted:As maybe not the biggest Far Cry fan (or at all, since the only one I earnestly tried was 3), to me it just seems like they keep making the environments for each game more pedestrian and less exotic. Uh, didn't the last game that was set in the fake-Nepalese mountains also have a parallel environment that was literally mythical Shangri-la populated by magical tigers and poo poo? mutata fucked around with this message at 19:08 on May 22, 2017 |
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Oh and apparently Sonic 2 was supposed to involve time travel at some point and that's why there's just random stages like Chemical Plant Zone because they're in the bundle of dystopian future levels. https://twitter.com/necrosofty/status/866702759357292544
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