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The Bananana posted:I just reinstalled fallout 4 psst, download this mod to make settlements less of an rear end in a top hat http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/21872/
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a bone to pick posted:psst, download this mod to make settlements less of an rear end in a top hat Oh that's awesome. It's surprising they didn't include something like this at launch. The settlements feel so dead because the settlers don't do jack poo poo unless you tell them to.
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May 26, 2017 02:37
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Jeza posted:I highly recommend seeking out Sacrifice. It was a criminally underrated game (although received well critically iirc) at the time and failed to sell. But it was pretty pioneering in terms of aesthetics, gameplay and design, as well as graphically (for 2000). Even since then there's never really been a game like it that I can think of, especially with how the campaign narrative is played out. Also it has Tim Curry in it. Sacrifice was such an awesome game. You could do crazy poo poo like casting a spell that creates a full-size erupting volcano, or cuts the earth away entirely, permanently changing the map. The writing and voice acting was fantastic. It had humor and pathos and an interesting story, and cool psychedelic art, and a lot of strategic depth. Why are really good things seldom popular?
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May 26, 2017 02:44
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PostNouveau posted:Oh that's awesome. It's surprising they didn't include something like this at launch. its because bethesda always half asses everything and plans for modders to pick up the slack later
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May 26, 2017 02:51
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Rutibex posted:its because bethesda always half asses everything and plans for modders to pick up the slack later It seems super obvious, but like, you send a settler to a settlement, and then next time you go back they've built a weapons shop. And hey look, the weapons shop dude has a quest he needs done to upgrade his shop. Uh oh, Jim Bob's mad at Alan and they're fighting. You're gonna have to separate them or kill one of them or talk them out of it or something. No, no, gently caress all that. Everyone will just stand around waiting for you to give them orders instead.
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May 26, 2017 02:54
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PostNouveau posted:Oh that's awesome. It's surprising they didn't include something like this at launch. I've been saying this since Oblivion
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May 26, 2017 03:04
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May 26, 2017 03:08
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The Bananana posted:Do they have fallout mods for ps4 yet? yeah but they're pretty lovely, sorry. they got better mods on xbox and that's just sad
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May 26, 2017 03:44
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HAT FETISH posted:Terranigma is the best snes game Bloody Mary! Bloody Mary! Bloody Mary! (still really good in spite of that boss) Lodin posted:All modern Ubisoft games have certain achievements that give you funbux that carries over between games and can't be bought. The first thing I did in Far Cry 4 was buy a big fuckoff revolver with a scope and it broke the earlier parts in glorious ways. That's the only thing I actually like about Uplay and I wish more game companies bothered to put some kind of interconnectivity features in their games.
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May 26, 2017 03:47
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basic hitler posted:video games peaked on the PC during the period of pixel and voxel isometric rpgs and RTS games. This period died with the release of warcraft 3, a lovely terrible loving game that birthed the mods and culture that would render the RTS genre to a bunch of lovely dota clones, tower defense games, and the kind of trash like Dawn Of War 2 and CoH 2 that tryhards worship and nobody else, and with knights of the old republic, replacing cool isometric RPGs with lovely 3D third person bioware trash and its imitators. I strongly agree although DoW2 was good?
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super sweet best pal posted:Bloody Mary! I love Terranigma very much and I need to replay it already, it's been like a decade since my last run through it
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May 26, 2017 15:02
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basic hitler posted:video games peaked on the PC during the period of pixel and voxel isometric rpgs and RTS games. This period died with the release of warcraft 3, a lovely terrible loving game that birthed the mods and culture that would render the RTS genre to a bunch of lovely dota clones, tower defense games, and the kind of trash like Dawn Of War 2 and CoH 2 that tryhards worship and nobody else, and with knights of the old republic, replacing cool isometric RPGs with lovely 3D third person bioware trash and its imitators. Tbf total annihilation brought us planetary annihilation
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May 26, 2017 15:06
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May 26, 2017 15:11
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Destiny was/is great.
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basic hitler posted:is that a good thing? no
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May 26, 2017 15:16
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The only good rts these days are made by eugen or the men of war devs. Everything else sucks rear end
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May 26, 2017 15:17
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SpaceClown posted:The only good rts these days are made by eugen or the men of war devs. Everything else sucks rear end I've heard Grey Goo was a good RTS but gently caress you if you think I'm going to play something called Grey Goo lol
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May 26, 2017 15:57
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I cheated my way through deus ex upgrading all my weapon skills to max at the start cause I hated that I was this super skilled state of the art augmented agent dude who couldn't hit the broad side of a mountain with a rifle. Enjoyed everything else though.
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May 26, 2017 16:33
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Shin Megami Tensei 3 is the best JRPG by a wide margin.
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The last good console generation was the DC/PS2/GC generation. The original Xbox had like 3 good exclusive games. All were from Sega.
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May 27, 2017 03:07
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VideoTapir posted:The last good console generation was the DC/PS2/GC generation.
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VideoTapir posted:Shin Megami Tensei 3 is the best JRPG by a wide margin. Counterpoint, SMT sucks.
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May 27, 2017 03:10
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WAY TO GO WAMPA!! posted:hacking and lockpicking minigames are the best The planet scanning minigame in mass effect 2 was fun and satisfying. Tunggggggggg.
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May 27, 2017 09:41
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hamtaro posted:Bioshock original was a System Shock spiritual successor (RPG shooter in maze-like rooms with puzzles and a high-tech, isolated feel). It also came with a (at the time unique) weapon upgrade system and political commentary on liberterianism and objectivism. It hasn't aged great, but it's still a good game. You got an ending that asked questions about player agency in a way that AAA games tend not to do. The sequel was solid as well, being slightly superior in gameplay and slightly inferior in story. The games haven't aged great, but they're still good. No, everyone hates it these days, and weirdly it also turns out they always hated it even though it was very popular at the time, poss bc of quantum time magic. It had a black character who turned out to be unpleasant which some people thought made it a very bad game. I think it was a decent to good shooter with amazing set design and a clever premise, but didnt quite cash its cheques in terms of fight design and the alternate world powers. sebmojo fucked around with this message at 10:02 on May 27, 2017 |
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May 27, 2017 09:58
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I liked exploring planets in mass effect 1, I wish they expanded on that concept rather than going completely linear
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VideoTapir posted:Shin Megami Tensei 3 is the best JRPG by a wide margin. Those SMT games are like a hundred hours long and require a ton of grinding. No thank you.
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sebmojo posted:The planet scanning minigame in mass effect 2 was fun and satisfying. a bone to pick posted:I liked exploring planets in mass effect 1, I wish they expanded on that concept rather than going completely linear Not really an unpopular opinion, tho
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May 27, 2017 12:23
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VideoTapir posted:The original Xbox had like 3 good exclusive games. All were from Sega. the original Xbox was the best console ever made, once i soft modded it and added a 300gb HD 
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May 27, 2017 12:28
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Open worlds, crafting, skill trees, and gathering resources can all gently caress off. At least for a while. How about a straight-forward action game for once?
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The Dennis System posted:Open worlds, crafting, skill trees, and gathering resources can all gently caress off. At least for a while. How about a straight-forward action game for once? And no story! Jesus am I tired of having to be either the chosen one or some chump who progresses far enough and then BECOMES the chosen one. I just want to shoot people with a grenade launcher and watch their incredible quantities of blood shower the map.
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VideoTapir posted:The last good console generation was the DC/PS2/GC generation Well duh. After 2006 or so PC began a massive resurgence in accessibility, consoles had to become more like PCs, mobile games started to take off, the Wii fragmented the market, Sony/Microsoft began their "we want to be the nexus of your living room" pissing contest, and the prominence of middle-budget offbeat games largely dried up because of development costs. quote:The original Xbox had like 3 good exclusive games. All were from Sega. Not entirely true if you add a huge asterisk of "for the time" to most of them. Phantom Dust, Stranger's Wrath, Mechassault, Steel Batallion, Ninja Gaiden (for a time), Dead or Alive 3, Project Gotham, and the Conker Remake were all worth a drat. phasmid posted:And no story! Jesus am I tired of having to be either the chosen one or some chump who progresses far enough and then BECOMES the chosen one. I just want to shoot people with a grenade launcher and watch their incredible quantities of blood shower the map. For real. The older I get the more I find myself agreeing with John Carmack's quote that plot in a video game is like plot in a porn movie-- you need it to be there, but it's not what anyone is there for and the sooner you push it aside the better. There are many exceptions, but way too many games ask you to wait half an hour + before you get to the game portion of the game. Even Metal Gear Solid V opens with some self-important garbage where you have to drag a body out of a burning hospital with garbage controls. No Kojima, I don't care how invested I am in concluding your byzantine bullshit franchise--and I am invested--I just want to get to the gameplay and then pull that "story-through-mechanics" poo poo. mind the walrus fucked around with this message at 17:05 on May 28, 2017 |
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The Dennis System posted:Open worlds, crafting, skill trees, and gathering resources can all gently caress off. At least for a while. How about a straight-forward action game for once? making good action is hard, you can't fill a game with 60+ hours of good action or you will break the design budget. there needs to be a bunch of collection and open world random bullshit to fill out the time. otherwise you won't be able to justify a $80+DLC price tag. jeez man think ahead!
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mind the walrus posted:For real. The older I get the more I find myself agreeing with John Carmack's quote that plot in a video game is like plot in a porn movie-- you need it to be there, but it's not what anyone is there for and the sooner you push it aside the better. There are a few exceptions, of course, but yeah I'd agree with Carmack on that one, which segues neatly into this... Rutibex posted:making good action is hard, you can't fill a game with 60+ hours of good action or you will break the design budget. there needs to be a bunch of collection and open world random bullshit to fill out the time. otherwise you won't be able to justify a $80+DLC price tag. jeez man think ahead! "Story" in a videogame is usually just a tatterdemalion of stuff jacked from novels and movies. This often starts of as pastiche (Mass Effect 1, Fallout 3) but fans - who largely do not read books meant for adults - experience the plot twist or the horrible reveal and think WOW SO ORIGINAL. It also adds time to gameplay when you can slap a few cutscenes in there that cannot be skipped, esp so they can explain the reason your mission is going to take at least an extra hour is because kobolds sabotaged the railway and you have to go down in to the tunnels or whatever bullshit. On a related subject, I hate it when young people talk about "ka-thoo-loo". You have not read the story, you little poo poo. Do not talk to me about Lovecraft because some youtube slut brought it up.
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phasmid posted:"Story" in a videogame is usually just a tatterdemalion of stuff jacked from novels and movies. This often starts of as pastiche (Mass Effect 1, Fallout 3) but fans - who largely do not read books meant for adults - experience the plot twist or the horrible reveal and think WOW SO ORIGINAL. It also adds time to gameplay when you can slap a few cutscenes in there that cannot be skipped, esp so they can explain the reason your mission is going to take at least an extra hour is because kobolds sabotaged the railway and you have to go down in to the tunnels or whatever bullshit. See: Every loving JRPG loving ever holy poo poo
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S'truth.
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Bioshock 1 was always terrible, even at launch, and Bioshock:Infinite owns to this day, and I get really annoyed when I share that opinion with someone and they laugh it off like I'm bandwagoning or something. gently caress off, Bioshock was awful and I gave away my PC copy to my roommate (because I could do that - it was on discs) after beating it in like three very disappointing days. The biggest flaw in B:I's story, to me, is that the ending falls a little flat because Elizabeth doesn't seem to exist in the o.g. Bioshock Rapture and I don't think there's really any analogue for her. Shouldn't she be a huge, major part of the plot, just based on what we see in B:I? Al Borland Corp. posted:Monster Hunter is garbage Also this even though I keep buying these fuckin things every few years before remembering how poo poo they are. i'm sure i'm going to end up with the switch one when that comes out. luckily MH coming to a system seems to herald a bunch of actual good games
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mind the walrus posted:See: Every loving JRPG loving ever holy poo poo Not SMT3; which is one of the many reasons it is the best.
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VideoTapir posted:Not SMT3; which is one of the many reasons it is the best. also the version of SMT3 that i think most people ended up playing just has a random cameo of dante from devil may cry, because he's a cool dude, why wouldn't he be in this cool-rear end game
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:I strongly agree although DoW2 was good?  instead of aping other RTSes and getting out-competed by twitchier franchises it did its own hybrid thing in 2009 and i respect that phasmid posted:There are a few exceptions, of course, but yeah I'd agree with Carmack on that one, which segues neatly into this... i generally agree re: game stories but when you do enough reading and you realize almost everything's been done before anyway you can sometimes loop back around to appreciating the little spins that get put on old ideas, nonetheless you'll still detest it when whole blocks of ideas are recycled wholesale
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