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MMF Freeway posted:To me AoE2 is just a straight upgrade from AoE1 anyways, the hd version of which already owns, and those new 3d graphics look pretty bland. Wololo though... Also agreed. I grew up on AoE1, and soon after AoE2. 2 really just does everything 1 does and blew it away. Much better campaign, more diversity to nations, better graphics/sound, more fun buildings+units (tho i did like Carthaginians) it does lack baby with a shotgun on a tricycle tho
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Mordja posted:My heretical thought for the day is that I never much cared for AOE. I've always been more of a C&C and TA guy. TA was a groundbreaking game that was a decade ahead of its time and still manages to be better than its "spiritual successors" released decades later. So yeah, all hail Cavedog But AOE was still pretty fun. I like having shooty-man RTS games and stabby-man RTS games
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I mean that's the part of Black Flag I wanted MP for, AC MP is garbage because they refused to crack down on running around like an idiot being viable.
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Xaris posted:Excuse me, not a hard time, it exists and is called Hollow Knight True, I'd still let Ori have prettiest but Hollow Knight has been more engrossing for me. Rebel Blob posted:I'm fairly sure this isn't going to improve your opinion of the game, but hell, I'll probably get another chance to talk about A New Beginning. Some bits of it are slightly more clever than initial appearances, though I still wouldn't call it a good adventure game by any means. Turns out Faye is a textbook unreliable narrator and many of the things that don't make sense are because of her mixed-up story. There is no single apocalyptic environmental disaster in the original timeline that lead to the Earth being uninhabitable, just the accumulation of generations of inaction on climate change. For example, the disastrous first trip into the past was to 2500, not 2050, she lied to make things more urgent and centered on a single disaster. Her time-traveler team is on a mission to cause the Amazonian nuclear plant to catastrophically melt down, something that didn't happen in her timeline, in an attempt to create an environmental disaster bad enough to make humanity take stock and shift course. Salvador is ruthless because he is a terrorist on a suicide mission, Faye disagrees and wants to find a less destructive way to change the past. None of this gets revealed until the very end of the game of course, though the implausible bits and inconsistencies are foreshadowing.  Okay, that was unexpected. That makes a really good plot twist, but the writing in no way can support that considering how much bullshit you have to get through for the payoff. I've been trying to get through this and Harvey & Edna and together they're making me think that Daedalic does not have the writing chops to support their games. Their jokes fall flat, their logic is strained, and a lot of their story beats are just straight unpleasant and wouldn't even happen in a more competent game.That therapist part is a perfect example. I was so angry at how it railroads you into doing something personally offensive that I was ready to uninstall on the spot.
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(but it's not on sale and Ori is still extremely good and one of the best. tbf its more like six of one or half dozen of the other deal)
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serious sam: bogus detour has the hammerwatch guy on board so i know it's going to be good
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Aren't there already like two or three Multiplayer Pirate FPSes on Steam?
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Too Shy Guy posted:they're making me think that Daedalic does not have the writing chops to support their games.
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Deakul posted:Sooo... we wanted Ubisoft to make a standalone pirate game? Is there any word on whether this is going to have a singleplayer component? The gameplay footage is all PVP when what the world really needs is Black Flag With More Pirates And Without Assassins (with a multiplayer PvP feature, that'd be cool) Palpek posted:drat, I was actually looking forward to a...singleplayer Ubi pirate game Ugggggh okay then nevermind
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QuarkJets posted:Is there any word on whether this is going to have a singleplayer component? The gameplay footage is all PVP when what the world really needs is Black Flag With More Pirates And Without Assassins (with a multiplayer PvP feature, that'd be cool) This is completely unsubstantiated except from reading a little too far into what they were saying, but it might be a Destiny-esque kind of thing? The ending thing on the conference stream implied PvE bosses and the talk during those two videos implies that "PvP waters" are a not all the time thing.
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QuarkJets posted:Is there any word on whether this is going to have a singleplayer component? The gameplay footage is all PVP when what the world really needs is Black Flag With More Pirates And Without Assassins (with a multiplayer PvP feature, that'd be cool) Palpek posted:Ubisoft themselves call it "an online naval open world game" so it's not for me at all.
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L449s9bVdeM Oh my good gently caress.
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You're not allowed to get excited for the sequel to a mediocre game that doesn't actually exist yet.
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Orv posted:You're not allowed to get excited for the sequel to a mediocre game that doesn't actually exist yet. What the gently caress is wrong with you?
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Deakul posted:What the gently caress is wrong with you? It's been 15 years and they're not showing gameplay.
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Huh, it's a prequel. And online apparently?
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Veotax posted:Huh, it's a prequel. gently caress that, BGE can stay dead
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Orv posted:It's been 15 years and they're not showing gameplay. Okay but BG&E was not mediocre.
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Deakul posted:What the gently caress is wrong with you? BG&E was okay. 6 out of ten. 6.5, maybe.
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Deakul posted:Okay but BG&E was not mediocre. It absolutely was. It was a series of cool ideas and concepts wrapped around a frankly not great game. You can't ignore the actual game part just because what surrounded it was admittedly cool and interesting.
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Orv posted:It absolutely was. It was a series of cool ideas and concepts wrapped around a frankly not great game. You can't ignore the actual game part just because what surrounded it was admittedly cool and interesting. Considering all the bad games I've played for bad reasons, I can see someone being protective of bad games they played for good reasons
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I only recently played and beat BG&E some time in the past 2 years and I didn't see much bad about the gameplay save for some wonky platforming and stealth segments. The good was so good that I could easily overlook the jankiness. It's a world that I desperately want to revisit again with modern graphics and gameplay refinements. Veotax posted:Huh, it's a prequel. Where'd you get that idea? Deakul fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Jun 12, 2017 |
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Jack B Nimble posted:Considering all the bad games I've played for bad reasons, I can see someone being protective of bad games they played for good reasons :V Sure, but I'm not preaching the controversy or something here. The lust for BG&E2 borders on the clinically insane at times, and it's based on a game that was just okay. Also this thing all the companies are doing this year where they announce the website for their newly revealed game when it's not even running yet really has to go.
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Deakul posted:Where'd you get that idea? Because they said it, out loud. It's a pseudo-mmo.
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Deakul posted:
Haha holy poo poo is this real? This is nothing like BGE.  Although a sequel for BGE is like pining for a sequel of Heavy Metal 2000 or something. Like, who the gently caress cares anymore? Twelve years too late.
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It's been long enough that you should probably wait to get excited until BG&E2 shows some, uh, actual gameplay. I know what we got today is miles ahead of what we had a year ago, but it's still Ubisoft we're talking about here.
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Orv posted:Because they said it, out loud. It's a pseudo-mmo. Whoops, I was in bliss over the actual announcement that I guess I tuned that out. That's a bit disheartening.
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I actually loved Beyond Good and Evil and the gameplay was good for its genre but do they seriously want to sell some weird online game and call it Beyond Good and Evil 2? What the hell, how much of a flop will that be. I would already not put my money on an actual sequel selling on the strength of brand recognition because lol but this idea is even weirder. The CG trailer is cool as a little movie though, remided me of The 5th Element at times.
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Orv posted:Sure, but I'm not preaching the controversy or something here. The lust for BG&E2 borders on the clinically insane at times, and it's based on a game that was just okay. Too Shy Guy posted:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX_h8rneDxU They haven't done anything too exciting since FarCry 3, but I'll be damned if I ain't tempted. A lot it from  admittedly. 
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I loved BG&E but the dialogue in that trailer is awful. I don't mind swearing at all - I enjoyed Bulletstorm - but here it just sounds really out of place and forced. Also coming out with the second after such a long time and making it a prequel - so no chance of resolving the cliffhanger from the first - seems like a huge troll.
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What this e3 is teaching me is that out of touch gamers my age who have pined away for these super old games are now in management positions.
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Zigmidge posted:What this e3 is teaching me is that out of touch gamers my age who have pined away for these super old games are now in management positions. it's just now they actually ran out of ideas and balls to try something different, and morally and intellectually bankrupt so lets jsut run some poo poo people liked 20 years ago into the ground, what can go wrong??
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Drifter posted:Gonna gently caress people up so hard in my An alligauleiter!  Looks great.
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when are we going to get a new Sim Tower?
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QuarkJets posted:when are we going to get a new Sim Tower? Not before a new Sim Golf or somebody's gonna loving die.
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oh my god i forgot about sim golf
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Went to sign up for the AOE:DE beta... 'Xbox live account required'. Why the gently caress would that be necessary, it's not a loving console game.
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The MP is running through Xbox Live for reasons I cannot begin to comprehend.
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