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Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




Guy Mann posted:

Spirits Within's greatest sin was completely squandering having Steve Buscemii as comic relief. It's been almost 20 years, maybe in FFXVI they can try it again with White Mage B'scmie or something.

Ffxvi should maybe be a ffix style return to roots sort of game cause they are in very no bueno territory imo

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Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

Don't play games you don't like imo

raditts
Feb 21, 2001

The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.


Dr Cheeto posted:

Yeah dog I played Mrs. Pac-Man at the bowling alley video games are great

When I was in London I went to the Namco Funscape and they had a Pac-Man / Galaga machine that had a screen that was the size of the wall and let you play 2 players at the same time

It's now the machine I want to own after I manage to find an Outrun 2 machine, or at least I hope there's a Mame rom of it, because it owned pretty hard

Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax
This season of Twin Peaks is somebody playing Coop with 10 in Luck and Charisma and with 1 in Intelligence and it's amazing.

PantsBandit
Oct 26, 2007

it is both a monkey and a boombox

Guy Mann posted:

This season of Twin Peaks is somebody playing Coop with 10 in Luck and Charisma and with 1 in Intelligence and it's amazing.

Dougie must have a 10 in charisma if he managed to land Naomi Watts. I mean goddamn.

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009
I hooked the printer up again and my cat Bakal is extremely happy. He made friends with the printer several years ago (to the point that I recall one night he turned the printer on, looked at the little glowing screen on it for a little bit, and then turned it off, as if saying "hey, goodnight friend") and now he is very happy that is friend is plugged in and capable of lighting up again. He likes to sit on his friend the printer and be near him.


My cat Bakal is special.

Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax

PantsBandit posted:

Dougie must have a 10 in charisma if he managed to land Naomi Watts. I mean goddamn.

Janey-E is the dump for all the dialogue skills while Dougie gets all the combat.


POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug
He sounds like a good cat. :kimchi:

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames

Guy Mann posted:

Dragon Quest Builders isn't procedurally generated, though.

That's entirely beside the point. I'm referring only to the "building blocks" looking like rear end, because they do in Minecraft and do not in DQB.

Anyway.

Man, it may be period and culturally accurate but the very large amount of embarrassingly sexist stuff in Yakuza 0 is its only flaw. What's the target demo for the game in Japan? Did they really feel the need to include literal softcore porn into it? Is the target demo "old Japanese men who don't know how to find porn on the internet in 2015"?

CharlieFoxtrot
Mar 27, 2007

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I know Twin Peaks is the water cooler show everyone is talking about right now but you know what show is hype? Riverdale.

If you had told me an adaptation of Archie Comics would be good, I would have laughed at you. But the show starts with Jughead delivering a film noir monologue, people are namedropping Truman Capote and Toni Morrison, and then Betty and Veronica run a sexual sting operation so they can capture the captain of the football team to drug and torture him to extract a confession about a schoolwide conspiracy. Also there is possible incest and definite murder and Betty might have dissociative identity disorder

Amorphous Abode
Apr 2, 2010


We may have finally found unobtainium but I will never find eywa.

But does jughead eat ALL the hamburgers?

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

precision posted:

That's entirely beside the point. I'm referring only to the "building blocks" looking like rear end, because they do in Minecraft and do not in DQB.

Anyway.

Man, it may be period and culturally accurate but the very large amount of embarrassingly sexist stuff in Yakuza 0 is its only flaw. What's the target demo for the game in Japan? Did they really feel the need to include literal softcore porn into it? Is the target demo "old Japanese men who don't know how to find porn on the internet in 2015"?

You don't like softcore porn?

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

Watch Brick instead.

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

If you had told me an adaptation of Archie Comics would be good, I would have laughed at you.

Sometimes I forget that Sabrina the Teenage Witch is Archie Comics

CharlieFoxtrot
Mar 27, 2007

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Guy Mann posted:

Janey-E is the dump for all the dialogue skills while Dougie gets all the combat.




I see that second gif and I hear "Fuckabees"

FirstAidKite posted:

Sometimes I forget that Sabrina the Teenage Witch is Archie Comics

I have read some rumblings that Riverdale goes downhill in the second half of the season but I am going to power through and assume that something akin to the Punisher showing up happens and TV critics were just not equipped to handle it

precision
May 7, 2006

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In Training posted:

You don't like softcore porn?

...no?

Baku
Aug 20, 2005

by Fluffdaddy

Jay Rust posted:

Don't play games you don't like imo

while this is good advice wrt people continuing to play a shooter or moba or something forever and bitching about it idk how it applies to people saying ff15 takes a nosedive, because it's hard to know you don't like something until you play it, and ff15 is a game that takes continual turns in design

the real optional postgame dungeon is a puzzle platformer ffs

Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

I know Twin Peaks is the water cooler show everyone is talking about right now

Man I wish. Only one guy I know IRL is watching it, everyone else either doesn't know what Twin Peaks is or tapped out in the first episode when it was non-stop Lynchian surreal ambiance.The ratings are apparently in the toilet too but it's the kind of thing that nobody watches live anyways and they shot all 18 hours already as a "limited series" so none of that matters even more than usual.

I'm just sad because in the span of one week Better Call Saul, American Gods, Fargo, and The Haindmaid's Tale are all ending so I have no shows to follow aside from Twin Peaks: Teach Me How To Dougie.

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames
the new twin peaks is likely to be the best television any of us ever live to see, honestly

it's not even fair, it's basically an 18 hour david lynch movie and i am loving it

CharlieFoxtrot
Mar 27, 2007

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I dislike all these fragmented subscription models that end up being nearly as expensive as a cable plan just to watch like three shows. It's why I haven't watched American Gods either, I'll just wait until they are on Blu-Ray and I can rent the discs

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

I dislike all these fragmented subscription models that end up being nearly as expensive as a cable plan just to watch like three shows. It's why I haven't watched American Gods either, I'll just wait until they are on Blu-Ray and I can rent the discs

I signed up for Showtime just for Twin Peaks and I'm glad I did because it's loving amazing. That said, wow everything else on there is incredibly bad. Did you know that Andrew Dice Clay has a semi-autobiographical series called Dice? Well now you know.

Wandle Cax
Dec 15, 2006

Yeah but I don't think it would have been appropriate to put hard core porn in a video game tbh

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames

Wandle Cax posted:

Yeah but I don't think it would have been appropriate to put hard core porn in a video game tbh

I question how good of an idea it is to put any porn in the game, really. It's just so weird. Like I'm not kidding, Yakuza 0 has literal FMV cheesecake porn in it.

Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax

precision posted:

I question how good of an idea it is to put any porn in the game, really. It's just so weird. Like I'm not kidding, Yakuza 0 has literal FMV cheesecake porn in it.

Mafia 3 has actual licensed period-appropriate Playboys in it which is a cool way of establishing the flavor of the time period.

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames

Guy Mann posted:

Mafia 3 has actual licensed period-appropriate Playboys in it which is a cool way of establishing the flavor of the time period.

Yeah I was totally okay with that since they included a ton of articles and not just the pictures, and also it's a hard M game whereas Yakuza is historically a pretty teen-friendly series.

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




Jay Rust posted:

Watch Brick instead.

i rented this like 10 years ago knowing nothing about it and serious well acted film noir with all teen actors was really cool to stumble on.

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




yakuza is good. its only pervy if you got hard. otherwise its cool and normal

CharlieFoxtrot
Mar 27, 2007

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I think there's a difference between a collectible that, even if you want to do all gameplay related things, you can just pick up and put away, and a minigame where you have to shoot sexy pickup lines to make a woman moan while a camera glides across her half-naked body in close-up. Or a minigame where you have to make bikini women wrestle.

I will say that the pan away from the box of tissues in the video store is one of the best uses of cinematography in that game

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

I mean, it's Yakuza. the hostess clubs are a Japanese thing, and Yakuza as a series is EXTREMELY Japanese. At some point you have to ask whether you have an issue with the game, or with the culture it's showing.

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!
so killzone mercenary has a patch for pstv support that also adds full dualshock support, using both triggers and even the clicky analog sticks. i wish other devs had done the same but i guess like ten people actually bought a pstv, so it was not to be.

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




corn in the bible posted:

so killzone mercenary has a patch for pstv support that also adds full dualshock support, using both triggers and even the clicky analog sticks. i wish other devs had done the same but i guess like ten people actually bought a pstv, so it was not to be.

the gyro aim on vita is actually very good

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!

Real hurthling! posted:

the gyro aim on vita is actually very good

sure, but it's cool that if you play it on pstv it also works well and utilizes the stuff that makes available!

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y50nAoA5KwY

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WNsmCpdhhY

man what the gently caress is happening

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!

Grapplejack posted:

welcome to the next level in 32x world

"Giving birth to a new and original character" and they show sonic

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames

Grapplejack posted:

I mean, it's Yakuza. the hostess clubs are a Japanese thing, and Yakuza as a series is EXTREMELY Japanese. At some point you have to ask whether you have an issue with the game, or with the culture it's showing.

the softcore porn videos are videos from current softcore porn girls and the game takes place in the 80s

if they were period-accurate then i probably wouldn't care as much, because it would at least be less blatant about what it's doing

Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax

precision posted:

Yeah I was totally okay with that since they included a ton of articles and not just the pictures, and also it's a hard M game whereas Yakuza is historically a pretty teen-friendly series.

I've only played the first Yakuza since I've been on PC for a decade now but I was under the impression that the Yakuza series always had a ton of cringeworthy hostess bar/porn stuff and that most of the friction of releasing them in the west came from what and how they excised that in a way that would let it fly with Western audiences?

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames

Guy Mann posted:

I've only played the first Yakuza since I've been on PC for a decade now but I was under the impression that the Yakuza series always had a ton of cringeworthy hostess bar/porn stuff and that most of the friction of releasing them in the west came from what and how they excised that in a way that would let it fly with Western audiences?

The hostess clubs and such are entirely period accurate, the softcore porn videos are both new to Yakuza 0 and blatant marketing for actual current porn girls. I mean they aren't rendered, they are literally FMV cheesecake videos. I feel like that crosses an imaginary line in my brain for some reason. It's just so much more blatantly "here, ogle these girls dude" whereas the hostess minigame stuff is more like playing Barbie than getting off on it.

ANYWAY, there's a bunch of stuff on sale on PS4, what should I get:

Metro: Last light
Metro: 2033 (which is the better of these two they are both $6)
Mirror's Edge: Catalyst ($10)
Outlast/Whistleblow ($7)
Megadimension Neptunia 7 ($12)

Snak
Oct 10, 2005

I myself will carry you to the Gates of Valhalla...
You will ride eternal,
shiny and chrome.
Grimey Drawer
If cheesecake offends you, probably don't get Neptunia 7.

I was curious about it an looked up some gameplay footage and realized there is no one I wouldn't be ashamed to play the game in front of.

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CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!
Get Outlast, it will scare the absolute poo poo out of you and it is therefore a very good time.

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