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donkey salami posted:Prototype 2 was fun but ridiculous overpowered What does this mean?
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Max Payne is easily a top 5 game ever, i think it elevated video game storytelling and is not given enough credit
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Zzulu posted:What does this mean? It means he's racist
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Rutibex posted:i too am waiting for someone to mod the switch for homebrew God, yes. I only recently really got into the Wii U because of homebrew. It was nice to actually be able to take my progress with me to a friend's place two states away instead of packing a console that was already there. Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:my unpopular opinion: This is the gayest reason not to get a Switch If my half-portable console, which is supposed to be taken with me whenever I go, gets lost, broken, or stolen, it would be much less of a kick in the nuts to only have to replace the system instead of replacing the system and having to start everything over.
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Jun 19, 2017 18:46
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NBA Hangtime for N64 is the greatest basketball game ever
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pedrovay2003 posted:God, yes. I only recently really got into the Wii U because of homebrew. It was nice to actually be able to take my progress with me to a friend's place two states away instead of packing a console that was already there. Serious question whatever happened to memory cards?
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Jun 19, 2017 19:01
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The steam controller is the greatest controller of all time, by a country mile
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Jun 19, 2017 19:13
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facebook jihad posted:Serious question whatever happened to memory cards? The main design goal of memory cards was to alleviate the low storage capacity of consoles/cartridges of the time by offloading save data to an external device. Once hardware improved to the point that was plenty of internal storage to go around, memory cards became unnecessary. Using memory cards to swap saves/unlocks/whatever from person to person or console to console was a happy coincidence that was wholly unrelated to their intended purpose, from the manufacturer's point of view. From the consumer's point of view it could be a key feature and selling point. At a time when the technology and industry culture favored the sharing of data and purchased hardware, manufacturer's where happy to let people enjoy this side benefit. You will almost certainly never see memory cards come back, for two reasons. The first is they are technologically pointless anywhere there is internet service. Save data could or other user-specific information could easily be transferred from console to console over the internet if that anyone wanted to implement it. The second is that today's manufacturer's do not want to implement it. In the 90's sharing was good. Today it is still good to the consumer, but the manufacturer hates it. They don't want you sharing anything like that with other people. This is a console generation that only begrudgingly allows the transfer of games via physical disk because there was a consumer revolt when they planned to take that away. Every single thing that can be tagged to an individual, is tagged to an individual. People might still have a desire to swap or share save files and such, but the industry does not like that.
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Jun 19, 2017 19:20
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Chomp8645 posted:The main design goal of memory cards was to alleviate the low storage capacity of consoles/cartridges of the time by offloading save data to an external device. Once hardware improved to the point that was plenty of internal storage to go around, memory cards became unnecessary. Ah thanks for the informed answer. I hated memory cards in the day and still kind of do, but it seems like they'd be useful for situations such as either getting a new console or going over to a friend's place who has the same game or console. But yeah at the same time I can see why manufacturers today would hate it.
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Jun 19, 2017 19:28
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hawowanlawow posted:The steam controller is the greatest controller of all time, by a country mile I actually hate it tbh
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Jun 19, 2017 21:02
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Most people do, but it actually owns You just have to get used to it. Use the mouse like joystick setting with trackball, turn the friction to low with vertical friction increased manually. Low sensitivity gyro aiming when the left trigger is pulled. Bing bong bing
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Jun 19, 2017 21:07
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The Dennis System posted:Tetris, off the top of my head. The song tho
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hawowanlawow posted:Use the mouse like joystick setting with trackball, turn the friction to low with vertical friction increased manually. Low sensitivity gyro aiming when the left trigger is pulled. These 2 sentences alone have scared me away from the steam controller for life.
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Jun 19, 2017 21:14
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No, listen More people have to use it or they will stop making them..... Please  Another unpopular controller opinion: the original Duke Xbox controller was good
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Jun 19, 2017 21:23
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Caesar Saladin posted:Max Payne is easily a top 5 game ever, i think it elevated video game storytelling and is not given enough credit Definitely a good game, although I just looked up the narration and man is it way less bad rear end than it was from memory.
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kid/Tween favorites seem to be the recurring favorite "best game of all time" mentions coming from older people. To me, everquest was a damned magical roleplaying game that probably ruined my life, and the experience I had playing it is one of the best. Spawning in Felwithe and dying viciously to bats until i figured out how to memorize my first spells is like, objectively a poo poo experience. I would be seeking refunds if a modern game started the way that one did. But hey, it clicked back then. It was like crack I've played the original Max Payne more recently, and i didn't play it as a kid, that's an awful game. Fuckin HATE THAT poo poo. But you know i bet if i had been into it back then i would be jizzing all the gently caress over it just like I do Everquest
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Jun 19, 2017 22:27
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I never thought Duke Nukem was cool. Even as a kid I saw him as a try hard Arnold Schwarzenegger knock off fart knocker
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Jun 19, 2017 22:29
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That's why I can't play sly Cooper ever again
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Jun 19, 2017 22:31
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basic hitler posted:kid/Tween favorites seem to be the recurring favorite "best game of all time" mentions coming from older people. To me, everquest was a damned magical roleplaying game that probably ruined my life, and the experience I had playing it is one of the best. Spawning in Felwithe and dying viciously to bats until i figured out how to memorize my first spells is like, objectively a poo poo experience. I would be seeking refunds if a modern game started the way that one did. But hey, it clicked back then. It was like crack I've played the original Max Payne more recently, and i didn't play it as a kid, that's an awful game. Fuckin HATE THAT poo poo. But you know i bet if i had been into it back then i would be jizzing all the gently caress over it just like I do Everquest I was hooked on EQ for a couple of years, maybe a bit more. I think my logged hours were something ridiculous like 2 months playing time. Can still remember the opening song, the thrill of leveling and the agony of losing a level...I even had an online gf I met on there back when it was viewed as shameful to hook up with people online. I was in a pretty big guild on our server and splintered off with some other players and had a weeks-long war (which we lost), fighting on the mainland, Kunark and the moon iirc. Every now and then I hear some place has old EQ free to play but no. I think getting bored of Everquest was a good thing because from then on I never wasted time on MMOs again. WoW, DAoC, all the poo poo that came after couldn't promise the experience.  e. Actually, thinking back I probably logged more time on that game than two months. It was very consuming. phasmid fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Jun 19, 2017 |
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Jun 19, 2017 22:52
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hawowanlawow posted:Another unpopular controller opinion: the original Duke Xbox controller was good I'm really hoping the replica Duke controller for Xbox One that was announced at E3 is A: good; and B: not insanely expensive. I have stupid gorilla hands and it was a perfect fit. Stupid gorilla hand unpopular opinion: the best way to hold an N64 controller is one hand on either side like any other controller.
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The best music from any Mario game and also the best song from any N64 game is 'Dire Dire Docks' from Mario 64.
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Blue Moonlight posted:I'm really hoping the replica Duke controller for Xbox One that was announced at E3 is A: good; and B: not insanely expensive. I have stupid gorilla hands and it was a perfect fit. The black and white face buttons were dumb though
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Jun 20, 2017 03:03
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hawowanlawow posted:No, listen I hope you're stupid as controller dies!!!
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signalnoise posted:The black and white face buttons were dumb though Speaking of Black and White, it was a great concept for a game but it came out a little to early before the technology was there. I would love a reboot of Black and White for VR.
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I thought Black & White, and the sequel were really good, misunderstood games. I never quite figured out what molyneux promised vs what was delivered, and B&W 1 has some interface problems, but that's a good fun game franchise I wish still was being made.
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The Dennis System posted:I forgot about the music, but the graphics just depict a few blocks, whose only function is as puzzle pieces. I don't consider those block art anymore than I consider individual Legos to be art. mondrian.jpg this is a dumb argument anyway. games are art like telephones are conversations.
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gamepro was the pinnacle of video game reviews even though some of the ones they did were laughable. they gave that star wars fighting game for ps1 a very good score even though it was widely considered to suck balls. that probably had something to do with the fact that it was on the cover for the issue they reviewed it inpentfixion posted:NBA Hangtime for N64 is the greatest basketball game ever basic hitler posted:kid/Tween favorites seem to be the recurring favorite "best game of all time" mentions coming from older people. my second favorite game is metroid prime and that came out when i was 15, so that bucks the trend by a few years
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basic hitler posted:kid/Tween favorites seem to be the recurring favorite "best game of all time" mentions coming from older people. To me, everquest was a damned magical roleplaying game that probably ruined my life, and the experience I had playing it is one of the best. Spawning in Felwithe and dying viciously to bats until i figured out how to memorize my first spells is like, objectively a poo poo experience. I would be seeking refunds if a modern game started the way that one did. But hey, it clicked back then. It was like crack I've played the original Max Payne more recently, and i didn't play it as a kid, that's an awful game. Fuckin HATE THAT poo poo. But you know i bet if i had been into it back then i would be jizzing all the gently caress over it just like I do Everquest games that are janky as poo poo and beat you in the face repeatedly until you figure it out are some of the best. there's more to it than just being hard and obtuse, they have to be hard and obtuse to get you to think in a specific way and that way of thinking has to open up self directed gameplay opportunities. that is completely anathema to contemporary game design STALKER is widely considered an incredible game and if you look at it through the lens of contemporary AAA games it is really, REALLY bad. it's paced obtusely, the storyline is borderline secondary to the entire experience despite being the only explicit breadcrumb trail through the game, your item progression is feast or famine, and its just missing plenty of things that you just expect a video game of its kind to have. but its really good. its everything far cry wants to be, but will never be fundimentally. eve online is that way except cranked all the way to 11. its the game everyone wants their open world MMO to be except they mistake the core of its design philosophy for bad game design and miss the mark time and time again. i mean i wont disagree but theres a reason its got a devoted fanbase, its because your fancy autism chariot is easily murderable by someone in a cheap ship who knows what they're doing and multiply that by fleets of 10+ people. there isn't fast travel for a reason. there is no linear progression and cost isn't related to performance. all of those things are why the game is what it is and they basically break the rules of game design everyone goes by
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phasmid posted:I was hooked on EQ for a couple of years, Dude I played WoW from Burning Crusade drop date to the end of Ice Crown raid and my main had almost a year of time played on it. I loved WoW but I tried reinstalling and removing talent points seemingly broke the spell and I just couldn't care at all now that there wasn't any fine tuning outside of gear. I would be shocked if I ever get that into a game again, but I'm also excited for Destiny 2 on PC.
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basic hitler posted:I thought Black & White, and the sequel were really good, misunderstood games. I never quite figured out what molyneux promised vs what was delivered, and B&W 1 has some interface problems, but that's a good fun game franchise I wish still was being made. Literally the only fun thing in those games was making your abominable creature do horrifying stuff to your poor hapless villagers it was like a kaiju torture porn simulator *drowns entire village in monster-feces*
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nigga crab pollock posted:games that are janky as poo poo and beat you in the face repeatedly until you figure it out are some of the best. there's more to it than just being hard and obtuse, they have to be hard and obtuse to get you to think in a specific way and that way of thinking has to open up self directed gameplay opportunities. that is completely anathema to contemporary game design Modern "roguelikes" and Dark Souls find success because the former can be played in bursts and iteration is the core internal mechanic, and the latter revolves around mastering a few tough mechanics with an option for creativity via weapons, items, and magic.
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basic hitler posted:I've played the original Max Payne more recently, and i didn't play it as a kid, that's an awful game. Fuckin HATE THAT poo poo. But you know i bet if i had been into it back then i would be jizzing all the gently caress over it just like I do Everquest this is dumb and bad, max payne is super playable today and always has been, the bullet time and shooting are really well balanced and fun, its much more fun than lame cover shooters everquest had a great world to explore but the gameplay was awful even then, i remember my friends laughing at me when I showed them how you fight
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Many people that talk about being big fans of dark souls are just posturing. They just follow cheese strats someone else came up with or straight up cheat and use that to feel good about mastering a hard game cause they followed someone else's walkthrough. This is my experience with almost every other person I've run into irl. "Gamers" The thing with that is they're missing like half the fun of the game
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GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted:Overwatch is cool and good. Overwatch is not cool and good.
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nigga crab pollock posted:Many people that talk about being big fans of dark souls are just posturing. They just follow cheese strats someone else came up with or straight up cheat and use that to feel good about mastering a hard game cause they followed someone else's walkthrough. This is my experience with almost every other person I've run into irl. "Gamers"
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hip check please posted:Overwatch is not cool and good.
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I was ready to hate on Overwatch because I really disliked the style of it. It felt like it was designed in a boardroom, you know? Like, they had "blizzards style" and then just threw dissonant poo poo on the wall and the end product made no sense at all. BUT Then I played it... and it was actually super fun. Like, Tracers mechanic alone sold me on the game. You get to play a shooter with a character that can blink twice and then rewind time for herself. That poo poo is a million times cooler than the Call of Duty garbage that is getting so stale now
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Yeah you can be cynical about the cyborg waifus and bitch about ultimates or whatever, but the gameplay is fun and almost all the classes have unique mechanics no other FPS is offering. Plus the worst character--D.vA -- gets mocked as a mountain dew-chugging neckbeard girl a lot by fans which makes her much more tolerable.
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nigga crab pollock posted:games that are janky as poo poo and beat you in the face repeatedly until you figure it out are some of the best. Agreed. It's gotten to point where I seek out games I overlooked when I was younger specifically because I'm looking for something janky and weird that doesn't handle like a contemporary AAA game. poo poo like God Hand had obvious challenges (camera always being behind your back) but offered ways to provide information to the player that forced them to cobble together a method of reacting to what the game throws at you (radar system to catch enemies from the back and sides). Modern game design "guidelines" are somewhat nice because I guess you avoid some "annoying" things in games but sometimes those annoying aspects are what made the game engaging and unique. I've actually stopped playing OW recently and switched to trying several clones of it just because they offer more options for your characters. Not to mention I'm tired of being teased with Doomfist and I don't have the autism to care about dumb poo poo like events/costumes/dances/whatever. The game actually has very little going for it if you hate lootbox poo poo.
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