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Calaveron posted:That's TA2. TA1's story is a kid from the real world and his psychologically damaged friends and wheelchair bound brother are also there and their issues get fixed and are really happy in a fantasy book and says "This poo poo is bananas! I must destroy it!" and then destroys it. Yes, and the pic that everyone's laughing at is of Luso, the main character of FFTA2. He's the one that's loving this poo poo he's in, and I rationalise that art as Luso being so amped up that he just wears all the craziest poo poo he can find, and starts using the biggest, most impractical sword ever designed because he is just so loving jazzed to be here. IIRC, almost none of the other character art gets half as goofy as Luso's.
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Mierenneuker posted:Back to the first hand: This guy (and War from Darksiders) look like they accidentally left a character designer on overnight.
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Inco posted:Yes, and the pic that everyone's laughing at is of Luso, the main character of FFTA2. He's the one that's loving this poo poo he's in, and I rationalise that art as Luso being so amped up that he just wears all the craziest poo poo he can find, and starts using the biggest, most impractical sword ever designed because he is just so loving jazzed to be here. IIRC, almost none of the other character art gets half as goofy as Luso's. Okay, it is supposed to be he then? The high heels were throwing me off
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Calaveron posted:That's TA2. TA1's story is a kid from the real world and his psychologically damaged friends and wheelchair bound brother are also there and their issues get fixed and are really happy in a fantasy book and says "This poo poo is bananas! I must destroy it!" and then destroys it. It's actually pretty well written, subtle, and interesting, to be honest. To the point people have spent pages and pages arguing whether or not Marche (the main protagonist, i.e. you) are actually the villain of the whole thing, whether or not an illusion that's so real you can't tell the difference is really an illusion. It gets surprisingly philosophical. FFTA2 is fun, but I didn't find it as mature or interesting and that disappointed me.
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I just went to the sidequest town in the west of Horizon, the one immediately south of Sunfall at the port. I really like the design there, with the twin watchtowers, one full of the villain Carja clan and one full of the neutral/nice Carja. It's a very interesting setup, like the two sides are trying to observe an unsteady truce and set up like that so that each side could watch the other. I like that kind of visual design.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Okay, it is supposed to be he then? The high heels were throwing me off What are you getting at
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H I T M A N Getting Silent Assassin + Suit Only with some rancid Chef Boyardee cans. 
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Action Tortoise posted:H I T M A N Spaghetti! Thunk!
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I spent about an hour yesterday in Just Cause 3 just cruising around the starting island on the wing suit, and I am absolutely over the moon with it. I think it controls really well, getting in and out of it is very smooth, and it's so pretty/exciting flying mere inches away from the ground. The only bad thing is you can't fire your rocket launcher while wing suiting, but if you could I actually don't think I would ever stop. Oh, and the game doesn't stop throwing ammo at you, which was a real nice change of pace from the second game where it felt like I was running out every two fights.
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Calaveron posted:That's TA2. TA1's story is a kid from the real world and his psychologically damaged friends and wheelchair bound brother are also there and their issues get fixed and are really happy in a fantasy book and says "This poo poo is bananas! I must destroy it!" and then destroys it. The main character, Marche, is the only character in the game without any significant issues so he spends the bulk of the game just being the lame-o "I want to go home" nerd after seeing his first brutal street fight in this crazy fantasy world full of lizard people and donkey dudes. One by one all his friends show up and are like "This is cool, my problems don't exist here!" Especially his cripple brother who's like "Hell yeah, I can walk here! I'm going to walk all over this world!" While marche is just determined to bring everyone back home because he wants to do homework or something lame like that and force the antagonist to live with his unemployed alcoholic dad again.
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moosecow333 posted:The only bad thing is you can't fire your rocket launcher while wing suiting, but if you could I actually don't think I would ever stop. Get the dlc
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FactsAreUseless posted:I really want Square to bring back Amano concept art. i like that a lot for some reason. Final Fantasy always had this gravitas to me as a kid, because it had a legit-seeming art style, even if it only showed up in the monster designs and the manual. I mean it's art nouveau with anime cake sprinkles but that really stood out in a world of airbrushed genre cheesecake. Plus it makes sense as armor, it's just got a lot of decoration. The FFTA2 kid looks like he's wearing a Sexy Ronald McDonald halloween costume with 100 lbs of accessories and a sword that can play laserdiscs.
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swamp waste posted:i like that a lot for some reason.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Amano is legitimately a really good artist, all his poo poo looks extremely cool. Correct. He's one of my favorite artists ever.   
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Mierenneuker posted:Back to the first hand: Does he have bucklers on his elbows? Is he carrying several sideways pizzas in a messenger bag?
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rodbeard posted:Does he have bucklers on his elbows? Is he carrying several sideways pizzas in a messenger bag?
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I bet those shoe funnels become real inconvenient when it rains.
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FactsAreUseless posted:They're pizza pans on his elbows, and yes, he has pizzas in his bag. He is also carrying a large pizza cutter. Is name is Peter Pizzapie and he is the savior of Fantasyvania. I just wanna say how much I love your videos, Mr. Griffin McElroy of Polygon Dot Com.
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Screaming Idiot posted:I just wanna say how much I love your videos, Mr. Griffin McElroy of Polygon Dot Com. Nah he would have called him Pizza Boy if it was Griffin McElroy.
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And we'd have a video of him stuffing a printout of the character art in his mouth.
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That big rear end sword btw is from both games, it's the sword used by the "judges" in battles (all battles have a ref who rezzes everyone after a battle, and jails people if they break arbitrary rotating rules) but aren't ever actually really used in the game, at least not the first one. The main character is shown posing with one but the item itself is never available to equip. If they wanted my Marche to be accurate to the concept art, they should have shown him dual-wielding sabers while casting time magic 
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So in Friday the 13th, players discovered a glitch where you could get yourself up onto the roof of a building and wait there for 20 minutes to win a match. The little thing I like is the immediate culture that formed where anyone up on the roof is to be IMMEDIATELY executed by any not-rear end in a top hat players who can find a gun or a machette. While they're patching out the exploits, the devs have started taking reports and banning exploiters, leading to people asking if they'll get banned if they execute traitorous players. The devs confirmed that glitching onto the roof is legal if, and only if, you're there to murder cheaters and leave afterwards. Traitors get their just rewards 
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I'm in the middle of Rise of the Tomb Raider and I loving love it. It cobbles together a bunch of mechanics from the last decade but does it in a way that doesn't overstay its welcome. Its open world, but each area is tiny and there are only like 20 minimap icons to collect instead of 100 It has a very naturally progressing metroidvania where you get better items that open up new areas, without the legend of zelda thing where the main character is carrying around 20 different items or doomguy thing where he has 10 different guns. I mean, it does get a little silly with Lara carrying a shotgun AND a rifle, but otherwise its all stuff that someone who got stranded while mountaineering would have. Like attaching wire to her climbing axes to make a grappling hook, or something as simple as a combat knife or lock pick. Awesome and effective It does the "linear cinematic shooter" thing from Uncharted but for only like, 10 minutes at a time. It has a good collection of puzzle platforming too, straight from the original Tomb Raider or Sands of Time. The story is fairly non-generic as well. I was totally expecting a bunch of completely telegraphed twists that ended up not happening. I like the combat as well - I'm used to too many games where can wade in and just take the hits but fighting with a bow and arrow means that i gotta stealth and I like that. until i unlocked the triple headshot power 
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Honestly the thing that impressed me the most in Rise of the Tomb Raider was the physics of Lara's hair. I don't know what this says about me, other than that I play a lot of games where everyone's hair has one model and never moves at all.
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2 maps into H I T M A N and I've found 2 joke disguises that have no function to their maps. I hope this becomes a running joke with the game.
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The chicken suit disguise has always been a Hitman tradition since I think Contracts. This even plays into a late Blood Money mission where you have to kill three rival assassins including one of the grey haired assassins that wears one of said suits.
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Beef Jerky Robot posted:In the one hand, how could it be as good as the original. On the other hand, I can have pig friends in my clan. Update, I now have a pig friend named Dermot. Game is good.
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e:Ulp! poo poo, beatenthecluckmeme posted:That big rear end sword btw is from both games, it's the sword used by the "judges" in battles (all battles have a ref who rezzes everyone after a battle, and jails people if they break arbitrary rotating rules) but aren't ever actually really used in the game, at least not the first one. The main character is shown posing with one but the item itself is never available to equip. Here's a picture  Agents are GO! posted:One of the things that I loved about Dissidia is that they followed those designs pretty drat well. And that Exdeath was the strongest character in the game. My favorite thing about Dissidia and Exdeath is VOID VOID VOID VOID VOID e2: FactsAreUseless posted:They're pizza pans on his elbows, and yes, he has pizzas in his bag. He is also carrying a large pizza cutter. Is name is Peter Pizzapie and he is the savior of Fantasyvania. Actually it's a book with a pizza-shaped cover, I'm pretty sure it's the book of Pizza Rules, which defines what is and is not a pizza. PubicMice has a new favorite as of 07:03 on Jul 4, 2017 |
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Action Tortoise posted:2 maps into H I T M A N and I've found 2 joke disguises that have no function to their maps. Well I can tell you one of the Hokkaido mission rewards is a starting position above the main area, dressed as a ninja (he ain't gonna blend in).
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Sad lions posted:Well I can tell you one of the Hokkaido mission rewards is a starting position above the main area, dressed as a ninja (he ain't gonna blend in).  Found a Blood Money reference in Sapienza  Sometimes the game frames a moment that can only be described as art. 
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I honestly can't not see it as a pizza. What is it actually supposed to be?
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Danaru posted:So in Friday the 13th, players discovered a glitch where you could get yourself up onto the roof of a building and wait there for 20 minutes to win a match. The little thing I like is the immediate culture that formed where anyone up on the roof is to be IMMEDIATELY executed by any not-rear end in a top hat players who can find a gun or a machette. While they're patching out the exploits, the devs have started taking reports and banning exploiters, leading to people asking if they'll get banned if they execute traitorous players. The devs confirmed that glitching onto the roof is legal if, and only if, you're there to murder cheaters and leave afterwards. No, you see I was camping that rooftop to make sure I could swiftly dispatch any cheaters that might sneak up their to steal the match....
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Agents are GO! posted:One of the things that I loved about Dissidia is that they followed those designs pretty drat well. And that Exdeath was the strongest character in the game. In Dissidia, Exdeath has a small chance of screaming "Turtle!" during his ex burst.
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scarycave posted:In Dissidia, Exdeath has a small chance of screaming "Turtle!" during his ex burst. Oh hey, here's a favorite little thing from Final Fantasy. Gilgamesh is consistently great once they decided that it's the same character that pops up in every game.
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Still think they should make a gilgamesh game where you hop dimensions with enkidu who changes forms in every dimension.
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scarycave posted:Still think they should make a gilgamesh game where you hop dimensions with enkidu who changes forms in every dimension. Enkidu is actually canonically not with him, and is either dead or lost and alone back in FFV's world! This is actually explained in-story in FFXIV, when Gilgamesh gets so lonely he accidentally summons an evil imitation of Enkidu in the same way that the various beast tribes and other antagonist groups summon horrible mockeries of their gods. In other news: Persona 5 generally doesn't have super great writing, especially not in localization (there must be a really versatile Japanese word that most closely translates to 'cognition'), but I am genuinely stunned at how well they write a character with actual social issues. Futaba, your navigator, has massive social issues that lead to her having a lot of trouble going out and interacting with people. She's overtly a recovering hikkikomori, which I don't know much about, but to my eyes she also reads as a very strong depiction of a high-functioning autistic. Either way, from what I've so far seen it's a great effort that doesn't even really play it for jokes; her disconnect with people has some jokes in it, but they're not really at her expense. It's not played for laughs or dismissed as nothing when she's genuinely uncomfortable, which is amazing to see. Cleretic has a new favorite as of 12:48 on Jul 4, 2017 |
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So this is due to using a randomiser but my copy of Pokemon Emerald replaced Rayquaza with Lotad, Kyogre with Anorith and Groundon with Seedot. There's something amazing about the legendaries being replaced with trash mons.
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Cleretic posted:Enkidu is actually canonically not with him, and is either dead or lost and alone back in FFV's world! This is actually explained in-story in FFXIV, when Gilgamesh gets so lonely he accidentally summons an evil imitation of Enkidu in the same way that the various beast tribes and other antagonist groups summon horrible mockeries of their gods. Gilgamesh's wish for his friend was so heartfelt and his soul so pure that he managed to do by himself what usually requires a vast amount of people, too
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Cleretic posted:Enkidu is actually canonically not with him, and is either dead or lost and alone back in FFV's world! This is actually explained in-story in FFXIV, when Gilgamesh gets so lonely he accidentally summons an evil imitation of Enkidu in the same way that the various beast tribes and other antagonist groups summon horrible mockeries of their gods. That's kind of sad. Does that mean he's just been naming random monsters enkidu like the wolf thing he's with in 12 (which is the best gilgamesh - because his entrance is amazing). Of course, that's whether or not Type 0's gilgamesh is the same gilgamesh who had a human adviser named enkidu.
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