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World Famous W posted:I'm going to complain about games that don't have subtitles on already as default. games with a cold open that don't let you tweak settings before starting
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Action Tortoise posted:games with a cold open that don't let you tweak settings before starting I got to watch the opening of MGS:V about 4 times before I got it to run right. I was glad that doctor ate poo poo.
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Aug 10, 2017 19:46
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Action Tortoise posted:games with a cold open that don't let you tweak settings before starting Or where you can set up what your character looks like, but then it turns out in-game the lighting and animation makes them look like a mutant. Mass Effect 3 was pretty bad for this, I kept alt-f4ing out of the opening bit because Shep never looked like how I wanted her to.
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Aug 10, 2017 21:20
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Or where you can set up what your character looks like, but then it turns out in-game the lighting and animation makes them look like a mutant. Mass Effect 3 was pretty bad for this, I kept alt-f4ing out of the opening bit because Shep never looked like how I wanted her to. lol if you don't play every game w a customizable MC as a horrible mutant who looks like he was ran out of his childhood home for being gently caress ugly
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Aug 10, 2017 21:28
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Action Tortoise posted:games with a cold open that don't let you tweak settings before starting Games that play a constant irritating sound when your health gets low.
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Aug 10, 2017 21:34
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bullshit blood splatters or red flashing borders are also equally terrible gently caress off and let me focus on not dying
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Aug 10, 2017 21:45
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Action Tortoise posted:games with a cold open that don't let you tweak settings before starting I like it especially when it comes in on high settings so my computer can stagger through the first part before I can lower everything.
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Aug 10, 2017 21:55
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World Famous W posted:I'm going to complain about games that don't have subtitles on already as default. And why can't games just loving agree on where the subtitles option is? Is it game options? Sound options? Display options?
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Aug 10, 2017 22:51
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KingSlime posted:bullshit blood splatters or red flashing borders are also equally terrible
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Aug 10, 2017 22:51
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World Famous W posted:I'm going to complain about games that don't have subtitles on already as default. If the game doesn't have subtitles at all, like Halo 1....
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Aug 10, 2017 23:17
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on that note I love PC gaming but god drat PC gaming loving sucks Take last night for example, I wanted to get some tasty Dark Souls III action, cool beans I fire up the game and plug in the controll-oh OOPS! Should have plugged in the controller before running the game because I forgot I use a third party app, steam's built in recognition has been very hit or miss for me and doing things out of order fucks up the whole thing So I close the app, disconnect and reconnect the controller and now it won't respond at all. Fun. After 15 minutes of messing around with settings, turns out the game controller driver disabled itself. Err, okay whatever, enabled, program is running, DS4 is good to go for some DS3. I boot up the game, oh god drat it where did my audio go?? Now my PC is confused and reoruting the audio to my recording interface...why?!? Tweak that setting, test levels and finally, 20 minutes after I sat down to play my loving game, I am in the title screen and ready to go. That's 20 minutes gone from my tiny 1.5 hour window for gaming I allowed myself last night. Once again, PC gaming is superior to console gaming in most ways, but I sure as poo poo don't blame people who think otherwise.
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Aug 10, 2017 23:22
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For some reason, in order to use a controller to play The Saboteur I have to start the game with the controller OFF, then plug it in after the game boots
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Aug 10, 2017 23:36
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For me the tweaking and fixing of pc games is half the fun but I can see why some people might find it annoying. But my biggest annoyance is the choice paralysis that comes with having a huge Steam and GOG library. All these games I bought and I don't feel like playing any of them. 
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Aug 11, 2017 01:23
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wafflemoose posted:For me the tweaking and fixing of pc games is half the fun but I can see why some people might find it annoying. I love having to google three pages deep to find a forum post from years ago where a single guy had my issue and then commented going "nevermind fixed it" and closed the thread. It's way better than putting a game in the PlayStation and just having it work
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Aug 11, 2017 01:42
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Action Tortoise posted:games with a cold open that don't let you tweak settings before starting Ghost Recon: Wildlands did that and it was super annoying because the voice quality is kind of bad (as they're supposed to be talking on radios) so it is hard to understand. Also for some reason there's no subtitle option while a game is loaded. Instead you have to quit to the main menu to turn on subtitles.
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Aug 11, 2017 02:04
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muscles like this! posted:Ghost Recon: Wildlands did that and it was super annoying because the voice quality is kind of bad (as they're supposed to be talking on radios) so it is hard to understand. Also for some reason there's no subtitle option while a game is loaded. Instead you have to quit to the main menu to turn on subtitles. I am so impressed with Ubisoft with finding a way to insert drones in all of their games. I'm watching the E3 demo of Assassin's Creed: Sneak Like An Egyptian and I see the guy go, "Be my eyes, Redwing!" They found a way to have drone gameplay. In Ancient Egypt.
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Aug 11, 2017 02:28
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Action Tortoise posted:I am so impressed with Ubisoft with finding a way to insert drones in all of their games. In Far Cry Primal, the caveman game, you get an owl that can drop bee grenades on people.
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Aug 11, 2017 02:53
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It made a kind of sense in Far Cry: Primal because in that one, your connection with the owl and ability to tame any wild animal you come across by staring at it really hard is explicitly spiritual: you get them as the result of a vision quest triggered by your tribe's shaman. Jamming it into the next AC, which has no spiritual elements and in fact rejects religion/spirituality with the ancient aliens and pieces of eden and stuff, is really egregious.
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Aug 11, 2017 03:39
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:It made a kind of sense in Far Cry: Primal because in that one, your connection with the owl and ability to tame any wild animal you come across by staring at it really hard is explicitly spiritual: you get them as the result of a vision quest triggered by your tribe's shaman. Jamming it into the next AC, which has no spiritual elements and in fact rejects religion/spirituality with the ancient aliens and pieces of eden and stuff, is really egregious. Ubisoft is incapable of letting a feature go from game to game.
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Aug 11, 2017 04:17
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Oh it's definitely fun when I'm in the mood, nothing like modding a game or even just cracking an annoying hardware issue that has limited support (ie: dumb dead threads with no answers) and resolving it yourself. It can be pretty rewarding and you get "better" at computers because poo poo does the "funny" for no reason pretty often. Even nice hardware that otherwise runs buttery smooth will get the randomest clashes or quirks. But when I'm not in the mood, like say after a ten hour shift, it's enough for me to say ah gently caress it and reach for my 3DS/do something entirely different instead
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Aug 11, 2017 05:38
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:It made a kind of sense in Far Cry: Primal because in that one, your connection with the owl and ability to tame any wild animal you come across by staring at it really hard is explicitly spiritual: you get them as the result of a vision quest triggered by your tribe's shaman. Jamming it into the next AC, which has no spiritual elements and in fact rejects religion/spirituality with the ancient aliens and pieces of eden and stuff, is really egregious. I mean, AC has had eagle vision as a superpower from the very beginning, so going with a literal version of it isn't that much of a stretch. Victor Vran currently has a really nasty bug where certain maps will regularly refuse to load and hard-lock the game. Two of the ones suffering from the bug also have some of the hardest timed challenges in the game, where you'll be forced to try again by reloading the map. Welp.
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Aug 11, 2017 06:04
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I've been trying to Perfect breed Pokemon in Pokemon Moon because I'd like to fight all the spiffy trainers that the game unfortunately decided to stuff in the battle tree, I am slowly being driven insane by the egg hatching animation.
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Aug 11, 2017 16:08
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KingSlime posted:lol if you don't play every game w a customizable MC as a horrible mutant who looks like he was ran out of his childhood home for being gently caress ugly tbh my Commander in Elite: Dangerous is scarred and weird looking since I figured that was why they were a silent weirdo who never left their pokey little spaceship and only communicated through station message boards.
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Aug 11, 2017 16:35
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What are the worst cases of platforming in games that are not platformers? This question came to mind when I slipped off that tree branch in Blighttown, you know the one.
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Aug 11, 2017 16:52
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The first person platforming on giant moving teeth in system shock 2 is pretty bad
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Aug 11, 2017 17:01
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Turok. I don't think I ever got off that level.
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Aug 11, 2017 17:09
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KingSlime posted:lol if you don't play every game w a customizable MC as a horrible mutant who looks like he was ran out of his childhood home for being gently caress ugly Every Mass Effect character I've used has been hideous, partly because I like subverting the normal "Hero/ine is handsome/beautiful" trope, but mostly because I find it much funnier in the romance scenes.
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Aug 11, 2017 17:28
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Inspector Gesicht posted:What are the worst cases of platforming in games that are not platformers? This question came to mind when I slipped off that tree branch, you know the one, in Blighttown. Star Wars: Rogue Leader 2, because if there's one thing an aerial combat game needs it's extensive on-foot segments with precision platforming that the controls and physics really can't handle. The on-foot gameplay was literally based on the vehicle select screen in the previous game where you walked around in a hangar, and boy does it feel like it.
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Aug 11, 2017 18:18
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Inspector Gesicht posted:What are the worst cases of platforming in games that are not platformers? This question came to mind when I slipped off that tree branch in Blighttown, you know the one. Rise of the Triad (remake) Jedi Knight II is also pretty bad until you get Force Jump (allowing you to make charged, high jumps)
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Inspector Gesicht posted:What are the worst cases of platforming in games that are not platformers? This question came to mind when I slipped off that tree branch in Blighttown, you know the one. Cry of Fear
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Action Tortoise posted:games with a cold open that don't let you tweak settings before starting games with a cold opening that are on backwards compatible but can't save because you aren't online
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Aug 11, 2017 20:48
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Guy Mann posted:Star Wars: Rogue Leader 2, because if there's one thing an aerial combat game needs it's extensive on-foot segments with precision platforming that the controls and physics really can't handle. It's pretty impressive how the follow up to Rogue Squadron II, a game that still holds up to this day, was made unplayably bad because they wanted to add a bullet point to the back of the box.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:It's pretty impressive how the follow up to Rogue Squadron II, a game that still holds up to this day, was made unplayably bad because they wanted to add a bullet point to the back of the box. Didn't it also include the entire Rogue Squadron 2 in coop form or am I miss remembering?
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Aug 11, 2017 21:52
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Inspector Gesicht posted:What are the worst cases of platforming in games that are not platformers? This question came to mind when I slipped off that tree branch in Blighttown, you know the one. The Tower of Babel in Xenogears. Get hit, fall down, random battle. Repeat! 
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Aug 11, 2017 22:05
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Inspector Gesicht posted:What are the worst cases of platforming in games that are not platformers? This question came to mind when I slipped off that tree branch in Blighttown, you know the one. Hunter Workshop in Bloodborne
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Aug 11, 2017 22:29
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Action Tortoise posted:Hunter Workshop in Bloodborne Every single Souls game.
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Olaf The Stout posted:In Far Cry Primal, the caveman game, you get an owl that can drop bee grenades on people.  ngl that's loving badass. there need to be more beastmaster games
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Aug 11, 2017 23:25
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Len posted:Didn't it also include the entire Rogue Squadron 2 in coop form or am I miss remembering? It did, but you could only play it co-op
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World Famous W posted:I'm going to complain about games that don't have subtitles on already as default. Can we at least get game companies to agree where subtitles are located? Sometimes they're in the audio menu, but in other games it's in the gameplay menu, sometimes they just chill in the options.
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I doubt this would support its own thread, and this is kinda related: has there been a game in a series or franchise that so solidified a fun gaming experience that you can't get into later games? This thought came up because my brother mentioned Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, and it reminded me just how I can't seem to get into later Civ games. I think it was because I played SMAC as a kid, during my brief "I want to be good at video games" phase (I still remember pouring over Velocyrix's SMAC guide), and it ingrained a lot of things I considered fun that later games don't have, or are changed. Like, whenever I play a new Civ game (did Beyond Earth ever become fun?), all of the non-SMAC things stick out to me and drags the games down. I've got no big-single-resource tiles, no Supply Crawler analogues on them to free up a citizen slot. Can't use them to rush Wonders, either. And what do you mean I can't be lazy and just put forests everywhere, trusting my research will make them 4-5-4s down the line? And you mean I can't just keep putting down base after base without care or worry? I want to play Civ games, but they all just admit they aren't SMAC and they let me down.
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