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I liked the Batmobile when I first got it, but by the end I was shuddering at the sight of the thing.
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Just Offscreen posted:gently caress Why does everyone hate this port? I've never played it but nothing in that video looked particularly bad to me? Was it just that there was already a Cave Story port for 3DS with the classic graphics, or what?
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Aug 9, 2017 15:41
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food court bailiff posted:Why does everyone hate this port? I've never played it but nothing in that video looked particularly bad to me? Was it just that there was already a Cave Story port for 3DS with the classic graphics, or what? It looks 1000% worse than the original, which is also available in 3D on the 3DS.
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food court bailiff posted:Why does everyone hate this port? I've never played it but nothing in that video looked particularly bad to me? Was it just that there was already a Cave Story port for 3DS with the classic graphics, or what? It's going from good spritework to bad 3d modeling, and the visual design of the levels is just... worse for some reason. Like, what's up with egg corridor? Compare this (video quality is really lovely but it's the only one I could find) to this For on-topic content, I kinda like how Cave story has so much easily missable weird stuff, like a bunch of hidden weapons and the REALLY contrived stuff you need to do for the true ending. Sure, you basically NEED a guide for most of it, but it gives you a good reason to do a second playthrough. Stuff like the machine gun are a little bit too much of a beginner's trap, though.
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Zinkraptor posted:It's going from good spritework to bad 3d modeling, and the visual design of the levels is just... worse for some reason. Like, what's up with egg corridor? Compare this (video quality is really lovely but it's the only one I could find) to this I mean the 3d one is strangely dark and moody for some reason, but the original looks like utterly forgettable indie bit art.
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Aug 9, 2017 16:09
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Zinkraptor posted:Stuff like the machine gun are a little bit too much of a beginner's trap, though. Isn't the machine gun the one with the ridiculous recoil at Level 2 that speedrunners use to fly through the game?
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Double Punctuation posted:Isn't the machine gun the one with the ridiculous recoil at Level 2 that speedrunners use to fly through the game? Yeah, it's this weird thing of the machine gun not being great in your first play, making the Polar Star a better choice. Then turning I to the best once you get really good at the game because you don't have to worry about damage. It's like the level 2 sword being way better at taking out bosses than the level 3 since the damage per second is super bazonkers.
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Zinkraptor posted:It's going from good spritework to bad 3d modeling, and the visual design of the levels is just... worse for some reason. Like, what's up with egg corridor? Compare this (video quality is really lovely but it's the only one I could find) to this Ding ding ding ding. Morpheus posted:I mean the 3d one is strangely dark and moody for some reason, but the original looks like utterly forgettable indie bit art. The original Cave Story came out in 2004, before indie really became a thing or a set "style."
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Morpheus posted:I mean the 3d one is strangely dark and moody for some reason, but the original looks like utterly forgettable indie bit art. Cave Story's art is only forgettable now because the market is oversaturated with indie pixel art games. Cave Story preceded most of those games by the better part of a decade.
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When Big Smoke tosses the bat away I'd swear he busts CJ's family photo, there's a little tinkle of glass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7CuJKjIWYA 67 and still making love has a new favorite as of 20:51 on Aug 9, 2017 |
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Aug 9, 2017 20:47
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Chrono Trigger came up in the negative thread earlier and it reminded me of one of my favorite things (in a game full of favorite things): one of Aela's combo techs with Crono is basically the Fastball Special. I think it's called Falcon Throw. Anyway, since Aela is a cavewoman, she doesn't bother with fancy poo poo, she just picks up Crono and hurls him at the enemy. And the best part is that while Crono is in mid flight she stands there and does a little jig. 
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RyokoTK posted:Chrono Trigger came up in the negative thread earlier and it reminded me of one of my favorite things (in a game full of favorite things): one of Aela's combo techs with Crono is basically the Fastball Special. I think it's called Falcon Throw. Anyway, since Aela is a cavewoman, she doesn't bother with fancy poo poo, she just picks up Crono and hurls him at the enemy. Suikoden 4 & 5 have a combo attack where one character grabs the other by their ankles and just start swinging them around in circles before throwing them at the enemies. Considering the combo attacks got really lazy in 4 and 5, it's an unexpected bit of charm that 4 was severely lacking.
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RyokoTK posted:Chrono Trigger came up in the negative thread earlier and it reminded me of one of my favorite things (in a game full of favorite things): one of Aela's combo techs with Crono is basically the Fastball Special. I think it's called Falcon Throw. Anyway, since Aela is a cavewoman, she doesn't bother with fancy poo poo, she just picks up Crono and hurls him at the enemy. Who the gently caress is Aela?
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Ayla, sorry. Pretty sure you knew what I meant though.
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More Arkham Knight: If you are careful, you can make Batman peep between his thumb and finger when he's talking to people on his Wrist Phone. 
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In Path of Exile's later stages, there are humanoid enemies who scream at you (with a huge toothy mouth) as their primary attack. Sometimes- like 10% of the time- they wipe their mouths on the back of their forearms afterward. It's such a tiny little action and it doesn't matter, but it's a lot of effort to put in considering they tend to exist for approximately 0.8 seconds before being slaughtered by accident in one of the player's screen-clearing main attacks.
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Splatoon 2 has three types of play - Multiplayer, Single Player and a co-op Horde mode. All three have unique assets which don't appear in the others. Nintendo bothered to make tonnes of assets for both Single + Co-Op that are not shared at all. It's entire levels, enemies (with unique sound an animation), textures and items. Each mode probably has more total assets than a lot of other games. It's such a huge effort that they really didn't have to do, but I appreciate it a lot. well why not has a new favorite as of 12:44 on Aug 10, 2017 |
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samu3lk posted:More Arkham Knight: If you are careful, you can make Batman peep between his thumb and finger when he's talking to people on his Wrist Phone. I'M CRUSHING YOUR HEEEEEEAD!
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The android designs in Cradle are awesome. They're really crude mannequin-like things, but instead of eyes they have little screens showing actual video of eyes. Like this guy- The face is completely frozen, like a mask, he emotes solely through the eyes. It's a really effective piece of design. It works so well at leapfrogging the uncanny valley that I hope the idea gets re-used in a better game. Cradle has fantastic environment design but not much else.
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I enjoy shmups in theory but in practice the way that most of them are built around one-hit kills and limited lives and memorizing patterns ruins a lot of them for me, so I really enjoy Sine Mora's system: You don't have any health or lives and instead you just have a timer that is constantly counting down and taking damage chips away at your time. It's quite forgiving while at the same time letting people who care about score attacks and no-hit runs still do their thing, and it adds a strategic layer since sometimes it's actually better in the long run to just take a hit and keep playing aggressively instead of spending more time dodging and getting back into position.Inferior posted:The android designs in Cradle are awesome. They're really crude mannequin-like things, but instead of eyes they have little screens showing actual video of eyes. Like this guy- 
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I love how sometimes the magic items in Diablo are just a gently caress you to the player. Oh you found a good sword and its magic? Lets run to Cain and pay a hundred gold coins to get it identified! Whoops, -10 Dexterity - 5 Strength, your sword now has a value of 1 gold coin, get back to grinding!
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The first Diablo is very much a roguelike with a save game feature. It's a genre well-known for its complete disregard for the player's time and feelings.
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Inferior posted:The android designs in Cradle are awesome. They're really crude mannequin-like things, but instead of eyes they have little screens showing actual video of eyes. Like this guy- I waited so long for Cradle after the first trailer. When it came out, I played the poo poo out of it, hoping for a good game to be there somewhere. I even had the trailer saved to my Dropbox, and would watch it occasionally. 
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RyokoTK posted:The first Diablo is very much a roguelike with a save game feature. It's a genre well-known for its complete disregard for the player's time and feelings. And boy is that save game feature fun! I forgot that there were no corpse runs in the first one. You just load your savegame. Oh you didn't manually save in the last two hours? Well sucks to be you, autosave is some far off future technology!
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RyokoTK posted:The first Diablo is very much a roguelike with a save game feature. It's a genre well-known for its complete disregard for the player's time and feelings. I got a kick out of the fact there were late-game items you couldn't buy because gold was an inventory item and you couldn't carry enough stacks to actually buy it.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I got a kick out of the fact there were late-game items you couldn't buy because gold was an inventory item and you couldn't carry enough stacks to actually buy it. Holy lol. I never played Diablo long enough for that to happen.
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I just started playing Witcher 3. Jesus, all the things are magical. I don't care about anything but Gwent and exploring Novigrad at the moment. A gnome (?) stopped me in the street in the middle of Witch Hunter district, asking me if I wanted magical items he's pilfered off of people burned at the stake. Then the witch hunter cops came and I lied to them about what he was doing, and found him around the corner. He thought I was cool for not ratting him out. It almost makes up for how I sacrificed an entire town to save a group of kids and caused the death of the Baron's wife. Se la vie. What a game, now I get why it was called "GotY, every year"
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P.N.T.M. posted:Se la vie Walla!
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P.N.T.M. posted:I just started playing Witcher 3. Jesus, all the things are magical. I don't care about anything but Gwent and exploring Novigrad at the moment. A gnome (?) stopped me in the street in the middle of Witch Hunter district, asking me if I wanted magical items he's pilfered off of people burned at the stake. Then the witch hunter cops came and I lied to them about what he was doing, and found him around the corner. He thought I was cool for not ratting him out. The Horse Demon was a better person than they were. They got what they deserved 
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Just started West of Loathing, and they got me laughing before I even started a new game: 
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Gwent is really worth the effort to learn imo. It's not very complicated and there's a couple of very neat quests that revolve around tournaments.
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RyokoTK posted:Ayla, sorry. Pretty sure you knew what I meant though. So she's named after the cavewoman in Jean M. Auel's books?
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Alhazred posted:So she's named after the cavewoman in Jean M. Auel's books? Maybe. Maybe not. I know that Slash/flea/etc etc were, in Japan, something like Mustard, Ketchup, Soy Sauce.
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BioEnchanted posted:The Horse Demon was a better person than they were. They got what they deserved That's also a small/huge thing about the game. There's so little importance placed on morality that you have to read into the situation to find any good/evil. And yet there's always more truth. Does anything matter? Will hunting down monsters fix any of it? Is any Gwent faction better than Northern Realms? Time will tell.
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P.N.T.M. posted:That's also a small/huge thing about the game. There's so little importance placed on morality that you have to read into the situation to find any good/evil. And yet there's always more truth. Does anything matter? Will hunting down monsters fix any of it? Is any Gwent faction better than Northern Realms? Time will tell. Nilfgaard is indistinguishable from the Northern Realms once you get a proper deck, but with nice leader bonus that negates the opponent's bonus. You can finish everything Gwent before going to Kaer Morhen, with the only obstacle being that loving half-elf in the Passiflora.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Maybe. Maybe not. And yeah, Ozzie was Vinegar, Slash was Soy Sauce, and Flea was Mayonnaise (and a flamboyant gay man)--but the weird thing looking back (to this translator, anyway) is that Soy Sauce and Mayonnaise were both spelled without the final character, so it was more like Soy Sau and Mayonnai. 
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Mr. Flunchy posted:Gwent is really worth the effort to learn imo. It's not very complicated and there's a couple of very neat quests that revolve around tournaments. Also once you learn it it's fun and you'll play it for like 4 hours collecting as many cards from around the world as you can to have even more fun playing it.
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Edit: Nevermind. This would be a massive derail.
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