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Nina
Oct 9, 2016

Invisible werewolf (entirely visible, not actually a wolf)
Out of my favourite games only The World Ends With You stands out as the one I have really not a single gripe about. It doesn't really fail at anything it sets out to do.

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Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




Gamebpy tetris

Looper
Mar 1, 2012

exquisite tea posted:

I forgot where I read this but Ubisoft has anti-high fantasy development culture, that's why Assassin's Creed continues its simulation meta-narrative framework and even their knights vs. samurai vs. vikings fightman game still bothers explaining it with an alt-timeline portal. BG&E2 if it ever gets released will be their most fantastical IP in a very long time.

What about child of light

Looper
Mar 1, 2012

VideoGames posted:

Hello chat thread! As it is now October, I can ask my question that I really hope to hear your answers to.

What is your perfect game, and why?

Not favourite game, but perfect game. (Unless your favourite is perfect!).

Mine is Portal2.
Everything about it is made for me. The game is my level of difficult, my level of engaging storyline and humour. I love the way the tale unfolds and how much of it does. I love that is treats me intelligently. I love the voice acting (Stephen Merchant is inspired and one of my favourite comedians) and feel it is pitch perfectly delivered. I love the structure of the story and the end and I just cannot stop loving on it. I love the music!

I thought the first portal was fine. Not astounding, but great fun and a nice little diversion.

Portal2 sang to me as someone who enjoys video games. It just causes me to gush. I've even sent gushing emails to some of the people who worked on it!

Kirby Super Star

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Max Payne 3 is my perfect game. From the shoot dodging that ever gets old, flinging yourself around with dual pistols, to Max's character and especially his line delivery, to that absolutely beast of a soundtrack by HEALTH, all wrapped with a now-dead, sadly, modern reboot of The Specialists mod for multiplayer, it's everything I could ever want in a shooter.

Zetsubou-san
Jan 28, 2015

Cruel Bifaunidas demanded that you [stand]🧍 I require only that you [kneel]🧎

CommissarMega posted:

I like anime, I like anime games, and I want more Neptunia in my life because you're just not living if you don't rep the Nep.

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




Hows that hoodie stay zipped with a huge medallion on the zipper

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Real hurthling! posted:

Hows that hoodie stay zipped with a huge medallion on the zipper

Don't question it motherfucker, that's how.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Internet Kraken posted:

Its depressing how Assassin's Creed has basically had all the originality and innovation wrung out of it.

kinda unity and 3 are weird because they were pretty games but all over the place with everything else. 4 and rogue were good. the ezio trilogy was good to ok and syndicate was fun but kinda pointless. 1 is a tech demo.


exquisite tea posted:

I forgot where I read this but Ubisoft has anti-high fantasy development culture, that's why Assassin's Creed continues its simulation meta-narrative framework and even their knights vs. samurai vs. vikings fightman game still bothers explaining it with an alt-timeline portal. BG&E2 if it ever gets released will be their most fantastical IP in a very long time.

i thought it was just a giant super earth quake or something.


Real hurthling! posted:

I really dig roman egypt as a setting but im not a huge idiot who pays for asscreed games

least this one is basically egypt Witcher 3 with souls combat

Internet Kraken
Apr 24, 2010

slightly amused

VideoGames posted:

Hello chat thread! As it is now October, I can ask my question that I really hope to hear your answers to.

What is your perfect game, and why?

Not favourite game, but perfect game. (Unless your favourite is perfect!).

Mine is Portal2.
Everything about it is made for me. The game is my level of difficult, my level of engaging storyline and humour. I love the way the tale unfolds and how much of it does. I love that is treats me intelligently. I love the voice acting (Stephen Merchant is inspired and one of my favourite comedians) and feel it is pitch perfectly delivered. I love the structure of the story and the end and I just cannot stop loving on it. I love the music!

I thought the first portal was fine. Not astounding, but great fun and a nice little diversion.

Portal2 sang to me as someone who enjoys video games. It just causes me to gush. I've even sent gushing emails to some of the people who worked on it!

Hollow Knight is probably the game where I've had the least complaints while playing it. I'm extremely nitpicky so I pretty much always come up with something I think could be changed about my favorite games to make them better. Pikmin 2 is one of my all-time favorite games, but its way too easy. The Dark Souls series are amazing but the PvP is always terribly balanced. Stuff like that always sticks in my mind. Hollow Knight is the closest a game has come to not having any major glaring flaws. I enjoyed almost every single part of it.

Then I remembered that Hollow Knight has one of the worst levels in any game I've played, which disqualifies it from being perfect. So uh I guess I don't have one :geno:

Dapper_Swindler posted:

least this one is basically egypt Witcher 3 with souls combat

Don't insult Souls like that plz

Ometeotl
Feb 13, 2012



It's MISSEL! Or SISSLE!
I confused myself...



Metroid Prime

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

Real hurthling! posted:

Hows that hoodie stay zipped with a huge medallion on the zipper
the YKK is powerful, and everywhere

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

I can find flaws in every single one of those "perfect" games :smuggo:

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Jay Rust posted:

I can find flaws in every single one of those "perfect" games :smuggo:

Not as many as you'd find looking in the mirror :agesilaus:

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

backgammon, is a perfect game

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

My face doesn't have terrible traversal segments :smugdog:

Or only a few

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


VideoGames posted:

Hello chat thread! As it is now October, I can ask my question that I really hope to hear your answers to.

What is your perfect game, and why?

Not favourite game, but perfect game. (Unless your favourite is perfect!).

Mine is Portal2.
Everything about it is made for me. The game is my level of difficult, my level of engaging storyline and humour. I love the way the tale unfolds and how much of it does. I love that is treats me intelligently. I love the voice acting (Stephen Merchant is inspired and one of my favourite comedians) and feel it is pitch perfectly delivered. I love the structure of the story and the end and I just cannot stop loving on it. I love the music!

I thought the first portal was fine. Not astounding, but great fun and a nice little diversion.

Portal2 sang to me as someone who enjoys video games. It just causes me to gush. I've even sent gushing emails to some of the people who worked on it!

Hm well, I guess I would define "perfect" here as a product where even if you read about and can intellectually acknowledge a game's flaws, none of that stuff really bothers you. Recently, Horizon Zero Dawn has basically offered every single thing I have ever thought was cool in a video game. Before that, the last complete package I really could replay again and again was Mass Effect 2. And then way before that, I think Tetris, Super Metroid, Diablo 2 and DOOM are just timeless classics. None of those are probably my #1 favorite of ~all time~ but in a technical sense there was never a moment in any of them when I got bored or wanted to stop.

But the one game I want to highlight for being so perfect at what it does is Riven. The puzzles, the world, the story are all so elegantly intertwined in a way that I don't think has ever really been matched in 20 years. It totally blew my mind when I was 12 and was always what I thought of first in "games as art" arguments on the internet.

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

My perfect game is Metal Gear Solid 3

Help Im Alive
Nov 8, 2009

Jay Rust posted:

I can find flaws in every single one of those "perfect" games :smuggo:

what about THIS

Raxivace
Sep 9, 2014

In Training posted:

My perfect game is Metal Gear Solid 3
MGS2 for me, probably.

VideoGames
Aug 18, 2003

Jay Rust posted:

I can find flaws in every single one of those "perfect" games :smuggo:

That's why I stated 'your' perfect game :smuggerfacething:

I know full well there will be lots of differing thoughts, but I am exceptionally interested in each person's view because their experience will be different to mine :D

Looper
Mar 1, 2012

Help Im Alive posted:

what about THIS



Why is daisy on there

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

Help Im Alive posted:

what about THIS


this game is hosed up actually because the luigi sprite looks weird + the fire flower makes him puke

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

Help Im Alive posted:

what about THIS



The physics are wrong

CharlieFoxtrot
Mar 27, 2007

organize digital employees



Help Im Alive posted:

what about THIS



This is like from an episode of Sliders or Fringe isn't it

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

Today, my mom called me over to help her play a video game (basically a walking simulator based off of Walden). It was pretty painful, my mother hasn't touched a game since playing Super Mario Kart with me once. But I was luckily able to keep from giving in to the most obnoxious of all gamer instincts, which is of course grabbing the controls away and crying "Ugh just let me do it"

Scaly Haylie
Dec 25, 2004

homeless snail posted:

oh no... I'm gonna need more red yarn

*runs into thread, panting, out of breath*

the yarn represents love

A. Beaverhausen
Nov 11, 2008

by R. Guyovich

homeless snail posted:

backgammon, is a perfect game

Solitaire, clearly. :smug:

My perfect game? I mean in terms of a game where I have no complaints except there isn't more to play, I'd have to go with Eternal Darkness or like VideoGames said, Portal 2.

E: gently caress, Suikoden 2. I can't pick just one.

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


Eternal Darkness was so good. One of the rare examples where getting stuck in development hell actually resulted in a better and more cohesive product.

Scaly Haylie
Dec 25, 2004

exquisite tea posted:

Eternal Darkness was so good. One of the rare examples where getting stuck in development hell actually resulted in a better and more cohesive product.

I believe you mean Nintendo

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

Silent Hill 2 is rad but I probably should have played the game on Easy Combat/Hard Puzzles to get the most psychologically destructive experience

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
silent hill 2 combat is pretty easy regardless

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


Silent Hill 2 was the one where if you set the puzzles on hard you had to know the chronological order of Shakespeare's plays, right.

A. Beaverhausen
Nov 11, 2008

by R. Guyovich

exquisite tea posted:

Silent Hill 2 was the one where if you set the puzzles on hard you had to know the chronological order of Shakespeare's plays, right.

Nope, that was 3. God I love those games. The hardest puzzle setting was so nice.

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

The Colonel posted:

silent hill 2 combat is pretty easy regardless

Good use of the analog buttons, getting the Heavy swngs out feels great

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


A. Beaverhausen posted:

Nope, that was 3. God I love those games. The hardest puzzle setting was so nice.

Oh yes, I remember now because I was in college when SH3 came out and could solve that puzzle. Thank you, English major and $22,000 in student loans.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

the perfect video game is fantasy maiden wars

goferchan
Feb 8, 2004

It's 2006. I am taking 276 yeti furs from the goodies hoard.

Raxivace posted:

MGS2 for me, probably.

Yeah same. If I were on a desert island I could probably accurately play through almost every room in that game in my imagination, lol. It's burned into my brain

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyWyZjV1Qog&t=57s

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chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Jay Rust posted:

Today, my mom called me over to help her play a video game (basically a walking simulator based off of Walden). It was pretty painful, my mother hasn't touched a game since playing Super Mario Kart with me once. But I was luckily able to keep from giving in to the most obnoxious of all gamer instincts, which is of course grabbing the controls away and crying "Ugh just let me do it"

It's good that your mom is getting into games.

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