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Orv posted:Are you going to do F3AR? What a bizarre game, good from a shooting and fun side, utterly insane from a story angle. Ohhhh yes, that's tomorrow. I was pretty on-board with it until the last two levels, the airport and the... thing.
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Oct 15, 2017 01:25
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Too Shy Guy posted:Supposedly the masterful AI of the first game was brought over as well, but if that’s true then I’d have to guess that level design holds them back from actually showing what they can do because they feel no different from typical CoD fodder. Seems pretty likely. As I recall the FEAR AI worked in tandem with the maps having nodes of interest seeded throughout. Similarly, it wasn't that smart, but the looping, open-ended map design helped disguise it since it created opportunities for them to duck around corners or go the long way around and "intelligently" flank the player. Edit: This video explains it pretty well. John Murdoch fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Oct 15, 2017 |
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Oct 15, 2017 01:34
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ZearothK posted:I want to play that open world RPG more interesting than the Witcher 3. Yeah, it's always interesting to hear about people posting as if there were some platonic, flawless CRPG out there that had solved all of the genre's problems before riding off on a magic cloud. Not say you have to or should even like any of the Witcher games, but the CRPG genre has always been ambitious, and that ambition always comes with a price somewhere else in the design. I feel like the success of an CRPG mainly comes down to how well developers hide whatever tradeoffs they have to make, and how well they succeed in making the player feel empowered. Too Shy Guy posted:Ohhhh yes, that's tomorrow. I was pretty on-board with it until the last two levels, the airport and the... thing. Yeah, that's probably one of the most unsatisfying turns I've seen a game take. It felt like an entire section of that game was just missing, you're at the airport, there's a *record scratch*, and all of a sudden you're thrust into a ham-handed resolution to the game with practically no buildup or emotional investment. It really is quite the thing, it felt like they just ran out of budget somewhere along the line.
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Oct 15, 2017 01:35
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Yeah, it's always interesting to hear about people posting as if there were some platonic, flawless CRPG out there that had solved all of the genre's problems before riding off on a magic cloud. Not say you have to or should even like any of the Witcher games, but the CRPG genre has always been ambitious, and that ambition always comes with a price somewhere else in the design. I feel like the success of an CRPG mainly comes down to how well developers hide whatever tradeoffs they have to make, and how well they succeed in making the player feel empowered. That game did come out. It was called West of Loathing.
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Oct 15, 2017 01:54
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Ghost Recon: Wildlands DLC questions! When I got Watch_Dogs 2, I got the season pass and I loved how well integrated into the main story all the DLC was. Is Ghost Recon similar? I know there's 1 post-game DLC, but what about the other one? The reviews on Steam for "Narco Road" are super negative, skip? EDIT: Disregard. Not only does the game run like hot garbage on machine with these weird stutters (odd, cause The Division runs fine), it just feels like a 3rd person FarCry. I'm sure this is a blast to play coop but my usual coop crew is long gone so I think I'll give Wildlands a pass. Snuffman fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Oct 15, 2017 |
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Oct 15, 2017 02:08
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They're separate launch options from the save/main menu, the two big ones anyway.
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Oct 15, 2017 02:11
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Yeah, that's probably one of the most unsatisfying turns I've seen a game take. It felt like an entire section of that game was just missing, you're at the airport, there's a *record scratch*, and all of a sudden you're thrust into a ham-handed resolution to the game with practically no buildup or emotional investment. It really is quite the thing, it felt like they just ran out of budget somewhere along the line. It's kind of a one-two punch of suck, too. You spend all that time in the airport just to catch up to the guy from FEAR 2, he tells you stuff you already know, and then dies in the most gruesome way possible. Then the "resolution" of all this is running around with a trauma monster so Alma can die peacefully and have her ghost baby. All at once, the awesome antagonist of the series vanishes, the thing that ABSOLUTELY WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN happens, and then... no problem, that's it, roll credits. The only game I can think of with a worse ending was Jericho, just because it went to great pains just to NOT explain or resolve anything.
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Oct 15, 2017 03:48
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Too Shy Guy posted:The only game I can think of with a worse ending was Jericho, just because it went to great pains just to NOT explain or resolve anything. The ending to Jericho was pretty much this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_asNhzXq72w
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Oct 15, 2017 03:52
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Too Shy Guy posted:Ohhhh yes, that's tomorrow. I was pretty on-board with it until the last two levels, the airport and the... thing. Did you discuss the expansions to fear
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Oct 15, 2017 03:55
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Snuffman posted:Ghost Recon: Wildlands DLC questions! If you can get a hold of the earlier ghost recon games check em out. Wildlands is an exception
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Oct 15, 2017 03:57
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Snuffman posted:Ghost Recon: Wildlands DLC questions! Tonight me and some of the guys from the r6 siege thread were playing wildlands ghost war (pvp mode) . Its a blast and I think you may want to reconsider.
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Oct 15, 2017 04:17
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Too Shy Guy posted:The only game I can think of with a worse ending was Jericho, just because it went to great pains just to NOT explain or resolve anything. SOMEBODY didn't play the wii exclusive Overlord prequel. ....which isn't surprising, really. RIP Overlord
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Oct 15, 2017 04:32
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spudsbuckley posted:Considering it is basically the most generic "best of" of about 10 years of WRPG development possible then, yeah, it fits that role perfectly. I don't know what to say about this, because while Witcher 3 is possibly one of the best games to come out of 10 years of "Western RPG" development comparing to those ten years of examples,I can't consider Witcher 3 to be painfully by the numbers. I don't remember any RPG that just lets you stumble into a house of no note that has a dead child and mother inside, and a possible father hanging from the tree across the house in the distance, thanks to the ravaging war going on. I say this, and CD Projekt never explains that scenario, it just is, and you just kind of piece that together with your own brain. I don't think any WRPG has tackled the fallout of an attack by the most powerful sorceresses, prompting an almost red-scare scenario of Mages. Constant pogroms of the "lesser" races. Normally in WRPGs you acknowledge the strength in elves, dwarves, gnomes. In this game, you can acknowledge their strengths, but that strength makes them all persecuted, and each of those people of different races are dealing with the pain in their own ways. These guys are based in poland, Is it really western RPG anyway? Shouldn't it be Eastern RPG, or do people just equate eastern RPGs to just japanese RPGs by that nature?
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Oct 15, 2017 05:01
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corn in the bible posted:Did you discuss the expansions to fear I didn't, I've only played a little of Extraction Point and most of Reborn. I may go back and get through the FEAR 1 expansions, though I wasn't real impressed with what I played of EP. I also don't review DLC, mainly because I haven't considered how I would go about it.
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Oct 15, 2017 05:01
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Fargin Icehole posted:I don't know what to say about this Spudsbuckley
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Oct 15, 2017 05:14
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Extraction Point is pretty light on narrative, even for an FPS. Its really just to show off the some of destroyed city (though you don't get much because the budget of an expansion means mostly warehouses and such), have some fights in it, and get waaaaay more symbolic with the Alma sequences and scares. Perseus Mandate is someone's fan fiction with a "second FEAR team" with a point man with the same powers as the first with no explanation at all. Same shooting as FEAR and Extraction, so there's still some fun to be had. Reborn is just a short FEAR 2 with Fettel talking in your ear instead of Quirky Special Ops Military Team #10.
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Oct 15, 2017 05:15
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 Trying out the Abbey of Crime. Why are tank controls in an adventure game? Why does the orientation of the game keep flipping with each room you move past?!
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Oct 15, 2017 05:52
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Synthbuttrange posted:
Because it's a rather faithful (no pun intended) remake of a microcomputer game from Europe, where those were the style at the time.
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Oct 15, 2017 06:10
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Synthbuttrange posted:
its a remake of a game designed for joysticks in the 80s
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Oct 15, 2017 06:10
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Synthbuttrange posted:
The meta-game is solving the crime of the controls
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Oct 15, 2017 06:11
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Synthbuttrange posted:
You never played on Amiga or C64, did you?
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Oct 15, 2017 06:25
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Terminally Bored posted:You never played on Amiga or C64, did you? C64 and apples, but I've never seen a weird flip flopping orientation thing going on like this. Like a character going off the screen to the right would suddenly cause the scene to shift, everything's rotated around and the character is coming in from off the screen to the right again. that's just weird.
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Oct 15, 2017 06:28
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Snuffman posted:Ghost Recon: Wildlands DLC questions!
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Oct 15, 2017 06:57
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/r/relationships/ posted:My (19F) boyfriend (21M) has been lying about where he is at night. I thought he was cheating or partying but it turns out he has been playing Lord of the Rings the video game.
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Oct 15, 2017 08:35
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Oct 15, 2017 08:37
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He turned his GF into his nemesis.
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Oct 15, 2017 08:47
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The GF should lecture him about lootboxes and microtransactions
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Oct 15, 2017 08:54
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Andrast posted:The GF should lecture him about lootboxes and microtransactions He's enabling this behavior from game companies. In short:
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Oct 15, 2017 09:14
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Man I play videogames a lot, but it's never been something that I choose over hanging out with actual people, especially people that have an interest in seeing me naked.
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Oct 15, 2017 09:27
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It's probably advertising.
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Oct 15, 2017 09:30
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bentacos posted:Man I play videogames a lot, but it's never been something that I choose over hanging out with actual people, especially people that have an interest in seeing me naked. LDR = Long Distance Relationship He can't see her anyways, the issue is that he's lying because he's embarrassed rather not that he's choosing videogames over her. I think it's kind of sweet 
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Oct 15, 2017 10:12
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il_cornuto posted:I played Brothers in the original Swedish. 
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Oct 15, 2017 10:14
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It's sad but someone has to break the news to that poor girl that her boyfriend is a noob casual.
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Oct 15, 2017 10:16
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this is exactly why i don't date viral marketing campaigns anymore
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Oct 15, 2017 10:34
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I'unno, it's dumb enough that it might be true. Not enough emphasis on the game or how she even thought it was cool, and people being very insecure about their hobbies when they wanna look "cool" or "normal" has been a Something Awful thing since forever so you don't even need to go too far to see examples of it.
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Oct 15, 2017 10:39
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i was so upset that my boyfriend was addicted to this great game that i had to go prepare my favorite food, Tostino's Pizza Rolls
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Oct 15, 2017 11:37
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I'm still waiting for funnier product placement than Alan Wake's Energizer batteries that run out really fast. Pizza rolls is pretty close though.
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Oct 15, 2017 11:56
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il_cornuto posted:I'm still waiting for funnier product placement than Alan Wake's Energizer batteries that run out really fast. Pizza rolls is pretty close though. Amusing to think about but to be fair Alan has his torch on the entire game and it only drains when you focus it. And if you don't drain the whole thing, it recharges itself
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QuarkJets posted:Tostino's Pizza Rolls I'm glad I'm not the only one who does this. 
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