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I liked Inquisition more than most people here and I still think 'real good' is a stretch.
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Its easy to look good when your sibling is Dragon Age 2.
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Oct 22, 2017 06:48
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DA:I fails every single aspect it attempts to do well, from story to representation to combat mechanics to crafting and it’s fascinating to witness in the sense I spent 85 hours trying to see just how poorly they would screw the pooch. The super slow reused herb pickup animation should have been given an award for just how cruel it was.
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Oct 22, 2017 06:52
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Inquisition isn’t amazing but if a game manages to hold my interest for that many hours it’s at least edging on pretty good. The vanilla game ending was so garbage it made me laugh though
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Oct 22, 2017 06:56
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Sakurazuka posted:Silent Hill Origins is what happens when a publisher goes 'here's a bunch of CGI the last guys spent two years making, we want a finished game in six months or you don't get paid' to a developer.
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Oct 22, 2017 06:57
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Team Four Star is teasing a second season of FFVII Abridged, no no no why are you doing this stop.
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Oct 22, 2017 06:57
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A good cat CJacobs posted:Silent Hill Origins is really good because you can carry infinite portable TV sets in your pockets and chuck them at shadow monsters 
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Oct 22, 2017 07:01
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TF2 HAT MINING RIG posted:Fallout New Vegas has some problems gut given what it had to build off of it’s a miracle it’s so amazing. Can you play FE Warriors co-op on two separate switches if you want, or does it have to be same console split screen?
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Oct 22, 2017 07:14
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Inquisition definitely holds up better now since Andromeda stunk up the room. Like, still has god-awful open world mechanics but at least the character writing and world-building isn’t the borefest that ME:A’s was.
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Oct 22, 2017 07:19
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Olive! posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMmrNtibsXY
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Oct 22, 2017 07:36
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My french press broke >:[ First world problems but dammit this is only the second time I've used it. Maybe that's why it was on sale for 7 bucks at Ross Dress for Less.
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Oct 22, 2017 07:40
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I love everything about this picture. Also, I haven't seen it in a while. What's the source anyway?
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Oct 22, 2017 07:46
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raditts posted:Can you play FE Warriors co-op on two separate switches if you want, or does it have to be same console split screen? I haven’t seen options for anything other than splitscreen. I played some splitscreen and it’s fun but choppy (espescially compared to performance mode.) Handheld play is amazing though, wireless local play would be great.
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Oct 22, 2017 07:47
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FirstAidKite posted:My french press broke >:[ I really need to buy some coffee paraphernalia. I’ve been wanting an electronic grinder and a french press for a long time.
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Oct 22, 2017 07:49
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CJacobs posted:Silent Hill Origins is really good because you can carry infinite portable TV sets in your pockets and chuck them at shadow monsters Are we not counting Book of Shadows?
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Oct 22, 2017 07:50
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Nina posted:I really need to buy some coffee paraphernalia. I’ve been wanting an electronic grinder and a french press for a long time. Aldi has coffee grinders if you have an aldi near you. They tend to be good generic brands of existing devices.
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Oct 22, 2017 07:54
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precision posted:new vegas is SO much better than 3 and 4 though that it's the rare case of "the elitist nerds are totally right" skyrim is irredeemable
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Oct 22, 2017 07:54
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corn in the bible posted:skyrim is irredeemable its been game of the year for 6 years im pretty sure its good
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Oct 22, 2017 07:55
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The older I get the more I detest open worlders and heavily branched RPGs and the like I'll happily take the theme park over the sandbox any day of the week
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Oct 22, 2017 07:55
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Ciaphas posted:The older I get the more I detest open worlders and heavily branched RPGs and the like I'm finally getting around to playing serpent in the staglands and that is exactly the kinda game that I feel like playing right now, in this moment, in my final stage of open world rpg ennui. their next game looks rad also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDsRs-r93As
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Oct 22, 2017 08:01
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Those games have one thing in common for me, and it's that I've tried to play them and never successfully really had fun with any of them, going right back 25+ years of gaming I can remember Same with Planescape Torment, to my eternal and undying shame because I'm told that the writing and everything related to said is 100% fantastic and good writing is something I dearly enjoy Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 08:08 on Oct 22, 2017 |
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Oct 22, 2017 08:03
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fact that I just realized: the last RPG of any sort that I played through and enjoyed 100% of the time was Undertale, a game with virtually zero actual sidetracking I guess I'd be the kind of guy who likes VNs. I wanted to take a look at that Literature Club game that's making the rounds, but one of the central conceits of that one is, uh... not safe for me to mull over (which is insanely frustrating btw)
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Oct 22, 2017 08:07
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al-azad posted:Are we not counting Book of Shadows? I haven't played it but it looks truly incredible from what I've seen so sure we'll count it
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Oct 22, 2017 08:09
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CJacobs posted:I haven't played it but it looks truly incredible from what I've seen so sure we'll count it It's actually a decent Diablo-clone that was savaged for spitting in the eye of Silent Hill. And 5 years later the series would continue strong, respected by its parent company. Ciaphas posted:fact that I just realized: the last RPG of any sort that I played through and enjoyed 100% of the time was Undertale, a game with virtually zero actual sidetracking Is that conceit anime? If that's the conceit you're missing out on a lot of great stuff like the Phoenix Wright games which sound like you'd disappear into.
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Oct 22, 2017 08:27
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Ciaphas posted:Those games have one thing in common for me, and it's that I've tried to play them and never successfully really had fun with any of them, going right back 25+ years of gaming I can remember To be fair, the most fun way to play planescape torment from my experience is to just cheat up your levels from the beginning and play through the game without having to worry about the combat, instead getting to focus entirely on the wonderful writing, worldbuilding, and characters.
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Oct 22, 2017 08:33
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al-azad posted:Is that conceit anime? If that's the conceit you're missing out on a lot of great stuff like the Phoenix Wright games which sound like you'd disappear into. No, it's (spoiler starting at end of act 1 of DDLC, as I gather it) depictions of suicide. I wanted to play (read?) it to see if its depiction of depression is as accurate as I've heard, but I got to the art for that bit (which heavily implies that it was not a clean or painless hanging) and had ti forswear the game from that point, having been informed that it gets worse You're right about the PW games though for sure, but I think I got badly stuck on some investigation bit in the second game or had to start a case over or something and never got back to the series. And nowadays I don't have a DS or particularly want to deal with tiny screens for gaming anymore, so v  v Great writing though.
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Oct 22, 2017 08:34
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al-azad posted:Is that conceit anime? If that's the conceit you're missing out on a lot of great stuff like the Phoenix Wright games which sound like you'd disappear into. I suspect the issue is probably that doki doki literature club goes into matters of (heavy spoilers) suicide, self-mutilation, mental health e: seems I was right lol
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Oct 22, 2017 08:34
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i was gonna wait but i got silent hill 2 working on pcsx2 and now i want to replay it
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Oct 22, 2017 08:35
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Actually if they ported the PW games to a console or the switch or PC then yes I would very probably disappear for several days for each one like I did with Ghost Trick
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Oct 22, 2017 08:36
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Ciaphas posted:No, it's (spoiler starting at end of act 1 of DDLC, as I gather it) depictions of suicide. I wanted to play (read?) it to see if its depiction of depression is as accurate as I've heard, but I got to the art for that bit (which heavily implies that it was not a clean or painless hanging) and had ti forswear the game from that point forward Understandable. That is indeed worse than anime although some people would tell you otherwise. Those people do not understand what it means to live!
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Oct 22, 2017 08:38
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The Colonel posted:i was gonna wait but i got silent hill 2 working on pcsx2 and now i want to replay it When I tried to get it running on emulation it was busted as all hell- FMV cutscenes were totally gouged, the fog was missing a layer or two, and it slowed down whenever more than one monster was within 500 miles of me. I had a much better experience with the PC port (with the patch that fixes it for resolution and performance, the PC ports of the Silent Hill games are equally busted).
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Ciaphas posted:No, it's (spoiler starting at end of act 1 of DDLC, as I gather it) depictions of suicide. I wanted to play (read?) it to see if its depiction of depression is as accurate as I've heard, but I got to the art for that bit (which heavily implies that it was not a clean or painless death) and had ti forswear the game from that point forward If you got that far, then you would have already seen the bits talking about depression. Also, yeah, later in the game it is entirely possible to see some dialogue about how she hosed up and instead of decapitating herself like hanging is supposed to do, she spent her last moments desperately clawing at the noose with her fingers
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Oct 22, 2017 08:40
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Why do you not want to play the game because characters kill themselves in it
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Oct 22, 2017 08:42
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^ (ed) because i do not handle that very well at all ^FirstAidKite posted:If you got that far, then you would have already seen the bits talking about depression. Also, yeah, later in the game it is entirely possible to see some dialogue about how she hosed up and instead of decapitating herself like hanging is supposed to do, she spent her last moments desperately clawing at the noose with her fingers Yeah mission accomplished in that sense Still wanted to see where else the game was going though because it was also getting Weird With A Capital W and I eat that stuff up, but had to turn away 'round then, so hey yo
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Oct 22, 2017 08:43
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Ciaphas posted:The older I get the more I detest open worlders and heavily branched RPGs and the like I think this has less to do with you getting old and a lot more to do with the market being saturated with open world games. They've become increasingly common with very few actually making meaningful additions to the standard formula in any way. In Training posted:Why do you not want to play the game because characters kill themselves in it People with mental health issues usually don't like to be reminded of that stuff during what is supposed to be a leisure activity.
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Oct 22, 2017 08:52
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On the opposite side of the spectrum from story driven is highly actiony poo poo like Shadow of Mordor, one of a very small number of exceptions to my distaste for open world games (insofar as SoM can be considered open world, I suppose) Which is convenient because I juuuust realized Shadow of War is a) a thing and b) is out, and c) is apparently extremely good 
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Internet Kraken posted:People with mental health issues usually don't like to be reminded of that stuff during what is supposed to be a leisure activity. People without mental health issues generally don't either.
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Oct 22, 2017 09:04
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chumbler posted:People without mental health issues generally don't either. Well a lot of people find interest in playing games that tackle those uncomfortable subjects. There are a lot more horror games about that kind of stuff nowadays. People actively grappling with those issues are more likely to be looking for an escape from them though.
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Oct 22, 2017 09:06
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i think maybe it's ok to turn away from something when something depicts depressed teenage girls in hosed up positions dying in horribly hosed up ways
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chumbler posted:People without mental health issues generally don't either. Well yes but that statement feels a little useless because people don't like being reminded of any unsafe topic, it's why you as a human being feel emotions edit: Like, nobody LIKES being reminded of suicide, but you not liking it is why it's so effective. So it feels kinda pointless to tack that on. Either way, the more familiar you are with a subject, the more it will affect you in all aspects of life, so it makes sense to me that it might make someone more uncomfortable because of that. CJacobs fucked around with this message at 09:12 on Oct 22, 2017 |
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