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I started playing Steamworld Dig 2 earlier now I have less than six hours before I have to be up for work.
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Remember Alan Wake? You surely don't remember the music video made to promote it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f_hewSrAH4
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Oct 23, 2017 22:07
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Vincent posted:As long as you stay out of GBS. I'm a philistine what do they do in the book forum that's bad
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Oct 23, 2017 22:08
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Singularity is on sale for like 7 bucks so I bought that so hopefully it's good!
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Oct 23, 2017 22:08
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Adaptabullshit posted:Remember Alan Wake? Hell yeah I do. That video got me so hyped and ilkka villi is a very handsome man
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Oct 23, 2017 22:09
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Taintrunner posted:Singularity is on sale for like 7 bucks so I bought that so hopefully it's good!  
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Oct 23, 2017 22:10
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Help Im Alive posted:I'm a philistine what do they do in the book forum that's bad I only read the recommendations thread but someone recently started an argument about whether books should be entertaining or not.
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Oct 23, 2017 22:10
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Wait what's up with the book forum
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CJacobs posted:Hell yeah I do. That video got me so hyped and ilkka villi is a very handsome man Did that make the rounds on foreign news sites? I remember seeing it occasionally on THE VOICE, but didn't come across the vid when the game got released.
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Oct 23, 2017 22:13
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I just posted this in the psn thread, but it looks like Wayforward are releasing a movie tie in for that lovely Mummy movie and it looks like Metroidvania Contra (Contravania if you will) and honestly looks pretty dope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvbtUfqam5g
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Oct 23, 2017 22:20
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Singularity is incredibly good, and also the kind of FPS that they don't make anymore
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Oct 23, 2017 22:23
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Dr Cheeto posted:Wait what's up with the book forum The only thing I'm really familiar with is the running argument through the various genre fiction threads about whether genre fiction is good or bad or whether "genres" exist at all. I don't think it's all that bad myself but there are some posters over there who get real touchy when people criticize their favorite fantasy series, and also posters who just can't resist starting those arguments over and over again. I'm sure there are more annoying things going on in the threads I don't read.
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Oct 23, 2017 22:29
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Phantasium posted:Tell me you didn't even buy it ironically, Colonel if i had a ps4 i would've bought star ocean 5 on release unironically honestly all they have to do is bring back all the weird private actions and the 80+ endings and i'd be partial to the series again oh and change crafting back to so2 style, except the models are photorealistic like you do
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Oct 23, 2017 22:31
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Adaptabullshit posted:Remember Alan Wake? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ0-hkoG80k Palpek fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Oct 23, 2017 |
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Oct 23, 2017 22:32
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Someone over there doesn't like the Discworld books
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Oct 23, 2017 22:33
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Star Ocean V was the most aggressively bland game I've ever played, it's the videogame equivalent of a toast sandwich.
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Oct 23, 2017 22:35
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Vincent posted:As long as you stay out of GBS. book barn is more dead than bad, though granted i only read like two threads in there and one of them i started BYOB isn't bad either imo
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Oct 23, 2017 22:37
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Vincent posted:As long as you stay out of GBS. Phantasium posted:Games, can't forget games. I honestly think that a lot of the best communities left on SA are in Games -- they just live in specific, somewhat insular threads, rather than the subforum as a whole.
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Oct 23, 2017 22:38
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LawfulWaffle posted:Someone over there doesn't like the Discworld books 
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LawfulWaffle posted:Someone over there doesn't like the Discworld books hosed up if true
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Discworld is inoffensive but praised wildly out of proportion to either the quality of its prose or the quality of its politics. Like, Pratchett was a nice old man with humdrum liberal values that he expresses earnestly in his paperback dime novels. He's like a slightly more left-leaning Douglas Adams.
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Oct 23, 2017 22:45
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Discworld is inoffensive but praised wildly out of proportion to either its quality of its prose or the quality of its politics. Like, Pratchett was a nice old man with humdrum liberal values that he expresses earnestly in his paperback dime novels. He's like a slightly more left-leaning Douglas Adams. Well, I'd say he's like a more competent Douglas Adams. And I say that as someone who spent all of the late 80s obsessed with Hitchhiker's Guide. Pratchett was simply better. E: To be a bit less harsh, Pratchett is what I imagine Adams would have ended up writing like if he hadn't had crippling depression and writer's block for like 20 years
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glam rock hamhock posted:I just posted this in the psn thread, but it looks like Wayforward are releasing a movie tie in for that lovely Mummy movie and it looks like Metroidvania Contra (Contravania if you will) and honestly looks pretty dope Jeremy "hand drew the entirety of Metal Gear and original Metroid for the fun of it" Parish had high praise.
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precision posted:Well, I'd say he's like a more competent Douglas Adams. And I say that as someone who spent all of the late 80s obsessed with Hitchhiker's Guide. Pratchett was simply better. I wish Adams was still with us because the guy was an early pioneer in video games as a narrative device. In a Kickstarter world I feel like we would've gotten great multimedia experiences from him in 2017.
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Oct 23, 2017 23:00
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al-azad posted:"hand drew the entirety of Metal Gear and original Metroid for the fun of it" I had no idea this existed, looked it up and now I need it my life
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Oct 23, 2017 23:02
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actually i just read a whole massive article recently how douglas adams was an incredibly lovely game developer and would basically show up once a year, dump a lot of plot and demands on the one other guy writing the text adventures, and then gently caress off for a year leaving him to write the entire thing himself. kind of a proto peter molyneux
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al-azad posted:I wish Adams was still with us because the guy was an early pioneer in video games as a narrative device. In a Kickstarter world I feel like we would've gotten great multimedia experiences from him in 2017. I've still never played Starship Titanic
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Oct 23, 2017 23:04
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I got the impression from The Salmon of Doubt that Adams drove/would have driven any employers and coworkers in any job to absolute despair
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Oct 23, 2017 23:06
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Cowcaster posted:actually i just read a whole massive article recently how douglas adams was an incredibly lovely game developer and would basically show up once a year, dump a lot of plot and demands on the one other guy writing the text adventures, and then gently caress off for a year leaving him to write the entire thing himself. Well, like Peter Molyneux he was hands on in the early years then hosed off once his position became more managerial.
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Cowcaster posted:actually i just read a whole massive article recently how douglas adams was an incredibly lovely game developer and would basically show up once a year, dump a lot of plot and demands on the one other guy writing the text adventures, and then gently caress off for a year leaving him to write the entire thing himself. did some digging and i'm remembering a combination of this: http://www.filfre.net/2015/08/bureaucracy/ and this: http://www.filfre.net/2013/11/the-computerized-hitchhikers/ quote:Brian Moriarty is less diplomatic: “Douglas Adams was a very funny man, very witty, a very good writer, and also very, very lazy. Anyone who knew Douglas will tell you that he really didn’t like to work very much.” Just to add insult to injury, when Adams did rouse himself to work on a game project it turned out to be for a competing developer. In January of 1986 he spent several days holed up in London with a sizable chunk of the staff of Lucasfilm Games, contributing ideas and puzzles to their Labyrinth adventure game. That may not sound like the worst betrayal in the world at first blush, but consider again: he devoted more time and energy to this ad-hoc design consultation than he ever had to what was allegedly his own game, the one Infocom had started making at his specific request.
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Bureaucracy is easily one of the top 10 Infocom games. I love it so much. It's balls-rear end hard, but in a fair way. It's the Dark Souls of interactive fiction.Ciaphas posted:I got the impression from The Salmon of Doubt that Adams drove/would have driven any employers and coworkers in any job to absolute despair Reading Mostly Harmless drove me to despair.
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Cowcaster posted:actually i just read a whole massive article recently how douglas adams was an incredibly lovely game developer and would basically show up once a year, dump a lot of plot and demands on the one other guy writing the text adventures, and then gently caress off for a year leaving him to write the entire thing himself. Didn't Harlan Ellison do something similar when he was asked to help make the "I Have No Mouth" adventure game? He basically told the staff there couldn't be a happy ending, no happy endings. The player had to feel miserable the whole time trying to get through via trial and error and AM gets to laugh at them?
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Oct 23, 2017 23:21
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Viewtiful Jew posted:Didn't Harlan Ellison do something similar when he was asked to help make the "I Have No Mouth" adventure game? I believe in that case the game's developers were happy about it though - I don't think if he hadn't said that that they would have made a game with a typical happy ending or whatever.
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Oct 23, 2017 23:32
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:I honestly think that a lot of the best communities left on SA are in Games -- they just live in specific, somewhat insular threads, rather than the subforum as a whole. real talk the best community in SA is SAS, specifically the basketball homies
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Oct 23, 2017 23:33
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Well now I'm thinking about I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream's Game Over screen and I feel bad
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Oct 23, 2017 23:35
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Sakurazuka posted:I started playing Steamworld Dig 2 earlier now I have less than six hours before I have to be up for work. You could do so much digging in six hours though! 
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Viewtiful Jew posted:Didn't Harlan Ellison do something similar when he was asked to help make the "I Have No Mouth" adventure game? He didn't necessarily say 'no happy endings', his phrasing was more along the lines of 'you can't win'. Not in a gameplay sense, but in the game overall. The idea was that you could totally beat I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, but even if you do, AM still wins. And it ended up sort of holding true, you can diverge from the end of the real story in the game and defeat AM, but it requires sacrificing all of the characters and getting all but one of them turned into slugs like the game over screen. edit: And in the censored German version it actually was true, you literally can't win, because the nazi scientist doctor's segment was chopped and rendered unbeatable. You need all 5 characters to survive their scenarios to beat the game, but since you couldn't finish Nimdok's, well... AM wins by default.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Well now I'm thinking about I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream's Game Over screen and I feel bad There was someone on SA with an avatar of that screen with the subtitle MOUTHLESS LOSER. It always made me laugh when i saw it.
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