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Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



it's worth noting that bethesda made neither doom nor prey nor wolfenstein 2, they just published them

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FanaticalMilk
Mar 11, 2011


Cowcaster posted:

it's worth noting that bethesda made neither doom nor prey nor wolfenstein 2, they just published them

I have to imagine the sales of the Elder Scrolls and Fallout games probably give Bethesda the leeway to take risks on games like Prey and The Evil Within 2.

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




they probably still make money on those games, they just flop and fail to chart in the broader context of games made for general audiences aka not old people continually chasing the highs of 90's pc gaming that most bethesda 2nd party games are aimed at.

GUI posted:

Fallout 4 is extremely popular and well liked despite the more hardcore crowd hating it.

lack of taste in the average consumer you say?

Real hurthling! fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Nov 17, 2017

Palpek
Dec 27, 2008


Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.


A new expansion for Titan Quest was just released out of nowhere. What the gently caress. 2017 still having some aces up its sleeves.

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

My urges are becoming...

UNCONTROLLABLE

what the

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

Zaggitz posted:

what the

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009

Zaggitz posted:

what the

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
i completed mercenaries mode in re4 and unlocked the handcannon. i'm tough

Help Im Alive
Nov 8, 2009

The Colonel posted:

i completed mercenaries mode in re4 and unlocked the handcannon. i'm tough

Mercenaries is great. I remember buying the 3DS RE Mercenaries game on sale and it's got RE4 stages but not Leon/Ada?!?

I don't know why Capcom thinks people like Chris Redfield more than Leon

Megaman's Jockstrap
Jul 16, 2000

What a horrible thread to have a post.

Palpek posted:

A new expansion for Titan Quest was just released out of nowhere. What the gently caress. 2017 still having some aces up its sleeves.

HELL YEAH!!!

Raxivace
Sep 9, 2014

Help Im Alive posted:

I don't know why Capcom thinks people like Chris Redfield more than Leon
It gets weird sometime. Like in MvC:I they try and paint Chris as the uh nemesis of Nemesis but I don't think they had even met before outside of other crossover games like that.

codenameFANGIO
May 4, 2012

What are you even booing here?

Raxivace posted:

It gets weird sometime. Like in MvC:I they try and paint Chris as the uh nemesis of Nemesis but I don't think they had even met before outside of other crossover games like that.

Can confirm that Chris was long out of the city before Nemesis showed up on the scene, specifically to kill Jill

edit: well to kill STARS team but I think Brad Vickers was the only other STARS in Raccoon at the time

codenameFANGIO fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Nov 18, 2017

Sunning
Sep 14, 2011
Nintendo Guru

Palpek posted:

A new expansion for Titan Quest was just released out of nowhere. What the gently caress. 2017 still having some aces up its sleeves.

THQ Nordic is the THQ we need but don't deserve.


Help Im Alive posted:

Mercenaries is great. I remember buying the 3DS RE Mercenaries game on sale and it's got RE4 stages but not Leon/Ada?!?

I don't know why Capcom thinks people like Chris Redfield more than Leon

He's a gay icon in Japan.

codenameFANGIO
May 4, 2012

What are you even booing here?

Sunning posted:

THQ Nordic is the THQ we need but don't deserve.


He's a gay icon in Japan.

... and Leon isn’t?!

Raxivace
Sep 9, 2014

Leon's orientation is destroying all of the vehicles. That's why its impossible to ship him, he would just destroy the ship.

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




Leon is my husbando

GUI
Nov 5, 2005

Leon is like Dante in that he's popular with the ladies.

Accordion Man
Nov 7, 2012


Buglord

GUI posted:

Leon is like Dante in that he's popular with the ladies.
He turns them all down though because his heart is only for Ada. (Despite the fact that Ada isn't interested at all)

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
none of the women leon is interested in care about him

MechaSeinfeld
Jan 2, 2008


Palpek posted:

A new expansion for Titan Quest was just released out of nowhere. What the gently caress. 2017 still having some aces up its sleeves.

what the gently caress. What the gently caress

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

Help Im Alive posted:

Mercenaries is great. I remember buying the 3DS RE Mercenaries game on sale and it's got RE4 stages but not Leon/Ada?!?

I don't know why Capcom thinks people like Chris Redfield more than Leon

3DS Mercenaries was great but I wish that all the characters got their own battle theme like in RE4.

GUI
Nov 5, 2005

Accordion Man posted:

He turns them all down though because his heart is only for Ada. (Despite the fact that Ada isn't interested at all)

I meant among the fanbase, God knows DMC forums way back in 2008 were 50% fanfics of Dante and Vergil having incestual gay sex written by people who had a very poor grasp of male biology.

Macaluso
Sep 23, 2005

I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG, BROTHER!
9S is like if Warren from Life is Strange wore a blindfold

edit: Well actually slightly worse because at least in LiS you got to go away from Warren a lot of the time. In this game Warren is just here. Always.

I can't tell if the game is intending for 9S to be endearing or annoying cause it isn't accomplishing the former if so

Macaluso fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Nov 18, 2017

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!

codenameFANGIO posted:

Can confirm that Chris was long out of the city before Nemesis showed up on the scene, specifically to kill Jill

edit: well to kill STARS team but I think Brad Vickers was the only other STARS in Raccoon at the time

i think you mean STARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRS

Samuringa
Mar 27, 2017

Best advice I was ever given?

"Ticker, you'll be a lot happier once you stop caring about the opinions of a culture that is beneath you."

I learned my worth, learned the places and people that matter.

Opened my eyes.

GUI posted:

I meant among the fanbase, God knows DMC forums way back in 2008 were 50% fanfics of Dante and Vergil having incestual gay sex written by people who had a very poor grasp of male biology.

My man, that's all of fanfic. Sometimes it's a clone, sometimes it's someone from an alternate reality, but it's smut all the way down.

Poops Mcgoots
Jul 12, 2010

The Colonel posted:

none of the women leon is interested in care about him

That sounds very unhealthy and also very realistic.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Samuringa posted:

My man, that's all of fanfic. Sometimes it's a clone, sometimes it's someone from an alternate reality, but it's smut all the way down.

I'm going to write deescalation fanfic, wherein situations arise and are resolved uneventfully. The pizza delivery guy arrives with a sausage pizza, received the appropriate payment plus tip for quick and amicable delivery, and leaves to make the next delivery.

Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


I guess I’m playing nier automata next on ps4 now that I’m done with botw

Should be fun

An Actual Princess
Dec 23, 2006

Samuringa posted:

My man, that's all of fanfic. Sometimes it's a clone, sometimes it's someone from an alternate reality, but it's smut all the way down.

smut is extremely good, so this makes sense

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

My urges are becoming...

UNCONTROLLABLE

Ciaphas posted:

I guess I’m playing nier automata next on ps4 now that I’m done with botw

Should be fun

Are you just piling all the good poo poo from this year into the last couple of months or what?

KingSlime
Mar 20, 2007
Wake up with the Kin-OH GOD WHAT IS THAT?!

GUI posted:

Fallout 4 is extremely popular and well liked despite the more hardcore crowd hating it.

Definitely, and you'll notice that even the hardcore crowd sunk at minimum 50 hours into it before deciding it was the rear end end of the modern fallout trilogy

I prefer NV as well but I would certainly not object to playing F4 on switch either

Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


Zaggitz posted:

Are you just piling all the good poo poo from this year into the last couple of months or what?

more of a sudden shift in taste combined with previous months being dumped into FF14 and Path of Exile

that and, if i'm honest, getting legal rec weed in the 2nd half of the year :v:

Darkoni
Dec 28, 2010

You do not look terribly noble and yet I feel troubled, attracted, bewitched.

I just got Injustice 2 and FFXV. I'm excited to get through them after I finish MGSV. I wish I could talk about more current titles but I have to wait for sales.

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




Dragons dogma ?: magic archer or ranger as my second class?

The Kins
Oct 2, 2004

Samuringa posted:

What a world we live in, where buying games legitimately is so easy that people forgot how to crack.
who knew that the greatest antipiracy measure... was convenience?

Cowcaster posted:

it's worth noting that bethesda made neither doom nor prey nor wolfenstein 2, they just published them
Bethesda own the studios behind those games and they've been getting all their studios to help out on each other's games. Not exactly Ubisoft's level of cross-studio pollination, but you've got things like Id Software teaching the Fallout 4 team how to make guns more fun to use, or the Evil Within 2 team loaning the Doom team a couple of character artists.

Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


Do crack groups still do those loving kickass chiptunes on their keygens/crack apps

That's a tiny subculture of a subculture that I just unironically love for existing

Yardbomb
Jul 11, 2011

What's with the eh... bretonnian dance, sir?

Once in a long time they'll still pop up yeah, it's a pleasant surprise.

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

Real hurthling! posted:

Dragons dogma ?: magic archer or ranger as my second class?
its not real important ultimately, but ranger has better stat growths. magic archer is probably more fun to play though

Macaluso
Sep 23, 2005

I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG, BROTHER!
Okay so. I just beat NieR: Automata. At least, the "first time". I saw the A storyline or whatever (I also killed myself with a fish once). Now the message at the end, and what I've heard from various internet people is that to really get the full experience you need to play through it multiple times. So I want to ask: Do you have to play through the WHOLE game, all over again, each time?

Because I'm gonna be honest, I didn't find the gameplay all that great. The combat felt like it really wanted to be like Bayonetta but it never felt nearly as good. The boss battles went on WAY too long in a lot of cases (and also not nearly as OMG CRAZY as everyone made them out to be), some of the various action sequences took way too long (the escape from the factory for instance was a slog), and I didn't like how much back and forth running around there was. I hated the sequence where you were looking for 2B after the ocean fight, because it sent you back across the flooded city, back to the camp, back to the flooded city, back out again, to the city ruins, into the cave, all without being able to teleport to the camp. It also drove me crazy how many invisible walls there were. It's one thing to have invisible walls at the boundary of the city or something. But every single building had these huge openings in them that you couldn't go through because of invisible walls.

I have a lot of complaints, so you're probably like "just don't play it again" but I DO find the story and the setting interesting, even though I don't really like 9S. I like the robot village folks too. So if you want to see the other endings do you have to replay it all over again or how does it work?

Also this is totally a game that was kind of ruined for me by all the hype it got. The game didn't even come close to being as good as all the hype, for me. The gameplay just never felt that great

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The Kins
Oct 2, 2004

Macaluso posted:

Okay so. I just beat NieR: Automata. At least, the "first time". I saw the A storyline or whatever (I also killed myself with a fish once). Now the message at the end, and what I've heard from various internet people is that to really get the full experience you need to play through it multiple times. So I want to ask: Do you have to play through the WHOLE game, all over again, each time?
Without going into details: From what I understand, the second playthrough is played from the perspective of a different character, and the "playthroughs" after that are outright continuations of the story rather than retreading the old path.

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