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Who What Now posted:I know about Zelda, but how did Metroid use the microphone? "SAMUS," I command, "SHOW ME YOUR BIKINI."
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Who What Now posted:I know about Zelda, but how did Metroid use the microphone? Screaming Idiot posted:"SAMUS," I command, "SHOW ME YOUR BIKINI." And the name of the Screaming Idiot was... Justin Bailey! And now you know the rest... of the story.
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afaik Metroid didn't use the mic and famicom was unable to do any kind of sound recognition so it was just a noise trigger. I mean AVGN played top gun and dropped bombs by saying gently caress into the mic.
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Vic posted:afaik Metroid didn't use the mic and famicom was unable to do any kind of sound recognition so it was just a noise trigger. So does that mean Takeshi's Challenge isn't actually that much of a stickler for the karaoke?
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Mar 12, 2018 00:20
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In Metal Gear Survive's multiplayer, you can use your points to purchase a few bonuses - trap and turret activation, refill your ammo without using crafting materials, and one to add mechs for you to ride. Once you progress to the hard mode missions, a fourth option is quietly added "heavy tactical support". When you activate a giant loving three storey tall metal gear RAY robot jumps in, screams and proceeds to blast the ever loving poo poo out of everything it can see on the map. Was a bit of a shock to the system.
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jivjov posted:Played a good amount of the Sea of Thieves beta, and have a couple things I loved Even better is throwing the vomit at your friends, in a storm at night. Played some of the beta with a couple of friends, and had the small galleon. Its cool that you have to trim sails andother nautical terms I dont know, makes it really engaging. At one point we rammed a smaller, one man boat, and the dude climbed on board ours, where we forced him to work until we could reach an island. I dont think he knew that if youre lost at sea a mermaid will respawn you at an outpost with your ship 
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Mar 12, 2018 12:08
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Sorry, I meant Metroid as an example of games that came out in 1987, not that it used the mic in any particular way.
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Mar 12, 2018 14:41
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I picked up Hellblade after reading about it here and it loving rules. I'm only past the first couple bosses but I'm really enjoying how well the game merges the actual mythological forces Senua is fighting against with the purely mental psychosis she's dealing with. Sequences like the flame sacrifices in Surt's area and the illusory gates in Valravyn's area do such a good job of keeping you off-kilter. And the voices never, ever, ever stop. It's really immersive, especially with headphones. I like that the voices aren't just tearing you down, though. They'll occasionally cheer you on when you're doing well in combat or give you tips on how to deal with an enemy.
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Mar 12, 2018 19:29
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Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory also did the "enemies can hear you if you talk into your mic" thing... when you were playing online co-op. Which actually made it feel more like you were playing as a team of secret agents, trying to figure out a way to radio some important information to your partner without letting the guards hear you. It also had the amazing Tomoe Nage move, where you could literally throw your partner as a projectile to knock enemies out. Basically what I'm saying is that Chaos Theory loving owned.
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Kit Walker posted:I picked up Hellblade after reading about it here and it loving rules. I'm only past the first couple bosses but I'm really enjoying how well the game merges the actual mythological forces Senua is fighting against with the purely mental psychosis she's dealing with. Sequences like the flame sacrifices in Surt's area and the illusory gates in Valravyn's area do such a good job of keeping you off-kilter. And the voices never, ever, ever stop. It's really immersive, especially with headphones. I like that the voices aren't just tearing you down, though. They'll occasionally cheer you on when you're doing well in combat or give you tips on how to deal with an enemy. There is a wonderful analysis of Hellblade delivered by someone who suffers from psychosis that you should watch AFTER finishing the game, as it contains massive spoilers. The narrator describes how the voices he hears aren't always disparaging, but sometimes helpful, and therein lies the real danger. Because over time you come to rely on the voices more and more, you begin to trust their judgment, allow them to take control over your own actions no matter how mundane, and your ability to distinguish between the perceived and the actual is compromised. Really powerful and courageous video for when you beat the game, or more appropriately, when the game beats you. exquisite tea has a new favorite as of 20:14 on Mar 12, 2018 |
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Hellblade is the first game in a long time I really got into all the behind-the-scenes stuff for. They really did their homework to make sure the portrayal of psychosis was as close to the real thing as possible, and it really elevated what could have been a tone deaf gimmick. What I found most impressive was the girl who did the acting for Senua. She was originally just a video producer who was doing stand-in mocap and had no sort of acting background whatsoever, but the director liked her performance enough to ask her to stay in the role. It was a good call, because she loving nailed it.
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TheOneAndOnlyT posted:Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory also did the "enemies can hear you if you talk into your mic" thing... when you were playing online co-op. Which actually made it feel more like you were playing as a team of secret agents, trying to figure out a way to radio some important information to your partner without letting the guards hear you. Maybe it's nostalgia but CT is the most fun I have ever had in an online game. My group got really good at the spies so one match against a pub that turned out to be a kid, like 10 or so. Previously we could not be beaten but this kid insisted that it be him as a lone soldier vs. 3 spies (normally it's 2 v 2). We couldn't get near him. He was some sorta savant. I forget the final score but I know we only got one KO on him after a coordinated stunlock and a lucky grab. I swear he was an advanced military AI.
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I have a soft spot for the dumb gags in Thimbleweed Park with an inordinate amount of dialogue recorded for them, like the option to get corrected by the town journalist on every single constitutional amendment, or making Willie confess to a litany of conspiracy theories (including burying Jimmy Hoffa, killing JFK, and shooting Greedo first)
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A neat little touch in Black Desert Online is that guild membership has an actual contract.
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And it seems to be an actual job too? You get a salary and everything, that's pretty complex.
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FebrezeNinja posted:A neat little touch in Black Desert Online is that guild membership has an actual contract. but can you pay in butterfingers don't have a cow, asking for a friend
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haveblue posted:Recent NBA 2K games will give you a technical if you curse IRL Some of the FIFA games on 360 did this if you had a Kinect plugged in. I was watching a mate play it, and he has a notoriously bad temper when playing football games*. He fouled someone, and it was going to be a free kick until he went "THAT'S loving BULLSHIT gently caress YOU" and got a player sent off instead. The commentators respond to it as well, with things like "oh and the manager is really unhappy about that!" *dude once headbutted and broke a PSP because he was losing at Pro Evo soccer. Dude got really, really mad at football games. Extremely nice guy otherwise!
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I had a friend who was injured in the military, and now collects disability and plays videogames all day. He was an early adopter of kinnect, and at first really liked it. He was huge into Halo, and would often play 8 or more hours a day. His house was really active in our social scene, it was a convenient spot to meet for several people so he had people in and out of his house all day. The word xbox was banned, because if you said xbox, a giant laggy UI menu would pop up over Halo and then he'd get killed. After two years of fun little kinnect gimmicks and a metric shitton of accidental Halo deaths, my buddy packed the kinnect back into its box and sold it. Anytime anyone would ask him about his kinnect, he's give the 4 word review: "Kinnect kills halo games."
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I still really enjoy the fight against lady maria in Bloodborne. I cant really explain it, but its the only fight where it never managed to get me mad despite how many times I died. I was really looking forward to it on my more recent play through and it was still the most fun I had playing Bloodborne. Please get Bloodborne if you have ps plus and don't have it yet, even if just to have in your library, it's really good.
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Zoig posted:I still really enjoy the fight against lady maria in Bloodborne. I cant really explain it, but its the only fight where it never managed to get me mad despite how many times I died. I was really looking forward to it on my more recent play through and it was still the most fun I had playing Bloodborne. Do people not just "buy" every game that's on plus? I mean it's free and costs nothing but time. But yeah Bloodborne is really good. I need to get back to it someday. I hit a point where every way I went had a brick wall of a boss.
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Len posted:Do people not just "buy" every game that's on plus? I mean it's free and costs nothing but time. I don't get the (non-crossplay) games for PS3 or Vita because I'm not going to plug the PS3 back in or buy a Vita anytime soon. quote:But yeah Bloodborne is really good. I need to get back to it someday. I hit a point where every way I went had a brick wall of a boss. You can trivialize most bosses by summoning, there's probably an NPC available somewhere in the area or you can ask for live players. It's really busy again since all the diehard players returned to support/prey on the influx of PS+ noobs.
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haveblue posted:I don't get the (non-crossplay) games for PS3 or Vita because I'm not going to plug the PS3 back in or buy a Vita anytime soon. I don't see me ever dusting my Vita off or getting a bigger memory card but I still buy everything. It's free! And I tried summoning I still died so I just stopped playing. I'd ask for help in the thread and explain what I was doing and still get the standard "(thing) isn't hard just dodge/parry/summon and you'll get it in no time" response.
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Len posted:I don't see me ever dusting my Vita off or getting a bigger memory card but I still buy everything. It's free! The real secret is to do this: Take the fight one part at a time. All the bosses have phases, so to keep from getting discouraged, treat each phase like a separate fight. Learn the first phase, focus on what moves the boss has during it, and what you need to do to not die during it. Don't worry about using up resources, or dealing damage. You're not trying to drain the whole health bar. After you've got the first phase, do the exact same thing with the second phase. And for god's sake, TAKE A BREAK IF YOU GET FRUSTRATED! I usually find 5 attempts is enough to get me to go "gently caress this, time to do something else." The games really are hard as heck. Do you remember which bosses you were up against?
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Avenging_Mikon posted:The real secret is to do this: Something shortly after Rom I think? It's been forever since I played
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After Rom the next required boss is One Reborn, so if that is who you mean then there are some good ideas to remember with him. One is to kill the bell ringing women around the balcony first so they don't complicate the fight. Then, if you have a good blunt damage weapon, try breaking his legs so he'll stagger and you can pull his spine out through his face. Otherwise keep to the sides and be ready to run when he starts to flood the arena with acid. I believe fire helps too if you have fire paper. If it was a different boss if likely was one you can skip entirely or hold off on until you are overleveled. It took until well into my second playthrough to beat Ebrietas but she is very optional.
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Len posted:Something shortly after Rom I think? It's been forever since I played If you do end up going back, I'd probably also suggest starting over. Maybe picking a different weapon to focus on. I really like that as far as I can tell, every single weapon in the base game is viable if you just tailor your build to it to maximize damage. And hit me up if you want a co-op partner if you do.
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I would love to have a life where 'just start this many-hour game over' is a viable piece of advice and not a huge waste of time. Edit: Sorry, that came out sounding way more caustic than I intended it to. But, like, what is this a roguelike? Edit2: Looked it over and he said it's been forever so I guess starting over isn't so terrible in a situation like that, as opposed to a wall he ran into last week or something.
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I finally beat the Times Square level in Sideway: New York! It was the first game I ever bought on Steam (7 years ago) but whenever I tried to play it it froze midway through Times Square, so I'm glad it finally worked. Now I just have a couple of bosses to go. 
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Bloodborne is a souls game so its pretty much a sorta long rpg, how long it takes tends to be up to the individual and what they want to do as they go through the game, bloodborne in particular has a very large amount of optional content, but the main path to the end is only about 6 or 7 areas and only maybe 8 or so bosses that you have to fight. I find it takes me a long time because I like doing the optional stuff and I tend to find certain bosses to be big painful roadblocks, probably more due to being underleveled rather than just bad (though that's part of it to for sure) For something relevant to the thread, the dlc is really good value for what it offers. In particular I love how the dlc weapons went in some really creative directions not to mention a lot of them are just really fun, like the Whirligig saw, which is basically just a massive rotary saw combined with a pizzacutter, or the sword that is also a bow. Also I just found out the dlc is 70% off for ps plus so now is probably a really good time to get it.
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Morpheus posted:I would love to have a life where 'just start this many-hour game over' is a viable piece of advice and not a huge waste of time. Yeah, if he was a week out, gently caress that, keep going. But leaving a game like Bloodborne for a month or two means you're going to have a really tough time getting back in to it at the mid to late game stage. And it goes a lot faster if you know the general lay out of an area. I still suck-rear end at it, but I can get to Cleric Beast in about 20 minutes, with having leveled and upgraded my weapon, and Gasgoine in about 40 minutes total. First time through that was about 3 hours of progress.
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I'm kind of mixed about the story of Xenoblade 2 so far, but some of these heart to heart moments left me with a big stupid grin on my face.
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Inzombiac posted:Maybe it's nostalgia but CT is the most fun I have ever had in an online game.
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CordlessPen posted:I loved PT's and CT's asymmetrical multiplayer, but I had the most fun in Conviction's co-op. Back when that game came out I was living with a roommate and we laughed our asses off every night for a week playing this loving thing. We tried playing it "right" (sneaking past 10 enemies) for an hour or so, then realized that it was much easier (and more fun) to go in with shotguns, raise the alarm and just slaughter 20 enemies. Chaos Theory's multiplayer was the best, no joke. Gonna break a rule by posting a webcomic (rehosted), but this sums it up even 13 years later: 
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Alright I finished Hellblade and god drat was that an experience. It really is true that just about every aspect of the game is designed to express the themes it's going for. And there really are so many little things that are great about the game. Senua's appearance changes in minor ways throughout the whole game, like how her war paint gets smudged and is almost totally gone by the end. The game also implies that if you die too many times you'll eventually be permakilled (as the corruption spreads further with each death) and lose your save file completely, but this is a lie. The corruption does actually spread a little further each time (up until a certain point) but the idea that permadeath is a possible consequence is just there to gently caress with you. Heck, it's even thematicaly appropriate what with Senua herself being misled so many times in her life by the people around her. Also, the default combat difficulty is "auto," which I'm guessing is a dynamic setting and seems to be tuned well enough that you always feel like you're just barely managing to win. I also liked that in the end Dillion was straight up just a really supportive partner. Other games might've gone with some twist where he was actually really awful and manipulating the protagonist for his own ends or something but Hellblade just plays it straight. Senua suffers from psychosis, Dillion was a genuinely good and caring person who loved and supported her, and the only tragedies here are that he's dead and you're alone. I appreciated his character because he's basically there as like, a guide on how to be a good partner for someone dealing with mental illness. For a fantasy game, I think they handled the whole subject matter with a good deal of tact. Even after the end, Senua isn't magically cured. It's an illness and it's not supernatural. There's no way to overcome it or run away from it. But it's also not necessarily a terrible thing to shun and be afraid of. Kit Walker has a new favorite as of 13:46 on Mar 15, 2018 |
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Quote-Unquote posted:*dude once headbutted and broke a PSP because he was losing at Pro Evo soccer. Dude got really, really mad at football games. Extremely nice guy otherwise!
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Olive! posted:How do you even physically manage to do this? Did he put it down on a table or against a wall or what? Two hands, bring to forehead, break screen.
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So, Final Fantasy 14 is normally a very serious, grim fantasy MMO - par for the course, really. Except for the quest lines surrounding one specific character. I don't tend to take video games particularly seriously, and I adore FF14 taking the time out for wacky slapstick comedy where you can tell the animation crew had a lot of fun seeing just how much they could play with things, and the whole character is a giant parody of Inspector Clouseau from the Pink Panther. Characters not in on the joke already eventually realize what kind of story they're in.
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