Cleretic posted:EDIT: ^^Steam says 80 hours on the dot. I beat the game. Shaun never stops mattering. Really? Because Charisma was required to get the high ranked shop stuff, I think. Know what I did like about Fallout 4? The weapons. Weapons were fun in that game and having a rocket launcher that fired out six bowling balls every time it shot never got old.
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Personally, thing I've been tired of since Half-Life 2: Throwing physics objects at people. The novelty of blasting toilets and radiators at folks was a great time, don't get me wrong, but for a while, every game jammed a gravity gun in their armory (looking at you, Timesplitters 3) and I was super over it by the time Fallout 3 featured it, let alone FO4. Yea yea :  say:
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Apr 28, 2018 02:45
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Evilreaver posted:Personally, thing I've been tired of since Half-Life 2: Throwing physics objects at people. The novelty of blasting toilets and radiators at folks was a great time, don't get me wrong, but for a while, every game jammed a gravity gun in their armory (looking at you, Timesplitters 3) and I was super over it by the time Fallout 3 featured it, let alone FO4. Timesplitters 3 had a gravity gun? I do not remember this.  I do remember the gloriously stupid acting and the time Cortez had to team up with three alternate-timeline selves to deal with some set-piece so you got to do the same set-piece from four different perspectives (and get a password from a future self, then be the future self giving the password, hooray for closed time loops). Timesplitters 2 probably had better missions, but Timesplitters 3 was still a good, aha, time.
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Apr 28, 2018 03:51
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Future Perfect did have a gravity gun and also vehicle sections because Halo was also a game. It's still good as hell.
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Apr 28, 2018 03:54
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In Timesplitters 2, there was a mission where you travel back to the prohibition-era US, and you have to destroy barrels of illegal whiskey. One of these barrels is in a pool hall, and you could actually shoot the pool balls to sink them, bank them, bounce them off of each other, and it was super cool for a PS2 game.
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Apr 28, 2018 03:55
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Also if you shot the barrels they'd drain but if you only shot them at the top they wouldn't drain all the way so you had to make sure to shoot them at the bottom 
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Apr 28, 2018 03:56
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Timesplitters 3 had a gravity gun? I do not remember this. I think the first time I saw a gravity gun in a game was in wild 9, on the ps1. You used a gravity beam to kill enemys in environmental hazards. I need to go back and that one. Last time I tried, the emulator kept messing up.
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Apr 28, 2018 04:47
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Neuronyx posted:The Deathclaws will never not look awesome though. Even when you download the mod that replaces them with "Macho Man" Randy Savage?
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Apr 28, 2018 05:14
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Aphrodite posted:There is nothing challenging about the Witcher 3’s combat except willing yourself to get through that garbage so you can play the good parts. Joke's on you for playing on easy you super duper pleb.  StandardVC10 posted:Even when you download the mod that replaces them with "Macho Man" Randy Savage? Uh, ESPECIALLY then, thank you very much.
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Apr 28, 2018 05:32
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I love how utterly loving absurd Yakuza 0 is. I just played the first hour and went into the Anime Zone while singing Karaoke and not ten minutes later I'm having a dramatic confrontation with a loan shark, and then immediately outside I'm back in the what the gently caress zone and literally beating money out of hooligans like they're loving pinatas.
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Apr 28, 2018 06:00
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I started playing around with the game based on Disney's Bolt, and while it doesn't emulate well (so I'll probably order a real copy online now I know it's good) I enjoyed the first level despite that. The game is based on the in-universe spy TV show that Bolt and Penny are actors in - You first play as Penny, infiltrating Calico's mansion using her Tech scooter, which has a fairly fun mechanic where you can latch it onto certain areas and use it to pull you along platforms. The stealth is simple but it works, if you get scene the combat is a basic QTE and she has some fun tools despite how simple it is. After infiltrating the mansion the action switches to Bolt where most of the actual fun is - his attacks feel powerful as goons get knocked pretty badly by each blow - there are also funny finishing animations where after enough damage has been done you can press circle, followsed by any button to do a certain finishing move, like OX makes Bolt piledrive them, which is a funny animation in it's self due to him being a small dog, or OO makes him throw them, or O,Triangle makes him do an uppercut. Also to aid in how powerful Bolt feels some of his moves do severe damage to the environment, like the shockwave/body slam move. By the end of the fight the room's windows were all broken and holes were appearing in the walls. That's pretty loving satisfying. Also the cutscene to end the mission was funny, featuring Bolt beating a goon with a grand Piano held awkwardly and adorably in his tiny jaws. I'm gonna order the game online at some point because it emulates very badly..
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Apr 28, 2018 06:34
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Glagha posted:Except that's not true? What does Fallout 4 have that say, The Witcher 3 didn't? A weapon mod system? Like, the scale of Bethesda games is a weak defense when people are releasing huge, hundred hour games with quests and character development every month, except when their games are released they aren't literally broken and waiting for an unpaid fan to fix it for them. BotW isn't really an RPG at all, and while I haven't played Witcher 3 I know the series does have you playing a specific character (Geralt) rather than creating your own and doing all the "make your own decisions" stuff that is a big part of Bethesda's appeal. Granted FO 4 confuses that a bit with making your own character have a very specific backstory and motivation (and Skyrim kinda suffers an opposite extreme- when I was making my character I thought a bit about where she might come from and what her story is and why she's got that one scar, but then in practice you really don't develop in unique ways, you just get into factions and get more powerful gear and remain kind of a blank slate.) Western RPGs have generally tried to simulate the scope of tabletop roleplaying games (where you can potentially do anything, or at least try to do anything) by being very open and letting you do all sorts of things, and Bethesda were the ones to marry that to a big, persistent 3-D open world- they're doing the AAA equivalent of Ultima IV and nobody else is. Bioware kinda compete but who even knows what'll happen to them after ME: Andromeda flopped (EA eats its wounded) and Obsidian are doing smaller games, which seems to be working out for them. Basically they've got a captive market. The IDEA of Bethesda's stuff is really appealing- create a unique character and explore a vast open world and gain skills and find cool gear and interact with NPCs- and on a technical level it's a nice accomplishment, warts and all. It's just they don't design a good game to go on top of that.
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Apr 28, 2018 08:06
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Galick posted:I love how utterly loving absurd Yakuza 0 is. I just played the first hour and went into the Anime Zone while singing Karaoke and not ten minutes later I'm having a dramatic confrontation with a loan shark, and then immediately outside I'm back in the what the gently caress zone and literally beating money out of hooligans like they're loving pinatas. The best part is it doesn't stop. Maybe ever.
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BioEnchanted posted:I started playing around with the game based on Disney's Bolt, and while it doesn't emulate well (so I'll probably order a real copy online now I know it's good) I enjoyed the first level despite that. I love what you do, please never stop.
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Apr 28, 2018 09:29
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I beat Chroma Squad recently and while the game itself was fun, I was shocked by how good the soundtrack was. It has some of the catchiest battle themes I've heard in any game, especially on the chiptune front. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i85hOnRoe5c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZMXhZxPjX0
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Apr 28, 2018 09:54
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Kratos with the hipster beard and the workout dad bod aging with his demographic
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Kanfy posted:I beat Chroma Squad recently and while the game itself was fun, I was shocked by how good the soundtrack was. It has some of the catchiest battle themes I've heard in any game, especially on the chiptune front. I didn't find Chroma Squad compelling enough to finish, but it was one of the more charming games I've played. You can tell the creators had a lot of love not only for the Power Rangers and similar shows, but also for the earnestly imaginative, improvisational process of producing a show like that. If a game's quality was based entirely on it's heart, Chroma Squad would be GOTY contender at least.
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Riatsala posted:I didn't find Chroma Squad compelling enough to finish, but it was one of the more charming games I've played. You can tell the creators had a lot of love not only for the Power Rangers and similar shows, but also for the earnestly imaginative, improvisational process of producing a show like that. If a game's quality was based entirely on it's heart, Chroma Squad would be GOTY contender at least. Yeah, I think it went on for one "season" too long considering how much it reused the same enemies and combat areas, but it's a very cool game for what it is. Also the penultimate boss was kind of a jarring difficulty spike, but again I can forgive it for that great combat theme with an equally great name. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHF7UpJUuTc Also I appreciated it capturing the truest essence of fandoms for shows like that. 
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Apr 28, 2018 16:16
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Kanfy posted:Yeah, I think it went on for one "season" too long considering how much it reused the same enemies and combat areas, but it's a very cool game for what it is. Also the penultimate boss was kind of a jarring difficulty spike, but again I can forgive it for that great combat theme with an equally great name.  So on another note, I went back and played some Far Cry 2. Soon thereafter I found this video - which was meant to poo poo on Far Cry 5 - but I like how effectively it highlights some of the details in 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCeEvQ68jY8
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Kanfy posted:Also I appreciated it capturing the truest essence of fandoms for shows like that. So... is it Scar and Wind, or Lee and Scar? Don't keep us in suspense.
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Apr 28, 2018 19:27
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doctorfrog posted:I really like it when a game has its own sort of operating system/ecosystem kinda thing.  Old post but you'll at least dig the aesthetics of this game.
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Croccers posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/588950/Kingsway/ Seeing this game somehow reminded me that Metal Marines was a thing. It has four different windows at all times, because what is Windows 3.x game without them? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiiAUP1fG14&t=240s Mierenneuker has a new favorite as of 13:04 on Apr 30, 2018 |
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Croccers posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/588950/Kingsway/
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Agent355 posted:Also if you shot the barrels they'd drain but if you only shot them at the top they wouldn't drain all the way so you had to make sure to shoot them at the bottom It's things like this, and also little details like ice cubes melting in mgs2, that I miss. The recent Far Cry 2 to far cry 5 crowbcat video kind of exemplifies this. Having said that I beat 5 and it was ooookay
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Apr 30, 2018 14:04
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Far Cry 2 is bad though.
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Apr 30, 2018 14:11
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Missing the forest for the physics-based trees.
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Apr 30, 2018 14:17
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Yes. They did.
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Apr 30, 2018 14:24
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Aphrodite posted:Far Cry 2 is bad though. Far Cry 2 is one of my favorite games but you absolutely have to be ready for some flaws. And also to play it on PC, because I haven’t the slightest idea how the gently caress anyone could play without quicksave.
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Apr 30, 2018 14:42
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I mean, for a game I thought was an abject failure, albeit ambitious, there's lots of little great things in Far Cry 2. For one, the Jackal Tapes are one of the best and most listenable audio logs in any game, period. For a second, the hyper-aggro AI would just slaughter themselves in their frenzy to kill you by driving off cliffs and bridges to get you. It was full of unintentional hilarity.
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Apr 30, 2018 16:46
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Far cry 2 is cool and more immersive than most other games due to its dedication to everything being diegetic
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Croccers posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/588950/Kingsway/ Yep heard of this one. It’s on the old wish list of course. And Far Cry 2’s great. When I played it I hadn’t played a triple A super serious game in a long time and it was kinda surreal. It felt less like a real simulation of a Sahel war zone and more like a Westworld 80’s action murder vacation simulator for my, the wealthy tourist’s, benefit. I think it makes a lot more sense to play it that way.
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Apr 30, 2018 17:59
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doctorfrog posted:Yep heard of this one. It’s on the old wish list of course. If you have Amazon Prime (and by extension Twitch Prime) it’s free until the end of April. Which is the next 12 hours or so.
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Apr 30, 2018 18:34
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In God of War your axe can be thrown, and is magically recalled with a single button press. It is difficult to convey just how much effort and polish has gone into the sound and animation on its recall.
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Aphrodite posted:Far Cry 2 is bad though. Oh yeah I'm not making any judgments on how the actual game plays. I replayed Far Cry 2 recently and it was a chore but it had a lot of excellent moments buried in it. 5 is much more fun by design, with perks like the air drop that let you wingsuit everywhere. The kind of thing like looking at road signs to get map points is such a simple but excellent idea, it evokes the same feeling of pulling out your map in 2. But 5's world and it's objects feel static and it's interesting to see a game from a decade ago with some care taken to the seemingly inconsequential. In my recent FC2 playthrough I was driving a stolen assault truck and being chased by even more, and I was run down into the jungle. I jumped into the gunner seat and swung the LMG around like a barn door without letting go of the trigger. It was some predator rear end poo poo. I was deliberately cutting through dense as gently caress foliage only to see more bad dudes behind every branch. A fire from the outpost I dragged them all from caught up behind them. Eventually the carnage ended, and a good beat or two after the silence made an impression a jeep exploded and all of the trees shook, bowing in reverence to me. Then I drove for 15 minutes without much happening!
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Apr 30, 2018 20:10
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In 5 I made some cows gently caress.
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In God of War, there is a special talisman that when fully upgraded and fitted with specific enchantments turns into the Infinity Gauntlet from the new Avengers movie.
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poptart_fairy posted:In God of War your axe can be thrown, and is magically recalled with a single button press. It is difficult to convey just how much effort and polish has gone into the sound and animation on its recall. It can even be recalled from the holster on your back. And there's nothing cooler than just randomly hucking it somewhere and recalling it before you're about to whoop some rear end
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Penpal posted:Oh yeah I'm not making any judgments on how the actual game plays. I replayed Far Cry 2 recently and it was a chore but it had a lot of excellent moments buried in it. 5 is much more fun by design, with perks like the air drop that let you wingsuit everywhere. The kind of thing like looking at road signs to get map points is such a simple but excellent idea, it evokes the same feeling of pulling out your map in 2. But 5's world and it's objects feel static and it's interesting to see a game from a decade ago with some care taken to the seemingly inconsequential. You could fill this *and* the other topic with just Far Cry 2. It's really a game of contrasts. Some of my most memorable moments in any game happened in Far Cry 2, and they happened completely organically. But I'm never going to play it again.
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Dragons Dogma was the game that did that for me. So many insane moments that just sort of happened.
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Novum posted:Dragons Dogma was the game that did that for me. So many insane moments that just sort of happened. Did any of them involve WOLVES, ARISEN 
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