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Never played an Assassins Creed game before, decided to try it and kinda randomly chose Rogue. I like the action and the pirating but by gently caress does it take a long time to actually get to the meat and potatoes of this game. Eight hours in and finally I think i can actually play the open world game without "progress more to unlock feature" text pasted everywhere. Also I'm not a fan of the "collect everything to get something" mechanic. I'm assuming by the time i've found all the poo poo in those treasure maps i'm 90% through the game and get very little mileage of the reward.
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Erotic Wakes posted:The House of the Dead: The Second Story The problem is that the Nemesis system was the only good thing about the first game and the second one only expanded on it in very minor superficial ways while the rest of the game was even worse than the first
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Jun 15, 2018 19:10
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thecluckmeme posted:Good news! Exactly this is being released this fall on the PS4 The super human hero who can easily lift five tons uppercuts criminals hard enough to lift them several feet off the ground. Those guys wish it were Batman punching compound fractures all over them
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Jun 15, 2018 19:18
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Calaveron posted:The super human hero who can easily lift five tons uppercuts criminals hard enough to lift them several feet off the ground. Those guys wish it were Batman punching compound fractures all over them Only Superior Spider-man punches faces off. Regular Spider-man carefully pulls his punches.
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Jun 15, 2018 19:20
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Aleph Null posted:Only Superior Spider-man punches faces off. Regular Spider-man carefully pulls his punches. You haven't seen any gameplay demos have you, because here we have Spider-Man lifting a huge generator and chucking it full speed at a crowd of guys as a prelude to him inflicting horrible violence on them When's it coming out again
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Jun 15, 2018 19:23
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:Yeah, why not that instead of rehashing the same thing. Sounds cool and I wanna see that mod thanks. If we hadn't been burned out on Batman games, he'd be a perfect character for a Nemesis system. Calaveron posted:You haven't seen any gameplay demos have you, because here we have Spider-Man lifting a huge generator and chucking it full speed at a crowd of guys as a prelude to him inflicting horrible violence on them Yea like, the gameplay demo at E3 had Spidey fighting mooks at the top of a building and kept punching or uppercutting people out. Everyone was like "Okay, Peter just murdered like, 10 people." It looks like it is going to be fun as gently caress like, holy christ a Spider-man game where you can swing around NYC with modern technology and a fluid, acrobatic combat Samuringa has a new favorite as of 19:33 on Jun 15, 2018 |
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Icochet posted:Never played an Assassins Creed game before, decided to try it and kinda randomly chose Rogue. I like the action and the pirating but by gently caress does it take a long time to actually get to the meat and potatoes of this game. Eight hours in and finally I think i can actually play the open world game without "progress more to unlock feature" text pasted everywhere. Unlike in Black Flag, you don't get poo poo for doing any scavenger hunts. Every reward is cosmetic.
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Jun 15, 2018 19:33
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I just want another Punisher game, the PS2-era one was so hammy and grim, I loved it. Mafioso: I'VE GOT KIDS! (Kids(kids)) Frank: So did I.
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Jun 15, 2018 19:38
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"I have a family!" "Everybody does."
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Jun 15, 2018 20:15
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Unlike in Black Flag, you don't get poo poo for doing any scavenger hunts. Every reward is cosmetic. Well poo poo. It sort of drags a game down if i have to google which things in a game have an effect on the game. Because for a while i thought the anime shards or the shanties might have some bonuses attached, but apparently not.
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Jun 15, 2018 20:18
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Samuringa posted:"I have a family!" It took me two years to figure out you could spare them and get different dialogue.
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Jun 15, 2018 20:22
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Samuringa posted:
I thought I saw Spidey automatically shoot a web at the a guy flying off the side of the building to leave him dangling.
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Jun 15, 2018 20:47
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Welp, just like I thought, I'm back to yell more at Killzone: Shadow Fall! Why do you not have a goddamn minimap, or any kind of map? You've tossed me on this huge, and also really loving dark jesus, spaceship and told me to go around and do things. Ok, seems cool and interesting enough, and I'm liking all the graffiti left by dying people on board, but you've loving left me totally lost! I have no idea where I am beyond the vaguest relation to my objectives! The dot is all well and good, but when the whole drat area is nothing but dark, twisty passages, plopping a dot on the direct spot where the objective is, is totally loving useless!
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Jun 15, 2018 21:14
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ShootaBoy posted:dark jesus The key is using the hammer, he can't block that as well.
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Jun 15, 2018 21:21
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I am just not feeling The Last Guardian at all. The camera seems to be in the worst spot all the times and responds sluggishly if at all to attempts to move it. The clumsy movements of the boy irritate the poo poo out of me and control feels janky.
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Jun 15, 2018 22:35
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So I’m not totally negative, I will say trico is extremely cute and attractive
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Jun 15, 2018 22:36
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Maybe this is me being old or Nintendo being slow or something. But man this pissed me off. I had to replace my switch because the fan sounded like it was going to explode. Best Buy wouldn't let me do a transfer and I didn't want to do the "buy another, transfer, return" thing. I figured the save games for Mario would at least be on the cart, since cloud saves aren't available yet. Nope. My wife is not happy about missing her 10 hour save.
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Jun 16, 2018 02:23
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StandardVC10 posted:Fallout: New Vegas: I wish there were more things to do and/or buildings to go into in Freeside. It's built up as a pretty busy area, but never quite sells it, and there are rows and rows of boarded over doors, almost as though Obsidian is saying "we wanted to put something here, but ran out of time." There's a pretty great mod called freeside open that blows down all the linking doors in between the various outdoor regions of freeside. It makes it quite a bit better than the base game. It might have been time that they ran out of but they also had to work with bethesda's jank rear end engine and they also had to make sure it worked fine on 360/PS3 hardware, so everything had to be tightened up. Also I finished Rise of the Tomb Raider a month ago and I liked it for what it was. I didn't really bother with the collectibles, except for going out of my way to do the tombs. they're fun little excursions so they don't feel like checking off a thing on a list to me and you do get a very cool outfit for lara to change into at the end.
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Jun 16, 2018 02:50
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Lord Lambeth posted:There's a pretty great mod called freeside open that blows down all the linking doors in between the various outdoor regions of freeside. It makes it quite a bit better than the base game. It might have been time that they ran out of but they also had to work with bethesda's jank rear end engine and they also had to make sure it worked fine on 360/PS3 hardware, so everything had to be tightened up. Does it fix the way that casino security works by removing all the weapons from your inventory and then adding them back when you left? Because having to redo all my key assignments + sit through minutes of pop-ups for each item that was added back to my inventory killed a lot of my interest in visiting the casinos aside from when actually necessary. That was really one of those times where I wish their dedication to The Narrative Experience didn't win out against basic playability.
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Jun 16, 2018 03:22
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Warframe has some really good recent changes. They introduced half of a new ui update into the game, because one of the designers played breath of the wild and liked how cool and minimalist its menus were. I can agree with that premise, and warframe's old ui could certainly be a little clunky, but they missed something that makes breath of the wild's menus work. This is the old UI. There's a lot of negative space and the icons are not well explained, but at least you can see what items you have.  This is the new ui. They didn't put the names of items on the icons for the items. Many, many items in the game have the exact same icon (as you can also see in the previous pic), leading to a lot of mousing over every single item in your inventory to see what exactly you have. It works in BotW because every item has a totally unique icon as well as showing you the damage/defense of every item for easy comparison of its main stat. This shows you no useful information. I'm not sure how in all the UI testing that must have happened not even one person said "hey man, it'd be cool if I could see what these items actually are"
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Spinning Robo posted:I'm not sure how in all the UI testing that must have happened not even one person said "hey man, it'd be cool if I could see what these items actually are"  You still think DE tests this stuff?
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Jun 16, 2018 04:27
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Erotic Wakes posted:Does it fix the way that casino security works by removing all the weapons from your inventory and then adding them back when you left? Because having to redo all my key assignments + sit through minutes of pop-ups for each item that was added back to my inventory killed a lot of my interest in visiting the casinos aside from when actually necessary. That was really one of those times where I wish their dedication to The Narrative Experience didn't win out against basic playability. Nope but a good minute browsing the nexus gave me this
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Jun 16, 2018 05:42
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All this talk about Warframe made me replay Dark Sector and I really wish we'd gotten a sequel to that instead.
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Jun 16, 2018 08:20
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Lord Lambeth posted:There's a pretty great mod called freeside open that blows down all the linking doors in between the various outdoor regions of freeside. It makes it quite a bit better than the base game. It might have been time that they ran out of but they also had to work with bethesda's jank rear end engine and they also had to make sure it worked fine on 360/PS3 hardware, so everything had to be tightened up. Console comparability was the woooorst. I still remember that Primm was a helluva fight the first time through, at launch. My next playthrough? After a patch, which reduced the enemy spawns from like a dozen+ to 4 dudes cause the poor consoles had trouble with it. What a lame duck experience.
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Jun 16, 2018 08:30
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exquisite tea posted:It's more than just simple camera snapping though, it's the way it dynamically zooms in and out both with regard for Ellie's own contextual actions and those of her enemies. I don't want to rain on anybody's parade because TLOU2 will probably look quite good but the kind of seamless animation blending on display here is definitely idealized. You're not going to get perfect cloth physics and full screen space reflections in thick foliage areas on a PS4 chipset. Fair enough but as long as they don't Watch Dogs this I'll be fine.
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Jun 16, 2018 13:56
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RareAcumen posted:Fair enough but as long as they don't Watch Dogs this I'll be fine. It will be more like Witcher 3 where the game isn't quite what they originally portrayed but is still pretty
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Jun 16, 2018 15:30
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Erotic Wakes posted:MGSV: The Phantom Pain has amazing controls and is very easy to play. And this is coming from someone who considers the original Metal Gear Solid trilogy to be a tragedy about a supersoldier with a congenital defect that makes him bellyflop onto his own grenades and in front of enemy soldiers to be helplessly mowed down at random intervals because good lord are those some clunky-rear end controls. Although there are cassette tapes that feel very important but also very silly. Why did the most secretive man in the world allow himself to get recorded talking to a bunch of key characters in the plot? The info that you get in those specific tapes should have had cutscene or two. I dunno if it's worth spoiler tagging that since I don't name anyone specific but if you got to the true end of MGSV and listened to everything you know what I'm talking about.
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Arrath posted:Console comparability was the woooorst. I still remember that Primm was a helluva fight the first time through, at launch. My next playthrough? After a patch, which reduced the enemy spawns from like a dozen+ to 4 dudes cause the poor consoles had trouble with it. What a lame duck experience. It's insane to think that almost a decade of games were bottlenecked by having to work on a console with 512MB of RAM and no hard drive. Like if the Xbox 360 had just not gone with the HDD being an optional accessory so many games would have been able to do so much more. Things are great now where it's mostly a questions of frame rate and resolution across platforms rather than huge performance cuts like that. And as much as you can criticize releasing a Pro version of the PS4 with updated specs it at the very least has made a lot of devs be more considerate about making their game work in different configurations on PC. Lord Lambeth posted:Although there are cassette tapes that feel very important but also very silly. Why did the most secretive man in the world allow himself to get recorded talking to a bunch of key characters in the plot? The info that you get in those specific tapes should have had cutscene or two. Why would a supersoldier trying to kill you freeze in midair for five minutes so you can jaw about combat strategies and the taste of fruit bats over the codec with your buddies at home base? Sometimes you just have to make concessions in the name of storytelling.
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Erotic Wakes posted:Why would a supersoldier trying to kill you freeze in midair for five minutes so you can jaw about combat strategies and the taste of fruit bats over the codec with your buddies at home base? Sometimes you just have to make concessions in the name of storytelling. I'm not saying "BRING BACK THE CODEC CALLS" just that it's really weird to have these incredibly huge plot points tucked away in a cassette tape and not in a cutscene or two. It was pretty clear before the game was out that it was gonna have budget problems so maybe it's not surprising though.
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Jun 16, 2018 17:09
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Audio logs in games are one of those things that are just very silly if you apply any degree of realism to them, especially with the way they're used a vehicle for passwords. If you're lucky you get a game like Prey going to the trouble of framing all its audio logs as actual recordings of phone calls and make its passwords be at least a little sensical (like password reset requests or people intentionally compromising security for the sake of future survivors) but for the most part it's operating on the same abstraction principle as to why the guy on a found footage movie doesn't just drop the camera and run. It's especially silly in games like Bioshock where the recording device is some huge clunky single-use item rather than a discrete bit of storage like a cassette or a PDA. Like oh poo poo this monster is closing in me and I only have moments to live better whip out this giant turntable and place the stylus gently and OK time to start narrating.
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Jun 16, 2018 17:44
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Erotic Wakes posted:It's insane to think that almost a decade of games were bottlenecked by having to work on a console with 512MB of RAM and no hard drive. Like if the Xbox 360 had just not gone with the HDD being an optional accessory so many games would have been able to do so much more.
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Jun 16, 2018 17:50
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Alas poor Legion, our time together was short.
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Developers need to look at what their UI elements look like on a television at any distance and not just on a monitor at their desk. Mafia 3 has black and white PS4 button icons a quarter inch high in tutorial pop ups. Far Cry 5 has straight white no drop shadow icons showing what throwable you have equipped while driving that are maybe three sixteenths of an inch square. God of War added a text size slider that didn't magnify the like pants armor stat tool tips at all, but did bump up the size of the lore journal fluff.
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Jun 16, 2018 18:27
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Alas poor Legion, our time together was short. It's probably a good thing he was so late, or I'd have run the whole game as Garrus + Legion, instead of Garrus + other.
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I think there's a PC mod to let you get him way earlier, and there's a load of unused dialogue for earlier missions which is quite cool.
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Legion was originally intended to be recruitable much earlier and was only split off to the latter half of the game due to XB360/PS3 disc constraints. On PC you can mod him back in and it works almost seamlessly, with unique dialogue for every plot mission.
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exquisite tea posted:Legion was originally intended to be recruitable much earlier and was only split off to the latter half of the game due to XB360/PS3 disc constraints. On PC you can mod him back in and it works almost seamlessly, with unique dialogue for every plot mission. That’s literally on this page
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The other post only explained what you could do, I explained why (inferior console hardware,  )
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Not having a hard drive in some 360s hosed up Mass Effect 2. The whole reason you have to get one set of companions before the other is because the non-HDD 360’s needed to do a disc switch between halves of the game. In real things dragging a game down. Fourth edition DND would have made a perfect game but nope gently caress you.
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Karma Tornado posted:Developers need to look at what their UI elements look like on a television at any distance and not just on a monitor at their desk. Mafia 3 has black and white PS4 button icons a quarter inch high in tutorial pop ups. Far Cry 5 has straight white no drop shadow icons showing what throwable you have equipped while driving that are maybe three sixteenths of an inch square. God of War added a text size slider that didn't magnify the like pants armor stat tool tips at all, but did bump up the size of the lore journal fluff. I think the problem is now there's an assumption that everyone has a large enough TV.
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