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i found the witcher 3, after the baron, short on actually hard choices. it was impossible to support redania for various reasons. the only real choice was whether you wanted ciri to become the empress or to become a witcher. but that wasn't a choice you knew you exactly had control of. witcher 2 on the other hand was full of hard choices that were clearly telegraphed and difficult in the moment to decide. and the consequences (esp iorveth vs roach) were substantively enormous. these choice mechanics were then extremely well integrated with the larger themes of the narrative which were all about the treacherous zero sum game of politics and the limited power and foresight of individual human beings. witcher 3 sort of tries to repeat all of this but it is diluted by the huge quest for ciri and the largeness of the open world.
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The Witcher 3's ending system was stupid. Didn't let Ciri trash the lab of the person helping you? Share a beer with her instead of having a snowball fight with her? Bad father alert! Enjoy her freezing to death! Poor Ciri, thought of geralt and died. Had to replay a huge amount of the game just to get a decent ending.
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Jul 27, 2018 16:49
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Zane posted:it's the same way that mao had no real understanding of marxism and combined a superficial reading of it with a bunch of neo-confucian aphorisms into his red book. yang adds a sort of hyper-materialism into the mix in which the biological stuff of human beings can be physically reduced to nerve signals and chemical processes and stuff and be freely manipulated in the interest of greater social efficiency. No one academically has conflated Mao with Marx. Yang is very much Mao but Domai is much more Marx.
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Jul 27, 2018 16:56
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Sardonik posted:The Witcher 3's ending system was stupid. Didn't let Ciri trash the lab of the person helping you? Share a beer with her instead of having a snowball fight with her? Bad father alert! Enjoy her freezing to death! Poor Ciri, thought of geralt and died. I didn't think that much of the way the ending was determined, but I lucked into the good ending by making the choices I thought would result in More Content so I'm not really mad at it. I think in the bad ending she probably just beats the... white frost monster(?) and then goes back to universe hopping since she doesn't like Geralt enough to want to stick around
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Jul 27, 2018 17:04
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Zane posted:i found the witcher 3, after the baron, short on actually hard choices. it was impossible to support redania for various reasons. the only real choice was whether you wanted ciri to become the empress or to become a witcher. but that wasn't a choice you knew you exactly had control of. witcher 2 on the other hand was full of hard choices that were clearly telegraphed and difficult in the moment to decide. and the consequences (esp iorveth vs roach) were substantively enormous. these choice mechanics were then extremely well integrated with the larger theme of the narrative which was all about the treacherous zero sum game of politics and the limited power and foresight of individual human beings. witcher 3 sort of tries to repeat all of this but it is diluted by the huge quest for ciri and the largeness of the open world. Counterpoint: https://youtu.be/QwkBnW85CEw
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Jul 27, 2018 17:06
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Skyrim is boring as gently caress
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Jul 27, 2018 17:07
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cheese-cube posted:No one academically has conflated Mao with Marx. Yang is very much Mao but Domai is much more Marx.
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Jul 27, 2018 17:14
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QuarkJets posted:but the fact that there are two Act 2s and you only play one of them creates a situation where a shitload of plot just gets lost; this is "meaningful" in the sense that you're choosing which of 2 stories you get to experience, but it's a really bad idea from a narrative perspective because you wind up hiding important plot elements from the player and then you either need to force them to replay that act from the other side or you need to drop in a summary of what was missed. I disagree strongly with this. You can only ever play one of the two and the story absolutely feels complete.
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Jul 27, 2018 17:20
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Transistor was completely ruined to me by that stupid loving narrator gimmick constantly spouting inane observations about stuff I could just see for myself. Hey that's n-- *in exaggerated husky voice* "What could this thing be?" Looks like i-- "Huh, looks it's inert." Oh it's coming ali-- "Or not." SHUT. UP. The gameplay itself was decent as far as I could stand the game, and the art style was okay if a bit bland, but goddamn. Just shut up for a few minutes please. You know how every now and then some indie game like Bastion comes up with a novel exciting gimmick every idiot hypes up? Then they do it twice and you realize why no one else came up with it.
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Jul 27, 2018 17:30
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BioMe posted:Transistor was completely ruined to me by that stupid loving narrator gimmick constantly spouting inane observations about stuff I could just see for myself. If they took the Bastion / Transistor / Stories narrator gimmick and went full on Dukes of Hazard with it though it would be good Like actually make a Dukes of Hazard video game with that
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Jul 27, 2018 17:48
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banner saga 1-3 are the best oregon trail games of all time
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Jul 27, 2018 17:49
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i found banner saga to be tedious and boring
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Jul 27, 2018 17:52
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banna saga 3 just came out incidentally. gonna play that.
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Jul 27, 2018 17:53
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Verisimilidude posted:i found banner saga to be tedious and boring They are oregon trail games
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Jul 27, 2018 17:57
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Verisimilidude posted:i found banner saga to be tedious and boring It fits in well with my posting. Also starvation and loneliness.
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Jul 27, 2018 18:00
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Verisimilidude posted:i found banner saga to be tedious and boring yeah it's a bad game to play if you're some kind of retard who gets mad about cutscenes and narrative
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Jul 27, 2018 18:01
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Dancing emotes in multiplayer games are an abomination.
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Jul 27, 2018 18:34
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mmorpgs are abominations
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Jul 27, 2018 18:38
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poverty goat posted:mmorpgs are abominations The first time I booted up Everquest I was so sure that this was the future of gaming. Who could have guessed that putting thousands of brokebrains in a Skinner box together could have ended so poorly?
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Jul 27, 2018 18:57
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1redflag posted:Skyrim is boring as gently caress 
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Jul 27, 2018 19:09
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poverty goat posted:yeah it's a bad game to play if you're some kind of retard who gets mad about cutscenes and narrative nice but i got mad at the boring combat and mechanics if anything the cutscenes were the only decent part but also the story was boring
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Jul 27, 2018 19:09
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punk rebel ecks posted:Since the average age is 35 for a game player, I always wonder if at some point games began appealing to adults, or if the kids who grew up playing them just got older and never stopped playing. The latter is almost certainly what happened
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Jul 27, 2018 19:38
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Gaming is for all ages now.
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Jul 27, 2018 19:41
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1redflag posted:Skyrim is boring as gently caress That's the Bethesda Game Studios MO, make a huge open world and then assume that the player will make their own fun. Deliver half a game but charge full price
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Jul 27, 2018 19:54
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It's impossible to make your own fun in Skyrim.
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Jul 27, 2018 20:00
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steinrokkan posted:It's impossible to make your own fun in Skyrim.
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Jul 27, 2018 20:06
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fallout 3 and fallout 4 suck dicks
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Jul 27, 2018 20:59
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Fallout is a trash franchise, starting at 1. Gameplay is atrocious, power armor is overpowered and story is ridiculous bullshit that's trying too hard to rip off Mad Max while adding edgy teenage humor.
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Jul 27, 2018 21:01
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Verisimilidude posted:fallout 3 and fallout 4 suck dicks This is the unpopular opinions thread
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Jul 27, 2018 21:15
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Colonel Cancer posted:Fallout is a trash franchise, starting at 1. Gameplay is atrocious, power armor is overpowered and story is ridiculous bullshit that's trying too hard to rip off Mad Max while adding edgy teenage humor. So you're saying it's a mad max game I guess 
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Jul 27, 2018 21:51
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Colonel Cancer posted:Fallout is a trash franchise, starting at 1. Gameplay is atrocious, power armor is overpowered and story is ridiculous bullshit that's trying too hard to rip off Mad Max while adding edgy teenage humor. mad max is a trash franchise (excluding fury road and road warrior which are both awesome) so i guess they were just being faithful to the source material
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Jul 27, 2018 22:23
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IDONTPOST posted:This is the unpopular opinions thread So me liking both games means I have an unpopular opinion?
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Jul 28, 2018 00:39
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Action-puzzlers like Blast Corps and Space Station: Silicon Valley were some of the best N64 games, and were unique, creative, and fun. They don't get enough praise even if they were nothing to write home about visually. Blast Corps had a simple premise: You were a generic man that got inside flying and rolling robots, cars that fired rockets, dump trucks, and other vehicles and had to clear the path for an out of control truck holding nuclear material that could blow up the world. Space Station: Silicon Valley had a bunch of robotic animals that you could jump inside as a microchip and had to clear levels by passing objectives and fighting against other robotic animals in various weather and environments. I don't hear them talked about all that much, but they were great games and were early 3D games that made good use of space even though they had simple visuals and premises.
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Jul 28, 2018 01:37
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SHMUPS are best with a keyboard. Arcade sticks for these games (and any other genre really) are just for people that want to relive the past where anyone gave a drat about arcades.
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Jul 28, 2018 01:40
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With all the 4 player indie casual-competitive games out there it disappoints me that Blast Chamber hasn't gotten a good remake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gDSlP__tNk this was good poo poo
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Jul 28, 2018 02:19
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Where the gently caress is modern bishi bashi
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Jul 28, 2018 02:23
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Colonel Cancer posted:Fallout is a trash franchise, starting at 1. Gameplay is atrocious, power armor is overpowered and story is ridiculous bullshit that's trying too hard to rip off Mad Max while adding edgy teenage humor. Yeah I hate all of Fallout and don't get why it's popular. Suikoden is generic as gently caress even among JRPG's and is nothing special. Lufia II is the best JRPG just because of the puzzles and casino. Shibawanko fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Jul 28, 2018 |
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Jul 28, 2018 02:34
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More like StarDON'T Valley. Ahaha. No it really sucks. This has been a long held opinion before the Jose thread but that's what gave me the inspiration to post it. Thank you for reading, god bless.
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Jul 28, 2018 02:40
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it's ok. but the mining dungeon crawl area is really anti-thematic. there is enough content for maybe a year in game. the spergs who talk about the enormous 10 year cheese operation they've constructed or whatever the gently caress mystify me.
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The best farm game is Harvest Moon on the SNES, all the later ones got progressively inferior as they added more bullshit. Then Rune Factory came and made the games ugly to boot.
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