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FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009

Nate RFB posted:

La-Mulana 2 spoilers.


AAAAAAAAAH I can't believe I finally solved this one, holy poo poo that took the better part of a week and change.

lets hang out posted:

it's obtuse but that's my favorite puzzle in the game


I'm never gonna play this game because the first one was too hard and frustrating for me to get through. What's the puzzle here and why's it so noteworthy/satisfying/etc?

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homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

Cowcaster posted:

doomguy would never help a cop
doomguy IS a cop

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



homeless snail posted:

doomguy IS a cop

very much no

Doorknob Slobber
Sep 10, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

Oxxidation posted:

all superheroes are cops

shoot a superhero and a cop bleeds

unless that superhero is bulletproof

when i was a kid i had a comic book about a super hero that was a black dude who worked in a factory and he was liberating the workers, was p cool. wish i could remember what it was

he had a jetpack and he beat up cops with chains that had hooks on the end man it was awesome

Accordion Man
Nov 7, 2012


Buglord
Spider-Man couldn't be a cop though because his personal mantra is all about responsibility for his actions.

Fur20
Nov 14, 2007

すご▞い!
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね!

Cowcaster posted:

doomguy would never help a cop

doomguy would help a cop, die

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



The White Dragon posted:

doomguy would help a cop, die

poo poo

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!

The White Dragon posted:

doomguy would help a cop, die

two ways to read this

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

https://twitter.com/tokugifs/status/1039093373422981120?s=19

CharlieFoxtrot
Mar 27, 2007

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Accordion Man posted:

Spider-Man couldn't be a cop though because his personal mantra is all about responsibility for his actions.

:golfclap:

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



even discounting doom 2016 the canon reason doomguy was sent to the backwater of mars to pound off to pornos in the breakroom in perpetuity was because he stomped the guts out of a sergeant commanding him to open fire on civillians

a messed up horse
Mar 11, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo

Cowcaster posted:

even discounting doom 2016 canon the reason doomguy was sent to the backwater of mars to pound off to pornos in the breakroom in perpetuity was because he stomped the guts out of a sergeant commanding him to open fire on civillians

that's rad

Red Alert 2 Yuris Revenge
May 8, 2006

"My brain is amazing! It's full of wrinkles, and... Uh... Wait... What am I trying to say?"
i read that blurb about doomguy in an old strategy guide or something as a kid, and when they mentioned 'restricted flicks' i thought they meant like, secret military movies

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002




look the doomguy is a noble soul maybe you should look to your warhammer space marines if you want a fascist analogue power fantasy to get behind

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



also the canon reason he dives to hell in doom 2 and defeats the icon of sin is because the demons killed his pet bunny so uh it gets just ever so slightly camp

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice
Doomguy is so anti authority that the robot dude has to set a trap to incapacitate him in order to install a purely beneficial upgrade in his suit

Venuz Patrol
Mar 27, 2011

FirstAidKite posted:

I'm never gonna play this game because the first one was too hard and frustrating for me to get through. What's the puzzle here and why's it so noteworthy/satisfying/etc?

reaching that treasure chest requires you to drop to it from the room above, but the map for that area doesn't have a room above it. solving the puzzle requires paying attention to a bunch of different geographical clues throughout the game to figure out which room (in a totally different zone) actually connects to the cog room.

Phantasium
Dec 27, 2012

Snooze Cruise posted:

One time, I punch a cop's head clean off.

I liked Mortal Kombat, too.

Nate RFB
Jan 17, 2005

Clapping Larry

FirstAidKite posted:

I'm never gonna play this game because the first one was too hard and frustrating for me to get through. What's the puzzle here and why's it so noteworthy/satisfying/etc?
Based on scattered clues, it was clear that the "twins were guarding the cog" which is an item you would've learned at one point is needed to activate a bunch of areas in the ruins. So you finally find that room, but there is a "vase"-life relief in it, meaning you probably need a vase to open the chest. A hint there indicates it's in a specific part of the Immortal Battlefield area, and while the room in the Immortal Battlefield is easy to find and the trigger to open the chest there is easy to discern as well, it's too high up to reach; you have to fall from the room above to get to a ledge that will let you get to the sigil trigger to open that chest. Going to the room above it reveals that in all likelihood you will have to use a mantra chant (basically spells you can cast of various word combinations), but there are far too many combinations to try and every failure has this red eye of doom zap you if you get it wrong. Eventually you find the clue to the proper combo in the Underworld area, open up the floor in this room, fall down and get the trigger (instant death laser beam in the fall down if you're not careful), and get the vase. GREAT! You hoof it back to the twins, slot in the vase, and the chest opens...except you can't reach it; in the picture I have there those twin statues block you. So once again, it becomes obvious that you have to fall down from above to reach the chest...except in the map for that area, there is no room above it! Well shucks.

Hopefully by this point you will pick up on some hints scattered throughout that area that that map has several references to an "infernal fiend", and in general that area is associated with it (you see an image of it in the text background on slabs in the area). Elsewhere (actually back towards the vase chest earlier) there is a hint about "the colossal dragon is bitten on the neck by the infernal fiend". Huh. Also in a different area, there is a mantra spell code for "the neck of the colossal dragon". So where the gently caress is this dragon??? Well going back to the earlier bit about maps with references to animals in their text and slab background images, there is a place called the Takamagahara Shrine that just so happens to have some scattered dragon imagery (it's pretty subtle though)...and weirdly enough one room with a purple edge that always indicates an exit. Cast the mantra code in that room (the "neck of the dragon" as it turns out), opens up an exit, fall into what turns out to be the twins room again, open chest, throw a party.


All of that was info slowly gathered on my end every day starting around Labor Day weekend.

Raxivace
Sep 9, 2014

Starting to see lots of lightning over here in NC, and not the Toriyama kind.

The end is imminent, goons.

Snooze Cruise
Feb 16, 2013

hey look,
a post

Phantasium posted:

I liked Mortal Kombat, too.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7FwTeqaksM

CharlieFoxtrot
Mar 27, 2007

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Phantasium posted:

I liked Mortal Kombat, too.

Kurtis Stryker, S-Tier character name

big deal
Sep 10, 2017


lol I was hoping that was what you were referencing

big deal
Sep 10, 2017

Now I’m picturing a smash-style character introduction screen that says “COP HEAD washes ashore!”

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
doomguy's ancestor is BJ Blascowitz, who murdered countless cops across the world

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

commander keen is the biggest cop of them all

GUI
Nov 5, 2005

Cowcaster posted:

not to boil this kettle back over again but you should probably read the rest of the conversation

I just read through everything posted in this thread since then and I'll just say that whatever people think of Doom 2016's writing a lot the lore and incidental dialogue was done by outside contractors who don't even work for id as is usually the case with franchises where the plot is secondary (eg every Dishonored game) so don't be surprised if the approach for the sequel is different even if it tries to keep the same tone since there's a good chance they've gotten someone else.

Zenimax's marketing must be giddy about this since it's given the game some slight controversy and more attention. No one in the year 2018 is going to be shocked by the satanic imagery, but add in some lines of dialogue that use extremely similar language and phrases to what bigots have been using online and in real life for years and watch that free publicity come rolling in. Articles, twitter, youtube, reddit, my shitposting. Well done.

al-azad
May 28, 2009



I wish this dumb cat would attempt to cover his land mines he's just sitting here with a smug grin on his face as I gag to death.

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

al-azad posted:

I wish this dumb cat would attempt to cover his land mines he's just sitting here with a smug grin on his face as I gag to death.

Cats have to be taught to do that iirc. It's a thing they do in the wild to prevent predators from being able to find their droppings, they won't do it if they aren't taught how to.

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




My cat is afraid of his poops he runs away like crazy instead of burying them. I was worried his butt hurt but hes just dumb

CharlieFoxtrot
Mar 27, 2007

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al-azad posted:

I wish this dumb cat would attempt to cover his land mines he's just sitting here with a smug grin on his face as I gag to death.

I thought this was some Valkyria Chronicles gameplay reference

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I bought one of those automatic litter boxes you only need to empty every couple of weeks and gently caress me the cat keeps attacking the metal pooper scooper every time it runs a cycle, I think he's about ready to break the drat thing

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

gently caress this poop eating metal monster

Red Alert 2 Yuris Revenge
May 8, 2006

"My brain is amazing! It's full of wrinkles, and... Uh... Wait... What am I trying to say?"
how would you like it if some machine stole your poop??

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Relax Or DIE posted:

how would you like it if some machine stole your poop??

I don't care what anyone says, toilets are the devil's work

goferchan
Feb 8, 2004

It's 2006. I am taking 276 yeti furs from the goodies hoard.

Raxivace posted:

Can you kill any cops in the new Spider-Man game

The game is fun but lol there's constantly like "the NYPD are the REAL heroes!" poo poo going on . I can put it aside because it's a game about a guy who got superpowers from being bitten by a radioactive spider but yeah spider-man is basically a cop in the game

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!

cheetah7071 posted:

No, that's in fact the only Myst game I've never played. We might get to it or skip it I dunno. We're counting Obduction as a Myst game but we want to finish Myst proper first.

You can play URU free if you want, and it modifies some of the levels to better suit co-operative play.

https://mystonline.com/en/

On the other hand it doesn't have so much of the plot stuff so :shrug:

psychoJ
Feb 24, 2011

Smart and cool, handsome, wealthy and so sexy
https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1039349386210209792
hm

The 7th Guest
Dec 17, 2003

when do we get Infinite Undiscovery Remastered

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CharlieFoxtrot
Mar 27, 2007

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There are so many games that I bought on original release and never played that are getting remasters, which I have bought and also not played yet

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