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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:I’ve spent the last two and a half months playing through 0, Kiwami, and Kiwami 2 and I still have no idea how they managed to have extremely serious and dramatic main plots and really goofy and funny side content and still have it all feel really cohesive and in-character in every game https://twitter.com/southafao/status/1038891652306354179?s=21
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Warbird posted:So I finally got Yakuza 0 to play nice with my PC. BOY this poo poo is goofy. For now, sure. It's gonna get real heavy. The main story, at least.
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BioEnchanted posted:Just got close to Nupraptor's Lair in Blood Omen , the place where the first of the 9 lurks. After you beat Nupraptor, make absolutely sure to have Kain read off the item description for the key item you get from him. It’s magical. 
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JebanyPedal posted:I don't think Twilight Princess looks that good at all, the obviously low res textures and extreme aliasing makes it look awful. I prefer TP to WW in basically every aspect but I don't think I'd ever want to replay it. It's long and a lot of it felt like a slog even at the time. Both games are better than Skyward Sword though.
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Sep 11, 2018 21:22
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My favorite was Link Between Worlds, but it never seems to come up often. I never played WW, though, and saw an LP of Twilight Princess that was enough for me. That game just looked... Unpolished? It seemed to be missing some fundamental Zelda thing, but I can't quite nail down what. For actual content, JJ's podcast radio show in Spider-Man is loving amazing. He's so angry and crazy, and the actor sells it perfectly. It's made me laugh out loud, too, which probably almost woke my wife up. "Spider-Man is swinging through town, hopped up on SMOG!"
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Were Alex Jones a sane and normal man he should have voiced it.
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Maybe I was just at the right age when it came out but I thought Wind Waker was absolutely amazing. The visuals were really striking and the size of the world map was crazy to me (even though it was mostly empty). People hated the sailing at the time but it was actually one of my favorite parts - really let you feel just how much bigger the ocean was compared to Hyrule field on the N64 and it was cool to spy a little island on the distance and make your way over. The missing dungeons really sucked because it seemed like big conspicuous flaws in what was otherwise a masterpiece. If Twilight Princess was missing a few dungeons I doubt it'd bother me too much. Twilight Princess was... alright. It lacked whatever spark it is that's always made the best Zelda games so memorable. Maybe because it felt like it was designed as a bit of a retread of OoT to quiet the people who whined about Wind Waker's setting and art style. I also thought the sickly, alien audio and visual design for the twilight world was not the best choice. It ended up making large swathes of the game feel all grody and unappealing. Still a pretty good game in its own right, though. Skyward Sword was such a massive disappointment. I was so hyped up by the Skyloft stuff, thinking that I'd be getting a kind of Wind Waker-style overworld. Instead, you had the main town in the sky and essentially nothing else. Maybe the dungeons were good, but I honestly barely remember them over all the other poo poo that was wrong. The motion controls made all the combat encounters feel like a lovely finicky puzzle, the world felt completely lifeless and bland, and after twenty hours I could no longer loving deal with tutorial messages trying to tell me what a rupee was. Then BoTW was great and I was happy. In terms of good little things in games, I like Salvatore:   
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I liked the WW sailing because I use video games to chill out, not to chase a high score. Though I'm super glad they changed how the sail operated in the remakes. That was a good call.
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Sep 11, 2018 23:44
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skyward sword has one of my favorite zelda bosses ever and I never even played the game, as strange as that sounds. I just love everything about the Koloktos fight; his design, the sound effects they use, and that theme is just so amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NILL7ym2n1Q I thought nothing would beat the molgera theme but I'm glad I was proven wrong
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Sep 11, 2018 23:57
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Skyward Sword has a bunch if really fun parts and cool bosses. It's not as bad as everyone's decided but it is probably the weakest 3d Zelda
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I agree but then again I also like Malo
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I figure I must be extremely lucky as I never had an issue with the motion controls and really enjoyed Skyward Sword. I honestly don't remember the item descriptions thing at all too. Could they rerelease it on Switch or would that be impossible? Might be nice with some qol tweaks. I'm thinking it's probably best left as a pleasant memory though.
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Dewgy posted:After you beat Nupraptor, make absolutely sure to have Kain read off the item description for the key item you get from him. It’s magical. Seconding this. And thirding that you should do this with absolutely every item you get. I love it.
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Desperate Character posted:skyward sword has one of my favorite zelda bosses ever and I never even played the game, as strange as that sounds. I just love everything about the Koloktos fight; his design, the sound effects they use, and that theme is just so amazing. This reminds me that one of my favorite things in the 3D Zelda games are the boss intros with the unique titles.
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Inzombiac posted:Yeah, just compare most of the SNES library with the PS1. NES games look and play like poo poo but Super NES games still hold up. PS1 and N64 games look and play like poo poo but PS2 and Gamecube games still hold up. And honestly I don't think this is even a problem anymore. PS3/360 remakes onto current gen systems are 99% about making the game playable at all, it's not like there are massive improvements or anything. You just get the actual ability to play the game on your current console.
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Casey Finnigan posted:I also thought the sickly, alien audio and visual design for the twilight world was not the best choice. It ended up making large swathes of the game feel all grody and unappealing. Still a pretty good game in its own right, though. i mean this is kinda the point, TP was supposed to be kinda dark and creepy and a little ugly like malo isn't an accident
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Since people keep bringing it up: https://mobile.twitter.com/Mau2X15/status/1039234659157200901 I didn't think that anyone else could get close to J.K. Simmons' insane over the top portrayal of J Jonah Jameson in the Sam Raimi movies and like every adaptation ever, but this comes really close.
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ElwoodCuse posted:NES games look and play like poo poo but Super NES games still hold up. PS1 and N64 games look and play like poo poo but PS2 and Gamecube games still hold up. There are some amazing super Nintendo games that really impressed me with what they were able to do. There was like a BB gun turn based game and an f1 game where you could upgrade you car that were fantastic.
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Elfgames posted:i mean this is kinda the point, TP was supposed to be kinda dark and creepy and a little ugly like malo isn't an accident Just because it's intentional, doesn't mean it isn't weird and uncomfortable and not for everyone. I personally like it, I think that if Twilight Princess is the best Zelda at anything it's monster design and depiction of the otherworldly. But I won't really disagree if anybody says they don't like it, even I think it stands far better in Hyrule Warriors than Twilight Princess itself.
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John Murdoch posted:This reminds me that one of my favorite things in the 3D Zelda games are the boss intros with the unique titles. I’m pretty sure the last thing to go through my head before I die will be “Parasitic Armored Arachnid Gohma”. Arachnid-related, the web swinging in Spider-Man is so drat good. I spent an afternoon today just clearing out Ll the backpacks and landmarks because I was having so much fun zipping around New York. I also love that pretty much every Marvel-related building is in the game. Except the Baxter Building. Bussamove has a new favorite as of 11:53 on Sep 12, 2018 |
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I'm still very early in Yakuza 0, just did a substory (ie sidequest) called Password Protected. The way that substory ends... Oh Kiryu
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Spider-Man is a game that is gonna come up in this thread quite a bit. It oozes neat little detailsBussamove posted:Arachnid-related, the web swinging in Spider-Man is so drat good. I spent an afternoon today just clearing out Ll the backpacks and landmarks because I was having so much fun zipping around New York. That's basically my exact progress. I've only played it once so far but it was a long session and I ended up getting every tower and backpack and landmark and I had to tear myself away because it does "just do this last thing it'll be fun" so very well. I really like that you get different sound effects for running up buildings. It's normal most of the time but running up glass makes a hilarious squeaking sound. Also good, there are some buildings with Very Big Windows. And that you can do precision web swinging and gracefully zip about or you can point Spidey in the right direction and just hammer R2 and X and you'll still get there. Also also one of the powers sends out a bunch of decoys and they all start arguing over who is the real Spider-Man until one of them says "see, this is why we Don't Do Clones"
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Bussamove posted:I also love that pretty much every Marvel-related building is in the game. Except the Baxter Building. what the gently caress.
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Marvel games these days focus on MCU or at least things that Disney owns the movie rights for. Disney doesn't own movie rights for X-Men or Fantastic Four (at least until the Fox purchase goes through). So there are no references to them in newer games.
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I will buy DLC to put the Baxter Building in the game. Or Four Freedoms Plaza, I am not picky. As long as there is a giant number 4 on a building.
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Zanzibar Ham posted:I'm still very early in Yakuza 0, just did a substory (ie sidequest) called Password Protected. Speaking of Yakuza 0, Majima's Slugger style is a delight. All these years of beat 'em up games with weapon pickups and finally here's one that lets you just pull out a baseball bat whenever and wail on people. And he tends to meet the scum of the earth in his sidequests, too. e: all my Yakuza 0 posts end with that emote  It really is great, though. The past few months I was feeling a bit lukewarm about games in general, but I'm glued to this one.
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ElwoodCuse posted:NES games look and play like poo poo While you may be right about early 3d games looking like hot garbage, I will fight you on this one. There are plenty of good NES games that still have good gameplay and look fantastic. Super Mario Bros 2 and 3, Duck Tails, Rescue Rangers, Startropics, Dragon Warrior 2 and 3... dammit, now I want to play NES.
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ilmucche posted:There are some amazing super Nintendo games that really impressed me with what they were able to do. There was like a BB gun turn based game and an f1 game where you could upgrade you car that were fantastic. Tales of Phantasia, Star Ocean, Rockman & Forte all look fantastic, and the former two have ridiculously impressive scope: a large variety of detailed, animated enemy sprites, some limited voice acting (ToP even has a voiced J-Pop song), hectic realtime (albeit laggy) combat, and plenty of mechanical complexity. Arguably Star Ocean isn't a great game from a gameplay standpoint; its plot more or less disappears after the intro sequence. But it's a gorgeous game and does things that I would never have expected the SNES would be capable of.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Arguably Star Ocean isn't a great game from a gameplay standpoint; its plot more or less disappears after the intro sequence. That's the plot of every Star Ocean; five minutes of Star Trek followed by forty hours of fantasy-bullshit and some paedophilia.
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I remember Star Ocean 3(I think) opening with space opera stuff and seeming really cool, then the characters crash land on a low-tech planet and start running around with swords and magic and I didn't really bother to play it any further
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man, gently caress star ocean 3. i hate that game and i hate that i got sucked into its bullshit space opera opening and sunk over 100 hours into it thinking i'd get it back and it instead turning into a dimb meta mmorpg plot. cliff fittir ruled.
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Just navigated to the save point at the top of Nupraptor's lair in Blood Omen. Gonna do the boss later. I liked the design of the dungeon as it had interesting puzzles, like the 4 paths from the room with the Giant Brain, and also the fact that the shape of the skull is represented towards the top of the tower is a nice touch, especially seeing out of the eyes, and seeing from the right eye how Nosgoth looks to the average person and from the left eye how bad the decay has become. I also like that it goes from cave entrance -> living quarters -> Weird ritualistic skull rooms. It's a cool visual progression.
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I just started playing Overwatch again and there is a new hero that's a hamster piloting a giant ball mech. You can shoot out a harpoon to swing yourself like a giant wrecking ball. It's fun as hell because it lets you into areas that are normally only accessible to flying or teleporting characters. It is the closest I will get to playing the new Spider-Man game and it's breaking my heart.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:That's the plot of every Star Ocean; five minutes of Star Trek followed by forty hours of fantasy-bullshit and some paedophilia. I have no idea what you're talking about!
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Arguably Star Ocean isn't a great game from a gameplay standpoint; its plot more or less disappears after the intro sequence. But it's a gorgeous game and does things that I would never have expected the SNES would be capable of. Uses a custom chip, it's not really a vanilla SNES game (same thing with Tales of Phantasia)
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Which would explain why it was so hard to emulate for a long while.
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ookiimarukochan posted:Uses a custom chip, it's not really a vanilla SNES game (same thing with Tales of Phantasia) Don't many NES/SNES games use custom chips at some level? E.g. if you try to use a NES without a mapper (of which there were many implementations), your game is limited to something like 8kB. More exotic expansions are a bit more rare, but hardly unheard-of. Castlevania III had a custom audio processor, and there's the SuperFX chip used by Star Fox and Yoshi's Island.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Einhander still looks pretty fantastic, and it's realistic to the extent that a game with sci-fi warmachines can be. With how many indie games there are across every genre now with increasingly good production values, it’s crazy that no one’s tried to make a spiritual sequel to einhander yet
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Nupraptor's head has a pretty funny description. Thanks for the tip of listening to it. Next comes Malek!
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