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I am a huge fan of that aspect of the Imperial Guard. I think it was Dawn Of War where I was sending wave after wave of guardsmen to hold the enemy while I obliterated friend and foe alike with artillery strikes.
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Made me feel powerful and in control of my life
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Oct 27, 2018 07:43
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Schneider Inside Her posted:Made me feel powerful and in control of my life I wouldn't know what this is like to compare it to.
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Oct 27, 2018 07:45
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Schneider Inside Her posted:I am a huge fan of that aspect of the Imperial Guard. I think it was Dawn Of War where I was sending wave after wave of guardsmen to hold the enemy while I obliterated friend and foe alike with artillery strikes. Sadly, despite being on their faction preview page as one of their big advantages, the Guard's artillery in Gladius isn't very impressive. For a one-unit-per-tile 4X (think the recent Civilization games), basilisks have an utterly ridiculous range and don't even need LOS to fire as long as some unit can see the enemy, but they deal surprisingly little damage to hard targets. They mostly seem effective at loving up infantry, though bringing a bunch to sit in the back with their ludicrously long range can grind down structures and vehicles if you're patient. Necron artillery is far more potent despite having 'merely' a three tile range on the doomsday ark. I've found myself mainly using a screen of Guardsmen to go in ahead of the tanks and aircraft to scout and soak up anti-vehicle weapons, but most of my damage has been coming from leman russes and hydras. Funny quirk about the Guard: they get the Tank Commander hero unit in his personally customized Leman Russ a full tech tier before they can get normal russes. Another thing I like is that for the two races I've played, their settler unit is useful for more than just settling cities and is a valuable support unit. Tomb spiders are a respectable combat vehicle in their own right, much more durable than the Necrons' other early vehicle, and can be upgraded to protect nearby units from psychic powers and repair vehicles (including themselves!). Techpriests can also repair vehicles, but they can also buff friendly vehicles as well. Cythereal has a new favorite as of 14:53 on Oct 27, 2018 |
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Oct 27, 2018 14:36
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Lobok posted:Next greatest change is pants optional. It's not like game characters get cold often. And NPCs seem to never care about what I'm wearing. Plus I can hold more stuff on me than a U-Haul. Why wear pants? 
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Oct 27, 2018 21:06
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Ok but no socks is going way too far.
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Oct 27, 2018 21:18
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You always remove your socks first. Otherwise there's a nonzero chance you end up as a naked person in socks, and that's unacceptable.
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Oct 27, 2018 21:22
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Queen Combat posted:You always remove your socks first. Otherwise there's a nonzero chance you end up as a naked person in socks, and that's unacceptable. If you have socks on, you are not naked
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Oct 27, 2018 21:51
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jivjov posted:If you have socks on, you are not naked Now I know what to do to impress my date next time we have dinner!
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Oct 27, 2018 21:54
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jivjov posted:If you have socks on, you are not naked I already tried this one with the cops. Doesn't work.
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Oct 27, 2018 22:00
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jivjov posted:If you have socks on, you are not naked
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Schneider Inside Her posted:I am a huge fan of that aspect of the Imperial Guard. I think it was Dawn Of War where I was sending wave after wave of guardsmen to hold the enemy while I obliterated friend and foe alike with artillery strikes. I've always liked the fact that the Imperial Guard is just a bunch of totally regular dudes. Like there's some genetically engineered super soldiers over there, a walking fungus that reproduces by dying so they just fight absolutely everything all the time including each other, degenerate space elves, ancient machines that loving hate life and scour the universe of it from time to time, the all consuming bug horde... and then just like these dudes with tanks. This guy's name is Joe. His father was an accountant and he loads artillery shells into a basilisk. He isn't psychic, he isn't nine feet tall, he isn't a mutant, and he isn't special in any way. However he brought like eight million of his friends and enough tanks to flatten a city.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I've always liked the fact that the Imperial Guard is just a bunch of totally regular dudes. Like there's some genetically engineered super soldiers over there, a walking fungus that reproduces by dying so they just fight absolutely everything all the time including each other, degenerate space elves, ancient machines that loving hate life and scour the universe of it from time to time, the all consuming bug horde... Still, one other thing I like about Gladius is that playing the Guard, if you read your tech and building descriptions, never fails to remind you that these are not good guys. These guys are bigger fascists than the Nazis were.
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Oct 28, 2018 01:43
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Queen Combat posted:I already tried this one with the cops. Doesn't work. Holy poo poo your avatars are in sync! Cythereal posted:Still, one other thing I like about Gladius is that playing the Guard, if you read your tech and building descriptions, never fails to remind you that these are not good guys. These guys are bigger fascists than the Nazis were. 
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Oct 28, 2018 05:40
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One reason I'm glad the Necrons somehow made it into Gladius as playable. When it's down to space undead versus space Nazis, I'm rooting for the robo-skeletons.
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Oct 28, 2018 06:02
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Cythereal posted:One reason I'm glad the Necrons somehow made it into Gladius as playable. When it's down to space undead versus space Nazis, I'm rooting for the robo-skeletons. The Imperium is what the Space Force is meant to become.
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Oct 28, 2018 06:06
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Deus Ex: Personally, I like the soundtrack of the game. It's techno, but understated in such a way that (with the exception of combat music) it's relaxing and puts you in the frame of mind to solve a puzzle. Solving puzzles is pretty much what the missions are about, after all. That being said, I do appreciate that the game 1) gives you a rocket launcher and 2) acknowledges that you can use it to bypass locked safes, laser hallways, and some puzzles by blowing them up. I think I destroyed more architecture and safes than actual enemies with the thing so far.
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Pooncha posted:Deus Ex: Personally, I like the soundtrack of the game. It's techno, but understated in such a way that (with the exception of combat music) it's relaxing and puts you in the frame of mind to solve a puzzle. Solving puzzles is pretty much what the missions are about, after all. It's funny, because System Shock 2 is a similar style of game, but its music, while being really good in and of itself, doesn't fit the suspenseful nature of the game. Talking about little things in SS2, I enjoyed all the item descriptions they had. My favorite was finding a room with crates full of life preservers, and the description explaining that due to outdated regulations, all ships needed life preservers, so they just shoved them all in some room.
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Oct 28, 2018 18:18
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Cythereal posted:Still, one other thing I like about Gladius is that playing the Guard, if you read your tech and building descriptions, never fails to remind you that these are not good guys. These guys are bigger fascists than the Nazis were. It fits the setting as it isn't saying "the Imperium is good, they are the good guys, you should like them" it's saying "absolutely everything is loving awful." The Tau were introduced to be The Good Guys but that just plain didn't fit the setting so they were made Actually Not Good. I mean the robo skeletons want to exterminate every shred of life they can find and periodically wake up to murder absolutely everything so they aren't exactly nice either.
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Oct 28, 2018 18:48
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The orks are brutal cannibalistic psychopaths that infest every world they come across with their spores and live for nothing but murder and war, eventually turning on one another until the next target comes into view. And they're the comic relief.
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Oct 28, 2018 18:54
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I love that the Tyranids despite being a galaxy-devouring hell swarm are possibly the least evil faction in the game. They're not evil, they're just hungry
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Oct 28, 2018 22:20
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Screaming Idiot posted:The orks are brutal cannibalistic psychopaths that infest every world they come across with their spores and live for nothing but murder and war, eventually turning on one another until the next target comes into view. They are also weirdly psychic and almost none of them know it. If they believe something hard enough, it becomes real. That's why they paint their vehicles red, so they go faster. There's a story where an Ork warrior held off hundreds of Marines with an enormous chaingun they never ran out of ammo. Once he was finally killed, they found that his "gun" was just a metal tube with a box of loose bolts taped to the side. Fuckin love Orks.
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Oct 28, 2018 22:29
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I just finished the main story in Super Mario Odyssey, and it's incredible just how polished this game is. They keep adding mechanics right until the end, but they have enough stealth tutorials that you're never in doubt as to what to do.
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Oct 28, 2018 22:30
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Gann Jerrod posted:It's funny, because System Shock 2 is a similar style of game, but its music, while being really good in and of itself, doesn't fit the suspenseful nature of the game. System Shock 2's descriptions are pretty nice hidden gems, and provide some worldbuilding to boot.
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Oct 28, 2018 22:36
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ToxicSlurpee posted:It fits the setting as it isn't saying "the Imperium is good, they are the good guys, you should like them" it's saying "absolutely everything is loving awful." The Tau were introduced to be The Good Guys but that just plain didn't fit the setting so they were made Actually Not Good. And yet, they're killing space mega-Nazis. I can't fault anyone for killing space mega-Nazis.
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Oct 28, 2018 23:03
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I'm playing through Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and oh my god is it even better than I remember! So many little things, like watching a bird raise its babies to adulthood, the faerie familiar sitting on Alucard's shoulder while he snoozes on a chair, a priest giving Alucard "grape juice" at a confessional, an owl knight mourning his lost companion if you kill his pet owl... Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is the best Metroidvania game. Period. End of story. None better. Metroid can suck it, Megaman ZX/ZXA can go gently caress itself, the later Castlevanias are pale clones, SOTN is it.
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Screaming Idiot posted:I'm playing through Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and oh my god is it even better than I remember! So many little things, like watching a bird raise its babies to adulthood, the faerie familiar sitting on Alucard's shoulder while he snoozes on a chair, a priest giving Alucard "grape juice" at a confessional, an owl knight mourning his lost companion if you kill his pet owl... It also has the best video game item. A pair of boots that do absolutely nothing except increase Alucard's height by 1 pixel.
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Oct 28, 2018 23:14
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also some of the statues got they dicks out
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Yugioh World Tournament 2010: During a Turbo Duel, the music speeds up when you have seven or more speed counters.
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Oct 28, 2018 23:18
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I mean the robo skeletons want to exterminate every shred of life they can find and periodically wake up to murder absolutely everything so they aren't exactly nice either. The later books retconned the necrons to be more like their fantasy counterparts the tomb kings, they're completely unrecognisable from that as a faction now. Hell I think they're probably one of the most likely groups to actually ally (occasionally) with the imperials now.
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I think I'm getting weird these days, because I find myself enjoying good sound design a lot more than I used to. Finally getting to the US DLC for Bomber Crew and man I forgot how good the game sounds. Little radio noises for chatter from your crew and the boss back at base, the chattering of the machine guns, all overlaid nicely by the drone of your engines. The base campaign also has the fun of flying in the rain and hear it ping and patter over your plane.
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Disproportionation posted:The later books retconned the necrons to be more like their fantasy counterparts the tomb kings, they're completely unrecognisable from that as a faction now. And it's a shame, because it's the old Necrons who got me interested in 40k as a setting. The Necron re-do all but completely killed my interest in the setting. I just have a weakness for 4X games. Fortunately, Gladius has no diplomacy system of any kind so everyone hates everyone and it's a battle to the death. As it should be.
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Mikl posted:I just finished the main story in Super Mario Odyssey, and it's incredible just how polished this game is. They keep adding mechanics right until the end, but they have enough stealth tutorials that you're never in doubt as to what to do. Now the tutorial is over and the real fun begins with the post-game moons  .
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ShootaBoy posted:I think I'm getting weird these days, because I find myself enjoying good sound design a lot more than I used to. Finally getting to the US DLC for Bomber Crew and man I forgot how good the game sounds. Little radio noises for chatter from your crew and the boss back at base, the chattering of the machine guns, all overlaid nicely by the drone of your engines. The base campaign also has the fun of flying in the rain and hear it ping and patter over your plane. Say what you will about DICE games but they always nail the sound design 100%. It’s both immersive and really useful since I can hear footsteps and other useful information with it.
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Screaming Idiot posted:Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is the best Metroidvania game. Period. End of story. None better. Metroid can suck it, Megaman ZX/ZXA can go gently caress itself, the later Castlevanias are pale clones, SOTN is it. Hollow Knight.
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Oct 29, 2018 02:49
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Just Offscreen posted:Hollow Knight. INFERIOR.
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Oct 29, 2018 02:51
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sotn is a thousand times better than hollow knight because it actually has a reasonable map system
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Oct 29, 2018 02:52
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Overwatch Porn posted:sotn is a thousand times better than hollow knight because it actually has a reasonable map system Cornifer is doing his best, okay?
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Screaming Idiot posted:INFERIOR. You can enjoy both you know.
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i haven't played much hollow knight but sotn doesn't have anything as cute as that singing mining bug, so it's pretty obvious which one is the winner here
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