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Nov 9, 2018 14:56
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I know 1-2 of the AC games had the stereotypical annoying douche english guy making GBS threads up a bunch of the codex entries, like ah yes, I love characters from the metaplot that I try very hard to ignore being forced into the usually cool little history snippet entries, very nice thank you ubisoft.
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Nov 9, 2018 14:57
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Ugly In The Morning posted:You meet the (very unhinged) dude that writes the entries later in the game and it all makes sense.
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Nov 9, 2018 14:58
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Simply Simon posted:Far Cry 3? The bow is one of the best weapons in the game when upgraded IMO. I still carry a sniper rifle and a mid range assault gun for if I need to go loud or see heavies, but when you're sneaking around the bow covers both roles and then some - between that and takedowns I could clear camps without having to stop for breath.
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Nov 9, 2018 15:26
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FC3:Blood Dragon chopped out all the crafting poo poo and replaced it with laser-shooting dinosaurs, which is a good substitution imo. Any bow shooting where you have to lead and lift to get a long shot makes you feel like king poo poo when you pull it off, more of this in games pls.
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Nov 9, 2018 15:37
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MisterBibs posted:e: oh yeah, and there's a really annoying-as-poo poo bug in Blast Pit. You know how the tried-and-true way of distracting the tentacles was throwing a grenade? Doesn't work any more because the game treats you throwing a grenade as a sound that the tentacles can hear. Oh gently caress is that what the issue has been? Whenever I play through I just loving noclip/godmode past them because it's so frustrating. Hopefully the big Xen update (haha like that'll ever happen) fixes it.
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Yardbomb posted:I know 1-2 of the AC games had the stereotypical annoying douche english guy making GBS threads up a bunch of the codex entries, like ah yes, I love characters from the metaplot that I try very hard to ignore being forced into the usually cool little history snippet entries, very nice thank you ubisoft. Totally redeemed in AC:Syndicate, however, with the beer descriptions, as well as some of the weapons, my favorite being the Jaw Tenderizer, a hand-crafted, artisanal piece of wood what got nails in.
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Nov 9, 2018 16:00
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I'd say all the gear's good for variety. I started off sniping each outpost with a silenced rifle, but that gets boring, so then I could switch to getting in closer and take them out with a bow, then stealthing around with just the knife, then going rambo with the biggest machinegun I could carry. It's pretty easy to just find something optimal and play the whole game that way, but the variety gives the game some more longevity it would otherwise be missing.
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Nov 9, 2018 16:00
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There's a mod for Far Cry 4 (and probably for 3) that unlocks the whole skill tree from the beginning. Made replaying much more fun.
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An aspect of Arkham Origins that I liked was the writing, like when you save the girl from the Mad Hatter and his exchange happens: "It's over... everything's going to be ok." "No... it won't  "They don't dwell on it, or explore it, just a small implication that you were just a little too late. It's a shame the collectible text stories in the series are so poorly written, because the games themselves are fine if a little overly theatrical IMO. The Text stories are so overwrought that you just get bored of all the rape and child murder. They just aren't fun to read.
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ro5s posted:I'd say all the gear's good for variety. I started off sniping each outpost with a silenced rifle, but that gets boring, so then I could switch to getting in closer and take them out with a bow, then stealthing around with just the knife, then going rambo with the biggest machinegun I could carry. Also, I just played a session and found a memory card which was like "we developed this super drug we're gonna sell on the eastern european market despite its side effect: it makes people poo poo from their dick! lol!"
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Simply Simon posted:Oh, I do switch playstyles all the time! Maybe the bow was a bad example. My bigger issue is that there's three SMGs in the shop where one is obviously the best (like, one of the other ones has "is mediocre" in its description), but all of them are outclassed by the signature weapon you unlock with a quest. And again, I unlocked all of that one fourth of the way through the game (counting by radio towers/outposts gotten). Why ever use anything but the signature thing? I wound up not using the signature weapons because they were all ugly as hell. They had the paint job equivalent of a brand new tribal barbed wire tattoo around a 46 year old recently divorced dad's synthol bicep.
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Nov 9, 2018 20:26
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I didn't play more than 5 hours of Shadow of Mordor and I hated how the player-character is thinly-disguised Aragorn clone in a bog-standard revenge-story. Shadow of War fixed this so well, mostly by making him just a good dude who actually has a motivation, ie, the very big very bad thing is waking up and maybe I can stop it if I'm lucky.
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Simply Simon posted:Oh, I do switch playstyles all the time! Maybe the bow was a bad example. My bigger issue is that there's three SMGs in the shop where one is obviously the best (like, one of the other ones has "is mediocre" in its description), but all of them are outclassed by the signature weapon you unlock with a quest. And again, I unlocked all of that one fourth of the way through the game (counting by radio towers/outposts gotten). Why ever use anything but the signature thing? Krokadil is a real drug, and really does cause limb and tissue necropsy. There are over a million estimated users in Russia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desomorphine
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Olaf The Stout posted:Krokadil is a real drug, and really does cause limb and tissue necropsy. There are over a million estimated users in Russia.
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Companies like Ubisoft that realised that voice logs are cheaper than fully animated scenes so you get to collect a shitload and they're all twice as long as they should be.
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Something that always drove me crazy in Civ 5 is how city/terrain/resource generation works. To maximize resources you want to settle cities within 3 tiles of as many resources as possible, almost completely disregarding rivers/coastline/defensibility. The way the game generates terrain mean its not at all uncommon to settle one tile away from the coast because you can reach a few more resources that way, when in real life the vast majority of cities are located right next to water. This also affects your naval projection because you can only build ships from cities right on the coastline, so that's another consideration of whether you want to project naval power on that coast or would you rather have a city that doesn't suck.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I didn't play more than 5 hours of Shadow of Mordor and I hated how the player-character is thinly-disguised Aragorn clone in a bog-standard revenge-story. Weird how that is incredibly obvious but they tried to muffle it a bit in a random dialogue where he claims boldly that he has no Numenor blood running in his veins and cared little for Gondor and everything related to it.
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Nov 9, 2018 22:49
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Yardbomb posted:Genji and Tracer having been allowed to remain as stupid as they were (And still are in Tracer's case) for so long makes me really not put much faith in this idea.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I didn't play more than 5 hours of Shadow of Mordor and I hated how the player-character is thinly-disguised Aragorn clone in a bog-standard revenge-story.
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I always found genji and widow the most egregious cases of escape mechanics. Mostly since skilled players of both would decide matches on their own.
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Nov 9, 2018 23:20
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Simply Simon posted:I know that, but get this: the "poo poo from their dick" is a quote (okay, "fecal matter" would be), not an exaggeration, that's my issue. No it's not. Here's the quote closes to what you are describing: “Our Russian contact remains an asset of dubious value. We now have data on the manufacture of this meth-like substance. It generates extreme, cheap highs but also causes severe tissue damage. Users are known to have muscle and bone exposed from injecting krokodil, forcing the amputation of limbs. Markets are exclusively Eastern European, with the side effects too extreme to consider for worldwide distribution.” Here's a complete list of all the memory card quotes: https://vgfaq.com/far-cry-3-memory-cards-locations-guide/
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Quote-Unquote posted:I love playing healer/support class. My favourite character by far in City of Heroes was my defender, who hovered about (literally) buffing and healing the team, periodically shooting exploding arrows into the fray when everything else was cooling down. CoH's take on support classes is still a high water mark. That said, power creep, bad balance, and godawful endgame design combined to ultimately make a lot of them worthless.
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“The recent acquisition of numerous drug patents that failed FDA or European Medicines Agency standards shows promise. Most of the compounds are highly addictive. We just need to minimize the side effects. One of the compound is causing test subjects to expel a fecal-like material from their urinary tracts. Further testing continues.” Excuse me for conflating the Eastern European thing with this one, I guess  ? My point is that the whole game's writing is crass and often disgusting just for the sake of being disgusting like this, and I'm not buying the "that's the point" thing. Like, I get that the drug dealers are evil. And that everyone is terrible. It's just not funny or clever.
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Simply Simon posted:My point is that the whole game's writing is crass and often disgusting just for the sake of being disgusting Welcome to FarCry, hope you make a better purchase next time.
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Is FC5 more of the same? I’ve played all the others and liked the core gameplay if not the story beats overall.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Is FC5 more of the same? I’ve played all the others and liked the core gameplay if not the story beats overall. Honestly its worse if only because the villains aren't even half as charismatic.
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Samuringa posted:Welcome to FarCry, hope you make a better purchase next time. Simply Simon posted:I'm currently finally playing Far Cry 3 after a friend gifted it to me like years ago 
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marshmallow creep posted:Honestly its worse if only because the villains aren't even half as charismatic. Every time I go to play FarCry 5, I have no memory of it until I start playing it. Then I remember that only the bad guy is half decent. If I could just play without plot or missions, it might be fun.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Is FC5 more of the same? I’ve played all the others and liked the core gameplay if not the story beats overall. FC5 is considerably worse than 3 and 4, since it forgot that the series traded heavily on charismatically evil villains. e: not to mention that in a series not known for writing actually coherent or plausible stories to begin with, it poo poo the bed to a catastrophic degree in that regard anyway RyokoTK has a new favorite as of 00:43 on Nov 10, 2018 |
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RyokoTK posted:FC5 is considerably worse than 3 and 4, since it forgot that the series traded heavily on charismatically evil villains. Far Cry 4's biggest sin is that it's too short, and doesn't have a villain. Your bus gets shot up, the leader executes the guy who did it, has you over for supper, executes the terrorist spy, then you have shrimp ragoo for 15 minutes until he returns and explains the whole plot. Bit of a letdown, really. But hey, it's not like a wannabe drug lord or child-marrying cultist are ruling the country or anything.
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I wasn’t forgetting how terrible the phony rear end moral choice was between “pedophile advocate” and “drug lord” when I said FC5 was worse.
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Samuringa posted:Welcome to FarCry, hope you make a better purchase next time. The preceding far cry game wasn't written that way though.
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Gauntlet Dark Legends: The powerups you can buy from the shop only ever last for one minute, meaning you are wasting money if you don't save up for the permanent stat increases.
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2 was the best far cry. Fight me. I loved navigating by looking down at a map while driving and switching out guns as they wore down. The malaria thing was a misstep but it was the game that really delivered on an open world where everything was out to get you with moments of beauty and some real fun exploration added in. I did play on PC with save anywhere, though. I can’t imagine doing it on console with limited save locations.
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Instincts Predator was the best FarCry. Fight me!
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Blood Sally posted:Instincts Predator was the best FarCry. Fight me! I actually never played the console revisions of FC1 but it seemed like a lot of them went in directions that were really cool. FC1 had a really good thing going (once they patched in quicksaving) that got ruined by trigens. The fact crytech didn’t learn their lesson with the aliens in Crysis was kind of dumb, but Crysis 2 absolutely delivered on the promise of Far Cry.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:2 was the best far cry. Fight me. 2 definitely had some significant faults and I never actually finished the story because I always end up getting bored but I think it's still my favorite Far Cry too. It's a very experimental game and I respect the heck out of those sorts.
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Away all Goats posted:Something that always drove me crazy in Civ 5 is how city/terrain/resource generation works. One of my favorite mods for Civ (5 I think?) added outposts you could build on resources that'd give you their benefits even if they weren't in your city's collection area. Attestant posted:I always found genji and widow the most egregious cases of escape mechanics. Mostly since skilled players of both would decide matches on their own. Boiled down, that's my issue, yeah. There's more than a few characters in OW where unless someone on the other team either a: plays that character better or b: can play one of their few 'hard' counters better, they win. Good pharahs in low silver are my bane because I can't aim for poo poo, and if nobody else on the team can then we just lose because there's no countering a good one because they won't let themselves get into a situation where anything other than a good hitscan shooter can stop them.  My favorite Far Cry game was Blood Dragon because it was still a stupid loving story, but one done in a way I enjoy. The other ones since FC3 started the formula just feel edgy for the sake of it, because ~edgy~ is what makes a game Mature For Mature Gamers, which sucks because they have genuinely fun gameplay cycles imo. Also Crysis 2 and 3 were actually really fun, fight me.
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