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XCOM 2 released a free legacy pack that's about what Bradford was up to before XCOM 2 after you lose XCOM 1, and put in some free soundtracks. One of them is a remix of UFO Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbftQpzIyUk Interceptor is an update of the music that'd play when your Interceptors do their thing against the UFOs. My little thing is I love that the song kicks off with the fighter jet scrambling and launching from the base. The whole thing is hitting peak 90s. The whole expansion has cute little touches though. At one point you scavenge parts off of a downed UFO and in front of it is a tiny fighter. If you look closer at the smaller one it has the XCOM logo on it - it's the Firestorm you build in Enemy Unknown (somehow)!
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Mikl posted:Zelda BOTW: I'm in a volcano. There's fire everywhere. A dude is trapped in a cave. So I take out my bow, select the bomb arrows... And the bow blows up in my face, killing me. (What the hell did I think would happen, using high explosives in a lake of lava?) I just finished that game. Got all the shrines, did all the sidequests, etc. Was super good, and just so full of little things like that. One of my favorite useful things was that later in the game when the elemental weapons start showing up, you could equip one of the fire ones and use it to start campfires and light torches and such. But the other useful little thing is just by having it equipped you could stand by the ice chunks and they would melt, you didn't have to bother with a fire or a torch or whatever. Knowing that game I'd bet having a fire arrow out would probably melt it too. Very useful for that one shrine high up in the mountains that's in a good location but a pain in the rear end because it's always iced in.
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RBA Starblade posted:XCOM 2 released a free legacy pack that's about what Bradford was up to before XCOM 2 after you lose XCOM 1, and put in some free soundtracks. One of them is a remix of UFO Defense: My only problem with that song (which is great) is that since there are no interceptor missions in XCOM 2, when you use the UFO Defense soundtrack, that song plays while you are outfitting your team and seems to be much louder than the other songs on that soundtrack, so I get "race off to kick rear end music" beating me in the ears while I'm trying to make careful preparations.
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Frush posted:I just finished that game. Got all the shrines, did all the sidequests, etc. Was super good, and just so full of little things like that. The interact-able systems within BotW are so great. The speedrunners have started buying and collecting wood, then making a 5-stack of wood campfires, because they put out a large updraft you can jump into and glide upwards and get a ton of air, and sequence-break the game.
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You can just dump chunks of flint on pressure plates instead of standing on them.
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I like that Read Only Memories let's you to poo poo on your annoying companion robot until it hates your guts. Also the antagonist at the end is actually unsettling and creepy (good sound design helps) which is a rare thing to see in an adventure game. Too bad that pretty much all the other characters and dialogues are lame.
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Is that literally "poo poo on" or do you mean " be very rude to"?
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Nostradingus posted:You can just dump chunks of flint on pressure plates instead of standing on them. You can also drop metal weapons in a couple shrines with electric puzzles and use them to complete circuits.
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Nostradingus posted:You can just dump chunks of flint on pressure plates instead of standing on them. Olaf The Stout posted:You can also drop metal weapons in a couple shrines with electric puzzles and use them to complete circuits. You can combine these approaches and drop weapons on pressure plates to open them! Olaf The Stout posted:The interact-able systems within BotW are so great. The speedrunners have started buying and collecting wood, then making a 5-stack of wood campfires, because they put out a large updraft you can jump into and glide upwards and get a ton of air, and sequence-break the game. This I didn't know. I could've used that a few times for certain. In general the game is notable for having solid mechanics and kind of building the world to fit with the tools you have to interact with it. Honestly in some ways I think its a bit of a waste to brand it as a Zelda game; while it's a fantastic game and one of the better Zelda games it could have been a really cool new IP of some kind on its own merits. Another thing I'll point out was the soundtrack. Every town has it's own theme, I heard different themes when fighting different monsters, there's nods to the classical motifs all over etc. It's just a fantastic listen and worth listening to as you play. I also really liked (Spoiler for when you beat all the shrines) that Kass, the musician bird person who give you hints about various shrines in the form of rhyming verse, goes home to his family after you get all the shrines. When you talk to him he recognizes you're the hero of legend since you went and solved the ancient hints that were written for you.
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Olaf The Stout posted:Here's a fun one: Neverhood also had a fun one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUX8O6LMv9A
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Johnny Aztec posted:Is that literally "poo poo on" or do you mean " be very rude to"? Not literally, sadly.
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Thousand Year Door also let you agree to join the main villain partway through the final boss fight for an instant game over. I'm about 3 bosses into Megaman 11 and just discovered the gallery, which seems to unlock gradually based on what bosses you've beaten. Block man has about 50 lines, or around double the other bosses, I assume just to fit in the number of brick puns he keeps laying down. Impact man talks in this really loud and overdramatic way that I assumed was either in contrast to him being the most blocky/basic looking or because he has the closest weapon to a knight's sword. Gallery says he's made up of 3 drill robots combined, the black one forms the body and head. Motherfucker is a voltron reference.
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Impact Man is also a hazard in his own stage, those three parts are the things attacking you in lines throughout the level.
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Alhazred posted:Neverhood also had a fun one: I never got far into that game, but gently caress that long hallway
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Suikoden 3 has the weakest war battles in the series but I discovered during todays stream by Konami that bosses aren't immune to spells that cause instant death. Cue the insanely hard to hit and hard hitting Yuber being killed by a Funeral Wind from a pretty awful spellcaster which instantly ends the war battl.e
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Fist of the North Star Lost Paradise: Despite me starting to burn out on the game at the point where it wants me to find Jagi, I gotta give them credit; it was nice that the Thouzer fight was cool. Kyo-Oh's army invades and they start wrecking up the place, you got to the cabaret bar to save the mayor and have a boss fight with him. But the dude's super tough and your attacks bounce off of him more than half the time. Once you get him down to 75% health Kenshiro announces that he's figured out the trick here and then he just turns into a normal boss. For some reason Thouzer's internal organs are all reversed. So Hokuto Shinken- a pressure point focused martial art style- pretty much doesn't work on him till that revelation.
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RareAcumen posted:For some reason Thouzer's internal organs are all reversed. It's a real condition
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And it's also a reference to the original Fist of the North Star anime.
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Also a plot point in the last mission (named Situs Inversus funnily enough) in Hitman 2016. One of your targets has the condition and is on the operating table for a heart transplant. You can assassinate him by throwing the donor heart in a trash can since the chance of them finding another reverse heart in time is miniscule
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Winklebottom posted:Also a plot point in the last mission (named Situs Inversus funnily enough) in Hitman 2016. One of your targets has the condition and is on the operating table for a heart transplant. You can assassinate him by throwing the donor heart in a trash can since the chance of them finding another reverse heart in time is miniscule Funny thing, for situs inversus organ transplants, a SI donor isn't actually required: https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/reversed-organs-miracle-heart-transplant-man-situs-inversus/story?id=8629850
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Can't you just like, turn turn the heart around
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"And the new #1 track this week on the Countdown is...!"Calaveron posted:turn turn the heart around
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Not exactly, for the same reason you can't turn computer parts to face the other way. The left and right alignment would be fixed but everything that would be on the back would be on the front now and so on.
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...Oh poo poo yeah, right. Wasn't there like a Sherlock Holmes story that was resolved that way? I feel like there was some kind of mystery story where that turned out to be the solution. Mikl posted:And it's also a reference to the original Fist of the North Star anime. Yeah and I've been spending the better part of the last ten hours blowing people up by jabbing them in a pressure point so I just thought this was a random condition this guy had that made for a good antagonist shield.
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Crusader Kings 2 has the best patch notes.quote:Hopefully fixed the Children's Crusade still getting stuck at Genoa, stacking ludicrous amounts of event troops and then obliterating Islam.
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Lesbian rulers? What loving sjw trash. Crusader kinds always sounds like such a cool impenetrable game
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ilmucche posted:Lesbian rulers? What loving sjw trash. It's mainly impenetrable if you want to break the game over your knee, there's countless shenanigans you can peruse if you want to do this:  On the other hand I once had a game where Joan of Arc became queen of England and was sleeping with Maid Marian, then they both converted to Norse paganism and one of Joan's last acts in life was to ritually sacrifice the Pope to the Aesir, after taking him prisoner in a raid that sacked Rome.
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Games that are way more fun to read about than actually play: -Crusader Kings 2 -Dwarf Fortress -EVE
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How does it work for when a leader dies? Your character is sort of the court advisor or whatever who lives for generations, but when a leader dies and the territory is split, how does the game decide which piece is now yours?
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ilmucche posted:How does it work for when a leader dies? Your character is sort of the court advisor or whatever who lives for generations, but when a leader dies and the territory is split, how does the game decide which piece is now yours? Your character is the head of your bloodline. When they die, you switch to the next in line. Who that is depends on your succession laws and how many kids, if any, you have. A prominent part of the game is trying to make sure the right kid inherits - and not, say, the deformed, mentally retarded imbecile who is both your son and your uncle because your character got drunk at a festival and gave his mother a good tumble. Cause if you have elective succession, you just know your vassals will vote for that kid and not your military genius son whose wife is a brilliant spymaster. One common recourse in such times is for your unsuitable potential heir to suffer a fatal accident. You are not your court advisor, those are NPCs and range the gamut from loyal friends to treacherous bastards. Cythereal has a new favorite as of 18:03 on Dec 6, 2018 |
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ilmucche posted:How does it work for when a leader dies? Your character is sort of the court advisor or whatever who lives for generations, but when a leader dies and the territory is split, how does the game decide which piece is now yours? Your character is the head of a dynasty, whether you’re Count No-one of Nowheresburgh or Byzantine Emperor depends on who you start as and how good you are at playing. Exactly what happens when you die depends on crown laws, there’s a bunch of different inheritance laws ranging from “the nobility votes on who gets what,” “the land is split between all eligible heirs,” or “oldest son gets everything. That again depends on everything from what kingdom you’re in, your character’s culture, religion, how much effort you invest in changing them, etc
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And it should be emphasized: arranging the murder of your own kids in Crusader Kings 2 is not only an option, it's genuinely useful at times. Or, if you're the Byzantines, you can settle for blinding and/or castrating them instead. You may also occasionally find yourself ordering the assassination of your child's spouse because they married someone for love who has terrible stats and/or no useful claims. 
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What is that, a screencap for ants?
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Johnny Aztec posted:What is that, a screencap for ants? It's imgur. You can open it in a new tab to see it full size.
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Cythereal posted:It's imgur. You can open it in a new tab to see it full size. TIMG tagged images on the forum can be expanded to "forum" size by clicking on the image, meaning that they'll expand up to a maximum width of 900px, to avoid breaking tables If you click on the actual resolution in the top left when expanding it, however, it'll expand to the image's full size, tables be damned. Or you can open it in a new tab, either way.
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Olesh posted:If you click on the actual resolution in the top left when expanding it, however, it'll expand to the image's full size, tables be damned. This hasn't worked for me in a very long time (Safari), does it work right now for other browsers?
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Is that the one where your spymaster uncovers your spymaster's plot to assassinate your spymaster?
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My Lovely Horse posted:Is that the one where your spymaster uncovers your spymaster's plot to assassinate your spymaster? Yes! But that screenshot is actually showing a bug in the games name choosing algorithm that is long since fixed.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Is that the one where your spymaster uncovers your spymaster's plot to assassinate your spymaster? Recursive betrayal is a time-honored tradition, especially among viziers.
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