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Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
That he gets disbarred after all that and spends years in disgrace doesn't help his rep either, and it actually plays into the plot of Dual Destinies when the legal system is a widely distrusted corrupt mess.

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Sardonik
Jul 1, 2005

if you like my dumb posts, you'll love my dumb youtube channel

Colonel Cancer posted:

Roleplay how you want, and enjoy what you get
Not possible with that particular ending. :colbert:

Poor Ciri, thought of Geralt and died

Snow Cone Capone
Jul 31, 2003


veni veni veni posted:

The funniest part is that Sony themselves have already offered plenty of better, modern ways to play PSX games. You could buy a Vita, PS3 or PS TV for less and they actually do other things as well as have a much better selection of good PSX games.

I don't even really get who the target market for the PS Classic it's supposed to be. With Nintendo at least you have this really broad appeal. With Playstation I feel like anyone actually interested already has better ways to play those games. The only thing I can think of is like, 18 year old that find it really novel. They probably don't give a gently caress either though.

Hell even the PS1 games they officially released for the PSP work fine, and IIRC the PSP will play any PS1 ISO if you softmod it.

Personally I use it as a GBA/SNES emulator on the go.

Barudak posted:

The playstation classic is for kids who got cool boarders for christmas.

I got an N64 for my christmas-adjacent birthday on launch year, with Waverace, but I had seen the news stories about the post-apocalyptic wasteland of people waiting in line at 3AM to maybe get an N64, so you better believe I got really loving into Waverace.

TheScott2K
Oct 26, 2003

I'm just saying, there's a nonzero chance Trump has a really toad penis.
Those Arcade 1UP things are gonna firesale so hard in January.

Imagine paying $300 to play decently-emulated Street Fighter II.

Snow Cone Capone
Jul 31, 2003


They just seem really impractical, they're 3/4 size so I'd imagine you'd have to be stooped over pretty hard playing it.

lol here is a nerd standing next to the arcade cabinet (not included: the $40 riser)

TheScott2K
Oct 26, 2003

I'm just saying, there's a nonzero chance Trump has a really toad penis.
That Arcade 1Up cabinet seems like a great gift for McMansion havers to give their indifferent kids but I don't think there are enough interested ones for there to be a pallet of these things in every Walmart.

A volume SKU that took the form of a tabletop version with an online store with the standup cabinet being an add-on kit or upsell would have been the better play, IMO.

Whorelord
May 1, 2013

Jump into the well...

veni veni veni posted:

Now I unironically want a fantasy RPG where the protagonist is grossly incompetent.

this is urrr dragon age 2

bradzilla
Oct 15, 2004

Super Smash Bros is bad.

poisonpill
Nov 8, 2009

The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.


bradzilla posted:

Super Smash Bros is bad.

:agreed:

Also Ddsgon Age 2 wasn’t bad but it wasn’t a dragon age game. It was the continuing misadventures of fantasy Groucho Marx

SpazmasterX
Jul 13, 2006

Wrong about everything XIV related
~fartz~

TheScott2K posted:

Those Arcade 1UP things are gonna firesale so hard in January.

Imagine paying $300 to play decently-emulated Street Fighter II.

I saw these the other day. It said they only included two games so I didn't even think twice about it.

ilmucche
Mar 16, 2016

What did you say the strategy was?
Initial D arcade stage is cool and good and I think it would make a lot of money if released on pc

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

i actually want one of those mini arcade cabinets because i have wanted an arcade cab for ages and a slightly smaller one would work better for the space anyways :shrug: i don't think anyone is selling them as like plug n play replacements for those games you guys

Snow Cone Capone
Jul 31, 2003


food court bailiff posted:

i don't think anyone is selling them as like plug n play replacements for those games you guys

:aaaaa:

they're being mocked because they're a stupidly niche product

TheScott2K posted:

That Arcade 1Up cabinet seems like a great gift for McMansion havers to give their indifferent kids but I don't think there are enough interested ones for there to be a pallet of these things in every Walmart.

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Snow Cone Capone posted:

They just seem really impractical, they're 3/4 size so I'd imagine you'd have to be stooped over pretty hard playing it.

lol here is a nerd standing next to the arcade cabinet (not included: the $40 riser)

half the fun of making an MAME cabinet is getting the plywood from home depo and cutting it yourself. nerding out over the what controls to add, should I have a light gun or a track ball? do I need four players for Simpson Arcade, or do I need six players so I can play Xmen Arcade properly? (the answer is six obviously).

this prefab cabinet is an abomination. there is no love

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



QuarkJets posted:

Yes? Tons of video games have Mary Sue characters. Bioware games are full of them

That doesn't make the games bad

bioware was maybe not the best company to invoke to make this point

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
Somebody call for an ant?

Rutibex posted:

half the fun of making an MAME cabinet is getting the plywood from home depo and cutting it yourself. nerding out over the what controls to add, should I have a light gun or a track ball? do I need four players for Simpson Arcade, or do I need six players so I can play Xmen Arcade properly? (the answer is six obviously).

this prefab cabinet is an abomination. there is no love

:yeah:

olives black
Nov 24, 2017


LENIN.
STILL.
WON'T.
FUCK.
ME.
If your game asks me to choose my character's backstory in a way that isn't directly tied to the stats/perks/etc. that I'm picking then your game has bad writing and is bad and you should feel bad

mass effect is bad

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

Rutibex posted:

half the fun of making an MAME cabinet is getting the plywood from home depo and cutting it yourself. nerding out over the what controls to add, should I have a light gun or a track ball? do I need four players for Simpson Arcade, or do I need six players so I can play Xmen Arcade properly? (the answer is six obviously).

this prefab cabinet is an abomination. there is no love

counterpoint: far more than half the fun is drinking beer and playing arcade games

pooch516
Mar 10, 2010

Panzeh posted:

that doesn't really describe the witcher games i played except in the sort of way you have to in video games

people say he's treated like a monster plumber but if that were the case the dialog would be hella different

Well women in porn always want to bone the plumber so it's actually very accurate.

Whorelord
May 1, 2013

Jump into the well...

olives black posted:

If your game asks me to choose my character's backstory in a way that isn't directly tied to the stats/perks/etc. that I'm picking then your game has bad writing and is bad and you should feel bad

mass effect is bad

Your backstory in mass effect determines the paragon and Renegade points you start with

hackbunny
Jul 22, 2007

I haven't been on SA for years but the person who gave me my previous av as a joke felt guilty for doing so and decided to get me a non-shitty av

blackguy32 posted:

Hitman Absolution did quite a few things to modernize the Hitman franchise in terms of fluidity and controls.

I understand why hitman fans hate hitman absolution: it's not just scripted it's pretty much choreographed. otoh once you realize this, you can breeze through any mission, you just need to figure out the preferred path: once you do, everything magically falls into place, and you smoothly move from a hiding place to the next, undetected, in a fluid, almost uninterrupted motion

Painful Dart Bomb posted:

The first Red Alert is the best and they just got too silly after that.

this

Name Change
Oct 9, 2005


Snow Cone Capone posted:

unpopular opinion: Final Fantasy Mystic Quest was fun and good



It has some of the best music in the NES/SNES era. It's literally on a rail and is at Babby's First RPG level for that era, but it has the important features, like renaming people and Flamerus Rex.

olives black
Nov 24, 2017


LENIN.
STILL.
WON'T.
FUCK.
ME.

Whorelord posted:

Your backstory in mass effect determines the paragon and Renegade points you start with

were paragonPoints and renegadePoints two of the integer values in mass effect 1's code that determined which boring line of dialog was played at branching parts of the dialog trees? i can't remember because the game was boring and bad

olives black fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Dec 6, 2018

Fur20
Nov 14, 2007

すご▞い!
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね!

olives black posted:

If your game asks me to choose my character's backstory in a way that isn't directly tied to the stats/perks/etc. that I'm picking then your game has bad writing and is bad and you should feel bad

mass effect is bad

well what about if you're choosing like, "my character likes to smoke tons of weed" or "my character has a bunch of lovely tattoos" or "my character can play a variety of instruments"

that's kind of choosing your character's backstory too but it's not like "i'm a gritty colonist who was the sole survivor of <thing>"

Whorelord
May 1, 2013

Jump into the well...

olives black posted:

were paragonPoints and renegadePoints two of the integer values in mass effect 1's code that determined which boring line of dialog was played at branching parts of the dialog trees? i can't remember because the game was boring and bad

wow you posted twice and were wrong twice

olives black
Nov 24, 2017


LENIN.
STILL.
WON'T.
FUCK.
ME.

The White Dragon posted:

well what about if you're choosing like, "my character likes to smoke tons of weed" or "my character has a bunch of lovely tattoos" or "my character can play a variety of instruments"

that's kind of choosing your character's backstory too

that's cool I guess if my character is constantly taking bong riffs during battle that create smoke screens or has a tramp stamp that unlocks a sex minigame or can play sick metal solos that summon demons

but if it's just choosing which WAV files play during cutscenes then no. bad game.

Snow Cone Capone
Jul 31, 2003


The White Dragon posted:

well what about if you're choosing like, "my character likes to smoke tons of weed" or "my character has a bunch of lovely tattoos" or "my character can play a variety of instruments"

that's kind of choosing your character's backstory too but it's not like "i'm a gritty colonist who was the sole survivor of <thing>"

Yeah Saint's Row was awesome

Barudak
May 7, 2007

olives black posted:

were paragonPoints and renegadePoints two of the integer values in mass effect 1's code that determined which boring line of dialog was played at branching parts of the dialog trees? i can't remember because the game was boring and bad

In ME1 maxing out Renegade gave you a small bonus to selling stuff, and technically opened up different dialog options and could change some things like skip some quests or part of the final bossfight.

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



hackbunny posted:

I understand why hitman fans hate hitman absolution: it's not just scripted it's pretty much choreographed. otoh once you realize this, you can breeze through any mission, you just need to figure out the preferred path: once you do, everything magically falls into place, and you smoothly move from a hiding place to the next, undetected, in a fluid, almost uninterrupted motion


this

the hitman levels in absolution were fine hitman levels but there were only like 3 of them

also hitman 2 2018 is the best of the series

olives black
Nov 24, 2017


LENIN.
STILL.
WON'T.
FUCK.
ME.

Barudak posted:

In ME1 maxing out Renegade gave you a small bonus to selling stuff, and technically opened up different dialog options and could change some things like skip some quests or part of the final bossfight.

well i guess if it would have allowed me to skip part of the game then that's a plus, because the game is bad

bradzilla
Oct 15, 2004

poverty goat posted:

the hitman levels in absolution were fine hitman levels but there were only like 3 of them

also hitman 2 2018 is the best of the series

Whittleton Creek sucks poo poo. All the other levels are gold.

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



Actually, whittleton creek is great

Snow Cone Capone
Jul 31, 2003


poverty goat posted:

Actually, dawson's creek is great

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

Barudak posted:

In ME1 maxing out Renegade gave you a small bonus to selling stuff, and technically opened up different dialog options and could change some things like skip some quests or part of the final bossfight.
You could convince Saren to shoot himself in the head, that was pretty sweet.

And Mass Effect was one of the better Sci-fi RPGs out there hth

olives black
Nov 24, 2017


LENIN.
STILL.
WON'T.
FUCK.
ME.

Colonel Cancer posted:

You could convince Saren to shoot himself in the head, that was pretty sweet.

And Mass Effect was one of the better Sci-fi RPGs out there hth

no it wasn't

Fur20
Nov 14, 2007

すご▞い!
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね!

Colonel Cancer posted:

You could convince Saren to shoot himself in the head, that was pretty sweet.

yea but then you have to fight him anyway. i thought that was dumb as hell

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

The White Dragon posted:

yea but then you have to fight him anyway. i thought that was dumb as hell

You are fighting his cybernetic skeleton directly controlled by the Reapers. I think.

Mass Effect 1 ruled. 2 and 3 didn't, Sheppard becomes too much of a Mary Sue (:smug:) and combat with extra short cooldowns sucks.

christmas boots
Oct 15, 2012

To these sing-alongs 🎤of siren 🧜🏻‍♀️songs
To oohs😮 to ahhs😱 to 👏big👏applause👏
With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
🇺🇸America🦅, I love you 🥰but you're freaking 💦me 😳out
Biscuit Hider
ME2 was easily the best one for all the Renegade Interrupts.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

The White Dragon posted:

yea but then you have to fight him anyway. i thought that was dumb as hell

Yeeeeep. They just couldnt let you skip the fight.

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poisonpill
Nov 8, 2009

The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.


The renegade interrupts let you say something cool and blow people up or just punch them in the middle of dialogue. What I’m saying is goty

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