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FoolyCharged posted:I definitely prefer a keyboard and mouse, but sometimes you just wanna kick it on the couch, man. But the couch is in the living room. Video games belong in the dark closet known as "the study". Do you really want your family around when Leliana decides to sing a song?
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MegaButt posted:Owning a console is pointless in current year now that almost every AAA game gets a PC release. there are still usually 2-3 worthwhile exclusives per generation, which totally justifies dropping a few hundred bucks on a lovely second pc that doesn't do anything else
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Icochet posted:But the couch is in the living room. Video games belong in the dark closet known as "the study". Do you really want your family around when Leliana decides to sing a song? My SO was in the room for that song and it was especially weird because I didn’t remember ever leading her on in the game so it was this incredibly awkward situation like some drunk girl suddenly professing her undying love to her longtime friend l. Top ten video game memory, we couldn’t stop laughing
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poisonpill posted:What actually good PS3 and PS4 exclusives are there? 
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poisonpill posted:What actually good PS3 and PS4 exclusives are there? I bought a used PS3, TLOU, RDR, and MGS 1-V over the last year or two for like $100, that's a pretty good value
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Though not an 'exclusive' exclusive, i bought Skate 3 again yesterday as its not on PC. Can't believe its 11 years old.
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Colonel Cancer posted:I just do ironman runs of anything I play these days. My recent foray into Skyrim on switch notwithstanding lol. I've grown to really appreciate games you can just pick up and complete a run in an hour or so. FTL, Death Road to Canada and Heat Signature are a few examples. Even if they're hard as gently caress it's nice to not need dozens of hours to get something done. Wouldn't put Darkest Dungeon in there, though. That's one grindy game sometimes.
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Halser posted:I've grown to really appreciate games you can just pick up and complete a run in an hour or so. FTL, Death Road to Canada and Heat Signature are a few examples. Even if they're hard as gently caress it's nice to not need dozens of hours to get something done. Kinda funny given those roguelike-esques are basically a modern take on arcade games in that sense.
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Halser posted:I've grown to really appreciate games you can just pick up and complete a run in an hour or so. FTL, Death Road to Canada and Heat Signature are a few examples. Even if they're hard as gently caress it's nice to not need dozens of hours to get something done.
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Colonel Cancer posted:Fair enough regarding Darkest Dungeon, although lately I just ignore the larger storyline and focus on individual missions. Reinstalled the game a few weeks ago in fact, it's great for running 4-5 missions every once in a while, at lower levels. Once you approach red difficulty things get a lot more annoying of course. definitely. The game has a nice pace of difficulty increase/player progression early on, but the later stuff is so brutal and characters demand so much cash that the grind gets tiring. Ghost Leviathan posted:Kinda funny given those roguelike-esques are basically a modern take on arcade games in that sense. most of them have a lot less bullshit than old arcade games, though, even if they're hard. Halser fucked around with this message at 16:59 on Dec 19, 2018 |
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Finally finished RDR2, about halfway in I started ignoring every side mission and just plowed through the yellow dots so I could get the drat story over with. I feel like I'm coming down with brain cancer, the game is an achievement in a lot of ways but I found myself deeply not enjoying it half the time. Side activities like bounties and poker pay out extremely small amounts of money compared to what story missions give you, but I guess that's not a huge problem because there's barely anything to spend your money on except for a slightly faster horse and a larger wardrobe. Combat amounts to "lock on target and tilt your control stick slightly up for a headshot." The world's chockablock with animals I'll never hunt and herbs I'll never pick because the satchels and trapper clothes are completely unnecessary, and you can just buy tonics (in the rare event that you need them) instead of going through the whole struggle of actually making them. It just feels like an absolute ton of work went into building this massive environment and then they filled it with nothing. Breath of the Wild constantly rewarded you for being curious and was an absolute joy to play, RDR2 rewards your curiosity with the possibility of a 15-minute ride back to camp carrying $.75 in poor rabbit pelts.
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Squashing Machine posted:Finally finished RDR2, about halfway in I started ignoring every side mission and just plowed through the yellow dots so I could get the drat story over with. I feel like I'm coming down with brain cancer, the game is an achievement in a lot of ways but I found myself deeply not enjoying it half the time. Side activities like bounties and poker pay out extremely small amounts of money compared to what story missions give you, but I guess that's not a huge problem because there's barely anything to spend your money on except for a slightly faster horse and a larger wardrobe. Combat amounts to "lock on target and tilt your control stick slightly up for a headshot." The world's chockablock with animals I'll never hunt and herbs I'll never pick because the satchels and trapper clothes are completely unnecessary, and you can just buy tonics (in the rare event that you need them) instead of going through the whole struggle of actually making them. It just feels like an absolute ton of work went into building this massive environment and then they filled it with nothing. Breath of the Wild constantly rewarded you for being curious and was an absolute joy to play, RDR2 rewards your curiosity with the possibility of a 15-minute ride back to camp carrying $.75 in poor rabbit pelts. You're not required to like popular things BotW is actually bad though, sorry.
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BotW is like Skyrim in that it has a great intro section that seems to present a world full of possibilities, but then you realize you've just seen 90% of what the game has to offer.
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I bought my PS4 with a Costco rebate, fully intending it to be mostly a blu ray player, and that's what it is. $60 a year for multiplayer is the biggest scam in gaming, and Microsoft/Sony should be ashamed of themselves.
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No one actually likes video games what kind of loving moron would think they like video games The only thing good about any video games is making GBS threads on them with words and also poo poo
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Squashing Machine posted:Finally finished RDR2, about halfway in I started ignoring every side mission and just plowed through the yellow dots so I could get the drat story over with. I feel like I'm coming down with brain cancer, the game is an achievement in a lot of ways but I found myself deeply not enjoying it half the time. Side activities like bounties and poker pay out extremely small amounts of money compared to what story missions give you, but I guess that's not a huge problem because there's barely anything to spend your money on except for a slightly faster horse and a larger wardrobe. Combat amounts to "lock on target and tilt your control stick slightly up for a headshot." The world's chockablock with animals I'll never hunt and herbs I'll never pick because the satchels and trapper clothes are completely unnecessary, and you can just buy tonics (in the rare event that you need them) instead of going through the whole struggle of actually making them. It just feels like an absolute ton of work went into building this massive environment and then they filled it with nothing. Breath of the Wild constantly rewarded you for being curious and was an absolute joy to play, RDR2 rewards your curiosity with the possibility of a 15-minute ride back to camp carrying $.75 in poor rabbit pelts. There's a series of treasure hunts you can do that takes maybe a couple hours at most and nets you several thousand dollars hth
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SpazmasterX posted:There's a series of treasure hunts you can do that takes maybe a couple hours at most and nets you several thousand dollars hth I don't see how that helps his complaint that there's nothing interesting to do or spend money on
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The casino levels in Sonic suck
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pooch516 posted:The casino levels in Sonic suck like 95% of levels in 2d sonic games suck basically anything past the first zone or two
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QuarkJets posted:I don't see how that helps his complaint that there's nothing interesting to do or spend money on Right, I"d barely touched the big windfalls the story just sort of throws at you by the time I was finished. There simply isn't very much to do with money after you've picked out a couple outfits you like and purchased an elite horse. They could've made the camp upgrades more expensive and had them confer more actual game benefits, or just made camp upkeep costs more relevant. Earning cash in GTA5 meant you could buy stuff to cause some real havoc with, earning it in RDR2 means adding 5% to your Lancaster Repeater's range and putting a deer on it.
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Squashing Machine posted:Finally finished RDR2, about halfway in I started ignoring every side mission and just plowed through the yellow dots so I could get the drat story over with. I feel like I'm coming down with brain cancer, the game is an achievement in a lot of ways but I found myself deeply not enjoying it half the time. Side activities like bounties and poker pay out extremely small amounts of money compared to what story missions give you, but I guess that's not a huge problem because there's barely anything to spend your money on except for a slightly faster horse and a larger wardrobe. Combat amounts to "lock on target and tilt your control stick slightly up for a headshot." The world's chockablock with animals I'll never hunt and herbs I'll never pick because the satchels and trapper clothes are completely unnecessary, and you can just buy tonics (in the rare event that you need them) instead of going through the whole struggle of actually making them. It just feels like an absolute ton of work went into building this massive environment and then they filled it with nothing. Breath of the Wild constantly rewarded you for being curious and was an absolute joy to play, RDR2 rewards your curiosity with the possibility of a 15-minute ride back to camp carrying $.75 in poor rabbit pelts. You aren't wrong but you hosed up by skipping the side missions (white dots/actual missions not activities) because it's some of the best content in the game and often a welcome respite from the endless shooting gallery that is the main story.
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Halser posted:definitely. The game has a nice pace of difficulty increase/player progression early on, but the later stuff is so brutal and characters demand so much cash that the grind gets tiring. Oh totally, difference is roguelikes legitimately are luck based and many modern ones give you incentive to replay with new unlocks, while arcade games always have difficulty spikes designed to make you feed it more change even when the console does not have a coin slot.
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its much more rewarding to do some light exercise instead of playing a video game
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Squashing Machine posted:Finally finished RDR2, about halfway in I started ignoring every side mission and just plowed through the yellow dots so I could get the drat story over with. I feel like I'm coming down with brain cancer, the game is an achievement in a lot of ways but I found myself deeply not enjoying it half the time. Side activities like bounties and poker pay out extremely small amounts of money compared to what story missions give you, but I guess that's not a huge problem because there's barely anything to spend your money on except for a slightly faster horse and a larger wardrobe. Combat amounts to "lock on target and tilt your control stick slightly up for a headshot." The world's chockablock with animals I'll never hunt and herbs I'll never pick because the satchels and trapper clothes are completely unnecessary, and you can just buy tonics (in the rare event that you need them) instead of going through the whole struggle of actually making them. It just feels like an absolute ton of work went into building this massive environment and then they filled it with nothing. Breath of the Wild constantly rewarded you for being curious and was an absolute joy to play, RDR2 rewards your curiosity with the possibility of a 15-minute ride back to camp carrying $.75 in poor rabbit pelts. Turn off the sissy settings I’m over 250 hours into RDR2 and I just got to chapter 4 today I can’t kmagjne how boring and lame this badass game would be if the game played itself
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I can only ever play a GTA game for like 20 hours or something. I start by running around wildly and causing as much chaos as I can to see what it's like. Once I've defeated the military I basically start to get bored of the game and try to finish the main plot ASAP and then quit.I can't imagine what kind of person plays a singleplayer game for 250+ hours
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rdr2 is cool but for real the lack of fast travel deeply incentivizing you the player to never go too far from camp is hella realistic and immersive but also super puzzling for a game world that's so big and detailed Like every now and then I just gotta play some AC Odyssey to remind myself that games are supposed to be nonstop funtimes
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OMGVBFLOL posted:its much more rewarding to do some light exercise instead of playing a video game
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Turbo GFX/PC Engine collectors are the worst kind of elitist retro gamer snob. PC Engine is and was garbage. Bonk is poo poo. gently caress the Hudson Bee.
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precision posted:rdr2 is cool but for real the lack of fast travel deeply incentivizing you the player to never go too far from camp is hella realistic and immersive but also super puzzling for a game world that's so big and detailed I agree to a point, but at the same time there's something nice about knowing the paths to stuff and landmarks and makes it much more memorable. Then just taking a train if I need to get somewhere across the map. Don't get me wrong its annoying from a gameplay perspective, but with most games with fast travel, I don't remember anything about the land.
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if rdr2 was created exactly as it exists today by bethesda it would be widely panned for its boring open world, unsatsfying gunplay and stupid physics bugs
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r* might need someone new to work on their ads because the ads for rdr2 (and gta v before that) seem like they're trying to hard-sell some thirstyass hulu original crime drama bullshit
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BubbaGrace posted:Turbo GFX/PC Engine collectors are the worst kind of elitist retro gamer snob. PC Engine is and was garbage. Bonk is poo poo. gently caress the Hudson Bee. Toilet Kids
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poverty goat posted:if rdr2 was created exactly as it exists today by bethesda it would be widely panned for its boring open world, unsatsfying gunplay and stupid physics bugs If rdr2 was made by Bethesda is would delete your hard drive and set your ram on fire
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food court bailiff posted:r* might need someone new to work on their ads because the ads for rdr2 (and gta v before that) seem like they're trying to hard-sell some thirstyass hulu original crime drama bullshit Are you telling me the marketing for a product is misleading? What is the world coming to!!!
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I thought the TV ad for RDR2 was incredibly boring and showed off exactly nothing about the game that is good. It's just like 3 lines of dialogue (one of which is a totally out of context "do as you're drat told!") and I guess a shot of a bear
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bradzilla posted:Are you telling me the marketing for a product is misleading? What is the world coming to!!! idk why you keep quoting my posts and then posting incredibly stupidly but no I am saying their ads are flat out bad not an opinion but i have been messing with this super weird old NES game called Nightshade and it is so bizarre i had to look it up and make sure it wasn't someone's 8-but game jam entry or something, it's kind of cool
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food court bailiff posted:idk why you keep quoting my posts and then posting incredibly stupidly but no I am saying their ads are flat out bad Don't get butthurt, I was agreeing with you in a sarcastic manner.
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poverty goat posted:if rdr2 was created exactly as it exists today by bethesda it would be widely panned for its boring open world, unsatsfying gunplay and stupid physics bugs Bethesda is not physically capable of RDR2’s level of polish
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