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smarxist posted:i've never read anything interesting in codexes, books, data pads, journals, or w/e the gently caress else. Mgs 5 is the best mgs game purely for offloading the codex calls to cassette tapes you can listen to whenever
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Calibanibal posted:yeah the last ravnica set had mostly demonic cult imagery for Rakdos yeah they loop back around from being stupid to awesome 
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smarxist posted:i've never read anything interesting in codexes, books, data pads, journals, or w/e the gently caress else. best codex entry is the one for the krogers in mass effect "until the invention of gunpowder the #1 cause of death for the krogers was death by wild animal. after, it was death by gunshot" and its also one of the few with a very serious narrator guy reading it aloud
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I read every item description in souls games and I love it
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of course, Simic also has some rad poo poo going on
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cumshitter posted:best codex entry is the one for the krogers in mass effect  Thank you, receipt in the bag?
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most flavorful card in the new set imo
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smarxist posted:most flavorful card in the new set imo and her favorite band? A Perfect Circle
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smarxist posted:oh my gently caress have you tried anything else, and how does BFV run? might have an extra $15 in the next few days and contemplating trying it
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its a recently released Battlefield so there's lots of issues with balance, server bugs, and asinine progression systems it's also the best Battlefield yet in terms of movement and gunplay mechanics, it generally plays much better than BF1 and is fun as poo poo Frostbite is pretty well optimized, even on a 64 player server it runs 120-140fps for me which an impressive lack of CPU bottleneck deffo worth playing and laughing at the ridiculous war porn intro
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I fell behind on this thread so sorry if it's already been asked: what's a good game for creating Fully Automated Victorian Communism? something along the lines of tropico or banished but set in the late 19th/early 20th century. fwiw i have anno 1800 on my wishlist but that's gonna have to wait until the game comes out and i have the cash to buy it
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cool dance moves posted:I fell behind on this thread so sorry if it's already been asked: what's a good game for creating Fully Automated Victorian Communism? something along the lines of tropico or banished but set in the late 19th/early 20th century.
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cool dance moves posted:I fell behind on this thread so sorry if it's already been asked: what's a good game for creating Fully Automated Victorian Communism? something along the lines of tropico or banished but set in the late 19th/early 20th century. Victoria 2
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It's amazing that the Yakuza games are only catching on a decade after release but completely solved all the problems with open world issues and side vs main quests a decade ago and no one noticed to use in other games
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mastershakeman posted:It's amazing that the Yakuza games are only catching on a decade after release but completely solved all the problems with open world issues and side vs main quests a decade ago and no one noticed to use in other games Yakuza didn't do that at all though.
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Andrast posted:Yakuza didn't do that at all though. Solved open world by making the world densely packed with stuff Solved main vs side story by going 100% in on completely opposite seriousness/drama vs utter lack thereof
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mastershakeman posted:Solved open world by making the world densely packed with stuff So it doesn't solve any of the stuff people were talking about. Don't get me wrong, it's an amazing series but it really doesn't do anything special with it's structure compared to other open world games. Yakuza just differentiates itself from the dreck with good writing and quality over quantity. Like, I don't really enjoy Yakuza as an open world game at all. It's just a vehicle for me to get from quest to quest (or minigame). It's a totally different beast from something like botw where the open world itself is the hook.
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cool dance moves posted:I fell behind on this thread so sorry if it's already been asked: what's a good game for creating Fully Automated Victorian Communism? something along the lines of tropico or banished but set in the late 19th/early 20th century. have you played the Colonial Charter mod for banished? Its a pretty big overhaul
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I've played pretty much all the open worlds besides Zelda and trust me, running/riding across empty fields or whatever is entirely pointless. Heck, I found botw boring in the short time I tried it out but that's because "exploration for explorations sake" is a stupid concept that dates back to when people bought one game a year and didn't have the internet to find out instantly where they should go rather than wasting a few dozen hours walking around purposelessly
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mastershakeman posted:I've played pretty much all the open worlds besides Zelda and trust me, running/riding across empty fields or whatever is entirely pointless. Heck, I found botw boring in the short time I tried it out but that's because "exploration for explorations sake" is a stupid concept that dates back to when people bought one game a year and didn't have the internet to find out instantly where they should go rather than wasting a few dozen hours walking around purposelessly Well done exploration is actually really really good. BOTW and Hollow Knight are my favorites on that front. Both do it so well.
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I need to get a Switch at some point... Hollow Knight is a god drat masterpiece
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Bro Dad posted:Victoria 2 that reminds me, it's about time for my biennial complete bounce off of victora 2
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Lt. Danger posted:games are largely still transitioning from "bad novel" to "bad screenplay" in terms of writing and have yet to fully develop a full grammar specifically for games as games, something that's not helped by the way the industry treats and understands gameplay mechanics as something you 'bolt on' to an existing narrative 
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Andrast posted:Well done exploration is actually really really good. morrowind is the best exploration game ever made also the best game in general
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im playing black mesa and its super slick until you come across an element that was definitely made by unpaid modders like the implementation of the tentacles and then it gets super frustrating. its mostly great though; kinda like a modern fever dream of the first HL
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botw feels fun as gently caress when you're unlocking the map (like the first 10-12 hours) but then you realize there really isn't much to find, you largely fight the same enemies, and it just becomes a completionist chore. itpapers over the inherent flaws of open world games (they're bad and not good) by having smart terrain design and systems (climbing, elements) that make traversing not entirely uninteresting, at least in the beginning. open world games have been slowly evolving and develping more macrosystems that take advantage of the fuckhuge map, but no one has really done a good job of making the whole map a system that actively responds to the player in an intelligent way or shapes how they play like the witcher 3's map really doesn't matter; MGSV does it a little better, but each base is basically an island unto itself, with the gameplay not really interacting with the open world in a real sense
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i got bored of GTAV pretty fast after it came out was the stock system in that completely random? or did blowing up trucks with certain company logos on them do anything to the price? also it was totally cool how there were two stock exchanges for no reason other than that someone at rockstar was aware of the NYSE and the NASDAQ
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i played up to around surface tension before and stopped for some reason, but whatever rebalancing/tweaking they've done post-release since then has really made the experience gel better. they also give you Good Guns much sooner, overall, and a lot more ammo with which to use them so you dont just chill on the first pistol all game until you chill on the SMG all game until you chill on the hivehand all game, occasionally deleting stuff with the shotgun as necessary. they also tweak the finer points of encounters so you rotate stuff around a lot more. bullsquids and vortigaunts are much more threatening, etc. good stuff. and then they put marines in monster closets godDAMMIT modders why you gotta gently caress that up
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cumshitter posted:i got bored of GTAV pretty fast after it came out the big branch of franklin's missions were pretty much entirely about manipulating the stock market after the first big heist, but aside from that yeah it was mostly just numbers wiggling around within certain boundaries
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I enjoyed Balck Mesa on my first play-through a few years ago. Got all the way to where you would go to the Alien world and it was good, would recommend.
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Frog Act posted:have you tried anything else, and how does BFV run? might have an extra $15 in the next few days and contemplating trying it it's dope, i've only done a few squad capture point matches, but i dig it. runs great! as for premiere itself, it's a no brainer if there are a decent amount of games in the catalogue you want to play/try. there's like 200 games right now so for $15 you can play the poo poo out of them and just walk away when you're done it's only an issue if you care about "owning" things i guess, but eh, dehumanize yourself and face to renting literally everything in 2019
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it is actually weird to watch open world games grow bigger and bigger but regress from arguably their apogee in gothic 2 and morrowind. rockstar games are especially bad at this, because the open world is essentially an incredibly detailed and pretty but shallow level selector of The Actual Game. Worse, during those missions, as tightly controlled as they are, the emergent behavior or gameplay from the interaction of smaller systems practically disappears.
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I ended up getting a double pack of new order and the old blood that was only 5 bucks more than either separately so I've got plenty of nazzi killing to look forward to this weekend (my days off are Thurs and Fri)
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KaptainKrunk posted:it is actually weird to watch open world games grow bigger and bigger but regress from arguably their apogee in gothic 2 and morrowind. rockstar games are especially bad at this, because the open world is essentially an incredibly detailed and pretty but shallow level selector of The Actual Game. Worse, during those missions, as tightly controlled as they are, the emergent behavior or gameplay from the interaction of smaller systems practically disappears. consequence of not letting the open world breathe and do its thing imo they think everyone wants 24/7 set pieces all the time but it's just not true at all, especially not if i'm firing up an open world game
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I feel like there's a chance I could become permabanned user bethesdastomper69 if I talked about how new vegas does things better than other games as much as I wanted to, which it absolutely does vis a vis dynamic open world side quests that send you to different areas of the map to unique objectives I mean I'm gonna bring it up now but I could be way more obnoxious if I wanted to
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stuff like Assassin's Creed: Origins is an interesting evolution in open world stuff because while it's all samey, copy and pasted stuff in terms of actual gameplay, there are the bones of interesting dynamic systems with wildlife, fire, and player abilities but they don't lean into it at all, it just hovers around the margins while you wander around pushing Y to assassinate things like someone mentioned upthread these games are designed assuming people want technically competent but non challenging gameplay loops that emphasize beautiful, easily traversible areas with no distinctiveness outside of their appearance. like ACO might be the most beautiful game I've ever played, and every area feels painstakingly visually constructed, but the elements of the world the player is capable of engaging with are painfully limited
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shiksa posted:I feel like there's a chance I could become permabanned user bethesdastomper69 if I talked about how new vegas does things better than other games as much as I wanted to, which it absolutely does vis a vis dynamic open world side quests that send you to different areas of the map to unique objectives bethesda people on twitter get REAL FUCKIN MAD when folks point out out how well regarded NV is lmao
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i have definitely posted this at least once before itt but its so, so good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvwlt4FqmS0
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"gameplay loop" is the phrase of the last 5 years or so, that's how the big houses are designing these days because it's easier than writing a grand arc with well paced punctuation marks, it also allows you to very quickly scale the game up from 90 minutes to 75 hours by cranking out assets and maps it's all very competent and engaging enough, i played the HELL out of Odyssey, but it's kinda like video game junk food, you're not going to have a lot of highlights at the end, because even close scrapes and epic battles are comprised of the same moves you did thousands of times. like what i remember most from odyssey were the battles against the mythical creatures and some special arena engagements, and welp that's about 1hr of gameplay lol i wouldn't blame game developers from thinking we all sound like the itchy and scratchy panel from The Simpsons at this point, because they're close to an interesting synergistic landscape but haven't really GOTTEN there yet
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