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The REAL Goobusters posted:there are zero good video games Wrong, Morrowind exists.
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Now I want to pay 10$ to read his post history and his opinions about Portal
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Feb 21, 2019 22:56
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Battle Brothers was the only game in the past five years I actually felt addicted too. Usually those XCOM style games don’t do much for me but Battle Brothers really snagged me somehow.
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Feb 21, 2019 23:00
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Calibanibal posted:Both Artifact and I are being bullied itt, and it needs to stop. If you are being intimidated, try staying in your lane
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Feb 21, 2019 23:03
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgZPAIy_WM0 this is the funniest joke ever made. first 10 seconds. portal 2 ftw.
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Feb 21, 2019 23:23
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I still like a lot of the core mechanics in Artifact but I wasn't willing to buy in past the initial purchase and the card pool is too shallow to sustain the game long term. The first expansion is what I expect to decide it's ultimate fate.
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Feb 22, 2019 00:04
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lovely Wizard posted:I wonder if the business model caused them to purposely sabotage parts of the design. Like "save x% of the interesting stuff for the first expansion to sell cards better" or such. Doubtful. It's very typical for set 1 cards to be bland (maybe not this bland). The really unforgivable ones are the heroes, probably because they tried to include way too drat many. How many Blue heroes are 3 +- 1 / 7 +- 1 with a 1 sentence ability and an AOE damage Signature? They should have gone for half as many heroes in Set 1, and put this guy in charge of them. CodfishCartographer posted:It's so easy to change heroes to be both more accurate and more fun. Abaddon - change his active to change incoming damage to healing for the turn, would be way more interesting than just heal + damage immune. Axe - give him loving culling blade, make it deal like 3 or 4 damage and if it kills then the cool down instantly refreshes. gently caress, give him counter helix as a passive and also make his Call instead change enemy targets while boosting armor for a turn. gently caress, why do so many heroes not even have their ultimates?? Give Dark Deer his wall and make a copy of an enemy and its neighbors. Give Centaur stampede and let him move any units in his lane at will for the rest of the turn. Let enchantress choose to forgo her current attack in order to target an enemy in another lane for bonus damage. Give Magnus RP and let him forcibly draw in enemies from other lanes. Let Lycan turn into a loving werewolf Jesus christ. I don't even know what most of that stuff means, but it sounds exciting.
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Feb 22, 2019 00:31
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Normal Adult Human posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgZPAIy_WM0 This is still my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k1_aKPIdnU
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Feb 22, 2019 00:40
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I told someone I didn't like Half Life 2 even a little bit and they accused me of not being alive when it came out, which I feel like is a defense reserved for games that were never as good as they were made out to be, like Sonic Adventure
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Feb 22, 2019 23:18
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Half Life and Half Life 2 were technically extremely impressive which meant a lot more in that era than it does now... that's the part that doesnt really translate well. Theres nothing wrong with that tbh, they deserved their success at the time but I wouldnt expect HL2 to be all that interesting to a new player today. unrelated question - what brought a 12 year old to somethingawful.com in 2016? No Wave fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Feb 22, 2019 |
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Feb 22, 2019 23:24
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Let's Play? Was that still a big thing by that time?
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Feb 22, 2019 23:52
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No Wave posted:Half Life and Half Life 2 were technically extremely impressive which meant a lot more in that era than it does now... that's the part that doesnt really translate well. Theres nothing wrong with that tbh, they deserved their success at the time but I wouldnt expect HL2 to be all that interesting to a new player today. Slenderman probably
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Feb 23, 2019 00:17
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Half Life 1 was a genuinely great game. Half Life 2 was mediocre. Although it looks absolutely great for its time. 1998 was peak videogames.
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Feb 23, 2019 02:06
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HL2 kind of set the stage for setpiece shooters, it was ahead of its time in that regard. That said I was pretty done with setpiece shooters after COD4 .
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Feb 23, 2019 02:50
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I'm thinking about the time I spent my $20 bucks on this video game
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Feb 23, 2019 03:09
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My dirty secret is never having beat any of the half life games. I started 1 multiple times but never really got hooked and I didn't like anything remotely scary as a young teen.
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Feb 23, 2019 03:12
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No Wave posted:unrelated question - what brought a 12 year old to somethingawful.com in 2016? Kiwifarms  I played HL2 on the 360 since I wouldn't have a PC that could play actual games on it for a while, and I think that contributed to me not being impressed by it on a technical level at all. By 2007, Gears of War and Oblivion would have both been released, which were more impressive to me at the time. From a gameplay perspective though, I think it was pretty average even for the time it was released. I also thought it was REALLY weird how into the story people were.
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Feb 23, 2019 03:15
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Yeah, as someone whose FPS debut was Halo 3, Half-Life 2 really felt kinda tepid to me by comparison. I also never got the hype for the no-cutscenes thing, either, because the problems with cutscenes were still there. You just could move during them, which only further highlighted how much time they took and just meant they didn't get a visual bump.
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Feb 23, 2019 03:18
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Feb 23, 2019 03:25
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The Bee posted:Yeah, as someone whose FPS debut was Halo 3, Half-Life 2 really felt kinda tepid to me by comparison. I also never got the hype for the no-cutscenes thing, either, because the problems with cutscenes were still there. You just could move during them, which only further highlighted how much time they took and just meant they didn't get a visual bump. It's very funny how many times I've seen someone just start tuning out during the looooooooong scene in Red Letter Day and start walking around to pick up random Bunsen burners and poo poo
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Feb 23, 2019 03:29
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Portal was my mind melting Valve game. I'll never forget the experience playing through that the first time, I went in totally expecting a filler game that was tossed in The Orange Box.
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Feb 23, 2019 03:32
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Drakes posted:HL2 kind of set the stage for setpiece shooters, it was ahead of its time in that regard. Didn't HL1 do that? I played HL2 not long after release and remember being underwhelmed. The story oscillated between generic resistance vs. fascist state and incoherent trippy mystery with 0 payoff.
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Feb 23, 2019 03:32
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Popete posted:My dirty secret is never having beat any of the half life games. I started 1 multiple times but never really got hooked and I didn't like anything remotely scary as a young teen. If it's any consolation the last portion of Half-Life is pretty mediocre so you've probably chosen the optimal playthrough.
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Feb 23, 2019 03:39
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Popete posted:Portal was my mind melting Valve game. Portal is a legitimately great game, and Portal 2 shows that the concept can be expanded quite a bit without losing luster. Between those and TF2, Valve definitely wasn't mediocre in the mid-late 2000s. It's really only Half-Life 2 that feels overrated to me, and even then I think it's just kind of an era thing. Nobody's really beat Portal, TF2, or even L4D at their own niche, but Half-Life was a pretty ordinary shooter that's been succeeded by the pretty ordinary shooters of today.
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Feb 23, 2019 03:42
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The Bee posted:Portal is a legitimately great game, and Portal 2 shows that the concept can be expanded quite a bit without losing luster. Between those and TF2, Valve definitely wasn't mediocre in the mid-late 2000s. It's really only Half-Life 2 that feels overrated to me, and even then I think it's just kind of an era thing. Nobody's really beat Portal, TF2, or even L4D at their own niche, but Half-Life was a pretty ordinary shooter that's been succeeded by the pretty ordinary shooters of today. Don't forget about Half Life Two Part One and Half Life Two Part Two! 
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Feb 23, 2019 03:43
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I enjoyed Portal 2 a lot but it wasn't quite the same experience as Portal simply because the first game was just such a novel experience it really felt like entering a new era in game mechanics and story telling.
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Feb 23, 2019 03:44
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Portal 2 relies a lot on JK Simmons being hilarious.
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Feb 23, 2019 05:13
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Portal 2 may not be as interesting (story wise, I guess?) but it has better puzzles and the multiplayer mode doesn't just feel like it was there to check a box, they have nice 2 player puzzles.
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Feb 23, 2019 05:14
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I liked the co-op mode a lot. Discussing how to solve a puzzle with two people is neat anyway.
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Avasculous posted:Didn't HL1 do that? I can't recall much about HL1 these days, probably? I feel HL2 released at this time where gaming was becoming more mainstream and it being visually impressive for its time. I tried playing HL2 after more modern setpiece shooters and just found myself bored.
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Feb 23, 2019 05:18
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:Portal 2 may not be as interesting (story wise, I guess?) but it has better puzzles and the multiplayer mode doesn't just feel like it was there to check a box, they have nice 2 player puzzles. Co-op mode on Portal 2 is an entirely seperate game that is also excellent, yet was included with Portal 2 instead of being DLC.
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Feb 23, 2019 05:28
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Hellsau posted:Co-op mode on Portal 2 is an entirely seperate game that is also excellent, yet was included with Portal 2 instead of being DLC. Yeah nowadays it would be sold as a $15 level pack
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Feb 23, 2019 05:37
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:Portal 2 may not be as interesting (story wise, I guess?) but it has better puzzles and the multiplayer mode doesn't just feel like it was there to check a box, they have nice 2 player puzzles. Portal 1 is unarguably a more tight and unique experience. But I think Portal 2 proved that its quite possible to expand that into a full product without losing too much in the process. I still think a game where you combined the Gravity Gun, the Portal Gun, and many years of innovation applied to Havoc physics would be really cool.
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Feb 23, 2019 05:39
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Portal 2 is great, it only suffers from not being Portal 1 which was a really fresh and engrossing game. It's like how Oblivion blew my mind when I first played it at release and even though Skyrim is a better game it didn't have quite the same effect that Oblivion did.
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Feb 23, 2019 05:49
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Drakes posted:I can't recall much about HL1 these days, probably? I feel HL2 released at this time where gaming was becoming more mainstream and it being visually impressive for its time. I tried playing HL2 after more modern setpiece shooters and just found myself bored.
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Feb 23, 2019 05:56
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The final stage of the artifact thread -- talk about other, better games
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boredsatellite posted:gravity gun was fun as hell Yeah, stuff like this is a dime a dozen now but I had never seen anything like it before HL2 and it was really fun and cool and novel.
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I wonder how this guy feels now. My excitement for Artifact can't be contained. My body is ready.
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Im_Special posted:I wonder how this guy feels now. probably a lot like the zune guy
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