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Propaganda Hour posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-VAL7Epn3o Westwood Studios being in hometown Las Vegas was partly what prompted me to want to be a game developer, growing up Dawned on me what a terrible idea that was halfway through high school but by then my course was set, I felt--and anyway Westwood was long shuttered 
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I still want to make a game some day, but I accept that I will never actually do that and that's easier on my nerves than stressing out with something far beyond my ability.
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Feb 28, 2019 07:43
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Looper posted:tilting. but come back tomorrow and you'll beat it first try Nah I pushed through. My thumb is sore but the third pantheon is down. The problem boss was Zote (and of course the final boss of the pantheon was all-new so I didn't have any prior experience to fall back on). He's still really RNG for me--there's one attack he can do that will basically always mean I take damage, but I got good enough through perseverance that I was able to consistently make it past him and actually learn the following bosses
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Feb 28, 2019 07:59
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think i'm gonna try to pick up atelier L&S again tomorrow. starting over, of course, but i don't remember how far i was so that's okay
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Feb 28, 2019 08:00
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I'm excited about that grass monkey who's my friend. https://twitter.com/rainbowfission/status/1101027344058368000
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Feb 28, 2019 09:03
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FirstAidKite posted:I still want to make a game some day, but I accept that I will never actually do that and that's easier on my nerves than stressing out with something far beyond my ability. nothing is beyond anyone's ability don't tell the gamedev thread but i made a word processor out of if-else statements
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Feb 28, 2019 09:07
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i like that sly 2 was kind of vague about killing guards and pretty much always abstracted it in such a way that you're not quite explicitly killing them in cartoon logic, and then in sly 3 you just have an entire mission where you feed people direct into the mouth of a hungry crocodile in order to give it an appetite for eating living people also i forgot that the final mission of the second level is just. one of the weirdest things in the entire trilogy. there are a lot of moments in sly 3 i remember for being really weird but i forgot about the part where carmelita fox becomes a gigantess and you have to climb up her clothes. The Colonel fucked around with this message at 09:27 on Feb 28, 2019 |
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Feb 28, 2019 09:25
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Well time to play Sly 3
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Feb 28, 2019 09:44
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The White Dragon posted:nothing is beyond anyone's ability It is most definitely beyond my abilities, I can't even make a simple class addition to Tales of Maj'Eyal while following a bunch of different guides lol. It's like if someone gave me a boot full of water with instructions for how to pour out the water on the bottom of the heel, I'd turn the boot upside and somehow the water would just refuse to spill out
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Feb 28, 2019 09:52
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Sakurazuka posted:Well time to play Sly 3 the sly trilogy runs a very weird balance because sly 1 is clearly a very early ps2 platformer where the writing is just backdrop stuff for cool levels and bosses, and then sly 2 is actually a mostly pretty solidly written comic booky adventure story about friendship and teamwork that just has kind of a weak central villain but a lot of insanely strong side villains, and then sly 3 is a consistently really funny game that's also weirdly horny compared to the first two and it has some bits of really really strong writing for the main and supporting cast but almost literally no recognizable bad guys
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Feb 28, 2019 09:56
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anyway i'm really enjoying sly 3 but. it's a lot easier for me to see now, why a lot of people do not like it as much as sly 2 lol. everything about it feels way more polished but it also feels, a whole lot less focused and a lot of the writing shifts between it and sly 2 are kind of jarring even if there's still some really good stuff in it
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Feb 28, 2019 10:04
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I'm still playing Sly 1 very slowly because I get annoyed when I run out of lives and have to start the stage again too often.
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Feb 28, 2019 10:06
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yeah the lives system in sly 1 is genuinely the worst thing about it and even more awful when you get a grasp of, how it functions, because it turns out the way it functions means you'll basically loving never get any if you're not literally always dying, which can also mean you'll almost never get lucky charms which is probably the much worse part that said now that i'm like 2/3rds through the trilogy i think i'd put them at a tie with ratchet as my favorite of those ps2 mascot trilogies. sly isn't as satisfying to play as ratchet but it's got a lot of cool stuff about it anyway and the writing in the trilogy is cool enough and generally more consistent to me than ratchet or especially jak lol actually the funniest thing to me is comparing it to jak, because while the jak games have way higher budgets it's clear that like. sly 2 knew how to write a story, and sly 3 sort of does too, while none of the jak games have even the slightest loving clue how to write a single consistent character The Colonel fucked around with this message at 10:12 on Feb 28, 2019 |
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Feb 28, 2019 10:08
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Getting the book page that stops you from dying in water at least made the swamp levels more tolerable The collectibles giving you actual skills was a nice idea but since they're optional you never have to use them and the times when they might be useful I forget they exist. Doesn't help that the active ones are pretty clunky to use because they all use the same button and you have to cycle through them.
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Sakurazuka posted:Getting the book page that stops you from dying in water at least made the swamp levels more tolerable don't worry there are like. two worth using in the entire game. they're a neat idea that sly 2 absolutely builds on but in their original sly 1 form they're not really worth the hassle also i hope you like rhythm game bosses because mz. ruby is awful and the hd trilogy makes her worse with mistimed music
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Feb 28, 2019 10:17
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Feb 28, 2019 10:17
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it's funny because sly 2 and 3 have rhythm game sections too but they're, insanely more forgiving than mz. ruby who is seriously just the loving worst and twice as long as those sly 2 and 3 sections at least if you keep dying on mz. ruby they'll give you a gold lucky charm for free but tbh if you really get stuck there i think i'd recommend just jumping to sly 2 because it's way better lol. the only real reason i'd say to finish sly 1 is cause if you don't you'll miss out on the callbacks in sly 2 and 3 to clockwerk and the panda king which are kind of cool The Colonel fucked around with this message at 10:22 on Feb 28, 2019 |
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Feb 28, 2019 10:18
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How is it that the writing in Super Paper Mario is actually worse than what I remembered as a kid. Man that game was stupid.
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Feb 28, 2019 10:46
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Internet Kraken posted:How is it that the writing in Super Paper Mario is actually worse than what I remembered as a kid. The writing was pretty much the only part of the game I liked when I played it last year
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Feb 28, 2019 11:27
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I know I already said it before but I genuinely enjoyed how much thought went into how the Klaww Gang of Sly 2 was doing this global drug trade and yeah the weakest part of Sly 3 is how almost none of the villains are memorable, doubly so because you've got so many compared to the 1st and 2nd game and there isn't anything interesting connecting the villains together other than "we need a new thief, they're located in this place, they'll join us but only if we defeat a local villain who is causing trouble"
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Feb 28, 2019 11:28
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I'm in my office grooving my invisible macarenas to the Samba de Amigo soundtrack and I have zero shame cause these tunes be tight af https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQopOPpCU3o
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Feb 28, 2019 12:42
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Rarity posted:I'm in my office grooving my invisible macarenas to the Samba de Amigo soundtrack and I have zero shame cause these tunes be tight af To this day it’s still a crime that they have Taiko on the PS4 and it doesn’t use the motion controllers
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Feb 28, 2019 12:59
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perhaps sly's greatest heist... was when he stole our hearts
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Feb 28, 2019 13:02
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Feb 28, 2019 13:28
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Perhaps Joker's greatest heist....was stealing our memory of Sly. (Seriously. I only remember Sly being a thing round 2004-06 and then poof)
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Feb 28, 2019 13:31
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Well outside of a PS3 game released 8 years after anyone cared yeah
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Feb 28, 2019 13:42
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i’ve never played sly but you could use his hook staff thing in infamous 2 instead of cole’s stupid tuning fork and it was good. that’s my sly story
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Feb 28, 2019 13:43
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You hear what sounds like your buddy getting choked out in the next room. Is it: a) the wind b) your imagination c) whoever choked out your buddy, they must be long gone by now
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Feb 28, 2019 13:53
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Jay Rust posted:You hear what sounds like your buddy getting choked out in the next room. Is it: d) I go investigate but since they pay minimum wage they aren't getting my peripheral vision for free
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Jay Rust posted:You hear what sounds like your buddy getting choked out in the next room. Is it:
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Grouchio posted:Perhaps Joker's greatest heist....was stealing our memory of Sly. I think there's supposed to be a movie or something
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Help Im Alive posted:I think there's supposed to be a movie or something The Ratchet and Clank film bombing horribly killed it and now its to be released as an animated series but that news was like... 2 years ago?
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Feb 28, 2019 14:22
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I played a bunch of Beat Saber last night and it's very fun, but I always forget that rhythm game communities that make content don't have any concept of difficulty or maybe even the definitions of the words easy, normal, and hard.
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Feb 28, 2019 14:33
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I told myself I wasn't going to get sucked back into Stardew Valley, that didn't last long... I spent all Spring giving flowers to Haley and her response when I asked her to join me at the Flower Dance? "Ew. No." 
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Feb 28, 2019 15:23
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should have given them to algernon, i hear they need them?
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FirstAidKite posted:I still want to make a game some day, but I accept that I will never actually do that and that's easier on my nerves than stressing out with something far beyond my ability. How about something on Twine?
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Feb 28, 2019 15:57
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I realized this time playing Stardew that the best way to make friends quickly is to go to the pub every night and buy beers for everyone. It just makes so much sense I don't know why I didn't do it earlier.
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Feb 28, 2019 16:00
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I am also lazy lol Can't work up the drive to commit to anything, everything feels like too much 
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Feb 28, 2019 16:00
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PantsBandit posted:I told myself I wasn't going to get sucked back into Stardew Valley, that didn't last long... Living your best goon life 
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Rarity posted:Living your best goon life Life imitates art. Or is it the other way around?
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