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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?

Lambert posted:

Given the average age of goons, I feel like insults from high school are no longer cutting it.

Lol your kids don't call you.

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Time_pants
Jun 25, 2012

Now sauntering to the ring, please welcome the lackadaisical style of the man who is always doing something...

Tim Burns Effect posted:

literal garbage

Oh, honey...

veni veni veni
Jun 5, 2005


Lambert posted:

Given the average age of goons, I feel like insults from high school are no longer cutting it.

Sorry to break this to you but that was a class A :iceburn: on your butt.

BeanpolePeckerwood
May 4, 2004

I MAY LOOK LIKE SHIT BUT IM ALSO DUMB AS FUCK



lol

Lambert
Apr 15, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
Fallen Rib

Chomp8645 posted:

Your stock portfolio is poorly diversified, and your young child is ill-behaved!

drat you to hell!!!!

bradzilla
Oct 15, 2004

Lambert posted:

Given the average age of goons, I feel like insults from high school are no longer cutting it.

Given the average age of goons, I feel like GBS 1.0-style blowhard posting is no longer cutting it.

ashrum3
Feb 16, 2019
leagen of dragoon wasn't bad but yea now a days games dont have much story

Twelve Batmans
Dec 24, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

ashrum3 posted:

leagen of dragoon wasn't bad but yea now a days games dont have much story

On the contrary, many games have too much story and those stories are generally bad.

ditty bout my clitty
May 28, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

bradzilla posted:

Given the average age of goons, I feel like GBS 1.0-style blowhard posting is no longer cutting it.

Imagine being in your thirties and still posting like this.

SilvergunSuperman
Aug 7, 2010

That's somewhat tolerable, comments on reddit are on another plane of hateful existence for me.

Let's agree I'm at fault on this one and put it all behind us chummers.

veni veni veni
Jun 5, 2005


Geralt is kind of dumb looking and he walks like he has something in his butt.

jokes
Dec 20, 2012

Uh... Kupo?

His body in armor looks like a small ogre and his character design is dumb and bad. Witcher would be better if you could make your own character and have it be some eldritch abomination that has a nose coming out of its chin but everyone still tries to bang you.

Waltzing Along
Jun 14, 2008

There's only one
Human race
Many faces
Everybody belongs here
Pokemon is bad and always has been bad. It's rock paper scissors, the RPG, for prepubescents.

jokes
Dec 20, 2012

Uh... Kupo?

Waltzing Along posted:

Pokemon is bad and always has been bad. It's rock paper scissors, the RPG, for prepubescents.

Every random encounter with wild pokemon is a loot box, and the only challenge is time spent in the game.

Your reward for playing "well" by using the right/best pokemon is to save time, meaning the ultimate way to be a pokemon master is to play pokemon the least amount of time.

ditty bout my clitty
May 28, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe
You might say that the only way to win at pokemon is not to play at all

Serephina
Nov 8, 2005

恐竜戦隊
ジュウレンジャー

veni veni veni posted:

Geralt is kind of dumb looking and he walks like he has something in his butt.
Dunking on Geralt is kidna low hanging fruit. He's an idiot who will do ANYTHING if a pretty lady bashes her eyelashes at him, will cheerfully massacre literally thousands of humans and beasts one-at-a-time over the course of a run, but balk at odd plot moments. He thinks he's cool in the same say that the original James Bond novels thought what a 'cool' guy was, but at least the later Witcher games had the world poke fun at him.

So yea, he's a dork who goes to the gym.

jokes posted:

[...] Witcher would be better if you could make your own character and have it be some eldritch abomination that has a nose coming out of its chin but everyone still tries to bang you.
I DO appreciate, however, been given a pre-built avatar for these 'RPG' games. Geralt has voice acting, personality, and interacts with the world and it's characters in a way Skyrim etc can't. Also, god forbid, you can actually Role Play as a witcher and try to match Geralts (pretty simple tbh) moral code during quest choices.

tldr: Geralt > Cloud Stife

2house2fly
Nov 14, 2012

You did a super job wrapping things up! And I'm not just saying that because I have to!
Geralt seems pretty self-aware, really, which is why I find him quite likeable. He doesn't have too high an opinion of himself and it's nice to see him relax around his friends. That said, having a pre-established character goes against my conception of what a "role playing game" is, with the exception of Alpha Protocol which really only gives you a face and a codename

E: one specific moment that comes to mind is the "killing monsters" trailer, which does a great job of making you think "hell yeah I want to play as that dude". Then in Witcher 3 itself a character makes fun of Geralt for it and he gets a bit embarrassed, it was a nice moment

2house2fly fucked around with this message at 15:06 on Mar 1, 2019

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



RPG is a spectrum

2house2fly
Nov 14, 2012

You did a super job wrapping things up! And I'm not just saying that because I have to!
It's the spectrum

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



i tried to play far cry: new dawn right after metro:exodus and i just can't do it

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Caesar Saladin posted:

the worst controller is easily the mouse and keyboard

Imagine playing a stealth game where you can't seamlessly control your movement speed but have just "walk" and "sneak" speeds (or "walk" and "run") you control via a toggle key :barf:

Lambert
Apr 15, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
Fallen Rib
But that's much better for stealth gameplay because you know exactly whether you're moving slow enough for sneaking noise purposes or not? Seems like you're arguing for keyboards being better.

Also, console stealth game do the binary thing as well, through toggling walking/crouching and running.

bradzilla
Oct 15, 2004

Lambert posted:

But that's much better for stealth gameplay because you know exactly whether you're moving slow enough for sneaking noise purposes or not? Seems like you're arguing for keyboards being better.

Also, console stealth game do the binary thing as well, through toggling walking/crouching.

With an analog stick, the amount you're pressing the stick governs the rate of movement instead of having to press a button to be full run or walk. Hth.

Lambert
Apr 15, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
Fallen Rib
That wasn't in dispute? I think you might not have played any stealth games. With most console games, you have to press the stick to toggle running speed.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Lambert never actually played a console game but read about them on r/masterrace or something LMOA.

bradzilla
Oct 15, 2004

Lambert posted:

Every option available to me at a convenient button press?! How terrible! I'd rather have a gamepad where every button has multiple functions mapped to it accessed by differing length of holding down the button.


Lambert posted:

That wasn't in dispute? I think you might not have played any stealth games. With most console games, you have to press the stick to toggle running speed.

I'm pretty sure it's you.

lllllllllllllllllll
Feb 28, 2010

Now the scene's lighting is perfect!

poverty goat posted:

i tried to play far cry: new dawn right after metro:exodus and i just can't do it

i started thimbleweed park after unavowed and the countless in-jokes ruin this for me. i never missed those big heads either. or that old interface. or not being able to skip to the next sentence. i am glad other ppl enjoyed it though.

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



bradzilla posted:

With an analog stick, the amount you're pressing the stick governs the rate of movement instead of having to press a button to be full run or walk. Hth.

it's actually really annoying having to hold a stick exactly 30% and no more lest the player character break into a run and leave stealth

Lambert
Apr 15, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
Fallen Rib

Jerry Cotton posted:

Lambert never actually played a console game but read about them on r/masterrace or something LMOA.

Disputing the fact most console games have a dedicated run button to win an argument seems pretty dumb.

bradzilla posted:

I'm pretty sure it's you.

I was talking about stuff like "hold button to pick up item", though? I feel like you're very bad at reading comprehension.

Snow Cone Capone
Jul 31, 2003


poverty goat posted:

it's actually really annoying having to hold a stick exactly 30% and no more lest the player character break into a run and leave stealth

Also let's not pretend it's actually a fluid range of speed, it's really just 1 walk animation and 1 run animation 99% of the time. It's always funny when you hit the edge of the walk speed and are basically moving twice as fast as your character's steps.

Lodin
Jul 31, 2003

by Fluffdaddy
Not gonna link to it but everyone who doesn't work at the rape factory should deffo search for Rape Land on Steam. This new self publishing system Valve launched seems like it's working real well.

Control the choices of a menacing serial killer rapist during a zombie apocalypse. Verbally harass, kill, and rape women as you choose to progress the story.

It's a dangerous world with no laws. The zombies enjoy eating the flesh off warm humans and brutally raping them but you are the most dangerous rapist in town.

Rape Day is a choice driven visual novel. It does not include grinding or any other time wasting activities. So skip the foreplay and enjoy your Rape Day; you deserve it.


RAPE DAY - THE VISUAL NOVEL GAME CONTAINS:
More than 500 images
Over 7 thousand Words
Evil Choices


Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

i'm a pc gamer, pressing four keys at once in order to crouch sprint diagonally to the left

Lambert
Apr 15, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
Fallen Rib

Caesar Saladin posted:

i'm a pc gamer, pressing four keys at once in order to crouch sprint diagonally to the left

That seems easily done - it's the magic of the keyboard, plenty of buttons in reach.

Meanwhile, on a controller, people have to invent uncomfortable grips like the "claw" to get meaningful access to all buttons.

Snow Cone Capone
Jul 31, 2003


Lodin posted:

Not gonna link to it but everyone who doesn't work at the rape factory should deffo search for Rape Land on Steam.

hmmmmmmm...nah

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



can we talk for a minute about aiming with a thumb stick? lmao

Lodin
Jul 31, 2003

by Fluffdaddy
Remember when people were freaking out over the realistic Pokemon movie?



https://twitter.com/TailsChannel/status/1102724579238252544

tango alpha delta
Sep 9, 2011

Ask me about my wealthy lifestyle and passive income! I love bragging about my wealth to my lessers! My opinions are more valid because I have more money than you! Stealing the fruits of the labor of the working class is okay, so long as you don't do it using crypto. More money = better than!
The original Thief series from Looking Glass, does stealth perfectly. I have no idea why it's so hard for modern games to duplicate. I enjoyed Dishonored 1 and 2 but there is no way I can play them the same way I used to sneak around as Garrett. Oh well.

Dross
Sep 26, 2006

Every night he puts his hot dogs in the trees so the pigeons can't get them.


Why does this remind me of Zeromus's incorporeal form?

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



THQ Nordic did an AMA on 8chan and now has to disavow child pornography and white supremacy

seems like opportunity here, I'm sure we could do better than 8chan. this could make SA relevant again

tango alpha delta posted:

The original Thief series from Looking Glass, does stealth perfectly. I have no idea why it's so hard for modern games to duplicate. I enjoyed Dishonored 1 and 2 but there is no way I can play them the same way I used to sneak around as Garrett. Oh well.

the Metro series does it pretty well

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fluffyDeathbringer
Nov 1, 2017

it's not what you've got, it's what you make of it
final fantasy x-2 is a good game with a good overall plot

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