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2house2fly posted:Do Italians count as white? Because I'll just fuckin do an Italian accent at any moment for any reason and I'd hate to briefly think it's racist before doing it anyway Only the ones from the north
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The fun thing is that everyone knows about American racism, but when you go to Europe, all of a sudden you discover nuanced, almost fractal frontiers of racism and histories of atrocities that you never knew existed and will often result in tirades against ethnic groups you also never knew existed. Like the post some goon made about a hypothetical Bulgarian military officer who goes on tirades against the Dalmatian people, and then immediately turns to his Dalmation dog to say "Sorry, I don't mean you."
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Until I read about european racism against them on here. I thought Gypsys were like some kind of made up race of mystics like Orcs or Elves.
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basic hitler posted:hot blizzard garbage down your basic maw I am liking this new Dairy Queen advertisement
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The fun thing is that everyone knows about American racism, but when you go to Europe, all of a sudden you discover nuanced, almost fractal frontiers of racism and histories of atrocities that you never knew existed and will often result in tirades against ethnic groups you also never knew existed. It's always funny when an American tries to lecture e.g. Serbians and Bosniaks on how they are akshually just the same white people. You are being racist the wrong way! steinrokkan fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Mar 15, 2019 |
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Turbinosamente posted:Did you not play Conan Exiles? I ... meant irl 
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Speaking of race relations, I wish they would remake the original Black & White. The game had too much potential to just be forgotten.
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Vakal posted:Speaking of race relations, I wish they would remake the original Black & White.
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He really was ahead of the curve with not actually finish making the game since only a handful of people area going to get that far (or past the 3rd level even). Throwing flaming rocks and trees at your buddie's town across the map in B&W multiplayer was great fun either way.
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Vakal posted:Speaking of race relations, I wish they would remake the original Black & White. The 'trouble' with Black & White, if it can be called that, is almost the entire project was about making a believable learning AI pet, which just highlighted the differences between a Toy and a Game. I loved goofing off with the pets and it was all very organic and fun, but as soon as you left the first few 'levels' the campaign took a sharp nosedive as it turns out the gameplay was miserable to play through. B&W2 tried to take a stab at making a cohesive Game with rules and objectives using the theme 'War', but it kinda fell flat. Using modern infrastructure etc, I'd imagine the most successful B&W reboot would be a tamogatchi that follows you around on your various devices, almost like Siri.
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Serephina posted:The 'trouble' with Black & White, if it can be called that, is almost the entire project was about making a believable learning AI pet, which just highlighted the differences between a Toy and a Game. I loved goofing off with the pets and it was all very organic and fun, but as soon as you left the first few 'levels' the campaign took a sharp nosedive as it turns out the gameplay was miserable to play through. B&W2 tried to take a stab at making a cohesive Game with rules and objectives using the theme 'War', but it kinda fell flat. That's probably the best way they could make Digimon actually take off.
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black and white 2 was good, lot of missed potential sure but for the time it was good
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I spent my time in Black & White on the first island actively avoiding game tasks in favor of teaching my tiger to eat poop and terrorize villagers. The UI was amazingly bad but the game had its moments. This was not one of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0x4Kw_y4fg
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Serephina posted:The 'trouble' with Black & White, if it can be called that, is almost the entire project was about making a believable learning AI pet, which just highlighted the differences between a Toy and a Game. I loved goofing off with the pets and it was all very organic and fun, but as soon as you left the first few 'levels' the campaign took a sharp nosedive as it turns out the gameplay was miserable to play through. B&W2 tried to take a stab at making a cohesive Game with rules and objectives using the theme 'War', but it kinda fell flat. I'd reboot it by just having the first couple of levels toy-ness blown out into one giant open world/level with just tonnes of stuff to mess around with and expand into.
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I remember Black and White 2 being a sort of okay city builder with a giant tiger walking around in the background occasionally
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Private Cumshoe posted:He's a quarter Japanese? I thought he was half. This is very unsettling. Allow me to play top nerd here and tell you that you're both wrong: he's three-quarters Japanese. https://streetfighter.fandom.com/wiki/Ken_Masters
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abigserve posted:black and white 2 was good, lot of missed potential sure but for the time it was good it was actually really bad but a lot of people seemed to rate that (and its predecessor) based on how much potential it had those are the people buying star citizen today; sure this game is never going to meet its own expectations but in my dreams it's the best experience ever!
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Time_pants posted:Allow me to play top nerd here and tell you that you're both wrong: he's three-quarters Japanese. This is the level of pedantry I still come here for.
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Olaf The Stout posted:This is the level of pedantry I still come here for. I'd call that $10 well-spent!
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QuarkJets posted:it was actually really bad but a lot of people seemed to rate that (and its predecessor) based on how much potential it had nah I'm gonna have to disagree with you there. It definitely had a lot of issues but it was a very tactile and fun experience. The lovely parts of the game were the RTS elements but that's not really what it was about, it was just there to give you an excuse to have fun throwing villagers and poop around. I stopped playing on my second playthrough when I tried to see how massive a city I could build, and it seemed like after a certain point the games food calculations just..broke? Like I could never have enough food, ever. Half the map was fields.
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I feel the race debate is a lot more pronounced in America. In Europe you get a lot of racists as well naturally but I'd say you get even more nationalists who are opposed to any and all "foreigners" rather than one specific race. It's not uncommon for these nationalists to equally hate, say, polish immigrants as well as italian/african/slavs/jews/whatever. Obviously arabs have been targeted extra hard in Europe over the last few years though, due to the immigrant crisis in several countries Collapsing Farts fucked around with this message at 10:20 on Mar 16, 2019 |
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Collapsing Farts posted:I feel the race debate is a lot more pronounced in America. In Europe you get a lot of racists as well naturally but I'd say you get even more nationalists who are opposed to any and all "foreigners" rather than one specific race. It's not uncommon for these nationalists to equally hate, say, polish immigrants as well as italian/african/slavs/jews/whatever. Yea Far Cry sucks
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poverty goat posted:The canon ending to me3 is exiting and uninstalling the game when presented with the 3 choices But by the third one the seams started opening up and exposing the weaknesses. The mission where I checked out of the series (as well as the Dragon Age series which was repeating the same method of concealing the fact that the choices don't actually matter) featured Shepard going to a random planet and discovering that Cerberus had corrupted the Rachni Queen. Which was fine except that in the first game my Shepard had killed the last surviving Rachni Queen; it was probably one of the most important moments for me in figuring out who my Shepard was and to have her choice turn out not to matter even a tiny bit that way was disappointing. I guess they found another one.
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the witcher series is a clinic in how iterative design can produce better and better games and how to integrate story choices from game to sequel to sequel i'm sorry if yall dont like it, but even just ignoring gameplay, how CDPRRed handled interactive storytelling was mechanically brilliant. That game honestly ruined other action rpgs for me, the bar is so high that bioware and bethesda just can't or won't ever clear it. I bought Witcher 3 about 3 months before Fallout 4 came out. When Fallout 4 came out, i played for a couple of hours, and i started a new witcher 3 game rather than continue, and i didn't pick up fallout 4 again until i had beaten W3 again a month or so later i didn't hate ME3, I got it as a consolation prize for being tricked into buying sim city 2013, and i didn't touch it for like 2 years, but when i finally played it, it was just a slightly less compelling, shorter ME2 with a super lazy ending. I think the hate for it is very overblown, but it's not really a good game. Just average. It's on the upper threshold of good for bioware, i'm not sure they'll ever make anything as good as Mass Effect 2, which is kinda sad because ME2 is just kind of above average to me, although I think it's about time to play it again. it's been 3 or 4 years.
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The idea of tje rachni queen mission was pretty cool, if you killed the rachni queen you now get more evil rachni to kill and if you freed the queen before you now rescue her again and she helps with the war effort. No matter what you chose your choice is kind of proved to be right. Having it be the same mission with a bit of different dialogue was kind of lame, but the multiple endings with Grunt or the strike team leader or whatever were cool. In retrospect I think ME3 did a good job with "your choices matter" stuff. The final mission and ending fell flat, but the genophage mission and the quarians/geth mission both had different story content and endings based on what you did in previous games and still gave you choices within the mission itself. Even the Citadel attack had that bit where either the councilor gets killed, or the cool salarian dude saves her, or Thane pops out of a vent and does kung-fu, and there's that funny side mission where to help you the guy just so happens to need all the fetch quest items from the first game. Like he literally says something like "oh what a shame, if only I had 20 asari matriarch writings" I mean it's no Alpha Protocol, but Alpha Protocol only had to keep track of one game's worth of decisions. When it comes to multi-game reactivity, I can't think of one that's done it better than ME3
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the irony of me3 is that the tuchanka/genophage stuff was the pinnacle of the series, but by the end of the game it's a wash
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Sodomy Hussein posted:I spent my time in Black & White on the first island actively avoiding game tasks in favor of teaching my tiger to eat poop and terrorize villagers. The UI was amazingly bad but the game had its moments. This was not one of them: I remember burning that loving boat to the ground just to teach my followers the lesson that no one can ever leave my loving embrace. No one. I was a petty and jealous god.
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Vakal posted:I remember burning that loving boat to the ground just to teach my followers the lesson that no one can ever leave my loving embrace. No one. That's literally the plot of Shōgun.
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I'm gonna call BS on the "we're not complaining" line.
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Private Cumshoe posted:He's a quarter Japanese? I thought he was half. This is very unsettling. Good news. I was wrong and he's actually.. three quarters? I don't even know anymore.
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Collapsing Farts posted:I feel the race debate is a lot more pronounced in America. In Europe you get a lot of racists as well naturally but I'd say you get even more nationalists who are opposed to any and all "foreigners" rather than one specific race. It's not uncommon for these nationalists to equally hate, say, polish immigrants as well as italian/african/slavs/jews/whatever. lol oh don't worry Europe has plenty of nationalists too, most of the dudes who are talking about hating 1 race are nationalists even
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QuarkJets posted:lol oh don't worry Europe has plenty of nationalists too, most of the dudes who are talking about hating 1 race are nationalists even They just said Europe has a lot of nationalists 
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Jerry Cotton posted:They just said Europe has a lot of nationalists I guess it wasn't clear to me whether " but I'd say you get even more nationalists" meant "you Americans" Cause I thought it was just common knowledge that America has tons and tons of nationalists who hate all immigrants and that that's kind of a centerpiece topic in America right now
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basic hitler posted:the witcher series is a clinic in how iterative design can produce better and better games and how to integrate story choices from game to sequel to sequel  with all this.My hot take is that Thronebreaker has the best writing in any of the Witcher games.
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poverty goat posted:the irony of me3 is that the tuchanka/genophage stuff was the pinnacle of the series, but by the end of the game it's a wash tuchanka etc etc doesn't matter because nobody has ftl travel anymore and everyone starves to death because the galactic economy was based on the precursor gates. you crew dies on an undeveloped planet. have a nice day Fur20 fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Mar 16, 2019 |
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They fix the gates tho. Unless you really hosed up your points and also took the lovely red option. Blue is the best. Shepard is already above law, why not immortal robot God Shepard?
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Colonel Cancer posted:They fix the gates tho. Unless you really hosed up your points and also took the lovely red option. i played the game at launch. the ending slides that say the gates were eventually repaired weren't patched in for months. how loving lazy is that, you can't even be assed to write two dozen paragraphs for the end of your epic space opera trilogy until people complain about how trash your ending is. last bioware game i ever bought, and ever will
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Bioware games are fun to play but they should never be taken seriously in fact loling at how dumb and overwrought they are adds to the experience imo especially when your idiot annoying companions start to come on to you
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dragon age: origins despite being badly written and full of bad bioware romance was a pretty good wizard rpg with lots and lots of fun build/gear/specialization combos that will allow your wizard main to break the game on max difficulty, but rogue/ranger/warrior are all really bad and samey and boring to play e: dragon age: origins in a nutshell: 
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People who pick warrior in a game with wizards are already boring so making the warrior choice also boring is just playing to your audience
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