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Mario was an allegory for a GI's journey through Vietnam. There was never any turning back, only victory or death; every time he thinks he reached the end of his tour (his princess), he gets a communication: "the princess is in another castle". They even pretend Mario's enemies are actually members of a military force.
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jokes posted:Mario was an allegory for a GI's journey through Vietnam. There was never any turning back, only victory or death; every time he thinks he reached the end of his tour (his princess), he gets a communication: "the princess is in another castle". They even pretend Mario's enemies are actually members of a military force. this isnt an opinion it's just a youtube theory video
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Apr 27, 2019 06:51
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The White Dragon posted:this isnt an opinion it's just a youtube theory video jokes, who needs em?
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Apr 27, 2019 07:03
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jokes posted:Mario was an allegory for a GI's journey through Vietnam. There was never any turning back, only victory or death; every time he thinks he reached the end of his tour (his princess), he gets a communication: "the princess is in another castle". They even pretend Mario's enemies are actually members of a military force. The best part was when toad was shot up and mario had to stop himself from running out to save him cause lakitu would just gently caress up mario too And then he paid for sex
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Apr 27, 2019 07:49
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signalnoise posted:The best part was when toad was shot up and mario had to stop himself from running out to save him cause lakitu would just gently caress up mario too 
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Apr 27, 2019 07:54
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Apr 27, 2019 08:01
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:See I would've thought the game co-opting First Nation culture with aliens and poo poo would've been insulting. Interesting to hear that it was cool and good from your perspective. Like the other guy said, literally anything is better than nothing. I'll take clumsy but overall respectful over being ignored any day of the week.
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Apr 27, 2019 18:20
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Lazyhound posted:Q: Are games art? Having witnessed one, I can confirm that they do sometimes physically fight.
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Apr 27, 2019 18:44
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Colonel Cancer posted:It's like if you are playing doom is shooting down a second zombie or demon add anything to the game beyond the first? What about third or a whole horde of them? Why is there a chainsaw on Mars? Who thought THAT would be useful or even usable.
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Apr 27, 2019 20:27
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How else are you going to chop down the space trees
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Apr 27, 2019 20:37
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Jerry Cotton posted:Why is there a chainsaw on Mars? Who thought THAT would be useful or even usable. The pointy space trees, they get it in the way.
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Apr 27, 2019 21:06
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One of my favourite in-universe justifications is in the New Vegas DLC Dead Money, where one of the weapons is a kitchen knife. I guess the writer felt the need to explain why these knives were still sharp after 200 years and were all over the place in kind of a small area, so there's an audiolog like "we got a huge shipment of knives made of some fancy high tech metal, there's way too many knives, and they're so sharp they cut through anything and are really inconvenient and dangerous to handle, and there's way too loving many of them, this sucks"
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Apr 27, 2019 22:36
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the real mystery of dead money is how your red hot knife never cools down once you create it by heating one on a stove for a minute
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Apr 27, 2019 22:41
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Flannelette posted:The pointy space trees, they get it in the way. Only useful for base trees, not space trees, as the chainsaw engine can't run in space.
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Apr 27, 2019 22:47
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Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 are shite. They are Bethesda's fan wank. Blizzard is not as good at making games as the circle jerk thinks they are.
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Apr 28, 2019 00:28
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No-one who'd actually waited for Fallout 3 ever since Fallout 2 back in the day disliked it.
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Apr 28, 2019 00:35
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Jerry Cotton posted:No-one who'd actually waited for Fallout 3 ever since Fallout 2 back in the day disliked it. Good for them, it's still shite.
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Apr 28, 2019 00:36
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fallout 4 is the worst game I've ever beaten. I did bother to complete it though, so there are definitely worse things out there. THe nicest thing I can say about FO4 is that it occupies your hands while freeing you to listen to a year's worth of podcast backlogs without mental distraction.
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Apr 28, 2019 00:46
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Fallout 4 should have taken place entirely out on the ocean with rusted boats, floating raider cities made of lashed together garbage, and underwater vaults. So basically Waterworld the game, but good.
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Apr 28, 2019 03:01
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Jerry Cotton posted:No-one who'd actually waited for Fallout 3 ever since Fallout 2 back in the day disliked it. Well that's just false, I remember being disappointed by the cancellation of Van Buren and when Fallout 3 finally came out it was dogshit
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Apr 28, 2019 03:04
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Y'all are forgetting the genius of fallout tactics.
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Apr 28, 2019 03:13
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Foul Ole Ron posted:Blizzard is not as good at making games as the circle jerk thinks they are. Blizzard made two solid, quality games 20 years ago - Starcraft and Diablo II. All of its other games are either rehashes or innovations in trying to convert dopamine into cash (WoW, Hearthstone.) Diablo Immortal was eminently predictable and in fact the most blizzard-like game that could possible be imagined given the trajectory of the company and it's hilarious that people didn't think the company most representative of pay-to-win in all gaming wasn't going to fuse Hearthstone with Diablo and got all butt-hurt about it.
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Apr 28, 2019 03:16
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Jerry Cotton posted:No-one who'd actually waited for Fallout 3 ever since Fallout 2 back in the day disliked it. You only speak for a small minority of morons, most people who liked Fallout 1 and 2 recognized that Fallout 3 was a bad game
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Apr 28, 2019 03:59
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Seems I posted... an unpopular videogame opinion! Although I didn't.
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Apr 28, 2019 04:31
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if you're not posting unpopular videogame opinions then gtfo dragons dogma is better than witcher 3. there you go
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Apr 28, 2019 04:44
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the only thing witcher 3 does better than dragons dogma is its tree physics
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Apr 28, 2019 04:47
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the klobb is the best gun in goldeneye
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Apr 28, 2019 04:50
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2house2fly posted:if you're not posting unpopular videogame opinions then gtfo dragons dogma had my favourite video game moment, where my brother's character gay-married the merchant Reynard at the end of the game because he had the highest loyalty points or whatever. Seeing my brother's badass knight embrace and kiss Reynard the humble merchant made me absolutely lose my poo poo
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Apr 28, 2019 04:52
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Bruegels Fuckbooks posted:Blizzard made two solid, quality games 20 years ago - Starcraft and Diablo II. All of its other games are either rehashes or innovations in trying to convert dopamine into cash (WoW, Hearthstone.) Diablo Immortal was eminently predictable and in fact the most blizzard-like game that could possible be imagined given the trajectory of the company and it's hilarious that people didn't think the company most representative of pay-to-win in all gaming wasn't going to fuse Hearthstone with Diablo and got all butt-hurt about it. To be fair, the name Blizzard is just a word used on legal forms at this point to denote ownership. The people that made those classic games have long since moved on. These days with gaming I'm firmly in the camp that most comic book readers stand by, which is - "Follow the writer, not the Title." Vakal fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Apr 28, 2019 |
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Apr 28, 2019 04:53
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Caesar Saladin posted:dragons dogma had my favourite video game moment, where my brother's character gay-married the merchant Reynard at the end of the game because he had the highest loyalty points or whatever. Seeing my brother's badass knight embrace and kiss Reynard the humble merchant made me absolutely lose my poo poo The fact that you can just straight-up huck enemies off the side of a cliff to their screaming doom is one of my favorite things in any game ever.
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Apr 28, 2019 04:56
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Warcraft 1-3, especially the latter two, were really good games though 
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Apr 28, 2019 04:58
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Bruegels Fuckbooks posted:Blizzard made two solid, quality games 20 years ago - Starcraft and Diablo II. All of its other games are either rehashes or innovations in trying to convert dopamine into cash (WoW, Hearthstone.) Diablo Immortal was eminently predictable and in fact the most blizzard-like game that could possible be imagined given the trajectory of the company and it's hilarious that people didn't think the company most representative of pay-to-win in all gaming wasn't going to fuse Hearthstone with Diablo and got all butt-hurt about it. Blizzard didn't make Diablo 2, Blizzard North did. Blizzard North was a completly seperate company called Condor that Blizzard bought like 6 months before Diablo 1 was released and slapped their name on it. Blizzard North remained independent when they made Diablo 2, but after that they broke up. So Blizzard actually only made one good game.
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Apr 28, 2019 04:58
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And that one good game was obviously The Lost Vikings.
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Rutibex posted:Blizzard didn't make Diablo 2, Blizzard North did. Blizzard North was a completly seperate company called Condor that Blizzard bought like 6 months before Diablo 1 was released and slapped their name on it. Blizzard North remained independent when they made Diablo 2, but after that they broke up. Diablo1 and War/Star/Craft are still two separate games.
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Apr 28, 2019 05:00
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Rutibex posted:Blizzard didn't make Diablo 2, Blizzard North did. Blizzard North was a completly seperate company called Condor that Blizzard bought like 6 months before Diablo 1 was released and slapped their name on it. Blizzard North remained independent when they made Diablo 2, but after that they broke up. so when is Half-life 3 coming out?
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Apr 28, 2019 05:01
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Colonel Cancer posted:And that one good game was obviously The Lost Vikings. Aha ha.
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Apr 28, 2019 05:02
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Vakal posted:These days with gaming I'm firmly in the camp that most comic book readers stand by, which is - "Follow the writer, not the Title." yeah, this is really the way to go these days. buying the name "Fallout" doesn't turn you into Tim Cain.
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Apr 28, 2019 05:03
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Vakal posted:To be fair, the name Blizzard is just a word used on legal forms at this point to denote ownership. The people that made those classic games have long since moved on. It’s hardly like 20 years ago when you had to buy a game based on boxart or hearsay. You’re empowered to make better decisions. Don’t fall back on slavishly following developers or companies or brands. Read reviews. Watch gameplay footage. Gamers tend to forget all that. That’s why we have poo poo like people preordering games that turn out to be garbage.
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Apr 28, 2019 05:06
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Vegetable posted:Better yet, follow the quality, not the name. gamers are stupid you say? I have a youtube you should watch. I actually don't. Gamers are loving stupid
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The White Dragon posted:the real mystery of dead money is how your red hot knife never cools down once you create it by heating one on a stove for a minute They actually specifically explain that too in the note where you get the crafting recipe from; Saturnite is a crazy space-age alloy that's super sharp and holds heat basically forever. It all ties into Old World Blues which takes place at the huge mad science facility where they invented the stuff and use it for a ton of experimental purposes, from power fists to artillery shells, and you can get your supervillain wannabe talking toaster to superheat the Saturnite Fist in the same way as the knives. (of course, due to silly DLC issues, there's no actual overlap of exclusive items from the DLCs)
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