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Caesar Saladin posted:I feel like its less about the gear and more about the complete disconnection from real life on all senses. Its not exactly something super casual you can do while having a laugh, its like a full body and brain commitment. I dunno, maybe I'm overthinking it though. As long as they can get Facebook or whatever new time suck comes along on it, I could see it catching on in private use at least somewhat.
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Aug 7, 2019 03:48
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Jerry Cotton posted:I wish the Nintendo Classic Mini had composite out so I could just hook it up to my 14" CRT because all the games look hideous on a 40" LCD. SNES Mini is great, but the NES Mini definitely showed that 8 bit games are basically carried by nostalgia to a blinding degree. Not much from that era really holds up, it's pretty obvious a lot of the time that they were still in the arcade mindset.
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Aug 7, 2019 03:54
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Ghost Leviathan posted:SNES Mini is great, but the NES Mini definitely showed that 8 bit games are basically carried by nostalgia to a blinding degree. Not much from that era really holds up, it's pretty obvious a lot of the time that they were still in the arcade mindset. Actually it has Bubble Bobble which is good but I already have it on the Wii and the Wii does composite so  Also Kirby which isn't bad but also is boring.(I guess "Bubble Bobble is good" isn't an unpopular opinion.)
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Aug 7, 2019 08:34
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Jerry Cotton posted:Actually it has Bubble Bobble which is good but I already have it on the Wii and the Wii does composite so And Dr Mario. Something about those more actual arcadey-type score attack games seems to hold up almost timelessly. Pinball had it right.
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Aug 7, 2019 08:49
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Ghost Leviathan posted:And Dr Mario. Something about those more actual arcadey-type score attack games seems to hold up almost timelessly. Pinball had it right. Dr Mario isn't only the worst Tetris I've ever played, it's literally the only bad Tetris I've ever played.
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Aug 7, 2019 08:54
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Jerry Cotton posted:(I guess "Bubble Bobble is good" isn't an unpopular opinion.) bubble bobble is good but some of the stages are real bad
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Aug 7, 2019 09:02
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The bubble bobble theme was very jaunty
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Aug 7, 2019 09:09
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The White Dragon posted:bubble bobble is good but some of the stages are real bad Lol if you think I ever make it past the first ten levels (at least if I'm playing by myself).
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Aug 7, 2019 09:24
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Jerry Cotton posted:Actually it has Bubble Bobble which is good but I already have it on the Wii and the Wii does composite so Yeah Bubble Bobble owns, there was always something very satisfying about playing it, might be my most played gameboy game after Zelda and Mario. UO: not all europlatforners are bad. Tge SNES had a pretty good Asterix game, Mr. Nutz had really good presentation.
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Shibawanko posted:Yeah Bubble Bobble owns, there was always something very satisfying about playing it, might be my most played gameboy game after Zelda and Mario. Some (possibly all) Tintin games had terrific presentation but I think they sucked. (That or I just couldn't play them properly because I didn't have the Manuels.)
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Aug 7, 2019 09:57
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Jerry Cotton posted:Some (possibly all) Tintin games had terrific presentation but I think they sucked. (That or I just couldn't play them properly because I didn't have the Manuels.) The Tintin games are weird yeah. I played through the first one but it's pure trial and error. I think they're good though, they're more like Another World than like normal platformers.
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Aug 7, 2019 10:00
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Jerry Cotton posted:Dr Mario isn't only the worst Tetris I've ever played, it's literally the only bad Tetris I've ever played. i see someone has never played Hatris
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Rutibex posted:i see someone has never played Hatris gently caress, I've never even heard of Hatris  (By the way, the best Tetris is Fallout. Good luck Googling that.)
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Aug 7, 2019 11:56
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Kirby sucks. They also dont have any good games.
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Rutibex posted:i see someone has never played Hatris 
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Aug 7, 2019 14:00
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NEOVERSE is better than Slay the Spire.
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is pepsi ok posted:NEOVERSE is better than Slay the Spire. Much like Steamworld Dig 2 was a hidden gem of a Metroidvania, Steamworld Quest is a very fun Slay the Spire-type game that hasn't gotten a ton of hype.
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I like Final Fantasy VIII better than Final Fantasy VII.
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The best Tetris is Nyet III. 
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Atheists be damned Tetris need a cross shaped piece
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Aug 9, 2019 20:58
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Snow Cone Capone posted:Much like Steamworld Dig 2 was a hidden gem of a Metroidvania, Steamworld Quest is a very fun Slay the Spire-type game that hasn't gotten a ton of hype. Huh, I'm way into those types of games and I've never heard of Steamworld Quest. It only has 363 reviews on Steam and I know that franchise is pretty popular. I'm intrigued about the party aspect of it. Edward Mass posted:I like Final Fantasy VIII better than Final Fantasy VII. This is a increasingly popular opinion and I just don't get it. It has the worst story and worst main character of any Final Fantasy game, which is really saying something, and no I'm not going to read some Geocities page about what the story is really about. Also the gameplay design is fundamentally broken from the start.
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Aug 9, 2019 21:09
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Icochet posted:Atheists be damned Tetris need a cross shaped piece ? You can't make a cross out of four squares. The pieces are literally all possible variations on 4 squares connected to each other. is pepsi ok posted:Huh, I'm way into those types of games and I've never heard of Steamworld Quest. It only has 363 reviews on Steam and I know that franchise is pretty popular. I'm intrigued about the party aspect of it. .... whatever.
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FoolyCharged posted:? You can't make a cross out of four squares. The pieces are literally all possible variations on 4 squares connected to each other. I think your wrong, we can work this out.
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FoolyCharged posted:You can't make a cross out of four squares... ...without the power of motherfucking Jesus
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FoolyCharged posted:? You can't make a cross out of four squares. The ultimate gently caress you piece
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is pepsi ok posted:Huh, I'm way into those types of games and I've never heard of Steamworld Quest. It only has 363 reviews on Steam and I know that franchise is pretty popular. I'm intrigued about the party aspect of it. The way the party works is, each character has 8 cards and you draw from a deck of 24. You get to use 3 cards per turn, and you get a bonus effect if all 3 cards are the same party member. It's essentially like if you could use all 3 characters together in Slay the Spire. Also 90% of the reason I think FF8 is better than FF7 is because the battle systems are so broken they're amazing. There's like a dozen different ways you can break the game and they're all hilarious.
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I never really enjoyed playing the original Doom, it was okay but I was always a Duke3D person.
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^ Hexen and Heretic were better than anything in the early Doom series.
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internet celebrity posted:^ Hexen and Heretic were better than anything in the early Doom series. Someone's not actually played Hexen in recent memory!
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Why do games think the first thing I want is story and not game play? Yes yes yes cutscenes more cutscenes can I play the game yet? Okay tutorials great. How about now? Alright game play time or maybe more cutscenes we'll see. Steamworld Quest is totally guilty of this. As well as having terrible talking sounds. I remember Custom Robo having bad talking sounds as well. Like fine whatever voice acting is expensive but at least make the noises you choose to have instead not terrible. I think Bastion did it well as I recall, having story as I play. Cutscenes etc. are fine after I've played a bit. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Aug 11, 2019 |
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Aug 11, 2019 18:32
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It's almost like some games are about stories and some are about gameplay.
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veni veni veni posted:It's almost like some games are about stories and some are about gameplay. It doesn't have to be one or the other, no matter that the last decade+ of AAA has told you. (edit) This is why I don't play JRPGs at all though. I'm okay with animated movies but now when I'm trying to play a loving game and the animation needs to be much better than the average cutscene. Like, I really enjoy a lot of the TeamFourStar Let's Plays but the Kingdom Hearts 3 one was unbearable because there's like 5 minutes of random gameplay in the first 45 minutes of the game and the remainder is cutscene. Either have interactive dialog or limit your cutscenes to 2 minutes, tops. 13Pandora13 fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Aug 11, 2019 |
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It’s bullshit and why I gave up on Zelda: Twilight Princess. I would have had 2 Triforce pieces in Zelda 1 before getting out of the starting area of that game.
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Duck and Cover posted:Why do games think the first thing I want is story and not game play? Yes yes yes cutscenes more cutscenes can I play the game yet? Okay tutorials great. How about now? Alright game play time or maybe more cutscenes we'll see. Steamworld Quest is totally guilty of this. As well as having terrible talking sounds. I remember Custom Robo having bad talking sounds as well. Like fine whatever voice acting is expensive but at least make the noises you choose to have instead not terrible. FMVs and cut-scenes can be developed in a silo - that is, if you have multiple teams working on a game, the fmvs and cutscenes can be developed independently of the actual game. If we can assume all teams are going to hit code complete at about the same time, then this approach saves time - however, what happens if the core game isn't going so well, but you have all these full-time artists sitting around collecting paychecks - obviously it would seem to be a better use of their time to just have them churn out more and more cut-scenes than to just get paid for doing nothing. Then if you have a director that isn't willing to cut out the crap and be like "yeah, we really don't need this fmv of Lightning climbing some stairs," it's a recipe for disaster.
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Olaf The Stout posted:god that just makes me sad for steel battalion. The original xbox version came with a 40-button controller that included stick shifts, pedals, a wiper button for your windshield, light arrays, and even an ejector seat button covered with a clear platic flip up guard that you had to use when you were dying so your pilot survived. If you didn't eject when your mech was exploding it would kill your pilot and then wipe your save file. My buddy had this thing and it was the tits. The 360 game could have been enjoyable if they had just made an option to use a controller. It would have been clunky but anything would have been an improvement on the godawful Kinect controls. My dream is that one day we could get a tank crew game based on a lot of the ideas that were in Heavy Armor.
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Plan Z posted:The 360 game could have been enjoyable if they had just made an option to use a controller. It would have been clunky but anything would have been an improvement on the godawful Kinect controls. My dream is that one day we could get a tank crew game based on a lot of the ideas that were in Heavy Armor. I saw that thing for sale once in Japan for 10000 yen (like 100 dollars i guess), I almost bought it but it came with the defunct multiplayer version instead of the actual game.
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13Pandora13 posted:It doesn't have to be one or the other, no matter that the last decade+ of AAA has told you. It doesn't, but there is a reason that it's rare that a game has both a good story and gameplay, and it's even rarer that the two compliment each other instead of being at odds. I don't get what you mean with the last part because AAA game always seem to try and do both, and usually fail miserably at it.
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veni veni veni posted:It doesn't, but there is a reason that it's rare that a game has both a good story and gameplay, and it's even rarer that the two compliment each other instead of being at odds. They fail because they don't actually "try", pretending to have a plot but not hiring dedicated writing staff that's *actually writers* and not just developers who like writing (and giving them time and resources to actually develop a quality script) isn't trying. 
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Plan Z posted:The 360 game could have been enjoyable if they had just made an option to use a controller. It would have been clunky but anything would have been an improvement on the godawful Kinect controls. My dream is that one day we could get a tank crew game based on a lot of the ideas that were in Heavy Armor. The 360 game would work well with the current VR things too, they might need to change the graphics for seeing small details on headset but other than that all the stuff it had I've found works well in current VR games.
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