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I picked this up only knowing vaguely what it was about and the type of RPG it was. I wasn't expecting so many stat checks for things like "getting an erection after reading a story describing a hot woman" or "keeping yourself from snorting powdered amphetamine left out". I am genuinely cracking up at the responses to some of the inner dialogs. Amazing so far.
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I'm loving this even though I managed a game over within the first hour by failing 3 detective checks, yes including the one where you try impress that little girl skipping out on school.
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Oct 17, 2019 02:32
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Theres a poster near the pawn shop that electrochemistry will helpfully encourage to you to jack off to. In the street. Impulsively
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Oct 17, 2019 02:33
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Just had a nervous breakdown because I couldn't reach my dangling police jacket right after I became a 12 year old's bitch 15 minutes into the game. 10/10 goty
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Oct 17, 2019 02:36
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little warning: if you sleep at the other sleeping place (idk if theres more than 2) when you wake up you can no longer move, had this bug twice now
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Oct 17, 2019 02:36
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Control Volume posted:Theres a poster near the pawn shop that electrochemistry will helpfully encourage to you to jack off to. In the street. Impulsively Games have become too real, ban this reactionary filth for the good of the workers
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Oct 17, 2019 02:36
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I’ve been playing through now with a cheated game to bring every skill to max and just hit the end of day two. This is what the inside of Hunter S Thompson’s mind would look like if you replaced every instance of the word journalist with police officer and then fed him ten pounds of blue meth. I really do have to recommend it as a second play through.
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Oct 17, 2019 02:44
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the act of flipping through a filthy police notebook was exquisitely satisfying as for the little poo poo squatting near it, that empathy check with Cuno was worth the savescumming, it went to some  -worthy places
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Oct 17, 2019 02:46
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Oxxidation posted:the act of flipping through a filthy police notebook was exquisitely satisfying
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Oct 17, 2019 02:51
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Oxxidation posted:the act of flipping through a filthy police notebook was exquisitely satisfying more cuno, after helping him i wonder if its possible to ‘save’ him. i helped him out a bit with life things and had a few of the purple skills hint i could do more and that hes cop material, but im not sure i got through to him
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Oct 17, 2019 02:55
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It is actually possible to get completely through to him, but it takes a *lot* of effort
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Oct 17, 2019 02:56
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Did you succumb to fan death? I did not. I put a bunch of points into the dexterity tree, so I grabbed that sumbitch right off there.
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Oct 17, 2019 02:59
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Related to the above, this is one of the 'hidden' achievements (you can see it by comparing global achievements, but it's probably an actual spoiler, so I'll link it to be safe.) https://i.imgur.com/vQzj5V8.png
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Oct 17, 2019 03:00
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If you make it to the end and Kim gets put out of commission then Cuno gets his poo poo together and you can take him along with you instead and you can invite him to the RCM's junior officer program.
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Oct 17, 2019 03:02
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It's Day 3 and I still have no idea what my name is or what my face looks like
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Oct 17, 2019 03:10
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Synthbuttrange posted:It's Day 3 and I still have no idea what my name is or what my face looks like My name is Raphael Ambrosius Costeau. I am the law. Prepare to die.
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Oct 17, 2019 03:17
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lmao at one of the only concrete bits of waypoints' critique of this game being imagining the fans' rudeness while defending it.
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Oct 17, 2019 03:17
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I was just gonna do a 1 Int run but I passed a Visual Calculus check by chance and this is so dang cool
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Oct 17, 2019 03:18
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lmao gently caress me  you CAN talk to Kim about it btw
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Oct 17, 2019 03:22
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The rewards from these thoughts are amazing and non obvious. I've got one that heals me from failing checks :v
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Oct 17, 2019 03:25
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I'm only on day 3 and I just crossed the river and I have to say this game is amazing so far. And while I do love all the weird and crazy poo poo with your inner voices and what not, it's also a solid detective game. I just finished a major scene where I had to get some guys to give up someone's location, and it was really cool being able to bring up all the various things I had discovered while just exploring the city. And I loved how knowing what not to say was every bit as important as knowing what too say. So while the more out there elements will rightfully get most of the focus, I think it's great the more mundane murder mystery is also well written and fun as hell to play through.
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Man, some of the later checks lead to some REALLY interesting info, I'm really glad I've succeeded at some of these 40% rolls. The final conclusion to the Church questline is incredible. I'm only sad that it feels like I'm coming to the end of the game, very little left to do here in Day 5.
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Oct 17, 2019 03:50
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:Linus Torvalds famously replies to comments on the internet hard-breaking at a 72 character width. It seems weird at first but when you are reading through the replies eventually it comes down to you only reading his stuff because it's so much easier to read then letting things word-wrap naturally. Waaay back but wanted to appreciate this. Given I spend most of my working life reading or writing lengthy documents, I've come to emphatically support the old pre-internet publishing rule of thumb of 60 - 75 characters a line being the ideal. Being able to keep your horizontal and vertical position in a very narrow field of view helps tremendously. Most people format documents with far more characters.
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detective kim's an accomplishment. when i first met him i thought he'd be the uptight watchdog from whom i'd have to hide my amnesia, but i'm at the end of day 1 and now we're basically besties. he's pragmatic enough so that he doesn't give much of a poo poo about your condition so long as you can contribute to the case, and luckily you have several opportunities to show you're an extremely good detective despite appearances
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Oxxidation posted:detective kim's an accomplishment. when i first met him i thought he'd be the uptight watchdog from whom i'd have to hide my amnesia, but i'm at the end of day 1 and now we're basically besties. he's pragmatic enough so that he doesn't give much of a poo poo about your condition so long as you can contribute to the case, and luckily you have several opportunities to show you're an extremely good detective despite appearances Plus he's got his own dumb quirks and "human" side. Aces high! Spinners... on a cop car? Seriously Kim? lol
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Plus he's got his own dumb quirks and "human" side. Aces high! that first night on the balcony, my skills were all quietly impressed at his cigarette-smoking routine, especially when he insisted he didn't care about looking cool > Lol he totally does care > Just one cigarette a night? It'd be easier to quit. > He's proud of the ritual > He's cool and in control
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Oxxidation posted:that first night on the balcony, my skills were all quietly impressed at his cigarette-smoking routine, especially when he insisted he didn't care about looking cool Kim is the actual protagonist.
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Kim is an unambitious binoculard who overly concerns himself with restraint when it comes to tricking out his ride
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Oct 17, 2019 04:39
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Hey uh, it keeps telling me that collecting bottles in a bag is cool and easy way to get cash but where do you even get a bag?
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Synthbuttrange posted:Hey uh, it keeps telling me that collecting bottles in a bag is cool and easy way to get cash but where do you even get a bag? Theres a yellow bag next to the drunk dude near the book store.
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Oct 17, 2019 04:43
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I found one on the ground somewhere. also Kim asked me not to collect the bottles from a dead body because it would be disrespectful
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Synthbuttrange posted:Hey uh, it keeps telling me that collecting bottles in a bag is cool and easy way to get cash but where do you even get a bag? Also, if you're collecting bottles AND you're working on Hobocop... maybe internalize it before you turn in your bottles.
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Control Volume posted:My name is Raphael Ambrosius Costeau. I am the law. Prepare to die. I would just add to "My name is Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau, Superstar Cop. I am the law. Prepare to die" and THERE, title change material also just watched Joker and hot drat am I ready for some game (is it possible to find some bright colored shirts for maximum Disco?)
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Oct 17, 2019 05:19
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Lol they made Felix a scab with Peter Daou's face.
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Stroth posted:I’ve been playing through now with a cheated game to bring every skill to max and just hit the end of day two. What is wrong with your loving brain.
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I like how the voices in my head completely convinced me the best course of action was to punch a child and they were kinda right
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Fentry posted:I like how the voices in my head completely convinced me the best course of action was to punch a child and they were kinda right Those guys are experts, they know their poo poo (most of the time.)
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drat just got my first freeze bug quite a few hours in. Was in the bookstore and tried to break down the door inside but I failed the check and the game just hung with music and my idle animation still playing but no way to do anything including pull up the menu. I'm lucky and had a save closeby but with how infrequent the autosaves are that could have potentially been a real bitch, plus I'd just feel dirty redoing skill checks from an earlier save
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poo poo I think I just ran into a bug. When attempting to buy the tape player from the pawn shop I asked for a discount. He said no but now I don't have an option to actually buy it. All the dialogue is implying I should be able to buy it and I have the money. I really don't want to have to load a previous save since the last one is 30 minutes ago. Also I'm amazed at how heavy this game gets at times. There was one quest that had me nearly in tears. Having to tell the woman her husband is dead and the way she just responds blankly in shock. When she asked if she should call her children home and perception tells you about the sound of the clock ticking. It reminded me of when I was told my dad had killed himself. They perfectly captured the strange empty calm and the way your mind searches for anything else to focus on. Captain Billy Pissboy fucked around with this message at 05:54 on Oct 17, 2019 |
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I didn't know this game existed til it was brought up in the Outer Worlds thread. It's interesting so far, ambitious and avoidant of the usual RPG system killers and is on the right side of funny-absurd 2 times of out of 3, but I gotta say I get where Waypoint's coming from on their take. It's that 2 times out of 3 thing... When the game's tone and prose work, they work, but when they don't work, they really don't work. This game is always on, in a way that can be, at turns, pretty oppressive. Not even with subject matter or what you have you, but in every single conversation being an absurdist bit, and there are points, when it's not funny enough to overlook the fact that it's sucking up all the oxygen in the game. Personally I wouldn't compare it to Garth Ennis - this game's writing is better than Garth Ennis - something more like a pastiche of Brian Evenson or George Saunders, who deal with the grim / absurd / human.
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