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None of them are as good as Kim
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itry posted:
This arouses no special feelings in me.
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Oct 30, 2019 21:40
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This game was so loving good. The dialogue interactions and the skill additions have ruined other games for me. I just picked up The Outer Worlds and felt a sinking sadness as I realized my fresh character could just simply pass most skill checks easily and there wasn't much consequence or even acknowledgement of the choices I made. Oh, you've got a meager amount of persuasion you've passively picked up? Just use it here, it's a bonus free skip in this convo. Don't have it/use it? Have two extra lines of dialogue. The summation of everything I've seen in TOW doesn't compare to the sheer amount of world building, thought, passion and creativity that went into that one internal conversation where all of your skills argue with each other over Klaasje. It really felt to me like a groundbreaking moment in storytelling.
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Oct 30, 2019 21:48
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I really dig the trick of this game. From reports in this thread, each breakup backstory is largely the same emotionally, but the details are picked from your ~opinion~ choices. The framing device alows each player to declare what they are about and then shows ex-wife as not about that. On night one I declared she left me to my own hanging corpse, mostly because that would hurt me most as a depersonalized human SA poster. It's so cool and I can't wait to see how it gut punches me. *Jamaise Vu BREAKTHROUGH*
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Oct 30, 2019 21:48
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I need to stop reading this thread before I spoil the whole dam game but what else am I supposed to do at work
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Oct 30, 2019 21:59
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a fatguy baldspot posted:I need to stop reading this thread before I spoil the whole dam game but what else am I supposed to do at work If you have nothing to do and want to play a text-heavy click-y detective game, try Dungeon Detective 2.
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Oct 30, 2019 22:01
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I would not play Age of Decadence if you like DE. Vince has terrible politics and it seeps right into AoD in a way that is impossible to avoid. Imagine a game that has zero empathy where every character is viscerally unlikable and not out of some kind of nuance, but just because the writer was a massive misanthrope. It's pretty much the opposite of DE, terrible combat bogging it down, no emotional core whatsoever, completely dry and inhuman in its approach to politics, and utterly lifeless in its writing and prose. It's a miserable game and you can even lock yourself out of the endgame if you don't have the magical foresight to know which builds will utterly screw you over.
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Oct 30, 2019 22:04
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On the other hand it's 75% off right now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/230070/The_Age_of_Decadence/ Capitalism wins again! Nephthys fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Oct 30, 2019 |
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Oct 30, 2019 22:14
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Welp I beat it. The game was pretty short and almost always a boring click to move adventure game. It got exciting for about 10 minutes and then the game ended with what felt like an eternity of exposition. I felt skills were practically pointless and it didn't matter what you placed them into because you could just change your clothes to fix your stats. It's more of a clothing game than anything else really. Stats felt so worthless I just stopped placing the points because I was just annoyed looking at the screen. These are my final stats for the game. The story was pretty much meh and the twists were stupid and something you would find on CSI. Most of the characters were ok but they didn't really voice all the important lines and when I got bored of a conversation I just started clicking through it faster and faster. They really had to fill this up with a bunch of filler non voiced conversations that just slowed the game way down. Also for some reason the main character talks like Austin Powers when he is voiced and I just didn't get it.
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Oct 30, 2019 22:16
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Nephthys posted:On the other hand it's 75% off right now: I wouldn't even play it for free man
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Oct 30, 2019 22:21
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Tenzarin posted:Welp I beat it. The game was pretty short and almost always a boring click to move adventure game. It got exciting for about 10 minutes and then the game ended with what felt like an eternity of exposition. I felt skills were practically pointless and it didn't matter what you placed them into because you could just change your clothes to fix your stats. It's more of a clothing game than anything else really. Stats felt so worthless I just stopped placing the points because I was just annoyed looking at the screen. These are my final stats for the game. Beep boop 1 psyche very on theme. I have a hard time believing it’s not on purpose.
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Oct 30, 2019 22:22
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You can have negative one empathy?
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Oct 30, 2019 22:24
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As far as it goes, you gave the game away with the low effort shitposts and it diminished the impact of the high effort one. I expect better from an experienced 10+ year forums war veteran like yourself
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Oct 30, 2019 22:28
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those are pretty legit complaints right up until "the characters were okay but they didn't voice enough" and we just went downhill from there. the game does lean kind of hard into inventory shuffling and the stat system is a little cumbersome if you're into playing games to win and do well, relaxing and rolling with the punches doesn't come come naturally to everyone. Fangz posted:You can have negative one empathy? lol i rolled through most of the game with negative authority and while it didn't come up often, when it did seem to matter oh boy was it ever embarassing Rockstar Massacre fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Oct 30, 2019 |
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Oct 30, 2019 22:37
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Fangz posted:You can have negative one empathy? Sure you can, the display factors in modifiers from gear and thoughts. I ran with negative one Authority myself, which made that one scene kind of a gut punch.
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Oct 30, 2019 22:39
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rhe worst part of this game is the difference in *emphasis* btw text and voice acting
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Oct 30, 2019 22:44
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Utgardaloki posted:the game does lean kind of hard into inventory shuffling and the stat system is a little cumbersome if you're into playing games to win and do well, relaxing and rolling with the punches doesn't come come naturally to everyone. I think they should have forced you to pick your clothing at the start of the day - a getting dressed for work sort of thing - and then not have allowed you to change it after that point until the next morning.
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Oct 30, 2019 22:46
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I think they were perhaps a bit too in love with the clownsuit possibilities and wanted to show it off. In their defense the clownsuits are pretty amazing
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Oct 30, 2019 22:48
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Detective walks into your office to talk to you. And he starts removing his pants.
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Oct 30, 2019 22:48
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No Mods No Masters posted:the I believe you mean Lt. Horseface.  Apparently we *were* friends, until I called her that. Oops. Arglebargle III fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Oct 30, 2019 |
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Oct 30, 2019 22:51
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Tenzarin posted:Welp I beat it. The game was pretty short and almost always a boring click to move adventure game. It got exciting for about 10 minutes and then the game ended with what felt like an eternity of exposition. I felt skills were practically pointless and it didn't matter what you placed them into because you could just change your clothes to fix your stats. It's more of a clothing game than anything else really. Stats felt so worthless I just stopped placing the points because I was just annoyed looking at the screen. These are my final stats for the game. what the gently caress is this
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Oct 30, 2019 22:51
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I don't think I changed my clothes once except in the off chance I found something that was super cool I just never felt the desire in this game to be strategic with stats, since reducing one to boost another took stuff off the table as well as added it *walks off into the sunset, radio on shoulder absolutely blasting Sad.FM*
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Oct 30, 2019 22:53
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Harry's like a Columbo, but instead of ending the conversation and coming immediately back around with "one more thing", Harry instead ends the conversation, changes his clothes, and then come back around with "one more thing"
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Oct 30, 2019 22:56
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just  @ your entire existence if your harry didn't look like something between a gigolo and Pennywise 10 minutes into the game
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Oct 30, 2019 22:56
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Still laughing whenever I remember wearing the kimono
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Oct 30, 2019 22:58
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about dora, she seems like kind of a oval office? i didnt take the thoughts related to her because i got them so late game but maybe dialogue they unlock expands on this. its implied she cheated in the dream, they werent together that long, and the lines about the abortion and harry being too poor are so out of step with the rest of her demeanor it seems like something she really said rather than harry's nostalgia dream version of her.
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Oct 30, 2019 22:59
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No Mods No Masters posted:Still laughing whenever I remember wearing the kimono Kim, please, that's DETECTIVE Racist Geisha Princess to you
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Oct 30, 2019 23:00
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+1 Logic: Super logical for a detective to wear this
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Oct 30, 2019 23:08
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welp, next time I dive back into the game is going to involve putting on the kimono and hat for the final debriefing after the island just to see what they say
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Oct 30, 2019 23:10
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Relin posted:about dora, she seems like kind of a oval office? i didnt take the thoughts related to her because i got them so late game but maybe dialogue they unlock expands on this. its implied she cheated in the dream, they werent together that long, and the lines about the abortion and harry being too poor are so out of step with the rest of her demeanor it seems like something she really said rather than harry's nostalgia dream version of her. I dont think you are actually talking to her in that scene. its a mix of your ex, your idealized version of her, and your own self loathing. thats where all the brutal asides come from. otoh she does sound kinda dickish and people you ask about her do mention your attraction was completely based on her looks. no one brings up her personality
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Oct 30, 2019 23:13
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Wear the intersolary outfit and be as  as humanly possible.e: And the bowtie.
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Oct 30, 2019 23:14
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babypolis posted:I dont think you are actually talking to her in that scene. its a mix of your ex, your idealized version of her, and your own self loathing. thats where all the brutal asides come from. otoh she does sound kinda dickish and people you ask about her do mention your attraction was completely based on her looks. no one brings up her personality i mean it's literally just the one guy (your partner) who actually knows her, isnt it, and he's mad at you + seems like kind of a dick anyway so maybe he isn't the most reliable witness
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Oct 30, 2019 23:14
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dmboogie posted:i mean it's literally just the one guy (your partner) who actually knows her, isnt it, and he's mad at you + seems like kind of a dick anyway so maybe he isn't the most reliable witness I remember someone else bringing it up but I may be wrong
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Oct 30, 2019 23:17
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Epic High Five posted:welp, next time I dive back into the game is going to involve putting on the kimono and hat for the final debriefing after the island just to see what they say I had collected all the pieces of the FALN gear and was rocking that look through the whole ending. Jean gave me poo poo for my outfit by name and told me the only reason no-one mentioned my look was because I was a cop. I confirmed with Kim that my prior life explained my obsession with getting all the gear, that part really fit perfectly with Harry's focus on those clothes for seemingly no reason.
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Oct 30, 2019 23:18
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Say what you will about jean, but it takes commitment to sit in a hostel cafeteria with a giant fake blonde wig and sunglasses on for 18 hours a day for several days stonily staring at your partner when he comes in and finding different ways to say gently caress you when he tries to ask you anything
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Oct 30, 2019 23:19
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KirbyKhan posted:I really dig the trick of this game. From reports in this thread, each breakup backstory is largely the same emotionally, but the details are picked from your ~opinion~ choices. KirbyKhan posted:*Jamaise Vu BREAKTHROUGH*  Fangz posted:You can have negative one empathy? Also, if you have negative Perception, you can't interact with thought bubbles or anything else in the world, 'cause you're just *that* oblivious. dmboogie posted:i mean it's literally just the one guy (your partner) who actually knows her, isnt it, and he's mad at you + seems like kind of a dick anyway so maybe he isn't the most reliable witness Tenzarin posted:Welp I beat it. The game was pretty short and almost always a boring click to move adventure game. 
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Oct 30, 2019 23:27
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Well that and there's 16 people in that thread saying the game is bad, but this one just has the one.
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Oct 30, 2019 23:30
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Tenzarin posted:Detective walks into your office to talk to you. And he starts removing his pants. I really love how if you stay naked in the beginning, after you meet Kim a description basically reads "Look, if Kim didn't mention the fact that you're naked you can safely assume that nobody will. Please put on some goddamn pants."
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Oct 30, 2019 23:39
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I respect the main body of the obsidian defense force showing restraint, and you can't really fault the vanguard for being unable to resist a sortie. That's the kind of discipline I expect from one of the oldest and longest suffering forums tribes
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I want to see what your partner says if you are naked at the end
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