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William Henry Hairytaint posted:I fuckin' hate it when mods turn into bloatware. I started messing around in Mount and Blade Warband again and tried out a mod called Diplomacy. But it's more like "Diplomacy and a bunch of other stupid poo poo I've changed but haven't even bothered to mention in the readme". minecraft mods are the worst for this. they typically only add one interesting or useful block each, but every single one also has to cruft on a million different kinds of cables/generators/furnaces/whatever. so when you try to make a mod pack that has all the cool stuff you also end up with 20 different kinds of electric cabling, 10 kinds of electric furnace, and 100 kinds of redundant generators.
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Slothful Bong posted:I sorta remember this kind of stuff with all the STALKER series mods. Any time someone would collect a bunch into a pack, there would always be a handful of really unfun mods added, occasionally without descriptions. It's the golden age of stalker mods right now with all the updated binaries and poo poo but every mod has the whole kitchen sink from Misery in it so the garbage collecting/sorting and weapon repair minigames are unavoidable. It's not so bad since I've been onboard the whole time but I can only imagine that trying to dive straight into any major stalker mod today having only played the retail games is a recipe for frustration
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# ? Dec 4, 2019 19:00 |
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STALKER is the perfect game and only needs one mod.
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# ? Dec 4, 2019 20:00 |
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E: ^ lolpoverty goat posted:It's the golden age of stalker mods right now with all the updated binaries and poo poo but every mod has the whole kitchen sink from Misery in it so the garbage collecting/sorting and weapon repair minigames are unavoidable. It's not so bad since I've been onboard the whole time but I can only imagine that trying to dive straight into any major stalker mod today having only played the retail games is a recipe for frustration I was never a fan of Misery, so that's a bummer to hear it's in everything now. Complete, the hires environment one, whatever added the Alpha squads, and some homemade weapon mod was my go-to like 10 years ago. Gonna dig through the Stalker thread and see what people are using these days.
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# ? Dec 4, 2019 20:11 |
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Slothful Bong posted:E: ^ lol It's not really so bad. Everyone's playing Anomaly mod right now, which is great. But the jist of it is:
Also the gunplay and atmosphere are top notch and the graphics/AI/backend have been improved a ton poverty goat fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Dec 4, 2019 |
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I always thought mods could fix Farcry 2. Unfortunately they never released the SDK so all that exists is weak poo poo like guys modding out gun jamming or making it so your cursor doesn't show up on the map.
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DildenAnders posted:I always thought mods could fix Farcry 2. Unfortunately they never released the SDK so all that exists is weak poo poo like guys modding out gun jamming or making it so your cursor doesn't show up on the map.
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# ? Dec 4, 2019 21:13 |
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Yeah, I have a physical copy of Call of Pripyat that I found in some bargain bin years ago and played the regular version for a few hours but just couldn't get into it, even though FPS RPGs or whatever the term one would like to use are absolutely my favorite types of games (Prey was amazing). I'd really like to give it an honest try, though, so what mods would ya'll suggest for a new player who's familiar with most of the shared mechanics of system shock/prey/etc already? Again, I just have a standard retail version right now.
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# ? Dec 4, 2019 21:24 |
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Unpopular Opinion: I think it's cool that Bohemia still cares enough about DayZ to release a new map. Actual opinion: LMAO Bohemia is charging 15 bucks for a map from another one of their games ported to noted early access disaster DayZ. They have some loving nerve.
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Floodixor posted:Yeah, I have a physical copy of Call of Pripyat that I found in some bargain bin years ago and played the regular version for a few hours but just couldn't get into it, even though FPS RPGs or whatever the term one would like to use are absolutely my favorite types of games (Prey was amazing). CoP is the one that doesn't need mods, but that's not to say you can't get it looking and feeling better than vanilla. There's still a fairly active thread in Games that might be able to steer you to a CoP mod that's closer to vanilla (but you might want to avoid anything called Misery for now). All the current crop of active mods use a custom engine with new binaries and are standalone (won't require you to prove you own anything) which seems a little weird, but the studio is kaput and nobody seems to be doing anything about it so I guess it's fine. The downside is none of the active standalone mods have the original story content from any of the 3 in them, maybe for licensing reasons so they're hard to recommend to someone who hasn't worn out the source material e: gonna change my vote to Atmosfear 3 plus Absolute Nature and Absolute Structures This won't change the core gameplay much but will look pretty nice for a game from 2009 poverty goat fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Dec 4, 2019 |
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Lodin posted:STALKER is the perfect game and only needs one mod.
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poverty goat posted:
Good deal, thanks! I'm looking at the Remake one. Is that decent? I'll also head on over to the games thread. Thanks for the info.
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DildenAnders posted:I always thought mods could fix Farcry 2. Unfortunately they never released the SDK so all that exists is weak poo poo like guys modding out gun jamming or making it so your cursor doesn't show up on the map. I don't think there is much one could do to "fix" Far Cry 2 because the core gameplay itself is just so dull. Yeah, I know they wanted to make it "realistic" but goddamn some developers confuse that term with "annoying". Plus, the sequels refined what Far Cry 2 was trying to get at and are just a better experience.
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Justin Godscock posted:I don't think there is much one could do to "fix" Far Cry 2 because the core gameplay itself is just so dull. Yeah, I know they wanted to make it "realistic" but goddamn some developers confuse that term with "annoying". Plus, the sequels refined what Far Cry 2 was trying to get at and are just a better experience. Far Cry 2 is the best Far Cry.
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# ? Dec 5, 2019 00:58 |
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Oldstench posted:Far Cry 2 is the worst Far Cry. though they're really trying to outdo themselves making GBS threads out new farcry games lately
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Justin Godscock posted:I don't think there is much one could do to "fix" Far Cry 2 because the core gameplay itself is just so dull. Yeah, I know they wanted to make it "realistic" but goddamn some developers confuse that term with "annoying". Plus, the sequels refined what Far Cry 2 was trying to get at and are just a better experience. Eh that's just your cup of tea. I personally didn't like Farcry 3 too much, and I thought Farcry 4 was one of the worst games I've ever played. Some of the existing mods actually make it a lot more exciting just by making everything a lot more fragile. If modders could fix the guard post aggresiveness, then I think it would make up for the interesting but completely botched story and somewhat repetitive missions. That games environment and atmosphere are unmatched in my eyes.
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# ? Dec 5, 2019 02:38 |
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setting poo poo on fire in far cry 2 owned a lot
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# ? Dec 5, 2019 02:58 |
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Primal was the worst Far Cry game.
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DildenAnders posted:Eh that's just your cup of tea. I personally didn't like Farcry 3 too much, and I thought Farcry 4 was one of the worst games I've ever played. Some of the existing mods actually make it a lot more exciting just by making everything a lot more fragile. If modders could fix the guard post aggresiveness, then I think it would make up for the interesting but completely botched story and somewhat repetitive missions. That games environment and atmosphere are unmatched in my eyes. The mountain climbing in 4 was tedious and boring enough to make me stop playing. It was always just a long animation of me playing footsie with a chunky gray texture.
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# ? Dec 5, 2019 04:12 |
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All far cry game is bad
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# ? Dec 5, 2019 05:58 |
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Far Cry 2 had some interesting ideas but was sort of just a pain in the rear end. Far Cry 3 completely neutered all of those ideas to make the series as mainstream as possible, but it was also fun as hell and still felt fresh at the time it came out. FC4 did literally nothing to expand on 3 but it was still pretty fun and had enough room to coast off the success of 3. FC5 just sucked. Also all of the little offshoot games suck except Blood Dragon which was decent but is overrated as hell.
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# ? Dec 5, 2019 07:34 |
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My unpopular opinion is that the caveman Farcry was fun, but I like cavemen a lot for some reason so I'm biased. It had a really cool throwing spear.
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# ? Dec 5, 2019 07:52 |
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Far Cry 5 is fun if you live in a conservative area and hate it. Then the game becomes cathartic as all hell. Yeah, there's another unpopular video game opinion: Far Cry 5 is fun.
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# ? Dec 5, 2019 08:02 |
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All hitscan shooters are bad, guns should always behave like in STALKER
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# ? Dec 5, 2019 09:16 |
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Farcry 4 was only good cuz the mini chopper/mini grenade launcher combo
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Caesar Saladin posted:My unpopular opinion is that the caveman Farcry was fun, but I like cavemen a lot for some reason so I'm biased. It had a really cool throwing spear. The idea was neat but they didn't adapt the FC systems at all and some of them felt extremely shoehorned in. Lucky for them that hunting animals with a bow-and-arrow was a staple of the ones before it, but poo poo like riding animals instead of vehicles, and the "clear out strongholds" type gameplay just felt ridiculous. Horizon: Zero Dawn did the caveman thing better IMO even if it's "Cavemen vs. robots"
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veni veni veni posted:Far Cry 2 had some interesting ideas but was sort of just a pain in the rear end. Far Cry 3 completely neutered all of those ideas to make the series as mainstream as possible, but it was also fun as hell and still felt fresh at the time it came out. FC4 did literally nothing to expand on 3 but it was still pretty fun and had enough room to coast off the success of 3. FC5 just sucked. Also all of the little offshoot games suck except Blood Dragon which was decent but is overrated as hell. the farcry franchise is on the same trajectory as assassin's creed. the cow is dead but they're still milking
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# ? Dec 5, 2019 15:11 |
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Origins and Odyssey are both really good games.
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# ? Dec 5, 2019 15:20 |
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Rayman Origins and Super Mario Odyssey are indeed good games
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# ? Dec 5, 2019 15:52 |
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3D World > Odyssey
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# ? Dec 5, 2019 16:14 |
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Which Farcry was it that turned you into Wolverine? That one was really good.
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# ? Dec 5, 2019 16:17 |
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I just started 3D World and it's the first 3DS game I've played that kind of makes me wish I had a 3DSXL instead of a 2DSXL
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SpazmasterX posted:Which Farcry was it that turned you into Wolverine? That one was really good. Far Cry Instincts Predator? MORE LIEK FART'N'CRY SHITSTINKS UHH UMM MERCATOR LMAO
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far cry 5 was a blast and i will never, ever understand people complaining about the plot of a game where you and your grizzly bear companion hunt drug-cultists as you walk between fishing spotsSnow Cone Capone posted:I just started 3D World and it's the first 3DS game I've played that kind of makes me wish I had a 3DSXL instead of a 2DSXL that's 3d land you SCRUB
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food court bailiff posted:far cry 5 was a blast and i will never, ever understand people complaining about the plot of a game where you and your grizzly bear companion hunt drug-cultists as you walk between fishing spots It's still the best Mario game I've played in years though, so far
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# ? Dec 5, 2019 17:08 |
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yeah it owns super hard
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# ? Dec 5, 2019 17:13 |
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Super Mario Odyssey is the best Banjo-Kazooie game
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# ? Dec 5, 2019 17:33 |
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Far Cry New Dawn is better than Far Cry 5 by virtue of being less game overall.
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Justin Godscock posted:Far Cry 5 is fun if you live in a conservative area and hate it. Then the game becomes cathartic as all hell. I'd agree if they actually had the guts to make it an evangelical conservative cult. I unashamedly love the far cry games, but that game was ruined with its "apolitical" BS. New Dawn had some great stuff like the expeditions, so I actually enjoyed my time with it, though I'll never play it again.
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Snow Cone Capone posted:I just started 3D World and it's the first 3DS game I've played that kind of makes me wish I had a 3DSXL instead of a 2DSXL 3d land was like the only 3ds game where the 3d effects felt worthwhile and non-gimmicky
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