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Darthemed posted:Are there any games which have your character going through a sewer level with a torch, and the torch reacting to gas pockets? Can't remember if it's specifically a sewer level, but Skyrim had the flammable gas pockets.
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Inzombiac posted:I think Witcher 3 has this. Oh yeah...I've had an example rolling around the back of my brain since I saw the question, I think that's the one I was trying to think of.
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Olaf The Stout posted:You're setting your buttons up like dark souls, and dark souls doesn't have remappable buttons, but it's also a perfect game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aiTXXifbwE
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oldpainless posted:This dude is still loving pissing Must be a porter.
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Phy posted:Can't remember if it's specifically a sewer level, but Skyrim had the flammable gas pockets. The Bethesda Fallouts did too
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Bethesda's games are flammable gas pockets.
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BioEnchanted posted:Now I've bumped the difficulty down to easy for Bound by Flame and it's made a huge difference, it's still something you need to pay attention to, but less bullshit. I'm actually having fun with the game now. Yeah, about playing the Ice Lords against each other...you only interact with one. The game is only about 15-20 hours long and was made on a budget of some change the devs found in the office couch, so they didn't have an opportunity to go deeper than that. I'm not saying the game isn't worth the ride, since the writing stays solid the whole way through, just that you might want to recalibrate your expectations. I really hope they revisit the setting some day, but they might be better off financially sticking to Greedfall, since apparently that did pretty well for them.
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BTW something cute in the original Gears of War that's pertinent to the sewer level discussion: There is a gag in the Mine level where the party splits up, you always take the upper path, and they get stuck whining about being in a sewer level that you never have to play. I thought that was pretty funny.
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BioEnchanted posted:BTW something cute in the original Gears of War that's pertinent to the sewer level discussion: There is a gag in the Mine level where the party splits up, you always take the upper path, and they get stuck whining about being in a sewer level that you never have to play. I thought that was pretty funny. This is technically for the annoyance thread, but far too many games pull the "haha isn't feature/level X lovely am I right?" card while making you suffer through X. It never get's better, funny or even immune to criticism just because you point it out, if you already figured out it sucks, don't make me play bad sewer levels or missions for assholes without being paid until the game is almost over (GTA5).
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Control weaves its own video gameyness into the world itself. Jesse explains how she can fast travel in-between control points and The Board translates their messages into video game logic that even those millennials can understand.
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orcane posted:That's the proper way to do these jokes IMO and I wish more games did that. I would love it, just love it, if a game actually did something like "Oh drat sewer levels suck amirite?" as you're descending into a sewer and just having it be, like, a straight corridor for thirty seconds before you're out and that's it.
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Just have a cutscene of them going into the sewer, then cut to a scene of leaving the sewers while complaining about how lovely (figuratively and literally) it was down there.
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Zanzibar Ham posted:Just have a cutscene of them going into the sewer, then cut to a scene of leaving the sewers while complaining about how lovely (figuratively and literally) it was down there. "Goddamn that sucked so bad. That water valve maze we had to get through? What the gently caress was that about? I don't think most sewers look anything like that place!"
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Have the party go down into a sewer but the pipe they need to get through is only about as wide as the PC's forearm so they have to find another way that doesn't involve poo poo filled sewers.Morpheus posted:"Goddamn that sucked so bad. That water valve maze we had to get through? What the gently caress was that about? I don't think most sewers look anything like that place!" Bonus points if they have the balls to kill one of the party off screen in the sewers.
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A sewer level that gradually grows larger and larger until it contains the rest of the game’s world.
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Darthemed posted:A sewer level that gradually grows larger and larger until it contains the rest of the game’s world. A TMNT extreme sports game that's just Tony Hawks Downhill Jam but in sewer pipes.
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A subverted sewer level where the the characters climb down a manhole, discover the mains at the bottom are much too small to even crawl through, and head back up.
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An overworld so dank, smelly, and gloomy that the sewer excursion is delightfully refreshing in comparison.
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Captain Hygiene posted:An overworld so dank, smelly, and gloomy that the sewer excursion is delightfully refreshing in comparison. That's the Metro series
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A game set so far in the future that the sewers are actually not terrible. They're clean, easy to navigate, well lit, and have yet to deteriorate from the two zombies that showed up eighteen miles away.
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BioEnchanted posted:A TMNT extreme sports game that's just Tony Hawks Downhill Jam but in sewer pipes. I think something like this exists. It might not be a TMNT game but I'm pretty sure there is a level that's just a downhill obstacle course in sewage runoff.
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THis discussion just reminded me of the amazing minecart section in Deadfall Adventures. It's a straight-up rollercoaster and you don't even have to worry about getting shot as you move so quickly you get out of range before the enemies can kill you, and the enemies that ride along side you have scripted moments where they all crash and die in elaborate ways. It owns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzrWa67xqto&t=1012s
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As someone who occasionally ends up in sewers as part of their day job...ehh actually I'll take a real one over most gaming equivalents
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I imagine the real ones have fewer monsters
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haveblue posted:I imagine the real ones have fewer monsters It's not monsters that are the problem. It's the poo poo and discarded needles you've gotta watch out for.
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Roblo posted:As someone who occasionally ends up in sewers as part of their day job...ehh actually I'll take a real one over most gaming equivalents  haveblue posted:I imagine the real ones have fewer monsters does my boss count?
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Morpheus posted:I would love it, just love it, if a game actually did something like "Oh drat sewer levels suck amirite?" as you're descending into a sewer and just having it be, like, a straight corridor for thirty seconds before you're out and that's it. I remember No One Lives Forever 2 having that. A length of sewer about 15 feet long, with a sign saying "Obligatory FPS sewer level".
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RareAcumen posted:A game set so far in the future that the sewers are actually not terrible. They're clean, easy to navigate, well lit, and have yet to deteriorate from the two zombies that showed up eighteen miles away. Destiny 2 has this, to an extent - Part of the Scourge of the Past raid is set in the storm sewer of the Last City's Botza District. Rains after the bombing have washed a ton of the Fallen's poo poo down there, and there are places where the system itself has been bombed out... But the parts that aren't wrecked are clean, well-lit, and easy to navigate if you're capable of using space magic to jump much higher and farther than mortals. Conveniently, you can.
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Exit Strategy posted:Destiny 2 has this, to an extent - Part of the Scourge of the Past raid is set in the storm sewer of the Last City's Botza District. Rains after the bombing have washed a ton of the Fallen's poo poo down there, and there are places where the system itself has been bombed out... But the parts that aren't wrecked are clean, well-lit, and easy to navigate if you're capable of using space magic to jump much higher and farther than mortals. Conveniently, you can. Until the giant flaming monster starts chasing you and you have to try to negotiate the sewer on your 200mph hoverbikes. That's actually a really fun encounter.
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orcane posted:That's the proper way to do these jokes IMO and I wish more games did that. This post triggered a memory for me from back when I was growing up. I played the original X-Wing on the PC, and as anyone who's seriously played it knows, some of the missions were downright brutal. One seems to stick in everyone's mind though, and that's the Redemption Scenario: You and two other fighters (who's AI sucked btw) had to protect a particularly vulnerable ship from attacks that appeared at opposite ends of the map. It took me many tries to figure out how to do that missions successfully. A few years later I picked up and started reading the X-Wing series of books, and the very first scene of the first book is a training simulator mission running the Redemption Scenario, and the pilots participating complaining about how difficult it is. Made me smile 
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PremiumSupport posted:This post triggered a memory for me from back when I was growing up. I played the original X-Wing on the PC, and as anyone who's seriously played it knows, some of the missions were downright brutal. One seems to stick in everyone's mind though, and that's the Redemption Scenario: You and two other fighters (who's AI sucked btw) had to protect a particularly vulnerable ship from attacks that appeared at opposite ends of the map. It took me many tries to figure out how to do that missions successfully. Goddamn. I loved those games, and read the books, but never picked that up ... God I bet if I read them again now they would be awesome (wasn't corran horn a bit of a Mary Sue? And I'm pretty sure he nailed a cat alien at one point) but drat I loved them as a kid.
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RareAcumen posted:A game set so far in the future that the sewers are actually not terrible. They're clean, easy to navigate, well lit, and have yet to deteriorate from the two zombies that showed up eighteen miles away. I actually really enjoyed the sewer section from Mirrors Edge. Good paths to run on, good future aesthetic, and that section where you’re in that massive room (full of snipers for some reason) dropped my jaw the first time I entered it.
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Roblo posted:Goddamn. I loved those games, and read the books, but never picked that up ... Corran was certainly the hero of the Rouge Squadron line of the series, but I wouldn't call him a Mary Sue. He had flaws, and those flaws got him into trouble on more than one occasion. Gavin Darklighter was the one who banged the cat lady though.
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Corran is implied to have hosed an otter lady at some point in the past.
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Goddammit. I got my otter and cat people mixed up
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Olaf The Stout posted:You're setting your buttons up like dark souls, and dark souls doesn't have remappable buttons, but it's also a perfect game. sekiro lets you rebind controls like nobody's business 
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Polaron posted:Corran is implied to have hosed an otter lady at some point in the past. Which did not turn out well for either of them as I recall. Something about skin chemistry issues.
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I enjoyed Clanker’s Cavern, which is a sewer level.
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moosecow333 posted:I actually really enjoyed the sewer section from Mirrors Edge. Good paths to run on, good future aesthetic, and that section where you’re in that massive room (full of snipers for some reason) dropped my jaw the first time I entered it. It's also apparently based on a real place.
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exquisite tea posted:Control weaves its own video gameyness into the world itself. Jesse explains how she can fast travel in-between control points and The Board translates their messages into video game logic that even those millennials can understand. That whole bit with how the Board’s messages have dual meanings in the subtitles is extremely clever. It gets the tone across of something being translated and interpreted instead of being directly understood, which was a really cool touch.
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