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snergle posted:what if you made him a thirsty stereotypical friendzone nice guy. because thats how i took his character in the arr manderville quest lines and it still came off super pervy No, Typhon is the one being friendzoned in this situation, by Ultros.
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Don't tease the octopus, kiddies!
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It's a pretty giant MMO but it is true that FF14 does imply rape probably more than any other game I've played. I was going to say "any other FF" but actually it comes up a lot despite it basically never being said! An NPC down the line important enough to be voiced in a few cutscenes gets a backstory where he mentions his mother is from an occupied territory and she "didn't exactly welcome my father if you know what I mean" and then it's mentioned that she went nuts and tried to cut out any signs of his mixed parentage. Maybe the most  example is in the Postmoogle quests that are optional and are mostly a lighthearted back on those mostly unimportant NPCs you probably talked to once or twice during the base game and forgot about... except for one of them dumping on you the story of two catgirls, one of whom sold herself on the street to protect and provide for the younger one. And then joined the local catpeople outlaws, a condition of joining being a part of the catman leaders harem. And when you try to convince her to leave she's like "hmm OK for the sake of my sister" and then two steps from town, a town guard says "hey you didn't you just stab my buddies for their money two weeks ago" and then he's run off (or killed? I forget) by the outlaw leader catguy. And then she's like "oh I could never leave you" and is pulled back into this abusive relationship.And so her younger sister swears that one day she'll get powerful enough to kill that guy. Your hero watches all this happen and does not intervene in any way.
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bewilderment posted:Your hero watches all this happen and does not intervene in any way.  Not implying this is good. It's just always what the WoL does for every conversation.
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Jan 12, 2020 04:40
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packetmantis posted:Who gives this much of a poo poo about Ultros? MUSCLE HEADS! HATE 'EM!
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bewilderment posted:And then joined the local catpeople outlaws, a condition of joining being a part of the catman leaders harem. bewilderment posted:and is pulled back into this abusive relationship. Does the questline say it's abusive? Different culture, different morals, different outlook on life.
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Jan 12, 2020 06:57
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FFXV’s fishing mini game is goddamn addictive.
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Jan 12, 2020 06:58
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Ugly In The Morning posted:FFXV’s fishing mini game is goddamn addictive. e. thought you said XIV.. this post applies to XIV Yeah, the audio cues are great. That hefty wood bending sound when you've hooked a whopper, and then the extra loud ding on an HQ catch before you even see it's HQ. FFXIV's crafting/gathering professions, especially with the shadowbringers updates, are great examples of how to do crafting/gathering right. Instanced gathering nodes that noone else can see, generally in a tight grouping/triangle of 2x2/3 for each type, that one can farm endlessly if they so desire. And with the crafting, there is a palpable sense of progression as one gets better gear and more skills to approach different types of craftables.
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Ambaire posted:e. thought you said XIV.. this post applies to XIV Also surprisingly relaxing with a controller and something to half watch in the background. I always need to be doing something even when zoning out, and this was really nice.
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I've been playing Sunset Overdrive and having a blast. There are a ton of little things all over the place but one I just noticed today is that if you shoot the challenge markers floating around the city they break apart, oops 
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Ambaire posted:Does the questline say it's abusive? Different culture, different morals, different outlook on life. WTF
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Jan 12, 2020 09:37
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Ambaire posted:Does the questline say it's abusive? Different culture, different morals, different outlook on life. Having a male leader like a lion pride is biology for one cat person subspecies. Being forced to join an outlaw gang and manipulated into being never able to leave is not.
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gotta say I think it's pretty weird that this is all your favorite thing in that game
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flatluigi posted:gotta say I think it's pretty weird that this is all your favorite thing in that game Deep down, they wanted to be teased by the octopus.
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Jan 12, 2020 11:32
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In Hades, your character's goal is to leave Tartarus while being thwarted by the big guy himself. Every time you die, you go back to the House of Hades; there you can find Cerberus whom you can deliver many pets and scritches. Seeing as you will die many times, you get many chances to give many scritches to a good boy. When you get to the last gateway out of Hell, you'll find Cerberus waiting for you, ready to defend to the last... Except your character refuses to fight him, and instead just bribes him with doggy treats to get out.
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Samovar posted:In Hades, your character's goal is to leave Tartarus while being thwarted by the big guy himself. Every time you die, you go back to the House of Hades; there you can find Cerberus whom you can deliver many pets and scritches. Seeing as you will die many times, you get many chances to give many scritches to a good boy. You say "just bribes him with doggy treats" like it's a simple matter and not a fuckin nightmare gauntlet of horrible poison bullshit rats and demons.
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I like that in Shadow of the Tomb Raider there's an option to have people talk in their indigenous language.
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Alhazred posted:I like that in Shadow of the Tomb Raider there's an option to have people talk in their indigenous language. I really wish this was more common in games.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:You say "just bribes him with doggy treats" like it's a simple matter and not a fuckin nightmare gauntlet of horrible poison bullshit rats and demons. Excuse me, I think you'll find trying to hurt dear, sweet, precious, sweet, wonderful, sweet, sweet Cerberus SO much harder than that! The poison effect in that last dungeon loving blows, no argument here
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I figured I'd pick up Quantum Theory as it seemed interesting and it was only £2, and it is definitely that so far. It's got a neat idea involving moving cover which initially only appeared as a brief thing in the tutorial then disappeared for a while, but has returned with a vengeance in a really hard sequence riding a giant worm up the middle of the tower. They took into account how loose the aiming is too (which is my biggest problem with the game) as you don't have to shoot the enemies in this section which would be a nightmare as everything is constantly moving, because there are mines everywhere so a lucky shot can take out the worst enemies fairly quickly. Also there was a pretty kickass sequence at the start when first breaking into the tower where you need to take out it's defenses and there are lasers and cannons firing everywhere, which makes for a fun spectacle.
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Unperson_47 posted:I really wish this was more common in games. The last game I can think of that did an option for people to speak in their native language was AssCreed 2, where you could have everyone in the Animus parts speak Italian and the modern day parts be English. (If you didn’t play it like that you were really missing out)
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Alhazred posted:I like that in Shadow of the Tomb Raider there's an option to have people talk in their indigenous language. I enjoyed it too though its a bit awkward that Lara still speaks English but thats not really the devs fault. Either the actress would have to awkwardly stumble through a foreign language she didnt speak and sound foolish or you get another actress who sounds nothing like her. Not really any good solutions.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:The last game I can think of that did an option for people to speak in their native language was AssCreed 2, where you could have everyone in the Animus parts speak Italian and the modern day parts be English. Nioh is like this. Characters speak Japanese for 99% of the game with English subtitles, but others sometimes speak English and it's played straight- as in they're actually speaking English, not MGS3 style "your Russian is pretty good". Edit: which ties into a nice touch of characterization I liked, come to think of it. In the game you play as historical figure William Adams, who is given the name Anjin Miura in Japan because it's easier for the locals to pronounce (and he's a ship captain). Even after everyone else starts calling him Sir Anjin, bro 4 life Hanzo continues to call him William even in Japanese dialogue. CJacobs has a new favorite as of 18:22 on Jan 12, 2020 |
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travis strikes again is hard to like, but it does pay a lot of lip service to indie gaming in general - this time the t-shirt selection is almost entirely logos from other popular indie games, from dead cells to hollow knight to disco elysium there's also one for undertale, as you'd expect, so what iconic image did toby fox supply? the game's logo? the little red heart? the annoying dog? no, it's box-form mettaton wearing the incredibly lovely frog t-shirt from his one-off trivia game
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Unperson_47 posted:I really wish this was more common in games. XCOM lets you change it so troops will speak their native language.
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Oxxidation posted:there's also one for undertale, as you'd expect, so what iconic image did toby fox supply? the game's logo? the little red heart? the annoying dog? This reminds me of how in Street Fighter X Tekken, Mega Man is a playable character...but it's the Mega Man from the box art of Mega Man 1.  An overweight middle-aged guy in a weird jumpsuit, with a sci-fi pistol.
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That joke made a lot of people upset but I maintain it was great. It probably would've gone over better if the Mega Man series wasn't near-abandoned back then. Too bad the game was bad. Tekken characters in street fighter style could've been a lot of fun, and its failure basically killed Tekken X Steet Fighter. Zinkraptor has a new favorite as of 23:17 on Jan 12, 2020 |
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Leal posted:XCOM lets you change it so troops will speak their native language. Only if they are from one of the five countries with localized voice acting.  There's mods of course.
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Something amusing I realised since watching an LP of Grand Theft Auto 4 - Bernie's house may be a straight-man's caricature of how a gay house would look with it's sexy cop paintings and vibrant colours, but Nico and Roman's varying apartments are also a gay man's caricature of how a straight guy's apartment would look, run down, squalid and with pornographic titty posters everywhere. In no real house would someone decorate it with porn, it makes it impossible to have people over without it being awkward As a college humour video put it years ago, Roman Bellic is FLAMING straight. Rockstar tried so hard to make the apartment a bachelor thing they overshot. I honestly can't tell if that was the joke or not, given that Bernie was the best they could do with a gay character at the time. BioEnchanted has a new favorite as of 10:51 on Jan 13, 2020 |
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The box art Mega-Man character would probably be funnier if he looked more like the original art.
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BioEnchanted posted:In no real house would someone decorate it with porn, it makes it impossible to have people over without it being awkward oh my sweet summer child...
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Ugly In The Morning posted:The last game I can think of that did an option for people to speak in their native language was AssCreed 2, where you could have everyone in the Animus parts speak Italian and the modern day parts be English.
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Necrothatcher posted:oh my sweet summer child... I know about that one furry with the coffee table that had a pornographic image on it... Didn't realise it was a more common thing than that.
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:The box art Mega-Man character would probably be funnier if he looked more like the original art. He's like, two and a half jokes in one, which would have been fine by themselves, but kinda bump into each other in one package. 1. Hey, it's bad box-art Mega Man! That's pretty funny! 1.5. It's hilariously wrong Mega Man, like if he was really poorly adapted into a toy line and comic book in the eighties. that's a fun angle, and one that actually jives well with Street Fighter conceptually since that almost did happen there. 2. Hey, remember that weird nostalgic figure? Let's pick up on him thirty years later and find out what a loser he is! Nintendo did basically a whole game of this, Captain Rainbow, so it's got legs. 1 and 1.5 could go pretty well together, but 1 and 2 together blurs the line of recognizability (which it kinda needs since it's not like 'bad box-art Mega Man' is is a universally-recognized figure) while feeling pretty mean-spirited to the Mega Man fans they're supposed to be appealing to.
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The "boxart" for megaman 9 and 10 did something almost similar in a cool way.  It is missing a crucial element, though, which is that the early NA and EU boxarts for Mega Man games were hideous - even when they started drawing Mega Man a bit more on-model, you still ended up with stuff like this. While capturing that "we need to make this game look cool for hip U.S. kids and also I have not actually seen the game but merely had it described to me in 20 words or less" feel, it's just a bit too competently made. At this point, I think the joke might be overdone and dead, but I would like to see cool silver EU Mega Man sometime:  He's overshadowed by US MM1, but I think he's got his own appeal. Also I dig that angry blob with cat ears near his left shoulder.
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Zinkraptor posted:"This Game Pak cannot be used with the NES version of the NES."  Wily looking like Heihachi here: 
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I like that they show his arm-cannon Mega-Buster and ALSO give him a Flash Gordon laser pistol.
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RagnarokAngel posted:I enjoyed it too though its a bit awkward that Lara still speaks English but thats not really the devs fault. Either the actress would have to awkwardly stumble through a foreign language she didnt speak and sound foolish or you get another actress who sounds nothing like her. Not really any good solutions. Yeah, it really was the worst of both worlds. Everyone speaking English is silly, but it's one of those conventions that we just accept as being done for the benefit of the audience. Having Lara speak to people in English and having them speak back in Quecha was worse, since it implied that both characters were bilingual but refused to speak the same tongue for... reasons?
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Unperson_47 posted:"This Game Pak cannot be used with the NES version of the NES." Confusing naming convention but thats referring to the PAL version. Its basically saying only useable on an american system.
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BioEnchanted posted:I know about that one furry with the coffee table that had a pornographic image on it... Didn't realise it was a more common thing than that. Depends on the people you associate with. I'm rarely around people who would have porn up on walls, but yes, there are still many people who have porn up on walls. I was just around them more in my early college years. To add a little thing, while I'm not playing it right now, I loved how in Final Fantasy XIV, when you get a particular mount in ARR, it starts playing some very recognizable music. You get a magitek mount at the end of the base game, and it plays the overworld (Terra's) theme from Final Fantasy 6. I would often have the mount music turned off so that the ambient music would play instead, but I needed to turn it back on for a while for that.
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