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DACK FAYDEN posted:You're not missing anything Wrong. If you ignore the MQ you never get to meet my dragon bro Paarthurnax.
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in mhw iceborne theres a mini game called the steamworks and when you max it out a cutscene plays where 3 cats stuff it full of coal and your handler throws some potates on top causing an explosion. at one point your handler is replaced by a different handler while she and the tracker check something out and if you do steam works during this you get a different cutscene with your interim handler and she asks the cats nicely not to cause an explosion but they do anyways
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Jan 15, 2020 02:07
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AssCreed Revelation had a boss that you had to aerial assassinate, but right as you get the usual post-death speech you expect at this point, the dude just no sells the knife in his neck and gets back up to fight you. It was so stupid that it wrapped around to being awesome.
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Jan 15, 2020 11:41
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snergle posted:in mhw iceborne theres a mini game called the steamworks and when you max it out a cutscene plays where 3 cats stuff it full of coal and your handler throws some potates on top causing an explosion. at one point your handler is replaced by a different handler while she and the tracker check something out and if you do steam works during this you get a different cutscene with your interim handler and she asks the cats nicely not to cause an explosion but they do anyways All of the cat cutscenes are delightful. I love Cat Chef https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqAfXQCItMA
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Jan 15, 2020 15:01
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Nostradingus posted:All of the cat cutscenes are delightful. I love Cat Chef Buff Cat Chef is old news. Cat Grandma is where it's at. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yjpkZpleSE
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Jan 15, 2020 16:17
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Don Gato posted:AssCreed Revelation had a boss that you had to aerial assassinate, but right as you get the usual post-death speech you expect at this point, the dude just no sells the knife in his neck and gets back up to fight you. It was so stupid that it wrapped around to being awesome. which boss is this? curious to look it up
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Jan 15, 2020 16:33
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StrangersInTheNight posted:which boss is this? curious to look it up Shahkulu
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John Murdoch posted:Wrong. If you ignore the MQ you never get to meet my dragon bro Paarthurnax.
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Any work of fiction that makes me hate Christopher Plummer's character is bad fiction, even the works where he plays the villain.
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Jan 15, 2020 20:10
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DACK FAYDEN posted:They railroad you into murdering him and it's bullshit. Like, yes, he's a centrist non-interventionist who could have helped fight off the Thalmor, but come on. Who? Paarthurnax? You don’t have to kill him. Which is good, because he’s nice and the group telling you to kill him is both really stupid and completely unlikable.
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Jan 15, 2020 20:22
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Ariong posted:Who? Paarthurnax? You don’t have to kill him. Which is good, because he’s nice and the group telling you to kill him is both really stupid and completely unlikable. I think DACK FAYDEN just means that the Blades give you an ultimatum for essentially no reason and you have no agency in a matter where you really should. There's no option to spare Paarthurnax or even to say "no I don't want to do that", only the option is to eternally juke their order to kill him by ignoring the quest log entry, which isn't really the same thing. CJacobs has a new favorite as of 22:53 on Jan 15, 2020 |
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Jan 15, 2020 20:38
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CJacobs posted:I think DACK FAYDEN just means that the Blades give you an ultimatum for essentially no reason and you have no agency in a matter where you really should. There's no option to spare Paarthurnax or even to say "no I don't want to do that", only the option to eternally juke their order to kill him by ignoring the quest log entry, which isn't really the same thing. Never played up to that point, but what happens if you just kill the quest giver?
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Jan 15, 2020 22:29
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Skyrim quest givers are all flagged as immortal. Even if they give out a quest you have already locked yourself out of getting.
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Patrick Spens posted:Skyrim quest givers are all flagged as immortal. Even if they give out a quest you have already locked yourself out of getting. So I guess the only other option for that moral choice is to play on PC and mod out that pesky immortality flag.
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Elder scrolls has pretty much never been about morality. Theres almost never multiple solutions to quests, the only player agency is how you go about it. (To clarify this isnt a defense, its this reason I never particularly liked the series)
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RagnarokAngel posted:Elder scrolls has pretty much never been about morality. Theres almost never multiple solutions to quests, the only player agency is how you go about it. But there's so many copy paste caves to explore! And if you install mods until it's not even recognizable as the base game anymore it's a great game!
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Jan 15, 2020 23:35
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Let's go ahead and end the impending slapfight about TES before it starts huh?
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Let's go ahead and end the impending slapfight about TES before it starts huh? I mean I guess we can Sylvando is the best part of Dragonquest 11
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Jan 15, 2020 23:41
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I think the Clairvoyance spell in Skyrim is pretty cool. When you activate it a glowing trail appears that you can follow to your current quest objective. When I first saw it I thought that it was weird how they would go to all that effort for a single simple spell, but it’s actually quite clever in how it works under the hood: he games just uses the AI pathfinding code to work out how an NPC would navigate to wherever you need to go and draws the trail along that path. Clever.
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On the subject of TES, there is a fan made total conversion for Skyrim called Enderal on Steam. Iirc, it is free if you own Skyrim. It is a totally new world and campaign, fully voiceacted dialogue, new assets, the works. It is VERY good and better by a mile than vanilla Skyrim.
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HPanda posted:So I guess the only other option for that moral choice is to play on PC and mod out that pesky immortality flag. Or download the "The Paarthurnax Dilemma" mod. Changes up the end of the Blades questline, and adds a way to get through without killed Paarthurnax.
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The best way to play skyrim is to use one of those mods that just disables the main story, so you don't have to deal with any dragons at all and the gray beards are just dudes you never talk to and the world is your boring fantasy oyster like in every other elder scrolls game.
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Nuebot posted:The best way to play skyrim is to use one of those mods that just disables the main story, so you don't have to deal with any dragons at all and the gray beards are just dudes you never talk to and the world is your boring fantasy oyster like in every other elder scrolls game. Link to one of these please and thank you  Or better yet one for FO4
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I've got past the Trachea level in Quantum Theory on the xbox 360 and just wanted to draw attention to how pretty and colourful the game is, especially after the grey slog of Gears of War. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD4K9A1tSUM Also there was an enemy that I expected to be a huge bullet sponge, but it's more interesting than that. His body is impervious, but if you hit his head once with a strong weapon or a few times with an automatic, it teleports away and burst through a different wall for you to keep shooting. Then it just stops coming after a few times doing that. BioEnchanted has a new favorite as of 14:46 on Jan 16, 2020 |
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Kitfox88 posted:Link to one of these please and thank you just uh, don't drown in the sea of titty mods (at least the actual sex mods are on a different even worse site)
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Oh my god Quantum Theory is finally delivering on it's premise, as the tower is an organic creature, with the black goo as an Invading force warping it to it's own ends, basically it's a cancer. AS a result it's not just cover that's popping up anymore, the entire level is building itself with seemingly random bridges and towers that not only are trying to do it's own thing, but actively fighting you as well, so bridges will break as you cross them so you need to jump to a tower and hope another route opens up. It's really fun although tricky due to how unpredictable it is.
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In the Megaman Zero games, almost every boss (pretty much all of them that don’t survive the fight) gets dramatically cut in half if you finish them off with the sword. Interestingly, they’re cut before they deliver their last words. I guess it takes a bit before a case of “sliced cleanly in two” kicks in if you’re a robot. I felt very disappointed any time I got the last hit with the gun or a charged slash (which doesn’t count for some reason).
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 Just a lovely way to symbolize the passage of time inbetween the new DLC and the base game of Three Kingdoms. 
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Playing Red Dead Redemption 2, using the greet command a few times on a construction worker in Valentine: Arthur, casually: "It's been one of those days y'know?" Worker, concerned: "Hey partner, go through it best you can and things'll turn round". Just love that there's actually some positivity all throughout this game, unlike the overriding "everything is crum" mentality in GTA5.
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CJacobs posted:I think DACK FAYDEN just means that the Blades give you an ultimatum for essentially no reason and you have no agency in a matter where you really should. There's no option to spare Paarthurnax or even to say "no I don't want to do that", only the option is to eternally juke their order to kill him by ignoring the quest log entry, which isn't really the same thing. I use a mod that fixes this. You can tell the blades to pound sand on their request, they accept your decision, and everything goes back to normal.
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BioEnchanted posted:I've got past the Trachea level in Quantum Theory on the xbox 360 and just wanted to draw attention to how pretty and colourful the game is, especially after the grey slog of Gears of War. Aw gently caress this whole time I thought you were talking about Remedy's Quantum Break!
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marshmallow creep posted:Aw gently caress this whole time I thought you were talking about Remedy's Quantum Break! I don't even know what Quantum Theory is, really, but there are enough similar points of discussion that I keep getting confused too.
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It's a 360 shooter that's been derided as "Anime Gears of War" but it's much more than that, because of a couple of awesome rooms where the room itself is trying to kill you, so for example you at one point are standing on two thin platforms that are parallel to each other and that are going back and forth, partially retracting and extending to throw off you're aim. Then the room gets aggressive by tilting the platforms to expose you, leaving hte cover less effective. And the whole room is constantly moving bridges and trying to funnel you into enemy encounters, at one point literally as at one point you are on a ledge above a circular room, then the ledge just lowers, sinking into the floor leaving you exposed. It doesn't happen much, there have been 2 setpieces like it so far, but when it does it it goes all out and it's really cool. It really sells the idea that you are fighting the tower itself. Also the bosses don't take many hits and the hits that they do take feel strong, it's just you die very quickly too so the tricky part is not getting hit too much before you can hit back. It completely avoids the problem a lot of shooters have where the enemies are all bullet sponges by the end, and the bosses are WAY better than most bosses in Gears of War. Also the weak points feel like weak points, like one boss has a crack in it's chest armour that you shoot, but as it takes damage it starts leaking light more and more until it completely ruptures and explodes, killing the boss. BioEnchanted has a new favorite as of 18:37 on Jan 17, 2020 |
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marshmallow creep posted:Aw gently caress this whole time I thought you were talking about Remedy's Quantum Break! Haha, me too.
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I definitely thought he was talking about that first-person shooter with time manipulation...could've sworn it had Quantum in the title. Edit: Nope, it was Singularity.
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Morpheus posted:I definitely thought he was talking about that first-person shooter with time manipulation...could've sworn it had Quantum in the title. I think you're thinking of Singularity? Edit: You figured it out. I'm hoping that the final boss on Quantum Theory involves the environmental warping because that could be neat. At the moment I'm at a nice level on the roof of the tower. This game's definitely on my "To LP" list BioEnchanted has a new favorite as of 19:48 on Jan 17, 2020 |
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BioEnchanted posted:I think you're thinking of Singularity? Yeaaaaah immediately after posting I looked it up
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In Monster Hunter World: Iceborne, at the new Gathering Hub, you can finally pet your cat.
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Wow, partway through the Clavicle in Quantum Theory which is the rooftop (all the parts of the tower are named for body parts), and it really feels like a roof. There is a lot of uneven ground and thin flying buttresses to navigate, and a few neat uses of the cover mechanic where you don't press against a wall to hide from enemies but to shimmy across a narrow ledge to somewhere safe to pull away. Also the bird enemies are back from half the game ago so that's neat. They were only in one level before this one. There are also way more checkpoints so it's less stressful than the prior level.
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Been playing Enderal the Skyrim overhaul (free on Steam). The opening is a touch too long but I've been enjoying myself. Skyrim is far, far too easy so I like that magic is potent but risky to use, torches run out and you can only rest at beds, camps or tents. I'm not wholly certain how the leveling plays out but you can start the game with werewolf powers, if you want.
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