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The more you try to dig into the lore of Mad Max, the farther from the spirit of Mad Max you are headed. It's just "post-apocalyptic" but in chrome-y WordArt, all lower-case. Don't think, just drive!
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Grand Gigas posted:The ending of the Mad Max game was shattering. That which is broken can be mended by love only. Unless you're Chumbucket. Then you're just a hood ornament on Yet Another Mad Max Car Wreck
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Jan 24, 2020 05:05
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Hel posted:Maybe not salt flats but aren't there are places in the world with lots of shipwrecks in the middle of the desert because the rivers and lakes dried out. You may be thinking of the Aral Sea:  
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Jan 24, 2020 06:15
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Caufman posted:That which is broken can be mended by love only. My boy got done so dirty. Loved that helpful little man.
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Jan 24, 2020 06:18
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He's with the   now.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I would absolutely believe that some mad bastard would haul a derelict cargo ship into the middle of the outback just for the sake of doing it.
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Jan 24, 2020 08:42
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Caufman posted:He's with the
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Jan 24, 2020 11:52
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:You may be thinking of the Aral Sea: That's it, it's really kinda cool in a very depressing way.
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Jan 24, 2020 13:02
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In any other game, this would be a bad thing. But Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, somewhere around twenty hours in, gives you a mandatory driving minigame tutorial. Because finally, someone making a Dragon Ball game remembers the best episode of Dragon Ball.
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Jan 24, 2020 13:14
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Cleretic posted:In any other game, this would be a bad thing.
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Cleretic posted:In any other game, this would be a bad thing. thank the lord, goddamn
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Jan 24, 2020 14:13
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Cleretic posted:In any other game, this would be a bad thing. That was probably one of, if not the only time a filler episode was good, and something I'm honestly surprised never came up in the manga, because "Goku and Picollo try to do normal things like normal people" seems like a giant well of comedy to draw from.
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Jan 24, 2020 14:18
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The nuclear war that destroyed heaven and hell in Russia also boiled off the oceans around Australia while creating a fuckload of mutants in America. Africa's doing great though!
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Jan 24, 2020 16:20
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The story mode in Injustice 2 is weirdly good for either a fighting game or a superhero game, the fact that it exists in a fighting game about superheroes is some kind of insane anomaly. Not that this is a high bar to clear but it's easily better and more engaging than any DC movie from the last ten years. I think the fact that it starts with everyone kind of picking up the pieces from Injustice, giving a lot of the characters new allegiances and genuine reasons to distrust or dislike each other, goes a long way toward making a cool and relatable story as opposed to "the bat guy is angry at the red underwear guy so they punch each other."
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Jan 24, 2020 17:23
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food court bailiff posted:The story mode in Injustice 2 is weirdly good for either a fighting game or a superhero game, the fact that it exists in a fighting game about superheroes is some kind of insane anomaly. The comics are mostly good too, until Taylor leaves. Way way better than a video game tie in comic should be
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Jan 24, 2020 17:36
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Check out MK11's story mode, it's nuts. Everybody's cracking wise, making up with old enemies and introducing love and tolerance to the realms - but they also didn't tone down the spine-ripping at all. It's the Felix the Cat of Marvel movies.
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Jan 24, 2020 17:37
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NRS has generally done a good job with their story modes from MK9 onward, at least as far as fighting games go.
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Jan 24, 2020 18:34
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Helps that Injustice was also co-written by DC.
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Yeah Injustice 1 was surprisingly fun for someone that hasn't really played a fighting game story since Soul Calibur 3. The ridiculously over the top special moves were great fun and it felt less mean spirited than Mortal Kombat. I haven't gotten far into the second one but am looking forward to even more crazy alternate universe shenanigans!
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Ruffian Price posted:Check out MK11's story mode, it's nuts. Everybody's cracking wise, making up with old enemies and introducing love and tolerance to the realms - but they also didn't tone down the spine-ripping at all. It's the Felix the Cat of Marvel movies. What's the deal with Felix the Cat?
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exquisite tea posted:NRS has generally done a good job with their story modes from MK9 onward, at least as far as fighting games go. Normally time travel stuff sucks in storylines, but it was so perfectly used in 9 to throw out all the dumb poo poo no one liked, bring back familiar plot beats people did like, and have  moments when things don’t go how you remember and major characters bite it unexpectedly. 11 used time weirdness really well, too like when someone is losing a fight against Present Kano and someone just kills Past Kano and poof, no more Present Kano. NRS makes a drat good story mode.
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Phy posted:What's the deal with Felix the Cat? they might have meant Fritz
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lmao yes I meant Fritz
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Jan 25, 2020 12:15
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A cute thing in Just Cause, the woman working with you is reading a book called "Regime Change in 7 Easy Steps". A better joke than all of GTA's tryhard bullshit.
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I still chuckle at the stupid poo poo like BIGGEST COCK IN THE WORLD in San Andreas along with the constant 69s everywhere
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I was put off San Andreas, as I tried it again a few weeks ago and realised it wasn't just Sweet I hated. Ryder is ludicrously obnoxious and Big Smoke sucks even before he becomes the final boss (or something, I think there is apparently a subplot where he goes from dealing marijuana to cocaine)
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Jan 25, 2020 12:41
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I always found Ryder amusing but Sweet is complete poo poo yeah.
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BioEnchanted posted:A cute thing in Just Cause, the woman working with you is reading a book called "Regime Change in 7 Easy Steps". A better joke than all of GTA's tryhard bullshit. I'm pretty sad that they changed the grappling hook and stunt position stuff in the sequels, being able to reel in and out the line when paragliding was way better than just zipping. And while climbing around on the car is cool I really miss being able to still control the car from the stunt position. They should have iterated on the things they had rather than change them completely.
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I liked firing the two pistols in Just Cause. Something about it was very satisfying and ‘chunky’. Also paragliding behind cars (that due to the off-kilter AI would sometimes just park. Then the bonnet/hood would fall off. Then the driver would step out, keel over and die  )Also JC4: I’m sure Sheldon made some kind of joke referencing Rico’s look in the first game. Something about ‘Slick Elvia’?
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Hel posted:I'm pretty sad that they changed the grappling hook and stunt position stuff in the sequels, being able to reel in and out the line when paragliding was way better than just zipping. And while climbing around on the car is cool I really miss being able to still control the car from the stunt position. They should have iterated on the things they had rather than change them completely. Sure, but I'll take those things over having to swap to the grappling hook as a weapon to use it. And the jetpack in 3.
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I've started playing Aggelos on the Switch because I don't have many switch games and it looked cute and it's got a lot of charm to it. Especially given how open the world is for exploration, I was able to get a really powerful sword really early on which took care of the first boss in a tiny amount of time (after me struggling against it with the second sword). The second dungeon is proving a lot harder though, although I can ignore most of it now that the boss door is open.
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Just decided to try out Black Mesa again now that it's finally finished. It's been long enough that I forgot some of the intro details, the one teaching you to pick up and throw stuff is pretty great compared to the famous "PICK UP THAT CAN, CITIZEN" in HL2: one of the scientists is having a toilet paper crisis in the bathroom, and your job is to pick up a new roll and toss it into the stall 
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Jan 26, 2020 23:36
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Dragon Quest Builders 2: I love the room system. You build a room, add some stuff, and it gets named after what is in it and makes everybody happy. Rooms don't need to have a roof, so I can technically build a room on top of a house by using wooden fences around the outside, so I have an upstairs patio which is just cute as hell. So I finished the first big task of the first island, got a solid five hours of playtime just from that alone and exploring, I go to save my game and hit the title screen: I forgot that I didn't buy this game. I'm still playing the loving demo. 
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Jan 27, 2020 03:29
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thecluckmeme posted:Dragon Quest Builders 2: The original demo was real short but yeah, it’s crazy. The Dragon Quest XI Switch demo was insanely long too, I got almost 11 hours out of it before it ended. They must have been happy with the sales and decided to try it with Builders 2 as well, hopefully it catches on and other companies start doing it too
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Jan 27, 2020 03:38
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I'm having a ton of raw fun with Hyrule Warriors on the Switch. The Adventure Mode stuff is varied enough that I'm enjoying using some of the off the wall characters, like Agitha or Skull Kid. The only character I'm not crazy about using is Wizzro, but considering all the options I've got, I'm fine with disliking one character.
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Jan 27, 2020 03:55
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Skull Kid was my go to choice. Dude gets a room-sweeping laser and some crazy sing-target. Some of his stuff is finicky to control, but he's pretty freaking strong and great to use against most of the good characters.
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:The original demo was real short but yeah, it’s crazy. The Dragon Quest XI Switch demo was insanely long too, I got almost 11 hours out of it before it ended. They must have been happy with the sales and decided to try it with Builders 2 as well, hopefully it catches on and other companies start doing it too The crazy thing is at this point, I'm just gonna buy the game. I could continue to skate by, but the game is crop management a la Stardew Valley and, after I discovered it has a first person mode, now it's also minecraft. It is ticking every cell in my brain that produces dopamine. Clear structured goals that let me just build whatever the hell I want. Unless the Disco Elysium people make another game that releases this year, somehow, and they knock it out of the park as good as DE I already have my GOTY 2020. AND THERE'S A DOG FRIEND
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There's a lot of love packed into Hyrule Warriors. I just unlocked Twili Midna and a lot of her animations are references to things Imp Midna does with her hair, like snapping her fingers when her magic ends or winding back for a big punch when she gets a guard break. She also hums the Twilight Princess victory music after beating a stage, which is cute.
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Leavemywife posted:I'm having a ton of raw fun with Hyrule Warriors on the Switch. The Adventure Mode stuff is varied enough that I'm enjoying using some of the off the wall characters, like Agitha or Skull Kid. The only character I'm not crazy about using is Wizzro, but considering all the options I've got, I'm fine with disliking one character. The one I really didn't like was Zant. Because while I'm very aware that he's good, his strong attacks aren't intuitively laid out for me, and I'll inevitably not use the move that I know he has and just be locked into a long animation for ages. But again, it's not really a big deal when there's so many other good characters. On the flipside, while I liked Agitha I had a lot of trouble with missions where I needed her for bonuses, because somehow her AoE damage is higher than her focused target damage. The way to ensure I killed a single target before anyone else, paradoxically, was to not target them.
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thecluckmeme posted:The crazy thing is at this point, I'm just gonna buy the game. I could continue to skate by, but the game is crop management a la Stardew Valley and, after I discovered it has a first person mode, now it's also minecraft. It is ticking every cell in my brain that produces dopamine. Clear structured goals that let me just build whatever the hell I want. Unless the Disco Elysium people make another game that releases this year, somehow, and they knock it out of the park as good as DE I already have my GOTY 2020.
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