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jokes posted:I love that the black headcrabs in HL2 can’t kill you. They bring you to 1 and then you get the health back (all?). But I never learned that while playing it, I just thought i was lucking out or whatever. Learning about them later was what made me loving LOVE those bad boys. That and swatting one mid-jump with the crowbar. The triumph of the black headcrabs is their scarcity and intensity of use, and the loving sound they make when they rattle and jump. Tremendous sound design, they're so fuckin' scary, and they're always placed in the most surprising spots, and used sparingly. Also I've evangalized Mad Max many times here over the years, glad to hear people have played it! I've always wondered if they had access to george millers notes about the world, there is so much specific lore in that game that seamlessly ties into the movies, it seems very well-considered. There is a lot of love for the details of that universe in that game, sure wish we would have gotten a sequel. Olaf The Stout has a new favorite as of 05:27 on Feb 11, 2020 |
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God, I can't wait for Half Life: Alyx to wrestle head crabs off my face and punch my tv in the process.
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Feb 11, 2020 05:21
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Olaf The Stout posted:sure wish we would have gotten a sequel. well, we're gonna get another movie so, never give up hope!
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TontoCorazon posted:God, I can't wait for Half Life: Alyx to wrestle head crabs off my face and punch my tv in the process. I played around with a crowbar in Boneworks the other day and if the game's just that level of constant comical ineptness but with headcrabs, I'm sold.
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Feb 11, 2020 05:25
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boar guy posted:well, we're gonna get another movie so, never give up hope! This is the best thing to happen to me in 2020.
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Feb 11, 2020 05:28
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Olaf The Stout posted:This is the best thing to happen to me in 2020.  happy to help
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Riatsala posted:Huh, thanks, I'll take a look. I think I was very much tired of open world games when it came out, but I could really go for it now. You might also enjoy Metro Exodus, since halfway through that game you get a van. Granted, you're not alone, you're part of a group trying to find a safe haven so it's not a fully solitary experience like HL2.
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Feb 11, 2020 05:42
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RareAcumen posted:You might also enjoy Metro Exodus, since halfway through that game you get a van. Granted, you're not alone, you're part of a group trying to find a safe haven so it's not a fully solitary experience like HL2. I loved the first Metro game but never continued with the series. The isolation isn't such an important factor to me, so I think I'd really like it, thanks for the recommendation!
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Feb 11, 2020 06:44
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Half-Life 2 chat got me thinking about this fantastically creepy, mournful little tune that plays in the short map after you finally exit Ravenholm but before you get the buggy. There's a typical little Valve-ism in that map, too - the first sniper you meet is facing the opposite direction from you towards a set of zombies, so you can see how the snipers work without being in danger. They do much the same thing with turrets and (kind of) striders later on. edit: this is the correct link, but i'm leaving the old one in StandardVC10 has a new favorite as of 07:04 on Feb 11, 2020 |
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Feb 11, 2020 06:51
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drat, i wish valve made more games
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StandardVC10 posted:Half-Life 2 chat got me thinking about this fantastically creepy, mournful little tune that plays in the short map after you finally exit Ravenholm but before you get the buggy. There's a typical little Valve-ism in that map, too - the first sniper you meet is facing the opposite direction from you towards a set of zombies, so you can see how the snipers work without being in danger. They do much the same thing with turrets and (kind of) striders later on. *leaves Ravenholm* *sees cheerful upbeat girl talking earnestly about dealing with her problems with Williams syndrome in a way that is both sad and uplifting* to be fair, seeing happy people is a bit terrifying for your average game-player
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I think your link goes to something other than what you meant it to.
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Feb 11, 2020 06:55
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It's still a great link and needs to be watched. 
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Feb 11, 2020 06:56
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gently caress MY POSTING SHAME SHALL ENDURE FOR EVER
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RareAcumen posted:You might also enjoy Metro Exodus, since halfway through that game you get a van. Granted, you're not alone, you're part of a group trying to find a safe haven so it's not a fully solitary experience like HL2. It's an incredibly lovely van tho, which you'll note once you enter it and look at the steering wheel. If you didn't kill it's owner you can later find out he is basically the right hand of the local warlord, so it must have been one of the better vehicles in their garage too. But I don't think you get to use the vehicle that much that it warrants thinking Metro Exodus has the same appeal as Mad Max.
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StandardVC10 posted:gently caress MY POSTING SHAME SHALL ENDURE FOR EVER Yes now post the mournful little tune edit: gently caress MY POSTING ALSO
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Of all the versions of Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, I've been playing the Gameboy Colour version via emulator for the hell of it. It's surprisingly in depth, having all of the same puzzles as the PC/N64 version (of which the only experience I had was watching an abandoned LP of it). It has all the trappings of a Tomb Raider clone, just in a 2d 3/4 perspective, and while it is really slow to play exploring is kind of fun.
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All this talk of mad max makes me want to give it another shot. I tried hard to like the game, but i barely got 15 hours in before i found all the content to be too repetitive. Is there any secrets to enjoying the moment to moment gameplay? Skip the camps?
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My advice is, take it slowly and stick to doing things that are on the way to wherever you're going. The game will eventually send you pretty much everywhere, so there's no need to go out of your way stomping camp after camp unless the reward is something you really want for your car or your Max. The story is surprisingly lengthy so you have time.
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Lechtansi posted:All this talk of mad max makes me want to give it another shot. I tried hard to like the game, but i barely got 15 hours in before i found all the content to be too repetitive. Is there any secrets to enjoying the moment to moment gameplay? Skip the camps? 15 hours before a game feels repetitive sounds pretty good going to me.
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Steam review: mad max | playtime: 143 hours | not recommended The game was quite fun but after playing roughly 89 hours side quests and characters have gotten repetitive and I don't feel myself drawn to the world anymore. The author has received this item for free for review purposes
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I played a few hours and got really bored. The big sandstorms were really fun but otherwise my interest dropped off very quickly, and I can usually get absorbed by games like that more than I really intend to. It's essentially a modern Ubisoft game, I guess
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Mierenneuker posted:It's an incredibly lovely van tho, which you'll note once you enter it and look at the steering wheel. If you didn't kill it's owner you can later find out he is basically the right hand of the local warlord, so it must have been one of the better vehicles in their garage too. Yeah, and the game's also an FPS and not a third person brawler. I'm sorry, I dont know what the gently caress is wrong with me, that was a terrible recommendation.
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I loved Mad Max and platinumed it and I haven't done that with hardly any open world games this generation, but I smoke a lot of weed and turned the games soundtrack off in favor of the playlist from Brutal Legend, that old metal game made by Doublefine starring Jack Black. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0DD7AFF2F861CA97https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0DD7AFF2F861CA97 Metal and Mad Max go together really well, it they really compliment each other and I'm not that much of a metalhead anymore. I also did things like never use the thunderpoon as it was too easy, I never equipped any of the armor for max or leveled up at the levledup druid guy past the first forced one, all because the melee combat in the game is quite easy and I like the feeling of needing to be reliable at counters and feeling pressured on health and backup water on camps. All that being said it's a game that does get repetitive in the base gameplay loop, no question. If you got it cheap and got 15 hours out of it that's probably plenty, I'm just a massive sucker for the entire universe already, my dad is a mechanic and we'd watch the old movies on loops growing up. I liked the incremental upgrading of my car, running around shirtless with a giant beard, and soaking in all the lore. Getting the platinum has quite a lot of weird and very specific stuff you gotta do, like maintain a grind on an enemy vehicle for 5 seconds, or destroying a specific vehicle with a specific vehicle during a storm.
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I've found another PS2 game that I really like, but I'm terrible at, a racing game called Gumball 3000, basically a kind of cannonball run thing where you race 21 other people, divided into sets of three who compete directly in each race, as you tear across europe. It's very arcadey and fun, but there are a lot of obstacles and I'll need to practice a lot to get good at it.
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This thread made me start playing half life 2 again and holy wow I forgot how much fun water hazard is
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:This thread made me start playing half life 2 again and holy wow I forgot how much fun water hazard is Is that the airboat section? I heard so much bitching about that at release but I loved it when I played.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Is that the airboat section? I heard so much bitching about that at release but I loved it when I played. Yeah the airboat part. The feeling of driving that drat thing is so viscerally satisfying
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And use of physics objects to enable yourself to RAMP IT! is objectively the best use of physics objects.
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Taking down that loving chopper at the end STILL makes me feel all  16 years later good god
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Taking down that loving chopper at the end STILL makes me feel all The RPGs are amazing in HL2. They track forever until they either hit the target or somehow whip back around and explode in your face
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Taking down that loving chopper at the end STILL makes me feel all I love that having it dump tons of mines was a glitch that was so awesome they decided to just throw it in.
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RBA Starblade posted:The RPGs are amazing in HL2. They track forever until they either hit the target or somehow whip back around and explode in your face Oh I was talking about the chopper you take out with the gun attached to the airboat, but yeah the rpg kicks rear end too
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I love that having it dump tons of mines was a glitch that was so awesome they decided to just throw it in. What, really? That was great and terrifying and I assumed planned on their part. I love it!
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RBA Starblade posted:The RPGs are amazing in HL2. They track forever until they either hit the target or somehow whip back around and explode in your face Borderlands 3 has a legendary rocket launcher called the Freeman that does exactly this, it's great.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:This thread made me start playing half life 2 again and holy wow I forgot how much fun water hazard is I still remember being stoked about getting the Neighborhood Watch cheevos on Ep2 back in the day.
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skooma512 posted:I still remember being stoked about getting the Neighborhood Watch cheevos on Ep2 back in the day. Get Some Grub 
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The rocket gnome is still one of the best achievements ever
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RBA Starblade posted:One Free Bullet runs are fun as hell How do you kill the chopper in water hazard like that?
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