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Minor location spoilers for Last of Us 2, I like when games play more interestingly with 3D geometry, and the wrecked ship is a good example. It's not mind-boggling or anything, but it adds a great consistent sense of disorientation to a real-word setting.
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:This is the deciding factor imo. Breath of the Wild was great for letting you use game mechanics to solve puzzles in unconventional ways. You could push around a bunch of electrically-charged boxes to connect metal tiles and complete a circuit as intended, or you can just drop all your metal weapons, shields, etc in a line from the beginning of the intended circuit to the end and be done with it, just for one example I'm currently playing through Ori and the Will of the Wisps and this is something that game is pretty good at. Most of the game's platforming segments have an "intended" solution, but if you don't have the right moves yet, it's often possible to brute-force your way through with different ones.
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My favorite little thing about BOTW is still that equipping fire/ice weapons lets you raise/lower your temperature without potions or armor. It's such an intuitive and natural idea but most "game logic" wouldn't bother accounting for it.
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Pulsarcat posted:I was one of the people who didn't find the guy who upgrades your inventory until after I completed two or three dungeons, I found the item he wanted a couple hours in, but I simply never bumped into him. I eventually just looked up where he was because despite wanting to play through the game blind the default inventory size was becoming unbearable.
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PsychoInternetHawk posted:My favorite little thing about BOTW is still that equipping fire/ice weapons lets you raise/lower your temperature without potions or armor. It's such an intuitive and natural idea but most "game logic" wouldn't bother accounting for it. The game also only makes this work in your favor, so equipping an ice weapon in a cold zone doesn’t lower your temperature, but equipping a fire weapon does raise your temperature there, and vice versa for hot zones
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Jul 6, 2020 17:53
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In Rise of the Tomb Raider's survival mode Lara can warm herself up by lighting herself on fire with arrows or Molotov cocktails. I think there's even an achievement for it.
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exquisite tea posted:In Rise of the Tomb Raider's survival mode Lara can warm herself up by lighting herself on fire with arrows or Molotov cocktails. I think there's even an achievement for it. Well you know what they say, build a man a fire and you'll warm him for a night. Set a man on fire on you'll warm him for the rest of his life.
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Jul 7, 2020 00:57
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The Titanfall 2 campaign is the best single player FPS campaign I've played in many years for a vast number of reasons, but something small that I like about it is how it helps you with some of the more intricate jumping puzzles. If you stand near the beginning of a jump, your HUD will start "scanning the terrain" and "plotting a course". If you let it finish, you can activate a hologram of yourself that ghost runs the jump sequence as a demonstration. I like it because: A. It's completely optional and un-intrusive B. It makes complete sense in universe to have this utility available and C. It removes any confusion about how to perform the maneuver while leaving intact the challenge of actually pulling it off.
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Jul 7, 2020 19:40
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Riatsala posted:The Titanfall 2 campaign is the best single player FPS campaign I've played in many years for a vast number of reasons, but something small that I like about it is how it helps you with some of the more intricate jumping puzzles. Lots of games in recent years have been doing this kind of thing as an optional feature which I super appreciate. Last of Us 2 is good as well, by default it'll give you some time, then have your companion NPC make a comment or wander in the right direction, or you can just go in the menu and skip through a lot of the environmental puzzles if you like. It's a really good trend.
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Jul 7, 2020 19:53
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One thing I've been loving in new games is the options to just hold a button to complete a QTE. I replayed RE4 the other week, and I must be getting old, because I had a lot of trouble with Krauser and some of the boulder chases.
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Jul 7, 2020 22:54
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Riatsala posted:The Titanfall 2 campaign is the best single player FPS campaign I've played in many years for a vast number of reasons Titanfall 2 was worth the $10 I spent on Steam just for the time travel level. The ending where you have to jump down a ventilation shaft and quickly switch between timelines about five times before hitting the ground was such a ridiculous "gamey" moment that I actually burst out laughing when it happened.
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Titanfall 2 was worth the $10 I spent on Steam just for the time travel level. The ending where you have to jump down a ventilation shaft and quickly switch between timelines about five times before hitting the ground was such a ridiculous "gamey" moment that I actually burst out laughing when it happened. Oh man that was so good, agreed on the whole campaign too. I loved it so much I never even felt ripped off that I didn't touch multiplayer a single time.
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Jul 9, 2020 02:16
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This is great, but Alyx's Multitool is a goddamn voice recorder Alyx saved the world with a modified voice recorder that uses double A batteries and duct tape 
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Jul 10, 2020 01:51
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Also wondered how the extended clip worked on the gun, now I know: https://i.imgur.com/Y9toggK.mp4 just little rear end arms
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Amazed re: the personal cassette recorder. Less certain about having a little robot buddy help you load extra bullets 
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TontoCorazon posted:This is great, but Alyx's Multitool is a goddamn voice recorder Is that from the book thing they released today?
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Yeah, I just finished it. It's a wonderful read and makes me super excited for the next Half-Life game in 2031
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TontoCorazon posted:Yeah, I just finished it. It's a wonderful read and makes me super excited for the next Half-Life game in 2031  but also, i've come to accept that most major half-life releases are now fan made mods. so I suppose that's a little thing I'll add to the thread.
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TontoCorazon posted:Yeah, I just finished it. It's a wonderful read and makes me super excited for the next Half-Life game in 2031 Is that when episode 3 has been late as long as Duke Nukem Forever?
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I played through Tales of Berseria a couple of years ago, loved it, and loved the fashion system, which let you add things like hats, charms, jewelry, change costumes and hairstyles. I decided to give it another play, and just found out for some of these things, you can change their color, as well as their position along the X, Y, and Z axis, including their size. I've only got the cowboy hat so far, but you can make it dumbass long like a Xenomorph skull on your characters head.
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Leavemywife posted:I played through Tales of Berseria a couple of years ago, loved it, and loved the fashion system, which let you add things like hats, charms, jewelry, change costumes and hairstyles. I decided to give it another play, and just found out for some of these things, you can change their color, as well as their position along the X, Y, and Z axis, including their size. I've only got the cowboy hat so far, but you can make it dumbass long like a Xenomorph skull on your characters head. Xillia did the same thing. I still haven't played a lot of it but as soon as I got the dolphin plushie I clipped it right through the protagonist's face. He's a dolphin now.
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Jul 10, 2020 13:17
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This sounds incredibly relevant to my interests. What system is it on?
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Jul 10, 2020 13:21
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I kid of course, if going by the article it kinda sounds like they ironed out their problems and are probably actively working on the next game. Whether it's Half-Life or left 4 dead I don't mind because valve has shown they still got it.
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Leavemywife posted:I played through Tales of Berseria a couple of years ago, loved it, and loved the fashion system, which let you add things like hats, charms, jewelry, change costumes and hairstyles. I decided to give it another play, and just found out for some of these things, you can change their color, as well as their position along the X, Y, and Z axis, including their size. I've only got the cowboy hat so far, but you can make it dumbass long like a Xenomorph skull on your characters head. Eizen without that dapper top hat frankly just feels wrong to me. It just completes his default costume so perfectly.
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bony tony posted:This sounds incredibly relevant to my interests. What system is it on? I've got it on PS4, but I think they're on PC, too. Neddy Seagoon posted:Eizen without that dapper top hat frankly just feels wrong to me. It just completes his default costume so perfectly. I found that if you give him the shades, he looks like a pirate-style Albert Wesker. I think you might have had to change his hair style, too.
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Leavemywife posted:I found that if you give him the shades, he looks like a pirate-style Albert Wesker. I think you might have had to change his hair style, too. This is exactly what I did, shades, 'hat-style' hair (so it's slicked back)....also a bowtie because why not.
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Character customizations that follow through during cutscenes are always one of my favorite things, but now I wish you could do it for enemies too. Like, instead of fighting regular old Supercool Albert Wesker, I want to fight Actual Pirate Albert Wesker.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Eizen without that dapper top hat frankly just feels wrong to me. It just completes his default costume so perfectly. Speaking of dapper top hats, I would feel remiss in my duties if I failed to mention Bloodborne. Unlike the Dark Souls games, the armour and weapons that you equip have no effect on your movement and rolling speed. The various armour sets don't provide a lot in the way of damage reduction, they're more for specific situations where elemental resistance is needed for an area or boss. This means you're given much more leniency to focus on style. One of my favourite play throughs was using the Cane/Whip weapon, and always wearing the Top Hat, for maximum class and style.
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Dead Space 3 - one of the optional missions is to pursue a rogue cowboy spaceman in the middle of the ship for loots and whatnot. If you choose to do so, rockin' country music start blaring out the speakers until you escape the zone . It was so dumb but multiple voice recordings from other characters about how they hated that music was great.
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Yu-Gi-Oh: Legacy of the Duelist's story mode is all about playing famous duels from the show, with both sides using recreations of the decks used. You unlock a harder version of the duel afterwards, but they do a neat thing with that: you instead have to play as the other guy. This actually turns some of the easiest duels in the game into real bastards, because you're playing as the guy designed to lose. One of the effective tutorial levels is the opening duel between Yugi and Kaiba that's ended by summoning Exodia. As Yugi that duel's pretty easy, because his deck is designed around drawing a bunch of cards to fish for Exodia, and Kaiba doesn't really have any ways to stop you doing that. But then you have to play as Kaiba, and it's hard as hell because not only can't he counter it, some of his best tools just make Yugi's job easier. It's just a hilarious way to revisit a tutorial and make it hard, and I love it.
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I got around to playing through the Animaniacs Gamecube game over the last couple of days, The Great Edgar Hunt. It's a lot of fun, has varied levels and come cute easter eggs. Even some of the small collectibles take you to unique areas and puzzles. also for those small collectibles where it's "collect 145/300" for each world, there is a good tell - the counter appears on screen if there are collectibles in the area, then after they've all been collected the meter goes away, signalling for you to start looking elsewhere until it pops back up again. Not as effective as Sparx literally pointing to missing Gems, but it's nice that they thought of it. Also the writing is actually funny at times.
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Cleretic posted:Yu-Gi-Oh: Legacy of the Duelist's story mode is all about playing famous duels from the show, with both sides using recreations of the decks used. You unlock a harder version of the duel afterwards, but they do a neat thing with that: you instead have to play as the other guy. This actually turns some of the easiest duels in the game into real bastards, because you're playing as the guy designed to lose. Doesn’t a later opponent use that same deck against Yugi, and it has a chance to K.O. before you can attack?
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Double Punctuation posted:Doesn’t a later opponent use that same deck against Yugi, and it has a chance to K.O. before you can attack? I haven't gotten that far yet, but basically any Exodia deck has a chance for a one-turn kill, so I'm not surprised.
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Cleretic posted:Yu-Gi-Oh: Legacy of the Duelist's story mode is all about playing famous duels from the show, with both sides using recreations of the decks used. You unlock a harder version of the duel afterwards, but they do a neat thing with that: you instead have to play as the other guy. This actually turns some of the easiest duels in the game into real bastards, because you're playing as the guy designed to lose. This reminds me of Card City Nights 2. After you beat the game the first time, you unlock a set of challenge characters that change up the rules in various ways. One of them is a mirror, and therefore turns every match into a mirror match, where you use the AI's deck against them. It turns out to be surprisingly difficult to beat several of the early decks when you're stuck with their terrible, terrible cards. Even when you do have enough damage output to kill the opponent, you have to figure out how to keep them from using the same cards to kill you a half-turn before your killing blow lands.
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The Zombie Guy posted:One of my favourite play throughs was using the Cane/Whip weapon, and always wearing the Top Hat, for maximum class and style. Fashionborne was one of my favorite things. My first character also almost exclusively used the Threaded Cane, but my second was a bloodtinge-build dracula who used the blood katana, and my third was an arcane-build nerdy girl with glasses who wore priest robes and pulled out a giant wheel to smash her enemies with
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Saints Row 2 is free with XBox live. There's a car that's a burger, fries, and a shake. If you drive it while holding pepper spray, the straw on the shake spews pepper spray.
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Just started to get into Doom 2016, I'm really liking the difficulty curve so far. Only done the first three missions, but only died in combat maybe twice, though a lot of times I've been under the pressure of 1/4 health or less by the middle of a fight. Granted I am not really great at shooters, but I'm having fun. All the weapons I've found so far are quite fun too, alternate fire modes really help weapons stand out and change up how you use them. Finally, though the game is as violent as it is, it doesn't feel... mean? gross? I can go through zombies like health packs you need to dismember and not feel grossed out, whereas any time I try to watch a video of a modern Mortal Kombat game it makes me queasy within a couple minutes. Really, really liking that the game basically lets you go around searching for secrets at your leisure, too, since I'm the type of idiot who needs to find eeverything.
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