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Phobophilia posted:who the gently caress from clinton era SA is still alive and not-permabanned I was an avid frontpage reader back then and only lurked on the forums without an account. I held on to my precious  until some of my other forums dried up and they paywalled SADCHUB among other things. I know I'm not alone. The Romero pic made JeffK posts and photoshop phridays.
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Phobophilia posted:who the gently caress from clinton era SA is still alive and not-permabanned
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Jul 19, 2020 13:40
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aparmenideanmonad posted:I was an avid frontpage reader back then and only lurked on the forums without an account. I held on to my precious same, lurked for years
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Just to let this registered here if anyone else has the same problem in the future and is searching for answers: Using Windows 10, I was getting a lot of stutters/the game was choppy as hell with Kentie's Launcher + DX10, with or without Biomod, Steam or GOG version. I have a pretty decent rig so that shouldn't happen. I tried messing with all the options in the launcher, but nothing worked. However, I saw like five people mentioning that for some reason the recent Nvidia drivers screwed the game and caused those problems and downgrading to 442.74 would make it run smooth again. To my surprise that actually worked, so if you have those issues it may be worth giving it a shot. Mystic Stylez fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Jul 20, 2020 |
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Jul 20, 2020 03:58
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I had the same performance problem and forgot to follow up here, I dug up the older D3D9 renderer plugin and that worked fine for me.
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Jul 20, 2020 16:39
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Two things: 1) Cloak is worthless in GMDX 10, like offensively worthless, like gently caress you for even leaving it as an option if this is what you think of it worthless. 2) How is this not the hottest thread in games right now? It turns out Warren Spector was a prophet.
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Jul 28, 2020 01:48
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Norton the First posted:Two things: Having an elementary understanding of basic history doesn't make you a prophet to anyone aside from people whose entire worldview is shaped by videogames. See also Hideo Kojima being hailed as an oracle for presenting a bunch of 80s cyberpunk tropes to gamers for the first time.
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Jul 28, 2020 01:56
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That'll teach you to have positive opinions about Deus Ex in the Deus Ex thread, fucker.
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Jul 28, 2020 02:07
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Sleeveless posted:Having an elementary understanding of basic history doesn't make you a prophet to anyone aside from people whose entire worldview is shaped by videogames. See also Hideo Kojima being hailed as an oracle for presenting a bunch of 80s cyberpunk tropes to gamers for the first time. There are literally people who think Bill Gates (Bob Page) made COVID so he can make money off the vaccine. It is very spot on. Kojima sucks massive rear end though Giant Bomb posted:
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Jul 28, 2020 02:31
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For the longest time my go tos for the DX itch when I didn’t want more DX were Alpha Protocol and Dishonored. It think it’s Disco Elysium now though which isn’t even a shooter.
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Jul 28, 2020 03:41
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Alpha protocol is super cool but it feels like complete rear end to play. Especially on PC.
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Jul 28, 2020 03:52
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Gaius Marius posted:Alpha protocol is super cool but it feels like complete rear end to play. Especially on PC. Actually, it’s very good and plays fine, especially with a controller!
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Jul 28, 2020 04:18
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Alpha Protocol is fun as long as you realize the stealth exists only as means to knock out/eliminate the closest enemy. Do not even attempt to ghost that game. Although the game does recognize when you leave enemies standing, you get a perk for it.
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Jul 28, 2020 04:36
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Sleeveless posted:Having an elementary understanding of basic history doesn't make you a prophet to anyone aside from people whose entire worldview is shaped by videogames. See also Hideo Kojima being hailed as an oracle for presenting a bunch of 80s cyberpunk tropes to gamers for the first time. Ah, don't be a fuckin nerd, some of the President Reed/Walton Simons press releases in the mid to late game could be compared almost verbatim to what's coming out today. yes, I understand that materialist dialectics predicted the end of Super Mario Bros 3 also. thank you and I'm already bored. seriously though gently caress GMDX for nerfing cloak that hard, if people will always see me I may as well hide from cameras, who I guess will probably always see me.
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Jul 28, 2020 04:44
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Bar Ran Dun posted:It think it’s Disco Elysium now though which isn’t even a shooter. Sell me on Disco Elysium?
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Aug 4, 2020 10:35
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The_Doctor posted:Sell me on Disco Elysium? I'm pretty interested to hear this too. I really want to like the game but I lose interest pretty quickly. The writing is pretty good sometimes and I like the world design, but I don't find the gameplay or the characters all that compelling. Does it pick up after you cut down the body?
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Aug 4, 2020 13:57
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Eason the Fifth posted:I'm pretty interested to hear this too. I really want to like the game but I lose interest pretty quickly. The writing is pretty good sometimes and I like the world design, but I don't find the gameplay or the characters all that compelling. Does it pick up after you cut down the body? If you're not sold already I don't know what to tell you.
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Aug 4, 2020 14:07
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Yeah, I think if you don’t love Disco Elysium thirty minutes in you’re not going to like it at all.
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Aug 4, 2020 14:20
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I know very little about it, other than people saying it’s great.
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Aug 4, 2020 14:31
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Glagha posted:If you're not sold already I don't know what to tell you. El_Elegante posted:Yeah, I think if you don’t love Disco Elysium thirty minutes in you’re not going to like it at all. fair enough. 
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Aug 4, 2020 14:55
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The_Doctor posted:Sell me on Disco Elysium?
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Aug 4, 2020 15:21
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the cool thing about Disco Elysium is that the game will keep going even if you fail a ton of skill checks in some cases, its actually better to gently caress up vs succeed. in most cases, its funnier to gently caress up vs succeed but theres no combat. and where there is combat, it happens via skill checks during dialogue
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Aug 4, 2020 17:28
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Disco Elysium is the best written video game probably ever.
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Aug 4, 2020 17:49
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Ok, that does sound interesting, thanks!
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The_Doctor posted:Sell me on Disco Elysium? Do you like the conversion with the bartender in HK? Imagine better written. Imagine that’s going on all the time between different internal thoughts in the player characters head. Now imagine it’s different each play through based on skill investment and internalized thoughts. Now add that it’s funny as poo poo. One of the concepts that DX was sold as was multiple paths through challenges. One can sneak with the baton, or stack boxes, or one can go for the silent takedown with the GEP gun. Disco has that going on, one can straight noir cop it, play as a hobo cop communist, etc and the games writing reacts to this. It also has that same depth of world building, if you love the emails, news articles, over heard convos in DX that establish the world, disco elysium has that same effort of world building and esoteric content to dig into. I expect it’s going to have the longevity DX does just because one find something new every drat time.
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Eason the Fifth posted:I'm pretty interested to hear this too. I really want to like the game but I lose interest pretty quickly. The writing is pretty good sometimes and I like the world design, but I don't find the gameplay or the characters all that compelling. Does it pick up after you cut down the body? I was entirely wrong about this. It took me a minute to get into the game but man, the writing is taut in all the right ways
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There was a Reddit AMA recently with some of the leads at Arkane and when asked "If given unlimited funding and the choice to reboot any franchise you want, what would it be?", their responses were: Zork, Deus Ex, Dune and a bunch of D&D licenses like SpellJammer, Gamma World and Dark Sun. If only...
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Aug 11, 2020 00:06
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Caves of Qud is already a Gamma World reboot! 
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Aug 11, 2020 00:26
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Immersive world zork, imagine the possibilities. I might actually get to see what's in the white house.
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ErrEff posted:There was a Reddit AMA recently with some of the leads at Arkane and when asked "If given unlimited funding and the choice to reboot any franchise you want, what would it be?", their responses were: Please tell me what to sacrifice, to whom and how many. I just want to live in the world where everyone who worked on Dishonored gets to make a modern Deus Ex instead of squeenix.
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A few really important people left Arkane after Prey so it's yet to be seen if they're still a good studio. I do like the sound of Death loop, I loved Mooncrash and it really seems to be leaning into that E: I was actually thinking of Weird West, the founder's new game after he left Arkane, but Death Loop sounds like it has some similar elements as well feelix fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Aug 11, 2020 |
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jojoinnit posted:Please tell me what to sacrifice, to whom and how many. I just want to live in the world where everyone who worked on Dishonored gets to make a modern Deus Ex instead of squeenix. Honestly I'd rather they just make their own thing inspired by Deus Ex instead of being beholden to the franchise. Dishonored and Prey wouldn't have been nearly as good if they were actual sequels/remakes of Thief and System Shock.
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Sleeveless posted:Honestly I'd rather they just make their own thing inspired by Deus Ex instead of being beholden to the franchise. Dishonored and Prey wouldn't have been nearly as good if they were actual sequels/remakes of Thief and System Shock. The stories and characters of any of the three games aren’t really what people are interested in, anyway. It’s not like I finished any of them on the edge of my seat as to where it was going next. Would I love a game with the same gameplay principles and general aesthetic as DX? Sure. Would making it another entry in a story that was really pretty self-contained in the first game really benefit it? Extremely doubtful.
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Is there any benefit to doing the sequence break and getting the overclocked aug thing for Vaclav early? I've heard it actually locks you out of other content.
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Shumagorath posted:Is there any benefit to doing the sequence break and getting the overclocked aug thing for Vaclav early? I've heard it actually locks you out of other content. I don't think it locks you out of anything. When you go talk to the Russian mob dude about the gizmo, you can either make a deal or feed him a lead sandwich. If you do the former, he asks for favors later on. In golem city he tells you to kill the shopkeeper, and late in the game he gives you a mission to extract some dude. Regardless of when you get it, Vaclav will not install it before a certain plot point. Still, AFAIK there is no penalty for overclocking so it doesn't matter. Gynovore fucked around with this message at 16:12 on Aug 15, 2020 |
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The_Doctor posted:Sell me on Disco Elysium? Helianthus Annuus posted:the cool thing about Disco Elysium is that the game will keep going even if you fail a ton of skill checks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxWIjlGKwZA SimonChris fucked around with this message at 14:33 on Aug 15, 2020 |
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Aug 15, 2020 14:23
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I don't care if option 3 is a Terminator reference or not; that might have sold me the game.
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Aug 15, 2020 14:54
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im not sure which of the success rolls i like better, the one where youre talking with the two old guys playing a game or the one where you teleport
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Aug 15, 2020 16:00
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I love the karaoke ancient reptilian brain or limbic system.
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Disco Elysium is good but it's kind of the anti- Deus Ex in that while it invokes a lot of broader political and philosophical ideas the actual conflict is a a very small scale murder mystery that involves a lot of characters and environments that were shaped by larger conflicts and forces. You're not going to be pressing a button to determine the future of human civilization or personally interacting with the head of the Illuminati.
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