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I can’t really make fun of you for not knowing the official definition of noir because there really isn’t one but with whodunits there’s typically an expectation that the reader should be able to solve the mystery before the characters do and DE isn’t really drawing from that particular tradition of detective fiction.
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christmas boots posted:the tie has the best redemption arc in the game imo Oh, what was the deal with that? I always kept the tie on, but I didn't pjt points into IE, so I think I must've missed a lot. (At least, I don't recall the tie saying anything particularly special/redemption-worthy)
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Major Isoor posted:Oh, what was the deal with that? I always kept the tie on, but I didn't pjt points into IE, so I think I must've missed a lot. (At least, I don't recall the tie saying anything particularly special/redemption-worthy) You need to talk to the guy selling booze near idiot doom-spiral for the Tie's redemption arc to begin. I missed it on my first playthrough as well.
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GlyphGryph posted:You need to talk to the guy selling booze near idiot doom-spiral for the Tie's redemption arc to begin. I missed it on my first playthrough as well. Major Isoor posted:Oh, what was the deal with that? I always kept the tie on, but I didn't pjt points into IE, so I think I must've missed a lot. (At least, I don't recall the tie saying anything particularly special/redemption-worthy) Big spoilers about Inland Empire: I don't know what level you need Inland Empire for the tie to talk to you, but if you have enough, when you talk to Rosemary (Idiot Doom Spiral's drug-dealing friend) it will INSIST you buy the blue spirits. Its a surprise tool you will use later.
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GlyphGryph posted:You need to talk to the guy selling booze near idiot doom-spiral for the Tie's redemption arc to begin. I missed it on my first playthrough as well. When the time came, I turned the Tie down, because I apparently like to choose bad options. What happens?
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Nov 6, 2020 21:38
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Eason the Fifth posted:When the time came, I turned the Tie down, because I apparently like to choose bad options. What happens? molotov cocktail
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Nov 6, 2020 21:42
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that's a lol
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Nov 6, 2020 21:45
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And it’s actually poetic because if you talk to the merc leader beforehand he can talk about how he and the squad would obliterate “loinclothes” with mortar. He made a living reducing people to ash, and with the help of Inland Empire and a Horrible/Beautiful necktie, you can make sure he leaves the same way
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Nov 6, 2020 22:28
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As far as the mercenaries are concerned, they're still in a backwater where no consequences of their murders will ever follow them home.
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Nov 6, 2020 22:49
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So it seems like the play through where I can experience the most new stuff would be heavy intelligence with a focus on Logic/Rhetoric/Conceptualization and then maybe put my star ability thing into Inland Empire?
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Nov 6, 2020 23:27
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Sure! That's basically the Art Cop build and the Art Cop is great.
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Mr. Prokosch posted:Sure! That's basically the Art Cop build and the Art Cop is great. Trite, contrived, mediocre, milquetoast, amateurish, infantile, cliche-and-gonorrhea-ridden paean to conformism, eye-hosed me, affront to humanity, war crime, should *literally* be tried for war crimes, resolutely poo poo, lacking in imagination, uninformed reimagining of, limp-wristed, premature, ill-informed attempt at, talentless fuckfest, recidivistic shitpeddler, pedantic, listless, savagely boring, just one repulsive laugh after another.
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I just finished the game last night and I have only one word for my review; More... MORE... MORREEE!!!~
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:So it seems like the play through where I can experience the most new stuff would be heavy intelligence with a focus on Logic/Rhetoric/Conceptualization and then maybe put my star ability thing into Inland Empire? sounds good to me. you have some choice in what high intelligence focuses on, as well: more art cop conceptualization, rhetoric's idiosyncratic charm ("say one of these fascist or communist things or gently caress off"), etc. if you're the same type of dork that I am you'll enjoy really high Encyclopedia chiming in with useless but fun world-building details about pollution cleanup in Yekokataa or the biographies of Revachol's kings. with the Wompty-Dompty Dom Center thought, sometimes it even isn't completely useless! christmas boots posted:Trite, contrived, mediocre, milquetoast, amateurish, infantile, cliche-and-gonorrhea-ridden paean to conformism, eye-hosed me, affront to humanity, war crime, should *literally* be tried for war crimes, resolutely poo poo, lacking in imagination, uninformed reimagining of, limp-wristed, premature, ill-informed attempt at, talentless fuckfest, recidivistic shitpeddler, pedantic, listless, savagely boring, just one repulsive laugh after another. god I love the writing in this game
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Nov 7, 2020 02:00
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EorayMel posted:Discuss. best character in fiction
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christmas boots posted:Trite, contrived, mediocre, milquetoast, amateurish, infantile, cliche-and-gonorrhea-ridden paean to conformism, eye-hosed me, affront to humanity, war crime, should *literally* be tried for war crimes, resolutely poo poo, lacking in imagination, uninformed reimagining of, limp-wristed, premature, ill-informed attempt at, talentless fuckfest, recidivistic shitpeddler, pedantic, listless, savagely boring, just one repulsive laugh after another. Art Cop is amaziiiing edit: take the image of the problem too 
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Nov 7, 2020 02:59
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ThaumPenguin posted:Kim Kitsuragi is Lutheran
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The interactions between the various skills are great. Visual Calculus: a human could sleep under this upturned boat. HDB: what am I supposed to do with that information? Visual Calculus: How should I know? I’m just the visual spatial region of your brain.
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was reviewing my screencaps, this gem, this moment I still fall in awe how loving good this game is
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:The interactions between the various skills are great. One of my favorite lines is Encyclopedia's "I am required to tell you that Contact Mike was a professional boxer". Just the resigned "I don't want to do this but I am literally incapable of not doing it" tone which is very familiar to me as a person that absorbs a lot of trivia.
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This game is the new Deus Ex in that whenever folks talk about it I want to start a new play through.
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chaosapiant posted:This game is the new Deus Ex in that whenever folks talk about it I want to start a new play through. No kidding.
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dead gay comedy forums posted:was reviewing my screencaps, this gem, this moment i had negative authority clothing and thoughts on so only got DETECTIVE ARRIVING theroetically you could just have DETECTIVE pop up, which would be an interesting thing to try and contextualise if you hadn't seen this bit before
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Nov 7, 2020 13:55
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I'm fairly sure I've seen different combinations of skills saying those lines. For example my authority was also in the toilet when I got there, but I still got those lines. I think another skill stepped up, but I can't remember which.
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oh my god i hosed up. i made it to the end, but man was it bad. got my guy and my kid though. never really solved my own problems. christ. good game. how should i play next? will it be as good now i know the rough beats? hopefully it'll be better or something, but my head's gonna spoil me. did lots of blue and a little yellow before- drama, visual calculus were fun. encyclopedia never shut the gently caress up. and man that karaoke song
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Quotey posted:oh my god i hosed up. i made it to the end, but man was it bad. got my guy and my kid though. never really solved my own problems. Dump as many points into Physique as possible, and then level up Half Light as much as possible. Bonus points if you can squeeze in Authority in there as well.
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This time invest in the dream team: Electrochemistry and Hand-eye Coordination
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The Cheshire Cat posted:One of my favorite lines is Encyclopedia's "I am required to tell you that Contact Mike was a professional boxer". Just the resigned "I don't want to do this but I am literally incapable of not doing it" tone which is very familiar to me as a person that absorbs a lot of trivia. I'm pretty sure that's the same conversation where my favorite Encyclopedia line is. I'm paraphrasing but it's something like... "...and so the litany of Contact Mike lives on." - Wow. Lot of information in there. Anything else? Like, say, the names and faces of my family? "Nope. You're welcome." christmas boots posted:This time invest in the dream team: Electrochemistry and Hand-eye Coordination 
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christmas boots posted:This time invest in the dream team: Electrochemistry and Hand-eye Coordination Doing drugs with laser precision
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Lighting each new cigarette with a perfectly aimed shot from your gun.
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I really want to get into this game but the loading times on my ancient laptop are killing the experience for me 😞
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My favorite cross-skill dialogue is this bit when you opt into Moralism:quote:EMPATHY: Tsk, tsk. Just because you live in the *present* doesn’t mean you have the right to place your needs above the needs of the *future*… You may never live to see the Kingdom of Conscience. Your children may not. Even your *grandchildren* might not. But that’s no excuse not to keep working…
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overeager overeater posted:My favorite cross-skill dialogue is this bit when you opt into Moralism: electrochemistry can never be accused of not keeping it real
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Half Light has served me well. But will it serve me again as I venture into the hardcore? Time shall tell. Also: 
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overeager overeater posted:My favorite cross-skill dialogue is this bit when you opt into Moralism: Wow that is perfect. And topical!
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Incidentally, if you had the millions to make the game fully voice-acted, who would you cast for the various skills?
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Inland Empire should just be David Lynch
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multijoe posted:Inland Empire should just be David Lynch *before dedicating karaoke to Kim* "YOU ARE WITNESSING A FRONT THREE-QUARTER VIEW OF TWO ADULTS SHARING A TENDER MOMENT!"
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