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Hwurmp posted:alright this dungeon in Y7 Chapter 6 is like thirty rooms too long Don't forget to save like I did!
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Nov 14, 2020 17:11
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goferchan posted:Sort of, but you don't beat up random civilians or steal cars or anything. It's smaller-scale but more detailed -- so you're usually just limited to a few city blocks at a time, but you can go in restaurants and order from their menus for stat boosts, go in an arcade and play classic Sega games or the claw machine or whatever, play darts, play pool, etc. This title in particular is also notably a turn-based RPG -- the other games in the series have kind of a beat-em-up feeling combat system. I don't have a problem with turn-based combat normally, although it does seem like an odd choice for a sandbox game... but I guess you have a full party with you at most times, and turn-based does make sense for a party-based game.
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Nov 14, 2020 17:23
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So steam friend buying for you if the game is not available in your region is still working or not? Just realized Yakuza: Like a Dragon is not available in my country rip.
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srulz posted:So steam friend buying for you if the game is not available in your region is still working or not? Just realized Yakuza: Like a Dragon is not available in my country rip. It should, but one easy way to test it is to ask your friend to try because as soon as it's added to the cart as a gift, it will ask who will receive it. If your account is not selectable, there's your answer. Region locking on Steam is uncommon and generally acts weird depending on restrictions imposed by the publisher, so gaben knows how it will work for this case. I'm more surprised a big release like this is even unavailable anywhere in the first place.
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Nov 14, 2020 19:17
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I heard Yakuza 7 spoils everything that happened in 6 but I'm not sure.
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Nov 14, 2020 19:36
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I know that I am super late to the game, but Hades is really really good.
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Nov 14, 2020 19:46
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Anonymous Robot posted:I was hoping that the latest Soul Calibur would have a robust single player mode, from the advertised features, but it is kind of grindy and uninspired. However, it does seem like the type of game that would be more fun for casual local multi than Tekken. It’s easy to pick up and wail on each other, plus it has create-a-fighter. CharlieFoxtrot posted:Soulcalibur has an extremely robust single-player story mode with several hours of campaigning and a leveling/progression system, in addition to the standard story mode for each individual character. A Bystander posted:Create-a-Character story in Soulcal is pretty boring but it will teach you some things about the different styles, kind of like in Weapon Master in SCII. There's some genuinely difficult fights to test your skills, but the rest is whatever. The other story mode has some cutscenes and fights. Some of them are pretty decent, I guess. Some of those can't be finished until you make some progress in the CaC's story, so be aware of that.
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Nov 14, 2020 20:01
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Cardiovorax posted:It's a matter of personal attitude, I guess. I'll admit I'd find it difficult to think of myself as anything other than disfigured if I ever ended up with the kind of major facial scarring that really serious third-degree burn victims often end up suffering from. Not that I think that anyone should feel like this devalues them as a person in any way, but it is a permanent and highly visible reminder of a very serious and frankly horrifying bodily injury. Disfigured is a pejorative in the same way that deafmute is a pejorative. It's got a judgement bound up in the description. Cardiovorax posted:For those who aren't familiar (you shouldn't be, it's incredibly stupid) 4'33 is a piece of "music" that consists of the composer quietly sitting in a recording room and doing nothing whatsoever. In other words, under the DMCA you can legally send people a takedown notice for having copyrighted silence in their own work. Nope. John Cage was an experimental composer, and 4'33 was written to be performed before a live audience, not recorded. The point of 4'33 is that the sounds in the room are the music. It's a serious musical statement, and people play it seriously all the time. Arsenic Lupin fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Nov 14, 2020 |
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Nov 14, 2020 20:08
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Yipes, sorry, post not edit.
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Saoshyant posted:It should, but one easy way to test it is to ask your friend to try because as soon as it's added to the cart as a gift, it will ask who will receive it. If your account is not selectable, there's your answer. Anyone wants to help me try? Steam username is same as my username here.
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Nov 14, 2020 22:06
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:I don't have a problem with turn-based combat normally, although it does seem like an odd choice for a sandbox game... but I guess you have a full party with you at most times, and turn-based does make sense for a party-based game. Yeah, it's definitely a result of them trying something new and weird after 6 games and like 4 spinoffs, but as a fan of the previous ones I really like it so far. Combat is super fast and snappy, and has some Super Mario RPG style button-timing elements to keep things engaging. Not sure if it'll be the choice for games in the series going forward, or what. Like I said, 0 is also a great place to start if you want to play the traditional style of Yakuza game.
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Nov 14, 2020 22:10
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Nope. John Cage was an experimental composer, and 4'33 was written to be performed before a live audience, not recorded. The point of 4'33 is that the sounds in the room are the music. It's a serious musical statement, and people play it seriously all the time. So then people are getting DMCA'd over not literal silence, just almost silence, same difference. Hwurmp posted:The first harvest always sucks bad. Results get better as you level up your rice. Steam Thread 2021: Level Up Your Rice
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Nov 14, 2020 22:15
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It's not called "Of Rice and Prosperity"
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The Rice of Skywalker
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Nov 14, 2020 22:21
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Your next harvest should rice to the top
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Nov 14, 2020 22:22
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OK someone just added, thanks a lot. BTW anyone can advise how do I do the gif thing for avatar here? I just realized all the stuff that I can do in SA. Hate the stupid newbie thing. Is there a better thread to discuss it, or Discord or something? Thanks all.
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Nov 14, 2020 22:59
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So what's the current gold standard for PC game controllers? My good old xbox 360 controller is starting to have some buttons stick. I don't know anything about the latest consoles but I assume one of them would probably be best.
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Nov 14, 2020 23:23
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The Xbox One controller has pretty much supplanted the 360 controller as PC standard, AFAIK. There is also the new Xbox Series X/S controller, which is pretty much the same except it has a different D-Pad and texture on the grips. Also a share button, but I don't know if that actually does anything on PC. The PS5 controller has some really cool sounding haptic feedback and dynamic resistance in the triggers, but no PC game will support that stuff for years, if ever. We don't know how well third parties will support it on the PS5. Veotax fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Nov 14, 2020 |
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Nov 14, 2020 23:28
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i will always recommend a dualshock 4 over any xbox pad but its mostly personal preference, especially with steam working with dualshocks out of the box now.
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Nov 14, 2020 23:34
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I give bonus points to any PC game that includes Dualshock 4 buttons in prompts/menus
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Nov 14, 2020 23:35
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Veotax posted:The Xbox One controller has pretty much supplanted the 360 controller as PC standard, AFAIK. The better rumble in the DS5 should be noticeable even on old games but obviously to a much lesser extent than if they're specifically set up for it. That said it pretty much remains as it ever has, whichever one you prefer will do just fine.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Nope. John Cage was an experimental composer, and 4'33 was written to be performed before a live audience, not recorded. The point of 4'33 is that the sounds in the room are the music. It's a serious musical statement, and people play it seriously all the time. The problem is that the music itself is copyrighted, no just the performance. If I perform a cover of Enter Sandman without licensing it, I get slapped with a copyright infringement even though I'm playing my own interpretation of the song. So now we have a situation where anyone recording room sounds could be infringing on 4'33. Technically if they independently decided to record room sounds "without knowledge of or exposure to the plaintiff's work" then the new work is not violating the Cage Estate's copyright, but they have to prove independent creation and "without knowledge or exposure" is a much higher bar than "without influence". And because excerpts are also copyrighted, having a different length recording isn't enough to prove that there's no violation! Now put that together with the "shoot first, ask questions later" nature of the DMCA takedown system... E: 4'33 is definitely an important experimental piece, though, no argument there! Stickman fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Nov 15, 2020 |
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GreenNight posted:Hope it doesn't have spoilers for the other games. I beat 0 and K1, and will be playing 7 next. not really. the yakuza games are typically self contained in plot, super convoluted, and the purpose is witnessing the stupidity of the plot such that just reading a summary of what happens doesn't matter as much as seeing it for yourself
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drat Dirty Ape posted:I know that I am super late to the game, but Hades is really really good. I posted that in the fresh releases thread a few weeks ago, it's just gone 1.0 a month or 2 ago.
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The problem is that if you give the job of recognizing music use to an AI, a lot of things will get flagged that shouldn’t be. The AI that is used on Twitch doesn’t seem to have John Cage-d anyone, but quite a few have been slapped by notices because a sound effect in a game sounded similar to some stock CD of sound effects.
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ymgve posted:The problem is that if you give the job of recognizing music use to an AI, a lot of things will get flagged that shouldn’t be. The AI that is used on Twitch doesn’t seem to have John Cage-d anyone, but quite a few have been slapped by notices because a sound effect in a game sounded similar to some stock CD of sound effects. There's a tweet going around about someone getting hit while playing Phantasmagoria because it vaguely sounded like some crappy meditation track.
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Stickman posted:Now put that together with the "shoot first, ask questions later" nature of the DMCA takedown system... Shoot first, ask questions never, auto-deny all appeals. So I haven't seen anyone discussing it but Duck Game got its big ol' 1.5 update finally, with a rewrite of the audio code, netcode, more hats, new parameters for custom hats, custom rocks and capes, 8-player multiplayer, spectator mode, new maps, new level elements, laundry list of bugfixes, etc. Well worth the revisit. Just never play in pubs, because the people who do have seemingly all mastered trickshot tech that makes it like trying to play Smash Bros. as a party game versus pro circuit competitors who are also wallhacking 
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How could anyone have known that the DMCA was an absolute pile of poo poo designed to protect the interests of the RIAA and MPAA and gently caress everyone else? Honestly don't understand how people are OK with giving money to anyone involved with the RIAA or MPAA.
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ymgve posted:The problem is that if you give the job of recognizing music use to an AI, a lot of things will get flagged that shouldn’t be. The AI that is used on Twitch doesn’t seem to have John Cage-d anyone, but quite a few have been slapped by notices because a sound effect in a game sounded similar to some stock CD of sound effects. DMCA notices are completely asymmetrical warfare, rights holders... well shotgun seems like an understatement for 2 million notices submitted per day. Also there is little to no penalty for filing a bad-faith claim, even for something you don't actually have the rights to or are a designated agent for the rights holder, you can just send them out whenever. To file a counter-claim you have to provide personally identifying information and complete an affadavit under penalty of perjury
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At its core video game streaming is people making money off of showcasing IP they don't own, it sucks that that's getting harder to do but it was always inevitable that would happen and it's probably the reason a lot of full-time game streamers have been branching off into other content like cooking videos and lifestyle vlogs and whatever the gently caress Unus Annus was.
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The game devs/publishers are fine with streaming, all this DMCA stuff is coming from third parties. Lots of it seem to be games that use licensed music, and I really hope game publishers will start licensing music in a way that allows rebroadcasts.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:At its core video game streaming is people providing free advertising and word-of-mouth value that's widely recognized in the industry as worth a whole lot with basically no business drawbacks, and this value is only ignored by weirdo outliers like Nintendo when they had Nintendo Direct up and that Stadia idiot on Twitter. fixed it for you e.: ymgve is 100% correct, these DMCA issues are functionally entirely down to the music industry, not the games industry
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The Chad Jihad posted:I love Age of Empires 3, holy hell though I had no idea the plot was so poorly done. I mean for an RTS it's still like, a C+/B- level work but somehow in the intervening years since it released I had built it up to something much higher in my head and watching it play out now is wild. Like a sneering blood-thirsty obviously evil dude shows up to help you in one level then immediately betrays you in the next one, or one of your assumed enemies saying out-loud to no one "Why is he attacking me? I just want to stop the Cult!" to make sure we the player understand
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Awesome! posted:i will always recommend a dualshock 4 over any xbox pad but its mostly personal preference, especially with steam working with dualshocks out of the box now. also it won't work with everything outside of steam even with DS4Windows, it's just more finnicky xbox 360/one controllers will pretty much work with 99% of gamepad-supported games now unless it's like. 1995-2005 era gaming
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If you’re really looking for the “gold standard,” the absurdly expensive Xbox One Elite Series 2 offers better construction, a hair trigger shoulder option, multiple analog stick and d-pad options, and most notably, rear paddles for mapping macros to.
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Nov 15, 2020 05:47
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achillesforever6 posted:You were probably thinking of Age Of Mythology which is really up there for A/S tier RTSs plots One thing I appreciate about the AoM plot is that Arkantos despite being an original character fits absolutely perfectly in with the actual Greek mythology chatacters.
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ymgve posted:The game devs/publishers are fine with streaming, all this DMCA stuff is coming from third parties. Lots of it seem to be games that use licensed music, and I really hope game publishers will start licensing music in a way that allows rebroadcasts. The Record industry ruins everything again.
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People are getting hit with DMCA notices because games are using library sound effects, it's not just obvious licensed music
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drat Dirty Ape posted:So what's the current gold standard for PC game controllers? My good old xbox 360 controller is starting to have some buttons stick. I don't know anything about the latest consoles but I assume one of them would probably be best. I recently picked up a 8bitdo SN30Pro+ and like it quite a lot.
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