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Game of the Decade
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Bowsette 69424 23.78%
Metis Souls 85 0.03%
Metisnite 7 0.00%
Skymetis 26 0.01%
Gone Metis 9 0.00%
MGSV: Phantom Pain (Metis Gear Solid) 13 0.00%
Journey 10 0.00%
Doom 20Metis 12 0.00%
Metis Presents: House Party 95 0.03%
Xcom: Metis Unknown 19 0.01%
Metis (gamer of the decade) (no gamer moments) 36 0.01%
The Metis 3 24 0.01%
METIISSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!! 222220 76.11%
Total: 291980 votes
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cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice

Rarity posted:

I don't need a video to know about infinity plus one :rolleyes:

The logical conclusions drawn from exploring the idea of infinity plus one are pretty mindblowing though

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Disco Anne
Apr 1, 2010

Assume you're going to survive.
At some point this past year I decided that I needed to stop thinking in games and therefore needed to pick a long-term number go up game. I picked Warframe, it did that, and that was August through now. Whenever now is, I hope it's not 2020 anymore, but I haven't checked and I'm pretty sure building up a list of games for the first half of the year would require checking.

So can I just rankvote Bowsette a bunch of times and move on to 2021?

CharlieFoxtrot
Mar 27, 2007

organize digital employees



VG, that list of Stadia thread titles is poetry

VideoGames
Aug 18, 2003

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

VG, that list of Stadia thread titles is poetry

Haha I have been laughing myself silly at some of them. Making new thread titles is one of my favourite things to do to certain threads :)

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

YouTube Ad news: “Filmed before COVID-19”

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
Do none of you have Adblock installed? I forgot that Youtube even showed ads :psyduck:

wuggles
Jul 12, 2017

MechanicalTomPetty posted:

Isn't this a game about loving around in Disneyland?

Why are there 12 of them? Why does it look like a meeting of the SEELE council? Why do all the thrones have spiky dicks painted on them? I have... so many questions. :psyduck:

Kingdom Hearts is the best video game and also the worst video game. It holds both of these positions with no contradictions. It's good op, play it. The other posters are right about the interquel games being ignorable filler if you don't care about lore, but if you do care about lore then they are the highest octane anime bullshit and they rule.

When the 13 darknesses and 7 lights clash, on that day shall darkness prevail and light expire. So the bad guy, who was Leonard Nimoy before he was Rutger Hauer before he was Christopher Lloyd, tried to hire 13 regular bad guys to be the 13 darknesses, but they kind of sucked. If you want something done right do it yourself. So he assembles a new evil organization with just different versions of himself obtained through time travel, soul splintering, and body snatching.



This scene is from the 3DS game Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, which is the prequel to Kingdom Hearts 3. The protagonist, Sora, has been captured by the bad guys and is about to be made Leonard Nimoy's (at the time) final vessel. Fortunately, Mickey Mouse saves him.

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

Rarity posted:

Do none of you have Adblock installed? I forgot that Youtube even showed ads :psyduck:

Phoneposting

Samurai Sanders
Nov 4, 2003

Pillbug
I’d be more willing to forgive KH’s story...inconsistencies if I felt like it’s gameplay had come anywhere good in the last two decades almost. The lock on and movement system in KH3 felt ancient. Still fairly fun and flashy, but ancient.

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009
KH2's gummi ship levels were a lot of fun and I wish we could have a star fox game that was basically like those.

Simone Magus
Sep 30, 2020

by VideoGames

Rarity posted:

Do none of you have Adblock installed? I forgot that Youtube even showed ads :psyduck:

I'm not nearly motivated enough to adblock on my phone, which is pretty much the only device I watch YouTube on these days :)

Boba Pearl
Dec 27, 2019

by Athanatos
If you use the firefox app, you can install adblock through the extensions, then you just only go to youtube through firefox, and you'll never get an ad on your phone again.

Last Celebration
Mar 30, 2010

Samurai Sanders posted:

I’d be more willing to forgive KH’s story...inconsistencies if I felt like it’s gameplay had come anywhere good in the last two decades almost. The lock on and movement system in KH3 felt ancient. Still fairly fun and flashy, but ancient.

Tbh the gameplay has actively regressed since Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix, the shitshow fever dream of a story is basically all im invested in for the series at this point.

LawfulWaffle
Mar 11, 2014

Well, that aligns with the vibes I was getting. Which was, like, "normal" kinda vibes.
My home’s heater is on the fritz. It’s 28 degrees outside and the house is 58 this morning, down from 62 last night. Took a look at the heater but whatever’s wrong is beyond my DIY skills.

RBA Starblade posted:

What's the Doom Eternal dlc plot twist I didn't buy it

Samuel Hayden is an angel, VEGA is God, and the Dark Lord who rules over Hell looks just like Doomguy. “He’s their version of you.”

Which doesn’t make sense because the Dark Lord is a crazy Primeval who ruled over a plane of hedonists that he forced to research immortality so hard they turned into demons. Him being a humanoid seems inconsistent with all the other angelic imagery we’ve seen so far. Also for a game with Eternal in its name and the end of base campaign saying “Your fight is eternal” they’re making a big deal out of he idea that killing the Dark Lord will kill all the demons outside of the Hell plane. So, eternal until you kill this one guy.

Last Celebration
Mar 30, 2010

Khanstant posted:

Majima fights in Kiwami have gotten kind of tedious, like I got to a point once where he stopped showing up at all, but then progressed the story and couldn't walk 2 feet without fighting and re-fighting him. I think the breaking point was when I could no longer level-up, since then every fight has him with this massive health bar and even at my best it eats a huge chunk of health and items and then I get ambushed trying to heal back up sometimes. At the same time, I gotta catch em all and maybe after SSS rank i will finally be the dragon

Double posting since I’m catching up, are you using Tiger Drop? It does like a bar and a third of his health because of its gimmick in K1 (does shittons with low Heat, and when your heat’s high you can just do heat moves) and seriously mitigates the tedium. But it’s still pretty bad once you’re at that point since the specific encounters aren’t reliable spawns.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.



Last Celebration posted:

Double posting since I’m catching up, are you using Tiger Drop? It does like a bar and a third of his health because of its gimmick in K1 (does shittons with low Heat, and when your heat’s high you can just do heat moves) and seriously mitigates the tedium. But it’s still pretty bad once you’re at that point since the specific encounters aren’t reliable spawns.

It's also perfectly valid to just gently caress Majima off and avoid him like the plague when you're bored of it, unless you're going for 100% completion.

I got to the point where I realised half of my time spent in YK was fighting Majima so I just gave up and finished the story to move onto YK2 which is far, far better.

bone emulator
Nov 3, 2005

Wrrroavr

I must have done something wrong when I played Kiwami, because I encountered majima maybe two times

wuggles
Jul 12, 2017

Kiwami 2 is way better than 1.

Samurai Sanders posted:

I’d be more willing to forgive KH’s story...inconsistencies if I felt like it’s gameplay had come anywhere good in the last two decades almost. The lock on and movement system in KH3 felt ancient. Still fairly fun and flashy, but ancient.

Last Celebration posted:

Tbh the gameplay has actively regressed since Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix, the shitshow fever dream of a story is basically all im invested in for the series at this point.

So I'm not good enough to be here yet, but my understanding is that Re:Mind did for 3 what Final Mix did for 2, and that the game is a lot better on Critical or fighting the Data Org 13. I just grinded out Ultima and restarted my Critical run and I'm having a pretty good time, but I definitely cop to being underwhelmed on release

FirstAidKite posted:

KH2's gummi ship levels were a lot of fun and I wish we could have a star fox game that was basically like those.

To get the best Keyblade in 3 you have to do a sequence of Gummi Ship bosses that culminates in a superboss and it fuckin owns. I have also wished that the Star Fox team would pick up on whatever the KH team is doing here because it's cool.

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009
The Assault on the Dreadnought level (or whatever it is called) and the Heartless Ghost Ship level are both so loving good. My Kingdom Hearts for a new Star Fox game as good as those levels (preferably better)

Saint Freak
Apr 16, 2007

Regretting is an insult to oneself
Buglord
One guy in Empire of Sin has Reaper's Death Blossom, except it's x-com combat so fighting completely stops for him to do a twenty second intricate dance with dual guns and miss 12 times. Truly inspired.

ErrEff
Feb 13, 2012

I read up on some of the stuff in the recent Capcom data leak, didn't realize it was this huge.

I think this might be bigger than the last Nintendo leak, in terms of the size and scope of the confidential info? Also huge amounts of employee information, apparently, which sucks. Scans of personal ID, contracts, that kind of thing.

Simone Magus
Sep 30, 2020

by VideoGames

wuggles posted:

Kiwami 2 is way better than 1.

The original yak2 was way better than 1 also

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
SDR2 Chapter 1 Trial:

One minigame in and this is already way harder than DR1, I'm digging this

AHH WHAT THE gently caress MAHIRU HAS HER OWN TRUTH BULLETS

This new sword minigame is all kinds of weird, I dunno if the tutorial example was just super simple but it felt really pointless

Oh I like the new consent twist to the Nonstop Debates, makes things much more complex

Pooping as an important plot point, thanks Danganronpa!

So er, turns out Nagito's kinda nuts

Nanami coming in with some clutch offence! You go girl!

WELP NAGITO'S CRAZY (AND WITH HIS BRAIN HE'S GOING TO MAKE EVERYONE ELSE JUST AS CRAZY) :stare:

Wait, it seriously wasn't Nagito? gently caress

I really like how many people have brought something to the table in this trial. It's way better than Kyoko and Togami carrying the entire group

drat this trial is way more involved than the first games, I just got to an interval and I feel like there must still be loads left

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


:dukedog:
Offensive Clock

LawfulWaffle posted:

My home’s heater is on the fritz. It’s 28 degrees outside and the house is 58 this morning, down from 62 last night. Took a look at the heater but whatever’s wrong is beyond my DIY skills.


Samuel Hayden is an angel, VEGA is God, and the Dark Lord who rules over Hell looks just like Doomguy. “He’s their version of you.”

Which doesn’t make sense because the Dark Lord is a crazy Primeval who ruled over a plane of hedonists that he forced to research immortality so hard they turned into demons. Him being a humanoid seems inconsistent with all the other angelic imagery we’ve seen so far. Also for a game with Eternal in its name and the end of base campaign saying “Your fight is eternal” they’re making a big deal out of he idea that killing the Dark Lord will kill all the demons outside of the Hell plane. So, eternal until you kill this one guy.


"Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important"

- John Carmack, think he's a game developer or something? idk

Looper
Mar 1, 2012
this month I'm going to attempt to finish link's awakening remake, obra dinn, hades, transistor, and maaaybe yakuza kiwami? next up in the sonic saga are rivals and secret rings. funny how the next big console release after shadow was an arabian nights spinoff

wuggles
Jul 12, 2017

lmao at that DOOM Eternal reveal. how the gently caress does that even work

RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

LawfulWaffle posted:

My home’s heater is on the fritz. It’s 28 degrees outside and the house is 58 this morning, down from 62 last night. Took a look at the heater but whatever’s wrong is beyond my DIY skills.


Samuel Hayden is an angel, VEGA is God, and the Dark Lord who rules over Hell looks just like Doomguy. “He’s their version of you.”

Which doesn’t make sense because the Dark Lord is a crazy Primeval who ruled over a plane of hedonists that he forced to research immortality so hard they turned into demons. Him being a humanoid seems inconsistent with all the other angelic imagery we’ve seen so far. Also for a game with Eternal in its name and the end of base campaign saying “Your fight is eternal” they’re making a big deal out of he idea that killing the Dark Lord will kill all the demons outside of the Hell plane. So, eternal until you kill this one guy.


Is

Is the plot twist that you are the demons

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

wuggles posted:

Kiwami 2 is way better than 1.
i always say yakuza didn't have itself figured out until the third one, with 2 starting to have some hints of what yakuza would become

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

wuggles posted:

lmao at that DOOM Eternal reveal. how the gently caress does that even work

No John, You are the demons

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

RBA Starblade posted:

Is

Is the plot twist that you are the demons

It's been clear you're playing as John Stalvern for some time

LawfulWaffle
Mar 11, 2014

Well, that aligns with the vibes I was getting. Which was, like, "normal" kinda vibes.

RBA Starblade posted:

Is

Is the plot twist that you are the demons

No, you still hate the demons. I think it’s more that you are the apex soldier of the Earth realm and it just so happens that the apex soldier of Hell looks exactly the same. At least, if they were going hard in the “this is your twin” or “you are a secret spawn of the Dark Lord” it doesn’t hit it hard enough. I got all the lore bits so I don’t think I missed anything. Just a dumb reveal overall, but I guess the Doom writing team has to do something to earn their bread.

The Dark Souls of Posters
Nov 4, 2011

Just Post, Kupo
It was right there all along. his name is John Doom

C-Euro
Mar 20, 2010

:science:
Soiled Meat
Thanks to the recent Steam Autumn sale I finally own Fallout NV after having it sit on my wishlist for like seven years. Can't wait to actually get around to playing it in another seven.

Also, weird discussion I had with a friend the other day: are there any video games that take place in the southeastern US? Think Bible Belt or former Confederacy states. The only ones I could think of are the Walking Dead games and the couple of levels in 007 Everything or Nothing that take place in the Louisiana bayou.

RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

C-Euro posted:

Thanks to the recent Steam Autumn sale I finally own Fallout NV after having it sit on my wishlist for like seven years. Can't wait to actually get around to playing it in another seven.

Also, weird discussion I had with a friend the other day: are there any video games that take place in the southeastern US? Think Bible Belt or former Confederacy states. The only ones I could think of are the Walking Dead games and the couple of levels in 007 Everything or Nothing that take place in the Louisiana bayou.

Left 4 Dead 2 and RE7 do I'm pretty sure

COD:MW2 has Fairfax, VA get invaded by Russians, for some reason they really wanted to blow those suburbs up instead of actual military bases

CharlieFoxtrot
Mar 27, 2007

organize digital employees



Mafia III

mutata
Mar 1, 2003

Mafia 3, Assassin's Creed Liberation

Edit: Ah, L4D2 was the other one I was trying to think of.

Kentucky Route Zero? (I haven't played it past the first chapter)

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


Every Civil War game but that's cheating!

RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

New game idea: Florida Man

Play as Florida Man in a large Florida sandbox and try to achieve the objective in the form of a randomized headline. Can YOUR Florida Man get in a fistfight with an alligator in Sea World while high on meth?

CharlieFoxtrot
Mar 27, 2007

organize digital employees



Kentucky Route Zero is set in Kentucky

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RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

Kentucky Route Zero is set in Kentucky

That doesn't seem right

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