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| More Bowesette |
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86 | 29.76% |
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23 | 7.96% |
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| less open world AAA games |
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21 | 7.27% |
| being one of cheetah's little pogchamps |
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1 | 0.35% |
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78 | 26.99% |
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cheetah7071 posted:6 or so hours in, my opinion of Control is: pretty dang good when it's trying to be an SCP game, pretty dang mediocre when it's trying to be a shooter. From bits and pieces I've picked up, this is a pretty common opinion
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Jan 12, 2021 08:50
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One thing I really like about the SCP is that you can go from pretty serious horror to comedy to just plain weird in the span of a few articles and I'd love to see a team try to evoke that same feeling in an interactive medium. Control went pretty hard on one or two specific kinds of SCPs (or so it seems so far). Not a terrible decision but not what I was hoping for when I heard "SCP game". Still enjoying it though.
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Jan 12, 2021 08:53
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What's an SCP game?
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Jan 12, 2021 08:55
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Rarity posted:What's an SCP game? SCP is a website of user-generated articles, mostly horror or horror-adjacent, about a foundation which contains weird supernatural stuff and protects the rest of the world from it. It's sort of hard to describe but they all have a really distinctive and unifying feel, even when the moods in them vary wildly from horror (the most common) to comedy to whatever else. I think the history is that someone wrote a creepypasta in a really cool, evocative style and then people when loving nuts with it and made thousands more. SCP was originally chosen as just a sequence of letters that sound vaguely ominous, I think, and didn't stand for anything, though it got a backronym as "Secure, Contain, Protect"
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Jan 12, 2021 08:57
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Samurai Sanders posted:Yeah. I wish it had been an adventure game about avoiding astral horrors and puzzle stuff for the altered objects etc. They keep making the wrong genre for these things... if only The Secret World weren't an MMO...
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Jan 12, 2021 09:06
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Control's combat was good, but I still enjoy all the stories of people apparently struggling with it, because it makes me feel like a pro.
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Jan 12, 2021 09:08
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finally got around to watching tim rogers pacman video, and am pleased to see him have the correct opinion on pacman ce vs ce dx
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Jan 12, 2021 09:08
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I liked the standard encounters but bosses were interminable
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Jan 12, 2021 09:12
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So far the combat hasn't been hard, just kinda mediocre
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Jan 12, 2021 09:12
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cheetah7071 posted:SCP is a website of user-generated articles, mostly horror or horror-adjacent, about a foundation which contains weird supernatural stuff and protects the rest of the world from it. It's sort of hard to describe but they all have a really distinctive and unifying feel, even when the moods in them vary wildly from horror (the most common) to comedy to whatever else. I think the best way to describe them is "modernized Lovecraft." Good SCPs work so well because of the juxtaposition of hard, authoritative writing (much as how Lovecraft frequently used men of science to lend the stories an air of authenticity) with increasingly unsettling intrusions of the totally organic Real, such as with interviews, photographs, logs, and so on. They manage to condense down the basic essence of a Lovecraft story into a few hundred/thousand words, and that's no mean feat.
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Jan 12, 2021 09:15
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Yeah I just got bored of Control. All of the little Alan Wake poo poo was cool but not cool enough to make me do all the combat rooms where you do the same thing every fight. In a sense, it's exactly like SCP: they keep trying to make games about it but the best way to experience it is to just read the wiki
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Jan 12, 2021 09:16
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:They keep making the wrong genre for these things... if only The Secret World weren't an MMO... That looked like a really neat game to get into but the combat looks like an utter slog which is, I guess, on brand for an MMO
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Jan 12, 2021 09:17
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if you're unfamiliar it is important to note that when people talk about SCP they generally mean 'the small handful of good entries' and not the swathes of dumb doctor who poo poo and whatnot the site got filled up with
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Jan 12, 2021 09:17
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I mean anything with nearly 5000 entries is going to have some garbage but I feel like you can still select random article and have a good time on the scp wiki
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Jan 12, 2021 09:25
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cheetah7071 posted:I mean anything with nearly 5000 entries is going to have some garbage but I feel like you can still select random article and have a good time on the scp wiki oh it's a good time for sure - probably not a hipster choice but my favorite ones were always the various largely benign devices or machines
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Jan 12, 2021 09:42
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cheetah7071 posted:6 or so hours in, my opinion of Control is: pretty dang good when it's trying to be an SCP game, pretty dang mediocre when it's trying to be a shooter. From bits and pieces I've picked up, this is a pretty common opinion thats the remedy design doc baby awoo
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Jan 12, 2021 10:00
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The old design doc had Make a good game written in it, which probably got removed after Microsoft took them in.
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Jan 12, 2021 10:37
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Relax Or DIE posted:oh it's a good time for sure - probably not a hipster choice but my favorite ones were always the various largely benign devices or machines hell yeah my favorite is 348 http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-348 also I like that you can just sort by upvotes and forget the cruft
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Jan 12, 2021 11:08
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stay safe out there everyone. Bowser's Fury will be unleashed today https://twitter.com/NintendoEurope/status/1348888703033335808?s=19
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Jan 12, 2021 11:39
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What is it with Nintendo? Sometimes they announce their announcements weeks in advance, sometimes they announce them a few hours in advance and the majority of the time they just dump a new trailer or Direct on their Twitter feed with no fanfare.
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Jan 12, 2021 11:42
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Everytime I was shooting things or able to walk through hallways without slow walking in Control I forgave them more and more for just how absolutely awful Quantum Break was. What a darn tootin good shooting although honestly every gun except shatter feels like butt to use with the DLC gun being just the pinacle of "why why why why why"
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Jan 12, 2021 12:10
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Don't play Control as a shooter. It works best when you are just tossing hunks of concrete at dudes.
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Jan 12, 2021 14:05
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Khanstant posted:how do yall say "daemon"? Day-mon.
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Jan 12, 2021 14:09
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LawfulWaffle posted:Day-mon. AhAHHHHHHH
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Jan 12, 2021 14:11
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ShallNoiseUpon posted:Don't play Control as a shooter. It works best when you are just tossing hunks of concrete at dudes. uhhh concrete is just bullets but not from a gun you see
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Jan 12, 2021 14:37
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Nowadays Control has accessibility sliders, so you should cut all the dudes health by like half and it would probably be way better. Playing it at launch every time combat started I was like “ugh not this poo poo again”
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Jan 12, 2021 15:17
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Jan 12, 2021 15:17
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wuggles posted:Nowadays Control has accessibility sliders, so you should cut all the dudes health by like half and it would probably be way better. Playing it at launch every time combat started I was like “ugh not this poo poo again” I just turned on godmode, still liked it very much and was my top 5 last year.
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Jan 12, 2021 15:23
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Goa Tse-tung posted:hell yeah this was really nice. I haven't read SCP in more than a decade, this makes me want to
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Jan 12, 2021 15:29
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grieving for Gandalf posted:this was really nice. I haven't read SCP in more than a decade, this makes me want to SCP has changed significantly in recent years. A lot of the popular recent entries have gotten a lot more elaborate and lengthy, and some authors are sort of putting together their own canons under the SCP umbrella to tell stories that interlink a bunch of different SCP articles. Personally I'm enjoying it a lot. This one's sorta diving into the deep end, but SCP-4000 is probably my favorite article on the site. It might not work great on mobile because it makes heavy use of colored text for an important effect. It's one of those articles where it's a mystery what's going on without relying on redactions/[DATA EXPUNGED] and there's a clear answer that emerges once you start putting the pieces together, which I like that a lot.
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Jan 12, 2021 15:39
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Harrow posted:colored text for an important effect. ahh someone who read House of Leaves
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Jan 12, 2021 15:40
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ShallNoiseUpon posted:ahh someone who read House of Leaves It's like what if that, but there's a concrete reason for each color and it's not just suggesting connections yeah
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Jan 12, 2021 15:41
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Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury is gonna gently caress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppkX8epoD9g
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Jan 12, 2021 16:02
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Bowser's Fury has been unleashed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppkX8epoD9g Edit: nooooo too slow
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Jan 12, 2021 16:02
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So how different is the story in Infamous if you go the Good Karma route? I just got to the bit where Zeke betrays me and I'm wondering if I wasn't a total dickhead whether that would have gone differently. Relatedly, the mission where you get to climb the really tall thing is the best part of any open world game, prove me wrong
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Jan 12, 2021 16:03
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I'm at 50% on 5 or 6 protagonists, I really need to beat 13 Sentinels before I go up to DC for the inauguration in case I get killed by chuds
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Jan 12, 2021 16:08
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Interested to see just how much new content is in here- 3D World was really good and it always seemed a little unfair for it to be trapped on the Wii U but like I dunno if I wanna buy it all over again.
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Jan 12, 2021 16:15
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Rarity posted:So how different is the story in Infamous if you go the Good Karma route? I just got to the bit where Zeke betrays me and I'm wondering if I wasn't a total dickhead whether that would have gone differently. Infamous 1? The ending is pretty different but it doesn't branch too too much, for instance one of the decisions is "no matter what you choose it was the wrong one" so the story is 100% unaffected which I get a kick out of.
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Jan 12, 2021 16:18
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Simone Magus posted:I'm at 50% on 5 or 6 protagonists, I really need to beat 13 Sentinels before I go up to DC for the inauguration in case I get killed by chuds Don't go to DC. It's scary right now. If you still come up here, be safe. But really, don't go.
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Jan 12, 2021 16:20
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Walla posted:Don't go to DC. It's scary right now. It's for work, but also I want to attend the inauguration because, as much as Kamala is imperfect, first female VP of America is a massive deal to me, since I was assigned female at birth and raised female
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