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In Mark of Kri, now that I'm on the last level, I love how the game presents it's story, the little hidden cutscenes that you use the bird to find are neat ways to fill in the backstory without bogging the game down with irrelevant scenes, so the only mandatory cutscenes are the important plot ones but there are smaller scenes that fill in the gaps if you want to. I also like the main character's animations because he's not always at the ready - most games when you have a weapon out the character holds it like they're looking for something to hit, with an agresssive posture and kind of tipping the weapon around, but in Mark of Kri he's more reasonable - rather than tensely holding the axe like a baseball bat, when not actively swinging it he just kind of holds it across the back of his shoulders at rest. Basically he has trigger discipline, but for melee weapons. He also has a proper scabbard/quiver and you can see all the weapons stowed in it when not in use, which is nice. It's generally got a lot of attenbtion to detail.
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Jan 27, 2021 08:29
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Grabbed Immortals: Fenyx Rising since it's already hit the sub-$30 level, and man it has a fun setup. Prometheus narrating the story of your character as the game progresses to Zeus, who provides color commentary - complaining when it's boring, praising interesting parts, being confused at why people in the real word would design such weird puzzles just to get into buildings and such. It's great fun, especially coming right after all the Greek pantheon shenanigans in Odyssey.
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Jan 28, 2021 01:54
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My wife and I have been playing Fenyx Rising together while in our alone time I play Hades and she reads Lore Olympus. It's just madness over here.
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Jan 28, 2021 04:58
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the REAL Dragon's Dogma theme is like literally one of the best things about a pretty drat good game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XBlBPtQW6g&t=27s the best part is climbing on things and whackin' em with swords
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verbal enema posted:the best part is climbing on things and whackin' em with swords lol not to spoil but the Bitterblack Isle boss redux where you have to go through the whole island again to beat him for real, if you have the right build of a quick-climbing character with the right skills, gear and weapons equipped you can leap-climb onto his chest and stunlock him to death, and then when he revives with a big face on his chest you can climb directly onto it and kill him again in seconds After my first battle with him was like 20 very tense one-slip minutes, the next time not so much 
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NoneMoreNegative posted:lol not to spoil but the Bitterblack Isle boss redux where you have to go through the whole island again to beat him for real, if you have the right build of a quick-climbing character with the right skills, gear and weapons equipped you can leap-climb onto his chest and stunlock him to death, and then when he revives with a big face on his chest you can climb directly onto it and kill him again in seconds After my first battle with him was like 20 very tense one-slip minutes, the next time not so much i dont have the dlc but that kicks rear end and is 100% what im gonna do as i heard the dlc is kinda BS but w/e its Dragon's Dogma lmao its like when people said Ninety Nine Nights wasnt as good as Dynasty Warriors ya know wha gently caress that N3 loving owned idk bout the sequel but that first game whips so much rear end and really lets you truly be the badass general on the battlefield also the OST is stupid good drat can i get that on steam brb e: no i cant and thats bs its more or less a lost 360 game to me at this point goddamnit verbal enema has a new favorite as of 01:09 on Jan 29, 2021 |
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BioEnchanted posted:In Mark of Kri, now that I'm on the last level, I love how the game presents it's story, the little hidden cutscenes that you use the bird to find are neat ways to fill in the backstory without bogging the game down with irrelevant scenes, so the only mandatory cutscenes are the important plot ones but there are smaller scenes that fill in the gaps if you want to. I sunk hundreds of hours into this back when I got my own PS2- still have it actually. For a "cartoony" game, it had some crazy gore going on, e.g. an impaled enemy sliding down the taiaha or someone crawling on their arms away from their severed abdomen and legs before dying. 
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Jan 29, 2021 04:27
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i like how, in Hades, if you pause while in the third biome it plays only the rad proggy bassline so you can just jam to that for a while
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Jan 29, 2021 04:59
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biosterous posted:i like how, in Hades, if you pause while in the third biome it plays only the rad proggy bassline so you can just jam to that for a while link me! i like proggy basslines in video games
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So, gunfire reborn is another roguelike early access game, this time a borderlands inspired shooter except the guns are really really good and all unique. Recently it got a roadmap update with a new character, a new boss, two new "guns" (actually a bow and a rad as hell sword) and a bunch of little stuff, pretty normal for a early access game. Except there's something abnormal, this update was listed as planned for spring 2021 and they did indeed check it off the roadmap. I have never seen a game release a update that far ahead of schedule, so as long as it's not a result of anything bad and just them having it ready way ahead of schedule im very happy. Also they add a weapon every moderately sized update and i love so many of them, i already mentioned the tiny Chinese dragon and the lizard you smack on the head to reload, but they added a chameleon, sealing tags, a chonch shell thats the unreal tournament shock rifle, a scorpion crossbow that shoots smaller and smaller bursts that get stronger as they shrink and exploding kunai but none come close to my favorite, a shotgun called hell. This think looks like a cross between a pump action shotgun and a shoggoth, and you reload it by feeding it small fish. If ya can't tell i really like this game and how its handled early access.
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Sally posted:link me! i like proggy basslines in video games This is it I think. Keep in mind that Hades is one of those games with dynamic music, so in-game this varies in intensity depending on what you’re doing. In this video it just goes from least to most intense. https://youtu.be/FLK0pr3r3XA
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Jan 29, 2021 06:56
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AC: Odyssey, armor is armor regardless of your body type. Kassandra doesn't get chainmail bikinis, she looks like a badass with rippin abs and a big rear end mohawk and I am HERE for it
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Jan 29, 2021 07:06
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:she looks like a badass with rippin abs and a comically-terrible homemade minotaur head and I am HERE for it
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Jan 29, 2021 07:09
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I definitely appreciate that Kassandra looks like someone who can and will compress your head into a diamond with her bare hands if you piss her off. She’s a mercenary, she’s gotta be ripped.
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Jan 29, 2021 08:38
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Bussamove posted:I definitely appreciate that Kassandra looks like someone who can and will compress your head into a diamond with her bare hands if you piss her off. She’s a mercenary, she’s gotta be ripped. I just think she's neat 
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Jan 29, 2021 08:43
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Jan 29, 2021 09:19
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i wish Kassandra was my girlfriend
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I wish Kassandra was my friend and beat up all my bullies
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I'm finishing up AC: Origins and I found a quest where the entire objective is climbing up things and jumping off of them to impress a group of kids. After a bloody rampage through the fall of Hellenic Egypt and the rise of Rome it was nice to have such a simple and wholesome goal. I also like how Bayek is just really good with kids in general. He's more polite to any of the kids in the game than he is to any other character, it helps make him more memorable to me than most AC protagonists. Except for Evie of the infinite broken limbs from Syndicate, she was the more interesting character and also had the more entertainingly brutal kill animations.
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Speaking of brutal kill animations, my favourite little thing about the Blood and Wine DLC for the Witcher 3 is that the devs really took the opportunity to go overboard on everything. In the base game the magic is already a bit OP, but in blood and wine you get an upgrade to aard (the stagger / knock down sign) which makes it go from "knock people over" to "blow off all four limbs and their head". Which is tremendously unbalanced but great fun.
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bony tony posted:Kassandra is waifu slash transition goals  Kassandra has become one of my all time favorite game protagonists ever. Everything about her is just...incredible and amazing and awesome. 
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Yeah they managed to make her strong and intimidating as hell, but also still able to show vulnerability and emotion. Sense of humor alongside a violent temper. They did it all without making her into a stereotype "butch" woman too, it's excellent.
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Jan 29, 2021 13:45
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Going from that to Rise of the Tomb Raider and seeing Lara, ostensibly someone who climbs mountains and beats down men twice her size, completely lacking any kind of definition at all was weird enough that my gf (huge fan of AC games) commented on it while walking by.
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Jan 29, 2021 15:15
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Morpheus posted:Going from that to Rise of the Tomb Raider and seeing Lara, ostensibly someone who climbs mountains and beats down men twice her size, completely lacking any kind of definition at all was weird enough that my gf (huge fan of AC games) commented on it while walking by. She’s British
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Jan 29, 2021 15:22
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british people still need to use their muscles to do things i'm pretty sure
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flatluigi posted:british people still need to use their muscles to do things i'm pretty sure you'd be surprised what you can achieve without muscles (or chins)
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Jan 29, 2021 15:29
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flatluigi posted:british people still need to use their muscles to do things i'm pretty sure This is incorrect, thanks to the advancements of voice recognition technology they can now complain about things of no consequence as they always have without even lifting a finger
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Kass is my favorite character in anything ever and it's annoying that Fenyx can remind me so much of her while not being nearly as cool. The Misthios braid helps though. The color commentary from Prometheus/Zeus and Hermes' increasingly sarcastic pokes at Fenyx's RPG-hero gullibility are amazing, game good y'all.
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Jan 29, 2021 16:07
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They used the same voice actors as in Odyssey, so Leonidas is telling a story and Markos doesn't believe him.
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TheKennedys posted:Kass is my favorite character in anything ever and it's annoying that Fenyx can remind me so much of her while not being nearly as cool. The Misthios braid helps though. I just finished the main storyline but didn't buy the season pass, but am thinking of springing for it for the new stories. I know they're all new characters and don't follow Fenyx (at least the 2nd and 3rd don't, afaik) but I enjoyed the base story so much. My favorite line was when Ares was a chicken and he was worried about being stuck as a chicken and says something like "What would Aprhodite think? A god and a chicken? That has to be illegal" Then Zeus cuts in "....definitely not illegal"
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Biplane posted:i wish Kassandra was my girlfriend
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Biplane posted:i wish Kassandra was my girlfriend
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Morpheus posted:Going from that to Rise of the Tomb Raider and seeing Lara, ostensibly someone who climbs mountains and beats down men twice her size, completely lacking any kind of definition at all was weird enough that my gf (huge fan of AC games) commented on it while walking by. They actually gave her a bit more definition in Shadow:  A variety of female body types is one of the reason why I like the Last of Us Part Deux: Abby is buff as gently caress while Ellie is more wiry: 
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 They put me in the game, so Kassandra punched me in the head and then let me ride on her boat. You can all be jealous now. 
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Ariong posted:This is it I think. Keep in mind that Hades is one of those games with dynamic music, so in-game this varies in intensity depending on what you’re doing. In this video it just goes from least to most intense. this is pretty rad! love prog-ish stuff in video games. (Tim Follin is to blame... my first prog rock experience was the Solstice theme haha)
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I'm not sure if this is a little thing in a game but it cracked me up
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Zoig posted:So, gunfire reborn is another roguelike early access game, this time a borderlands inspired shooter except the guns are really really good and all unique. Recently it got a roadmap update with a new character, a new boss, two new "guns" (actually a bow and a rad as hell sword) and a bunch of little stuff, pretty normal for a early access game. Except there's something abnormal, this update was listed as planned for spring 2021 and they did indeed check it off the roadmap. I have never seen a game release a update that far ahead of schedule, so as long as it's not a result of anything bad and just them having it ready way ahead of schedule im very happy. The hell is my favorite weapon and the game’s hosed up ragdolls just make it better https://i.imgur.com/X9ZremG.mp4 I really enjoy the game’s weirdly-translated names for things
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The shotguns in Gunfire are really fun. I had a run where I had a good Hell (the shotgun in the above post) and an Illusion which is an auto shotgun that fires faster the longer you hold the trigger. Mix that with the character who has the ability to dual wield and you’ve got a combo that says ‘Please don’t come within 10 meters of me if you still want to exist.’
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