Rarity posted:

The lack of checkpointing in GTA4 is really starting to frustrate me. Mostly because while the large city is very detailed and impressive it takes ages to drive through and when I fail a mission I don't want to spend minutes doing the busywork of driving across the city to get the actual meat of the mission. Almost every gaming session now ends with me quitting out after a failed mission cause I can't be arsed to try it all over again.

DC Murderverse posted:

I finished the main story of Control today and I think that Jesse Faden might be my favorite VA performance in a game. I like that you can hear her thoughts, I like every single time she awkwardly blurts out words at a FBC person like she’s never talked to a human before (because obviously a woman who has lived her life doesn’t talk to people much), and I like that she’s enthusiastic about all the absolutely insane poo poo she goes through but also yells “oh gently caress off” at the giant parallel world eyeball beast.

I hope that Courtney Hope gets more VG work going forward. She must have made an impact on the people at Remedy given she was in all four episodes of Quantum Break and it seems like they crafted the character to match her look. The only other game role she’s had is “Sith Lord” in SWTOR. (Although her soap opera character’s name is Sally Spectra which is a video game-rear end name if I’ve ever heard one)

Also I love that one of her greatest fears is working at a dumb boring office as an assistant that no one treats with respect. Jesse Faden is very relatable.

Rarity posted:

Also this might just be me but the move to less cartoony and more realistic graphics has made everything way murkier so it's much harder to work out what the game actually wants you to do

Ciaphas posted:

I need a little spoiler-ish help with Outer Wilds. Brittle Hollow's , er, brittle-ness is still giving me the hibbly-jibblies real bad; are the places/times it demonstrates that random, or can I at least be assured of myself in select areas?

lets hang out posted:

I think it always breaks down in the same way at the same times

Rarity posted:

The first Stalfos fight was such a brick wall for Teen Rarity that I bounced off the game for like 6 months

hatty posted:

Ciaphas posted:

I need a little spoiler-ish help with Outer Wilds. Brittle Hollow's , er, brittle-ness is still giving me the hibbly-jibblies real bad; are the places/times it demonstrates that random, or can I at least be assured of myself in select areas?

haveblue posted:

Yeah nothing in the game is random, everything plays out the exact same way each cycle

RBA Starblade posted:

He's not called Megachild

Hwurmp posted:

Pacfolk genitals are hidden inside a #####, much like those of Cacodemons and other spheroidal animals

Khanstant posted:

Yes, no. That area _is_ random. Each chunk of the place has its own HP bar (visible when u slap a scout on it), there are random projectiles from the nearby projectile generator, and depending on where it hits and how frequently, diff section fall in sooner or later. Some areas naturally have lower HP and are more likely to fall in earlier, but there is no set pattern.

However, you can be reasonably assured in other ways. For one thing, the penatly for fucknig up and falling isn't so bad, sometimes you might do it on purpose. Second, you can get some wild orbits and curves when you do fall off a chunk that end up landing you somewhere safe (or a deadly smack into a wall at high speed, which honestly, is so fun that it's okay)

Khanstant posted:

Yes, no. That area _is_ random. Each chunk of the place has its own HP bar (visible when u slap a scout on it), there are random projectiles from the nearby projectile generator, and depending on where it hits and how frequently, diff section fall in sooner or later. Some areas naturally have lower HP and are more likely to fall in earlier, but there is no set pattern.

However, you can be reasonably assured in other ways. For one thing, the penatly for fucknig up and falling isn't so bad, sometimes you might do it on purpose. Second, you can get some wild orbits and curves when you do fall off a chunk that end up landing you somewhere safe (or a deadly smack into a wall at high speed, which honestly, is so fun that it's okay)

haveblue posted:

Doesn't which parts of the planet fall affect what's accessible?

Real hurthling! posted:

I loving hate jumping off tall poo poo in games

Real hurthling! posted:

Also being under water

Real hurthling! posted:

I loving hate jumping off tall poo poo in games

Khanstant posted:

Ciaphas, I get you on the stomach curdling, though maybe I like the sensation more than you. It's like in a videogame when you take a giant leap or fall, that weird sinking feeling in stomache as if you were the one suddenly dropping.

RBA Starblade posted:

It's the best part of a lot of games

Ciaphas posted:

I don't mind doing this in terrestrial games - in fact it can be kinda fun, I loved doing it in FF14 just for giggles, especially in Kugane - but in space? gently caress that, gently caress that five thousand times over and every single major gravitational phenomenon out there alongside ^t

kinda neat if we are talking about the same sensation, 'cos I usually find that stomach lurch to be quite a horrible experience! In earth-bound games I just plain don't experience it at all.

Real hurthling! posted:

I loving hate jumping off tall poo poo in games

Real hurthling! posted:

Also being under water

Khanstant posted:

How do you feel bout rollercoasters? I'm mostly indifferent, i don't like being knocked about and im not that into being physically pushed around at velocity. I dunno what it is though, artificially inducing that weird feeling is different. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a kind of unpleasant feeling, but something about it being fake and me being safe and just doing actual mindgames to my mind, makes me appreciate it in a weird way.

p.s. - i would love to jump into a blackhole IRL, I'm scared of heights but not being into spaghetti stream of particles

Ciaphas posted:

Time for a break on OW, and man more games with infodumps need a Rumor Mode like this to tie it all together like this

Really helpful to my colander-like memory

Rinkles posted:

Nope, well not by blood anyway. Both were foster cats adopted a few years apart. Bruno was a Russian Blue because I'm allergic (they're supposed to be hypoallergic), and Wesley is some kind of mixed breed (I can't cuddle him).

exquisite tea posted:

Goons hate being at top of tall buildings (successful businessman) and taking baths, go figure.