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Just got around to trying the updated System Shock remake demo and it's still bloody great. They've added the cyber space stuff and also there's way more SHODAN. What I really love is how much effort they've put into making it look like the old chunky game. Lovely! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtNWQZVshek
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Bleusilences posted:I can see the appeal of pokemon, but why play pokemon when you can do the same with games like Shin Megami Tensei. smt has its own weaknesses. i enjoy the series but i hear fans go on at length about its tactical depth and i'm over here like, buff, strip, debuff, kill, adding three actions to the typical jrpg command queue does not a deep or challenging game make. smt is also oppressively edgy, persona is better about watching its manners and minimizing the chuuni cackling. the last smt game i played was devil survivor and holy poo poo it's like the entire cast was written by a very very angry fifteen year old Fur20 fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Feb 28, 2021 |
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Feb 28, 2021 21:12
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Fur20 posted:chuuni cackling Do I want to know what this means
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Feb 28, 2021 21:48
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signalnoise posted:Do I want to know what this means https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Chuunibyou (Content Warning: TvTropes) Middle School Syndrome, apparently? (Lolsoedgy)
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MrQueasy posted:https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Chuunibyou (Content Warning: TvTropes) I read this and still have no idea
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signalnoise posted:I read this and still have no idea I think it’s like an eight grader in a trenchcoat type vibe but I’m also lost.
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Am I supposed to know what these terms are? I think people use terms like 'tsundere' or something in general internet discourse-- and I still dont know what thats supposed to mean.
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Feb 28, 2021 22:17
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jokes posted:Am I supposed to know what these terms are? I think people use terms like 'tsundere' or something in general internet discourse-- and I still dont know what thats supposed to mean. basically tsundere means maybe if you got rid of that yee yee rear end haircut you'd get some bitches on your dick
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Feb 28, 2021 22:18
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signalnoise posted:I read this and still have no idea middle school kids who think they are the reincarnation of famous historical figure or otherwise a vampire/werewolf/ancient sorcerer or something It's like the "girl who who thought she was married to anime guys" thread
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Feb 28, 2021 22:19
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Ghost Leviathan posted:And that just gives me some fun LARP ideas. Though I'm still partial to showing up as a filthy peasant with a lovely crossbow. You should show up as a peasant with an ox-pulled cart full of furs and try to loudly market them for sale while people are fighting If there's magic in this LARP then claim that the furs are enchanted to give bonuses to charisma, strength, and virility while motioning to your crotch
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Feb 28, 2021 23:16
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QuarkJets posted:You should show up as a peasant with an ox-pulled cart full of furs and try to loudly market them for sale while people are fighting Do that regardless of magic being real in that fantasy world. Didn't stop people from selling snake oil in real life Not in the mood for cheese? that excuse has more holes than a slice of this fine gorgembert
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signalnoise posted:Do that regardless of magic being real in that fantasy world. Didn't stop people from selling snake oil in real life That's a good point, it'd be realistic either way Show up at a LARP selling magic potions, if someone's like "there's no magic in this setting" loudly accuse them of breaking character
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Feb 28, 2021 23:30
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finally finished farcry 3. probably the best farcry or at least the one i had the most fun playing.
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Dark souls 3 is the best single player game of all time. Pick a weapon and use it. It’s so loving impressive how they made different weapons do different poo poo from each other. Even if you have same build stat wise as someone, using a different weapon will vastly change how you play the game. Pvp isn’t bad, don’t level past about level 125 if you wanna play with or against people. If you play just the vanilla game first you’ll be about level 90 at the final boss so you don’t even have to be worry about it IMO summoning only sucks if you beat down on a boss without even learning the mechanics. But that goes away at higher levels and with dlc bosses. Even if you summon players you’ll need some knowledge or the mechanics to stay alive.
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Rutibex posted:this was the tutorial. why put it in the game yeah i have to say i really wanted to play pokemon just to prove to myself that ash was the most awful trainer in existence and even i could do better Space Kablooey fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Mar 1, 2021 |
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Mar 1, 2021 01:44
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its_my_birthday posted:Dark souls 3 is the best single player game of all time. Its great but Bloodborne is better.
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Mar 1, 2021 02:26
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It really sucks Bloodborne 2 isn't a thing yet, they must be working on something. I fear they blew their entire creative load for Bloodborne so it's going to be a solitary thing.
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Schlong Connery posted:Like someone else said, pokemon as a concept peaked at the second gen. But they really didn't get the combat right until much later when they split the types of damage attacks did. Before that it was kind of nonsensical. Of course the early games had lots of other things wrong with the combat 2nd gen had 80% of its monsters be essentially useless, extremely short routes, a nonsensical level curve. I like Johto a lot but theres definitely a huge amount of nostalgia coloring that (it was my first pokemon game).
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Mar 1, 2021 02:43
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peak pokemon was whenever you were 12
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Rutibex posted:peak pokemon was whenever you were 12 lol, i was 12 in 1980, fifteen years before Pokemon was even a thing. We used to play outside until it was nighttime and neighbors looked out for each other. it was a very different world back then. tango alpha delta fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Mar 1, 2021 |
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Mar 1, 2021 03:13
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tango alpha delta posted:lol, i was 12 in 1980, fifteen years before Pokemon was even a thing. We used to play outside until it was nighttime and neighbors looked out for each other. it was a very different world back then. back in my day we were truly fair game for pedophiles, it was a pedophile's dream, you could just snatch a kid right off the road, it was likea. buffet of unattended children. not like these darn video gaming youngsters
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There was also a shitload of kids going missing and 80s media for kids was almost entirely just direct advertisements, reactionary content to the Reagan repeal on advertisement for kids
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Caesar Saladin posted:back in my day we were truly fair game for pedophiles, it was a pedophile's dream, you could just snatch a kid right off the road, it was likea. buffet of unattended children. not like these darn video gaming youngsters I know you are making fun of me,which is totally fine. However, It’s an unfortunate fact that the abuser is usually someone the child knows. All I know is that our neighborhood was fairly safe back in the day.
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i am one year older than you. there was always some card trading poo poo to nerd out about. magic the gathering came out when i was in high school. when i was in junior high it was baseball cards. when i was in elementary school it was garbage patch kids, which were so cool and so popular that the whole school district banned them.
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jokes posted:There was also a shitload of kids going missing and 80s media for kids was almost entirely just direct advertisements, reactionary content to the Reagan repeal on advertisement for kids Generally missing children are taken by an angry parent as revenge against the other parent. To get back on topic, my children enjoy the Pokémon games and are very well versed in stranger danger.
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Earwicker posted:i am one year older than you. there was always some card trading poo poo to nerd out about. magic the gathering came out when i was in high school. when i was in junior high it was baseball cards. when i was in elementary school it was garbage patch kids, which were so cool and so popular that the whole school district banned them. I think you are much younger than I am or maybe just confused. Magic The Gathering came out in 1993 and Garbage Pail Kids came out in 1985, when I was in high school. By the time I was in High School I was pirating and cracking Commodore 64 games. e: unless you are talking about Cabbage Patch Kids, which did come out when I was in elementary school, in the late 1970's. tango alpha delta fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Mar 1, 2021 |
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I just slammed through all of Max Payne 3 today. First time I had played it in a few years and it’s aged way better than a lot of shooters from that same era. I’m not sure the fact the major complaint about it, that it’s not a “Max Payne” story, is actually a bad thing. It uses Max and his story really well by dropping him and his history into a completely different genre and works really well with the “completely out of his element” thing he has going on.
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 i grabbed bl3 on sale and fired it up splitscreen with my wife and the woman has the bloodlust in her she doesn’t really play shooters (we played maybe an hour of BL1 like a decade ago) but like, dang, it is rare for me to be like “okay let’s call it a night and shut down” and for her to drag us on an entire extra subquest or three
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Rockman Reserve posted:
my wife talks poo poo at stuff in diablo 3 and got incredibly angry at all 3 pikmin games but refused to put them down. it's the best
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i broke up w a girlfriend in week 6 of dating because in the 168 hours of week 5 she played civ 5 for 130 hours and i was afraid of poopsocking and other concomitant behaviors
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Not to bring it back to miniatures as like a "bitching about miniatures games" thing but I will say this for 40K. It's dumb, but even without going into weird sex or gore stuff, it's not nearly the worst. https://store.wildwestexodus.com/wwx-root/82256-pride-of-the-nekomata-detachment This is for a game centered around the aftermath of a scifi alternate history version of the american civil war that is very sympathetic to the south, and the indigenous faction has magic werewolf type poo poo. Makes me feel good about the state of video game writing signalnoise fucked around with this message at 05:32 on Mar 1, 2021 |
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bob dobbs is dead posted:i broke up w a girlfriend in week 6 of dating because in the 168 hours of week 5 she played civ 5 for 130 hours and i was afraid of poopsocking and other concomitant behaviors Civ II would have been marriage material.
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Rutibex posted:peak pokemon was whenever you were 12 Peak pokemon was around 1999-2000 and right after pokemon go launched.
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Pokemon Go's highest active player base was several years after launch and Sword and Shield is the first pokemon game to sell more than Gold and Silver so its right now, we are in the age of pokemon
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Barudak posted:Pokemon Go's highest active player base was several years after launch and Sword and Shield is the first pokemon game to sell more than Gold and Silver so its right now, we are in the age of pokemon It's going to be different depending where you are but for me peak pokemon will always be the times where you heard about it on the news and radio and nintendo was running live shows in the mall and that kind of stuff.
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Flannelette posted:It's going to be different depending where you are but for me peak pokemon will always be the times where you heard about it on the news and radio and nintendo was running live shows in the mall and that kind of stuff. this era never ended in japan
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBGoDmLMe3U i'm sorry...
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Barudak posted:Pokemon Go's highest active player base was several years after launch and Sword and Shield is the first pokemon game to sell more than Gold and Silver so its right now, we are in the age of pokemon Even if it had a higher active player base later on, it wasn’t really a Thing like it was right after launch. I think pokemon would benefit from having a hard mode, the battle system has a lot of cool stuff you never use because it’s a lot of one-hit KO’s. Like, why would I use a low-accuracy OHKO move like Horn Drill when I can just use one of my regular moves and one hit KO with 100 percent accuracy because I have a same type attack bonus plus a type advantage? Same result but this one has 95 percent accuracy instead of 35 percent, and I can use it 20 times instead of 5. Or why use something to decrease my opponent’s accuracy when I can take them out in one move?
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Fur20 posted:smt is also oppressively edgy, persona is better about watching its manners and minimizing the chuuni cackling. the last smt game i played was devil survivor and holy poo poo it's like the entire cast was written by a very very angry fifteen year old The more mainline games are a bit more mature in theme but the edge are still there. I am also there for the modern day settings mixed in with the fantasy/sci-fi element of it. I strongly recommend playing the persona game first too, because they are a bit more easy even if they are more anime then the mainline.
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