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CuddleCryptid posted:Debatably it's a game where you play as any number of comic book superheroes. You could dress the main character in a helmet and magnificent cape and recast the entire thing as an X-men game where you play as Magneto. Man the good version of that would be cool. But, well...*just kind of vaguely gestures at modern superhero games aside from Spidey and Batman*
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readingatwork posted:Started playing Control and it's weird and dumb and makes all kinds of bad decisions (lol at the awkward internal monologue and live action actors) but I also kind of love it precisely for those bad decisions? If nothing else it's got some interesting ideas and is having fun with them. I really witsh it were actually scary though or at least had enemies that were more interesting than random dudes with glowing bits. I mean come on, you have the entire multiverse at your disposal. Give me some eldritch abominations! The live action stuff is exactly what they intended them to be Remedy have their own style. Personally I really like it.
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FMV just isn't the same when it isn't in grainy ultra compressed SD with overly busy borders and frames.
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I honestly thought Control had the perfect balance of real footage, just enough to feel perfectly idiosyncratic but not going into a full-fledged side production like Quantum Break.
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I honestly didn't realize it even had any. With facial mocap technology these days being what it and facial expressions always being the biggest tip-off that something is animated instead of recorded, the line has becoming more and more blurred for me.
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I'll always take more Sam Lake in a game
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Sakurazuka posted:Gungage Wow, someone else has heard of this game 
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How could I forget the adventures of Wakle Skade
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FreudianSlippers posted:FMV just isn't the same when it isn't in grainy ultra compressed SD with overly busy borders and frames.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zny-Tvt4T-s
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How could I forget the CG backgrounds. An essential part of all quality FMV experience.
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Playstation had a sale on the Amnesia collection and SOMA last week for like $3 a piece. Started playing SOMA and will admit it is fairly creepy.
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Cardiovorax posted:Metal Slug and Syphon Filter would probably count. Not that more than a few people even remember them. LOOK AHROUUND YOU LOGAN! I always think of Duke Nukem whatever in time and its sequel and tomb raiders as the quintessential ps1 tpses. Control just feels like modded max Payne 2 which would have been fine if we could throw back bullets in slomo dives but as we can not it is kinda meh.
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https://twitter.com/wario64/status/1371337746048897024?s=21 I’m so glad this is available again.
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Gann Jerrod posted:https://twitter.com/wario64/status/1371337746048897024?s=21 Hell yeah, get bent "concerned gamers"
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Man I still can't believe a game could get universally delisted for criticizing Xi.
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Manager Hoyden posted:Man I still can't believe a game could get universally delisted for criticizing Xi. It's almost like the Chinese Government has been rapidly expanding its media holdings, via State and Private run corporations, in an attempt to control its image abroad.
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Not even a criticism really, it would be the American equivalent of an orange with the word "trump" written on it and some data miner found it and ran a smear campaign.
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TheAnomaly posted:It's almost like the Chinese Government has been rapidly expanding its media holdings, via State and Private run corporations, in an attempt to control its image abroad. It's extremely concerning but it's no secret everyone's chasing the China money dragon now that they've allowed console sales and have their own steam store. Things aren't going to get better. Which is a real shame because I'd love a game with metaphors for the PRC disappearing their citizens and forced televised confessions. E: Animal Crossing of all things is banned because people's islands are not under their control and have been used for protest. The most sensitive goddamn government. TheWorldsaStage fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Mar 15, 2021 |
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The whole thing just reminds me that Disney made a Chinese version of Iron Man 3 in which Iron Man runs on milk to revitalize the domestic dairy market, Jarvis and an added character agree that China helps Iron Man in his adventures, and also there is product placement for Chinese heavy equipment manufacturing. Not a brand in particular, just the reassurance that farm equipment made in China is good.
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I mashed buy as soon as I saw Devotion was available, I've really felt badly for those devs over the last couple of years. I am now on a list somewhere to be purged when China subsumes the United States.
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I don't even want to play the game and might grab it just because I feel like they deserve it for being universally poo poo on
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Same. I honestly wasn't interested in the game to begin with, but if I had more disposable income right now, I'd buy it just to thumb my nose at Comrade Winnie the Xi.
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please just buy devotion because its one of the best games made in the last couple years, and not for weird cringe 'owning the chinese' reasons
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Not "the Chinese," just the kind of despotic rear end in a top hat who thinks it's okay to suppress the work because it said a single mildly unflattering thing about him. Dude could be from anywhere and I'll feel the same about it.
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Varinn posted:please just buy devotion because its one of the best games made in the last couple years, and not for weird cringe 'owning the chinese' reasons I mean it's a pretty legit reason to spite buy for Devotion too, even with it also being a great game. For once it's not because a woman or person of color was on screen, it's not to own the totally real essjooz that totally weren't group willed into some great stretch of existence, it's not even because of "censorship" that amounts to some people not liking something lovely in a game, it's because the devs genuinely got swamped by a convenient surge of authoritarian loving "concerned gamers" that were very concerned about these taiwanese developers saying anything even slightly inflammatory. Like there's some goobers who will take any reason to "own the chinese" or whatever, but a lot of the time when these criticisms happen it's pretty valid poo poo and not about 'the chinese' at large, it's about the pukes in their government and their desperate bootlickers, because it's not even remotely conspiracy to say that china as a state is extremely fragile about any kind of criticism or mocking whatsoever, then love to overtly or otherwise prod the party true believers toward the offending media. Yardbomb fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Mar 16, 2021 |
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Yardbomb posted:I mean it's a pretty legit reason to spite buy for Devotion too, even with it also being a great game. For once it's not because a woman or person of color was on screen, it's not to own the totally real essjooz that totally weren't group willed into some great stretch of existence, it's not even because of "censorship" that amounts to some people not liking something lovely in a game, it's because the devs genuinely got swamped by a convenient surge of authoritarian loving "concerned gamers" that were very concerned about these taiwanese developers saying anything even slightly inflammatory. VVV
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And like it's even more damning than usual because again the developers are taiwanese, based in Taipei no less, which involves an extra level of great ugliness on the part of "concerned gamers" swooping down on them in a gang with the goal of forcing their offending media out of view, arising from a country that's ever still chomping at the bit to swallow their country, erase their identity and likely more than a degree of it's people. It was bald-faced jackbootery hidden behind a transparent excuse. Also I know I'm overusing "concerned gamers" but it's just the most laughably thin disguise for what a bunch of bastards were angling at.
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I can't emphasize this enough, if you like horror, you really owe it to yourself to pay the $16 to buy Devotion while you still can. It is ridiculously good.
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Devotion also isn’t particularly kind to traditional Chinese medicine, approaches to mental health, or filial piety it was undone by a jpeg but the game is a viciously dark examination of other traditional values beyond that, which is partly why it’s one of the better horror games released in the last several years
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And I will absolutely say usually in horror games if I'm too chicken poo poo to play for long periods (i.e. Dead Space) I can feel pretty comfortable in that I can dip my toes in an intro and not be surprised by a scare out of nowhere. No, in Devotion the devs immediately put you on edge and gently caress with you.
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i'm paranoid about china letting devotion be available again with malware. if there's no complaints for a while from users, then i'll buy it
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Relin posted:i'm paranoid about china letting devotion be available again with malware. if there's no complaints for a while from users, then i'll buy it are you loving kidding me
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Relin posted:i'm paranoid about china letting devotion be available again with malware. if there's no complaints for a while from users, then i'll buy it jesus lmao, its fine, please just support the developers. this isn't some tom clancy novel
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Yes I'm sure this professionally sold product on an official site from a developer in Taiwan is filled with, gently caress, I don't know, bitcoin miners? Like, realistically, what the gently caress is the Chinese government going to do with your personal data that's worse than what your own countries' government could (and likely will) do with it?
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the rereleases are all haunted
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It's not on EGS it isn't going to give your information away
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Blockhouse posted:Yes I'm sure this professionally sold product on an official site from a developer in Taiwan is filled with, gently caress, I don't know, bitcoin miners? Like, realistically, what the gently caress is the Chinese government going to do with your personal data that's worse than what your own countries' government could (and likely will) do with it? I mean if it was a Chinese developer there would be somewhat of a cause for concern because China loves to steal the intellectual property of other countries. Its not though, Taiwan is a different country. The only reason China was able to kill the game was because of the publisher.
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