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Invisible inc is a far better xcom game than any of the xcom games.
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XCOM 2 has a nice character designer but the rest of the game sucks poo poo and better dress-up games have come out since then so there's no longer a good reason to play it e: ^^^ this goon knows what's up, play Invisible Inc cause it's the best xcom to ever xcom. XCOM! Invisible Inc? 
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Apr 14, 2021 12:27
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lurker2006 posted:mgs is as dead as anything, last game was nearly 6 years ago and the ip holder has left videogames. They had the best selling non-nintendo video game in japan last year and the second highest game over all. Their video game division profits were up every year since getting rid of Kojima (iirc) and despite covid wrecking their health club business last year they're still more profitable than they were 4 years ago.
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Apr 14, 2021 12:52
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Barudak posted:They had the best selling non-nintendo video game in japan last year and the second highest game over all. Their video game division profits were up every year since getting rid of Kojima (iirc) and despite covid wrecking their health club business last year they're still more profitable than they were 4 years ago. B-but, Konami got boo'd at the Video Game Awards!
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Apr 14, 2021 13:01
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The absolutely worst part of all MGS games are the incomprehensible anime storylines conjured up by Kojima
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Apr 14, 2021 13:15
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I think they're funny. Dude can't stop himself, he just goes too far and it ends up being a pretty unique piece of media because of it. Metal Gear Solid 2 is the best one and its very clever imo. I don't think any game has made you play as a completely different protagonist than advertised without telling you.
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Apr 14, 2021 13:19
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The worst people online re videogames are the ones saying "kojima makes bad videogames" I'm sure there was some right melt back in the 70s and 80s saying "Spielberg makes bad films" but in a similar way way to Kojima 95% of folk who hear you are lolling to themselves and thinking "haha you melt".
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Apr 14, 2021 13:20
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*everything gets explained over and over again in excruciating detail* "THIS IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE!"
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Apr 14, 2021 13:35
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I was thinking about that when I was playing before and chalked it up to your near-godlike powers as an Altered. To the guy that you shot until the pants came out, they were just pants. But something about the pants interacts with your guys weird time magic and now they stick bullets in your gun, but only when you make them happy by reloading them when shielded. This is a strong theory, thank you. This game is fun solo actually, I haven't been playing with anyone and I kind of prefer it. It's more challenging since even though the enemies are weaker there are the same amount of them which can get challenging. QuarkJets posted:Speed running is as much of a sport as NASCAR You're close but racing is actually incredibly physical in a way that playing video games never is. Besides that I'd say it's pretty close PinheadSlim posted:I'm sorry but I genuinely do not remember it that way The first one was definitely a lot more like that. Getting spotted and having to fight a bunch of dudes basically meant you hosed up. That was the more fun way to play, anyways. BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:I started playing Valhalla again (for about an hour) and drat you are so not an assassin. In Odyssey I ended up just wholesale slaughtering everyone in most encounters but it seems like the idea of sneaking up behind a lone guard when you're weak or picking them off one by one is just not in the game initially. To be fair, that's KIND OF part of the story? I mean in that one you are not an assassin you're just a normal Norse warrior. You meet some assassins and do missions for them but you're not technically part of the order, at least as far as I've gotten (not far). Origins and odyssey were pretty bad for that though. Tons of bizarrely super powered enemies and required mass fights
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Apr 14, 2021 17:15
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FoolyCharged posted:I have played dk 64 100% multiple times and enjoyed it every time. I would call it a good game* This is from a few pages ago and i cant believe you all ignored it because its easily the most insane thing posted in this thread.
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Apr 14, 2021 17:34
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Thing is about stealth games is that they're surprisingly hard to do right, especially in genre constraints. Hitman is called an adventure game with guns for good reason. It's a mechanic that's not too difficult to add in various genres as a side gimmick, but if it's the main focus, you really need to commit. (and even if it's a side gimmick, you needa make it worthwhile) Metal Gear games, especially the good ones, have an absolutely ridiculous level of attention to detail and granularity for a reason.
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Apr 14, 2021 17:35
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Thing is about stealth games is that they're surprisingly hard to do right, especially in genre constraints. Hitman is called an adventure game with guns for good reason. It's a mechanic that's not too difficult to add in various genres as a side gimmick, but if it's the main focus, you really need to commit. (and even if it's a side gimmick, you needa make it worthwhile) I agree, I honestly usually don't enjoy stealth games. A few do it right but I still usually wouldn't want the ENTIRE gameplay to be stealth-based. Some examples of ones partially stealth that were good would be Alien: Isolation which is fun by virtue of being tense and terrifying, Horizon: Zero Dawn which I thought had a simple but satisfying stealth mechanic, and the Far Cry games because when stealth fails you can just unload on people. There was also this really fun puzzle-type game with stealth elements where you could rewind and pause and eventually work out the exact sequence of inputs you need to get past the evil robot and to the end of the level. Can't remember the name though
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A rewind mechanic sounds perfect for a stealth game. One thing that I dislike about them is that there's often no in-game way to recover from a small mistake. Often, getting spotted once causes things to escalate until you have to murder the entire level or quickload.
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:This is from a few pages ago and i cant believe you all ignored it because its easily the most insane thing posted in this thread. I'm sure it is, but I don't have anything to say about it really since even back when it was new it was clear that the N64 was a total garbage console with no good games so I hardly played anything on it. For a hot take, I will say that if Super Mario 64 came out on the PSX it would have been considered mediocre and forgettable compared to the other platformers on the console
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Apr 14, 2021 17:52
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Games with stealth as the primary mechanic are only good if they're 2D.
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Collapsing Farts posted:The absolutely worst part of all MGS games are the incomprehensible anime storylines conjured up by Kojima https://youtu.be/srTqxL_6Ysg Cartoon Man fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Apr 14, 2021 |
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Apr 14, 2021 18:02
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Doctor J Off posted:I'm sure it is, but I don't have anything to say about it really since even back when it was new it was clear that the N64 was a total garbage console with no good games so I hardly played anything on it. For a hot take, I will say that if Super Mario 64 came out on the PSX it would have been considered mediocre and forgettable compared to the other platformers on the console I'd say you're loving nuts and that's as someone who loved Spyro. (which I recall a Playstation magazine review reluctantly said was quite similar to Mario 64) Mario 64 is still remembered as a classic for a reason. The N64 is basically the quality over quantity console, with the unfortunate caveat on top of price that people went crazy for anything that was on it during those long release lulls regardless of quality.
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Apr 14, 2021 18:09
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:Games with stealth as the primary mechanic are only good if they're 2D. Mark of the Ninja WAS pretty great
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Doctor J Off posted:I'm sure it is, but I don't have anything to say about it really since even back when it was new it was clear that the N64 was a total garbage console with no good games so I hardly played anything on it. For a hot take, I will say that if Super Mario 64 came out on the PSX it would have been considered mediocre and forgettable compared to the other platformers on the console i grew up with nintendo and have stanned hard itt for even the virtual boy but the 64 really was kinda garbage compared to the playstation it just happened to hit at the right place at the right time for a shitload of people during a weird cultural generational epoch kinda thing
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Apr 14, 2021 18:13
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I just beat sekiro and I'm having trouble deciding whether or not it is a better game than bloodborne
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We're here if you need help deciding
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Apr 14, 2021 18:19
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i haven't beaten sekiro and haven't actually gotten an ending to BB (killed Mergo's Wet Nurse so I could get an ending, but there are yet more beasts to hunt...) but BB is way better imo
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Apr 14, 2021 18:20
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itry posted:We're here if you need help deciding That's exactly why I posted my quandary!
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Apr 14, 2021 18:21
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Sekiro bored me, mechanically and thematically.fridge corn posted:That's exactly why I posted my quandary! 
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I'm thinking sekiro has (by far) better gameplay, but bloodborne is the overall better game That's what I'm thinking... for now
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Play posted:Mark of the Ninja WAS pretty great Mark of the Ninja is one of the few games in all of games that was good enough that I gave some thought to trying to play through it a second time extra skillfully
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itry posted:Sekiro bored me, mechanically and thematically. Your av disagrees
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Mark of the Ninja is also short enough that I immediately started another playthrough after beating it. It also has a kind of NG+, iirc.
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Rockman Reserve posted:i grew up with nintendo and have stanned hard itt for even the virtual boy but the 64 really was kinda garbage compared to the playstation Early 3D stuff was just really weird, and nobody got it right the first time. It was the worst for me since I had a Genesis and was so jealous of the people who could play Super Mario World, so that when i got a 64 and played the games on that I had a "What the gently caress is this?" kind of reaction
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Rockman Reserve posted:i grew up with nintendo and have stanned hard itt for even the virtual boy but the 64 really was kinda garbage compared to the playstation I liked the 64 a lot better than the original PS. The true 3d games on it were infinitely better than the PS1, and that's what excited me at the time. Having Ocarina of Time basically settled it for me, but there were several other really good games too.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:*everything gets explained over and over again in excruciating detail* No matter how much you explain nonsense in excruciatingly painful detail, it's still nonsense.
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Apr 14, 2021 18:28
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No you see she's a Plant Girl so therefore
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Apr 14, 2021 18:32
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Words and deeds  fridge corn posted:Your av disagrees Sekiro has better movement, I'll give it that.
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fridge corn posted:I just beat sekiro and I'm having trouble deciding whether or not it is a better game than bloodborne i'm glad to hear you beat it fridge, seems we have similar tastes in games and Sekiro was just too much for me to handle (gave up around the corrupted monk), your resolve to see this and persona 5 to the end are admirable
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Apr 14, 2021 18:55
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Well known anime lover fridge corn is resolved to complete all anime video games.
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sekiro has better movement and one-on-one human combat, but bloodborne has cooler environments, more interesting bosses, and allows co-op if you get stuck or just want to gently caress around for a whilePlay posted:I liked the 64 a lot better than the original PS. The true 3d games on it were infinitely better than the PS1, and that's what excited me at the time. Having Ocarina of Time basically settled it for me, but there were several other really good games too. *gestures wildly at my avatar* but also like, siphon filter? MGS? tenchu? plus crash team racing was a million times better than mario kart 64, and there's probably at least 1.5 games worth of truly fun and awesome levels/bosses across the Crash trilogy
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Rockman Reserve posted:sekiro has better movement and one-on-one human combat, but bloodborne has cooler environments, more interesting bosses, and allows co-op if you get stuck or just want to gently caress around for a while There was also Riven: the Sequel to Myst on the PSX (but lol at even imagining trying to play Riven on PSX). Also while I'm on the subject, somebody should Kickstart completion of Driven: the Sequel to Psyt. I'm sure it's probably aged just fine
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Sekiro is better than Bloodborne because it looks better, plays better, has better music and isn't jack off material for a bunch of ex-teens who grew up loving sisters of mercy and black lipstick and nightmare before christmas.
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bloodborne is a better videogame because if you are bad you can summon help and beat the game easier
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Waltzing Along posted:Sekiro is better than Bloodborne because it looks better, plays better, has better music and isn't jack off material for a bunch of ex-teens who grew up loving sisters of mercy and black lipstick and nightmare before christmas. this sounds like some weird personal hangup tbh but we're here if you need to talk it out friend
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