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GoutPatrol posted:I felt pretty good going in with a Thinker build the first go through. Getting Encyclopedia checks was one of the easier ways to learn the lore and history of the world and gives you good background knowledge that will be helpful with in later runs. The Visual Calculus checks also are a real unique thing. I would agree with this. I’m glad I went Thinker because it allows me to learn lots about the world and its history naturally, as well as learn as much as I can about the main case so I have all that in my pocket for subsequent playthroughs. Plus it means there’s more fun to be had when I go for the more psychic drug addict run next time and it all goes insane
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Vikar Jerome posted:Daily reminder about up and coming GOAT xbox game releaser. Can't wait to experience Kojima's newest prophecy on Xbox Gamepass!
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a dark future where games have been devalued and nobody can get distribution deals... Mann Gaemur must trek across the american wasteland, collecting the most valuable asset on the planet.... CMOS batteries
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Apr 15, 2021 09:29
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I love games that appeal to my fantasy: being able to physically lift and carry a playstation 5 console
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEvntSex-7Y&t=89s Here's a funny video about that Alone in the Dark PS3 game I mentioned in here recently. I said at the time it felt like a game designed by someone who'd never played a game in their life but the term "overproduced" also works really well.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEvntSex-7Y&t=89s It had some neat ideas but, well. It's such a strange..entity. It was a success, but it killed the franchise. Atari threatened to sue bad reviews, because every iteration of Atari has been run by colossal dipshits, the PS2/Wii version was made by the people who did ObsCure which its own...thing and man, I dunno e: minimme's other vids are fun, especially the Sims GBA stuff
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Quantum of Phallus posted:a dark future where games have been devalued and nobody can get distribution deals... Mann Gaemur must trek across the american wasteland, collecting the most valuable asset on the planet.... CMOS batteries Well played.
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I started over in Disco Elysium and I'm running 3/4/2/3 with Suggestion tagged and going for "penitent cop that's also crazy and sympathetic". I've started 3 times now and even the first few things you do are radically different depending on your skill checks and decisions It's freaking great!!!!
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Apr 15, 2021 14:11
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I made my DE character 4/4/2/2 with a specialisation in drama lol. Haven't played much of it tho
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I played some PS Now yesterday and I have a feeling they made some subtle behind-the-scenes changes because it seems to both look and play better (less lag) than before, honestly it really doesn't feel any different from playing locally on a PS3, even locally (although I am old and do suck at games). If you're hard-wired into your internet and your ISP isn't pure garbage, I strongly recommend giving PS Now a go if that $1 deal is still going instead of trying to keep a PS3 going, that way lies pain and misery.
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I'm unsure if reading that should get my hopes up about PS Now eventually coming to Australia. Deliberately crippled national broadband network aside, the discussion about Disco Elysium in this thread is a reminder that the government will probably go out of its way to prevent it because it could be used to simulate drugs or shooting a police officer or make Rupert Murdoch feel slightly inconvenienced.
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PS Now games are region-specific, at least to a degree, and Disco Elysium isn't on PS Now anyway. Is Australian broadband an issue internally or are your speeds only bad when you leave Australia and connect to international servers? Like if you live in a major city in Australia can you connect to servers in the same city fine?
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Redezga posted:I'm unsure if reading that should get my hopes up about PS Now eventually coming to Australia. Deliberately crippled national broadband network aside, the discussion about Disco Elysium in this thread is a reminder that the government will probably go out of its way to prevent it because it could be used to simulate drugs or shooting a police officer or make Rupert Murdoch feel slightly inconvenienced. I'm extremely bummed that it was banned here. I wonder if i can import it from hong kong or something. I remember i tried to import Mortal Kombat and customs stole it from me.
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Caesar Saladin posted:I'm extremely bummed that it was banned here. I wonder if i can import it from hong kong or something. I remember i tried to import Mortal Kombat and customs stole it from me. I'm pretty sure you can set up a PSN account that's based out of either the US or a European country and buy it digitally from there with wallet codes. If you really want a disc that's an issue, though.
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My internet is relatively good as far as Australian internet goes (I am in a major city), but as I understand it our internet is notably slower than the rest of developed world due to the location of the continent and some political promises that resulted in in a cheaper and barely futureproof broadband infrastructure makeover instead of the good one the losing political party proposed. Streaming can definitely get a bit spotty, but I assume the reason we still don't have PS Now or even Stadia is because a lot of people just wouldn't really be able to use it here. Disco Elysium is a seperate issue really and didn't get released because it has drugs in it. We're the reason morphine was renamed to Med-X in the Fallout games! Redezga fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Apr 15, 2021 |
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Inferior Third Season posted:I've been playing through The Witness, seeing as they were giving it away for free. Nah, the quotes are good, they serve a purpose that fits the game, and they're completely optional content you don't need to click on at all (I actually don't know if they're tracked anywhere and they certainly don't unlock anything, so who cares if you miss them). The quotes picked, as pretentious as they can be, do contribute to the tone of the game and some of them relate to the area you find them in. They're religious or metaphysical quotes from various places and some of them are quite lengthy, but the overall idea of them is contemplation, the value of knowledge, and the search for answers. Wanting to know more about the world and what it's for. This is the big theme of the game, and the recordings can add to this if you want them. They actually use these orange recordings in a hidden area later on to humanise the idea a bit by having the people reading them have a few conversations about the recordings (one even says 'you know how easily we could slide into pomposity') and I think another one is about how they haven't got enough secular, atheistic recordings about faith and why that is. (Mostly because it's harder to get quotes from Atheists that are saying anything of their own instead of just attacking religion, and partly because they have a limited budget and already have too many quotes from Feynman). But some of those do feel like the game taking a step closer to a story that it doesn't really tell. It's also kinda funny when they're placed on purpose but not in a way you'd realise. One of the earlier quotes you can find is on top of the big door that leads you out of the starting fort where you have to complete the first chain of panels. It starts "I am standing at a threshold, about to enter a room" and then rambles a bit about being a tiny dot on the planet hurtling through space, and something about four dimensions and entropy and yes it is a bit wanky. But the quote finishes with "make sure my passage of the threshold is an entrance, not an exit" and this doorway is the entrance to the game proper... And once you've got a lot further into the game there's a way to make it the exit door to find the secret ending with Jonathan Blow and a jar of piss. Nostalgia4Dogges posted:let it be known that I am 100% OK with Sony allocating any and all resources towards engineering sharing video game/clips on the PS5.... towards...literally anything else The video stuff I've used a few times but wouldn't miss that much. But I really do like that the DS4 has a screenshot button and use it a lot for things I think are cool. My desktop background is normally a screenshot of the last thing I finished playing, I could probably get some pretty awesome shots from Ghost Of Tsushima now that I think of it.
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I chose a 4/2/2/4 build for Disco and my wife did basically the opposite and she woke up and her tie was talking to her lol
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Simone Magus posted:I started over in Disco Elysium and I'm running 3/4/2/3 with Suggestion tagged and going for "penitent cop that's also crazy and sympathetic". I've started 3 times now and even the first few things you do are radically different depending on your skill checks and decisions I restarted after final cut and yeah its pretty crazy how different the experience was, more difficult second time round and less funny but that's a game that's probably got a dozen playthroughs in it
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Anyone know anything about this (The Forgotten City)? It's apparently based on a Skyrim mod, which I know nothing about, but "time loop murder mystery" is my Junji Ito-style "THIS HOLE WAS MADE FOR ME". https://www.gematsu.com/2021/04/the-forgotten-city-launches-this-summer-for-ps5-xbox-series-ps4-xbox-one-switch-and-pc
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Read After Burning posted:Anyone know anything about this (The Forgotten City)? It's apparently based on a Skyrim mod, which I know nothing about, but "time loop murder mystery" is my Junji Ito-style "THIS HOLE WAS MADE FOR ME". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIWY29UcMVQ That is a terrible loving trailer. I have no idea what the game is supposed to be.
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We're halfway through april and I'm looking at the list of games I've played this year so far and thinking about the goty thread and holy hell is my list stacked af already
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fridge corn posted:We're halfway through april and I'm looking at the list of games I've played this year so far and thinking about the goty thread and holy hell is my list stacked af already I have played very few games this year but a whole trilogy will not only be making an appearance but all three have entered my top 30 of all time. Shocking. 
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VideoGames posted:I have played very few games this year but a whole trilogy will not only be making an appearance but all three have entered my top 30 of all time. Shocking. Transcending history and the world, a tale of soul and sword, eternally retold.
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fridge corn posted:We're halfway through april and I'm looking at the list of games I've played this year so far and thinking about the goty thread and holy hell is my list stacked af already Persona 5 Strikers is easy GOTY right now... but Endwalker is also this year...
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Trying to wrap up DLC2 on DS3 so I can help VG anywhere he needs. Seriously gently caress Midir. Such an unfun boss to fight and I'm thinking on respeccing and cheesing him out and forget about this garbage fight already.
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Apr 15, 2021 20:29
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Quantum of Phallus posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIWY29UcMVQ Yeah, the trailer kind of sucks. :/ But then I read the words "exploiting the time loop" and I'm in!
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Persona 5 Strikers is easy GOTY right now... but Endwalker is also this year... My goty is already set in stone. I sincerely doubt anything will be able to top it
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fridge corn posted:My goty is already set in stone. I sincerely doubt anything will be able to top it the new COD doesn't usually come out til November, be patient
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Quantum of Phallus posted:the new COD doesn't usually come out til November, be patient I haven't played a cod since mw2
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Quantum of Phallus posted:the new COD doesn't usually come out til November, be patient Alternate post: so does fifa
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fridge corn posted:My goty is already set in stone. I sincerely doubt anything will be able to top it Balan Wonderworld is great for sure, but unassailable GOTY material...
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fridge corn posted:My goty is already set in stone. I sincerely doubt anything will be able to top it Yeah Pac-Man 99 really blew my mind. I have severe doubts that any game will outdo it this year.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Midir blows Complaining (and respeccing to sorceries for certain spell) worked. Just casting pestilent mist around with the lingering ring to keep it up most of the time and use the NPC summon to distract the boss most of the fight. And yes, summoning increases the boss' HP but said spell deals a % of the max HP so actually bringing a distraction is good. gently caress Midir, I clowned him on PC with my pyromancer using lightning spear and that cute spell. Now back to my STR build.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Balan Wonderworld is great for sure, but unassailable GOTY material... Remembering the days of buying every single game that had squaresoft printed on the box for no other reason than that...
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Guillermus posted:Trying to wrap up DLC2 on DS3 so I can help VG anywhere he needs. Seriously gently caress Midir. Such an unfun boss to fight and I'm thinking on respeccing and cheesing him out and forget about this garbage fight already. I was having trouble plowing through the two DLCs on NG+4 last night since I never took my character past level 100 or so, UNTIL I summoned. Lots of cool people still summonable in the woods of Ariandel, and also from the second bonfire in Ringed City where you can easily get a party of 4 badasses to take on the stairs area down to the Filinanore's church. I also discovered that having both Lapp/Gael NPCs for Demon Prince absolutely clowns that fight. It's very cool that AoA and Ringed City are difficult enough to still be a fun challenge even with an online party of 4 high level dudes. I loving love the DLC so much I made a million souls in under 30 mins lol
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