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 Today in "PYF little things people first enjoyed almost 15 years ago in games" I'm getting a kick out of getting a random mission that sent me to the moon in Mass Effect 1.
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May 31, 2021 01:34
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In nioh, if you hit something with an attack that does both physical and elemental damage, the elemental vs physical damage are shown in two separate damage numbers so you can know how effective the element actually is on that enemy
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May 31, 2021 02:37
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Screaming Idiot posted:I hate Middle-earth: Shadow of War because I want to make all the orcs my friends forever and ever. Is it because he took your heart out and ate it?
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May 31, 2021 03:09
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an enemy is just a friend you haven't killed yet
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May 31, 2021 03:10
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thecluckmeme posted:Strangeland has a "puzzle" in which you have to feed a piece of meat to a beast with six mouths, and you can only hold one piece of meat at a time. Meaning you would give the meat, then have to walk back to the guy who gives you the meat, and walk back to fill in the rest of them... FFXIV does a similar thing to cut out tedium that I appreciate; if you're at a part in the story where the questgiver says, "For this next thing we'll need a groodle, a greeble, and a gribblywang," often your NPC buds will say, "We'll handle the groodle and greeble, and Player, you go get the gribbywang." It makes it feel like the NPCs are actively contributing to things, rather than just having them stand around while the player is the only one who does stuff.
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May 31, 2021 03:16
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And then there's the Titan questline. 
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May 31, 2021 03:46
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packetmantis posted:And then there's the Titan questline. Was that the real tedious one full of busywork and going from point a to b and back to a? that's everything up to when I quit mid heavensward
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May 31, 2021 03:54
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Len posted:Was that the real tedious one full of busywork and going from point a to b and back to a? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V2sBURgUBI
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May 31, 2021 05:06
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Len posted:Was that the real tedious one full of busywork and going from point a to b and back to a? Same.
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May 31, 2021 05:15
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Good thing you quot before making it to Stormblood, where that gets 100x worse!
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May 31, 2021 11:52
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Screaming Idiot posted:I hate Middle-earth: Shadow of War because I want to make all the orcs my friends forever and ever. Death is a minor inconvenience to most of the Orcs so I wouldn't feel too bad. Cutting each other's heads off is just the way Orcs and Tarks show affection. That said, I would pay approximately a hundred pounds for a DLC where you play as an Orc warlord gathering your horde to wipe out the filthy elves. I would also accept playing as a dwarf.
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May 31, 2021 12:26
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Good thing you quot before making it to Stormblood, where that gets 100x worse! I liked the dungeons and playing with goons was fun but after trudging through the pre heavensward stuff because "it gets good as soon as it starts" it just kind of never did
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May 31, 2021 12:41
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Another of my all-time favorite lines in the series.
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May 31, 2021 14:09
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My favourite line, at least in Mass Effect 1, was when you're talking to a Turian about corporate corruption with Wrex in your party. The Turian complains about executives not realizing that someone is loving up the company for personal gain, and Wrex chimes in with "Well if these executives don't blame [the guy for being corrupt], they're fools. You should eat them." Just so quick and matter-of-fact that I couldnt help but laugh.
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May 31, 2021 14:40
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Morpheus posted:My favourite line, at least in Mass Effect 1, was when you're talking to a Turian about corporate corruption with Wrex in your party. The Turian complains about executives not realizing that someone is loving up the company for personal gain, and Wrex chimes in with Related.
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May 31, 2021 19:22
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Hell yeah, liked that one too. I basically brought Wrex everywhere, and only like a third of the reason was his ability to tank attacks on Insanity difficulty.
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May 31, 2021 20:07
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BTW is there any information about that Live a Live announcement last year where the trademark got extended to austrailia (IIRC)? Curious if something's happening there, maybe it got interrupted by the pandemic.
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May 31, 2021 21:19
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 Anytime a game references how Bad rear end you were in a previous entry is great
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Jun 1, 2021 01:31
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Speaking of Mass Effect, I've been using photo mode to zoom way in on distant flapping things on alien planets, things that are only flying specks across the sky, things that originally you were in no way meant to see the models of up close.  This is a strange, four-winged reptilian creature, not entirely unlike a pterosaur.  This is a pigeon.
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Jun 1, 2021 02:31
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RoboRodent posted:
A space pigeon 
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Jun 1, 2021 02:32
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I knew it! Pigeons are aliens!
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Jun 1, 2021 02:34
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Captain Hygiene posted:A space pigeon I mean, technically everything is in space, so even the birds outside your window are space birds.
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Jun 1, 2021 02:40
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Codependent Poster posted:I mean, technically everything is in space, so even the birds outside your window are space birds. I'll accept this argument.
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Jun 1, 2021 02:40
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Codependent Poster posted:I mean, technically everything is in space, so even the birds outside your window are space birds. This is true, and unfortunately easily forgettable. I regret every chance I've missed to tell people I need to get into my space car and go to my space job.
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Jun 1, 2021 02:42
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Codependent Poster posted:I mean, technically everything is in space, so even the birds outside your window are space birds. Space dinosaurs, if ya want to get funky about it
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Jun 1, 2021 02:43
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Captain Hygiene posted:This is true, and unfortunately easily forgettable. I regret every chance I've missed to tell people I need to get into my space car and go to my space job. I'm going to tell people this from now on every time I go to pretend to work.
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Jun 1, 2021 02:49
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I would absolutely believe that pigeons continue to be an invasive pest even in space. Apparently pigeons are something of a Bioware injoke specifically.
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Jun 1, 2021 08:50
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Gaius Marius posted:
There's a part In Fallout 4 where the leader of the Railroad asks why they should let you join them. If you have done something significant before that then one of the others will tell the leader how cool you are.
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Jun 1, 2021 11:40
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I would absolutely believe that pigeons continue to be an invasive pest even in space. Mass Effect is full of invasive pest species (varren, pyjacks, thresher maws), mostly because it makes populating alien worlds easier, but I will definitely accept as headcanon that the humble terran feral rock dove has spread throughout the galaxy.
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Jun 1, 2021 13:16
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RoboRodent posted:Mass Effect is full of invasive pest species (varren, pyjacks, thresher maws), mostly because it makes populating alien worlds easier, but I will definitely accept as headcanon that the humble terran feral rock dove has spread throughout the galaxy. You know within the first week of humans turning up at the Citadel, honored representatives of their people stepping onto the grand galactic stage, there'd be an unstoppable population of pigeons roosting in every Ward. All of them feasting off the remains of fast food from across a thousand worlds like they'd always been there. And nobody will know how they got onto the station.
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Jun 1, 2021 13:28
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And rats. So many rats.
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Jun 1, 2021 14:04
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Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2: I love that in the Tyranid campaign you wipe out the Iron Hands early in the campaign. For the Imperium, the first sign that this Tyranid hive-fleet might be a thing is when the Imperium notices the bugs heading for Medusa, the Iron Hands' homeworld, and insists that the Iron Hands work with the Eldar and the rest of the Imperium to contain the threat. The Iron Hands tell the Imperial Navy and Eldar to piss off, they've got this. Then the Tyranids eat Medusa.
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Jun 1, 2021 15:31
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Cythereal posted:Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2: I love that in the Tyranid campaign you wipe out the Iron Hands early in the campaign. For the Imperium, the first sign that this Tyranid hive-fleet might be a thing is when the Imperium notices the bugs heading for Medusa, the Iron Hands' homeworld, and insists that the Iron Hands work with the Eldar and the rest of the Imperium to contain the threat. The Iron Hands tell the Imperial Navy and Eldar to piss off, they've got this. Aren't the Imperium notoriously anti-Xeno? Or are the Tyranids an enemy-of-my-enemy exception?
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Jun 1, 2021 16:05
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Aren't the Imperium notoriously anti-Xeno? Or are the Tyranids an enemy-of-my-enemy exception? In the fluff, yes the Tyranids are generally the big "Holy poo poo drop what you're doing, buddy up with the Eldar and Tau and whoever the gently caress, and KILL THE BUGS" threat. Chaos also sometimes rates. Now, this same kind of thing happens in the Imperial campaign, but as it generally goes into the fluff, being arrogant morons just means a costly heroic victory for the Imperium because space Nazis overcome. The Tyranid campaign in BFGA2 is in general hilarious because for once... no, the space Nazis don't overcome. Everyone acts like arrogant dicks, and for once, they don't prevail because HUMANITY IS SUPERIOR. Nope. They get eaten, just like the other guys an hour ago who decided to make a GLORIOUS STAND AGAINST THE GREAT DEVOURER. And now they're biomass you're spending to make more ships.
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Jun 1, 2021 16:10
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What used to be a more common theme with the Imperium and might be getting remembered is that the Imperium could be a lot more effective than it is if it wasn't constantly having right-hand-versus-left moments due to pride, distrust, petty grudges, power-mad megalomaniacs and interservice rivalry that can and does escalate to all-out warfare. There's a reason the whole setting is built around how any side can be fighting any other side, or its own side, anywhere for any reason. And it's usually the most paranoid and fascist parts of the Imperium instigating these things through being assholes who refuse to play nice and start poo poo to try to cover their own fuckups.
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Jun 1, 2021 16:23
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Alhazred posted:There's a part In Fallout 4 where the leader of the Railroad asks why they should let you join them. If you have done something significant before that then one of the others will tell the leader how cool you are. He'll list multiple things as well, to the point that if you have enough big accomplishments before trying to join it sounds like he's just mocking her for not recognizing you on sight.
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Jun 1, 2021 16:27
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Acute Grill posted:He'll list multiple things as well, to the point that if you have enough big accomplishments before trying to join it sounds like he's just mocking her for not recognizing you on sight. Also, that character isn't just omnisciently aware of your doings. They are actually physically present for them, in disguise. Experienced players are able to find them around the world map watching you prior to meeting the Railroad.
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Jun 1, 2021 16:32
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Aren't the Imperium notoriously anti-Xeno? Or are the Tyranids an enemy-of-my-enemy exception? Yeah, Tyranids often are one of those big deals. There’s even an instance where Space Marines teamed up with Necrons to fight them. Human/alien teamups, even in apocalyptic situations, are still incredibly rare. You have to either be really secretive or have a lot of authority to do it, and at the end of the day you’re still a human supremacist. Warhammer 40K recently underwent a bunch of galaxy-shaking plot developments, and the Imperium and Eldar briefly teamed up during them. Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 takes place after them. The game is pretty nuts because in each of the campaigns you either kill Abaddon and cripple the Chaos legions, take out a Primarch and destroy other major lore things leaving the Imperium completely hosed, or both. GW in the past seemed to be a lot less willing to let game companies use their big name characters. Back when Dawn of War 2 came out, it caused a minor stir among fans when Abaddon briefly showed up to give orders and threats the campaign’s main Chaos guy. Dr Christmas has a new favorite as of 17:22 on Jun 1, 2021 |
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Jun 1, 2021 17:08
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rydiafan posted:Also, that character isn't just omnisciently aware of your doings. They are actually physically present for them, in disguise. Experienced players are able to find them around the world map watching you prior to meeting the Railroad. It's fun when games do this and you can actually spot them on occasion. Half-Life has the G-Man show up with varying levels of subtlety throughout, and Fallout New Vegas DLC Lonesome Road has Ulysses occasionally in the background iirc. Dr Christmas posted:Yeah, Tyranids often are one of those big deals. There’s even an instance where Space Marines teamed up with Necrons to fight them. Human/alien teamups, even in apocalyptic situations, are still incredibly rare. You have to either be really secretive or have a lot of authority to do it, and at the end of the day you’re still a human supremacist. Warhammer 40K recently underwent a bunch of galaxy-shaking plot developments, and the Imperium and Eldar briefly teamed up during them. Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 takes place after them. It depends a bit on the xenos; Orks will occasionally actually hire themselves out as mercenaries, but it's rare for that to last very long. Eldar are long known but heavily distrusted by the Imperium, since Eldar have hosed with them a few too many times, and Dark Eldar flat out do slave raids on the reg. New fluff Necrons may be slightly more likely to actually communicate with humans, though it's unlikely to go well. Tau are the ones the Imperium actually occasionally does diplomacy with, though it's still a cold war situation at best. There's a lot to be said about GW's change in management causing a huge change in direction for pretty much everything about the company and its franchises, though I imagine they realised if they treated their named characters like the good silver gathering dust in the cabinet then no one would care about them.
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Gaius Marius posted:
What's this from?
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