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exquisite tea posted:I know Lost Judgment lets you beat up delinquent teenagers, but what's a video game where you can own annoyingly precocious 8-year olds? Those kids are the loving worst and nobody in our society gives them enough poo poo! Quantum of Phallus posted:Warzone fridge corn posted:Actually flag talk has reminded me of the time Bust Rodd posted:… uuuh, how exactly do you think the US military behaves any differently, and why would the military of Seattle, WA make you think of the IDF before it makes you think of the US Army, the most destructive imperial force on Earth since the British East India Trading company? Bust Rodd posted:*standing in the little league bleachers, embarrassing myself and my wife as I bleat encouragement like a goat while you round the posting bases* “THAT’S MY BOY! LET’S loving GOOOOO!”  BeanpolePeckerwood posted:old and busted thread is on FIRE today I'm saving this for posterity 
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The Neal! posted:I mean sure, you could try to isolate that and say "oh no that's just about Ellie" but I think that right there is the actual reach because after hearing that quote I just can't buy that's it's a simple coincidence that the WLF soldiers are the ones being lynched by the Scars or many of the other ways its been pointed out that each side is coded IDF and Hamas. I don't think every take on why it's coded that way is true, some people really are reaching but it's certainly not out of nowhere that people have come to the conclusion that if the Israel/Palestine conflict inspired one aspect of the game it probably inspired others. You can draw real world parallels between the WLF and IDF etc. and I wouldn't say you are outright wrong, although I don't think it's as cut and dry as a 1:1 comparison. it might have served as inspiration. But it's kind of missing the point of the game. Which is about isolating people within these factions and humanizing them all despite their conflicting world views. The ideologies of the groups the characters align with are pretty inconsequential and are not portrayed as wholly good or bad.
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Oct 15, 2021 19:03
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Guillermus posted:
Don't appropriate me. I agree with Bust Rodd!!! 
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Oct 15, 2021 20:54
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fridge corn posted:drat dude, nice work! And I didnt even start refusing to stand for the pledge of allegiance until I was in 7th grade 2nd grade 
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Oct 15, 2021 20:55
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Even if the WLF and Seraphites are a direct I/P metaphor (which I don’t think they really are, but just for the sake of argument), the WLF aren’t exactly shown in a good light. They’re depicted as child killing torturers, like, extremely blatantly. If anything the game’s narrative is extremely critical of what they do, even if you as the player are expected to slaughter the Seraphites by the dozen. (But that’s what you do to everyone, so no shock there.)
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Oct 15, 2021 21:01
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Bust Rodd posted:the cherry on top is how Pregnant Dina wishing for a life of peace for her new baby and talking about how Jews had to survive the Holocaust and they’ve always been persecuted means that the game is clearly depicting Israel as being in the right. holy poo poo lmao
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Oct 15, 2021 21:02
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exquisite tea posted:I know Lost Judgment lets you beat up delinquent teenagers, but what's a video game where you can own annoyingly precocious 8-year olds? Those kids are the loving worst and nobody in our society gives them enough poo poo! I believe Deus Ex: Invisible War was the last mainstream game to feature child NPCs that you could kill After that it's all Fallout 3 Lamplighters
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Oct 15, 2021 21:07
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I want to be clear that I am in no way advocating for the wholesale murder of children, only annoying little shits who played Gavroche in the touring cast of Les Mis once and think they’re some Broadway legend now. Shut the gently caress up Randy Stein nobody cares!
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Oct 15, 2021 21:22
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Yakuza 0 and Kiwami let you dunk on small children in minigames, and there’s even substories about it! You do have to enjoy horny bug lady wrestling to get the most out of it, but then again who doesn’t?
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Oct 15, 2021 21:25
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mycot posted:. I'll admit Abby's annoyed me more because I could not care about her million friends it is a very strange choice to characterize them after they're dead. But that’s exactly why they do it. You killed them, you probably felt good about it or justified in doing it. Now you get to sit there and see they aren’t evil monsters or mini-hitlers, they were mostly decent people like anyone else. TLOU2 is a good game.
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Oct 15, 2021 21:34
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Sammus posted:But that’s exactly why they do it. You killed them, you probably felt good about it or justified in doing it. Now you get to sit there and see they aren’t evil monsters or mini-hitlers, they were mostly decent people like anyone else. You’re not wrong but I’d bring Owen back from the dead just to kill him again. He sucks!
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Oct 15, 2021 21:36
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Does TLOU2 have: a needlessly complicated leveling system, a needlessly gigantic open world map, and/or a horde mode
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Oct 15, 2021 21:51
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Inspector Hound posted:Does TLOU2 have: a needlessly complicated leveling system, a needlessly gigantic open world map, and/or a horde mode nope, it’s a good game
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Oct 15, 2021 22:08
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exquisite tea posted:I know Lost Judgment lets you beat up delinquent teenagers, but what's a video game where you can own annoyingly precocious 8-year olds? Those kids are the loving worst and nobody in our society gives them enough poo poo! Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
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Oct 15, 2021 22:11
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tlou2 is the best metal gear game since 3.
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Oct 15, 2021 22:12
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I may have given TLOU2 a try if I didn't have TLOU so much.
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Oct 15, 2021 22:56
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Inspector Hound posted:Does TLOU2 have: a needlessly complicated leveling system, a needlessly gigantic open world map, and/or a horde mode Sadly no, even though it controls so well that a team co-op Left 4 Dead mode would be amazing.
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Oct 15, 2021 22:59
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RareAcumen posted:Sadly no lol
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Oct 15, 2021 23:28
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Dewgy posted:You’re not wrong but I’d bring Owen back from the dead just to kill him again. He sucks! Owen is pretty much the only person who manages to avoid bloodlust in the entire game. He's good.
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Oct 15, 2021 23:29
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still lolling at that vice poo poo
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Also no Factions
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Oct 16, 2021 00:26
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RareAcumen posted:Also no Factions lol
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Oct 16, 2021 00:46
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exquisite tea posted:I know Lost Judgment lets you beat up delinquent teenagers, but what's a video game where you can own annoyingly precocious 8-year olds? Those kids are the loving worst and nobody in our society gives them enough poo poo! Fallout 2
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Oct 16, 2021 00:49
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One thing I do appreciate about modern Naughty Dog games is giving you all the shitpost filters after you beat the game for catharsis.
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Oct 16, 2021 03:33
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Sammus posted:But that’s exactly why they do it. You killed them, you probably felt good about it or justified in doing it. Now you get to sit there and see they aren’t evil monsters or mini-hitlers, they were mostly decent people like anyone else. It took me a while to realize Manny is even one of the bad guys because he only shows up in the prologue and then later in Abby's story. Also at least two of Abby's crew never get any sort of backstory so they definitely had to cut some corners in the plot.
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WaltherFeng posted:It took me a while to realize Manny is even one of the bad guys because he only shows up in the prologue and then later in Abby's story. Manny shows up right at the beginning of Abby's section.
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Oct 16, 2021 06:17
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Trying Resident Evil 7 for the first time. Is this basically what P.T. became? It immediate reminded me of it.
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Oct 16, 2021 21:09
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Just that small intro part. It's pretty much first person RE4 after that. P.T. was what Kojima was working on before Konami fired him, it was gonna be a Silent Hill game.
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Oct 16, 2021 21:14
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Senator Drinksalot posted:Just that small intro part. It's pretty much first person RE4 after that. P.T. was what Kojima was working on before Konami fired him, it was gonna be a Silent Hill game. Yeah, RE7 starts off feeling a bit like an Outlast kind of game riiiiight until the moment you get a gun and then it's full RE.
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Oct 16, 2021 21:18
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Yeah most of the game is more actiony but it will periodically slow down for a quiet dread sequence and those can be very affecting
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Oct 16, 2021 21:18
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It sorta gets back to the survival horror scary stuff in the DLC, specifically the Banned Footage packs.
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Inspector Hound posted:Trying Resident Evil 7 for the first time. Is this basically what P.T. became? It immediate reminded me of it. To be specific, the demo and beginning was inspired by P.T. but it’s not what P.T. became, since it was made by Konami and RE is Capcom
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Oct 16, 2021 21:44
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:2nd grade My hero! 
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mycot posted:One thing I do appreciate about modern Naughty Dog games is giving you all the shitpost filters after you beat the game for catharsis. I loved cel-shaded mode in Uncharted: Lost Legacy.
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fridge corn posted:My hero! around the same time my cubscouts den mother dissolved her entire chapter after having a massive and very public breakdown because we wanted to play Bionic Commando during meetings instead of fold flags.
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RE7 Trip Report: it was pretty fun, and really incredible looking. The best parts are the slow, scary segments, but that house is so cramped and there's so many hallways that combat can be pretty tense too. I ran into a couple puzzles that reminded me of classic Resident Evil ones, replacing clock pendulums and repairing statues. I liked when I solved a particularly bizarre one and my guy wondered aloud, "who builds this stuff?" It's definitely something I'd been wondering since the plugs and keys and pressure plates in the first two games. Never figured out what I'm supposed to stick into the statue in order to take out the shotgun. Pretty cool, and another one that makes me yearn for a new The Thing survival horror game.
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Oct 17, 2021 02:53
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Half of the lore items in RE1 were about the building of the house and why it's so messed up
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:around the same time my cubscouts den mother dissolved her entire chapter after having a massive and very public breakdown because we wanted to play Bionic Commando during meetings instead of fold flags. The "public" part has me incredibly curious for more details, if you feel comfortable sharing. This was pre-social media, so I'm just imagining a lady screaming her lungs out in the town square or something, aha. Picking up I Am Dead in the sale, if anyone's interested in opinions later. It's by some of the same folks that did Hohokum, I loved that little game.
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Read After Burning posted:The "public" part has me incredibly curious for more details, if you feel comfortable sharing. This was pre-social media, so I'm just imagining a lady screaming her lungs out in the town square or something, aha. not so dramatic mostly just in front of like 10-15 kids and neighbors and poo poo, she was definitely screaming at one point but she had a mental breakdown right in front of us over our lack of patriotism in the presence of a sick rear end capcom game.
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:not so dramatic mostly just in front of like 10-15 kids and neighbors and poo poo, she was definitely screaming at one point but she had a mental breakdown right in front of us over our lack of patriotism in the presence of a sick rear end capcom game. Cringe
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