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itry posted:That's pretty good then. Not sure that's a hot take. Prey is pretty good. I didn't feel compelled to keep playing it but it gave me a spooky moment or two in the first outside the station moments. I feel like I will replay it but I look at my steam log times and I'm like dang, that was not just a time in my life I wanted to play a lot of Prey. And I have nothing but good things to say about it.
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Sometimes I just don't feel like playing anything at all. Yet I'll still look through my games list for a bit. Like browsing Netflix without actually watching anything. Or opening and closing the fridge.John Murdoch posted:as I ruminate it on more it might slide down to like a 6. How dare you 
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:I didn't feel compelled to keep playing it but it gave me a spooky moment or two in the first outside the station moments. The funny thing is, the first time I played it I stopped at that exact spot because I was originally only supposed to be testing it to make sure it worked on my machine at the time and then oops suddenly I'd put 3 hours in. But ultimately just like you it wasn't the right time to stick with it so I only came back to it this week. But then the rest of the game was a lot more bland and meandering. There's a few neat things sprinkled in here and there, but it never quite built towards anything as compelling as the first hour~. I still enjoyed the part 2/3rds of the way through where you finally get free reign to do what you want and break the power curve and clean up all the side quests, but it was on a purely mechanical and ultimately ephemeral power accumulation rush rather than being deeply invested in the story. I'm curious to see how I take to Mooncrash. I've heard a lot of people say they liked it way more than the base game and given the base game had really limp storytelling a more mechanics-first roguelite mode might click better for me.
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Barudak posted:FFXIII is probably my favorite FF game but fukken laffo if you think I'm not slamming skip cutscene cause its not just bad, its actively detrimental to good story telling. Nora is also his mother's name
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John Murdoch posted:The funny thing is, the first time I played it I stopped at that exact spot because I was originally only supposed to be testing it to make sure it worked on my machine at the time and then oops suddenly I'd put 3 hours in. But ultimately just like you it wasn't the right time to stick with it so I only came back to it this week. I liked mooncrash quite a bit, the mechanics are so one of a kind that it's hard to succinctly describe what I like about them. I also liked Prey a lot, I love power sliding into a room ejecting lightning from my fingertips and then taking a cool sip of water from the drinking fountain. Oh this door is locked, guess I'll transform into a coffee mug and roll through the barred window next to it. On one of my playthroughs of Prey I committed to just throwing furniture and industrial machinery at enemies and it was a fun and effective strategy
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FoolyCharged posted:Every time people start talking about prey I think about the older game and how disappointed I was when I flipped the box over and found out it was about demons and not sentient swarms of man eating nanobots. The 2006 Prey is also about swarms of man eating technology?
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OK to be more specific it was a monster shooty game and not something based off the Crichton novel.
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It was fun but also somehow I found it kinda boring. Like it didn't hold my full attention. It is definitely a good game though. Its not as good as Days Gone though.
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itry posted:Still not sure if people are serious when they say Days Gone is good. Killing zombies with your parkour is fun for a bit, then some dumb arena giant armored zombie thing happens and all the fun stops. edit: actually i think that was dying light, the hell is days gone?
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X JAKK posted:Killing zombies with your parkour is fun for a bit, then some dumb arena giant armored zombie thing happens and all the fun stops. Days Gone is Sony's open world zombie game that is perfectly serviceable, but because of when it came out and Sony ~Brand~ has been hyped up a lot
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Barudak posted:FFXIII is probably my favorite FF game but fukken laffo if you think I'm not slamming skip cutscene cause its not just bad, its actively detrimental to good story telling. wait is that seriously it because i have been wondering what the gently caress happened in that last scene for the past like ten years but never quite enough to look it up or anything also the 20-hour tutorial thing gets thrown around a ton but it’s not really accurate, yeah the game is on absurdly tight rails and continues to introduce new jobs and stuff and caps leveling but calling it a “tutorial” is pretty weird and misleading. if you check the games thread from around its release there’s a ton of goons that complain about getting totally stuck at times in the “tutorial” section before it opens up (which means they were too dumb to engage the game’s weird battle system, so ironically it might have benefitted from more tutorializing) e: i seriously remember most of the plot and stuff including the definitions to the made up words “l’cie” and “fal’cie” but even when it was fresh in my mind and I had just binged through it in a week the end was just totally loving nonsensical
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Rockman Reserve posted:wait is that seriously it because i have been wondering what the gently caress happened in that last scene for the past like ten years but never quite enough to look it up or anything Yes. If you look in the background of the final/battle cutscene they're doing it in front of the gate of one of the gods of the datalogs. The magic that happens is that god intervening in reality on behalf of the heroes. Absolutely gently caress all of this is communicated directly to the player, and also is what causes reality to unwind across FFXIII-2 and FFXIII-3 so nice loving going, God. The game gives you full party and paradigm freedom in chapter 9 which is about 10 hours in if you're slamming cutscene skip, so even in the most restrictive interpretation of "I must have access to all party mechanics" to consider the tutorial it takes less time to get there than like the opening to persona 5. Nobody read those tutorials though, thats just a fact
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Random Stranger posted:I felt like Civ 3 and 4 added a lot of complexity that wasn't actually that interesting. Civ 5 seemed to work out a decent balance, though, by streamlining a lot of the cruft the series had built up. I really like how Civ V's interface was so clear and colourful, literally like a Fischer-Price toy and not in a bad way- after how confusing and opaque a lot of those games could get, it did a real good job making the game intuitive and easier to understand. Barudak posted:Yes. If you look in the background of the final/battle cutscene they're doing it in front of the gate of one of the gods of the datalogs. The magic that happens is that god intervening in reality on behalf of the heroes. Absolutely gently caress all of this is communicated directly to the player, and also is what causes reality to unwind across FFXIII-2 and FFXIII-3 so nice loving going, God. IIRC massive chunks of the plot are only found in text logs? Given the game's development history I'm not surprised a lot of the plot ended up forgotten on the cutting room floor.
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Not only are massive chunks of FFXIII's plot found in the datalogs, for instance how a character you killed on screen gets to come back to life as president so he can get killed on screen again, so are a lot of very important lore bits like what happened to everyone on Pulse. Reminder: the games ending was unknown until the script writer saw the games finished logo when they had like sub 12 months to get it out the door and went "Imma make that picture the end of the game" This isn't a joke, if they weren't financially on the hook for promising a demo with the advent children blu-ray the game might never have been finished
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X JAKK posted:Secret of Evermore is somehow simultaneously good and bad consistently the entire way through. the game had a lot of potential but the gameplay is just so unpolished shame
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JollyBoyJohn posted:Ghosts of Tsushima looks like the most average looking videogame I've ever seen. Its the VG equivalent of a plain cheese sandwhich or a glass of water. Desperate for some pickle or flavored squash to impart some flavour I read a review that said it was "the best average game ever made" and I actually think that's a great way to put it. It's not very innovative in any area, and hits all the "standard open world game" notes. However, it's not really deficient in any areas, either. It's legitimately gorgeous to look at and the swordfighting is really fun. Also has an old woman NPC who can kick rear end which is rare in games so there's that.
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I don't think Streets of Rage 4's focus on combos did much for me and I think it's a departure from the older games that I really didn't like. The way enemies had to be reworked for this did the game no favors. I don't mind the game, but i significantly prefer SoR2. Just give the enemies i-frames if they need them, don't give out all the super armor to make them not trivial. Also, SMAC is a mediocre take on civ2 that mostly gets by on the unimportant  rather than anything good in the mechanics.
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FoolyCharged posted:OK to be more specific it was a monster shooty game and not something based off the Crichton novel. His worst book?
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Clowner posted:I read a review that said it was "the best average game ever made" and I actually think that's a great way to put it. It's not very innovative in any area, and hits all the "standard open world game" notes. However, it's not really deficient in any areas, either. It's legitimately gorgeous to look at and the swordfighting is really fun. Also has an old woman NPC who can kick rear end which is rare in games so there's that. I'm feeling something similar about Mad Max (developed by the Just Cause guys), there's nothing particularly unique about it, but all the subsystems mesh together quite nicely and are executed quite well. It feels a bit light on narrative though, like they had run out of time to expand it with more main quests and side quests and so you have to make your own goals to work through the open world content.
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Barudak posted:Yes. If you look in the background of the final/battle cutscene they're doing it in front of the gate of one of the gods of the datalogs. The magic that happens is that god intervening in reality on behalf of the heroes. Absolutely gently caress all of this is communicated directly to the player, and also is what causes reality to unwind across FFXIII-2 and FFXIII-3 so nice loving going, God. I couldn't believe the 20 number myself, but it actually took me 25 hours (as recorded on my save file) to reach that point on my first real playthrough, although I did start watching the cutscenes in the later chapters once they were all miserable.
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SilvergunSuperman posted:His worst book? Hey, it was at the very least better than the one were climate change was an eco terrorist hoax
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Bruegels Fuckbooks posted:I couldn't believe the 20 number myself, but it actually took me 25 hours (as recorded on my save file) to reach that point on my first real playthrough, although I did start watching the cutscenes in the later chapters once they were all miserable. if you're slamming cutscene skip why are you even playing games in the bad-gameplay-but-people-like-the-stories-i-guess genre
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:if you're slamming cutscene skip why are you even playing games in the bad-gameplay-but-people-like-the-stories-i-guess genre I will never understand this belief. Their stories are nothing special and weren't even any more detailed than other games in their heyday. And the gameplay is fun if simple.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:It is weird how muscle memory works. One of the best gaming experiences of my life was getting good at Capcom vs SNK 2 with a friend of mine Lee, over a weekend. There was a party on Saturday, we both got there (mutual friends' house) early Friday, and were just kicking it playing CvS2 most of the day, learning the ropes, completing arcade mode, etc. Mutual friend was happy watching. By the end of the day we'd kind of found our preferred characters and playstyles. Then Saturday, the party, was awesome, and at around 5am it dried up, but because me and Lee both fell asleep in the front room, we got woken up pretty early with people leaving, and were too monged out to really get up and do anything, so we just fired up the console again, and just did random characters against each other. It got to 100-100 wins each, and we decided the next was the decider. I got Sagat, who was one of my obviously top 3, and he got Geese, who he'd been kicking my rear end with all day, and then we both had two jobbers who we weren't great with. The game came down to fresh Geese vs fresh Sagat, and I can't remember the specifics now, but it was right down to the wire, and Lee tried a bad bait, but in the split second he made it he was going 'awww' before he'd even thrown the move. Because we both knew I'd seen it coming, that my counter attack had priority, and we both knew I'd land it and combo to victory, and it was just such a, like, full flow moment where we both knew what the other was thinking, both knew what was playing out before it played out. Today, I'd honestly be hard pressed to throw a tiger knee.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:if you're slamming cutscene skip why are you even playing games in the bad-gameplay-but-people-like-the-stories-i-guess genre FFXIII's combat is really good and its pacing for character level growth versus boss complexity is really good; its just bolted to a game with gently caress awful story and hideously bad weapon upgrade system
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SilvergunSuperman posted:Kagero: Deception 2 is the best game ever made.
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