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Captain Hygiene posted:I'm trying it now, it seems pretty rad. Basically an electrified harpoon gun If you get the special node at the end of the upgrade path, the harpoon explodes after electrocuting whatever you shot. I don't think there's a single enemy in the game that can survive a harpoon + electrocution even on the highest difficulty and the explosion will occasionally launch the resulting item drop to an inaccessible area of the map. It's basically useless but cool as hell and you should get it anyway. quote:Something weird about the game is that there was apparently some argument about how to incorporate DLC weapons, which turned into them all being available for free in the shop terminals. Good and bad, because it makes it perfectly easy to try out all the different weapon types, but if you want them to stop hogging the entire first screen of shop items you have to spend a couple minutes "buying" them and swapping them a few at a time into your remote storage. This is one of the main things that sucks about Dead Space 2 on PC. I think it was some disagreement between the publisher and Steam where they couldn't come up with a good solution for how to package the DLC so it just vomits everything all over the store interface right away. Also messes up the intended progression of the game since you can buy spare ammo for any type of weapon immediately instead of having to find the blueprints as you're playing, along with getting ammo drops for weapons you don't have cluttering up your limited inventory space. There's supposedly a way to turn all of it off but I haven't tried it, I just ignore it all as much as possible whenever I do another playthrough. If it's too invasive I found this, there are comments saying it works as of 2020: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=121573447
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In La Mulana, when you pause the game, the main character (visible underneath the pause overlay) can be seen making a pot of curry, eating it, and then falling asleep. There's a couple of puzzles that require you to fall asleep in particular places, which just means "pause the game there and wait for the animation to play". In La Mulana 2, the main character's daughter is the protagonist, and she has a similar animation, except she makes sushi instead of curry. She also has a bunch of different costumes, each of which gets the same animation. One of them is a full-body suit of armor (the Clay Doll Suit), which includes a helmet that covers her face. For that animation, she makes the sushi, tries to eat it...it slides off the helmet, and she gives up and goes to sleep. 
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Another interesting thing about Dead Space 2 is that Isaac suddenly has a ton of dialogue and character rather than being a silent protagonist who's in a mask 99% of the time. It's like if Half-Life 2 had Gordon yammering all over the place, I'm not sure I can think of a game where the protagonist had such an abrupt characterization change in its sequel.
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if you can call it characterization dead space 2 isaac is about as bland as they come
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Oxxidation posted:if you can call it characterization Haha, could be. I was thinking more about the change in how he's presented than how interesting he might be.
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my guess is that it was a consequence of the game's increased scope and cast, it'd get pretty silly for isaac to still be voiceless when he's routinely chatting with a rotating cast of a half-dozen people wish that the Metro series could have gone the same way
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Captain Hygiene posted:Another interesting thing about Dead Space 2 is that Isaac suddenly has a ton of dialogue and character rather than being a silent protagonist who's in a mask 99% of the time. It's like if Half-Life 2 had Gordon yammering all over the place, I'm not sure I can think of a game where the protagonist had such an abrupt characterization change in its sequel. Jak and Daxter -> Jak II
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Sally posted:Jak and Daxter -> Jak II  Seriously, I have a fond place in my heart for the original, but hate the work you have to put in to 100% it just to get what is effectively the prologue movie to Jak II.
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Oxxidation posted:my guess is that it was a consequence of the game's increased scope and cast, it'd get pretty silly for isaac to still be voiceless when he's routinely chatting with a rotating cast of a half-dozen people He also has a lot more face-to-face encounters in 2, at least with people who don't immediately die
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Captain Hygiene posted:Another interesting thing about Dead Space 2 is that Isaac suddenly has a ton of dialogue and character rather than being a silent protagonist who's in a mask 99% of the time. It's like if Half-Life 2 had Gordon yammering all over the place, I'm not sure I can think of a game where the protagonist had such an abrupt characterization change in its sequel. SiN protagonist Blade is fairly chatty. Maybe not quite as quippy as Duke Nukem but cut from similar cloth and he has a voice in his ear to bounce dialogue back and forth with. Then in SiN Episodes he has maybe like five lines of dialogue in the entire game. 
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Sally posted:Jak and Daxter -> Jak II One of the funniest things in Jak II is how one of the unlockable cheats is letting you remove Jak's little beard.
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Oxxidation posted:if you can call it characterization Yeah but name another game where you get choke slammed by your ghost girlfriend Please I'm so lonely
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Been playing Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights (what a title) and I quite like how the music interacts with the environment. Going under water will make it sound like you're hearing it underwater, standing under a roof will muffle it, stuff like that. I don't usually notice stuff like this in games so it really stands out to me here.
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CJacobs posted:Yeah but name another game where you get choke slammed by your ghost girlfriend Fear 2
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The only characterization Issac needs is his increasingly frantic panting and screaming as he stomps a necro over and over
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muscles like this! posted:One of the funniest things in Jak II is how one of the unlockable cheats is letting you remove Jak's little beard. i miss cheats in games. big head mode rip
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Kitfox88 posted:i miss cheats in games. big head mode rip Cheats still exist! It's just that instead of entering a secret button combo, you enter your credit card number.
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I’m so glad they added the feature in the sequels where you could spam the stomp and Issac would get more and more angry the more you stomped.
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A Christmas present for you because I extracted the game files to mess around with 'em: https://www.dropbox.com/s/93nth3p35srec2p/stomp_sequence_01_helmet.exa.mp3?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/cwj5gnxjfwoh2lr/stomp_sequence_02_helmet.exa.mp3?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/d2hd2xsth5w2ml1/stomp_sequence_03_helmet.exa.mp3?dl=0 edit: Just add meat! CJacobs has a new favorite as of 08:14 on Dec 23, 2021 |
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:In La Mulana, when you pause the game, the main character (visible underneath the pause overlay) can be seen making a pot of curry, eating it, and then falling asleep. There's a couple of puzzles that require you to fall asleep in particular places, which just means "pause the game there and wait for the animation to play". I love those games so much. The music is just loving rad (both the original and the re-release). I bought the box set for both the Xbox one and the PS5. Everyone should play those games (and play them blind) because they loving own so hard. They are old-school, unforgiving, “NES hard” games but they make for an incredibly satisfying experience. I’m not a “listen to video game music” guy but I will listen to the guidance gate/dimensional corridor music forever. Edit: I’ve never beaten hell temple and probably never will because it’s literally designed to piss you off.
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John Murdoch posted:SiN protagonist Blade is fairly chatty. Maybe not quite as quippy as Duke Nukem but cut from similar cloth and he has a voice in his ear to bounce dialogue back and forth with. I played sin episodes when I was maybe 15, so I remember 2 things: there was a partner character and for some reason there was a scene with a nearly naked woman trying to seduce the protagonist. It was a real wtf game
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ImpAtom posted:Fear 2 lol, but grimly
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one of returnal's bosses plays a giant organic pipe organ and ends each phase of the fight with a jam session where projectiles fly out of the organ pipes at you. this is rad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=083VitaPq7U
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I only heard about Returnal in passing and that is not what I expected gameplay to look like 
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Gay Rat Wedding posted:one of returnal's bosses plays a giant organic pipe organ and ends each phase of the fight with a jam session where projectiles fly out of the organ pipes at you. this is rad And the tune he’s playing is crucial to the plot.
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Captain Hygiene posted:Another interesting thing about Dead Space 2 is that Isaac suddenly has a ton of dialogue and character rather than being a silent protagonist who's in a mask 99% of the time. It's like if Half-Life 2 had Gordon yammering all over the place, I'm not sure I can think of a game where the protagonist had such an abrupt characterization change in its sequel. Metroid -> Other M
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ilmucche posted:I played sin episodes when I was maybe 15, so I remember 2 things: there was a partner character and for some reason there was a scene with a nearly naked woman trying to seduce the protagonist. It was a real wtf game Literally the only thing I remember about the game is that villain lady with huge breasts. Yeah I was also a teenager, what of it.
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I remember Relic turning into a casual games developer after the intro "episode". Big boobs lady was the evil antagonist from the first game, not sure where they were planning to go with her.
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My only memories on Sin: Episodes is the fact that they messed up the adaptive difficulty so that it never went down. It might also have been the game where headshots made it go up super fast, which lead to headshot being the only viable option, which just made it even harder etc. etc.
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Gay Rat Wedding posted:one of returnal's bosses plays a giant organic pipe organ and ends each phase of the fight with a jam session where projectiles fly out of the organ pipes at you. this is rad I... really need to start playing Returnal again. I got to the second area but kept dying to the stronger enemies there.
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mordhau update came out and it reminded me again of one of my favorite features, how the loadout selection screen before you spawn in is a physical, reachable place in every map https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrfn78zLhhk
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Hel posted:My only memories on Sin: Episodes is the fact that they messed up the adaptive difficulty so that it never went down. It might also have been the game where headshots made it go up super fast, which lead to headshot being the only viable option, which just made it even harder etc. etc.
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I’m jonesing to play some old Turbografx 16 games. Anyone know how I can go about doing that without shelling out $300 (wtf) for a Turbo Mini console?
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ImpAtom posted:Fear 2 Isn't that your ghost mom or something?
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Frank Frank posted:I’m jonesing to play some old Turbografx 16 games. Anyone know how I can go about doing that without shelling out $300 (wtf) for a Turbo Mini console? Emulation?
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HenryEx posted:Isn't that your ghost mom or something? No no no. The protagonist of the second game is not the same as in the first and third game.
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But you do make her a mom
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Hel posted:My only memories on Sin: Episodes is the fact that they messed up the adaptive difficulty so that it never went down. It might also have been the game where headshots made it go up super fast, which lead to headshot being the only viable option, which just made it even harder etc. etc. The big thing was that when the difficulty got higher it would spawn chain-gunners with a ton of health. And since it was broken and the difficulty wouldn't go down again it would just keep spawning more and more of the fuckers. They even sold a T-Shirt about it. Apparently the Cafepress shop is still up.  
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Barudak posted:But you do make her a mom I've got great news! FEAR 3 reveals Beckett only fulfiled the physical element necessary, it actually was her father who did that edit: Actually this information is apparently from the first game! They really wanted you to love watching Harlan Wade get melted into jelly and don't worry, I did!
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