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Dark Souls 2 is the best game in the series
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Mar 8, 2022 04:50
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Gaius Marius posted:Dark Souls 2 is the best game in the series It's absolutely my favorite Dark Souls. I haven't beat Elden Ring yet, and I like Bloodborne better than DS2, but I do love how Elden Ring feels like a combo of BB and DS2
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Mar 8, 2022 04:52
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Bloodborne is better than Elden Ring. I like it a lot but I have issues with it. Bloodborne is just perfect and it's a crime against humanity that we don't have it on the PS5 at 60fps.
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Mar 8, 2022 05:03
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All of the Dark Souls games are the best and worst in the series.
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Mar 8, 2022 05:20
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RareAcumen posted:I'm not a super XCOM fan but I'm sad that The Bureau got changed away from the initial premise so badly. Same, but I'm sympathetic to the fact that they were struggling to figure out how to actually make that game.
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Mar 8, 2022 07:39
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Doctor Spaceman posted:All of the Dark Souls games are the best and worst in the series. Liking Dark Souls is the Dark Souls of liking Dark Souls
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Mar 8, 2022 07:55
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Elden Ring is basically a sequel to Dark Souls 2 so is it any wonder that it’s the best game ever?
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Mar 8, 2022 08:07
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SpiritOfLenin posted:hbomberguy talked about how even some people who liked HR did not want to play the sequel, and i recognized myself in that. I've even got the game from a humble bundle, but I just haven't bothered with it. I liked my time with the Human Revolution well enough, like I felt it was fine, but nothing special. I also realize that I was really checked out of the plot by the end, I remember that I just didn't care about the final boss at all and was only vaguely aware of why I was shooting at her. Its a shame about MD, because that game has an amazing art direction and the environments would stop me dead in my tracks so I could just look around.  Just a shame that the game was forced out early and Eidos hasn't been given the chance to finish the story, instead being relegated to the Marvel pit.
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Mar 8, 2022 08:51
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I never before realized that the 'Ton Hotel in Deus Ex is a Hilton Hotel with a broken sign. There really is always something new to learn.
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Mar 8, 2022 08:56
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Mankind Divided is pretty neat for what's there, the problem is it just abruptly stops. It's like a third of a game.
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Mar 8, 2022 09:29
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John Murdoch posted:Same, but I'm sympathetic to the fact that they were struggling to figure out how to actually make that game. That's the part that hooked me! Sure the blobs zoom around the room and crawl into people and you gotta shoot them but that's simple. What does THE OBELISK do though?
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Mar 8, 2022 09:32
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This might be a point that gets raised on the DX:HR Director's Cut edition video, but something that heavily got to me about the worldbuilding of that game was that they spent a lot of time building a chinese city with two layers, one somewhat rundown and full of rundown hallways, dark buildings and another one bathed in sun, full of gardens and a potential festival going around it, named the structure that the upper side Pangu and the director's commentary is like "heeh, we don't know why we named the structure that". As for the long video ordeal, I honestly don't mind. My roll of streamers and youtubers I follow tends to get bigger and bigger as more people get more exhausted with their own workloads and having just GIANT videos to follow while I work on other things is good for times when everyone decides to take a break all at once, and I have to look elsewhere for entertainment, hence why I have two different backlogs of stuff to burn thru. I do feel like a star about to start fusing iron when I look at stuff like Quinton's Icarly video and I just see nearly all of my frequent backlog drained, DARING me to watch that.
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Mar 8, 2022 13:22
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Sankara posted:Mankind Divided is pretty neat for what's there, the problem is it just abruptly stops. It's like a third of a game. It is. They were setting up a trilogy that never got off the ground.
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Mar 8, 2022 14:56
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Just the other day Square Enix pooped a live-service game made by Platinum with zero advertising, in a season crowded by Elden Ring, Horizon, and Gran Turismo. The game, Babylon's Fall, looks ten years out of date and bears no resemblance to its first viewing as a slick character-action title at E3 2019. Square Enix are utter clowns when it comes to publishing
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Mar 8, 2022 15:02
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Square Enix as a company basically only exists at this point because they accidentally fell rear end-backwards into having an infinite money printer with their MMO, as the guy they assigned to salvage it turned out to be one of the best project managers in the entire gaming industry and turned a pant-shitted failure of online gaming into a loving juggernaut that subsidizes the entire company by itself. If they hadn’t done that one thing I’m certain the company would have folded in like 2015 from massive mismanagement on all concievable levels.
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Mar 8, 2022 16:12
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The fan theories behind the name "Final Fantasy" even point to that kind of having been their default state since the 80s.
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Mar 8, 2022 16:21
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Gaius Marius posted:Dark Souls 2 is the best game in the series I've never been able to wrap my head around why THIS, of all things, was hbomberguy's most controversial take...
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Mar 8, 2022 16:40
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:Square Enix as a company basically only exists at this point because they accidentally fell rear end-backwards into having an infinite money printer with their MMO, as the guy they assigned to salvage it turned out to be one of the best project managers in the entire gaming industry and turned a pant-shitted failure of online gaming into a loving juggernaut that subsidizes the entire company by itself. If they hadn’t done that one thing I’m certain the company would have folded in like 2015 from massive mismanagement on all concievable levels. Somehow they’re killing it with SaGa, Dungeon Encounters and Bravely Default 2 though (also Live A Live coming here) so SE in the last few years have snuck out some cool sleeper stuff under the mountain of trash their big releases have been. I hope FF 14 keeps their little game divisions afloat because they’ve put out some cool stuff.
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Mar 8, 2022 16:50
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:Square Enix as a company basically only exists at this point because they accidentally fell rear end-backwards into having an infinite money printer with their MMO, as the guy they assigned to salvage it turned out to be one of the best project managers in the entire gaming industry and turned a pant-shitted failure of online gaming into a loving juggernaut that subsidizes the entire company by itself. If they hadn’t done that one thing I’m certain the company would have folded in like 2015 from massive mismanagement on all concievable levels. From the sounds of things their failing upwards continues even with FF14's success, the 14 devs having to beg and scrape to have their budgets increased as Squeenix siphons off money they should really be investing back into 14 into pet projects and boondoggles. Telling that the Squeenix's brass were openly horny for NFTs and Yoshi P had to open one of his recent live streams with "We're not putting NFTs in, we're actively against them".
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Mar 8, 2022 16:51
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KingKalamari posted:I've never been able to wrap my head around why THIS, of all things, was hbomberguy's most controversial take... It's not his most controversial take but it's probably the most controversial take he's done a video of. DS2 is what got me into the series after bouncing off the first game a couple of times so I've always had a soft spot for it and even if it is the weakest entry in the series (not sure that's true) it's still better than the vast majority of games. I guess it's bad in the sense that getting into FromSoft's games kinda ruined games for me.
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Mar 8, 2022 16:53
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the development side of SE has been gradually scraping itself back together into a not-embarrassing state but as a publisher they remain dogshit
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Mar 8, 2022 16:55
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Thi4f was legit terrible feeling and is the one of those I'll disagree on, so much of 4 just felt like corridors leading to corridors and had none of the freedom and stuff that made Thief such a cool feeling series.
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Mar 8, 2022 17:06
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Sometimes I wonder how much of the restrictions you saw in reboots of things in the 2010s were engine related. It seemed a lot of them simply weren't built to create big non-linear worlds that also looked modern.
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Mar 8, 2022 17:12
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I bought Thief 4 because it was on sale for the price of a eurosaver burger. Contextual jumping only, frequent choke points for loading, an edgy reboot of Garrett who is nothing like Garrett, points of no return, and Awful, Awful sound-design when the soundscape of the original two games was so good. Deleted off account permanently. I want Deus Ex to return, but as a Final Fantasy thing with little to no continuity between titles. It's unrealistic for games made by different teams across different decades and different eras to line up to make some perfect timeline. All you do us stifle creativity. That's why Star Wars is so stagnant these days. I dropped Thief 4 without ever hearing the infamous line about cock rings.
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Mar 8, 2022 17:16
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Grondoth posted:Sometimes I wonder how much of the restrictions you saw in reboots of things in the 2010s were engine related. It seemed a lot of them simply weren't built to create big non-linear worlds that also looked modern. This is why I don't begrudge Thief 3 anywhere near as much as 4, 3 absolutely felt like limitations in place for the need of also developing for the original xbox, while 4 came out two years after the first Dishonored, which felt way more like a Thief game than Thief 4 did.
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Mar 8, 2022 17:16
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thi4f is weird because there are setpieces, like a level where you have to run and climb in one and only one direction through a falling apart/on fire district, that feels like it came straight out of an Ubisoft game and yeah the level design in thi4f is wack, it doesn't feel based on looking glass design at all thanks for bringing up dishonored though, i had completely forgotten about that in this discussion, dishonored does have the 'you feel in control of your own routing' aspect even if the actual mission completion is limited to just a couple of choices. deathloop was disappointing in this regard because there is only one solution to win the game and there are nowhere near the amount of vertical spaces that dishonored had (and maybe like 2 or 3 apartment buildings you can enter in total?)
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Mar 8, 2022 17:24
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Quinton put the Victorious video out and it's 8 hours lol Here I was thinking HBomb's Deus Ex video was ludicrously too long
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Mar 8, 2022 18:02
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Mar 8, 2022 18:13
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Insurrectionist posted:Quinton put the Victorious video out and it's 8 hours lol I don't even know what you talk about for that long.
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Mar 8, 2022 18:16
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How does YouTube pay out? Do you get more the longer a viewer watches a video? Can't really blame him for this insanity if he's getting way more compared to his shorter (better) content.
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Mar 8, 2022 18:30
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Grondoth posted:I don't even know what you talk about for that long. Dry reads of Wikipedia plot synopsis if it's anything like his last video.
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Mar 8, 2022 18:33
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Insurrectionist posted:Quinton put the Victorious video out and it's 8 hours lol Aaaand 5 minutes! I might watch that when I'm done with my reserves of "overly long poo poo to watch".
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Mar 8, 2022 18:45
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I don't know anything about payouts but I've been hearing that over the past few years or so "The Algorithm" has been favouring longer and longer videos for recommending to people. Something about the more watch-hours for your channel/video the more likely it is to be recommended. Someone watching(or falling asleep during) an 8 hour video could be better for getting recs than ten people watching a 30minute one.
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Mar 8, 2022 18:48
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Just the other day Square Enix pooped a live-service game made by Platinum with zero advertising, in a season crowded by Elden Ring, Horizon, and Gran Turismo.
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Mar 8, 2022 18:57
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Captain Invictus posted:it rules that platinum, one of the best game developers on this stupid planet, is going to die because garbage idiot publishers keep super loving them over My heart sank when the other day they said (paraphrasing) "Our problem is we make good games. We have to transition into making cash cow skinner boxes"
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Mar 8, 2022 19:03
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Captain Invictus posted:it rules that platinum, one of the best game developers on this stupid planet, is going to die because garbage idiot publishers keep super loving them over platinum's leaders have been openly talking about wanting to get into the GaaS stuff all on their own
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Mar 8, 2022 19:15
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Ghostlight posted:Let's spend forty minutes learning the entire history of one hit single from 2004. https://youtu.be/NTt7OSbMgfg
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Mar 8, 2022 19:23
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Insurrectionist posted:Quinton put the Victorious video out and it's 8 hours lol This guy is so weird
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Mar 8, 2022 20:15
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Insurrectionist posted:Quinton put the Victorious video out and it's 8 hours lol No. That show is simply not worth MauLer level time length. Nothing MauLer does is either, but especially a tween sitcom.
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Mar 8, 2022 20:15
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CelticPredator posted:This guy is so weird It's....uncomfortable. Like I guess he probably grew up with it but ehhh......
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