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CJacobs posted:It really is just a fun game where the fun is earnest in every respect from the voice acting to the soundtrack choices to unbelievable accessibility options. Everyone in forza horizon 5 is having a real good time including clearly the people who made the thing. it reflects the sheer number of man hours that goes into making a game with like 600 cars from electric F1s to your mom's soccer van really well. And how you can come out the other side of developing something so fatiguing having had a good time, just based on the quality and depth of some of the references. The film side plot for example is stuffed with references to films and directors, strictly not cars, and that's just not something you would see in a game where that stuff is saccharine. Nothing but praise for FH5's genuine nature. The voice acting was pretty mal at first but then they made it muy bueno with one of the newer updates. (for those that didn't play, it takes place in Mexico and they would just have the voice actors drop one Spanish word into a sentence, it kind of stuck out like a sore thumb.)
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Kitfox88 posted:Title systems in games are always great. Mine in MHR is something like THIRD RATE HUNTER FOR HIRE Mine was something like "DESTINY TWO OUT NOW"
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if you have to pick one of the two to install in gamepass, I'd get 4 - 5 has its benefits but it has a very centric battlepass fomo mechanic that burnt me the hell out horizon is a real fun series though
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I kinda think I like 4's map better overall too, but really they're 95% the same core game in different settings, which is a good thing.
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Do people still play both? Or wait it does an asynchronous thing for the online right?
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Weird Pumpkin posted:Do people still play both? Yeah, I played through both a few months ago and there were live people in the game world and for real-time challenges in both of them. The standard options for actual races are asynchronous "drivatars" based on real players' runs, but I think are at least some options to do real-time in races too (not 100% sure how that side works).
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Recently started playing Horizon: Zero Dawn for the first time, and at the very beginning of the game, you play as kid Aloy, and you fall into some ruins. At one point, you have to run up some stairs, and I noticed that while running, she would lean forward on the stairs and climb on all 4s. I used to do that poo poo all the time when I was little, and found it to be a nice touch of animation.
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Riatsala posted:I used to play a lot of RimWorld but it always felt like I was trying to exert too much control over my colony's date by save scumming/generally not allowing myself to take too big a hit. So I started my very first no reload run as early gunpowder settlers in the arid shrubland biome. I used to also be a save-scummer but one day I realized that it was a storytelling game, not a life sim. Much like Dwarf Fortress, half of the fun is telling people about the insane and weird poo poo that's happened to you. Plus the DLCs mean you can be a cult of blind vegetarian pain worshipers that venerate guinea pigs. RimWorld is one of the best games ever made. The pure strain chaos it breeds is the core of the charm.
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Velocity Raptor posted:Recently started playing Horizon: Zero Dawn for the first time, and at the very beginning of the game, you play as kid Aloy, and you fall into some ruins. HZD may at its heart be just another ubisoft collectathon but god drat if the presentation it comes with isn't absolutely top tier.
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Kitfox88 posted:HZD may at its heart be just another ubisoft collectathon but god drat if the presentation it comes with isn't absolutely top tier. I'm beginning to think the reason I love HZD so much is that I don't play Ubisoft collectathons.
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Agents are GO! posted:I'm beginning to think the reason I love HZD so much is that I don't play Ubisoft collectathons. They're very much the definition of you played one, you played em all.
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Kitfox88 posted:HZD may at its heart be just another ubisoft collectathon but god drat if the presentation it comes with isn't absolutely top tier.
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Forbildene Oh u fucker lol
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verbal enema posted:Forbildene  Better quote next time you feel make fun of my typos! Alhazred has a new favorite as of 14:34 on Oct 6, 2022 |
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The Street Fighter 6 beta is going on, and it's cool as poo poo, but the fighting game thread has highlighted the best part:Blockhouse posted:Each player sees the stage that they picked For people who don't know: most fighting games' 'training' stages are plain grids, intended to make it easy to measure distances for attacks. However, they also wound up basically tournament standard out of a perception that their plain-ness made them perfect for avoiding framerate dips and other graphical issues; that was barely true early for modern fighting games like Street Fighter IV, but basically never since... but most people didn't notice because they'd just never leave the training stage. This solution is PERFECT for avoiding that problem.
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Replaying Days Gone and, without spoiling anything plot-wise only thematically, at one point rather late in the game Deacon mentions nearly offhandedly that he's been suicidal for the entire game thus far, and when the other party laughs it off he says 'no really, dead serious' and elaborates on it and I had to pause the game and cry. It was such a brilliant moment of self reflection learning that the entire time I was desperately struggling to survive against hordes, fist-pumping in victory when I creamed them, Deacon meanwhile really was mostly serious when he was shouting "COME ON COME EAT ME YOU BASTARDS!" at them. My favorite part is how well they disguise his survivorship bias as grit, because not once does he shout the "I'VE GOT NOTHING LEFT!" that would give it away, before that moment in the writing. Immediately so much depth got added to his actions and I understood his desire not to make impressions on others much better, it was clearly an intended perk of his character with its roots found here. I wish more games had men admit to self harm, I dunno it just completely struck me given the kind of character that he is otherwise- learning that it was mostly pretend really hit hard and made sense. edit: Just the idea that you are traumatizing this man over and over, on purpose, because it's what he would prefer to do with the rest of his life rather than ever get close to people again... Man. Heavy stuff for a game about shooting zombies on a motorcycle and I really like that. CJacobs has a new favorite as of 11:56 on Oct 8, 2022 |
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Return to Monkey Island. The framing device for the game is Guybrush recounting the tale to his son. I loaded my last save after not playing for over a week and instead of picking up where I left off it went to Guybrush asking his son if he remembered where we got to and saying no had him recount where I was in the story and what I was trying to do.
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I've got quite far into Alter Echo, and while the fight with (first of the main villain duo) Gherran kind of sucked and felt somewhat bullshit, the fights with Kess (the second of the duo) and the clones of the primary villain were a lot of fun, although still hard. Not as much of a roadblock as Gherran. The villain's plan is basically the same as Ego in Guardians of the Galaxy 2 as well, so that's fun. I am enjoying the dialog too. There are a lot of funny moments throughout the game, like Kess's defeat where she's like "I bet you are expecting me to give some big speech about how I regret my actions and all the people I've hurt, am I right?" to which the hero just says, very nonchalantly "No, not really. Bye." and gets teleported out as the Flesh of the planet consumes her.
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bitterandtwisted posted:Return to Monkey Island. This is such a brilliant feature, really hope more games start doing this
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Weird Pumpkin posted:This is such a brilliant feature, really hope more games start doing this At least one of the Pokemon games generations did this, reloading a save after some time has the player journal recount the last couple things they did.
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The Golden Compass: The talking polar bear kills people so hard that they explode into glitter!
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every chapter of Live a Live is a treasure but the Western one might have the best little touches i've seen so far - the player character is a taciturn man-with-no-name type and all his dialogue choices are a binary between a very terse sentence or just visible silence - several classic-style camera angles like long tracking shots through the desert or a shot of a bloodred rising sun - there's a mariachi band among the cast that's dubbed singing in spanish with the background music. at one point you can send them out to run errands and the music will lose the respective player's instrument until they return - when one character is talking up the chapter villain: "They say he never sleeps. They say he will never die."
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It's from Blood Meridian, the Judge proclaims he never sleeps and will never die, which is an interesting reference for a game that's not usually about the monstrous inhumanity natural to mankind.
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Precambrian posted:It's from Blood Meridian, the Judge proclaims he never sleeps and will never die, which is an interesting reference for a game that's not usually about the monstrous inhumanity natural to mankind. Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:that last one sounds very judgemental I think they knew
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as an unread moron I appreciate the elaboration anyway
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World War Mammories posted:as an unread moron I appreciate the elaboration anyway 
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I have read things but among them is enough about Blood Meridian to know I don't want to read it, so that missed me.
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I've started playing a sudoku app on my phone with a bunch of variations, and there is a cute sense of humour with some of them. One of the puzzles with the palindrome rule, where every number on a given line must mirror along the length of the line (so like 2-3-4-3-2, the lines always curve or they'd break the basic rules of sudoku), has the palindrome lines arranged to form a picture of the cool s that everyone drew in their school notebooks. 
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christmas boots posted:I think they knew Ah, it is I who am hoisted by my ignorance.
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BioEnchanted posted:I've started playing a sudoku app on my phone with a bunch of variations, and there is a cute sense of humour with some of them. One of the puzzles with the palindrome rule, where every number on a given line must mirror along the length of the line (so like 2-3-4-3-2, the lines always curve or they'd break the basic rules of sudoku), has the palindrome lines arranged to form a picture of the cool s that everyone drew in their school notebooks. Yo which one? Sounds like fun
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Taeke posted:Yo which one? Sounds like fun It's called Logic Wiz. There are also rules like "no consecutive digits next to each other" "If there is a line with a bulb at the bottom then it's temperature rules with the lowest at the bulb and the highest number at the end of the line" then some themed on chess moves, also standard variations like Killer Sudoku where it's all "put numbers in these outlines that add up to that particular indicated number" They are grouped into themed variants - Classic Sudoku, Logic Lane, Queen's Gambit, Killer, Sandwich, Excalibur, Wild West, Jigsaw, and Solve your Own. I've only touched the first 3 so far.
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BioEnchanted posted:Logic Wiz I'm grabbing that one too, thanks. I'm completely addicted to sudoku and its variants, I keep my previous phone around solely to use for that and listening to podcasts/audiobooks.
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Also the writing in that Alter Echo has been consistently funny at times, when it wants to be witty the jokes land pretty well, and it knows when to be serious. It's also got some interesting little character moments like when Kess is weirded out by your relationship with the Echoplast and she's just like "WHY THE HELL DOES THIS GOOP LOVE YOU SO MUCH ANYWAY? It's weird!"
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Captain Hygiene posted:I'm grabbing that one too, thanks. I'm completely addicted to sudoku and its variants, I keep my previous phone around solely to use for that and listening to podcasts/audiobooks. I don't know if it's on iOS, but on Android I picked up and occasionally play a bit of this Guriddo one, that's got a little twist on regular Sudoku too.
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Also I'm appreciating that Alter Echo doesn't just rely on waves of enemies for it's difficulty. I think I'm very close to the end, just climbing the inside of Paarvo's citadel thing to get to the top, and the hardest part of the level is not the enemies but the platforming, having to be really precise with the timing of turning invisible to avoid electric fields.
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Splatoon 3 has a lot of stuff in stage backgrounds that's easy to miss probably, but just noticed in the background of the bridge underside battle stage, you can see the remains of the giant statue and superweapon that was the finale of Octo Expansion in Splatoon 2.
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Precambrian posted:It's from Blood Meridian, the Judge proclaims he never sleeps and will never die, which is an interesting reference for a game that's not usually about the monstrous inhumanity natural to mankind. Nas truly is a prophet
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Whelp, Peak Gaming just happened so I may as well just pack it in. I'm doing another playthrough of Red Dead 2 -- I've given up on trying to actually be bad, I just can't stomach doing some of the truly reprehensible stuff you're given options for. However, on this go-round I have been playing Arthur as an unrepentant disgusting dirtbag. He's dressed in a gross brown tail coat, a nasty shirt, saddle jeans that look passed in, and sometimes a tricorn hat and other times whatever disgusting headpiece was on the ground. Hobbies include going various establishments and crushing whatever liquor he's looted from and tossing the empty bottle across the tables of various patrons, and eating oleander sage to induce vomiting whenever he he's mad from losing at cards. Just now however, he was out-dirtied. We were out searching for a squirrel pelt to build a better satchel, because for some reason getting a good squirreI has been the hardest amimal so far. I see something darting around so i switched over to my scoped rifle to get a better look and its a perfect squirrel! I have Morple, my horse, trot to a better vantage point. She's nervous but she heads over anyways so it seems like I'll be able to get a clean shot off. But just a few seconds later a snake emerges from some some shrubs right in our path and now Morple is freaking out. I start to hop off but right as I've got my feet over the side Morple is in panic mode and we are zooming away -- until she smacks me off a rock at 25mph and sends me spinning through the air and off a ledge. I had been hunting for a bit so I whistle and hope to get her back over to salvage my shot but it's way too late, the squirrel is long gone and I'm pissed. Morple arrives and I'm just kind of staring at her and I'm considering punching her but then she just looks back at me, rolls her eyes, and loving farts.
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Game pass continues to be the best financial investment of my life, this time because of Grounded, a survival game where you play as up to four kids who have been shrunk down and placed in a garden, Honey I shrunk the Kids style. I have been playing with a friend and having an absolute blast. You can customize the difficulty in all sorts of ways and being old and lame we turned off the hunger mechanic entirely, making the game hugely enjoyable. You can even reduce the spiderness of the (horrible, terrible) spiders in the game. There's a story, where you have to locate various labs placrd in the garden and find computer chips to help solve the mystery and get back to normal size. Highly recommended for any game pass holders. And all the things in the game are little!
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