withoutclass posted:

It's difficult for me to read what you write instead of inserting all my own assumptions and narrative you see.

imhotep posted:

I forgot exactly how insane 12 minutes is, it’s one of those things that I can’t help but think ‘I can’t believe someone made this’ consistently.

Real hurthling! posted:

My brain refuses to read any tutorial text or ui description boxes i see them i want to know what they say but my eyes wont turn what they see into words and my thumb is mashing go go go

Casnorf posted:

"Claims" in this case because I have no external verification, not a value judgement on the statement itself. I'm not really asking, either -- you (general) don't have to give me your bonafides to back up whatever ridiculous claims you (general) make. Honestly, if it's true it might be sadder for all the rest of us. Ha! And I hadn't even really thought about whether he likes (x) game with (value) of UI; more just a semiregular reminder to consider context when assessing a given UX. The guys who are good at it are in a completely different tax bracket than us and for good reason. They also mostly don't work in games.

Cheez, that's a lot of loving words for a little giggle based on something someone said here once. It's worse than loving twitter; gotta defend against every loving bad faith reading of some light pokin'.

Blind Rasputin posted:

Blind Rasputin: “We ()…”

VideoGames posted:

Hey Liquidy! I probably will not be finishing by Friday.

imhotep posted:

I forgot exactly how insane 12 minutes is, it’s one of those things that I can’t help but think ‘I can’t believe someone made this’ consistently.

haveblue posted:

You can avoid that encounter? I thought you had to go to the island and do at least some variant of the arc there to roll credits

Phenotype posted:

You have to go to the island, but I don't think that whole phasmid sequence happens unless you do all the quests for the old couple (not spoilering that -- do the quests for the old couple, everyone!)

I'm also of the mind that the quests for the raver kids are likewise crucial to the story.

Phenotype posted:

Also thought the phasmid ending was absolutely wonderful, to the point that I can't believe it's not required to complete the game. Just a perfect emotional capstone to everything the game's been trying to do.

Kilometers Davis posted:

The phasmid ending is seriously incredible. Man, that genuinely took my breath away. It felt so right. That part alone made up for any of my complaints as I played the game

SilkyP posted:

2nd play through of the game of the year(s) Elden Ring

Quantum of Phallus posted:

no idea what you guys are on about I got the ending where you talk to a woman on a radio and die from a panic attack I think

SilkyP posted:

2nd play through of the game of the year(s) Elden Ring

Casnorf posted:

"Claims" in this case because I have no external verification, not a value judgement on the statement itself. I'm not really asking, either -- you (general) don't have to give me your bonafides to back up whatever ridiculous claims you (general) make. Honestly, if it's true it might be sadder for all the rest of us. Ha! And I hadn't even really thought about whether he likes (x) game with (value) of UI; more just a semiregular reminder to consider context when assessing a given UX. The guys who are good at it are in a completely different tax bracket than us and for good reason. They also mostly don't work in games.

Cheez, that's a lot of loving words for a little giggle based on something someone said here once. It's worse than loving twitter; gotta defend against every loving bad faith reading of some light pokin'.

SilkyP posted:

Kilometers Davis posted:

Whoa I don’t even have a clue what that could be referencing

Oxxidation posted:

finished plague tale requiem. verdict: not great, not terrible

the puzzles and exploration are the same AA "drag this, collect this, craft that" as the previous but the combat felt like a step down despite your expanded tools. stealth became unviable fast on normal difficulty, because enemies are hawk-eyed and pretty much everything amicia can do to take them out generates noise somehow. even more annoyingly, the alchemical tools you can craft are near-exclusively meant to deal with the rats and can only shut down human enemies for brief periods (unless there are rats nearby to take advantage of them), so i found myself in several combat-heavy setpieces where i was loaded down with alchemy projectiles but next to no use for them. the "stealth" sequence in Chapter X especially had me spitting nails because i could barely take a step out of cover without getting spotted and they introduced a new enemy type that sets your cover on fire if they glimpse anything. like the last game, there's an upgrade you pretty much need to get if you want the endgame to be remotely tolerable - in the first game it was the dual-shot sling, in the second it's the reusable crossbow bolts.

visuals are as spectacular as the screenshots made it look. you would not believe how many rats this thing can hold. no matter how many rats you think it can hold, it's more rats than that

as for the plot (full game spoilers) it's a 20-hour shaggy dog story that gradually loses coherence as it focuses on being as unrelentingly cruel to the protagonists as possible. i like misery porn and Requiem is a fine example of it, but it doesn't have much to say under the torture of its characters - it sort of alludes to the destructive power of love in the last act, but not enough so that i'd consider it an overarching theme. every time amicia and hugo get a breather it's only so the plot can slam them down twice as hard an hour later. the worst contrivance is when their mother comes back for five minutes in the last act only to promptly get murdered in front of her kids. it gets dangerously close to farce

the first game was grim but still felt like a scrappy adventure for the most part, whereas this is more Spec Ops: The French. amicia's crusade to save hugo is borne half out of sisterly love and half out of vicious spite towards a world that wants him dead, which is a neat dynamic, but it means that she plainly doesn't give a poo poo about the thousands of casualties from her personal crusade. between games she's shifted from a long-suffering defender of her family to a PTSD-added wreck who drags her five-year old brother through atrocity after atrocity (despite his increasingly hysterical pleas for her to stop) until he becomes suicidal from the stress, and it's all for nothing - the siblings don't accomplish anything they set out to do by the time the game's over. every goal they set out toward either turns out to be a falsehood or derailed by another senseless act of violence from the people around them. and whereas the Inquisition from the first game was malicious from the start, most of the villainous characters in Requiem only end up that way as a direct result of the horror that hugo and amicia drag in their wake. amicia goes off the rails in the early game from a doctor plainly telling her that hugo's incurable, kills half of france looking for increasingly obscure ways to cure him, and finally ends up having to euthanize him before his super-plague literally turns off the sun. the only, really tarnished silver lining is that no one else had a better idea, since it's implied that the secret order of alchemists wanting to "treat" hugo were really just going to lock him in an oubliette and experiment on him until he plague-nuked france out of despair. the supporting cast is strong and the french VA was solid, but i can't imagine most people would be thrilled by a plot so desolate

conclusion: take a look if you're interested in a AA Feel Bad Simulator with some great vistas, emphasis on "Feel Bad"

haveblue posted:

Got much further into Signalis and I think I'm literally in hell right now

liquidypoo posted:

Vikar Jerome posted:

My boy is back on his poo poo!!!

https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1585308025912426496?t=0tL_arzwAeUh0bb0GsQmvw&s=19

JollyBoyJohn posted:

Whatever % death Stranding kojima was I want 125% kojima for his next game

Heavy Metal posted:

I think Hideo has a fun perspective, and his enthusiasm is really cool. I get how ego can come across in a way that bugs folks, and big claims, it is always fun to make Todd Howard jokes etc. I think when Hideo does it it's in this genuine and chill way that is really fun. He's certainly a unique guy, and he's our hero.