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Bad posting itt about the GOAT TLoU2!!!
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Nov 1, 2022 22:06
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Feels Villeneuve posted:the medium would be in a better place if rockstar put hot coffee in the finished GTASA
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Nov 1, 2022 22:07
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BurningBeard posted:It’s not bad that it exists. It’s bad because of the rest of the game around it. Feels like something tossed in just because it would draw controversy. Like, most of the game feels that way. The marketing for the game told us everything we needed to know about ND’s intent, and it was to get people worked up. They built the game around the sex scene? Lol
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Nov 1, 2022 22:07
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BurningBeard posted:Because I thought ND was courting controversy? Chill. Seriously what am I missing?
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Nov 1, 2022 22:07
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It didn't invert the gaming paradigm
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Nov 1, 2022 22:07
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it pushed the medium alright... it pushed it into a trash can
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Nov 1, 2022 22:08
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People got mad and ND said gently caress off. That's all I remember. If people want to get mad about a jacked bird, their videogame dad getting killed or a trans character that feels like a user issue.
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Nov 1, 2022 22:09
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acksplode posted:This happened to me, it's because the little resistance spring snapped. Has nothing to do with the adaptive trigger stuff. Takes like 30 minutes to fix, you can get a pack of more replacements than you'll need for a few bucks. Do you have a link to springs you would recommend so that it feels similar to the springs that come in the dual sense?
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Nov 1, 2022 22:09
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Escobarbarian posted:I love when people talk like that about TLOU2’s story like they usually just read Dovstoyesky and stuff but decided to lower themselves to the insipidness of a video game story I would genuinely love to know all the superior media for intellectuals that's out and abundant because I dunno what any of it is aside from Rick & Morty. And even then that might just be a meme like the FFXIV copypasta or Morbius and they're all being ironic about it. Because I didn't get a lot about TLoU 2 that stumbled people. Oh, people say their ally/pet's name after seeing their head explode or arm blown off when they line up with the barrel of your shotgun? Yeah, I've seen some action movies, that tends to happen in dramatic moments in scenes. Hell, even Disney did that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rlPRKFb5cE But I played the game curious about how it had insulted gamers as a whole and I was bored enough to play a another third-person crafting shooter so I was probably more charitable about the game than I should've given it.
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Nov 1, 2022 22:10
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mikeraskol posted:It’s been a minute since I played through the game but remind me why this sex scene draws controversy? I don’t particularly care that it’s in there. I just think it’s kinda telling what ND cared about, in terms of audience reaction. Truth told, the enduring dialogue about these games means they did something right. I just thought it was a little silly and pointless and transparently controversial. Kinda edgelord.
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Nov 1, 2022 22:11
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nah
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Nov 1, 2022 22:12
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Are the sex scenes in walking dead "edgelord"
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Nov 1, 2022 22:14
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BurningBeard posted:I don’t particularly care that it’s in there. I just think it’s kinda telling what ND cared about, in terms of audience reaction. Truth told, the enduring dialogue about these games means they did something right. I just thought it was a little silly and pointless and transparently controversial. Kinda edgelord. I am legitimately trying to understand here. How is a normal sex scene "transparently controversial" or "edgelord" or demonstrating what ND cared about in terms of audience reaction. I'm just legitimately confused. I could get calling it done to death or unnecessary or a standard trope. But nothing in this post is making sense to me at all. It's just a sex scene.
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Nov 1, 2022 22:14
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NGL considering I had a lot of other complaints about TLoU’s narrative, and also acknowledged enjoying the game kinda makes the everyone focusing on the sex scene sorta weird. Lol.
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Nov 1, 2022 22:15
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mikeraskol posted:I could get calling it done to death or unnecessary or a standard trope. But nothing in this post is making sense to me at all. It's just a sex scene. Criticising it for slavishly aping prestige television would be fair enough. BurningBeard posted:NGL considering I had a lot of other complaints about TLoU’s narrative, and also acknowledged enjoying the game kinda makes the everyone focusing on the sex scene sorta weird. Lol. You were talking about it
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Nov 1, 2022 22:16
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They're cowards for panning away before the cumshot
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Nov 1, 2022 22:17
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BurningBeard posted:I don’t particularly care that it’s in there. I just think it’s kinda telling what ND cared about, in terms of audience reaction. Truth told, the enduring dialogue about these games means they did something right. I just thought it was a little silly and pointless and transparently controversial. Kinda edgelord. 
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Nov 1, 2022 22:18
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RareAcumen posted:They're cowards for panning away before the cumshot yeah
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Nov 1, 2022 22:20
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Hopper posted:So I went into an electronics store that was closing, and they did 80% of on anything. Found an Elden Ring PS5 Launch Edition and paid 14€ instead of 70. Elden Ring is probably the easiest of all soulsbournes because if you hit a roadblock, you can just go in another direction. If you want a decent idea of what stats work in what way I'd suggest looking at the fextralife starter builds. They are not super optimal but they are flavorful and fun to build towards. https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Builds You don't need an optimal build in ER as you can generally just bypass major challenges and come back to them later. Even the first boss and his castle you can just go around the side, cut though the backyard and come out on the other side in another zone having skipped the whole thing and then come back and spank him later. I also suggest getting a summon bell early, it's a minor spoiler but having summons is a huge help and while some call it 'cheating' or 'a crutch' it was put in the game for a reason. ER is all about gaining tools and knowledge over stats and summons are another tool in your tool belt to help you explore the world. As far as storytelling, the world is the story and without going into it in too much detail, the narrative is what you do in the world, not what the world does to you. The NPCs and such are all just bit players in your narrative. Why are you here, what's your goal? To explore and see the sights and kill monsters. If you want more story it's there and you will find it so don't stress it. The game is great, don't sleep on it just because dark souls didn't click.
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Nov 1, 2022 22:21
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mikeraskol posted:I am legitimately trying to understand here. How is a normal sex scene "transparently controversial" or "edgelord" or demonstrating what ND cared about in terms of audience reaction. When a game features someone’s arms being broken by a hammer, and when that scene is featured in the pre-release marketing for a game, I think it’s pretty clear what ND intended. You don’t market something in a vacuum. Unnecessary is probably the best complaint. But I think it’s also kinda… what… reactionary? Like legit, I have no interest in that particular thing about TLoU II. I think what’s most interesting about TLoU II as a product is that it was trying something, and in my opinion, it failed while being hilariously transparent about how intense and profound it was. The sex scene is just a part of that funny little tapestry, imho. Anyhoo, I know a bunch of people don’t share my opinion, so I’m gonna dip out. I thought there was an interesting conversation about the game itself and how it did or did not fail in here. Nope. Her her sex scene. Cool cool.
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Nov 1, 2022 22:22
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Willo567 posted:Do you have a link to springs you would recommend so that it feels similar to the springs that come in the dual sense? I actually salvaged my replacement spring from another dualsense with stick drift that I forgot to return, so I don't have any experience with third-party replacements. But it's an incredibly simple little spring, I don't think there's much room for variation. You'll see if you google "dualsense trigger spring replacement", anything that shows up is probably suitable. And in any case they're very cheap.
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Nov 1, 2022 22:22
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I don't think anyone is trying to argue with you that the game is profound. It's a good zombie tv show game. That's why people like it.
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Nov 1, 2022 22:23
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Nov 1, 2022 22:25
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JBP posted:I don't think anyone is trying to argue with you that the game is profound. It's a good zombie tv show game. That's why people like it. I didn’t think that anyone was trying to argue with me about that. I just think it’s an interesting failure.
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Nov 1, 2022 22:25
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TLoU2 was profound and very effective for me. I still think about it all the time. Nothing’s hit me nearly as hard since. It’s a top tier work of art from an unbelievably talented team of people.
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Nov 1, 2022 22:27
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Kilometers Davis posted:TLoU2 was profound and very effective for me. I still think about it all the time. Nothing’s hit me nearly as hard since. It’s a top tier work of art from an unbelievably talented team of people. I would legitimately be interested in your perspective on that if you want to expand.
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Nov 1, 2022 22:30
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BurningBeard posted:When a game features someone’s arms being broken by a hammer, and when that scene is featured in the pre-release marketing for a game, I think it’s pretty clear what ND intended. You don’t market something in a vacuum. Unnecessary is probably the best complaint. But I think it’s also kinda… what… reactionary? Like legit, I have no interest in that particular thing about TLoU II. I think what’s most interesting about TLoU II as a product is that it was trying something, and in my opinion, it failed while being hilariously transparent about how intense and profound it was. The sex scene is just a part of that funny little tapestry, imho. I think I sort of get what you're trying to say, although it feels like you've programmed an AI to try and mimic human internet forum posting to make the point for you and there are just random weird words inserted all over the place.
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Nov 1, 2022 22:30
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On the other hand, what I like about TLOU as a franchise would not be things that make it "profound," because I don't think it honestly has that much to say intellectually. That's not a complaint, because I think what it's trying to do instead is create complex emotional reactions.
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Nov 1, 2022 22:32
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What I liked about TLOU is how I thought I hated it at the start and then next thing I know I finished TLOU 1 and instabought TLOU 2
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Nov 1, 2022 22:34
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TLOU to me definitely has more emotional intelligence than cerebral but it’s about mushroom zombies so that’s fine
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Nov 1, 2022 22:34
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I mostly played TLoU because the reviews spoke about cordyceps and I'd heard that word in a David Attenborough documentary
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Nov 1, 2022 22:37
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BurningBeard posted:I would legitimately be interested in your perspective on that if you want to expand. Here’s a rambly post I made back in January after beating it. I think it expands on my reaction well enough. Kilometers Davis posted:I woke up in the middle of the night thinking about tlou2 and it’s still lingering in my head. At the very end when you find Abby and Lev strung up it’s just so genuinely upsetting. Like, just pathetic. It’s gross. Your prey is absolutely mentally and physically destroyed and hung up for you. No challenge. There’s no catharsis, there’s barely even a struggle apparent even though Abby is ready to fight until the very end. You (as Ellie) get to experience threatening Lev who absolutely deserves none of this in the slightest capacity. It’s so intense, and I really loved (hated? lol) how you have to do multiple very brutal close shot square mashing moments to “achieve” something that feels so awful. And then the moment when Ellie realizes how pointless it is and makes the “right” choice, it’s just as painful. It’s almost pointless but not quite, everything is hosed. The only thing that she succeeds with is internal, inside her. It’s unfortunately one of the most realistically human “victories” I’ve seen in a game. And then of course that return home. Family gone, her main physical and mental connection to Joel, her guitar playing, forever tarnished and linked to her own hatred and desire for revenge.
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Nov 1, 2022 22:41
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I bought the remaster when it came out on PS4 and played an hour or two before getting fed up because resource scarcity and sneaking around isn’t very fun to me. If I wanted to spend my free time scavenging to survive and hiding from murderous inhuman monsters all I have to do is wait like 6 months for society to collapse entirely on this lovely island rather than spend £70.
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Nov 1, 2022 22:43
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BurningBeard, how did you feel about the late game reveal that Joel and Ellie were achingly close to reconciliation after years of being apart, meaning Ellie was not only mourning the friend she had once had, but the friend she was just about to get back? That one really got to me. And how about the museum flashback?
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Nov 1, 2022 22:44
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Feels Villeneuve posted:"the last of us"???? is this a zombie game or a game about playstation plus subscribers????? lol
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Nov 1, 2022 22:45
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Escobarbarian posted:BurningBeard, how did you feel about the late game reveal that Joel and Ellie were achingly close to reconciliation after years of being apart, meaning Ellie was not only mourning the friend she had once had, but the friend she was just about to get back? That one really got to me. And how about the museum flashback? That first part was just  ahhhhhhhhh
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Nov 1, 2022 22:46
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Escobarbarian posted:BurningBeard, how did you feel about the late game reveal that Joel and Ellie were achingly close to reconciliation after years of being apart, meaning Ellie was not only mourning the friend she had once had, but the friend she was just about to get back? That one really got to me. And how about the museum flashback? loving incredible reveal. Adding a crucial bit of emotional nuance to situation I thought I had fully understood a dozen hours prior. Magnifique
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Nov 1, 2022 22:49
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Legitimately, I could complain about TLOU2. I think it's probably too long and overall too dour in a way that has prevented me from going back to it, and I've beaten the first game like six or seven times, several of those on Grounded. The Ellie story in particular kind of drags by the end. The Abby stuff had me riveted the whole way through though, I think it's easily the better half of that game. That said, the ultimate motivation for the revenge mission being the pain of averted catharsis was really compelling and exactly what I mean when I say the game is more about the emotions at play. I'm even just now noticing the connection that Ellie flashes back to that scene when she is again denied true catharsis in nearly killing a broken Abby at the end. Arist fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Nov 1, 2022 |
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Nov 1, 2022 22:50
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Augus posted:it’s time we reevaluated god of war’s sex scenes and admit to ourselves that Kratos getting a bunch of red orbs from nutting was actually extremely funny and it was all downhill from there lol
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call me crazy, but i tried tlou and bounced off it after like 2hr. the controls were...bad, to put it best. but ultimately, it sits right at the bottom of the uncanny valley for me. like, i can easily attach to a 16-bit rpg or totally alien/monster experience. the veneer where it's trying to present as human or real isn't there. but tlou...and a lot of modern games, really. they just lose me and i can't connect whatsoever. but clearly i am in the minority with this...whatever it is. just a total mental block, i guess.
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