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My favorite part of the fatalities in modern mortal kombat is the introspection they inspire. It really makes the story feel more grounded.
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the rat fandom posted:My favorite part of the fatalities in modern mortal kombat is the introspection they inspire. It really makes the story feel more grounded. When I pulled Sub-zero's spine out of his body I remember thinking my god what have I become.
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Dec 3, 2022 05:38
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Beastie posted:Yeah the camera is too close in general. Fighting off multiple enemies is a poo poo show I saw Maximillian get into a fight with chat over it. Was pretty entertaining.
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Oxxidation posted:the last of us is a breeding ground for all the worst traits in this entire medium. radioactive crater of a franchise Can’t blame a masterpiece for its pale imitators
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the rat fandom posted:My favorite part of the fatalities in modern mortal kombat is the introspection they inspire. It really makes the story feel more grounded. The immersion is shattered when you literally see your opponent's spine break into dust in slow-motion x-ray, and then they just get back up with 10% less health.
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Oxxidation posted:i don't mind gore but putting all this effort into basically cg snuff can't be good for the developers I'm pretty sure I remember reading an article about how some of the Mortal Kombat Devs are starting to get PTSD symptoms and needing therapy. Yup, found it https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/05/one_mortal_kombat_11_developer_had_to_see_a_therapist_after_violent_dreams
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Oxxidation posted:the last of us is a breeding ground for all the worst traits in this entire medium. radioactive crater of a franchise great games
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Vampire Survivors: What am I supposed to be spending gold on if I've already unlocked drat near all characters and bonus stats from the main menu?
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BisterdDave posted:Vampire Survivors: What am I supposed to be spending gold on if I've already unlocked drat near all characters and bonus stats from the main menu? golden eggs
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Escobarbarian posted:Can’t blame a masterpiece for its pale imitators But it's a pale imitation of re4
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Tsietisin posted:I'm pretty sure I remember reading an article about how some of the Mortal Kombat Devs are starting to get PTSD symptoms and needing therapy. "and then it goes like, whoooosh *intense scribbling* now go watch liveleak for five hours to make this happen or you're fired"
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Oxxidation posted:it's only recently that death animations have tried to do things like realistically imitate torn meat/mutilated tissue (dead space famously had character models that seemed flimsy as styrofoam). i think the more recent mortal kombat games were the pioneers In respect to its spiritual forbear, Calypso Protocol has an achievement for seeing all the death animations and locked 16 of them behind ghe season pass.
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Dec 3, 2022 18:43
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:In respect to its spiritual forbear, Calypso Protocol has an achievement for seeing all the death animations and locked 16 of them behind ghe season pass. Usually these sorts of cheevos only count what's available in the base game. Or it's a cheevo that's tied to the DLC in question and not part of the 1000/Platinum.
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Callisto Protocol has an achievement for beating the game on the hardest difficulty, but once you beat the final boss, you can just set the difficulty to the hardest setting and get the achievement that way.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:In respect to its spiritual forbear, Calypso Protocol has an achievement for seeing all the death animations and locked 16 of them behind ghe season pass. I think there was some sort of misunderstanding last week and a few sites ran with that info https://twitter.com/GlenSchofield/status/1595513458618818560?s=20&t=NC-vKqf2lRvMPM727OPJSQ I put in about 4 more hours last night. The game is certainly starting to get a bit repetitive. But I'm bigly into sci-fi like this so its been interesting so far. The visuals keep impressing me. The very opening level was one of the few games of this gen were I was gobsmacked when I first loaded in. Complete "wow" moment.
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I don't understand how space station corridor jumpscare games are genre. Who's asking for this?
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Dead Space fans.
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Seltzer posted:I don't understand how space station corridor jumpscare games are genre. Who's asking for this? People that saw Alien
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The Illusive Man posted:Do you play with a flight stick on Xbox or do you use a controller? I play using a controller with realistic settings on, and it actually works pretty well for planes and gliders (helis I suckass at though). The default button assignments for elevator, rudders, throttle, and flaps are good. I set some additional buttons for turning auto pilot on and off, setting altimeter, prop control, fuel pump. You can use RB+button for a lot of the extra stuff you might want access to. For everything else you can activate cursor and select it directly from within the cockpit.
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I don't remember and Google's being a bit unhelpful — are there any default Flight Sim settings that amount to "I have no interest in simulation, I am babby and I just want to taunt God and fly around awesome environments as easily as possible"? Or any guides on the best way to go about laying that out?
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Escobarbarian posted:Can’t blame a masterpiece for its pale imitators The best game to come out of sony was shadow of the colossus, and that was nearly 20 years ago. Its been downhill ever since.
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I've never played any of the older Tomb Raider games, but since finishing up the reboot trilogy recently (currently working my way through the SOTTR DLC tombs), I kinda wanna try them out now. Good idea, or am I setting myself up for diappointment? If not, is there one specifically that I should play first that's sorta similar to the reboot games and is available on the Xbox? I've played the Guardian of Light and Temple of Osiris on PC and those were pretty fun, but I know those aren't at all like the mainline games.
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Toaster Beef posted:I don't remember and Google's being a bit unhelpful — are there any default Flight Sim settings that amount to "I have no interest in simulation, I am babby and I just want to taunt God and fly around awesome environments as easily as possible"? Or any guides on the best way to go about laying that out? There are a ton of assistance options, most on by default, that make flying way easier. One of the assistance options also turns crashing and damage off. You can also start in the air immediately if you don't start at a runway. If you still want to takeoff, starting on a runway has your plane already started up and ready to go. And there are discovery flights that start you already in some of the best looking areas, so you don't have to go searching.
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jasoneatspizza posted:There are a ton of assistance options, most on by default, that make flying way easier. One of the assistance options also turns crashing and damage off. You can also start in the air immediately if you don't start at a runway. If you still want to takeoff, starting on a runway has your plane already started up and ready to go. Nice, thanks. I remember some of this, but it's been a while. I dove back in briefly through the cloud to try flying a helicopter but that Did Not Go Well.
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jasoneatspizza posted:I play using a controller with realistic settings on, and it actually works pretty well for planes and gliders (helis I suckass at though). The default button assignments for elevator, rudders, throttle, and flaps are good. I set some additional buttons for turning auto pilot on and off, setting altimeter, prop control, fuel pump. You can use RB+button for a lot of the extra stuff you might want access to. For everything else you can activate cursor and select it directly from within the cockpit. is there an easy way to switch the halo plane between flight and hover modes? i just want to fly to places i know and then quickly hover above them but i trust to get good enough to do it naturally
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I like flying the Top Gun plane. Makes me feel powerful.
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teagone posted:I've never played any of the older Tomb Raider games, but since finishing up the reboot trilogy recently (currently working my way through the SOTTR DLC tombs), I kinda wanna try them out now. Good idea, or am I setting myself up for diappointment? If not, is there one specifically that I should play first that's sorta similar to the reboot games and is available on the Xbox? I've played the Guardian of Light and Temple of Osiris on PC and those were pretty fun, but I know those aren't at all like the mainline games. Legend and Underworld are the closest probably, made by much of the same people as the reboots. More 'classic' level design but with a modern (at the time) take on gameplay mechanics.
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Howdy Xbox goons. I picked up a Series S today because they're on sale. I have been out of the Xbox ecosystem since the 360 days so it's been a while. From what I understand there's some conversion trick to getting cheap Gamepass. Can someone give me the run down on this? Pretend I'm an old person and don't know anything about computers.
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Jose Oquendo posted:Howdy Xbox goons. I picked up a Series S today because they're on sale. I have been out of the Xbox ecosystem since the 360 days so it's been a while. Buy a year of Xbox Gold FIRST, or stack up to 3 years of it (codes go for roughly $60/year, I get mine either from Amazon or Walmart). After adding Gold to your account, purchase 1-month of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate to upgrade your Gold at a 1:1 ratio. For you it might only be $1 for a month of GPU, but for previous/existing GPU users it's $15. After adding 1-month of GPU to your account it will convert your 3 years of Gold into 3 years of GPU. Enjoy! For more details see here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftRewards/comments/ly0ss7/game_pass_ultimate_at_the_best_value/ [edit] As an aside, I've rarely bought Xbox Gold/GPU codes and have been endlessly extending my Game Pass Ultimate sub using Microsoft Rewards points ever since I got my first Xbox back in 2019 lol. The reddit link above details how you can cycle a Game Pass Ultimate subscription using ONLY MS reward points, which is what I've been doing -- redeeming Walmart/Amazon gift card codes using MS reward points and using the gift card balance to purchase Gold and converting Gold to GPU after spending MS reward points on a month of GPU. The spread is 63,000 points on gift cards and 12,000 points on a month of Game Pass Ultimate so basically the conversion rate is 75,000 MS rewards points = 1 year of Game Pass Ultimate. You can rack up 75k reward points pretty easily within a year doing the bing dailies/searches and claiming stuff in the MS Rewards Xbox app. teagone fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Dec 3, 2022 |
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Ruffian Price posted:TR Underworld was hella cool I just saw I have TR Anniversary, TR Legend, and TR Underworld on my Steam account. I don't remember when I added those to my Steam library, lmao. I guess I'll prolly pick them up to have them on my Xbox as well on the off chance they go on sale.
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Seltzer posted:I don't understand how space station corridor jumpscare games are genre. Who's asking for this? Games in space stations ftw.
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space station horror means being sealed in claustrophobic lived-in environments full of dark spaces and hideaways, with nothing outside but ten billion trillion miles of freezing empty death. it's fertile territory
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HOTAS chat: One thing to note is if you're playing Flight Sim(or any other game that supports HOTAS) on cloud gaming, the fight stick doesn't work. Apparently you have to download any game that uses them to your Xbox. I thought I got a bad set because I wanted to try out flight Sim before filling up an eighth of my ssd with one game.
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teagone posted:I just saw I have TR Anniversary, TR Legend, and TR Underworld on my Steam account. I don't remember when I added those to my Steam library, lmao. I guess I'll prolly pick them up to have them on my Xbox as well on the off chance they go on sale. Those three are "fine" but their age will show, particularly in how restrictive some older design was. My go-to in explaining this is that many, many games across the decades have moving block puzzles where you have to move blocks around to climb up on something, but somewhere in the 360(?) era the method changed from dragging/pushing blocks in linear paths to being able to drag them any which way, making them far less annoying. The older TR games are likely to have the old way, versus the modern ones having the new, and there are a lot of other advances that have taken hold since then. Another one that I actually noticed first in Tomb Raider (or Rise) was that if you got a collectable and then died at some point where the checkpoint would push you "before" that sequence, the game still counted that collectable as being done - a big way of respecting the player's time. The older TR games will not respect your time.
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There is some extremely amateur sounding vo in nfs unbound. Like performance and quality of the capture itself. That being said it’s a great stoner zone-in/out racer so far. In any case all Covid games should be $49.99 max. I’m still having flashbacks of the vo performances in Watch Dogs Legion.
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Jose Oquendo posted:Howdy Xbox goons. I picked up a Series S today because they're on sale. I have been out of the Xbox ecosystem since the 360 days so it's been a while. Nice one Jose. Enjoy.
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teagone posted:The spread is 63,000 points on gift cards and 12,000 points on a month of Game Pass Ultimate so basically the conversion rate is 75,000 MS rewards points = 1 year of Game Pass Ultimate. You can rack up 75k reward points pretty easily within a year doing the bing dailies/searches and claiming stuff in the MS Rewards Xbox app.
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Omon Ra posted:I'm imagining someone who would rather do "bing dailies" than pay like a dollar per week, and it is not a pretty picture.
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