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Hopefully the devs will learn from this experience and Fivespoken will be better.
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Jack Trades posted:That makes me wonder. It's a lighthearted game with a comedic tone, so nobody's dropping slurs or committing hate crimes, but the longer you play the more you become acquainted with the sort of subtle social racism that also permeates a lot of society: people eying you with suspicion because you're a foreigner, talking down to you, belittling you, so on and so forth. It's actually kind of refreshing in a weird way, since it's a topic that so seldom gets addressed. Popular media loves to focus on extreme depictions of discrimination, which are real and did happen (and still happen), but I can't recall too many video games or movies that lingered on the more subtle ways we other each other. EDIT: As for impacting gameplay, it's a courtroom deduction game where people are prepared to believe things based on the defendant's (or their defense's) race, class, and gender, so yes, it's not just narrative trim. Bad Seafood fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Jan 24, 2023 |
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MarcusSA posted:Yes it absolutely does. So the lesbians kissing in the background of a disney movie is a powerful moment of representation? Shouldn't we want more than just token inclusions? Like, to be clear token inclusion is better than no inclusion and we should still be happy it happens at all. But stopping there seems bad too. Agent355 fucked around with this message at 02:22 on Jan 24, 2023 |
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Jan 24, 2023 02:20
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The Steamworld Build demo is fun, just came out today (the demo, game comes out later). It's a city builder where you switch between city and underground view, and both have different gameplay loops but feed into one another, smartly done, recommend giving it a go.
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Jan 24, 2023 02:24
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Agent355 posted:So the lesbians kissing in the background of a disney movie is a powerful moment of representation? Shouldn't we want more than just token inclusions? it’s not a powerful moment but it is representation
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People can just exist somewhere without putting on a powerful show for you
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Jan 24, 2023 02:47
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i'm kind of shocked that there's still an active enough playerbase to result in non AI invasions in deathloop, to be honest. it really did seem like they were intending to make a rogue-likish sort of immersive sim where the main selling point was while you were loving around doing dishonored/thief/deus ex stuff you'd be attacked by a human invader but they never really got the whole concept to coalesce and after noodling around with the idea for a while just kind of put it out there
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still lost and kind of annoyed at Rain World in the Shaded Citadel, on the one hand but on the other hand, wheeee  https://i.imgur.com/wWLhECb.mp4
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1upmuffin posted:The Steamworld Build demo is fun, just came out today (the demo, game comes out later). It's a city builder where you switch between city and underground view, and both have different gameplay loops but feed into one another, smartly done, recommend giving it a go. To expand on this, the above-ground part is an Anno clone and the below-ground part is a Dungeon Keeper clone. I haven't played it yet but it looks cool and Anno & DK both own
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Weedle posted:it’s not a powerful moment but it is representation It’s this. Not everything has to be some powerful moment.
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But 'okay, but it could be better' is still valid criticism then? like 'Boy sure seems like they wasted a good opportunity to make a more compelling protagonist' is a fair take?
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OzFactor posted:I'm finally getting around to playing Deathloop and several hours in I think it's rad. I would understand some frustration coming into the game thinking it's going to be a totally open immersive sim where you can figure out a million different ways to get to each target, but knowing that's not really what it is and looking at it more like a really intricate first-person metroidvania game only instead of abilities unlocking things it is your slowly expanding knowledge of the island (and its many four-digit numbers). My only complaint so far is that I've been "invaded" a couple times and it just really didn't work, with neither of us seeming to be able to actually hit each other. I think it's a neat idea but I think I might turn it off the online mode if it doesn't work well. I stayed offline and felt like it was the right way to go, it was fun to gently caress around doing dumb things that probably would not fly if I suddenly had to deal with a tryharding real player.
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i only watched the first hour of forspoken but the protagonist is depicted as a troubled youth in gang trouble with multiple felony charges to their name, squatting in an abandoned apartment building it's like a hodgepodge of hollywood movie tropes the discussion of "can't it just be a black character and that's it" is funny to me because, if you look at the average isekai story, it's a power fantasy where someone overworks themselves or just happens to get hit by a truck, and otherwise their life is pretty average if not completely unexceptional. this is not that. the character's blackness does factor in, and i would say, in not a great way from this writing team. the only person frey knows outside of the gang is a judge who apparently ALSO was a troubled youth according to her lore info?? i'm not calling it racist and i'm not a kotaku writer, I just think it's kinda eye-rolly especially when you factor in that "hip hoppy walk" comment. were there any black writers on the team? any consultants? i have no idea. but this could also just speak to the general blandness and genericness of the story in general that they couldn't come up with any interesting ideas and just went to the well. all i know is. february's got way more interesting games than january and that's all i care about is what's coming up The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Jan 24, 2023 |
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The 7th Guest posted:i only watched the first hour of forspoken but the protagonist is depicted as a troubled youth in gang trouble with multiple felony charges to their name, squatting in an abandoned apartment building Outside of any new information reviews have said literally no black writers were involved. The entire premise is basically just misery porn about being a poor black troubled youth who's only good things in life can get ripped away to propel the story forward.
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Ciaphas posted:still lost and kind of annoyed at Rain World in the Shaded Citadel, on the one hand Glad you're sticking with it. There's cool stuff over there so have fun, but you're probably going to end up heading back to Shaded Citadel eventually so here's some guidance for getting through there if you want it: once you're inside, head to the bottom of the citadel, into the sewer part where it's half flooded and there are big seaweeds trying to eat you, then head all the way right. That's where the yellow guy should be directing you. separate tip for big seaweeds if you need it: hit them with a spear or any thrown object and you'll be safe to swim by for a few seconds. this actually applies to almost every enemy in the game, they all recoil when injured and can't bite you for a bit
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i'm still busily getting badly jump-scared and chewed on by horrible centipede-spiders atm but thanks for the advice 
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Human-controlled Juliannas introducing an element of chaos to your pre-planned routes is part of what made Deathloop own, imo.
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SirSamVimes posted:Human-controlled Juliannas introducing an element of chaos to your pre-planned routes is part of what made Deathloop own, imo.
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Mafia 3 is a good game where you play a black guy in 1960s New Orleans so literally every person in the game is racist to you. Luckily you are freshly back from a Vietnam special ops team with lots of ideas on how to gently caress with dumbfuck KKK dudes.
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lets hang out posted:Glad you're sticking with it. There's cool stuff over there so have fun, but you're probably going to end up heading back to Shaded Citadel eventually so here's some guidance for getting through there if you want it: once you're inside, head to the bottom of the citadel, into the sewer part where it's half flooded and there are big seaweeds trying to eat you, then head all the way right. That's where the yellow guy should be directing you. separate tip for big seaweeds if you need it: hit them with a spear or any thrown object and you'll be safe to swim by for a few seconds. this actually applies to almost every enemy in the game, they all recoil when injured and can't bite you for a bit i finally made it to the memory crypts part of SH, and... the overseer's still pointing me left, back the way I came? like, i'm vaguely aware already that i'm trying to get to the Exterior and from there to Five Pebbles, and I know I'm going the right way to achieve that, so wtf is the overseer trying to aim me at? the harder way 'round, assuming such exists?
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This is one hell of a deal.  Look at that discount
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Titanfall 2 is 3 bucks on steam atm. Seems like a p good deal
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Ciaphas posted:i finally made it to the memory crypts part of SH, and... the overseer's still pointing me left, back the way I came? like, i'm vaguely aware already that i'm trying to get to the Exterior and from there to Five Pebbles, and I know I'm going the right way to achieve that, so wtf is the overseer trying to aim me at? the harder way 'round, assuming such exists? Did you visit Looks to the Moon and actually see the robot thing inside? I assumed you did since you were nearby. If you did and it's still pointing you there then it must actually be bugged. Like the yellow thing's whole itinerary is: 1.) Make sure you lay eyes on the thing inside LttM, and then, if you haven't upset it, 2.) Direct you to the Shaded Citadel and on upwards.
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Play posted:Titanfall 2 is 3 bucks on steam atm. Seems like a p good deal Much like all the free games EA is giving away, the true cost is in getting people to sign up to their storefront. There is always a derail about 'people who won't use other storefronts / why the loyalty to Valve' and I'll all I've gotta say is that I'm on Linux and that none of Humble or itcho.io games need me to run their loving storefront through WINE, nevermind the games themselves.
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Titanfall 2 is really good. I wish there was a game that was just mech sequences from it.
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Gay Rat Wedding posted:When the heck is the AMID EVIL expansion coming out. When the heck is the Chronicon expansion coming out. There is only a week of January left! I kid - the dev is doing solid work and wanted to fix a bothersome bug (which they recently did) before releasing the new class. Apparently it’ll release by the end of the month.
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1upmuffin posted:The Steamworld Build demo is fun, just came out today (the demo, game comes out later). It's a city builder where you switch between city and underground view, and both have different gameplay loops but feed into one another, smartly done, recommend giving it a go. I loved the demo but my worry is that it says it will have 5 maps, which doesn't sound like much, but I am hoping that these maps will be substantial with multiple mine layers.
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titanfall 2 is the one with a good sp campaign, no?
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:titanfall 2 is the one with a good sp campaign, no? Honestly it's mostly just really fun and competent but it has a handful of absolutely standout levels
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:titanfall 2 is the one with a good sp campaign, no? Yes.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:titanfall 2 is the one with a good sp campaign, no? tf1 doesn't even have single player
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Forspoken just went from "lol no" to "yeah on sale probably" for me if my computer can run it in a stable, even 30 fps manner.quote:You can also adjust how frequently Cuff speaks up. The ambient dialogue in Forspoken doesn’t vary much, and repetitive quips in combat can quickly get tiring. In the accessibility settings menu, you can turn Cuff chat frequency from high (Frey and Cuff more or less run a podcast) to low (Frey and Cuff engage in a standard amount of video game banter) to minimal (Frey and Cuff are limited to story-essential chatter). quote:In the accessibility settings menu, under world settings, you can turn on automatic item gathering. This will make it so any crafting materials you’re near will instantly go into your inventory. quote:gameplay balance menu, you’ll see options that can reduce how much damage you receive, increase your stamina recovery speed, or extend how long toppled enemies remain immobile. (You can essentially unlock of these perks throughout normal gameplay.) But the setting to tweak is spell-switching slowdown. quote:If you also agree with the constituents of the 192 countries who primarily use the metric system, you can make this swap in the accessibility settings menu — it’s listed, for some reason, under the subtitle settings section. Like drat, I will definitely support games going all in on that whole customizing game difficulty values and settings, it needs to be standard in every game of reasonable size going forward.
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I like that idea if the "imperial measurement system" was an accessibility toggle for metric-impaired users.
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Please do not buy bad games just because they have a slider that you like.
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The Steamworld Build demo was neat, though I wish it went more into the dungeon keeper part.
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lets hang out posted:Did you visit Looks to the Moon and actually see the robot thing inside? I assumed you did since you were nearby. If you did and it's still pointing you there then it must actually be bugged. Like the yellow thing's whole itinerary is: 1.) Make sure you lay eyes on the thing inside LttM, and then, if you haven't upset it, 2.) Direct you to the Shaded Citadel and on upwards. Oh yeah, met Moon, awkwardly left without touching anything, overseer's holos all changed to the neuron fly outline. It led me through the Shoreline to the Shaded Citadel, and then insisted I cross the bulk of the Citadel to get to 5P the back way (I guess? map's hard to read lol). Only unfucked itself when I made it to the start of The Leg. Weird bug I guess!
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Is Forspoken a reverse isekai? Because abandoned baby found in the middle of the street sounds a lot like she originally came from magic world as a baby
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ymgve posted:Is Forspoken a reverse isekai? I hate you for making me look that up. "Fiction where someone falls through a portal and meets a new world" for anyone watching at home.
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