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Kerrzhe posted:the star wars mmo was good because it let you still be a good guy even on the empire side, and it always confused the hell out of the npcs Absolutely. I loved playing through that game
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threeangles strats: The game has a sort of "persuasion" minigame, where your war council crew has to decide between two things, and your job as the protag is to convince them to vote your way. To persuade someone, you talk to them, hear them out a lil, then you pick between three dialogue choices. And to "win" you have to select the argument that would most likely convince the individual you're speaking to. Sometimes there's a dialogue option that's locked behind prior info you may or may not have gotten, depending on your previous story branches or how diligent you've been during the exploration segments, but even if you did unlock those options they aren't necessarily better than the other, not-locked choices. It's a nice mechanic, even if so far it's been pretty easy, because you only need to convince one dude out of four each time to break the default deadlock and get your desired outcome. (Reminds me of deus ex human revolution's persuasion minigame, which also had you consider what arguments would be most effective). And so far, picking between which of the two options is best has been tricky, because they're questions like, "do we trust the neighbouring empire to leave us alone if we hand over the monarch-in-exile (who is also my bff) we're harbouring to them, or do we protect the exiled prince and try to fend off their much, much more powerful army?", questions about how one should navigate these extremely precarious political situations. It's interesting stuff, and genuinely tough to know which option would be "best" for the continuing survival of my cute little realm. The fallout of each of these decisions always feels meaningful. Except... this last choice I got just now, feels so weird compared to the previous ones. The question being asked is, SPOILERS, "do we sell out the Romani people living in our realm and give them over to the tremendously bigoted state next door that wants to enslave them and grind them into dust/salt, they do not view the Romani as human beings and have demonstrated this to us many times; or do we not do that?"... This is something which the game frames as a difficult decision, on par with the previous ones, which is just wild, and pretty funny.
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Looper posted:are any of you actually playing forspoken besides bp I have, the first 90 minutes are rather poor, hoping it's about to open up
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it is funny that the game lets you make some abhorrent decisions
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Outside of the fact that explanation was clunky af, those curses in HP are explicitly only usable properly if you are evil. You need to really want and like murder for it to work. Which of course is why cops could legally use them.
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It's very funny that the number one unforgivable curse in Harry Potter is a spell that instantly kills someone. Putting aside the classic "have you head of guns my dude?" thing at one point Harry Potter casts a spell at a fellow child that makes all the blood in his body start flying out almost killing him and he maybe gets detention?
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Jan 25, 2023 20:13
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Kerrzhe posted:i think being a lone beacon of good in a world full of evil is way more badass That would make you, unless you are a moralist, evil.
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Pwnstar posted:It's very funny that the number one unforgivable curse in Harry Potter is a spell that instantly kills someone. Putting aside the classic "have you head of guns my dude?" thing at one point Harry Potter casts a spell at a fellow child that makes all the blood in his body start flying out almost killing him and he maybe gets detention? There are probably a ton of creative ways to kill people with spells in the HP universe. Didn't JK Rowling once say that nobody shits because they cast spells to remove the shits from their bodies when they need to. You could just keep casting that on someone and give them a long term metabolic disorder
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will the pooping spell be in the game
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The Grumbles posted:There are probably a ton of creative ways to kill people with spells in the HP universe. Didn't JK Rowling once say that nobody shits because they cast spells to remove the shits from their bodies when they need to. You could just keep casting that on someone and give them a long term metabolic disorder You got it wrong, they shat on the ground where thyy stood and then vanished away the poo poo.
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reminds me of the dude in the Misfits TV series that could control milk. then he killed a few folks by curdling the lactose in their blood stream
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Buschmaki posted:That would make you, unless you are a moralist, evil. i think the word you're looking for is "hero" being a hero is way more badass than being evil. and i dont mean just stupid superhero poo poo. i mean giving hope to the downtrodden and fighting back against oppressors. especially if you're outnumbered/outclassed by the machinations of said evil, and you win anyway. that's my jam. probably not much of that in that harry potter game, which is why i am not interested in it
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you get more xp for being the good guy. at least you did in BG2, so I assume other games are the same.
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VideoGames posted:I think more games should be like FFX-2 where last night in an attempt to save the land of Spira I put on a pop concert. It was magnificent! In Space Rangers 2 I took a moment out of saving the galaxy to put on a pop concert. Also I ran a ski resort for a while! Love that game
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Space Rangers 2 is a delight I doomed the galaxy by forming a pirate rump state too weak to win but strong enough to keep the organic races from beating the robots lmao
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RBA Starblade posted:Space Rangers 2 is a delight I've done that before but never on purpose lol I do kinda miss the old translation. The Dominators are attacking all over the space!!
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Kerrzhe posted:i think the word you're looking for is "hero" If you go against the social mores of an entire world you are evil.
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Kerrzhe posted:i think the word you're looking for is "hero"  Which is kind of another reason why I liked Triangle Strategy. Being able to tell every power to gently caress right off despite the fact that you are vastly outmatched yourself is a great feeling.
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Pwnstar posted:It's very funny that the number one unforgivable curse in Harry Potter is a spell that instantly kills someone. Putting aside the classic "have you head of guns my dude?" thing at one point Harry Potter casts a spell at a fellow child that makes all the blood in his body start flying out almost killing him and he maybe gets detention? It kinda makes sense because there’s also a spell that puts the blood back in his body and then he’s fine. There are no lasting consequences for anything because you can just magic them away in an instant. Except death, for whatever reason I guess the thing that really doesn’t make sense is that there are a million ways to cause severe pain indirectly through bodily trauma but none of them are as big a deal as the spell that’s just “you feel pain now” haveblue fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Jan 25, 2023 |
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Let's say you're playing a game with an inventory system. You pick up a key. You walk to a locked door. Do you want the game to automatically pull out the key and unlock the door? Or do you want to go manually into your inventory and select the Use option on the key?
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Buschmaki posted:If you go against the social mores of an entire world you are evil. This is a problem of definitions.
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Jay Rust posted:Let's say you're playing a game with an inventory system. You pick up a key. You walk to a locked door. I think that depends on the game itself. If it's a puzzle game, then probably the second one. If any other kind of game, I want the door to just open.
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Jan 25, 2023 21:09
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it should be like jurassic park trespasser and you have to physically use the controls to get your arm to put the key in and turn
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C) there is always a use door prompt and if I press it the key is used automatically if I have one
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Hi-Fi Rush looks okay. The animation actually looks really nice, and it's basically Soundfall gameplay but mixed with character action. It looks like Sunset Overdrive and it feels like it will have the typical insincere AAA dialog (the trailer literally starts with, Hi there, this is me, you're probably wondering how I got here, well...) it's also out today so I can just play it and see if it's any good The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Jan 25, 2023 |
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Jay Rust posted:Let's say you're playing a game with an inventory system. You pick up a key. You walk to a locked door. do i know the key fits that door?
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https://twitter.com/bethesda/status/1618342955202256928?s=20&t=w99rkLQ8FFRkwHRUjbE3WA Excuse me?
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I think it looks fun
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Yeah, like it actually looks kinda sick but this is like out of nowhere lol
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More than anything, I'm amazed that we've apparently circled all the way back to using "yep, that's me" unironically
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back at e3 i thought redfall looked just ok now it looks flat out bad to me idk if it's just because bethesda is notoriously bad at showing their games, but it looks miserable. sorry harvey smith
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I'm gonna play Hi-Fi Rush when it comes out later.
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Looper posted:do i know the key fits that door? no (but it does)
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Jay Rust posted:no (but it does) I ask because I booted up signalis for a bit, picked up a keycard in a room, then a bit later i tried a door and it just unlocked itself with the keycard without asking me and tbh I was kind of p*ssed off But then I thought, wait maybe this is good?? I should ask the gamers
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the GEP gun is the only key I need
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I am not a fan of how at a certain point in Nier even the regular bad guys just start throwing a million energy balls at you.
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Jay Rust posted:Let's say you're playing a game with an inventory system. You pick up a key. You walk to a locked door. The key and lock should both be fully 3D modeled down to the tumblers, you then have to perfectly insert it and turn it to open the door using the full capability of the physics engine to make sure the experience is as close to opening a real door as possible.
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Buschmaki posted:If you go against the social mores of an entire world you are evil. yeah that’s not how I define evil, buddy. social norms that cause suffering are evil whether they’re the majority or not.
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My character should karate kick the door open splintering it into a million pieces. The key should then be stuck in my inventory, undroppable, for all of time.
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Kerrzhe posted:yeah that’s not how I define evil, buddy. social norms that cause suffering are evil whether they’re the majority or not. I'm a materialist and relativist, which is why I play based games such as open-pvp MMOs
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