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Zulily Zoetrope posted:I don't think the other 24 insane voices would work half as well if you didn't have a straight man for them to bounce off. Plus he always has your back, never steers you wrong, and gets some absolute banger lines. And the two times when he does gently caress up (during the Dora dream and with Klaasje) are both incredible.
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Feb 6, 2023 16:17
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Youremother posted:And the two times when he does gently caress up (during the Dora dream and with Klaasje) are both incredible. Yeah volition being a bit of a killjoy and straight man all game is absolutely necessary setup for the devastating payoff of "I can't help you. I am totally useless. Everything I've said is lies. I want the exact same bad things you want. To stand here, like a pillar of salt." Volition's line after the insulindian phasmid's sky burial line is another absolutely perfect one in the ending.
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Feb 6, 2023 22:48
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MariusLecter posted:That line made me think a good impression of JFK would work for the voice lines. 
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Feb 7, 2023 01:58
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:People have talked about improving the clothing system (I personally really liked the idea of having to pick your costume at the start of each day) Absolutely unacceptable. Pausing a conversation so you can get better at talking by putting on a new hat or changing your pants is hilarious and the idea of Harry doing this several times a day as Kim looked on silently in total bafflement greatly improved my gameplay experience.
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Feb 7, 2023 03:20
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:Motorics definitely got the shortest end of the stick in regards to depth of development... People have talked about improving the clothing system (I personally really liked the idea of having to pick your costume at the start of each day) but I think the game could stand to lose a couple of skills so development can focus on giving each of the remaining ones a truly unique voice. iirc the physical skills were added last because they didn't want to just copy Torgen The Axe Dude, also Suggestion would work better if it was specifically the speaking half of a conversation/debate of being the skill deducing exactly what to (not)say while Rhetoric is the hearing half of a conversation/debate and just translating everything into layman's terms Also I like Interfacing being a weirdo that makes your fingers real horny for touching and stealing things while Reaction Speed just goes SWOOSH in your head at everything 
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Feb 7, 2023 06:55
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In case people are interested in interesting people streaming this game, Dani (pipopixie on Twitch) and Laurentheflute have started/are about to start playthroughs of this game respectively.
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Feb 7, 2023 08:57
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Youremother posted:And the two times when he does gently caress up (during the Dora dream and with Klaasje) are both incredible. Need a montage of Volition's greatest hits set to "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" world.
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Feb 7, 2023 10:25
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Samovar posted:Dani (pipopixie on Twitch) Ugh, watching her companion convince her to not take Shivers as her signature skill was painful, and its not even properly started yet. Not sure if I'll be able to watch through this one.
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Feb 7, 2023 14:14
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Valentin posted:Yeah volition being a bit of a killjoy and straight man all game is absolutely necessary setup for the devastating payoff of "I can't help you. I am totally useless. Everything I've said is lies. I want the exact same bad things you want. To stand here, like a pillar of salt." Volition's line after the insulindian phasmid's sky burial line is another absolutely perfect one in the ending. Which line is that latter one?
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Feb 7, 2023 14:29
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:Which line is that latter one? "In honour of your will, lieutenant yefreitor. That you kept from falling apart, in the face of sheer terror. Day after day. Second by second."
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Feb 7, 2023 15:12
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Samovar posted:...and Laurentheflute have started/are about to start playthroughs of this game respectively. Was this announced anywhere/with any idea of when it would start? I know it's been one she'd like to get to for awhile now.
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Feb 7, 2023 15:24
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Paladin posted:Was this announced anywhere/with any idea of when it would start? I know it's been one she'd like to get to for awhile now. It was announced on Discord, this Thursday. (Or early Friday for us folk in Europe). Yeah, Robin advising Dani to not take Shivers was some proper heinous poo poo. Still, they did push Dani (correctly so) to continue to torment Kim about Speedfreaks, so...
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Feb 7, 2023 16:17
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itching to do another playthrough but the buddy I share custody of the PS4 with has it for another week, booo what are some people’s favorite signature skills? I want to try something totally different this time. I’ve done Shivers, Inland, Esprit, and Physical Instrument so far.
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Feb 8, 2023 11:02
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EorayMel posted:iirc the physical skills were added last because they didn't want to just copy Torgen The Axe Dude, also Suggestion would work better if it was specifically the speaking half of a conversation/debate of being the skill deducing exactly what to (not)say while Rhetoric is the hearing half of a conversation/debate and just translating everything into layman's terms At the end of the day, with no combat system or anything to balance around, the skills just represent different dramatic voices or thematic throughlines, and players pick skills based on what narrative dialogue they want to focus the most on in a given playthrough. Skills are content gates, but some skills give you more and more interesting content. Since all the skills draw from the writing pool it's a zero sum game: more skills inevitably means less developed skills, while less skills should offer a more focused overall experience with fewer trap choices (currently a new player picking all the least developed skills would have an objectively more anemic experience). And I'm not saying like, drop Motorics entirely... Losing one skill per category would be a good start and could honestly be hardly noticable - Intellect is the hardest to pick one from for me, which goes back to what I said that it felt the most fully fleshed out. PoontifexMacksimus fucked around with this message at 11:59 on Feb 8, 2023 |
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Feb 8, 2023 11:57
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the escape goat posted:itching to do another playthrough but the buddy I share custody of the PS4 with has it for another week, booo Half Light. No hesitation.
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Feb 8, 2023 13:46
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the escape goat posted:itching to do another playthrough but the buddy I share custody of the PS4 with has it for another week, booo Doing at least one high encyclopedia run is hilarious and will give you a lot of lore you won't otherwise see.
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Feb 8, 2023 13:56
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the escape goat posted:itching to do another playthrough but the buddy I share custody of the PS4 with has it for another week, booo Encyclopedia is my precious child
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Feb 8, 2023 16:59
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if you’re in the business of really impressing kim interfacing is a solid pick
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Feb 8, 2023 17:21
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the escape goat posted:what are some people’s favorite signature skills?
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Feb 8, 2023 17:37
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Volition is a true friend. People have already mentioned some of its hits, but there's also a high passive check in the final encounter where volition notices that the Deserter isn't fully in control of himself, as though he's being puppetted, which I think is the keenest insight you can get on that situation.
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Feb 8, 2023 18:03
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:Volition is a true friend. VOLITION [Godly - Success] Odd. He's not a weak man. Why is he afraid? *not spoiling it because it says a lot in so little
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Feb 8, 2023 18:14
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quote:Volition So glad I added that to the skills i'd dump points into.
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Feb 8, 2023 19:54
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:At the end of the day, with no combat system or anything to balance around, the skills just represent different dramatic voices or thematic throughlines, and players pick skills based on what narrative dialogue they want to focus the most on in a given playthrough. Skills are content gates, but some skills give you more and more interesting content. I guess it would have to be logic, which I know doesn't make any sense but I've eliminated all the others so whatever's left, no matter how absurd, is the one. E: Visual Calculus doesn't have a personality, really. But it's too cool to cut
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Feb 8, 2023 20:01
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:Volition is a true friend. I like that one of the things I was introduced to the game with was the sandwhich moment - "Say one of these fascist or communist things or gently caress off" - as an example of how failure can lean to fun results. It was extra neat to learn that volition can bail you out there.
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Feb 8, 2023 20:09
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christmas boots posted:I guess it would have to be logic, which I know doesn't make any sense but I've eliminated all the others so whatever's left, no matter how absurd, is the one. if you really wanted to cut/consolidate, you could roll logic and visual calculus together into some kind of general "pattern recognition" skill, i guess.
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Feb 9, 2023 12:44
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Imagine electrochemistry combined with hand/eye coordination...forever
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Turpitude II posted:if you really wanted to cut/consolidate, you could roll logic and visual calculus together into some kind of general "pattern recognition" skill, i guess. This all feels wrong
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Feb 9, 2023 18:12
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logically, if you see boot prints on the ground and count them and consider their size, it should lead you to a logical conclusion about how many people they belong to and what kind. or the way a window has broken, or the way tire marks go, etc V Vunless you mean morally wrong.
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Feb 9, 2023 18:58
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Keep the skills that speak for copotypes and ideologies, cut the rest.
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Feb 9, 2023 19:06
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christmas boots posted:I guess it would have to be logic, which I know doesn't make any sense but I've eliminated all the others so whatever's left, no matter how absurd, is the one. Yeah, there is no point at which you pass a Visual Calculus test that it isn't immediately the coolest poo poo. I think more than just about any other skill, it's the one that makes Harry a capital-D Detective, and makes it clear that you earned those solved cases, even if that was just another way to be self-destructive.
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Feb 9, 2023 19:10
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Rogue AI Goddess posted:Keep the skills that speak for copotypes and ideologies, cut the rest. You will have to pry drama from my cold, dead, lying fingers.
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Feb 9, 2023 19:16
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The Lord of Hats posted:Yeah, there is no point at which you pass a Visual Calculus test that it isn't immediately the coolest poo poo. I think more than just about any other skill, it's the one that makes Harry a capital-D Detective, and makes it clear that you earned those solved cases, even if that was just another way to be self-destructive. the whole segment where it's talking about bullet trajectories and shot probabilities and starts categorizing locations into like "alpha prime" and the like is the tightest detective poo poo
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Feb 9, 2023 19:24
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Turpitude II posted:logically, if you see boot prints on the ground and count them and consider their size, it should lead you to a logical conclusion about how many people they belong to and what kind. or the way a window has broken, or the way tire marks go, etc V i mean morally wrong
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Feb 9, 2023 19:33
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Cpt_Obvious posted:You will have to pry drama from my cold, dead, lying fingers. Drama is, very begrudgingly, the Boring Cop rep.
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Feb 9, 2023 19:48
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christmas boots posted:i mean morally wrong 
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Feb 9, 2023 20:08
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Pattonesque posted:the whole segment where it's talking about bullet trajectories and shot probabilities and starts categorizing locations into like "alpha prime" and the like is the tightest detective poo poo I do a bit of investigatory work and the bit human can opener going through a dialogue trees just murdered me and left me hanging in a tree.
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Pattonesque posted:the whole segment where it's talking about bullet trajectories and shot probabilities and starts categorizing locations into like "alpha prime" and the like is the tightest detective poo poo Yeah, I can forgive Visual Calculus for being a mostly absent voice in the head. It makes sense -- it is VISUAL, after all.
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Feb 9, 2023 20:52
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Pattonesque posted:the whole segment where it's talking about bullet trajectories and shot probabilities and starts categorizing locations into like "alpha prime" and the like is the tightest detective poo poo and you just toss some of that out to Kim with no explanation and he goes "what?"
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Gwyneth Palpate posted:Yeah, I can forgive Visual Calculus for being a mostly absent voice in the head. It makes sense -- it is VISUAL, after all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tLp8KJWpuQ&t=1964s
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