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Joey Freshwater posted:Is this like the FRIENDS game meme or is this poo poo real because I honestly can’t tell Power Wash Simulator sincerely has a fun and entertaining arcing plot between your cleaning jobs around the town of Muckingham. Take the time to read the SMS messages your client sends you as a job progresses.
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SNES Star Fox, or Starwing as it was titled in PAL territories, made a game over fun with the continue screen being a spinning Arwing you could control and muck around with to some light and cheery background music... and if you pressed buttons on the second controller, iirc, you can switch it to the models of lots of other different enemies (and the spaceships that only appear in the animated intro to the game) as basically a hidden model viewer.
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My favourite little moment of subtle character-building in Doom 2016 is in the lift at the start, just before the title card. When Hayden is making his pitch for help to Doomguy and says “what we did, we did for the betterment of mankind”, and Doomguy pointedly looks down at the shattered corpse of a scientist at his feet during that line. gently caress you, Samuel Hayden.
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Joey Freshwater posted:God dammit ok fine I’ll get the game Get ready to blink and realize three hours have gone by! It's so loving addicting. I'm hoping they keep going with the DLC. 
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Mar 30, 2023 18:44
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I'm gonna do the boss later because this level has been huge (i'm right at the top now), but the Argent Tower level in Doom 2016 owns, especially climbing it's machinery. Also the Mancubus enemy is cool.
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AlMac posted:My favourite little moment of subtle character-building in Doom 2016 is in the lift at the start, just before the title card. When Hayden is making his pitch for help to Doomguy and says “what we did, we did for the betterment of mankind”, and Doomguy pointedly looks down at the shattered corpse of a scientist at his feet during that line. gently caress you, Samuel Hayden. While slowly cracking his knuckles as the view shakes ever so slightly from his very targeted and pointed rage. That elevator scene is unironically one of the best character establishment scenes of the 2010s.
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Mar 30, 2023 23:32
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RE4 Remake: You spend much less time babysitting Ashley. She gets separated halfway through the castle and only briefly comes back to you halfway through the labs.
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grittyreboot posted:RE4 Remake: You spend much less time babysitting Ashley. She gets separated halfway through the castle and only briefly comes back to you halfway through the labs. Counterpoint: She won't stay put forever when you tell her to hide in something now. I told her to stay in a locker, then all of a sudden she came running back up to me, halfway through fighting two chainsaw ladies 
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Captain Hygiene posted:Counterpoint: She won't stay put forever when you tell her to hide in something now. I told her to stay in a locker, then all of a sudden she came running back up to me, halfway through fighting two chainsaw ladies Weird. When I did that she only came back after the fighting was over.
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Huh, maybe I spent too long wandering around or something to trigger it. Oh well, I agree with your praise in general anyway.
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If you click the right stick while she's hiding it'll call her over to you, it's very easy to do in the heat of the moment
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Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I guess that'd be my actual complaint, but I don't know where else they'd put the command since the controller buttons are pretty much maxed out with relevant stuff. Maybe R1, and add the quick turn to the main interact button instead since it's pretty contextual, I guess.
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grittyreboot posted:RE4 Remake: You spend much less time babysitting Ashley. She gets separated halfway through the castle and only briefly comes back to you halfway through the labs. Boo, this is the first change I've read about that I dislike I never really had a problem with that whole mechanic though
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Weird Pumpkin posted:Boo, this is the first change I've read about that I dislike TBF to the game they do change Ashley's mechanics to be less frustrating. She doesn't have a health bar now. She can be incapacitated, which means she'll lay there until you run over and revive her. In place of the old stay put command she'll instead actively evade enemies. It's still not perfect, but it's better IMO.
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No more instantly killing her cause a single shotgun pellet hit her pinky toe?
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grittyreboot posted:TBF to the game they do change Ashley's mechanics to be less frustrating. She doesn't have a health bar now. She can be incapacitated, which means she'll lay there until you run over and revive her. In place of the old stay put command she'll instead actively evade enemies. It's still not perfect, but it's better IMO. Oh no I meant that I'm sad they apparently remove her from the game for awhile, since you don't have to protect her. I liked that aspect of the game Those changes do sound great though
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Leal posted:No more instantly killing her cause a single shotgun pellet hit her pinky toe? If Leon shoots her it's still an instant game over. It just means that the ganados won't go out of their way to murder the key to their main goal now.
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Yeah dumb Ashley related Game Overs in the original RE4 were a thing. Especially on Professional. The castle catapults for example.
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grittyreboot posted:If Leon shoots her it's still an instant game over. It just means that the ganados won't go out of their way to murder the key to their main goal now. See this clip from somebody doing a No Death run on Professional difficulty that was close to the end of the game: https://www.twitch.tv/elajjaz/clip/GorgeousConsiderateCobraBCouch-8baac3r11UH1oJAm I've also seen clips of Leon dodging a enemy swinging their melee weapon, that proceeds to hit Ashley right in the head. Sometimes it's better to toggle her to follow from a distance instead of sticking really close to you.
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Vic posted:Yeah dumb Ashley related Game Overs in the original RE4 were a thing. Especially on Professional. The castle catapults for example. See, I kinda liked that sequence by the third or fourth playthrough. On the one hand, you don't really want Ashley following you around up there. On the other hand, there's no locker to shove her into. So, leave her at the top of the stairs, snipe the first catapult, go towards the hut while eliminating cultists in the way, snipe the second catapult from the cupola, and by that time the cultist who spawns where you came from may have made his shambling way to Ashley. Make a mad dash back towards the girl before she gets carried out of the area, drag her back to finish the last catapult and raise the cannon. The whole sequence incentivizes rapid movement, making you think it's a good idea to leave Ash alone for a bit. Do it quickly enough and you won't even notice the surprise cultist before killing the catapults. I sure didn't until maybe the third time around, on Pro, where it takes more time to kill the ground based enemies.
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Vic posted:Yeah dumb Ashley related Game Overs in the original RE4 were a thing. Especially on Professional. The castle catapults for example. Oh my first time with the catapult section I had a hell of a time because Ashley got hit with a salvo, so then I'd go get her up, and by the time the animations finished and she could start moving again I'd be out of the blast range and she'd have been able to move maybe a foot before another blast hit her. Took about five revives before I got her somewhere she wouldn't get hit again. I died for unrelated reasons later and did that section again and I don't think she got hit once. Ashley is a land of contrasts.
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Did the (costume spoilers:) suit of armor for Ashley make it back in? That was always hilarious when the granado try to pick her up.
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swordfish duelist posted:Did the (costume spoilers:) suit of armor for Ashley make it back in? That was always hilarious when the granado try to pick her up. Sure did.
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swordfish duelist posted:Did the (costume spoilers:) suit of armor for Ashley make it back in? That was always hilarious when the granado try to pick her up. Leon grabbing his lower back after catching armored Ashley is a little thing in games. The visor on her helmet clamping down when you aim at her is, too. Ash is sick of your poo poo and just goes, "Nope." * clank*
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Does having that make her straight-up immortal for the sections where you play as her avoiding the suits of armor? That part is nerve-wracking and pretty good, but I don't know if I'd feel the same way on subsequent playthroughs.
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A neat bit of quiet storytelling from Metroid Prime thanks to playing the remaster: while you know about Phazon from the start if you're scanning things, since it's mentioned in the Space Pirate Frigate, environmental and creature scans (which are from Samus' suit itself) only start mentioning Phazon after you've actually had a chance to find a sample of it. Before then the scans only ever say 'mutated by unknown means' or the like. That first discovery itself is pretty minor and theoretically missable, just finding some tanks of it near the crashed frigate. It's not even in the log book. It just strikes me as a very minor bit of storytelling; Samus and her suit literally don't know what Phazon is until actually scanning it.
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Morpheus posted:Does having that make her straight-up immortal for the sections where you play as her avoiding the suits of armor? That part is nerve-wracking and pretty good, but I don't know if I'd feel the same way on subsequent playthroughs. It does
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Morpheus posted:Does having that make her straight-up immortal for the sections where you play as her avoiding the suits of armor? That part is nerve-wracking and pretty good, but I don't know if I'd feel the same way on subsequent playthroughs. the clock code doesn't change if you're just going through the game again so you can skip the first half or so unless you want the treasure it might change on professional? if you're just playing for fun on regular mode you can make that whole section way shorter, especially if you bumrush them to "opescuseme" past them
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In Yakuza 0 there are two protagonists who can both do special attacks depending on what kind of stuff is around you. Hit them into walls, slam car doors on them, that kind of thing. So if you're on a bridge over a river or lake you can instadefeat enemies by knocking them into the water. One guy accomplishes this by punching them in the stomach and doing a fancy back kick to knock them over the railing. Very cool, flashy move. I just discovered the other character does it by picking his opponent up over his head and just loving hurling them into the water with the camera making sure to zoom in on the enemy's terrified "oh gently caress this wasn't supposed to happen" face. I am going to throw so many people off bridges.
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Is there a special word for that like there is for defenestration?
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Throwing/kicking mooks off platforms is always satisfying, especially when the game realizes this and gives you a little added extra like that. It's a delight only surpassed by yoinking them off a rooftop from below.
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Zero_Grade posted:Throwing/kicking mooks off platforms is always satisfying, especially when the game realizes this and gives you a little added extra like that. The Sparta Kick in AC Odyssey is a little thing in games all by itself. I've lost count of how many Greeks I've kicked off a high place.
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iirc in the king of kicking game, Dark Messiah, you can even kick someone in the opening cutscene.
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Solenna posted:In Yakuza 0 there are two protagonists who can both do special attacks depending on what kind of stuff is around you. Hit them into walls, slam car doors on them, that kind of thing. So if you're on a bridge over a river or lake you can instadefeat enemies by knocking them into the water. One guy accomplishes this by punching them in the stomach and doing a fancy back kick to knock them over the railing. Very cool, flashy move. I just discovered the other character does it by picking his opponent up over his head and just loving hurling them into the water with the camera making sure to zoom in on the enemy's terrified "oh gently caress this wasn't supposed to happen" face. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snnOqwLjq7A&t=18s
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Frig, Yakuza’s heat moves are those sort of things that I enjoy maybe seeing once or twice then I forget about them… except they’re so friggin good that I used them so much. The box of nails and the kettle were especially brutal heat moves. Fist of The North Star goes a LOT harder with Kenshiro’s heat moves… usually just via Hokuto No Ken but there is one where he busts out a flame thrower. 
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There's one in Kiwami that's easy to miss, but just puts the biggest smile on my face. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=428h4THJbGQ
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I always appreciate that the mightiest weapon Yakuza is the humble bicycle. They're everywhere, and you can really beat the poo poo out of thugs with them.
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Horizon Zero Dawn has a good "yank people off a platform to their doom from below" attack. Ghost Leviathan posted:There's one in Kiwami that's easy to miss, but just puts the biggest smile on my face. I wasn't expecting to enjoy this style of game (3d brawler, I normally play 2d or turn based stuff) as much as I am but it's sure a good time.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I always appreciate that the mightiest weapon Yakuza is the humble bicycle. They're everywhere, and you can really beat the poo poo out of thugs with them. they added this to the game because of an old video of an actual yakuza beating the poo poo out of someone with a bike
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There's a real physical vibe to the whole Yakuza series that underlies the action, both brutal and slapstick. Probably one of the most consistently funny game series of the last couple generations, not that's a lot of meaningful competition.
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