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credburn posted:The backstory of Higgs's name in Death Stranding has to be one of the most bonkers thing. It's kind of obvious if you know Kojima at all, and why not a single person can have a name that isn't a one-line description of their entire character, but when it's revealed, ahh man we all just shouted and roared with laughter. I don't know why I didn't put it together... I think because even for Kojima that was absurdly silly. Maybe I missed something, but isn't Higgs just named after the Higgs Boson? That seems like bottom rung Kojima weirdness tbh.
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he's no Hot Coldman e: Shoot Gunner
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Babe Magnet posted:he's no Hot Coldman Dr. Strangelove
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Hattie Masters posted:It feels like it's judging me for having the temerity to not just go to the main menu and hit Quit to Desktop. It's not "Stop hitting yourself" but "Stop sending people into lovely wars and then glorifying it in videogames". It's not making a value judgement about you personally, it's not about you at all. It's about being a good guy in a situation where you are forced to do bad guy stuff. The Line  about not playing is not about you not playing the game, it's about loving United States in the Middle East.When I say "knock knock" you need to say "who's there"
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i liked the scene in the genocide runthrough where Walker executes Papyrus with the last bullet in his gun before using white phosphorus on the Temmies
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There was an amazing let's play where some dude who seemed to have worked on the game was absolutely laying into the lead dev about the decisions he'd made, just frothing mad about every single one of them
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credburn posted:PYF little things in game reviews: Of course you double tap the spacebar at the end of a sentence. Makes your phone add a period automatically!
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Undertale apparently made its point more clearly because I stopped playing it almost immediately. I actually completed Spec Ops: The Line, proving it to be the inferior game.
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sebmojo posted:There was an amazing let's play where some dude who seemed to have worked on the game was absolutely laying into the lead dev about the decisions he'd made, just frothing mad about every single one of them Oooh, any links? I remember the LP of X-Com the Bureau that interviewed the makers of the game as it was being played and it was tres good - but the one you recall sounds like it could be very fun.
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Nameless Pete posted:Undertale apparently made its point more clearly because I stopped playing it almost immediately. I actually completed Spec Ops: The Line, proving it to be the inferior game. 
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I've been playing Warhammer: Mechanicus, it's the perfect steamdeck game for my bus ride to and from work. The missions are short enough I can get a mission or two in on the trip. There are missions to hunt down high-ranking Necron Lords, and the second one that opened up for me was a rematch against the Lord from the tutorial who will solidly kick your rear end. In the rematch, with some ranks on my tech priests and some better troops, it was like putting him into the time-out chair. He got trapped on a stairway between two troops, he couldn't do anything to my actual tech priests, and he couldn't kill the troops. It was satisfying going to town on him. This isn't even an end-game team (my awakening was at roughly 25-29% for those who have playing it)
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Nioh does not have instantly replenishable healing resources. Your healing item, the elixir, stocks up from enemy drops, and you can upgrade your maximum on-hand capacity of it; any more than that goes to a stockpile, and you stock up to that maximum capacity every time you stop by a shrine. The final shrine before the final boss of Nioh is after the game locks the door behind you. There are no enemies between the shrine and the final boss, it's purely a 'corridor between save point and final boss' situation. These facts INTERACT VERY POORLY TOGETHER. I literally cannot finish this game, because I have no healing resources left.
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Necrothatcher posted:Maybe I missed something, but isn't Higgs just named after the Higgs Boson? That seems like bottom rung Kojima weirdness tbh. He's named that because he is the GOD PARTICLE
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Also because he thinks he's more important than he is.
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Hattie Masters posted:Undertale's criticisms of gaming and the culture surrounding it hit that much harder, in my opinion, because at almost any point you can stop. You can jump off. You can start over, make different decisions. And the game itself acknowledges and encourages that. The famous boss fight against Sans is so difficult for that reason, in a manner that is literal and stated by the game. Sans posted:i know your type. you're, uh, very determined, aren't you? you'll never give up, even if there's, uh... absolutely NO benefit to persevering whatsoever. if i can make that clear. no matter what, you'll just keep going. not out of any desire for good or evil... but just because you think you can. and because you "can"... ... you "have to". I always thought this was a neat line. There's a breed of gamer who feels like they have to do everything that a game permits them to do, I guess out of some desire to get all the value out of their money or something? So congrats, you completed an extremely un-fun slog to get to the end of the "you're an actual human monster" storyline, and now you're being called out on that.
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I cannot play Pillars of Eternity 2 without compulsively completing all available quests.
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Nameless Pete posted:Undertale apparently made its point more clearly because I stopped playing it almost immediately. I actually completed Spec Ops: The Line, proving it to be the inferior game. 🆗️
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Samovar posted:Oooh, any links? I remember the LP of X-Com the Bureau that interviewed the makers of the game as it was being played and it was tres good - but the one you recall sounds like it could be very fun. Sorry not offhand, the ex-dev was a commenter not the op though so their rants won't be in the lp archive.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I always thought this was a neat line. There's a breed of gamer who feels like they have to do everything that a game permits them to do, I guess out of some desire to get all the value out of their money or something? So congrats, you completed an extremely un-fun slog to get to the end of the "you're an actual human monster" storyline, and now you're being called out on that. I do it because I despise secrets and not knowing.
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[Bravely] I don't play any battle royale games because I don't like them
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I have similar issues with some games where I pull up a walkthrough before I start because my sadbrains makes me incapable of playing a game if I might miss something. Same thing with games that have time limits, no matter how generous.
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RareAcumen posted:[Bravely] I don't play any battle royale games because I don't like them wow, mods?!
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Marcade posted:I have similar issues with some games where I pull up a walkthrough before I start because my sadbrains makes me incapable of playing a game if I might miss something. Same thing with games that have time limits, no matter how generous. Time is fleeting my friend, embrace your mortality No I didn't put over 72 hours into Vice City and start over three times because I kept losing track of which hidden packages I missed, why do you ask?
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Marcade posted:I have similar issues with some games where I pull up a walkthrough before I start because my sadbrains makes me incapable of playing a game if I might miss something. Same thing with games that have time limits, no matter how generous. I'm pretty sure it doesn't help, but I always look at the fact that you can miss things as part of the experience Plus it's great motivation to replay the game if you liked it a lot and explore more thoroughly, try different choices, that kinda stuff.
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credburn posted:He's named that because he is the GOD PARTICLE Which is only called that due to selfcensorship. Physicists were calling it the "goddamn particle" privately but shortened it when talking to a journalist.
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Tunicate posted:Which is only called that due to selfcensorship. Physicists were calling it the "goddamn particle" privately but shortened it when talking to a journalist.
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Cleretic posted:Nioh does not have instantly replenishable healing resources. Your healing item, the elixir, stocks up from enemy drops, and you can upgrade your maximum on-hand capacity of it; any more than that goes to a stockpile, and you stock up to that maximum capacity every time you stop by a shrine. It will refill you to 3 (maybe 4, can't remember exact number rn) even if your stockpile is zero every time you rest at a shrine or respawn.
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Cleretic posted:Nioh does not have instantly replenishable healing resources. Your healing item, the elixir, stocks up from enemy drops, and you can upgrade your maximum on-hand capacity of it; any more than that goes to a stockpile, and you stock up to that maximum capacity every time you stop by a shrine. just don't get hit if you must get hit, and you're not getting your three free elixers, you inventory might be full. drop some armor or something Babe Magnet has a new favorite as of 00:28 on May 10, 2023 |
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meanwhile i'm on my like 5th restart of wotr in a week because i can't settle on a class.
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Kitfox88 posted:meanwhile i'm on my like 5th restart of wotr in a week because i can't settle on a class. Don't worry, no matter what class you pick you will be ground under the boots of Pathfinder Difficulty.
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Randalor posted:I've been playing Warhammer: Mechanicus, it's the perfect steamdeck game for my bus ride to and from work. The missions are short enough I can get a mission or two in on the trip. Quick piece of advice to handle awakening - you can both access panels for money and THEN destroy them
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sebmojo posted:There was an amazing let's play where some dude who seemed to have worked on the game was absolutely laying into the lead dev about the decisions he'd made, just frothing mad about every single one of them That sounds like Evil Tim's rants about the lead writer. I think I have a way to backtrace those posts, gimme a sec. John Murdoch has a new favorite as of 12:24 on May 10, 2023 |
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3723999&userid=123933 There we go. I don't think Evil Tim ever explained his bonafides or any specific connection to the game but they were some fun posts, particularly if you didn't 100% like every last thing about Spec-Ops.
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John Murdoch posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3723999&userid=123933 you know it's a good one where the first post of fifty starts with "white phosphorus was noone's fault"
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okay i read some more and my conclusion is that Evil Tim is a CIA contractor who's mad at unfair portrayal of his noble profession
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Push El Burrito posted:Don't worry, no matter what class you pick you will be ground under the boots of Pathfinder Difficulty. doing a fighter archer 
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John Murdoch posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3723999&userid=123933 this guy sucks to an unholy degree
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