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turn off the TV posted:not gonna lie, a storyline in a steampunk fantasy game where women are executed by being raped by ogres until they die in childbirth is actually what i would expect from very weird and horny men I mean ok but it's a thing you read about in an extremely dry document, there isn't like an FMV of it I dunno I don't wanna defend it because it's a fantasy antisemitic conspiracy storyline and a pretty sizable stain on an otherwise good game, I just can't really imagine how it parsed to anyone as horny
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Jul 11, 2023 03:36
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From what I've been told, depiction is not endorsement
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Jul 11, 2023 03:37
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Come to think of it this isn't really a distinction I feel is worthy of spending more time arguing on it so I'm gonna go ahead and take it as a mark of personal mental health that I couldn't parse that sidequest as potentially arousing to anyone and move on
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Jul 11, 2023 03:40
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anone up for battlebits ?
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Jul 11, 2023 03:45
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AnimeIsTrash posted:the orcs also suicide crash their plane into your zeppelin which starts the whole thing what's the problem, flying planes into things is extremely effective
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Jul 11, 2023 03:47
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these days my eyesight and reflexes are too bad to play games where a guy hiding in a bush on a hill a mile away kills me with a single bullet.
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Jul 11, 2023 03:48
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uber_stoat posted:these days my eyesight and reflexes are too bad to play games where a guy hiding in a bush on a hill a mile away kills me with a single bullet. yeah I tried battlebit died repeatedly and said "yup too old for this poo poo back to Oxygen Not Included"
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Jul 11, 2023 03:49
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I play caves of qud like a pensioner plays chess in the park
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Jul 11, 2023 03:49
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Buck Wildman posted:there's a surprisingly good narrative lp of it if you're interested this owns, ty 
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Jul 11, 2023 03:57
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all the olds are playing SF6, it's beautiful
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Jul 11, 2023 03:58
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I really wanted to like sf6 but the gameplay is so boring. I like soul calibur and dead or alive more
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Jul 11, 2023 03:59
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Buddykins posted:this owns, ty 
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Jul 11, 2023 04:00
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uber_stoat posted:these days my eyesight and reflexes are too bad to play games where a guy hiding in a bush on a hill a mile away kills me with a single bullet. this is ideal gameplay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMEBVXmbOBo
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Jul 11, 2023 04:01
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writing "brooks was here" into the wall in bullet holes before i drop a grenade at my feet and quit the server
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Jul 11, 2023 04:01
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I did the ffxvi demo and idk, the gradual transition from pixel-sprite / low poly turn based party crpg of my youth to slick anime cgi single character arpg has been weird and off-putting to me. I want to like it but if the rest of the game is 20 minute cutscenes followed by 5 minutes of arpg button mashing in a small circular arena maybe I should wait for a sale. whoever called it Devil May Clive got it imo. it feels fun zipping around doing chain dodges and stuff but that's kinda not why I wanted a ff game
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Jul 11, 2023 04:01
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Jul 11, 2023 04:03
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heard battlebits might add that dumbass kernel level anticheat poo poo so rip
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Jul 11, 2023 04:04
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it's an extremely fair preference, there's fortunately still a wealth of classic jrpg material still being turned out today, it's just more of an indie thing. you could also play dqxi in old school mode
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Jul 11, 2023 04:05
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They had a contest back just before Arcanums release, where you could submit stories that could potentially go into the in-game Tarantian Newspaper. The top 10 writers would get their stories in the newspaper, and a free copy of the game. The contest ended, and me and something like 4 other people total worldwide submitted stories for the contest. So we all "won", and I got my free copy of the game.
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Jul 11, 2023 04:05
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:They had a contest back just before Arcanums release, where you could submit stories that could potentially go into the in-game Tarantian Newspaper. The top 10 writers would get their stories in the newspaper, and a free copy of the game. noice what was your story
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Jul 11, 2023 04:06
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:They had a contest back just before Arcanums release, where you could submit stories that could potentially go into the in-game Tarantian Newspaper. The top 10 writers would get their stories in the newspaper, and a free copy of the game. this is really cool
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Jul 11, 2023 04:06
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:They had a contest back just before Arcanums release, where you could submit stories that could potentially go into the in-game Tarantian Newspaper. The top 10 writers would get their stories in the newspaper, and a free copy of the game. Buck Wildman posted:noice what was your story
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Jul 11, 2023 04:07
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I still have my old cds of arcanum and the bg trilogy and stuff
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Jul 11, 2023 04:09
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I remember having to swap out for the tales of the sword coast disc whenever you traveled to one of those areas lol
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Jul 11, 2023 04:10
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Buck Wildman posted:noice what was your story I don't even recall, but I got several stories in the paper. They were all terribly written, I'm no writer. I think I wrote them in the "voice" of the characters too, so if you see a story that's like "Oi guv, I dun spyed me a robut weerwulf, I did. Nearly topped me gibblers, e' did!", that was me. I was doing a stint of volunteer work in South America at the time, in a remote area at the time too. I was so bored in my off hours because there was very little to do, so when I did get dial-up access once a month, I saw the contest and started typing up some stories to submit. Several months after returning home, I got the notice that I "won", and where could they send my copy to.
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Jul 11, 2023 04:10
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drat that owns.
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Jul 11, 2023 04:11
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Buddykins posted:drat that owns.
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Jul 11, 2023 04:13
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Buddykins posted:drat that owns.
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Jul 11, 2023 04:14
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I don't even recall, but I got several stories in the paper. They were all terribly written, I'm no writer. I think I wrote them in the "voice" of the characters too, so if you see a story that's like "Oi guv, I dun spyed me a robut weerwulf, I did. Nearly topped me gibblers, e' did!", that was me. Buddykins posted:drat that owns.
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Jul 11, 2023 04:22
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ex post facho posted:I want to like it but if the rest of the game is 20 minute cutscenes followed by 5 minutes of arpg button mashing in a small circular arena maybe I should wait for a sale. you should wait for a sale then for me, this is probably going to be the first final fantasy game i actually manage to finish. Because it’s good
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Jul 11, 2023 04:31
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I don't even recall, but I got several stories in the paper. They were all terribly written, I'm no writer. I think I wrote them in the "voice" of the characters too, so if you see a story that's like "Oi guv, I dun spyed me a robut weerwulf, I did. Nearly topped me gibblers, e' did!", that was me. that's cool as hell, looking at them there's a fair amount that hint at storylines but i'm guessing anything not directly tied to the plot was submitted by someone then? there's one about a technology protest that the cops violently put down that seems like you would only need to know the basic premise of the world to come up with
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Jul 11, 2023 04:32
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SomethingBeautiful posted:that's cool as hell, looking at them there's a fair amount that hint at storylines but i'm guessing anything not directly tied to the plot was submitted by someone then? there's one about a technology protest that the cops violently put down that seems like you would only need to know the basic premise of the world to come up with Yep. It was like half the newspapers were canon lore, or led to quests, from the devs. The rest were just flavor stories. The intro of the contest had some basic primer for the races and world, "steampunk, fantasy industrial revolutions, orc rights, etc etc", and then just let people go off from there. I was most surprised that the stories I wrote got into the paper word for word. I had assumed the writers would tweak things to make them better, and make them fit within their world better, but nope. They just copy and pasted them directly as is.
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Jul 11, 2023 04:40
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Mr. Lobe posted:Didn't Arcanum also use nazi poster imagery for some socialist movement or something I think the posters for the orcs socialist worker movement were v kitcshy fascistic That might have just been the result of a dumb artist though
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Jul 11, 2023 04:42
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Buddykins posted:drat that owns. also the arcanum soundtrack is great. love strings. cover me in strings
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Jul 11, 2023 04:44
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more soundtracks need to be mournful violins
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Jul 11, 2023 04:45
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Unfortunately there were only like 3 tracks used in most locations in the game so you heard the same music like 800 times in a playthrough
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Jul 11, 2023 04:50
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alarumklok posted:also the arcanum soundtrack is great. love strings. cover me in strings i used to just listen to it, its great
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Jul 11, 2023 04:51
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alarumklok posted:more soundtracks need to be mournful cellos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGqJwqWbWa0 Buck Wildman has issued a correction as of 05:02 on Jul 11, 2023 |
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Jul 11, 2023 04:59
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everyone knows the viola is the most mournful string instrument mostly because of their owners but I digress
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Jul 11, 2023 05:02
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Lpzie posted:this is ideal gameplay it sucks that claymores are so bad on certain maps. tensa town is the funniest poo poo ever but idk if I've ever gotten a single kill on frugis
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