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Lobok posted:There's a movie that came out in '77 that did pretty well by mixing magic and spaceships. That's not precisely how I would describe Eraserhead but you're not wrong.
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YggiDee posted:Final Fantasy IV: Aliens lived on a planet between Mars and Jupiter until it exploded and they all came to Earth, but it was occupied so they made a second moon and are in suspended animation until the two species can co-exist My only objection is that I think the second moon was actually the Lunarians starship. Paper Tiger posted:I'm currently playing through this, and from what I gather the fal'cie are basically divine beings who bestow all of the tech (along with everything else, including basic needs like food and shelter) to humans. There might be humans who carry themselves as scientists, but it's essentially aliens treating humans like pets. Or raising them like livestock. The Fal'Cie are literally divine machines - XIII-2 confirms this by mentioning that the artificial Fal'Cie Hope tried to build reused some memory modules from Eden. Stranger of Paradise also calls them Divine Machines.
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I have always had A Thing for crossdressing pirate queens, so the second she opened her mouth I was all "Oh hey, sup Mary Read?" IRL the truth only came out after Ann Bonny tried to have sex with her. Pirates are fun.
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A supporting character is technically not a Little Thing, but dammit, the dog Missile in Ghost Trick is the absolutely cutest!Nameless Pete posted:I have always had A Thing for crossdressing pirate queens, so the second she opened her mouth I was all "Oh hey, sup Mary Read?" In the next year or so, I'm getting a tattoo of an Anne Bonny-type pirate lady. 
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Jul 14, 2023 20:10
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Of course he is, he's Missile! Seriously, he's the dog drat best.
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I just got the best little things in games ever! I bought Chronos: Before the Ashes because it was on sale for under ten bux. It looked like another Dark Souls clone; ok by me, they are usually worth it for at the cheap price point. I start playing, and I just know the controls and parry/dodge timing like I had played it before. I also recognize the character, and then something clicks when I get to a computer that mentions The Sleeper. HOLY poo poo THIS IS THE SAME WORLD AS REMNANT: FROM THE ASHES. I had no Idea! I literally googled the company and saw they made Remnant, then googled that and come to find out this game is a prequel of some sort. I stopped reading because I didn’t wanna spoil anything, but I was so excited! Y’all, for me this was like buying a bargain-bin game hoping it would be fun for just a few hours to justify its price, and then finding out its like, a Zelda game or something you never heard about. Gonna whoop some Root rear end all weekend, which will probably turn into more Remnant playing that I had wanted to do anyways in preparation for the sequel coming out, which will roll into actually buying and playing the sequel.
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Their flashing tongues, spitting out blood and poison.
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Marcade posted:Of course he is, he's Missile! Missile is the best and his theme slaps. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8-nsoTT5wK0 He is a good dog. He is the best boy. He waited. Because that’s what good doggies do. 
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Jul 14, 2023 21:52
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Bussamove posted:Missile is the best and his theme slaps. When I first played Ghost Trick and Missile started slamming into the door to try to get out of the apartment I genuinely thought that was how he was going to die, concussing himself to death trying to help. Thank god THAT didn't happen.
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Jul 14, 2023 22:05
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I’ve been playing Street Fighter EX3 and it has some real odd characters, a few of which seem to fight against the Fighting Game trope of martial arts and big flashy attacks. I always love when there are characters in fighting games that don’t seem to fit in or play by the Fighting Game™️ rules. One fighter is Sharon and her Level 3 super is AK-47. She just pulls out a rifle and shoots the fuckin opponent.
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Jul 14, 2023 23:03
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I feel kind of amazed I went this long without knowing Obra Dinn has an eye-searing greenscale mode, and I can’t imagine playing it any other way.
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Dewgy posted:I feel kind of amazed I went this long without knowing Obra Dinn has an eye-searing greenscale mode, and I can’t imagine playing it any other way. Obra Dinn received a ton of critical and audience acclaim, and it's still underrated.
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Jul 14, 2023 23:23
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In Wasteland 3 you get a temporary +4 penetration bonus for loving a sheep
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Dewgy posted:I feel kind of amazed I went this long without knowing Obra Dinn has an eye-searing greenscale mode, and I can’t imagine playing it any other way. Lol, I forgot it wasn't like that normally. It just feels right, like the best Apple IIc game that never existed.
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I've never even played it and that's the only footage I've seen of it. That's incredible.
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RareAcumen posted:I've never even played it and that's the only footage I've seen of it. That's incredible. The default is closer to a B&W Apple monitor, but there’s a few modes all named after different display types. Macintosh:   IBM 5151  https://in.ign.com/the-return-of-the-obra-dinn/129376/gallery/every-color-palette-in-return-of-the-obra-dinn?p=1
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credburn posted:In Wasteland 3 you get a temporary +4 penetration bonus for loving a sheep Sounds like that's a bonus you'd want beforehand
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Read After Burning posted:A supporting character is technically not a Little Thing, but dammit, the dog Missile in Ghost Trick is the absolutely cutest! An actual Little Thing about Missile: that's Shu Takami's dog IRL Dude loved his dog so much he put him in a video game Two video games actually! He's also in the Ace Attorney series
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Metroid Fitzgerald posted:An actual Little Thing about Missile: that's Shu Takami's dog IRL Ha, I actually know him first from the first Ace Attorney game, so seeing him in GT was 
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I like the boss in Syndicate (360) where you have no weapons so have to hack all of his missiles to both survive and defeat him. That's fun.
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Resistance: Fall of Man has a really nice looking instruction manual. I also like the 'chunk'-based health system for striking a good balance between regenerating heath and having a set number of hit points. Mamkute has a new favorite as of 04:49 on Jul 16, 2023 |
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BioEnchanted posted:I like the boss in Syndicate (360) where you have no weapons so have to hack all of his missiles to both survive and defeat him. That's fun. Syndicate 2012 was actually really good
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Mamkute posted:Resistance: Fall of Man has a really nice looking instruction manual. I like the "chunk" system, too. I'll call it that from now on! Far Cry 2 benefited from the chunk system, especially with the ad hoc surgery needed when you got below 2 bars and ran out of syrettes. Were they syrettes, or syringes? Anyways, I really liked how that worked. Up to a certain point, you could just take cover for a moment to heal. After that, you had to make a choice to expose yourself to run further away or chance a long animation to pull off a minimum heal while under fire. Done correctly, this made for some tense moments.
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Medal of Honor: Airborne did the chunk system too and I’ve loved it ever since. The Halo 1 system where you had regenerating shields and then hp that could only be healed by medpacks was also good, I was surprised when they moved away from it in 2 and 3.
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Mamkute posted:Resistance: Fall of Man has a really nice looking instruction manual. I wish more games did basically anything other than the most generic CoD-style regenerating health. Chunk system is neat, Halo 1 had the split health, old school games had HP and armor. madeintaipei posted:I like the "chunk" system, too. I'll call it that from now on! Done incorrectly, well... The obligatory. Though for real, the later Far Cry games don't do a particularly good job of it. You get multiple health chunks but damage is usually way too high and you need to skill up your minimum regeneration threshold and/or your freebie first aid heal so you just end up spamming medkits instead. And they know it, because they dump medkits anywhere you're due for a protracted engagement. John Murdoch has a new favorite as of 05:47 on Jul 16, 2023 |
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Improbable Lobster posted:Syndicate 2012 was actually really good I like the multiple layers of characterisation for the silent protagonist - he's a brainwashed company man who can't even imagine a society outside of the company system, and the chapter headings are all his inner monolog, like "Why do they keep on fighting?" because he's otherwise a blank slate and whenever he makes a decision the firmware in his head acts like it was a mechanical fault because he's not supposed to do that.
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Improbable Lobster posted:Syndicate 2012 was actually really good gently caress yeah, it was. You can't even buy it now for some reason.
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sebmojo posted:gently caress yeah, it was. You can't even buy it now for some reason. That's why I like physical copies of games, it may be off the xbox live marketplace, but I was able to get a used copy from CEX.
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You might be able to get it for PC through the EA/Origin store. That's where I got mine.
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I just wish the coop servers were still up. Its backwards compatible so you can play it on xbox one. But i think everyone said the servers are gone
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I was going to post some snarky thing about like, the only Syndicate I know is this Bullfrog one, but only then did I discover they're related?? I've never even heard of this Syndicate wtf
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It is pretty weird isn't it? Like if they made a god of war clone based off of Populous and it was actually pretty high budget and decent for what it was, but the world collectively decided to forget about it
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The Chad Jihad posted:It is pretty weird isn't it? Like if they made a god of war clone based off of Populous and it was actually pretty high budget and decent for what it was, but the world collectively decided to forget about it I think it got hurt by a group of very loud posters saying it was bad as soon as they saw it was a FPS and not like the original game
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It's peak mid 00s, lens flare for days, but it leans so hard into it that it is kind of adorable. Looks like it might have been delisted because of securom? https://answers.ea.com/t5/Origin-Mac-Client-Technical/Syndicate-2012-Removed/m-p/10584514
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I thought nuSyndicate was pretty fun. I remember my girlfriend at the time thinking I was completely messed up for laughing my rear end off when you get the ability to force enemy goons to kill themselves. Wish it got a remaster or something for newer hardware.
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The Chad Jihad posted:It is pretty weird isn't it? Like if they made a god of war clone based off of Populous and it was actually pretty high budget and decent for what it was, but the world collectively decided to forget about it Imagine if they took God of War, then made a game that had nothing in common with God of War but still used the title
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In system shock (remake), eating snacks leaves behind a wrapper in your inventory which you can vaporize for a tiny amount of recyclable scrap. bottles of alcohol do not leave anything behind. nice and crunchy
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Syndicate also was during the time when multiplayer modes were bolted onto anything and everything, no one played it, and so immediately that mode became dead weight for the game.
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Len posted:I think it got hurt by a group of very loud posters saying it was bad as soon as they saw it was a FPS and not like the original game I thought it was bad because it had the worst bloom that I had ever seen at the time, and I couldn't turn it off. A game giving me a headache through its graphics was enough to make me stop playing, which sucks because I did like the gameplay :/
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