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Favourite Pokémon type? This poll is closed. |
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| Plain |
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6 | 3.17% |
| Hot |
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7 | 3.70% |
| Wet |
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15 | 7.94% |
| Green |
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11 | 5.82% |
| Shocking |
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2 | 1.06% |
| Cold |
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3 | 1.59% |
| Punchy |
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7 | 3.70% |
| Poisonous |
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4 | 2.12% |
| Brown |
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7 | 3.70% |
| Bird |
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11 | 5.82% |
| Weird |
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17 | 8.99% |
| Gross |
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11 | 5.82% |
| Solid |
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2 | 1.06% |
| Scary |
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8 | 4.23% |
| Dragon |
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5 | 2.65% |
| Creepy |
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18 | 9.52% |
| Mech |
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33 | 17.46% |
| Pink |
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22 | 11.64% |
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I thought they did that already or was that just to PC
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Sep 7, 2023 19:23
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Feels Villeneuve posted:It was frequently much funnier before all the major corps started really controlling their press conferences towards the very end Was that the one that also had flute guy or was that a different year?
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Sep 7, 2023 19:27
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Electric Phantasm posted:Was that the one that also had flute guy or was that a different year? That was the flute guy, who I believe it came out marketed himself as this master of traditional Japanese instruments but it turned out had no idea about anything since he was a white guy from Baltimore. So he was perfect to promote Ghost of Tsushima.
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Sep 7, 2023 19:34
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IIRC he was literally an extremely qualified player of that instrument but also was a white guy dressing in traditional clothing so it looked bad.
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Sep 7, 2023 19:36
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New Punch-out style game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERQIlrFoqZI
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Sep 7, 2023 19:36
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Starfield's feeling like a big step back from FO4 somehow so far
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Sep 7, 2023 19:40
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In this thread we respect Cornelius Boots.
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Sep 7, 2023 19:44
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RBA Starblade posted:Starfield's feeling like a big step back from FO4 somehow so far How long you been playing? That was my feeling for a long while too, a regression in a number of ways, before Which isn’t to say it’s a better game, but it’s a more apples to oranges comparison.
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Sep 7, 2023 19:49
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Rinkles posted:How long you been playing? That was my feeling for a long while too, a regression in a number of ways, before Just a few hours so far, and it's not like I'm not liking it, but it doesn't really feel like anything has been iterated on positively It's better than games like NMS or Outer Worlds but those are extremely low bars lol
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Sep 7, 2023 19:50
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Panzeh posted:Yeah, V&G is very, weird. It kinda reminds me of the board game Napoleon against Europe, which is also pretty good and is also a two-player game, though it can handle England getting knocked out a bit better. Funnily enough I bought it after abandoning playing L'Empereur for Uncharted Waters after I remembered that existed. I might go back and give it a real go this time. As for V&G it's in that fascinatingly large caste of boardgames and games like them where it is undeniably fun, but you can see the cracks in the gameplay and you just wish that you could get a sequel to paste over some of them. Just sitting thinking about it in the shower having the French recruitment pool decreasing every two years after the first, but having client kingdoms add to it would encourage more proactive play in that regard. Making the Spanish Guerilla's cease if you manage to wrest control of Portugal and unblockade Iberia would also make more sense then them just poofing into existence with guns and training. Giving the different generals actual skills would be interesting and not complicate matters much, St.Cyr being better on defense, Davout's troops harder to disorganize, Napoleon has a higher chance of having favorable terrain, Murat's cavalry get's a bonus pip, stuff like that. It would also make sense for terrain to exist in more than just the cards. For a series of campaigns that often hinged so much on Napoleon's master of terrain most battles being a 2x9 grid with zero features is bizarre. Oh well, probably just going to have to bite the bullet and get into AGEOD games or try and find a war gaming group.
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Sep 7, 2023 19:51
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RBA Starblade posted:Just a few hours so far, and it's not like I'm not liking it, but it doesn't really feel like anything has been iterated on positively When was last time you played NMS? The more I play of Starfield the more it seems equivalent to NMS just trading back on forth on omissions and strengths/weaknesses. Like writing is worse in Starfield, but the quests and NPCs at least in the abstract aren't technically you and the things they ask you to do are more mundane and straightforward for better or worse. Some of the NMS expeditions had interesting mechanical changes or structures to mix up the initial gameplay loops, curious to see how the NG+ changes compare.
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Sep 7, 2023 20:54
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Khanstant posted:When was last time you played NMS? The more I play of Starfield the more it seems equivalent to NMS just trading back on forth on omissions and strengths/weaknesses. Good question, maybe a year or two after it released? It's been a while
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Sep 7, 2023 20:57
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I did the bulk of my playing within the last year or so with a brief gamepass poke around at some point before, and really seems like they added a ton of stuff that just wasn't there before but to me was always just the base experience. I don't think NMS or Starfield quite meet the bar people want them to be If nothing else, the capital ship stuff they added was a genuinely fun thing to build up towards and earn and seek out the sweet Eva-01 colour scheme I wanted on the biggest ship style I could find. First time I walked on board my new capital ship and saw all my other little ships and had space for a base inside, like, I think that was the closest I've ever felt to understanding what crazy dream star citizens have to get so sucked into that scheme. There is something to bring the person who tells a person to fly the mothership somewhere and staff to make sure everything is ready for when you go do some planetside bullshit. I don't think they had orbital bombing last I played but they had several patches since I last played. I was also hoping for a capital ship version of the space whalejellyfish.
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Sep 7, 2023 21:09
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RBA Starblade posted:Good question, maybe a year or two after it released? It's been a while
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Sep 7, 2023 21:18
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I'm not sure how big a part of the game it is nowadays, but how's the shooting in NMS?
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Sep 7, 2023 21:33
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They've made several passes at improving it and now it's acceptable but the game isn't a shooter. Combat is largely avoidable and you have a lot of tools to run away from encounters
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Sep 7, 2023 21:39
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I've got two Audible credits that apparently disappear if I cancel my sub. Any sci fi recommendations? I've barely read any contemporary sci fi, so not even Iain Banks' stuff. Children of Time sounds cool.
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Sep 7, 2023 21:40
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Book of the New Sun
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Sep 7, 2023 21:45
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I have been reading Octavia Butler's Earthseed duology, Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents
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Sep 7, 2023 21:45
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The Locked Tomb books are goofy fun
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Sep 7, 2023 21:47
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Also do read Iain M. Banks' stuff (he used the M for sci-fi and leaves it out for general fiction)
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Sep 7, 2023 21:48
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there isn't even an M in sci-fi
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Sep 7, 2023 21:50
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Rinkles posted:I've got two Audible credits that apparently disappear if I cancel my sub. Any sci fi recommendations? I've barely read any contemporary sci fi, so not even Iain Banks' stuff. Children of Time sounds cool. Children of Time is p good.
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Sep 7, 2023 21:53
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Rinkles posted:I'm not sure how big a part of the game it is nowadays, but how's the shooting in NMS?
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Sep 7, 2023 21:59
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I have no idea what the implications of the big elaborate quest in the most recent nms update where you build your own wizard staff are on all that, though. haven't done it yet
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Sep 7, 2023 22:07
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I assume you mean assembling a support crew of magic users
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Sep 7, 2023 22:10
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Finding a perfect gun tool that matches your fleet aesthetic is pretty hard. Speaking of No Man's Subnautica they added a whole set of vehicles and bases for underwater I never found a place deep enough to make it feel like a weird amphibious base
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Sep 7, 2023 22:18
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I assume you mean assembling a support crew of magic users a wizard's staff has a knob on the end
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Sep 7, 2023 22:21
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Rinkles posted:I've got two Audible credits that apparently disappear if I cancel my sub. Any sci fi recommendations? I've barely read any contemporary sci fi, so not even Iain Banks' stuff. Children of Time sounds cool. Hyperion or Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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Sep 7, 2023 22:37
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1968 isn’t that contemporary Hyperion is good though. Don’t read sequels 3 and 4
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Sep 7, 2023 22:46
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Rinkles posted:I'm not sure how big a part of the game it is nowadays, but how's the shooting in NMS? rear end
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Sep 7, 2023 23:00
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do people think the shooting in starfield is good i don't play gun games enough to know what good shooting is actually like.
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Sep 7, 2023 23:04
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Good shooting is when you click the button once and 15 people in front of you explode into a fountain of red mist and meat chunks.
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Sep 7, 2023 23:08
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Rinkles posted:I've got two Audible credits that apparently disappear if I cancel my sub. Any sci fi recommendations? I've barely read any contemporary sci fi, so not even Iain Banks' stuff. Children of Time sounds cool. goatface posted:Children of Time is p good.
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Sep 7, 2023 23:11
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Kerrzhe posted:do people think the shooting in starfield is good The shooting is fine in starfield. It does the job.
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Sep 7, 2023 23:11
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sirtommygunn posted:Good shooting is when you click the button once and 15 people in front of you explode into a fountain of red mist and meat chunks. ah. so like when a high level Krieg in BL2 swings his axe at someone's head. got it.
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Sep 7, 2023 23:11
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Kerrzhe posted:ah. so like when a high level Krieg in BL2 swings his axe at someone's head. got it. Mm, no, not quite. Borderlands in general is not really a good example of an FPS that feels satisfying to play, partly due to the nature of it being meshed so heavily with RPG conceits. It's still fun mind you, but it's fun for how ridiculous it is rather than feeling satisfying imo (I have played all four for reference) Generally good shooting in an FPS feels very responsive to the players actions(when missing it's a mistake on your part, not something out of player control), has good player feedback (gun sounds satisfying to fire) AND good enemy feedback (enemies react appropriately to getting shot, fun ragdolls/gibs for more powerful weapons). There's some other more specific stuff that'll vary from person to person imo rather than being a core. Fwiw WH40K: Darktide has the best FPS experience for shooting a gun in any FPS I've played (I've played a lot of fps) at the moment imo. Guns are all satisfying to fire, enemies react fantastically via various stagger, knockdown and gib animations, you never really feel like missed shots were out of your control. Evil Kit fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Sep 8, 2023 |
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Sep 8, 2023 00:01
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Evil Kit posted:Mm, no, not quite. Borderlands in general is not really a good example of an FPS that feels satisfying to play, partly due to the nature of it being meshed so heavily with RPG conceits. It's still fun mind you, but it's fun for how ridiculous it is rather than feeling satisfying imo (I have played all four for reference) You need to try Tarkov
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Sep 8, 2023 00:13
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Destiny 2 has extraordinarily good FPS feel and it’s free to try
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Sep 8, 2023 00:33
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It’s pronounced “jibs”
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