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I made it through the entirety of Heaven's Vault, played through a little over halfway through in NewGame+, finally dropped off Sya (worker trapped on one of the moons) on Elboreth, since the game was finally making me go to one of main, populated moons again. I went to go chat with Oroi (main character's very techy friend) about some stuff, and happened to notice that you can tell her about Six (your robot buddy) and their bog-standard Robot Amnesia from probably having their memory wiped. Thought process for the next fifteen minutes went along these lines: ...you can mention Six's memories?  ...you can mention the weird obviously mind-capturing teleporter from the Withering Palace?  ...you can take her to the Withering Palace??  ...Six is who now???  Okay, well I guess it was a good thing I wanted to chat with Oroi about that crystal I found!  Jesus Christ I figured that Six was going to be an important character of some kind, I didn't think that Six would end up having their personality overwritten(recovered?) by Oroi and turn out to be a loving Empress edit: Okay, I thought I was just doing a victory lap of this game because I knew quite a bit and had to patch over a few holes, now I'm realizing that I can't stop after a second playthrough because I have to hit NewGame++, do all of the above poo poo ASAP, and then play through the game a third time just for this alone. And then when I finish time number 3, I still technically have to go back to one of these sites with Six because I never did get to explore that place on my first playthrough. Good lord. 
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heaven's vault is such a surprisingly deep game. i do wish the overall experience was smoother so it'd be more generally recommendable, but it's still very much worth playing
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Sep 21, 2023 06:00
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Don't forget there's two endings as well!
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Sep 21, 2023 06:40
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When you're done with the game, I also highly recommend reading the novelizations. They're by the main writer and hit the vibe perfectly. They avoid just replaying the plot of the game, instead giving a lot more character backstory and world details you never see in game. It also unambiguously gives you a happy ending, which was a nice surprise after beating the game.
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Ruud Hoenkloewen posted:When you're done with the game, I also highly recommend reading the novelizations. They're by the main writer and hit the vibe perfectly. They avoid just replaying the plot of the game, instead giving a lot more character backstory and world details you never see in game. It also unambiguously gives you a happy ending, which was a nice surprise after beating the game. Well I know what I'm buying next... 
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Rendfield: Bring Your Own Blood is the Vampire Survivors clone Renfield movie tie-in game. Like the movie, it's more fun than it has any right to be. The movie is set in New Orleans and stars Nic Cage as Dracula. The first level in the game is the Saint Louis Cemetery where, if you get lucky, you can come across Nic Cage's real life pyramid tomb. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/nicolas-cage-s-pyramid-tomb That's such a niche reference from a niche game based on a niche movie that I can only marvel at it.
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OutOfPrint posted:Rendfield: Bring Your Own Blood is the Vampire Survivors clone Renfield movie tie-in game. Like the movie, it's more fun than it has any right to be. Is that the movie where he runs down the street screaming "I'M A VAMPIRE!  " or is this a different vampire movie starring Nic Cage?
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That's Vampire's Kiss.
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Renfield is great.
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Marcade posted:That's Vampire's Kiss. Which absolutely rocks and is a must see.
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Mario Rabbids 1: very charming game all over. enjoyed my time with it. but i think my favourite little detail is that the image for Luigi's overwatch ability, "Steely Stare", is the death stare from Mario Kart that went viral. couldnt help but smirk every time i switched him back into my party and was reminded
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Sally posted:Mario Rabbids 1: very charming game all over. enjoyed my time with it. but i think my favourite little detail is that the image for Luigi's overwatch ability, "Steely Stare", is the death stare from Mario Kart that went viral. couldnt help but smirk every time i switched him back into my party and was reminded It's come up in a few games now, one of the recent Paper Marios mentions it too iirc. Cant remember if it's Colour Splash or Origami King off the top of my head though.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:It's come up in a few games now, one of the recent Paper Marios mentions it too iirc. Cant remember if it's Colour Splash or Origami King off the top of my head though. It's Color Splash that says it directly, with your partner character telling Luigi to just 'give them that creepy stare' in response to anyone attacking him after he drives you somewhere. Origami King doesn't reference it explicitly, but does keep Luigi as 'the driver' and makes it clear that he's really aggressive about it.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:It's come up in a few games now, one of the recent Paper Marios mentions it too iirc. Cant remember if it's Colour Splash or Origami King off the top of my head though. haha good!
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Which absolutely rocks and is a must see. It does and is, fair warning it might be a little more hosed up than you remember if it's been a while since you saw it
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I just rewatched it a couple of weeks ago.
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Renfield was so good. "That's so weird! Why would you phrase it like that!"
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The 2.0 update for Cyberpunk removes the Elon Musk cameo.
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muscles like this! posted:The 2.0 update for Cyberpunk removes the Elon Musk cameo. The Elon Musk cameo that had him acting like a weirdo having been stuffed in the dark corners of a bathroom? He basically exists to get told to gently caress off. I guess they were worried they hurt the nazi terf's feelings. Archonex has a new favorite as of 20:09 on Sep 22, 2023 |
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Archonex posted:The Elon Musk cameo that had him acting like a weirdo having been stuffed in the dark corners of a bathroom? He basically exists to get told to gently caress off. Orrrrr they didn't want Elon in their game any more
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Archonex posted:The Elon Musk cameo that had him acting like a weirdo having been stuffed in the dark corners of a bathroom? He basically exists to get told to gently caress off. ? no, it was the report that he threatened the dev team with George Washington's flintlock to be put in the game.
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Famethrowa posted:? no, it was the report that he threatened the dev team with George Washington's flintlock to be put in the game. I did not hear of this. What the gently caress happened exactly?
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he threatened the dev team with George Washington's flintlock to be put in the game.
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Archonex posted:I did not hear of this. What the gently caress happened exactly? https://www.pcgamer.com/elon-musk-demanded-a-cameo-in-cyberpunk-2077-while-wielding-a-200-year-old-gun-i-was-armed-but-not-dangerous/ probably this one https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1597165510595989504?t=qk_oRr_vNXklLPe1Yr__qQ&s=19
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Was it actually George Washington's flintlock, or just A flintlock? Places online just said it was a 200-year old gun.
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Randalor posted:Was it actually George Washington's flintlock, or just A flintlock? Places online just said it was a 200-year old gun. It's a replica. Yours for $150 https://replicaweaponry.com/colonial-replica-george-washington-deluxe-boxed-flintlock-set/ Qwertycoatl has a new favorite as of 21:32 on Sep 22, 2023 |
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Qwertycoatl posted:It's a replica. Yours for $150 So it's not even an actually-200-year-old gun? Just a cheap replica? What the everloving gently caress? Elon is the SADDEST excuse for a narcissistic megalomaniac billionaire I've ever seen. Either go with an actual vintage gun (I vote blunderbuss because, cmon, it's a God drat blunderbuss) or some stupidly gimmicky experimental technology gun. It's Cyberpunk, wave a God drat gauss rifle around!
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Famethrowa posted:https://www.pcgamer.com/elon-musk-demanded-a-cameo-in-cyberpunk-2077-while-wielding-a-200-year-old-gun-i-was-armed-but-not-dangerous/ still just absolutely loling at the diet coke cans. anyhow, not entirely sure how i feel about 2.0, but i am digging the "no longer loot 4 billion guns and disassemble them all to grind for points in crafting" mechanic.
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Not even Diet Coke, It's Caffeine Free Diet Coke the drink of absolute psychopaths.
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There's a lot of worst parts of that picture, but the absolute worst part might be the sheer number of water rings from not using a coaster.
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Gaius Marius posted:Not even Diet Coke, It's Caffeine Free Diet Coke the drink of absolute psychopaths. i call it night coke. yum
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A little disappointed that Heaven's Vault's robot companion doesn't have more different voice lines if you uncover their backstory. There were a few brand new moments, but otherwise it seems to be a pretty rough find->replace of "Mistress" with other nouns when referring to the main character. Sometimes they land very well, other times it's the most hilariously stilted conversation possible. "Are you injured, Elborethian Scum?!" I'm also satisfied with the wrap-up on NewGame+, because from what I'm reading there's not a lot of extra dialogue to uncover by getting to the robot companion's backstory early, and the last moon that I missed doing on my first playthrough was actually the Mining Moon, which I already fully completed in my unfinished 2020 playthrough. I think I've finally wringed as much content as I can from the game, so I'm looking at the novels somebody posted earlier  I'm still stuck on the whole translating-another-language gametype so I've been playing Chants of Sennaar, which is a refreshing little twist on the idea. Instead of finding out 1 language inbetween tons of dialogue, you're figuring out 5 languages over the course of the game with zero dialogue other than the NPCs speaking their languages. They have different ways to create the same word in different languages, like the first language pluralizes via repetition (the words for "Man" and "Men" would be like "L" and "LL") while other languages use modifier words for pluralization. The thing that floored me was seeing a font that looked Arabic, correctly guessing that it'd be read backwards, but not correctly guessing it would be Verb-Subject-Object  The real little thing is that when you discover the fast travel points, there's sometimes a little translation game where you translate conversations between the different languages, and they're conversations that actually break down the literal barriers between the different cultures and let them intermingle. The Warriors will invite the Bards to visit them because the Warriors' whole deal is they love music and want to protect the bards from monsters, so when you translate their conversation the bards finally realize that the warriors love music and they come to put on a concert for them. Also, the game has some of the best through-rate on Achievements I've seen. 50%+ of people who bought the game have made it to the area with the fifth (and presuambly final) language, which involves learning and using a numbering system where thousands/hundreds/tends/ones is based on quadrants instead of decimal places. I've seen so many games where you hit the halfway point, let alone a number-based puzzle, and now the achievements show <20% of people have them. 50% of people making it to the final area means that we all knew what we were getting into and were fully onboard for the ride.
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In Saint's Row I like how it establishes just how much more dangerous Marshall is than the Panteros and the Idols - you kill the head of the latter two and destroy their homes and they are basically dead in the water, but the difference is that Marshall has infrastructure - if you destroy their base, they'll just build a new one with the massive resources, kill the head? He's already got successors in mind. You have to deal with them WAY smarter than the other two gangs, especially as their war on you has already basically been won via contracts and the legal system.
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Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth came up in discussion elsewhere, which reminded me of a fun little thing in that game. Sadly it requires some fairly major spoilers. The game takes place in a dream, which gives Deedlit more martial prowess than she possesses in reality. In particular, you can get a gigantic two-handed sword and she can swing it around like it ain't nothin'. But there's one short segment that takes place in the real world, and in that segment, if you try to swing that sword, you get a comically long swing animation with absolutely horrendous recovery frames.
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bawk posted:A little disappointed that Heaven's Vault's robot companion doesn't have more different voice lines if you uncover their backstory. There were a few brand new moments, but otherwise it seems to be a pretty rough find->replace of "Mistress" with other nouns when referring to the main character. Sometimes they land very well, other times it's the most hilariously stilted conversation possible. "Are you injured, Elborethian Scum?!" I bet you've already played it, but you'd probably enjoy Sethian.
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beats for junkies posted:I bet you've already played it, but you'd probably enjoy Sethian. I have no idea what this but somehow it's already in my library and $5 has disappeared from my credit card. Oh well! e: Oh. Oh this game is going to make my head hurt. I'm going to play the hell out of it but I'm going to need to start tomorrow morning after I've had my coffee, not this close to bedtime when I'm already yawning bawk has a new favorite as of 04:49 on Sep 24, 2023 |
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A pretty badass moment in Sea of Stars. How do you get the light of an eclipse to reach beneath a mountain? You have the party ninja who can cut portals in space effectively cut the top of the mountain off
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