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Jon Irenicus posted:so you're telling me the only people who are allowed to make video games about Americana are the Finns?? The best movies about Americana are made by a Dane who's never been here so yeah, checks out that games do something similar.
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Oct 30, 2023 23:41
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Gumball Gumption posted:The best movies about Americana are made by a Dane who's never been here so yeah, checks out that games do something similar. paul verhoeven is dutch and he's been to america a bunch
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Oct 30, 2023 23:44
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Hatebag posted:paul verhoeven is dutch and he's been to america a bunch Ahh poo poo yeah, Verhoeven is way better than Lars Von Trier. Trier mostly just understands America because he has American brain diseases
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Oct 30, 2023 23:47
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I think people who aren't from here are better able to appreciate the propaganda we're all steeped in from birth as a national mythology as opposed to, you know, propaganda that you're steeped in from birth.
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Oct 30, 2023 23:50
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Twin Peaks is some of the best americana and Red Seeds Profile manages to copy a good bit of that aesthetic.
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Oct 30, 2023 23:52
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MonsieurChoc posted:I don't think my pc's strong enough so I'll wait until I can get it cheap on ps5. i have a lovely working laptop and a high quality busted laptop that i have to sit on a block of ice while playing this game
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Oct 30, 2023 23:54
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Thinkin bout gettin one of them Legion Go's......
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Oct 30, 2023 23:55
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Whirling posted:good god that was the most self-indulgent Poets of the Fall song in any of these games and I respect that so much they took the ashtray made and made it look like it was for babies
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Oct 30, 2023 23:55
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after playing several hours of THE FINALS, I think my rods and cones are hosed from the constant giant red background screens
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Oct 31, 2023 00:01
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i wanted Control to have even more of that woowoo than it had, never played the first one but might have to check out AW2.
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Oct 31, 2023 00:01
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uber_stoat posted:i wanted Control to have even more of that woowoo than it had, never played the first one but might have to check out AW2. id be interested in seeing what someone's opinion is if they havent played 1. aw2 kind of assumes youve 100%ed all of their games including max payne 1&2(not that godawful max payne 3)
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Oct 31, 2023 00:15
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ok guys this is maybe controversial but gently caress max payne 3, that game makes me so mad. the gameplay is taught and fierce, and you do it for maybe 60 seconds at a time between overly long cutscenes of max payne drunkenly stumbling around his apartment. none of the remedy weirdness or sense of humor made it into that game, they just wanted to make a hypernormalized prestige tv show like breaking bad
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Oct 31, 2023 00:17
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Al! posted:ok guys this is maybe controversial but gently caress max payne 3, that game makes me so mad. the gameplay is taught and fierce, and you do it for maybe 60 seconds at a time between overly long cutscenes of max payne drunkenly stumbling around his apartment. none of the remedy weirdness or sense of humor made it into that game, they just wanted to make a hypernormalized prestige tv show like breaking bad Max Payne 3 was Rockstar
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Oct 31, 2023 00:23
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I was going to say something, but ok, yeah, that's fair. Yeah Rockstar just wants to make tv shows, while Remedy is obsessed with TV show production. Kind of like how Kojima is obsessed with movie making. But also Metal Gear Solid 1 is just a movie in video game form.
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Oct 31, 2023 00:23
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Al! posted:ok guys this is maybe controversial but gently caress max payne 3, that game makes me so mad. the gameplay is taught and fierce, and you do it for maybe 60 seconds at a time between overly long cutscenes of max payne drunkenly stumbling around his apartment. none of the remedy weirdness or sense of humor made it into that game, they just wanted to make a hypernormalized prestige tv show like breaking bad there is a mod that removes all the cutscenes
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Oct 31, 2023 00:24
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Remedy games are stylized as gently caress like it's one thing to slap a grain filter on a game but it's another thing entirely to add a shader to make sure light gets diffused like it would by a camera lens (into those little hexagon shapes in the background when they're out of focus) or the cool overlays they do
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Oct 31, 2023 00:25
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i have $15 and want a scary game for halloween, RE: Village or Signalis? Leaning towards Signalis tbh
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Oct 31, 2023 00:25
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Max Payne 3 was Rockstar yeah, im guessing theyre also the ones who sold the rights to make that godawful movie
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Oct 31, 2023 00:25
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I liked it but I'd yet to become Remedy-pilled so I had no idea what I was missing Anyway while I think you're totally fine to play Alan Wake 2 blind it's an experience that is insanely enhanced by at least Wikipedia-level knowledge of the first game, Control, and the Max Payne. Quantum Break too but not as much imo
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Oct 31, 2023 00:26
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Al! posted:ok guys this is maybe controversial but gently caress max payne 3, that game makes me so mad. the gameplay is taught and fierce, and you do it for maybe 60 seconds at a time between overly long cutscenes of max payne drunkenly stumbling around his apartment. none of the remedy weirdness or sense of humor made it into that game, they just wanted to make a hypernormalized prestige tv show like breaking bad people really love to gum up potentially good games with stupid cutscene bullshit and time-wasting, like how the newer God of War games keep making you crawl around on walls every five seconds and break your focus with cutscenes all the time. I got so sick of Ragnarok around the midpoint because I got into this crater area that had like 100 loving walls to climb and I just gave up. why couldn't they just let Kratos jump around like in the good old ps2 days
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Oct 31, 2023 00:26
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Whirling posted:people really love to gum up potentially good games with stupid cutscene bullshit and time-wasting, like how the newer God of War games keep making you crawl around on walls every five seconds and break your focus with cutscenes all the time. I got so sick of Ragnarok around the midpoint because I got into this crater area that had like 100 loving walls to climb and I just gave up. why couldn't they just let Kratos jump around like in the good old ps2 days with Atreus yelling all the time "hey dad it looks like you could try climbing that"
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Oct 31, 2023 00:28
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Al! posted:yeah, im guessing theyre also the ones who sold the rights to make that godawful movie that and the hitman movie with Olyphant are very weird things to exist and I think they both probably wouldn't have if not for Sin City hitting it so big at the time Olyphant deserved a better script
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Oct 31, 2023 00:31
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it's really weird how long it took for cutscene skipping to become a standard feature
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Oct 31, 2023 00:31
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Epic High Five posted:Thinkin bout gettin one of them Legion Go's...... alright the detachables are cool I admit it
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Oct 31, 2023 00:31
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Zokari posted:it's really weird how long it took for cutscene skipping to become a standard feature they used to have to mask load times with them I guess that's less of a thing these days but when you only have 256 MB of RAM like the PS3 you need all the tricks you can use to cache poo poo I guess
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Oct 31, 2023 00:36
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Zokari posted:it's really weird how long it took for cutscene skipping to become a standard feature also subtitles. for example, freelancer doesnt have subtitles
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Oct 31, 2023 00:36
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:they used to have to mask load times with them yeah well those "slowly crawl through a crack" and etc. animations are also that and people complain about them endlessly
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Oct 31, 2023 00:38
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ive been playing the dead space remake and it's funny how sometimes the doors take a little bit longer to open for some reason! metroid prime rear end game
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Oct 31, 2023 00:39
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bedpan posted:there is a mod that removes all the cutscenes The resulting game is 17 minutes long.
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Oct 31, 2023 00:40
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Zokari posted:yeah well those "slowly crawl through a crack" and etc. animations are also that and people complain about them endlessly oh christ those are horrid the worst for me were the walking through mud sections in the Tomb Raider games I don't why the visceral reaction is so deeply unfun, I feel like the experience just saps all the momentum from the gameplay like I'd rather have a freezeframe with a loading indicator so I'm not just holding the forward button for 15 seconds
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Oct 31, 2023 00:42
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i started starfield now that bg3 is done, wanted to start skylines 2 but it was pretty uncomfortable to look at but it seems like it will be good if they patch it
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Oct 31, 2023 00:47
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:with Atreus yelling all the time "hey dad it looks like you could try climbing that" Don't forget the NPCs trying to solve every puzzle for you while you work them out. I at least finished the first game since it tells a competent enough story, but 2 has this aggravating style of writing where everyone feels like they got chipped away to be the most boring version of themselves possible, in addition to talking like Joss Whedon characters now.
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Oct 31, 2023 00:47
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:with Atreus yelling all the time "hey dad it looks like you could try climbing that" kratos is now canonically old and stupid please respect the game's artistic vision
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Oct 31, 2023 00:57
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err posted:i have $15 and want a scary game for halloween, RE: Village or Signalis? Signalis is fantastic, unless you hate the idea of grimy yet weirdly beautiful ps1 visuals and abstract story telling.
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Oct 31, 2023 01:01
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sebmojo posted:Signalis is fantastic
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Oct 31, 2023 01:02
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signalis is very good. steam deck + headphones + playing in the dark = pretty spooky. haven't finished it yet but good game imo
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Oct 31, 2023 01:03
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Remedy games are stylized as gently caress Tons of game developers tried to do bokeh dof for years and it's super demanding for the graphics card. Everyone would do it if they could. Most of them are just not willing to make their game run so much worse to do it.
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Oct 31, 2023 01:03
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:they used to have to mask load times with them Now they have them but still have the loading screens anyway, like in Starfield. Launching and landing on a rocky body is a cutscene, not gameplay, but they didn't even bother to use it to cover a loading screen.
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Oct 31, 2023 01:06
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Lostconfused posted:Tons of game developers tried to do bokeh dof for years and it's super demanding for the graphics card. Everyone would do it if they could. Most of them are just not willing to make their game run so much worse to do it. That reminds me of an article I read about the dev who worked on the bottles in Half-life Alyx instead of modeling liquid physics they spent like 6 months working on a bespoke, brand new shader that emulated the behavior of liquid in a bottle and it looked really cool and is apparently very efficient and while I'd like for valve to make games I'm happy nerds are out there getting paid to do poo poo like that at their own pace too someone should get to
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Oct 31, 2023 01:08
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I'd prefer the courtesy of a loading screen following a telegraphed exit/entry into another area versus having to do something boring like rock climbing along a predetermined path.
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Oct 31, 2023 01:08
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