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jokes posted:Game that people actually play are not necessarily the best games. The best game is the dream of a good game, making unreleased MMOs the best games Have u heard of a little thing called, start citizen
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I agree that Ultima Online 2 is the best video game of all time
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Nov 13, 2023 21:15
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The best game is the game never played, making the Steam Deck the ultimate gaming machine. All I use it for is setting up a thousand games -- mostly emulated -- so that I can play them well, but then I never actually play them. I have never enjoyed gaming more.
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Nov 13, 2023 21:23
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jokes posted:The best game is the game never played, making the Steam Deck the ultimate gaming machine. All I use it for is setting up a thousand games -- mostly emulated -- so that I can play them well, but then I never actually play them. I have never enjoyed gaming more. o7
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Nov 13, 2023 21:27
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FFT is like the wire except season 5 is about killing angels.
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Nov 13, 2023 21:42
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razamataza posted:Hey if people have a setup where they can play PC games while reclining on a couch then fair enough. My gaming PC is in another room so it's consoles in the living room for me this is ultimately what makes me a console player over a PC player I work all day as a computer toucher. Choosing to spend more time at a desk in front of a PC is not what I want to do in my leisure time. I need to at least go into another room and like, change my body position. if I'm sitting in an office chair, it's impossible to have fun.
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StrangersInTheNight posted:this is ultimately what makes me a console player over a PC player The Steam Link was (and still is, in my house at least) absolutely freakin' awesome, and addresses exactly that.
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Nov 13, 2023 21:47
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Aramis posted:The Steam Link was (and still is, in my house at least) absolutely freakin' awesome, and addresses exactly that. I got a Steam Link and 2 Steam Controllers when they were on clearance firesale and it was a great way to spend like $25
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Nov 13, 2023 21:53
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I sit on a comfy recliner and play PC games with a controller on my gaming laptop connected to the TV. I have no idea why people buy consoles. Except in the moments when I wish I could play Bloodborne, then I kinda get it.
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Nov 13, 2023 21:53
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I actually use a handheld (ROG Ally). When I dock it to play at my couch (MKB or Controller), I use the eGPU to play the exact same game at a much higher resolution at a much higher frame rate. Having multiple game devices is for chumps.
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Nov 13, 2023 22:09
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ymgve posted:FF15 had the best looking videogame food at the time of release FF15 would have been way better if it was just a Pokemon snap sort of thing. Glasses guy drives you around to exotic locales, zachary guy takes pictures of various culinary ingredients, muscle guy goes out and gathers the plants/slays the beasts or whatever, glasses guy cooks the food, and then prince guy eats it and says "I helped, too."
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Nov 13, 2023 22:33
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Aramis posted:Look, I'm a huge Jeff Vogel fan, but sandwiching Exile 2 (The original, not even the one-to-one modern remake) between Valkyria Chronicles and Xenoblade Chronicles is certainly a take. Lol I also wanted to immediately post about Exile 2 after reading that list (mac only 90s house too)
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The Moon Monster posted:FF15 would have been way better if it was just a Pokemon snap sort of thing. Doing badly at the cooking qte scene on purpose to see Noctis cut his finger I liked how on one of the Japanese promo sites for FF15, they had a screenshot of the luxury hotel that costs like half a million gil to stay at, with the text, "I realize I'm a prince, but it's still ok if I use a coupon too, right?"
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The Moon Monster posted:FF15 would have been way better if it was just a Pokemon snap sort of thing. I mean, at this point, FF has so many iconic monsters that you could totally do an actual Final Fantasy Snap with FF monsters. Tonberrries, Cactuars, Behemoths - it sounds like it could be pretty cool. I'd try it at least.
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Nov 14, 2023 00:22
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I’m weird because I obsessively customize my characters appearance to the degree I’ll wear substandard armor in the name of looking good, but rather than look like Donut Steel abominations, My fashion sense leads to me making characters that look like generic npcs. I always use colors like grey and drab dark green. And I outright never use appearance mods because they always clash with the games art direction and graphics tech. Like Oblivion is a hideous game, but to have non-potato people is even more jarring and anti-immersion than the actual potato-people.
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NikkolasKing posted:I mean, at this point, FF has so many iconic monsters that you could totally do an actual Final Fantasy Snap with FF monsters. Tonberrries, Cactuars, Behemoths - it sounds like it could be pretty cool. I'd try it at least. I always liked SNES-era Carbuncle.  Edit: actually I would legit play tf out of FF Snap and I haven't even touched the franchise in years.
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Khanstant posted:You don't like the story in games, you don't care what the words say, you don't care what the characters look like, you don't care what the mechanics are, you don't like playing games the way they were meant to, all that matters for you is the emergent narrative of a formless warrior scrounging around environments for items you also don't care about. this is the unpopular... form of an opinion thread
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galagazombie posted:I’m weird because I obsessively customize my characters appearance to the degree I’ll wear substandard armor in the name of looking good, but rather than look like Donut Steel abominations, My fashion sense leads to me making characters that look like generic npcs. I always use colors like grey and drab dark green. And I outright never use appearance mods because they always clash with the games art direction and graphics tech. Like Oblivion is a hideous game, but to have non-potato people is even more jarring and anti-immersion than the actual potato-people. Excuse me you're in respectable company here who gives their characters neon hair. GET THE gently caress OUT.
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Nov 14, 2023 02:29
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still disappointed to this day the Final Fantasy IX joke ahola armor doesn't involve an in-battle Steiner character model in a Tommy Bahama and short-shorts with his stumpy middle aged legs hanging out
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Nov 14, 2023 02:56
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Stranger of Paradise is still the best Final Fantasy game released since Final Fantasy X and it's not even close. Just uh...ignore all the DLC.
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Stranger of Paradise owns and Jack is the best FF protagonist ever
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I have a friend whose gaming PC is in his living room, connected to his TV. I sometimes give him poo poo for playing FPSs badly with a controller but other than that it seems to be working out for him well enough.
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Vandar posted:Stranger of Paradise is still the best Final Fantasy game released since Final Fantasy X and it's not even close. It also had hilarious pre-release content, albeit accidentally.. The developers released the most absurdly edgy trailers people had seen in years and everyone thought it was a parody intentionally meant to make fun of the needlessly grimdark protagonists of the early 2000's...until people talked to the devs and realized they were convinced it was cool and totally normal to have a guy blasting Linkin Park or whatever in his magical earbuds while obsessively ranting about killing Chaos for most of the trailer. Cue lots of people going "Oh hey, so this is a joke right?" followed by "So I watched the interviews and oh. Oh no.". It did produce this legendary shitpost though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3t5Ni1RW8s Archonex fucked around with this message at 06:59 on Nov 14, 2023 |
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Nov 14, 2023 06:40
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It would suck if they were actually in on it, and it enables the story to stick the landing so much better
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people who say they don't care about graphics are funny. I guarantee if your favourite game had better graphics you'd enjoy it more. They're what you look at while you're playing the game the entire time.
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Anyone looking to break into classic JRPGs these days might be better off with Dragon Quest than Final Fantasy. The mobile releases of several DQ games are considered the definitive versions. Being able to tackle the grinding and other tedium while pooping has opened up the genre to me. I played Octopath because of the portability of the Switch, but that's about it for JRPGs in my thirty years of gaming. Now I'm 50 hours into DQ IV and eager to finish the IV - VI trilogy. Also, DQ IV looks great on OLED. Can't wait to see how the art styles of V and VI look. I put the mobile version side by side with the 3DS version it was ported from. You cannot sufficiently lower your expectations of the 3DS screen quality/layout to make this feel like a fair comparison. Even the onscreen controls of the mobile version (which you mostly get used to) are more ergonomic to me than holding a big floppy-hinge clamshell 3DS XL. Don't know what your options are for FF on the Steam Deck. 3DS or mobile versions of those DQ games will be stinko on Deck since mobile has zero controller support and neither is set up for landscape. CaptainCourteous fucked around with this message at 08:39 on Nov 14, 2023 |
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StrangersInTheNight posted:this is ultimately what makes me a console player over a PC player Office chair for work, couch for home
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Caesar Saladin posted:people who say they don't care about graphics are funny. I guarantee if your favourite game had better graphics you'd enjoy it more. They're what you look at while you're playing the game the entire time. i upgraded to a 4k tv and 144hz refresh rate and my posting experience has never been better
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Caesar Saladin posted:people who say they don't care about graphics are funny. I guarantee if your favourite game had better graphics you'd enjoy it more. They're what you look at while you're playing the game the entire time. Better graphics as in more demanding on hardware or better graphics as in a well realised and coherent artistic direction?
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Caesar Saladin posted:people who say they don't care about graphics are funny. I guarantee if your favourite game had better graphics you'd enjoy it more. They're what you look at while you're playing the game the entire time. counter strike 2 has better graphics and i hate it more than ever! your point is right tho because I finished Bg3 twice then tried playing another CRPG and I just couldn't do it, it looked like poo poo
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Breetai posted:Better graphics as in more demanding on hardware or better graphics as in a well realised and coherent artistic direction? both would make you enjoy the game more, its not like you'd ever choose the shittier looking version, its nice to look at pretty things
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Depends on what you mean by 'better' graphics, so much comes down to design choices made by the creators as well. Technically, Twilight Princess has more advanced graphics than Wind Waker, but the art direction of the latter makes it hold up over time way way better, whereas TP is a meme generator for Link's horrid face.
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:I want to hug the Fromsoft devs for making whether or not I have a torch in my hand or a lantern on my belt completely irrelevant to stealth. Not even the slightest bit realistic, but not having to put that poo poo away every time I want to sneak around is wonderful. Yeah, I'll take fun over realistic. Let me pick up 100 identical broken swords and pots because I might need them, that's my business - don't punish me for exploring your game and opening all the boxes. The same is true of stealth, although I do find stealth bonuses satisfying. I should be rewarded mechanically for stealthily if the game wants, not punished for something that sucks. That's not to say sims don't have their place, but don't sit in the middle. Like, be Gran Turismo or be Burnout 3, don't be a little non-commital guy in the middle.
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Notice how all the gamers who don't want to be punished are all brats who won't stop screaming making a mess at WinCo
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pixel bitches posted:Lol I also wanted to immediately post about Exile 2 after reading that list (mac only 90s house too)  Even though it's surprising to find it in a "top 50" list, even one that's such a grab bag of bizarre hipster deep cuts, they didn't even spell the title right in the article. (It's not "The" Crystal Souls). Also on an unrelated note, it was wild decades later accidentally stumbling upon where the game's cool soundtrack was unknowingly lifted from. (the Amiga version of Dune).
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More surprising still is not picking the much superior Exile 3. Though I can see the time mechanic doing its usual divisiveness. On a related note, here's a probably unpopular opinion: Time mechanics (Exile 3, Dead Rising, etc...) are almost always awesome, and I wish more games played around with the idea.
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I have been playing Aliens Dark Descent and it's probably the best stealth gameplay in a squad game that I've seen, but it's also very simple. It's normal, and expected, that an Alien will see you. Your dudes can hide and try to sneak around, and that has tangible benefits, but also you can just run and gun through the game - that's arguably harder but it's a fine way to play. Getting spotted means the Aliens will send more Aliens to the area, and occasionally a lot more, and when there's a horde coming then you're told about that and given a minute to prepare (with turrets, mines, etc), and afterwards you're given some breathing room before the Aliens return. Pissing off the aliens too many times in one level will result in stronger breeds coming, so if you don't want to be stealthy then you had better try to be fast
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Aramis posted:More surprising still is not picking the much superior Exile 3. Though I can see the time mechanic doing its usual divisiveness. Same, honestly. Unfortunately, timers seem to trigger some sort of stress-response in a lot of people that just makes them really want to post about how bad it is.
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Stealth missions, fps platform segments, and AI escort segments should be required by law to be skippable by anyone old enough to know the konami code. Maybe I’ll try a few times but if I don’t make any progress in my precious carved out hour of playtime then I’ll probably never launch the game again. Also we can get rid of boob armor but every 3rd person video game protagonist should have a really great butt I think that’s fair to everyone and would encourage everyone to squat more.
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