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Starfield has a lot of the same problems other bethesda games have but the game design exacerbates them. And then just a feels thing; an npc on the other side of the capital wasteland could, conceptually, exit their city and walk to where I am or we bump into each other somewhere. That doesn't actually happen by design and if it did it'd be functionally the same abstracted movement until they got near you in any of the games, but the illusion is gone Also the combat is really unfun especially compared to sword and sorcery or post-apocalyptic shooting. Like 5% better gunplay but 50% less interesting
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Dec 12, 2023 20:58
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Ben Nerevarine posted:Quick Cash is a ton of fun with a premade of 3, but I've really been enjoying Bank It when I'm solo queuing. it's common to have a braindead teammate (or a bot, which are strangely common given the large number of concurrent players) but you can really do work in Bank It on an individual level ive been getting some really fun and close games with randos in quick cash, tho i do have to carry most the time. not a fan of bank it cause its more of a tdm mode and if i wanted to play those, theres a million other games i could play
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Dec 12, 2023 21:04
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Fallout's setting was at least at some point novel, retro futuristic raygun americana. nothing about Starfield stands out at all.
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Dec 12, 2023 21:05
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Al! posted:hell im still playing fallout 4 (in vr but still) Does it have motion controls or just controller?
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Dec 12, 2023 21:06
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Starfield sounds really dumb. Sold millions of copies though. I imagine the same people who bought it and hated it will preorder the sequel.
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Dec 12, 2023 21:06
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bedpan posted:Starfield sounds really dumb. Sold millions of copies though. I imagine the same people who bought it and hated it will preorder the sequel. i think most of the people who actually played it and didn't like it probably got it on GamePass
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Dec 12, 2023 21:07
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that friend of a goon who bought starfield just so he could hate play it
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Dec 12, 2023 21:07
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uber_stoat posted:Fallout's setting was at least at some point novel, retro futuristic raygun americana. nothing about Starfield stands out at all. i actually like the nasa concept art aesthetic but it has absolutely no bearing on how they wrote or designed the game unfortunately
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Dec 12, 2023 21:07
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Get this up to 500 hours before end of year.
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Dec 12, 2023 21:34
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Communist Thoughts posted:I do think the gameplay is better in 1 cause it's much more of the focus, plus it has Barry Yeah I like both but I think there is a lot of fun missing from 2, mainly in gameplay. Remedy is good with the sense of humor in there story, but the sense of humor felt absent from the gameplay. You don't get that fun 80's horror comedy vibe where regular people are creating makeshift, somewhat funny ways, to defeat the supernatural stuff (like Barry covering himself in Christmas lights). Plus the ridiculous slow-mo that triggers with dodges and flares in AW1 is very satisfying. All Remedy games have aggravating oversights and flaws that make me want to shout at my screen side by side with great stuff. They make the absolute best 7/10 games you can play, besides for Max Payne 1, thats an 8/10 but thats probably just because its less ambitious.
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Dec 12, 2023 22:07
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RealityWarCriminal posted:didn't they do this once already thrice, at least, since the banning of the booth babes
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Dec 12, 2023 22:13
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Fighting Elegy posted:Yeah I like both but I think there is a lot of fun missing from 2, mainly in gameplay. Remedy is good with the sense of humor in there story, but the sense of humor felt absent from the gameplay. You don't get that fun 80's horror comedy vibe where regular people are creating makeshift, somewhat funny ways, to defeat the supernatural stuff (like Barry covering himself in Christmas lights). Plus the ridiculous slow-mo that triggers with dodges and flares in AW1 is very satisfying. it's really weird that their gameplay peaked at MP2 and since then just kind of drifted into makework mediocrity
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Dec 12, 2023 22:15
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Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:"See these rich fucks? They're essential npcs you can't harm them." I think it was around that point I uninstalled. That the game didn't let the fourth option of "shoot these CEO fuckers" just screamed of poo poo.
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Dec 12, 2023 22:15
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also sons of bitches killed free radical today, again. RIP timesplitters
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Dec 12, 2023 22:15
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Fuligin posted:it's really weird that their gameplay peaked at MP2 and since then just kind of drifted into makework mediocrity This is entirely subjective but I loved the freedom of Control's combat. Gonna fly into the sky and throw a forklift. Willy some guns felt weak, others had good oomph to them.
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Dec 12, 2023 22:18
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The Great Chargeback has probably already happened with Starfield, but they'll never make that public.
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Dec 12, 2023 22:21
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TontoCorazon posted:This is entirely subjective but I loved the freedom of Control's combat. Gonna fly into the sky and throw a forklift. Willy some guns felt weak, others had good oomph to them. yeah i know some people are really into it. it ended up feeling very samey to me but i also never finished
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Dec 12, 2023 22:25
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never got very far in Control but i was annoyed at all the respawning security guards
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Dec 12, 2023 22:29
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:in a year where all the scummy corpo-cash grab games failed and the most beloved were painstakingly crafted single player experiences... what will the corporations take away as their message? you took 8 years to make loading screens happen for entering a room with an area of a square feet then you learned BG3 almost has no reskinned NPCs even for trash mobs of course the first thing you do as a Very Poor Western AAA game dev is to tweet about why you shouldn't be judged by the same standard Palladium has issued a correction as of 22:33 on Dec 12, 2023 |
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Dec 12, 2023 22:31
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RealityWarCriminal posted:didn't they do this once already twice iirc
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Dec 12, 2023 22:34
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fallout 4 is good
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Dec 12, 2023 22:57
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i realized i never played gta 4 aftert hearing folks talk about it in another thread the characters in this game are great, idk why they made the car handling so bad though
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Dec 12, 2023 22:58
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Al! posted:hell im still playing fallout 4 (in vr but still) what mod list are you using?
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Dec 12, 2023 22:59
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Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:what mod list are you using? none atm, the wabbajack one doesnt seem to work, do you recommend any?
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Dec 12, 2023 23:13
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AnimeIsTrash posted:i realized i never played gta 4 aftert hearing folks talk about it in another thread that was always the complaint. they claimed they made the car handling more realistic but every car is balanced like it was crazy taxi
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Dec 12, 2023 23:14
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Controls combat is pretty good and then at the end you get the option to launch up to 3 items and it becomes great. A lot of games put in rpg elements where the gameplay peaks far too late into the experience. Instead, allow you to max out about halfway through.
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Dec 12, 2023 23:30
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Dec 12, 2023 23:40
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The big issue with Control is that Jesse is just sorta lame. Remedy games work hard at building a connection and empathy between the player and character and it's a waste of effort when your character is lame. Alan Wake is a narcissist and hack, Max Payne is in a freefall, knowing that he's trapped in a noir cliche and now has to see the story through. Jesse is just lame, I feel like I can't even describe her beyond that. If you connected with the character of Jesse then thats cool, but for me it didn't work, which is a shame because the actress is pretty good. The combat was good enough for a 12 hour game, not a 20 hour one imo. That's actually a problem with a lot of their games, and even Max Payne 1 goes on a little too long. I was forcing myself to play Control just so I could say I played every Remedy game so my feelings gameplay-wise might be tampered by that.
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Dec 12, 2023 23:42
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the finals is great but they do need to fix gas mines, they basically buy an extra 20 seconds for anyone squatting on a deposit
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Dec 12, 2023 23:45
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jesse is fun. I liked how into it she is instead of the usual woe is me protagonists. but there really needs to be a dog neil prequel
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Dec 12, 2023 23:49
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AnimeIsTrash posted:i realized i never played gta 4 aftert hearing folks talk about it in another thread brucie and his whole arc were my favs. ballad of gay tony was also pretty good!
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Dec 12, 2023 23:56
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I like that they managed to ride the line between a sorta stern, no nonsense Dana Scully skeptic and the Forspoken "I guess the hiss happened" marvel writing for Jesse she's put into a loving weird magical situation but she's kinda loving weird and magical herself so she rolls with it it's fun and you get to jump right into this established weird world without a fish out of water story eating up 10 hours of the plot
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Dec 12, 2023 23:56
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Gumball Gumption posted:Yeah, I would be more into Starfield as slop if the maps were any good. But they're not and they're a huge step back from the previous games. "See that mountain? You can go climb it" is dead and they exchanged it for having a poo poo load of similar but different maps that are totally empty. The pirate attack in the tutorial is one of them. It is only there to serve a laundry list of stuff to teach the player without considering that the whole thing is mindblowingly stupid from a narrative common sense PoV
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Dec 12, 2023 23:57
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Fighting Elegy posted:The big issue with Control is that Jesse is just sorta lame. Remedy games work hard at building a connection and empathy between the player and character and it's a waste of effort when your character is lame. Alan Wake is a narcissist and hack, Max Payne is in a freefall, knowing that he's trapped in a noir cliche and now has to see the story through. Jesse is just lame, I feel like I can't even describe her beyond that. I thought she was cool. Skill issue imo
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Dec 12, 2023 23:57
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doctor darling 
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Dec 12, 2023 23:58
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Mr. Sharps posted:doctor darling Darling is a legitimate mad man who would murder you for science He is to be avoided now the fine folks at Luck and Probability, that's a department I'd want to get to know give me a puzzle game about them
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Dec 13, 2023 00:01
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Jesse is great, she's an insecure basket case who flips back and forth between thinking they've totally lost it and finding the courage to take it until they make it for a few more minutes.
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Dec 13, 2023 00:02
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She starts the game with a fractal ghost in her head that gives her advice a shapeshifting office building is nothing
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Dec 13, 2023 00:05
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:I like that they managed to ride the line between a sorta stern, no nonsense Dana Scully skeptic and the Forspoken "I guess the hiss happened" marvel writing for Jesse Yeah that aspect worked for me. I like that she more or less gets on with it instead of demanding a bunch of explanation and exposition on behalf of me, the player who cannot believe that something weird or interesting might happen in a work of fiction Could've used a little more of a hook though for sure. Max and Alan have pretty distinct characteristics on their own and then stuff happens to them, but I felt like Jesse was just kind of the person this stuff was happening to/near/with
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Dec 13, 2023 00:14
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jesse is dumb as hell, just like me
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