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Devils Affricate posted:Actually I guess I lied a bit about 100%'ing the game. I did everything except for finding all the sparklies that you just chase around, because those didn't even strike me as being puzzles, just a weird waste of time (and they aren't even represented on the map, so they don't count The ratio of puzzle to walking is not in favor of the puzzle part for Pandora/Sphinx/Prometheus. Pandora seems the most interesting, but it was like interesting once in the first Talos Principle so I smartly didn't do those. I didn't really do any of the statue puzzles besides a bit that I happened to run into. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 09:17 on Dec 30, 2023 |
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). I also hate scavenging around for tiny hidden poo poo. Thankfully there are only 8 of them and I got half of them just from randomly exploring. Not sure why you don't like the switch meta puzzles though, since those are legitimate puzzles, albeit of a very different style than the main ones.
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Braid and The Witness are boring rear end games. The only good thing about Braid is the idea of Jonathon Blow getting legitimately butthurt at the Soulja Boy video.
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The Looker is good even if I did fail a maze and spend way too much time trying to figure out what to do next and eventually looking it up.
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I spent a few years with my ex building together a Rock Band 3 setup with the sole purpose of recreating the joy I had in the 2000s. It culminated when her friend Chad gave me his Rock Band instruments and then I spent a ton of dough on Rock Back 3 DLC and was finally ready to revisit my youth from the 2000s but then my ex left me for Chad and took the Rock Band setup and now I have nothing
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:IIRC there's a denuvo virtual machine that runs on bytecode and part of ripping it out involves scanning through the entire executable for certain byte signatures which might be opcodes for the denuvo VM or might be unrelated constants in memory and manually figuring out which is which. I'm fairly sure Denovo is an updated version of that, although I think they work on the actual binary instead of doing it at the source code level. They profile your application, determine which parts aren't performance critical, and obfuscate the hell out of it. It's vastly different from Commodore 64 era protections, which were usually very bespoke and handmade. Writing an automatic Denuvo remover would be a nice exercise, though. Don't expect to be able to remove it manually, though.
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Duck and Cover posted:The ratio of puzzle to walking is not in favor of the puzzle part for Pandora/Sphinx/Prometheus. Pandora seems the most interesting, but it was like interesting once in the first Talos Principle so I smartly didn't do those. I didn't really do any of the statue puzzles besides a bit that I happened to run into. But, wait, does that mean you didn't do the golden gate puzzles? I thought you had to do all of the Pandora /Sphynx / prometheus puzzles to unlock those? I think Devils Affricate meant not finding the fires of prometheus, which are totally pointless little bonuses that let you skip a level. !Klams fucked around with this message at 11:32 on Dec 30, 2023 |
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Sagacity posted:Pretty much this. I spent some time in the 2000s looking at Syncrosoft since this was the protection used for DAWs like Cubase. Their SDK basically allowed you to write (using heavy use of C++ operator overloading) regular logic with integers and booleans and so on, but it would compile that logic into an immense state machine that relied on data being passed to and from dongles etc. from what i gather denuvo has an especially rude twist in that it generates multiple branching paths through the obfuscated code which are selected based on the value of CPUID, so a crack that works on one machine might still crash on another with a different CPU model
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Vampire Panties posted:I support your cracking endeavor only if you include the most bitching MIDI tunes possible I legit miss that demoscene music
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People stopped cracking games because they were all eastern Europeans and they all ended up getting hired by the mafia or Russian security services instead of getting drafted for the war.
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:I legit miss that demoscene music http://chiptune.com/
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Sonic be steady.
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I got my little nephew playing mystic quest and I think that game is underrated. Yes its easy af and basically on rails but it's totally charming, polished with great art and the music is  Plus the sprites changing appearance once they're low on life had us both cracking up, more games should have aped that.
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QuarkJets posted:remembering that Steam is the storefront where while looking for new games you'll occasionally get flashed with a picture of a cartoon cock sliding into an anime girl's rear end in a top hat if you don't have your profile set up just right. I wish more storefronts were like this. Imagine how much better buying health insurance would be.
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QuarkJets posted:Valve apparently has a monopoly on people with the skills required to create a digital storefront with a passing grade for UX, and I say this while remembering that Steam is the storefront where while looking for new games you'll occasionally get flashed with a picture of a cartoon cock sliding into an anime girl's rear end in a top hat if you don't have your profile set up just right. You should probably update you're setting to omit that content? They added granularity to their filters so it's not on and off and Witcher 3 isn't in the same jacket as Kawaii Butt Jockey Simulator 3. You can filter the porn out now.
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I don't think there has ever been a more unexciting and uninspiring name for a videogame than "Alan Wake", note i'm not attacking the game at all, I love horror games and I've probably seen less than 20 seconds of footage but "Alan Wake" - c'mon it'd take some doing to make a more boring title than that
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especially coming from their previous game and protagonist, Max Payne
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i can't even remember the quantum break dudes name so that was probably a step down
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Caesar Saladin posted:especially coming from their previous game and protagonist, Max Payne Holy poo poo, I just got this right now.
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I was reading about DS2 and found that there is no way to play it on PS4/5. That is only the Scholar version. I thought that just meant it was the complete version but no, it's apparently a completely hosed up version and there is no way to play actual DS2 on modern PS's. What about on a Series X? Is that doable? Is there a version that has all the DLC?
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What is still great is Sony's take on gaming.
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Alan Wake is the name of a man who owns a successful car dealership and has six kids, all of them sons, and all of them are in every commercial
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JollyBoyJohn posted:I don't think there has ever been a more unexciting and uninspiring name for a videogame than "Alan Wake", note i'm not attacking the game at all, I love horror games and I've probably seen less than 20 seconds of footage but "Alan Wake" - c'mon it'd take some doing to make a more boring title than that But his name is A. Wake
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credburn posted:But his name is A. Wake aw gently caress is that seriously it? I never thought of that, because its kinda dumb.
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is it really that dumb if it took you nearly a decade and a half to figure it out
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listen man, i didn't say I wasn't dumb, both can be true
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JollyBoyJohn posted:I don't think there has ever been a more unexciting and uninspiring name for a videogame than "Alan Wake", note i'm not attacking the game at all, I love horror games and I've probably seen less than 20 seconds of footage but "Alan Wake" - c'mon it'd take some doing to make a more boring title than that Absolutely. I never even have the game a second thought until it showed up in Control
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!Klams posted:But, wait, does that mean you didn't do the golden gate puzzles? I thought you had to do all of the Pandora /Sphynx / prometheus puzzles to unlock those? I think Devils Affricate meant not finding the fires of prometheus, which are totally pointless little bonuses that let you skip a level. You just have complete all of the numbered + "hidden" puzzles to open the gates, statues are optional. I did do the gate puzzles without the gate puzzles my rating of the main puzzle part of the game probably goes to like a 6 or something maybe lower. The game has just too many easy puzzles that you spend too much time walking to. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Dec 30, 2023 |
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Waltzing Along posted:I was reading about DS2 and found that there is no way to play it on PS4/5. That is only the Scholar version. I thought that just meant it was the complete version but no, it's apparently a completely hosed up version and there is no way to play actual DS2 on modern PS's. What about on a Series X? Is that doable? Is there a version that has all the DLC? Scholar version is fine. It just shuffles around some enemy placement in levels, plus it comes with all three dlc expansions.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:Scholar version is fine. It just shuffles around some enemy placement in levels, plus it comes with all three dlc expansions. I think calling it "completely hosed up" is way overstating it but some of the changes like Iron Keep are legit pretty bad. Every Souls game has some poo poo areas though 
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Ravus Ursus posted:You should probably update you're setting to omit that content? I don't mind the porn, I'm only bringing it up to highlight flaws in the exploration algorithm. It's surprising how easily the algorithm draws a line toward hardcore cartoon pornography from "games similar to Civilization 5"
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Waltzing Along posted:I was reading about DS2 and found that there is no way to play it on PS4/5. That is only the Scholar version. I thought that just meant it was the complete version but no, it's apparently a completely hosed up version and there is no way to play actual DS2 on modern PS's. What about on a Series X? Is that doable? Is there a version that has all the DLC? Scholars isn't hosed up, it's a GOTY edition with all of the DLC, some extra stuff, and a balance pass. Honestly it's the better version of the game, they finished some content that wasn't quite ready for the original release, the new things are pretty cool
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JollyBoyJohn posted:I don't think there has ever been a more unexciting and uninspiring name for a videogame than "Alan Wake", note i'm not attacking the game at all, I love horror games and I've probably seen less than 20 seconds of footage but "Alan Wake" - c'mon it'd take some doing to make a more boring title than that Apologies to any Alans out there, but I can't think of a duller forename. It might as well be called Steve Wake or Keith Wake.
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QuarkJets posted:I don't mind the porn, I'm only bringing it up to highlight flaws in the exploration algorithm. It's surprising how easily the algorithm draws a line toward hardcore cartoon pornography from "games similar to Civilization 5" Recommendation algorithms suck in general these days because it's all "people who played this thing also played this other thing" and ignore the fact that the two weren't related. So when part of the algorithm is something insanely popular that everyone has played like Civ V you're going to get all kinds of weird recs. "You played civ V so you will love The Witcher!!"
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The last boss of metal gear 2 sucks. This is Hideous Kojima's idea of a final boss fight? You just run from door to door with keycards while this idiot vaguely chases you while firing intermittently until you get the spray can and lighter. Just bad game design, imo.
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first mistake is thinking Kojima has any talent
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deep dish peat moss posted:Recommendation algorithms suck in general these days because it's all "people who played this thing also played this other thing" and ignore the fact that the two weren't related. So when part of the algorithm is something insanely popular that everyone has played like Civ V you're going to get all kinds of weird recs. "You played civ V so you will love The Witcher!!" I just want it to once, for loving once, call me gay cowards!!
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:first mistake is thinking Kojima has any talent Sir if this weren't the unpopular opinions thread I'd ask you to step outside and speak your utter nonsense to the cats. And see if the cats tolerate such horsehockey.
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Zeluth posted:What is still great is Sony's take on gaming. They have little regard for their legacy/game history/backwards compatibility.
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tbf that's more a knock-on effect of their obsession with bizarre hardware architectures back in the day they've maintained backwards compatibility since they switched to a more standard architecture
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Alan Wake isn't meant to be an exciting or outrageous name. It's meant to be a regular rear end name and author would have, because he's an author, not a Stallone commando character. It is a boring name, and I feel like some of you have 80s movie name conventions burned in your brain. In Control the main character is Jesse Faden, which is also a boring and normal name. It just might be intentional.
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