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Deakul posted:There hasn't been a single zombie game with good story telling that isn't TWD Season 1. do mushroom zombies count
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Hwurmp posted:The Typing of the Dead: Overkill It's true
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Well, that finishes up Dying Light 2 free weekend. PROS- First-person melee and parkour is very fun, can't beat dropkicking zombies While it is annoying to start off as very weak, I enjoyed the sense of progression and unlocking new skills and seeing how they opened up new routes and strategies Surprised at the depth of some of the sidequests in terms of content and choices: felt like a lot of them were practically main quests, instead of the expected boring filler Lots of choices in the main quest which can kill off characters, influence quests, and so on adds replayability and intrigue Factions are interesting in that they are both grey, with the rebels/survivors not being the easy 'good guys' as they typically are Story and characters are so dumb it can be rather amusing CONS- Yet another overloaded and unfocused open-world game to add to the pile, filled with crafting/scavenging and leveled loot with lots of dumb affixes and a map filled with too many activities to check off Story and characters are VERY dumb Can be annoying how weak you start off Some clunkiness to the controls that makes certain things a bit unintuitive and awkward Combat feels a bit shallow at times: was excited at first with the parries and staggers for cool parkour moves but it just turns tiresome and spongy at times It still feels like the rebels/survivors are supposed to be the 'good guys' despite them seeming so evil, story might be trying too hard to trick you with so many dumb twists Having rewards tied to factions kind of ruins the moral decision implications since you can just focus on whether you want a crossbow or trampolines I had some good fun laughing at the story and parkouring around dropkicking zombies, but not sure if it did enough to make me buy it. Not bad, but not great either: I think it can a perfectly good time, but unsure if its a recommendation to not miss it. It was kind of like eating a bag of chips: tasty at first, but started to feel kind of bad as I kept eating too much: maybe that's partly my fault for playing on hard and gorging on it alone for the weekend? FutureCop fucked around with this message at 06:57 on Feb 26, 2024 |
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Feb 26, 2024 06:54
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Dying Light is meh and has been ever since they massively nerfed the player character in 1 in order to tack on a shitload of extra levels/ grind to character progression and pass it off as exciting new content. A terrible design decision that carried into the sequel. I will die on this hill. And then I'll come back as a zombie and you'll have to kick me onto some spikes or stomp my head because all other forms of combat are unsatisfying.
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Feb 26, 2024 07:03
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Ainsley McTree posted:do mushroom zombies count absolutely not
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Feb 26, 2024 08:07
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Deakul posted:There hasn't been a single zombie game with good story telling that isn't TWD Season 1. The ending of that game hosed me up so hard I’ve never been able to bring myself to play season 2. I played 400 days or whatever it was called, but I cannot go back to the Clem storyline. Can’t think of another game that’s done that. None of the other Telltale IPs have really come close.
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Feb 26, 2024 08:24
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Lest we forget https://twitter.com/DyingLightGame/status/1479860453140434945
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Feb 26, 2024 08:30
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I think i gotta die on the hill of dl2 being an actual good game now. Weighty, gory melee, mighty booting folks into improbably frequent spike posts like im in dark messiah, how good the parkour feels when you're in the flow, the bizarre, inhuman dialogue and characters... it's okay, it's alright. I've won the struggle over myself. I love Aiden Babaiden
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Feb 26, 2024 08:39
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Deakul posted:There hasn't been a single zombie game with good story telling that isn't TWD Season 1. dead rising 1
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Feb 26, 2024 08:41
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I loved Days Gone tbh, it's pure drama B-movie stuff but it's so earnest about it that I can't help but love it.
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Feb 26, 2024 08:58
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Days Gone is one of the greatest 6/10 video games and I cherish it dearly. The challenge mode stuff, tho, is not very good imo, but I was not in it for that so I guess that's fine.
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Feb 26, 2024 09:06
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I love Sam Witwer but his character spent so much time moaning when driving around on his bike that about a quarter of the way through the game I just hated him.
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Feb 26, 2024 09:12
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Left 4 Dead 1? Most of the storytelling is environmental. Uh...Plants vs. Zombies?
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I assume every single reply is just a link to this? Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 10:51 on Feb 26, 2024 |
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Feb 26, 2024 10:04
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Jerusalem posted:I assume every singly reply is just a link to this? Lmao.
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Mr.Acula posted:dead rising 1 Well he's ain't my boy but the brother is heavy
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John Murdoch posted:Uh...Plants vs. Zombies?  gwabby wobbo
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FrickenMoron posted:I loved Days Gone tbh, it's pure drama B-movie stuff but it's so earnest about it that I can't help but love it. Seconding this. The presentation, and the first hour of the game don't do it justice. Looking at trailers for the game, I was wholly uninterested. Looked like a typical third person shooter. Eventually I got the game through a bundle or wherever and decided to try it because I was in the mood to kill zombies. The first hour was pretty much what I expected. Get on your bike and follow your buddy here and there to scavenge, shooting the zombies as you go. But then the first plot point hit, and while it wasn't anything novel, the character writing was pretty good, with believable dialogue and delivery. The gameplay isn't revolutionary, but it is a lot of fun riding around, doing the story quests, and killing zombies. Especially when you are strong enough, or stupid enough to try and take on hordes. It's a plucky game that is solidly 7/10. E: fixing phone autocorrect Velocity Raptor fucked around with this message at 14:03 on Feb 26, 2024 |
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Feb 26, 2024 13:57
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FrickenMoron posted:I loved Days Gone tbh, it's pure drama B-movie stuff but it's so earnest about it that I can't help but love it. Days Gone has a ton of heart and you can absolutely feel it
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Feb 26, 2024 13:59
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Days Gone does nothing new but it just executes old concepts incredibly well. I liked managing fuel on the bike, where I would do as much as I could to maximize coasting and squeeze more range out of the tank. Exploring and scavenging felt good too, it never felt like tedious busywork like it does in a lot of games.
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Feb 26, 2024 14:08
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Days Gone just felt like it had way too much game for its own good. I played it for some 8 hours and got to the point where I kinda felt like I'd seen all it had to offer gameplay-wise (aside from some largely incremental equipment upgrades), but when I looked into the completion tracker thingy it turned out I was IIRC somewhere in the 10s of % completed. Even if I were to just mainline the primary story from there on out, that just felt like too much stuff for the relatively basic gameplay to support.
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Feb 26, 2024 14:47
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John Murdoch posted:Left 4 Dead 1? Most of the storytelling is environmental. 
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https://twitter.com/wario64/status/1762146360466575564?s=46&t=uiUehxbkNdNcN0PmfZ4Vaw
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Feb 26, 2024 17:07
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Perestroika posted:Days Gone just felt like it had way too much game for its own good. I played it for some 8 hours and got to the point where I kinda felt like I'd seen all it had to offer gameplay-wise (aside from some largely incremental equipment upgrades), but when I looked into the completion tracker thingy it turned out I was IIRC somewhere in the 10s of % completed. Even if I were to just mainline the primary story from there on out, that just felt like too much stuff for the relatively basic gameplay to support. For Days Gone, there is a point it does kinda stall out like that, and doesn't really pick up until you are taking on hordes. A few are just exercises in running backwards while tossing molotovs, the ones in a town are incredibly fun.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Days Gone does nothing new but it just executes old concepts incredibly well. I liked managing fuel on the bike, where I would do as much as I could to maximize coasting and squeeze more range out of the tank. Exploring and scavenging felt good too, it never felt like tedious busywork like it does in a lot of games. I think the way the bike was done and hordes in general were unique
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Detective No. 27 posted:https://twitter.com/wario64/status/1762146360466575564?s=46&t=uiUehxbkNdNcN0PmfZ4Vaw Buy Robocop if you're able to. This game is extremely good. Really want this developer to make a Judge Dredd game next.
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CitizenKain posted:For Days Gone, there is a point it does kinda stall out like that, and doesn't really pick up until you are taking on hordes. A few are just exercises in running backwards while tossing molotovs, the ones in a town are incredibly fun. The horde clearing thing is another extremely weird thing about Days Gone because the game doesn’t put any of them on your map (although some of them are pretty obvious) until the tail end of the second zone, which is many many hours into the game. And by that point you’re way overpowered for at least 50% of them. It was featured in the very first gameplay trailer and it’s barely there.
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My friends and I still say, "Did you hit them with your thesaurus?" to each other.
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Hwurmp posted:The Typing of the Dead: Overkill They're mutants!
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I loved the poo poo out of Days Gone. I expected to meh out of it after after 5 or 6 hours like I do most open world games but I couldn't put it down. Cruising on the bike, chilling through beautiful Oregon, the story beats, the whacko bad guys that were so fun to finally kill. Sprinting to your bike with a horde on your tail was an adrenaline rush I don't get from many games these days. Deacon's whiny bitch rear end attitude was my only big complaint.
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Feb 26, 2024 18:21
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I said come in! posted:Buy Robocop if you're able to. This game is extremely good. Really want this developer to make a Judge Dredd game next. $20 is an insanely reasonable cost for it unless you just hate Robocop or dislike the mild copraganda involved with it. Sloppy posted:Deacon's whiny bitch rear end attitude was my only big complaint. Excuse me, Deacon is a real manly man who was just too cool for the woke video game reviewers.
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Feb 26, 2024 18:48
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If this were true is there anyone that sees this and thinks yes that sounds like what I need in my life. Bloated endless games are the worst
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Feb 26, 2024 19:12
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Resdfru posted:If this were true is there anyone that sees this and thinks yes that sounds like what I need in my life. *looks at my accumulated 850 hours across the Total Warhammer games y-yeah, for sure
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Feb 26, 2024 19:14
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Sloppy posted:I loved the poo poo out of Days Gone. I expected to meh out of it after after 5 or 6 hours like I do most open world games but I couldn't put it down. Cruising on the bike, chilling through beautiful Oregon, the story beats, the whacko bad guys that were so fun to finally kill. Sprinting to your bike with a horde on your tail was an adrenaline rush I don't get from many games these days. I just really liked when you'd have a think where he'd be muttering to himself, you get on a bike and he's suddenly yelling.
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Feb 26, 2024 19:14
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Mordja posted:*looks at my accumulated 850 hours across the Total Warhammer games Those are strategy games aren't they? I don't think they can be categorized as bloated endless but maybe I should clarify that I mean bloated endless open world games where you're just finding a million stupid things to pad out the time. If it was 500 hours of story I'd say it's probably for me but I can see why it would be for someone else.
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Does a ghost game count as a tangential zombie game? Because I've been really enjoying Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden so far.
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SirSamVimes posted:Does a ghost game count as a tangential zombie game? Because I've been really enjoying Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden so far. I mean the ghosts possess corpses which become zombie so sure.
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Feb 26, 2024 19:32
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Mordja posted:*looks at my accumulated 850 hours across the Total Warhammer games Pfft. Babby numbers. Come back when you have 2,650 hours in Vermintide 2
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Feb 26, 2024 19:37
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Resdfru posted:If this were true is there anyone that sees this and thinks yes that sounds like what I need in my life. Some people really love those games, they buy that one single game and then its all they play for months and months at a time.
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I said come in! posted:Some people really love those games, they buy that one single game and then its all they play for months and months at a time. I know two people like this. They're smarter than we are.
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