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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:Senua 1 is a wonderful, dark-ish experience that supposedly does a lot to simulate borderline/schizo/psychotic ways to view the world, and for that alone it's worth playing (just beware what you're getting into). It's interesting that some view it as horror, this is what some people with mental illness or disorders live with, according to the psych scientists and some patients who helped develop the game. (look up the documentaries after you've finished it). It's definitely... maybe "tough to watch" in some moments. Triggering? I agree with all that, which is why I'm so confused that it's getting a Big Sequel. Like was I supposed to take the events of the first game literally and she's a big action star?
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# ? May 26, 2024 06:55 |
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AAA development baby!!!
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# ? Mar 15, 2024 21:51 |
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veni veni veni posted:Did you finish it? I feel like anyone who would call it boring probably played it for like 45 minutes.
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# ? Mar 15, 2024 22:01 |
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This is just that developer's deal. Gimmicky face mocap going all the way back to their big Sony exclusive starring Andy serkis, shallow gameplay, basically just want to make movies with extremely simple gameplay bridging the gap between cutscenes.
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# ? Mar 15, 2024 22:22 |
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I never got the hype around the Mental illness asmr game. It does look pretty but I’ve got my own voices to listen to if I want.
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# ? Mar 15, 2024 22:25 |
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I think it's biggest issue is that it does tread that line between walking sim and action game that managed to piss some people off. It has puzzles/combat/and exploration but it's all pretty bare bones. If you go in expecting an all out AAA action game, maybe yeah you'll be disappointed. If you go in knowing it's sort of a walking sim+™ I think it succeeds. People say the combat is bad but I really don't think it is. It's very simple but I thought it felt chunky and pretty visceral. The puzzles are also pretty simple but challenging enough to stump me occasionally. So yeah if you want it to be God Of War maybe it's disappointing, but if you are coming in just to soak up the vibes I think it's got a lot of cool and original poo poo going on.
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# ? Mar 15, 2024 22:43 |
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I got three games coming out on 21st that I need to play. Hellblade 2, System Shock, and Hyperdimensional Neptune Sisters vs Sisters.
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# ? Mar 15, 2024 23:37 |
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I really liked what they did with Senua’s arm, the aspect of “every time you die, this necrotic rot spreads further down your arm, and if it reaches your shoulder you’ll die permanently”. Really interesting way to implement a feeling of serious danger. Endgame spoiler: Except it literally does nothing, you can’t permanently die from it as most people figure out. It’s just another way your mind is loving with you
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# ? Mar 15, 2024 23:52 |
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I like how the Control cutscenes just used FMV in a lot of parts instead of jank rear end mocap Professor Darling 4evah
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webmeister posted:I really liked what they did with Senua’s arm, the aspect of “every time you die, this necrotic rot spreads further down your arm, and if it reaches your shoulder you’ll die permanently”. Really interesting way to implement a feeling of serious danger.
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I admit I am a stupidly impatient person when it comes to video games, you have maybe an hour, at most, to hook me. If you don't then I'm out, I don't care if I had just gotten to hour two or three it would have been the best, I'm not doing it. The equivalent of giving a show til the second episode to get good tbh.priznat posted:I like how the Control cutscenes just used FMV in a lot of parts instead of jank rear end mocap Control is just fun and entertaining, a lovely amalgamation of all those silly 80s/90s media. The built in assists definitely give the "just enjoy the ride" vibe.
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# ? Mar 16, 2024 00:56 |
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Senuas Sacrifice is firmly in my pile named "games people recommended to me as amazing, but very much did not click for me and abandoned after 1h". Sadly Prey is also in that pile, I really wanted to like it. I hope I can still pull Cyberpunk 2077 out of it.
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# ? Mar 16, 2024 08:43 |
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Hellblade's cutscenes felt mostly like a neurotypical's popculture-driven understanding of what psychosis looks like, but apparently they had consultants and poo poo
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# ? Mar 16, 2024 10:38 |
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Hellblade has like a 20 minute intro that can’t be skipped iirc Just on a raft going down a river For loving ever The combat I thought was awesome and felt violent.
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# ? Mar 16, 2024 11:56 |
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House Flipper 2 is coming to Xbox next week. Nice. Also, the Xbox Spring Sale usually happens around this time of year. So hold on a bit if you were planning to buy something. John F Bennett fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Mar 16, 2024 |
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Everyone needs to play Control Ultimate Edition on their Xbox Series X right now.
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# ? Mar 16, 2024 22:28 |
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I tried. Would've been a good tv show - as a game, didn't work for me. Meaning, the interesting bits didn't involve superpowered murdery.
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# ? Mar 16, 2024 22:34 |
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Just making everything in office environments explode everywhere makes control an all timer for me, but the lore is also really neat.
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Sandepande posted:I tried. Would've been a good tv show - as a game, didn't work for me. Yeaaah I am debating whether I should continue playing it, the combat somehow feels wonky and annoying. Perhaps that‘s why I stopped playing the free Epic store version, I can‘t quite remember.
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American McGay posted:Everyone needs to play Control Ultimate Edition on their Xbox Series X right now.
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American McGay posted:Everyone needs to play Control Ultimate Edition on their Xbox Series X right now.
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# ? Mar 16, 2024 22:58 |
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control is so good. maybe remedy's best game
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# ? Mar 16, 2024 23:04 |
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American McGay posted:Everyone needs to play Control Ultimate Edition on their Xbox Series X right now. I am playing it. I'm mostly in it for the weird and paranormal stuff and to explore the Oldest House, so I turned off the combat. It feels like an SCP story, very cool.
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# ? Mar 16, 2024 23:54 |
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i still need to finish The Foundation DLC D:
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# ? Mar 17, 2024 00:09 |
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Can’t play control yet, need to finish cyberpunk Hope it stays around on games pass Also, hoping Ms drops a series X one pro 360 after seeing the ps5 pro leaks. If rockstar is gonna a be an rear end in a top hat and delay gta6 pc a while I might have to slum it on console
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# ? Mar 17, 2024 00:09 |
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Shadow of Chernobyl whips rear end but the end game is absolute trash lol
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# ? Mar 17, 2024 01:48 |
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Quantum of Phallus posted:control is so good. maybe remedy's best game
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American McGay posted:Everyone needs to play Control Ultimate Edition on their Xbox Series X right now. I finished the standard version, is the ultimate version worth playing ? What does it add to the overall experience?
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:I finished the standard version, is the ultimate version worth playing ? What does it add to the overall experience?
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# ? Mar 17, 2024 02:44 |
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If you haven't yet, play Control. If you've already finished the normal game, the dlc is nice but not really worth re-buying or replaying the game.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I tend to think so. AW2 and MP2 are the only competitors for me Mp2 I adore but I thought AW2 completely shat the bed in the final act
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# ? Mar 17, 2024 11:17 |
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Mp2 I adore but I thought AW2 completely shat the bed in the final act Sad! AW2 was a masterpiece which only grows the more I think about it.
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# ? Mar 17, 2024 11:42 |
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That last hour was dogshit, they clearly ran out of money
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# ? Mar 17, 2024 11:52 |
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Seemed consistent with the rest of the game to me.
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# ? Mar 17, 2024 12:03 |
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Alan Wake was not very good and then the ending was very not good.
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# ? Mar 17, 2024 12:20 |
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If you don’t like controls’s combat and just want to take the ride turn on the god mode stuff in the accessibility options and blast through the game.
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Kaboobi posted:If you don’t like controls’s combat and just want to take the ride turn on the god mode stuff in the accessibility options and blast through the game. Yeah, this. I'm playing it like a walking sim and it's way more fun. Options used : Immortality and 1-hit kills.
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# ? Mar 17, 2024 14:47 |
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Mp2 I adore but I thought AW2 completely shat the bed in the final act I don't think it shat the bed that hard but the best part of the game is exploring new areas so it sucks when you run out of new areas to explore. It's not like a metroidvania where you get excited to find items in old areas you've been through already.
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# ? Mar 17, 2024 16:15 |
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Pinning up photos to a wall for an hour and then walking for five minutes around a pallette-swap map was pretty bad if we’re being honest
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Pinning up photos to a wall for an hour and then walking for five minutes around a pallette-swap map was pretty bad if we’re being honest Maybe they should have called it Alan Walk 2
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