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Slippery posted:how many time-traveling teenagers have you met No one ever told me so I don't know.
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Slippery posted:how many time-traveling teenagers have you met technically only one, over and over
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Feb 16, 2019 06:04
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Evilreaver posted:technically only one, over and over You'd think they would be older, or younger. not sure which, tenses in time travel are hard
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Feb 16, 2019 06:07
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RareAcumen posted:No one ever told me so I don't know. Maybe all the teenagers you know are time travelers
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Feb 16, 2019 06:08
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Slippery posted:Maybe all the teenagers you know are time travelers That would explain how someone born a couple of years ago in 2005 could be 14 years old.
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Feb 16, 2019 09:01
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Morpheus posted:Are we talking about the same LiS? The one that began with a teenager getting shot in a school bathroom, had a serial killer prey on young girls, involved a choice on assisted death, and had you attempt to prevent a suicide? And finally ended with a choice between the life of your closest friend or an entire town of people? Yes? The game where the main character is a hipster? It absolutely is that exact thing. Unless twee means it can only be about happy peppy teenagers who don't actually talk like teenagers And yes the closest friend you hadn't talked to in literal years and only reconnected with like 4 days ago Edit: also kids getting shot at school is unfortunately just a Tuesday  so that doesn't count
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Feb 16, 2019 09:30
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I guess Life is Strange can be a bit twee at times, but it feels like those elements are there to make the darker stuff that much more unpleasant. A bit like Twin Peaks.
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Feb 16, 2019 10:34
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Doctor Spaceman posted:That would explain how someone born a couple of years ago in 2005 could be 14 years old. No poo poo right? Or how people can have been born in the 90s, which was less than a decade ago, and yet be driving/buying booze legally.
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Feb 16, 2019 15:35
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Life is Strange is one part teenage melodrama, one part Lynchian psychosexual thriller, and the confluence of the two without warning is what makes it the most amazing game ever made.
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Feb 16, 2019 15:56
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exquisite tea posted:Life is Strange is one part teenage melodrama, one part Lynchian psychosexual thriller, and the confluence of the two without warning is what makes it the most amazing game ever made. Yeah. It had this really unique charm that the sequel so far only manages to briefly channel every now and then
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Feb 16, 2019 16:00
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I respect Dontnod for doing something totally different with Season 2 and I like it well enough, but the central conceit of LiS1 is so completely brilliant that you really only get away with it once.
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Feb 16, 2019 16:04
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Been playing Skyrim and doing all the DLC I never got around to playing the first time. I'm on the Vampire quest line and now I'm stuck in the Forgotten Vale. I've finished the quest , but I can't fast travel out. Anytime I try the game just freezes. This wouldn't be an issue if you could just walk out, but since it's DLC it's walled off in it's own area and far as I can tell you can't manually walk out since the only way to get into the Forgotten Vale is to fall down a waterfall and get swept away in a river so I guess my character just lives here forever now? Bethesda. Bethesda Never Changes.
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Feb 16, 2019 20:51
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Your Gay Uncle posted:Been playing Skyrim and doing all the DLC I never got around to playing the first time. I'm on the Vampire quest line and now I'm stuck in the Forgotten Vale. I've finished the quest , but I can't fast travel out. Anytime I try the game just freezes. This wouldn't be an issue if you could just walk out, but since it's DLC it's walled off in it's own area and far as I can tell you can't manually walk out since the only way to get into the Forgotten Vale is to fall down a waterfall and get swept away in a river so I guess my character just lives here forever now? Why should they? People have been rebuying Skyrim for what 7 years now?
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Feb 16, 2019 20:52
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Good loving Christ, Far Cry 5 has so many problems.
It's not a bad game, but it's not as good as 3 or 4. Ignoring graphical improvements, if I played these out of sequence without knowing what order they were released in, I'd assume this one was first because it has so many bad features that either weren't in other two, or were at least less intrusive in the other two.
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Feb 16, 2019 21:28
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Your Gay Uncle posted:Been playing Skyrim and doing all the DLC I never got around to playing the first time. I'm on the Vampire quest line and now I'm stuck in the Forgotten Vale. I've finished the quest , but I can't fast travel out. Anytime I try the game just freezes. This wouldn't be an issue if you could just walk out, but since it's DLC it's walled off in it's own area and far as I can tell you can't manually walk out since the only way to get into the Forgotten Vale is to fall down a waterfall and get swept away in a river so I guess my character just lives here forever now? If you are on pc you can console out. Not sure about the deal if you're on, uh, console.
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Feb 16, 2019 21:37
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Sunswipe posted:Good loving Christ, Far Cry 5 has so many problems. I think the part where you're cut off from the outside world extra dumb, considering the game started with a US Marshall going to arrest the guy, so it seems like there might have been some follow up by someone? I've started skipping the cutscenes, the writing in this game is incredibly bad.
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Feb 16, 2019 21:46
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Swan Lake Algae Problem posted:I've started skipping the cutscenes, the writing in this game is incredibly bad. 
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Feb 16, 2019 21:57
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Sunswipe posted:Same. Got tired pretty quickly of scenes consisting of a religious nutjob babbling on about their cult. I couldn't get enough of Pagan. Pagan ruled and was a big part of why the story in 4 worked as well as it did for me. That secret ending idea was brilliant.
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Feb 16, 2019 22:00
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Not really on topic but topic-adjacent, it really sours my stomach when I notice a game I stopped playing, and the first thing I wonder is what thing stopped me from finishing it in the first place. I mean, was it simply time? Did some other game take my attention? Or did ~something~ annoy me about the game? I just don't know. Plus, since it's been a while since I've played it, I'm halfway through a game and I don't remember how to play it. Dungeons 3, I'm looking at you. MisterBibs has a new favorite as of 22:18 on Feb 16, 2019 |
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Feb 16, 2019 22:16
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I have a bad habit of getting near the end of the game, thinking "now I'll do all the side content before finishing it", and then instead putting it down forever. Probably a holdover from being a kid that's maladaptive now that time is the limiting factor rather than money.
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Feb 16, 2019 23:20
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Swan Lake Algae Problem posted:I think the part where you're cut off from the outside world extra dumb, considering the game started with a US Marshall going to arrest the guy, so it seems like there might have been some follow up by someone? The cult has infiltrated the US Marshall service, which is something you see in one of the first cutscenes. The dispatcher asks if everything is alright, Seed answers, and she says thank God and calls him Father.
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Feb 16, 2019 23:25
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Morpheus posted:The cult has infiltrated the US Marshall service, which is something you see in one of the first cutscenes. The dispatcher asks if everything is alright, Seed answers, and she says thank God and calls him Father. I thought that was county dispatch that was infiltrated, and the Marshals (one l, two l’s is for the dumb suburban kid name) were going in with Hope County sheriffs office providing most of the manpower.
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Feb 16, 2019 23:29
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I thought that was county dispatch that was infiltrated, and the Marshals (one l, two l’s is for the dumb suburban kid name) were going in with Hope County sheriffs office providing most of the manpower. Ah, maybe. Not sure, that's certainly possible and I misconstrued it. Regardless, I feel like there's a line somewhere in the game, possibly on a note or from a rebel, that mentions why you can't just fly away.
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Feb 17, 2019 06:40
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Morpheus posted:Ah, maybe. Not sure, that's certainly possible and I misconstrued it. Regardless, I feel like there's a line somewhere in the game, possibly on a note or from a rebel, that mentions why you can't just fly away. Yeah, IIRC it’s that there’s a ton of other crazy cult poo poo going on so the outside kind of has its hands full as it is.
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Feb 17, 2019 06:49
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Your Gay Uncle posted:Been playing Skyrim and doing all the DLC I never got around to playing the first time. I'm on the Vampire quest line and now I'm stuck in the Forgotten Vale. I've finished the quest , but I can't fast travel out. Anytime I try the game just freezes. This wouldn't be an issue if you could just walk out, but since it's DLC it's walled off in it's own area and far as I can tell you can't manually walk out since the only way to get into the Forgotten Vale is to fall down a waterfall and get swept away in a river so I guess my character just lives here forever now? i dont know if youve tried warping with the console, the command is 'coc whiterun' or whatever city you want yes, console coc
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Feb 17, 2019 06:53
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Yeah, IIRC it’s that there’s a ton of other crazy cult poo poo going on so the outside kind of has its hands full as it is. I remember someone saying that if you listen to the radio you hear about the collapse of the outside world. It kinda sounds like the game was written by a collection of people that didn't really speak or compare notes.
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Feb 17, 2019 08:02
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Swan Lake Algae Problem posted:I remember someone saying that if you listen to the radio you hear about the collapse of the outside world. That was more leadup to the ending, but yeah there’s a bunch of background stuff about how hosed everything is.
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Feb 17, 2019 08:10
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Yeah they stuffed a whole bunch of poo poo that's happening in the outside world onto the radio that works sporadically and you never really get to listen to too closely thanks to near-constant firefights. 
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Feb 17, 2019 12:21
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And you can't listen to the radio while you're on foot or in a helicopter, which is how you'll spend most of the game.Swan Lake Algae Problem posted:It kinda sounds like the game was written by a collection of people that didn't really speak or compare notes.
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Feb 17, 2019 13:01
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Not even the forced kidnappings are consistent. You can put off a couple of Drug Lady's ones if you're clever and aware by not interacting with out of place characters in the world. You can technically hold out against pretty boy if you avoid getting shot.
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Feb 17, 2019 13:17
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MisterBibs posted:Not really on topic but topic-adjacent, it really sours my stomach when I notice a game I stopped playing, and the first thing I wonder is what thing stopped me from finishing it in the first place. I think it is, at least for me. Most games these days, except for like sports games and racing games, really take a commitment to experience anything meaningful and get into a flow. Open world games in particular are incredible time sinks and only really work if you put some hours into them, as well as play them consistently. When I let a game like Witcher, Fallout or SKyrim sit around too long, I forget what the gently caress I was doing when I last put it down and tend to forget the control scheme. I miss the challenge areas in the Arkham games because you could sit down for an hour and just kick rear end for a while.
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Feb 17, 2019 16:04
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A boardgame I'd been waiting on finally came in and it was basically Onimusha in boardgame form. Samurai fighting demons and while assembling the bits I really wanted to play Onimusha so I grabbed the Switch port. I knew the game was short but I didn't realize there was no Ng+ which makes putting that super special sword in the last room of the game completely pointless.
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Feb 17, 2019 16:48
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One thing that drags a lot of games down to me nowadays is that starting one is almost a commitment. Not just jRPGs which always had a lot of bullshit before you can play, but they often have a tutorial, some sort of practice stage and then also an entire dungeon/area/section/idk that you play through and they introduce the mechanics before the game really begins. Moonlighter for example, which I was playing last week or so: there is the tutorial where you learn the basic controls and the town are where you figure how to manage your shop; but even after that you still have to go through the 1st Dungeon floors to get Key Items for proper exploring while also financing other people to open services that will aid you, such as Blacksmithing or Potion Brewing - which is how you use all those materials you keep finding. Essentially, the entire first dungeon is an intro to the game before you have all the tools you need to actually play it properly.
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Feb 17, 2019 17:18
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Nier: Automata makes starting a real commitment by not giving you the ability to even save the game until you're about an hour in.
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Feb 17, 2019 17:24
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Qwertycoatl posted:Nier: Automata makes starting a real commitment by not giving you the ability to even save the game until you're about an hour in. I got one-shotted by the boss at the end of that when I was juggled between the two arms and it put me off the game so bad. I went back and beat the intro but I was so soured on it I didn’t play much past that.
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Feb 17, 2019 18:34
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im pooping! posted:i dont know if youve tried warping with the console, the command is 'coc whiterun' or whatever city you want I'm playing the SE edition on the PS4, so consoles are out for me. I eventually got it to work, apparently you can only warp to one specific place in the entire map (Castle Volikar). So I guess gently caress me for wanting to go to my house and wanting to drop off the 250 pounds of dragon bone I'd picked up. Qwertycoatl posted:Nier: Automata makes starting a real commitment by not giving you the ability to even save the game until you're about an hour in. Yeah I totally get why this is annoying and this a stupid thing to say but narratively it makes sense, and I'll always kind of love Yoko Taro for sticking to his guns and making the games he wants without a care or regard to "accessibility" or " fun". It took me two or three tries to get through the first part too and I think the rest of the game is totally worth it.
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Feb 17, 2019 18:50
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There’s a lot of tedious and annoying poo poo in Automata, and although there is a lot of genuine brilliance in the overall experience it sure does loving suck to play about 2/3 of it.
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Feb 17, 2019 18:54
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RyokoTK posted:There’s a lot of tedious and annoying poo poo in Automata, and although there is a lot of genuine brilliance in the overall experience it sure does loving suck to play about 2/3 of it. Ah, a life simulator then
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Feb 17, 2019 19:47
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The Moon Monster posted:I have a bad habit of getting near the end of the game, thinking "now I'll do all the side content before finishing it", and then instead putting it down forever. Probably a holdover from being a kid that's maladaptive now that time is the limiting factor rather than money. I've ended up like this with the Talos Principle, even though I've heard the secret solve-all-the-extra-puzzles ending isn't as cool and satisfying as the regular one. 
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BiggerBoat posted:I think it is, at least for me. Yeah, trying to remember the last time I played it, I'm 50% sure I had just done a mission I didn't care for (when it comes to RTSes, I'm sorry, but I hate timed missions / missions that put a premium on YOU HAVE TO DO THIS NOW NO TIME FOR BUILDING UP A MURDERBALL), decided to not play for a while, and here I am months later. Like, one of the things that is bugging me actually counts as content: I just started playing it again, and for the life of me I can't figure out the basic game verbs in Dungeons 3. It took me redoing the tutorial and trial-and-error to remember how to buy units ("Wait, is it like Dungeon Keeper? Are there portals I have to find? What do they look like?"), and it feels like every little thing that I know I once knew how to do is lost to me and it is bugging the poo poo out of me, holy poo poo. (like, I had to look at the controls to find what was the Attack key to do an attack-move, since it wasn't A. aaaaaugh.)
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