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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:Judge Dredd doesn’t cause mayhem? Dredd causes justice, criminal. spessmahrinefasismisbadcomic.tiff
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gohuskies posted:The Arkham games are the template for it. Arkham City is an open world with a strong narrative and a highly lawful protagonist taking on criminals. I think Asylum kept it's focus better, worse final boss aside.
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Aug 16, 2021 22:33
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:Judge Dredd doesn’t cause mayhem? Don't be a pedant, you know I'm referring to GTA style open world mayhem.
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Aug 16, 2021 22:36
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I can’t believe Witcher 3 let me go on a drunken bender with my Witcher bros culminating in us dressed in drag unsuccessfully trying to call up some girls before my girlfriend walks in on us using the magic phone call Like, they really didn’t have to but they did. The mad lads.
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Aug 17, 2021 07:45
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While Axiom Verge 2 isn't as good as the original, I can't really say that it's 'not as inspired' as the original, because hot drat, it is NAILING its 'sci-fi Ancient Mesopotamia' aesthetic. I've got no idea why Thomas Happ decided to go for that, and I admit I was a little disappointed to see I wasn't gonna get more Giger-esque glitch-punk like the original, but there's some really pretty landscapes well beyond what you'd expect from a game with an artstyle borrowing from the original Prince of Persia games. And I never expected to fight robots based on Akkadian statues, which is honestly cool as hell.
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Aug 17, 2021 10:53
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RareAcumen posted:I think Asylum kept it's focus better, worse final boss aside. Asylum is a Metroidvania rather than open world, though. City is almost TOO open.
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Aug 17, 2021 14:41
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It's more "a core system" and less of a little thing, but I really like the disguise mechanic in AC Valhalla. It makes sense in-world (you're a Dane invader in England, and most people aren't going to like seeing a foreign person armed to the teeth walk their streets), and it makes the game world more gradual: you're not just dealing with restricted areas and open areas, but a pretty interesting middle ground. It's not very clear how visible you are to guards when you're cloaked, but to me that just adds to the feeling of being unwelcome. It's a way for them to bring back the social stealth from earlier games, which is neat!
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Aug 17, 2021 15:35
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It's from a few pages back, but I'm trying out the Little Tail Bronx games because Fuga: Melodies of Steel sounds like extremely my poo poo. Tail Concerto was a little clunky for my taste, but seems okay for what it is. However, it was an excuse to mess around with emulators again and that meant spending several minutes playing Vagrant Story and Super Mario Brothers. If I'm not into Solatorobo, it's still an excuse to load roms into my 3DS. To tie it into the thread, my little thing is that I love loving around with emulators and hacked consoles as much as actually playing old games.
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Aug 17, 2021 20:50
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I've started the second major set of levels in Zathura, the lava planet. I like that not only are the enemies different to the robot planet, not just in design but behaviour, but that the difficulty comes elsewhere. Robot planet's difficulty came from pretty pure combat, but Lava planet introduces more consistent platforming, and the enemies are numerous but easier because they aren't the focus of the levels. It works to make it feel very distinct from the first world.
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Aug 17, 2021 21:41
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BioEnchanted posted:I've started the second major set of levels in Zathura, the lava planet. I like that not only are the enemies different to the robot planet, not just in design but behaviour, but that the difficulty comes elsewhere. Robot planet's difficulty came from pretty pure combat, but Lava planet introduces more consistent platforming, and the enemies are numerous but easier because they aren't the focus of the levels. It works to make it feel very distinct from the first world. I'm almost certain you've played the Zathura game before.
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Aug 17, 2021 22:17
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No, I don't think so. I've seen the movie, but never played the game.
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Aug 17, 2021 22:19
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BioEnchanted posted:No, I don't think so. I've seen the movie, but never played the game. Huh. I must have heard someone else saying they enjoyed the Zathura tie-in game and assumed it was you.
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Aug 17, 2021 22:20
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I'm bumbling my way through Dragon Age Inquisition and, for one reason or another, have ignored Cassandra. I need Varric to appear so I can get a book for the specialisation thingy, but he was gone so I Googled it, thinking it was a bug, which this game is notorious for. So, after this I went to speak to Cassandra and she was about to pin Varric to the wall with rage over plot stuff. Dealt with that. Then spoke to her again and got the scene where it turns out she is a secret fangirl of Varric's books and is loving mortified she was caught reading it, let alone enjoying it
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Aug 19, 2021 17:39
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I'm playing Samus Returns and my favorite thing is that all of the lava areas play the Magmoor Caverns music. Most of the rest of the game has been lighter ambient kind of music so when it unexpectedly slammed into the heavier Magmoor theme, it made me genuinely smile.
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Aug 19, 2021 20:37
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Magmoor Caverns theme is itself a rendition of Ridley's Lair from Super Metroid. It's one of the most iconic themes of the series, alongside Ridley's theme itself.
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Aug 19, 2021 22:07
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Sushi Striker: The imperial soldiers have food-based pun names.
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Aug 20, 2021 01:13
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goodog posted:I downloaded MLB The Show 21 on a whim off Gamepass and there's so much more love and effort put into it than other big name sports franchises. You can treat it like a realistic simulator, or have Dog Dick the mutant dwarf do a pimp strut when he hits a home run. This reminds me of that article by a professional sports news reporter which described a video game football (maybe basketball?) match between a team of stunted gremlings and a team of giants and how the former was stomped mercilessly by the latter. The whole thing had me in absolute stitches. Anyone remember which article I'm talking about
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Aug 20, 2021 13:42
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Teriyaki Koinku posted:This reminds me of that article by a professional sports news reporter which described a video game football (maybe basketball?) match between a team of stunted gremlings and a team of giants and how the former was stomped mercilessly by the latter. The whole thing had me in absolute stitches. Anyone remember which article I'm talking about Breaking Madden. https://www.sbnation.com/2015/1/27/7916937/breaking-madden-super-bowl-2015-seahawks-patriots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBhyXziy8Ic There's multiple articles, so not sure if it's that specific.
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Aug 20, 2021 13:55
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Kennel posted:Breaking Madden. /cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/3338194/bigvssmall.0.png) Amazing
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Aug 20, 2021 14:00
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I have zero interest in playing sports games, but they always fascinate me for looking so photorealistically good and then not understanding how physics work.
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Aug 20, 2021 14:22
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RoboRodent posted:I have zero interest in playing sports games, but they always fascinate me for looking so photorealistically good and then not understanding how physics work. The latest Fumble Dimension (the series that's essentially just videos of them doing this stuff with various sports games, which is a great watch by itself) did mention generally what causes this stuff to happen: sports games are generally pretty focused on simulating how a sport really gets played, but it's largely with a focus on how professional athletes play and are built, because they need to make these real people accurate as well. That means things start to fray pretty hard if you play for the edges of what they allow, either in character creation (like in Breaking Madden) or in gameplay (like by, in their most recent video, losing every single fight in a UFC game's career mode).
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Aug 20, 2021 14:38
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everyone needs to read Breaking Madden. you do not need to give the slightest poo poo about football to enjoy it.
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Aug 20, 2021 17:25
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jon bois is real good in general. 17776 is one of the most bizarrely compelling things I've ever seen
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Aug 20, 2021 17:38
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Gay Rat Wedding posted:everyone needs to read Breaking Madden. you do not need to give the slightest poo poo about football to enjoy it. Can confirm, I don't even know anything about football beyond the vaguest idea of "move ball around; get points" and it's a good read.
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Aug 20, 2021 19:39
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Breaking Madden gave the world the name "Clarence Beeftank" so it is good
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Aug 20, 2021 20:10
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the best Breaking Madden is NBA Y2K: The Death of Basketball also, breaking madden has continued in a spiritual sequel series called Fumble Dimension on Secret Base, SBNation's youtube channel. their most recent video is attempting a pacifist run in UFC 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IcCo6gouTc World War Mammories posted:jon bois is real good in general. 17776 is one of the most bizarrely compelling things I've ever seen I'm pretty sure he runs the whole show now, such was his popularity. 17776 is incredible, and the sequel is real drat good too. The Seattle Mariners series they put out a little but ago is also amazing viewing, even if you don't give a poo poo about baseball. The Atlanta Falcons series they just started is looking to be another good-rear end watch. Babe Magnet has a new favorite as of 20:57 on Aug 20, 2021 |
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Aug 20, 2021 20:55
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I thought this was neat: why Skyrim's foxes seem to lead you to treasure https://twitter.com/JoelBurgess/status/1428008043556622336?s=19
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Aug 20, 2021 21:31
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Word of warning though. After I watched a good chunk of the Mariners video various things started suggesting baseball to me.
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Aug 20, 2021 21:32
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Playing Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice and I really like the combat system. Especially compared to to Heavenly Sword and Enslaved which is the only Ninja Theory games I've played before that. Hellblade's combat system feels really intuitive, it's one of the few games I've played where you can use running momentum to launch an extra powerful blow for example. I also like how the voices in Senua's head will encourage her (or mock her), warn her about enemies that's attacking from behind and let her know when the fight is almost over. It even made the fight against Valravn bearable and almost fun and considering I hate enemies that can teleport and bring in other enemies that really speaks to how good it is.
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Aug 21, 2021 14:07
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One thing I really like about Hellblade is that it fully commits to not teaching you anything about how to play it for the sake of immersion. Admittedly this can be frustrating to many people, but to me it's refreshing in our current reality where every single game is replete with "press up to walk forward" prompts. For example, you can use Senua's melee on the last hit of any normal attack string to extend combos and open up entirely different strings, in addition to the aforementioned sprinting and parry-based attacks. At no point does the game mention this at all, and you can get through the story without landing a single fancy combo, but the decision to just leave an entire game mechanic as totally undiscoverable was bold and I think ultimately paid off.
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Aug 21, 2021 15:38
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The way through some of the trials in the latter half of the game were so intuitive that no instruction was necessary either, and not even trying was such a confidant and refreshing move by the devs too. I think the only thing that could be even considered as a tutorial or OOG instruction was the corruption mechanic, which was a whole other little thing itself.
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Aug 21, 2021 15:58
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tight aspirations posted:
The voices more or less works as a kind of mean spirited hint mechanic: To battle Valravn you have to go through portals to solve puzzles. The first time I did it a voice said: "hey, idiot, something changed. Can't you notice?" tight aspirations posted:The way through some of the trials in the latter half of the game were so intuitive that no instruction was necessary either, and not even trying was such a confidant and refreshing move by the devs too. The only other game I can compare it to is Portal 2. There was the same sense that you could try something out just to see if it would work and then watch in amazement as it totally worked. Alhazred has a new favorite as of 16:20 on Aug 21, 2021 |
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Aug 21, 2021 16:16
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The voices in your head are not your friend. Especially when they're being helpful.
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Below I'll link Sidcourse's video essay on Hellblade and his experience playing through the game as someone who actually suffers from schizoaffective psychosis. It has mega-spoilers and you should definitely only watch it after you have completed the story, but one element he draws special attention to is that Senua's voices are not all entirely antagonistic -- they're often just chatty, sometimes helpful and even complimentary. This he says is the truly insidious part about mental illness, because over time you come to trust these voices, believe them to be just as real as you or me, listen to them. By eliminating the UI and making the player reliant upon verbal cues from these voices, you also start to trust them over time, and will notice when they're gone. It's just another way in which the design completely draws you into Senua's world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52flQkqj5gs
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Aug 21, 2021 16:37
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a kitten posted:I thought this was neat: why Skyrim's foxes seem to lead you to treasure This is much cuter than the New Vegas bug it reminded me of, where soldiers would randomly attack your robot follower in friendly areas because when the NPCs' AI decides that they're "hungry" they go "hunting" and any nonhuman NPC with food in its inventory (eg if you're using your robot buddy to cart mac and cheese ands broc flowers around) is considered a valid target for hunting
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Aug 22, 2021 00:52
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: You use the touch screen to perform special actions to destroy food enemies and obstacles.
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Aug 22, 2021 02:11
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Played Left 4 Dead again after Back 4 Blood and just learned that the construction worker zombies with hearing protection aren't effected by the beeping of the pipe bombs
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Aug 22, 2021 02:57
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TontoCorazon posted:Played Left 4 Dead again after Back 4 Blood and just learned that the construction worker zombies with hearing protection aren't effected by the beeping of the pipe bombs 
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Aug 22, 2021 03:10
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Babe Magnet posted:
drat, I didn't know there was a sequel! the locomotive lateral!!! 
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The battle against Surtr in Hellblade It's not hard at all because despite his size he's slow and he's attacks are easy to dodge. But it feels so epic. At the start Senua shouts "fight me now!" and then the music starts. The same with the battle on the River of Knives, it just felt so badass to storm into the battle with the music blasting.
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