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I mean a viking would totally wear feathers like that if they could get them.
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Wasn't Freyja's cloak of falcon feathers sometimes described as a rainbow in color? I would just assume he had a pimping God cloak.
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They had Vikings all the way down to the Byzantine Empire, famously, I'm sure any colourful birds that could be found were in demand somewhere. Peacocks seem to have been known about all the way back to ancient Greece, and probably were bred in captivity wherever it was feasible, it's not particularly hard as far as I know. ed: At least on a quick Wikipedia check, the Indian peafowl is said to have been brought back to Greece by Alexander the Great, though there's some theories they were spread around even earlier. Ghost Leviathan has a new favorite as of 15:37 on Jan 17, 2024 |
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There's a character, probably historical, that is mentioned in several Icelandic Sagas who was called Ólafur Pái (Olaf the Peacock)* so called because of how glitzy his wardrobe was. He lived from 930 to 1006 and although none of the Sagas were written down until a century or two later that indicates that the Norse were familiar enough with peacocks to to "Hey that guy dresses colourfully he's like a peacock". *Grandson of the Irish petty-king Muirchertach of the Leather Cloaks. Who judging by his nickname was also a snappy dresser.
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I just finished playing Pseudoregalia, a fairly minimalist 3D jumping puzzle game. The little thing is that in the options menu, there's an "accessibility" section whose only entry is "give the main character pants".  (I mean, it'd be cool if there were real accessibility options, but the only ones I can think of are rebinding controls and a game speed setting. Also, see: minimalist, this game was made on a shoestring and it shows)
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Spider-Man 2 has an accessibility setting where you can just make the entire game run at one third normal speed in order to give you more reaction time. You can bind this as a toggle to the D-Pad and activate infinite bullet time whenever you want, for free.
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Nameless Pete posted:Spider-Man 2 has an accessibility setting where you can just make the entire game run at one third normal speed in order to give you more reaction time. You can bind this as a toggle to the D-Pad and activate infinite bullet time whenever you want, for free. It's neat, also I think adding that in made it buggier, because it randomly triggered a few times for me. Very confusing, since I didn't know it was an option and it's not in your default d-pad settings. One time I just kept playing that way for close to 15 minutes trying to finish a regular scripted fight to see if it would keep going, it's very relaxing in its way.
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It can be jarring because for whatever reason the slow-mo doesn't apply to Finishers so you can be playing at 30% speed and then it will seem like it turns off but it's just the special Finisher animations and then it goes back to slow-mo.
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Last of Us 2 has something similar, both a slow-mo while aiming mode and a half game speed toggle, so you can get some real sick nasty headshots. 
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I tried playing Mass Effect once years and years ago, only got a few hours in and got bored but I'm giving it another shot and having a much better time. It turns out fiddly biotic stuff is not my preferred gameplay and facetanking everything as a soldier absolutely is. Also I think this might be controversial but the Mako is fun to drive! I keep laughing about how ridiculous it is and I finally discovered it has boosters after I've explored like 75% of the planets so I keep using them for literally no reason except it's fun. I can only imagine how carsick all the characters would get with my awful driving, especially when I do a big enough jump/fall to actually damage the vehicle.
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Solenna posted:I tried playing Mass Effect once years and years ago, only got a few hours in and got bored but I'm giving it another shot and having a much better time. It turns out fiddly biotic stuff is not my preferred gameplay and facetanking everything as a soldier absolutely is. Are you playing the Legendary Edition or the old one? The Legendary Edition made a lot of little improvements to the Mako.
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Solenna posted:I tried playing Mass Effect once years and years ago, only got a few hours in and got bored but I'm giving it another shot and having a much better time. It turns out fiddly biotic stuff is not my preferred gameplay and facetanking everything as a soldier absolutely is. Biotics are way better in 2 and especially 3.
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Try a Vanguard if you keep playing into two and three, your core gimmick is a bullrush psychic charge into dudes so you can shotgun their faces. 
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Vanguard is the only way to play.
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Pinball vanguard is even better. Ditch the shotgun to get the Charge cooldown so short that by the time the iframes on Nova end you're ready to Charge again.
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My pedantic take on the Mako is that it was never all that bad by itself, but rather that it was horrendously ill-suited to all the procgen planet terrain they forced you to awkwardly climb with it.
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It would also have been way better if the jets had been gimballed to always thrust straight up rather than pushing you directly away from whatever slope you're climbing.
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Antioch posted:Vanguard is the only way to play. Adrenaline burst being an instant cool down on all abilities made it better at loving people up with biotics than an actual biotics specialist.
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lot of things to dislike about ME: Andromeda but it had probably my favourite vanguard combat. i was a biotic god
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TontoCorazon posted:Biotics are way better in 2 and especially 3. 2 is a really really good game.
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3's multiplayer was surprisingly solid too. I was not expecting good gameplay from that, but it was!
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Fond memories of playing an incredible amount of ME3 multi. Every game needs horde mode multiplayer if I'm being honest.
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Solenna posted:I tried playing Mass Effect once years and years ago, only got a few hours in and got bored but I'm giving it another shot and having a much better time. It turns out fiddly biotic stuff is not my preferred gameplay and facetanking everything as a soldier absolutely is. Mass Effect 1 is maybe my favorite rpg experience yet, I was just blown away by its sheer scope back in the day. Staying up late every day for two weeks, hooking up my xbox to our old, small travel tv that I set up on my desk  I still listen to the score occasionally, too.
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I binged ME1 around release on my sibling's 360 while they were on a three day weekend vacation, but gently caress me if I didn't burn out on it like 4 hours in last time I tried replaying.
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The Maco wasn't great, but it did break up the gameplay and make the worlds feel large. 3 in particular felt like the galaxy was nothing but small rooms full of chest high walls.
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I'm perfectly fine with just looking at it through these rose-tinted glasses forever. That goes for almost all the games I played when young actually, I've gotten too fat and lazy off of all the quality of life improvements in modern games.
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Mass Effect 1 was not a good game but the part where Shepherd "reluctantly and sadly" kills Rex is very funny by how excitedly he shoots him. The Mako segments were also not that bad what the hell guys
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The problem was the map design, not the Mako itself. I loved my trundling jump tank.
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credburn posted:Mass Effect 1 was not a good game but the part where Shepherd "reluctantly and sadly" kills Rex is very funny by how excitedly he shoots him. Killing Rex is actually one of the worst decisions you can make in ME1, as it has disastrous ripple effects with his fuckwit cousin being in charge in his place in ME2 and ME3.
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Kitfox88 posted:Try a Vanguard if you keep playing into two and three, your core gimmick is a bullrush psychic charge into dudes so you can shotgun their faces. Legit the funnest move conceived in that game.
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sebmojo posted:2 is a really really good game. Agreed, 3 was fine but not as good. Except the multiplayer, that poo poo was so much fun. Was kinda sad they ruined it for Andromeda
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I wouldn't have thought of Mass Effect as a multiplayer game. How did it work? Did it just spawn two Shepherds?
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credburn posted:I wouldn't have thought of Mass Effect as a multiplayer game. How did it work? Did it just spawn two Shepherds? Squad based horde mode.
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credburn posted:I wouldn't have thought of Mass Effect as a multiplayer game. How did it work? Did it just spawn two Shepherds? You actually had different playable characters from the difference races and it was a horde/extraction kind of thing long before those dominated the market. It was a ton of fun.
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credburn posted:I wouldn't have thought of Mass Effect as a multiplayer game. How did it work? Did it just spawn two Shepherds? You created your own character using the various races and classes and it was a horde mode coop game with 4 players. There were fairly simple rpg elements as you progressed your character. There were some very fun synergies and strategies that made it pretty deep The multiplayer was surprisingly very fun, I remembered playing an ungodly amount of it even after I had beaten the single player game
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This video goes through it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZYzzIGoqfw
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Melee as the Batarian Solider is some of the most fun I’ve had in a game. I’ll never forget the revving sound his fist makes before exploding the enemy
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Opopanax posted:Melee as the Batarian Solider is some of the most fun I’ve had in a game. I’ll never forget the revving sound his fist makes before exploding the enemy 
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Killing Rex is actually one of the worst decisions you can make in ME1, as it has disastrous ripple effects with his fuckwit cousin being in charge in his place in ME2 and ME3. Wasn't there an issue with 2 where if you didn't have a ME1 save killing Wrex was the default choice?
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ImpAtom posted:Are you playing the Legendary Edition or the old one? The Legendary Edition made a lot of little improvements to the Mako. Kitfox88 posted:Try a Vanguard if you keep playing into two and three, your core gimmick is a bullrush psychic charge into dudes so you can shotgun their faces.
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