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Fallom posted:Is that the same dude who brought it up out of nowhere and it turns out he was thinking of someone completely different
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I dont think LGR has it in him to talk poo poo about anyone, honestly
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Oct 19, 2018 15:31
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I skipped a page or two so I don't know what conclusions you all came to about ggmanlives but does he still recite every line of every review with the same inflection because that poo poo is poison all on its own
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Oct 19, 2018 15:32
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I dont think LGR has it in him to talk poo poo about anyone, honestly He's the best, and someday, I'm going to actually send him my boxed copy of Eternam 
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Oct 19, 2018 16:19
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THE BAR posted:I got to his Wolf 3D video and it got me thinking... How many of you still play Wolfenstein, when Doom does everything it did, but better? My main issue is that exploration isn't that rewarding, as you can only carry 99 bullets and probably have to kill something on your detours. In Doom you can find exotic weapons and ammunition, which gives so much more to the explorative element. I probably do a yearly run of the first episode of Wolfenstein out of nostalgia, but skip the rest. It does have a much better sounding chaingun, but I don't think that's enough to carry it anymore! I've tried on multiple occasions but tbh it's hard for me to sit and play wolf. The levels are incredibly maze-y and there's no verticality at all and unless you already know where the secrets are there's no way to tell which wall has one so you're just pounding at every square inch of the map. And maybe it's just me but bj moves so fast and combined with the same textures that stripe when you run often it can get kinda of nauseating to play. Then there's the meager amount of enemies at any given time and the low variety of weapons, etc etc As an aside, I'm glad when people warn about gators being linked because i don't want to give any clicks to someone who hates me and people like me
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Oct 19, 2018 17:20
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There's "he's a gater or said some gater things before," and then there's "he's a poo poo and everything he does is lovely and I'm going to strongly imply that you're a poo poo too if you dare consume any of this person's content," which is where this thread went last time around. Warnings: thanks for letting me know. Personal judgements: please reserve. LGR certainly appears to be as harmless as a garden gnome. His last video included a caveat that he wasn't sure where his channel was going and that he relies on 'our' input, so that's a bit concerning. Thing is, I figure the most suggesty, moneygiving fans aren't the folks to ask what to do, they're going to trend toward supporting him opening presents and shopping at Goodwill, which are fun bits, but I don't think it's where the heart of the guy's channel is. OTOH, nothing lasts forever, and there's a whole backlog of stuff of his I haven't watched yet.
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Oct 19, 2018 18:04
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Oh man, I hope Clint doesn't stop  He really is a fantastic reviewer/youtuber.
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Oct 19, 2018 18:22
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For Wolf3D my go-to is Episode 5. The rest I find really tedious.
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Oct 19, 2018 18:22
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I like Wolf3d for nostalgic reasons, its literally the first x86 PC game I played, but yeah, Doom does everything better
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Oct 19, 2018 18:29
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The first FPS I really played was RTCW, so I'm coming to most early titles after the fact and, yeah, Wolf3D's kind of the cutoff for me. I can appreciate its importance but I invariably put it down after the first few levels. That said, I had a great time with Shadow of the Woolball. 
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Oct 19, 2018 18:38
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Doom has less Nazis to shoot though. Thankfully there are mods for this. I still enjoy playing Wolf3D from time to time though, especially these map packs people still make. Maybe because it's my first FPS and I have fond memories associated with it.
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Oct 19, 2018 18:38
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Y'all need to understand that the story about LGR is not that he was a king mega shitlord but that he was just kind of a typical rear end in a top hat guy like a decade ago and then he grew up from that the way a lot of people don't, and is noticeably like kinder than a whole bunch of other people these days. And half of what people who remember him being a dick a long while ago wasn't even int he videos so much as in other places people were interacting with him. It's like the Seanbaby paradigm, that guy has also done a ton of growing up and is a seriously good guy these days even though he was big ol rear end in the 2000s.
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Oct 19, 2018 18:49
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The reason I go back to wolf is that I'm a machine gun guy in FPS games, and it kind of gives me that '80s Arnold movie feeling of busting into a room and mowing down a bunch of dudes. The enemies mostly all go down kind of quickly which makes the machine gun gameplay feel really good whether I'm using the chaingun or SMG to clear out a room. It's why I'm one of the few people who likes turret sections. The level design though eventually does get me really bored after a while, though.
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Oct 19, 2018 19:02
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Sikreci posted:Project Warlock apparently stores its settings in the registry. It's super common in Unity games. Saving to playerprefs is quick and easy, and basically every tutorial you'll find for saving data in a unity game tells you to do it that way. It's unfortunate, but until it's removed from Unity you can expect a couple hundred more entries into your registry every time you play a new indie game.
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Oct 19, 2018 19:05
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A year ago when I was experimenting with Unity I ran into a wall and eventually gave up over trying to figure out how to read and write arbitrary files from disk specifically to avoid having to use the default centralized storage. Good to know I'm not the only one.
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Oct 19, 2018 19:23
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Copper Vein posted:I gave Project Warlock a shot, but I feel like punching out almost immediately due to technical shortcomings\decisions. I'm not sure which year you're posting from, but in 2018 the bulk of PC gamers is absolutely not using anything above 1080. Steam's survey says you've got a whopping 4% of 1440 users and I doubt GOG numbers are significantly different.
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Oct 19, 2018 19:25
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Proud to be part of the 4%.
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Oct 19, 2018 19:32
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_-ZCwFL-Ag
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Oct 19, 2018 19:42
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I have it on good authority that ICARUSLIV3S is one of the Boys from Brazil.
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Oct 19, 2018 19:53
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Mordja posted:I have it on good authority that ICARUSLIV3S is one of the Boys from Brazil. e: Oh Gggmanlives. I once made a snide comment on his Mirror's Edge review a long while back about him being upset that there's more than one notable woman in the story and I was getting death threats for weeks from his fans. I think I posted some a long time ago in the IOSM thread as it happened. Ularg fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Oct 19, 2018 |
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Oct 19, 2018 20:25
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Copper Vein posted:
This is really weird because I didn't really notice it until you pointed it out. It's like the player is permanently cloaked in shadows when you're not using the light spell and it sort of focuses your view to a medium distance away. It's an interesting design choice. Though what lighting affects your weapon sprites seems to be based on the sector you're in rather than what light exists around you, which is odd.
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Oct 19, 2018 21:10
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I wish you could swap or remove weapon upgrades in Warlock. It's cool that they're largely interesting and qualitative changes but I'm not a fan of them being irrevocable and mutually exclusive with the the upgrade you didn't choose. Some of them are side-grades or have drawbacks (like the SMG>Nailgun fires ricocheting projectiles that can damage the player) and some of the aesthetic changes are iffy (the flaregun is strong and efficient but its sound and effects feel kinda lame compared to the regular pistol). And since you can't save in Warlock once you choose an upgrade you're locked in to it for the rest of the playthrough.
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Oct 19, 2018 22:06
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Lilith is both really cool and really good.
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Oct 19, 2018 22:07
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DonVincenzo posted:For Wolf3D my go-to is Episode 5. The rest I find really tedious. What is it about episode 5 that you like? I have to admit, I've only mainly played episode 1 and SoD, because I didn't own the full version back in the day.
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Oct 19, 2018 22:32
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I really like Wolf3D, but it's hard to directly compare it to Doom. They have different game-feels. Doom is much easier to go back to again and again, it's got more variety in possible level layouts and gameplay, but Wolf3D has an elegant simplicity to it. Or at least, I enjoyed it enough to play Wolf3D, Spear of Destiny, the add-ons, and a bunch of mods.
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Oct 19, 2018 22:39
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TerminusEst13 posted:Lilith is both really cool and really good. yeah if you haven't played through lilith you really should, it's pretty short
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Oct 19, 2018 22:46
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Should... should I record it?
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Oct 19, 2018 22:50
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:What is it about episode 5 that you like? I have to admit, I've only mainly played episode 1 and SoD, because I didn't own the full version back in the day. I like the level design in it, it doesn't feature any sprawling mega-maze it's all straightforward stuff, the secrets aren't too *secrety* and most of all there's a very interesting room on the 2nd level.
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Oct 19, 2018 23:31
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I think I figured out the problem I was having with the synched strobe lighting. When you set up sectors with strobe lighting, you set the maximum lighting of the area, but you cannot set the minimum lighting. Instead the game chooses the minimum lighting from the surrounding area. This resulted in some of my sectors choosing a 0 lighting level from out of bounds parts of the map to produce the background lighting level. I couldn't figure out a way to fix this, so I simply eliminated the complex strobe lighting from the room.
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Oct 19, 2018 23:55
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Gobblecoque posted:And since you can't save in Warlock once you choose an upgrade you're locked in to it for the rest of the playthrough. What the gently caress? Hard pass.
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Oct 20, 2018 00:00
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Think I'll wait for Warlock dev to smooth out its technical issues (even though I don't have a 1440 monitor) and maybe add a quicksave...
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Oct 20, 2018 00:00
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ToxicFrog posted:What the gently caress? Hard pass. The game auto saves every time you complete a level. There are no manual saves. edit: There also is no reason to have manual saves because there's a lives system per level and the levels are really short (I think the longest level I've played through was 6 minutes).
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Oct 20, 2018 00:09
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ToxicFrog posted:What the gently caress? Hard pass. The levels are super, super short.
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Oct 20, 2018 00:09
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The lack of saves themselves aren't an issue except for the lack of being able to try out weapon upgrades and spells. It uses lives like in Turok and the levels are short so unless you're insanely bad at FPSes, like Polygon games journalist bad, it shouldn't be an issue that makes or breaks your decision to try the game out. I'm near the end of the third episode and over the whole time I've only died a couple couple times, all of which were in a boss fight.
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Oct 20, 2018 00:11
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How many levels per episode?
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Oct 20, 2018 00:30
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12-ish levels per episode, separated into 4 themed areas of varying length and then one just for the boss. You go back to the hub after completing each themed area. If there are secret levels, I haven't found any yet.
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Oct 20, 2018 00:42
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Vitreous Rumor posted:It's super common in Unity games. Saving to playerprefs is quick and easy, and basically every tutorial you'll find for saving data in a unity game tells you to do it that way. It's unfortunate, but until it's removed from Unity you can expect a couple hundred more entries into your registry every time you play a new indie game. PlayerPrefs uses the registry?? Holy smokes, glad I am not using it.
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Oct 20, 2018 00:43
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And there's like 5 episodes?
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Oct 20, 2018 00:45
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Yes. Ish. There's a lot of video game to play for 12 dollars.
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I was really unsure before about the art style of PW, but after watching your the video of your blind stream I had to buy it once I saw that it was only $12. Not very far into it, but it has been drat fun so far. Performance seems to be abysmal for the intensity of the game, a 60 FPS cap doesn't help. I really dislike the way end level doors suck you in if you are anywhere near. No prompt, no button to hit, just boom done with the level. Hope you were looking for secrets. Since the end level screen goes away with any key press I've gone from looking for secrets directly into the next level already... A full sized automap would be amazing. Still fun and the graphics look way better when you're playing it.
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