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Playing through Metro Redux and it's still really annoying that weapon pick ups are just silhouettes instead of actually telling you what the weapon and attachments are.
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The GTA characters really are only there to justify whatever missions/set pieces that the game is presenting. At least with multiple protagonists you have characters with different personalities and motivations. It's a way to reduce these huge disconnects where someone can give a big scripted monologue about war atrocities and then immediately take a taxi to meet some stranger and go kill two dozen people at their behest.
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Jan 20, 2016 01:32
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I'm replaying Jedi Academy again and the game is terrible at letting you know when you're taking damage. Especially when your personal shields have drained and you lose that electrical shimmer affect over your character. The worst has to be when taking fall damage; since you can super jump it gets tricky trying to determine what exactly can and can't kill you. So my super awesome plan of dropping down and surprising a bunch of unaware stormtroopers with a tornado of plasma just ends up with me literally dropping dead in the middle of them. Or I get into a fight with a sith disciple and he ends up lopping my head off on first contact because I jumped down a few shipping containers and didn't realize I took damage. Another thing dragging this game down is the reminder that we'll never get a proper sequel or spiritual successor  
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Jan 20, 2016 12:11
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Away all Goats posted:The worst has to be when taking fall damage; since you can super jump it gets tricky trying to determine what exactly can and can't kill you. So my super awesome plan of dropping down and surprising a bunch of unaware stormtroopers with a tornado of plasma just ends up with me literally dropping dead in the middle of them. Or I get into a fight with a sith disciple and he ends up lopping my head off on first contact because I jumped down a few shipping containers and didn't realize I took damage. It gets even better when you use g_saberrealisticcombat 2. Then you don't even need to have taken any damage.  Or you fail a mission because Luke Skywalker got in the way and you accidentally cut his arm off.
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Jan 20, 2016 12:43
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Arrath posted:Oh yes Far Cry 3, give me cool tools like flamethrowers and sniper rifles with exploding bullets but all the assassination missions require you to shank the targets. What if I get tired of sneaking around and want to go guns blazing? Mission failed, awesome. I didn't mind that to start because it got me out of a rut where clearing outposts turned into "find a bush on a cliff and one-shot everyone from cover", but it did get a bit wearing towards the end. I usually ended up running past the guards, knifing him and then hoping my armour held out till I could escape via wingsuit. The assassination missions in FC4 were more interesting because if you were spotted it failed you; so you had to sneak past the soldiers, shank a dude, then drag his body out of camp to hide it without being spotted, so at least there was some planning involved. There were also the ones where you had to make a kill with a specific weapon, which was sometimes a challenge if it was something I wouldn't normally play like a shotgun or submachine gun.
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Jan 20, 2016 14:37
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Alteisen posted:Yea ever since SA they've tried to turn the protagonist into a some poor victim of circumstances instead of just being a crazy sociopath like Vercetti was. I thought that was the idea with Trevor?
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Jan 20, 2016 23:38
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The more of the Witcher 3 I play the more I wish I could swap out Ciri for Geralt. She seems like a way more fun and engaging character than Geralt.
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Jan 21, 2016 01:34
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Your Gay Uncle posted:The more of the Witcher 3 I play the more I wish I could swap out Ciri for Geralt. She seems like a way more fun and engaging character than Geralt. Similarly, I want to play as Jade in Dying Light instead of Crane. All they'd have to do is completely excise this whole GRE conspiracy angle because Jade would already have enough reasons to do everything required by the game's plot AFAIK.
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Jan 21, 2016 03:41
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Inco posted:Similarly, I want to play as Jade in Dying Light instead of Crane. All they'd have to do is completely excise this whole GRE conspiracy angle because Jade would already have enough reasons to do everything required by the game's plot AFAIK.
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Jan 21, 2016 04:01
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Your Gay Uncle posted:The more of the Witcher 3 I play the more I wish I could swap out Ciri for Geralt. She seems like a way more fun and engaging character than Geralt. That's the thing I hate the most about the current trend of Grizzled McHardass characters in every game ever. It takes a lot of effort and skill to make that character interesting, and nearly nobody manages. So we're left with the most boring bullshit character I don't want to play as, while being surrounded by people I do. At least when we were in the era of Cool Animal Mascots they tried to make the player character distinct, interesting and fun. Basically the only one of those sorts of characters that I'd actually want to play as is Nathan Drake, because he's got actual charisma and personality (although I wouldn't turn down playing as Sully instead). Even the Sole Survivor in Fallout 4 rarely gets to be interesting, and that's a game with areas like the U.S.S. Constitution.
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Jan 21, 2016 04:32
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Your Gay Uncle posted:The more of the Witcher 3 I play the more I wish I could swap out Ciri for Geralt. She seems like a way more fun and engaging character than Geralt. Ciri is the exact same character with boobs though.
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Jan 21, 2016 05:25
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Your Gay Uncle posted:The more of the Witcher 3 I play the more I wish I could swap out Ciri for Geralt. She seems like a way more fun and engaging character than Geralt. If you're on PC, you're in luck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmeW0-E2eC8
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Jan 21, 2016 05:28
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Cleretic posted:That's the thing I hate the most about the current trend of Grizzled McHardass characters in every game ever. It takes a lot of effort and skill to make that character interesting, and nearly nobody manages. So we're left with the most boring bullshit character I don't want to play as, while being surrounded by people I do. At least when we were in the era of Cool Animal Mascots they tried to make the player character distinct, interesting and fun. I mean, Iraq in that game was a black army vet who made a criminal syndicate that managed to get one in on the main villain of the story. Think about how much better the game would have been if you'd been playing his rise. And speaking of F4, the plethora of lovely radiant quests in that game drags it down. The fact that even Skyrim, which is probably the cruddiest of Bethesda games when it comes to quests was better than Fallout 4 is a goddamn tragedy. Even the USS constitution drags on and makes little sense, even if the payoff is good. Also the weapon is poo poo, sad to say.
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Jan 21, 2016 05:35
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Cleretic posted:Grizzled McHardass this should be something on McDonald's breakfast menu muscles like this? posted:Playing through Metro Redux and it's still really annoying that weapon pick ups are just silhouettes instead of actually telling you what the weapon and attachments are. i still hate that child escort level.
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Jan 21, 2016 09:09
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But an area in a first person shooter where it becomes impossible to aim precisely and small, hard-to-hit enemies randomly and silently pop up behind you sounded so good on paper!
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Jan 21, 2016 09:18
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Lord Lambeth posted:Ciri is the exact same character with boobs though. I mean, she has all the stuff where she hops through dimensions and gets upset that people are being protective of her, but I guess more importantly she has a different moveset that feels really powerful.
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Jan 21, 2016 10:55
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Cleretic posted:That's the thing I hate the most about the current trend of Grizzled McHardass characters in every game ever. It takes a lot of effort and skill to make that character interesting, and nearly nobody manages. So we're left with the most boring bullshit character I don't want to play as, while being surrounded by people I do. At least when we were in the era of Cool Animal Mascots they tried to make the player character distinct, interesting and fun. Nathan Drake is so far out of the box for what you're describing, IMO. What about New Order BJ Blazkowicz?
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Jan 21, 2016 11:14
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Nathan Drake is a boring rear end in a top hat.
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Jan 21, 2016 15:16
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Whatever you think of Nathan Drak he is absolutely not a "Grizzled Mc Hardass" nor is he supposed to be.
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Jan 21, 2016 15:22
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EmmyOk posted:Whatever you think of Nathan Drak he is absolutely not a "Grizzled Mc Hardass" nor is he supposed to be. Yeah, 'Grizzled McHardass' was perhaps a bad choice of words given it's an archetype that likely does encompass Drake, albeit possibly as an edge case (and definitely not a trend-follower, it sorta just happened around him). The stubbled, gun-packing dark-haired (or bald-headed) man in his twenties or thirties, who may or may not be sarcastically wisecracking while solving Man Problems. There's certainly light-hearted examples like Rico from Just Cause, but it's generally a very straight-faced type of character. If I replaced 'Nathan Drake' with 'Adam Jensen', would it work? Because I forgot about him, he's definitely one and I enjoy playing as him.
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Jan 21, 2016 15:44
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Could it be something do with with test markets and other poo poo like that? Like "The average game is a white dude in his 20's/30's if we deviate from this we'll alienate our core demographic" Or whatever. Like you can't have TOO much flavour because average joe wouldn't like it? Or am I being a cynic there? Also I heard that the dude who wrote the Dark Brotherhood quest in Oblivion was fired because the quest line was so much better than every other quest line it made the rest of the game look bad in comparison. Is there any truth in that?
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Red Minjo posted:I mean, she has all the stuff where she hops through dimensions and gets upset that people are being protective of her, but I guess more importantly she has a different moveset that feels really powerful. Maybe I'm just bad at playing as Ciri but she feels extremely fragile compared to Geralt to me. I'd do anything for a Quen sign in her segments.
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Woolie Wool posted:Maybe I'm just bad at playing as Ciri but she feels extremely fragile compared to Geralt to me. I'd do anything for a Quen sign in her segments. she has a blink move that lets you get behind enemies. you really shouldn't be tanking any hits with her. geralt's whatever build you give him. ciri's meant to be a glass cannon. ChogsEnhour posted:Could it be something do with with test markets and other poo poo like that? Like "The average game is a white dude in his 20's/30's if we deviate from this we'll alienate our core demographic" Or whatever. Like you can't have TOO much flavour because average joe wouldn't like it? Or am I being a cynic there? it's been a safe bet for so long now why would devs try something new when they can focus their resources on new gameplay features? i'm not defending the trend, this is basically the argument for why it happens.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:He was made Lead Designer of Fallout 3, so no, not really. Also oblivion did really well for the general public so it's kind of insane to get all conspiracy theorist like that.
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Jan 21, 2016 17:05
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Digirat posted:But an area in a first person shooter where it becomes impossible to aim precisely and small, hard-to-hit enemies randomly and silently pop up behind you sounded so good on paper! The trick to that area is not stopping to shoot anything that isn't directly in front of you. You can outrun most of them.
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ChogsEnhour posted:Could it be something do with with test markets and other poo poo like that? Like "The average game is a white dude in his 20's/30's if we deviate from this we'll alienate our core demographic" Or whatever. Like you can't have TOO much flavour because average joe wouldn't like it? Or am I being a cynic there? Grizzled mc-badass white dude is a safe bet in most games since nobody gives a poo poo what happens to him versus a minority or a woman, especially with how volatile things are lately with female or minority representation in games. So as a developer, do you go with the safe bet or the one that might get you some bad press, the answer is obvious I feel.
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The amount of lovely filler text in Shadowrun: Hong Kong. Holy poo poo. The devs decided that having an hour or two dedicated to wandering the map and talking to random people that show up inbetween runs that give you nothing except box after box of textdumps was a good idea. There's absolutely no reason to actually talk to anyone since none of them give you items, weapons, karma, nothing. Oh, and Is0lde is the worst character. loving cat killing autistic weirdo who whines every opportunity she gets. Why the hell did she get a side quest dedicated to her but nobody else does? Even the crazy Russian has his rolled into a story quest you have to do. edit - Just remembered she also gets forced on you unless you're a decker for a few quests as well unless you like bad endings.
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Your other team members *do* have sidequests though. Is0bel's was the only one I didn't get around to doing because I didn't feel like talking to her all that much until later in the game--Racter's is easy to come across because he opens up to you about his past really easily (probably because they want to make it possible to get the quest before it's too late), but Gaichu and Gobbet have independent quests as well--Gobbet's is probably the best of the ones that I played. It is a bit disappointing that you have to do the Is0bel sidequest for the best ending--and there's no indication of that at all (by the time I found out from the internet I couldn't complete the conversations to actually get the quest).
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I've played through twice and I still haven't gotten anyone else to open up. Then again, both times the bugged out so badly I had to reload a save 2 hours earlier because I couldn't progress. I also had Crafty Xu suddenly act like it was the first time I talked to her and refused to help me out, so that pissed me off that it locked me out of the best ending. I also can't believe it's been out for MONTHS and there's still lovely game breaking bugs and weird stuff going on that they just haven't even bothered to fix.
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Cleretic posted:Yeah, 'Grizzled McHardass' was perhaps a bad choice of words given it's an archetype that likely does encompass Drake, albeit possibly as an edge case (and definitely not a trend-follower, it sorta just happened around him). The stubbled, gun-packing dark-haired (or bald-headed) man in his twenties or thirties, who may or may not be sarcastically wisecracking while solving Man Problems. There's certainly light-hearted examples like Rico from Just Cause, but it's generally a very straight-faced type of character. Adam Jensen, Batman, Master Chief, the guy from Hatred would all count IMO. Drake makes too many jokes and doesn't frown enough to count.
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Lord Lambeth posted:Ciri is the exact same character with boobs though. I've only played 3 or 4 of her levels but her moveset is alot more fun and she seems more friendly and outgoing where Geralt just gets grumpy about everything when he's not loving every witch/barmaid/princess goat.
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After being delayed by various bugs I finally finished the main quest in fallout 4. I decided to celebrate being done by jumping off the roof of the building I wason to kill myself. Right before I hit the ground I got close to a map transition and ended up perfectly safe in a nearby town.
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Jan 22, 2016 03:47
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Your Gay Uncle posted:I've only played 3 or 4 of her levels but her moveset is alot more fun and she seems more friendly and outgoing where Geralt just gets grumpy about everything when he's not loving every witch/barmaid/princess goat. I mean wouldn't you?
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So Darkest Dungeon released its final update and is now out of early access, and with it its final dungeon, the titular Darkest Dungeon, my main problem with is the gimmick for it. Basically any hero you take into it is to afraid to ever go back and you're forced out of it after clearing a floor and the dungeon is 4 floor long, so a game that for the most part was a huge meat grinder of building up a handful of dudes and basically using the rest as cattle to build up funds and supplies now forces you to train up a bunch of characters and build them up as best as you can pretty much turning the end game into a gigantic grind fest. Its not really fun and I've lost interest as I need to train up at least 7 heroes, never mind the costs of outfitting them with the best armor and weapons as you WILL need them, this of course does no guarantee victory as the RNG in this game is so overwhelming sometimes so I might even have to train 4 more on top of those 7 purely for safety, hell I'm assuming the final boss has some ridiculous ultra cheap attack that probably maxes out your stress or something.
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In Darkest Dungeons, and I just got it today, I tried doing an easy fishman dungeon and got three fights in a row where I was surprised and my ranks got shuffled and everyone got murdered while I tried to move my can-only-attack-from-the-front guy back to the front and my can't-heal-from-the-front guys to the back but they can only move a certain number of spaces and the turn order they got called in means everyone pushes each other out of the way and nobody gets where they need to be. And now they're gone forever. ANd I knew they were going to die, I knew once they started dying I had no hope, but there's no "gently caress this, gently caress you, go ahead and kill them see if I give a gently caress" option. I tried quitting and reloading but it made me go right back into that doomed fight and spend another five minutes watching them follow the fighter into death and completely fail to attack now that there was no longer a back row to use their skills from. That's all I want. A surrender button. Is that so much to ask? I don't even want to go back in knowing there's no way to give up once it's hopeless.
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Krinkle posted:In Darkest Dungeons, and I just got it today, I tried doing an easy fishman dungeon and got three fights in a row where I was surprised and my ranks got shuffled and everyone got murdered while I tried to move my can-only-attack-from-the-front guy back to the front and my can't-heal-from-the-front guys to the back but they can only move a certain number of spaces and the turn order they got called in means everyone pushes each other out of the way and nobody gets where they need to be. And now they're gone forever. ANd I knew they were going to die, I knew once they started dying I had no hope, but there's no "gently caress this, gently caress you, go ahead and kill them see if I give a gently caress" option. I tried quitting and reloading but it made me go right back into that doomed fight and spend another five minutes watching them follow the fighter into death and completely fail to attack now that there was no longer a back row to use their skills from. God this would be great. In FTL it was great to be able to jump away if poo poo got a little to real. It really added to the tension when you knew you were just hosed and had to wait and pray they didn't blow your engines or kill your pilot before you could escape.
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Can't you run away from fights in that game I mean it looks like a lame-rear end RNGfest either way but I know I've seen streamers run away from fights before.
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Kinda a broad, nonspecific thing, but Christ, I am sick of playing comparatively obscure (non-AAA, middle-budget, however you want to define it) games that are relatively new. It's not because of bugs or anything, it's because there's scarce guides/tricks/whatevers online for them, being so new. Can't figure out what a mission is telling me to do? Things I should know in advance to avoid screwing things up or wasting time? Stuff I might be missing that's important? Good luck finding that poo poo out when everything about a game is relatively new.
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MisterBibs posted:Kinda a broad, nonspecific thing, but Christ, I am sick of playing comparatively obscure (non-AAA, middle-budget, however you want to define it) games that are relatively new. Just play the game and try to enjoy it?
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