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FDR actually spent some time treasure hunting. Also, I first saw a "second-biggest" gag in Commander Keen 6.
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And here I was thinking it was a reference to the third Uncharted game with the well or whatever that they kept the djinn-juice in.
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Nov 26, 2016 20:12
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So did they have to cut some content for time here? That transition between islands felt really jarring, like there should have been a shooty scene or a longer cinematic there.
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Nov 26, 2016 20:22
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Wow, Nathan got so injured he actually slowed down to a human level of climbing speed.
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Nov 26, 2016 20:32
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I love that Get Smart's "That's the second biggest X I've ever seen!" gag has now transmitted for at least 2 or so generations simply due to repetition through various forms of media. That's how good a comedy writer Mel Brooks is! RIP Don Adams.
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My big problem with this whole sequence is that it's yet another Cyclopean edifice constructed by our comparatively rag-tag alliance of pirates. It's an escalation that seemingly owes more to the game being the fourth in the series than the actual narrative. I mean, what is this, the fourth megaconstruction they've built, including elaborate puzzle mechanisms and incredibly sophisticated architecture? It's one thing to expect magnificent architecture and puzzles from an ancient superhuman Tibetan kingdom or an accomplished, possibly-supernaturally-aided city-state deep in the Arabian desert in nearby lands. They had time, and we can't really guess at what sorts of incredible feats these civilizations would have been capable of. It's quite another for a group of pirates to construct incredible wonders rivalling any of the greatest works of architecture of their day not only on a nearby island (and really, what was the purpose of the watch towers and chambers on Madgascar proper? Libertalia isn't even on the same landmass, so what is it guarding from?) but on a second nearby island, just to decorate their staging area. This stuff would have taken months! Years! And even if we assume they were recruiting people, each of these pirate ships would have held maybe fifty to a hundred people tops? I mean, Libertalia wasn't intending to be recruiting people for centuries, presumably. This was all an elaborate sales pitch for the most part. The Scotland puzzles - ok, they make sense, sort of; they're just expanding on existing caverns beneath an existing cathedral, and constructed out of basalt. But the Madagascar tower sequence and this one feel like they're not narratively justified in how elaborate they are. Don't get me wrong, I love the game, and its environments are beautiful. The story is otherwise really good. But it feels like the game has one or two megaconstruction chapters too many, basically. In its desire to be a globe-trotting narrative, it chose a poor MacGuffin in (comparatively) so-far-as-we-know mundane treasure? Jetrauben fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Nov 26, 2016 |
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Star Platinum posted:So did they have to cut some content for time here? That transition between islands felt really jarring, like there should have been a shooty scene or a longer cinematic there. Go watch the first episode again. It starts with the "Cut" scene and then everything since then has been a "flashback".
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Nov 26, 2016 20:56
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That was some Bethesda-rear end area design
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Nov 26, 2016 21:17
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I don't remember having Drake fruitlessly trying to climb a mountain that's 90% surfaces just slightly too steep for him to climb. 
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Nov 26, 2016 21:24
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So now's the part where we switch to playing Elena or Sully and have to bail the Drakes out, right? I don't think that's ever happened in the series and I think it would be neat.
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Nov 26, 2016 21:33
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Chip Cheezum posted:I don't remember having Drake fruitlessly trying to climb a mountain that's 90% surfaces just slightly too steep for him to climb. I'll have you know that I've climbed the Throat of the World without using the path at all. Bethesda mountain climbing is an art and a lesson in perseverance.
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Nov 26, 2016 21:39
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Jetrauben posted:My big problem with this whole sequence is that it's yet another Cyclopean edifice constructed by our comparatively rag-tag alliance of pirates. It's an escalation that seemingly owes more to the game being the fourth in the series than the actual narrative. The bas-reliefs' story of the founding of Libertalia suggests that the pirate captains pooled their treasure and then built Libertalia. The trials could have been a later addition when they got settled and decided to start recruiting more.
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Nov 26, 2016 21:40
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So Chip, you are going to go back and collect the strange relic that you passed up before jumping down into the cistern, right?
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chitoryu12 posted:The bas-reliefs' story of the founding of Libertalia suggests that the pirate captains pooled their treasure and then built Libertalia. The trials could have been a later addition when they got settled and decided to start recruiting more. Well, why even bother with the ones on Madagascar? At the least, the watchtowers specifically are implied to have been built prior to Libertalia?
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Nov 26, 2016 21:45
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What Drake & Sam didn't realize is that they arrived on the island Ganondorf utterly destroys in Wind Waker.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Go watch the first episode again. It starts with the "Cut" scene and then everything since then has been a "flashback". What, you expect me to remember a video I watched three months ago?  Thanks for reminding my dumb rear end.
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Nov 26, 2016 22:01
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Shoren posted:So Chip, you are going to go back and collect the strange relic that you passed up before jumping down into the cistern, right? I knew I forgot about something!!!
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Nov 26, 2016 22:54
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Chip Cheezum posted:I don't remember having Drake fruitlessly trying to climb a mountain that's 90% surfaces just slightly too steep for him to climb. How do you think Sully has kept up with Nate all these years? He uses glitches.
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Nov 26, 2016 23:04
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Highwang posted:What Drake & Sam didn't realize is that they arrived on the island Ganondorf utterly destroys in Wind Waker. The big fantasy aspect to this game is Drake and Sam meeting a giant talking Angler/Catfish
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Nov 26, 2016 23:27
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Shoren posted:So Chip, you are going to go back and collect the strange relic that you passed up before jumping down into the cistern, right? I was waiting for it for the whole video because I forgot where it shows up in this chapter 
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Chip Cheezum posted:I knew I forgot about something!!! While you're at it, it looks like there was another relief in the planning area with the reliefs at the cistern bottom.
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Nov 26, 2016 23:51
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Chip Cheezum posted:I'm going to Disney World in a week, so I really hope I can get enough updates recorded in time to fill the gap while I'm gone!
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Fecha posted:If not, you can always just record an LP of the Pirates of the Carribean ride. Hey guys, welcome to my Assassin's Creed stream, coming at you live from the Hall of Presidents.
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Nov 27, 2016 00:29
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George posted:FDR actually spent some time treasure hunting. Also, I first saw a "second-biggest" gag in Commander Keen 6. Seriously though, folks should read up on the Oak Island Money Pit, poo poo's wild. Here's two of my friends talking about it for their show: https://www.blurryphotos.org/episode-69-oak-island/
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Nov 27, 2016 00:34
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Highwang posted:What Drake & Sam didn't realize is that they arrived on the island Ganondorf utterly destroys in Wind Waker. That or the similar genre and the presence of someone named Sam confused the video game ocean and they accidentally sailed to the magic storm island from the first of the newest Tomb Raider games and Drake is now gonna have to save Sam from becoming the vessel for a magic ghost. Also, looking it up, that Hamsa bird statue may have been a really subtle reference to Uncharted 2? The heavenly hamsa is a bird that lives in the Himalayas and can separate the liquids out of a mix of water and Soma, a sacred drink that apparently grants immortality.
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This game really is Indianna Jones if the temple builders had twice the budget of the ones in Legend of Zelda. Giant statues are pretty common in games because all you have to do is take the person model you've already made and scale it up and stick a statuesque texture on it, but those embossed reliefs had to take so much effort to make. There was a moment where I thought that the wet rock was slanted so much that Drake should've slipped, and then the whole thing just broke away. What a game.
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Jetrauben posted:My big problem with this whole sequence is that it's yet another Cyclopean edifice constructed by our comparatively rag-tag alliance of pirates. It's an escalation that seemingly owes more to the game being the fourth in the series than the actual narrative. I too find it off putting when unrealistic things happen in videogare you loving kidding one of these games had tree sap zombies who gives a gently caress. quote:Seriously though, folks should read up on the Oak Island Money Pit, poo poo's wild. Oak Island is a testimony to the stupidity/gullibility of people. Its real cool but also 100% gotta be bullshit because never in the history of history has something like that ever actually happened.
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ZeusCannon posted:Oak Island is a testimony to the stupidity/gullibility of people. Its real cool but also 100% gotta be bullshit because never in the history of history has something like that ever actually happened. Oh poo poo I have a new theory about this game.
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ZeusCannon posted:I too find it off putting when unrealistic things happen in videogare you loving kidding one of these games had tree sap zombies who gives a gently caress. I really dislike when people bring up this kind of point. There's quite a difference between things that are out of the realm of feasibility, and out of the realm of possibility. Tree sap zombies are not possible, so being annoyed by their presence is unreasonable. The pyrates building all these crazy elaborate things, even with their big fortunes and manpower, is possible but unfeasible. It's unrealistic not in the sense that it bothers people because it can't happen in our world, it's unrealistic in the sense that within the confines of the story they would most likely not have been able to do all this unless they were richer-than-god supervillains commanding entire nations of people. The difference between the two examples is that while the game says they are both possible in its world, the latter is harder to accept because even with the information the game gives us it's still stretching it. CJacobs fucked around with this message at 06:44 on Nov 27, 2016 |
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 Futility Closet also did a really good podcast on this, with the above photo of a 27-year-old FDR (third from right) in 1909 tryna get him some treasure.
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CJacobs posted:... they were richer-than-god supervillains commanding entire nations of people. His name is Guybrush Threepwood and he is the Mightiest Pyrate I will have you know good sir  To be more on point, these elaborate structures built by lost civilizations is something of a thing in the Uncharted games. It's not really new. What is new is the sheer scale compared to the people that built them this time. I mean, you don't expect Pyrates to exhibit traits of master City Planners and masonry/gadgetry. Clearly Avery was such a masterful rogue of the sea that he stole everyone's perception of him being the late-1600's early-1700's version of Archimedes. I suspect a pretty big payoff is coming from all the architectural buildup we've seen so far.
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EponymousMrYar posted:I suspect a pretty big payoff is coming from all the architectural buildup we've seen so far. Congratulations Mr. Drake, your reward is a titanium grappling hook.
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EponymousMrYar posted:His name is Guybrush Threepwood and he is the Mightiest Pyrate I will have you know good sir
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They're pirates. Presumably they stole the rad resources and technology from one of a dozen possible super advanced lost civilizations in the area.
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Are we allowed to speculate in the thread or is that a no-no?
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Grizzwold posted:So now's the part where we switch to playing Elena or Sully and have to bail the Drakes out, right? I don't think that's ever happened in the series and I think it would be neat. You know that's not how this series does recovery from greivous injury. Nathan will either pass out and wake up in some other mythical location- maybe Valhalla or Atlantis- and find himself already patched up and Elena or Sully will show up. OR. He'll shrug it off after a room of weakness just like Raiden
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Zomborgon posted:I'll have you know that I've climbed the Throat of the World without using the path at all. Bethesda mountain climbing is an art and a lesson in perseverance. Or you can just get a horse and brute-force it.
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Zomborgon posted:I'll have you know that I've climbed the Throat of the World without using the path at all. Bethesda mountain climbing is an art and a lesson in perseverance. And horses. 
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This is the UC4 thread but since there isn't C&I general I'm just gonna post in here that I love the Watch_Dogs 2 video on your youtube channel. The first thought I had after I saw videos of the game in its released state was "I hope C&I are going to LP this turd"
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Trogdos! posted:This is the UC4 thread but since there isn't C&I general I'm just gonna post in here that I love the Watch_Dogs 2 video on your youtube channel. The first thought I had after I saw videos of the game in its released state was "I hope C&I are going to LP this turd" That video and the one on twitter where the cop car was trying REALLY hard to drive through a van were excellent I certainly wouldn't want to play the game, but it looks like it's still a great spectator sport.
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