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Cleretic posted:At this point I'm still not sure how much I enjoy Super Mario Odyssey, but two little musical points have struck me at being very, very good at subtly playing with older Mario music. That whole level is an amazing love letter to Mario 64.  Also if you look up to the glass dome in like you did too get the fly cap in 64 in Princess Peaches' castle you'll get a star.
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Unfortunately the game immediately kills you after you do it, but in Wolfenstein you can stomp on Hitler's head before walking into the "stage combat" booth with the nazi during the audition scene on Venus
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Dec 18, 2017 13:12
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Buzkashi posted:Unfortunately the game immediately kills you after you do it, but in Wolfenstein you can stomp on Hitler's head before walking into the "stage combat" booth with the nazi during the audition scene on Venus I think I did that for like 10 straight minutes. Incredibly cathartic.
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Dec 18, 2017 17:06
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You get a game over for attacking Hitler in a Wolfenstein game lol
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Dec 18, 2017 17:42
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The attacking hitler bit was legit one of the ten best things in gaming this year and if you disagree you’re a goddamn stupid garbage idiot
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Dec 18, 2017 17:49
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:You get a game over for attacking Hitler in a Wolfenstein game lol Attacking Hitler in the heart of a Nazi stronghold while unarmed, unarmored, and surrounded by bodyguards and killer robots 
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Dec 18, 2017 17:50
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Sounds like a standard Wolfenstein level.
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Dec 18, 2017 18:41
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Samuringa posted:That's a straight-up creepypasta poo poo. Is that the dead bart creepypasta I hear so much about 
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Dec 18, 2017 19:04
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I'm playing the new RE7 DLC, where you play as Jack's brother Joe. No guns or ammo, because you punch the poo poo out of enemies, throw spears, and use IEDs. I powerbombed a boss.
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graybook posted:This reminds me of how, iirc, one of the Powerpuff Girls games on the Game Boy Color had a password feature, where one of the passwords you put in showed a picture of someone's family? Probably a dev easter egg but for some weird reason it really creeped me out. There's a similar bit in Earthbound where there's randomly a girl who identifies herself as Nico in Magicant. She's never mentioned or appears anywhere else, so no one really knew what her significance was until the guy who did the localisation, Marcus Lindblom, revealed in 2013 that he snuck the name in as a tribute to his daughter, who was born during the crunch leading up to the game's release. This one is decidedly less creepy, imo.
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Dec 19, 2017 01:05
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I went back and watched Giant Bomb play Prey because I wanted to see how they approached the introductory areas of the game. I saw TWO THINGS in the first few minutes: one totally inconsequential to the plot, and the other a potential late-game spoiler: -You can decapitate yourself with the helicopter that's come to pick you up and get an achievement -I realized why the achievement for killing Alex is called "Push the Fat Man" when I re-experienced the introductory personality quiz with the trolley
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Dec 19, 2017 02:30
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In The New Colossus, the director woman who gets to babysit Hitler's awful insane movies, be puked on and handle his dementia is Leni Riefenstahl, who made Triumph of the Will for him. I guess success takes many forms.
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Dec 19, 2017 02:40
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In Pokemon Ultra Moon/Sun, the reward for being number 1 in all 4 surf spots is a pikachu that knows surf which is pretty funny because I was having a chat with my brother that they had a perfect excuse to bring it back with Hawaii and everything.
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Dec 19, 2017 17:01
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Skellybones posted:In The New Colossus, the director woman who gets to babysit Hitler's awful insane movies, be puked on and handle his dementia is Leni Riefenstahl, who made Triumph of the Will for him. I guess success takes many forms.  Holy poo poo, it is. I was thrown off by her being referred to as Lady Helane, but that's Riefenstahl's first name."
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Because I've had it for ages and never bothered with it I figured I'd give the Original Ape Escape a go (got tired of my emulator crashing just as the other games I was playing were getting interesting). I like the structure of the levels after the Prehistoric period, just beaten the Jungle River - the first few levels are fairly basic but with some monkeys you can't get to (even the first level has one on a high ledge that I'll need to come back for) and they have 1 Spectre Coin each, some easy to find some not so easy. Then as soon as you hit Jungle River, it branches in three directions, two of which you cannot access yet, and then the third branch has yet more stuff you can't get to. It does a great job having the scope of the levels just explode after the tutorial and making the Jungle River feel really big, like you're finally at the game proper. Also I love Spectre's design, how the helmet obviously wasn't designed for him and as such it's hosed up his anime hair no end, splitting what may once have been a Vegeta-hairdo right down the middle. 
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Are Mark and Maria still together?
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In Horizon: Zero Dawn I just got the best medal on my first try at a hunting ground and the guy running the event commented on it. It made it feel slightly more awesome.
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That's always neat. On Prey, I met with the cook and he asked me to bring something to fix the water pumps. I already had it on me tho, so he just got flabbergasted and asked if I was a psychic.
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Samuringa posted:That's always neat. On Prey, I met with the cook and he asked me to bring something to fix the water pumps. I already had it on me tho, so he just got flabbergasted and asked if I was a psychic. Actually Horizon Zero Dawn also does this with quest items lol
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The best instance of this is still Deus Ex. When infiltrating the Versalife building in Hongkong, some disgruntled office worker will ask you to kill his boss for him. He is pretty shocked if you just deadpan that you already did.
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TontoCorazon posted:That whole level is an amazing love letter to Mario 64. I only actually got to that level in full yesterday (I found the secret way to an isolated part of it earlier), and it is REALLY hard to figure out my favorite little part of it. It's probably the castle courtyard area in general. The fact it's totally recreated graphically, right down to the 2D sprite trees that are constantly facing in the same direction, and the fact they used the star statue that ignited a ton of early internet debate to actually hide a star is brilliant. My actual favorite thing about that stage isn't exactly little, though. You need Yoshi to get a fair amount of stars, but nobody in the actual stage knows where he is... so it's fortunate that he's in exactly the spot you would expect him to be. To intelligently solve a puzzle in this game instead of just brute-forcing it, you need to know the 100% completion bonus for a twenty year old game.
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Cleretic posted:I only actually got to that level in full yesterday (I found the secret way to an isolated part of it earlier), and it is REALLY hard to figure out my favorite little part of it. It's probably the castle courtyard area in general. The fact it's totally recreated graphically, right down to the 2D sprite trees that are constantly facing in the same direction, and the fact they used the star statue that ignited a ton of early internet debate to actually hide a star is brilliant. I immediately ran to the roof of the castle in hopes that my suspicions would be correct. Hoping for at least an Easter egg but got way more than I hoped for.
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TontoCorazon posted:I immediately ran to the roof of the castle in hopes that my suspicions would be correct. Hoping for at least an Easter egg but got way more than I hoped for. I spent a fair bit of time wandering the map trying to find him, when I realized exactly where he'd be and felt drat proud of myself for being right.
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codenameFANGIO posted:In Horizon: Zero Dawn I just got the best medal on my first try at a hunting ground and the guy running the event commented on it. It made it feel slightly more awesome. Samuringa posted:That's always neat. On Prey, I met with the cook and he asked me to bring something to fix the water pumps. I already had it on me tho, so he just got flabbergasted and asked if I was a psychic. Stuff like this is always great. In Dishonoured before the game begins proper there's a short scene where some assassins attack you and you fend them off to defend the Empress. There's no way to stop them nonlethally as you are just given a sword and pistol and you have nowhere to run and they are alerted to your presence. What catches a lot of people out here is that fighting back ruins your non-lethal run if you're doing one even though technically the assassins don't die, what you're supposed to do is just hold the block button for 30 seconds. The nice little thing is that the game pops up a message now that tells you to "Attack or Block (non-lethal)" which is something it didn't used to do back when I first played this game. However it also doesn't tell you how to block until about 2 seconds before the enemies leave so you have to run around avoiding them.
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You can't actually die in that intro bit in Dishonored, because dying in a tutorial would be real lame. If you get dunked on by the assassins, they'll eventually just go away without you having to do anything.
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They disappear if you block for long enough too. Both of it's tutorials are really weird because they don't really help at all. The hiding tutorial with Emily is weird because enemies who spooted you always head to the last place they saw you, they don't search all around.
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ESDK posted:The best instance of this is still Deus Ex. When infiltrating the Versalife building in Hongkong, some disgruntled office worker will ask you to kill his boss for him.
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pulp rag posted:I think I did that for like 10 straight minutes. Incredibly cathartic. I made an extra save right there just so I can go do that any time I want.
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Dec 20, 2017 15:34
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Mankind Divided gave you an achievement "Time Traveler" for giving an NPC an item before he even asked for it. Now if only the game hadn't that exec-mandated Breach-mode bolted on and instead had a few more main missions at the end.
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Assassin's Creed Origins added a chocobo/camel mount recently, as a bit of a back and forth Ubisoft has had with Squeenix after they had an Assassin festival in FFXV. ACO also had a recent patch that marks all the stuff you've fully cleared out on it's map icon, instead of just dimming it out, AND added a "quit to desktop" instead of just quit to menu. Sure, it should have been in there from the beginning, but the fact that they added it at all is great.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Versalife is one of my favorite areas in any game. You can do it in somewhere around two minutes if you know exactly where to go, but there's also a ton of poo poo to explore and check out if you don't. One time I was poking around when the guards haven't gone hostile yet and all of a sudden one of the MiBs goes "Cold. Cold and dark. It goes on forever" right behind me. I thought they might have aggroed early and jumped about a mile in the air. It was a better jump scare than most games that include them intentionally.
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StandardVC10 posted:One time I was poking around when the guards haven't gone hostile yet and all of a sudden one of the MiBs goes "Cold. Cold and dark. It goes on forever" right behind me. I thought they might have aggroed early and jumped about a mile in the air. It was a better jump scare than most games that include them intentionally.
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Don't forget that one bum in a cage. Oh my Captain. 
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Kruller posted:Assassin's Creed Origins added a chocobo/camel mount recently, as a bit of a back and forth Ubisoft has had with Squeenix after they had an Assassin festival in FFXV. ACO also had a recent patch that marks all the stuff you've fully cleared out on it's map icon, instead of just dimming it out, AND added a "quit to desktop" instead of just quit to menu. Sure, it should have been in there from the beginning, but the fact that they added it at all is great. They've come such a long way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwOvuY0UbFM
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Finished the "Not-A-Hero" resident evil 7 dlc yesterday, and it felt really cathartic to finally kill his boy Lucas.
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Mierenneuker posted:They've come such a long way. Holy poo poo I had no idea it was that bad on PC.
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Mierenneuker posted:They've come such a long way. Fortunately there was always alt+f4 to skip this circus.
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Mierenneuker posted:They've come such a long way. I haven't played any AC games but I've just noticed that the little molecule doodles on the various loading screens have hydrogen atoms with more than one bond on them and it makes me furious
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Oh one cool little touch that I didn't bring up about the resident evil 7 dlc, is that in the main game - the main villain had a habit of humming "Go tell aunt rhody". In the dlc, there's a point where you've caught up to Lucas but he's unaware that your outside the room - and if you stick around you can hear that he also hums the tune like Eveline. Clearly its part of the infection package.
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World War Mammories posted:I haven't played any AC games but I've just noticed that the little molecule doodles on the various loading screens have hydrogen atoms with more than one bond on them and it makes me furious It looks like someone tried to sketch a load of nucleotides from memory - the shapes about right but theyve hosed up all the H-bonds.
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