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That new vampire game coming out from Dontnod is supposed to be like that. Every human that you kill has their own backstory, social interactions and familial relationships, and people will react to them disappearing. You also inherit their memories or something so you get to feel like a real rear end in a top hat.
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RoboRodent posted:I have never played Oblivion but I recently started playing Oblivion and I'm quite enjoying myself. Good lord the character creation, though. I like how facial hair in oblivion - is just a shader on certain parts on the face. And body. And since that all characters have the same physical build - the only way they can make characters appear to be "fat" or "skinny" is by inflating/deflating the head, so you'll occasionally run into a dude that looks like he got stung by a gently caress ton of bees. 
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Mar 28, 2018 19:43
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This is a real support page on Ubisofts website. https://support.ubi.com/en-US/faqs/000034501/Is-Boomer-a-good-boy Answer: yes, yes he is.
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Mar 28, 2018 19:49
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muscles like this! posted:This is a real support page on Ubisofts website. *clicks yes, this was helpful*
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Mar 28, 2018 19:52
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haveblue posted:*clicks yes, this was helpful*
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Mar 28, 2018 19:54
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muscles like this! posted:This is a real support page on Ubisofts website. They are trying too hard to be hip and viral. I'm old and grumpy. e. oh poo poo this was the good thing thread, sorry. Kennel has a new favorite as of 21:26 on Mar 28, 2018 |
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Mar 28, 2018 21:19
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Samuringa posted:BioEnchanted has said something about Get Even dealing with that in some way. Iji also had some stuff about lethal and non-lethal changing aspects of the game. Yeah, Get Even has it so that the endings rely on the Main character's reactions to what happened in the past. If you get into too many fights and subsequently kill to many dudes, it stresses them out and they make a destructive decision in the Bad End - keep it stealthy and they do something beneficial, that still gives the villains theircomeuppance. In other news, I figured out the Lightning Bolt powerup in Ace LIghtning while recording episode 2, and it's actually fairly satisfying to use - it's really powerful.
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Mar 28, 2018 21:25
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muscles like this! posted:This is a real support page on Ubisofts website. I'm still burned from FarCry4 and just finished Watch_Dogs2 so I'm out of Ubi's grasp for a while, but goddamn, are they trying
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Mar 28, 2018 22:07
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Just encountered the shadow puppets in Metro: Last Light. One on hand it's kinda nice to watch a hardened soldier doing shadow puppets to entertain the kids, but then you realize that they don't recognize ordinary animals like elephants. The only animals they know of are completely terrifying.
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Mar 28, 2018 22:27
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Samuringa posted:I'm still burned from FarCry4 and just finished Watch_Dogs2 so I'm out of Ubi's grasp for a while, but goddamn, are they trying I can't not have fun in FarCry because they put coop in there. Any game, no matter how awful, is instantly good with coop. I'm loving the hell out of A Way Out right now because of it.
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RoboRodent posted:I have never played Oblivion but I recently started playing Oblivion and I'm quite enjoying myself. Good lord the character creation, though. I loved the Oblivion character creator.  The red thing is his tongue.
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Mar 29, 2018 01:20
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Nuebot posted:I loved the Oblivion character creator. Oh good god. And I thought the khajit I made was hideously deformed. Amazing.
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Mar 29, 2018 06:18
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Just playing Metal Gear Solid 5 for the first time, phenomenal game, and the only other metal gear game I've played was the remake of the first one on the gamecube. When D-Horse (a horse) is your designated buddy, if you are running in a direction and whistle, he will pull up beside you and you just hit Y and mount him and are instantly horse sprinting in your chosen direction. Very fluid and easy, especially considering how big and open the world is and how much distance you'll be covering. D-Dog (Tactical attack dog w/ eyepatch) is awesome. He acts as a stand in for tactical radar, when you're venturing into enemy ground and have him selected, he will mark enemies potential locations with little visible markers in your field of view, even guys completely hidden from sight. When you spot an isolated target you can instruct D-dog to dispatch them. He pulls out a tactical knife from a side sheath, stalks the enemy, then charges, jumps up, slashes there throat, and dismounts with a backflip. He can later be upgraded from a knife to a shockstock which stuns instead of kills. You can also instruct him to remain stationary, and then bark really loudly and rapidly. Enemies will run up to him and be distracted by this, and you can silently choke them out easily. Speaking of keeping deaths down, you are heavily rewarded for stealthy gameplay, but never penalized for going guns blazing. Myself, I'm a stealth game aficionado, and I really like the fulton system introduced for managing that old stealth gameplay loop: leaving behind a trail of recently choked-out guards. At last the traditional giant pile of unconscious men solution is subverted: knock a dude out, attach a weather balloon cluster to his belt, and send that sucker into orbit. He is sent back to your mother base, to be gainfully employed in the merc trade as part of Boss' private merc army, all for no pay! I'm sure all 1200 of these dudes don't have wives or girlfriends or kids back home they might miss, but hey, beats being dead in a ditch. There are many other things, but drat, this core gameplay of both stealthing and fighting as Big Boss are both incredibly fluid and fun, Boss feels and controls like a confidant badass no matter what he's doing, and it's always smooth as butter. Like always no exceptions, which is a hard thing for an open-world game to reliably do, especially as my memores of the gamecube game felt like I was always trying to game and get ahead of the internal jank of controlling snake reliably. Olaf The Stout has a new favorite as of 07:11 on Mar 29, 2018 |
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Mar 29, 2018 07:05
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Unfortunately, all those cute tricks are completely useless because the game is so built around using nonlethal weapons and the Fulton system that pretty much anything that deviates from the loop of tranq-drag-Fulton, like D-horse spinning out jeeps with poop or Quiet killing dudes with her loud, loud rifle and pissing off the entire base, are way more of a hassle to use than they're worth. And D-dog is just Batman vision + even more distraction tools. His best suit is actually his default, his ability to lock an enemy down will not put other guards in alert status, but they'll look at the commotion while giving you time to approach and disable them, so any guards in groups of less than 4 are basically completely disabled by him if you approach them from the opposite angle D-dog took. Jukebox Hero has a new favorite as of 07:33 on Mar 29, 2018 |
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Mar 29, 2018 07:28
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MGSV is even more fun if you take the time to experiment with all the different weird weapons and items. Try to resist the lure of always using the most powerful or safest option. It can be a really good time to just drop in with a shotgun, a revolver ,and a suite of weird grenades and mines. It's a great game.
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Mar 29, 2018 07:39
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Jukebox Hero posted:Unfortunately, all those cute tricks are completely useless because the game is so built around using nonlethal weapons and the Fulton system that pretty much anything that deviates from the loop of tranq-drag-Fulton, like D-horse spinning out jeeps with poop or Quiet killing dudes with her loud, loud rifle and pissing off the entire base, are way more of a hassle to use than they're worth. Give Quiet a tranquilizer rifle and everyone takes a nice temporary nap instead of a permanent one.
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Mar 29, 2018 08:23
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Episode 5 of Telltale Batman is amazing. Joker in full on righteous vigilante mode is amazing. 
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Mar 29, 2018 08:36
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Give Quiet a tranquilizer rifle and everyone takes a nice temporary nap instead of a permanent one. Unless they're wearing helmets. Quiet only ever, ever makes headshots.
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Mar 29, 2018 08:43
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The Lone Badger posted:Unless they're wearing helmets. Quiet only ever, ever makes headshots. Technically she aims for the face, because if they're facing her she can still take them out even if they have helmets.
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Mar 29, 2018 12:46
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So far FarCry5 is a lot of fun. People say the story isn't great and I question if they've ever played a FC game before. You get Boomer, the dog, really early if you want. There is a dedicated PET DOG button and several petting animations. He's like a really friendly D-Dog that will kill a bear for you. I had to peel out of a bad situation on an ATV when Boomer crossed my path to rip out the throat of a Christian zealot. I accidentally ran him over and had a real world reaction. The sound... gently caress. So I did what any decent person would: Mourned the (temporary) loss and burned every psychopath to the ground. My mounted gun doesn't run out of bullets! Will you run out of bodies?!
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Mar 29, 2018 13:03
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Inzombiac posted:So far FarCry5 is a lot of fun. People say the story isn't great and I question if they've ever played a FC game before. just because things were bad in the past doesn't mean you should stop calling them bad when they happen again my favorite little thing in far cry 5 so far is that weird gospel song they play in the camps and the cultists who will sing along to it. pretty creepy and atmospheric
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Mar 29, 2018 13:30
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Serf posted:just because things were bad in the past doesn't mean you should stop calling them bad when they happen again That song is obnoxiously catchy, too. I found myself singing it on the crapper this morning.
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Mar 29, 2018 13:36
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Serf posted:just because things were bad in the past doesn't mean you should stop calling them bad when they happen again Oh absolutely. There have just been people that seem shocked that a FC game would have a bad story at all.
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Mar 29, 2018 13:38
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So far the story in FC5 is pretty lame and rote but it's not actively offensive like FC3.
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Mar 29, 2018 13:56
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exquisite tea posted:So far the story in FC5 is pretty lame and rote but it's not actively offensive like FC3. I still lol that the writer for that thought he was telling a really subversive and intellectual story there
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Mar 29, 2018 13:58
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Heart of Darkness as adapted by the writer of Ready Player One.
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exquisite tea posted:Heart of Darkness as adapted by the writer of Ready Player One. Holy poo poo
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Mar 29, 2018 14:11
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Inzombiac posted:Oh absolutely. There have just been people that seem shocked that a FC game would have a bad story at all. exquisite tea posted:So far the story in FC5 is pretty lame and rote but it's not actively offensive like FC3. I've read a response to Farcry 5 when compared to its predecessors that kind of amounted to 'at least the other ones tried'. 2-4 at least had themes and ideas that they stuck to, for better or worse, while Farcry 5 doesn't really have the strength of conviction to say anything. So we're comparing 'fumbling stories with ideas' to 'fumbling story without a point'. The only Farcry I played was Blood Dragon (which honestly was only good when it was giving me cutscenes), so I can't really agree or disagree with it, but I'd give that take a 'seems legit' stamp. It seems like a very Ubisoft mistake to set that stage, walk up to the mic, and get too scared to say anything. It's basically the same way they hosed up the story of the first Watch_Dogs.
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What do you want Far Cry 5 to say? A lot of people angry over it not being a Trump supporter shooter seem to miss how it was in development before his campaign was getting any momentum. There was quite a bit of projection onto early footage. Hell, there were people in the FC thread arguing that Ubisoft were trying to appease the alt right because the enemy is multi-ethnic. poptart_fairy has a new favorite as of 15:15 on Mar 29, 2018 |
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they made a big deal about how they were talking to real cult survivors and using their experiences as their basis for the game and then seem to ignore literally everything they heard, which is pretty bad. i think people picked up the wrong vibe from the early marketing, but at the same time the game has no idea what its trying to do or say
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exquisite tea posted:So far the story in FC5 is pretty lame and rote but it's not actively offensive like FC3. I know precisely nothing of FC3's story, and I would like to know more about this.
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Mar 29, 2018 15:24
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Serf posted:they made a big deal about how they were talking to real cult survivors and using their experiences as their basis for the game and then seem to ignore literally everything they heard, which is pretty bad. i think people picked up the wrong vibe from the early marketing, but at the same time the game has no idea what its trying to do or say It suffers from ludonarrative dissonance pretty bad. 95% of the game features you fighting cult members (aka mindless zombies) and then occasionally you trigger a cut scene featuring one of the cult leaders where they mess around with you but DON'T actually kill you. These cut scenes trigger when you reach a certain % in an area at which point you eventually get hit by magic stun bullet which allows the cult to kidnap you. Why aren't they using these magic stun bullets normally? WHO KNOWS! I'm sure eventually the game will tell you were meant to these things and that the main character was predicted to be the good guy Judas to the bad guy Jesus, but for now it's pretty ridiculous.
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Leavemywife posted:I know precisely nothing of FC3's story, and I would like to know more about this. It's pretty classic white savior poo poo
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Mar 29, 2018 15:46
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The only Far Cry I've played is Primal
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Leavemywife posted:I know precisely nothing of FC3's story, and I would like to know more about this. The island full of brown people needs a white boy from the outside to show up and fix all their problems.
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Leavemywife posted:I know precisely nothing of FC3's story, and I would like to know more about this. FC3 is about a rich white kid and his rich white kid buddies who are captured by modern Somali-style pirates when their plane goes down in paradise. After escaping, some sort of mystical native tattoo bullshit happens and whitey is suddenly the savior of the local people. After a bunch of other dumb bullshit, you kill the pirate leaders and are eventually given the choice to leave or to ritually sacrifice your main character’s girlfriend for no other reason than she was having a kind of lovely time of this while you were out murdering half the local population and wildlife. It’s fun enough and well executed enough (like animations and VA) to at least not be grating, but holy gently caress is it stupid.
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Dewgy posted:FC3 is about a rich white kid and his rich white kid buddies who are captured by modern Somali-style pirates when their plane goes down in paradise. After escaping, some sort of mystical native tattoo bullshit happens and whitey is suddenly the savior of the local people. I initially read it as a satire on that kind of white savior, though I did plump for the obviously more appropriate ending of killing your girlfriend and promptly getting hosed to death.
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The writer claims it was intended as satire, but it was terrible regardless. Was one of those things where it was confused about its own intent.
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poptart_fairy posted:The writer claims it was intended as satire, but it was terrible regardless. Was one of those things where it was confused about its own intent. Yeah the writer definitely believed he was writing some snarky cutting edge satire but his whole angle kinda depends on you picking the sociopath ending which I uh didn’t
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