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bony tony posted:There are giant mythical owls? What is this, FEZ? Except good. Come to think of it they aren't really mythical- you see taxidermied specimens hanging from the ceiling when you break into a natural history museum...twice.
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Somehow I missed this when I first played Celeste but apparently Madeleine's dark alter egos name is Badeleine and I love it
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Your Gay Uncle posted:Somehow I missed this when I first played Celeste but apparently Madeleine's dark alter egos name is Badeleine and I love it It's not in the game proper, it was revealed by the creator somewhere else (probably twitter) and everyone was ok with that because it's perfect
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Astral Chain is a garish kitchen sink of a game and has far too many half baked systems for anyone sane to call good design, but it's a joy to just let it wash over you sometimes What're the bad systems?
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Wait what? Is this something that comes up in Death of the Outsider or did I miss it somewhere else? "an in-game book posted:Once the curtain has been lifted, it becomes inescapable that we inhabit a world adrift in a sea of howling chaos, a terrible maelstrom in which all heavenly bodies orbit a devouring core. Though the trip could take many thousands of lifetimes, all cosmic objects are eventually dragged into this hungry nexus and forever cease to be.
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Once I get past all the prose, what I’m getting from that is: 1. We’re in a galaxy full of stuff orbiting a giant black hole 2. Someday black holes will be all that’s left 3. Our planet and the others in our solar system orbit around the sun, which sustains us. Which is all true in our reality, so why not in the Dishonored universe?
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Sep 9, 2019 23:25
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RareAcumen posted:What're the bad systems? there aren't really *bad* ones so much as an overwhelming amount of things thrown in just because. An incredibly detailed camera mode for no purpose, blade mode from Revengeance but worse, roughly five different ways you need to level up (cop points for health/energy, gene points for Legions, abilities for Legions, money for weapons which also unlocks new moves in a linear order for whatever reason, I think something else I'm forgetting). And all the odd goofy side stuff like dressing as Lappy for a day or collecting cats or having Pokemon Amie. I don't have a problem with any of it! It's just a very... messy game.
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Sep 10, 2019 00:24
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Not everything has to be dour and serious 24-7 in a game.
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Watching the GB quick look where they’re forced to spar with someone while wearing the mascot costume and later get assigned to investigate a “haunted dumpster” significantly raised my interest tbh
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Astral Chain is an Evangelion game that remembers Evangelion had scenes like Asuka and Shinji being bad at DDRTwister and Kensuke acting out a war movie in an empty field for no reason.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Not everything has to be dour and serious 24-7 in a game.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:I get that but it would be cool if, say, the ice cream balancing minigame had its development time spent on not having the second half of every level spent in a featureless boring maze of grey blocks It would be cool if that's how dev time worked, but alas, we live in the real world
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Cleretic posted:Astral Chain is an Evangelion game that remembers Evangelion had scenes like Asuka and Shinji being bad at DDRTwister and Kensuke acting out a war movie in an empty field for no reason. Because they're just loving regular dumb kids, living in the world their parents Totally hosed Up for them.. 
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Ariong posted:Once I get past all the prose, what I’m getting from that is: yeah that just looks like your standard-issue nihilist acknowledgement of inevitable entropy see also: night in the woods' "hole in the center of everything"
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Ariong posted:Once I get past all the prose, what I’m getting from that is: You missed the part where they say the black hole is gonna devour all cosmic objects.
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Cleretic posted:Astral Chain is an Evangelion game that remembers Evangelion had scenes like Asuka and Shinji being bad at DDRTwister and Kensuke acting out a war movie in an empty field for no reason. They even remembered the wacky animal mascot. Mokinokaro posted:On top of this since it's a futuristic scifi world the traffic lights are augmented with holograms across the intersection. A red barrier when it's not safe and a green highlight across the street (combined with stop barriers for traffic) when it is. We already have the tech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoTMC-uxJoo
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Oxxidation posted:yeah that just looks like your standard-issue nihilist acknowledgement of inevitable entropy I also have a memory of Piero’s lab having a drawing of celestial bodies swirling around the hole but I don’t have dishonored installed at the moment and it’s harder to google for an image
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Add 'bbc' into that search, I'm sure they've done a documentary on it or something.
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World War Mammories posted:I also have a memory of Piero’s lab having a drawing of celestial bodies swirling around the hole but I don’t have dishonored installed at the moment and it’s harder to google for an image That was a Portal reference.
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Just Offscreen posted:It's some piece of fanfiction spun from a single book entry from the first game IIRC. Because every single thing written down in-universe can't just be straight up wrong or from an untrustworthy source. Hey, fanfiction spun from a single book entry from the first game gave us "the Outsider is a gigantic whale" which is way cooler than "the Outsider is a dumb kid who got sacrificed thousands of years ago"
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In The Ninja Warriors on SNES, one of the ninjas you can play (named Ninja, of course) as is loving huge and uses rockets to dash around the level. He can hover for a second but he cant jump normally. The other two can jump all they want, and on the character select screen it shows that they're roughly 200 lbs while Ninja is over 1500 lbs. I just appreciate there being a reason he cant just jump 
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It is hilarious that the least agile of the ninja warriors is the one called Ninja.
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Danaru posted:In The Ninja Warriors on SNES, one of the ninjas you can play (named Ninja, of course) as is loving huge and uses rockets to dash around the level. He can hover for a second but he cant jump normally. The other two can jump all they want, and on the character select screen it shows that they're roughly 200 lbs while Ninja is over 1500 lbs. I just appreciate there being a reason he cant just jump I remember that game! drat good sprite art for the time, and a fun little beat 'em up. 
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marshmallow creep posted:It is hilarious that the least agile of the ninja warriors is the one called Ninja.
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They're apparently releasing an HD version of that game on Switch, but with two new characters, co-op play, and they brought Zuntata back so Daddy Mulk will be blasting throughout  I'm so goddamn excited
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Hey, fanfiction spun from a single book entry from the first game gave us "the Outsider is a gigantic whale" which is way cooler than "the Outsider is a dumb kid who got sacrificed thousands of years ago" Yeah this was super duper boring where "massive magic whale fucks with human events as revenge for its dead bretheren" is in fact not.
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Double Punctuation posted:They even remembered the wacky animal mascot. That's pretty cool!
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Honestly any attempt to give the Outsider a backstory or explanation cheapens him but yeah the official one drops the ball hardest. He's the devil, that doesn't need more explaining. We all know what the devil is about.
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The ending of Death of the Outsider was truly abysmal. Both of em.
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"I'm a whale, here's your powers!"
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My Lovely Horse posted:Honestly any attempt to give the Outsider a backstory or explanation cheapens him but yeah the official one drops the ball hardest. He's the devil, that doesn't need more explaining. We all know what the devil is about.
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Playing through Darksiders 3 and it’s just okay and has its faults but one of the things I’ve really enjoyed is when you’re using your fire power, any water you come in contact with puts it out. If you dive into a pool of water there’s a satisfying “tssss” and smoke as the fire goes out. If you try activating it under water the same thing happens “tsss” and a little smoke and the power won’t activate. It even goes out if you walk under a waterfall or small stream of water.
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My favorite little thing about Three Houses is, outside of timed missions, its like the only eastern turn based strategy game that doesn't judge you on turn time. Its refreshing after Valkyria Chronicle's "You didn't use a scout to run the to the enemy base in 2 turns? D rank, scrub."
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Leal posted:My favorite little thing about Three Houses is, outside of timed missions, its like the only eastern turn based strategy game that doesn't judge you on turn time. Its refreshing after Valkyria Chronicle's "You didn't use a scout to run the to the enemy base in 2 turns? D rank, scrub." Hell yeah. The last map on BE took insanely long. I hate ranking systems in general but that’s another topic.
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They do it in basically every game but I love how EDF 5 presents its final missions and just goes to loving town with it Earth is blown to gently caress. The alien motherships are unstoppable. Billions are dead. You just found out that the few holdouts who went for broke in North America have failed to kill the mothership there. All is lost. Oh wait a minute what the gently caress is this, shouts everyone There's still a squad left! Holy gently caress! It's blowing the gently caress out of the ship! Jesus Christ! The intel officer is shrieking some insane thing about the Egg of God and Kill God Dead and the commander is flipping out that not everyone got owned while the insaner mad scientist officer is declaring herself the new god because of her mega laser and here you and whatever is left of the NPCs are, in the middle of rubble, shooting the hell out of a spaceship that exploded into the first boss from Rez and a Bullet Hell's nightmare baby. You did it you won holy gently caress we showed the aliens they aren't invincible and we were here even if they're still going to genocide us and oh wait a sec Is that God God is coming down from On High to murder you with kamehamehas and meteors because you blew up his space ship and are stopping him from saving earth from climate change, apparently. Now the intel officer has totally lost it and is hysterical that God Himself is annihilating humanity and the science officer is demanding literally any human beings still alive (not a lot of them) just throw their bodies at God, we don't have any guns or armor left so gently caress it just punch God in the dick if you can, we're hosed, just do it, and the commander is wailing in horror that EDF is gone (except your squad) and that that's all that's left to do. Then I, in a gigantic robot that was still around, rain fists on God, nailing him in the face and balls until he died. That's a lot of words for the little thing so the little thing about EDF I adore is that it does not shy away from the game being apocalyptic and that over 110 missions, you're mostly losing, Earth is hosed and you're losing contact with the rest of EDF bit by bit until it's down to you and the Father, Son and Holy Ghost in a duel to the death. And you're just some no name civilian.
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Came across another thing in Darksiders 3 I liked. In the past two games, everything you do to progress the game seemingly comes in threes. Get these three swords, unlock these three doors, etc. Early on in the game you have to collect three swords to open the next area. Fury comments on it something like “It’s always three isn’t it? Couldn’t the builders be a little more original?” The Watcher you have following you acts like you’re crazy and then they move on. But then the rest of the game (so far) there hasn’t been any more “collect three items” quests
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Playing Bloodstained and one thing I really like is how you only have to craft something once and after that it is just for sale in the shop. Which is nice for food crafting because so much of it is made out of smaller parts.
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I really like how every single person in Fire Emblem: Three Houses recoils in disgust when they take a sip of tea. Finally a game brave enough to admit that nobody likes tea.RareAcumen posted:What're the bad systems? Instant fail stealth sequences. This is in reference to Astral Chain but it applies to videogames in general. The Moon Monster has a new favorite as of 22:52 on Sep 12, 2019 |
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The Moon Monster posted:Instant fail stealth sequences. This is in reference to Astral Chain but it applies to videogames in general. Do these happen beyond case 6? Or maybe it's because I'm on casual, but I thought it was nice that when I was spotted I could just say "gently caress it" and go loud.
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