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I do like that the Mortal Kombat games worked all their guest fighters into the lore. Freddy Kreuger and Jason Voorhees? They're revenants, undead spirits brought back to torment and kill the living. Revenants are a well established part of MK's story. Alien and Predator? Sure, there's aliens running around our galaxy, and Aliens are from another dimension's outer space. Kratos? Yeah sure, he's from Outworld as well. The Terminator? Another alternate timeline from a game full of them. He also gets "I see now why you cry" as a victory taunt when he wins a round.
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OutOfPrint posted:The reason 2B works so well is that, let's face it, smtake away the android bit and a blindfolded, fetishy French maid with floating swords makes sense in the Soul Caliber world. I I'd never played a Soul Calibur before, I probably couldn't pick the guest character out of a lineup of 2B, Taki, Ivy and Voldo.
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Oct 25, 2019 23:39
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Geralt's actually a pretty great guest character because he hates it every time. In both Soul Calibur and Monster Hunter, his entire demeanor is "gently caress this weird bullshit, I just want to play card games."
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Oct 25, 2019 23:41
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I loved that Jason Voorhees' ending in Mortal Kombat was the antagonist going "Wow, you killed EVERYONE. Join me and we can be unstoppable" Then Jason kills them  The man's got unshakeable principles
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Oct 25, 2019 23:43
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Cythereal posted:I do like that the Mortal Kombat games worked all their guest fighters into the lore. Dead by Daylight takes a pretty similar approach. The lore (which much like a fighting game uses a lot of words to explain something 0.01% of players know or care about) sets up The Entity as a multi-dimensional timeless horror selecting the best victims and killers, so there's no reason that Ghost Face Killer or an ancient Sumerian priestess wouldn't be chasing down hapless teens from Stranger Things, Nightmare on Elm Street and Saw
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Oct 25, 2019 23:46
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Crowetron posted:Geralt's actually a pretty great guest character because he hates it every time. In both Soul Calibur and Monster Hunter, his entire demeanor is "gently caress this weird bullshit, I just want to play card games." He can fit in to any universe as long as you have him complain about portals at some point
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Oct 25, 2019 23:49
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:He can fit in to any universe as long as you have him complain about portals at some point Valve, if you're reading this
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Oct 25, 2019 23:50
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I like that Geralt hates when Geralt guests, because it means at least one other person agrees with me about him getting crammed into games I would otherwise enjoy.
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Oct 26, 2019 00:00
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why would a guest character stop you from enjoying a game
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Oct 26, 2019 00:01
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Samuringa posted:why would a guest character stop you from enjoying a game In the case of Yoda in Soul Calibur, it was Oddjob syndrome- you couldn’t hit him with most moves. This was generally solvable by hitting your friend in the shoulder til they stopped doing it. Link in SC2 had the Great Fairy sword with insane health regen and someone I knew would combine that with picking a stage with barriers on the edge to prevent ring outs until we all told him to gently caress off with that poo poo.
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Oct 26, 2019 00:04
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Well in Monster Hunter the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt guest boss fight is awful.
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Oct 26, 2019 00:08
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Cythereal posted:I do like that the Mortal Kombat games worked all their guest fighters into the lore. I'm curious how they'll explain The Joker.
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Oct 26, 2019 00:22
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Samuringa posted:why would a guest character stop you from enjoying a game I don't want to encourage a transphobic game developer. Also I think Geralt is just a really boring character, he's got a real stink of 'some loser straight white guy thinks this is the coolest' without actually having any interesting traits to me whatsoever. He feels like the favorite character of the kind of guy who plays as the default Shepard in Mass Effect. So it's mostly the 'CDPR is transphobic' thing, but he's not exactly interesting enough to overcome that.
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Oct 26, 2019 00:23
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Fair enough
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Oct 26, 2019 00:26
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Well in Monster Hunter the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt guest boss fight is awful. Very true. The Behemoth Final Fantasy fight is also pretty bad. Ariong posted:I'm curious how they'll explain The Joker. They'll just have Johnny Cage mutter something about "cross-promotion" and "synergy".
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Oct 26, 2019 00:27
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Calling Geralt generic and boring is a great way to let people know you don't know anything about the Witcher series. The rest of that is your choice though.
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Ariong posted:I'm curious how they'll explain The Joker. They already had a whole Mortal Kombat vs DC game.
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CJacobs posted:Calling Geralt generic and boring is a great way to let people know you don't know anything about the Witcher series. The rest of that is your choice though. It's a bit of a paradox. It looks boring and generic unless you get into it. But I can't get into it because it looks boring and generic. I'm almost grateful that it turned out CDPR are transphobic, because it meant that I could completely opt out of that whole thing. But then Geralt kept intruding in on games I otherwise would like, so that sucks.
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Oct 26, 2019 00:56
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Oh poo poo, that sucks. I couldn't have named the developer, I somehow didn't realize it was that one. I was pretty cool on Witcher 3 but always meant to give it another try sometime, guess I don't need to bother.
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Captain Hygiene posted:Oh poo poo, that sucks. I couldn't have named the developer, I somehow didn't realize it was that one. I was pretty cool on Witcher 3 but always meant to give it another try sometime, guess I don't need to bother. 
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the best part about 2B guesting in SC6 is that her alt costume (dark skin + white dress (called 2P, because it's her Second Player costume)) is starting to become how they represent her in other games she guests in. In a few days the Nier crossover raid designed by Yoko Taro is going to be hitting FF14 and you hang out with 2P instead of 2B.
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CJacobs posted:Calling Geralt generic and boring is a great way to let people know you don't know anything about the Witcher series. The rest of that is your choice though. People have told me about the Witcher series at great length. I still feel Jerry is generic and boring.
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Cleretic posted:I don't want to encourage a transphobic game developer. Just out of curiosity, did CDPR do something new in this regard? Last I heard the only thing they did was the Cyberpunk posters.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Just out of curiosity, did CDPR do something new in this regard? Last I heard the only thing they did was the Cyberpunk posters. https://kotaku.com/cyberpunk-2077-tweets-transphobic-joke-studio-apologiz-1828502562
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Oct 26, 2019 03:09
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Cleretic posted:It's a bit of a paradox. It looks boring and generic unless you get into it. But I can't get into it because it looks boring and generic. geralt sucks and is super boring, you aren't alone
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Oct 26, 2019 03:18
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Man, I clicked that CDPR link and in addition to some anti-trans memes, they've always tweeted some extremely pro-gamergate stuff in the past as well. That sucks, I now have extremely mixed feelings on this new cyberpunk game.
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Oct 26, 2019 03:53
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Even among people that don't dislike Geralt, general consensus seems to be "Ciri is better, make her the protagonist of the next game." I haven't ever played the games, but just by looking at the two, she's obviously cooler.
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Olaf The Stout posted:Man, I clicked that CDPR link and in addition to some anti-trans memes, they've always tweeted some extremely pro-gamergate stuff in the past as well. That sucks, I now have extremely mixed feelings on this new cyberpunk game. If it helps, what journalists have been able to see of 2077 suggests that it's also racist. Which is almost less surprising than if it wasn't, really.
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There's a Hammer move in Monster Hunter World where you can charge it just enough so that you do this running, jumping, upward Hammer swing. Sometimes you're fighting a dragon who's just at the right flinch threshold, and it lunges at you to attack right when you land that move on its chin, knocking it off its feet like a Punch-Out enemy. It might be my single favorite thing to do in a video game.
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It's cool that in The Outer Worlds I can fail part of a quest by accidentally skipping a step but then the game allows me go back and do what I missed anyway despite what the journal says.
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Another thing about The Outer Worlds is that it makes a point of having the main quest be not at all time critical. You're supposed to find a way to wake up a bunch of people frozen in hibernation for 70 years, and they'll keep until you get around to it. Which is a good thing, because I'm currently spending my time doing very important things setting my party member Parvati up on a date. Which is also a great little thing in itself, because these two useless lesbians are just too adorable.
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Cleretic posted:It's a bit of a paradox. It looks boring and generic unless you get into it. But I can't get into it because it looks boring and generic. poo poo, this whole time I thought Witcher and Cyberpunk makers were totally different companies.
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Geralt is a pretty dull protagonist to play in his own game but his Soul Calibur 6 moveset owns. Basically if there's another Witcher game just let Namco design the combat.
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Perestroika posted:Another thing about The Outer Worlds is that it makes a point of having the main quest be not at all time critical. You're supposed to find a way to wake up a bunch of people frozen in hibernation for 70 years, and they'll keep until you get around to it. I've only had Parvati on my team so far but I really like her personality and they really fleshed out her motivations and history with people you encounter around the first town.
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Cleretic posted:If it helps, what journalists have been able to see of 2077 suggests that it's also racist. Watching white games journalists gear up their, "this thing is problematic" think pieces only to have Mike Poundsmith start yelling at them was really funny.
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Y'all got me to buy Control and I'm really digging it so thanks! Also realized while I was playing it that I'd seen an early teaser for it years ago and meant to keep an eye on it but forgot, so it was like "oh it's that game, it finally came out, I should go and get... wait nope I've already got it, sweet" e: huh okay announced in 2018 and that's not the trailer I was thinking of. I could have sworn I saw a trailer with the same mystery vibe and specifically featuring the janitor. My Lovely Horse has a new favorite as of 17:10 on Oct 26, 2019 |
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My Lovely Horse posted:Y'all got me to buy Control and I'm really digging it so thanks! Remedy loves their janitor stuff, it may have been Quantum Break or you may have your memory jumbling in the guy from MP2.
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exquisite tea posted:Geralt is a pretty dull protagonist to play in his own game but his Soul Calibur 6 moveset owns. Basically if there's another Witcher game just let Namco design the combat. An RPG where when diplomacy fails it loads up an arena for combat? Now THAT would be a great game.
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Leal posted:An RPG where when diplomacy fails it loads up an arena for combat? Now THAT would be a great game. Planescape: Torment would look like a Mortal Kombat game. I would be down.
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I was complaining about vehicles in Alan Wake over in the bad games things thread, so to balance it out one of the neat little things is how they handle active weapon reloading: you can press R (or whatever on console) to reload normally, but you can also hammer the button to hurriedly load in each round a little bit faster. It doesn't penalize you at all, and it creates lots of fun frantic moments with you sweating while Alan frantically jams bullets in, hopefully just in time to take out the shadow guy running straight at you 
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