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RBA Starblade
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Lmao

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Dark Souls 2's banlist was insane and even funnier with the total failure of regex

Dewgy posted:

Shadow Man, being a PSX/N64-gen game, has some interesting hiccups around the seams. In a few spots of some of the levels, you can kind of glitch your way around geometry and end up in bizarre half loaded versions of the level through bypassing what would normally be zone swapping sectors, or by triggering zone swaps in unintended ways. This means you can go out of bounds on the map or climb up an untextured version of a normal structure, which basically always ends with your death because the floor doesn't exist anymore. It's neat to play with, but kind of inconsequential except maybe for clever speedrunners.

In Shadow Man Remastered, they not only kept those glitches in the game, they hid extra poo poo in them to find. :psyduck:

There's actually a secret weapon unlock for finding specific glitch spots in every map in the game. What the absolute hell.

That owns. Halo 1 and 2 Anniversary did the same thing; it's just a fresh coat of paint on top of the old geometry so you could still get around, but if you toggled the new graphics on at the right time, you could find secret terminals, skulls, or collectibles. The speed run par times also generally assume you know where to leave the map and when, with one of the achievements even named after a speedrunner.

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dialhforhero posted:

Honestly the optical illusions game devs come up with, or the funny way an item/vehicle/element is actually this bastardized vehicle or armor or NPC to creat the illusion is fascinating to me and I want to know/see more. It is separate threadworthy tbh.

One of my favorites is that Freelancer had sun coronas and planet atmospheres that would burn you up if you flew at the related bodies to hide the fact that 1. they're actually really small except 2. if you're in a strong enough ship you can mash heal and shield restore and hit the sun and bounce off it

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I have to move fast, and speedboost too slow

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Hel posted:

The problem with "immersive sim" as a genre is that a lot of people are using it as a "prestige" thing. Sure the Action-RPG sub genre from the System Shock/ Deus Ex linage could probably use a name , but a lot of people are using it for a wide set of game genres with the qualifier being games they like and "respect". Thief and Splinter Cell(especially Chaos Theory) are just normal stealth games but they keep getting labelled Immersive Sim, likewise Skyrim(Morrowind might get it though) and a lot of ca 2000's FPSs are much closer to the design ethos of System Shock and Deus Ex but don't get that label, because they suck/ aren't regarded as highly.

They're all action rpgs but people are precious about a couple of them

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LifeSunDeath posted:

not exactly a glitch but this like can't be legal
https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/armxVg0_460svav1.mp4

Oh my God TOTK is Mechassault 3

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LookieLoo posted:

You guys make it sound like Bethesda sucks rear end?

Bethesda games are great, as long as you're all in on getting a game where the physics engine might explode at any given time and save a lot

Part of why Outer Worlds sucked so bad was they replicated all the boring parts of Bethesda games but none of the actually fun or good parts

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Rigged Death Trap posted:

You make it sound like its the jank thats good.
Outer worlds is just a mess of badly communicated and implemented mechanics coupled with a mediocre story with boring characters.

There's good jank and bad jank and Outer Worlds didn't have the good jank, or good anything else, but they did their best to replicate the bad or uninteresting parts, and they certainly succeeded there.

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Chamale posted:

In New Vegas, the grenade launcher is the only item in a list that's internally called "Minigun". The minigun is in a different list, called "MinigunForRealzImSeriousGuys". This only comes up when modding the game, but it's hilarious.

Which grenade launcher? The single shot one, the breechload one, or the actual grenade machinegun? I hope it's the second one :v:

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The Wicked ZOGA posted:

Where the gently caress am I

This is Morrowind. You're in the Census and Excise Offices in the port of Seyda Neen, in Vvardenfell District of the province of Morrowind.

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poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:

Well maybe they should try releasing games that work. Have they tried that? No? Weird. I think they should. It's what I try to accomplish every time I bring this up.

Did you know that just outside this industry, literally everywhere else in all of development, there are products released in which the average consumer interaction works as intended? Even in unimaginably complex, globe-spanning systems with an objective shitload more moving pieces, they still somehow make products that are minimally viable.

And yet this is somehow a bridge too far for an entire sub-industry.

For the record, minimally viable products in software development aren't, and pretty much never are, bug-free, in any industry and you aren't using that term correctly. It's just the bugs are a lot more obvious and tend to be a lot funnier in video games.

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PurpleXVI posted:

https://twitter.com/ObbeVermeij/status/1757572432863384046

tl;dr: GTA San Andreas accidentally has leftover code that lets you change the size of the moon with your sniper rifle.

Vice City too! I remember doing that every now and then when I got bored lol

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