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President Ark posted:The coffin in the first game had a rotting, moldy corpse in it that was covered in spores that the dude inhaled. Ah, so Last of Us confirmed canon in Uncharted universe
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President Ark posted:The coffin in the first game had a rotting, moldy corpse in it that was covered in spores that the dude inhaled. Huh. I'm sure I remember it ending with hordes of nazi zombies or something reanimated by being too near the coffin or however it worked. Maybe I am confusing it with the many other instances of nazi zombies in videogames.
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Jun 16, 2014 17:45
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Penakoto posted:Do they ever hint or say who the bad guys are, besides just an old woman with lots of minions? Considering that they're British, I wouldn't hesitate to guess that they have a connection to Queen Elizabeth and John Dee. They're basically a secret society that's been trying to continue the centuries-old search for Ubar. quote:I guess by supernatural I mean 'literally magic' rather than 'highly improbable chemistry'. I think the coffin released the spores/dust inside the corpse that caused the zombification. In fact, none of the games have had any elements that could be considered 100% supernatural. The Cintamani Stone and the djinn were chemicals of some sort, and the zombie dust in El Dorado was probably a biological thing. But there's never been any confirmed supernatural happenings, merely things that could be considered supernatural if viewed on the surface.
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Jun 16, 2014 19:18
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BottledBodhisvata posted:Yeah but I want an Ancient Greece-theme Uncharted where Drake has to fight those skeletons from the Jason and the Argonauts movie. Let's see how he handles shooting BONES. Ah, he'd be fine. Drake punches things too, you know!
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Jun 16, 2014 19:22
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chitoryu12 posted:I think the coffin released the spores/dust inside the corpse that caused the zombification. In fact, none of the games have had any elements that could be considered 100% supernatural. The Cintamani Stone and the djinn were chemicals of some sort, and the zombie dust in El Dorado was probably a biological thing. But there's never been any confirmed supernatural happenings, merely things that could be considered supernatural if viewed on the surface. Tree sap that heals all injuries and grants eternal life with super strength isn't supernatural?
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Jun 16, 2014 19:26
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morallyobjected posted:Tree sap that heals all injuries and grants eternal life with super strength isn't supernatural? There could be a plausible non-supernatural biological thing at work here. It's unlikely, but only to the same degree that "a coffin sealed for hundreds of years contains a corpse infested with spores that mutates people into ravenous zombies" or "a sealed cask continually leaks hallucinogens into water for hundreds/thousands of years without losing potency or running out" are.
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Jun 16, 2014 19:43
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morallyobjected posted:Tree sap that heals all injuries and grants eternal life with super strength isn't supernatural? The game series runs on movie logic. Physics don't even operate the same as they should in real life, bullet wounds only cause visible injury to the body when plot-appropriate, and you can clamber all over rusted hulks for hours without suffering cuts to your hands and needing a tetanus shot. Thousand-year-old complex mechanisms that control giant statues still work perfectly, but can only be operated by controls accessible by climbing architectural features. Zombie dust, immortality healing sap, and ancient mass hallucinogenic chemicals aren't really out of the question in terms of the non-supernatural in Uncharted.
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Jun 16, 2014 19:52
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Oh hell yes Wonderful 101 is next. I just beat that game the other day and as far as off the wall anime goodness it has Revengence beat by a mile. But i suppose it doesn't help that Revegence tries to stay relatively grounded like most of the other Metal Gear games. Anyway about the last video it did look like to anybody else that that knife fight with Talbot that the animations looked sped up? Not like video editing sped up or anything but it just looked like those particular set of animations were just set to play faster for whatever reason it made this "climatic" final battle look a bit silly to me.
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Jun 16, 2014 20:02
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:But i suppose it doesn't help that Revegence tries to stay relatively grounded like most of the other Metal Gear games. I'm not sure we played the same games.
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Jun 16, 2014 20:08
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Finally got around to watching those last two videos, and I'd just like to say thanks yet again for another great LP, you guys! Been watching your LPs since back when you were doing Uncharted 1, but didn't get an account here for a good while. You guys always do quality LPs and it's much appreciated!
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Jun 16, 2014 21:19
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I dunno, I liked that this game had nothing really supernatural in it. It was a nice subversion on the rest of the series so far. It was a nice subversion of your expectations in the game itself as well, because the whole time they're leading you up to think that there's some big magic secret that'll make Marlowe and Not Drake be incredibly powerful, maybe immortal, but then it just turns out to be crazy juice and a long-abandoned city of nutjobs.
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Jun 16, 2014 21:25
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The villain wanted power, so she needed to get the jug of absinthe at the bottom of the sea that she knew about because of ?????????? because once she got the hallucinogens she would do ???????????? and RULE THE WORLD. This was a project 20 years in the making and sparing no expense. Of course Drake foiled the plan by shooting the winch and sending the jug to THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA from whence it would NEVER be recovered
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Jun 16, 2014 22:37
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She knew about it because she is the leader of the secret society that found out about it originally, and that Francis Drake tried to hide the stuff from. Drake foiled the plan by killing everyone who knew where the stuff was, Not to mention burying it under tons upon tons of collapsed city. That said, this game's ending was definitely the weakest of the three.
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Crocodylus Pontifex posted:Nathan thinks way too highly of Francis Drake. He was all, "Oh he saw what horrible thing Elizibeth and John Dee were planning and put a stop to it!" as opposed to the much more likely, "He stumbled upon a nest of angry loving spiders and said gently caress that poo poo". Seriously. I mean, Nate & Company even found his message back in Yemen that said "gently caress this, this is totally not worth it." Francis Drake was a cool dude, but I'd figure after about the third ancient puzzle full of death-spiders, he might've just called it quits and said "Maybe this just isn't worth it" instead of "OH NO THIS IS TOO DANGEROUS FOR MERE MORTALS" and lying to ~save the world~. But that would shatter Nate's romantic view of his great-great-great(tack on several more greats) grandpappy (if they are actually related).
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Jun 16, 2014 23:31
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The Jug of Death totally survived the city caving in, though. Not a scratch on it. Just ask the Djinn.
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Jun 16, 2014 23:59
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bhlaab posted:The villain wanted power, so she needed to get the jug of absinthe at the bottom of the sea that she knew about because of ?????????? because once she got the hallucinogens she would do ???????????? and RULE THE WORLD. This was a project 20 years in the making and sparing no expense. I didn't say it was well explained, I just like what they tried to do.
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Jun 17, 2014 00:03
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Thanks for this LP. I had a back log of the last 3 videos. I was having a bad day and needed a pick me up. These videos served that purpose. Thank you for making my lovely day better.
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Jun 17, 2014 00:19
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Just finished up the last two videos. Great LP as usual, though I was a bit sad that neither of you commented on Drake suddenly taking a page from Sam Gideon's fighting manual
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Jun 17, 2014 00:42
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Ariong posted:She knew about it because she is the leader of the secret society that found out about it originally, and that Francis Drake tried to hide the stuff from. Drake foiled the plan by killing everyone who knew where the stuff was, Not to mention burying it under tons upon tons of collapsed city. That said, this game's ending was definitely the weakest of the three. Okay but what about the part where having LSD gives you power for some reason.
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Jun 17, 2014 11:09
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bhlaab posted:Okay but what about the part where having LSD gives you power for some reason. You know how some people buy like five pizzas when they're high? She figured out how to weaponize that.
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Jun 17, 2014 11:18
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The Unlife Aquatic posted:You know how some people buy like five pizzas when they're high? She figured out how to weaponize that. Man who buys pizzas when they're taking so much LSD they're seeing their dad get shot
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Jun 17, 2014 11:22
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Since the setting of Uncharted 4 is going to likely be Libertalia (watch someone who actually knows history put way too much work into figuring this out), I want to know how Drake is going to collapse an entire island into the sea since he seems to have a bad habit of completely destroying every lost city he discovers. Also wonder what semi-supernatural horror will be there as the "real" treasure too. If it's a stupid zombie-virus/smoke thing like Uncharted 1 that'd be lame.
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Jun 17, 2014 11:51
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Fabricated posted:Since the setting of Uncharted 4 is going to likely be Libertalia (watch someone who actually knows history put way too much work into figuring this out), I want to know how Drake is going to collapse an entire island into the sea since he seems to have a bad habit of completely destroying every lost city he discovers. He'll somehow manage to summon a hurricane to engulf the island.
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Jun 17, 2014 15:17
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What was the supernatural element in the Vita game, if any?
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BottledBacon posted:What was the supernatural element in the Vita game, if any? They're hunting the Seven Cities of Gold and the mythical city of Quivira. Turns out the gold was radioactive, which is what killed the entire city. It's probably the least supernatural game in the series.
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Jun 17, 2014 15:47
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Disappointed that we never learned what the gently caress was up with those spiders. I thought the city would be crawling with them.
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Jun 17, 2014 15:55
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paragon1 posted:Disappointed that we never learned what the gently caress was up with those spiders. I thought the city would be crawling with them. Maybe there were never any spiders and it was all just a hallucination.
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Jun 17, 2014 15:59
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There was a spider in a jar in the badguy hideout.
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Neruz posted:Maybe there were never any spiders and it was all just a hallucination. THAT would have been a neat twist, with spiders being a common phobia and drake seeing them when tripping balls. If they had foreshadowed it a bit and actually built that payoff into the conclusion that could have been neat. The bad guys were just pumping their panic chemicals into places with drake to flush him out of them.
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I have no idea why the dropped the spider-thing like that. When I played the game I was waiting for them to find out the chemical came from the spiders or something, which would explain why the bad guys had access to the poison and the spider in the jar.
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bhlaab posted:Okay but what about the part where having LSD gives you power for some reason. It's that same crap that they stuck cutter with that made him do what Talbot said.
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chitoryu12 posted:They're hunting the Seven Cities of Gold and the mythical city of Quivira. Science nitpick time! (spoilers for the Vita game) The game was a prequel, so let's say the first report of Cibola had been about 475 years ago for round numbers (currently it's about 490 years), providing a minimum age for the city. The isotope of Gold with the longest half-life is Au-195, which has a half-life of about half a year, decaying into stable Platinum-195. After 950 decay cycles, the amount of gold remaining would be basically zero (if every Hydrogen atom in the universe were turned into AU-195, none of those would remain after 475 years). That said, "City of Platinum" sounds pretty impressive as well. But wait! Au-195 decays via electron capture, which emits a harmless neutrino. The longest-lived of other Gold isotopes have a half-life measured in days. Perhaps the gold was impure, mixed with some longer-lived radioactive isotope. But then the bad guy's plan is to sell impure gold on the black market and hope nobody notices, which is a good way to wind up dead.
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The jar was filled with spider eggs that leaked out the hallucinogen.
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Pyroi posted:The jar was filled with spider eggs that leaked out the hallucinogen. This is now canon.
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The djinn were the spiders then? why does that makes sense.
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Fabricated posted:Since the setting of Uncharted 4 is going to likely be Libertalia (watch someone who actually knows history put way too much work into figuring this out), I want to know how Drake is going to collapse an entire island into the sea since he seems to have a bad habit of completely destroying every lost city he discovers. 1) He somehow causes enough commotion to bring an inactive vulcano back to life 2) Ghost pirates 
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Zoig posted:The djinn were the spiders then? why does that makes sense. Then the descriptions of the djinn as beings of smokeless fire is just a misinterpretation of the spiders always being depicted as set on fire by the terrified citizens.
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Jun 17, 2014 18:02
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Ometeotl posted:Then the descriptions of the djinn as beings of smokeless fire is just a misinterpretation of the spiders always being depicted as set on fire by the terrified citizens. They meant 'Fireless smoke' but a translation error messed it up.
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Ometeotl posted:Then the descriptions of the djinn as beings of smokeless fire is just a misinterpretation of the spiders always being depicted as set on fire by the terrified citizens. Or the sort of things you see when full of hallucinogenic spider venom.
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A_Raving_Loon posted:Or the sort of things you see when full of hallucinogenic spider venom. Apparently one of the effects is you start seeing Ghost Rider everywhere.
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