JebanyPedal posted:

The original Far Cry is piss loving hard.

im pooping! posted:

kazil posted:

I can't imagine trying to play FF7 for the first time these days. It's a good game for the era it was made, but it has not aged well at all. I think a lot of the stuff that drives you crazy is ignored because of nostalgia, yes.

Inspector Gesicht posted:

I love how Rogue Galaxy sabotages itself at every turn. In addition to the cliched plot, wasted characters, uneven combat, cut-and-paste level-design, a nauseating romance between a woman and a dog, there is the hilarious writing decision to ham-hand melodrama into every scene. Near the end of the game you learn the backstory of your Jack-Sparrow-ripoff companion. It turns out that he had a previously unmentioned girlfriend who was killed suddenly by an oversized bird in the middle of a completely ordinary city. I haven't bought another JRPG since.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYUEMYFN1w

Alteisen posted:

So I took advantage of the sale they had for Paper Mario Sticker Star.

I'm not absolutely hating it, but I can I wonder why they went this route with this particular franchise.

Generally the Paper Mario games had very creative writing, unique areas and such, this one though is just a by the numbers Mario game stage wise, plains, desert, forest, water, winter, etc, the combat is limited by its sticker system since you feel like hoarding them for bosses, on top of that combat is largely pointless as you don't get exp anymore, just coins, lots and lots of coins, I have 600 coins at the end of 1-5 which seems like a shitload, course the game has a money sink in the form of slots you can use to be able to use more than one sticker, said slots are required for certain bosses as you can't hurt them unless you do 2 moves in one turn.

What little writing there is seems Paper Mario esque at least.

I can see why the game was so poorly received though, its a serious 180 from the previous titles.

Alteisen posted:

One of the advertising lines for ME3 was "A great jumping on point for the series" so chances are you are on the money.

It also explains why nothing you did in the other 2 games mattered or was mentioned.

DStecks posted:

It always seems like 90% of the criticisms of ME2 are "It wasn't what I thought it would be/ isn't what I think it should be". Which is exactly as legitimate a criticism as saying "Inglouruous Basterds was awful because it should have been an action movie".

FredMSloniker posted:

As in he thinks stories are bad, i.e. 'Mario is about jumping on things, and you shouldn't ask why'?

JK! posted:

Yup. The first moment you get control after waking up from coming back to life you can make a save. Put the ME2 save onto your comp using a flash drive and the program USBXTAFGUI. Use Modio to open the save game and pick out the save you just made.

Use gibbed ME2 editor on save_01 or whatever and it'll open up everything to you. add a zero to the end of every mineral and you never have to mine at all. you can also give yourself all the money and make one shot kill guns which are great if you just want to replay the story and make different choices.

It'll also allow you to unlock Legion early and use him everywhere because he's the best. And has a lot of unique dialog. Taking him on Tali's loyalty mission is fantastic.

There's also an editor for ME3

Strategic Tea posted:

I'd forgive all of Oblivion's gameplay flaws if it wasn't for the setting.


At one point, all of Elder Scrolls was weird and awesome like Morrowind. Now TESO spreads across what's left of the setting that we haven't seen and conforms that, no, it's just fantasy England or not-Arabia or Rivendell or whatever after all.

scarycave posted:

The combat in 1 + 2 did get old pretty fast though. Especially if you decided to start some poo poo in a town.
Now everyone and their grandma has to take a turn moving several feet away from the conflict going on.

Lotish posted:

You know what brings me down about New Vegas? Not enough people to shoot guilt free. In 3 there were loving slavers and raiders every god drat place, but if all I want to do is roam through the desert getting into gunfights there are only a few places in the Mojave I can really do that without potentially offending someone I want to work for. So I have to mod the game to have more dudes to shoot.

Though I suppose I could just go to Big MT; I remember there was a lot of stuff to shoot there. So much I never actually finished it.

Byzantine posted:

That was David Jaffe's original plan for III (you'd kill the Three Brothers in rapid succession, then the other mythologies' gods would swarm in to conquer Greece).

I don't much care for it, tbh. I mean, if Ra exists, why did the Sun fall from the sky when Helios was captured by Atlas? And the only Norse god anybody cares about is Thor, but we've already spent two games fighting a Thunder God. "Fight the God of Thunder yet again...with a hammer! (Totally different from fighting Zeus with the Blade or the Barbarian King, honest)".

Now a GoW knockoff, like Dante's Inferno, set in Norse or Egyptian myth would be pretty cool.

Thoughtless posted:

Skyrim's inability to let you finish quests in any other way than the intended. The daedra quests often have you doing horrible stuff, and while I like being evil in games I don't like being forced into it.

Or the thieves' guild quest that basically ends with you selling your soul to a daedra for some awful armor in order to beat an enemy you really wouldn't need help with.

Inspector Gesicht posted:

How can Rockstar make a scathing critique of the "American Dream" by putting the message in the most expensive video-games ever made? Imagine if Team America: World Police cost 150 million to make; does Satire even work in the hands of the richest party?

ninjahedgehog posted:

This reminds me of a TDTGD in GTAV.

It's a pitch-perfect recreation of LA with fantastic local voice-actors...but they didn't bother getting an American to read over the script to take out all the Britishisms. More than once, characters refer to getting 'sacked' rather than 'fired,' use 'we've not' rather than 'we haven't,' and a whole bunch of text on the in-game internet uses British slang and mannerisms.

Accordion Man posted:

Really Rockstar's main team just screams well off middle-aged white dudes that were hip once and are desperately trying to be that again and they act like petulant teenagers in their attempts.

Cleretic posted:

I still feel like Rockster just don't understand the sandbox genre, which would be an understandable flaw if it weren't for the fact they invented it. The way that every story since San Andreas has completely fumbled handling that freedom, how it appears to be steadily getting worse about giving you that freedom, and some of its more mean-spirited moves in GTAV, really bring forward the message of 'we don't know why you like this game, but if you aren't playing it for the reasons we think then you are Wrong'.

Fortunately, it seems the rest of the city sandboxes on the market have grasped it. I haven't played Sleeping Dogs, but Saint's Row loving nails it, and Just Cause 2 and Farcry 3 Blood Dragon (if you want to count it; I haven't played the actual Farcry 3 though) both seem to really know what they're doing.

Thoughtless posted:

Terraria has some bizarre design choices. After you beat the boss in hell, you go into hardmode. This creates two "invasive" biomes, which spread aggressively and will destroy all the natural ones, depriving you of a lot of resources you need.

How do you combat this? You dig a three-block tunnel straight down to hell. Two around every chunk of land you want to protect. This is incredibly tedious, even in a game mostly about mining. But that's not enough! You also get mobs that spit the corruption over your tunnels so you need to build walls too. Still not enough? As you progress in the game it'll randomly spawn hidden blocks of the invasive biomes, probably inside your painstakingly quarantined "good zones", and you'll have to find and isolate those too which takes insane amounts of effort.

It feels less like I'm playing and more like I'm working now, except I'm not getting paid. So that was how far I got.

Dandywalken posted:

They need to do some tongue-in-cheek nods to the absurdity of GTA's setting too IMO. poo poo like a radio advertisement advertising a fundraiser for the 25,000 cops hospitalized for being beaten, shot, set aflame, and decapitated. That month.

Pengu! posted:

I recently bought a PS2 and am making my way through all the well-regarded games I missed. The most recent one I got is Ratchet and Clank. While there is nothing really wrong with how it plays, I just can't get over how much of an rear end in a top hat every character in the game except Clank is. I usually don't mind playing reprehensible characters, but Ratchet seems to be an rear end in a top hat for the sake of being an rear end in a top hat, which I find really grating.

RyokoTK posted:

It's fair to say that Metal Gear strongly favors the stealthy approach though, just because of the infinitely respawning enemies when you're in Alert.

EmmyOk posted:

Yeah it took me a few times to memorise my route to KO people as quickly as possible, I imagine no-augs would be the same except mashing my face full of cyberboost bars.

Another thing that annoyed me storywise in the game was how they revealed Darrow was a baddie way before the big reveal. The first time Jensen meets him in Sarif's office he comes off shady as heck and later the very first guard you meet in Omega Ranch basically says "I wish our good buddy Hugh Darrow was still here". Later when Megan mentions Darrow Adam responds as if it's brand new information. poo poo son I heard those guards talking about it, which means you did too.

Also I like your Andrew avatar.

Mokinokaro posted:

And then Jade Empire does the same thing with the spirits.

Tyrannosaurus posted:

Jade Empire was awesome.

Here's something I thought dragged down Far Cry 3: the loving story. The gameplay is fantastic. I loved ghosting outposts with a bow and a knife or sneaking around and creating minefield/c4 deathtraps or hunting wild animals (and enemies) in the jungle. I loved everything except playing the story missions. It feels cheap to just knock me upside the head in a cutscene. And that poo poo with Buck? Let's be real. There wouldn't have been a Buck quest. By the time you meet him you're so far down the rabbithole you'd have just tortured him.

Ein posted:

That puts a lot of blame on Bethesda/Xbox. Headfirst made big promises(raytracing!) and farted around with the game for 3-4 years before anything mentioned in that story happened. Before they released CoC they also announced/worked on things like Deadlands, the other two Call of Cthulu games, and developed/released that terrible Simon the Sorcerer 3D game.

They just weren't a good developer and the games they released is proof of that.

im pooping! posted:

Final Fantasy X-2 was pretty fun, probably my favorite actually. The only thing that drags it down is you need 2.5 playthroughs to get 3 of the best dress sphere, Lady Luck.

e* actually wait I may be misremembering, I guess you only need one of each dress sphere? In that case, nothing drags it down.

Mokinokaro posted:

Yeah, he wasn't really recognizable as Joel in TLoU either (and another great example of a typecast actor having range is Nolan North's David in that game. Holy poo poo was he different than the norm.)

TheFallenEvincar posted:

I play a lot of it and undoubtedly love it, but it always bothers me how unfair the diplomatic choices in Civilization V are in some ways.
Basically, the AI get their own unique warning messages they can send people warning them to not build too close to them or spread religions to them, yet for some reason players don't get those diplomatic options at all. It's a big diplomatic no-no when I get caught doing it or breaking a promise about it, but I can't hold AI Civs to the same standard, either I have to go to war with them (without any in-game ability to establish casus belli, making me a warmongerer because there's no way for me to set diplomatic boundaries that the AI can set) or waste faith on Inquisitors. No dude, I'm maybe NOT okay with you building a city two inches away from me when there's a billion miles between us and your other cities. Personal space!
Bastards are already duplicitous enough, at least let me be able to take the same diplomatic actions they can.

Also, I wish civs didn't spawn so close to each other. It's not that I shrink from the challenge, but it's just kind of anti-climactic, especially with gigantic maps. I like exploration and cold wars and poo poo.

Rick_Hunter posted:

It also makes me cringe every time I read that because when the first AssCreed came out a bunch of totally oppressed Christians in the US said it was anti-Christian. Now they put that in every single game.

Assassin's Creed V: A work of fiction inspired by real events and developed by a multicultural team of varying faiths and beliefs

StandardVC10 posted:

The end game quests at idolized reputation will get Colonel Moore (aka that bitch everyone hates) to salute you, and you are basically at the point where you can order soldiers from base to base on reputation alone, but you never have an official rank. One thing troopers will say when you talk to them is, "if you were serving, you'd be halfway to general by now."

Aleph Null posted:

Tiggum, you must absolutely hate Alpha Protocol. It is literally impossible to see "everything" in a single playthrough.

Edit: and it is awesome.

Heavy Lobster posted:

Wait, I can understand wanting to cut out busywork, but why care so much about seeing all the content of a game you probably don't like enough to get through the better parts of again? Like, that implies on a certain level that you think it's unfun to begin with.

RyokoTK posted:

You realize he's complaining about video games in the thread about complaining about video games?

I really don't get why people are jumping down Tiggum's throat about this. It's a legitimate complaint, he's got a reasonable viewpoint behind it, you don't have to agree with it but it's certainly not invalid.

Whatev posted:

Have any of the ACs actually improved the overall gameplay after 2? It seems like they keep tweaking and simplifying functions in ways that make the games more unwieldy and boring while ignoring the series' real problems, which mostly revolve around the combat being piss easy, clunky poo poo.

Mierenneuker posted:

Yeah, but they're definitely mimicking a freemium game. They have the whole multiple currencies thing going on. Apparently you have a generic currency, one for upgrading equipment and then you have the premium funbux that can be used as a replacement for the former two.

It's all very scummy in freemium games, so I can't imagine what made anyone think it would be a good fit in a paid game. If the equipment carries over to a PvP mode, it'll also turn the first weeks of multiplayer in a "pay2win game".

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

You ain't kidding. this made me check rule34 to see how much FNaF porn there was ("how much" rather than "if," since it's really a foregone conclusion)

I knew there'd be some, but not 11 loving pages.