A Worrying Warlock posted:

I had to look up a six hour video on YouTube to have any clue of wtf was going on. Cool story told in an awful manner, so rhat the end result still ends up being a good contender for the title of worst lore.

The opposite is fun, too: which game had the most unexpected best lore? For me, the answer would have to be Starsiege. It's a great little mech game from the 90s, which starts off as Total Recall before taking a hard turn into Terminator territory. Imagine if the setting of The Expanse gets invaded by Skynet, and you're pretty close.

The evil AI in this case is called Prometheus, and it has some cool designs for its killer robots. But it is in little written news bulletins in-between missions where Prometheus really shines. As the game progresses, you get to read how everyone in the solar system is freaking out, from the subterannean colonies on Venus to the royal palaces of earth. And then you get to see all those channels go dead, one by one, as Prometheus advances.

It's in the last transmission from those doomed areas where the writing really shines. Prometheus hates humanity and 'gets' our psychology with all the precision and effectiveness of a hammer. When it reaches Earth, witnesses describe giant murder machines covered in screaming and mangled humans that are hooked into a sound amplification system.

You don't get to see this in game, but the writing does enough heavy lifting to make sure that I'll never forget the mental image.

Kitfox88 posted:

Enough to bumble it out from there, thanks

Meowywitch posted:

I enjoyed reading your morrowind mega post, friend

Meowywitch posted:

Not every game needs a fuckin rpg style skill tree!!!

muscles like this! posted:

Mercs 2 had some weird issues, like everything you bought was delivered from your base but you couldn't just collect things from said base. So if you needed new equipment you had to go outside, order it and use up fuel resources to deliver it five feet.

Sandwich Anarchist posted:

credburn posted:

Haha Elex II you are so fuckin janky

How about a shield tutorial that pops up mid-combat? No, the game does not pause and you can't control anything until you hit enter.

Jezza of OZPOS posted:

Christopher judge being the main VA for God of war is making a strong case for me to actually play it tbh

Bussamove posted:

I mean to be fair “we have the technology to bring you back to life if you die” seems like a pretty good employment perk even if it’s the safest work environment possible, which shipbreaking isn’t going to be even if sweeping changes were made. Just get rid of the additional debt when you use it!

Necrothatcher posted:

My partner told me "not to hold back" when I fought them in Tekken 8 so I didn't and now they're super duper mad at me for demolishing them eight matches in a row.

Evilreaver posted:

I got myself penned in, bugs all around me, teammates all dead, back to the wall. So I called down their reinforcements, and hurled the beacon over the wall- anywhere was better than here!

The beacon, and my teammates, all landed in a minefield I had set up earlier

DontMockMySmock posted:

. . . buoyancy.

DontMockMySmock posted:

Yeah, he DOES have negative net buoyancy; he sinks. But his net weight underwater is guaranteed to be less than it is in air. His legs will therefore have an easier time lifting him than they do in air. Yeah, there's a lot more drag, so that becomes a factor at some point, but I don't know if you've ever tried jumping off the bottom of a deep pool or anything, but it's way easy, despite all the drag.

For example, if he weighs 200 pounds (which is a lot since he's the size of a child), and he displaces 100 pounds of water (probably roughly correct for a short but beefy child-sized person, assuming he's watertight), then being under water makes jumping twice as easy (i.e. jump twice as high with the same leg exertion, ignoring drag), even though he still net weighs 100 pounds and sinks. Or, if you don't want to put concrete numbers on it, if his density is twice that of a normal person (a normal person being pretty much as dense as water), then he'll jump twice as high in water as in air (ignoring drag - so slightly less than twice as high in practice).

Anyway I haven't played a megaman game in a long-rear end time so I don't remember what the water mechanics are actually like, but "sinking, but being able to jump higher" makes perfect sense from a physics perspective.

Schubalts posted:

Well the game is called Tomb Raider.

BiggerBoat posted:

I can't recall ever finishing a Bethesda game. Usually about 50 hours in, I begin to lose interest. I never played New Vegas and grabbed it for like 3 bux, which I assume is worth it.

Muscle Tracer posted:

Do you think 3 doesn't deserve the criticism it gets, or NV deserves criticism it doesn't get? What's the thesis here?

Philippe posted:

Density is how you save an open world game, really. The Cyberpunk DLC is the same way: it's a tiny area jampacked with stores and jerks to sneakhackshoot and quests.

Inspector Gesicht posted:

For Shogi just use CyricZ's guides on either Gamefaqs or Neoseeker. The man is the last DJ of writing proper walkthroughs instead of lovely youtube guides.

Zero_Grade posted:

I wonder how far I could get in Super Empire Strikes Back these days, cause as a kid I asked to rent it from Blockbuster a lot until I could beat it.