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For me, the worst part about all that stuff in MGSV is that it doesn't even really go anywhere. Any build-up of Skull Face as a new and particularly horrific villain is kind of ruined by both the subsequent themes of Phantom Pain and the fact that he barely even appears in that game. If it was meant to differentiate the game from previous entries as the "darker and more serious one" then it was also unnecessary, as the gameplay style changes and the setting already did a decent enough job of that. It really does just feel like it's in there for the sake of being moody.
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Aug 24, 2019 12:30
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Farcry 4 - I already posted about the annoying DJ, but what's possibly worse than his random obsession with poop and butts is that his programming is seemingly busted. I was getting the "Ajay has liberated all of the outposts/bell towers!" message long before I actually did that, as well as the little self-aware joke about the hunting sidequest before I had even started it, and now in the postgame he still talks about beating Pagan Min and asking who will lead the Golden Path (even though I have now killed both Amita and Sabal. Very silly. - The stealth in this game is a bit wonky. I wouldn't mind so much because there are usually a couple of options for taking guys out, but you can actually unlock a skill that lets you stealth kill from cover. I don't know if I'm just bad at life, but I can rarely get the prompt to trigger for this. Most of the time Ajay will just slash his knife at the air, alerting the guard and thus the whole base, given how things work in this game. - I've never played Farcry 3 so maybe I'm missing the joke, but what even is the point of Willis in the story? He just kind of shows up for a couple of missions, is somehow more annoying than all of the other annoying characters in the game, then buggers off. CIA sucks I guess?? The pay-off to the serial killer sidequest is that you get to kill just a normal enemy trooper hanging out in a cave but I can't decide if that's bad or really funny.
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Aug 26, 2019 02:56
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I agree with the criticisms of Trevor. I would say that they were trying too hard to recreate the archetypal GTA protagonist of old, but I actually think it's a bit more calculated than that. I've finished GTAV to 100% twice, on two different systems, and yet in retrospect I can't say I really enjoyed it that much at all. I don't think I've ever played a game that's more mean-spirited and cynical in both its attitude towards the player and the world it claims to "satirise". You can't really enjoy it as a good piece of crime fiction because it deliberately overturns everything that makes crime fiction exciting and interesting, in the name of... something, possibly just to show that they can mess around with sense/taste and people will still buy it. It meddles with the "pursuit of money" trope that's so central to the genre but provides nothing in its place, seemingly because it legitimately doesn't think anything can replace money, which might be a decent avenue to explore if it were at all bothered with it. This also has the side-effect of making a character like Trevor crazy for the sake of being crazy; unlike Tommy and CJ (arguably even Nico as well) he doesn't exist to commit crimes in order to try and fix the situation he's in, he's just there to make bad jokes/observations and to get under your skin. You can't enjoy it as satire because it's so hateful towards pretty much everyone, to the point where everyone involved simply becomes a lumbering two-dimensional cardboard cut-out. Granted, GTA's humour was never subtle or even necessarily all that clever to begin with, but I think it was tolerated much more before GTAIV because it had a certain charm to it. It was lampooning rather than spiteful, somewhat more suggestive as opposed to painfully obvious and predictable. In Vice City, for example, you can enjoy the music and fashion of the 1980s whilst also laughing at that period's ridiculous excesses. In GTAV, and to a lesser extent GTAIV, there are no upsides to anything: people are idiots, especially you and anyone else insisting that they're not. The irony is that this is far from the fresh and original take they probably intended it to be, and instead it's actually disturbingly close to the sort of normalised far-right nonsense you now see regularly trotted out on Twitter and in the news. Also some of the stunt jumps sucked and there's no jetpack.
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Sep 2, 2019 19:45
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Mierenneuker posted:Hey Mario. I got you those clothes you wanted.
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Sep 18, 2019 16:51
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I thankfully didn't have many issues with PS Now the last time I used it (I was actually very surprised that it ran MGS4 so well considering my Internet is nothing special), but it not including DLC in games can be a big problem. Games like Fallout 3 and New Vegas seem so naked without DLC now.
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Feb 2, 2021 00:25
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BiggerBoat posted:I started playing a little bit of Hitman again and I like it but I'm gently caress all if I can predict or tell what the hell makes someone suspicious or how to calmly walk away from it. I have the right clothes on, the right weapons out (or none at all), walk calmly, chill and I can't loving fool anybody half the time. It's the latter, the solid dot means that that person is an "enforcer" and can see through your disguise (or you're somewhere you shouldn't be, or you're doing something illegal). An empty dot means that that person would be an enforcer but is incapacitated in some way and won't react to you, for instance, maybe because you just made them sick by spiking their drink. Typically you're more suspicious if you run, and if you're not allowed to have a gun out visibly then it will be marked with a red ! in the corner. You can blend in with crowds (not necessarily all of them) in Hitman 2 and 3, and this is marked with a white circle around 47 and a note at the bottom of the screen. Hedgehog Pie has a new favorite as of 01:45 on Feb 4, 2021 |
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Feb 4, 2021 01:42
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Not really a game example but why does every streamer love having obnoxious notifications hogging the screen all the time.
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Feb 7, 2021 06:31
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Maybe I'm old (30) and just don't get it I guess.
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Feb 7, 2021 12:30
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Since you guys have kindly explained Twitch notifications (I don't get the appeal myself but whatever), can you explain why some some streamers do "raid countermeasures", which is typically a really long silly video that breaks up the actual gameplay? I get raids, it's a way of giving a stream more viewers but what are countermeasures all about?
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Feb 8, 2021 03:21
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I would cite the Fallout 3 quest with the Maoist ghoul as a classic example of morality going wrong in video games, but I feel like most people might be on the ghoul's side at this point.
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Feb 9, 2021 18:10
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I still end each failed puzzle attempt in video games by cackling evilly and mumbling "i'mgoingtohavetostartagain".
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Feb 11, 2021 00:00
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So my friend got me The Last of Us for Christmas after years of me saying I would play it, and while I think the writing and acting is pretty good, I kind of think the actual gameplay is not that good? Granted, I'm still very early in and maybe I'm jumping in on a sacred cow all too soon but, er, yeah?
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Feb 13, 2021 05:27
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Assistant Manager Devil posted:I couldn't stick with it after playing the sequel first, it seems like a good effort that's just showing its age on the gameplay end. I think having played MGSV to death hurts my perception on the gameplay front. For sure, MGSV has a total debacle of a narrative, but its gameplay is very fluid, readable and enjoyable for the most part.
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Feb 13, 2021 06:10
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Hitman 2 is very good (haven't played 3 yet) but yeah, mechanically the trilogy is a total mess. The Always Online is without question the worst part of it.
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Feb 16, 2021 23:59
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Was there ever a good Dagobah level in a Star Wars game?
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Feb 18, 2021 14:32
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I once had an epic game that I won 3-2 in extra time. No one will ever believe me but it happened! (it was after having played the game for many hours before so I understood it pretty much fully)
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Feb 25, 2021 08:23
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I've occasionally started FFX up just so I can play some blitzball. 
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Feb 25, 2021 14:32
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Overwatch Porn posted:that's only an issue in the rereleases; those bosses didn't exist in the base version. their placement is super dumb and hosed me over the first time I played the remaster Unless you're a European like me, then you've never known a FFX without the Dark Aeons! 
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Feb 25, 2021 14:47
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exquisite tea posted:They were not present in the original JP release and not present in the NA version, either. The Dark Aeons first appeared in the International Release, which was the first version to be released in Europe and the definitive standard for all future ports and remasters moving forward. The version history of FFX is pretty interesting because there were significant balance and content changes between editions, even beyond the Dark Aeons. Yeah, the one that pops into my head is Quick Hit, which I think was massively overpowered in the original version? The rerelease changed how it prioritises certain attacks, so while Quick Hit is still super useful it can't exactly be spammed constantly any more. Or something like that, idk. I know a bunch of other abilities were added too, most of which are negligible and are locked behind multiple locks anyway, but I appreciated the "extract" abilities that made getting spheres a bit easier early on. I think the worst thing about the Dark Aeons blocking stuff off concerns Auron's limit break. After you defeat Spherimorph, if you want to get all four of Auron's limit breaks while they're still remotely useful, you pretty much have to instantly backtrack all the way from Macalania to Besaid, just so you can pick up a Jecht sphere from outside the temple there. I imagine most players weren't even aware that you could go back to Besaid at that point, not to mention that the story is ramping up at that point so it seems silly to stop it dead in its tracks. Tidus' crest is obviously a dick move too, though I can't think of much else of note that's blocked unless you missed the temple treasure in either Besaid or Macalania the first time through.
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Feb 25, 2021 16:27
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Except with FFVIII and the junction system, breaking that over your knee in five minutes once you know how it works is one of the best parts of the game.
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Mar 5, 2021 13:03
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There was never a man like my Johnny.
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Apr 3, 2021 15:14
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Morpheus posted:Related - played some Hitman 3 last night and while trying to talk to someone important, an ancillary conversation nearby sort of overrode the plot conversation I was having, and was absolutely impossible to try to understand what the person was saying. This is a frequent problem in all of the new Hitman games. Diana in particular is infamous for blurting out stuff while other people are talking.
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Apr 7, 2021 17:12
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Crusader Kings 2 is one of those games I should love, as I loved the diplomacy and historical aspects of Medieval Total War back in the day and I was really intrigued by all the funny screenshots people have posted here on SA. But I just kind of don't get it, it's overwhelming at every turn, and this is after I've looked through the tutorial LP thread for advice. There's an in-game tutorial, but it doesn't really direct you how to do what it wants you to do. Getting troops on and off of boats in particular seems overly complicated. I'll keep having a go because it's probably just me being an idiot, but overall it's just too much right now. At least it's free.
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Apr 9, 2021 04:12
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GTA has always done it because frankly they could get away with it, often under the banner of South Park-esque edgy humour, which has an appeal when the game is entertaining and is doing things that few other games do well. But GTAV in particular is such a cynical (some would say hateful) game, one that is outclassed in many areas by competing titles, that the audience antagonism is much more brazen. I played it to 100% twice because I'm a masochist, but I still struggle to find much pleasurable in it even as a long-time fan of the series. There is so much that is deliberately unfun: no payoffs to heists, having to use the stock market to make money, an almost entirely full cast of unlikable characters, self-deprecating sidequests, smarmy attempts at "satire", the list goes on.
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Apr 22, 2021 22:44
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Cleretic posted:I would put forward 'every Squall line in Final Fantasy VIII', the guy's got a serious case of foot-in-mouth disease and it's meant to be cringey. And Squall is probably the most competent of the protagonists!
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Apr 29, 2021 13:18
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That's probably the dissonance between loud people online and people just playing the game. And I can totally see people who love the Legion being Loud People Online.
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May 3, 2021 12:29
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Oxxidation posted:one of the many things wrong with lonesome road is that you're stuck with avellone's mouthpiece for the antagonist, and ulysses is going to make you sit through his Very Important opinions on nation-building whether you like it or not This is entirely why it's by far my least favourite of the DLC, which is a shame because the general concept for it is sound.
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May 3, 2021 19:08
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The NCR might be an extremely flawed bureaucracy, possibly fundamentally so, but it also has a number of legitimately good people in it who are trying to fight the system for the good of its citizens. By default that makes it infinitely better than the fascist slaver cosplay faction, even if that wasn't the overall libertarian intention. It's why life in our own developed world isn't as bad as it could be, dorks.
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May 4, 2021 17:06
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Yes Man always creeped me out a bit tbh and as a result I never trusted him first time through.
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May 5, 2021 13:26
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I think Point Lookout was my favourite, if only because it was something a bit different. It still might not be better than the worst NV DLC. My only memories of The Pitt are that it was just depressing to look at, so much grey and brown. Broken Steel added in some good stuff, but indeed the beefed up super enemies are a massive turnoff; I liked the concepts of some of the new dungeons, but in practice they were just clusters of said beefed up super enemies and weren't fun to play at all. I concur entirely with your thoughts on Operation Anchorage. Mothership Zeta is awful. It was clearly supposed to be "the wacky episode" using the humour found in the old games, but they forgot to write any jokes or include anything that might be fun. In the end it's just a bunch of empty corridors capped of by a bizarre retcon in the entire series' backstory.
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May 10, 2021 17:42
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Byzantine posted:Zeta didn’t retcon the war to have been caused by aliens. Everybody just decided it did because they’re Mad At Bethesda I guess? But it’s not in the text, it’s not in cut content. It never happened. For real? I could've sworn that it was at least implied in one of the logs you can read.
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May 10, 2021 19:26
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For the record, I don't dislike most of the F3 DLC just because it's Bethesda. There's quite a lot I like in F3, Skyrim, etc even if it sometimes seems like I'm the only one who does like a certain thing in those games... like the metro system in F3, I love how it's all connected together and how it's actually a decent depiction of the real life system. Mothership Zeta still sucks though.
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May 10, 2021 19:38
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Phigs posted:I love how fans of Fallout 3 always show their insanity before long. They got the distinctive station ceilings just right!!! I also like Moira and the Paradise Falls quest, though those are pretty not as controversial Fallout 3 takes.
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May 10, 2021 22:37
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The Last of Us was originally meant to depict the last people in the UK who hadn't left yet and there was originally no time skip.
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May 28, 2021 03:37
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Perestroika posted:For a game that presents itself as playing a careful hunter relying on stealth and traps more than brute force, Horizon Zero Dawn sure loves throwing you into unavoidable open combat. And it's just... not very good at that. I just tried to do the quest where you fight the big machine in the quarry and it was the worst so far for this kind of thing. I just decided to ditch it as I couldn't work out how to damage it at all and stealth seemed absolutely out of the question.
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Jun 21, 2021 22:09
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Cleretic posted:FFVIII is the central nexus of this one. Trivializing the difficulty is phenomenally unfun both in preparation and execution, everyone will tell you this, and yet so many of them do it. And then no further part of the game gets properly engaged with, because they figured out the 'optimal' way to jack the Attack command WAY the gently caress up. I love breaking FF8 over my knee! Card games and then all your numbers go up. 👌
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Jun 25, 2021 08:59
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BioEnchanted posted:God damnit the disk error in Fear Effect disk 2 is irreparable. I've had the disk resurfaced, it looks so much better and it still won't read. I had this with FF7 back in the day. It would cut out at the cutscene where the rocket takes off in disc 2, so I had to borrow a friend's copy every time I wanted to replay it. It sucked.
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Jun 26, 2021 15:57
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Robert J. Omb posted:Conker: Live and Reloaded If memory serves it was even worse in the original!
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Horizon Zero Dawn generally does a good job of showing you where you can and can't climb. Until you get to the collectables and certain side quests, then it's a game of running around hills until you find the right climbing point.
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