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I dislike how it's often hard to tell which way the objective is in Transistor. I do all my exploration in games on a wrong-way-first algorithm and it's already led to missed content when I stumbled into the next area with no way to go back and check a side street. 
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Morpheus posted:I have yet to play a videogame where the romantic writing isn't hamfisted, awkward, and embarrasing.
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May 27, 2014 22:14
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As cool as the dubstep gun is, it's really not that great a weapon. 
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I am playing through Anarchanox for the first time and it is an amazing experience, however, the inability to change out party members without going back to a specific spot on a single planet, is not.
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Jun 17, 2014 13:45
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Action Tortoise posted:I don't like Syndicate's heavy class enemies. Usually you can hack a foe to stun them, attack their allies, or kill themselves but higher level enemies have an energy shield that you have to constantly hack to deactivate. Then you have a small window before the shield recharges to deal enough damage to keep their shields down so you can finally hack them to death. This would all be fine if you weren't confined to small arenas where you're just running laps around the place taking potshots at the enemy who's stalking you like Jason Voorhees.
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Jun 17, 2014 17:55
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Mokinokaro posted:Yeah I agree completely about New Order. The gameplay is excellent but the plot definitely takes itself way too seriously.  I think I'm on the loving moon.  Stick Insect posted:Some RTS games have a similar plot thing they do: As the story progresses, a new enemy is introduced and former enemies have to join hands to defeat it. Like in C&C: Tiberian Sun: Firestorm and Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance. 
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Jun 19, 2014 14:14
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JebanyPedal posted:Max Payne 3 was mechanically fantastic, although hampered by a dogshit story, atrocious level design, and droll samey encounters, it proves that they can do something wonderful with the tools they have, they just need to learn how to execute
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Jul 11, 2014 22:58
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Going back to the Max Payne series discussion earlier, I recalled something that I think everyone, of all races, religions, political leanings, and ages can agree drags Max Payne down. Two words: Blood. Maze.
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Jul 17, 2014 03:43
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Oxxidation posted:I got Max Payne 3 for $5 a while back and finally gave it a spin. The first five to ten minutes was a "Max is sad and drinking" montage. The opening for the first stage was a "Max is sad and drinking" montage. Then I went through some bad, sluggish combat, and was greeted with a "Max is sad and drinking" montage. All of this laced with enough awful political commentary to choke a canvasser.
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Jul 21, 2014 18:37
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...of SCIENCE! posted:It has a 24 GB file size and almost 20 of that is from the uncompressed FMVs. Still a pretty drat good game though. Except the boss of the Jetstream Sam DLC, gently caress that fight.
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Jul 23, 2014 02:40
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Simply Simon posted:And not only in a "this boss sucks holy poo poo" way (though it HAS THAT IN SPADES) Yeah, it really did, it did however have something else that made up for it. Count me in the camp that thought the Boost Guardian was terrible in MP2, I really liked the game overall though.
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Jul 24, 2014 14:00
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kazil posted:This is silly the keyboard is such a poor tool for most types of video games. The only games that are actually better with a controller are platformers, certain third person games, and rhytmn games. I will never get people who play FPS games with controllers, it's like trying to eat soup with a fork, so constraining. For most quality genres, the keyboard and mouse are vastly superior. I've been playing a lot of War Thunder, and I dislike how annoyingly high cost the skilled gunners are in experience. It's probably one of those things deliberately high to push people to buy experience, but still, annoying. You have to have an equal number of skilled gunners as actual gunners on your plane or else you can't really level up their gunning above stormtrooper level accuracy, that I've seen anyway.
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Jul 31, 2014 16:04
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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. The last JRPG I played was Anarchonox, and I think I best keep it that way.
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ME2 does most things better than ME1, except the dialogue, plot and the whole not showing you the stats on the guns you're equipping thing. Though I can't knock the plot of 2 too much, it's not 2's fault that 3 rendered so many of its plotlines utterly irrelevant. Dark Energy and all.
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I played Sleeping Dogs with KB+Mouse like god intended and didn't have any problems, other than the driving physics taking a little to get used to.
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Aug 11, 2014 19:56
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muscles like this? posted:A weird thing about Sleeping Dogs' story is that quite a bit of time was passing through the story but the game was really bad about conveying that to the player.
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Aug 13, 2014 15:28
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Rampant Dwickery posted:I really wish there were a Jensen dialog option for the endgame where he just flips out and says "I KNOW, DAMMIT. I FIGURED IT OUT DAYS AGO." Pretty much, it was dumb as heck that he had essentially no reaction to the things he read. Unless... oh my god, he doesn't know how to read. 
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Aug 21, 2014 19:59
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Whatev posted:Haha, wow. Star Fox Command loving sucks. The core gameplay is just really goddamn bad. All I remember from that game is shooting the same missle down over and over. It was not a fun gameplay mechanic.
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Sep 18, 2014 13:52
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Thoughtless posted:Fallout New Vegas improves on a lot of Fallout 3 but also comes with one major thing dragging the game down: the environment. Yeah, I get that it's post-apocalyptic but combining that with a 99% desert environment is just too much, everything except the Strip looks the same and I can't find any desire to explore. Fallout 3 was goddamn vibrant in comparison. On the other hand, I think having things more spread out gave the game more a proper sense of scale. Everything was ridiculously cluttered in FO3. Also Fallout 3 forced you to use subways to explore certain areas.
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Sep 26, 2014 17:09
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Captain Lavender posted:Steve Blum is a little thing that drags down about 90% of the games I play. His performance was great in Bulletstorm.
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Oct 7, 2014 17:58
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PJOmega posted:"To the left Connor!" It was especially hilarious for me, because I bugged out somehow, and instead of anything useful, he just said "Get on the horse connoorrrrr." over and over again in the same tone a 9 year old child complains about their sibling getting a cookie before them.
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Oct 15, 2014 22:58
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Also what the heck is with the pointless crafting/fleet management mechanics from AC3/AC4 respectively? Is there a contractual obligation somewhere that each AC game has to have some sort of dumb management-lite system? AC3's didn't seem to do anything at all, and AC4's seemed broken to me, couldn't figure out how to get more of the goods required for missions.
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Oct 16, 2014 14:14
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Thing that drags all the post-brotherhood creeds down: Lack of 'The Truth' Puzzle segments. Those did a great job of detailing the present-day storyline, and a lot of them were pretty clever and well presented. They kind of brought that back in 4 with the whole computer hacking thing, but it didn't yield that much of interest compared to AC2 and Brotherhood. Also count me in the camp of wanting a modern day assassin's creed. There's potential there.
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Coolie Ghost posted:I picked up Dungeon of the Endless recently and I love it, I can't find any problems with the mechanics. The gameplay is satisfying and forces adaptation in a really elegant way. I've sunk a lot of time on it and will sink much more in the future. Interestingly enough some of the heroes actually do have unique combinations if you use both of them. Like the Chef and the guy obsessed with pain (can't remember his name). That particular combination gives an actual passive skill for both after like 3 unique elevator conversations. In general though yeah, some more elevator dialogue would have been good.
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On the note of Rome: Total War, did anybody else think the building management system is the worst in the series? I don't see why they ditched Shogun 2's.
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Hobo By Design posted:Never bought NV because of that. As far as samey goes, Fallout 3 was tolerable but holy gently caress Skyrim was dull, I apparently played 51 hours of it, and I don't remember anything. Terrible inventory system and skill trees too, terrible combat, I just don't see where the acclaim comes from unless standards for fantasy games are rock bottom.
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Dec 24, 2014 07:21
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Gestalt Intellect posted:I've kept going in Alien past when you get the flamethrower and while parts of it are way less frustrating than others, the flamethrower really does not do much to make it any better. You would think that after the alien gets repeatedly lit on fire for going after you that it would maybe care about something besides you in the entire universe and go after easier prey. But none of the alien's reactions imply "gently caress I'm on fire I should go find something else that does not make me be on fire." It just says "oh no the mean woman put me in timeout and I now must leave for the requisite 10 seconds but then immediately return because I know I am invincible." Yeah I was right there with you on this one when I plowed through the game last week after picking it up on the sale. I don't know who greenlighted the save system in that game but it's pretty terrible, having to do a whole first half of a level over and over again is not a fun engaging experience, it's just busywork. Amnesia had it right, there should be no progress penalty, the scare/death is enough of a 'penalty' for failure, anything further is just pissing in your eye. I had to crank down the difficulty from Hard too, but even then the Alien is pretty much always there. Also I disliked the random nature of some of the drops, if you get screwed on flamethrower fuel drops in some of the later segments, it makes the final bits a lot more difficult.
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Thoughtless posted:This sounds like every MMORPG, it's always better to sell raw materials rather than anything crafted. If there's few barriers to getting the raw materials other than time, it makes sense that they would crash fast if there's a surplus of supply over demand.
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moosecow333 posted:Or you're playing GTA V. They made it really difficult to make money in that game unless you spend way too much time in the stock market. GTA 4 was pretty funny when it came to money, your entire motivation for most of the horrific crimes you do is that you 'need more maahney'. Then like, halfway or 3/4 of the way through the game you rob a bank, and get away with that, and suddenly here you are with a third a million sitting in your account, still whacking thugs. GTA 4 was dragged down so much by these kinds of things. I'm glad the Saints Row series filled the gap and took it to its logical conclusion.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Because Borderlands is an FPS Diablo. So Far Cry 4 is a very great game to be sure, and inarguably better than Far Cry 3 in its more nuanced storytelling and mostly improved gameplay, but it ends its story about 1-3 chapters too soon. To be specific, the final three campaign missions of the game should have been you seizing control of The Golden Path by taking out the obviously corrupt leader still alive, and becoming capital K King of Kyrat. That they left that plot thread dangling seemed like such a drat shame. I will say they handled Pagan Min very well, especially in the ending though. A much more satisfying ending than 3, and many other games. E: Oh also, they were way too inconsistent with how they pronounced Ajay Ghale. Sardonik has a new favorite as of 17:59 on Jan 12, 2015 |
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DStecks posted:I thought this was believable enough: he pronounces it Ay-Jay, since that is an American name and he's spent his entire lucid life as an American, but the locals pronounce it how it's "meant" to be pronounced. Same goes for his last name. And it's not like his mom would insist on the Kyrati pronunciation, since she'd presumably be keeping a low profile. Oxxidation posted:Ajay makes me miss Jason Brody as a protagonist. It's not, I'm going to have to write you a ticket. I agree with Willis' take on him.
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poptart_fairy posted:On this one if you spare Pagan Min he'll officially declare you King, or at least as officially as he can given the circumstances, and if you wander around in post game you can find the surviving Golden Path leader and kill them after a short cutscene. Sabal is hanging around the temple though I'm not sure where Amita is. Right, I got all that ending, but I would have liked a more drawn out sequence. killing them after the cutscene feels more like an easter egg than anything, when you kill the leaders, it gives you the same karma penalty for killing an 'innocent' civilian . I would have liked having to storm a secret golden path base or something to take out the leader in a dramatic fashion. Then after that, making some kind of grand speech over the PA system, and having the golden path explicitly be following you from that point. After that, who knows, a fancy coronation complete with last ditch assassination attempt from Willis or something.Don't get me wrong, the ending and ending secrets of Far Cry 4 were excellent, but it was tantalizingly close to being perfect.
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I don't know what it is about my setup but something about certain fullscreen games makes it that whenever they start, the movie/youtube/etc in my other window stops updating the visual parts. From there I have to alt-tab repeatedly to hope that I roll a lucky 7 and one of the alt tabs gets the video to continue. Borderless windowed fixes this problem nicely, though some games don't seem to have problems at all. Dual-channel entertainment. 
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Strategic Tea posted:Well one of the bigger letdowns of ME3's writing imo was the transformation of Cerberus into a vast evil superpower with truckloads of cannon fodder. Basically space COBRA Pretty much nothing Cerberus did in ME3 made much sense either. For example, going after the data in the first act on the crucible. Cerberus obviously didn't go out and start making their own Crucible, and seemed to take no efforts in stealing the crucible while it was under construction/ being deployed. The endgame for Cerberus should have had them trying to steal the crucible, with the Illusive man being forced by his indoctrination to activate the self-destruct sequence instead of stealing it at the last minute. From there, renegadeing/paragonning him to death, and having him admit how much of a colossal failure he's been, or just shooting him. That would have been a much more fitting end for Cerberus.
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A thing dragging down ME3: they turned Ashley's model from the reasonable ME1 and ME2 one to a horrible realdoll like thing in ME3. 
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Transistor is pretty great. It's desire to explain next to nothing about the world, and actively ridicule you for wanting to know more however, is not.
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Esroc posted:Finally decided top give Dark Souls 2 a try and I don't get the appeal. Everyone gushes over the "difficulty" of the series and how high stakes the game is, but the difficulty doesn't stem from brilliant game design or amazing balance. The difficulty is solely based on the fact that the game has the most horrendous control scheme and button response I've ever seen and making your character perform the simplest of actions is an exercise in futility. Still might give both of them another shot sometime though. They are interesting, even if they both control and explain their gameplay functions about as well as Deadly Premonition.
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It's a minor complaint, but I wish the route planner had no range limitations in elite: dangerous. 1K LY is very generous, but if it can do 1K, I don't see why it couldn't do 10. Also being able to select objects from the system map screen would be nice.Austrian mook posted:You havent actually played the game ~Actually I did.~ Austrian mook posted:"Metal gear rising this ain't"
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ElGroucho posted:I also think that HR is too pretty in general. Even though I'm supposed to feel like society is on the downswing, the whole time I'm playing the game, I'm just thinking, "Man, the future is bad rear end." e;f;b. Sardonik has a new favorite as of 19:36 on Apr 10, 2015 |
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Mokinokaro posted:Send Thane! He's good in vents!
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