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I'm at the point of no return in Arc Twilight of the Spirits (not actually in the dungeon yet, grinding for money for better equipment first) and so far the biggest cliche that I was expecting to happen hasn't happened, because neither Kharg not Darc or anyone in their respective parties has learned a drat thing which is very interesting. They have both been told that their mutual hatred for one another's people is going to wake up a bigger baddie that will kill everything, and yet the only reason the game doesn't end with a genocide, or hasn't yet, is that that bigger baddie took away the weapon they were planning on doing it with and is about to turn it on both sets of people. Every time they learn something new that should recontextualise their existence and give them something to think about, they just turn it on each other as reasons it's "Their fault!" so the whole story is just this scene from Into the Woods for 30 hours (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUb64O-BIsE), and everyone's now about to get eaten by the metaphorical giants. I will be fair in that some characters have very genuine hang ups about one another that they shouldn't have to be expected to forgive because actual crimes were committed, but the overall picture still completely eludes them. BioEnchanted has a new favorite as of 18:38 on Apr 26, 2024 |
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I was just backgrounding the Syphon Filter series LPs while doing other stuff.  Did make me wanna replay them though, I rented 1 and 2 from blockbuster what must have been a dozen times each as a teen.Marcade posted:That taser went on to have a long career as a T-Zero enforcer. YOU HAVE UNLOCKED
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BioEnchanted posted:
That sounds like the most realistic reaction to being told things I've ever heard.
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Apr 26, 2024 21:20
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I'm just happy Bio is playing a game I own. He didn't wish a game into being this time around.
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Apr 26, 2024 21:25
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I'm at the point where they finally learned the lesson, because the final dungeon shuffled the parties so they were forced to fight together. They still have bad blood individually, but they've gotten over themselves enough to ignore it for the sake of their common goal. Very satisfying to have the full list of characters in one menu now.
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Apr 26, 2024 22:19
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Marcade posted:I'm just happy Bio is playing a game I own. He didn't wish a game into being this time around. You didn’t own it until he mentioned it, and then you had always owned it.
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...in that case, any chance you could start playing Dark Cloud 3, Bio?
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Marcade posted:...in that case, any chance you could start playing Dark Cloud 3, Bio? That's basically Dragon Quest Builders TBH. Those games are practically Dark Cloud meets Minecraft as you build each town to certain characters specifications and then attract more characters as you do so.
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BioEnchanted posted:I'm at the point of no return in Arc Twilight of the Spirits (not actually in the dungeon yet, grinding for money for better equipment first) and so far the biggest cliche that I was expecting to happen hasn't happened, because neither Kharg not Darc or anyone in their respective parties has learned a drat thing which is very interesting. 
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Idiootti posted:Also the engine was crazy optimized, my shitbox computer from 2010 ran it at 60 fps. Sad that the engine was never really used for more. I know there was some leftover world editing tools in the game but did anyone ever reverse engineer it so you could make new maps and missions?
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The first thing you'd need to reimplement is the feature where you could add any mod to any weapon. Silencers on grenades, a gun on top of another gun, etc.
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I wish full weapons customization was back, but I haven't seen it on the mod sites. The most extensive mod I've seen on the mission design side is a big pack of side op missions. It doesn't actually change the game world, though, it's more just a bunch of simple "rescue people/things" objectives where they sprinkled in a bunch of more elite enemies with high end gear.
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Necrothatcher posted:Im playing Silent Hill 3 for the first time and Heather Mason is a great main character. The non-voiced environmental observations manage to be funny, believably American teen, and not break the scary atmosphere.
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There was talk earlier about games looking good years after release and I want to add the Resident Evil Remake to the list. It’s over 20 years old and still looks fantastic, in my opinion
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Yes that’s correct. The game is old enough to drink. Many of you who were alive when it first released are long dead
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oldpainless posted:Yes that’s correct. The game is old enough to drink. Many of you who were alive when it first released are long dead It's true.
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Bussamove posted:You didn’t own it until he mentioned it, and then you had always owned it. Bioenchanted went inside the Sphere at some point, makes sense
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oldpainless posted:There was talk earlier about games looking good years after release and I want to add the Resident Evil Remake to the list. It’s over 20 years old and still looks fantastic, in my opinion The pinnacle of pre-rendered backgrounds, for sure.
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Zero might actually edge it out at least for the train section. The game is much worse to play though. Parasite Eve II also has some pretty stunning bg's for a PS1 game
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Playing Jedi dress up with Cal in Jedi Survivor is fun. Something else I thought was fun was how when you open up a chest the animation can change. Empty handed Cal will just open it up normally but if you have your lightsaber out he'll slash it open.
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oldpainless posted:Yes that’s correct. The game is old enough to drink. Many of you who were alive when it first released are long dead I fuckin wish
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  Just finished up Steamworld Dig, great game for $0.89
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Hirayuki posted:Thanks! I translated the non-voiced stuff, and this reaction is a particularly flattering one. wait...you translated the text? In 2003? Like legit worked on the localization team?
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Shard posted:wait...you translated the text? In 2003? Like legit worked on the localization team? 
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Hirayuki posted:Yeah, Jeremy Blaustein did the voiced stuff and I did the unvoiced--and the song lyrics. There were a couple of bits of flavor text that got added at some point that Jeremy handled, but otherwise, it was me. I was only 24 at the time, so I guess I still had a good handle on a teen girl's voice. This rules. How did you feel about "It's bread." becoming a weird emoji in that crappy Ascension game?
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Hirayuki posted:Yeah, Jeremy Blaustein did the voiced stuff and I did the unvoiced--and the song lyrics. There were a couple of bits of flavor text that got added at some point that Jeremy handled, but otherwise, it was me. I was only 24 at the time, so I guess I still had a good handle on a teen girl's voice. That's so cool! I was 17 at the time so the exact same age as Heather in the game and yeah her inner voice was really spot on. My favorite's "The lock is broken. I can't open the door."
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Hirayuki posted:Yeah, Jeremy Blaustein did the voiced stuff and I did the unvoiced--and the song lyrics. There were a couple of bits of flavor text that got added at some point that Jeremy handled, but otherwise, it was me. I was only 24 at the time, so I guess I still had a good handle on a teen girl's voice. holy poo poo awesome job. That game rules. I love Heather's characterization in the game. She is like this perfect balance of snarky teen, but also kinda dumb, and less scared and more pissed off which fits her arc through the game.
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A really goofy thing about Jedi Survivor is that they took the gay reaction alien design from Rise of Skywalker and made him gay. They did a similar thing with Fallen Order where Cal's master is training him and tells him to do something "faster and more intense"
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muscles like this! posted:A really goofy thing about Jedi Survivor is that they took the gay reaction alien design from Rise of Skywalker and made him gay. what
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They did a similar thing with Fallen Order where Cal's master is training him and tells him to do something "faster and more intense"
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 It's a tumblr thing for when you want to indicate you're posting these two characters in a "they fuckin" way and not just a generic posting way.
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muscles like this! posted:A really goofy thing about Jedi Survivor is that they took the gay reaction alien design from Rise of Skywalker and made him gay. I thought you meant Turgle the speedo-wearing frog alien, who you save early on in a cutscene and who literally cartwheels off in the background, while you're facing off to some bad guy. I was in tears. Turgle owns. Jedi survivor owns real bad actually. Game pass continues to be the sole light in my life. I'm really enjoying exploring and finding parts for BD-1, who I love so much.
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Kitfox88 posted:Yeah, absolutely incredible glow up and still not enough. Every single franchise with fights needs a Dynasty Warriors game. Persona got a Dynasty Warriors and it loving rules. They made a stealth game with RPG encounters a DW style brawler with Persona's particular magic system, and somehow it works. It brought me into the W Omega Force fold after playing the 1-on-1 DW game and beating it with the same move over and over again left a bad taste over 20 years prior. Don't know why I have such a clear memory of that, but i can remember the exact chopping move, too.
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Thanks, everyone--I had a great time working on SH3 (it was my first game as a freelancer), and I'm glad people are still remembering and enjoying it more than twenty years later.Necrothatcher posted:This rules. How did you feel about "It's bread." becoming a weird emoji in that crappy Ascension game?
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OutOfPrint posted:Persona got a Dynasty Warriors and it loving rules. They made a stealth game with RPG encounters a DW style brawler with Persona's particular magic system, and somehow it works. It's funny, Persona 5 Strikers was fun and all but what really stuck with me was the road-trip-with-friends plot. It came out as the pandemic was starting to really wear on my psyche and making me feel isolated, especially after the omicron strain started getting all over the place and being able to take a trip with friends in a video game, fighting evil and injustice aside, was the absolute perfect pleasant escapism. I'm not likely to forget that element of the game anytime soon.
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Morpheus posted:It's funny, Persona 5 Strikers was fun and all but what really stuck with me was the road-trip-with-friends plot. It came out as the pandemic was starting to really wear on my psyche and making me feel isolated, especially after the omicron strain started getting all over the place and being able to take a trip with friends in a video game, fighting evil and injustice aside, was the absolute perfect pleasant escapism. I'm not likely to forget that element of the game anytime soon. I think Yahtzee said it has that odd vibe of being a road trip with friends, since it takes place after the original game as basically filler where the characters have all done their arcs and such and are just friends hanging out and solving mysteries with a talking cat and probably a van. I also can't help but picture it as a soccer game from the title now.
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 It may have taken eight goddamn years for the protagonist faction of the Total Warhammer series to get a playable female character, but at least she's a badass at that, being a gothic archmage of death leading an army comprised of perhaps the most brutal guns, artillery, and war machines in the setting.
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I got drunk and bought dragons dogma 2 on a whim this weekend and it seems delightfully janky My pawn high fived my character after a particularly tough encounter, GOAT
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