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In Guild Wars 2 the primary trade hub city was recently destroyed, and is slowly being rebuilt. While running around I noticed a guard yelling that a nearby Sylvari should be hauled in just for the "crime" of being the same race as the big bad evil chick who blew up the town. The other guard was trying to calm the first down; the whole situation was unexpected and very neat to see, in a small corner of the map far away from shops and other points of interest. I always love the little details like that with which ArenaNet peppers their games.
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Because of this thread I started playing Fallout 2 with 1 Luck and the perk that makes everyone else critically fumble too. This is going to be one interesting first playthrough of the game. Any other interesting things I should try, going into it blind?
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I figure by playing a punch-robot I wouldn't have to deal with the critical fumbles in any disastrous way. Maybe I'll restart with Int 1 as well just for a lark.
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Calaveron posted:Off the top of my head I can think of three games that do that; Paper Mario, Okami and of course, Earthbound. Final Fantasy II / IV does as well and it's awesome
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This is the stupidest little thing, but it's a feature I wish were in every RPG I play – In Pillars of Eternity each savegame, including autosaves, is grouped by character so if you start over you don't risk overwriting old saves. That was a nice change of pace when wanting to play through the game as different classes or with alternate story choices, without having to hunt down and remember which save was which or for what character. The game has a number of little things like that many of which were already talked about in this thread, but this one was a very pleasant surprise for me.
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Playing DOOM and I'm really enjoying how self-aware it is. I just beat the Cyberdemon and the achievement for doing so had me in stitches Reference: 
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swamp waste posted:This makes me sad for some reason. Why is everything a Joss Whedon reboot of itself When the vast majority of call-backs are in the names of achievements and in the off-the-path hidden collectables, without hitting you over the face with "hey remember when?" it's much more palatable. Many of the classic old demons/enemies are still there, but often with new takes on them. The old storyline of "gateway to Hell opens, bad things ensue" is very much in the forefront of the entire series, but I also enjoy how fleshed-out this one feels if you read the optional data logs and info codexes. I think the self-reference adds things for those who were fans of the original, and doesn't detract from those who weren't, a balance that's often difficult to achieve.
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May 28, 2016 23:16
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As a Bay Area resident Watch_Dogs 2 has a lot of little things. Today I noticed that, while usually you hear news reports of your various exploits over the radio, if you're near a TV set the program actually breaks away to show a newscaster – whose eyes are obviously tracking the words on the TelePrompter as they speak. A very cool little detail for something I think most people wouldn't ever encounter.
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Feb 10, 2017 05:20
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I had actually only been doing side missions for my gameplay to this point; I just did a main story mission and it did pop up. Less cool, but still neat.
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NonzeroCircle posted:Picked up Dying Light, I love how sick of everything Crane sounds all the time. I just picked this up also and am doing Co-op with a buddy. I really like how well-integrated the climb/jump mechanics are integrated, and that almost every situation is an opportunity to take four or five different possible routes. Very amusing how quickly Crane went from "sure, what do you need" to "goddamnit now what" when someone asks him for help.
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Jun 29, 2017 08:01
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There is however little I've found more satisfying than slide-tackling the undead while running past/through them
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Jun 29, 2017 23:55
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In Quake Champions explosions from the rocket launcher are red and fiery as one should expect. For those very rare times one detonates against a (blue) teleporter however, the explosion sort of fizzles into blue mist. A neat little detail I enjoyed in a game about shooting people.
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Sep 6, 2017 02:29
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Strom Cuzewon posted:More games need unnecesary emote buttons - Oddworld's farting, Transistor's humming, all the dark souls bullshit. I love all of it. In Earthbound there's a dedicated button to ringing a bicycle bell (most people will not ride a bicycle)
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Sep 9, 2018 09:06
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I'm playing through The Cave and it cracked me up that an emergency alert announcement declared code "0451" during the Scientist's section. In a game with no keycodes or passwords, it was still really fun to see that nod creatively added in. See games like Deus Ex, Fallout, Thief, System Shock, and many others
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Oct 29, 2018 08:42
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I'm about 200 pages late for Metal Gar Solid V chat, but I've really been enjoying the gameplay since picking it up last month and today noticed a nice little touch that I appreciated. Quiet, the sniper buddy you can take with you on missions, is typically hidden up on high vantage points or on faraway hills, providing cover fire for when a mission goes pear-shaped. That means she's rarely near you, particularly when looking down the sights of her rifle. Carrying a wounded prisoner through the jungle toward the escape chopper, I noticed that she would faithfully lower her rifle if I stood in her line of fire. Just a little tiny thing that I could easily imagine having been ignored or skipped in most games, but I appreciated here.
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Aug 4, 2019 12:13
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Clam Chowdown posted:My favorite part of MGSV was beating the poo poo out of the four soldiers that are always there to greet you on the helipad when you return to base before doing whatever I went there to do. "Thank you Boss!"
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Aug 10, 2019 08:10
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A buddy and I are playing through co-op and our regular routine is to spawn at a base and he grabs the intel while I spawn a chopper. We’re starting to run out of new things to find, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how much stuff there is in the map.
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Oct 29, 2021 18:12
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Captain Hygiene posted:Far Cry 6 had a sidequest(s?) with actor/taco chef Danny Trejo, and it's pretty funny, but also kind of right at the tipping point where it's winning at the camera just a bit too much. But then, your reward is his gatling gun-mounted motorcycle, and it's the best thing ever For anyone not familiar, this isn’t just a character voiced and modeled after Danny Trejo, canonically it’s actually Danny Trejo himself.
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Fingerless Gloves posted:In Rogue Legacy 2 there are challenge rooms with chests that only open if you, say, take no damage. There's a room with spikes you have to jump in between to reach the chest. It's a nice simple one compared to some of the others you can get. My favorite part of RL2 is the chef. Not only do they light things on fire with every swing, look how darn happy they are doing it! It seriously makes me smile seeing a character having so much fun. 
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May 5, 2022 02:30
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The Let’s Game it Out guy has a whole YouTube series about messing with the cooking simulator games and what the physics engine will let you get away with
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I’m finally getting around to playing Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey and it’s my first AC game. There are a lot of little things to enjoy but several of my favorites include:
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Any conversation around game passwords wouldn’t be complete without a mention of River City Ransom (Yes that’s 6733 possible combinations)
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That’s actually very useful in speed runs as it can push you into walls and out of bounds (same with glory kills)
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Cythereal posted:So many lives could be saved if people remembered to check their pools for giant, mutant sharks. Did they ever add in the option to invert controls?
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