Elfface posted:

Honestly, I think most of my problems with Sera would be solved with a different actress. She's supposed to be whimsical, but her actress is clearly having trouble emoting while also doing her accent, so she comes across as speaking too slowly and kinda monotone... She basically seems brain-damaged or mentally retarded.

It's like Rita from Arrested Development, but none of the characters ever realise.

Horrible Smutbeast posted:

To be fair the game has the only non-important but still has a name and isn't a shopkeeper trans character explain MAGICAL SEX CHANGE SURGERY to the player. Why yes random friend, do inform me about your reasons for not wanting to transition as a trans person in this game about people cutting open their necks to summon meat monsters. The whole game's treatment of the trans issue is pretty baby's first tumblr post about trans rights.

Kalos posted:

In Topico 5 your second in command is named Penultimo.

Sleeveless posted:

I really can't wait until somebody makes a mod to remove all the backer content, both because it will improve the game and for more delicious buttery tears from the backers.

The Moon Monster posted:

They're bad but I think that one Star Ocean game with the pedo-bait cat girl has Abyss beat easy.

Slime posted:

Yuri is a great protagonist in a game that gets kind of weak the further you go along. The protagonist in the Tales games tends to be idealistic, with the rival characters tending towards a more pragmatic sort. In Tales of Vesperia, the protagonist takes that role instead. For instance, when a corrupt justice system lets a real nasty piece of work go free because of his money and connections, Yuri just straight up murders him.

The best character is still Repede, of course. Repede's loving awesome.

Johnny Aztec posted:

Glad I never played past the ps1 star ocean then!




_{behind us?!}

Sleeveless posted:

Screaming Idiot posted:

Anarchy Reigns is a huge, huge disappointment and I regret wasting money on the rental. But its sorta-predecessor MadWorld is absolutely lovely for one important reason: the running commentary. I would pay any amount of money to have John DiMaggio and Greg Proops comment on every game.

"I can tell you from experience that those Happy Pills work even better if you grind them up and inject them into the folds of your scrotum."
"I'll give you a dollar if you can tell me one thing that isn't better if you grind it up and inject it into the folds of your scrotum."
"Ha-haaah! You got me!"

Away all Goats posted:

In Killing Floor 2 if you press reload when you have full ammo your character will do a little animation to check if it's full. Like if its a pistol he slides the magazine out or pulls the slide back, if it's a break action shotgun he opens it slightly, etc.

Beastie posted:

Arkham Knight:
Batman does not kill people, it's his ethos or creed or whatever. That being said, if you check out the mangled and severely pummeled bodies of the guys on the ground after a fight, you can see that they are breathing very shallowly.

Calaveron posted:

I like to think they handed Kojima two concept art sheets, one with Quiet wearing a cool jury-rigged diver's suit full of water and meshes that like, enable oxygen absorption or something, all covered in moss and plants and stuff, and he loving loved it and was gonna implement it but then the second sheet just had titty Quiet and he quickly crumpled up the previous one and went with that

Gestalt Intellect posted:

I don't understand why so many people are obsessed with him, his games are sometimes weird in a good way but he's basically a horny teenager and can't resist making sure you know that all the time in his character designs.

graybook posted:

Visit Mother Base. Sprint into one of your soldiers, knocking him/her down.
"THANK YOU, SIR!"
Staff Morale Increased

SevenSocks posted:

N-thing Phantom Pain

I'm sure it was somewhere in the marketing for the game and I just never saw it, but I just found out that once your combat unit is established you can swap Big Boss out for any old dude in your combat group.

Cue going out on missions as

Silent Mastodon: Former spetsnaz commander


Also, little thing, since your run of the mill diamond dogs don't have a bionic arm like the Boss, certain actions are slightly different. The one I noticed is that instead of sparking electricity from your hand to lure enemies, your generic dude just cracks his knuckles with the unholy popping of a thousand broken bones.

Arx Monolith posted:

Are there limited missions? If so my brain would shut down trying to decide who gets what from a pool of limited experience.

Beastie posted:

I have not noticed that, are you sure it's not his bionic arm? I've noticed that is hooked up when he's airborne.

McDragon posted:

D-Dog grew up. Now he's like Koromaru if he was a spy with an eyepatch and riot gear. Poor Soviets just don't know what the gently caress when Big Boss and D-Dog attack together.

Also before that I did a mission taking out armored vehicles while on horseback with a bazooka and The Final Countdown blaring.

Also there was a mission where I got into a fight with a sniper. I took her out with a pair of artillery strikes.

Oh, and I got a mission I haven't tried yet to capture a "legendary bear".

Basically MSGV is amazing and wonderful once you start getting Mother Base set up. Or "Dog Hotel" as the emblem says.

Gann Jerrod posted:

The 2009 Ghostbusters game had a running counter of how much property damage you caused, with an achievement for staying under $100,000 worth of damages, and another for doing over $3,000,000.

Speaking of property damage and achievements, the Saints Row series has a minigame called Mayhem where the goal is to chain together the destruction of just about everything to reach a certain amount of money. In the first two games, the best strategy was to focus on fences, as each segment was separate and built up your chain bonus fast. Saint Row the Third pays homage to this by having the achievement for fully completing the Mayhem activity be called "Fence Killa 2011".

Sad lions posted:

The walker you get EVENTUALLY gets a launcher.

Anyone know if nuke development negatively affects relationships with allies? I just earned the Outer Heaven logo and suddenly I dream of greatness.

Polaron posted:

I love the new Ghost. He sounds so genuinely excited to be helping you.

"Hey, do you ever think we shouldn't have woken the Hive? But then we'd never have had such great times with those guys!"

John Murdoch posted:

In that particular case it was less about L4D2 being lovely (though there is a case to be made about L4D2 being not-that-great) and more about Valve immediately releasing a follow up one year later instead of supporting the original game in the same vein as TF2, which GabeN originally said they were going to do.

Thin Privilege posted:

MGSV: I was so grossed out and angry at first, and would have posted this in the worst thing in games thread but the Ocelot model swap mod video has now made it my favorite thing the rain scene

Brain In A Jar posted:

The main storyline writing in Guild Wars 2 is terrible, but the incidental dialogue team deserves an award for their work. Everywhere you go, there's these pointless little conversations between NPCs that are fully voice acted. They serve absolutely no mechanical purpose beyond being kind of entertaining, but they're really good at making the world feel alive when the devs could have just copped out and filled towns with a bunch of generic NPCs who say nothing.

Even when major changes take place (like a whole town getting destroyed and rebuilt) the writers dutifully come up with new dialogue for dozens of NPCs and have them all recorded and voice acted. It's really charming and is one of the things that makes GW2 an engaging game to play.