flatluigi posted:

the best way to play tony hawk games is on pc

http://thugpro.com/

Der Kyhe posted:

I really, really, like the change from the sometimes stupidly strict deadlines and manic running around where you always have too little time to actually explore the places and find most of the more tucked away stuff to the "dick around as much as you want"-approach. Only thing I sort of miss are the survivors I have to escort back. There map looks and feels nice, all stores and locations have something interesting in them and I can just blow away hour or so just collecting stuff and finding new ways to kill zombies.

RGX posted:

Just put my first eight hours or so into Dragon Age Inquisition with a two handed main and I'm a little bit in love with the sledgehammer, it has a super satisfying amount of heft. I think a lot of it is down to the excellent sound design, I'm playing it with an old pair of studio headphones that are very well balanced and the combat noises are really chunky, great soundtrack too.

What isn't cool is the terrible SSAO implementation. I spent the first few hours wondering why it was running so terribly until I turned it off, literally gained 20-30 fps and now I can max out all the other settings, game looks great and stays in the 50/60fps range 90% of the time. What a terribly broken bit of coding.

Len posted:

As someone who recently started ff14 Jesus Christ is it slow.

The main story isn't even collect bear asses it's walk from point a to point b and back again.

Len posted:

When's that supposed to drop? Because good God this is just bad. But I'm sticking it out because I feel like I'm moving at a good pace through it? Almost level 30

Rigged Death Trap posted:

Joke suggestion: 40k simulated wargame but with you get units through gacha

Nuebot posted:

It's an even bigger contrast - just because you brought up the arena scenes and it reminded me right away - when Haseo first joins the arena he literally wants to cheat just so he can win. He doesn't even want to play fair, he wants to use his special anime powers to bullshit it all so he can go fight the guy who called him a loser and then cheat to beat him, too. He's down for being an rear end in a top hat just so he can say he's the strongest person in an MMO; but by the time you reach the third game he's absolutely not someone who would want to do that poo poo.

Tiggum posted:

GOoH is the best one. Yeah, it's short, but it was also way cheaper than the others . The side activities are the best bits anyway. I will say though, the price of unlocking stuff is stupidly high. You can finish everything in the game and still not even come close to accessing everything.

SR2 is the best one, except that it's barely functional and extremely dated. But if you can get past those issues it's still super fun and has the best story and characters.

SR4 is really funny and great to play once. After that, you've seen all the set pieces and heard all the jokes and the flaws stand out a lot more. The radio gets super repetitive, the wardens get in the way of the fun, there are some really tedious missions to get through and the powers and weapons just aren't that great once the novelty wears off.

SR3 improves a lot of the gameplay from 2, but the story and tone are all over the place and there are some really awful characters (eg. Zimos ) and plot points. It also has the same issue as 4 where the jokes and set pieces are a chore to sit through the second time around. And it's sort of a weird halfway between 2 and 4 thing where it's not really sure what kind of game it's even trying to be. It's the only game in the series (other than the first, which I've never played) that I just wouldn't recommend at all.

The original Saints Row you can watch on YouTube and then you'll get the callbacks and references in SR4.

Smirking_Serpent posted:

reminds me of Asura's Wrath, which I think was made by the same developer. In the final fight, you do your QTEs, and you overwhelm the boss so much that you see him failing his own QTEs.

Push El Burrito posted:

In Avengers when you get Captain America back every room he goes to he puts his hand on the scanner and walks on in. Except Kamala's, he knocks on her door

exquisite tea posted:

Don Gato posted:

There was more than just an opening cutscene spread over 3 games?

Son of Rodney posted:

Again with ac odyssey, my main strategy for difficult forts above my level is to sneak around, backstab people, and then lure them on top of something to spartan kick them off. The fact that spartan kicking is actually a skill shows that the devs actually want this to work. It's so satisfying to kick someone off and see the huge damage this does.

The fact that i have to use a tactic like this instead of choosing it, is however an unfortunate consequence of the worst decision the series had ever done, the leveling system. But that's for the things ths tbother you thread.

My Lovely Horse posted:

I just out of nowhere remembered the pappapishu bush in Monkey Island 3 and it's all I can do not to burst out laughing at work

Necrothatcher posted:

It's not really IN a game, but I'm replaying Snatcher on Mega CD and there's a site that adds achievements to retro games that features it. It's a really fun list of stuff to do!

https://retroachievements.org/game/10067

TooMuchAbstraction posted:

Right, it's been there from the beginning but it was pretty easy to ignore up until relatively recently. That's all I was trying to say.

RareAcumen posted:

I don't have a ton of experience with Metroid games- I never played Samus Returns to be honest- does she ever talk or have any dialogue at all besides Fusion and Other M? Aside from Prime 3, the Metroid series is pretty cast light franchise as far as I know so she doesn't do a lot of talking to people or even her self as far as I know.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

There's a gag where the little girl gets Blade Wolf to shake, and Raiden fails at it and briefly goes Ripper Mode because of it

ImpAtom posted:

Hair is one of those things that is incredibly hard to model well especially realistically, and usually the amount of time and effort needed to make hair look good is not remotely even with the actual benefit of it.

Dewgy posted:

Similar note, I love that the AI system in the original game is so fickle that a decent group with guns and a waypoint to go for turns into a nigh unstoppable death squad somehow.

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

That's genuinely the hardest fight in the game if I'm thinking about the right one. Lead some mercenaries into it

NoneMoreNegative posted:

I think that's Pig #1 you're talking about with the mini-pigs who blindside you FFUUCCK OOFFF

If so, you really won't like Pig #2 (but it's fine, it has no add helpers)

Cythereal posted:

I feel that when Odyssey is good, it's really good.

Just, shame about the other 90% of the game. And the absolutely reprehensible DLC that goes out of its way to butcher Kassandra's character.

rydiafan posted:

Were you all about the "pride and accomplishment" you felt unlocking Vader in Battlefront 2?

The games with experienced boosters aren't fine as is and the boosters are a way to play them faster. They are slow as is and the boosters are a way to pay to play them normal. And I know this is a fact, because whenever they remove things like experience boosters they always have to rebalance the game to account for that. If the game was fine without experience boosters in the first place why do they need to rebalance it when they remove the experience booster? See Shadow of War and the aforementioned Battlefront.

SubNat posted:

Sorry to burst your bubble, but this is just because their renderer isn't able to render the depth-of-field/out of focus blur through transparent objects.
If you keep an eye out you'll see it regularly happen with drinking glasses and the like as well, it's just rare for transparent/glass objects to be super obvious in a scene that also uses a high amount of background blurring.

Also to hop back like 2 decades, I've recently been playing a bit of a Chrono Trigger randomizer run, and I still really appreciate all the little things that go into the courtroom scene early on in the game.
(The game keeps track of a couple small things you do in the prologue of the game, and the things you do get used against you to prove your character in a courtroom scene where you're accused of kidnapping the princess.
You can end up with the court declaring you not-guilty, but the guy that accused you will doctor your case to set up an execution regardless, because their criminal system is horrid and backwards. )

It very much is a game of a lot of small, neat things, and I'd kind of forgotten most of them since it's been over a decade+ since the last time I played it.

oldpainless posted:

Two pages ago but someone was talking about Kimahri from FFX and I would just like to ask that we refer to him by his full name of Kimahri Ronso.

Len posted:

Pretty sure the narrator is the same as dungeon keeper

Edit: it is https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0725956/filmotype/actor?ref_=m_nmfm_1

Mierenneuker posted:

Tecmo's Deception series.

When I played through the original Evil Genius I barely used traps, because the good guys would be absolutely enthralled by locked doors. You could have two corridors at the entrance of your base and if one of them was high security locked door after locked door it would keep invading forces absolutely focused on trying to get in that way.

Gaius Marius posted:

Tbh that's pretty on brand for Trevor

SodomyGoat101 posted:

Really more of a puckish rogue, I'd say.

flatluigi posted:

i don't really want them to do bully 2 because bully 1 benefitted a lot from the limited scope and also from being focused on a lovely, rebellious teen. given how bad and out of date GTA's politics continue to be i'd easily imagine jimmy going from a guy who gives presents to his five boyfriends to a terrible adult who drops gay and transphobic slurs b/c he hates he was like that as a kid

Gay Rat Wedding posted:

there are criminally few cowboy games in general. There’s what, RDR2, hunt showdown, and a scattering of indie games most of which no one has heard of?

Jeza posted:

Yeah, it's probably the only halfway believable romance in a game I've played. Witcher 3 gets touted for being amazing for a lot of reasons, but the transcreation/adaptation writing teams (at least for English, no idea elsewhere) did an incredible job. You'd never know it wasn't written from the ground up in English, honestly. And the voicework helps to nail it, too.

TooMuchAbstraction posted:

In Going Under, one of the perks you can equip at the start of runs is a credit card, which allows you to buy items you don't have enough money for, in exchange for going into debt. Debt is represented by shackling you to an iron ball, whose size is proportionate to the amount you owe. The iron ball drags behind you when you run, slowing you down, but you can also pick it up and use it as a weapon...and there's some set of conditions I haven't fully sussed out yet where it'll automatically attack enemies for a bit. It's a neat game mechanic, especially when a run's gradually going poorly and you have an incentive to go way deeper into debt to buy healing items to stay alive a little longer...

(the whole thing is of course a big reference to the punishment system in NetHack, which similarly attached you to a ball and chain which limited your movement and could be thrown at enemies)