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There are waaaay too few games nowadays that go after the same slow, deliberate worldbuilding-based puzzle solving that the Myst series did and I'm surprised that after this long nobody's put out a series trying to emulate it. Riven's still one of my all-time favorite games and it kills me that I can't play more like it.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I really wish they'd port this to PC. I play my 360 less and less nowadays, slowly transitioning over to Steam and goddamn if this isn't the top console exclusive for me. The codebase is apparently really badly held together and fragmented to the point where a port of the game would require as much effort as programming an entirely new game, so it's pretty much out the window. Though, with the new consoles, I could see them finally putting in the effort. I wouldn't hold my breath though.
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Haruharuharuko posted:The reload animation for the rocket launcher in Battlefield Hardline Aren't there a bunch of rare reload animations like that? I saw one gif where a third hand gives you a new clipazine and another where you use the force to put it in your gun. edit: apparently BF4 had them too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXc6nKFdReQ flatluigi has a new favorite as of 05:50 on Feb 5, 2015 |
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Deadly Premonition is a game that's full of really great little details, it's a hell of a thing. I wish playing it was a bit better, but it's definitely tolerable enough to get a lot out of the game. The best way to experience it is probably SGF'S LP of it: https://archive.org/details/LP_Deadly_Premonition
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Feb 6, 2015 06:56
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Gestalt Intellect posted:In battlefield hardline there are alternate reload animations that will rarely play. They are incredible. I really like how the guy in the second one turns around to try to find the guy that handed him the ammo
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Feb 6, 2015 11:11
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My favorite little thing about games is how even with multiple dedicated threads to hating on games, the one dedicated to neat things people like ends up getting derailed by more dumb arguments
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Feb 17, 2015 07:34
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CJacobs posted:Every time I make a post like that and don't include that I am also gay people respond with "SO YOU HATE GAY PEOPLE IN VIDEO GAMES I SEE HOW IT IS YOU GROSS BIGOT" because they're loving retards who don't use their brains, so it was a necessary inclusion You probably shouldn't post like you're morally against anything like that being in games then
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Mar 1, 2015 14:37
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Tiggum posted:He didn't though? If you take out the thirty times he said he was gay it's a lot of "games never do this right and should never do it because it's always awful and nobody cares if it's in a game and it's always for brownie points" etc etc etc. Flipping out about it existing is a good way for people to mistake you for someone who flips out about it existing, shockingly Signed, a gay dude who likes seeing representation in videogames
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Mar 1, 2015 14:44
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CJacobs posted:You're an idiot. Dude apparently people have blown up at you multiple times for the same thing where you felt you had to preload your excuse into your argument, maybe you should focus instead more on why people blow up at your argument. Makes sense to me! Anyway, to bring it back onto the subject of the thread, I'm always a fan of when LGBT stuff is treated well in games, and I felt that The Last of Us did this really well. Bill was a good character and I felt that the introduction of Frank was a decently subtle way to introduce it (even though it centered around Frank being dead which happens way too often) -- but the part I really liked was in the DLC, where not only did they do a fantastic bit of storytelling with Ellie and Riley getting close and forming a relationship but it's probably the first time I've played an AAA game with a main, playable character that is gay and is treated well. It's still really few and far between when that happens, and I have hope more comes around in the future.
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The Sezza posted:Fwiw, here is an article about the character in question and the process of writing him. I think it all sounds pretty reasonable. Yeah, I've read this article before and it's a really good one. I'd recommend people read it! Tiggum posted:I read it as "When a character is made explicitly gay for no reason other than to show how progressive the writer is and it's not actually relevant to the plot or character development, it comes across as pandering, and I hate that." And I agree entirely with that. If you're writing a story and decide that it's dumb to pretend gay people don't exist so you make some of the characters gay, that's fine, commendable even. If you then have those characters go "HEY LOOK EVERYONE, I'M GAY AND THAT'S TOTALLY FINE!" then you're being obnoxious and should cut it out. I was reading a lot of "it never occurs in games unless it's for showing off how progressive the writer is" between calling it "pandering" and talking about all the straight people applauding for it. It's a really cynical way to look at it and kind of patently false given what I knew of the development of the character in question + just in general following development of a lot of games. flatluigi has a new favorite as of 14:59 on Mar 1, 2015 |
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I'd imagine that a millennia-long pair of factions might have times where some people in the faction weren't unambiguously good or evil, but that's just me.
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Mar 10, 2015 00:36
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Deadly Premonition is a great game.
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She just cut that other woman's feet off at the ankles
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FredMSloniker posted:Wait, someone gave Fallout 4 a two out of five? I thought it'd get at least three stars just for not being Bad Rats or Big Rigs or some other game with the initials BR that's really terrible. There isn't a single review on metacritic for any platform under 3/5.
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Nov 26, 2015 22:49
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Slime posted:Professional reviews are basically worthless. Odds are that the vast majority of them were bought off, either with money or threats of not giving them review copies and poo poo in the future. Your tinfoil hat is on a bit tight there dude
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Nov 27, 2015 00:02
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For all the faults that series has had over the years, the interesting NPCs are definitely not one of them. There's a random line you get in AC2 when you're parkouring around the rooftops where a guy remarks "He must be late - and she must be beautiful" and it's probably my favorite piece of random chatter ever
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Dec 5, 2015 16:45
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Plus, webms load a lot faster and look a lot smoother than gifs. It's just a good thing to do all around now, no need to get defensive.
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Feb 5, 2016 12:42
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I'm pretty sure the D3 stuff is completely unrelated to Last of Us other than being zombies. Especially since it came out a year before that game. Also Last of Us' ending is fine, it's just one of many pieces of media where the protagonist is a lovely person or makes awful decisions and people make the mistake of assuming they have to agree with everything the protag does just because they partially identify with them. Like Breaking Bad.
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Feb 6, 2016 04:34
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Does it really? That's weird.
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Feb 6, 2016 05:21
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If your game has a ton of collectibles, there absolutely should be an unlockable way to put the ones you're missing on your map at some point. I've been too spoiled by it in the games that include it!
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Feb 23, 2016 14:19
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Here's some clips from the Superhot thread: https://killstagram.com/s/HelplessAdmirableMantisLeafhopper https://killstagram.com/s/OrderlyGorgeousOchreMastodon https://killstagram.com/s/HighlevelInsidiousXanaduElephant (I don't know how to switch from the videos to MP4s to embed them)
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Mar 3, 2016 05:44
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It definitely used to just have mp4s/webms on the page you could grab, I wonder if they changed it for bandwidth reasons or something
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Mar 3, 2016 05:48
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Cleretic posted:And the voice acting for it is all low-bitrate short lines, delivered shittily. That was, according to the devs, a fun day in the recording studio. "Okay, say that again, but worse please."
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Mar 10, 2016 23:46
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Yeah, that's funnier than I expected it to be.
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Mar 11, 2016 21:44
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If only The Walking Dead let Clementine make fart jokes it would've been a much more successful game, really.
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Mar 12, 2016 01:28
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Digirat posted:I've yet to find a game that didn't work better in borderless windowed than it did in fullscreen. I'm not sure why borderless windowed isn't the default more often. You can run into microstuttering and other performance issues with windowed modes compared to fullscreen quite often, unfortunately.
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Mar 13, 2016 02:04
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FredMSloniker posted:At least one of the Harvest Moon games did something almost identical, except you saved when you slept. What made it almost identical is that, after saving, it would immediately start the next day. That's what Stardew does.
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Mar 15, 2016 06:00
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Spoiler tags hurt nobody so there's no reason to not just always err on the side of being careful, imo
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Mar 20, 2016 07:37
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poptart_fairy posted:I hope the use of a barely legal lesbian teen running off with her much older, socially irresponsible adult girlfriend is deliberate in this context. They're the same age and were in school together iirc edit: yeah Lonnie was in the JROTC which is specifically for people under 18
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Mar 25, 2016 13:57
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TomViolence posted:For those of you who are wondering, I was making a reference to Olaf the Stout's post with my terrible thread title joke. A joke that literally nobody got, because they rightly decided not to pay any mind to the slapfight I was referring to. Ho hum. Doing humour on this comedy forum is hard sometimes. IDK, this post is pretty hilarious so you're doing something right
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Mar 25, 2016 15:26
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Pretty sure that isn't in Bully either.
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Mar 26, 2016 23:42
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Yeah, but I still don't understand that subplot.
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Mar 27, 2016 00:02
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I'm pretty sure she's never been a game dev on anything so idk what you're ironicating about
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Apr 8, 2016 18:10
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She voices a lot of things these days which is cool as someone who used to watch HAWP pretty often. I had no idea she played Chloe in Life is Strange until I was looking up things after the fact. Ms Pauling in TF2, too!
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Apr 8, 2016 18:16
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In one of the single-player adventures in Hearthstone there's a thief boss whose gimmick the first time you fight him is that he steals the deck you built to fight against him and uses it against you (and you have a middling deck provided for you instead). This is pretty unique, and obviously leads to you building as lovely of a deck as you can for him to play so you can win. He has just two special quotes for the fight: - if you bring an all-golden deck (think foils/holographic cards in physical decks, basically a cosmetic upgrade that requires a lot of time/money), he's really surprised and says your collection rivals his own - but if you put a magma rager in, he heckles you for doing so.
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Apr 21, 2016 19:37
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They actually said "read up on" which is an idiom generally meaning "get informed on" but you go on and try to score them discourse points buddy
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May 7, 2016 06:12
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Alteisen is one of those people who legit rages against The SJW Scourge so pay negative attention to their posts imo For content: I've been playing Overwatch and one of a ton of things I like about it is that it has separate options for joining voice chat/group chat/team chat so I can set it to auto-mute team chat and auto-join group chat so I can just bullshit with the friends I'm playing with without having to fiddle with everything.
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Jun 2, 2016 06:12
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CJacobs posted:Overwatch also has a built-in thing where enemy-made sounds (footsteps, vocalizations, picking up health kits etc) are louder than your teammates' which is cool. Possibly the most debilitating part of getting hacked by Sombra is that she muffles your audio and turns off all directionality until it ends
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BioEnchanted we're all very worried about you and we hope you start playing actually decent games everyone's heard of sometime in 2017
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chernobyl kinsman posted:i genuinely don't understand how people can derive enjoyment from games that combine the UI simplicity of the International Space Station with the graphical prowess of the playstation 2 90% of that UI is addons that the player installed to get more information more readily at the cost of clutter
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