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Bismack Billabongo posted:In Pokémon sun and moon you can summon Pokémon helpers to ride or work with in over world traversal situations. You can summon a Machamp to push boulders around and it carries you in two of its arms while using the other two for pushing stuff. It is very funny to watch the PC just flop around leisurely. There's a weird scene with a woman visiting her husband's grave... while being carried by a Machamp like that. I think she is wearing the ride outfit as well.
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Shin Megami Tensei IV starts you as a samurai recruit in the kingdom of Mikado. But, spoiler alert: it doesn't take long before you are in a demon infested Tokyo, the main stomping ground of the series. While exploring you can regularly find green icons which you can interact with to find some "relics". If you visit a merchant these will be automatically sold to earn some cash. If you look at your inventory there is a tab that lists the relics you are currently holding. The names tell the player exactly what is being carried, but the descriptions are from the perspective of your samurai. Frequently they just make a guess at what they are lugging around. A memory card could be a dragon scale, a CD is a handheld mirror, a necktie is a belt that is too short, coins are eloberate brooches and a BBQ stove is an unreliable bookrest.
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At one point I picked up one of those history relics and afterwards instantly went for some dog chow to refill my health. I like how Max's reaction to that relic didn't play until he was digging in.
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muscles like this! posted:Orson Scott Card wasn't involved with Alter Echo, that was Advent Rising. And I think he was hired to punch up the dialogue, but they pretty much made it sound like he contributed to the story. The whole marketing for that game was pretty hilarious in hindsight: - The website for the URL was adventtrilogy dot com. Very ambitious. They didn't even get the PSP spin-off (Advent Shadow) out of the door! - They made sure that previews would mention that the game offered noteworthy choices: do you save your girlfriend or your brother? But that was the only choice and one that didn't really matter that long, because they both end up dying. - A million dollar contest via Xbox Live!... that they cancelled before the halfway point because of technical issues. Maybe that was genuine, but the game sold badly so you just think that was an excuse. I actually enjoyed the game though. I originally owned it on Xbox and later bought it for PC, although each at 10 bucks or less. Hoo boy, quite a difference in performance between those two. Mierenneuker has a new favorite as of 09:35 on Oct 1, 2022 |
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Captain Hygiene posted:I've been giving Death Stranding a second try, and this time around I'm really appreciating the little mechanic where Sam can just yell something into the void, and if another player is (invisibly) nearby you'll hear him shout something nice in return. Don't forget to "yell" something when you're using a hot spring. Especially when you are escorting a certain person, I'm not talking about BB here.
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sebmojo posted:Are there any particular tips for enjoying it? I have it on my ps4 but haven't started yet. https://beforeiplay.com/index.php?title=Vampyr One tip that isn't on there is that the ending differences are just 2 minutes at the very end. More reason to not do a "best" ending run where you don't drain anyone dry. Denying yourself blood (= XP) makes things needlessly harder at times and near the end there's one prick in particular who just deserves to be emptied. That page also isn't lying about the Abyss skill being good. Any fight that is proving too tough can basicaly become Abyss > dodge a minute until cooldown > repeat. It's pretty miserable, but at least you won't be stuck.
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credburn posted:I was going to ask eventually if sparing everyone had any actual difference, since it is getting kind of difficult. So far I've not killed anyone, and I wish I'd read that beforeiplay because I did go out and explore and I did encounter a person in distress, but because I was like level 5 and the bad guys were level 16, I couldn't do anything about it and now that person is dead. Which would feel very satisfying in one sense because it's kind of immersive, it's consistent with the world and themes and atmosphere, but it pisses me the hell off because I know about scripted events and game mechanics. I am guessing it was the old man behind the gate, right? Because that tip is my sole contribution to that page. I frequent the Before I play thread and used that page when I started playing Vampyr, but it did not have that tidbit yet. When it happened I just loaded an older save and replayed an half hour or so. Immersion be damned, I wanted to keep every citizen safe! (again, not worth the hassle, save it for a second playthrough or such)
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bawk posted:My favorite pokemon type, "balloon" They added balloons to a balloon Pokemon, what are these Pimp My Ride shenanigans. Edit: So you can probably add that "fire" chandelier to the chandelier Pokemon as well. Preposterous. Mierenneuker has a new favorite as of 21:06 on Nov 22, 2022 |
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 Those were released in: - 2016 - 2000 - 2018 - 2002 - 2021 - 2004* - 2006 - 2012 - 2014 on mobile, 2016 on PC - a pre-order bonus for 2012 originally, later it came with the game So basically the modern trilogy is screwing things up here, but luckily you can tell them apart through the magic of ALL CAPS *Contracts is also the name of a game-mode first featured in 2012 Mierenneuker has a new favorite as of 22:36 on Nov 23, 2022 |
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CJacobs posted:So what you're saying is, next time they reboot it, it'll be called HITMAN TWENTY THIRTY FIVE No, no, no... Hitmen. Or maybe 47 will pass the baton and become a handler instead of the agent. Hitman Manager. Hitmanager. Or some kind of engineered retrovirus will suddenly make him really old. Hitman: Ager. Mierenneuker has a new favorite as of 22:57 on Nov 23, 2022 |
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My favorite case of "oops! we ran out of time and/or money" in a video game is Clive Barker's Jericho. A first person shooter with a squad who specializes in taking down demons, ghouls, cultists and old ones. You're the captain, you die, yet somehow your ghost is still around and you can take direct control of your team members. Upon arriving at the final boss, they instantly kill two of your squad. No extended death sequences, no ghosts that linger around. In the blink of an eye, those two are just gone. You start fighting the boss and there is a clear case that at certain points you need to take control of a specific squad member and use a certain weapon/ability. So basically... they couldn't come up with a way to utilize the guy and gal who just got iced? Or they had to cut the scope of the boss fight. Either way, you deal with the final boss. I think they were the load-bearing kind, so your squad has to flee. They dive in a pool of water that is connected to an underground tunnel. I say "they", but you see this whole sequence in first person. The tunnel leads to an open body of water, the sun is shining, the camera zooms out and... the credits start rolling?! No glimpse of your team, no narrative whatsoever. Are you still on Earth, in your own timeline, your own dimension? ..... ..... It is almost amazing how much of a non-ending it is. There are 8-bit ports of arcade games that have more satisfying endings. Mierenneuker has a new favorite as of 10:44 on Nov 25, 2022 |
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Breetai posted:I've not played any of the hitman games since the first one, but if there's not a moment where you, dressed as a mime, get an achievement for shooting another mime with a silenced weapon, then it's a series with failed potential. Sorry, no mimes. Agent 47 is too busy being a male model, Italian plumber, massage therapist, roadie, scarecrow, surgeon, race car driver, hippo handler, barber, real estate agent, armored knight, bank robber, diving instructor, helicopter pilot, private investigator, Florida man, homeless person, vineyard tour guide and an office employee.
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In general they probably changed a couple of things related to Hitman lore, since the first game has the doctor creating adult clones like it is nothing. Yet the modern trilogy has flashbacks with him as a child, and he's not the only kid being trained to be an assassin. It's probably a lot closer these days to how it is depicted in the first Hitman movie, which borrows footage from the series Dark Angel (with Jessica Alba) for kid 47. Mierenneuker has a new favorite as of 18:00 on Nov 26, 2022 |
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Hitman Trilogy. That's also on Xbox/PC Game Pass. The modern trilogy is Hitman 1-3 released from 2016-2021. Hitman 3 allows you to play nearly all the content from the previous two games, all the content that really matters anyway. You could buy the standard edition of Hitman 3 and buy the levels from those previous two games as DLC, but the way it is being sold is needlessly confusing. Just get Hitman Trilogy, and if you really dig it you'll eventually find out what else of the DLC you might want to have. The older games suffer from a condition where a newer title aged them even more rapidly. Hitman: Codename 47 was ready to be mummified when Hitman 2: Silent Assassin come out. Hitman: Contracts made you realize that the former title had terrible AI and way too much levels. Hitman: Blood Money was the gold standard for a long time, but it kind of pales to the modern trilogy these days. Hitman: Absolution was terrible reimagination of what the games are, it is somewhat redeemed because its flaws highlighted what not to do for the later games. Mierenneuker has a new favorite as of 18:46 on Nov 26, 2022 |
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Absolution has an entire player-made Contracts Mode that is completely dead because they pulled the servers down years ago. Contracts mode is in the modern Hitman trilogy and they expanded upon it, so it leads to more interesting contracts. They also have levels more suited to sandbox create-a-kill shenanigans. I don't think it is the biggest loss. Philippe posted:These are very serious videogames. They really lean in to casual conversations where the NPCs are unaware but where everything that 47 says has undertones of him being a professional assassin, with no other hobbies or interests. Like this job interview in the bank mission (skip to 2:15). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chZJ7pwrBrU (although in this case the posters and inkblots play along with that theme, because how else could you interpret them in a game like this) Mierenneuker has a new favorite as of 10:18 on Nov 27, 2022 |
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That one is called Screencheat. I personly had the odd condition with that game that the longer I kept playing it the more disoriented and worse I became. So, the ideal half hour game, no warming up needed!
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grittyreboot posted:If Leon shoots her it's still an instant game over. It just means that the ganados won't go out of their way to murder the key to their main goal now. See this clip from somebody doing a No Death run on Professional difficulty that was close to the end of the game: https://www.twitch.tv/elajjaz/clip/GorgeousConsiderateCobraBCouch-8baac3r11UH1oJAm I've also seen clips of Leon dodging a enemy swinging their melee weapon, that proceeds to hit Ashley right in the head. Sometimes it's better to toggle her to follow from a distance instead of sticking really close to you.
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Huh, so I guess that's where that story originated from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec51smvcsDY
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Waste of Breath posted:Oldblockless. Specials block the same as any other attack. If you were already getting combo'd you'd be getting hit by them anyway. And if you can't handle a Ryu spamming hadouken then shame on you for trying to make this argument. Yeah, the thing about spamming special moves is that it leaves gaping holes in your defense when you are recovering from them. You don't need to come anywhere close to frame data to start seeing the openings. You can call the modern controls for noobs or stoop to calling them cheating, but they're really a skill check and you need to
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It was pretty neat in FFXV to have a lot of selections from previous titles you could listen to on your roadtrip.
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Yet you take the dog with you on the battlefield so clearly you are not a very responsible dog owner. You also abandon it when you take an elevator and in the few seconds it takes to teleport to your position again, a heart is broken. Basically, how do you live with yourself?!
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Artemis J Brassnuts posted:Wait hold up, is BioEnchanted playing a game released this year? You can imagine my shock when they casually mentioned getting a PS5 earlier this month. That's a current gen console!? Going from playing FantaVision to Forspoken, holy moly!
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That DLC indeed made the game better. Sure, it makes car chases rather anti-climatic with its speed and weaponry. Sure, you can break car races if you use its EMP to shut down your opponents at the start. But it is just so fun!
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Lobok posted:lol, they changed it? They lost the coveted Monster product placement?! I believe it got replaced in the Director's Cut, but the original release still has Monster.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:It didn’t do terrible, it just came out when Steam was “that thing you installed to play Half Life/Counter Strike” and didn’t have a physical release IIRC. That hobbled it immensely. Being a Source game, Steam was the DRM!  A multiplayer only game* in an era where game streamers didn't exist yet. *it had a tutorial made of various missions and botmatches, but they clearly weren't the main attraction
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I turned gear score off in Breakpoint and went hunting for specific weapon attachments. I started sniping a bunch of enemies in a base before I went in. Was suddenly surpised to get a message that I killed one of the Wolves on a lookout tower. Pretty sure this target of happenstance was supposed to be a sniper themselves. Git gud, scrub  I enjoyed that free weekend for Breakthrough when the first big patch hit very much.
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Crowetron posted:but does Helldivers have a singing button? Sorry, too busy singing the praises of DEMOCRACY while fighting killer robots and endless swarms of bugs.
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Hel posted:Seriously, who the hell cares about cheating in a coop game? You are going to be playing with friends anyway so you can just tell them off if they do some bullshit. I heard the given reason is that hackers don't interfere with the global campaign/metagame of % liberated. I don't think it is a good reason, but it seems the game is good enough that most people don't care about the anti-cheat.
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Ms Adequate posted:Omelette is taking care of the legbreaking side of Ichiban Holdings I love slapping people with the cock during the shareholder meetings.
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Philippe posted:I know you just said it so I would change the thread title. Of course it worked, I can't say no to a dick joke Oh, I've whipped that one out several times before in several places, so there's not more to it. But I'm always thrilled when it is appreciated.
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Tomb Raider 1 also has you fight a mercenary who is basically a teenager on a skateboard, dual wielding uzis while parodying a quote from the movie Taxi Driver. The Survivor trilogy has made a lot of us forget how goofy those early games could get. You remember that Lara fights dinosaurs? Well, that's barely a footnote. Mierenneuker has a new favorite as of 20:00 on Mar 27, 2024 |
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ilmucche posted:A chunk of goons also believe that the only viable build in alpha protocol is pistol headshot It is pretty drat powerful. And it pairs well with stealth. I could never get over how goofy the crouch movement in stealth is tho. If Sam Fisher from the Splinter Cell series is a gracious butterfly, then Mike from Alpha Protocol is a caterpillar that is stumbling awkwardly because it really needs to poop and can't find the toilet.
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And it's not clay pigeons, but there is this scene from Moonraker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAsWn59Ti1I
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ImpAtom posted:One of the biggest genre shifts of all time is Dynasty Warriors 1 to Dynasty Warriors 2. 1 was a forgettable fighting game, the second is arguably one of the most influential beat 'em ups of all time and when you say Dynasty Warriors now everyone knows you're talking about the big massive army battle stuff. "In Japan, the game was released as Sangokumusou. With the next installment in the series a departure in genre and style from the original Dynasty Warriors, it was entitled Shin Sangokumusou in Japan. Nevertheless, in Europe and North America, the game was released as Dynasty Warriors 2, leading to a discrepancy in title numbers that has continued ever since." They don't make them every couple of years every more, so I doubt it's a recurring source of confusion for Japanese players. Mierenneuker has a new favorite as of 19:17 on Apr 24, 2024 |
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The Lone Badger posted:Dune 2. Both Cryo's Dune and Westwood's Dune II came out in the same year too. It's a tale of rocky development, losing the license and then still continuing work on the game in secret... but with a happy end. The Development section on the Wikipedia page for the first game is worth reading.
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Oxxidation posted:if i bet on supergiant ever missing then i'd be bankrupt Pyre wasn't exactly a slam dunk, but Hades 1 clearly wouldn't have been the same without its existinence.
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