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I have a similar problem with Hotmail, got Live when I was 16 and with a stupid Hotmail account. I can't remember my password because I haven't logged into it since 2007 and my secret question is gibberish because one of my dumb friends kept guessing my secret questions and signing me up to spam. I don't play my Xbox any more but I can't cancel Live from my Xbox because I need my email password to sign in to Live whereas I didn't have to before. I rang support but they can't do it for me because they need the details of the debit card I used ten years ago on the other side of the country. Why can't I just say 'hi, my name is xxxx, my username is xxxx, my email is xxxx and my bank account number is xxxx, please stop my service, cheers'? I think I've cancelled it through the bank, I'll find out at the end of the month.
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Also the boss' lyrics can apply to Raiden equally.
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^^ That's amazing and I'm quite surprised they did that. Older versions of the Football Manager series used to have rare events like players fighting or punching the ref leading to a long ban but removed it due to potential for legal action. Even something as tame as being absent for training after being spotted in a nightclub in the early hours will only happen to generated players.3 posted:The non-lethal alternative is the fact that you can teleport and your pursuers cannot. Dishonored was really good at breaking the quicksave/quickload habit instilled by older stealth games because it gave you a mountain of options once poo poo went pear-shaped and you needed to make a quick exit. My favorite moments in that game were when I hosed something up and had to improvise a hasty retreat. Completely agreed, the best games are ones where you can just roll with what happens. Walton Simons has a new favorite as of 12:09 on Jul 29, 2014 |
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Jul 29, 2014 12:06
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And the broken mirrors because he can't stand to look at his new, robotic self.
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Aug 24, 2014 10:58
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Dead Space 3, related to above: and then she was totally fine and it's never explained how! Just gently caress it, she got out, I guess. Ruined it.
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Oct 30, 2014 13:18
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"How the hell did you get elected?" "Well, I don't write my own speeches" "You're not evil... YOU'RE BATSHIT INSAAAAAANE" He's come a long way from "did you say 'nerd'"?
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Nov 13, 2014 03:36
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I haven't played it yet (I only have a PC) and I'm seriously considering playing it first-person only first time through. Is the new view good enough to hold up to that?
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Nov 28, 2014 13:09
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Thanks, I'll give it a go and might switch during combat. I found the Just Cause 2 first-person mod similar, looked spectacular but it made the combat very difficult even on easy. GTA is likely to be less dogpile-from-every-direction combat so might manage it. Also, mouse aiming. I always drive cockpit view when I can so I can't wait for that GTA-style.
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Nov 28, 2014 14:58
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I would be all over Harry Potter games made more in line with Bully but it just wasn't to be.
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Dec 20, 2014 04:17
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Alouicious posted:the majority of video games have bad writing Sturgeon’s Revelation, man.
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TheOneAndOnlyT posted:No joke, I actually went back to Gamestop and exchanged my Arkham Asylum disc for a new one because I was convinced it was defective. Every time the graphical glitches came up I freaked out and dashboarded immediately, because I thought keeping the game running would gently caress my Xbox up something fierce. So it never got to the replaying the intro part. My Dad tried to exchange Metal Gear Solid because of the screen going blank and HIDEO appearing in the corner during the Psycho Mantis fight.
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Feb 11, 2015 14:05
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I added real cars and brands to Euro Truck Simulator 2 so I'm one of those horrible people, too. One of us...
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Feb 26, 2015 21:23
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Wrong thread. Erm, your ship in Sunless Sea has correct port and starboard lights?
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Mar 2, 2015 13:14
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sticklefifer posted:I liked the AC series better before every game was "this dude's ancestors all collectively knew every famous person in history". Like, throw in a cameo to make it unexpected and interesting, sure. Have someone pull a high-profile politician's strings behind the scenes using a proxy, great. Instead it's turned into George Washington fanfiction, and witnessing the death of every famous pirate in the Golden Age. It was easier to deal with when it was stuff like Leonardo da Vinci just being your weapon upgrade guy. Hmm, considering that Ezio was nearly offed by Niccolo Machiavelli, punched out Rodrigo Borgia, killed several de Pazzis and knocked around with Caterina Sforza in the same game, I'd say this has always been a staple of the series. Connor does go a bit Forrest Gump but it's always been quite strong.
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Mar 10, 2015 13:46
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I keep bouncing off CK2 even though I liked Victoria 2, but this thread may just convince me to give it one more go. Mostly I just worry that I'm leaving stuff unchecked and will fail horribly.
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Mar 13, 2015 13:19
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My Lovely Horse posted:At the very least, the radio stations in GTA III and Vice City were single long audio files. Matter of fact, straight up MP3s in the PC versions - for VC you could simply change the file extension and you were good to go. Oh, yeah, I remember burning them to 2 CDs and listening to them on the walk to and from school, most of them were just 12 minutes long but Chatterbox was an hour and the funniest thing of all time to 14 year old me. I could probably recite most of it from memory. "Are you sane? Are you a sane caller?" "Absolutely, Lazlow! Killer Bees!" "K...killer bees.  "
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Apr 16, 2015 12:46
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The way Trevor says 'twat' in GTA5. Twaht
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Apr 30, 2015 12:22
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This is the internet, everything is absolutely amazing or irredeemably terrible with no middle ground.
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May 19, 2015 12:48
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Arx Monolith posted:I don't usually get into Early Access games or Alpha and Beta state things, I buy em if they look really good and kinda check on them every month or so until they're done enough to play and enjoy. This looks ace, straight on my wishlist.
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Sep 5, 2015 17:33
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I punched her in the first two but didn't in 3, Shepard looks like she's about to punch her put instead puts her hand on her shoulder and gives her the 'never give up' speech and she says something about Shepard being a violent rear end in a top hat most of the time, but thanks anyway.
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Oct 27, 2015 13:27
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Yeah, it's 2 and Brotherhood opens with it. It's actually not a good boss fight at all but it rightfully gets a free pass because of the whole 'punch the pope out' thing. Kind of want to get back into rear end Creed after burning out with 5 games in 3 years. Is the general concensus Rouge and Syndicate good, Unity bad?
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Nov 10, 2015 09:17
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Out of curiosity, were Unity's bugs ever fixed? Never played it but I think it's now regarded as a solid, if lacklustre rear end Creed game.
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Nov 12, 2015 00:41
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I wasn't going to bother with FO4 after it followed FO3 over NV but this thread has made me remember that even if the story was lacklustre and the world didn't make sense, I had so much fun loving about in that game, enough to invest another 100 hours in another version (once the game's modded to the eyeballs).
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Nov 17, 2015 09:15
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Rimworld was not on my radar at all until today, can't get into Dwarf Fortress and getting tired of waiting to see if Maia turns out well so may well pick it up.
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Apr 7, 2016 12:18
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In Assassins Creed Syndicate, Evie and Jacob will give standard commands to the horse like 'Come on' or 'Whoa!' but if you just trot along they'll give a little bit of encouragement to the horse, my favourite being Jacob saying 'Who's a good horse? You are.'
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Jul 15, 2016 12:59
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I remember thinking that it was kind of cool being told to meet outside Burger King in Need for Speed since it felt more natural than 'go to the marker on your map'. Having The King as the best trainer in Fight Night Round 3 was rather forced, though.
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Oct 31, 2016 18:12
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In GTA3, the first car you get in is the Kuruma, which is a totally bog-standard boring Toyota-looking family car. I'm learning some Japanese for my honeymoon in 2018 and it turns out that Kuruma means 'car'. It's so generic that they just called it 'car'. Unfortunately it's been ruined in GTA5 as the Kuruma is clearly the not-a-Mitsubishi-Lancer. Also from Saints Row, 'genki' means energetic or healthy. 
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Dec 21, 2016 13:33
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SevenSocks posted:Sad little thing I discovered by accident. I'll drive a bus down a sidewalk in GTA without a thought but the first time I do this by accident in WD2 I'll be so sad.
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SomeJazzyRat posted:Achievements are fun for those games that you don't want to quit until you do absolutely everything. So sure, I'll dive bomb under all the bridges cause it sounds fun. Achievement description: This is that part.
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Jan 19, 2017 09:47
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I always remember it as one of those games I forever toyed with buying but never actually did, like Spyhunter and Stuntman.
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Feb 17, 2017 14:29
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I really liked how The Witcher 3: Hearts of Stone took into account that there's a good chance you won't have finished the main quest when you start it. You can talk to main quest characters about the mark Master Mirror puts on your face and it works the other way around! If you side with Master Mirror in the DLC, one of the rewards you can get from him is being straight-up told how to get the 'best' ending in the main quest.
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Mar 20, 2017 09:58
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Mr. Flunchy posted:The Dreadful Crimes missions in Assassin's Creed Syndicate are absolutely amazing. You play detective and solve murders, piecing together motives and method from the evidence you sniff out in the crime scenes. You can accuse the wrong people too, so it's always tense when you think you've got it worked out. They seem better written and designed than the rest of the game too. It's a bit silly that they were relegated to PS4 exclusive DLC. I somehow played a couple of these on PC for free and I'll pick up the full thing if I get the chance, they're really cool and somehow feel out of step from the rest of the game like a slightly janky mod. It's nice to play a mystery in a game where you're not led around by the nose with no scope to get it wrong, very surprising to see it pop up in a game about jumping off buildings and stabbing people.
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I was getting toward the end of Dishonored 2 and doing the standard videogamey thing where you pick up everything in the early stages so you've levelled up everything you'd ever want to so going out of your way to get that last power-up is just such an effort. I was on the approach to Dunwall Tower and came across a safe/lock shop. Someone there is obviously a bit forgetful since there's a snarky letter telling them the code to one of their own safes. Use the code, take the loot, standard. Later, I find myself in the shop owner's house and he has a nice fancy safe of his own. The Heart is telling me that there's a rune in there but I don't know the code. I have a poke around and can't see a note or anything with the code on like you would expect and at this stage I really can't be bothered to backtrack to his store to look some more when the reward probably won't be that useful to me. I was reminded of a story the legendary physicist Richard Feynman told about his time on the Manhattan Project. Bored, he'd got really into safecracking and being a clever guy he got very good very quickly. He set his sights on cracking the general's enormous safe that had to be delivered on a crane but ultimately has to concede it's just too hard for him. He hears that one of the janitors can somehow crack it and spends ages making friends with the guy in order to learn his incredible safecracking techniques. Anyway, the janitor didn't know a thing about safecracking; despite spending christ knows how much on this safe, the general never changed the code from the default factory setting, which the janitor knew. So I thought it would be ironic if the story was the same here, the forgetful owner of the safe shop was the worst with his own home security and had it set to something dumb like... 1-2-3. It opens first time. I thought that was great, a tiny, very human bit of character you can use to your advantage. It turned out that there's a picture with the combo on but I didn't find it so that's not the only way to work it out but it's still cool.
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May 5, 2017 12:33
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Someone mentioned the horrible scanning minigame in Mass Effect 2 in another thread. I seem to remember that Uranus uniquely had no minerals whatsoever so there was zero point in scanning it or probing it, so when you ordered a probe to be fired at it the computer wouldn't do it the first time and would say 'Really, commander?' and if you pressed it again would say '...probing Uranus'. You could almost hear the eye roll, it was great.
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There are little gauges on the solar panels in Rimworld, if there's a lighting strike on the map, they'll jump up to max very briefly. I like that.
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In Yakuza 0, everything is subtitled as it's all in Japanese, with the name of the speaker always listed. Until the character you're playing learns someone's name, it'll say something generic like 'Threatening Man' or 'Dojima Goon'. In one sidequest, Kiryu meets a small boy, named as 'Innocent Lad' in the subtitles who is too scared to buy something from a fancy vending machine in a dark alley. Kiryu volunteers to help and shock horror, the cool vending machine sells girly mags. After a bit of stealthing, Kiryu can go and buy it for him and upon giving it to the kid, his name in the subtitles changes from 'Innocent Lad' to 'Sophisticated Lad'.
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I really appreciate that in the new Hitman games, XP and mastery levels you get for kills/challenges/discoveries you do are persistent even if you load a previous save so I don't have to do the whole level 5 times to get the rewards for 5 different kills.
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RBA Starblade posted:The modern plot is a huge wet fart but it's still very clever that at the end of Assassin's Creed 2, while Ezio is talking to the Precursor who's basically just leaving a voice mail for Desmond in the future, she's looking straight into the camera instead of at Ezio the whole time, because she knows the Animus gets invented and Desmond's playing in a third-person perspective I enjoy that in a world of people called Cesare, Leonardo and Lorenzo, Ezio has to say something like "What? Who is this... Deeeeesmand?" muscles like this! posted:Speaking of AC games, I like how in AC:O they don't have male/female versions of armor and Kassandra just wears men's stuff too. OTOH in Syndicate, when you either find or unlock the Aegis armour that only fits Evie, you get a great little exchange with Jacob commenting that he doesn't think it's quite his size and Evie replies "plus you'd look a right tit in it".
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I've only just discovered that the original Gran Turismo models slipstreaming.
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ilmucche posted:No way. does GT2 do the same? I would love to play them again but doing the licencing again would drive me nuts I assume so, I'm trying to 100% GT1 before I move on because I loved them as a kid but mostly just farted about. You only need to get the bronze licence times to do all the races, which isn't too bad.
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