Stick Figure Mafia posted:

Strategic Tea posted:

Yeah, more than any game I've played (and more than most books and films I've seen) Witcher 3 seems to nail being miserable without being grimdark, and happy without glossing over everything that's wrong. It's a very genuine view of the world.

The most obvious comparison is Game of Thrones which it blows out of the water in that regard (disclaimer: I have only seen the show)

IMO, it perfectly reflects the tone of the Witcher books. One of my favourite things about them was the endless respect the author seemed to have for these random, disparate people (the main characters) who dropped everything in the middle of a war to help find a girl that most of them knew nothing about, and who almost all died doing it. Just because they were decent people and that was where their lives led them.

Strategic Tea posted:

And to boot (and I don't really mean to rag on GoT here it's good), it's the War of the Roses as written by an American. Coin and whores!

Whereas the Witcher is Eastern European as gently caress in all the right ways I don't really know much about Poland, but Witcher feels exactly like my imaginary version of it.

BioEnchanted posted:

By the way, I get that Witchers are infertile due to the bizarre experiments that make them such badasses, that's obvious. But why Sorceresses? What is it about their magic that makes them infertile, or is it just because of the overabundance of magic 'irradiating' them?

Vlad the Retailer posted:

For a while, there was also a loophole which let you play as a horse, leading to at least one playthrough with a horse-led Roman Empire.

Mr. 47 posted:

I just fired up S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky again, and when you fire one round from the double-barreled shotgun and reload, it only reloads one shell.

2house2fly posted:

Gunning down soldiers, then turning your arms into God Of War chainblades, ripping them to shreds and escaping the chaos in a hijacked helicopter is a classic gamefeel

Strom Cuzewon posted:

Doesn't Onyx have the density of hydrogen?

Inco posted:

The best QTEs are from The Wonderful 101, especially near the end where the team is all piloting a giant robot, and the player has to mash A furiously to save the Earth. The camera cuts inside the cockpit halfway through the sequence to show that all the heroes are also furiously mashing their A buttons as well. The Wonderful 101 is such a charming game.

jojoinnit posted:

In Sleeping Dogs I really enjoy having Wei deny he's a cop while dressed head to toe in SWAT gear. Also, eat and drink food while wearing a surgical mask. Also, slapping enemies with live fish.

Hobo By Design posted:

Yeah, and somehow with the turnover of videohosts it's still on the internet via youtube.

ImpAtom posted:

Very very frightening to me.

buglord posted:

probably said a million times in this thread but

Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Disabling weapons/spells during brawls.

Way more satisfying to take people on in hand-to-hand combat for bar disputes/drunkenness/name calling. Lotta games let you pull out your guns and vaporize people with the pull of the trigger if you voluntarily choose the combat option. But its fun to knock some dude on his rear end fair and square and end the conflict without painting taverns red.

jojoinnit posted:

Does he still get Dogmeat though?

poptart_fairy posted:

One of the DLC bosses in Nioh has a big speech lined up for you when you first enter his arena. Declares his name, who he is, that he'll die before allowing you to stand against his Lord, etc, but you can at any time just attack him and interrupt it - he gets very whiny if you do this, but you get an achievement ("Good Listener") if you stand there and let him finish.

Arkham Knight has a ton of stuff like that, but no trophies for doing so unfortunately.

StandardVC10 posted:

There's a DLC gun made out of bicycle parts. Including the bell. Idle for long enough and ding!

Inferior posted:

I just found an MDK2 reference in Mass Effect: Andromeda and now I'm happy. I didn't think Bioware even remembered they made that game.

Testekill posted:

There's a sequel that's coming out soon but it's console exclusive at this point in time.

edit: I do suggest trying out VC3 as that is probably the best story and characterization wise.

Jetamo posted:

M Yu Lation.

I mean it's probably very long stretch but I hope that's intentional.

FebrezeNinja posted:

Just before the last act of Transistor the combat was getting tedious. As much as I loved the presentation, I was considering stopping. Then this perfectly smarmy douche starts radioing you (heavy spoilers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DviyuGNeWc
And then I knew I wouldn't be able to quit playing until I got the chance to hit that guy. Probably my favorite antagonist voice acting in a game.

yook posted:

For whatever it's worth, the MGS series also contains the most lovingly crafted men's asses in gaming, biological or cyborg.

Jet Stream Sam

Who What Now posted:

lol if caffeine even affects you any more.

JOHNSON COCKSLAP posted:

also don't misgender me.

chernobyl kinsman posted:

that is incredibly hamfisted lmao

jojoinnit posted:

This is the best game I've played in years. I've never seen a silly shooter (as in, no care for realism, dual wield shotguns and eat dog food for health) be so goddamn profound.

nael posted:

The campaign in Call of Duty WWII has a scene where an undercover French Resistance fighter is talking to a German officer and 3 lines in he asks her if they can continue the conversation in English so he can keep in practice. I was amazed at how brazenly it ripped off of Inglorious Basterds. It even has the same thing going on where he knows she's lying but acts friendly and polite until he suddenly reveals he's known from the start.

BioEnchanted posted:

I always love when games are secretly genius in a way that you don't figure out until late game, like Driver: San Francisco -

it starts off as an excuse to have the main character in a coma jumping from car to car in a fluid way, but eventually real tension gets added when you realise that Jericho can do the same thing. Then it starts doing really clever things with the body swap mechanic, like when you possess Jericho towards the end and his girlfriend asks you "If you're here... where's Jericho? " and you suddenly have to catch up to your own possessed body before Jericho drives it off a cliff, completely turning the tables on the player. Also Jericho's constant phrasing "Wake up Tanner!" which is an obvious taunt based on the coma, but takes Tanner awhile to realise what's really going on - [/spoiler]this version of Jericho is his own subconscious, taunting him to correct his misconceptions[/spoiler]. Why would Jericho be stealing ingredients for a chemical weapon, he's a thief, not a killer! It's not his style" "Wake up, Tanner! Of course it's not really me!" and the lack of consistency in his and Jericho's conditions Wake up Tanner! None of this makes sense!" It's all his subconscious trying to get him to figure out 2 points - 1) the chemical weapon is a decoy, a literal smokescreen and 2) he needs to wake up and stop Jericho as he is the only one who has realised this.

It's surprisingly indepth for a game designed to be arcadey as hell.