WHAT A GOOD DOG posted:

I mean, I always played the game with a "kill the bastards" approach so I didn't notice much difference. As I understand it, the endings are all such that the reapers, ultimately, lose. So, it's all very optimistic. Even the one where you give up, basically.

Celery Face posted:

In Dragon's Dogma, there's a system where you can romance literally every NPC in the game (including little kids, Capcom didn't exactly think the whole thing through) and you might not know about it until a cutscene where the dragon kidnaps them. It'll probably be the NPC you talked to the most, like a merchant or an innkeeper. Someone decided to go with the court jester just to see how it would look and good god is it hilarious.

mysterious loyall Y posted:

the corpse of my decapitated ex-wife fell into my second wedding

Suitaru posted:

Metroid Prime did the Dark Souls style of storytelling years earlier, and better. Read what you want, piece things together (eg. what the final boss actually is beyond The Title Of The Game) - or don't, just go explore and kill things, that's totally cool.

Metroid Prime 2 was OK with that as well, as I recall. But I played 3 the most recently and yet I remember the least about it, except that there was a steampunk planet, an acid rain planet, and boring cutscenes.

Captain Lavender posted:

beats for junkies posted:

I've been replaying Far Cry 2 with Dylan's Mod and I forgot just how many little things FC2 has that I like but almost nobody else does.

I love the buddy system and I'm sad that it apparently doesn't show up in any of the other Far Cry games, or more games in general. You get another shot (heh) at whatever you were doing without having to reload the game (and possibly lose a bunch of time if you're like me and forget to save often), and you get a little help clearing out the area.

Fast-travel being accomplished by buses is good (although a couple more bus stops wouldn't have hurt). The map being in-game and not stopping time when you look at it is also good. Weapon jamming and degradation is a neat feature (even if it is a bit ridiculous how quickly some guns become rusty piles of junk). Wounding but not killing an enemy can lure his friends out of hiding so you can kill them, or it can end up surprising you later if you don't confirm the kill - I've started shooting everyone in the head after the fighting stops just to be sure. I like the enemy chatter as you take out more and more guys. By the time you're down to the last couple in an area, they're freaking the gently caress out and wondering exactly how many of you there are. I like that enemies aren't totally psychic - it seems like they know where shots are fired from, but it's possible to hide and watch a group of mercs close in on your old position (I like to leave an IED as a little present for them).

Far Cry 2 isn't quite on S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s level of "gently caress you, player" but it's close, and I really like it for that. I wish they hadn't gone quite so far in 'fixing' the problems people had with it for FC3. I mostly just want buddies and weapon jamming back while I'm crying far.

Bear Enthusiast posted:

Or even better is going into a game with as little knowledge as possible, which is especially fun in Dark Souls or similar games with lots of "Gotcha!" moments to learn from.

haveblue posted:

Yeah, but you have to admit that everything about a Souls game makes you desperately want to chase after every tiny edge you can get, especially early on. There are multiple places where not knowing the trick or the build will greatly increase the difficulty and you can only throw yourself at a fight so many times before you start wondering if there's a better way.

Leal posted:

In FF14 you can see other player's retainers (they gather items for you) out in the field fishing or logging. If you get close they will say things, sometimes they refer to the person they work for and that name is SephirothxXx. What is surprising is that there is actually no player named this, and its funny cause they're mocking people who can't make a unique name and just put <videogame/animecharacter>xxxxetc.

Kimmalah posted:

It isn't to me because I have absolutely no interest in making Anor Londo any worse than it already is.

LawfulWaffle posted:

Another neat little thing in The Witcher 3 has to do with it's quest system and the notice boards. Like some RPGs, the main character Geralt can look at local notice boards to get work or a feel of the surrounds. Usually there's a bunch of little notices and you read them and take down. Some are obvious Witcher quests, asking for help killing a monster. Others are a little more broad, like one from a man who's wife disappeared into the woods. They don't always start a quest themselves, but give you direction on where to look for the person who posted the request or other hints. Then there are notices that read like, "My son died and we have no money for a funeral. We don't have a clean shirt to bury him in, a shovel to dig a hole or planks to build him a coffin." And my brain thought, "Well, I'll keep my eye out for this junk." But no. As far as I can tell, that's not a quest. There's not in-game explanation, but it makes sense that Geralt would have bigger fish to fry than some stupid fetch quest. He'll hunt the wild griffins, and Johnny Buckwheat can help you find your 8 wooden boards or whatever. It's a good way to build up a living world around the character without bogging the game down with peasant quests.

Alteisen posted:

Best thing about Batman is that he DOES NOT KILL.

Except when he's flying down the street in his tank and smashes into a criminal at 200mph hour, said criminal is also electrocuted upon contact with the tank.

moosecow333 posted:

I've been playing the new Warhammer: Vermintide game, and the interactions between characters is great. The elf is a huge dick, but instead of just taking it, every other character just shits on the elf nonstop.

Evilreaver posted:

Fallout 4 has four go-to talk options, with the 'top' choice being a question, the right being 'bad dude', bottom 'good dude', and left being neutral/sarcastic.

When you hit an arrow to skip dialog, you'll mumble something along the same lines. "What? Huh...?" for question, "Yes, go on" for 'good dude'

And the bad dude skips are hilarious and seem to be tuned to many specific characters. "If I have to talk to one more ghoul " "Nice hat, idiot" "Shut uuuuppp"