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Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



"He's supercharged with elite weaponry!"
"Looks to me like he's supercharged with a dozen buckets of fried chicken."
- Bulletstorm

Holy poo poo that entire game was pretty much perfect. It actively rewards finding as many ridiculous and gory ways to kill people as possible and it's unlikely you'll be able to find a method of slaughter that is awesome but does not give you points for buying ammo and cool murder upgrades. It's basically a 90s-era FPS combined with Wild 9 and it has swearing that will, Insha'Allah, be preserved in the Louvre.

e; my point is the whole game is favorite little things

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Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



lenoon posted:

I still love that game but I can never force myself to play it again. Sometimes I'll get as far as actually turning on the dreamcast and booting it up, but then I just think... "oh christ that demon boss fight will happen again" and I get really pissed off with it.

Also, I could never, ever get good enough at the fighting system to make it fun, usually those sections were just a reloading slog and were incredibly super tedious. The game itself is great, it's just the :effort: feeling i have about trying it again that stops me from enjoying it for the 3rd? 4th? run

I dunno if it's because I'm a dumb-dumb or what, but as much as I loved Omikron I could never get anywhere at all with it. Maybe I'll grab the GoG version and see if I'm any smarter these days.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Be the New Crew and go murder your past selves to take over the Row. Then go kick some paradox's asses.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



So I'm playing the poo poo out of Titan Quest lately, and one of my favorite little touches is how between every zone is a pair of torches which light up when you come near them. It makes it so much easier to know which direction makes progress and which does not, which is great whether you want to rush ahead or explore completely. It's not as consequential as it might be because TQ doesn't have a random map, but when you're new to the game/have forgotten the layouts, it's such a lovely way to unobtrusively guide the player.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Yeah SoM is pretty polished and great, and whilst the Nemesis system is definitely the best part of it, I think it'd still be a pretty highly enjoyable game without it, because it's a solid blend of AssCreed and LotR with some Batmans. Like JebanyPedal says, it's a really smooth experience that cuts a hell of a lot of the bullshit out. Even when you die you're back in the action in seconds. I don't want this from every game, sometimes I do personally like a slower stealth affair, but god drat sometimes is it great to just rip people apart with brutal slices and gently caress over Uruks who are taking a piss.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



So I'm playing GTA V. I switched to Trevor and get him in his truck, yelling at some cyclists. Twenty minutes later, whilst getting a haircut, he starts up yelling again. It is the funniest thing in the game.

e: he keeps doing it :yayclod:

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Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Wanted MGR: Revengeance for a good while, finally got it in the sales, just like that other guy a few posts ago.

Obviously the game is loving brilliant, everything is :magical:, but what I really loved when I realized was that you can often chop poo poo off dudes before you can actually kill them, which changes what moves they can use and often makes things easier for you. I also love that, on normal at least, blocking attacks was reasonably forgiving too. It makes you feel like a fuckin' badass when someone throws a whole big combo at you and you parry everything before wrecking their poo poo. The way the music ramps up during boss fights as things get more intense.

Only thing I can think of to criticize is that I can't combine a different armor coloration with the Mariachi outfit, and that Raiden always has his default look in cutscenes.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



BravestOfTheLamps posted:

It never ceases to amuse me that some players unironically accept the Imperials as the good guys when the game literally dresses them up as Romans.

The Dunmer are the good guys. The Stormcloaks are shits to Dunmer. Ergo, the Imperials have at least something going for them.

Plus of course there's nothing wrong with an empire. :agesilaus:

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Kavak posted:

They've got Valenwood in TESO, but they're noticeably dodging Elsweyr and Black Marsh.

Is Valenwood filled with cannibalistic Bosmer who will put a higher bounty on you for picking herbs than killing someone? And do their cities reside in the boughs of giant ambulatory trees?

Morrowind was part of a series still obscure enough to get away with doing whatever the gently caress, which is why they let MK do whatever the gently caress his insane, drunk rear end wanted. And it was glorious. Sadly that very same game made the franchise a big enough concern that they're determined to play things safe. Skyrim wasn't so bad because the Norse setting was just about 'unusual' enough to be interesting and they had stuff that was both awesome and, in lore terms, crazy (Thu'um) so I personally like it quite a bit. Morrowind, on the other hand, is a game where you can meet a living God, decide he's full of poo poo, kill him, and go live with the velothi nomads hunting giant bugs.

Oblivion meanwhile was generic fantasy bullshit.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Delivery McGee posted:

Saints Row the Third's use of Kanye's "Power" was perfect. The E3 trailer with Johnny Gat taking a bullet on the line "I need a moment" and the setpiece where you parachute in and steal a penthouse work no matter how you interpret the lyrics.

Yeah, I think SR 3 had some flaws that leave it a bit behind 2 and 4 but god drat, that was a brilliantly done mission in every way.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Kennel posted:

Hah, just noticed that in Metal Gear Rising your tiny tripod robot tries to plug an USB cable wrong way and then turns it around.

Yeah, it's the best moment. The only way it could be more realistic is if he tried it one way, tried it the other way, then tried it the first way again and it worked.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Judge Tesla posted:

Funnily enough Sera's accent is her VA's actual one. :v:

I live like 30 miles away from Derby, it's horrific :gonk:

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Lagomorphic posted:

The Pillars of Eternity talk reminds me of the original campaign for Shadowrun Returns where half the npcs have neck beards or fedoras thanks to the Kickstarter funding.

vvv: fixed it for you

In all fairness, if Shadowrun happened, a goodly number of goons and redditors and anons would all end up being orcs and poo poo, so that's pretty believable.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



There's a lot I WANT, but the only thing I NEED is no timed underwater escort quests.

Also more swearing like Bulletstorm, more of that would be good.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Accordion Man posted:

Yeah, you'd be hardpressed to find a cast that can top Star Ocean 4's cast in terribleness. They even commit genocide to add the finishing touch to the poo poo sundae of creepy anime poo poo.

The one little thing that was good about SO4 was that the protagonist actually gives a poo poo and spends time being really broken up over it and wondering if there wasn't another solution he failed to see.

Of course everyone else is just like "So we killed a billion people, so what?"

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



I'm pretty sure I've seen it mentioned in this here thread before but Call of Juarez: Gunslinger is great because it's being told by a narrator and at one point he goes to take a leak, so you just walk through the same train carriage several times until he comes back and can resume his story. The other characters listening to him discuss how truthful he's being in his tales while he's out of the room.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



CJacobs posted:

I liked the part where you duel a guy at the end of a level and Silas pretty clearly annihilates the dude, and then another character's like "but that guy is still alive today!" and Silas is just like "Well I didn't say I killed him! >:|"

I also enjoyed the entire level comprised of characters retelling the story of the Dalton gang's final shootout in different ways, which I think I've posted about in this same thread before :v:

Yeah basically everything was great. Whenever Silas has to correct himself because someone gets loving destroyed and then one of his listeners says "Hey wait that dude's not dead!" Silas has to backpedal. Also yeah, the other level you mention is great too!

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Alteisen posted:

In MKX Cassie Cage has a unique fatality where she obliterates her opponents jaw then takes a selfie, the scrolling comments is quite amusing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUqgcxtMGKI

A fair warning, for a game full of over the top deaths, I find this one slightly unnerving, I think its the whole "wait they're still alive thing". :stonk:

Oh Jesus, Mileena and Kitana's comments. This is amazing.

e; "Cass, why is Kano on your friends list?" Holy :laffo:

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



flatluigi posted:

Pretty sure that isn't in Bully either.

lol if you didn't trade chocolates for kisses

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Olaf The Stout posted:

My favorite villian in my megabeard autistic swamphat James Bond-wanna-be playhrough was Conrad... something? The main dude in Rome. He by far was the most psychologically damaged by my relentless corny dad jokes. Conrad is a local leader of an international mega-evil corporate conspiracy blah blah blah. What's great about him is he is a robotic professional but has no empathy or understanding of people. He promotes the wrong people all the time because he can't read them and talks like dorky competent robot, but he is an amazing agent and field worker. Basically he got promoted above his competency level, which shows how good obsidian writers are.

Anyway this dude was emotionally destroyed by my relentless assault of puns, cocky bluffs, and embarrassingly unfunny jokes. He hated me so much, that as his plans exploded all around him, he abandoned his professional "live again to fight another day" mentality to fistfight me in an exploding museum. With tears of rage in his eyes. Too bad the game is broken and I chain-headshot him 12 times before he could move, like I do to every boss in the game.

You can pun his eulogy and bone his daughter. I didn't bone her though because she was so offput by my relentless pun-nyness that she fled the safe room when I announced her fathers death with a pun and I never saw her again.

This goon knows how to play AP and this belongs in the "Before I Play" thread.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



TomViolence posted:

Alpha protocol is the reason I'm stoked as all gently caress for Tyranny coming out.

Goddamn right bro, as much as I love NV and PoE, a shorter, tighter game that hopefully has a lot more reactivity and depth (but with enough time in the oven) is my jam.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Rigged Death Trap posted:

Honestly devs should just hire out Obsidian to make stories.
Or just give obsidian a super competent dev and art team.

Or just give them the time needed to make games, because Pillars of Eternity is exceptional?

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Guy Mann posted:

Isn't that the game that was so buggy that double clicking on an item would permanently lower your stats?

I'm not trying to say they were perfect or anything. There were some bugs in it, yes. They were not worse or more numerous than bugs in other games of equivalent scope. Obsidian gets treated like they make games of such impossible bugginess that 80% of players can't even reach the title screen, that's what bugs (:haw:) me.

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

it's also entirely mediocre in every conceivable way

This ain't the unpopular opinion thread buddy.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Lunchmeat Larry posted:

Joke's on you, I don't see a popular opinion thread so you're not allowed to share yours anywhere :mrgw:

I am undone :negative:

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



death .cab for qt posted:

Also, the very first chest I found was a mimic and it loving ate me. :smith:

:darksouls:

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Alhazred posted:

So I accidentally discovered that not only can you kill someone with a fish in Sleeping Dogs, you get a trophy for doing it.

The one where Wei Shen, motherfucker, just rams the swordfish through some rear end in a top hat's chest?

When I first did that my face hurt from how broadly I was grinning.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Alhazred posted:

No. I broke an aquarium with one guy's head, picked up a fish that fell out and slapped another guy to death with it.

Hahaha holy poo poo, still things for me to see :allears:

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Lunchmeat Larry posted:

if you hit a bonewheel kind of hard it falls out of its wheel, and if you let it, it awkwardly crawls back into it, because DS3 is the best game ever made. also a bonehwweel punched me sadly and im pretty sure it only did that for comedy value, because DS3 is the best game ever made.

I don't know how you get "DS3" from "Earth Defense Force 2017" but okay

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



I fondly remember fighting with a friend about whether the Farsight XR-20 should be banned or not. We eventually compromised that we would allow it for occasional Maximum Bullshit matches only. My win rate decreased precipitously after this :( Also I liked the Callisto NTG a lot, because secondary fire would just shoot through most obstacles like a door or something, so you could pop fools before they can actually fire back at you.

Looking back at it I must have been a real prick to play against.

The MagSec wasn't a special pistol really, but drat did they do a good job of making that thing feel powerful. Walking around with one was like being Dirty Harry or some poo poo.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Neddy Seagoon posted:

I think you'll find the 80's badass you're looking for there is Robocop, creep :awesomelon:

That's fair.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling




Wasn't there something where you could make infinitely recursive sandwiches and end up crushing the server with like, a Ham Chicken Ham Peanut Butter Chicken Cheese Ham and Cheese Ham Chicken etc. x30,000 Sandwich?

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Guy Mann posted:

Maybe not a little thing but I'm playing this indie adventure game called Knee Deep and the game's aesthetic is loving killer. The gimmick is that it's presented as a stage play so buildings will literally lose their fourth wall, the "actors" walk from set to set with everything raising or lowering around them, text messages are displayed on an overhead projector, spotlights follow people, and when it needs to change backdrop the character will actually step outside of the stage while the entire thing rotates behind them like the Carousel of Progress from Disneyworld. It's really effective, especially considering it's obviously a small team working with a low budget.

http://i.imgur.com/przMdIN.webm
http://i.imgur.com/nyJmKNe.webm
http://i.imgur.com/XWHyShl.webm

Okay I'm like 90% sold on this game I had never heard of before your post, drat that looks cool.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Inzombiac posted:

I'm glad people are coming around to liking FFX because it's my favorite FF game and in my top 5 games.

The reveal of Auron, the best character, being dead out of spite was great. He spat in the face of oblivion because he had more important poo poo to do. Tidus being a dream or whatever was a little more telegraphed but still shocking.
Yuna is one of those characters that I tend to hate because I used to be really impatient with timid people. Her growth, even though is subtle, showed a young me that everyone knows more than you about something.


That's a lot of words about a dumb anime game but I guess I played it just the right age.

I know this is like a month old but I'm catching up on the thread and I wanted to say that I've not come around to liking FFX because I loving loved it from day 1 and I still think it's the best in the series and aside from the non-Blitzball minigames is essentially perfect in every way.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Disposing of the bodies isn't an issue if every single human being in Afghanistan is dead :colbert:

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Digirat posted:

In overwatch you can make your character say "Hello" and wave

Junkrat has two different waves, one normal, one when his left hand is holding his remote detonator. Game's loving polished.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Mei's one of the few characters whose face you will actually see, cause she'll freeze you solid then take a second to charge up her point-blank murder. (One of the fanons is that she's a crazed war criminal because she takes WAY too much joy in that).

Goddamn insane the things I didn't even know about, like the Bastion one that Exit Strategy mentioned.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Digirat posted:

I really just wish they'd make the random hero mode a permanent thing, it was the best experience I've had with the game so far and also was fun as hell to do before having even played the real mode a single time. How do I play this clown? I have 10 seconds after spawning to figure out.

Agreed, I like rotating special modes a lot but random heroes needs to be a permanent one because it's so great.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Inzombiac posted:

Furthermore, anyone from a non-English country will say a good amount of their lines in their native language.

I don't know what Mei is saying but she is loving adorable doing it.

I love Mei so much, she's so adorable. I can't loving handle her reload animation, partly because it's adorable, partly because even though it's just her two hands and gun, Blizz somehow manage to convey some of her character with it. That's true with a lot of characters though, like the way Junkrat is really violent and slaps his launcher around to reload, for example.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Earlier I happened to be looking at some VAs in Overwatch and it turns out that almost everyone is voiced by someone from the character's culture or one very close to it. Furthest one I can remember is that D.va is voiced by a Chinese woman rather than a Korean one, I believe? I thought that was cool of Blizzard to do instead of just getting bad accents in, even if they don't know that "Cheers love!" means "Thank you!" not "Hello" :britain:

Also I guess Winston is not voiced by someone from the moon.

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Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



ookiimarukochan posted:

Tracer's got a loving terrible accent though - they've got some woman from up north to play a cockney and she's just Dick Van Dyke'd her way though the lines.

Sounds alright to me but I'm from Leicester aka East Wastelands so

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