timp posted:

...Except now I'm trying to think of an example and I'm drawing a blank. I can think of a few games that did it poorly (Perfect Dark just threw in some random chick). Any games that do a great job of adding a co-op player? I know I've played some before...

ElwoodCuse posted:

Does the backstory that you have to jump through hoops to discover explain how we terraformed Venus? You know, surface temperature hotter than Mercury, atmospheric pressure 92 times greater than Earth. The probes that have landed there didn't last long.

Dwarf Fortress Devlog posted:

Today saw the addition of an oft-requested feature -- the ability to geld! We stayed away from new parts, but there's a body part tag for it on appropriate male critters, as well as a job and so on. The job takes place at the farmer's workshop after the animal is designated in a way similar to slaughtering. The process is modeled with a wound within the existing framework.

CJacobs posted:

Iji is pretty much Little Things In Games, The Video Game. If you can do something in that game, playstyle-wise or otherwise, it'll have something to say about it.

Twitch posted:

I pretty much only play in single-player mode in Dragonball Xenoverse, so it took until just now to realize there are 40 different emotes, all of which are taken from Dragonball Z. Including both sides of the fusion dance, Goku's two-fingered salute, and all of the different Ginyu Force poses.

If you want to punch things, level up, and play dress-up with your Dragonball fan fiction character, I cannot recommend this game enough.

Wanted By Weed posted:

You can thank Star Wars for vibrating weapons. Those axes the pig guards carry are actually vibroblades, which operate similarly to the high frequency weapons.

Calaveron posted:

Did you not ever run into the great fairies or any of the armor stores or any of the shrines that award you with armor pieces

Morpheus posted:

The very first town you're guided to has six pieces of armor and also a quest to find a great fairy nearby. No idea.

Cleretic posted:

So is your least favorite thing the fact that they were right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7VxGn7Piew

Ariong posted:

Once I get past all the prose, what I’m getting from that is:

1. We’re in a galaxy full of stuff orbiting a giant black hole

2. Someday black holes will be all that’s left

3. Our planet and the others in our solar system orbit around the sun, which sustains us.

Which is all true in our reality, so why not in the Dishonored universe?

Cleretic posted:

Honestly, that squares, because I feel like one of the worst things about being in the Justice League would be Superman. Anything even remotely big comes up in your area and you've inevitably got Superman asking if he should help out, and you don't actually want to be a jerk to him but you really want to tell him that you can loving handle this, CLARK, go back to being all-powerful somewhere else and let me deal with my side of things!

RagnarokAngel posted:

I mean...do they? Their only notable female protagonist is Samus which was better when she didn't have a personality, or at least only a subtlely implied one.

ItBreathes posted:

She also destroys their secret lab and I was going to point out that she blows up a planet too, but she rather makes a habit of that and is a destructive force greater than any other Nintendo property and really most any protagonists in any game.

DicktheCat posted:

Inzombiac posted:

My GF is in the end game and didn't know you could strafe hop or many other things.
She watched me play for an hour and kept saying "poo poo how did you do that?!"

I've watched her play a lot and she wallops Lynels no problem. It's odd but she plays differently than the game expects, I guess.

Elfface posted:

The best pacifist-run game is Iji, where as long as it's not your bullets that kill them, your kill-count stays at 0 and the game explicitly tells you this. Lure two different alien factions to each other? Shatter a floor under someone? Duck a rocket aimed at you so it hits someone else? Reflect a rocket back at it's shooter with your personal forcefield? It's all pacifist baby!

RareAcumen posted:

Wasn't enough to save me from originally assuming they were talking about Doom Eternal though.

Say the full name of the game all the time!

flatluigi posted:

There's also The Gostak, which does the 'decipher what an alien language means' in kind of a brilliant way (yes, this game is parseable and beatable but you probably should know at least a little bit of how an IF game works before you try it

https://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=w5s3sv43s3p98v45

(you can play it in-browser with the button on the top right. take notes.)

Lobok posted:

Mario 64 was so good for controls and acrobatics I would usually start each session by just practicing and having fun in the castle courtyard area. It wasn't just fun to run and jump around moving forward, that particular leaping cartwheel you could only do when you stopped and reversed momentum was genius.

Mazerunner posted:

Nier Automata has a bunch of ui shenanigans.

So your character is an android, and you can slot in different upgrade chips for gameplay bonuses. However you can also add or remove various hud elements. Also, you can pop out your cpu and instantly die.

There's certain enemies/story elements that hack/corrupt and will knock out various hud or even combat capabilities.

And the big one, involving 9S' hacking. His hacking ability puts you in a sort of top-down/isometric shmup. Endgame/final boss stuff: if you hack A2, another playable character, in the final fight, it turns out you're navigating a 3-d version of her menus

Eclipse12 posted:

Something that SHOULD be a little thing: let a second player control enemies. I'm not talking about designated modes like in Left 4 Dead. I'm saying in pretty much any game.

As far back as the nineties, I used to imagine how cool it would be if my buddy could control a goomba in Mario, an imp in Doom, or a random thug in Final Fight. I just assumed that was something the future would offer. Sure, the enemy player would die easily and often, but adding an unexpected variable to how that enemy acts would be really cool. And once the enemy was killed, they just take over a new enemy. Maybe you'd only get one hit in now and then, but I still think it'd add insane replay value. Most enemy movesets would be simple enough to learn and control.

Like, that should be From Software's next move. Instead of invading players, you fight human controlled regular enemies. You're in the Undead Berg or wherever and one of the enemies is controlled by a remote player. Have it glow, be worth more souls, drop better loot or whatever.

I'm having trouble thinking of almost any game that wouldn't be just a little more fun if I was able to jump in as an enemy and grief my buddies online.

moosecow333 posted:

Battlefield 5’s profanity filter which would do all of that but somehow still allowed people to drop the N word with a hard R multiple times a game.

christmas boots posted:

2/3 of the way through the game you get an achievement pop-up and then you check your achievements and they're all gone. For every game. And then you remember what game you're playing and you think ha ha good one guys but then you beat the game and it turns out it was real.

MiddleOne posted:

Finished reading Umineko after a decade and I really appreciated how it not only presented the solution to every past mystery in metaphor but also forced you, the reader, to be the one to solve a murder mystery at the end.

There's also lots of very bad and questionable stuff, but details!

Stexils posted:

your pacemaker has been turned into a bitcoin miner

christmas boots posted:

Usually I can make sense of these because they're only a beat off or you doing a weird thing to the word to make it sorta fit but I have no idea where this one's gone

John Murdoch posted:

Alright now that we've gotten to the bottom of this Deus Ex problem, let's talk about how much Adam you get for sparing Little Sisters or killing them.

Kit Walker posted:

He's a social darwinist who wants to create a country where the strong rule with an iron fist and the weak are purged. If you're agreeing with his ideology you should probably rethink some things