timp posted:If you're a fan of the Game of Thrones HBO show, I'd highly recommend downloading Telltale's Game of Thrones for five bucks. GoT is like "Little Things: The Show" and the video game follows suit very well. Is it, like every other telletale game, episodic though? Because if it is I usually just wait until it's all done because I'm an impatient moron. More on topic: Deadly Premonition is full of little things that make me happy. Especially regarding the big plot twist of who the killer is, if you explore a bit during certain points of the story it becomes extremely obvious who the killer is. Every NPC's car getting a personalized license plate was kind of fun too.
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If you're not playing as a khajiit or argonian and stealing everything possible, from both factions, and eating all of the skooma in the land. Then you're playing skyrim wrong. Now where's my black marsh expansion, Bethesda.
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Jan 1, 2015 23:37
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Isn't there one where they just about state that Science Team or Command are loving morons because of some fuckup or other? I had almost written up a big spergy post about all the little things I loved about the Prime series, there are an absurd amount of details they put into the games that just make the world feel more alive. So instead of just listing everything I'll post my favorite detail of the series and that is Samus' visor. There are a ton of visor effects in the series ranging from rain, to bug guts and even including a funny reboot sequence in the second game if a specific enemy type hits you with a rare move. You can also see Samus' face reflected in it under certain conditions, and in the third game she's notably more and more corrupted by phazon as the game progresses in her reflections.
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Jan 3, 2015 23:57
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Improbable Lobster posted:Bioware will never be able to make a sequel without save-importing ever again They should start getting really weird with it just to spite fans. Whatever game they make next should import your data from the first mass effect and have it change the whole ending and nothing else. Getting back to the skyrim chat for a moment, I absolutely love that they frequently have bandit chiefs on the tops of tall towers who just stand there looking out over the edge with their backs to the stairs. They knew the most fun thing was to launch a guy off a building or mountain with your voice power, and they give you so many opportunities to do it. I never tire of it. Also you can pickpocket the forsworn briarhearts and steal their hearts. They instantly die if you do this.
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Jan 4, 2015 12:49
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My Lovely Horse posted:It's starting to sound like this is less "nice attention to detail" and more "happens all the time but webcomic writers thought they were all pretty smart pointing out the one time it didn't". Basically one of the few times they didn't was in 7, where the character in question just got stabbed through with a sword and it was kind of obvious there was no saving her.
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Jan 4, 2015 23:39
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moosecow333 posted:Obviously we just need a Saint's Row game with the same level of destruction that Red Faction had That would be amazing in every way. Especially if you could then rebuild the city in your own gloriously gaudy style (and destroy it again). Since nintendo has announced they're going to bring the Metroid Prime games to the wii u e-shop soon, I figure this is a good excuse to post more about metroid! Fun little detail I've always loved about Echoes is that a lot of people seem to assume Dark Samus falls to the whole dark/light beam weakness thing because of its name. It, in fact, does not and it's even grouped as an off-worlder because of how it's not actually from the dark world. I always thought it was a nice touch. Also the ing will occasionally try to posses Samus though it doesn't work.
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Jan 16, 2015 03:22
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RareAcumen posted:I don't get why no one's getting angry about my Yes, posting retarded poo poo like this excuses intentionally posting big plot reveals from things. I'm sure people who were told that Vader is Luke's dad would have appreciated it if someone else in the crowd had yelled out "Oh and the death star is also an orange!" because that would have totally nullified what the first person said. People get on edge about spoilers because they like actually figuring out or seeing things for the first time and it's just lovely to go out of your way and ruin it for other people. To actually contribute: Undertale does some neat stuff with your save file. At one point I'd murdered an NPC and reloaded my game to avoid that and was treated to another character mocking me for reloading my game save.
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Sep 19, 2015 08:32
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RareAcumen posted:Excuses it? I'm just shocked that no one seemed to be rushing to tell me to put them in spoiler tags. Now, if someone had shouted that Leia was actually an Empirical plant that was just to draw as many Jedi out of hiding that would've been a better fake-spoiler. Except they won't. If someone posted "Snape Kills Dumbledore" you could ignore it all you want but it's still there. Not everyone will believe it, but it's going to ruin someone's read of the book and saying "Just make something up in response  " won't make it any less true because chances are something made up on the spot will be easily identified as bullshit. It really takes no effort to not be an rear end in a top hat. This isn't even the first time he revealed this exact same thing and you rushed in to defend him. Feel free to jerk off over making people care about spoilers or whatever, but ruining a major plot twist like that is just a dick move.Anatharon posted:Undertale:  Still probably my favorite encounter in the game. It was goofy. Also seconding the Kojima thing. I loved the Boktai games, even when he's not making Metal Gear he can make weird and interesting things and given his reputation I doubt he'd have trouble getting the funding, even if he had to resort to crowd funding. Nuebot has a new favorite as of 08:55 on Sep 19, 2015 |
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Hopkins FBI posted:Supposedly if you do nothing when prompted, the doctor gets mad at you. You can also take out your ipad when people talk to you. Ocelot keeps getting annoyed and he's just like. Sigh, big boss put away the idroid and talk to me. Stop shooting me in the face, that doesn't work. Don't punch me, that won't work. PUT AWAY THE IDROID. And then I run away and start throwing soldiers around while he's still talking in the distance. You can also run animals over with your horse and knock them out. I'll be honest, I do miss the old snake voice actor. This one sounds too serious considering how much time I just spend throwing people around and tying sheep to balloons.
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Sep 23, 2015 00:47
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3 posted:Wait until you research the Rocket Arm because the moment you hear Keifer Sutherland scream "ROCKET PUUUUNCH" without a hint of irony is one of the many amazing things about game of the current geologic era MGSV. The fact that there is a rocket punch might be my favorite thing yet. When do I get this? I need a rocket punch in my metal gear life. I also had way too much fun with the emblem creator and wound up with an orange and cyan logo proclaiming FAT HORSE.
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Sep 23, 2015 03:47
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poor life choice posted:Do you have to unlock certain words or can you name your base anything? It's all predetermined words and Hitler isn't one of them, but you can get some pretty weird stuff. Whiskey is I think.
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Sep 23, 2015 05:49
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:PAPA is there, not sure what you could use for JOKES. WHITE WOMAN gets me laughing like an idiot for some reason.  The arm and chopper are now gold. My favorite thing about this game is the puppy. It's a crime that you can't pet the puppy. I've even had soldiers on my base salute big boss and exclaim "Hey, Boss! Thanks for saving that cute little puppy!"
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Sep 23, 2015 14:35
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sticklefifer posted:Going through the games chronologically, it's weird that they previously build all these mega-badass huge Metal Gears and all this advanced tech, and then you get to the MSX games and the TX-55 and the Metal Gear D seem like a major step down. Even REX seems pretty primitive now. Though I'm sure they'll retcon the poo poo out of that if they remake MG1 and MG2SS. Rex doesn't seem that primitive. The biggest difference is that it doesn't have actual arms, but it doesn't need them, and that it's not completely humanoid which it again doesn't need, and it actually worked. Going from MGSV to MG is a weird jump though for sure, I really wish they'd do a remake of MG with the fox engine and maybe not completely redesign the original Metal Gear but spiff it up a bit so it fits better.
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Sep 25, 2015 15:07
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McDragon posted:Oh, there's a mission in MGSV where you have to disable the communication system on one of the outposts. The way they work means you can blow the whole thing up in free-roam and then accept the mission. Halfway through the briefing Ocelot interrupts Miller telling him it's already destroyed. Miller sounds so disappointed that somebody has stolen his thunder. It goes straight to the mission complete screen and he is so annoyed that he doesn't say anything and you don't even get a rank for the mission. Just as a warning, this apparently makes you unable to get things that require you to S-rank every mission since the - rank is higher than an S but doesn't count as a rank.
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Sep 26, 2015 01:02
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Smelly posted:After playing those you should play Mad Max. It has the same combat system and some fantastic vehicle gameplay. Also try Sleeping Dogs if you haven't, it has a similar combat system and some fun driving as well. It also times how long you can go without driving like a lunatic.
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Sep 26, 2015 13:31
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My Lovely Horse posted:Trust me, it's not really any different if you know all the games. Matter of fact I don't think it ever really clears up. Eh, yes and no. It's a sequel to two games, prequel to the others. It stands on its own very well and for the most part all you really get is explanations that weren't completely necessary to enjoy the games they explain. The downside is that this is probably one of the best MGS games in that it's really open in how you can approach most scenarios and while it favors stealth, you can definitely just go in guns blazing which earlier games didn't really let you do as well. Going back to the old games will be rough.
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Sep 26, 2015 14:25
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Calaveron posted:Battle Gear is explicitly cut content. Kojima went on record saying there was no way they could figure out how to let you use it the way the missions were structured I know it'll never happen, but if we ever got a Definitive Edition with all the cut content restored somehow I would buy that in a heart beat because we lost out on a lot of cool things. Game's fine as is but it could have been better. Like that other guy said, actually getting some visuals on your dudes doing better would have been nice, and more interesting variation on the side missions would have been loved. Anyway to keep on the MGSV train, there's a bug you can do with the weapon customization and I love it. I have a grenade launcher that shoots out rubber bullets that kill dudes and make them go flying fifty feet with the force of an invisible explosion.  It also looks kind of like a trombone. Sadly you can't paint your guns gold to match the gold of everything else I use.
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Sep 27, 2015 03:58
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Calaveron posted:The best weapon will always be a grenade with a silencer attached. How do you customize grenades?
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Sep 28, 2015 00:50
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Calaveron posted:It's a bug Yes but you can't customize grenades in MGSV unless I'm missing something. For some reason I can't customize my rocket launchers either. Lady Naga posted:It's also false. That's a screenshot from Overkill's Payday 2. For some reason people managed to believe it's about MGS5 despite the giant overkill logo on the grenade and the different background colour. Oh.
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So I learned a neat little trick that I like a lot for an annoying mission, thanks to a bug in MGSV. So at one point there's a mission where you have to escort some child soldiers out of a battle field, it's a pain in the rear end because if they die you get a game over and you have to carry one. Right at the end the AI messed up and they stopped moving so I tried to see what would happen if I shot them all with tranqs and carried them to the chopper. It was fine. There's also a base right next to where you find them, with a landing point. You could cut the mission time for this in half just by clearing that base and calling in the helicopter and shoving all those little soldiers on in like ten seconds and getting the hell out of there. Spectacular.
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Sep 30, 2015 10:56
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poonchasta posted:I would kill for another Portal game or L4D, but I think Valve has a strange phobia of the number 3. Aside from the usual jokes, I think this might just be because there's a stigma around the third entry into a franchise, it's usually considered either the best or worst of it so there's a lot of pressure to make it really good or you risk the entire series.
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Oct 2, 2015 01:01
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gamingCaffeinator posted:I always loved that you could do that with Emma in MGS2.  I never even thought to do that in 2!
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Oct 2, 2015 02:04
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Smelly posted:During the child soldier escort in MGSV you could also air drop two jeeps in, load the kids up and send them off that way. honestly the landing space is like, five feet to the right of the cave and it takes no time to get them all in. The hardest part of that mission is getting all the tanks and snipers if you want to get all the objectives done.
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TontoCorazon posted:Also there is some pretty good evidence that Left4Dead 3 is most likely coming out in the near future with their new engine. Valve is allergic to Half Life 3 though. By this point they're looking at a duke nukem forever scenario, especially after they canned Half Life 2's episodic thing. If the game isn't the next coming of digital Jesus then people are going to be pissed. But there's just no way for the game to live up to the time it's taken to make it or the expectations the fans have built up for it.
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Oct 2, 2015 03:08
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pulp rag posted:It doesn't help that Valve has no internal power structure, meaning people can work on literally whatever the gently caress they want, with zero people to tell them they gotta work on a certain thing. No kidding, I put in a support ticket like four or five months ago for something and just got a hit back for it yesterday and the response was basically "Well I guess you've got it all sorted out by now, sorry about the delay".
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WeaponGradeSadness posted:Valve's refund service is actually really good, I thought for sure they'd refuse nearly every request since before they were perfectly happy to sell games that didn't work on modern systems without warning and refuse to issue refunds, but I requested two (RAGE had frame rate so bad as to be unplayable unless I put it on what as far as I can tell is the only other graphics setting, "we won't even bother loading textures," and Endless Legend crashed every time a new game finished loading) and I was notified that they'd been approved within two or three hours of putting the request in. I assume Valve's refund service is good because, from what I've read anyway, valve keeps their share of the money but the publishers lose out or something. It usually comes back to them anyway, especially since most people are probably picking steam credit. Anyway playing the English translation of Dragon Quest Monsters: Super light and I am loving these puns! "Dark King Up the Right Tree". 
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Sleeveless posted:You've read wrong. I am okay with this. My sources from what were a few crappy indie developers throwing fits about the refund service. I like that it makes them mad.
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Oct 3, 2015 01:55
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StandardVC10 posted:I seldom find video game flamethrowers all that convincing anyway. Games that do flamethrowers good make me happy. I hate when you get a weapon that always sounds awesome, but then they try to balance it by making it either have no range or do no damage. Sometimes both.
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Captain McStabbin posted:The fire in MGS3 was extremely great and I'm still amazed that that was in a ps2 game. MGS3 in general almost always looked really good I thought. I mean some parts, like the fury fight and the final fight with the boss are what stick out most in my mind but aside from Volgin's face the game didn't look really ugly and I always thought they did a good job with it.
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Oct 4, 2015 07:18
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Dandywalken posted:Most important thing with a good flamethrower in a game is what reaction it gets from when engulfed NPC's. For the longest time in games, being on fire just applied a damage-over-time effect and they'd still stand and shoot you without care Lighting people on fire and having them scream in agony is my favorite little thing in many games. It disappoints me to no end when a man just gets back up and starts shooting at me despite his flesh roasting. Reactions in general are fun, I like that people can actually bleed out in MGSV, even if there does seem to be only one generic "wounded" reaction. Sometimes other enemies will spot them and run over and start telling them to keep it together and hold on, that they'll get through this. Instead of raising any kind of alert. Which means you can shoot them too and have two guys rolling on the ground screaming.
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Oct 6, 2015 05:59
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Sad lions posted:Kojima is a totally pervy weirdo and I love him for it. I just kind of wish more of it was played up for humor and less of it was weird rear end shots of gross borg ladies with gigantic tits.
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Oct 8, 2015 01:40
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Sleeveless posted:As somebody who is pretty vocal in their dislike of the inclusion of obnoxious Kickstarter backers in video games as a plege reward, Undertale has by far my favorite implementation of that: a furry paid $1000 to have his fat dragon fursona put in the game as an enemy, so Toby did just that...only said enemy can only be encountered at 8PM on October 10th in real time, so unless you go out of your way to mess with your system clock 99.9% of players will never encounter him. So that's what people were flipping their poo poo over? Something most people probably will literally never see?
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Oct 9, 2015 04:06
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RareAcumen posted:Whoa, now let's tone it back a bit. Two good games came out that people were excited about, don't go and make sweeping statements about gaming being Actually Good because of that. Are you not equally excited for the next Rainbow Six, Call of Duty, Halo and Uncharted all slated to come out in the next few months?
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What about the star wars battlefield DLC? For actual contributions: I absolutely love that in Phantom Pain when you play as one of your generic soldiers, you can still do the hilariously misnamed "Knock". Only instead of your mechanical arm sparking and making weird noises, your character cracks their knuckles and wrist in an amazingly gross way.
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Oct 9, 2015 06:38
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sticklefifer posted:I feel like his career path has been the real-life equivalent of that "whatever, gently caress you" episode of South Park. They explain everything eventually too. Except the electric man. How he became an electric man is forever cemented in gently caress you territory. Lady Naga posted:I'm glad that MGS 5 includes a knock to begin with. If a stealth game isn't balanced in a way that includes an infinitely usable close-range noisemaker then it's not a very good game imo. I still have Sam Fischer whistling in my head to this day. I also like that it's actually really close ranged, too. Like they have to be within 20 feet or so to hear it as far as I can tell. Any further and you'll have to make louder noises or throw magazines out to distract single guards.
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Oct 9, 2015 06:53
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Calaveron posted:Same as how everything got its special abilities pre-mgsv parasites: namomachines. I guess, it's just the one thing that's not confirmed basically. It's just mentioned off handedly that the russians did science and now he's electric and they did it harder and now he's fire.
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Oct 9, 2015 12:29
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Cleretic posted:Yeah, Volgin's powers are one of the few that's never really explained. In Phantom Pain he's both alive and on fire because he's JUST THAT loving ANGRY; Mantis being at his side helps, but Mantis was just reacting to Volgin's insane levels of rage that caused him to reanimate and ignite in the first place. While they never mention it, the Man on Fire's origins also serve to explain The Fury from MGS3. Isn't fury explained by parasites? I thought his was one of the ones Code Talker was talking about.  It is both fat and fedora-wearing. I don't think there's anything I can even say to make fun of it, it's naturally evolved mockery camouflage.
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Cleretic posted:Oh, partly, yes, you're right. I just looked. The bodies of The Pain, The End and The Fury were procured, and the parasites extracted from them. The Fury's fed off his anger, letting him burst into flames at the end of his fight, and that parasite was apparently moved to the comatose body of the very angry and very vengeful Volgin (this part isn't actually stated directly in the game), which turned him into the Man on Fire. Code Talker himself took The End's parasite, and I'd assume The Pain's was too stupid for anybody to use. Well that's half an explanation then. Angry cosmonaut is still my favorite Metal Gear Solid boss. He didn't have much personality but I'll forever read his helmet as saying BEN. To actually contribute: In Gundam Breaker 2 they actually took the effort to make the in-game models as much like the actual model kits as they could. You see the premise of the whole game, series really, is that you're basically just controlling giant toys. The games only feature mobile suits they have model kits of, and generally they put a fair amount of detail in keeping it accurate.
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ImpAtom posted:To get back on topic: Tell me more, I want this game so bad but I can't justify spending more cash on toys right now. It looks super fun though.
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The Moon Monster posted:How about if you like Platinum but couldn't care less about Transformers? Do you think it would hold up? If nothing else it looks really nice. I like the visuals they went with.
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