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LOTR Third Age was fun enough for its time, I remember enjoying it. Moria was fun, but things definitely got pretty goofy towards the end.muscles like this! posted:Ran into a thing in AC: Valhalla that I'm not sure how I feel about it. One of the little side story bits has you run into a musician who says he is a musical prodigy and his band is being persecuted by an angry bishop. The bishop shows up and you get into a fistfight with him while the musician keeps telling you to "smack my bishop." 3D Megadoodoo posted:Every game should have fall damage to all characters and also door-in-the-face damage if someone gets smashed with a door in the face. Yes, even Tetris, Fifa, and Zork, I said "every game".
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3D Megadoodoo posted:E: I remember DOA3 being pretty good?
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The early 00's were certainly a time.verbal enema posted:thats 100% what happened lol
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An Actual Princess posted:years later, goldeneye still did it best
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Two cheat codes for Super Punch-Out were discovered today. The first is a level-select code, which lets you jump to any fight in the game. The second lets the second player's controller control the opponent boxer. After 30 years, Super Punch-Out has vs. multiplayer. Also tremendous  at both of those clips.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Die Hard in Hyrule... might kinda work. It's not far off a lot of Zelda games. Yeah that checks out, I'd play it.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I kept having people try to convince me to add a stealth section to my game about arcade naval combat. This is my response:  On top of everything else about how much this rules, "byobattleship" is an amazing username. Top marks all around. Hel posted:Either Assassins Creed 3 or Black Flag had a ship stealth section, IIRC you basically followed an enemy ship through a swamp and stopped at predetermined hiding spots to not be detected, was not a good idea. However, a little thing that I do enjoy about Black Flag is that it's great for short bursts of pickup gaming during lunch, commutes, etc. Definitely worth the $20 on the Switch store. It probably helps that I didn't play it before now though.
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christmas boots posted:In Black Flag I enjoy that the protagonist spends about 75% of the game trying not to learn anything about the main plot (except about the thing that everyone's after) because it has nothing do with being a pirate and getting rich. On a similar note, I have no clue what the actual storyline of Skyrim is, because whenever I start a game I immediately gently caress off into the woods as soon as I get the first shout.
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MadDogMike posted:Hitman Contracts like I mentioned (third game technically I think, but it included remakes of the first game’s missions as “memories”). Here’s killing the ghost, it even gets you an achievement apparently. Zero_Grade has a new favorite as of 23:54 on Aug 17, 2022 |
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Cool Kids Club Soda posted:Jagged Alliance 2 had a demo back in the day that was it's own mission that didn't appear in the rest of the game. I must have played that for dozens of hours over at my friend's house.  I played the poo poo out of that demo. They gave you a nice mix of mercs that ranged from really good (Shadow), middle of the pack (Vicki), and "well, not very good, but he's got funny voice lines" (Gasket). I also put a lot of hours into the actual game and never got close to beating it cause I spent all my time meticulously sorting items in towns or goofing off exploring the map.I tried to get 1.13 working on a modern system last weekend and it refused to cooperate 
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The PC Gamer disc that came with a demo for Soldier of Fortune let you play through a few levels (three I think?) that gave you a setup to the world and plot, it was fine but nothing too out of the ordinary. The part that stood out to younger me is that you could play multiplayer with the demo, which led to playing tons of a pretty decent deathmatch mode.
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verbal enema posted:loving remaster Cutthroats! goddamnit! 
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Perhaps John Romero did make us all his bitch in the end.
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sebmojo posted:my favourite little thing in games is seeing the dwarf fortress nerds blissfully happy big dumb faces, there are men who are unironically living the dream. also the soundtrack for the new steam version slaps
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I find it endlessly amusing how every ocean game ramps up the waves to 12. Those waves have to be at least Sea State 5 (a.k.a. "Rough") and might well be 6 ("Very Rough"). Sea state 6 is waves of at least 4 meters. I can't imagine that actual sailing ships in ancient Greece would want to go out on the water in these conditions. How do I preorder
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Agents are GO! posted:I started replaying Final Fantasy IX, and in one of the opening scenes your party is in a battle that takes place in an in-game theater production. During this battle, the characters have access to a battle command called 'SFX'. It allows you to cast flashy 0-damage spells. Because it's just a play.
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Maigius posted:The Legend of Zelda - Link to the Past Randomizer has a bunch of custom sprites. Each one is a little surprise to see how they charge in the various game states like dying, getting an important item, and the unpowered bunny state. Two sprites that were really good were Ryu who's bunny state was Dan Hibiki crying and Moosh, who used all three animal companions from the Oracle games at various points. Also one of the alt sprites is a can of Sprite, which is the kind of dumb metajoke I can appreciate.
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Weird Pumpkin posted:I'm not really that into racing games, but ngl this Forza chat is making me want to get it, I assume it's horizon 3 that's got all this stuff? I don't think I've played a non-Mario Kart racing game since like one of the older Need for Speeds, but this thread is a very effective ad campaign.
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Kit Walker posted:More games should let you move so fast that you can run off a mountain and land two countries away
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lord funk posted:A friend of mine enlisted his dorm mates to beat it on a NES. They grinded for weeks before finally beating it. Hel posted:I've been playing Gotham Knights, the Not Arkham Batman game from the devs of Arkham Origins, and it's mostly pretty Ok, with a few issues here and there. There is however one detail I really like, there is very pointedly no Joker in it, despite the game referring to Barbara's back being broken and Jason Todd being killed, he's never mentioned in relation to that. The closest it actually gets is referring to him is as "Harley Quinn's old partner". It's a tiny thing, but honestly felt really refreshing after every other Batman game just crams him in everywhere because he's the most recognizable villain.
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Phy posted:I just found out about the Super Mario 1 a+start continue trick.
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I liked the guidebooks that were like 1/3 regurgitating info already in the game, 1/3 deeper lore, and 1/3 actual tips. Incredible.
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Waste of Breath posted:And the other secret exit in the racetrack stage. Also, lol
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moosecow333 posted:I talk a lot about music in this thread but the soundtrack for the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress is so good.
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CitizenKain posted:Also, pinning someone as a gang informant, and pinning the person next to them as a police target, and just letting a that clear out a area was handy.
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I gotta say, for a twenty year old game Metroid Prime looks pretty good.TooMuchAbstraction posted:Anyway, since this is The Good Thread, something I appreciate about Peglin (which is a Peggle roguelike, basically) is that every single one of the balls you can find has a punny name. Also they made the wise choice to call them "orbs" instead of "balls". So you've got the Sphear, which is a spear orb that can overpenetrate enemies. There's the Icircle, a frosty orb. You've got the Jack-Orb-Lantern and Poltorbgeist. The Swoltorb makes future throws more powerful. The Shock Orbsorber grows stronger the more bombs you've set off. And so on. It's impressive how hard they commit to the bit, frankly.
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Phy posted:The giant robot version of a clapped-out civic with a fartcan and a stick-on Pep Boys hoodscoop
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Read After Burning posted:I can never see "Ave Maria" anymore without remembering Dan Ryckert going "What's the name of that opera song? Eva Angelina?" Randalor posted:I can still see the boat and anything past the boat. Put on more Disco lasers. 
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haveblue posted:Rome 2.0
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Throwing/kicking mooks off platforms is always satisfying, especially when the game realizes this and gives you a little added extra like that. It's a delight only surpassed by yoinking them off a rooftop from below.
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He does a couple cameo spots on the radio too!
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Solenna posted:In Yakuza 0 you can run a cabaret club and eventually poach hostesses from rival clubs named after planets. Incredible.
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Read After Burning posted:What are some of y'alls favorite examples of this? Blitzball (Final Fantasy X) Crash mode (any given Burnout title) Skyrim overworld (The Elder Scrolls V) Plus if the auction house in various MMOs counts, hoo boy have I spent a ton of time in the past playing the markets.
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Hel posted:Just put a rollcage on the wheelchair and the dodgerolls will be exactly as realistic as they are in a normal souls-game.
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Kitfox88 posted:MINIMUM HEIGHT - center with maxed height (7' something), maxed biceps, and minimum everything else - guard with minimum height, maximum size for every body part, and maxed stealing & speed - forward with huge lower body/zero upper body who was very slow but top in every kind of shooting so he'd make baskets from like half court - other forward with minimum size in every body part who was amazing at dunking - fifth teammate for the AI who sucked at everything but it didn't matter cause the four of us dominated. I think we gave him a giant head
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Cythereal posted:Warhammer Total War has introduced me to the joy that is watching heavy cavalry land a rear charge into skaven gun lines, and I don't think I'll ever get tired of watching the rats and their heavy weapons filling the skies of the Old World. 
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Captain Hygiene posted:Tears of the Kingdom's desert region starts off covered by a sandstorm, as usual, which seems like a recipe for annoyance as it obscures your map and compass and makes it tough to see.
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So there's lots to post about in this thread regarding TMNT Shredder's Revenge, since the game is a giant love letter to the classic cartoon/toy commercial. There are more little references and jokes stuffed in there than you can shake a stick at, with one glaring fan-favorite exception. Well, DLC just got announced, and Usagi Yojimbo will not only make an appearance, he'll be a playable character!
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muscles like this! posted:I can't remember if this is in all of them but in Uncharted 2 when you start a puzzle Nate draws in the relevant details and then when you finish the puzzle he draws in the solution. Oh, a PYF little thing in Uncharted 2: the intro train sequence blew me away when I first played it. I thought it was such a cool way to open the game. Then later on there's a whole level (a really fun one too; fantastic setpiece) where you play through what happened leading up to the intro! Zero_Grade has a new favorite as of 17:24 on Jun 29, 2023 |
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Cleretic posted:A realization brought on by Sonic Frontiers, but I feel like this is accurate in all games: Side note, that two pack is a great buy on the Switch; they're perfect "pick up and play for 10-20 minutes during lunch break" games. Zero_Grade has a new favorite as of 19:09 on Jul 12, 2023 |
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