Widestancer posted:

Did you ever finish that smb3 romhack you were working on?

alcharagia posted:

Nice sig

exquisite tea posted:

I freaking love video games, and posting about video games and making jokes. It genuinely surprises me that many Games posters who presumably do the same thing as me for 12+ hours a day post insanely negative stuff all the time about how terrible games are. To me, they are all pretty good and I'm thankful to be living in a time period in human history where the coolness of video games has been realized, and I think we can all agree that the only truly bad games are Dark Souls and Obsidian's entire catalogue.

DolphinCop posted:

Start to Crate has been a metric for video game review for more than a decade

elf help book posted:

The crates are inside you, VideoGames.

Widestancer posted:

Pyschonauts is only 1.99 on steam right now

VideoGames posted:

i dont think you should drink that. it looks bad for you.

Wamdoodle posted:

Lol if you haven't evolved passed the need for these silly things.

Adam Bowen posted:

Ddraig posted:

OK, great, but why exactly is Ubisoft presumably hiring guys to make cool as poo poo stuff and yet not punishing them profusely when they make something that isn't cool as poo poo, i.e. virtually all of the plot and story of Far Cry 4 that isn't "Blow these people up"

They WASTED MONEY making a game that has a civil war thread running through it that reads like a C grade teenager's understanding of civil war (these two people are bad, maybe they're as bad as each other, maybe they're even as bad as the bad bad man?) when they could have paid them less money and had it be Jurassic Park with Honey Badgers or spent a little more money on a guy to read over this stuff and make sure it wasn't a complete pile of poo poo. Maybe if they're that hard up for cash they could get some intern to go over it with a red pen.

Stux posted:

are you all being serious recommending south park. you're all saying "if you find SP funny" but who over the age of 9 does

Stux posted:

south park is not funny

Stux posted:

no it does, south park is on a my little pony level of embarrassing poo poo you shouldn't like.

hubris.height posted:

yeah p much. i have always had a fondness for the duo since orgazmo but years of success have really hosed with the logic circuts in their brain and turned them into raving morons half the time, and idiot savants a third of the time

future wife and i started playing diablo 3 and i'm really glad i waited this long to try it, the ps4 version is hard to find a fault with, other than 'lots of menu time and only one person can use it at a time'. i recommend it if you're looking for a good couch co-op game.

Hitlers Gay Secret posted:

We're are in the mode of making GBS threads on everything because we used to be in a mode of praising everything even when the game was terrible, leading people to make poor purchases. Those people became jaded and now post about how much they hate stuff.

Alain Post posted:

That was a silly theory that was almost certainly not what was intended.

Alain Post posted:

That requires a choice that explicitly genocides a sentient allied race to be the "paragon" choice, which would make no sense.

Unless they're explicitly lying about it, but that isn't really supported either.

Alain Post posted:

That's the renegade philosophy, though.

Alain Post posted:

What I was getting at was that making the tough choice to blow up the Reapers at the cost of blowing up the newly-sentient Geth as well is about as far Renegade as you can get. You're making the choice to sacrifice others for the greater good.

I mean, Renegade/Paragon is kind of dumb anyway, but

exquisite tea posted:

Leaving the indoctrination theory aside for a moment which is interesting but not really supported, imho, I think Control makes a lot of thematic sense as the Paragon option because the entire galaxy has relied on Shepard to unite them, to mediate conflicts, to bring about the peace that was the original intent of the reaper's programming. So in becoming the reapers himself, Shepard basically ascends to godhood and becomes the alpha and the omega, giver of life and angel of death, as he has continually done over the course of the series. It's weird but I think it fits and also creates an ominous future where the unknowable Machine God ever looms over the sentient races. This, in my opinion, is a coolass setting for a video game.

Alain Post posted:

It doesn't make any dramatic sense, is what I'm saying.

Ddraig posted:

If they spent the money they did on licensing music from other sources and paid a band, or a couple of bands to record entirely original music for GTA it would be amazing. gently caress, there are bands out there who would work for peanuts for the opportunity to be featured in a multi-million selling game like GTA.

I do kind of take issue with the use of licensed musics in games like that, since for a lot of music people tend to have an emotional investment with it, so to hear it in a game is vicariously imparting the feelings you'd associate with that music with the game itself. GTA4's soundtrack was praised, probably much higher than the game itself should have been if we're being truthful, possibly for those reasons.

Plus the GTA games go out of their way to make it clear that they exist in an entirely different world from the one we're in (New York doesn't exist, it's Liberty City etc.) yet there's little stupid things that make you go "Oh, right, this carefully constructed world isn't as entirely carefully constructed as they would like you to believe". Back in the New York Groove playing when New York doesn't really exist, for example.

If they just had original music tailored to the world and the universe they've decided to create it would go a long way to distracting people from the man behind the curtain pulling all the levers.