August general chat thread: It is possible I played the game wrong.

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Initial dees nuts

# ¿ Aug 3, 2015 20:01

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 01:54

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Cyberbird posted:

MGS Megarun Update: MGS was solid gold from start to finish and actually controlled a lot better than I was expecting. The game was really designed around the limitations of the control scheme and felt consistent all the way through, and the whole story was glorious hammy double-crossing fun.

MGS2 is awful awful awful. The story is bad, the twists are bad, Raiden is bad, Rose is really bad. The Vamp fight was awful and now I have to deal with Jennifer Hale's most embarrassing role. I'm giving up and skipping on to MGS3 for some sweet soviet era action.

You feel this way because you are Raiden and it scares you.

# ¿ Aug 6, 2015 13:05

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MGS3 is the best game ever made.

# ¿ Aug 6, 2015 16:48

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Accordion Man posted:

2 is good despite is flaws and its satire is good poo poo.

I feel Peace Walker is by far the worst mainline MGS, its frickin' boring as hell. People poo poo on 4 but at least that was fun to play.

PW is awesome

# ¿ Aug 7, 2015 13:40

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precision posted:

Rise isn't super anime, there are hundreds of actual living Japanese girls just like her

i mean, so i hear

I want to marry all of them.

# ¿ Aug 10, 2015 19:45

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corn in the bible posted:

If you press the first person button whenever eva is around you find out snake is always staring directly at her tits.

Not true - sometimes he is looking at her rear end.

# ¿ Aug 12, 2015 13:48

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FactsAreUseless posted:

You never see fanservice in Korean games.

Lol

# ¿ Aug 12, 2015 14:09

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Lots of joke missers here.

# ¿ Aug 12, 2015 14:09

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Nice back pedaling :grin:

# ¿ Aug 12, 2015 14:18

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theultimo posted:

Only play games with Cheevos.

Are there even games that don't have them?

# ¿ Aug 12, 2015 16:29

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Sakurazuka posted:

Nintendo games.

I wish they did

# ¿ Aug 12, 2015 16:33

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Real hurthling! posted:

all the japanese games i've played recently have "woman who can't cook" in them. Nier, Deadly prem, persona 4g, etc.
what other games have this?

Girls who can't cook for poo poo is an extremely common joke in anime.

# ¿ Aug 12, 2015 20:10

In Training: Jun 28, 2008

Or sister

# ¿ Aug 12, 2015 21:36

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All of the women in MGS own.

# ¿ Aug 13, 2015 13:19

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Strong sexuality of a character and "fan service" are not the same thing.

# ¿ Aug 13, 2015 13:49

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Accordion Man posted:

They didn't retcon anything, a major part of the post 3 games is that everyone that knew The Boss just either incorrectly assumed what she wanted or just dressed up what they personally wanted as what they claimed The Boss wanted. Big Boss himself is totally subject to this.

It's the entire basis of Peace Walker and I assume it will continue in V and it's extremely cool.

# ¿ Aug 13, 2015 13:57

In Training: Jun 28, 2008

He's said repeatedly that Otacon is the character "most people who play the game identify with" so it makes sense that he's lonely and sad, like me.

# ¿ Aug 13, 2015 15:10

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The Taint Reaper posted:

Why are mobas such garbage and why do people keep playing them despite everyone admitting that they're not having fun?

There is no bigger turn off to me than something proclaimed to be an "e-sport"

I wish I knew

# ¿ Aug 14, 2015 17:22

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Fighting games are the good e-sport

# ¿ Aug 14, 2015 17:25

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icantfindaname posted:

counter strike is good. too twitchy and execution-based to have a huge e-'sport' infrastructure/scene though, it's too hard to play for nerds who just want to spend hundreds of hours memorizing patterns and strategy

if you don't play with strangers you'd have to play with people you know, and that would involve revealing that you play MOBAs in public, so better idea: don't play MOBAs at all

CS has a pretty healthy scene though.

# ¿ Aug 14, 2015 18:33

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icantfindaname posted:

it's like a tenth the size of even DOTA, as far as i was aware at least

Yeah, that's stronger than most.

# ¿ Aug 14, 2015 19:24

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There was a year or two where PC would get interesting indie games you couldn't find anywhere else, but now those are all timed console exclusives anyway, and there is no reason to have a PC over a console unless you really like DOTA and League.

# ¿ Aug 14, 2015 19:53

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Real hurthling! posted:

lot of people care about performance i guess but good enough is good enough imo

This I suppose. Like I wouldn't mind if FFXV came out on PC so I could play it at 60fps. But it also wouldn't have trophies so it's a wash

# ¿ Aug 14, 2015 19:59

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Real hurthling! posted:

what does steam have instead like a trading card game for laundering drug money? i don't pay attention to all those notification that pop up when i'm just trying to necrodance or whatever on my laptop

They have steam achievements that nobody cares about bc you can edit a text fil and give yourself all the Cheevos.

# ¿ Aug 14, 2015 20:01

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Nasgate posted:

PC gaming is hella cheap. Can build a good gaming rig for about as much as consoles these days. And all games are always on ridiculous sales on steam or bundle stores.

And you can sell your cards to buy more games, so with PC gaming you can literally pay for games by playing games.

There's no way I could build a rig that could even run Dolphin for the price of refurb Wii u.

# ¿ Aug 14, 2015 23:57

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Blister posted:

You can talk during the movie, it's ok

Don't talk during movies.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2015 16:29

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Zombies' Downfall posted:

ME2 is like the best modern example of a game improving rather than diminishing a franchise by cutting off the fat (in this case a ton of boring redundant bullshit equipment, skills, and barren planets that only existed to make the game appear more like a traditional CRPG)

Games are different from most media in that sequels are almost always better because it usually means mechanical refinement and addition of new technical bells and whistles while delivering a similarly enjoyable story. Almost every game sequel is better than the previous iterations.

# ¿ Aug 17, 2015 01:04

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The Colonel posted:

While this point may hold true for many things, it unfortunately does not hold true for the second games in the Devil May Cry and Deus Ex series, or the third Serious Sam game, which they named Serious Sam 2

Agreed on all counts.

# ¿ Aug 17, 2015 01:10

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hubris.height posted:

Fighting the Knights Templar through the streets of gay Paris while using my stealth cybernetics will always trump any complaints.

Dude, Deus Ex 2 is an awful game no matter what franchise it was associated with. The game exe closes and relaunches at every load screen. It's a barely functional mess, lol.

# ¿ Aug 17, 2015 02:37

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Not a Children posted:

The finest 1998 had to offer is no longer adequate after nearly two decades of industry-wide gameplay refinement, whoda thunk it.

MGS1 and SM64 are still good.

# ¿ Aug 17, 2015 15:38

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The Taint Reaper posted:

Persona 5, Xenoblade X, and Final Fantasy 15 are all coming out on different days on the same week.

No they're not

# ¿ Aug 18, 2015 14:03

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The problem is that the money you spent on Gems in a free to play game could have been spent on you know. An actual video game.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2015 17:58

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Deus Ex is loving great.

# ¿ Aug 19, 2015 16:02

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drat I can't believe I extensively used this overpowered weapon that broke the game.

# ¿ Aug 19, 2015 18:41

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TheScott2K posted:

Right, because them giving you a game breaking weapon for no reason at all makes tons of sense.

What's wrong with that

# ¿ Aug 19, 2015 18:48

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System Shock 2 sucks rear end. Deus Ex is good. Glad we can put this all behind us.

# ¿ Aug 19, 2015 18:50

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StashAugustine posted:

counterpoint: ss2 had even worse combat than deus ex, which is saying something

It's like playing Deus Ex using only melee weapons without ever leveling up your melee skill past 2.

# ¿ Aug 19, 2015 18:52

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TheScott2K posted:

It makes way less sense than the devs using it to put a bandaid over their game's sucking chest wound of a combat/stealth dichotomy. The combat was terrible and the stealth systems were rudimentary at best, so it was either give the player a glowy sword or risk nobody ever bothering to finish the game.

You could just not use the sword. Dumbass.

# ¿ Aug 19, 2015 18:52

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Iirc the opening f SS2 is walking through a series of branching tunnels for 30 minutes to build your character, which is way better than say. A menu. For some reason.

# ¿ Aug 19, 2015 18:56

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 01:54

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The Colonel posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzvw8uSWucM

gently caress yeah.

# ¿ Aug 19, 2015 18:56

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