Games Chat Thread October: Thrill-Switch Engage

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Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

What are the big selling points of Civ 6? I like 4X games but I feel pretty happy with Endless Legend and Civ 5 for the moment.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2016 14:54

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 01:49

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Yeah, March has to be strategy / war stuff.

# ¿ Oct 2, 2016 11:12

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

CrashCat posted:

what did they review

i mean yes i could go look but I won't now, just out of spite

The Force Awakens, nominally.

Most of the video is about how attitudes to the prequel trilogy have changed in the past few years, and what Disney taking over Star Wars means. The bit relating to TFA is easily the worst bit of the video.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2016 01:42

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

tap my mountain posted:

Yeah I'm gonna go watch a video the exact same length as the movie it's about so I can learn why it sucks

It's mostly not about the movie, and it doesn't say the movie sucks.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2016 01:47

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Lurdiak posted:

Isn't it weird how we never got a Star Wars video game where you play as Luke and run around with a lightsaber.

Like yeah the old platformers on NES and SNES and whatever but all those Jedi Knight, Shadows of the Empire, Force Unleashed, Bioware RPGs, terrible prequel games, and I can't think of a single one where you play as The Guy From Star Wars.

I guess with Rebel Assault they wanted to do a Star Wars FMV game but didn't have the main cast, so you end up doing all the same kinda stuff except as Rookie One or whatever.

You do get to do the Luke / lightsaber stuff in the LEGO games too.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2016 03:59

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

I'm 100% sure that Disney consciously aimed for a diverse cast, and I hope more big blockbusters take the same approach.

Lurdiak posted:

Lego games hardly count, you can play as That Gungan That Isn't Jar Jar, No Not That One, The Other One. Not that I'm complaining about that, but it's hardly the same as a game focused on one of the most iconic characters in the franchise.

It's one of the only ones I can think of, and "play as your favourite characters" is a selling point of them. But I take your point.

The main three turn up as special units in some of the strategy games too I think, but that's still really removed from the action.

There is also this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-r7SNQ_5fc
But ignoring that is for the best

# ¿ Oct 4, 2016 04:11

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Lizard Wizard posted:

hey guys i wanna make a new wow character

warlock, hunter, death knight or demon hunter? thanks

You can do a short max-level trial of any class now (it ends after the first major questline) if that helps.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2016 01:52

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Lurdiak posted:

Demon hunters get access to a ton of new content apparently, including knowing that certain NPCs are secret demons.

It's not really a ton.

There's a lot more class-specific stuff in this expac in general.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2016 02:22

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Infinity Gaia posted:

Well if you're using anything but red for fire you better have a drat good reason.

Green fire is A Thing in Warcraft stuff, and usually represents an association with demons.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2016 00:18

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Jay Rust posted:

Should health be red or green?

Yes.

Generally.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2016 00:38

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Snak posted:

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I hate that "RPG" in modern parlance means "lots of stats" and nothing else. Not annoyance. Irrational hatred.

Hasn't it always had that aspect though? I played games like System Shock, Ultima, and Eye of the Beholder in the 90s and they were thought of as RPGs then, and would still be today.

# ¿ Oct 14, 2016 14:27

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Action adventure games.

# ¿ Oct 14, 2016 14:35

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

CJacobs posted:

I saw a couple reviews that said The Hobbit at 48 fps looked like watching a stage play of The Hobbit and not a movie, and I agree.

It looked like it was in fast forward to me.

I don't get motion sickness but HFR films and 3D films look so incredibly fake and distracting to me that they're basically unwatchable. I don't have that problem with games though.

Help Im Alive posted:

Procedurally generated movies...incredible

It's kinda been done, at least on a script level.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY7x2Ihqjmc

# ¿ Oct 16, 2016 01:46

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Red Dead Revelations

# ¿ Oct 17, 2016 14:31

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Jay Rust posted:

I know nothing about Red Dead Redemption, was it actually all that popular?

And if it was so popular, why wasn't it released on PC??

It was expected to be a failure but sold really well (10+M copies) and was also really loving good.

It had a pretty rough development and the engine was a mess, which lead to a lot of bugs on release and made it uneconomical to port to PC.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2016 15:25

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Lurdiak posted:

I liked Red Dead Redemption but I got tired of it and didn't finish it because it has Rockstar Fatigue problems in its writing and world design. I don't understand the people who wanted to marry it, it was just a decent sandbox game that happened to have way less to do than GTA.

It has a really, really strong ending for what it's worth.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2016 01:57

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

I never really found the queue much use because all it'll do is fill up my wishlist or (at best) my backlog.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2016 10:17

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Bicyclops posted:

Earthbound was pretty funny and/or horrifying when it was being meta. I haven't experienced games trying to lampshade tropes or game design flaws that I can think of much besides that, though. Like there are a few joke dungeons/bosses in Chrono Trigger the characters comment on, I guess?

Stanley Parable's humour is mostly from that.

Hell, The Stanley Parable Demonstration has a lot of demo-specific humour (as well as the best button ever).

# ¿ Oct 26, 2016 01:18

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Bicyclops posted:

I really want to play that one of these days, but I keep thinking I'm going to do one of those gaming charity drive things for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and do my first blind playthrough of it then.

It's worth noting that if you buy the game it can be hard to play the Stanley Parable Demonstration because of the way Steam works, which is unfortunate.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2016 02:06

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 01:49

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Bicyclops posted:

if i play HL 2 now, will it feel super dated? i apparently have it from when i downloaded original portal.

I think it did a bunch of innovative things, most of which have been done better by more recent games.

# ¿ Oct 30, 2016 06:02

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