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Hyrax Attack!: Jan 13, 2009; We demand to be taken seriously

45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:

are there mods that make the quests not boring or something because otherwise I don't get it

Having the main character speak was a mistake. Plus the replicant nonsense was the worst parts of Battlestar and didn�t really fit in the fallout universe. Especially the teleportation tech, c�mon.

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# ¿ May 5, 2024 04:28

Hyrax Attack!: Jan 13, 2009; We demand to be taken seriously

Finally got around to Last of Us. It is a delight, combat is so much fun.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2020 03:20

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Nostalgia4Butts posted:

my main team was ryu, wolverine, megaman

my rear end in a top hat team was servebot, amingo, storm

Sabertooth, Ken, Captain America.

I remember one guy was trying to make it not fun with a team of Cables and just spamming his ranged attack, so my team of three Juggernauts sorted him out.

# ¿ Jun 5, 2020 18:55

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Spider-man on PS4 was one of my favorites so got Miles Morales on sale. At first seemed like a DLC they were trying to pass off as a full game but after a while it started to click and became more likable, especially some of the new game modes and feels like they paid more attention to indoor fight mechanics. Still never gets old wrecking goons on a rooftop then afterwards looking around and seeing some of them stuck to skyscraper windows across the street.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2022 15:37

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Handsome Ralph posted:

I just finished Miles Morales last weekend and I really really enjoyed my time with it. Which surprised me because a lot of people were pissed that it was basically an expansion pack but I enjoyed it a ton and it didn't over stay it's welcome.

For sure especially after I started using the venom attacks and exploring the side missions. The original is a contender for best ever superhero game but was frustrating how the DLC was so lackluster, going from the main game with spectacular battles against the sinister six and Mr Negative being an interesting villain to battling the generic mafia and running errands for Black Cat.

It was a little silly at the start of Miles Morales how it gets handwaved how Roxxon is an energy company with good PR but patrols the streets with armored cars and rocket launchers without that making sense other than giving you someone to fight, but it got a bit better as the Underground has a more coherent backstory. Also really liked going around trying to locate unique sounds for Miles' uncle, interesting use of the city space that wasn't the same old missions.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2022 16:59

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Handsome Ralph posted:

Yeah, oddly enough, the collectables in Miles Morales and Spider-Man weren't a total chore and I really enjoyed going back to get all of them. The audio samples was surprisingly fun even though my initial knee jerk reaction to that and any collectable type quest is "ugh, how long is this going to take?".

Really hoping we get a solid Spider-Man 2 game at some point cause I heartedly agree, the original was probably the best super hero game I've ever played.

Yeah the Arkham games had that problem. Didn't mind finding riddler trophies in Asylum as the map wasn't too big and exploration was fun. City became a bit of a chore but there was that glitch (didn't seem intentional) where anything collected with Catwoman counted towards Batman's total so he didn't have to 100% the map to get the achievement. I finished the main story in Knight and saw the map had suffered a smallpox outbreak of riddler trophies and just watched the achievement video on YouTube.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2022 18:59

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Handsome Ralph posted:

Really hoping we get a solid Spider-Man 2 game at some point cause I heartedly agree, the original was probably the best super hero game I've ever played.

We definitely are with the same design company and it looks great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIQ3xNqkVC4. I might have to try to get a PS5 for that.

They're also making a Wolverine game set in the same universe which should be awesome, hope they go for the M rating like X-Men Origins: Wolverine which had fun brutal combat.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2022 20:39

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Handsome Ralph posted:

So after years of false starts and just not "getting it", I finally managed to make Bloodborne click for myself last night. I get it now.

My friend wouldn't shutup about Elden Ring and I decided that I was only gonna buy it if I could make Bloodborne click for me, and it finally did.

drat, I didn't even realize that was announced. Then again I was in the middle of the Scottish highlands when that announcement came out so that would explain it.

Oh yeah I need to give Bloodborne a try. I've never tried a Souls game but keep hearing good things. And goons were right about RE2 on PS4 being a blockbuster.

Giving up on Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Not a disaster but so dang boring. I play for two hours and barely get through one side mission. Why do I have this giant arsenal without no one to fight?

That's neat you were in Scotland, I went on a Rick Steves tour there a few years ago and had a great time. Especially seeing a sheep dog herding demonstration those were impressive and I got to hold a puppy afterwards. Was also good to get reminders that American museums are at their best maybe AA baseball compared to the UK's all star line up. The museum at the Battle of Culloden was fascinating, I went in knowing next to nothing about what happened and they had an innovative set up where you walked down hallways showing the leadup to the battle and one side explained what the rebels were doing while the other explained the actions of the English, so you could get a better picture of motivations.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2022 17:28

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Tiny Timbs posted:

Pretend I wrote �Nintendo games never go on sale� in random caps

I�ve had good luck with SA Mart used games and gift card deals. BotW is great but my top 3 is Odyssey, Tetris 99, and Hades. Some quality stuff on their NES and SNES libraries too.

# ¿ Apr 13, 2022 04:00

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Started playing Hades again. If there�s a better written game that incentivizes talking to every character, I haven�t found it.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2022 16:02

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Radical 90s Wizard posted:

Ah well sounds like something I might grab on sale sometime. I got a random hankering for so 40k so I guess it's time to play some Dawn of War again.

Man Dawn of War was so good especially when it hit seven factions with a map. Tons of variety and flavor and the multiplayer was excellent, I wasn�t great at it but could contribute with an ork horde. I didn�t like in the sequel how it was overwhelmingly space mariners fighting tyranids and managing grenade inventory and special attacks.

# ¿ Jun 13, 2022 03:27

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Arrath posted:

Seriously the move to small scale squad combat sapped any enthusiasm I had for the latter Dawns of War.

I want WH40k: Supreme Commander goddamnit. Guardsmen beyond count charging forward under the cover of battery after battery of Basilisk, etc.

For sure, I know the sequel had some redeeming features but I was never playing those games for the story and it was tedious to chip away at bosses with 20k hp. The original had such great personality, I didn�t know anything about the setting so it was fun to piece it together from unit quotes and the planet conquering campaign.

I liked how all the sentient units had unique responses, I probably played the necrons the least as while they were fine mechanically but I think only their leaders had dialogue? Khorne berserkers owned, I liked how they were furious if given any commands that weren�t attack orders

# ¿ Jun 13, 2022 04:04

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Icon Of Sin posted:

It was the kill animations for me. Force Commander vs Bloodthirster, Grey Knights vs Avatars of Khaine, etc. I ended up buying into Grey Knights (4th ed) because I thought they were the coolest idea back then.

The first time I saw a Bloodthirster transform, I thought I had missed a really cool kill animation. I saw the cultist rise up and my librarian was close by, so I thought he was doing something�then the blood fountain erupted and a towering enraged demon walked out of it and started committing murders left and right

e: the voice of the Avatar of Khaine was really well done, too. Extra supply and all your soldiers are suddenly unbreakable because they don�t want to look like cowards when standing before a literal god of war and death? Yes please 🤤

Oh yeah those animations owned. I liked how you could repaint your units and that would show up in the campaign with zero accounting for taste. Blood angels yelling about how they must preserve their gene-seed from orbital bombardment as they show off their bright spring colors with a fun easter theme.

# ¿ Jun 13, 2022 17:04

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Gave up on Fallen Order, combat could be fun and neat to explore but painfully bad time tax mechanics. There are save points across the map, you'd think they'd allow fast travel to avoid tedious backtracking but heck no gotta make the trudge. Even Bloodborne allowed quick warps. The game could be summarized by a sequences where you run alongside AT-ATs and need to climb onboard and find a way in. The cool cinematic impact is gone by the seventh time our hero falls off the side as the patch of moss he was trying to hold onto wasn't the right patch of moss, and he needed to go to the other side.

# ¿ Jun 27, 2022 15:20

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My pick is whatever the shotgun was in bad company 2 that let me be kinda ok at multiplayer.

# ¿ Jun 30, 2022 13:57

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M_Gargantua posted:

Getting Sniper Elite 4 for $5 on the steam sale has been a good value. However the amount of wind drift is absolutely infuriating. I had hoped 'authentic' difficultly would be better, but the FOV settings make everybody seem tiny in relation to the PC and the bullets slide left or right like they're on ice skates.

That�s a fun series that definitely has an �alright that�s enough moment.� I got one or another on a sale and had fun with the x-Ray cam but bailed when it was expecting me to shoot tanks and sync my shots with the sound of thunder.

# ¿ Jul 2, 2022 18:51

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GD_American posted:

Anybody play Instruments of Destruction? It seems like the closest thing I've seen so far to a legitimate Blast Corps sequel/follow-up.

One of my favorite dumb laughs in Blast Corps was how if you fail a mission you can watch a replay from the perspective of the nuclear truck for which you were supposed to be clearing a path. Fun to drive a police car in the path of the truck, park, act surprised it�s not stopping, then have the hero get out and try to make a run for it from the imminent nuclear blast.

Same ballpark as having Solid Snake dive into a hut through a glass window, then run to a different window that still has glass to dive out.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2022 18:45

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Played through undertale to see what all the fuss was about. It�s good although was leaning on a guide near the end. I liked the skeleton dudes.

# ¿ Jul 8, 2022 18:34

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Steezo posted:

Good to know. Otherwise we'd have a BONE to pick with you.

Lol oh no

Playing through Circle of the Moon on Switch. Bless whoever added the option for save states so it feels like I'm playing on a friendly emulator.

# ¿ Jul 11, 2022 15:14

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Radical 90s Wizard posted:

Hell yea JK 2 with the dismemberment cheat on is still the best lightsaber combat in any game. Slowing time to wallrun past a dude with your saber just held out at neck level and look back to see him topple over in slow mo never got old imo.

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Lol heck yeah, could also lead to hilarious cutscene background events like Luke losing body parts as he duels a dark Jedi. Similar dismemberment features bumped that Wolverine game from forgettable to pretty good. Dunno why they can�t figure out that option for a new Star Wars game. I mean I know the reason why but an open world insomniac developed Jedi game would own.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2022 21:45

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FrozenVent posted:

Police Quest: SWAT is still boring as gently caress.

Police Quest: run of the mill Sierra adventure

Police Quest II: more of the same but with diving, with bright neon hair for the Japanese port

Police Quest III: pretty good and I have a soft spot as it was one of the first adventure games I played through with a cousin so anything seemed possible. Nowhere near gems like Sam & Max or Indiana Jones, and some of the traffic stops have iffy racial stereotypes (and your female partner turns out to be working for the drug dealing murder cult) but still above average. Hilarious death animations.

Police Quest IV: utter trash, brought to you by disgraced LAPD chief Daryl Gates. Painfully generic hero who would have been considered underdeveloped if his only role was standing in the background of a Law & Order season 20 ep. Plot was written by someone from America�s Most Wanted so reviewers noted Black character dialogue was lifted from Amos 'n' Andy and the male serial killer dons a wig & dress to show how evil he is. Oddly the only game I know of where you can get a game over for sexual harassment if you don�t stop clicking on female officers.

Police Quest SWAT: possibly worse than IV as at least that was a game. A mess of FMV and nearly uncontrollable characters and baffling missions (I think 3 in total?) try to click past a briefing you�ve already seen and you get yelled at.

SWAT 2: oddly kinda good, offers a chance to either be the LAPD or a cult for the campaign mode. Cops have much better equipment, training, and vehicles but must follow procedure and often the highest score is only possible if no shots are fired and nobody is hurt, which for this series is progressive. Cult has mostly untrained manpower but far more freedom and it�s fun to stall police negotiators while moving hostages out the back of the hospital. Ugly to look at and had serious bugs but overall ambitious and ok.

SWAT 3: I barely played this one but heard it was good and similar to rainbow 6.

SWAT 4: not only best in series but highly regarded in the history of PC gaming. Lead your 4 person squad on well crafted missions with good AI, challenge, and tension. Multiplayer was excellent as you could sneak up on the opposing team and arrest them for extra points. Top tier.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2022 14:36

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