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Phigs posted:A lot of the impression of literature is tied up in various forms of elitism though. There's plenty of people who will gush endlessly at the wonders of Mario or Sonic or whatever else. The only real difference between them and a literary professor is the prestige society gives the professor. One semester I had an english literature lecturer who tried to start a discussion about what can be defined as literature, only to end the discussion stating that the only thing that counts as "legitimate" literature are works that make references to older and more esoteric literature. I get he was trying to make a distinction from something like a pamphlet in a doctor's office but the guy reeked of unjustified elitism.
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Shibawanko posted:i kind of wish there was a game i could combine with being productive, like something turn based with waiting times that doesnt require constant action on my part but still makes progress based on my decisions, also lightweight so it's not an ordeal to start up or shut down or minimize. i work best when i can occupy part of my mind with something else, as long as i don't have to pay attention to it too much. simulation games are good for this but ive played most of them to death I'm guessing you already tried it but this sounds almost like Stellaris if you take out the turn based part. Its the only one of those types 4x grand strategy games I've ever been able to get a real good grip of, and there are definitely moments of just waiting for events to be able to play out as it chugs along at whatever speed you set it. I've only got experience with the console version, but the updates for it are catching up quickly to the PC updates and I found it pretty playable control-wise on the PS4 controller so I imagine the PC version might have controller support too.
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Mar 27, 2021 13:28
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All I know is that after playing the PS4 version of YU-NO with the hentai removed, the hentai might possibly be the only thing stopping it from feeling like some baffling fever dream where almost every conversation rapidly escalates to you and the other person blatantly wanting to have sex with each other until the conversation reaches its climax where you just both walk away agreeing that it would be a cool idea.
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Mar 30, 2021 05:26
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:I got into a dumb argument about VNs in a thread awhile back because I was saying they're all thinly veiled excuses to see porn with people of questionable age and I said I'd buy and try any VN anyone cared to suggest that wasn't about that. So a goon suggested one to me, I bought it, played about 30 minutes, and refunded it because I could see the writing on the wall and sure enough after looking up spoilers a major plot point was brother/sister incest lol. The VNs that are meant to be thinly veiled excuses to see porn aren't even vague about it. I realise this is Unpopular Videogame Opinions but you could have just left that thread alone and saved your money because it's plainly obvious based on the whopping 30 minutes of gameplay and Incest Plot Point = Porn take that you never intended to actually give any suggestion you were given a real chance. Redezga fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Apr 4, 2021 |
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Apr 4, 2021 21:56
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Food Wars rules and is the purest form of horny.
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Apr 5, 2021 06:38
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Take the thrilling Five Nights at Freddy's experience everywhere you go.
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Apr 5, 2021 18:56
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Rocket League lets you put a little Something Awful flag on your car that communicates to twelvies that you have in fact honed your body and mind over the course of your entire life in the most advanced possible physics system in the entire universe (internet forum).
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Apr 12, 2021 23:51
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I like those Summoning Salt documentaries on Youtube about speedrun record histories. They're usually more about the community discovery process, which can be kind of impressive considering how small and niche the communities around speedrunning a single game are usually.
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Apr 13, 2021 02:41
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I always get Haikyu mixed up with Keijo in my head, but I assume if someone doesn't like Keijo they were never meant for anime in the first place.
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Apr 18, 2021 01:29
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The first half of Doki Doki is the worst part and if you've made it past that to "the good part" you're probably a Youtube Let's Play channel from 2017.
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Apr 18, 2021 02:00
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I'm going off the information on psnprofiles trophy attainment, but it says more than a quarter (26.5%) of the people who played the game on a Playstation actually beat Sword Saint (43.08% for psnprofiles linked accounts) which seems pretty good considering how many people don't finish games even with an easy mode. I'm not going to say he isn't hard, but he's probably the right amount of hard if a good percentage of people are able to persist through the difficulty. Redezga fucked around with this message at 08:11 on Apr 21, 2021 |
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Apr 21, 2021 08:09
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Danganronpa was the last game I played where I had to turn the difficult down.
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Apr 21, 2021 11:07
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signalnoise posted:I didn't beat that game because I have had experiences that made the subject matter extremely uncomfortable for me but on the other hand, the devs should not be fired into the sun for making it and people can like it if they like it I don't know if it could really be considered a spoiler, but the impression I had by the end of the series (so far) is even the series creator was a bit uncomfortable with how much some of the fanbase was into the premise.
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Apr 21, 2021 11:12
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Doctor J Off posted:They should make a video game in VR where the game is just a person in a room in front if a video game console, and you can pick up and play the games in the game system in the game. Maybe all thr virtual games all have adjustable settings and sliders, or whatever else you want. Basically a VR simulation of playing the games I want to play that should exist but don't instead of the real games that actually exist. This is almost exactly the SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis Classics compilation. It even has Vive/Oculus Rift/PSVR support.
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Apr 21, 2021 14:13
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For real though a Plasma Cutter only run in Dead Space is both a very achievable and fun way to play it on even the hard difficulty.
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Apr 21, 2021 16:31
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I bought a copy of Neuromancer and a Lovecraft compilation recently and both of them came with a pair of those cardboard red and blue 3D glasses, so with that in mind I consider not using them to read as the easy mode.
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Apr 21, 2021 16:50
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Thinking about it now with most of the areas in those games, sooner or later they do have the essence of an easy mode if you're just playing the game as you probably would the first time through and levelling up stats as you go. That's not even considering learning how to parry and backstab, feeling out how much equipment you want to carry and how agile you want your character, even what kind of weapon just feels right. To bring it back to Sekiro, it feels a lot like this when you reach that point and it's worth it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zcOUnXd-HQ
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PinheadSlim posted:Soccer was less crazy about it in my experience, my poor little brother liked baseball and football though. He stopped liking football early in highschool but my mom and his step dad basically forced him to continue. "Only quitters quit, you made a commitment to the team!" and he has had severe back and leg problems ever since being injured many times. I loving hate people who do that to kids. Just let them play Rocket League you disgusting boomers. My dad is/was one of those parents but I'm far more stubborn a person and stopped playing soccer when I was 16 (in his defense he's South American). However, I was playing Rocket League at his house when I was visiting for Christmas and I was pretty much yelling that exact same thing about my team as my dad was watching. He did not let this fact escape me, but in my defense it was the ranked competitive mode where if someone quits they aren't replaced with a bot or new team mate. Redezga fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Apr 23, 2021 |
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Apr 22, 2021 23:58
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The original Resident Evil also got a version that used the sticks and rumble, but I was a timid child with a baby games Nintendo 64 so I just know that from the game being on the shelf at Blockbuster.
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Jun 16, 2021 06:46
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They make amazing games but I'm still mad at Nintendo abandoning the WiiU so quickly, and refuse to acknowledge them as winning anything until whatever comes after the Switch is released.
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Jun 16, 2021 12:22
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It's been a while but from memory the photo mode in Uncharted 4 was dope because it also paused the individual rain drops mid descent so you could get a real good look at them.
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Jul 1, 2021 22:39
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I'm in my mid thirties and tried Fortnite for the first time last week. It's a world of soulless brand deals, has possibly one of the most predatory approaches to microtransactions I've ever seen, and I'm pretty sure most Fortnite dances were just ripped from popular TikTok videos. It genuinely pains me as someone who grew up on eighties and nineties cartoons to see how inevitably jacked up modern marketing at children has become in comparison. But all that taken into account, the gameplay itself is pretty fun and easygoing and I've seen some really creative combat strategies using the building mechanic and map design/features. It actually kind of surprised me how much fun I had with it. Still evil though.
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Jul 27, 2021 09:21
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Archer666 posted:I'm too lazy to look into it, but I always wondered how this differs from the old cartoons like He-Man or Transformers which were made to peddle plastic crap to children. It all seems the same to me, just a different way to sell stuff to kids, and people being upset at it just being caught in the cycle of "Being old and not liking that things are different than when I was a kid". I sort of assume I've got at least a little bit of a rose tinted glasses thing going on. Looking back I remember playing a lot of stuff like M.C. Kids, Cool Spot, and that kind of thing without a thought. My dad probably knew he was renting an ad for me to play for the weekend, and even had to use fuel and physically drive me to the video store to get it and return it. I'd feel bad for my dad if he had to deal with modern efforts made to convince me to convince him that it's not only is it a good idea to pay something like $20 to be a walking Space Jam 2 ad, but essential to my social status among my other little nerd friends that I'm not a "default". Also he has a small window of time to decide before the skin is gone forever (for a few months), and you better believe that the second it's gone there's going be something else cool and priced at several thousand v-bucks available for the next 24 hours every single day that I am still playing this hugely popular otherwise free game available on almost every platform including mobile devices. Trying to imagine being a parent in that situation I'd hope I could be understanding enough to not get hung up on the negatives, but that doesn't mean the kid or their friends/peers would take the same consideration.
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Jul 27, 2021 23:06
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I never even considered spending a second grinding in Diablo 2, so getting to the end of the third game and finding out the story was mostly a long tutorial baby mode for a seasonal grindfest was really disappointing.
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The first time I played MGS2 was in 2012 when the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection got released. As far as I know people seemed to mostly hate those HD Collections, but it at least coincides with the people coming around to MGS2 in the past decade thing.
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I enjoy FFXIV and have found the community pretty friendly for most of the part, but the trend of recent converts from WoW referring to themselves as refugees feels a little melodramatic and in bad taste. Even pretending there isn't very real things happening with actual refugees right now, it reads like people self inserting themselves as a personal victim of Blizzard's sexual harassment problem (having likely glossed over many other problems brought to light before the recent ones) and then acting like Square Enix would never have similar issues.
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Fair points. Put in a bit of perspective I think I was probably being unfair generalising people on the motive or origin of the WoW refugee thing.
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Aug 27, 2021 21:53
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tripwood posted:Is this unpopular? The only Souls-like I've ever truly enjoyed is Blasphemous, goddamn that game is great. I don't know if they were added later but I always felt like the inclusion of various screen filters to CRT TV up the visuals hinted towards the game being a lot more influenced by older games than any of the Souls-likes. I mean obviously Souls-likes are an influence with the bosses and stuff around that, but it feels pretty unique and arguably a somewhat special game in its own right.
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Oct 1, 2021 14:34
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The console ports of Infinity Engine games are the best versions. BG 1, 2 and all their expansions are already bundled together, dying over and over to the same pack of wolves as a low level character is just more tolerable when you're relaxing on a couch in your preferred reclined position, and they did a good job making the game playable with a gamepad.
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I've grown to enjoy the wandering jrpg grind recently, but back when it was released I liked that I didn't have to guess where I was going with Final Fantasy XIII.
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I kind of like it when creator directors of popular series openly lash out at the series/fanbase by deliberately writing an ending that not only gets them out of making more sequels, but attempts to salt the earth to prevent reboots. Even if it's a series I like I can't helping feeling something along the lines of "good for them".
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Nov 23, 2021 16:41
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I know The Simpsons: Hit & Run is the more beloved open world The Simpsons game, but The Simpsons Game (2007) has a better and more fleshed out interpretation of Springfield as a town in every way. Similar to the difference between Liberty City in GTA3 and GTA4. That said I don't want a remake of either, I just want the GTA5 of The Simpsons open world games.
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Nov 24, 2021 04:34
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X JAKK posted:Wandering around all of Springfield with that hauntingly relaxing music, beating the crap out of anyone who annoyed you until they run away screaming, beating God in Dance Dance Revolution, good times. I vividly remember the DDR part because the d-pad on my Xbox 360 controller was busted and that part would only allow inputs with the d-pad. I ended up brute forcing it, but I swear I spent way too long on that part.
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Nov 24, 2021 14:14
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Back in its day Ecco Jr. was my jam. It was so easy you could finish it twice in a weekend rental, and it was never scary.
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Dec 1, 2021 14:57
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The parts in Sonic games where you're just standing there waiting for a platform to lower would benefit from some kind of Fortnite dance mechanic.
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Harrow posted:SaGa games rule I picked it up recently and I've really been enjoying all its weirdness. I started with Lute, so it was either that or fly directly to the last boss.
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Triarii posted:I worked with a guy who'd spend all of his lunch breaks playing a moba despite never seeming to enjoy a moment of it. Just constantly swearing at his computer under his breath, "bullshit" "jesus loving christ" "why the gently caress would you do that" My flatmate is a screams gamer words at the top of his lungs and spikes the controller into the ground Rocket League player. He's also a school teacher, so when I asked him why he did that to himself every morning before his daily Zoom classes he said it just helped him get ready for the day. He also refuses to learn how to do aerials in the game because he's worried it will raise his rank to a level where he'll no longer be able to blame his teammates or accuse the other team of smurfing. He knows it's dumb, but he just prefers it that way.
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Icochet posted:Armor has never made a game more fun. Armour made Dead Space more fun because you experience a gradual metamorphosis from a vulnerable plasma cutter wielding engineer in PPE to fearless walking tank covered in guns you don't need because the plasma cutter still rocks. Redezga fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Dec 19, 2021 |
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Dec 19, 2021 00:46
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Now I'm remember how mad I got about Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus putting the health as something like 60 because B.J. was getting old and wasn't feeling so hot. Maybe it was the difficulty I was playing on? I know that really the 60 health was just technically the games version of 100 health, but it still kind of puts me off whenever I feel like playing a shooter and start considering my available options.
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Oh wow. Now I actually really want to play it again. Thanks! I thought it played well but it seemed like such a hurdle thinking that was the whole game.
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