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Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

I don't like retro gaming and despite growing up with both have no desire to play a nes or snes game again with the exception of playing A Link to the Past every five years or so.

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Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

oblique posted:

icewind dale was more fun than baldur's gate

The Neverwinter Nights 1 campaign was enjoyable.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

It was funny that bioware got a lot of complaints with inquisition because the straight guy romance choices were going to be more nuanced than Manic Pixie Elf Dream Girl or Busty Porn-Star Bisexual Pirate Wench this time.

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This is just truth. IWD has the best gameplay out of the infinity engine games.

Going to 3.0 in IWD2 helped a lot.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

Zorodius posted:

the entire fighting game genre consists of Street Fighter, and games that somehow make Street Fighter worse

smash bros shouldn't have the option of turning items off

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

Dragon Age Origins was perfect but only if you played a mage on PC.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

Maya Fey posted:

does anyone actually read the hundreds of in-game books/scrolls/notes etc. that you find lying around in wrpgs

yes

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

Nintendo would make so much more money if they stopped making consoles and just took all their great IPs third party for Microsoft, Sony, and PC.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

RTSs except for some of the c&c games all suck.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

I don't care about Steam putting out loads of lovely games and asset flips because I don't buy them or even see them much on my store page.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

The revelation at the end of Bioshock Infinite makes wanting to bone that girl a little more problematic.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

Diablo is tedious and the only thing raising the difficulty does is make it more tedious.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

get that OUT of my face posted:

i don't get the hype for stardew valley, it seems like a by-the-numbers ripoff of harvest moon

exactly

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

I liked Old World Blues but hated having to do that high school section like 10 times to get all the upgrades.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

The Dennis System posted:

Microsoft should put windows 10 on the xbox scorpion and make it a full-fledged computer.

Putting like 3 different OSs on the Xbone is one of the things that made it run so poorly when compared to the PS4, despite almost the same hardware.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

I bought the original bulletstorm, and would love to play it, but it's Windows Live automatic on even in single player, and Windows Live doesn't exist anymore. None of the workarounds seem to work for me, though admittedly I didn't try very hard and just moved on to one of the other dozens of games I bought but have't played yet.

Oh and instead of patching it out like all the other Windows Live games did, they left it in and will graciously let you pay $60 to buy and unfucked version of the game.

Thanks, Epic Games.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

The development of regenerating health was overall a good thing because it allows for every encounter to potentially go full out and throw everything at you.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

Doom 2016 had the compromise system of "You can have lots of health, but it's inside monster bodies and you have to fight for it." which I also liked.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

WRPG: A game with no anime bullshit and usually based on European Medieval Fantasy

CRPG: A really spergy western RPG

JRPG: Full of loving anime bullshit

ARPG: diablo or diablo clones that break your mouse

Game with RPG elements: All of them

ERPG: janky and broken

RRPG: Russian Rocket Propelled Grenade

SRPG: Sexual Role Playing

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

The Dennis System posted:

4K is ruining games. All the extra horsepower from the new consoles is being put toward reaching a resolution that the vast majority of people don't even have, instead of toward better graphics. And most people's TVs are probably too small to even be able to tell the difference between 1080 and 4K.

They won't be able to do 4k at decent frame rates anyway. A Geforce 1080 struggles with 4k at 60 frames per second with all the bells and whistles turned on in AAA games. Even a 1080 ti or a Titan can only come close to a steady 60 frames per second.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

Dark Souls is too hard and I don't play it. :colbert:

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

I want them to go ahead and make Elder Scrolls 6.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

By them I mean Obsidian, not Bethesda.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

hip check please posted:

I don't know how true it is but I heard that head business people at Bethesda are hesitant to announce a new TES thing because they dont want it stepping on the toes of that dumpy shithead MMO they have.

Unless you are making World of Warcraft or gay korean anime game #117 then the MMO business is not one you should be in.

This isn't an unpopular opinion, though.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

Max Hammer posted:

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is the most fun RPG ever. Fight me.

My god, that game was proud of it's loving lore. Every character would give you a 10 page history lesson before sending you out of a quest. And the annoying thing is they had dark elves and the regular fantasy stuff but insisted on using the dumb mad up names for them every single time.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

I loved Original Sin one and still think 2 improves on it in every way.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

Jeza posted:

That's the dumbest arrangement I've ever heard and I can't believe Obsidian agreed or suggested it.

Yep, aside from people assigned who just hate the genre or whatever, you might get a critic like that Mass Effect/Cuphead idiot who will blow your score by outright failure.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

Bholder posted:

I think it is a perfect time for my unpopular opinion:

Fallout New Vegas is not very good

See, one person with terrible opinions can ruin your score.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

Morrigan was raised in the woods alone by an elf god/dragon/janeway so of course she is a weirdo.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

Shibawanko posted:

The best MMO is actually Lord of the Rings Online

There is no such thing as a good MMO.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

There are both too many games now and also nothing coming out.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

10 minutes of "gameplay" footage featuring Norman Reedus walking around with a jar baby and a flappy flashlight. Truly, video games are art now.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

Away all Goats posted:

But Nintendo fans aren't insufferable, generally

You must have never publicly disliked any part of a Zelda game.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

poverty goat posted:

the strongest party composition is any 4 assholes with aerothurge 2, and they can cheese their way through most of the game by teleporting poo poo around, because teleport is the most powerful single spell in the game and the only one that works through magic armor

this is poo poo, and probably a lazy fix for the fact that magic armor makes all the other CC useless most of the time when it would be helpful

Take the talent that gives you magic crits based on your crit rate. Pick a human spellcaster and load him up with crit boosting gear. You can get 80%crit chance by mid game. Magic armor gets blasted right off.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

Jack Trades posted:

Did Witcher market itself as "mature"?

In a originally censored in America sex card kind of way.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

I think " loving lots of chicks and also kicking rear end" has kind of a timeless appeal.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

Harrow posted:

Has any game done first-person melee combat well?

Dark Messiah of might and magic with its all-mighty boot to the face.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

Ha, you let sunlight into your game room.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

Real time with pause is not a good way to control multiple characters at once.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

Vakal posted:

Playing Pillars 1 and 2 was ok, but all they really did was make me want a Neverwinter Nights 3.

This and KOTOR 3 are giving to be the main charges at the MMO war crimes trial.

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Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

Harrow posted:

Divinity Original Sin 2 is good because it's an RPG all about loving around, doing crimes, and routinely lighting entire battlefields on fire even though it's a terrible tactical decision.

Look, if my tanks don't want to be constantly on fire then they signed up with the wrong crew.

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