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Quest For Glory II posted:everyone seems to love horizon new dawn right now but i'm interested to see if it adheres to the typical AAA hype-to-antihype cycle
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Quest For Glory II posted:everyone seems to love horizon new dawn right now but i'm interested to see if it adheres to the typical AAA hype-to-antihype cycle Quest For Glory II posted:i noticed it happen with MGSV most recently. when it first came out everyone was fuckin exploding with cum over it and now people are like "UGH that game" Are you sure you're not just reading way too many lovely Neogaf threads
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Mar 1, 2017 21:51
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FirstAidKite posted:Horizon Zero Yawn - some games journalist somewhere, I assume i said this last month but in a positive way
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Mar 1, 2017 21:52
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Lobok posted:Even goon reviews, those most trusted and hallowed of all reviews, have to be taken with a grain of salt. I'm seeing it now with Doom. I was a tiny bit wary of playing it from criticism that it was going from arena to arena but now that I'm playing it I think about how similar these "arena" fights are to other games if I swapped it for something like "setpiece". And I'm noticing how much combat is actually spread all throughout the levels in areas of all shapes and sizes that could in no way be described as arenas. Not to mention how much "arena" combat there was in the original Doom games! It's been a while since I played but DOOM still owns. Cowcaster posted:as it turns out getting video game recommendations from complete strangers on the internet that have been established completely independently of your own personal tastes and opinions is dumb as poo poo  but it won't stop me from seeking them out
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Mar 1, 2017 21:54
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Sakurazuka posted:Literally the only way to tell if you like a game is to play it yourself. Trust no one. Only Trust Your Fists, Reviewers Will Never Help You
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Mar 1, 2017 21:54
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I give this Horizon zero stars 
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Mar 1, 2017 21:57
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I think you can watch gameplay footage and get a sense of how you'll like it. I saw Nioh gameplay and knew it would be rad. I am still excited for Horizon but seeing multiple people cheese encounters by hiding in the grass and whistling over and over has me slightly more skeptical
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Mar 1, 2017 21:58
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https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/837027763068424196 haha
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Mar 1, 2017 21:59
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But seriously Zelda GDC will loving own, I can't wait.
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Mar 1, 2017 22:00
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I think you can watch gameplay footage and get a sense of how you'll like it. I saw Nioh gameplay and knew it would be rad. I am still excited for Horizon but seeing multiple people cheese encounters by hiding in the grass and whistling over and over has me slightly more skeptical that's not really taking another person's opinion though that's researching and forming your own isn't it what i like is getting a few real life friends who understand and respect what games you like and don't like and can give you honest recommendations on games you might like but it's just a theory since i have no friends in real life
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Mar 1, 2017 22:01
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Quest For Glory II posted:everyone seems to love horizon new dawn right now but i'm interested to see if it adheres to the typical AAA hype-to-antihype cycle I think Horizon's definitely good, but it doesn't exactly shatter expectations. It's a fairly standard open-world action RPG, with all that the term entails in 2017, with the exception of a lack of Far Cry/Assassin's Creed-style busywork icon hunting. Its big draw is that fighting the robot dinosaurs is fun, and it definitely is, but that's mainly what makes it unique. If you threw Rise of the Tomb Raider, Far Cry 4, and The Witcher 3 (well, without the super-involved side quests) in a blender, you'd end up with Horizon. CharlieFoxtrot posted:I think you can watch gameplay footage and get a sense of how you'll like it. I saw Nioh gameplay and knew it would be rad. I am still excited for Horizon but seeing multiple people cheese encounters by hiding in the grass and whistling over and over has me slightly more skeptical The whistling is definitely overpowered. It needs to be a little less directed. Right now, it seems like you'll only ever lure one robot at a time if you whistle, but I think it should lure more than one if they're standing close together or there's one closer to you than the one you're aiming at. Y'know, add a little risk to it. If nothing else, you can't do instant takedowns on the really big, cool robots, so those fights are always going to be as big and bombastic as they should. But you can definitely cheese standard robodinos by luring them into the grass and stabbing them.
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Mar 1, 2017 22:03
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The trick is ignoring the simple it's good/it's bad opinions and actually reading what people have to say to get a sense of what the game will be like and even ask question to clarify some things.
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Mar 1, 2017 22:04
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Palpek posted:The problem is that you believe these are the same people. Consensus is a lie. Different groups become loud at different times, people who liked the game move on to play something else etc. There are some changed opinions among the crowd and there are definitely rose-tinted glasses at release because people are hyped. On the other hand though, what does it matter? Have fun with games that everybody else hates, it's cool. This is very true. I loved games that get some loud goon hate like the Mass Effect and Bioshock series. A lot of people love those games but it's not like people still talk about them much except people who have a chip on their shoulder about it. I'm also that loud hater person when it comes to certain games like Final Fantasy 8 and 13, where I kind of love to hate them and so do others who are very vocal but it doesn't make us right. Me hating FF13 doesn't make someone wrong for loving it, and just because they're not as loud doesn't mean the goon consensus is that FF13 is terrible. It means they are playing something else and I'm the sad guy still talking about how bad I think a 7 year old game that I didn't even finish was. I'm not sure if that's more or less sad than the weirdos who watch entire streams of games they have no interest in just so they can talk about how much they hate them (see HZD).
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Mar 1, 2017 22:04
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The NVIDIA GeForce Experience made PowerPoint hang and crash multiple times because it thought it was a game and every time I switched slides it asked me if I wanted to Share the Experience, good times
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Mar 1, 2017 22:05
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:The NVIDIA GeForce Experience made PowerPoint hang and crash multiple times because it thought it was a game and every time I switched slides it asked me if I wanted to Share the Experience, good times i was feeling kind of mopey but this post cheered me up immensely thank you
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Mar 1, 2017 22:07
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From my experience watching gameplay footage helps only to a certain degree. Many games give you a lot of options in how they're played and people playing them add a layer of their idea of which of those options are fun to them. I've seen some horrendous gameplay videos of MGS5 where the player did the same unfun thing over and over because that was his choice while the same level played by somebody who was way more creative showed a completely different game and sold me on it. I guess the solution would be to watch a few different videos but I often don't want to waste time like that.
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Mar 1, 2017 22:09
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:The NVIDIA GeForce Experience made PowerPoint hang and crash multiple times because it thought it was a game and every time I switched slides it asked me if I wanted to Share the Experience, good times Direct me to your PowerPoint twitch pls
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Mar 1, 2017 22:09
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Wamdoodle posted:It's been a while since I played but DOOM still owns. Yup. If it wasn't clear from my post, DOOM is everything I wanted and lots of things I never even knew I wanted.
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Mar 1, 2017 22:11
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Truth be told I have almost never gone wrong with my gut reaction looking at the basic premise for a game and thinking if it would be cool. It's the stuff I have to be convinced of by goons that's more hit and miss. The only game I can recall having the wrong feelings about were DOOM and I think everybody was off on that one.
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Mar 1, 2017 22:13
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I'm looking up nier music and 50% of youtube thumbnails are spoilers and the other 50% are butts
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Mar 1, 2017 22:16
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lets hang out posted:I'm looking up nier music and 50% of youtube thumbnails are spoilers and the other 50% are butts The butts are the spoilers.
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Mar 1, 2017 22:16
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also hypothetically if i did have friends i would bet one of them would be one who to his dying day never stops recommending to the group at large that they play dota2 and bears it as a personal scar upon his soul when each and every one of us turns him down every single time always coming back repeatedly with new elevator pitches as to why it's such a fantastic game that we'd love
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Mar 1, 2017 22:17
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I'm gonna spoil the hell out of that butt
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I think you can watch gameplay footage and get a sense of how you'll like it. I saw Nioh gameplay and knew it would be rad. I am still excited for Horizon but seeing multiple people cheese encounters by hiding in the grass and whistling over and over has me slightly more skeptical Ok I do t know if this is because I'm playing in Very Hard but this poo poo doesn't work for me. If I whistle a bot over and aggro it, all the other bots know because of their wireless link unless I can kill it in one hit. Even then, if I'm not stealthed, they still know. Only the small bots and low level humans can be killed in one hit.
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Mar 1, 2017 22:17
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     Saw some of these at walmart yikes
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Jay Rust posted:I'm gonna spoil the hell out of that butt No one likes a spoiled butt
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Mar 1, 2017 22:19
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On the subject of toys - those Pop! things were completely meh to me but then this was released: 
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lets hang out posted:No one likes a spoiled butt Don't kinkshame.
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Cowcaster posted:also hypothetically if i did have friends i would bet one of them would be one who to his dying day never stops recommending to the group at large that they play dota2 and bear it as a personal scar upon his soul when each and every one of us turns him down every single time always coming back repeatedly with new elevator pitches as to why it's such a fantastic game that we'd love My video game friend spends months/years getting hyped up for every single big game then plays it for an hour
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Mar 1, 2017 22:21
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i take it back real life friends suck for video game recommendations
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Mar 1, 2017 22:23
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I remember a dude irl telling me to get a psp and to throw away my ds because playing trauma center and phoenix wright is lame because you can't learn to be a real surgeon or lawyer doing those and that the psp is where all the cool adult games are
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Mar 1, 2017 22:26
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IT'S A NUT you can play OUTSIIIIDE. I love my psp/vita but dear god the commercials were cringey as gently caress. I don't really take goons opinions on anything, some of the things goons find fun I find meh. Like right now all the steam thread saying RCR Underground sucks, but I'm finding fun with it. Though that is more of the mentality of I enjoy beat em ups alot.
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Mar 1, 2017 22:34
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Cowcaster posted:i take it back real life friends suck for video game recommendations If I played what my friends recommended, I'd be playing The Division, MOBAs, Skylanders/Disney Infinity... 
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Mar 1, 2017 22:34
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Lobok posted:If I played what my friends recommended, I'd be playing The Division, MOBAs, Skylanders/Disney Infinity... Can't speak for The Division, but MOBAs can be fun casually with friends who aren't angry stereotypical MOBA players, and skylanders is definitely a fun mindless romp if you can get the stuff for cheap and have a friend to play co-op with
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Mar 1, 2017 22:35
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It used to be easy to know if I wanted a new console, because I just asked if it had a Castlevania and then it was done. It doesn't work anymore.
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Mar 1, 2017 22:35
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When does Phoenix Wright get less-than-really-good? I've just completed the case with Von Karma (the vampire-looking prosecutor) and it feels great.
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Mar 1, 2017 22:38
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I enjoyed Tom Clancy's The Division™.
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Mar 1, 2017 22:38
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Jay Rust posted:When does Phoenix Wright get less-than-really-good? I've just completed the case with Von Karma (the vampire-looking prosecutor) and it feels great. There are some stretches that people like less than others but it never like falls off a cliff
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Mar 1, 2017 22:39
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FirstAidKite posted:Can't speak for The Division, but MOBAs can be fun casually with friends who aren't angry stereotypical MOBA players, and skylanders is definitely a fun mindless romp if you can get the stuff for cheap and have a friend to play co-op with Nah, I honestly don't think they're terrible. Not making GBS threads on those games but they are so not my taste at all.
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Jay Rust posted:When does Phoenix Wright get less-than-really-good? I've just completed the case with Von Karma (the vampire-looking prosecutor) and it feels great. Phoenix wright 1 is generally considered good from start to end. The last case was added on in a later release and feels a little out of place but that's about it.
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