Grapplejack posted:

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

where at launch it's the best game ever, in 6 month's it's 'pretty good', in a year it 'has issues', and in 2 years it's 'only get it on sale'

Wamdoodle posted:

It's been a while since I played but DOOM still owns.

Cowcaster posted:

i take it back real life friends suck for video game recommendations

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

Jay Rust posted:

What's everyone's favourite cartridge in terms of taste? The special gold-coloured Ocarina of Time cartridge for Nintendo 64 is probably mine, off the top of my head.

oddium posted:

it has darklaw

bloodychill posted:

Is this... Wolverine Batman

Harrow posted:

Yeah, I'm a fan of that approach. It still leads to basically the same backlash as unfavorable/too favorable review scores (like, the comments on the Horizon review, which is just the text with no recommendation, weren't pretty) but I think it allows for a little more nuance than a numerical score does.

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

Viewtiful Jew posted:

So what is going to be the big AAA release that actually satiates some peoples' blood lust for poo poo show reviews? Like they've been chomping at the bit to indulge themselves in the schadenfreude of a game that's been in development for years and has a huge budget go up in smoke once it's in the hands of reviewers and the gaming public at large.

Harrow posted:

There's not really much in the way of big, hyped-up AAA games left for 2017, is there? Prey is coming in May and that looks like it'll be pretty good. Mass Effect Andromeda has a shot at being good but also might be disappointing. Other than that, what's left?

I know Persona 5 is coming in April but a) we sorta already know it owns, and b) it's a bit too niche to qualify for that big, hyped-up AAA thing anyway.

Harrow posted:

I have no idea why I even got used to inverted Y axis in the first place but despite my best efforts I am forever tainted by it

Harrow posted:

Huh, that does make sense looking at it that way. Although for some reason I don't invert the X axis so I guess it's not quite the same (unless I'm getting my spatial reasoning all messed up, which is possible)

tap my mountain posted:

Wait so you do it one way for 3rd person cameras and the other for FPS?

You're the real monster

raditts posted:

The only arcade shooter the world needs is Lucky & Wild

The rest can go straight into the trash

exquisite tea posted:

#1 Best

a kitten posted:

Saint's Row 3 had a demo that was just the character creator that you could then import into the game.

I love character creation and will happily restart to tweak some minor thing as long as the game is enjoyable.

Hell, I like trying to recreate the same character across multiple games given the opportunity.

tap my mountain posted:

I love character creators in games. I can't start a new save on a souls game without spending 90 minutes making them look just perfectly hosed up.

Jay Rust posted:

If you named your kid Aeris or Rinoa, would you tell them where it's from, and risk your kid losing all respect for you?

tap my mountain posted:

Video game name aren't nearly as bad as naming your daughter Reagan

Palpek posted:

I remember reading an article on some crazy sect where children were named after common words and together they spelled out a sentence praising God. Somebody should do the same thing but spelling out a badass gaming quote.

Jay Rust posted:

What I'll end up doing is just take my name and spell it backwards, like Alucard or that guy in Snatcher

POOL IS CLOSED posted:

I have a great aunt Zelda.

Harrow posted:

I just realized I really want to see a superhero game use the Nemesis system. Like, something that isn't tied to Marvel or DC or anything, but a new superhero universe, and the Nemesis System is what determines who your rogues gallery and archenemy end up being as you defend the city from a bunch of small-time supervillains all clamoring over each other for wealth and power.

Red Bones posted:

the turn speed from "every time the player moves"

haveblue posted:

Eurogamer is my main game news site despite not being in euro. Their reviews were always less fawning and they're responsible for one of my all-time favorite pieces of game writing.

Palpek posted:

The sequel to Shadow of Mordor is looking more and more promising. You're raising a huge army from the start now to bring down fortresses, you can have spies infilitrate those first, you can ride fire-breathing dragons, use the ring. The nemesis system got expanded a lot where for example the abilities of orcs you promote in your army will influence the defenses of your fortresses etc. I'm hopeful:

Palpek posted:

In King's Quest for example you needed to guess a gnome's name. That character is a refernce to Rumpelstiltskin (you have to know that on your own, the game doesn't include that name) but that's not the right answer.

In a totally different location in the game you can find a random message that says 'sometimes things are backwards' or something like that and if for some reason you connected that concept with the gnome's name you'd get Nikstlitslepumr...but that's also wrong.

The right answer is that instead of inverting the word itself you should have thought about inverting the alphabet and replace each A-Z letter with its Z-A counterpart so you'd get Ifnkovhgroghprm you big dummy!

Wikipedia posted:

In the episode of Batman "An Egg Grows in Gotham", Egghead uses Ghoti Oeuf as the name for his caviar [fish egg] business, and Batman explains the reference to Robin.

Scrublord Prime posted:

The Rumplestiltskin puzzle is at least optional, if you can't guess his hosed up name in three tries you can take an alternate route to the cloud/mountain area and you'll just miss getting a perfect score. It's no deadly snake that you need to randomly throw a bridle you got from a genie on to transform into a flying horse so it'll give you a sugar cube that will protect you from poisonous brambles you need to cross later on. Or the classic throw a boot at a cat chasing a mouse in a timeframe of a second or two else you leave the game in an unwinnable state when you enter a random inn and get tied up by a bunch of bandits! Or my favorite from another Sierra adventure game Gold Rush: While traveling by ship you can randomly get a disease and die or the ship will randomly sink and you die and the game will literally tell you "There was nothing you could've done!" The only way to survive is to load a save before getting on the ship and hope the RNG won't kill you next time.

CJacobs posted:

People don't unsubscribe from youtube channels. You have to manually go to the channel or your subscriptions list, browse through it, find them, and unsubscribe. The vast overwhelming majority of Youtube users don't bother doing that. So you end up slowly gathering a big stockpile of people who don't and will never watch a video of yours again, but don't want to bother unsubscribing because that takes more effort than the alternative. If you upload pretty rarely, that probably helps, because your videos only rarely show up in peoples' feeds to remind them they're still subscribed.

edit: what I'm getting at is that subscribers mean nothing, the views are what matter in determining someone's popularity.

exquisite tea posted:

Ah yes, the scourge of antisemitism would have been wiped off the face of the Earth altogether were it not for the popular television show, "South Park."

oddium posted:

this is me sitting in front of my ps4 patiently waiting for persona 5

Rexroom posted:

Hey guys I think the new Mass Effect game might be good they really took the series to a new direction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zUilV_oemg

Macaluso posted:

If they partnered with Nintendo on the new Mass Effect and added Bowser as a romance option they'd probably win game of the year

bloodychill posted:

EGM had (iirc) 4 reviewers to every "big" game and actually made it a point to put a person who didn't like the genre in one of the review spots. I kind of liked that.