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Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

Zaphod42 posted:

Yeah, I was reading this article getting my pitchforks out because I love to hate on Molyneux for his complete bullshit, but... I dunno, it sounds like he actually loving learned something:


I think one of the biggest mistakes he made with Fable and Godus was he was just the ideas guy, so divorced from the programming that he just promised the world and his poor engineers had to try to make his dreams a reality. The guy getting back into programming is like the best thing that could happen to him, it'll force him to realize what is and isn't feasible before he starts making promises and coming up with lofty ideals.

And he actually doesn't want to talk about his new game yet? Like, holy poo poo, he FINALLY learned!

E: Oh wait though


Yeah that's horseshit Peter. That's horseshit. It was a publicity stunt, you already pulled it, and then you didn't follow through. "oh but we didn't actually profit" oh shut up.

About that Godus thing: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-02-11-the-god-who-peter-molyneux-forgot

I don't have a hate boner for Molyneux like others might but it's hard to get excited about anything he might come up with after stuff like this.

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Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

an actual dog posted:

Miku is a branded voice for a singing voice synthesizer called Vocaloid. Anyone with the software can make something that sounds like Miku, and there's Miku 3D models out there if you want to make like music videos and stuff.

It's a combination instrument and internet meme.

Late to the Miku talk but Miku owns because you can use the software to make stuff like this:

:siren::siren::siren: Watch your volume/headphones before you click! :siren::siren::siren:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pqtOm9pvbo

Not gonna be everyone's cup of tea and I'm sure I will be added to Ignore lists for this but gently caress it :justpost: Also on the subject of artists getting paid for using a Vocoloid: I believe as long as it's your own original work, you can make an original album and sell it as long and you bought the Vocoloid software. If you make a cover of a song using it and you want to sell it, then it turns into a legal mire but I guess that's true no matter what. Then again I'm no lawyer.

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

precision posted:

Take this line from the IGN review:


I play video games to get away from work, not to do more work!

e: and I guess I've been burned from remembering how strictly you had to play P3 and P4 in order to see certain things, I've already seen "If only my STAT were high enough for this dialogue choice" more than once and gently caress thaaaaaaaaat

Maybe just play the game? Novel, in this day and age.

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

precision posted:

I am playing the game, but as I get older my patience for games which gate content behind a second playthrough when a first playthrough takes 90+ hours is to say the least "naff".

Ok, I'm with you there. I had to drop RPG's, Japanese, Western or what have you, because of this. Also, my attention span has seriously waned as I get on in gaming years :/

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

StrixNebulosa posted:

My cat just tipped over an unattended glass of water and spilled water over my sidetable and I rescued everything but my psp is wet and ugh if this thing breaks -

... I mean I won't be too sad because I've played most of what I want to play on it, but also, ughhhh cat! Do not touch my water! Do not tip my glasses over!

Tipping stuff over is the cat's natural state, though.

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

Raxivace posted:

I once had a cat who was born without one of her paws. She still had four legs though and it always freaked people out.

The missing paw didn't stop her from hunting birds and bringing their corpses to our doorstop every few days, and occasionally in the house. It was kind of cute for how gross dead birds are.

We also got a puppy shortly after getting the cat, and the cat taught him to do cat things like how to sleep on the armrest of the couch.

This owns. Did the cat sleep on one arm while the dog slept on the other?

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

Hate to interrupt pet chat but I think this might interest some people even though I haven't shopped at GameStop in quite some time:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/04/gamestop-com-investigating-possible-breach/

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!


drat, that's up there with rants hidden rants that were put in games' code by disgruntled programmers where they were never thought to be found.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ndNSRy04YI

Well, except not hidden, lol.

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

Captain Invictus posted:



And while we're diving down this deep as gently caress rabbit hole, WeiJiang also does oversized KO's(OSKO) of third-party Transformers as well, such as this Throttlebot combiner team:




Each bot is glorious, great quality, huge, fun to transform, and merge together into a nearly two foot tall combined robot mode with individually jointed fingers and ratchet joints for strength. Best of all, it's dirt loving cheap, about 120 bucks shipped from china for all six bots and the combiner parts. This dude has all the components.

Chinesium is a hell of a drug.


Whoa, wait a minute, where is this in that store? I only found the orange one, Wideload.

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

Captain Invictus posted:

here you go:

Wideload(torso): http://www.ebay.com/itm/In-Box-WEIJIANG-Oversized-Throttlebot-Wideload-DEFORMATION-ERA-/262857232712?hash=item3d33831148:g:C3wAAOSwB-1YprZ6
combiner parts: http://www.ebay.com/itm/WEIJIANG-Ov...bYAAOSwhQhYw~qe
Goldbug(torso accessory jetpack thing): http://www.ebay.com/itm/WEIJIANG-Oversized-Goldbug-ERA-7-Action-Figure-Toys-No-Box-/262890652379?hash=item3d358102db:g:CGcAAOSwOgdYw~Tr
Searchlight(leg): http://www.ebay.com/itm/WEIJIANG-Oversized-Searchlight-ERA-7-Action-Figure-Toys-No-Box-/262890661042?hash=item3d358124b2:g:9tcAAOSwxEpYw~bt
Rollbar(leg): http://www.ebay.com/itm/WEIJIANG-Oversized-Rollbar-ERA-7-Action-Figure-Toys-No-Box-/262890657333?hash=item3d35811635:g:NucAAOSwol5Yw~Xh
Red Chase(arm): http://www.ebay.com/itm/WEIJIANG-Oversized-Red-Chase-ERA-7-Action-Figure-Toys-No-Box-/262890647896?hash=item3d3580f158:g:KbwAAOSw2gxYw~NP
Orange Chase(arm): http://www.ebay.com/itm/WEIJIANG-Oversized-Orange-Chase-ERA-7-Action-Figure-Toys-No-Box-/262890644259?hash=item3d3580e323:g:v6cAAOSwol5Yw~HC

other WeiJiang items he has: http://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_odk...ijiang&_sacat=0

I think due to recent actions our idiot president has taken with China, the free shipping he used to offer is no longer available on most of them, but it should still be possible to get all of it for about 130ish shipped I believe.
At first the ones available were Sideswipe and Tigertrack, so I grabbed those, then they put out Red Alert, and I like Red Alert, so I got that, and then there was G2 Sideswipe, who is ridiculous and absurd and literally has this face and weapons and SPIKED TIRE SHOULDER PADS from the original G2 comic so I had to get him:

and then there was only one left, an actual KO of no other character, just a red and gold Sideswipe, so I figured why not it was 20 bucks shipped. :v:

Awesome! Thanks a bunch. Time to stimulate the China's economy :tipshat:

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

oddium posted:

now that i'm wiser i get Six Machine -> Six Majin

Someone had to point this out to me too :doh:

This man is a treasure

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

I said come in! posted:

Global treasure.

I wonder how much ownership Nintendo has over Bayonetta 2? I really want that on PC.

I won't say it's impossible but the odds are not good at this time.

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

tap my mountain posted:

Poor guy is only going to be remembered as somebody else's unwanted catch phrase :(

Well he won't have to worry about that anymore. I can only hope to be remembered in some silly way, too.

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

Andrast posted:

He makes alright videos but is an insufferable poster

I thought he posted in a BanMe thread?

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

lets hang out posted:

Last time I had arbys I got food poisoning

This but substitute Arby's for Schlotzsky's.

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!


Would you say that Hitler is the Kung Führer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5P_LAqiVg

Kai Tave posted:

The bit in Titanfall 2 where you get the wristband that lets you blink back and forth between the past and present is incredibly cool. I mean the fact that Titanfall 2's single player campaign was actually as high quality as it was is impressive enough but in a game designed to make you feel like an empowered badass that bit might have been one of the best moments.

That was a legit good single player mode and I'm surprised it wasn't thrown together just to tick a box.

StrixNebulosa posted:

Objection, Legacy of Kain was badass!

I love the overdramatic lore of that series.

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

Help Im Alive posted:

That WWII Call of Duty has been confirmed apparently



And the circle is complete

Edit: or will be, once it comes out.

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

corn in the bible posted:

Well, what are you into? People can definitely suggest things.

Speaking of, we have a game recommendation thread.

Edit: Here's the link https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3196783&pagenumber=396&perpage=40

Instruction Manuel fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Apr 22, 2017

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

Guy Mann posted:

People Who Criticize Writer For Repetitive Referential Humor Post The Same Twitter Screencap Every Time Said Writer is Mentioned for Almost Half a Decade, See No Irony.

Hey that's longer than 140 characters! :mad:

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

Blotto_Otter posted:

frothing-from-the-mouth reaction it's getting from some corners of the internet and the gaming press.

TBF this is a pretty normal reaction nowadays.


Pls don't post my morning workout routine.

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!


What a time to be alive that stuff like this is enough to set some people off.

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

Mak0rz posted:

On to Blood. A game that's also enraging, but for a different reason! :haw:

the reason is that there's a bug that basically switches the difficulty to max if you load a saved game, regardless of what you started on

The Blood save game bug just inverts your difficulty settings. So if you start on the hardest (Extra Crispy) then load a game, it sets the difficulty to the easiest (Still Kicking) then vice versa. It resets on initial level load I believe. The best thing to do is just play the middle difficulty (Lightly Broiled) then you won't have any issues.

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

Mak0rz posted:

Well, kinda. What actually changes is just how much damage you receive from enemies. All the other difficulty flags (such as enemy placement) aren't affected by the bug as far as I know. So while I can exploit this to get Still Kicking damage levels, I'll still have to deal with the Extra Crispy problem of levels being completely full of those machinegunning cultists.


Blood is hard on that difficulty though :blush:. I'm just going through on Still Kicking and not quicksaving. Working okay so far, but I might have to rethink things when the maps get tougher/longer.


This is the real tragedy here. But don't worry, we'll have the bleeding edge BloodXL reverse engineered source port by 2027 or so!

Ah, I stand corrected.

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

Anybody post this yet? Not Puyo Puyo Tetris and old but still Tetris:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwC544Z37qo

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

Guy Mann posted:


IMHO it's way better to admit you were wrong like that than doubling down and dragging your heels like that guy on Gamefaqs who wrote a novel-length Killer 7 story guide and wound up having a meltdown when Suda51 later directly contradicted all his theories.


Lol, got a link to some choice quotes? I remember reading that screed back in the day.

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

Lurdiak posted:

The original GBA not having a backlight and leading to a bunch of games being washed out and oversaturated in an attempt to compensate and people selling various flashlight peripherals that might allow you to see what the gently caress is happening on your loving screen was the most Nintendo thing ever.

More so than the original Gameboy? Because holy poo poo.



And that's just one example.

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

Tunahead posted:

You just have to think

Whoa whoa whoa, hang here there. Let's not get crazy now.

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!


Lol. Holy gently caress! Was this contract drawn up on the elementary playground?

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

OK, cool. Those accessories are all in the hundreds of thousands of halos and I'm making like 10,000 a chapter and getting stone awards :( It looks like I'm missing a lot of fights even though I've been trying to explore the levels?

Some fights you actually have to backtrack through levels, IIRC.

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

Guy Mann posted:

Thinking back on it, Stubbs the Zombie was way ahead of its time because it too was a game about an anachronistic sci-fi utopia being destroyed by an outside supernatural force. Only instead of lighthouses and Big Daddies it was barbershop quartets with rayguns and dance-offs against police chiefs.

You're pretty spry for a dead man!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtaDL0qXCVE

That game was insane and I liked the contemporary versions of the songs of the era.

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Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

GUI posted:

Singularity went through a Bioshock Infinite-esque development hell where plenty of the developmental changes are available online for everyone to see. Less than a year before the game's release there were previews with entire areas, weapons, characters, third person cutscenes and a voiced main character which never made it into the finished game.

Sounds like what happened to TimeShift.

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