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an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

I only used the auto stuff once just to see what it was like, but it was cool enough that I kinda want it in every game now.

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an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

Gwyrgyn Blood posted:

Yeah what these guys said. In Revengeance for example, if you hit Forward+X and an attack hit you, you get a parry. But if an attack didn't hit you, then you just attack as normal. So you can cover yourself defensively but keep attacking if you didn't need to parry.
It's not quite as useful as it sounds since most of the time you're parrying pretty deliberately in that game anyway, but it's there and it helps in some situations.

Attack also being parry is very thematically appropriate for Revengeance, it encourages being really aggressive. Such a good game!

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

MinibarMatchman posted:

totalbiscuit is a completely brokenbrained rear end in a top hat, jim sterling makes good points but totally does things just to stir poo poo up like a fat baby. also lol at his 2/10 review for yooka laylee

There's a bunch of bad reviews for yl, he's not alone. Even the meh ones are clearly folks who were primed to like it.

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

This might surprise yall but yl is a bad game.

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

Yooka-Laylee 64

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

There's no way in hell this is a God Hand situation lol

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

Lurdiak posted:

The reviews are all over the map and a lot of the negative ones basically open with "Man I've been wanting to talk poo poo about Banjo Kazooie for DECADES" so it's really hard to know what's what.

There's also a lot of folks who clearly wanted to love this game and were let down.

It sounds like it screws up even the basic elements of making collecting fun, which is designing a world worth exploring every nook and cranny in. It just looks boring, too big and too empty.

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

Jay Rust posted:

The whole Miku thing (as I understand it anyway, it's just a corporate virtual pop singer right?) is very weird to me, like, even Gorillaz has clear authorship behind it

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.

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

Nina posted:

I wish I could get over my prejudice for the social sim aspect of Persona because everything else about P5 looks amazing

Social links are my favorite part of Persona games, they're all really weird and generally follow interesting themes.

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

Ciaphas posted:

Specter Knight has more than made up for how meh Plague Knight felt

this is a good platformer

Plague Knight is one of my favorite platformers ever.

I can understand not liking it but I feel I should mention that I love it to pieces.

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

mutata posted:

I joined for the BTB and I stayed to effort post in the old school GBS and now I avoid it like the plague.

I got into the Quake Champions beta, but I guess I can't talk about it because it's got one of those "click here to agree" ironclad NDAs, alas!

Blink once if it's bad, twice if it's really bad.

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

Snak posted:

I got into SA from the front page. Like, I had gaming friends in first college who would share front page articles and stuff. After awhile of following that, I mentioned a front page article to one of them, and they were like "oh, I don't even look at the front page anymore, I just hang out on the forums". So of course I looked into that. Now I haven't looked at the front page in years.

there's a front page?

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

https://twitter.com/KeitaTakahash/status/850069688860069888

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

Regy Rusty posted:

You just remembered it wrong it's :regd05:

:regd16:

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

StrixNebulosa posted:

I've been playing too much Hitman but it sounds like someone Silent Assassin-ed the pilot. :tinfoil:

An international organization of hitmen who only take out pilots...

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

the nintendo switch is going to make more money than the wii ever did

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

Good article from PC Gamer about PC games and the Japanese gaming industry

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

Andrast posted:

lol no


Might still sell pretty well though.

It's gonna be like the wii where like everyone has one, but they're also gonna sell a whole bunch of amiibos and digital games on top of that. Nintendo has gotten very good at maximizing how much they get out of each individual customer and now they're gonna have a lot more customers.

At the very least no one should be worried about Nintendo's future anymore lol

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014


They hedge that later in the piece but it certainly seems like it's the case. It would definitely explain how cameras work in a lot of Japanese games. Even ones where the camera is fine, I generally have to go into options and speed it up to get it closer to something I'm used to.

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

Sometime around 2010 it was decided that every game needed to be a gazillion hour open world game or an esport and Bulletstorm came out on the wrong side of that.

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

precision posted:

Hahaha one of the s links in persona 5 is Japanese Bernie sanders

he would have won

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

after randy linked to battleborn porn reddit people started posting overwatch porn there, as some kind of own

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

Harrow posted:

Nintendo still uses confirm on the right and cancel on the bottom and weirdly enough I never have trouble switching between PS4 and Nintendo layouts, but I do trip up if I play an older Playstation game where O is confirm, even though it's just the same thing as if I was playing a Nintendo game :shrug:

That's because on Nintendo controllers your hand is coming in from the right, so it's the button your hand naturally hits first. On the PS and Xbox controllers they have those grips, so your hand is coming from the bottom.

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

StrixNebulosa posted:

https://twitter.com/MeowingIsWeak/status/852092146471534593

i mean okay, collect what you love, but also, what the christ

it's no 14,000 VHS copies of jerry maguire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXRMTahRj0g

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

precision posted:

I am now convinced that Nintendo is not a corporation run for profit, but rather an incarnation of Loki or possibly one of the more capricious lesser pantheon

I mean, I'm pretty sure they're in a situation where they could keep making a cheap, fad console or make more switches. The latter is definitely the one that'll make more money in the long run.

It was clear from the start that the whole point of the thing was to help pay the bills for those low earning months before the switch came out. It fulfilled its capitalist purpose.

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

precision posted:

why not both?

Because any money they have available to spend making more NES classics would be better spent on switches.

I'm not saying they're being forced to not make em, but it's clear how they could make more money by dropping one for the other.

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

The Switch is sold out everywhere, lol

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

The Nintendo Switch sold 900k units in north america, making it the fastest selling Nintendo console so far

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

Nintendo could post Apple numbers and some folks would still think they're doomed. I wouldn't say the switch is a done deal success yet but if it's gonna be that's what its first month would look like.

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

CJacobs posted:

I saw someone wearing the Nier Automata T-Shirt (&#@! Square Enix) in public the other day and wanted to point at them and go YEEEEE out of excitement but I did not because I am a normal human being.

you should have talked to them

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

This might shock you but the person wearing a shirt with a videogame on it would probably enjoy talking about it.

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

Rexroom posted:

My brother burned out of Persona 4 because the battles would only have that one song and the grinding is more or less compulsory.

It's such a good song tho

Also lol if you had to grind in P4

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

https://twitter.com/vectorpoem/status/852952833632591872

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

this is an ad

https://twitter.com/KeitaTakahash/status/854074262562324480

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

Palpek posted:

As tragic as it sounds Colonial Marines sold better than Alien: Isolation. It was the first big game in the Alien franchise in a while so people jumped on it based on marketing alone and then A:I sold less because of them getting burned with Colonial Marines.

Are you sure? I looked it up and it was 1.3mil for Colonial Marines and over 2mil for Isolation. The producers said they weren't happy with Isolation's sales but it was still more than Colonial Marines.

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

I have a beard and I have to shave the edges so it looks neater

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

CJacobs posted:

What the gently caress?

You can abuse children if you are a school.

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

It's good but I'm really bad at it and that's not fun.

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an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NFlo9FEfaY

new game by introversion looks friggin sweet. interview with PC Gamer

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