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I have to give Prey credit. It's pretty ballsy to make a spiritual successor to System Shock 2, a game heavily criticized for its item degradation, be focused entirely around breaking down items.FirstAidKite posted:Sorry, I thought I'd made it clear enough When people found out that the Steam Greenlight game Anubis and the Buried Bone was secretly a furry porn game one of the creepier things about it was that the name of the company releasing it was Kemosho Co, which is a portmanteau of 'kemono' (furry) and 'shota' (pedophile)   
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tap my mountain posted:It's especially bad when you remember where Simpsons used to fall politically. The Simpsons was funny in spite of Matt Groening trying to totally stick it to suburban America, not because of it. His pre-Simpsons comics are absolutely insipid.
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The premiere ep of American Gods was amazing and one of the things I love is the way they updated the character of Technical Boy. The book came out in 2001 so he was a fat neckbeard in a trenchcoat modeled after the people Neil Gaiman saw at conventions, in the TV show he's a Polygon editor who vapes and has thugs that look Superhot baddies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIExWPy1XSw
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Monkey Fracas posted:Ahhhh drat finally not having cable is biting me in the rear end. I really wanna watch this.  Modern TV is pretty good about giving you legal alternatives to  without having to get an actual cable package.
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Zaphod42 posted:You mean the game that everybody ripped to poo poo so he released it totally for free and gave everybody refunds and aplogized? No, it was the game after that. Him making the spinoff RPG free was more due to him being personally disappointed with the product than his fans complaining, that and he's already vastly wealthy off of the series so it's not like he's hurting for money. He also gave the woman who ghostwrote the FNaF novel a named co-author credit right on the cover. He seems like a pretty decent dude.
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Growing up I was told a Vietnamese parable: hell is a bunch of starving people surrounding a bowl of rice who are unable to feed themselves because their chopsticks are too long to reach their mouth, while heaven is the same only everyone is well-fed because they feed each other. MOBAs are also the same, only everyone uses their chopsticks to jab the other people in the eye because they want the rice all to themselves.
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May 2, 2017 21:04
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May 3, 2017 00:32
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Chet Faliszek just left Valve, hopefully he can apply his comedy writing somewhere that actually makes games.FirstAidKite posted:The shadow hearts series has good battle music and also I'm not sure if the vocals on said battle music are actual lyrics or just gibberish Shadow Hearts 3's batle music annoyed me because the chanting they sampled sounds like somebody saying "haven't got all day" and it's like the game was rushing me, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1EFHMwKdkY
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May 3, 2017 03:23
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raditts posted:I think they cause cosmetic changes on the player character and/or Elizabeth? The only one I can think of is that if you let the one guy stick a knife through your hand then your hand is bandaged up. The texture for the bandage has a rad demon head hidden in it.  Olive Garden tonight! posted:
Protip to any character designers out there: Never give baby things diapers, because it means you have to think about the fact that it means they have assholes and poo poo and nobody wants to think about that. exquisite tea posted:According to that ME3 analytics graph only about 3% of players shot Mordin to sabotage the cure, so there's hope for us all. The graph also said that the majority of players never even customized their Shepard, so I'm betting it's either bugged or it only drew data from people who bought legitimate Origin copies or something. Poops Mcgoots posted:I've been replaying Mystical Ninja starring Goemon and man, I would loving kill for a new entry in that series on the Switch. The sequel, Goemon's Great Adventure, is also rad even if it's a 2.5d side-scroller instead of a 3d action adventure. 
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Jay Rust posted:Has anyone touched a physical game magazine recently? Have they changed much in the past fifteen years? The last time I read a game magazine was back in 2008 when I finally let my EGM subscription lapse. That might be a special case because by that point 1up.com was already cannibalizing all their staff and even though there hadn't been an official announcement until the last magazine a lot of long-running talent like Shoe and the guy who made the Hsu and Chan comics were leaving on their own because the writing was on the wall. Also publishers like Ubisoft had just straight-up stopped sending them games because they were so critical. Anyways it was super disappointing compared to even a few years previously. In the early-00s an EGM during the holiday season could easily be a 300+ page tome full of Content and their reviews were fantastic because they basically ripped of Famitsu wholesale and had long in-depth reviews by four different people for each game and always went to the trouble of assigning at least one big fan/expert of the genre and one relative newbie or outsider as a contrast. Then they re-designed the magazine to look more flashy and it also started having a lot more ads and less content, even the reviews were scaled down from 4 critics to 3 and they were given way less space for text. By 2008 magazines almost never broke 100 pages outside of the holidays and they were more ads than actual content, I think they still had Seanbaby doing stuff for them but it was obvious that there just wasn't money there to produce enough content to justify paying for it. Especially when almost all of their stuff wound up on 1up.com for free. From what I understand game magazines as I remember them are basically dead in America. There's Game Informer, which is a glorified advertising platform that most people get because it comes for free with the Gamestop membership the cashier browbeat them into getting, but other than that it's mostly niche hobbyist periodicals.
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Sakurazuka posted:The only one I've played of those is Rapture and I enjoyed it but everyone else in the PS4 thread hates it. I'm a sucker for those sort of melancholy stories though and since there's nothing else to it it depends entirely on how much you enjoy that and wether the slow walking pace annoys you. I have to give The Chinese Room credit, they may not make good games but their titles are stellar. In a world of meaningless one-word titles that make it impossible to tell apart a Prototype from an Infamous, A Machine For Pigs and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture are  Lurdiak posted:These witcher bestiary entries should really be less sassy about getting the myths and creatures they appropriate wrong. It's like "unlike what stupid idiot morons think, basilisks can't turn people to stone". Hey guys, you're the ones getting it wrong... Maybe take it down a notch. Witcher doesn't hold a candle to Japanese RPGs playing a game of telephone with European mythology as filtered through D&D. Their kobolds are dogs. The Colonel posted:there was praise for its art style??? i didn't wanna dump on it because they probably just didn't have the resources for a style that actually mimics old 80s sci-fi mecha anime, but lol I have to give 100ft Robot Golf credit, whoever they outsourced their animation to did a pretty good job. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdPQ22OylFg Lizard Wizard posted:Thinking about the Simlish versions of real world music in Sims games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqdlQFAirCo Those Sims pseudo-adventure games they put out on consoles and handhelds were surprisingly fun at the time.
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May 5, 2017 04:28
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Sakurazuka posted:Oh yeah I forgot about the dumb NPC backstories. At least you can ignore them. I think one of the expansions added a special weapon that gets more powerful by killing the Kickstarter backer characters, which is great.
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Roasted brussels sprouts are my new favorite thing. I've been eating steamed frozen ones all my life but the local produce and butcher place has fresh ones and that plus a drizzle of olive oil and some seasoning in the oven gives you a crispy, satisfying snack.chumbler posted:Hot take: Five Guys' fries are not that good. Five Guys is OK but both the price and the wait is in an awkward place where it's not quite fast food and it's not quite a proper sit-down dining establishment so it always feels disappointing to me. Like if you get a complete meal of a regular-sized burger, fries, and drink it's gonna be about $15, where I live that's more than some entrees at any of the decent local restaurants.
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Quest For Glory II posted:I will say that like. the prices at fast food places are getting crazy. at the rest stop BK the bacon king was like $6.75 for just the sandwich. that poo poo aint even real meat. loving crazy margins Yeah, a Big Mac being cheap hasn't been a thing since Obama took office and now they're even phasing out the dollar menu. I only go to McDonalds a few times a year and it's ridonkulous that it's like 8 bucks for a sandwich combo meal and even basic cheeseburger is up to a dollar now. I could run into Publix and get a tray of freshly-made sushi for like five bucks and it would probably take less time than the drive-thru, y'all goofed up at some point. It's especially silly watching The Founder (it was just OK but Ron Swanson as one of the McDonalds brothers was awesome) since the entire reason McDonalds even became a thing was because it was fast and cheap and now neither of those apply to it.
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Nasgate posted:Imho veggie burgers are akin to calling a grilled eggplant "veggie steak" Eggplant is one of the many, many things I went through life thinking was disgusting only to find out that it's actually amazing and my mom, bless her, was just godawful at cooking it. Unseasoned eggplant slices with the skin still on, cooked to the consistency of jelly and floating in spaghetti sauce? Euugh. But peel of, sweat it, dip it in egg, dust it with parmesean and seasoned breadcrumbs, and bake it until it's crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside? 
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wizard on a water slide posted:what is it with moms and unseasoned vegetables Born too late for Home Ec classes, born too soon for the internet.
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Sakurazuka posted:She was never great then one day read that salt was the work of the devil and ugh. My mom thought that deodorant gave you cancer, I may have been the only teenager in the history of the pre-Axe body spray world to go out of their way to wear deodorant every day just out of shitheaded teenage rebelliousness.
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As a kid I was always super confused by TV shows having the mom as the cook and the dad as incompetent because my mom could barely do anything more complicated than baking frozen meals while my dad grew up in the Phillipines and could whip up, say, an amazing chicken adobo like it was nothing.
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There's an ongoing forest fire where I live and everything is super ashy today, and a bunch of people on Facebook are posting Silent Hill memes but it's all from the movie. On one hand it's cool that this weird Japanese survival horror game managed to somehow become A Thing for an entire generation of people but on the other hand I kind of want to shake them and be like "Pyramid Head worked way better as the avatar of James Sunderland's guilt! And the fog being smoke from a coal fire wasn't even in the games! They look like monsters to you?"
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I'll get The Rock pregnant. Like in my fanart!
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If there was a Wario version of Bowser, would his name be Wowser?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U0blDjQ2Gg&t=1395sCharlieFoxtrot posted:Doesn't "Wa" stand for evil? The inverse Bowser would be good Bro-ser. Olive Garden tonight! posted:Some people say that Waluigi is a stupid name, and you can't just take the 'Wa' from 'Wario' and put it in front of 'Luigi', because that's lazy. Wario works in english because it has "war" in it, at least. If they actually localized the pun in their names they would be Malio and Maluigi, I guess, since "mal" means bad.
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Guy Goodbody posted:What happened to Halo? It used to be a superhuge series but now nobody cares about Halo. Microsoft gambled on the idea that the brand name matters more than the people who actually made it good in the first place and lost. They created an entirely new studio to churn out Halo sequels after they lost Bungie and it turned out a bunch of mediocre unproven designers led to a mediocre product. Meanwhile Sony focused on keeping the actual studios even if it mean losing the brands, so Crash Bandicoot faded into obscurity but Naughty Dog kept printing month with their new franchises.
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Halo and Halo 2 were so popular, beloved, and influential that acting like they were always bad and never had any redeeming qualities is just baffling to me. It's like saying that the first two Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies were objectively terrible, even if you personally didn't like them and they haven't aged amazingly they're still something that even almost 20 years later you can still see the DNA of it in new things that are coming out.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Let's just say it has the best "Quest Completed" music cue since Witcher 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbh50fkIjng
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Apparently Uno on Xbox Live had a gay cruising subculture, which makes that old screenshot of a guy's kid getting banned from XBLA for jerking off during Uno have an entirely new dimension. Also, there are several woodpeckers nesting in the tree outside of my apartment and holy poo poo is the constant cheep-cheep-cheep so adorable 
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Cardboard Box A posted:There goes season 2 Congratulations, everyone boycotting Hitman for the always-online single player mode. We won. 
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Ometeotl posted:These are just Steam numbers, but... Absolution has been $1 multiple times on top of being in multiple Humble Bundles. I'm pretty sure they even gave it away for free at one point.
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wizard on a water slide posted:Honestly re: waiting on Prey, major studio games are made, sold, and supported in such a way that it's basically better to just stay perpetually a year behind the new release cycle unless you just absolutely have to be part of the conversation or multiplayer scene when a game drops. Most games cost less, are less buggy, and have more content if you wait to buy them. It rules. Also anybody who is already invested enough in a game to drop $60 to buy it at launch week is somebody whose experience is too effected by hype and expectations for me to take seriously, you need the people who get it a month later for half off at the very least before you start getting more balanced opinions. Remember how for like a week after it came out Resident Evil 7 was the best in the series and the greatest horror game in years and was gonna single-handedly save VR then after that nobody really talked about it or cared, or how Mankind Divided and FFXV being unfinished piles who weren't worth it didn't really start getting traction until the holidays sales?
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Speaking of mid-00s TV gaming cruft, remember how MTV had a show that was basically just machinima music videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YFoUlyHOs4 FirstAidKite posted:Are you trying to say that Dark Souls doesn't have random pop culture references? King's Field had an NPC dressed like Eric Cartman from South Park.
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corn in the bible posted:by the way ffx2hd has a roguelike in it It also had a spreadsheet game where you managed a Blitzball team and all of the actual games were just simulated.
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oddium posted:"jadding the taff" is what the british call doing dishes oi mate fancy a round of rooty tooty point and shooty on me dendybox
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Petition to rename Silicon Valley to Soylent Hill
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