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Cowcaster posted:is final fantasy even a huge draw itself these days? i know it's still in triple A territory but I thought its heyday was long past compared to market busters like call of duty or uncharted etc. etc. Well, it doesn't hurt that FF15 is actually a pretty drat good game, especially compared to 13 (though 13-2 and 13-3 are two of the best in the series) Also: Goddamn it Persona 5, don't throw a maze dungeon at me at 5 AM when I'm really stoned (I got to the Pyramid last night)
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I got Absolution free with PS+ and it was... fine? Never understood why people were down on that game, the story and B-movie poo poo is bonkers but it was a blast to play. Hitman GO is also very good, probably the best of the GO games.
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May 11, 2017 22:45
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exquisite tea posted:Well sometimes games receive a lot of hype at release because they are indeed, good. Most games these days are, indeed, good.
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May 11, 2017 23:50
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raditts posted:Is Dungeons 2 a good game? I've never heard of it but it's apparently free on the Humble Store for the next couple days. Quick glance at Metacritic makes it sound like a fun Dungeon Keeper clone, so I'm in. Thanks for the heads up!
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May 12, 2017 00:01
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I never did get around to playing Infamous Second Son though I bought it months ago when it was dirt cheap. Started playing last night and just couldn't stop. It's kind of insane how perfect the Infamous games are about having collectibles and "map icon stuff" without them feeling tedious or overwhelming. Why haven't more studios tried to copy Sucker Punch instead of Ubisoft? In Second Son, you spend pretty much 100% of your playing time zipping around and pulling awesome combat tricks, and there's just enough side stuff to be meaty without being fatty. When's the next Infamous game already?
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May 13, 2017 19:24
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Yeah I played First Light 2 years ago. I can see why some would prefer it because it's exactly the same just a bit tighter and more focused/smaller. Second Son has a really likeable protagonist (big change from the first two games) but halfway through the plot is more or less just "take back the city from the bad hombres". I don't know that I'd say First Light is categorically better especially since the Light power you use in it is only one of three power sets you have in SS, and the differences between them are well done and nicely complementary.
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May 13, 2017 19:49
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CJacobs posted:A bunch of people left and went to their own self-hosted website because of lowtax/shmorky drama that was stupid and dumb I used to read/watch LPs on here a fair bit (well, like one or two a month). Pretty sure the first LP I ever watched was Kung Fu Jesus doing that Columbine school shooting game, which iirc was v. funny. I also enjoyed Simply Simon's informative Mega Mans, MeccaPrime's chill Zelda/Metroid stuff, the amazing Mario Party mega-thing, etc. Nowadays I just watch a few streamers, I think they're all from here (you, superherofae, couple others whose names I'm blanking on) There actually was a point to that preamble! Recommend me a cool/funny video LP that's currently going on. I'm almost too tired/medicated to play a game on my own today 
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May 13, 2017 22:18
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enter the gungeon is so cute and fun. it's like the binding of isaac, only good
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May 15, 2017 23:29
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wizard on a water slide posted:they're both good. i do not like the aesthetics of binding of isaac. it's me, i'm the guy who cares about things other than gameplay
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May 16, 2017 00:03
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oddium posted:enter the gungeon and isaac are both bad for different reasons, where bad here is defined as not nuclear throne, king of kings, blessed be sounds like nuclear throne would be extremely my poo poo then FauxLeather posted:It's possible to like the gameplay and aesthetics of both, and i am doing it oh i'm sure. isaac's imagery just turns me off really bad. i wish it didn't, as it does seem like a really fun game, but i can't get past it. i have the opposite problem with Crypt of the NecroDancer, the art style of that game (and the music/sounds) are so good that i look past the extremely simple gameplay (simple, but good)
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May 16, 2017 02:52
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Add me to the list of the people that can't get past Isaac's aesthetic. I even respect it as the legitimate artistic statement that it is, like Piss Christ, but I'm not being asked to spend hours pressed up against Piss Christ Games chat: Casual Serrano references. Best gen chat on the forums!
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May 16, 2017 03:27
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drat Dirty Ape posted:It's not a real Civ game until a Phalanx unit with a bronze spear takes out a battleship bombarding it from the shore line. Even in Civ 5 I routinely have Archers protecting my cities until well into the Industrial Age 
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May 16, 2017 03:36
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oddly enough i had no problem with the aesthetics of Super Meat Boy, maybe because they're much easier to ignore
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May 16, 2017 04:21
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Diablo 3 on console is phenomenal, it really is. It's basically a very updated Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2 and that game was my jam.
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May 16, 2017 14:14
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ppl love to dog on AssCreed but there are more good than bad AC games: great: Black Flag Rogue Syndicate AC2 Brotherhood Watch Dogs 2 good: AC1 (if you play it before any of the others) Revelations bad: Unity AC3 Watch Dogs 1
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May 16, 2017 14:38
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Cowcaster posted:if you're going to include watch dogs as an assassin's creed game i think you have to remove black flag for not being an assassin's creed game hmmm... yeah that checks out. black flag's main connection to the AC series is "the protagonist does not want to be in an AC game at all"
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May 16, 2017 14:42
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Monkey Fracas posted:Like if they just eliminated this from the game it would help a looooot syndicate is less about trailing dudes for information and more about rappeling through the glass roof of sweatshops so you can brutally cane the guards and also your hideout is a literal train
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May 16, 2017 15:10
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Help Im Alive posted:Doom 2016 is pretty fast but then I ruin the pacing by opening the map every 20 seconds + going back to unexplored areas to find collectibles i do this with every game in which it is possible to do so. every. single. one.
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May 16, 2017 15:41
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Jay Rust posted:If there are two paths and you take the one that leads to progress, you better turn around and go down the other path because there's gonna be an item at the end of it. Video Games 101 you might think this is bullshit but i swear this really works: in JRPGs, the path with the treasure is almost always to the right, and the path forward to the left. in WRPGs, it's the opposite. i theorize this is because you read japanese from right to left and western languages from left to right. regardless, it's something i've been doing in games for over a decade and it almost always works.
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May 16, 2017 16:37
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Lurdiak posted:there's all these lore entries, and I mean it's my fault for reading them interezting, zo you are implying zat ze lore iz neither bad nor good until it iz obzerved, nein?
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May 16, 2017 16:54
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Help Im Alive posted:I hate when you realise you've accidentally gone down the correct path so you have to backtrack And then when you get all the way back to the treasure chest it has like 100 gil or a Hi-Potion
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May 16, 2017 16:56
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fridge corn posted:Is DOOM the best single player fps on ps4 right now? I haven't played it yet but from what I've seen it would probably be Prey but D2016M is really good
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May 16, 2017 17:06
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i put chrono cross on our ps3 because my partner wanted to replay it and now i'm tempted to also since i played it once, to completion, when it came out, and never touched it again, so all i really remember is "weird color coded battle system" and "stupidly huge number of characters with no plot"
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May 16, 2017 17:09
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Sakurazuka posted:Honestly the only thing I don't really like about Chrono Cross is the dumb tons of playable characters who have nothing to do with the plot thing. It's like they decided to copy Suikoden but in the most half arsed way possible. iirc wasn't it also an issue that the ones that looked like they would have a cool story didn't, while the boring stupid ones did have stories. like you get Ziggy Stardust as a party member and he had zero story.
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May 16, 2017 17:20
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Dewgy posted:Primal is really really fun, but it's also easy to burn out on. The plot is paper thin and pointless though, so it's a great game to put down and pick back up whenever you feel like it. yeah for sure. i loved the 15-20 hours i put in before i got bored. game is pretty too, but Horizon kinda blew it away in every possible way i got the Ezio Collection and so far i've only played about the first 1/4 of 2 but i'm surprised at how well it holds up. it's still very fun. e: also as an huge burroughs and mysticism dork i was blown away that hassan i sabbah was in a video game
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May 16, 2017 18:13
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AC2 did have the Feathers though and gently caress that noise i really liked the base building aspect, simple as it was. hey, i built a brothel, are you proud of me mama? ...mama?
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May 16, 2017 18:25
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most glaring disparity in quality between trailer and game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQa-SMrVG08
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May 16, 2017 18:27
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brotherhood's multiplayer was so money
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May 16, 2017 18:30
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Extremely surprised RE7 didn't outsell them both
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May 16, 2017 18:54
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he walked into the room, and wrote "FAR CRY" on the whiteboard paused then "FAR CRYS"
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May 16, 2017 19:59
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tap my mountain posted:Yeah watching that trailer reminded me that I need to start listening to Passover again. I keep trying to convince myself that their last couple albums are just as good as Passover and Directions to See a Ghost but there's just something slightly imperfect about them, whereas passover and dtsag are perfect
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May 17, 2017 00:36
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my extremely controversial opinion is that steam and gog are both good, and possibly cool
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May 17, 2017 02:46
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people who get mad about Steam remind me of people who get mad about Spotify (David Lowery, why you gotta be so cray cray man) like, "it's better than piracy" is a legitimate defense. the fact that it's a legitimate defense might be sad, but that's human beings for you, that's capitalism, that's the FYGM mentality that most people have. a free market is ultimately self-defeating if it doesn't have any kind of ethical control, and the number of people who are ethical about money is a small percentage. poo poo, the vast majority of my best friends are way more okay with pirating music and games than i am - i basically never do it, and honestly, that probably qualifies me as being mentally ill    EDIT: but i do agree that Early Access has... issues, even for a free market
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May 17, 2017 03:41
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Cowcaster posted:courtesy matt bors i blocked that guy on facebook.
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May 17, 2017 04:05
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edit: ^^^ that's pretty good, the sound effects are perfect and of course, when i say i'm ethical about money all i mean is i'm dumb enough to want to give money to people who make art i like in the most efficient way possible. i don't mean i give a ton of money to charity. i probably should. maybe? poo poo, i dunno. i'm gonna go play some video games.
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May 17, 2017 04:10
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I can honestly only think of one game the steam client has hosed up for me, but I only got back into pc gaming 7 years ago and including gift trains and sales I've only got 100 some games and then like a dozen from gog, and pretty much no games that can't be run on a 2013 laptop
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May 17, 2017 04:46
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Quest For Glory II posted:JOHNNY POST LATELY Lmao
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May 17, 2017 05:15
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got too many games as it is but i watched cjacobs blindstream of THE SURGE and it looks... really fun? how are you all doing edit: also i found a new favorite band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh2qHxUDt6o i'm in the video
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May 17, 2017 22:14
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I swear i bought alan wake on steam last year because i never played it on xbox and so i was stoked but it's not in my library? did i hallucinate an entire steam transaction? 
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May 17, 2017 23:22
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Looper posted:Pikmin is so loving good man it really is, i hope that 2D pikmin game ends up being dece
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