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Favourite hosed up lil' guy in games? This poll is closed. |
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| Waluigi |
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36 | 29.27% |
| Waddle Dee |
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34 | 27.64% |
| Gollum |
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7 | 5.69% |
| Sonic |
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13 | 10.57% |
| freaky cartwheeling grey-skinned frog men from elden ring |
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28 | 22.76% |
| vectorman worm things that sometimes explode |
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5 | 4.07% |
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hatty posted:Is the Witness bad or do people just hate Blow for justifiable reasons and can’t separate the art and artist It is great. But it's also a bit up its own rear end, especially when it comes to the audio logs/"story". You can also just decide to ignore the audio logs like you can just ignore the books in Braid. ymgve fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Jun 1, 2023 |
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Jun 1, 2023 15:08
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The Witness is very good and has one of the greatest moments of realization in gaming
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Jun 1, 2023 15:10
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hatty posted:Is the Witness bad or do people just hate Blow for justifiable reasons and can’t separate the art and artist It is a good puzzle game, but it's also a game whose ultimate message is "gently caress you, the player, for wanting to 100% a game, here's a bunch of poo poo to waste your worthless time".
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Jun 1, 2023 15:11
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Hwurmp posted:June is Bad Takes Month All games I like are amazing games. All games I don't like are terrible. Fighting games suck universally, this is objective fact. Only one of these statements is a bad take.
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Jun 1, 2023 15:11
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I know exactly how replies to that post are going to go.
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Jun 1, 2023 15:12
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Evil Kit posted:All games I like are amazing games. it's this one, we all know goons like to hate-play bad games also addendum: you are not allowed to have an opinion on The Witness unless you have finished The Challenge
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Jun 1, 2023 15:13
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Evil Kit posted:Only one of these statements is a bad take. it's this one, now give me the treasure
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Jun 1, 2023 15:14
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hatty posted:Is the Witness bad or do people just hate Blow for justifiable reasons and can’t separate the art and artist I thought it was incredible. IMO, a good puzzle should make me feel really smart for solving it, really stupid for having taken so long to solve it, and excited for all the possibilities the knowledge I accrued while solving it - preferably all three. The Witness was exceptionally good at eliciting those feelings reliably, and it did it largely without wasting your time with tedious traversal. (Doing the extra optional stuff could get very tedious, but you also shouldn't do that stuff beyond where it stops getting fun for you, stick to the puzzles) Also, it was visually beautiful, imo. Plus there's that one moment that was just perfect. Now, the actual underlying theme of "Are epiphanies really worth it? Or can seeking out that rush lead you to make bad decisions and see stuff that isn't really there?" is... not my favorite, but I didn't hate it. The actual puzzles were excellent though. It's not as good as BABA, but what is. GlyphGryph fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Jun 1, 2023 |
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Jun 1, 2023 15:18
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play Filament it's like The Witness but without all the Blow
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Jun 1, 2023 15:19
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Electric Phantasm posted:Just buy them all I'm making more of an effort this year to not play through half or most of a game and then get distracted by another before finishing, so i don't want to pile up my backlog more.
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Jun 1, 2023 15:19
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GlyphGryph posted:and it did it largely without wasting your time with tedious traversal. OK this is just a lie
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Jun 1, 2023 15:20
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Hwurmp posted:play Filament I didn't like Filament, because it felt more like guessing and trial and error than real thought. And iirc you can wind the line multiple times around a single column, which makes the problem space much, much larger. There's also Taiji, which is Witness if it was a 2D game instead. Completely Blow-free.
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Jun 1, 2023 15:22
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jonathan blowhard
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Jun 1, 2023 15:23
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Note that I'm talking about the actual puzzles there, not the eye spy bits, and I'm also coming off Talos where 90% of the game is schlepping items back and forth so I'm speaking relatively. A half decade might also have left me only remembering the good bits, to be fair. The Looker for a parody game is surprisingly fun and worth playing too though. Edit: is The Challenge the timed bit at the end? That was pretty fun, perfect music choice too. GlyphGryph fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Jun 1, 2023 |
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Jun 1, 2023 15:24
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Oh, also, there's The Looker, a good short, free parody of The Witness
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Jun 1, 2023 15:26
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hatty posted:Is the Witness bad or do people just hate Blow for justifiable reasons and can’t separate the art and artist The Witness' qualities are inversely proportional to Blow's qualities as a person.
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Jun 1, 2023 15:27
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June is "playing through at least one of my unplayed, back-catalogue Steam games" month. Any and all recommendations are extremely welcome, especially if there are any majorly rubbish ones I should duck entirely. Contenders are: From Dust Darkest Dungeon 1 Last Epoch Metro Exodus Monaco Stalker: Call of Pripyat Stalker: Clear Sky Salt & Sanctuary KOTOR II Splinter Cell Conviction Warhammer: Dawn of War II Total War: Warhammer I Wolcen X:Com Chimera Squad On the side, I am hopefully going to put a lot more time and effort into Dwarf Fortress and less into Slay The Spire, which is just dominating every other game I play by miles.
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Jun 1, 2023 15:29
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Get a couple friends to play Hellcard with you instead, and then you can play a game that totally isn't Slay The Spire and definitely not just Slay the Spire with multiplayer. From the actual list I vote for Chimera Squad.
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Jun 1, 2023 15:31
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frytechnician posted:June is "playing through at least one of my unplayed, back-catalogue Steam games" month. Any and all recommendations are extremely welcome, especially if there are any majorly rubbish ones I should duck entirely. Dawn of War 2 is an excellent game, does a great job of mixing tactical rts combat with diablo-like action. The base game's campaign is fun, but the story really gets good in the Chaos Rising expansion.
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Jun 1, 2023 15:33
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I'm going to play Final Fantasy XVI this month
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Jun 1, 2023 15:33
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GlyphGryph posted:Get a couple friends to play Hellcard with you instead, and then you can play a game that totally isn't Slay The Spire and definitely not just Slay the Spire with multiplayer. Don't want to buy anything new until I've eaten (one of) my vegetables. Had a quick look a while at Hellcard and it looked neat but I think real life Pagan / Netrunner and StS have kind of set a pretty high standard for me, so I'll wait a bit. sirtommygunn posted:Dawn of War 2 is an excellent game, does a great job of mixing tactical rts combat with diablo-like action. The base game's campaign is fun, but the story really gets good in the Chaos Rising expansion. Hmm... I have had a bit of a 40K itch after seeing the positive stuff about Boltgun and Diablo action sounds good too. haveblue posted:Probably the most unique one, you play a god with the power to terraform and the sand and liquid systems were really cool for the time From Dust is one I felt bad about because I saw the gameplay and was really impressed but then played it for 5 minutes and never really gave it a chance before Dark Souls came along and cost me several hundred hours of my life. frytechnician fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Jun 1, 2023 |
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Jun 1, 2023 15:34
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frytechnician posted:From Dust Probably the most unique one, you play a god with the power to terraform and the sand and liquid systems were really cool for the time quote:Salt & Sanctuary If you're going to drop one it should probably be this, there are way better 2D souls games e: boltgun fucks, solid boomer shooter haveblue fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Jun 1, 2023 |
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Jun 1, 2023 15:34
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Hwurmp posted:it's this one, now give me the treasure Incorrect, if that were true all my statements wouldn't be bad takes and we all know fighting games are literally the worst. ymgve posted:it's this one, we all know goons like to hate-play bad games Also incorrect, sorry
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Jun 1, 2023 15:35
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sirtommygunn posted:Dawn of War 2 is an excellent game, does a great job of mixing tactical rts combat with diablo-like action. The base game's campaign is fun, but the story really gets good in the Chaos Rising expansion. Seconding this. Especially if you like orks shouting "Space Marines!" as much as I do.
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Jun 1, 2023 15:40
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Captain Invictus posted:Dad Joke June it was my dad's birthday the other day. as i handed him his 50th birthday card he looked at me and said "one would've been enough".
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Jun 1, 2023 15:50
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bone emulator posted:Seconding this. SPESS MEHREHNS
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Jun 1, 2023 15:51
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haveblue posted:I liked Talos but it probably should have had half the puzzles or less, it's just interminable Good point! Mods please add "freaky cartwheeling grey-skinned frog men from elden ring" to the poll, thx!
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Jun 1, 2023 16:08
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Sally posted:SPESS MEHREHNS I like it a bit better in Space Marine, where it's SPICE MORINE
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Jun 1, 2023 16:12
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imo the shitness (pejorative)
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Jun 1, 2023 16:17
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Jay Rust posted:Good point! Mods please add "freaky cartwheeling grey-skinned frog men from elden ring" to the poll, thx! maybe "vectorman worm things that sometimes explode"?
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Jun 1, 2023 16:17
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Apart from like three of the puzzles the Witness could have all been on a phone screen. You're wandering around a myst island except it's like if every time you got to a door some fucker popped out of a linking book and handed you their phone and said "finish these 72 puzzles on my phone then the door will open". They were decent phone puzzles, but there was almost no point to them being on a myst island and it had nothing of the narrative or puzzle-integrated-with-narrative stuff that I want out of a game like that.
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Jun 1, 2023 16:19
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Lord Bob posted:Apart from like three of the puzzles the Witness could have all been on a phone screen. You're wandering around a myst island except it's like if every time you got to a door some fucker popped out of a linking book and handed you their phone and said "finish these 72 puzzles on my phone then the door will open". I don't think you remember very many of the puzzles. Desert, Castle, Monastery, Autumn Woods, Flower Incubator, Village, and the final area puzzles all require existing in a 3D space.
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Jun 1, 2023 16:25
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The Witness, Braid, and Jon Blow's favorite game Space Giraffe kick rear end.
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Jun 1, 2023 16:30
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arteliad posted:I don't think you remember very many of the puzzles. Desert, Castle, Monastery, Autumn Woods, Flower Incubator, Village, and the final area puzzles all require existing in a 3D space. That's still maybe 5% of the game. Cos there's so many of those fuckin panels. I only did all the way up to getting the top of the mountain open, only to discover my reward for getting the mountain open was a mountain full of even more of the same panel puzzles and I flipped on outta there cos I was sick of them.
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Jun 1, 2023 16:36
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We Love Katamari, Street Fighter 6, and Diablo IV all release today.
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Jun 1, 2023 16:37
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Can't decide if I should get fire emblem engage or advance wars
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Jun 1, 2023 16:37
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https://archive.is/V598B Bloomberg published a piece about the making of Redfall and boy this seems rough. 70% of the original staff that made Prey ended up leaving the studio out of disinterest in working on a multiplayer game.
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Jun 1, 2023 16:40
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thehoodie posted:Can't decide if I should get fire emblem engage or advance wars Engage was the better game imo.
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Jun 1, 2023 16:40
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thehoodie posted:Can't decide if I should get fire emblem engage or advance wars some people have taken to calling it "fire emblem disengage" so my vote is for advance wars
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Jun 1, 2023 16:41
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Lord Bob posted:That's still maybe 5% of the game. Cos there's so many of those fuckin panels. you should be glad you didn't finish the mountain then, because the reward for completing the game is that it resets all the puzzles and sends you back to the start (there is a game save right before you enter the final cutscene, so it's not completely dickish)
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