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blackguy32 posted:It doesn't have any of that racist bullshit like they put in the Cartel, right? Let's all just forget that game ever existed. Nah, gunslinger is pure cowboy gunfighting. You shoot a few indians but its not in a racist way.
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Fonzarelli posted:Let's all just forget that game ever existed. Nah, gunslinger is pure cowboy gunfighting. You shoot a few indians but its not in a racist way. What's more, they even go out of their way to say that these Indians have a legitimate grievance, your character sympathizes with them, and any mystical elements are honestly more a byproduct of the fact that the game is a story being told by a drunk old man than any sort of MYSTICAL INJUN POWERS stuff. As soon as the level started, I braced myself for the incoming racist parade of Native Americans, but by the end I actually appreciated how well they walked the line between shootyman video game and cultural sensitivity.
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May 30, 2013 23:24
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Neo Rasa posted:Yakuza 4 and Dead Souls are great with this but the team outdid themselves with Binary Domain and set the gold standard for what an install screen should be and sound like: Oh, I forgot about that. Yeah, Binary Domain's installer is quite impressive.
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May 30, 2013 23:30
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Code Jockey posted:Oh, I forgot about that. Yeah, Binary Domain's installer is quite impressive. I wish the game didn't tank as I'd love to see that team do more stuff outside of Yakuza. Binary Domain isn't perfect but the atmosphere, the music, everything feels so focused and polished, I loved it.
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May 30, 2013 23:38
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Neo Rasa posted:I wish the game didn't tank as I'd love to see that team do more stuff outside of Yakuza. Binary Domain isn't perfect but the atmosphere, the music, everything feels so focused and polished, I loved it. Yeah, this. I found Binary Domain to be a fun romp, I enjoyed it a lot. Loved the environment and the boss... things were pretty neat. It felt like a slow Vanquish, kinda. Also futuristic Tully's was hilarious to me for some reason.
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May 30, 2013 23:43
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Aphrodite posted:Activision should take a cue from Ubisoft, and release a $15 Call of Duty that's just Nuketown. Even better, a CoD with the tiniest maps in the franchise, nuketown, dome, storage I think it was in CoD4?
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May 30, 2013 23:52
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Alteisen posted:Even better, a CoD with the tiniest maps in the franchise, nuketown, dome, storage I think it was in CoD4? I would actually play that. I prefer smaller maps. Maybe because I'm too classical with shooter mechanics.... I want my weapons back on the field COD...
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May 31, 2013 00:04
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Alteisen posted:Even better, a CoD with the tiniest maps in the franchise, nuketown, dome, storage I think it was in CoD4? Also page 666  edit: VVV oh gently caress yes I forgot Rust, but wasn't that also in MW1? SubponticatePoster fucked around with this message at 00:27 on May 31, 2013 |
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May 31, 2013 00:20
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SubponticatePoster posted:I think it was Shipment. Trying to think of a tiny map in MW2 and nothing immediately comes to mind. Storm was kinda small, but not Nukeboat-sized. Rust is the tiny MW2 map.
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May 31, 2013 00:23
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Alteisen posted:Rust is the tiny MW2 map. No one remembers it because they had the sense to limit it to low player count modes. What a neat idea that was.
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May 31, 2013 00:24
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tooooooo bad posted:No one remembers it because they had the sense to limit it to low player count modes. What a neat idea that was. Hey man, Ground War Nuketown was the funniest loving thing. You could not escape death anywhere which prevented a lot of people from getting the high end KS. Course you still sometimes bumped into a lobby so bad that even with people crashing into each other at all times someone till gets a hind or something and its good game.
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May 31, 2013 00:27
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Even if you're not the hugest Western fan, if you loved Tombstone you'll geek out all over Gunslinger.
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May 31, 2013 00:39
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SubponticatePoster posted:I think it was Shipment. Oh god, I thought I'd managed to repress the trauma of playing that map. Long nights playing with friends and assorted pubbies, virtually everyone having martyrdom and 3x frags on their classes. The map was nothing but explosions, everywhere, all the time, forever.
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May 31, 2013 00:58
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Yardbomb posted:Oh god, I thought I'd managed to repress the trauma of playing that map. Long nights playing with friends and assorted pubbies, virtually everyone having martyrdom and 3x frags on their classes. The map was nothing but explosions, everywhere, all the time, forever. 2-4 players it was actually pretty fun and still really chaotic, just not stupid. Any more than that and it started to remind me of when people would pack 32 players into tiny maps with only rockets in Quake 3. Funny for like 10 minutes ever.
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May 31, 2013 01:04
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I know the COD franchise gets a lot of flack but I still find Modern Warfare 3 to be a great multiplayer game. I can see why people would hate it yeah, but there's something charming about how arcadey and chaotic it is 
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May 31, 2013 01:15
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I loved CoD2 and 4 but I never even bought MW2 or anything after because I got so burned out on 4. I have no idea how you play thousands of hours of those games.
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May 31, 2013 01:18
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About how long is Gunslinger? I just tried the 60 minute trial of Fuse and... it seems like it might be kind of good? Hard to tell from just the first mission, but it's pretty polished and the Warp Gun is crazy fun. If they keep the multiplayer additions coming I could see it becoming a good way to kill time until the next Mass Effect multiplayer.
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May 31, 2013 01:21
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Gunslinger is around 5 hours and when you beat it you get a harder difficulty/no HUD mode.
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precision posted:I just tried the 60 minute trial of Fuse and... it seems like it might be kind of good? Hard to tell from just the first mission, but it's pretty polished and the Warp Gun is crazy fun. If they keep the multiplayer additions coming I could see it becoming a good way to kill time until the next Mass Effect multiplayer. The game has really solid shooting mechanics, there's just very little on top of those.
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May 31, 2013 01:33
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muscles like this? posted:Gunslinger is around 5 hours and when you beat it you get a harder difficulty/no HUD mode. Not to mention some collectibles to hunt down, skills to unlock, New Game +, an arcade mode for racking up high scores, and a quickdraw duel tournament mode. For $15 bucks, you can't go wrong unless you just plain don't like shooters.
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May 31, 2013 02:00
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Crappy Jack posted:Not to mention some collectibles to hunt down, skills to unlock, New Game +, an arcade mode for racking up high scores, and a quickdraw duel tournament mode. Yes, the game is solid. Get the demo then get the game!
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May 31, 2013 02:21
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precision posted:I just tried the 60 minute trial of Fuse and... it seems like it might be kind of good? Hard to tell from just the first mission, but it's pretty polished and the Warp Gun is crazy fun. If they keep the multiplayer additions coming I could see it becoming a good way to kill time until the next Mass Effect multiplayer. It's pretty short and I don't think the multiplayer is anywhere near beefy enough to be sustaining. I wish it had somewhere near the variety of Mass Effect with regards to weaponry or abilities. I can't imagine the game sold well at all either, so I'm not sure how much dlc support it's going to get. The game has some nice concepts but just about everything needs to be fleshed out more. If it gets graced with a sequel, I think they could turn it into something really good.
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May 31, 2013 02:38
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Aphrodite posted:The game has really solid shooting mechanics, there's just very little on top of those. I felt the shooting was easily the least enjoyable part of what I played, though that isn't saying much, because the rest was really bad too.
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May 31, 2013 02:54
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Oh man Sleeping Dogs. I think I just encountered the best sneaking mission interaction ever. When you get caught sneaking you can press a button to "fast talk" the guard(s). I'm working my way around an area, and after successfully fast talking some dudes to let them know I'm one of them, the last one I do takes the cake. Guard: Hey, who are you? Wei (sleepy dog): Hey, I'm trying to sneak into this building here and you're making way too much noise... so shut the gently caress up or I'll slit your loving throat. Guard: Ok, you won't hear from me again Fourth wall/mind blown
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May 31, 2013 06:42
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The best XMB music is from Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-powered Battle-cars.
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Less Talk More Rock posted:The best XMB music is from Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-powered Battle-cars. Yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySFWsvOA0KI
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May 31, 2013 16:15
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I'm partial to the Trine music, myself.
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Dan Didio posted:I felt the shooting was easily the least enjoyable part of what I played, though that isn't saying much, because the rest was really bad too.
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May 31, 2013 17:27
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achillesforever6 posted:That's a shame because Insomniac has always been one of my favorite game makers, though I've heard they are going downhill because the Ratchet and Clank games have gotten bad, is that true? I haven't really played the newer ones. The last 2 weren't 'traditional' R&C games (being co-op focused for All 4 one and tower defense for Full frontal assualt) and they weren't as good. The 2 full, traditional R&C games on PS3 were both excellent.
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"A Crack in Time" is one of the best games I've played, the newer ones are sadly poo poo. Speaking of Insomniac - I haven't played the Resistance games, I've heard they are not bad but haven't aged well? Worth checking out?
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Ratchet and Clank has always had a brand fatigue problem. They released four games in the same franchise on the PS2! That was practically unheard of in that era. I think Insomniac still has a lot of talent but they seem to be directionless since going third-party. Resistance 3 and A Crack in Time are probably the two best games they have ever made (albeit not the freshest or most exciting) and neither of those were that long ago! They seem to have split into a bunch of B-Teams all churning out product. I wish Fuse had stayed Overstrike. Binary Domain proved that personality can go a LONG way in a solid, serviceable third-person shooter. I also wish that they expanded Bulletstorm-like scoring system that I saw in the GB Quick Look, only because I want Bulletstorm to be a hugely influential game. e: ^^^^^^^ Each game in the Resistance series feels like a different game in the same universe. The first has enormous levels and feels almost like a shooter that you'd find on the PC in the PS2 era. Exploration, different ways to approach enemies, and semi-regenerating health instead of the CoD "duck and heal" mechanic. The second has a bad single player campaign that goes completely apeshit with the story and lore, kneecaps the cool thing about the first game (the weapon variety) by giving you a standard console shooter 2-weapon loadout, and feels too guided and cinematic for its own good. However, the co-op is amazing and fantastic and the most fun I've ever had playing an online shooter on consoles. Resistance 3 feels like they took a ton of cues from Half-Life 2 and made a quiet, tense, emotionally exhausting side story. It's a huge bummer but also a really really great game. It's a little Metro-esque now that I think about it. Dadjacket fucked around with this message at 18:40 on May 31, 2013 |
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Sprat Sandwich posted:"A Crack in Time" is one of the best games I've played, the newer ones are sadly poo poo. 1 and 2 are both alright, 3 is great though, feels very like Half life 2 (no regenerating health and no 2 weapon limit! When was the last FPS to do that?)
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drat, I already have way too many games to pick up three new ones. The Half-Life 2 comparisons sound pretty good - will I be in trouble if I only get Resistance 3?
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It's the shortest and most stand-alone. You don't need to know any of the ridiculous lore to enjoy the story because it's a different protagonist telling a more personal story. Go for it.
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May 31, 2013 18:50
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Alright. I bought a used game. All this always online DRM disc checks jibbajabba - because of me.
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Just a reminder that anyone who has God of War: Ascension can access the Last of Us demo today. I'm heading to a Redbox to pick it up just for the demo 
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achillesforever6 posted:That's a shame because Insomniac has always been one of my favorite game makers, though I've heard they are going downhill because the Ratchet and Clank games have gotten bad, is that true? I haven't really played the newer ones. They're one of your favorite developers; you haven't played one of their games in years.
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BrownThunder posted:Just a reminder that anyone who has God of War: Ascension can access the Last of Us demo today. I'm heading to a Redbox to pick it up just for the demo
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Rusty posted:You don't need a code or anything to download it? No, there's an option on the main menu which links to the PS store download page.
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the truth posted:They're one of your favorite developers; you haven't played one of their games in years.
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