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 Let's Play Just Cause 2 Just Cause 2 is the story of Rico Rodriguez, an operative for a government organization called the Agency. Nominally, he is sent to a tiny island in the middle of the South Pacific named Panau to overthrow a nasty little dictatorship. In reality, he flies around on a extraordinary amount of parachutes and blows up everything that comes into his sights. It's a really entertaining game, although the open world stuff loses a bit of its allure once you've experienced all the different base types and been exposed to all the little mechanical flaws. Still, it's very good and it goes on sale (on Steam) all the time. If you don't own it, you really should. LP Structure Since Just Cause 2 is a game that encourages you to futz around and avoid doing story missions, this LP will be broken into two kinds of videos: Missions and Intermissions. Missions will be each story mission as I do them. Intermissions will be the time spent in-between each mission flying around, doing non-mission activities, and generally blowing stuff up. Missions will have a little more directed commentary talking about the game, whereas Intermissions will cover pretty much whatever comes to mind, including non-game commentary. I'd like to get a few co-commentators for the Intermissions, so if you wanna jump up and participate, just let me know! Audience During Intermissions you are welcome to suggest any mods in the thread that you want me to mess with, or places you'd like to see me hit. It'll only be suggestions, not direct participation. Unless you join me in commentating, anyway. Spoilers Tag spoilers, but otherwise I don't care. The story is nonsensical and full of awful stereotypes, so there's not really a whole lot of stuff to spoil. Videos: Mission 01 - Welcome to Panau: YouTube|Polsy Mission 02 - Casino Bust: YouTube Latest:  Mission 02: "Casino Bust" Dragonmaw fucked around with this message at Jan 28, 2013 around 11:29 |
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| # ? May 21, 2013 13:55 |
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Reserved.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 11:27 |
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The things I did to Rico's knees when I played this game were simply horrific. Loved this game when I played it, even though I was pretty much the poster child of being awful at slingshotting.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 01:47 |
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Ahh, Just Cause 2. Played this game a lot, and had a blast every second of it. Honestly, I don't know what's more hilarious about this game-the absurd stunts you pull off all of the time, or the ridiculous (to put it MILDLY) accents. That moment when I realized that you can aim the flak turret at buildings is easily one of my favorite moments of the entire game. It's also an excellent way to encourage you to get creative in your destructive rampages.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 05:01 |
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I downloaded this for free on the PSN and deleted it kind of soon after. I don't know why, and I'm the only person in the world who thinks this, but I just don't see what's so great about this game. It's a pain to hook onto objects, the world is so friggin' big it takes forever to go anywhere, and the missions are kind just blah and... I mean, I don't know, I understand what people like about the game, but I've just never been able to get into it at all. There's something fundamental about this game that just sort of bores me. 
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 06:00 |
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RentCavalier posted:I downloaded this for free on the PSN and deleted it kind of soon after. I don't know why, and I'm the only person in the world who thinks this, but I just don't see what's so great about this game. You're completely right in thinking that, the game is very repetitive and if you have any compulsion to collect everything you are a terrible person. Also 97.43%.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 06:30 |
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Would you guys prefer to see faction missions as their own videos, or rolled into the intermissions?
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 12:06 |
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Faction missions are the best part. Do them as a separate set, that way people can follow the story of the crazed drug smuggling natives without having paying attention to the incredibly 80s rebellion. They have a submarine!
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 12:31 |
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It depends on the mission-some of them like Fry Me to the Moon are complex enough to deserve their own videos-but others are fairly brief and uninteresting. My best reccomendation would be to put the more interesting ones in their own videos, and have some of the less interesting ones be part of the intermissions.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 16:38 |
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How wide is the enemy alert/attack range? Can you get rocket-sniped from the edge of visual range or do you have to get fairly close before you get shot at?
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| # ? Jan 14, 2013 22:21 |
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Glazius posted:How wide is the enemy alert/attack range? Can you get rocket-sniped from the edge of visual range or do you have to get fairly close before you get shot at? You can disengage easily enough most of the time, but if you have built up a high heat value it can take a while for them to stop spawning soldiers everywhere you go. While this can be annoying it can also be great fun if you decide to see how long you can survive in a militarised area with maximum heat.
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 01:13 |
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This thread made me decide to actually try the game out after an impulse buy. I have to say that the grapple mechanism takes a bit to get used to, but can make for some interesting issues. I was dealing with a sniper in a mission and was trying to pull him down with the grapple. I guess I missed him and hit the ceiling above him. No problem, I thought, I will just shoot him in the head while hanging in front of him. After two full clips emptied out without as much as a twitch from him I get shot in the head and had to reload. This probably amused me more than it should have. Edit: I also parachuted into a hill one time, had Rico drag along the ground for a while, then pop up without damage and say "That was too close for comfort."
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 04:17 |
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There is a lot of funny stuff you can do with grapple mechanics, including stuff that outright breaks the physics. I once grabbed a guy out of a car and his body went ragdolling into the sky. Good times.
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 10:29 |
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Mission 02: "Casino Bust" Ain't no love in the world of international espionage, baby.
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| # ? Jan 28, 2013 11:27 |
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That's a pretty contrived setup. No you have to get in with all of the gangs, can't just be one or two.
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| # ? Jan 28, 2013 22:52 |
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Well, if it was just one or two, then we wouldn't be able the hear the amazingly bad voice acting from all three leaders. And that would be a sad, sad day. To be fair, 90% of the time the gangs are more concerned about sticking it to the man than fighing each other.
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| # ? Jan 28, 2013 22:55 |
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Speaking of gangs, Intermission 1 is going to be about everyone's favorite socialists: the Reapers.
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| # ? Jan 29, 2013 04:18 |
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Dragonmaw posted:Speaking of gangs, Intermission 1 is going to be about everyone's favorite socialists: the Reapers. "Reapers"? Never heard of them. The Reeeee-PAHs are pretty cool guys, though.
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| # ? Jan 29, 2013 04:35 |
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Dragonmaw posted:Speaking of gangs, Intermission 1 is going to be about everyone's favorite socialists: the Reapers. OH GOD YES. They've got the single BEST/worst voice actor for their leader, and it is GLORIOUS. Although I do have to agree with AfroSquirrel. "Reapers?" Who the hell are they?
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| # ? Jan 29, 2013 04:50 |
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I used a bunch of mods to improve the game and it is glorious. Superman, nuclear C4, Gibbed, cluster grenades, some minor things including black market. I wonder how many people decided to be dicks and intentionally fail the last mission. I know I would have if the scripting played out different.
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| # ? Jan 29, 2013 05:15 |
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I never minded the gang missions so much. They're more excuses to hurl around the place being a gigantic jackass to everyone and making things explode Making things explode really should be the only excuse but it's nice to have a little something more to it too. More explosions.
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| # ? Jan 31, 2013 11:09 |
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So can you get drunk in this game, and does it give you damage resistance or some beneficial effect or just make the screen all blurry?
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| # ? Feb 6, 2013 08:38 |
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Man, it's actually a pleasant surprise to see Malaysia (or at least the Malaysian language) represented in a game, even as baddies  Hell, especially as baddies, because badguys are just a lot cooler. As for the Panauan voice acting, so far I have to say it actually does sound like Malays or Malaysian Chinese trying their best to speak English, especially those from Johor or Singapore*. The Panauan President sounds like a stereotypical Japanese guy though.*Yes, I said it. Singapore's a Malaysian province that thinks it's a sovereign nation because the US protects it :cryingmousedeer: CommissarMega fucked around with this message at Feb 6, 2013 around 10:05 |
| # ? Feb 6, 2013 10:02 |
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I've never had more fun in a videogame than this one. The sheer amount of poo poo to blow up, and basejumping/slingshotting/parachuting never got old. Nor sling-hooking a random dude to my car and dragging him down a street. Basically, this is the most entertaining game I've ever played. Just Cause 3 better involve planet-to-planet grappling at this point.
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| # ? Feb 6, 2013 10:55 |
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Boy oh boy would I enjoy an update for this!!
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| # ? Mar 3, 2013 16:21 |
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Blue Ghost posted:You're completely right in thinking that, the game is very repetitive and if you have any compulsion to collect everything you are a terrible person.  I was the first person to hit 100%, though I had to make a mod to fix the game to do that.
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| # ? Mar 3, 2013 16:55 |
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I completely forgot you could do all that crazy stuff with the grappling hook and hang people or make them headbutt. When I first played I kept fumbling around and I'm pretty sure I failed the casino mission the first time through. The one annoying thing about grappling up the casino is if you end up on one of the overhang things and not the pillars because then Rico just hangs there and you have to find a way to get to a solid surface, which with the viewpoint makes it a little bit tough to judge.
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| # ? Mar 4, 2013 02:20 |
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Capntastic posted:Boy oh boy would I enjoy an update for this!! Soon.
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| # ? Mar 4, 2013 07:14 |
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| # ? May 21, 2013 13:55 |
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Is the LP abandoned at this point? Very much interested in the progress of this game. I really enjoyed this game, using it to blow off steam while i listened to podcasts.... Good Times
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