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WeaponGradeSadness posted:So according to the E3 vid, Homefront: The Revolution (now under Crytek, rather than whoever made the poorly-received original) will allow weapon mods, like many other shooters. What makes it something to post in this thread, though, is that it's not done through a menu like other games; it's done right in-game, and you can see your character pull out old parts and swap the new parts on. As a huge sucker for pointless-but-cool tacticlol immersion, I had to grin when I saw that: That's pretty much just stolen from their Crysis series, which could do the same thing.
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I'm playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution and there was one little (and probably immediately obvious to fans of the original game) thing that I liked. At the start of Human Revolution it's immediately obvious that the main character, whose first name is Adam, is the mysterious Subject X or whoever that his girlfriend studied for her revolutionary science thing and refuses to talk about with him. So the name Adam for the guy who's ushering in a new era of humanity is just a bit of cheap symbolism, right? Yes, but: the main character of Deus Ex was called JC Denton. And Human Revolution is a prequel, so Adam is kind of a perfect name for them to use as a callback. It's dumb but it made me smile. 2house2fly has a new favorite as of 03:39 on Jun 12, 2014 |
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Jun 12, 2014 03:37
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muscles like this? posted:That's pretty much just stolen from their Crysis series, which could do the same thing. I knew I had done that in some other game. Christ what a forgettable series Crysis turned out to be.
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Jun 12, 2014 03:43
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2house2fly posted:I'm playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution and there was one little (and probably immediately obvious to fans of the original game) thing that I liked. At the start of Human Revolution it's immediately obvious that the main character, whose first name is Adam, is the mysterious Subject X or whoever that his girlfriend studied for her revolutionary science thing and refuses to talk about with him. So the name Adam for the guy who's ushering in a new era of humanity is just a bit of cheap symbolism, right? Yes, but: the main character of Deus Ex was called JC Denton. And Human Revolution is a prequel, so Adam is kind of a perfect name for them to use as a callback. "Jesus Christ, Denton!"
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Jun 12, 2014 03:47
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2house2fly posted:I'm playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution and there was one little (and probably immediately obvious to fans of the original game) thing that I liked. At the start of Human Revolution it's immediately obvious that the main character, whose first name is Adam, is the mysterious Subject X or whoever that his girlfriend studied for her revolutionary science thing and refuses to talk about with him. So the name Adam for the guy who's ushering in a new era of humanity is just a bit of cheap symbolism, right? Yes, but: the main character of Deus Ex was called JC Denton. And Human Revolution is a prequel, so Adam is kind of a perfect name for them to use as a callback. The Subject X stuff is kind of weird because AFAIK they never actually come out and state that its Adam and that his whole thing is that he was genetically engineered to be the perfect recipient for augmentation.
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Jun 12, 2014 03:54
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I haven't finished the game yet but I kind of hope that's the case; there's enough hints at it that a big reveal would feel kind of lame.
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Jun 12, 2014 03:57
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A couple things I liked about Dx:HR were the little touches they added to Adam's apartment that show hints of his personality. He's got little more than whiskey and cereal in the kitchen, an assault rifle in every room, a secret stash of the aug medicine, a half-smoked pack of cigs on his desk, and a desk where he's been building clocks to practice his motor control. Not to mention the mirror, complete with a sticky note to bitch at the manager again for not replacing it.
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Jun 12, 2014 04:06
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I could grow to like this trend of sub-par IPs going to other companies and becoming something better. Far Cry went to Ubisoft and became something I consider much more interesting, and Crytek is doing the same thing with Homefront.
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Jun 12, 2014 04:19
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SpazmasterX posted:I knew I had done that in some other game. Christ what a forgettable series Crysis turned out to be. The original Crysis was quite a bit of fun, as long as you accepted that it was just a dumb, pretty shooter that was less constricting than other games on the market. Then for the sequel they decided that all this open environment stuff isn't worth it and turned it into a corridor shooter.  By the sounds of it Homefront 2 is shaping up to be pretty non-linear, so hopefully they recapture the original Crysis in that regard.
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Jun 12, 2014 04:38
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They went back to open environments with Crysis 3, but that game was too short. I honestly wound up liking Crysis 2 the best because, despite losing everything unique about Crysis 1, was the most well-done end to end. It's not that surprising that a series with "good graphics" as its only claim to fame was forgotten, even though Crysis 3 is still a top 3 most graphically advanced game available, if not still the best.
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Jun 12, 2014 05:02
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I let my friend play Dark Souls for his first time today. Seeing him get brutally owned by the Asylum Demon was hilarious, and is my current favorite little thing in games.
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Jun 12, 2014 05:18
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In Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, during the level where you're up against Kraven the Hunter, there's one section where you have to avoid being shot by Kraven (basically, don't stay in the middle of the screen for too long because the camera is literally looking through Kraven's crosshairs) while battling his various thugs like usual. The Little Thing about this is that Spider-Man will actually call Kraven out if he shoots one of his own minions because they happen to be in the way when he takes a shot.
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Jun 12, 2014 05:19
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More from Deus Ex: HR: at some point there's a list of usernames and logins that are all famous science-fiction writers, and if you check a particular computer, you find out someone's employing Kevin Mitnick as a hacker. Also, you'll know this if you beat the second boss: Newsanchor Eliza Cassan turns out to be an AI. ELIZA is one of the first examples of chat bots.
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Jun 12, 2014 09:14
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My Lovely Horse posted:More from Deus Ex: HR: at some point there's a list of usernames and logins that are all famous science-fiction writers, and if you check a particular computer, you find out someone's employing Kevin Mitnick as a hacker. Less subtly, you go looking for her in Room 404. That whole part of the plot was always weird for me because I just assumed she was an AI from the word go; the big not-entirely-canonical cinematic trailer didn't spell it out, but she seemed more obviously stiff and robotic in that. Not to mention that computer-generated news anchors go hand-in-hand with cyberpunk in my mind, in part thanks to Batman Beyond.
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Jun 12, 2014 09:28
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John Murdoch posted:Less subtly, you go looking for her in Room 404. There's an e-mail you can read where somebody says something like "I've never even seen Eliza in person" and I pretty much could guess what was up then. Even though she projects holograms and can appear to people in person all day long if she wants I guess?
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Jun 12, 2014 09:36
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John Murdoch posted:Less subtly, you go looking for her in Room 404. You also later meet up with her in room 802-11. In the commentary the developers talk about how all the dumb IP address jokes make Eliza's super obvious twist even more obvious and how they had to fight to keep them because they figured if you were computer literate enough to get the jokes then you had already figured out the twist.
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Jun 12, 2014 09:48
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2house2fly posted:I haven't finished the game yet but I kind of hope that's the case; there's enough hints at it that a big reveal would feel kind of lame. Yeah, it gets elaborated on in a (fairly involved) side quest but it's never treated as some sort of shocking revelation.
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Jun 12, 2014 10:13
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poptart_fairy posted:Yeah, it gets elaborated on in a (fairly involved) side quest but it's never treated as some sort of shocking revelation. I'm surprised it was supposed to be a secret. I think I figured it out before the opening sequence was done. It just seemed so blatantly obvious.
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Jun 12, 2014 10:41
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My Lovely Horse posted:More from Deus Ex: HR: at some point there's a list of usernames and logins that are all famous science-fiction writers, and if you check a particular computer, you find out someone's employing Kevin Mitnick as a hacker.[/spoiler] As far as login jokes go, I liked one I found in the facility whereMeganwas being held. One of the employees with a very hispanic name had requested a password change and the IT dude set it to techsmex. No matter how punk your cyber is, there will always be puns.
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Jun 12, 2014 11:03
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My Lovely Horse posted:There's an e-mail you can read where somebody says something like "I've never even seen Eliza in person" and I pretty much could guess what was up then. Even though she projects holograms and can appear to people in person all day long if she wants I guess?
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Jun 12, 2014 12:03
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I love that Jensen hates at least one of his coworkers. In fact, the writers did a good job of making the Sarif employees act like they've known each other for a while.
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Jun 12, 2014 13:23
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grittyreboot posted:I love that Jensen hates at least one of his coworkers. In fact, the writers did a good job of making the Sarif employees act like they've known each other for a while. I love that Sairf Industries has a smokers section outside by the helipad. And how the people who smoke are ALWAYS there.
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Jun 12, 2014 13:42
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To add to the Deus Ex: HR chat, I loved the tech guy's office. Posters of motorbikes, CRT monitors stacked to make a bridge - Obviously small touches, but it's the small touches that really set up someone as a developed character.
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Jun 12, 2014 15:37
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DrAlexanderTobacco posted:To add to the Deus Ex: HR chat, I loved the tech guy's office. Posters of motorbikes, CRT monitors stacked to make a bridge - Obviously small touches, but it's the small touches that really set up someone as a developed character. I also loved how the tech guy had the largest single person office & Jensen had a tiny lovely office. tech guy controlled the flooring database.
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Jun 12, 2014 17:14
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Playing Syndicate right now (it's $10 on Origin) and there's a part early on where you rush into a nightclub. The civilians take a second to realize that you're running around with an assault rifle and then freak out. What's cool is that it only happens to the ones that immediately see you. I turned to my left and pointed the barrel of my rifle to another person after freaking out everyone in front of me and the person had the same delay before her reaction.
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DrAlexanderTobacco posted:To add to the Deus Ex: HR chat, I loved the tech guy's office. Posters of motorbikes, CRT monitors stacked to make a bridge - Obviously small touches, but it's the small touches that really set up someone as a developed character. And the token future Final Fantasy poster. 
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Jun 13, 2014 04:40
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pentyne posted:And the token future Final Fantasy poster. In the Strong Bad adventure games, if you click on something while one of the characters is talking in the background, Strong Bad cuts em off with "No one cares." or "Shut up." or something along those lines. It's pretty much the perfect way to solve that issue in a way that makes sense with Strong Bad's character.
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Jun 13, 2014 05:44
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 I love how the camera pulls back a bit and re-adjusts itself when you're fighting a world boss, really gives that sense of scale and that you're fighting something the size of a building.
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Jun 13, 2014 06:35
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pentyne posted:And the token future Final Fantasy poster.
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pentyne posted:And the token future Final Fantasy poster. I love in the commentary for the game when they talk about how much bullshit they had to go through to get Square-Enix to sign off on that one little gag.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:I love in the commentary for the game when they talk about how much bullshit they had to go through to get Square-Enix to sign off on that one little gag. Did they agree "Look motherfucker, every single person in this room will be dead for a decade and a half before Final Fantasy 27 even has a concept trailer. We can do this gag!"?
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My Lovely Horse posted:XXVII is really drat optimistic. They'd have to make one a year. Should have been... well pretty much any Ubisoft game. Edit - Not counting spinoffs etc.
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tuluk posted:I also loved how the tech guy had the largest single person office & Jensen had a tiny lovely office. I liked how he was so opposite of Alex from Deus Ex. JENSEN!
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Jun 13, 2014 08:12
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Anatharon posted:I liked how he was so opposite of Alex from Deus Ex. I liked how he was an abrasive dickhole, but still basically a good guy.
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Jun 13, 2014 08:16
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Xander77 posted:They've been doing one every two years so far though? Not counting spin-offs? Going on North American dates: FFX - 2001 FFXI - 2003 FFXII - 2006 FFXIII - 2010 FFXIV - Also 2010 but everything was on fire and the game straight up got cancelled and basically remade. FFXIV Proper - 2014 FFXV - 2015 maybe. It's been in development since 2006... Human Revolution is a decade and change in the future. Kinda optimistic there... Nohman has a new favorite as of 08:27 on Jun 13, 2014 |
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Jun 13, 2014 08:25
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Maybe it's a Leisure Suit Larry 5 scenario. 
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Jun 13, 2014 08:42
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pentyne posted:And the token future Final Fantasy poster. Something I learned according to the creators' commentary: the word "Fantasy" would not fit behind that character's head.
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Jun 13, 2014 09:17
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Caufman posted:Something I learned according to the creators' commentary: the word "Fantasy" would not fit behind that character's head. That wasn't obvious from just looking at it? 
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Canemacar posted:Not to mention the mirror, complete with a sticky note to bitch at the manager again for not replacing it. Read the apartment building receptionist's computer during the riots: The warehouse has had the mirror for months and are practically begging her to take it off their hands.
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In Tales of Maj'Eyal (which is awesome and people should play it) the Necromancer class can call up undead minions to serve him. However, the Necromancer has a small aura of negative energy around him that sustains the minions; outside the aura they will gradually decay, losing health each turn. The little thing I really love is that if your minions fully decay outside your aura and crumble into ash, they have little lines like "master whyyyyyy" when they do. 
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