July Games Floor Chat Thread

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > July Games Floor Chat Thread

july This poll is closed.
j	45	20.27%
u	54	24.32%
l	48	21.62%
y	75	33.78%
Total:	127 votes

[Edit Poll (moderators only)]

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

So what the gently caress is #FE anyway, is it just a new Fire Emblem that people are overhpying, or is it something cool.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2016 18:11

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 23:29

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Ugh, Atlus.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2016 18:16

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

voltron lion force posted:

Ugh, good games

Yeah, no giant stains on that company's resume.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2016 18:20

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Sakurazuka posted:

The existence of one bad game does not make all their games bad

I've never really been impressed by an Atlus game since the SNES era. Sorry if I came across as pooping on your parade, I'm glad you enjoy the anime JRPG.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2016 18:24

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Color Printer posted:

i'm going to assume this a hyperbole joke post because it is incredibly dumb otherwise

I've never even heard of this

I was being facetious, I just really hated that game.

MinibarMatchman posted:

what the gently caress are you talking about, that was a great game.

You're a bad person.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2016 18:25

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

I can respect what the cover was going for, a cartoony SD homage to the american box art of the original, but yech.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2016 18:27

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Harrow posted:

Not even SMT? Well, I mean, if you're just not down with JRPGs in general I guess that isn't going to convince you, but SMT is some good poo poo.

Nah, I love JRPGs, I just don't dig on SMT as much as other people. It's right down there with Disgaea for me.

Also I guess I loved Ogre Battle 64. I keep forgetting they made those.

Jay Rust posted:

I've fallen off Final Fantasy X. The two-to-three second delay after every line of spoken dialogue started to grate

I might read a synopsis of the plot (because I don't remember much of it from having beaten the game ten years ago) and jump into X2, wish me luck

FFX has one of those plots that sound like a joke when summed up. That last boss is just ridiculous.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2016 18:42

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

A friend of mine played almost all the way to the end of X, waiting for the linear "early part" to end and for the game to finally open up and become a real Final Fantasy.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2016 18:44

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

CJacobs posted:

Name them after people or SA posters you don't like, that way you won't get attached to them

I named my units after my irl friends in Enemy Within one time and none of them ever died and one of them became the MVP and saved the world at the end. And I gave one of them a fedora.

# ¿ Jul 2, 2016 00:41

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Quest For Glory II posted:

nintendo put up this video and i have to say its not very cute at all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUwWAI_Zfn4

I don't think I'm the target audience for this, but if I was 11 and this was on TV I'd probably have eaten it up.

CJacobs posted:

Agreed, but I wish he were in more poo poo as the actual for-real bad guy, and not the bad-guy-that-is-actually-good-and-has-a-heart-of-gold which seems to be as far as his roles go in the movie badguy spectrum

He's one of those weirdo actors who are protective of their image in the roles they take, which means he keeps taking bad roles in bad films.

# ¿ Jul 2, 2016 01:44

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Sakurazuka posted:

Nah, I don't care, I just find it funny that something 30 years old and super obscure outside of Japan until a couple of years ago is now suddenly on goons 'one of the good ones' list

Jojo was never that obscure, it's one of the biggest names in shonen and anyone who's even taken a passing glance at anime that wasn't airing on saturday mornings has at least heard of the bad anime it had like 20 years ago. The real problem was that it had a bad anime and bad scanlations so it was tougher to get into than something like Fist of the North Star.

Acting hipstery about knowing Jojo before it was cool is like me saying I played Metal Gear before MGS5.

# ¿ Jul 2, 2016 01:52

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Sakurazuka posted:

You sure know a lot for someone who hates anime

I have anime liking friends from small times.

# ¿ Jul 2, 2016 02:19

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

I did all my Steam Sale purchases this morning and I'm still waiting for Doom to finish installing. :sweatdrop:

# ¿ Jul 2, 2016 02:28

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

I feel like Kirby's basic formula rarely changes between games (excluding weird things like Air Ride) and that might get annoying after the third one in a row.

# ¿ Jul 2, 2016 07:45

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

20XX just kinda feels like you're playing a very bad romhack of Mega Man X a lot of the time. Sure, the basics are there, but the level design is not satisfying at all, and the bosses are kind of a big mess.

And boy howdy is it an eyesore.

# ¿ Jul 2, 2016 09:40

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Sakurazuka posted:

Who composed all the good NES Megaman music and where are they now??

One of em worked on Shovel Knight and the other on Mighty Number 9.

# ¿ Jul 2, 2016 11:50

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

The Kins posted:

From the way the developers described it in an interview, a proper English dub would have taken a very long time (a year?) to do, due to the game's whole thing being musical performances (which would need separate English lyrics that fit the meter of the original song), and the developers' insistence that the voice cast should do both the talking and singing parts for their characters.

Those developers are dumb to want that, but voice acting is time-consuming and expensive as heck, so it makes sense to cut it.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2016 03:22

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Snak posted:

I am savescumming my rear end off in XCOM: Enemy Unknown

There simply aren't enough missions for me to level up lots of guys. Sometimes a swear an entire moth goes by without any aliens to fight. I can't build more gear without more alloys, and now it's throwing these mechanized units with 30hp and 3 actions per turn at me. What the Christ.

You need more satellites so you can intercept more UFOs/spot more landings/spot more operations. None of those will ping for you if you're not monitoring the countries they happen in, reducing the amount of missions you have access to drastically.

You might also want to do more covert ops, which give you fairly easy but rewarding Exalt missions early on, as well as make it harder for Exalt to gently caress with you in the long run.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2016 04:17

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

If this sort of thing is unclear, it means you probably have a soldier who has the genetic upgrade that lets you see nearby alien units without revealing your position.

And don't feel too bad, I had to restart my first game of Enemy Within pretty early even though I cleared Enemy Unknown with ease. There's more moving parts and the game punishes you for ignoring them.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2016 05:23

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Little tip: abusing explosives not only prevents you from doing autopsies and can damage ship salvage, but exploding an enemy means you get no fragments from them to use, which is not great if you're low on general resources.

I'm playing right now, and the luckiest poo poo ever just happened to me. I was flanked by several enemies and my best guy, smack dab behind all my other units, was mind controlled. A muton kills this squaddie, causing my sniper to panic and blow off the sectoid commander's head, freeing my guy before he can shoot anyone in the back.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2016 06:16

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Uh oh. I'm at the end of the month, and India's in the red with panic. Do I hope for the best, or take a gamble and try to raid one of these countries, hoping Exalt's base is there?

I can totally still win the game without India, but I'd rather not have to.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2016 07:31

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Chryssalids are the loving worst, especially in terror missions. Every stupid civilian is just waiting to turn into a zombie.

On the plus side, they don't use cover and you don't have to care about cover while fighting them, which is fun (until other units show up and murder your out of cover guys).

# ¿ Jul 3, 2016 07:55

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

There should be an alien that has a huge rack.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2016 08:30

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Paladinus posted:

The funny thing is they still had to re-record hundreds of lines for the western release of the game to make the characters older and stuff like that.

Sounds creepy.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2016 14:23

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

The Skeleton King posted:

Battleborn's art design is loving hideous, its like something even dreamworks would be ashamed of. The characters look like trash, like baby's first 3D model or a cartoon that was abandoned before they finished the pilot episode.
Even worse, the characters never shut up, and I hate every loving line spoken. Take the most horrible mascot character you can think of, and then make that ALL of the characters. I muted the game in less than an hour.

Gameplay is pretty dull too, even when you do have teammates. I played the beta and was bored almost immediately. Battleborn is just trash all around. Gearbox needs new management, they really made a mistake thinking Battleborn would be good.

Thing is, this is how I feel about League of Legends, and that game makes millions.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2016 04:36

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

In Training posted:

gently caress you're right. Time to replay MGS4

That's in MGS1.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2016 05:21

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Steam's good but it's not like it's managed super well either. I think they have like, one guy answering all the support tickets.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2016 07:09

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Jonas Albrecht posted:

Pondering how we've never had a really had a good werewolf video game.

You don't like Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness?

# ¿ Jul 4, 2016 07:25

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

I wanna keep playing my X-com ironman game but I don't wanna lose a country.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2016 07:32

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

The idiots pulled out so I deleted my save.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2016 07:36

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Why do video games keep doing this. There's no goddamn reason for the text to be that small.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2016 08:28

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

It's scientifically proven that having kids makes you way less funny. Medical experts want to dissect Louis CK to learn how he has avoided this fate.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2016 11:31

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Do you guys like crazy legs jump Luigi or high jumping slippery Luigi better.

# ¿ Jul 5, 2016 19:01

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

In Training posted:

The Luigi mode in SMG1 is awesome but I wish it was selectable from the beginning instead of having to get 120 stars first

I agree. At least they let you unlock him sooner in 2.

# ¿ Jul 5, 2016 19:07

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Any1 wanna come over and help me beat the hidden stages in 3D world?

They're really hard.

# ¿ Jul 5, 2016 19:14

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Phantasium posted:

Ship me your Wii U and I'd probably do it.

That's no fun, I wanna do it with friends, not have someone do it for me. It's how I beat the Ultimate Challenge prankster comet in Galaxy 2, a pal helped me by freezing enemies.

# ¿ Jul 5, 2016 19:23

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Scalpers is yet another reason digital-only is the superior way to consume.

# ¿ Jul 5, 2016 20:24

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

corn in the bible posted:

crazy legs luigi is my porn name

Slippery Luigi is mine.

# ¿ Jul 6, 2016 03:32

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

CJacobs posted:

I ran Max Payne 3 again tonight because I am bored and hopped up on pain pills of my own, and I beat my time by almost ten god drat minutes.

Put my donation towards suplexing the train please.

# ¿ Jul 6, 2016 09:19

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 23:29

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Exioce posted:

I've never played a Zelder game. I have a Wii and a 3ds with all the native Zelder games including some virtual console oldies picked up in the sales. I am an old man with slow physical and mental reactions now that life's responsibilities have caught up with me. Which Zelder game would you guys recommend I start with?

Start with Ocarina 3D and Link's Awakening DX. You don't have Link to the Past on there, do ya?

Cardboard Box A posted:

A Link Between Worlds

You can't start with the best one.

# ¿ Jul 6, 2016 12:59

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > July Games Floor Chat Thread

«‹›4 »