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poptart_fairy posted:Divinity 2: Ego Draconis has a very...European sense of humour. It's almost Python-esque. Divinity 2 is jank as hell but tons of fun if you can get past that. The mind-reading in particular - you can scan the thoughts of every character in the game for an EXP cost, and they've all got different inner dialogue. There's also the demented rhyming arch-mage who hounds you throughout the entire game for no reason.
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The XP cost on mind reading really deterred me. I never got very far in the game, so maybe the rate for earning xp ramps up a bunch, but early on a mind-reading seems like a big investment for little pay-off.
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Jul 15, 2014 04:58
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Strategic Tea posted:From some of the early interviews, Legion was meant to be stalking Shepard for a good while before you meet him. Like he was carrying out his mission, but as he became more individual he latched into it as the only identity he had. But then console memory limits imposed a stricter recruitment mission order, so they wrote him into the end of the game instead. I don't quite follow. Why would a you not be able to run that story line because of memory limitations? I mean it would just be exposition in the form of extra words right?
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Jul 15, 2014 05:08
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Lotish posted:The XP cost on mind reading really deterred me. I never got very far in the game, so maybe the rate for earning xp ramps up a bunch, but early on a mind-reading seems like a big investment for little pay-off. You get a poo poo ton of experience in the game, it stops being a problem pretty quickly, but it is kinda bad at the beginning.
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Jul 15, 2014 05:10
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Lotish posted:The XP cost on mind reading really deterred me. I never got very far in the game, so maybe the rate for earning xp ramps up a bunch, but early on a mind-reading seems like a big investment for little pay-off. You get far more experience from the mind-reading then you ever spend. There are entire questlines you obtain from mindreading.
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Jul 15, 2014 09:23
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Just finished Arkham City on normal and was letting credits roll. Joker had been leaving voicemail messages to batman all game. During credits joker has voicemail to batman signing "only you" Made me laugh
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donkey salami posted:Just finished Arkham City on normal and was letting credits roll. Joker had been leaving voicemail messages to batman all game. During credits joker has voicemail to batman signing "only you" There's a small easter egg with the credits. Earlier in the game if you focus on Harley's pregnancy test kit in the Joker's 'office', she'll be quietly singing a song on the verge of tears.
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Jul 15, 2014 10:25
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Alteisen posted:My favorite Legion moment is in ME3. That was a great moment, and I kind of wish they'd left it at that rather than having the characters discuss the moment in detail later.
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Jul 15, 2014 15:01
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:I don't quite follow. Why would a you not be able to run that story line because of memory limitations? I mean it would just be exposition in the form of extra words right? Recruitment was meant to be a lot more freeform which means they would need to consider every possible combination of characters you could have with you on each mission for cutscenes and stuff.
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Jul 15, 2014 16:34
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I had the oddest and yet most thematically perfect glitch happen in Sleeping Dogs' Year of the Snake DLC. After the cultists put out their first bomb threat, the game glitched so there were no people or cars anywhere on the roads except Wei and the mission target. It gave this eerie feeling that all of the district's people had hidden in their homes after hearing about the threat, and everything felt so empty. This game is awesome 
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Jul 15, 2014 16:51
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Oxxidation posted:Divinity 2 is jank as hell but tons of fun if you can get past that. The mind-reading in particular - you can scan the thoughts of every character in the game for an EXP cost, and they've all got different inner dialogue. "Maxos!" quote:You get a poo poo ton of experience in the game, it stops being a problem pretty quickly, but it is kinda bad at the beginning. Divinity 2 is really hard up until the point you can turn into a dragon, then it becomes really easy.
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poptart_fairy posted:There's a small easter egg with the credits. Earlier in the game if you focus on Harley's pregnancy test kit in the Joker's 'office', she'll be quietly singing a song on the verge of tears. The idea of the Joker actually banging Harley Quinn always gets me all  .
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mind the walrus posted:The idea of the Joker actually banging Harley Quinn always gets me all Well he gets to ride his Harley
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I just started Sleeping Dogs myself and there's a wealth of little things I like about it already. I love how the character controls differently on stairs, the lighting effects are really good, the city feels genuinely lived-in and crowded(and just being set in a non-US city and having a mostly non-white cast feels incredibly refreshing), the dialogue isn't Shakespeare but is pretty charming. I was in a clothes shop but wasn't a high enough level to buy any clothes (??????) so I exited out without buying anything and the store clerk said "I wouldn't buy any of this poo poo either." 
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TontoCorazon posted:Well he gets to ride his Harley Yeah, but in every incarnation out there the Joker is so painfully obviously gay for Batman (or at least warped beyond sexuality) that it feels really squicky to imagine him ever indulging in sex--even a twisted version with rubber chickesn and macrame or some poo poo. -------- On-topic: In Left 4 Dead 2 it never gets old to me how every gun model has a unique flashlight taped to it, often with zip ties. It took me forever to notice because I'm so used to a flashlight just being "there" in games like Halo and Half-Life.
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Jul 16, 2014 06:04
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mind the walrus posted:The idea of the Joker actually banging Harley Quinn always gets me all clearly you never watched the cartoon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYSNUL2hrQM
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Lord Lambeth posted:clearly you never watched the cartoon If you ever read my post history you'll know that me having not seen B:TAS is a laughable assertion. I'm very well aware of all of that, it still gets me all 
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Crazy people gently caress too you know.
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TontoCorazon posted:Crazy people gently caress too you know. He just makes her wear a Batman mask....
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poptart_fairy posted:There's a small easter egg with the credits. Earlier in the game if you focus on Harley's pregnancy test kit in the Joker's 'office', she'll be quietly singing a song on the verge of tears. Wait so does that mean she was pregnant while I was beating the poo poo out of her during a boss fight?
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Your Gay Uncle posted:Wait so does that mean she was pregnant while I was beating the poo poo out of her during a boss fight? No, the DLC retcons it. You find a billion other tests which are all fake. It was a false positve. (i.e: they decided not to use the idea after they started on the DLC.)
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In the Injustice universe she already had a baby that Joker never knew about. 
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TontoCorazon posted:Crazy people gently caress too you know. *sigh* I've explained myself already. ImpAtom posted:No, the DLC retcons it. You find a billion other tests which are all fake. It was a false positve. (i.e: they decided not to use the idea after they started on the DLC.) Yeah they backed out pretty hardcore on the idea.
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mind the walrus posted:Yeah, but in every incarnation out there the Joker is so painfully obviously gay for Batman (or at least warped beyond sexuality) that it feels really squicky to imagine him ever indulging in sex--even a twisted version with rubber chickesn and macrame or some poo poo. In the comic All-Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder, violet makes a habit out of seducing, banging, then murdering ladies.
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Apparently you can catch your parachute on fire in GTA5, with predictable results.
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Jehde posted:Apparently you can catch your parachute on fire in GTA5, with predictable results. I'm not sure how you would be able to do that though. I was screwing around with GTAV the other day and discovered in a police chase that if your car gets shot up enough in the rear area you can actually start leaking gas.
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Dark Souls II is pretty good, but so far while playing it I haven't been able to shake the feeling that it just isn't quite as good as the predecessor. Its mechanical changes are great, with a bunch of little elements that would fit into this thread (I absolutely adore how they handled Hollowing), but the level, encounter and boss designs seem to fall a bit short. Until I met the boss that knocked it so far out of the loving park that it might be my favorite boss in either game so far. The Skeleton Lords was such an awesome experience that I was grinning ear to ear the whole way through. The finale is far and away the best part, though: After fighting three giant lordly skeletons with different weapons, and a horde of smaller skeletons, the last thing it whips out: a half-dozen Bonewheels, the best enemies from the original! And an unrelated little thing I loved, the est trap I've ever seen: a door that opens to a bottomless pit. Nothing else, jut a death drop. You're practically guaranteed to die to it, but it's too hilarious to get mad about.The fact that sucha brutal, harsh game has a trap that cartoonish in it is fantastic.
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Cleretic posted:And an unrelated little thing I loved, the est trap I've ever seen: a door that opens to a bottomless pit. Nothing else, jut a death drop. You're practically guaranteed to die to it, but it's too hilarious to get mad about.The fact that sucha brutal, harsh game has a trap that cartoonish in it is fantastic.
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smuh posted:That's actually a shortcut, but you have to aim your jump through the doorway pretty well. Also have to be ballsy since that jump looks preeetty intimidating the first time. But it's an amazing trap before you catch wind of what it's actually for. I just sort of let the YOU DIED burn into my retina before I realized what I'd just done.
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muscles like this? posted:I'm not sure how you would be able to do that though. I found this out by jumping out of a helicopter over the city. The helicopter veered off and hit the top of an adjacent building, causing it to explode and rebound back towards me as I deployed my parachute to land on the street below. Just the timing of it caused the flaming helicopter carcass to fly right over my head as I was floating in for the landing. The fire caught on to the parachute and caused it to burn up like 5 feet from the ground.
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Your Gay Uncle posted:Wait so does that mean she was pregnant while I was beating the poo poo out of her during a boss fight? When does Batman beat the poo poo out of Harley during a boss fight?
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oldpainless posted:When does Batman beat the poo poo out of Harley during a boss fight? He doesn't it's Robin DLC.
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Cleretic posted:Until I met the boss that knocked it so far out of the loving park that it might be my favorite boss in either game so far. The Skeleton Lords was such an awesome experience that I was grinning ear to ear the whole way through. The finale is far and away the best part, though: After fighting three giant lordly skeletons with different weapons, and a horde of smaller skeletons, the last thing it whips out: a half-dozen Bonewheels, the best enemies from the original! The way that boss works is that each Skeleton Lord spawns a handful of skeletons after it dies. The mage is the one that summons the bonewheels. So if you want to make that fight a lot easier/boring you can just kill the lords one at a time, wait for their horde to spawn, kill those and then move on to the next lord.
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smuh posted:That's actually a shortcut, but you have to aim your jump through the doorway pretty well. Also have to be ballsy since that jump looks preeetty intimidating the first time. No jump required. Beat up the dog next to the ledge you'd jump from, point yourself at the door and then just walk straight off. You land right on the door. My favorite thing about that game is actually the boss in that area, for two reasons. 1. It is completely optional, it just requires you to do some thinking about the area and some shortcut shenanigans. 2. The entire fight is A goddamn Smough & Ornstein trap that is fully intent on wrecking your poo poo. As soon as I walked in the room, I said "oh gently caress no" and within about 30 seconds I was facefirst on the floor of the arena, three lucerne-toting bosses waiting to show me just how good that poo poo weapon is
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10 Beers posted:In the comic All-Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder, violet makes a habit out of seducing, banging, then murdering ladies.  Ahhh Frank Miller
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OK, in Watch Dogs NPCs will react depending on your 'reputation' (good/bad guy), which isn't really that huge in and out of itself. People will take pictures of weird stuff you do, try to get your attention if you're a good guy, take mobile phone footage if you're just casually walking down the street and so on. Naturally this can also be a hindrance if the police are called when you've been a bad boy and you're just trying to get stuff done. However, the police aren't there just for you: enemy stronghold? No problem. Open fire into a packed street, or just into the air, and freak out civvies so they'll call the police in response. Find a good hiding spot and watch as the police roll up and get into a fight with the now very twitchy gang stronghold.  Oh, and the motherfucking spider tank minigame, which is basically Ghost In The Shell: Giant gently caress Off Murder Machine Edition. poptart_fairy has a new favorite as of 08:57 on Jul 18, 2014 |
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Cleretic posted:a half-dozen Bonewheels, the best enemies from the original! BEST enemy? I hated those little shits in DS, and I hate them in DS2. 
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cowboythreespeech posted:BEST enemy? I hated those little shits in DS, and I hate them in DS2. They are the best for reasons such as that.
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If you hate the bonewheels in DS2 then you don't have a soul.
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kazil posted:If you hate the bonewheels in DS2 then you don't have a soul. Not even a dark one?
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