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Max Payne 3 is probably my favorite game of the last console generation.  Every couple of days or weeks I'll blast through a few arcade levels to blow off steam. Shooting dudes is fun and so is Max's depressed alcoholism and lovely jokes. The only thing I don't like about it is swapping discs when I want to go from the stadium to police station or whatever.
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Flectarn posted:I like the games, but anyone who thinks the stories are worthy of more than an eye roll and mashing the space bar is crazy, pretending the story got bad in 3 is just weird to me. The stories were no great shakes, but the ways they were terrible are different. The first two games the game embraced how silly the storytelling could be, and while it did try and tell a serious story there were moments of levity and elements of Max's personality that weren't "I'm a terrible person and have nothing to live for." The reason you're supposed to care about what goes on in MP3 is some Brazilian girl who the player doesn't even care about or even know anything about her; compared to MP1 where the hook of the plot was figuring out the conspiracy behind the murder of Max's family, and MP2 with Max and Mona trying to save each other from the conspiracy that threatens to kill them both. This is on top of a combat system that is confusing as to what it is attempting to be (cover-based shooter? Third-Person John Woo simulator?).
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Jul 22, 2014 04:57
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I remember getting cajoled into getting to the bank level after getting stuck on the docks for a long while, but then some invulnerable rear end in a top hat with a minigun absolutely destroyed me for a solid half-hour. Life's too short to play bullshit video games.
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Jul 22, 2014 05:15
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Max Payne 3 is really good and probably the best third person shooter of its generation, anyone who doesn't like it is a big dork.
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Jul 22, 2014 05:29
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Wandle Cax posted:Max Payne 3 is really good and probably the best third person shooter of its generation, anyone who doesn't like it is a big dork. Perhaps you can explain why. Perhaps using a 20 minute cutscene.
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Jul 22, 2014 06:50
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I was going to make a joke about how there are only like two third-person shooters so it wins by default, but then I remembered that Alpha Protocol exists.
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Jul 22, 2014 11:13
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I don't understand why game developers feel the need to make text so small. This is a problem in a lot of games but I'm especially annoyed at GTA V. Why do you have to read texts on a phone that takes up only like 1/64 of the screen?
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Jul 22, 2014 12:22
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You might start getting doubts that you really need such a large TV.
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Jul 22, 2014 12:50
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kazil posted:Perhaps you can explain why. Perhaps using a 20 minute unskippable cutscene. ftfy
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Jul 22, 2014 15:03
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grittyreboot posted:I don't understand why game developers feel the need to make text so small. This is a problem in a lot of games but I'm especially annoyed at GTA V. Why do you have to read texts on a phone that takes up only like 1/64 of the screen? I've been having this problem with Darksiders 2 for the Wii U. I have to hold the loving gamepad up against my face because the text is like an eighth of an inch on there and I can't fuckin' read it on my TV either from six feet away.
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Jul 22, 2014 15:19
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kazil posted:Perhaps you can explain why. Perhaps using a 20 minute badly written, unskippable cutscene. ftfy II: the awakening
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Jul 22, 2014 15:28
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Resident Evil 4: Maybe it's just because I read Dark Id's LP of it, but I can't help but notice that the architecture of Salazar's castle seems to be 95% hallways and foyers, with the actual functions of the building spread ridiculously thin, and it's kind of annoying. That and the cannon pointed at the castle's own gate. 
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Jul 22, 2014 17:28
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StandardVC10 posted:Resident Evil 4: Maybe it's just because I read Dark Id's LP of it, but I can't help but notice that the architecture of Salazar's castle seems to be 95% hallways and foyers, with the actual functions of the building spread ridiculously thin, and it's kind of annoying. That and the cannon pointed at the castle's own gate. Resident Evil has never been a series to feature logical architecture.
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Jul 22, 2014 17:36
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StandardVC10 posted:Resident Evil 4: Maybe it's just because I read Dark Id's LP of it, but I can't help but notice that the architecture of Salazar's castle seems to be 95% hallways and foyers, with the actual functions of the building spread ridiculously thin, and it's kind of annoying. That and the cannon pointed at the castle's own gate. It's also a loving castle with a fully functional geothermal reactor and giant robot midget on the outskirts of a rural Spanish town. The world of Resident Evil is a strange place.
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Jul 22, 2014 17:40
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Oh, yeah, I had forgotten the lava pit, probably because I hadn't gotten there yet in my current playthrough. That bit's annoying because you can't deal with the fire-dragon-statue-things when they're directly in front of you. Still, kind of missing out on opportunities for arena design when it's just hallways all the way down.
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Jul 22, 2014 17:46
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StandardVC10 posted:Resident Evil 4: Maybe it's just because I read Dark Id's LP of it, but I can't help but notice that the architecture of Salazar's castle seems to be 95% hallways and foyers, with the actual functions of the building spread ridiculously thin, and it's kind of annoying. That and the cannon pointed at the castle's own gate. Why stop there? Anyone remember any of the bright architecture decisions in Resident Evil 3?  :"Hey guys, how should we lock City Hall?" :"How about a series of 12 gems attached to an electronic device embedded into a clock?":"Where should I keep this backup battery?":"How about in the statue of the mayor! If you want the battery out all you have to do is swap his book for a sundial!"
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Jul 22, 2014 18:00
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I've always assumed that Resident Evil took place in a world where architects were trying to one up each other in creating convoluted locking systems.
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Jul 22, 2014 18:17
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Starcraft 2: I am literally incapable of playing Starcraft 2 and the support people are unprofessional as hell. Back when the game first came out I bought the digital version. I played it for a bit, and then moved onto other things. I recently tried to re-download my game but found my account to be locked. I ask my friend and he links me this. https://www.dashlane.com/blog/efficiency/blizzard-hacked-battle-net-passwords-and-security-questions-compromised/ Roughly 2 years later blizzard got hacked. Apparently had I logged on sometime back in 2012 I would have been prompted to change my security question, but I did not. To unlock an account you need either a physical cd key (not available to digital downloads as I understand it) or the answer to your security question (Which was reset\deleted by Blizzard because they were hacked). I contacted support. I get this stupid rear end email talking about loving gnomes and goblins and poo poo. I am a customer, you are a business, act like adults. Of course I didn't say that to them, and of course they wouldn't have read it anyway. The presumably automated system "resolved" the issue by resetting (deleting) my password. I am now in a state where I can't change my password because I have no security question, and I can't change my security question because I have no password. This company has my name, address, phone number, and credit card info and they get hacked and they think it's appropriate to respond to basic level tech support with this goddamn roleplay poo poo. All of this because I bought a game in 2010 online and wanted to play it in 2014.
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Jul 22, 2014 18:19
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You can still get your security question reset, and thus regain access to your account, by sending in a scan or pic of your ID. That gnomes and goblins poo poo is annoying though.
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Jul 22, 2014 18:57
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Poulpe posted:Why stop there? Anyone remember any of the bright architecture decisions in Resident Evil 3? Look if the Chief of Police can go take a crap without risk of decapitation, it's a bad Police HQ. 
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Jul 22, 2014 19:17
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Mister Adequate posted:Look if the Chief of Police can go take a crap without risk of decapitation, it's a bad Police HQ. Trick statement. There isn't a single bathroom in the whole building.
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Jul 22, 2014 21:22
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I'm not sure if it's worse to have a game with no bathrooms at all, or to have a game with one bathroom at some point, leaving you wondering where the rest of them are.
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Jul 22, 2014 21:25
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Action Tortoise posted:I've always assumed that Resident Evil took place in a world where architects were trying to one up each other in creating convoluted locking systems. You would have to think this way when your town is home to the Master of Unlocking©.
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Jul 22, 2014 21:58
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Action Tortoise posted:I've always assumed that Resident Evil took place in a world where architects were trying to one up each other in creating convoluted locking systems. That's pretty much canon, the architect who designed Spencer Mansion and much of Raccoon City was a huge fan of crazy cryptic puzzles, as was Spencer himself, which is why every Umbrella owned facility was a nightmare of puzzles and everything being insane design wise.
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Sad lions posted:Trick statement. There isn't a single bathroom in the whole building. Trap sprung. 
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Jul 22, 2014 22:38
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Well I mean the police station is directly attached to the sewage treatment plant or whatever, so just pop on downstairs by blowing up a wall and relieve yourself without need of a toilet for a middle-man!
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Jul 22, 2014 23:01
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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is pretty fun, but it's being dragged down by a horrible camera and by being an even more horrible PC port.
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Jul 22, 2014 23:03
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Randler posted:Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is pretty fun, but it's being dragged down by a horrible camera and by being an even more horrible PC port. What? Except for a glitch that happens in the final boss fight only if you skip a short cutscene it's an amazing port and runs better than the original.
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Jul 22, 2014 23:08
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cobalt impurity posted:What? Except for a glitch that happens in the final boss fight only if you skip a short cutscene it's an amazing port and runs better than the original. It has a 24 GB file size and almost 20 of that is from the uncompressed FMVs.
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Jul 22, 2014 23:42
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cobalt impurity posted:What? Except for a glitch that happens in the final boss fight only if you skip a short cutscene it's an amazing port and runs better than the original. There are various other known issues and I run into multiple of them. Also, I posted my previous post when the credits started and this post is from after the unskippable credits ended and my save actually registered as finished. 
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cobalt impurity posted:What? Except for a glitch that happens in the final boss fight only if you skip a short cutscene it's an amazing port and runs better than the original. I have to use a 3rd party program to force the PC port of Metal Gear Rising to 1920x1080 and 60hz because I use HDMI to connect my monitor to my video card. If I don't, the UI thinks that it's a much larger resolution, and the refresh rate drops down to less than half of what it should be. Without that program running, I get a headache from playing for five minutes. Also because the refresh rate is so hosed over HDMI, a weird form of "burn in" occurs where the codec menu gets half-overlaid on top of my monitor for about an hour or so, even after the game is closed. I'd say that the game's inability to work properly over an HDMI cable makes it a mediocre port at best.
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Jul 23, 2014 00:13
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GTA 5: Headshots. Specifically, enemies getting random headshots on you. If I can't reliably prevent a method in which the RNG kills me, it shouldn't happen. Instead, every now and then I instantly die when in a shootout.
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Jul 23, 2014 00:22
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Blizzard patch days. They just released an update for hearthstone containing a bunch of battles against overpowered AI opponents based on WoW's Naxxramas raid. Since these fights award cards to your account, you have to be logged in to battle.net to fight them. So I'm getting several seconds of latency on a single player game.
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Jul 23, 2014 00:34
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cobalt impurity posted:What? Except for a glitch that happens in the final boss fight only if you skip a short cutscene it's an amazing port and runs better than the original. MGR:R is my favourite game of 2013 but no 1440p is a bummer.
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StandardVC10 posted:Resident Evil 4: Maybe it's just because I read Dark Id's LP of it, but I can't help but notice that the architecture of Salazar's castle seems to be 95% hallways and foyers, with the actual functions of the building spread ridiculously thin, and it's kind of annoying. That and the cannon pointed at the castle's own gate. This always bugged me about the Police Station in RE2. I get that a creepy old mansion can have hidden doorways,false floors and weird architechure but this is supposed to be a fully functional police station. Everytime someone needed to to go the bathroom they would have to rearrange some paintings, burn one, find the hidden gem, put it on a statue's eye and then face it towards the moon. "Jenkins, I need to get into the evidence locker, have you seen the zodiac stones? Also did they fill up the fountain again, I need that hidden staircase to get to Interrogation Room 2.'
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SourceElement posted:I have to use a 3rd party program to force the PC port of Metal Gear Rising to 1920x1080 and 60hz because I use HDMI to connect my monitor to my video card. If I don't, the UI thinks that it's a much larger resolution, and the refresh rate drops down to less than half of what it should be. Without that program running, I get a headache from playing for five minutes. It's really strange, because I read about this issue but run at 1920x1080 60hz over HDMI just fine, guess I got lucky. I still wish they would have done something about the camera with the port, though.
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Everyone always complains about the stupid way to get the Zodiac Spear in FF12. They're totally justified, it is really dumb. But, it's actually way more player friendly than every other ultimate weapon in the game. The vast majority are just found through stealing from enemies or looting chests that have a low chance to spawn, and if spawned have a low chance to actually carry the weapon. So it's just as much of a guide required situation unless you somehow psychically ascertain that that chest that dropped 3 phoenix downs will drop an Excalibur or whatever if you just farm it an average of 50 times. I didn't have any problems with PC port bugs in Revengeance myself, but the horrible camera really drags down an otherwise amazing game.
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The Moon Monster posted:Everyone always complains about the stupid way to get the Zodiac Spear in FF12. They're totally justified, it is really dumb. But, it's actually way more player friendly than every other ultimate weapon in the game. The vast majority are just found through stealing from enemies or looting chests that have a low chance to spawn, and if spawned have a low chance to actually carry the weapon. So it's just as much of a guide required situation unless you somehow psychically ascertain that that chest that dropped 3 phoenix downs will drop an Excalibur or whatever if you just farm it an average of 50 times. Yeah, I'm one of those people that actually like FFXII, but I can't imagine why anyone would ever think poo poo like that is a good idea in any game ever.
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Lotish posted:Yeah, I'm one of those people that actually like FFXII, but I can't imagine why anyone would ever think poo poo like that is a good idea in any game ever. Is it required for beating a super boss or something? Honestly that whole thing sounds like way more trouble than it could ever be worth (see also: beating super bosses). While talking about Final Fantasy: I can ignore a lot of irritating poo poo (given the series, I need to) if I'm having at least a little bit of fun and/or something interesting is happening but dear god Mog made a lot of major scenes near unwatchable.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:It has a 24 GB file size and almost 20 of that is from the uncompressed FMVs. Still a pretty drat good game though. Except the boss of the Jetstream Sam DLC, gently caress that fight.
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