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LoonShia posted:ftfy Chaos Did Nothing Wrong If you kill lots of people you get more things to kill to support the playstyle, and if you ghost you just have to deal with the regular number and get a less satisfying ending because there's no narrative reason Corvo wouldn't be on a murderous rampage. It's not a good/evil system (and no, "a less dark outcome," literally the only thing the game has to say about it, does not mean "less evil"), and this discussion happens literally every time Dishonored comes up in either this or the Dragging Things Down thread, by this point probably more times than Dark Souls complaining ever clogged up the last DTD thread.
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Alright, geez, I'll stop talking about it.
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Jul 29, 2014 23:02
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I played pretty conservatively in Dishonored and save scummed even though it wasn't necessary. But when you go all out in this game it's the best. I froze time, tranq'd three or four guards and ran up to a powering station and took its oil canister off so the tesla coil wouldn't waste me. When time resumed the darts hit their targets and dropped everyone. Such a great moment. Also I like how Dishonored is built on the Unreal engine but shows its Half Life 2 influence with the oil canisters.
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Jul 29, 2014 23:21
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The HL2 influence is everywhere and even more obvious with the architecture and the machinery that looks like what you'd get if the Combine were really into steampunk. This is because they brought in the same guy responsible for HL2's look to design the city.
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Jul 29, 2014 23:25
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triplexpac posted:I don't know if it counts as a "little thing" but I am loving all the little touches they did in this hack of Final Fantasy 6: my favourite thing about this hack is that the creator showed up in an LP thread of it, outed himself as a ponyfucker and got banned
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Jul 30, 2014 00:58
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I hope to god by ponyfucker you mean brony and not Mr Hands
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Jul 30, 2014 03:59
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bunnyofdoom posted:I hope to god by ponyfucker you mean brony and not Mr Hands He's not just a brony. He, apropos of absolutely nothing at all, shared with the thread that he likes to masturbate to the MLP cast. I mean literally nothing at all, there was no context for it, it's like he was desperate to share his habit of spankin' it to a show about horses for five year old girls.
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Jul 30, 2014 04:12
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bunnyofdoom posted:I hope to god by ponyfucker you mean brony and not Mr Hands His exact words were "and this is coming from a guy who looks at clop." He had absolutely no reason to share that. At all.
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loving internet man. Never stops making me need alcohol.
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So here's what has to be the neatest random bit of graffiti I've seen so far in any video game. Specifically, it's from Resurrection, a F.E.A.R. mod that's frankly otherwise not very interesting.
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Jul 30, 2014 05:07
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haveblue posted:The HL2 influence is everywhere and even more obvious with the architecture and the machinery that looks like what you'd get if the Combine were really into steampunk. This is because they brought in the same guy responsible for HL2's look to design the city. It's not so much the art of the game for me, but Dishonored's technology reminds me of Half Life 2. All the security systems are connected to a power source, namely the whale oil canisters.  They are so obviously made with video-gamey proportions. They remind me of these.  They're health stations from Sin Episodes. Some of them needed a health canister to work and they're just as clunky as ones in Dishonored. They're derivative of the health stations in Half Life. I say Half Life 2 instead of Sin because I've played a handful of sourcemods that required you to carry an object to a fixed station to get it to work.
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I've been playing Survarium lately, which I made a long effort post about in the STALKER thread. It's in its closed beta as a F2P objective-based arena FPS that's currently hosted purely out of Russia, so it's definitely not for everyone. A little thing I love about it though is that it actually shows you what the matchmaking is doing while you wait for the next match. It shows you an array of bars showing how many players of each level are waiting in the queue, and then highlights the brackets that it's considering to make a match with. So if it's at a time when most aren't playing, you'll see the bracket slowly expand to consider more levels, before it eventually settles on levels 0-9. 
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Jul 30, 2014 05:58
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Male Man posted:Dishonored with Dark Messiah's kick would be just a few steps away from perfect. Just give me a semi-linear, first-person dungeon crawler with some good fighting mechanics. Where's Dark Messiah 2, damnit, that game was awesome - nothing else has nailed being such a badass rogue/assassin than the backstab and shadow mechanics in that game. Taking out a big room of orcs by stabbing them and slinking back into the shadows was so much fun.
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Inco posted:my favourite thing about this hack is that the creator showed up in an LP thread of it, outed himself as a ponyfucker and got banned Well... uh... this doesn't play into the hack does it? I don't want to suddenly be playing some MLP fetish game 
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Jul 30, 2014 15:23
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Dark Souls II again. While it does largely aim to be its own thing, it doesn't shy away from referencing the original much at all. One of these instances has the game face you with a series of rickety wooden platforms and ladders, that look ready to collapse at any moment. It's a clear reference to Blighttown, the most hated zone from the original, and while it's fairly short the area is still peppered with player messages of 'This place again!?'. It ends with a chest. So what item could be at the end of a deliberate flashback to the worst part of the original Dark Souls? A one-off weapon from the original, maybe a little trinket reminiscent of what was in the predecessor zone? Nope, it's a minor PvP reward item... a Token of Spite. 
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triplexpac posted:Well... uh... this doesn't play into the hack does it? I don't want to suddenly be playing some MLP fetish game Nah, I don't think there's any pony poo poo in it, I just think it's hilarious
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One of the things I liked in Knife of Dunwall and the other expansion thing was when you hold rightmouse for the teleport power it freezes time unlike in the main game. The second you let go it goes back to normal speed and you can't do anything when holding it down but it let me make sure the up arrow was on the thing I wanted to get to so I wasn't flailing next to it.
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One way to ruin Dishonored for yourself is to compare the size of a character's hand to his face.
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Jul 30, 2014 16:09
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Clearly an Outsider trick. The blink freeze feature even works in midair, so it really expands the possibilities of an already incredibly useful tool.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:One way to ruin Dishonored for yourself is to compare the size of a character's hand to his face. 
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Kenny Logins posted:Oh no everyone in Dunwall has cancer The unintended side effects of handling whale oil
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Something I just figured out about New Vegas: they did something cool with the "post-nuclear" theme. The NCR and Legion are fighting over power. But not some giant reactor or power plant, but two sources of renewable energy; Hoover Dam and HELIOS ONE. I dunno, just thought it was cool.
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LoonShia posted:Something I just figured out about New Vegas: they did something cool with the "post-nuclear" theme. The developers' theme for New Vegas was "the new world rebuilding itself in the image of the old world" so that was definitely deliberate. Josh Sawyer still posts in the New vegas thread sometimes, if you're a fan of New Vegas it's totally worth reading his posts to see some of the team's goals while they were making the game and where they think they fell short or totally nailed it.
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I love how Saints Row IV handles homie dialogue. When you take 1 homie with you, he/she/it will comment on what the Boss did prior to the game start. When you take 2 homies with you, instead of both of them shouting to the Boss one over another, they all have specific dialogue with each other. Every pair has their own dialogue, and I'm pretty sure some have more then just one. It's a really nice touch, especially because the dialogue is really funny at times.
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Kikas posted:I love how Saints Row IV handles homie dialogue. When you take 1 homie with you, he/she/it will comment on what the Boss did prior to the game start. When you take 2 homies with you, instead of both of them shouting to the Boss one over another, they all have specific dialogue with each other. Every pair has their own dialogue, and I'm pretty sure some have more then just one. It's a really nice touch, especially because the dialogue is really funny at times. It really adds to replay value too, because there are so many combos of dialogue to hear. Or, if you're lazy (and hate fun), you just hit YouTube up to catch the wonders of pairing Kinzie up with basically any other homie. I lose it every time at how awkward Shaundi gets about Kinzie's questions.
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Kikas posted:I love how Saints Row IV handles homie dialogue. When you take 1 homie with you, he/she/it will comment on what the Boss did prior to the game start. When you take 2 homies with you, instead of both of them shouting to the Boss one over another, they all have specific dialogue with each other. Every pair has their own dialogue, and I'm pretty sure some have more then just one. It's a really nice touch, especially because the dialogue is really funny at times. Wow I completely missed ALL of that, I barely bothered to use homies
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triplexpac posted:Wow I completely missed ALL of that, I barely bothered to use homies It's a hassle when you're cycling through homies and trying out different combinations. You have to dismiss your whole party, wait until they're far enough away from each other, and then recruit the one you want without triggering the other homies you dismissed. But it's still really cool to see how everyone has opinions on everyone else.
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Or you can be even lazier like me and read them all on the Saints Row wiki. One of my favorites: quote:Veteran Child: "A kilt, huh? Heh, heh. That's a bold choice." Also, Veteran Child and Matt Miller have a great one that ends with VC getting pissed that Matt stood up to the Saints and lived. "This is bullshit!"
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Roddy and Keith David together is basically a recreation of They Live.
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It was one of the high points of SR4 when you walk around a nondescript corner in the middle of a mission and there's Roddy Piper for no reason and a few moments later he's in your party because why the hell not.
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Alteisen posted:Roddy and Keith David together is basically a recreation of They Live. Why have I not yet bought this game?
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Aleph Null posted:Why have I not yet bought this game? Keith David is playing himself. Its Keith David as Keith David. What I'm saying is that SR4 owns.
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You can set the player character's voice to "Nolan North". SR4 is one of those games that will take over this entire thread for a page or two if we let it.
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Jul 31, 2014 21:44
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1stGear posted:Keith David is playing himself. Its Keith David as Keith David. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51OztTj9r5M
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Jul 31, 2014 21:45
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1stGear posted:Keith David is playing himself. Its Keith David as Keith David. You can also bring Keith David as a homie along with Julius, played by Keith David.
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DrNutt posted:You can also bring Keith David as a homie along with Julius, played by Keith David. In Saints Row: The Third you can have Josh (an actor) and Nyte Blayde (his most famous role) as homies at the same time. They have no interaction with each other, but the contrast between their voice barks (Hollywood bro vs angsty vampire hunter) is quite funny.
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I'm sad that there's no conversation between Shaundi, Fun Shaundi, and Cyborg Future Shaundi from the Christmas DLC. The ending montage of the Christmas DLC is my favorite little thing.
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I own the game, haven't played it yet, but this trailer has got me wanting to play it more than any other piece of media and advertising yet. Edit: The answer is because I have a few games I want to finish first, and not a lot of free time, plus I'm waiting on a friend to do it coop with.
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haveblue posted:It was one of the high points of SR4 when you walk around a nondescript corner in the middle of a mission and there's Roddy Piper for no reason and a few moments later he's in your party because why the hell not. gently caress me. Rowdy Roddy Piper is in SR IV? And Hogan was in 3, so who is the mega wrestling fan in that office?
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Avenging_Mikon posted:gently caress me. Rowdy Roddy Piper is in SR IV? And Hogan was in 3, so who is the mega wrestling fan in that office? Probably most of Volition is.
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