ImpAtom posted:

Nah, there's a scene where someone gets poisoned and it lowers for that too. It just doesn't make much sense.

RagnarokAngel posted:

Naw not that part, the fact that you can put human "health" on a single spectrum from "Fit as a fiddle" to "dead as a doornail". It's a gameplay convention it just gets kinda funny when you're justifying it as an in-universe thing.

2house2fly posted:

It might be more a measurement of someone's ability to continue functioning than measuring their health on some objective scale. If someone gets injured or poisoned it can dip to show they need medical treatment, dip a lot to show they need mondo medical treatment. I don't know what the Lore says about them but that makes more sense to me than "Warning Isaac You Are Now Only 48% Healthy"

FauxGateau posted:

It's for insurance reasons. "Uhh sorry Ms. Miller, but we won't be able to cover your husband's policy because we looked at the RIG records and saw that he could've healed himself for at least 15 mins. And the contract clearly states that ."

Sobatchja Morda posted:

Far Cry 2

Sobatchja Morda posted:

That just reminds me of the medical wonder that is Gordon Freeman's HEV-suit. It's able to monitor your health, work it out into a percentage, protect you from radiation, provide anti-toxins when you've been poisoned, heal you, and administer morphine. Although that last part does make me suspect that Gordon's in a Crysis 2-type of situation, where he's just a mess of broken bones held upright by a mechanical harness.

Sobatchja Morda posted:

That just reminds me of the medical wonder that is Gordon Freeman's HEV-suit. It's able to monitor your health, work it out into a percentage, protect you from radiation, provide anti-toxins when you've been poisoned, heal you, and administer morphine. Although that last part does make me suspect that Gordon's in a Crysis 2-type of situation, where he's just a mess of broken bones held upright by a mechanical harness.

Mokinokaro posted:

New Vegas' Old World Blues dlc also has an enemy that is a crazy medical harness suit that still has a skeleton inside.

grittyreboot posted:

In the first Halo, there is a cut scene where Sarge is playing generic butt rock. Some marine complains about it and Sarge admonishes him because it's his heritage. I always thought that was funny.

RagnarokAngel posted:

Naw not that part, the fact that you can put human "health" on a single spectrum from "Fit as a fiddle" to "dead as a doornail". It's a gameplay convention it just gets kinda funny when you're justifying it as an in-universe thing.

Sobatchja Morda posted:

Far Cry 2, which never gets enough love, was amazing with its fire as well.

Boob Dylan posted:

Also it was mentioned in the last thread, but if you look at certain river (like the one south of Whiterun) you can see fish spawning up the waterfalls

Boob Dylan posted:

I've been replaying Skyrim lately, and one little thing I like involves fighting the Silver Hand. Most of their members have Cure Disease potions (or items used in making Cure Disease potions) on their person, which makes a lot of sense considering the type of faction they are: anti-werewolf/vampire, the latter of which spreads like a disease.

Also it was mentioned in the last thread, but if you look at certain river (like the one south of Whiterun) you can see fish spawning up the waterfalls

Mokinokaro posted:

Silver was super effective on werewolves and undead in the earlier Elder Scrolls games so the Silver Hand are probably just carrying on that.

And yeah the Vigilants do seem a far more competent group.

Taerkar posted:

In the earlier games Iron and Steel weapons wouldn't affect many types of creatures but silver would. Silver weapons werea bit weaker than steel so were really only good against the supernatural.

I believe some stuff needed weapons higher than silver (or enchanted, no matter what the enchant.)

Cleretic posted:

I can't speak for games before it (I played Morrowind, but never got to a point where it was relevant), but in Oblivion you could only hurt ghosts and Will-o-the-Wisps with silver, enchanted or daedric weapons. It can really be a bitch in that stretch of the game between when silver gets outclassed damage-wise and when enchantments become commonplace.

Spells and summoned weapons work just fine against them, though, so mages can rock them at any stage of the game.

cobalt impurity posted:

In Oblivion, if you join the Dark Brotherhood there is a vampire that's one of the ranking officers in the secret clubhouse. I can't remember if it's him or the leader, but one of the two have a note explaining stuff about vampires and mentions that, even though it's a common legend, vampires don't actually give a poo poo about garlic and it's a stupid way to try and protect yourself.

The vampire that's there just happens to be allergic to garlic though, so if you shove some into his pocket he gets weakened when you have to murder everyone there for the Night Mother.

Taerkar posted:

In the earlier games Iron and Steel weapons wouldn't affect many types of creatures but silver would. Silver weapons werea bit weaker than steel so were really only good against the supernatural.

I believe some stuff needed weapons higher than silver (or enchanted, no matter what the enchant.)

1redflag posted:

Someone mentioned your buddy NPC'S going down and making you shoot them in the face to put them out of their misery in FAR CRY 2: CRY HARDER. What they forgot to mention was that you also had the option to overdose them on morphine (I.e. your health kit) , but you had to use two or three of your limited capacity of morphine to do so. So the choice became one of: do I put him down gently and use up morphine I might need later, or just put a bullet in him. I usually just a bullet into them, but not the Sikh who had saved me all those times - goodnight, sweet prince.

Kimmalah posted:

That's true, but I'm going to take a wild guess here that the Silver Hand characters haven't played Oblivion or Daggerfall or whatever, which is what I was getting at. In the world they live in (as in the game of Skyrim), silver is worthless against werewolves and they're dumb for using it. Nothing more than that.

Sobatchja Morda posted:

Far Cry 2, which never gets enough love, was amazing with its fire as well. Often I'd lob a molotov into a building inhabited by enemies, waiting for them to stream out into the path of my machine gun. Inevitably, the fire would grow out of control and the situation turns into pure chaos: ammunition piles get caught on fire, explosives detonate randomly, and you quickly find both yourself and your enemies stranded amidst the flames while you blindfire at them. It's brutal.

In fact, one big thing that I love about Far Cry 2 is how brutal and visceral it can be. People often complain about it being a frustrating game, but that's exactly what I love about it: playing it tires you out, you always find yourself at a disadvantage and even the best laid plans can go astray in the blink of an eye. There's an actual feeling of danger that haunts you for the entirety of the game (something which I never really felt in Far Cry 3) and the only way to cope with that is to become brutal and completely unscrupulous yourself. Eventually, you'll find yourself shooting every car that even comes close to you out of precaution, burning down villages filled with enemies that you could have easily evaded, wounding opponents with a sniper rifle so you can pick off their buddies as they attempt a rescue and becoming more and more detached to the horrific missions your employers give you. The fact that every action is preceded by a long journey gives you time to reflect on your actions, and if you're not disgusted with what you've become by the end of the game, you're playing it wrong.

It is pretty well known that Far Cry 2 is an adaptation of Heart of Darkness, but this transformation of the player highlights my favourite aspect of the game: the context of the adaptation and initial plot makes you think you're playing Marlow, but the game itself is putting you through the transformative process endured by Kurtz and this realisation (which is never explicitly pronounced by the game) comes as a sucker punch. It is a game that makes you look at its world in such a way that the motto "Exterminate all the brutes!" starts sounding very reasonable, and that was the moment I fell in love with it. Far Cry 2 is not the only game that models itself after Conrad (Spec Ops: The Line being another obvious example) but it is the only one that translated a descent into madness into something executed by the player himself (rather than something brought forth by the plot alone; see, again, Spec Ops: The Line). And for that, I will always love it.

Oh, and for an actual little moment that fits the above: near the end of the game, you're send to (serious spoilers, do NOT read if you intend to play the game) retrieve a stack of diamonds from an extremely dangerous area. What is supposed to happen is that you reach the diamonds and find one of your buddies standing over it. He calmly explains that he and his colleagues (more buddies) have decided it's more profitable to cut you out of the loop, and you're forced to kill the characters who have actively helped you (and you've helped in return) over the course of the game, leaving you truly alone and betrayed. What happened to me, however, was that as soon as I reached the designated area, I patrolled the environment first. I found a spot that allowed me to peak over the walls, just enough to spot what I thought was a guard's head. Naturally, I put a bullet in it. When I entered the compound, I saw that I had just shot my own buddy, and without any cutscene or anything the rest of them appeared and attacked me. It changed the entire context of the scene, and made me feel like even more of a bastard.

Desk Lamp posted:

That's his point though, those games take place hundreds of years before Skyrim, so what was once useful gameplay information is now old folk legend.

SmashiusClay posted:

[re: the last of us] I've just played through the sequence where, if you stand around too long in certain spots, she will get bored and pull out a joke book. Hearing Joel groan at her terrible puns is a lovely bit of characterisation.

Ryoshi posted:

I know a lot of people think he really phoned it in but I really like Peter Dinklage's semi-cynical robot voice in Destiny.

Babe Magnet posted:

timp posted:

Who the gently caress is seanbaby