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During the Ocelot boss fight in MGS3, if you kill his favourite animal (the Markhor), he'll get really pissed. His buddies will also laugh at you if you wear the crocodile mask or a cardboard box. When Ocelot is passed out early in the game, if you stab him non-fatally, there will be a bandage at the spot later on. You can shoot beehives to land on top of guards. If you look at Eva's lengthy medical history while you're escorting her, you'll see that she's had plastic surgery, a boob job, numerous electrical burns (she's forced into a relationship with a big scary dude who can shoot lightening out of his body) and proctitus.  In MGO, if Vamp got tranquilized and you tried to use the codec, he'd say "Raiden....is so big" in his sleep. In the Act 4 mission briefing in MGS4, Naomi hangs her necklace somewhere upstairs. If you look carefully, you'll see that she was carrying around a locket with Gray Fox's picture in it. I love how in MGS4, you can make soldiers laugh/cry/rage/scream themselves unconscious.
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Radio Paranoia posted:I was mucking about in the latest Dark Souls 2 DLC and got invaded by an NPC. I was expecting the guy to run up and try to face gently caress me as usual but the bastard used chameleon to turn into a barrel and popped out when I was inching towards a bloodstained chest. There's another NPC invader in that DLC that's an even bigger rear end in a top hat 
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Smelly posted:
I posted these in the main Mordor thread, but...     The Nemesis system is fantastic. Originally I thought it'd just be a gimmick, but the dialogue and changes to an orc's armour/appearance (scars, better equipment, weapons stuck in their back depending on how you 'killed' them, etc etc) adds a ton of anecdotal potential to the game. The main thread's already filled with people bitching about their personal enemy hounding them throughout the game. 
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Oct 1, 2014 06:49
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God Hand has a lot of really lovely dialogue, but some of Gene's comments make me laugh. "drat, I'm poor" and "... douchebags" are pretty funny in context. Also, Gene is like the lamest lame. Same with Ashley Riot, frankly. I also love the Mike Tyson quotes some of the enemies throw out... but I think I mentioned that earlier in the thread. It's simultaneously the best and worst game ever. cowboythreespeech has a new favorite as of 07:18 on Oct 1, 2014 |
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Oct 1, 2014 07:16
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Earth Defence Force 2017 Portable: the NPC soldiers have short voice clips that seem to play randomly without any rhyme or reason, although some should be clearly contextual. What this means is that any voice clip can be followed by whichever one, so, for example, you often get exchanges which are not actually exchanges, like: "The captain's dead!"-"It was my bullet that killed him!", "The rookie's dead!"-"Yeah, you're welcome!" or "Reloading."-"I can't do that right now!" and the like. It's really bizarre and funny at the same time. Sadly, the online multiplayer seems to be dead and coupled with very grindy trophy requirements the Platinum is impossible to obtain. Oh well, killing giant spiders is its own reward.
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Oct 1, 2014 07:49
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cowboythreespeech posted:God Hand has a lot of really lovely dialogue, but some of Gene's comments make me laugh. "drat, I'm poor" and "... douchebags" are pretty funny in context. You're not Alexander.
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Oct 1, 2014 07:55
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Alteisen posted:You're not Alexander. Alexander the Great! Such a good game with such a good camera.
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Oct 1, 2014 08:25
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Smelly posted:It's hardly a little thing but the Nemesis system in Shadow of Mordor is absolutely fantastic. How you fight the Uruk-hai captains affects what their weaknesses are. Say you take out a captain by burning him, the next time you see him he'll be burned and could potentially freak out over fire. When you draw out a warchief the orcs will start chanting his randomly generated name, I had them going "Ugu! Ugu! Ugu! Ugu!" earlier.
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Oct 1, 2014 10:19
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Szurumbur posted:Earth Defence Force 2017 Portable: the NPC soldiers have short voice clips that seem to play randomly without any rhyme or reason, although some should be clearly contextual. What this means is that any voice clip can be followed by whichever one, so, for example, you often get exchanges which are not actually exchanges, like: "The captain's dead!"-"It was my bullet that killed him!", "The rookie's dead!"-"Yeah, you're welcome!" or "Reloading."-"I can't do that right now!" and the like. It's really bizarre and funny at the same time. I was replaying F.E.A.R. thanks to this thread and noticed some of the awesome little touches in the Replica soldiers' voice chatter. The most obvious are their reaction quotes, like a soldier calling out "he's too fast!" when you activate your reflexes or screaming "gently caress!" if you manage to kill another one right next to him. But my favorite comes if you manage to catch a squad of them in the open. This usually results in one soldier yelling "get to cover!" to his squadmates, but if you manage to flank and pin them in the open, one will yell back "Where?!" in an utterly frustrated voice. It's also tactically useful, especially in the sequels when you face more regular human enemies. If you manage to whittle a squad down to the last member, he'll go into a more defensive position and radio his command that his entire squad is dead... Which is actually the signal to sprint out and kick him in the face.
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Szurumbur posted:Earth Defence Force 2017 Portable: the NPC soldiers have short voice clips that seem to play randomly without any rhyme or reason, although some should be clearly contextual. What this means is that any voice clip can be followed by whichever one, so, for example, you often get exchanges which are not actually exchanges, like: "The captain's dead!"-"It was my bullet that killed him!", "The rookie's dead!"-"Yeah, you're welcome!" or "Reloading."-"I can't do that right now!" and the like. It's really bizarre and funny at the same time. My personal favourite is still "fattie's been killed!", usually followed by a very low res scream. It's just so incredibly silly!
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God bless whoever changed the thread title.
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Rimworld just had another update that added tailoring and surgery! What this means is if you capture a prisoner, you can harvest their organs and sell them, butcher the body for leather to create human leather clothing (and sell it) and make food from the meat (or sell it).
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Oct 2, 2014 12:32
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Geokinesis posted:Rimworld just had another update that added tailoring and surgery! 
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Oct 2, 2014 12:33
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Well of course you can do nice things with surgery like give people bionic body parts or peg legs.
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Pikmin 3: Whistling at doomed Pikmin that you cannot possibly save, why do I do this?
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scarycave posted:Pikmin 3: Whistling at doomed Pikmin that you cannot possibly save, why do I do this? I'm not sure about 3, but at least in the first two this actually helps if they're drowning; non-blue Pikmin struggle in your direction if you whistle at them, which can get them to safety. Your encouragement saved them! 
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Cleretic posted:I'm not sure about 3, but at least in the first two this actually helps if they're drowning; non-blue Pikmin struggle in your direction if you whistle at them, which can get them to safety. Your encouragement saved them! If you have blue pikmin on-hand, dismissing them from your group will cause them to go save their buddies from drowning .
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Cleretic posted:I'm not sure about 3, but at least in the first two this actually helps if they're drowning; non-blue Pikmin struggle in your direction if you whistle at them, which can get them to safety. Your encouragement saved them! I think it also works on non-reds on fire and non-whites that got gassed. Non-yellows just turn into crispy critters though 
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Greatbacon posted:I think it also works on non-reds on fire and non-whites that got gassed. Non-yellows just turn into crispy critters though Whistling cures burns, shock, mild-drowning, poison in 3. It doesn't cure being chewed up or eaten or stabbed though no matter how much I whistle at them. Then the sad little ghosts pop up.  There was so many ghosts during the swamp monster fight. Occasionally, Charlie will dedicate a journal entry to the Pikmin lost in battle if you suffer heavy losses.
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CJacobs posted:Tiny little thing in games in The Last of Us that I just noticed on my most recent playthrough. In the section where you're playing as Ellie, there's a moment during the segment where she and David are defending themselves in a house where she gets QTE grabbed. The zombie goes for her shoulder but David shoots it off before it can bite her, and when control returns to the player Ellie rubs her neck where it was about to bite her. It's such a tiny and inconsequential animation that someone must have thought of putting it in there on purpose. Speaking of rad tiny inconsequential animations: 
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Kanji in Persona 4 Arena Ultimax is the best goddamn thing. I mean, he was in P4 vanilla, but I love him even more in this. "Oh my gooooood, he's an albino Shiba!"
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MysticalMachineGun posted:Was playing Metal Gear Solid 3 HD last night and noticed something new - while in the torture scene you can see the Sorrow holding up a note to dial a certain frequency - you use it to escape from your cell afterwards. Since I was so eager to use it before I forgot the frequency, I called it as soon as gameplay resumed, which was after Johnny puts you in the jail cell. What I didn't know was that it would cause the door to just swing open, while he was still looking at me.
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Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor is pretty great. It's nice to play a game that advertises itself as a sandbox game and actually get a sandbox where the game mechanics(in this case, the Nemesis system) are the star of the show rather than mission set pieces or story(like in GTA) I also like how the game feels like an actual world. poo poo happens while your doing other stuff with the various captains and Orc leaders competing for and increasing their power. I even had one moment where I was fighting one Orc captain and two more captains came rushing into the scene and I actually had to book it out of there.
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scarycave posted:Whistling cures burns, shock, mild-drowning, poison in 3. It doesn't cure being chewed up or eaten or stabbed though no matter how much I whistle at them. I don't know about 3, but in 2 you could save pikmin that got chomped if you killed the creature that was eating them before the little ghost pops up.
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Away all Goats posted:I also like how the game feels like an actual world. poo poo happens while your doing other stuff with the various captains and Orc leaders competing for and increasing their power. I even had one moment where I was fighting one Orc captain and two more captains came rushing into the scene and I actually had to book it out of there. There seems to be a particular kind of orc who loves to do that kind of thing (they tend to have titles like "the assassin.")
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I'd always assumed that Shadows of Mordor was some silly grimdark Tolkien fanfiction that discarded one of the core themes of LoTR (small unimportant people can resist the temptations of power and do great things without having to revel in glory and battle). Is it still that, yet a good game? Or is it not that at all, and are you Literally Sauron?
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Phobophilia posted:I'd always assumed that Shadows of Mordor was some silly grimdark Tolkien fanfiction that discarded one of the core themes of LoTR (small unimportant people can resist the temptations of power and do great things without having to revel in glory and battle). Is it still that, yet a good game? Or is it not that at all, and are you Literally Sauron? It totally is that but it goes so over the top into insanity it's actually great. It's like making fun of a clown, you can't do it. That said what backs it up is the gameplay is really solid, the nemesis system works just as well as they promised it would (albeit it feels very "Video gamey" and not organic, if that makes sense) and has an extremely satisfying power curve. In the intro you run from anything but small skirmishes because you can attract a lot of enemies at a time if you're too noisy and get overwhelmed. By the end it's some dynasty warriors poo poo and it's cool to see yourself get there.
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Phobophilia posted:I'd always assumed that Shadows of Mordor was some silly grimdark Tolkien fanfiction that discarded one of the core themes of LoTR (small unimportant people can resist the temptations of power and do great things without having to revel in glory and battle). Is it still that, yet a good game? Or is it not that at all, and are you Literally Sauron? It's still that but a good game.
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The Nemesis System is so goddamn cool and I can't wait for more games to steal it.
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But the core question is, are you Literally Sauron?
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While I can't say much more about it besides this, Hyrule Warriors is the first Dynasty Warriors game I've seen where I can totally tell where I am on the map and how and where to go to get to another point on the map.
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RagnarokAngel posted:the nemesis system works just as well as they promised it would Mark this date: The first time a video game developer has actually delivered a full game mechanic that lived up to the hype.
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Phobophilia posted:But the core question is, are you Literally Sauron? Yeah, basically. If you're a Tolkien sperg, the game is going to make you poo poo yourself but if you can look past the really basic story and don't give a poo poo about LotR ~*canon*~ then its a really fun game.
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Well thanks to this thread, I bought Mordor a Shadow over Sauron. It better be good 
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Phobophilia posted:I'd always assumed that Shadows of Mordor was some silly grimdark Tolkien fanfiction that discarded one of the core themes of LoTR (small unimportant people can resist the temptations of power and do great things without having to revel in glory and battle). Is it still that, yet a good game? Or is it not that at all, and are you Literally Sauron? You are Literally Batman. A Batman that likes stabbing orcs in the face though.
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Phobophilia posted:But the core question is, are you Literally Sauron? You are literally Celebrimbor, the guy who forged the other rings of power and you literally fight Sauron as the endboss
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Calaveron posted:You are literally Celebrimbor, the guy who forged the other rings of power and you literally fight Sauron as the endboss Oh dear now I know how this game ends. Does your dude's corpse get carried around on the end of a pike as Sauron's standard?
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StandardVC10 posted:Oh dear now I know how this game ends. Does your dude's corpse get carried around on the end of a pike as Sauron's standard? No, you kick his rear end and win actually. The "final boss" fight with him is actually like a 30 second qte encounter and it was a very disappointing ending to an otherwise almost fantastic game.
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CJacobs posted:No, you kick his rear end and win actually. The "final boss" fight with him is actually like a 30 second qte encounter and it was a very disappointing ending to an otherwise almost fantastic game. NOT CANON. 
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