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Len posted:Hasn't that been in every SSB? I never played the first one and it's been ages since melee so I really can't remember. I also basically skipped brawl. All I know is that it's adorable. E: new page content, the Villager in the same game has a final smash that consists of the Nook family building a house around and opponent that proceeds to explode upon completion 
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If you've played Smash Bros. at all and Kirby's taunt isn't seared into your memory from constant use, you and your buddies haven't been doing it right, sorry.
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Oct 9, 2014 21:24
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Captain Lavender posted:I have trouble doing precise little hops when I'm high up and trying to be stealthy, but yeah overall it's really good. I particularly appreciate how MANY surfaces he can climb. I remember AC: Brotherhood, and I just hated the cliff faces, most of which you couldn't really climb, that you'd have to go WAY out of your way to get around. It's also great how fast Talion climbs, without having to learn a new climbing move 2/3 through the game (ahem AC2). Also, choosing not to implement fall damage was a fantastic and hugely fun-enhancing decision.
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Oct 9, 2014 21:24
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Moacher posted:Also, choosing not to implement fall damage was a fantastic and hugely fun-enhancing decision. Oh god, yes. Shadow of Mordor is going right next to Halo for my examples of why games being derivative isn't necessarily a bad thing.
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Oct 9, 2014 21:55
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This thread convinced me to get Shadow of Mordor. I, too, am loving the nemesis system. One of my current nemeses is a captain with the nickname "The Whiner." When I happened to bump into him while doing an Outcast side mission, he complained about it, in a whining tone, even. "Now I'm gonna have to kill you! Then I'm gonna have to drag your body to show everyone!" One of the others, I haven't yet encountered, but his nickname is "Plague Bringer," and he looks appropriately lumpy and diseased to boot.
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Oct 9, 2014 23:40
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Arx Monolith posted:He jumps what.. 12 feet in the air to grab the side of a flat clifface? Dude's a superhuman. Well, yes, he is literally half ghost-elf.
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Oct 10, 2014 02:26
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My Lovely Horse posted:If you've played Smash Bros. at all and Kirby's taunt isn't seared into your memory from constant use, you and your buddies haven't been doing it right, sorry. Sadly Kirby's tone as he says "HIIIIII" is nowhere near as infuriatingly insulting in the new 3DS game.
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Oct 10, 2014 02:40
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Sadly Kirby's tone as he says "HIIIIII" is nowhere near as infuriatingly insulting in the new 3DS game. I changed a less-than-tech-savvy friend's text message tone to Kirby's "HIIIIII." He ended up taking it into the store to get it fixed. Which then got him Jigglypuff's singing. I have no regrets.
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Oct 10, 2014 03:18
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PJOmega posted:I changed a less-than-tech-savvy friend's text message tone to Kirby's "HIIIIII." He ended up taking it into the store to get it fixed. What's really disappointing is that Kirby now always faces the screen to do it. He used to face back or forward depending on if he was facing left or right. Nothing better than waving as they fade off into the distance  .
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Oct 10, 2014 03:42
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My Lovely Horse posted:If you've played Smash Bros. at all and Kirby's taunt isn't seared into your memory from constant use, you and your buddies haven't been doing it right, sorry. My favorite part about this: In every Smash, it's always been a different voice clip for Kirby's 'hiiii!' The same goes for Ness' voice clips; they could recycle and nobody would mind, but they've recorded different 'hiiii!' and 'PK Fire/PK Thunder!' clips for four games straight.
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Oct 10, 2014 04:09
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The pitch changes for the smaller and larger Kirby taunts in SSBM were wonderful.
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Oct 10, 2014 06:16
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Cleretic posted:My favorite part about this: In every Smash, it's always been a different voice clip for Kirby's 'hiiii!' The same goes for Ness' voice clips; they could recycle and nobody would mind, but they've recorded different 'hiiii!' and 'PK Fire/PK Thunder!' clips for four games straight. I generally love that they do this, and I really like Kirby's recent clip, but I'm definitely disappointed that Dedede's new voice is just weird monster-y grunts rather than Sakurai making doofy Dedede noises. Also Fox's new voice is miserable, like holy poo poo how did this person ever find voice work bad.
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Heavy Lobster posted:I generally love that they do this, and I really like Kirby's recent clip, but I'm definitely disappointed that Dedede's new voice is just weird monster-y grunts rather than Sakurai making doofy Dedede noises. Also Fox's new voice is miserable, like holy poo poo how did this person ever find voice work bad. Fox's 'new' voice is actually his old voice; that's the original Starfox 64 voice actor, that they brought back for Starfox 64 DS. He's passable enough at straight, calm lines, but he has issues with sounding good when putting forward the energy required of a Smash Bros game. Falco's voice actor, also his original from 64, generally does better. There are some exceptions to their no-recycling in Smash 4, sadly; I'm not sure how many there are, but Zero Suit Samus has the same VA, which is especially weird since everything else about her was revamped.
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Oct 10, 2014 10:49
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Cleretic posted:Fox's 'new' voice is actually his old voice; that's the original Starfox 64 voice actor, that they brought back for Starfox 64 DS. He's passable enough at straight, calm lines, but he has issues with sounding good when putting forward the energy required of a Smash Bros game. Falco's voice actor, also his original from 64, generally does better. Did he forget the voice he used for Fox back in the 64 version? Cause the one in S4 is way more nasally than that one ever was, although I haven't played the DS remake so I can't say if he did just decide to go full insufferable.
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Oct 10, 2014 11:28
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In The Last of Us you're often being subtly guided by environmental signs that might say ONE WAY or EXIT. At one point you're trying to escape an area and have to go through a building, and once you unblock the entrance an EXIT sign stares you in the face, that sort of thing. (Granted, it could be I'm giving the environmental design too much credit, since you are looking for one literal exit or another most of the time, but I think it's deliberate.) In the final sequence, you're escaping from a hospital and run through an ophthalmologist's office where the eye chart spells out RUN YOU ARE ALMOST AT THE DOOR.
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Heavy Lobster posted:Did he forget the voice he used for Fox back in the 64 version? Cause the one in S4 is way more nasally than that one ever was, although I haven't played the DS remake so I can't say if he did just decide to go full insufferable. I'd say it's probably down to the massive gap between Starfox 64 and the 3DS/SSB4 versions so his voice had probably changed a lot since then.
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Judge Tesla posted:I'd say it's probably down to the massive gap between Starfox 64 and the 3DS/SSB4 versions so his voice had probably changed a lot since then. Not to mention that the original recording equipment was probably crap and distorted his voice a bit.
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My Lovely Horse posted:If you've played Smash Bros. at all and Kirby's taunt isn't seared into your memory from constant use, you and your buddies haven't been doing it right, sorry. Even if you're not spamming it because it's funny, it's how you shed powers in the game so you have to use it a bunch. Except when someone plays Captain Falcon, since you want Falcon Punch 24/7.
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Aphrodite posted:Even if you're not spamming it because it's funny, it's how you shed powers in the game so you have to use it a bunch. I also loved Kirby in Melee and Brawl, he's one of those characters that beginners to the game can pick up relatively easily it seems.
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Captain Falcon's knee.
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QuietLion posted:The best thing I remember about Brawling with friends was playing Captain Falcon and learning that if you time it correctly, you can start the wind-up for Falcon Punch and then swap the direction you're facing mid-move. Ganondorf could do it as well, it was the best way to make people quit. According to the loading screen tips on the 3DS, the turnaround Falcon Punch actually does more damage than regular.
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Judge Tesla posted:I'd say it's probably down to the massive gap between Starfox 64 and the 3DS/SSB4 versions so his voice had probably changed a lot since then. His voice is a little shakier now in the 3D recordings, but it's still fairly stable. It's probably just the Smash environment that he can't handle; Starfox 64's lines were all pretty neutral, calm sentences unless you're getting shot down, but in Smash he's yelling short clips in the middle of a fight. It's very different, and it's entirely possible that he just didn't quite get a handle on it.
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I actually like Fox and Falco's new voices better. 
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Ryoshi posted:Gamebryo is also used in both Rocksmith games. Anyone who claims the issues with Elder Scrolls/Fallout games stem from the Gamebryo engine are just missing the point entirely. Eh, it's a colloquial term. When we say that something is a "steaming pile of Gamebryo", everyone is on the same page. It'd be less unfair towards the developer if we said "steaming pile of Bethesda" instead, but them's the breaks.
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Everybody posted:Shadow of Mordor is really good Well, poo poo. I think I have to buy this now. How well does it perform on older machines (compared to, say, Black Flag)? My laptop's specs: Core i5-3230M 2.6GHz, Radeon HD 7670A, 6GB RAM. I'd rather not have to buy a new gaming rig for one game...
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LoonShia posted:Well, poo poo. I think I have to buy this now. I think your video card might be a problem here. People got it running on some pretty poo poo computers but laptop video cards tend to be pretty awful. How is black flag running?
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If I reduce all the graphical settings to Garbage, I get maybe 5 FPS. And my graphics card is welded to the motherboard, so I'm SOL.
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LoonShia posted:Well, poo poo. I think I have to buy this now. My video card is almost as old and it ran fine. Ugly though.
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My favourite thing about Shadows of Mordor so far is how customisable the "boss" fights are as to difficulty. You can take out a warchief's bodyguards so they don't unexpectedly turn up while you're fighting them, and also get information on their bonuses and maluses. But on the other hand, you can use the lesser bosses to send death threats to them, in which case when you trigger them they bring along a group of special enemies for you to have to deal with as well. What could be a fight against a guy that ends in two seconds when you stealth/snipe them in one movement could be a twenty minute battle of you fighting off the boss, his special goons, the usual troops, plus one or two subbosses into the bargain. Plus there's unexpected battles. I just found a random captain on my way to a story mission, decided I might as well take him out, only for three other captains to decide this was definitely the very best time to come and ambush me, two of them death threated.
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I still play Forza 4 because I'm a sucker for racing sims, and I noticed the other night while playing that if you are using the cockpit view on most standard road cars, the dashboard clock will use system time. It's something I barely noticed until doing a series of races in the same car and noticing that the numbers were changing every time. Checked my phone at the start and yep, it uses the right time on the dash clock. Such a tiny detail but pretty cool. It might not be a small thing since that's the entire point of a racing/driving sim, but every time I pull out Forza 4 I can tell that the team took some insane level of care with each car. They appear to be recreated down to the stitching on the seats and it just blows my mind every time. I have to pull myself back from buying an XbOne because the only thing I'd use it for would be Forza 5 and Horizon 2. I'm easily impressed, is what I'm saying.
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I just met a captain in Shadows of Mordor who didn't say anything. We crossed swords, and he just stared intensely at Talion for five or six seconds and then clicked his teeth together at him. Very unexpected and cool. That, and I managed to guide a level 20 captain into a warchief spot whose name was Durok the Brain-Damaged. He's very bad at making sentences. Love that little guy.
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heckyeahpathy posted:I just met a captain in Shadows of Mordor who didn't say anything. We crossed swords, and he just stared intensely at Talion for five or six seconds and then clicked his teeth together at him. Very unexpected and cool. I think I had that same guy. One of my favorites was "(Name) the Friendly". When we met, he said, "I've no hate in my heart. So if you throw down them weapons, we can stop this fight altogether!" Of course I couldn't, and we fought. I died, and he was pretty cordial about it. Captain Lavender has a new favorite as of 11:09 on Oct 11, 2014 |
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Captain Lavender posted:I think I had that same guy. One of my favorites was "(Name) the Friendly". When me met, he said, "I've no hate in my heart. So if you throw down them weapons, we can stop this fight altogether!" Of course I couldn't, and we fought. I died, and he was pretty cordial about it. Get him to Warchief. Something amazing about having a Warchief be a pacifist.
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Stick Figure Mafia posted:Get him to Warchief. Something amazing about having a Warchief be a pacifist. 
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Art imitating life, Shadows of Mordor delivers on the hard-hitting political commentary. 
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After seeing many references for it and having a friend of mine recommend it, I picked up and started Persona 3 FES. I've played many video games that are from Japanese developers that have a setting in Japan but when the localization team gets ahold of it to translate it into an American/English friendly game a lot of settings, locations, and even cultures/customs get changed to relate more to an American audience. The Phoenix Wright series is a big offender of this and it makes it just seem off. Not Persona 3, this game is Japanese and anime as all hell. Obviously the game is English translated but a lot of the naming mannerisms, currency, culture, and environments seem quite Japan. I'm not too into anime/otaku (says the SA account user), but I really appreciate this detail because it helps with  MY IMMERSION 
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Edward_Lapine posted:After seeing many references for it and having a friend of mine recommend it, I picked up and started Persona 3 FES. I've played many video games that are from Japanese developers that have a setting in Japan but when the localization team gets ahold of it to translate it into an American/English friendly game a lot of settings, locations, and even cultures/customs get changed to relate more to an American audience. The Phoenix Wright series is a big offender of this and it makes it just seem off. This is probably because Atlus' first attempt at localization, the very first Persona title, actually did try to localize the whole thing into an American setting (and it was just as Japanese as the later Persona games, just for the record). Not only did they fail miserably at that, but it took so long for them to try that they didn't even finish translating/localizing the whole game. They cut a very substantial sidequest from the American release, that probably amounted to a quarter to a third of the game, because they just didn't have time to tackle it.
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Edward_Lapine posted:Not Persona 3, this game is Japanese and anime as all hell. Obviously the game is English translated but a lot of the naming mannerisms, currency, culture, and environments seem quite Japan. I'm not too into anime/otaku (says the SA account user), but I really appreciate this detail because it helps with Man, goons aren't going to bust through your door and bite you even if you enjoy something Japanese or write "immersion" normally. It's okay to like things, there's no need to try so hard.
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scarycave posted:Captain Falcon's knee. We nicknamed it the Knee of Justice and decided that he was always so twitchy from his constant need to dispense justice.
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