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Lotish posted:Hawke's sister can't use blood magic, but his Dad sure did. He blood magic'd a whole dungeon from top to bottom. I also find it funny as hell that Anders, who is actively possessed by a demon, keeps complaining about Merrill using blood magic to consort with demons, like she's the bigger idiot (they're both idiots). Anders believes that Justice was a good spirit pre-possession (because justice is a good thing, right?) who was twisted once they merged, but while Merrill is indeed an idiot, I like that she calls him out on this in a random party banter: quote:Merrill: Are you all right?
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I think it's neat that you get the option to exclaim "holy poo poo!" when something weird happens in the Wolf Among Us.
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Jan 9, 2015 19:54
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Alhazred posted:I think it's neat that you get the option to exclaim "holy poo poo!" when something weird happens in the Wolf Among Us. The fact that most characters you meet can be responded to with a "gently caress off" as soon as you meet them is probably my favorite little thing in the game.
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Jan 9, 2015 20:19
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That's something I also liked about The Walking Dead. Something that bothered me a lot about the show was that when the characters found out that everyone in the TWD world is infected their comments ranged from "oh no i can't believe this  " to "i am a character that has not spoken in a while and oh no also", but when this is revealed to you in Telltale's The Walking Dead like the first thing you can say in response is a big ol' "WHAT!!". Like sure you could pick the other three more rational and calm options but come on why would you not take the opportunity to go "OH gently caress" when it is revealed that every person alive will become a zombie when they die forever.
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Jan 9, 2015 20:33
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JebanyPedal posted:I bought Dungeon Keeper 1 & 2 on GOG after feeling a bit nostalgic, but god drat it's awesome remember how intense Bullfrog was about putting the tiniest details into their games. Try playing the game at 12:55 am on Saturday morning (or just change your computer clock and load up a game). After a few minutes something wonderful happens.
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Jan 9, 2015 20:46
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The best thing in DK2 is still when a creature hits the casino jackpot. Doubly so if the casino is crowded at the time.
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Jan 10, 2015 03:01
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It's been over a decade and no game has made a better keyboard interface for controllers than Beyond Good & Evil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euquOpUmUyk
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Jan 10, 2015 03:05
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Sleeveless posted:It's been over a decade and no game has made a better keyboard interface for controllers than Beyond Good & Evil. Really? I found it quite a bit more annoying than the standard input pad.
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Jan 10, 2015 05:12
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I hate games that just plop a qwerty keyboard on the screen. C'mon guys, you can do better ui design than that. Steam Big Picure mode also has a pretty rad keyboard input for controllers.
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Jan 10, 2015 05:29
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Sleeveless posted:It's been over a decade and no game has made a better keyboard interface for controllers than Beyond Good & Evil. Nope, this is stupid and a nice crisp d-pad qwerty interface is best.
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Jan 10, 2015 05:52
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Since we've had keyboards they've always been a QWERTY rectangle pretty much. Games don't need to try to do it differently for fear if they don't it'll break immersion in the game's world.
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Jan 10, 2015 05:57
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EmmyOk posted:Since we've had keyboards they've always been a QWERTY rectangle pretty much. Games don't need to try to do it differently for fear if they don't it'll break immersion in the game's world. It's nothing to do with immersion. QWERTY or other keyboard-like interfaces are good when you don't need to slide from one key to another to enter text, when you can arbitrarily hit any key in sequence in the same amount of time from any other key. That doesn't mean they're automatically the best interface when you do have to; the things that make keyboards good don't apply with controller interfaces. They're okay, but that doesn't mean it's not worth trying alternatives. Idran has a new favorite as of 06:28 on Jan 10, 2015 |
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In Red Faction: Guerilla the ammo crates you can use to re-stock your ammo and change your weapons will explode if you detonate anything near them or fire on them enough. It makes perfect sense that a metal box full of explosives would be so volatile but it's the only game in recent memory that actually does that instead of having them be an indestructible part of the level geometry.Chard posted:Nope, this is stupid and a nice crisp d-pad qwerty interface is best. Typing your username in on a virtual QWERTY keyboard with a d-pad would take 19 button button presses, not counting capitalization. With the BG&E system it would take a combined effort of less than two rotations of an analog stick. Most people would consider the latter a lot easier 
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Mokinokaro posted:The best thing in DK2 is still when a creature hits the casino jackpot. Doubly so if the casino is crowded at the time. I could only find poor quality videos unfortunately. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z4sfjGfQxY
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Sleeveless posted:Typing your username in on a virtual QWERTY keyboard with a d-pad would take 19 button button presses, not counting capitalization. With the BG&E system it would take a combined effort of less than two rotations of an analog stick. Most people would consider the latter a lot easier But I know exactly where to go for each next input and don't need to worry about overshooting or undershooting the letter, which is easy when you're shoehorning analog control into a place it doesn't belong
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Have you used it in the game? That doesn't really happen, analog sticks are precise enough to hit the letter most of the time. And overshooting and correcting is still faster than navigating a dpad grid.
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Yeah, you might as well be worried about overshooting a letter on a analog-pad keyboard by pressing the arrow button one too many times. The BG&E one is a lot more fluid, I remember really liking it when I used it.
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Sleeveless posted:In Red Faction: Guerilla the ammo crates you can use to re-stock your ammo and change your weapons will explode if you detonate anything near them or fire on them enough. It makes perfect sense that a metal box full of explosives would be so volatile but it's the only game in recent memory that actually does that instead of having them be an indestructible part of the level geometry. In Far Cry 2 setting fire to an ammo crate would cause the rounds to cook off, firing bullets wildly in all directions. It was pretty awesome and I wish more games would do stuff like that.
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Been playing QP Shooting - Dangerous!!, a silly cutesy bullet hell game I bought because of the Steam sale recently. Something I really appreciate is that they've definitely taken steps to prevent some of the more frustrating bullet hell deaths, like being killed by a projectile that materialized 2 inches from you (bullets don't become damaging projectiles until they've existed for about half a second or more) or being hit multiple times in succession because your i-frames didn't last long enough (when you get damaged, the invincibility frames continue until you are no longer on top of any bullets). It's a good introduction to bullet hell games for the casual player who might want to try that sort of genre out.
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Jan 10, 2015 07:47
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JebanyPedal posted:DK stuff I loved both DK games when they came out - I used to play with my stepdad and friends quite a bit just because it was so hilarious and a blast to mess around in. Out of curiosity, I still have my original copies of both games - do the GOG ones work pretty well under Windows XP and 7 now? I've got a really old laptop with XP on it that I loaded DK2 on to, but it'll randomly crash out to the desktop at certain points when I play, no rhyme or reason to it. I'd have no problem shelling out the $10 for both DK games on the GOG site so long as they work across XP and 7 without crashing. Also love the DK2 narrator guy, his voice is just so perfect for the game 
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Sleeveless posted:It's been over a decade and no game has made a better keyboard interface for controllers than Beyond Good & Evil. Hell yes, this spiral is the best. I always wish I had this when I'm trying to use Netflix or youtube on the 360. You can zip around so fast using it, and it gave the game a little extra character.
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Ozz81 posted:I loved both DK games when they came out - I used to play with my stepdad and friends quite a bit just because it was so hilarious and a blast to mess around in. Out of curiosity, I still have my original copies of both games - do the GOG ones work pretty well under Windows XP and 7 now? I've got a really old laptop with XP on it that I loaded DK2 on to, but it'll randomly crash out to the desktop at certain points when I play, no rhyme or reason to it. I'd have no problem shelling out the $10 for both DK games on the GOG site so long as they work across XP and 7 without crashing. DK1 works fine on Windows 8 from GOG, I haven't gotten to the second yet.
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I've heard the Fable games get a lot of flack, but I for one love their quirky, barely-trying-to-bother-being-serious style more than I hate their various issues. Fable III probably had my favorite example of this. As part of the main storyline, you have to gain the trust of the Super Secret Underground Resistance so you can join them in their fight against your evil brother. To do this, you have to obtain a certain amount of quest tokens, which you get for going around and completing various other missions in the game. However, you can also get them, albeit only one at a time, by interacting with the various inhabitants of Albion...tell them a joke, do a chicken dance, hug them, that sort of thing. So if you have opened the Rude Interactions ability after leveling up and you have the patience; it is possible to gain the trust of the Super Secret Underground Resistance simply by farting on every single person you meet. I am ten years old.
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BG&E has a fine UI, but I'm sorry, I've grown up with the QWERTY keyboard and other instances are weird and less useful to me. Maybe if it were a universal UI it'd be different, but one game having a technically better, but much different keyboard fucks with my head.
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JebanyPedal posted:DK1 works fine on Windows 8 from GOG, I haven't gotten to the second yet. The GOG version of DK2 somehow works beautifully. They even managed to make a patch for the hardware renderer Also, I did manage to find a better jackpot video
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PeachHat! posted:I am ten years old. I think everyone in Albion is. They love their farts. Although the best expression was "Insult" in the first one. Your guy just says "poo poo" and everyone is shocked. It's very funny if they're one of those crate-carrying people.
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McDragon posted:I think everyone in Albion is. They love their farts.
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:BG&E has a fine UI, but I'm sorry, I've grown up with the QWERTY keyboard and other instances are weird and less useful to me. Maybe if it were a universal UI it'd be different, but one game having a technically better, but much different keyboard fucks with my head. I've played BG&E through a few times and never really preferred it to the QWERTY keyboard, I think the above poster nailed it. As for a little thing, in MGS2 you can sneak up on enemy soldiers and hold them up. While you have them held up you can shoot their radios to stop them calling their cronies for back-up.
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While we're at weird UI choices: Metroid Prime 2: Echoes had a very fun one. Every menu was some kind of tree rotating around a central point, and you had to rotate the entire thing. The foremost branch was always selected, and every other branch would kind of float into view so that you knew at all times in which direction to rotate to select it. Cumbersome? A little. Slower than a grid-based menu? Perhaps. Super futuristic and awesome? Oh yes.
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Torquemadras posted:While we're at weird UI choices: Metroid Prime 2: Echoes had a very fun one. Every menu was some kind of tree rotating around a central point, and you had to rotate the entire thing. The foremost branch was always selected, and every other branch would kind of float into view so that you knew at all times in which direction to rotate to select it. The model viewer for enemies was also nice, not that common back then. More games should have a model viewer, and not just a static one, have one where you can see it move and do stuff.
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PhazonLink posted:The model viewer for enemies was also nice, not that common back then. More games should have a model viewer, and not just a static one, have one where you can see it move and do stuff. Pikmin 2 was my favorite because of this.
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PeachHat! posted:I've heard the Fable games get a lot of flack, but I for one love their quirky, barely-trying-to-bother-being-serious style more than I hate their various issues. Fable III probably had my favorite example of this. As part of the main storyline, you have to gain the trust of the Super Secret Underground Resistance so you can join them in their fight against your evil brother. To do this, you have to obtain a certain amount of quest tokens, which you get for going around and completing various other missions in the game. However, you can also get them, albeit only one at a time, by interacting with the various inhabitants of Albion...tell them a joke, do a chicken dance, hug them, that sort of thing. So if you have opened the Rude Interactions ability after leveling up and you have the patience; it is possible to gain the trust of the Super Secret Underground Resistance simply by farting on every single person you meet. Nothing beats the time a friend and I decided to make co-op pants making GBS threads a thing in the middle of Bowerstone in Fable 2. Both of you intentionally fail the fart emote and bask in the joy of being 10 years old again. The fact that they removed the emote wheel and all the fun with it in 3 was criminal.  Still a good game though.
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I didn't like Fable 2 that much but I hoped the citizens of albion appreciated all the statues flipping the bird I left around the kingdom.
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Sleeveless posted:It's been over a decade and no game has made a better keyboard interface for controllers than Beyond Good & Evil. Splinter Cell : Chaos Theory (a.k.a. The Best One) had a similar one, but it was all on one flat circle, so you could flick across to jump from say, A to M. You literally used it once, to input your name for multiplayer. But it owned.
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Mokinokaro posted:The GOG version of DK2 somehow works beautifully. They even managed to make a patch for the hardware renderer YES thank you! Gonna get these now, so glad GOG was able to get the bugs hashed out, I love playing these games  might have to let my stepdad know since he likes playing both too.E: Holy poo poo, they have the old Theme Park game! I loved that poo poo, making people barf or go flying off the rides. Goddamn, 3 games for $15, and a couple days after my birthday no less 
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McDragon posted:I think everyone in Albion is. They love their farts. This is why i can't hate the Fable games, I know they were hyped to hell and back, and hyped again but it has so many little touches and amusing quirks I just can't hate it, it's an extremely  game.I especially liked that one of the first major bandit enemies in Fable 2 was voiced by Billy Mitchel from Eastenders.
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Judge Tesla posted:This is why i can't hate the Fable games, I know they were hyped to hell and back, and hyped again but it has so many little touches and amusing quirks I just can't hate it, it's an extremely And one of the ally NPCs is Julia Sawalha. 
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Let's not forget Stephen Fry as Reaver and Simon Pegg as Finn.
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Crow Jane posted:Let's not forget Stephen Fry as Reaver and Simon Pegg as Finn. It's funny actually as Fable 2 and 3 were full of people from British TV shows, hell Fable 1 had Treyguard from Nightmare voice the Guildmaster.
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Mokinokaro posted:The GOG version of DK2 somehow works beautifully. They even managed to make a patch for the hardware renderer Lmao, the vampire dance animation is the best.
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