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You know what more open world games need? Cornfields. Lot of cornfields, because that's what everything in central/southern Illinois is. I mean, don't you want to drive through cornfields? Dodge tornadoes? But seriously, I'm not following the flow of that last cutscene. I mean, dude. There are women on the internet. Women who do terrible things like you do and try to justify it to themselves at night. If anything, the only issue I take with 'badboy17' is that it's a boring-rear end name. I mean, was she even trying? Come on. Have more fun with it, if you're going to hide behind it. But then again, watching Aiden try to find dudes and ask them if they're bad boys is both cringe-worthy and hilarious, so I guess it evens out. As far as the writing goes, anyways.
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:The car stealth is a pretty cool thing you can do against invaders My best shenanigans with this one was invading someone else and I'm in a dump truck in a suburban area. Obeying all the traffic lights, and rules of the road while the guy slowly goes more and more insane shooting full auto at cars and the oncoming police cruisers. While I, in the humble dump truck cruise on over to the parking lot of the apartment complex I'm making circles around, park within the lines, and watch the police manhandle the poor sap.
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May 21, 2015 03:55
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Geostomp posted:This game is so predictable I was calling him being a woman from the moment I heard the "we need to meet" line. I did too, but mostly because Badboy17's voice sounded like a female voice run through a synthesizer.
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May 21, 2015 03:57
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 Aiden, whose niece was killed by crooks mad at him for stealing from them, is bitching out a woman who constructed a secret identity, presumably at least in part to protect herself from reprisals for all the shady poo poo she does.Also, threatening to choke a woman who has done nothing but help him. This is the guy I'm supposed to identify with?
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May 21, 2015 03:57
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People's screen names aren't reflective of what they actually are? Are you saying that General Ironicus isn't the robot ruler of Roman Empire Earth?
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May 21, 2015 03:59
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I did too, but mostly because Badboy17's voice sounded like a female voice run through a synthesizer.
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May 21, 2015 04:00
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Patter Song posted:People's screen names aren't reflective of what they actually are? Or that I'm not in 2288?
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May 21, 2015 04:00
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This game is just so bad and I love it.  I will say the one good thing Watch________Dogs did for me is trick me into buying Sleeping Dogs, an Actual Good Game, under the faulty assumption that the two were somehow related.
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May 21, 2015 04:06
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He choked her for lying about her A/S/L.
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May 21, 2015 04:08
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Patter Song posted:People's screen names aren't reflective of what they actually are? You may speak to me now. My purple light is on.
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May 21, 2015 04:14
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May 21, 2015 04:19
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RareAcumen posted:This gif have a good video behind it? I got to that cutscene in the lp, paused the video, was unable to find a gif reflecting exactly how I felt so I made it myself
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May 21, 2015 04:25
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The game tries to justify the cutscene with Aiden's voiceover talking about wanting to "rattle" Badboy17, but since we've established that Aiden's voiceovers are revisions made after the cutscene mocap, I have to wonder why he was originally going to be even more of a douchebag.
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May 21, 2015 04:26
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Clara looks like the exact opposite of somebody trying to keep a low profile. At least Aiden keeps his face covered.
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May 21, 2015 04:26
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Pseudoscorpion posted:This game is just so bad and I love it. Watch_Dogs would be way better with Pork Bun Guy as the protagonist instead of Aiden,I swear to god. Or Winston. Or even Mrs.Chu.
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May 21, 2015 04:26
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Great cutscenes. Obviously the 90-year-old boss of the Chicago I also really like when Clara says "Don't be stupid. You screw around and people get hurt. Or worse," and Aiden just rolls past it glibly without a twinge of awareness or recognition. Holy poo poo, who wrote this? The plot of the game is he hosed up hacking some people and his niece got killed. Maybe throw in a reference to that, like Aiden says he's learned from his mistakes and he knows how to be careful. Maybe have him get angry, some kind of emotional reaction beyond a smug joke... No? He just smoothly continues being a shithead? Nice. I also dig the petite, tattooed, foreign lady hacker as a stand-in for Lisbeth Salander, except for people who thought Salander was too intimidating. The Girl Who You Can Choke if You Want, She Won't Do Anything About It. Schenck v. U.S. fucked around with this message at 04:32 on May 21, 2015 |
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May 21, 2015 04:27
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EvanSchenck posted:Lisbeth Salander I knew she was based on something. So that's why she seemed familiar. Except the whole choking thing.
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Oh hey I've got a lot of family that lives in central Illinois, scattered all around between Lincoln to Sprinfield and then further south around Effingham. I can confirm there are absolutely no mountains in Sangamon county. You have to go MUCH further south to start hitting the Ozarks. 
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May 21, 2015 04:37
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Bearpigman posted:I got to that cutscene in the lp, paused the video, was unable to find a gif reflecting exactly how I felt so I made it myself Oh wow, I never expected this game to inspire people to make something! So, that last cutscene: Holy poo poo Aiden is going to be a supervillain. You know who threaten and abuse the people they work with? Supervillains. Remember Lazarević? That guy from Uncharted 2 who'd kill off people if they stopped working for him as easily as we'd close non-responsive tabs? That's what Aiden is shaping up into now. Aside from the misogyny of 'wait, you're not a man, I bet you're a spy or a mole there's no way a woman could've been the one supplying me with all this information' and immediately threatening her too, the fact that he's basically bullying someone he's supposed to be working with in the first place to keep them there out of fear is all kinds of levels of hosed up for someone we're supposed to believe is the hero in this story. Unless the game eventually opens up and says that Aiden is one of the victims in this story but yeah he's absolutely still an rear end in a top hat too.
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May 21, 2015 04:43
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Obviously Aiden has every "Aiden_Pearce##" username already registered, and every year on his birthday he changes his username accordingly.
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May 21, 2015 05:13
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Can you imagine if you were someone walking/driving past that alley and saw a dude in a massive overcoat cornering a woman and grabbing her by the neck?
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BlazeEmblem posted:I knew she was based on something. So that's why she seemed familiar. Except the whole choking thing.
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Testekill posted:Can you imagine if you were someone walking/driving past that alley and saw a dude in a massive overcoat cornering a woman and grabbing her by the neck? Just imagine another vigilante's phone buzzing with a "CRIME IN PROGRESS" alert, who comes out of nowhere in the cutscene to beat the tar out of Aiden with a nightstick.
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May 21, 2015 05:33
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pkfan2004 posted:She also heavily resembles adult film actress Christy Mack. She is absolutely intentionally designed to be "what if Lizbeth Salander was hotter with a porn star body and less intimidating and wanted to be your Real Life Internet Friend Who Is A Girl Who Helps You On Your Vengeance Quest (And Who Knows, She Might Even Fall In Love With You!)". Did this come out before or after Christy Mack was hospitalised by War Machine?
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Ubisoft really puts their effort into recreating settings. I mean look at the hit Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag which depicted the site of Blackbeard's death on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina. I had family I used to go visit there for vacation. In-game it as this: It features a lengthy jog through those coastal mountains and dense jungle. The actual Ocracoke Island is this:  And it's built up in modern days to have a whole ten foot tall sand dune that isn't washed away in storms. It was basically a sandbar pirates had a few shacks to get drunk on. You have to drive a couple hundred miles inland in North Carolina just to see a loving hill. Much less a mountain. That's ~600 miles or so. Testekill posted:Can you imagine if you were someone walking/driving past that alley and saw a dude in a massive overcoat cornering a woman and grabbing her by the neck? Don't forget moments earlier he seemingly spooked off a teenage boy in a dark alley while in a massive overcoat and hat for what could pretty much could only have been interpreted by any sane people as a drug deal or an underaged sex meet-up. Or both. Aiden is a creepy motherfucker. Nohman fucked around with this message at 05:38 on May 21, 2015 |
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May 21, 2015 05:34
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To be fair, I can't really blame them for embellishing stuff in a game like AssCreed. It's weirder here since I doubt this is the kind of game where Aiden will be spending a lot of time going around in the forest or mountaineering.
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SWMadness posted:Just imagine another vigilante's phone buzzing with a "CRIME IN PROGRESS" alert, who comes out of nowhere in the cutscene to beat the tar out of Aiden with a nightstick. This would've absolutely made that cutscene.
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Testekill posted:Did this come out before or after Christy Mack was hospitalised by War Machine?
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Motto posted:To be fair, I can't really blame them for embellishing stuff in a game like AssCreed. It's weirder here since I doubt this is the kind of game where Aiden will be spending a lot of time going around in the forest or mountaineering. Yeah, Black Flag has the excuse that it takes place in a simulation designed by notUbisoft. For this I guess they were just hoping no one from Illinois or a basic knowledge of US geography would play it.
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I watched a friend stream some of W_D with a mod that replaces Aiden's model with the nephew's. This cutscene featuring child-Aiden made the "You're exactly what I expected" line a goddamn killer.
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i am glad that somebody at ubisoft wanted to gently caress the hot internet video game goth hacker sidekick, because i can't think of any reason to put in such a dumb love interest other than some employee's nerd fantasy
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dreezy posted:Yeah, Black Flag has the excuse that it takes place in a simulation designed by notUbisoft. For this I guess they were just hoping no one from Illinois or a basic knowledge of US geography would play it. They used the notUbi setting to begin being less accurate with geography.
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May 21, 2015 06:34
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Aiden answers his phone. "Hello" "gently caress!" "I'm on my way."
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Re. The drinking game, they could have been drinking Hi-story fortified wine, which looks (and tastes!) just like soy sauce. Oh yeah, that cut scene is terrible. In almost every way imaginable.
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bman in 2288 posted:You know what more open world games need? Cornfields. Lot of cornfields, because that's what everything in central/southern Illinois is. I mean, don't you want to drive through cornfields? Dodge tornadoes? So, what you're saying is, the first area of the Witcher 3 is totally your ideal game! Anyway: remember when I said the edits to the story got apparent? Here's one. Aiden gives poo poo to Clara when they meet in person, then apologizes over the phone afterwards and says he was just trying to psych her out to see if she was the real deal. That's an edit. Once you start looking for the seams in this game's narrative you can spot them all over the place... It's pretty weak that we are never given an option to go all vigilante on Lucky Quinn when he is clearly the most evil bad guy in the universe and five feet away from us. If it were me I'd at least have the justification that we're surrounded by ten guys with guns pointed at the car ready to turn it to swiss cheese, or that the cops are still right outside our alley so we don't want to make any noise or something. That thug probably should not have been executed on the spot, either. I mean, it's to show that Quinn is evil, right, but hey, he finished the mission! EDIT: VVVVV Basically, Witcher 3 starts out in a massive farmland area. Though there's more to it than that, at least; some bogs, a corpse-ridden battlefield attracting ghouls to its stench, some hidden areas. Speedball fucked around with this message at 06:57 on May 21, 2015 |
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Can anyone explain if what she's trying to do is a sort of punk thing, or just a way to garner interest from what looks to be the love-interest in the game... wait. If Aiden gets a love interest, does this mean he's going to have to go outside and interact meaningfully with people who aren't related to him, and do so voluntarily? Because Aiden doesn't seem that kind of guy to me. Also, I've never touched Witcher, so I don't know what to say.
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I'll say it like I've said a thousand times before about this game; Clara should have been the protagonist.  I mean, it wouldn't have come *close* to fixing the parade of problems that plague Watch_Dogs at every corner, but at least that would have been a more interesting choice for a lead character by going against the grain. Aiden's whole schtick is that he's got this super secret vigilante persona, but never acts like it. Literally the only thing he does is pull up his mask and start speaking like a chain smoker. But with Clara, the game could have said some really interesting things regarding online identity, anonymity, and presentation. Her online pseudonym overtly establishes her as male, and even without the game touching on the subtext, you can read more into that one minor facet than the entirety of Aiden's character.
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