Cleretic posted:

Dota 2's 'female monster' characters, for the record, are Broodmother (giant spider), Naga Siren (fish woman with an emphasis on 'fish'), and Medusa (Medusa). You've also got the borderline cases of Death Prophet (a ghost) and Vengeful Spirit (undead fallen psuedoangel), which could go either way.

Their 'normal lady' characters tend to be at least dressed fairly well, though. The various assassins and rangers are lightly yet appropriately dressed, the elemental mages Lina and Crystal Maiden I'll cop but aren't that bad, Mirana's a priestess and dressed fairly accordingly, and then you've got Luna and Legion Commander who are actually fully armored, albeit in light armor in Luna's case.

Woolie Wool posted:

However, even they fall into another trap that seemingly every RPG with followers has--the fact that they always, always can be made to work together. Mass Effect does this, Dragon Age does it (except Loghain but even that's a really dumb choice because you hardly get to use him and there's absolutely no reason not to side with Alistair, it's a simple binary choice to swap Loghain in for Alistair, and Loghain is the secondary villain and a complete irredeemable cockgoblin), New Vegas does it, Skyrim doesn't need to because it's followers are nothing but mute pack mules but it drat well would do it if it had to. Why should every party member be able to get along? Why not have irreconcilable differences between some of them and you end up in a dilemma where every possible choice will piss at least one of them off. The Civil War thing is just dying for conflicts like this--being able to recruit multiple followers, and these followers each have their own opinions about the war. One way or another you're going to make an enemy out of a friend.

Horrible Smutbeast posted:

Female character designs in Mobas.

It really really sucks having a really great game and the only choice for a female player character is tits mcgee. I wouldn't even be upset if there was only 2 choices for female characters and one was a knight in armour or something and the other was tits mcgee. But no, even the ones in armour have to have boob plate, high heels and some sort of spanx bottoms so you can see their rear end. Even the midget non-human types; nope, they gotta have sexy long eyelashes, perfect makeup and weird oversexualized bodies even if they're 2 feet tall gremlins.

There's a few good monster ones but they're usually like "oh no spooky spider mother" or "fat girl with big machinery" that are still strangely meant to be attractive. Just give me at least one that doesn't fall into this trap guys. One character out of hundreds, that's all I'm asking. Then they can be forgotten in a few months after the initial hype and you can go back to drawing titty monsters with bizarre anatomy wearing kpop outfits.

Horrible Smutbeast posted:

Female character designs in Most Video Games.

Somfin posted:

I really liked the female barbarian design in Diablo 3, is what I'm saying.

RyokoTK posted:

And hated the Demon Hunter, I'm sure.

She's supposed to be athletic and swift and jumping all over the place, why is she in six-inch stilettos?!

RyokoTK posted:

Diablo 3 really covers the entire spectrum of female costumes actually, even within the same character. Low-level armor for pretty much all classes for both genders consists of "half a shirt and some underwear" but by the time you're halfway up the loot tree you're covered in ridiculous space marine armor and have shoulderpads bigger than your head.

Leal posted:

Wasn't it (or still is) possible for a loving ghost to send hitmen after you, and their letter will literally be signed "Ghost"?

Your Gay Uncle posted:

I never got one signed "ghost " but I definitely had some from people that I killed.

One of the things I didn't like about the new Fallouts was that Wild Wastelands and Bloody Mess were perks. Those should just be options in a menu, not something you'll have to sacrifice perks for.

Somfin posted:

I like playing as female characters in games. I like playing as attractive female characters in games.

I don't like playing as a female heavy weapons specialist who for no fuckin' reason is wearing full eyeshadow, dark red lipstick, impeccably styled hair, and spends the entire game making do-me eyes as a default expression and running like a model. I especially hate it when all of the female shoes are fuckin' pointless high heels. It always comes off as super fake and really indefensibly sexist. "This is what women look like," says the art department.

Like, I'm okay with a lot of revealing armour styles, as long as it looks functional and not deliberately sexy. Boob plate no, but I can accept midriff-revealing armours, steel armour for the arms and shoulders with the torso in leather, that sort of thing. I kinda like asymmetric, 'mobility' armour styles that leave a lot of stuff in cloth or leather rather than going for the 'everything is now steel' look. But I cannot understand why my athletic, mobility-driven close-combat heavy-weapons heroine is wearing loving three-inch heels. That poo poo hurts when you're just walking in it. Running in it? Jumping? Fighting a monster the size of a house by bashing its eyes in one by one? gently caress off.

I really liked the female barbarian design in Diablo 3, is what I'm saying.

Tweet Me Balls posted:

Wild Wasteland is a trait, which was a thing in the original fallouts, and seperate from perks.

Bloody mess could have been popped back into its former spot as a trait though, I guess, since perks are a bit more valuable in New Vegas and +%damage is boring unless it also makes you gay.

My Lovely Horse posted:

I feel like I should say something about Xenoblade at this point.

Justin Godscock posted:

I'm torn if I like the Medics they added in Arkham Knight (they revive people you've knocked out) because while it adds a layer of difficulty it is annoying to try to take them out first (otherwise they will keep reviving dudes) because in the heat of the moment locking onto them is quite annoying. I can't imagine how much this would suck in higher difficulty levels.

Justin Godscock posted:

I'm torn if I like the Medics they added in Arkham Knight (they revive people you've knocked out) because while it adds a layer of difficulty it is annoying to try to take them out first (otherwise they will keep reviving dudes) because in the heat of the moment locking onto them is quite annoying. I can't imagine how much this would suck in higher difficulty levels.

Tiberius Thyben posted:

Personally, I refuse to play anything after Aeon of Strife on Starcraft 1 on principle. Not even going to entertain all this derivative nonsense.

Justin Godscock posted:

I'm torn if I like the Medics they added in Arkham Knight (they revive people you've knocked out) because while it adds a layer of difficulty it is annoying to try to take them out first (otherwise they will keep reviving dudes) because in the heat of the moment locking onto them is quite annoying. I can't imagine how much this would suck in higher difficulty levels.

Kalos posted:

That wasn't a dig about MOBA innovation or lack thereof. Dota 2 is intentionally built to look and play as close to Allstars as humanly/legally possible and the devs were really careful to remind you of that when it was announced. The majority of changes have been out of match stuff like matchmaking and being a stand alone game.

For actual complaints about video games: Invisible Inc. uses procedurally generated levels for all its missions, and it's entirely possible to get one that's impossible to complete with your current party/equipment because that's the way guard placement shook out and not anything you did.

Grey Fox posted:

It's funny; I feel very similar about the guys who wig out and bumrush you. They're priority targets, but they're usually surrounded by other guys and tough to target.

I guess the added challenge is ok, but it can be frustrating in the middle of a big combo.

Evilreaver posted:

Diablo, Lord of Hell, possessed a female host in Diablo 3, and can be seen wearing demonic high heels.
Kerrigan, Queen of Blades, has Zerg high heels (and always has Samus-Zero-Suit boob "armor")

Damnit Blizzard

Ryoshi posted:

The first several subquests in DA:I are all collectathon filler bullshit of the kind mocked in the thread title. The combat system is really cool so far but everything else seems really, really phoned in.

Horrible Smutbeast posted:

RyokoTK posted:

This picture is completely baffling in just about every possible way. Are they fighting each other? Someone else? How did Kerrigan even turn that way doing that? And why are they trying to sexualize Kerrigan, anyway? Did they miss the part where she's a mass murdering alien covered in membrane and chitin? I thought they put in Nova just to be an extremely generic hot babe.

The Iron Rose posted:

T


the sidequests are very rarely any good. Just do the main/companion quests for the most part, and get out of the hinterlands ASAP.

Esroc posted:

The thing dragging down Life is Strange is that it was so good I finally got around to playing some of the Telltale games in my backlog and they are so terrible in comparison that I regret spending the money on them.

First world problems.

SpookyLizard posted:

This is the best plot summary for FO3 I've ever come across. Christ that game makes no sense.

RBA Starblade posted:

Colonel Autumn's plan is Hydrolic Despotism, President McDowell's is to make the lovely radiation water hyperlethal to all things in the wasteland that are mutants (ie literally everything, it's the same plan as in Fallout 2), the BOS's is to just let everyone have it.

Also everyone eats what they hunt like mole rats, ants, mirelurks, other people, etc. or scavenge like lovely 200 year old potato chips. People are using handheld lovely water filters that are old and decrepit and getting you like a glass a day (according to President McDowell anyway) or just chugging the shitwater that is going to kill them sooner or later.

The true mystery is who Talon Company is supposed to be working for regularly and why they don't just conquer whatever, besides their skirmishes with the super mutants. It can't just be Tenpenny, who somehow came to America from England.

Woolie Wool posted:

Yeah but all of that is incredibly stupid and pretty much nothing in the setting can stand up to five minutes of common sense.

Woolie Wool posted:

Yeah but all of that is incredibly stupid and pretty much nothing in the setting can stand up to five minutes of common sense.

Byzantine posted:

Radiation doesn't make scorpions the size of cars! No, no, nothing about this makes sense at all!

StandardVC10 posted:

Speaking of which, to hell with those stupid albino radscorpions. Run backwards, shoot. Run backwards, shoot. Repeat 500 times until dead. You can't even cripple their legs with the dart gun or aim for the head or really apply any strategy at all, just a big pile of HP to bother you (and wipe out any other NPC nearby.)

Woolie Wool posted:

Yeah but all of that is incredibly stupid and pretty much nothing in the setting can stand up to five minutes of common sense.

Byzantine posted:

Radiation doesn't make scorpions the size of cars! No, no, nothing about this makes sense at all!

Bar Crow posted:

Despite all this, the worst plan of Fallout 3 is still Little Lamplight. A bunch of smug brats hiding behind the fact that they are invincible due to video game ratings. Nothing about them makes sense.

RBA Starblade posted:

The feral reavers are worse because they can bug out and start twitching around, making it even harder and more tedious to kill them than it already was.