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I do like how no matter how evil your character is or what you've done, he still finds what your previous incarnation did to that one girl to be absolutely horrifying. Granted, it was pretty hosed.
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The latest Sims 4 expansion adds the the ability to create and join social groups and you can do so much stupid stuff with them. When creating a group you can choose which activities are preferred, which are banned and set things like group dress code. This video showcases how you can create crazy groups or just abuse them, especially the making of a child labour group to do all the household chores. (Skip to 2:50) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3Dvo6GRy10
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Dec 15, 2015 11:35
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I'm not sure if this should go here or in the annoying things thread, but in Jade Empire it has the usual BioWare morality system but it's presented as the "Open Palm" and the "Closed Fist" instead of Good and Bad. Thing is they keeps saying that the way of the Closed Fist is meant to be all about power and strength. Not necessarily just being evil, but asserting dominance and whatnot. Unfortunately it often boils down to completing a quest and demanding more money or you'll kick the quest givers rear end, but there's one quest that really shone through and stuck to what the game said the Closed Fist should be and if you've played the game you know which one I mean. You find a slaver and slave. I can't remember the exact specifics but you can do the usual list of RPG tropes: Buy the slave, release the slave, kill the slave, kill the owner. But you can also arm the slave. You give the slave a knife or something and tell them if they truly want to be free then all they have to do is just loving shiv their owner and forge their own path in the world. I think it gets a bit in depth about politics and how would the slave survive and you can just stick to the Closed Fist and tell them to just loving do it and basically bootsrap themselves. Always made me want someone like Obsidian to do a remake. Someone who would really dig into the Palm/Fist thing and make all the quests and story line revolve around that as opposed to being good or bad.
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Dec 15, 2015 12:17
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when you get enough Closed Fist points you unlock the ability to literally kick puppies in the Imperial City
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Dec 15, 2015 13:32
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Hahahah I don't remember that. I guess you could say that's "Closed Fist" I mean, who's going to stop you kicking those puppies?
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To be fair, the ultimate villain of Jade Empire is actually Open Palm if you pay attention to what he's saying and doing, so there's two moments where Bioware actually paid attention to that initial explanation.
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Geniasis posted:I do like how no matter how evil your character is or what you've done, he still finds what your previous incarnation did to that one girl to be absolutely horrifying. I never played the game, what is it?
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RBA Starblade posted:I never played the game, what is it? You trick her into being your lover by pretending you will marry her, for the purpose of trapping her in a plane of eternal torment so that you can beat the final boss.
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ChogsEnhour posted:I'm not sure if this should go here or in the annoying things thread, but in Jade Empire it has the usual BioWare morality system but it's presented as the "Open Palm" and the "Closed Fist" instead of Good and Bad. Obsidian and/or CDPR doing an open-world Jade Empire 2 would be pretty sweet. Wander from village to village, dispensing kung-fu justice. Content: I've finally gotten around to The Witcher 3, and it's full of little things (as I'm sure you already all know). It reminds me of the Gothic games, or the first Risen game, in good ways (like Gothic with an actual budget!). I enjoy Geralt being a socially-stunted weirdo when he's not threatening someone with violence. The play in Novigrad is the best example (and also reminded me of a similar quest in Jade Empire), but there were a couple other times when I just had to laugh at how awkward he was. Also, I like Geralt's "resigned shoulder slump" animation whenever he's asked to do something ridiculous or stupid (and during pretty much every conversation with a certain bard). Also Gwent is much better than dice poker from Witcher 2 or most minigames in other games.
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death .cab for qt posted:You trick her into being your lover by pretending you will marry her, for the purpose of trapping her in a plane of eternal torment so that you can beat the final boss. Is there anywhere to look up the lore of Planescape or the overall story? It sounds really dang interesting and I tried to read the wikia page a bit but the white font on black background just seared into my eyeballs.
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Der-Wreck posted:Is there anywhere to look up the lore of Planescape or the overall story? It sounds really dang interesting and I tried to read the wikia page a bit but the white font on black background just seared into my eyeballs. This is literally the best way you could experience it without actually playing it. http://lparchive.org/Planescape-Torment/
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Just Offscreen posted:This is literally the best way you could experience it without actually playing it. Seconding this. It is a gigantic, novel-length screenshot LP of the game and the person writing it is fantastic at the narrative bits.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:when you get enough Closed Fist points you unlock the ability to literally kick puppies in the Imperial City Speaking of, if you were on the Outlaw/Bad side of the Karma scale in Red Dead Redemption, you could literally kick dogs like any decent Wild West Villain. edit: Hey, didn't you say you were going to stop reading this thread? mycot has a new favorite as of 01:28 on Dec 16, 2015 |
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Der-Wreck posted:Is there anywhere to look up the lore of Planescape or the overall story? It sounds really dang interesting and I tried to read the wikia page a bit but the white font on black background just seared into my eyeballs. That it is. And it takes place in one of the best DnD settings, where belief quite literally shapes reality.
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Geniasis posted:That it is. And it takes place in one of the best DnD settings, where belief quite literally shapes reality. Planescape is in a weird place where it's all based on old DnD ideas but the game it wants to be and what it wants its players to think about is very much not DnD. The late 2000s were all-around pretty awkward for DnD in video games, at least for me. Eberron was a super-popular new setting, with one of its defining features being a very political, pulpy 'postwar Europe' main continent with stuff like giant magitech cities. Eberron had two video games, the DDO MMO and the Dragonshard RTS... both of which are set on the 'far flung here-be-giants continent' instead of anywhere near the interesting nations. 4e DnD would have been literally perfect for a Final Fantasy Tactics style game, but instead just got another middling-quality MMO set in the generic Forgotten Realms setting. -- Fun little thing in games: In the free RPG Exit Fate, you have a six-man party, and there's also literally 75 party members to recruit (it's based on Suikoden). However, you're sometimes required to take a party member along to some plot event. Additionally, the main character Daniel isn't actually very special - he has no unique moves, and is only an all-arounder character rather than specialising, with his most notable feature being that he shares the Light element with healing spells, so he can cast them pretty well. However, there's an additional feature that makes this less irritating - as well as a six-man party, you also have a two-man 'entourage' you can swap party members into. This means that you can shove both Daniel and a required character in there if you want, and play with a party of your choosing. It also means you can stick someone low-level in the back of a high-level party if you want to level them up, but also swap them out for someone of the right level if they're too much of a liability.
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Der-Wreck posted:Is there anywhere to look up the lore of Planescape or the overall story? It sounds really dang interesting and I tried to read the wikia page a bit but the white font on black background just seared into my eyeballs. I've never played D&D outside of the PC games, but the way that Torment presents it is that there are planes of existence spanning the entire multiverse and that you can access them using portals which can be unlocked with "keys" running the gamut from certain words or tunes you hum in your head to arcane flesh rituals to an action figure that needs to be posed in certain ways. The game mostly focuses on fantasy planes but there is some sci-fi stuff like clockwork robots or a man from a world with number tattoos.
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I hate that I've got Runescape there but I've never played it. I hate that the sheer amount of content and reading in it puts me off but I just don't have the time to really lose myself in it. Maybe I'll sever ties with my family over the holidays and do that instead... Or try and install it on my works PC so i can play that instead of trawling the PYF little things in games thread all day. 
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I picked up GTA V recently and I really enjoy that the amount of story they put into the game. I went onto the game's paux-facebook after Jimmy said he added me on there and found the characters interacting before the story. Lamar messaging Franklin about the repo job at the start. Background family members posting on his wall. Did you know the guy who runs the dealership has a cousin? And it's been updating as the story progresses.
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You can also switch back to certain characters after the game switches you away from them after story missions, sometimes they have stuff to say about what just happened. An early example: the game switches you to Franklin after the boat mission is over, but you can switch right back to Michael to hear him moaning about how much he loved the boat, still riding in the cab he takes at the end of the mission. It's cool that they considered the player would want to play as Michael right afterward and decided not to just teleport him home.
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At some point Jimmy ends up sitting in the kitchen at his house looking at Niko Bellic's Lifeinvader page. Bleeter is funny/adjusts to the story too. Also the news, and there's so many of them. There's at least 3-4 new news stories after every mission/major (and sometimes minor) event in the game. All the little details in GTAV are awesome.
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Quick question about PLANESCAPE(dum dum). Normally when I play an RPG I go through the first time as close to myself as possible. As in just a giant dumb gently caress. But I've got a funny feeling that Runescape might not play like a conventional RPG. Any tips for someone just starting? Like that .jpeg for newcomers to Vampire the Masquerade. Y'know, don't play a Malk of Nos the first time, level up guns even though they appear useless at first etc.
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Runescape has probably changed so much since I last played it. Start with a few F2P quests to get decent levels. Do the member's quests to unlock skills and areas, like the druid thingy for herblore, runecrafting stuff and the mortyana quest which I totally forget. Follow me to the wildy and I'll trim your armour. Alternative, go here, they're probably much more suited to help you out and if you join the guild you get decent methods for loads of exp and stuff.
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ChogsEnhour posted:Quick question about Runescape. Normally when I play an RPG I go through the first time as close to myself as possible. As in just a giant dumb gently caress. But I've got a funny feeling that Runescape might not play like a conventional RPG. Any tips for someone just starting? Like that .jpeg for newcomers to Vampire the Masquerade. Y'know, don't play a Malk of Nos the first time, level up guns even though they appear useless at first etc. Do you mean Planescape? You can either go here, although there's some sort-of spoilery stuff there. Nothing major, but there's a few neat twists it tells you that I was happy not to have known my first playthrough. The main thing is to pump your wis/int/cha as high as they can go, particularly your wisdom, and dumpstat the rest. Talk to everyone, especially your party members, and save a lot, especially before conversations. Talk to your party members regularly. If you find a bronze sphere, carry it to with you always. quote:- In the NW quarter of the city there's a woman in a house who knows magic. Do her quest line and you can become a mage. I suggest doing this as soon as you're able to. Also seem useful and not-spoilery. For content: In Morrowind, if you get your strength high enough (as in exploit/cheating high), your weapons start to take a ton of damage every time you hit someone. You can hit so hard your weapons turn into unusable lumps of metal in a few swings, and if someone tries to block you do the same to their shield. If you scrounge up a lovely, 10 second on-cast invisibility ring from a pawn shop you can take a moderately dangerous walk to Ghostgate and steal most of a set of the second/third best non-artifact heavy armour in the game. This is doable within the first hour of play.
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Yeah Planescape Torment. Oops. Sorry. Thanks for the info.
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Thin Privilege posted:Bleeter is funny/adjusts to the story too. Also the news, and there's so many of them. There's at least 3-4 new news stories after every mission/major (and sometimes minor) event in the game. All the little details in GTAV are awesome. I think they keep going after the main story has wrapped up too, to some extent. At least, when I was doing all the "post-game" stuff like the stunt jumps and collectible finding, I'd keep hearing different news stories that developed after a few in-game days had passed. Over ten years ago I was impressed by San Andreas' radio and how its news reports would change as the story moved on, but I think they just looped forever once you reached the end. On that note, the radio in San Andreas would respond to the weather too. Sage would get "excited" whenever it was about to rain.
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FO4 Super Mutants scream "YEEAAARRRT" That is all. Might not even be intentional But I like it. Rigged Death Trap has a new favorite as of 00:31 on Dec 18, 2015 |
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Rigged Death Trap posted:FO4 Super Mutants scream "YEEAAARRRT" Namu amida butsu
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This has been posted several times before but drat these story missions in AC: Black Flag are boring. Open world stuff is mostly fun and pretty addictive but at least half of the story missions require following someone and/or stealthing around scripted guards who are placed so that even casual players can beat the level on their third try. It doesn't help that after AC3 I realised that the story will never get any kind of satisfying conclusion.
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Kennel posted:This has been posted several times before but drat these story missions in AC: Black Flag are boring. Open world stuff is mostly fun and pretty addictive but at least half of the story missions require following someone and/or stealthing around scripted guards who are placed so that even casual players can beat the level on their third try. It doesn't help that after AC3 I realised that the story will never get any kind of satisfying conclusion. I think you wanted this thread.
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I'm catching up on the thread and this post on Car Mechanic Simulator 2015 and this video inspired me to go play Car Mechanic Simulator 2014 for a while. I get a few random jobs to replace bad steering, suspension and gearbox parts and replace some guy's battery that died, and then on the next job which asks me to change the oil, I replace all his good parts with the lovely ones from the previous jobs including the dead battery, change the work and the job is completed successfully. It's just silly that they didn't check for this. The very first job asked me to replace the brake pads on the front wheels, so I just swapped the brake pads from the rear wheels.
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Ambaire posted:this video inspired me to go play Car Mechanic Simulator 2014 for a while The McElroy brothers are my favorite little thing in games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5PlKZRQVgQ
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In Life is Strange you can examine noticeboards in your school. One has a message from a guy asking for the person who stole his bag to return it as it has his iPad with pictures of his cats on it. Further down the hall you see a notice from someone selling an iPad with 5GBs of cat photos on it.
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Ambaire posted:I'm catching up on the thread and this post on Car Mechanic Simulator 2015 and this video inspired me to go play Car Mechanic Simulator 2014 for a while. I get a few random jobs to replace bad steering, suspension and gearbox parts and replace some guy's battery that died, and then on the next job which asks me to change the oil, I replace all his good parts with the lovely ones from the previous jobs including the dead battery, change the work and the job is completed successfully. It's just silly that they didn't check for this. The most realistic car mechanic simulator.
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Ambaire posted:I'm catching up on the thread and this post on Car Mechanic Simulator 2015 and this video inspired me to go play Car Mechanic Simulator 2014 for a while. I get a few random jobs to replace bad steering, suspension and gearbox parts and replace some guy's battery that died, and then on the next job which asks me to change the oil, I replace all his good parts with the lovely ones from the previous jobs including the dead battery, change the work and the job is completed successfully. It's just silly that they didn't check for this. It's called repeat business.
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I've been replaying Fallout: New Vegas, and whenever you enter V.A.T.S., there's tooltips on the side of the screen to tell you to press Mouse1 whenever you want to select a body part, and it says )RMB to exit. Of course, this obviously means to press the right mouse button to exit V.A.T.S., but if you're dense, like me the first few times I played, you think it means to press the R+M+B keys to exit. It actually works. 
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I know it's not a little thing, but I really like the Campaigns for the Call of Duty franchise. I say it's a little thing, because all the people I know who play COD are people I work with, and stupid teenagers. They openly admit to never even touching the single player and only ever play multiplayer. I'm the opposite, I'll maybe have a few rounds of multiplayer because it's there, but I buy them for the singleplayer. I know the stories are not going to be winning any awards by any stretch, and the gameplay is exactly the same as it was 10 years ago, but I view the games as less "game" and more "movie that requires me to occasionally click on mans". The stories remind me of those action flicks that were so popular in the late 80s/early 90s that I really dig, but don't seem to be made any more. The fact that the last few have bothered to get a bunch of actually famous and/or decent actors cast helps too. So I guess I appreciate that they still bother, when their target audience doesn't give a gently caress and their direct competition already has given up on singleplayer campaigns altogether. Edit: I think I just basically said that the COD games would be better movies than games and... yeah actually I'm okay with that. princecoo has a new favorite as of 07:38 on Dec 23, 2015 |
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'Sup CoD Campaign buddy!  For content, I recently played through Call of Juarez: Gunslinger again alongside the recent lp and goddamn do I love the general aesthetic they gave that game. It's not just a western game, it's specifically a spaghetti western game, crazy bursts of action, dual wielding, dramatic duels, hell the enemies all die in slow motion. It's just so good.
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ShootaBoy posted:For content, I recently played through Call of Juarez: Gunslinger again alongside the recent lp and goddamn do I love the general aesthetic they gave that game. It's not just a western game, it's specifically a spaghetti western game, crazy bursts of action, dual wielding, dramatic duels, hell the enemies all die in slow motion. It's just so good. It's easily the best western game since Sunset Riders. Yes, I'm taking Red Dead Redemption into account.
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Jehde posted:It's easily the best western game since Sunset Riders. Yes, I'm taking Red Dead Redemption into account. To be clear: you're saying this was better than Red Dead Redemption? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP2ba-QYQY8 (To continue to be clear, I'm not arguing otherwise, not having played RDR.)
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