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Sleeveless posted:You're probably thinking of Red Faction Armageddon, the sequel which ditched the open world destruction for corridor shooting with annoying bug enemies. Probably yeah.
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Cythereal posted:I think part of it may have been that people were expecting a straightforward action shooter game. In Guerrilla, you explicitly want to avoid head-on attacks and protracted firefights. Guns hurt, you don't have much health, you don't carry much ammunition, the EDF has limitless manpower and equipment, the EDF sends more and more reinforcements and heavier weapons the longer a fight goes on, and it takes a lot of ordnance to take down big targets or the EDF's heavy hardware. I normally don't play games on easy but I thought it was definitely the best way to play Guerrilla. Game was less about challenging action sequence and more about wrecking poo poo, and on easy you could beat just about any encounter with a dumptruck and a sledgehammer.
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Jan 9, 2016 02:32
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In Red Faction Guerilla's last mission you climb a mountain, laying waste to hordes of tanks and soldiers and blow up an orbital space station. With mainly a hammer if you're playing the game correctly. Alec Mason is a one man army and then some.
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Jan 9, 2016 02:36
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I need to get back into RFG now I should be able to play it with a consistent framerate. It was worth persevering with even with the odd times it turned into a slideshow, so it should be nice now. Think I'd just got some gun that disintegrates things. I was going through very slowly though, spending lots of time just wrecking things like an rear end in a top hat.
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McDragon posted:I need to get back into RFG now I should be able to play it with a consistent framerate. It was worth persevering with even with the odd times it turned into a slideshow, so it should be nice now. Think I'd just got some gun that disintegrates things. I was going through very slowly though, spending lots of time just wrecking things like an rear end in a top hat. The nano rifle is amazing, yes. Upgrade it for more ammo ASAP. It's handy for one-shotting any infantry in the game, instantly melting small sections of any structure now matter how durable they are to explosives or the hammer, melting vehicles in just a few shots, shooting down gunships in one shot if you hit the wing, mining without scattering the ore crystals anywhere...
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Jan 9, 2016 03:24
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Inco posted:I got stuck there as well and it could have been avoided by putting the fishing tutor on the beach, since the first instinct of a lot of people when seeing a tutor is to use the relevant activity spot they are right beside. Poor bastard never played a Zelda game. I can't wait for the new Wii U Bassfisher title.
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Jan 9, 2016 07:52
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I like how the news bulletins in Reccetear contain random poo poo like ads or the weather. 
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McDragon posted:I need to get back into RFG now I should be able to play it with a consistent framerate. It was worth persevering with even with the odd times it turned into a slideshow, so it should be nice now. Think I'd just got some gun that disintegrates things. I was going through very slowly though, spending lots of time just wrecking things like an rear end in a top hat. If it's been a few years since you played, I just reinstalled it thanks to this thread, and it's had a post-GFWL patch that unlocks all the missions after completing the first area and adds the reconstructor to the safehouses. You can now have every area unlocked in like an hour and rebuild things after blowing them up so you can blow them up again.
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Jan 10, 2016 05:50
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Pony Island is the new indie flavor of the month and while it's mostly silly and tongue in cheek there's one part towards the end that was really effective. One of the entities that you have to destroy challenges you to a duel of concentration, effectively a staring contest where you have to type things without looking away. After a few rounds my friend starts sending me messages over Steam like "lol wtf" and "were you hacked???", only when I alt-tabbed to check the messages there was nothing there and when I switched back to the game I had lost because I looked away and lost the game of concentration. It turns out the messenger notices were completely fake and in-game and a way of "tricking" you into losing the contest, even though they pulled my friend's actual name and icon and it looks and sounds exactly like Steam's messenger. And then when I tried it again and ignored it the messages got more frantic until they broke character and had the entity taunting me in all-caps messages. Then a few rounds later I fell for it again when it started playing Facebook alert sounds in the background. 
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That reminded me of the trailer for Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015. ( watch in full screen, possibly slightly  )https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0_EWr2GJ5A Rectus has a new favorite as of 00:04 on Jan 11, 2016 |
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Jan 11, 2016 00:01
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Unfortunately that little moment is lost if you have a non-standard Steam skin because it uses the default no matter what afaik.
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Jan 11, 2016 00:03
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So I'm laughing way too hard at Fallout 4 right now. I just got around to doing Old Guns and holy poo poo the old general. Ahahaha lying there buried underground with bottles of amontillado.
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I decided to try Space Station 13 again today. As suggested by the Wiki, I picked Chaplain as my job because you don't have to actually do anything and can roleplay as much or as little as you want. After 10 minutes of figuring out what I was doing, it was time to explore the station. I'm not sure if the botanists were trying to kill people or just get them high, but one of them offered me some honey that I ate without thinking. Two minutes later, I was back in my chapel falling down repeatedly because of methamphetamine withdrawa. Another unfortunate crewmate who had been given glowing fruit by the botanists stumbled in and started convulsing. I shook him to try to wake him up, and being unsuccessful I realized that I had lost my bible somewhere and grabbed the backup from the confessional. I went back and forth hitting him and myself with the bible like a bad slapstick routine (hitting someone with a bible heals them and inflicts a small amount of brain damage.) Seemingly recovered, I went exploring and came across a dead monkey in the hallway. As is my sacred duty I dragged it back to the chapel, put it in a coffin and dragged the coffin to the front of the chapel, and said a few words of remembrance to the empty room because like I said, sacred duty (and there might be ghosts watching and I don't want to disappoint them.) The chapel is equipped with a mass driver to launch bodies into space, and if you've read any of the SS13 stories here or in the game bugs thread it should come as no surprise that I managed to accidentally drop the dead monkey and shoot myself into space, where I avoided freezing to death by suffocating first.
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I discovered another fun thing about Red Faction Guerrilla: if you get your hands on a tank and bring the alert level down to green, go drive it around a populated road. Civilian drivers freak the gently caress out when they see a tank on the road, and I sparked an enormous demolition derby driving from Oasis to the Free Fire Zone as civilian vehicles would drive straight ahead until they got within twenty feet of me at which point they'd turn around at full speed and flee, usually crashing into each other in the process.
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Jan 11, 2016 03:24
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MisterBibs posted:It didn't foil anything, though? A few days late, but in XCOM:EU you could actually do the exact same things with the same characters but in a different order and it would reroll.
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You rejigger the RNG by doing something (and I always had someone who didn't do anything during a turn for that specific task), and it changed the outcome. Just because Terror From The Deep assumed that X-COM struggled mightily and lost many of its forces and didn't have a commander with CHIM doesn't mean that was true, after all.
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ShootaBoy posted:So I'm laughing way too hard at Fallout 4 right now. I just got around to doing Old Guns and holy poo poo the old general. Ahahaha lying there buried underground with bottles of amontillado. I'm glad somebody else got that!
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Jan 11, 2016 10:23
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ChogsEnhour posted:I'm glad somebody else got that! For the love of god, ChogsEnhour!
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Jan 11, 2016 11:02
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Yes! For the love of GOd!
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Jan 11, 2016 17:41
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In Fallout: New Vegas I paid a man generously to spread flattering lies about me and it resulted in me getting flagged down in the street every 5 minutes by Elvis impersonators who want to hand me corn
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Jan 11, 2016 20:09
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One of the main characters from Tales from the Borderlands in an episode loses his boot. These are his sock colours 
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Jan 11, 2016 20:14
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Croccers posted:One of the main characters from Tales from the Borderlands in an episode loses his boot. Black and white socks? What's the joke here?
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Jan 11, 2016 21:00
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First, he's a Hyperion employee and those are Hyperion's colors; dude is branded by his workplace so much that even his socks are Hyperion. Second, he is voiced by Troy Baker, who is very vocal about not wearing boring socks.  There are also a couple points in the ensuing episode where characters make note of his missing shoe, and almost every time you can respond with some variation of "no but socks are the best part of a guy's wardrobe shut up". 
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Jan 11, 2016 21:42
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Sleeveless posted:Pony Island is the new indie flavor of the month and while it's mostly silly and tongue in cheek there's one part towards the end that was really effective. Reminds me of Eternal Darkness where the game hosed with you, including making it seem like you deleted your own saved game. More games should try that. kizudarake posted:Black and white socks? What's the joke here? Are you colorblind? Am I colorblind? Those are yellow and blue socks with white stars on them.
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Jan 11, 2016 22:05
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Clearly they're white and gold
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I still have a copy of Eternal Darkness. I bet it's aged incredibly badly because it would make it seem like the volume was turning down on its own or the channel would change, but of course it used the sort of blocky monochrome green menu graphics that TVs had back then. Not a chance this would fool anyone today. In fact, I'm not sure it's still recognizable as a TV menu. Not complaining, mind you. They had to take a gamble on whether your particular TV would have menus visually similar to their graphics, nevermind futureproofing them.
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Leal posted:Reminds me of Eternal Darkness where the game hosed with you, including making it seem like you deleted your own saved game. More games should try that.
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Jan 11, 2016 22:17
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Doesn't somebody (nintendo or namco I thought) also have a patent on playable minigames during loading screens? Patents are the Worst.
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Gestalt Intellect posted:Doesn't somebody (nintendo or namco I thought) also have a patent on playable minigames during loading screens? Patents are the Worst. They did, but it expired recently.
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Jan 11, 2016 22:21
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That actually just expired last month (it was Namco).
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Gestalt Intellect posted:Doesn't somebody (nintendo or namco I thought) also have a patent on playable minigames during loading screens? Patents are the Worst. e: welp I guess I was way off, thanks memory
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Gestalt Intellect posted:Doesn't somebody (nintendo or namco I thought) also have a patent on playable minigames during loading screens? Patents are the Worst. Namco does but I think that one expired recently? If we're talking about devastating patents in video games, Nintendo used to have the patent for the best D-Pad design for controllers, which completely neutered the D-Pads of most of the competition. Edit: Jesus talk about being beaten.
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CJacobs posted:First, he's a Hyperion employee and those are Hyperion's colors; dude is branded by his workplace so much that even his socks are Hyperion. Second, he is voiced by Troy Baker, who is very vocal about not wearing boring socks. Here's the joke kizudarake was making.  Leal posted:Are you colorblind? Am I colorblind? Those are yellow and blue socks with white stars on them. Quoting you so you see it as well.
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Jan 11, 2016 22:27
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RareAcumen posted:Here's the joke kizudarake was making. That's a pretty bad joke with almost no relation to the thing referenced so I refuse to take a hit for not getting it
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CJacobs posted:First, he's a Hyperion employee and those are Hyperion's colors; dude is branded by his workplace so much that even his socks are Hyperion. Second, he is voiced by Troy Baker, who is very vocal about not wearing boring socks. I played the game but had no clue about Troy Baker's sock preference so I appreciate this post.
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Jan 11, 2016 22:37
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Australian national colours. Used a lot on our sporting uniforms (Along with white stars). 2K Australia worked on Borderlands The Pre-Sequel.
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Jan 11, 2016 23:11
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Tthe piglet pet in Pillars of Eternity is about the cutest thing ever
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Croccers posted:Australian national colours. Used a lot on our sporting uniforms (Along with white stars). 2K Australia worked on Borderlands The Pre-Sequel. Ah-ha. That is a really deeply layered joke for a single sock.
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CJacobs posted:That's a pretty bad joke with almost no relation to the thing referenced so I refuse to take a hit for not getting it Nothing malicious to my response just saying that you took the joke seriously is all. kizudarake posted:Black and white socks? What's the joke here? haveblue posted:Clearly they're white and gold
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