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WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013

Bruceski posted:

And you didn't need to complete all the story missions to unlock all your tricks. I love AC4 (mainly for "gently caress you I'm a pirate" mode) but the blowgun and rope arrows are very useful abilities that you don't get until soon before the end, particularly if you explore between story beats.

Actually that's one of the biggest complaints about Shadow of Mordor, branding being gated behind half the story.

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SpookyLizard
Feb 17, 2009

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

Actually that's one of the biggest complaints about Shadow of Mordor, branding being gated behind half the story.

Talk about Worst Design Decisions in history. I could live without the blow guns, but theres stuff hidden behind ropearrows and poo poo gently caress you gimme. I hate that Shadow of Mordor did that too. Why can't more games be like Saints Row 2 and give you access to everything after the end of the tutorial/prologue stuff. Seriously, we figured it out in SR2. That game is like a million years old and it's doing better than stuff right now ugh. Deus Ex and Dishonored did it right. Here's all of your poo poo? Got upgrade points? Cool, have whatever you want.

I'll never understand the logic behind it. What are they, trying to control pacing? It's an open world game, there is no such thing as pacing, unless you manage to hit a rare diamond in the rough like AC2, where even then, most of the good stuff is unlocked pretty early on.

E: I'd totally love a Magical AssCreed game made by Arkane. I'd rather let them play with their own IP, but I'd love some pseudo historical game about violent stabbing with illogical swords and protagonists who have a tendancy to not do the right thing in annoying ways. Parkour'ing as Ezio can sometimes be just as annoying as Corvo trying to give people hugs.

Bruceski
Aug 21, 2007

The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

Actually that's one of the biggest complaints about Shadow of Mordor, branding being gated behind half the story.

At least it's just half the game, though.

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

I think they gated branding in SoM because it completely trivializes any challenges the game may throw at you.

Bruceski
Aug 21, 2007

The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

The game pre-branding is fun, the game post-branding is just funner.

Orv
May 4, 2011
How bad is Coolguy at video games? He's so bad at video games.

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!
video games are also bad at me

Speedball
Apr 15, 2008

Coolguye posted:

video games are also bad at me

Sometimes the game plays the player, but when it plays Coolguye, it fails.

Fish Noise
Jul 25, 2012

IT'S ME, BURROWS!

IT WAS ME ALL ALONG, BURROWS!

Orv posted:

How bad is Coolguy at video games? He's so bad at video games.
This guy contacted me, says he's a friend of Coolguye's and that he's here to help.







...I should probably screen these people better.

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Fish Noise posted:

This guy contacted me, says he's a friend of Coolguye's and that he's here to help.







...I should probably screen these people better.

It kind of looks like Avitus is just furiously making a jerkoff motion.

It fits.

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!
there needs to be a museum of these

AlphaKretin
Dec 25, 2014

A vase to face encounter.

...Vase to meet you?

...

GARVASE DAY!

Coolguye posted:

there needs to be a museum of these

Well I don't think you've used the second post yet.

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!
oh holy poo poo i forgot i reserved it

Stormgale
Feb 27, 2010

Coolguye posted:

oh holy poo poo i forgot i reserved it

Much like you forget choke distance

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!

Stormgale posted:

Much like you forget choke distance

i forget WAY more than that.

e: Like I've potentially forgotten some fanarts at this point. Let me know if I'm missing any in the second post.

Coolguye fucked around with this message at 17:34 on Jul 8, 2016

Aumanor
Nov 9, 2012

Coolguye posted:

i forget WAY more than that.

Here's your weekly reminder that you still need to upload the low chaos intermissions.

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!

Aumanor posted:

Here's your weekly reminder that you still need to upload the low chaos intermissions.

god dammit

you're right

Speedball
Apr 15, 2008

drat, I've been playing Fallout 4 as a melee character for once and I realized that the block animation, particularly with a knife, is exactly the same "jerk knife in front of face" maneuver. I will never be free of this meme now.

Ablative
Nov 9, 2012

Someone is getting this as an avatar. I don't know who, but it's gonna happen.

Speedball posted:

drat, I've been playing Fallout 4 as a melee character for once and I realized that the block animation, particularly with a knife, is exactly the same "jerk knife in front of face" maneuver. I will never be free of this meme now.

Probably because that's what the motion is in Dishonored, too.

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!

Speedball posted:

drat, I've been playing Fallout 4 as a melee character for once and I realized that the block animation, particularly with a knife, is exactly the same "jerk knife in front of face" maneuver. I will never be free of this meme now.

I was playing Clandestine earlier this week with a friend - I was playing as the Spy with him as the Hacker, so he's looking through cameras and marking enemies as much as he can, and I'm keeping my eyes on to sneak by them and stuff. Then this conversation happens:

Me: "Clear of the enemy op post. Gonna sneak up the wall on the right."
Him: "Sure. Two enemies further ahead, not marked yet."
Me: "Copy. Things look OK he--oh god damnit, I will never be rid of this."
Him: "What's going on?"
Me: "Guard 2 is relieving himself against the wall."

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Bruceski
Aug 21, 2007

The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

That bed really tied the room together.

AradoBalanga
Jan 3, 2013

Fish Noise posted:

This guy contacted me, says he's a friend of Coolguye's and that he's here to help.







...I should probably screen these people better.
At this point, the Starscream version is inevitable.

InfinityComplex
Feb 5, 2011

Nothing better than swinging around a little girl like a flail.

AradoBalanga posted:

At this point, the Starscream version is inevitable.

I imagine Starscream putting on his crown, being ecstatic about it, and then getting punched in the face with it falling off.

TheLastRoboKy
May 2, 2009

Finishing the game with everyone else's continues

AradoBalanga posted:

At this point, the Starscream version is inevitable.

InfinityComplex posted:

I imagine Starscream putting on his crown, being ecstatic about it, and then getting punched in the face with it falling off.

Well, if anyone can whiff a backstab it's Starscream.

radintorov
Feb 18, 2011

Coolguye posted:

I was playing Clandestine earlier this week with a friend - I was playing as the Spy with him as the Hacker, so he's looking through cameras and marking enemies as much as he can, and I'm keeping my eyes on to sneak by them and stuff. Then this conversation happens:

Me: "Clear of the enemy op post. Gonna sneak up the wall on the right."
Him: "Sure. Two enemies further ahead, not marked yet."
Me: "Copy. Things look OK he--oh god damnit, I will never be rid of this."
Him: "What's going on?"
Me: "Guard 2 is relieving himself against the wall."

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
I played a fair amount of Clandestine with a friend of mine and this is the first I hear of guards relieving themselves there as well. :stare:

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!

radintorov posted:

I played a fair amount of Clandestine with a friend of mine and this is the first I hear of guards relieving themselves there as well. :stare:

It was on Copenhagen, as I was getting away from the side objective. Also we were ghosting every level, so we got a lot of chances to look at the guards.

Malah
May 18, 2015

Hey, I remember Dishonored looking like a cool game, this should be int-

[reads thread]

Coolguye posted:

holy poo poo
:five:

I do have to wonder, though: whatever happened to the Low Chaos interludes?

Malah fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Jul 9, 2016

Lunethex
Feb 4, 2013

Me llamo Sarah Brandolino, the eighth Castilian of this magnificent marriage.
Can't even begin to describe how bad coolguye is in this next video :v:

But based on how the game treated him I mean I can understand some of it.

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!
Yeah I mean the next video is me being pretty bad on a lot of levels, but in my defense the game also messes with me pretty hard at a number of points with surprise bullshit and finicky behaviors.

Lprsti99
Apr 7, 2011

Everything's coming up explodey!

Pillbug

Coolguye posted:

Yeah I mean the next video is me being pretty bad on a lot of levels, but in my defense the game also messes with me pretty hard at a number of points with surprise bullshit and finicky behaviors.

Fish Noise posted:


Do not be whiffing. Be better.

Don't make excuses either for that matter.

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!
i'll make as many excuses as i drat well please

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!
Low Chaos Update

Eminent Domain:
Youtube Polsy

Coolguye fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Jul 12, 2016

Lunethex
Feb 4, 2013

Me llamo Sarah Brandolino, the eighth Castilian of this magnificent marriage.

Coolguye posted:

i'll make as many excuses as i drat well please

Hunt11
Jul 24, 2013

Grimey Drawer
Looks like everything hates you as at time of posting the video is still processing.

Lunethex
Feb 4, 2013

Me llamo Sarah Brandolino, the eighth Castilian of this magnificent marriage.
Don't worry you'll see him being bad as soon as YouTube stops being bad.

InfinityComplex
Feb 5, 2011

Nothing better than swinging around a little girl like a flail.
Too bad YouTube is always bad.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
That really was the perfect quote to describe Timsh and that conversation.

grack fucked around with this message at 07:01 on Jul 11, 2016

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!

grack posted:

That really was the perfect quote to describe Timsh and that conversation.

which quote

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Coolguye posted:

which quote

The shiver quote.

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heenato
Oct 26, 2010

We wish to communicate with you!
I dunno if it's just me, but the sound is pretty badly desynced.

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