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FFXV has so much music smushed into it. I'm not even talking about the soundtracks from every FF game, I mean that there's like half a dozen battle themes (at least). I don't know what dictates which theme plays, but I think it's by type of enemy, since every time I see an alligator-type monster I'm psyched because that means my favourite theme is going to be play (seriously it's ridiculously epic in scope given that you're fighting like three crocodiles). Then there's different music for when, in the middle of battle, your summons are ready to bring out as well, just to let you know that poo poo is about to go down. And a few different overworld themes I think.
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On a similar note, Grasshopper's latest F2P brawler Let It Die has something like two hundred songs on its soundtrack, and a ton of them are by well-known Japanese bands made up just for the game. It's weirdly subliminal, because after hearing a dozen different songs from three different genres all with choruses containing the phrase "LET IT DIE" you start hearing that poo poo in your sleep. There's an awful lot of love put into that game for something with a freemium model.
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Dec 7, 2016 20:19
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Morpheus posted:FFXV has so much music smushed into it. I'm not even talking about the soundtracks from every FF game, I mean that there's like half a dozen battle themes (at least). I don't know what dictates which theme plays, but I think it's by type of enemy, since every time I see an alligator-type monster I'm psyched because that means my favourite theme is going to be play (seriously it's ridiculously epic in scope given that you're fighting like three crocodiles). Then there's different music for when, in the middle of battle, your summons are ready to bring out as well, just to let you know that poo poo is about to go down. And a few different overworld themes I think. Can you link your alligator song? I'm curious.
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Dec 7, 2016 20:20
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I don't know the alligator song the other poster is specifically referring to, but FFXV has no shortage of epic music. This is the track that plays when you're fishing and the line gets to half strength. It's a pumped up version of the regular fishing theme, which I sadly cannot find for this post. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPGdpgiyiwI
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Dec 7, 2016 20:39
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Oxxidation posted:There's an awful lot of love put into that game for something with a freemium model. Mark Hamill did the opening narration!
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Dec 7, 2016 21:03
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LawfulWaffle posted:I don't know the alligator song the other poster is specifically referring to, but FFXV has no shortage of epic music. This is the track that plays when you're fishing and the line gets to half strength. It's a pumped up version of the regular fishing theme, which I sadly cannot find for this post. HOLY gently caress FISHING 
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Dec 7, 2016 21:07
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Kruller posted:I'm not terribly far in, but yeah, the main 4 guys are actually pretty likable, even Noctis. He's emo, but for a surprisingly good reason for once. The fun thing about Noctis is how he's usually kind of dour and quiet, unless it involves fishing, which is his favorite hobby.
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Dec 7, 2016 21:13
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Oxxidation posted:On a similar note, Grasshopper's latest F2P brawler Let It Die has something like two hundred songs on its soundtrack, and a ton of them are by well-known Japanese bands made up just for the game. It's weirdly subliminal, because after hearing a dozen different songs from three different genres all with choruses containing the phrase "LET IT DIE" you start hearing that poo poo in your sleep. I haven't played much of it but ska8r boi death might be my favorite character of 2016
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Dec 7, 2016 21:17
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muscles like this! posted:The fun thing about Noctis is how he's usually kind of dour and quiet, unless it involves fishing, which is his favorite hobby. And also when petting cattes.
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Dec 7, 2016 21:25
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In FF15 at one point you can have a foot race against one of your bros. He's faster than you and has more stamina so it appears there's no way to win. Until you remember you can teleport. Cheating in a no-consequences race against a friend is the best possible thing to do.
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Dec 7, 2016 21:43
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BROCK LESBIAN posted:In FF15 at one point you can have a foot race against one of your bros. He's faster than you and has more stamina so it appears there's no way to win. Until you remember you can teleport. In FF15 you have infinite stamina if you press one of your sprint buttons right before your stamina runs out.
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Dec 8, 2016 08:32
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I beat gladio without warping just by taking tight turns, it's pretty hard to lose
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Dec 8, 2016 08:34
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I didn't yet realise I could sprint when I got that footrace. 
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Dec 8, 2016 08:35
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LawfulWaffle posted:For example, Prompto will open up to you about not feeling like he belongs because he isn't royalty or even staff, he's just a school friend.
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My Lovely Horse posted:I keep hearing there's extra material that explains the relationship between Noctis and the others more, but within five minutes I thought, okay, they're obviously bodyguard, valet, and best friend respectively, what's not to get? And so far, everything I've seen proves me right. There's a whole bunch of anime on the PlayStation store that I haven't watched but the game does a decent enough job of having Prompto ask who random characters the others already know are. The game could use some sort of encyclopaedia with a brief description of every character you meet like The Witcher 3 has so you can remind yourself who they are when you're spending so much time doing side quests that you're only seeing them once every ten hours or so.
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Dec 8, 2016 08:53
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What happens when you put someone in a chokehold and then just do nothing? Well, it gets awkward. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeqskaJ9Ek4
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Dec 8, 2016 13:23
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"You were stronger in Blood Money."
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My Lovely Horse posted:I keep hearing there's extra material that explains the relationship between Noctis and the others more, but within five minutes I thought, okay, they're obviously bodyguard, valet, and best friend respectively, what's not to get? And so far, everything I've seen proves me right. I started thinking of Prompto as the minstrel of the group, only documenting their story via photos instead of song.
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Dec 8, 2016 16:41
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Mierenneuker posted:What happens when you put someone in a chokehold and then just do nothing? Well, it gets awkward. I've been meaning to do a post on these. My faves so far are "your arm is so thick and warm it would make a great scarf. Ughhhh just kidding" and "man this suit is so soft, what's the material?".
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AS a precursor I'll add context as to why I've mainly been playing older games - I cannot afford newer games for a bit, so I'm falling back on PS2/GC games that I've already got or can emulate, I'm not intentionally a gimmick. I've started playing Pitfall the Lost Expedition as yet another game that Moominbiscuit got me interested in via his old vids and being a metroidvania it has the old thing of "come back with new powers", but unlike a lot of games of this type it actually marks on the map where you need to return to, so far with a number of marks matching the number of obstacles. The map zooms in to a series of nodes representing the levels with dotted lines joining them, and an incomplete level, when fully explored, looks kind of like this on the map: code:This tells you that there is a path that you couldn't take without the rising fist that connects to another level - we know to return there later for progress. The torch tells us that there is a secret Idol collectible that we need to return for later to get when we have the torch. Also one node needs the torch for two different things, and it has 2 torch icons, which is very player-friendly. Also there is a good reason to find the idols - you can trade them at the shop for permanent upgrades and new attacks, and in the journal the main character tells you that if you completely buy out the merchant you may get an extra prize, giving incentive to artifact hunt. The "Freeing the explorers" collectible gives you a special idol worth 5 normal ones for each explorer rescued. Overall a charming game with an obnoxious main character.
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BioEnchanted posted:AS a precursor I'll add context as to why I've mainly been playing older games - I cannot afford newer games for a bit, so I'm falling back on PS2/GC games that I've already got or can emulate, I'm not intentionally a gimmick. i am genuinely fascinated that you're going through a backlog from 2 generations ago. i'm waiting for you to mention something i recognize as being terrible and trying to find some nugget of value in it, like Darkened Skye.
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Mierenneuker posted:What happens when you put someone in a chokehold and then just do nothing? Well, it gets awkward. The best PYF thing from episodic Hitman is how they dropped the ball with Absolution and not only learned from their mistakes, but made possibly the most Hitman-true game of the series. New Hitman rocks.
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I was playing Broforce on a friend of mine's Alienware Laptop. If you beat a level the LEDs in the hardware will flash red, white and blue like crazy. You can see it on this dude's steam machine thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jP3QTOSi7c I wouldn't rush out and buy an alienware device but that's a pretty nice touch.
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Lord Lambeth posted:I was playing Broforce on a friend of mine's Alienware Laptop. If you beat a level the LEDs in the hardware will flash red, white and blue like crazy.
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Dec 10, 2016 06:31
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I can't find any of the music from FFXV for the life of me. Everything I'm looking for is stuff like "Music that plays near the castle dungeon" or "Music that plays against certain enemies" and lemme tell you, those searches don't yield results.
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Either I'm loving insane or it's possible to manually shift gears while driving in watch dogs 2 by using the pressure sensitive triggers on the ps4 controller. I was cruising around listening to music and trying to drive "normally" but the engine noise was drowning the actual music. It was because I needed to shift gears up by pressing the trigger ever so slightly harder! Honestly it totally blew me away.
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If you cast an ice spell on enemies in water in FFXV, the water will freeze and the enemies will be trapped until the ice melts. I found this out the hard way by standing in the water when I cast Blizzaga.
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79% of the way through Pitfall: The Lost Expedition according to the save file, and honestly, I'm kinda loving it. Despite the main characters attitude (which has been improving, and in his Journal he comes across as slightly more self-aware than in cutscenes) the other characters react to him well. Quickclaw the talking Jaguar is pretty cool, a lot of bad jokes but the game promises an interesting backstory that may recontextualise him as acting out to cover for his true feelings of lonliness due to the other cheetahs ostracizing him (Possibly due to Quickclaw being able to talk and them not considering him to be one of them anymore), and while I am on Nicole's side about Harry being a complete tool who she needs to basically put up with, he is at least trying to understand her point of view and finally empathising with her as more than a pretty face, even if only barely, so she is warming to him a little in an organic way because he recognised when he put his foot in it and apologised for the first time in the entire goddamn game. The powerups have been inventive even if the controls are bewildering. Playing on the gamecube, the controls for the inflatable raft for crossing dangerous water are left stick paddling with left hand, right for right hand, which is loving weird but strangely engaging, same principle for climbing with the pickaxes. The pickaxes also have a really fun and funny attack where Harry can spin with them both out to counter enemies that do the same, resulting in really funny situations where everyone is spinning wildly. It's like an episode of beyblade up in here. Although I've just got through the single hardest part of the game so far, the second boss with StClaire and his Shaman buddy followed by the scorpion temple - the hardest boss and temple so far. StClaires Shaman summons waves of bomb-throwing enemies at you, who are really fun to fight but difficult because they have unique animations - they take cover behind scenery, and if you get too close and are too slow to hit them they do a cool little flip over the box/fence that they were braced against and you basically have to chase them and try to catch them out, and the scorpion temple is a really hard puzzle fight. Basically each temple, Harry swaps bodies with it's representative animal and needs to hit his real body 4 times before it escapes. The scorpion requires you to crawl on the ceiling and walk over hatches to trigger boulders falling that will put out the torch that it directly under them, and if Harry is at the torch, stun him so you can crawl down the wall and hit him. Each time Harry get's faster so you have to try to cut him off by the final stage instead of following him, and he only needs to light 3 torches to escape and the controls are a little fiddly on the walls and ceiling so it gets really hard stunning him that last time. spoilered for common courtesy as the game is definitely worth seeing for yourself for the gameplay, even though it has aged. Last edit after continuing: Oh my god the mask native guys aren't actually all human. The tribes you meet early on are, but the more specialist ones with the indestructible masks that you need to stagger and the spinning guys are actually little arctic foxes that are vaguely human shaped. I noticed when one of the strong mask guys took it off to try to bash me with it 
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flatluigi posted:BioEnchanted we're all very worried about you and we hope you start playing actually decent games everyone's heard of sometime in 2017 BioEnchanted's love of 10 year-old movie cash-in games from before developers put any effort into licensed properties whatsoever is actually incredibly endearing and one of the best parts of the thread.
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He is not going to top the usage of spoiler tags in his previous post tho, he may have just peaked.
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Is that the Pitfall with Bruce Campbell or is that the ps1 Pitfall?
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I won't lie, I look forward to Bioenchanted's posts.
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StandardVC10 posted:In Fallout New Vegas with all DLC content you could stack a bunch of perks on top of Silent Running and crouch-run your way across the Mojave at vaguely comical speeds, to the point that you'd leave any companions you took with you several minutes behind. In Skyrim, if you grab the perk to move faster while crouched (There's one for that, right?) and the perk to move faster while you use a shield, you can actually move faster with your shield raised than running around (non-sprint).
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StandardVC10 posted:In Fallout New Vegas with all DLC content you could stack a bunch of perks on top of Silent Running and crouch-run your way across the Mojave at vaguely comical speeds, to the point that you'd leave any companions you took with you several minutes behind. The "Keep On Truckin'" build.
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Revisiting speedy movement stuff.graybook posted:Same, but with bonecharm crafting, you can actually make it so that it's slower to crouch walk than to crouch walk with a corpse. This is goofy. I embrace it. I have encountered another great movespeed bonecharm, and in addition to the aforementioned, which was - ignore movement speed penalty for having weapons unsheathed - stack 4x speed up when carrying a corpse I can now - stack 4x speed up when in stealth mode This continues to be goofy and I really appreciate that the bonecharm crafting system lets you do dumb mildly overpowered crud like this.
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I don't care why he does it. If it's a gimmick, autism, or budget cuts. I don't care. What games this and the dragging games down thread discuss can be predicted with a AAA-release calendar and a basic knowledge of what games goons are obsessed with. And having 25 pages of comments on Pokemon, FFXV, or any given Bethesda title be broken up by BioEnchanted busting in to gush about the DDR mechanics in the Shark Tale video game- well, it just makes my day a little bit brighter.
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Going back to before Dishonored this was Dark Messiah, and I really miss the kicking from it. There was so many little touches you could do to mooks in the game. Kicking them from behind. http://i.imgur.com/i5XaLNe.mp4 A little danky kong action. http://i.imgur.com/NGWtajS.mp4 There was no end to the goofy poo poo you could kill people with. Ice spells upon the floor making them slide rear end off a mountain side etc. It is one of those hidden gems almost nobody has played that folks really should, and our resident Coolguye did a very good LP of which is worth checking out.
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That Pitfall game was actually pretty good too, I remember being surprised by how decent it actually was.
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I've been replaying Condemned 2: Bloodshot and god the enemies react to getting smacked so viscerally, it's awesome. If you've never played it, it's a first person melee game, and you've got a few types of punches and melee attacks; The heavy ones really just knock the everloving gently caress out of people and even knock teeth loose in the clouds of blood you're sending out of somebody's mouth when you hit them in the face with a brick. Guns rule too, the gun impacts go very well with the sound design and baddies will be knocked over or stunned by a gunshot wound, even stopping to clutch at their gut in pain if you plug them in the belly. Every headshot from any gun causing a head explosion is a little bit much though, especially when you get to play with a crossbow. I wanted to nail guys to walls by the cheek.
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Feonir posted:Going back to before Dishonored this was Dark Messiah, and I really miss the kicking from it. There was so many little touches you could do to mooks in the game. Anyone that hasn't played the game needs to see the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7T9tJiw6AU
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