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Strife posted:For the most part, the new translation is worlds better, but there are two lines that are sorely missing from the latest version. I also like that they give you the shitstain Algus/Argath as a temporary ally but even the game's mechanics seem designed around hating him, even before you're given a reason to. The mission where you find him at the hands of rogues is the only one where prioritizing killing the enemy over saving the victim gives you a permanent stat boost. Plus he comes with a better weapon and accessory than is available, so you can strip him to save 1500 Gil. And the topper is that he's always a handy target to throw a stone at or whack for some much needed JP in the early missions. Nothing like seeing him rush into battle, take a bunch of damage because he's naked, then have him run back to safety only to have some generic squire bean him unconscious with a rock.
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Barudak posted:Burn to th-Burn t-Burn Burn B-Burn to the-Burn to the ground! In SSBMelee I loved mashing the confirm button on a character to make the announcer say their name repeatedly. Doctor Doctor Doctor Mario, Doctor Doctor Doctor Mario Mr. Gay- Mr. Gay- Mr. Gay- Mr. Gay- Mr. Gay- Mr. Gay- Mr. Gay-man Watch
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I really like how Hyrule Warriors does voices. They're generic little gasps and cries, but for characters like Midna and Toon Link, they're sourced from the games they originate from. It's cute.
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Dr Christmas posted:I recall all the American monuments were the same. There were a few missions in Washington DC on each side. The Allied ones had gave you reward crates for sending engineers to repair various monuments (The command center lady comments they gave the Lincoln Memorial statue a Stalin head), while the Soviet ones gave you rewards for destroying them. All the monuments had special animations when they were destroyed instead of blowing up instantly. I don't remember if it was Tiberium Sun 1 or 2 , but in the Dallas map if you go to the Texas School Book Depository where JFK was shot there's an NPC sniper on the grassy knoll.
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Man, I can't believe I've owned Phantom Pain for like 6 months and just only got around to playing it. This game is fun as gently caress. It's like the correct version of how video game guerrilla warfare should work - sneak into bases, take out a few guys, plant C4 on the coms towers and maybe some other stuff, blow them up and proceed to gently caress poo poo up. And the things you're destroying actually make a difference - you can make it so they can't call for reinforcements, you can take out their machine guns, AA guns, commandeer their mortars (which is how I actually beat the first mission where I had to destroy tanks; I brought an RPG but I found a mortar way up on the hill so I sent a few rounds at the tanks and managed to take out the front one and that boxed the rest of them in. The tanks got off one shot at me, but it hit their AA coms and destroyed that for me.) It's like if Ghost Recon Wildlands were actually good, but 2 years before that came out.
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Finished up Bioshock 2 (yes, including Minerva's Den, stop asking) from the HD reissue and... I kind of think it was better than the first game? Apparently this is at odds with the general consensus--and to be fair, it is the extra content in Minerva's Den that put it over the top for me. Still, though. It has better weapons, and more satisfying combat in general; the change to the hacking minigame was a huge improvement; so were the changes to collecting enemy research; the NPCs were more interesting both in dialogue, and as characters; the ending is more than the result of a single binary choice that you made at the beginning of the game. The main flaw is that it's not Bioshock 1, and therefore gets to be ' just more of the same' instead of 'an original and engaging setting.' Which is fair... yet somewhat beside the point now that we're 10 years and counting from the first game's release. You can't take its status as the original away. However that status no longer matters when you're actually playing the games. Anyway, I digress. This is supposed to be favorite little things in games, and my favorite little thing in Bioshock 2 is firing a rocket spear into a Brute Splicer and watching it launch him backwards into a cluster of cyclone traps that send him bouncing all over the place like a ping-pong ball, which then explodes. (Sometimes they survive this with a sliver of health and shout something about being back in a jiff while they run to the nearest health station, which sprays them with poison gas until they die because I obsessively hack them on the off chance I get to watch that happen.)
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Just started my 4-5th (?) playthrough of morrowind and it finally clicked. I don't know what it was, but I just can't put the game down now. One of my favorite things about the game is how the quest journal works. Speifically, getting certain bits of information for quests from various npcs which in turn actually fills in as a blue clickable helping you find out where to go for your next objective. A bit janky but I really do enjoy that aspect.
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Rangpur posted:Finished up Bioshock 2 (yes, including Minerva's Den, stop asking) from the HD reissue and... I kind of think it was better than the first game? Apparently this is at odds with the general consensus--and to be fair, it is the extra content in Minerva's Den that put it over the top for me. Still, though. It has better weapons, and more satisfying combat in general; the change to the hacking minigame was a huge improvement; so were the changes to collecting enemy research; the NPCs were more interesting both in dialogue, and as characters; the ending is more than the result of a single binary choice that you made at the beginning of the game. The main flaw is that it's not Bioshock 1, and therefore gets to be ' just more of the same' instead of 'an original and engaging setting.' Which is fair... yet somewhat beside the point now that we're 10 years and counting from the first game's release. You can't take its status as the original away. However that status no longer matters when you're actually playing the games. Yeah I'm in this boat too, Bioshock 2 is my favorite Bioshock. Being able to dual wield guns and plasmids was great, the drill was great and the Andrew Ryan theme park is one of the best set pieces in the series. There was a ton of combat variety with the Big Sisters. Bioshock 2 was kind of always going to fail though, having to follow up Bioshock is a pretty heavy hurdle to jump.
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Guavatin posted:Just started my 4-5th (?) playthrough of morrowind and it finally clicked. I don't know what it was, but I just can't put the game down now. IIRC, the hyperlinks in the journal weren't added until the first expansion, so originally you just had to flip backwards through the pages until you found whatever you were looking for. I suppose both that and the QoL improvement with the hyperlinks are some of my favorite little things in games. It's pretty immersive the first time playing Morrowind going "well, I wrote down the directions to so-and-so quest location but it was 5 or 6 in-game days ago, better comb through the last few pages of the journal to find them" like an actual journal rather than just having a quest log and compass pointer. However, having the hyperlinks was awesome for subsequent playthroughs after Tribunal came out because the novelty of page-flipping backwards through a journal to look up anything wore off quickly.
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Rangpur posted:Finished up Bioshock 2 (yes, including Minerva's Den, stop asking) from the HD reissue and... I kind of think it was better than the first game? Apparently this is at odds with the general consensus--and to be fair, it is the extra content in Minerva's Den that put it over the top for me. Bioshock 2 is my favorite of the three games but I never played Minerva's Den despite hearing good things about it. How does the HD remaster hold up? When it came out there were a bunch of articles saying it was somehow worse than just playing the original, with weird changes like adding water effects that were worse than what was already there to start. I got the remasters for free since I already had the original trilogy on Steam but don't know which I should reinstall for another playthrough.
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LawfulWaffle posted:I'm gonna crowbar in a different game to break up Prey chat and say that I really like the newer translation in Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions.  Glad you like it!
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Bioshock 2 is my favorite of the three games but I never played Minerva's Den despite hearing good things about it. How does the HD remaster hold up? When it came out there were a bunch of articles saying it was somehow worse than just playing the original, with weird changes like adding water effects that were worse than what was already there to start. I got the remasters for free since I already had the original trilogy on Steam but don't know which I should reinstall for another playthrough. Basically it's a few open-ended hub areas that you can explore at your leisure, or go straight towards the next plot objective. The order you acquire weapons in is different. Same goes for Plasmids. I think there are only 3 they give you outright--you have to choose which others to buy, and even electroshock is optional. (There's also only the one ending to it, so saving/harvesting/ignoring Little Sisters is p. much entirely at your discretion.) The combination of open-endedness and having to decide in advance how you want to fight is what people liked about the gameplay, I think.
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Rangpur posted:Finished up Bioshock 2 (yes, including Minerva's Den, stop asking) from the HD reissue and... I kind of think it was better than the first game? Apparently this is at odds with the general consensus--and to be fair, it is the extra content in Minerva's Den that put it over the top for me. Still, though. It has better weapons, and more satisfying combat in general; the change to the hacking minigame was a huge improvement; so were the changes to collecting enemy research; the NPCs were more interesting both in dialogue, and as characters; the ending is more than the result of a single binary choice that you made at the beginning of the game. The main flaw is that it's not Bioshock 1, and therefore gets to be ' just more of the same' instead of 'an original and engaging setting.' Which is fair... yet somewhat beside the point now that we're 10 years and counting from the first game's release. You can't take its status as the original away. However that status no longer matters when you're actually playing the games. I never played the first but I really enjoyed Bioshock 2. Near the end of the game I was overpowered enough that I just ran around slapping enemies to death with the drill. I was the best goddamn high-fiver in all of Rapture
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Bioshock 1 and 2 have always been more or less exactly equal to me. Each of them does certain things better than the other, and neither is flawless. Though I've still yet to play Minerva's Den...
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I wish more people played Bioshock 2 just so the people who criticized Infinite for having the Vox Populi be bloodthirsty revolutionaries in one of countless alternate universes could see what an actual unironic "well maybe BOTH sides are just as bad if you think about it  " plot looks like. The music was pretty great at least, they made some slightly deeper cuts with what they licensed plus they had tracks playing over the loading screens so they got to put in more of it. Artie Shaw's Nightmare playing while you descended to the final level was especially badass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq-gALidMMk
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Hirayuki posted:Is that the one that first came out on the PSP, basically a remake of the original FFT? I worked on the retranslation. Awesome! It's good work and really makes playing through it again a treat.
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Picked up Prey because of this thread and I'm still not sure what I think of it. I don't hate it, but I don't think it's really grabbed me yet. There were two little things that stood out to me: First one was a safe with a note stuck to it that said "in case you forget the combo" and two squares of the periodic table. Looked them up and the atomic numbers were the code. Just thought it was a cool way to do that instead of an email saying "hey here's your code dumbass" Second was hidden in a corner outside the same area, a snowman made of Gloo and other things with a note next to it that said "Hi, I'm Glooey McGooface"
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Guy Mann posted:I wish more people played Bioshock 2 just so the people who criticized Infinite for having the Vox Populi be bloodthirsty revolutionaries in one of countless alternate universes could see what an actual unironic "well maybe BOTH sides are just as bad if you think about it What? People would just be more annoyed if they'd played 2 and noticed that they're still making GBS threads the bed on making two antagonists having decent motivations without also going 'ah yes, the antifa are not so different from the Nazis after all!'
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Joey Freshwater posted:There were two little things that stood out to me: Prey does them both a lot. But codes to like, optional safes and stuff tend to be hidden through little puzzles. Like the chapter of a book on the person's desk, or written somewhere in a video so you have to remember it yourself rather than the game just telling you out right. It's a nice balance between rewarding people for thinking and exploring, and just letting people experience the plot.
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I thought we all came to a concensus long ago that Bioshock is strictly superior to the first in every way but story and that one moral choice people argued over for days, which ultimately is a summary for why "moral choices" are stupid in games.
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Yeah, it wasn't really that much of a Truth in the Middle thing, more of showing the absolute extremes of both ideals - extreme selfishness versus extreme selflessness, and of course both were hypocrites because how else would they have gotten on top of such societies? I also like the irony in the theme park - Andrew Ryan made it what he wanted the art to be, not the designer - Andrew Ryan had become the hated Censor.
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Aug 30, 2017 05:29
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Nuebot posted:Prey does them both a lot. But codes to like, optional safes and stuff tend to be hidden through little puzzles. Like the chapter of a book on the person's desk, or written somewhere in a video so you have to remember it yourself rather than the game just telling you out right. It's a nice balance between rewarding people for thinking and exploring, and just letting people experience the plot. It also feels somewhat realistic as the owner's private reminder, instead of a dozen hacked emails saying "HERE'S THE CODE, STOP FORGETTING THE CODE YOU loving IDOT!" in various flavours.
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Aug 30, 2017 05:43
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Hirayuki posted:Is that the one that first came out on the PSP, basically a remake of the original FFT? I worked on the retranslation. It must have been 5+ years of no FFT before I played WotL though, so the new translation was actually really refreshing. English was my second language so I couldn't understand the story too much when I played the original version (I was like 14) - I know some people criticised the choice of using "ye olde English", but I think it added to the whole mysticism of the game. Like watching a medieval-era play that you're not meant to understand completely - but enjoy the performance anyway!
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Neddy Seagoon posted:It also feels somewhat realistic as the owner's private reminder, instead of a dozen hacked emails saying "HERE'S THE CODE, STOP FORGETTING THE CODE YOU loving IDOT!" in various flavours. Now if only there would be one NPC in a game who used the same password for every account. No hints or anything but just some stupid puzzle where you have to hack their email early on then at the end of the game, it's the same password to get access to the enemy secret base. Barudak posted:I thought we all came to a concensus long ago that Bioshock is strictly superior to the first in every way but story and that one moral choice people argued over for days, which ultimately is a summary for why "moral choices" are stupid in games. Moral choices are always bad and dumb, especially when the game rewards you for them. The best moral choices in games are the ones where the choice, and consequence, only really matters to the player. Like there's one in No Man's Sky where you're given the option to let a guy die forever, or trap his memory in an endless simulation where no one can ever interact with him again, but as long as he doesn't find out he's in a simulation he'll be happy. And the choice doesn't really matter, nor does someone give you a random amount of money for picking the "good" choice. But it's the kind of thing that matters to the person making the choice if you're sufficiently into the storyline, characters or setting.
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I've been playing Gigantic over the last couple of days (if you haven't heard of it, or it rings a bell, it's that half-MOBA half-class based shooter that's been in development for ages). I kind of get bored with a lot of class-based shooters, and never really played MOBAs, because the strategy usually gets stale really quickly, but I appreciate what Gigantic does by having a whole bunch of factors that mean you have to make decisions on what your team is going to do on the fly. I guess my favourite little thing is that there's a tonne of characters/classes (like at least 16) but they all have a different playstyle, and actually feel useful and not just copy/pasted abilites, so you can generally find a few in different roles that you genuinely click with and find fun to play, and then use one of those depending on your team makeup.
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The Witcher games are good for that. Your don't choose between Good and Evil, you choose which of the options you consider to be Good. And then live with that, because there's no omniscient narrator to tell you if you did good or bad. The Lone Badger has a new favorite as of 06:42 on Aug 30, 2017 |
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Sonic Mania brings back stages from older Sonic games and mixes them up with power ups from other Sonic games. I wasn't expecting Oil Ocean Zone to come back, and I definitely wasn't expecting to be able to ignite the oil pits and slides with the Flame Shield! Also, they blended stages together, like Oil Ocean's second act takes influence from Sandopolis's second act in Sonic & Knuckles with the timed switches you need to pull to clear smog off the screen and help you see obstacles. In Sandopolis those switches would keep the lights on to prevent ghosts from hurting you.
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Nuebot posted:Moral choices are always bad and dumb, especially when the game rewards you for them. The best moral choices in games are the ones where the choice, and consequence, only really matters to the player. Like there's one in No Man's Sky where you're given the option to let a guy die forever, or trap his memory in an endless simulation where no one can ever interact with him again, but as long as he doesn't find out he's in a simulation he'll be happy. And the choice doesn't really matter, nor does someone give you a random amount of money for picking the "good" choice. But it's the kind of thing that matters to the person making the choice if you're sufficiently into the storyline, characters or setting. Did you type the wrong game? Does No Man's Sky have characters and a story now?
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PubicMice posted:Did you type the wrong game? Does No Man's Sky have characters and a story now? It does. It's not great? But it's interesting and gives you a reason to engage with the mechanics a bit. I'm digging the changes they made to the game and I kind of like that the devs are seriously trying to live up to their promises by rolling out a bunch of huge free content updates rather than just letting a bad game die in obscurity and haunt them forever.
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BioEnchanted posted:Yeah, it wasn't really that much of a Truth in the Middle thing, more of showing the absolute extremes of both ideals - extreme selfishness versus extreme selflessness, and of course both were hypocrites because how else would they have gotten on top of such societies? I also like the irony in the theme park - Andrew Ryan made it what he wanted the art to be, not the designer - Andrew Ryan had become the hated Censor. Bioshock was entirely about objectivist individualism falling apart in the face of transhumanism and then Bioshock 2 goes "oh yeah and uh there was a collectivist who was there the entire time and she was totally evil too and now she wants to use psychology and child murder to make everyone equal", it was just handled really poorly on almost every level. If nothing else it should make you appreciate Infinite choosing to focus on being a meta-commentary about Bioshock sequels and deconstructing the idea of constants and variables.
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Guy Mann posted:Bioshock was entirely about objectivist individualism falling apart in the face of transhumanism and then Bioshock 2 goes "oh yeah and uh there was a collectivist who was there the entire time and she was totally evil too and now she wants to use psychology and child murder to make everyone equal", it was just handled really poorly on almost every level. If nothing else it should make you appreciate Infinite choosing to focus on being a meta-commentary about Bioshock sequels and deconstructing the idea of constants and variables.
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It fell apart because objectivism fundamentally doesn't work not because of the transhumanism lol. Fontaine directly tells the player this "they come to Rapture thinking they're gonna be captains of industry, but they all forget that somebody's gotta scrub the toilets. ". If you want a glorious city of artists and scholars and vaunt them someone still needs to clean up the poo poo. Eventually that divide will grow and lead to revolution especially in Rapture which is such a focused microcosm of it. Also because Fontaine literally seized on it to fast track Rapture towards revolution so he could take over after Ryan tried to kill him when he went about it "legit".
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Tsunemori posted:Wowsa, FFT has always been my favourite game ever and I own it across all platforms and have played it repeatedly forever. Do you have an Ask Me thread about your work in the new translation? Because I would love to know more!  I suppose one of my favorite little things in games is when companies care enough to fix translations that weren't up to par the first time around. Has FF7 been retranslated yet?
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"Boss, you sure you want this logo?" "Yeah... it's based on this nightmare someone once told me about..." Baba Yaga Fanboy has a new favorite as of 17:19 on Aug 30, 2017 |
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Hirayuki posted:I suppose one of my favorite little things in games is when companies care enough to fix translations that weren't up to par the first time around. Has FF7 been retranslated yet?
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Nuebot posted:Prey does them both a lot. But codes to like, optional safes and stuff tend to be hidden through little puzzles. Like the chapter of a book on the person's desk, or written somewhere in a video so you have to remember it yourself rather than the game just telling you out right. It's a nice balance between rewarding people for thinking and exploring, and just letting people experience the plot. Prey's decently realistic email chains where you can read the contents of emails on the computer of both the sender and receiver allows from some fun things every once in awhile. Nuebot posted:Now if only there would be one NPC in a game who used the same password for every account. No hints or anything but just some stupid puzzle where you have to hack their email early on then at the end of the game, it's the same password to get access to the enemy secret base.
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maou shoujo posted:In SSBMelee I loved mashing the confirm button on a character to make the announcer say their name repeatedly. The CD version of Star Trek: 25th Anniversary was fully voiced by the original cast. I got stuck in one mission and did the adventure game flail of trying every inventory item on every onscreen object. Being, like, 12 at the time, I found it way too entertaining to try to use the phaser on things only to have Deforest Kelly tell me, "Jim, put that thing away." "Jim, put that thing away." "Jim, put that thing away."
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Its the same safe and if your robbed it in the first mission there is a note in there written to you, the returning theif.
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