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Also, when they say new game plus, it ain't your familiar concept of new game plus.
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More switching perspective than starting over- is there a good term for that in games or even other media?
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Sep 6, 2017 17:46
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Just Offscreen posted:More switching perspective than starting over- is there a good term for that in games or even other media? Yeah Literally all of Taro Yokos games.
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Sep 6, 2017 18:17
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Got to the part of the second playthrough of Automata where you can fast-travel now, so sidequest time, including those annoying ones. I really liked the refight with The opera singer where every time you hack into her you get more of her backstory. That was pretty cool. I didn't even notice the tiny Stubby at her core until that sequence when I finally saw her real eyes peering out from her "neck". That's cool design.
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BioEnchanted posted:Got to the part of the second playthrough of Automata where you can fast-travel now, so sidequest time, including those annoying ones. I really liked the refight with The opera singer where every time you hack into her you get more of her backstory. That was pretty cool. I didn't even notice the tiny Stubby at her core until that sequence when I finally saw her real eyes peering out from her "neck". That's cool design. I never noticed that until you just pointed it out- that's fantastic.
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Sep 6, 2017 19:20
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Also, again about Automata's antagonists, although this one may be spurious: Adam and Eve are almost exaggerated mirrors of 2B and 9S's relationship - Eve and 9S being fairly chipper and friendly towards their companion, while their companion (Adam and 2B) are more mission focused and less likely to break away from their current objectives. Also, 2B almost has the same reaction to losing 9S as Eve does to losing Adam, in a kind of reversal of the dymanics - genocidal madness borne from grief. The only thing stopping 2B from losing herself is the fact that 9S is able to tell her that he's OK.
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Sep 6, 2017 19:53
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Nier Automata is really good and something you should go into blind. Rather pointless for a video game. (Seriouspost: I have Nier and I still haven't even played that. I have a brain condition called "stupidity" that prevents me from skipping games in a series if I own them.)
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Sep 6, 2017 20:37
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Videogames are one of the thing that totally matter if your going blind or not, a lot of the time the gameplay tells some of the story. But I have that same thing where I'm like "I'll play Yakuza 0, but I want to play the first ones first to get the ~story~ in the way it was intended to be told.
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Sep 6, 2017 20:44
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BioEnchanted posted:Videogames are one of the thing that totally matter if your going blind or not, a lot of the time the gameplay tells some of the story. But I have that same thing where I'm like "I'll play Yakuza 0, but I want to play the first ones first to get the ~story~ in the way it was intended to be told. Yakuza Kiwami has added elements that refer back to Yakuza 0, and Kiwami 2 is looking like it'll call back to 0 even more, so it's looking like the "intended" way now is to start with 0, for what it's worth.
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Sep 6, 2017 20:47
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BioEnchanted posted:Videogames are one of the thing that totally matter if your going blind or not, a lot of the time the gameplay tells some of the story. But I have that same thing where I'm like "I'll play Yakuza 0, but I want to play the first ones first to get the ~story~ in the way it was intended to be told. No I mean if you're blind, video games don't have much to give you.
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Sep 6, 2017 20:49
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Misread your post. Now I feel silly. 
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Sep 6, 2017 20:50
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BioEnchanted posted:Misread your post. Now I feel silly. Yeah but you still had a valid point.
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Sep 6, 2017 20:51
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loving mash the skip cutscene button as rapidly as possible, genre non-specific. If you want a real story read a book.
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Sep 6, 2017 20:52
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Olaf The Stout posted:loving mash the skip cutscene button as rapidly as possible, genre non-specific. If you want a real story read a book.  what is this, 120?
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Sep 6, 2017 20:52
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Olaf The Stout posted:loving mash the skip cutscene button as rapidly as possible, genre non-specific. If you want a real story read a book. Pfft, I play games for the stories, even if some aren't as well written as others. I'll be on my PS25 at 75 years old hushing my Great-Nephews saying "Sssh. I'm trying to play mah stories.  "
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Sep 6, 2017 20:58
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BioEnchanted posted:Something that just hit me about the villains of Nier Automata, Adam and Eve: - This is just about the read I had on things when I was where you are in the plot. I feel safe in telling you that you are wrong enough that it matters, but right enough that the next few puzzle pieces will slot nicely into place. Game's a bit of a gently caress about letting you think you have the info. Also that's an excellent symbolic read, hadn't thought of it like that before.
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Sep 6, 2017 21:02
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Can we all at least agree that we want to **** 2B?
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Sep 6, 2017 21:43
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Poops Mcgoots posted:Can we all at least agree that we want to **** 2B? Don't make it weird. They are a race of GI Joes anyway, as proven by Adam and Eve. Also, something made clearer by the second playthrough, I like that with each character's appearance, they are more and more clothed. First of all born totally nude, then wearing a pair of underpanta each, then wearing a pair of trousers during the Alien Bunker fight, then finally Adam appears dressing like an anime scientist.
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Poops Mcgoots posted:Yakuza Kiwami has added elements that refer back to Yakuza 0, and Kiwami 2 is looking like it'll call back to 0 even more, so it's looking like the "intended" way now is to start with 0, for what it's worth. 0 also does an important job of fleshing out the antagonist of Kiwami.
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Sep 6, 2017 22:33
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Olaf The Stout posted:loving mash the skip cutscene button as rapidly as possible, genre non-specific. If you want a real story read a book. Nah.
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Sep 6, 2017 22:39
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Reading a book for the story is like eating a spoon because you like stupid arguments.
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Sep 6, 2017 22:50
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What kind of dumb rear end in a top hat gets their stories from printed text. Listen to Homer tell it or GTFO.
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Sep 6, 2017 22:55
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John Murdoch posted:What kind of dumb rear end in a top hat gets their stories from printed text. Listen to Homer tell it or GTFO. I'm not sure if you mean Homer Simpson or Homeros.
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Sep 6, 2017 22:56
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The dark secret behind Beowulf is the passages that were too badly damaged to read from the stone weren't just worn away - they were deliberately omitted to be sold later. They were the original Paid Day 1 DLC.
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Sep 6, 2017 23:00
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My favourite thing this gen is how satisfying it is to shoot flamethrower bad guys in the backpack.
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Sep 6, 2017 23:28
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Battlefield 1 just came out with its Russian themed DLC. One of the things it gives the Cavalry is a lance which allows you to stab enemies and carry them along with you for a bit. It's very satisfying to pull off and absolutely terrifying to round a corner and see it coming towards you.
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Sep 6, 2017 23:39
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I've been playing some saint's row 4 and when you finish any minigame the boss does like a dance while its giving you your score. They probably did that in 3 but I can't remember. Overall I preferred when you were a sociopathic monster in saint's row 2 but your character looks like they're having so much fun its really endearing.
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Sep 6, 2017 23:47
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More fun, less mercy killings.  Also, I'm impressed at the sheer amount of enemies Destiny 2 throws at you, especially combined with the fantastic console performance. Similar to DOOM they're not, technically, huge crowds of monsters but the enemy being so agile and the spawns being so fluid (kill one guy and his replacement is already barrelling towards you) makes them feel much more numerous than they actually are.
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Sep 7, 2017 09:50
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Just done 33% of the sidequests in Automata, and I've got 42% of the weapons so far. I'm just at the point in the second playthrough where I've told the commander about the dead aliens. Sidequest chat: Wow the H series is hosed up (the subject of the Amnesia sidequest), I feel bad for her. I also love the recluse chain where by the end the kid's shyness has become just an excuse to make harder and harder puzzle locks for 9S to break through, that's cute  . Also I did not see the ending of the Wandering Couple quest coming. The Genuis Inventor's quest was worth the ~200000 money I poured into it though, another rather funny ending.
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Sep 7, 2017 10:10
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BioEnchanted posted:Don't make it weird. He's paraphrasing a line from the game. BioEnchanted posted:Sidequest chat: Wow the H series is hosed up (the subject of the Amnesia sidequest), I feel bad for her. I also love the recluse chain where by the end the kid's shyness has become just an excuse to make harder and harder puzzle locks for 9S to break through, that's cute
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Was watching a friend play Prey, after I had already beaten it. At one point, for a quest, you need to get into a room to grab a keycard off a corpse. There's no way to get a keycard for the room, and the only ways in were through a tiny window that you couldn't fit through and a cleaning droid that came by every half hour (in real time, I think). The only thing I could think of, short of waiting, was turning into a mug and squeezing in. My friend took one look at the room from the window, said "oh yeah I can use the dart gun", fired through the window and hit a button to open the door. I couldn't believe I had completely forgotten what is essentially a useless gag weapon otherwise.
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Abhorrence posted:That's a surprisingly subtle biblical reference from a japanese writer. There's a subset of Japan that loves Judeo-Christianity just as much as a subset of the west loves ninjas.
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Morpheus posted:Was watching a friend play Prey, after I had already beaten it. At one point, for a quest, you need to get into a room to grab a keycard off a corpse. There's no way to get a keycard for the room, and the only ways in were through a tiny window that you couldn't fit through and a cleaning droid that came by every half hour (in real time, I think). The only thing I could think of, short of waiting, was turning into a mug and squeezing in. My friend took one look at the room from the window, said "oh yeah I can use the dart gun", fired through the window and hit a button to open the door. I couldn't believe I had completely forgotten what is essentially a useless gag weapon otherwise. The description for the weapon actually states that the bolts are capacitive and will trigger buttons. I just love the reason the Crossbow exists is because of course someone's going to create a Nerf gun with a Fabricator that can make literally anything with raw materials. The reason you find several of them throughout the station is because drat-near everyone has shared the blueprint for it. Neddy Seagoon has a new favorite as of 17:00 on Sep 7, 2017 |
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Sep 7, 2017 16:58
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I get the feeling I didn't use the dart gun even one quarter what I could have- just a few buttons here and there and relying on morph to get though all those lovely broken doors.
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Just Offscreen posted:I get the feeling I didn't use the dart gun even one quarter what I could have- just a few buttons here and there and relying on morph to get though all those lovely broken doors.
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You can also use a Typhon ability that lets you interact with keypads, buttons, and other objects from afar. That's what I usually do in cases like that, but damnit I've been carrying around this useless Huntress Boltcaster for nearly the entire game and I haven't found a use for it once. Wish I would have thought of that trick!  Something I realized yesterday in Prey, an on topic little thing (mid-game sidequest spoilers) I came across the cook in the Crew Quarters raving on about killing mind-controlled humans "PUPPETS!" and as I got closer he eventually told me his name, Will Mitchell. At the time I was too low level and short on ammo to take on the Telepath in my way so I moved on. A few hours later I'm in Cold Storage and looking through the security monitor for survivors, and I notice that Will Mitchell is listed as deceased. Hmm, that's weird. Then, about 30 minutes later, I reach the point in the story where Danielle Sho asks you to avenge her partner's death at the hands of a man in the kitchen posing as the head cook. I had to put the game down for the night right around that point, but now I'm really looking forward to doubling back and handling that little situation.
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Just Offscreen posted:I get the feeling I didn't use the dart gun even one quarter what I could have- just a few buttons here and there and relying on morph to get though all those lovely broken doors. It's great at killing the cystoid nests, since the dart impacting the nest will trigger its self-destruct, and then the cystoids that come out will chase the dart and try to suicide bomb it. When I figured that out it saved me so much ammo.
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Since the dart makes a squeaky noise on impact it's also good for a quick distraction.
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Sep 7, 2017 18:18
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timp posted:You can also use a Typhon ability that lets you interact with keypads, buttons, and other objects from afar. That's what I usually do in cases like that, but damnit I've been carrying around this useless Huntress Boltcaster for nearly the entire game and I haven't found a use for it once. Wish I would have thought of that trick! I wonder if he will still be in the kitchen, actually. I was able to kill the Telepath right there and then so things might go a bit differently for you.
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timp posted:You can also use a Typhon ability that lets you interact with keypads, buttons, and other objects from afar. That's what I usually do in cases like that, but damnit I've been carrying around this useless Huntress Boltcaster for nearly the entire game and I haven't found a use for it once. Wish I would have thought of that trick! Spoilers on that quest: You can find an audio log from Will Mitchell in his room in the Crew Quarters, and he neither sounds nor looks anything like the man claiming to be him. That's what tipped me off.
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