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Guy Mann posted:Now that RLM has made Surviving Edged Weapons mainstream I am counting down the days until I finally get a game that lets you make a baseball cap with razor blades sewn into the back Eh this comes close enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbeRosg_i38 But I liked the combo card that references Dead Alive/Brain Dead in it's use better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lFBJmGImU
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I've beaten Saints Row 2 now - it was pretty fun, although controlling Helicopters was a bitch, especially in the Tornado while assaulting the Ultor building, that part of the mission was really annoying. Still don't like Johnny Gat, although I appreciate that they humanised him a little at the funeral it was too little too late for a character who's entire characterisation was "Hey you got a plan? Let me immediately screw it up by being an overly violent dipshit!" I also liked that they referenced the Boss's initial role as the Silent Protagonist/Errand Boy and his ascent to terribleness (I hesitate to say "Greatness", he's awful) since literally finding his voice. Also the bosses were appropriate to the character which was cool, like Maero simply throwing himself at you with a Minigun then Monster Truck, straightforward and brutish, or the General who hides behind his Henchmen and hiding inside of increasingly powerful vehicles. The Katana bosses in the Yakuza missions were neat too. While I bought 3 as well along side this one I'll probably hold off and play something else though, because I'm likely to burn out on it playing 2 20-hour games in the same series.
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Jan 21, 2018 19:25
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BioEnchanted posted:I've beaten Saints Row 2 now - it was pretty fun, although controlling Helicopters was a bitch, especially in the Tornado while assaulting the Ultor building, that part of the mission was really annoying. Still don't like Johnny Gat, although I appreciate that they humanised him a little at the funeral it was too little too late for a character who's entire characterisation was "Hey you got a plan? Let me immediately screw it up by being an overly violent dipshit!" I also liked that they referenced the Boss's initial role as the Silent Protagonist/Errand Boy and his ascent to terribleness (I hesitate to say "Greatness", he's awful) since literally finding his voice. If you haven't bought it, get SR4 as well. 3 is a different engine and a bit of a different beast than 2, but still fun in it's own way. 4 Builds further on what 3 did in some fantastic ways, and playing through 2 will pay off quite a bit. You can skip the last release, which was basically $20 DLC. It is a short, but complete game
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Jan 21, 2018 20:29
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CzarChasm posted:If you haven't bought it, get SR4 as well. 3 is a different engine and a bit of a different beast than 2, but still fun in it's own way. 4 Builds further on what 3 did in some fantastic ways, and playing through 2 will pay off quite a bit. You can skip the last release, which was basically $20 DLC. It is a short, but complete game I was buying a bunch of old 360 games with a £20 gift voucher so I got what looked interesting for that cumulative price. I may get 4 sometime after 3, but won't be for a bit.
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Jan 21, 2018 20:33
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Gat doesn't actually gently caress anything up though. He's just taking Boss' lead.
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Jan 21, 2018 20:42
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poptart_fairy posted:Gat doesn't actually gently caress anything up though. He's just taking Boss' lead. The boss is an idiot. That's why he delegates to Shaundi and Pierce. Shaundi is a blowout and she's still smarter than him. The Boss is like Gat- an entertaining character, but I don't like him or trust him to make good decisions.
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Jan 21, 2018 20:46
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One of the reasons I love Saints Row 2 is that it pulls off the antihero thing better than any other game I’ve played, and for the protagonist no less. In most games, an antihero is just a hero in eyeshadow. They might bust a few more heads than the average hero, but at the end of the day, they pretty much make the same desicions that a conventional hero would. In SR2, the boss is the main character, and you root for them, but they are not heroic by any stretch.. They are a deranged psychopath for whom the definition of the word revenge is taking the hand of the person who took your fingertip. Yet, the writing is good enough that you still put yourself in their shoes.
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Jan 21, 2018 21:20
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I think I'm just annoyed about the treatment of Pierce - his plan for the casino seemed like fun, finally in a mindless shooter we get a mission that's more Danny Ocean, that could have been interesting to play, but Johnny steps in and it's just one of a dozen strongholds because he can't think ahead. I liked Pierce, outside of when he was bitching about Shaundi.
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Jan 21, 2018 21:28
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It's the Boss who craps on Pierce, not Johnny. That aside there is an arc for Pierce over the course of the games. He's amazing at PR and publicity, but not as smart elsewhere as he thinks he is.
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Jan 21, 2018 21:41
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BioEnchanted posted:I think I'm just annoyed about the treatment of Pierce - his plan for the casino seemed like fun, finally in a mindless shooter we get a mission that's more Danny Ocean, that could have been interesting to play, but Johnny steps in and it's just one of a dozen strongholds because he can't think ahead. I liked Pierce, outside of when he was bitching about Shaundi. The whole thing about the Casino mission is that it's supposed to be poking fun at the Casino heist mission line in GTA: San Andreas, except this one is much simpler and straight forward instead of the boring, roundabout bullshit it was in SA. Also it gives them a chance to dunk on Pierce.
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Jan 21, 2018 21:48
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Mementos is rad and I agree the little character vignettes can be fun. BioEnchanted posted:I was buying a bunch of old 360 games with a £20 gift voucher so I got what looked interesting for that cumulative price. I may get 4 sometime after 3, but won't be for a bit. Do you ever play on PC? SR4 has gone on sale for sub-$5 multiple times in the last year.
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Jan 21, 2018 21:49
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I prefer consoles, more stable and I can be certain my machines can run them. My computer would probably crash trying to play Horizon Zero Dawn. Exceptions are games that are PC Only.
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Jan 21, 2018 21:53
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If you have a wired 360 controller, it should work automatically for most major PC games.
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Jan 21, 2018 21:53
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Ariong posted:If you have a wired 360 controller, it should work automatically for most major PC games. That wouldn't fix framerate problems or crashing though, also bonus: Consoles I can use from my comfy couch as my living room is much bigger than my computer room. Certainly SR2 froze and had framerate issues on my Xbox, but it's less likely that a game bought for a machine literally built to run it will have problems. If it helps contextualise, because I am bad at games I tend to take even the sillier games seriously because I want to succeed in the missions and win the game. When I know what I'm doing on a later playthrough I can dick around, but while just trying to get through the game I'm fairly straightforward. Basically I am Pierce IRL.
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Jan 21, 2018 21:58
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Inco posted:The whole thing about the Casino mission is that it's supposed to be poking fun at the Casino heist mission line in GTA: San Andreas, except this one is much simpler and straight forward instead of the boring, roundabout bullshit it was in SA. Also it gives them a chance to dunk on Pierce. It's been a while, but isn't Pierce's plan actually the same as San Andreas' casino heist?
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Jan 21, 2018 22:02
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If you have a decent pc, crashing and frame rate are a non issue. I'm not even taking $1000 plus either.
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Jan 21, 2018 22:03
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Byzantine posted:It's been a while, but isn't Pierce's plan actually the same as San Andreas' casino heist? I think so. I think he's even got The Boss (or maybe Shaundi? It's been a while since I've played it) sleeping with an employee to get a keycard.
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Jan 21, 2018 22:06
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TontoCorazon posted:If you have a decent pc, crashing and frame rate are a non issue. My PC's a few years old now and I don't have the excess money to replace it. Also to reiterate - it's also a comfort thing: My living room is 6 times the size of my computer room so feels less cramped for doing more active things like video games, and I like my couch.
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Jan 21, 2018 22:12
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BioEnchanted posted:The boss is an idiot. gently caress you say
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Jan 21, 2018 22:18
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It's occurred to me that Julius and the Boss are Jimmy Hopkins and Gary Smith - it's just that this time Gary wins. Julius wanted to unite the gangs and use the influence to end the violence and generally make the city a better place to live, while The Boss just wants power over others without responsibility. Also that last talk during Revelations was interesting because of that - under Julius's rule, the Saints name may not have become ironic - he was trying to make them good people in the long run.
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BioEnchanted posted:My PC's a few years old now and I don't have the excess money to replace it. Also to reiterate - it's also a comfort thing: My living room is 6 times the size of my computer room so feels less cramped for doing more active things like video games, and I like my couch. I get this and I suggest getting a Steam Link. Not only are they extremely cheap, they natively support the big name controllers. Plus you can exit Big Picture mode at any time and use your PC on a huge TV.
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Jan 21, 2018 22:40
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Guy Mann posted:Now that RLM has made Surviving Edged Weapons mainstream I am counting down the days until I finally get a game that lets you make a baseball cap with razor blades sewn into the back My mod sense is tingling. Would make a great L4D2 melee weapon at least.
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Rectus posted:My mod sense is tingling. Would make a great L4D2 melee weapon at least. Only if you can also mod in Stern Balding Fillipino Knife Fighting Instructor as a player character model.  
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Guy Mann posted:Only if you can also mod in Stern Balding Fillipino Knife Fighting Instructor as a player character model. Also gotta add in "Hardcore Feelings" as a track on the jukebox.
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BioEnchanted posted:It's occurred to me that Julius and the Boss are Jimmy Hopkins and Gary Smith - it's just that this time Gary wins. Julius wanted to unite the gangs and use the influence to end the violence and generally make the city a better place to live, while The Boss just wants power over others without responsibility. Also that last talk during Revelations was interesting because of that - under Julius's rule, the Saints name may not have become ironic - he was trying to make them good people in the long run. You played the secret final mission, then?
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BioEnchanted posted:It's occurred to me that Julius and the Boss are Jimmy Hopkins and Gary Smith - it's just that this time Gary wins. Julius wanted to unite the gangs and use the influence to end the violence and generally make the city a better place to live, while The Boss just wants power over others without responsibility. Also that last talk during Revelations was interesting because of that - under Julius's rule, the Saints name may not have become ironic - he was trying to make them good people in the long run. Kind of interesting is how the start of the third game basically says that the Saints do become almost completely sanitized after taking over Stillwater. They still do things like rob banks but it is seen as more of a publicity event than an actual crime. It's only when the other gangs show up that things get violent again.
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Having an amazing duel in the middle of a storm in Black Flag - against an enemy captain so needing to use all my tricks. Above the howling winds I gear an ally chip in: "JUST SHOOT THE BASTARD, CAP.  "He sounded so pleased with himself.
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Inzombiac posted:I get this and I suggest getting a Steam Link. Yeah uh Steam Links can be gotten for a dollar pretty regularly. That's what I paid for mine.
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I replayed the original Kane & Lynch recently and while it's not great overall at points it's decent tactical shooter with pretty functional squad commands(probably based on IOIs experience with Freedom Fighters) but the thing that makes it interesting is that it you play as a pair of complete gently caress-ups that basically fail at everything in the game but it never feels like they "reverse" what the player did in the way other games do, including IOI's own Hitman Absolution. Also the game has no sympathy for it's rear end in a top hat protagonists which is really refreshing since most games try to paint those as cool or edgy or in the case of games like Saints Row humorous. Everything really is their fault and it wrecks them & the people around them, even the ending where Kane tries to redeem himself leads to everyone getting killed.
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food court bailiff posted:Yeah uh Steam Links can be gotten for a dollar pretty regularly. That's what I paid for mine. Unless you're in Canada. EB Games sells them here. Well, "sells", since they have never once had stock in the last year. And the canadian Amazon page has them for only CDN$ 64.94 plus FREE Shipping for Prime members What a steal!
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Horizon Zero Dawn speeds up or slows down the day/night cycle so that you're always at its most visually striking moment the first time you encounter certain areas in the story. Also, leafcutter ants.
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Saints Row games are gently caress Around simulators. If you haven’t gotten high and used the pimp cane shotgun to swag up to someone while wearing a hotdog costume and beat them to death then you haven’t completed Saints Row 2.
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exquisite tea posted:Horizon Zero Dawn speeds up or slows down the day/night cycle so that you're always at its most visually striking moment the first time you encounter certain areas in the story. Also, leafcutter ants. That owns
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The Missing Link posted:Saints Row games are gently caress Around simulators. I'm partial to dressing up as a Jedi and powerbombing gimps while Santa Claus provides covering fire against aliens from a nearby tank. Saint's Row 4 is insane and I love it.
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I loved putting a purple pot leaf on everything and tilting all of my caps jauntily to the left and it is supremely hosed up that those things were dropped for time and money reasons in the sequels
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EmmyOk posted:That owns agreed. i wish i had a ps4
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Blind Sally posted:agreed. i wish i had a ps4 I bought a used one for two hundred bucks last year and it’s been so worth it.
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codenameFANGIO posted:I loved putting a purple pot leaf on everything and tilting all of my caps jauntily to the left and it is supremely hosed up that those things were dropped for time and money reasons in the sequels Also because a lot of the pieces have physics and would freak out with many customizable layers. Honestly, I don't need a billowing scarf if I can have, y'know, all that other stuff.
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codenameFANGIO posted:I loved putting a purple pot leaf on everything and tilting all of my caps jauntily to the left and it is supremely hosed up that those things were dropped for time and money reasons in the sequels I would do the car-handstand thing right away to get the traffic cone hat, run over to the dress-up shop in the mall to get a high-vis vest, then become Safety Lad and shotgun everyone in the mouth. Can't be unsafe if you're dead.
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exquisite tea posted:Horizon Zero Dawn speeds up or slows down the day/night cycle so that you're always at its most visually striking moment the first time you encounter certain areas in the story. Also, leafcutter ants. Dear loving god 
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