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Sakurazuka posted:Much as I prefer the other ending you're kidding yourself if you don't think the ending they spent more than five minutes on is what the writers considered the real ending. I mean, that's nonsense. I guess "spent more than five minutes on" is referring to the one that lasts longer but it's longer because you have a week's worth of history to re-write/tell instead of letting everything be destroyed, so it's going to be bit more involved. Neither one is more canon than the other
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What made me upset with LiS ending is that they make it out as you having only one correct choice (do nothing) when the obvious choice should be to intervene.
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That just comes from the games weird attitude towards Max's time travel powers, like it seems to want you to think they're bad and nothing good comes of them, which both comes off as weirdly punitive for a character who got them completely by accident and also provably wrong since she unearthed a crazy serial killer and stopped him.
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This discussion comes up a lot in these threads so im just gonna truncate my past points and say if you save the town, you're a cop
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Internet Kraken posted:Divekick was the pinnacle of the fighter genre. 
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Sakurazuka posted:That just comes from the games weird attitude towards Max's time travel powers, like it seems to want you to think they're bad and nothing good comes of them, which both comes off as weirdly punitive for a character who got them completely by accident and also probably wrong since she unearthed a crazy serial killer and stopped him. The weird thing is that Max’s powers gives her actual agency in her life but the one situation where she can physically do something she just... doesn’t and this is apparently the right choice. Me, hiding in a closet as my friend is being murdered: It can’t be helped
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life is strange isnt very well written
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Endorph posted:life is strange isnt very well written Yeah, it's just a shame I had to get to the last half hour before I realised it
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Expect My Mom posted:This discussion comes up a lot in these threads so im just gonna truncate my past points and say I mean a way too large number of the player base of the prequel comply with David’s fascist orders to empty your pockets so I can believe that
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Endorph posted:life is strange isnt very well written life is strange wants to force you into a difficult choice at the end but it forgets to write likable characters other than the one it wants you to have a dilemma over
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Endorph posted:life is strange isnt very well written
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Played the first hour of Prey and I'm pretty disappointed at how bland the story setup is. I'm in a facility where monsters have taken over due to failed scientific research. They could have done anything with this IP, anything. Big budget, get creative. Instead, I'm introduced with the most generic story beats imaginable. Metroid Prime, Half-Life, and Doom all have this same setup. Add in the disembodied voice that is tracking your every move and says poo poo like "You don't know what's going on. That's ok, just listen to me if you want to live" and you have Dead Space, Bioshock, and Far Cry. It's just such a well worn path by so many big names it's disheartening how generic it is. I feel like I can smell a shocking human experimentation reveal and a betrayal by a major NPC coming from a mile away even though I know next to nothing about the story so far. I hope the levels get creative and interesting, but after playing Wolf2 as my last FPS I'm also worried about that. Midway through that game you get the choice of an augment - ramming shoulders, chest compressor, or stilts. Yet the way this is used is, for example, to have a freestanding locked room in the middle of an area. You can either use stilts to climb up through the ceiling, or compress and go through the vent, or ram through the doorway. The 3 diverging paths are almost always right next to each other, making it a very shallow sense of choice, especially since most people will only have 1 augment most of the time. I hope Prey doesn't fall into a similar trap where I have a locked door so I can either grab a keycard from a desk nearby, or gloo gun up to a window, or hack something if I have the skill. I find this very superficial. Something that is challenging to parse initially then comes into focus as I think about it is a type of puzzle I enjoy more, even if there is only one set solution. Since I've experienced very little actual gameplay so far I'll give it a few more hours at least. Maybe the gunplay is good and something really interesting will happen.
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arkane is more used to the system shock/thief/deus ex-y school of level design than machinegames so i trust prey to be good at that when i start playing more of it later narratively it does definitely have an issue with just, being so much of a spiritual sequel to system shock 2 that it copies a lot of its narrative tricks and a lot of the stuff that was novel in shock's been worn out by newer games and only works in ss2 cause it executes it really well
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The Colonel posted:life is strange wants to force you into a difficult choice at the end but it forgets to write likable characters other than the one it wants you to have a dilemma over Also this, it would have been a harder choice if I gave a poo poo about anyone in town.
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Macaluso posted:I mean a way too large number of the player base of the prequel comply with David’s fascist orders to empty your pockets so I can believe that you keep bringing this up and i think people might comply with orders from police for reasons other than thinking that hitler was right. for instance, not wanting to get into trouble, with the police. just a thought.
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i'll report on before the storm when i play it through my brother's library with steam family sharing and announce whether or not i support fascism
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security guard, w/e. if you want to take an issue with that entire subplot and how it deals with authority i think maybe the fact that the game clearly sides with david and makes a lot of his concerns out to be well-founded and his actions to be extreme but just is a better stance to take than 'people listened to a school cop in a video game, death to america'
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Oh wait I lied, my main motivation for 'gently caress the town' was hoping it would take David out, what an rear end in a top hat. He also managed to make me hate two characters, Chloe's mum would be a sympathetic character if she didn't turn a blind eye to how awful he was with Chloe.
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I thought most people emptied their pockets to make him look bad in front of Joyce
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Apparently there's a RE7 DLC that is just about a guy punching zombies to death with his bare fists. That's kind of amazing.
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Felynes are perfect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB_iHrzETdo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJQFGpxomlc
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A Bag of Milk posted:Add in the disembodied voice that is tracking your every move and says poo poo like "You don't know what's going on. That's ok, just listen to me if you want to live" and you have Dead Space, Bioshock, and Far Cry. It's just such a well worn path by so many big names it's disheartening how generic it is. if january pisses you off then just fuckin shoot him you also get all the neuromods he would've given you throughout the game instantly like this Fur20 fucked around with this message at 08:22 on Feb 7, 2018 |
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The White Dragon posted:if january pisses you off then just fuckin shoot him lol prey giving you the ability to just fuckin shoot everyone is what makes it sound like a good iteration on the genre
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Digirat posted:Felynes are perfect I hope the cat that couldn't hold on is okay
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FirstAidKite posted:I hope the cat that couldn't hold on is okay Palicoes are more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
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I wanna know if you can make a really ugly cat in that game.
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My wife and I are looking to adopt a cat soon from a shelter, and I had to stop browsing because I was getting way too attached to all the cats. It’s hosed up, man.
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Internet Kraken posted:I wanna know if you can make a really ugly cat in that game.
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I want to have all of the catschumbler posted:Palicoes are more powerful than you can possibly imagine. I hope the cats consider maybe some kind of safer method of doing whatever they were doing in that video
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Safety doesn't really factor into fighting monsters the size of an apartment complex.
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I am in a race against time to get my palico robot armor before the event expires
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palicos live for danger https://twitter.com/e9o/status/960175753714221056
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I am in a race against time to get my palico robot armor before the event expires
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I just wish that that from software monster hunter game got localized. 
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YES YES YES YES YES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ALwKeSEYs https://forums.focus-home.com/topic/4954/announcing-the-surge-2  quote:We're excited to announce the development of The Surge 2!
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the only other person i cared about in lis presumably makes it out of the town (the homeless lady you warn)
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All you people who saved Kate just to let her die in a hurricane are the real monsters.
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al-azad posted:All you people who saved Kate just to let her die in a hurricane are the real monsters. She was in a well-fortified hospital, either that or her parents already picked her up. Headcanon complete, you are now free to time nuke the bay.
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