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Dipped my toes into chapter 5 of Celeste for like 15 minutes before bed. It's good poo poo. I'm back in. The previous chapter's B-Side tore me down but the new level is bringing me right back up again. Can't wait for this chapter's B-Side to make me want to die  Games that are really hard like this tend to be a bit tilting so being able to just put the Switch down and pick it up again later and be at the exact spot I just left off is really nice. It brings back memories of trying to 100% Donkey Kong Country Returns on the 3DS and having to frequently put the 3DS down during particularly hard bonus levels and trying to get all the collectables for fear of snapping my 3DS in half. Celeste is good, the Switch is good
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I've seen some people complain about the torch mechanic in chapter five, and while I get what they're saying, I think it's a really cool integration of the idea that death/failure is always teaching you something
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al-azad posted:I really want to see what the original Japanese for this is unless it’s an English specific dialog or they use midori to specify. the english localization of ff14 is known for taking lots of liberties though, to the point that the japanese players are apparently jealous that ours has lots of jokes and references and theirs is just dry high fantasy
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Feb 19, 2018 08:02
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Don't listen to those two hussies! Gave me the clap, they did.
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PantsBandit posted:I'm about 9 hours into Subnautica and it has been extreeeeemely my poo poo so far. It's so incredibly immersive and the gameplay loop makes your gradual progression from being completely lost and unprepared to dominating the environment feel totally natural. One small example, I just finished putting some grav traps down around my base. I used to have to search around for wildlife to keep myself fed, but now I can go collect the small fish being drawn in by my trap. just... just get into the habit of hitting esc and clicking save a lot
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al-azad posted:I really want to see what the original Japanese for this is unless it’s an English specific dialog or they use midori to specify. Soroban the Kojin: The Kojin tribe are people of the sea, so we trade marine goods. Jewelry made from seashells and pearls, seafood... we'd be deeply grateful if we could trade with the East Aldenard Trading Company. Hancock: I see... bringing in new customers, huh? I'm impressed! Though maybe there's some mention of colors of Kojin later, and that inspired the gag in this scene? Either way, the entire bit seems to have been an invention of translation. Endorph fucked around with this message at 08:48 on Feb 19, 2018 |
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Endorph posted:From what I can tell digging around, the Japanese dialogue doesn't even give the guy a color-themed nickname. I haven't played the game though, I'm just using a database site that has quest dialogue transcripts in both English and Japanese. That exchange in Japanese is just A supermajority of the English writing is an invention of translation from what I saw playing the game (haven't played the last two patches though) Koji Fox Must Be Stopped
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Feb 19, 2018 08:47
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I was at a panel done by the head localizer of ff14 and he said that in the Japanese, Hancock (a character from fantasy Europe living as a trader in fantasy Japan) was a Japanese stereotype of western foreigners: boisterous, loud, bighearted, but not too smart. Koji decided to just turn him into a weeaboo in the localized version, so lines like that were added to reinforce his different character It should be noted that Koji Fox is amazing and from everything I've heard (almost) all the localization changes he spearheads are for the better, and he does it with the full blessing of the Japanese writing team (and has multiple times had his changes backported into the Japanese version because it's just better).
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Feb 19, 2018 08:50
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To be fair, from what I've seen of the Japanese dialogue, it was pretty dry. And the characters and events of the plot are mostly the same, minus a few characters gaining some gag traits - they seem to mostly keep the really wild inventions to the random boring sidequests too, instead of the quests that massively progress the plot. So iunno, I'm fine with them getting a little liberal, greasing the wheels a little. If it was a tightly plotted 6 hour action game it'd be bad but in an MMO with hundreds of hours of dialogue I can't blame them for wanting people to have a laugh here or there.
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Feb 19, 2018 08:50
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Koji Fox is responsible for this, so you know he has to be good:
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Endorph posted:Though maybe there's some mention of colors of Kojin later, and that inspired the gag in this scene? Either way, the entire bit seems to have been an invention of translation.
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cheetah7071 posted:Koji Fox is responsible for this, so you know he has to be good: god even looking for it, knowing the pants were there, i really thought he was wearing nothing at all
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Endorph posted:bn6 rules its writing is genuinely kind of funny and lively in a way that i think even puts it above the first three, on top of having a legit cool setting
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Kingdom Come's save system is great, except when it isn't. Basically they should have just done what modern Dragon Quest games do, which is allow you to Quicksave anytime but delete that save when you load it, with beds and booze reserved for making a "permanent" save. I don't think it should be patched to just let you save anywhere, constantly because the gameplay would actually suffer. Extremely minor spoilers for the prologue, and this is also a mini-review of why the game owns: After my village is attacked by a mad king (something else they borrowed from JRPGs, heh) I'm in a castle of a friend of my dad's who won't let me leave for my own good because I'm a peasant with literally no skills in life aside from apprentice blacksmithery and being a drunk failson. My quest begins to get back to the village so I can bury my dead parents. I could have only saved during the following events by drinking Save Booze, which you get a few of at the start but they are super expensive and you should keep them, or even sell them because you're so broke: So I have to leave the castle, but the guard won't defy orders. Him and the lady of the keep suggest I steal some armor and pretend to be a guard going out on patrol. The armory, obviously, has some, but it's locked up and I could barely afford a single lockpick. So after breaking my pick, I look around for a solitary guard, sneak up behind him and knock him out and steal his armor. I take my horse and head out. Halfway there I find a burned church with the dead bodies of people who tried to hide inside it. After getting off my horse, it runs away because it wasn't really "mine", it was just the horse I had happened to ride away with when I made my escape from Mom and Dad's Farmhouse. Well gently caress, now I have to walk the rest of the way and I'm getting hungry, but it's only about 2 km (2 actual, realistic kilometers). I meet a lone bandit on the road. I have never fought anyone before in my life, certainly not with a sword, aside from the very short lesson that I got from a traveling warrior in the opening. But being defensive and patient works and he eventually surrenders. I tell him to leave his weapon and leg it. I suffered several small injuries which make me slower, but I'm mostly alright. I get to the village and stupidly I'm just making a ton of noise, attracting the attention of another, more aggressive bandit and his friends. I run and hide and manage to isolate one of them, who I dispatch while taking more injuries. His friends thankfully are easy to avoid, so I make it to the village battered, covered in blood and mud, with my screen even having blood all over it because I took a blow to the head and it's bleeding over my eyes. I find my parents' bodies, and one survivor who is being an rear end in a top hat and looting the dead. I try to argue sense into him but he wants my expensive sword and I barely take him down. In the miserable rain, half dead, I find a shovel and bury my parents in an honestly great cutscene. And then some real bandits show up and beat me nearly to death, triggering the actual opening credits (which has an amazing acoustic guitar song) and the start of the real game. Now, if you read all that, you no doubt can see several points where, if this had been Elder Scrolls or any regular degular WRPG, I would have saved and reloaded until I got an optimal outcome. Having that option be very expensive and thus not worth it forced me to accept the many things I failed at, including conversation options, because this game has a great conversation system (it's simple, but great). And that actually made the game better, it made things feel more urgent and real and not video gamey. And that's cool! But as many have pointed out, that doesn't really account for like, having a job and a wife and so forth, that bit took an hour or two and it's never good to force a player to choose between leaving their system on and wasting electricity or having to replay a big chunk of game, so like I said, it should adopt the JRPG Quicksave system.
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I remember seeing a preview for this at E3. Gonna be honest, I wasn't expecting there to be air combos and DMC pistols in this cutesy animal souls game. Very strange.
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It's too bad HUNT is no longer coop RE4, this old video still looks great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJstk5hPDjY
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Yoshi's Wooly World is REAL GOOD. It's been on my shelf for nearly two years and I'm just now sitting down with it. I beat all of world 1 in a single sitting and it was a blast. This is some real good Nintendo Level Design. 
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Wildtortilla posted:Yoshi's Wooly World is REAL GOOD. It's been on my shelf for nearly two years and I'm just now sitting down with it. I beat all of world 1 in a single sitting and it was a blast. This is some real good Nintendo Level Design. Whats there for me, mr please crush my balls platform gamer
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Wildtortilla posted:Yoshi's Wooly World is REAL GOOD. It's been on my shelf for nearly two years and I'm just now sitting down with it. I beat all of world 1 in a single sitting and it was a blast. This is some real good Nintendo Level Design. I've had it since launch and have only made it like halfway through because I only play it when my wife has free time to play coop with me. Come to think of it, this is a problem with a lot of coop games that have been in my backlog for years.
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Have you considered Mormonism?
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Real hurthling! posted:Whats there for me, mr please crush my balls platform gamer The bonus levels will gladly crush your balls Also many of the non-bonus levels because the checkpointing is extremely rude
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The real horror of the Gilded Age was wealth inequality, I would play a game where you hunted that
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Real hurthling! posted:Whats there for me, mr please crush my balls platform gamer It's definitely on the easy side as far as platformers go, although some of the later levels ratchet things up a little. Really it's a good platformer because it's got really clever level design that encourages you to explore for secrets. If that's something that appeals to you in platformers you'll probably like Wooly World, but if you just like challenging games it may not be for you.
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Real hurthling! posted:Whats there for me, mr please crush my balls platform gamer I'm getting more out of because the levels are densely packed with secrets to find more than ball busting platforming challenges. Navigating the stages perfectly makes you feel like a badass, but you'll probably not die while doing so. edit: it's cute and clever as heck. The music is fun too!
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Samuringa posted:Have you considered Mormonism? That would provide more co-op options, but I feel like video games are the kind of thing Mormons would generally frown upon Real hurthling! posted:Is the 3ds version good you guys make it sound fun It's only one player IIRC so it's kind of a deal breaker for me personally, but I've heard that it's otherwise pretty much identical to the Wii U version.
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Real hurthling! posted:Whats there for me, mr please crush my balls platform gamer Get 100% collectables in the bonus stages. The stage with the giant piranha plant that chases you 
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Macaluso posted:Get 100% collectables in the bonus stages. I tapped out at the one where you have to ride a Bullet Bill’s trail and keep him alive for the whole level. That level should be illegal.
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What are your guys favorite Mario enemies? Mine are Shy Guys, there's a lot of em and they seems to be having a good time. An industrious civilization.
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precision posted:Kingdom Come's save system is great, except when it isn't. Basically they should have just done what modern Dragon Quest games do, which is allow you to Quicksave anytime but delete that save when you load it, with beds and booze reserved for making a "permanent" save. I don't think it should be patched to just let you save anywhere, constantly because the gameplay would actually suffer. Extremely minor spoilers for the prologue, and this is also a mini-review of why the game owns: Sigismund is real dude and a pretty good king, hell he becomes holy roman emperor. He is just ruthless as gently caress and doesn't give gently caress about crushing anyone who could gently caress/rebel against him. he is also cheap which is why he is basicaly using cuman mercs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund,_Holy_Roman_Emperor
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Dry Bones.
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Expect My Mom posted:What are your guys favorite Mario enemies? Mine are Shy Guys, there's a lot of em and they seems to be having a good time. An industrious civilization. Boos probably.
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#WiggerWednesday
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Boos and Bullet Bills and Lakitus and Spinies are all extremely cool.
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Real hurthling! posted:Whats there for me, mr please crush my balls platform gamer  Here's a very tough stage (especially when going for all of the collectibles and if you're playing co-op) that is more or less just "Naval Piranha gets his revenge for being skipped"
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