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CharlestheHammer posted:Well I mean they don’t believe that sure but it’s pretty obvious I am pretty sure that you're incorrect.
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achillesforever6 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caUVRB-FXOA  This series is so good and even covered the one dinosaur toy I still have. ...it’s really inaccurate, but still keep it in my room.
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CharlestheHammer posted:Which is a weird way to go as most of the reviewers posted here cater to man child as their key demos Who are you referring to, and in what way are they like that? 
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All this Far Cry talk reminded me I hadn't played the Mad Max game I got for free on PSN and it's sort-of similar in that it's a 3rd-Person Open-World game instead of a First-Person Open-World game. It's alright so far.
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MonsieurChoc posted:All this Far Cry talk reminded me I hadn't played the Mad Max game I got for free on PSN and it's sort-of similar in that it's a 3rd-Person Open-World game instead of a First-Person Open-World game. It's pretty good as far as core gameplay goes, but it has a major problem as the game progresses where grinding for car parts becomes excruciating. The amount of parts you get for raiding camps or finding caches does not scale with the amount of parts you need to upgrade your ride, so you have to grind out more and more caches in the late game to keep up when each cache only gives you a fraction of what you need for each upgrade.
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Long live the Queen https://twitter.com/ContraPoints/status/992249497886445568?s=20
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achillesforever6 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caUVRB-FXOA How delightful.
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Max Wilco posted:Who are you referring to, and in what way are they like that? Literally all of them. I can’t think of one that doesn’t. I also don’t really mean it as an insult, just it is what it is. CharlestheHammer fucked around with this message at 06:07 on May 4, 2018 |
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Hope it's ok to make a request here: Any watchable retrospectives of Perfect Strangers and Family Matters? These are two series I remember that sort of lost their minds and became stupid shambling zombies of their former selves and downright surreal at times. I don't wanna watch them ever again, yet, I'd watch a 30 minute retrospective. Hell, same for Night Court. RIP Harry Anderson.
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So long as we're making requests, is there anyone who reviews or covers strategy games? (stuff like Total War, Europa Unversalis, etc.)CharlestheHammer posted:Literally all of them. You're going to have to clarify, because I'm still not really sure what you mean.
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"I don't mean manchild as an insult" is a pretty odd thing to say
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maybe he means it in the other sense of the word you often see in athletics scouting, where a 17 year old kid has the size and stature of a 30 year old, he's a real manchild.
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considering most of the critics in this thread attempt in some manner to undermine man-childism, it's an odd thing to accuse them all of I'm sure lindsay for example finds the charge somewhat suspect
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More pointless wanking.Max Wilco posted:So long as we're making requests, is there anyone who reviews or covers strategy games? (stuff like Total War, Europa Unversalis, etc.) It's LP's but you may want to consider Many A True Nerd.
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Alaois posted:maybe he means it in the other sense of the word you often see in athletics scouting, where a 17 year old kid has the size and stature of a 30 year old, he's a real manchild.
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Kim Justice posted:It's LP's but you may want to consider Many A True Nerd. I think I've seen ManyATrueNerd brought up in a different thread. I'll certainly check him out. Actually, to answer my own question to a degree, there is someone that I'd recommend, and that's Mr. Smart Donkey. He's done LPs on quite a few of the Total War games. The one he's covered the most, though, is Shogun 2, having done videos covering all of the clans and the best & worst units in the game. There's also Pixelated Apollo, who also largely covers RTS stuff, but again, it's mostly all LPs rather than reviews. I was hoping maybe there was someone who did in-depth retrospectives on different series, or that (somewhat unrelated) there was someone who put together a 'Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Strategy Games' for someone like me who trying out Total War: Warhammer. Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 09:50 on May 4, 2018 |
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Garrand posted:Just thought you should know that you misspelled "Design" at 1:15. Aw gently caress. Does Youtube let you replace a video file after upload?
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Conal Cochran posted:She also co-hosts a pretty great podcast on bad romantic comedies that manages to be more than simply bashing bad movies, but looks at them through a critical racial and gender perspective. I haven't listened to their latest episode yet, but it's on the recent Amy Schumer comedy, I Feel Pretty.  The "I Feel Pretty" episode is really good and surprisingly positive.I agree that Amy Schumer get's way too much weird hate. Especially compared to male comedians who have done much worse. tudabee posted:I also feel that Jourdain is extremely cool and good. She is great. 
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doctorfrog posted:Any watchable retrospectives of Perfect Strangers and Family Matters? These are two series I remember that sort of lost their minds and became stupid shambling zombies of their former selves and downright surreal at times. I don't wanna watch them ever again, yet, I'd watch a 30 minute retrospective. here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Zdp1RfoyI
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Dapper_Swindler posted:yeah pretty much. i always thought Mafia 3 knocked it out of the park when it came to tackling racism and the 60s. the writers nailed the tone and the wording and dog whistles. like the "native son" radio program and stuff. plus it was fun game. the shooting was sharp and meaty as hell. it was also the closet to feeling like a Punisher game in a long time. I got Mafia 3 in an Xbox sale and it turned out to be one of my favourite games of last year. On top of that the story presentation was absolutely phenomenal. They way they use the footage from Donovan's congressional hearing, news reports, the retired FBI investigator and Father James in the present day was superb and gave a strange documentary feel to the whole thing as well as helping to weave the story and add quite a lot of extra context. (Mafia 3 also has some pretty good facial animation which these scenes really show off.) Plus it really did feel like a Punisher Max story. Particularly in the creative ways Lincoln dispatches the Underbosses. Dapper_Swindler posted:yeah its the repition, which works story wise and thematicaly but it kills the pacing a bunch. ok so each main target has 2 underboss types. you destroy and gently caress up each under bosses thing and then kill or turn the under boss. it works because of the whole MACV SOG type poo poo. slowly killing the big bads support and its fun for a while because i loved the gun play but its not for everyone. The one thing I realised later is that you really don't need to do everything in each district as the game doesn't penalise you not doing them and going after the bosses. Just do enough to unlock the underboss/boss missions and then do them immediately. It cuts down on the repetitive nature quite a bit. Also, once you get a decent assault rifle (The M16 is way too good), you're nearly invincible. If you can do what I did and grab Mafia 3 with the DLC for £15 in a sale? There are far worse investments you can make. Oh, and the Soundtrack is also really good.
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Max Wilco posted:I think I've seen ManyATrueNerd brought up in a different thread. I'll certainly check him out. Try PartyElite. He does extensive breakdowns of unit strategies and tactics for Total War games.
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doctorfrog posted:Hell, same for Night Court. RIP Harry Anderson. Also, I got a youtube suggestion to watch Kimble(?) Justice talk about Chaos Engine, which is one of my favourite games ever so I did, and I think I've listened to Kim on and off for two or three years, and had no idea that on-camera appearances were once a thing. loving sweet hair, if I may say so.
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Ghostlight posted:Just watch Night Court in its entirety. It stands up. Some parts of that show have aged real badly, like sexual-harasser-with-a-heart-of-gold Dan Fielding. No fault of John Larroquette, but yeah.
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Zedd posted:Not having played Mafia 3: Mafia 2 was obviously retrofitted into being way more open-world then intended so It seems they didn't learn from that. I was under the impression it was the exact opposite. Mafia 2 started with a pretty full menu of open world Stuff, which then got sliced out and repackaged into DLC because 2K is the worst.
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stillvisions posted:Some parts of that show have aged real badly, like sexual-harasser-with-a-heart-of-gold Dan Fielding. No fault of John Larroquette, but yeah.
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Pants Donkey posted:Not to be confused with Childman, the young hero with proportional strength of a grown man. I love Shazam!
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Max Wilco posted:So long as we're making requests, is there anyone who reviews or covers strategy games? (stuff like Total War, Europa Unversalis, etc.) DDRJake was so good at Europa IV that he'S now part of the Dev Team.
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Max Wilco posted:So long as we're making requests, is there anyone who reviews or covers strategy games? (stuff like Total War, Europa Unversalis, etc.)
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John Murdoch posted:I was under the impression it was the exact opposite. Mafia 2 started with a pretty full menu of open world Stuff, which then got sliced out and repackaged into DLC because 2K is the worst. Anyway Mafia 2 was fine, nice details, but disappointing overall.
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The best things about Mafia 1&2 was that it mechanically encouraged you to play in a way that worked with the narrative. At the start the story tells you that the Mafia are "civilized" criminals that follow rules and are worthy of respect and at the same time it tells you to follow traffic laws and not run around murdering people. As you go further into the story that façade falls away and you gain a mastery of the system so you are running red lights at mach speed and gunning down people in the street because you've learned to get away with it, just as the characters show themselves to only use the rules when it benefits them. Shame the writer turned out to be a racist POS, otherwise I'd want to make a video or article or something about it because it's a bit like Far Cry 2 in how it uses mechanics.
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Zedd posted:If I remember right we are both partially correct. Mafia 2 was opened-up to follow the trend of openworld games, and had to score big to make up for some other losses. When the game got closer to release they started chopping it up. I could be wrong but that is how I remember it. I mean, Mafia 1's whole appeal was that it was a sleeper open world hit, so I'm not sure why 2 wouldn't have started as an open world game too. That's the whole reason why 2K bought up the dev team. Though there was also scuttlebutt that that one racist idiot was a terrible project director. (Don't think he was the writer on it?)
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I never bought Mafia 2, but I spent hours beating up elderly people in the demo. I was very disappointed with Mafia 3's melee combat.
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John Murdoch posted:I mean, Mafia 1's whole appeal was that it was a sleeper open world hit, so I'm not sure why 2 wouldn't have started as an open world game too. That's the whole reason why 2K bought up the dev team. Daniel Vavra was the lead designer, writer and director of Mafia 1 and I'm not sure about his other roles but he was definitely a writer on 2.
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Alaois posted:Daniel Vavra was the lead designer, writer and director of Mafia 1 and I'm not sure about his other roles but he was definitely a writer on 2. Well then I think people would be mad at him for signing off on that race car section in Mafia 1.
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I don't know if streams fit the bill here, but a good while back there was this SNES Platformer by Kaneko, hinted a few times on Nintendo Power and the such about a weirdly licensed platformer based on Bill Clinton's Presidential Pet, Socks the Cat. It was never released for ages, being only teased on blurry footage by a game collector until there was a drive to actually get the game back and released in cart format around 2016. Frank Cifaldi got his hands on the game and a rom was released somewhat recently and that's getting played on stream by Danny Cowan and Alex (RetroPals, posted them a couple times or so on this thread) at 8 PM CT.
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I feel like Max is way too easy to kill in this Mad Max vidya game, considering the movies.
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John Murdoch posted:Oh, huh, didn't realize he was quite that tied into those games. yeah, warhorse used to make mafia 1 and 2 but 2k hosed them over on 2 and they had to get rid of a ton of cool stuff(different mechanics, weapons, trollys) or turn it into half baked DLC. I like kingdom come alot so far, though i havent had time to play and i am waiting for more.
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