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Watch Dogs 2 is genuinely a good rear end game for all the reasons stated. No longer are you a socially isolated white terrorist actively ignoring your few human contacts begging you to stop being a psycho, instead you're just a nerdy black dude who already has genuine beef with the system who teams up with other misfits and nerds to try to make our cyberpunk future a bit less hellish. I also enjoy that (aside from it being kinda ~movie magic~ to explain why it's TOTALLY NON-LETHAL to blast a guy in the skull with a compressed air shotgun or whatever) you can genuinely be a non-lethal guy. Not near enough open world games make that a possibility. Also it's just a lot more fun. There's more poo poo to do, the tone is WAY better, there's fun tricks and tools. It's just a more fun game. I genuinely hope for a Watch Dogs 3 with the same kinda design ethos.
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Alaois posted:Watch_Dogs 2 feels like it's leaning on irreverence to get away with incredibly lazy writing. that's cause it is for as big as these game budgets are getting most large studios still haven't found a way to work actual writers into game production, so game stories are still being told by people who are more knowledgeable in programming code than writing dialogue save for examples like Uncharted 4, where basically the entire development team got a crash course in story telling and cinematic writing
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# ? May 28, 2018 03:29 |
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The bargain bin memes and rage faces sure dated wd2 in a hurry too
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# ? May 28, 2018 03:39 |
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SatansBestBuddy posted:that's cause it is There's also the issue that everything is on a tight schedule, plus all the AAA stuff has to be fully voiced, which means that writers have to churn out their story, then get no opportunity to tweak or edit later because that'd require new recordings and paying the actors more.
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# ? May 28, 2018 03:41 |
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who's your favorite Watch Dogs 2 character? mine is Horatio, the guy who barely appears in the first half or so of the game, shows up for one mission to be a cipher for the plight of black people in tech, then gets murdered for basically no reason because I guess his role in the story was done and this story needs to have SOME cheap pathos
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# ? May 28, 2018 03:43 |
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Watch_Dogs 2 is a game I couldn't get into at all. I played through the whole thing because I liked the characters and wanted to see where the story went but the gameplay just didn't grab me. I mostly just played it like a 3rd person shooter - icing dudes with assault rifles the entire time.
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# ? May 28, 2018 03:53 |
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Alaois posted:who's your favorite Watch Dogs 2 character? mine is Horatio, the guy who barely appears in the first half or so of the game, shows up for one mission to be a cipher for the plight of black people in tech, then gets murdered for basically no reason because I guess his role in the story was done and this story needs to have SOME cheap pathos yea that was pretty lame
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# ? May 28, 2018 03:53 |
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Puppy Time posted:I feel like a retrospective on the creation/filming of certain reality shows could be pretty cool, but that'd probably also be difficult to do because of the research work and/or lack of real info. Nah reality tv is probably one of the easiest things to get information about. My problem with making videos about it is that there is a very specific tone that reality tv podcasts/reviews have that I wouldn't fit into. But I would really love to talk about the production, people and history of "trashy" reality shows.
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# ? May 28, 2018 04:21 |
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MonsieurChoc posted:I only cleared it once so far because I'm waiting for my PS4 code to really go to town. I feel like someone could do a really cool video about the game and it's design. Have done three playthroughs so far and each one felt like a unique experience. The game is really well-designed with replay value in mind
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# ? May 28, 2018 04:28 |
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Alaois posted:Don't worry that you just brutally brained that guy with a weird billiard ball on a rope, he ain't dead its fine, its fine I worried more about the NPCs I accidentally hit while driving to the next waypoint. Ghostlight posted:Which is somewhat ironic since it was built on the grave of the Driver franchise. I guess that explains why the rideshare/taxi app was called Driver: SF. Jimbot posted:Watch_Dogs 2 is a game I couldn't get into at all. I played through the whole thing because I liked the characters and wanted to see where the story went but the gameplay just didn't grab me. I mostly just played it like a 3rd person shooter - icing dudes with assault rifles the entire time. The game does give you a bit of flexibility in terms of how you complete objectives. In a lot of cases, you can complete tasks by using your little remote control car to sneak through an area and hack a computer without actually stepping foot into a restricted area. It got really fun for me when I realized that you could attach your stun mines to the RC car and flyer, drive them towards targets, and then detonate them once you were in range. Couple that with the ability to take control of forklifts and scissor lifts, and you can really cheese some of the missions. I wish the stealth was a little better, though, because it seems like enemies can pick up on you or the RC car really fast. Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 04:39 on May 28, 2018 |
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Yeah, the hacking stuff was the stuff I couldn't get in to. When it came to the open world it was fun, albeit very clunky, to use. In the mission areas, however, I found it just simpler and quicker to go in guns blazing.
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# ? May 28, 2018 06:10 |
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DoubleCakes posted:I watch the channel of this guy named Jim Gisriel. Recently he did a video on Marcia Lucas, famed editor and ex-wife of George Lucas. In this look into the elusive figure, Jim tries to piece together a career of a woman that doesn't appear a lot in memoirs and doesn't give out many interviews. I've never been a non-believer in the legend that Star Wars was a movie that was created in editing but this video illustrates just the kind of problems that the movie had in development and how editing and editors like Marcia Lucas saved the project. That's a neat video, thanks. I'm sure it's a repost but this is a really good look at how editing affected the structure of Star Wars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFMyMxMYDNk
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# ? May 28, 2018 06:17 |
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Lucas himself has said that editing for his movies is his ace in the hole.
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# ? May 28, 2018 06:56 |
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Lightning Knight posted:I feel like a “stun assault rifle” would probably be lethal anyway. It's a paintball gun. Alaois posted:who's your favorite Watch Dogs 2 character? mine is Horatio, the guy who barely appears in the first half or so of the game, shows up for one mission to be a cipher for the plight of black people in tech, then gets murdered for basically no reason because I guess his role in the story was done and this story needs to have SOME cheap pathos Allegedly there's evidence that he was originally supposed to have a full mission string building up the story of the gang activities, but they hastily scrapped it and kept the finale (presumably because it was too late to rewrite entirely) and, oddly enough, one of the surveillance hacks. Max Wilco posted:I wish the stealth was a little better, though, because it seems like enemies can pick up on you or the RC car really fast. This was my problem with WD2. In theory, everything they added is an improvement on 1 (which I actually liked all by itself) but there's lots of little problems with the new features that added up to annoy me. Non-lethal is cool in theory, but in practice it's a huge pain in the rear end and causes more problems than it's worth. The tutorial trains you to use shock traps, but in reality they're noisy as gently caress and knocked out guards will either eventually wake up or be woken up by their pals, which you just alerted with a noisy trap. There's also no way to permanently takedown stunned guards, so if you manage to knock out several it's going to eventually turn into a clusterfuck. The RC car and drone are fun at first, but once you realize that 80% of the game can be completed using solely them it gets kind of tedious. Hiding in your car is more effective, but actually escaping manhunts is otherwise a pain in the rear end because the AI cheats. Mission design is all over the place and it very much felt like totally different teams were in charge of different missions because the mechanics seemed to shift slightly each time; sometimes all you need to do is get the RC car somewhere and you win, other times the designers say no, Marcus has to hack it himself. Or sometimes pursuers just infinitely respawn, defeating the whole point of hacking stuff while driving to dissuade them. The end result feels sloppy underneath all the new shinyness, which ironically is the opposite of how I felt about WD1, where underneath the top layer of muck there was actually something to it. John Murdoch fucked around with this message at 08:32 on May 28, 2018 |
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Alaois posted:until the final mission of the game and have to play as Wrench with a grenade launcher Wrench also has a stun grenade launcher and it's actually way easier than going in with the lethal one.
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# ? May 28, 2018 09:33 |
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Does Watch_Dogs 2 have the Spider Tank minigame in it? If not, it's dead to me.
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:Does Watch_Dogs 2 have the Spider Tank minigame in it? If not, it's dead to me. Sadly no, but the tank shows up for a mission.
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# ? May 28, 2018 10:52 |
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Welp Of Course There's A Game With A Mass School Shooting In It On Steam (The Jimquisition)
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# ? May 28, 2018 16:09 |
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Cosmonaut released the second part of his MCU rankings/review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUl7y9qNZqQ This dude is definitely on my "Best YouTuber I Found in 2018" list
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# ? May 28, 2018 16:40 |
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MariusLecter posted:Welp I'm surprised nobody's tried to put Super Columbine Massacre RPG! on the store. I mean Danny Ledonne would probably have it taken down once anyone noticed, but hey.
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# ? May 28, 2018 16:57 |
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Man if you're the guy playing kusoge FPS games to own the libs then video tape yourself doing it to let everyone see all the no fun you're having. Also, LGR has a new one on the latest Cities expansion, in which he burns down park.
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# ? May 28, 2018 17:17 |
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i'm surprised nobody made a game where you tried to survive a mass shooting. it'd actually have something to "say". it certainly wouldn't be fun because you'd likely fail every time (like the pro-gun group that recreated the charlie hebdo massacre and even with an "armed" participant who knew it was coming the best he could do was wound one of the gunmen).
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Groovelord Neato posted:I'm surprised nobody made a game where you tried to survive a mass shooting. It'd actually have something to "say". It certainly wouldn't be fun because you'd likely fail every time (like the pro-gun group that recreated the charlie hebdo massacre and even with an "armed" participant who knew it was coming the best he could do was wound one of the gunmen). As egh of a thing it is to think of, your chances of getting out of a school shooting are pretty good at least, as long as you're not in the wrong place (Room/area where it kicks off, first person they see at the entrance etc.) or as long as they're not trying to blow the place up like the Columbine guys except it actually works.
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# ? May 28, 2018 17:41 |
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if the hypothetical game were to make its point, you'd likely be placed in the path of the shooter.
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# ? May 28, 2018 17:47 |
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ElectroBOOM - Internet Fakery, The Bay Area Maker Faire and Presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Smlsj76nU
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# ? May 28, 2018 17:50 |
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Night Mind is cute and charming normally, but ugggghhhhhh in his most recent video he goes on a five minute ramble about gamejacking in response to a video series dropping a couple of offhanded references to Wham City Comedy stuff. Dude exemplifies the Puzzle Box style of media consumption and it drives me nuts. Not everything is a secret code! Sometimes the artist just wants to put in some fun in-jokes!
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# ? May 28, 2018 17:58 |
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He did say it was his problem and he got over it for this, and said he was wrong to react that way. I don't see an issue. Many things he likes are in fact puzzle boxes that are susceptible to game jacking and are completely impenetrable unless you are in fact looking for codes, going to multiple other youtubes twitters or other, and checking the dates on them. He can enjoy things that way so I don't have to.
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WampaLord posted:Cosmonaut released the second part of his MCU rankings/review: just watched this, yeah funny guy I never heard from before, def worth it
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WampaLord posted:Cosmonaut released the second part of his MCU rankings/review: Man, with how much people complain about Black Widow, you'd think she was Kratos with the Speedforce and the Time Stone.
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# ? May 28, 2018 18:39 |
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Hemingway To Go! posted:He did say it was his problem and he got over it for this, and said he was wrong to react that way. I don't see an issue. Mostly I just find it frustrating that dude looks for secret ciphers in works that are obviously not ARGs, or weird "clues" that don't actually lead anywhere, to the point that he misses completely obvious things that break his idea of the secret narrative. Like the references here are both obviously not gamejacking (because the work doesn't key in at all to anything about THHPII beyond "is video about weird poo poo" and "slice of life") and obviously not related to the overall message. Just bugs me, because he can be pretty on point normally, but his laser-focused puzzle box mentality really leads him down some stupid cul-de-sacs when the simpler explanation would be "This has no secret meaning, and is just the artist adding something for thematic reasons." Like, I hate the whole "POE WAS JUST SAYING HE LIKES RAVENS, GAWD!" thing but sometimes dude takes it way too far in the other direction and weakens his videos as a whole. (The "horse apples" thing comes to mind.) I guess it might be less annoying if he didn't also write like his own interpretation is obviously the One True Secret Meaning as intended by the creator(s). Like I said, love the dude 90% of the time, but that one habit drives me batty, and it seems like there's at least one example of it in every single video.
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In which Jim loving Sterling, Son criticizes Valve's incompetence in allowing a game where you play as a School Shooter to be hosted on Steam without consequence.
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Arcsquad12 posted:In which Jim loving Sterling, Son criticizes Valve's incompetence in allowing a game where you play as a School Shooter to be hosted on Steam without consequence. Is there anything that would make Valve curate Steam? At this point there would have to be a massive loss of income, but since Steam is one of the biggest digital distributors in the industry, I don't see it happening.
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rudecyrus posted:Is there anything that would make Valve curate Steam? At this point there would have to be a massive loss of income, but since Steam is one of the biggest digital distributors in the industry, I don't see it happening. They’ll launch another steam sale and everyone will forget about this entire affair.
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rudecyrus posted:Is there anything that would make Valve curate Steam? At this point there would have to be a massive loss of income, but since Steam is one of the biggest digital distributors in the industry, I don't see it happening. Valve convinced everyone they were the saviors of gaming come forth from on high and not only did we say nothing as they took over monopoly control of PC distribution, we said thank you sir may we please have another. Remember this because Amazon is doing the same thing except for literally everything instead of just PC gaming.
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Dean of Swing posted:They’ll launch another steam sale and everyone will forget about this entire affair. I feel like the prevailing sentiment has shifted a bit on Steam sales because the last few have been pretty lackluster. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure they still print money for Valve, but I think the hype machine is finally dying down a bit.
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Lightning Knight posted:Valve convinced everyone they were the saviors of gaming come forth from on high and not only did we say nothing as they took over monopoly control of PC distribution, we said thank you sir may we please have another. It’s not like we have much choice in the affair
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Brad covers Star Babe - a SW porn parody from the 70s
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Andrast posted:It’s not like we have much choice in the affair Yeah the big issue is that the competition was and is still worse at most everything except handling their stores, steam does a lot of stupid poo poo, but they've got your games, community and chat junk in the same place without it all being intrusive or too annoying, plus more and better sales than elsewhere barring things like being able to get ubisoft games for somewhat cheaper off uplay and that sorta thing.
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RareAcumen posted:Man, with how much people complain about Black Widow, you'd think she was Kratos with the Speedforce and the Time Stone. And glad to see somebody else like Iron-Man 3, that movie is great.
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it must’ve been great being an indie before valve just let any poo poo in.
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