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Max Wilco posted:I don't know if it was grind that made me stop playing JRPGs for a long time, so much as it was the weird hoops you had to jump through in a lot of games in regards to some of the side quests. The one instance that stands out in my mind is Final Fantasy 12, where to get one of the special end game items or something, you had to make sure not to open certain specific chests, and there no real way of knowing which ones they were. You don’t need the Zodiac spear for anything though. It’s just an overpowered spear.
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so many people keep making video essays about that 13 reasons why show.
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Jun 7, 2018 12:26
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Andrast posted:You don’t need the Zodiac spear for anything though. It’s just an overpowered spear. Sorry, I didn't catch your post before I made the edit. It was just a design choice that I found really aggravating. I think I gave up on FF12 for other reasons as well (which I do regret a bit, since it had an interesting setup from what I remember reading about it later on).
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Jun 7, 2018 12:31
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Tired Moritz posted:so many people keep making video essays about that 13 reasons why show. It’s real fuckin’ bad. I’m not surprised. Like it’s contemptibly bad in the entirety of it’s execution.
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Jun 7, 2018 12:36
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The FFV Four Job Fiesta shows some older games don't really need grinding too, depending on what you roll (some teams definitely need some grinding).
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Jun 7, 2018 12:41
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FoldableHuman posted:Maybe unpopular opinion, but while I love and respect the From games, the Wiki-dump read-every-tooltip method of worldbuilding slash storytelling is maybe not the model that should be adopted across the board. again this isn't what i mean when i say they're the only games doing narrative right.
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Jun 7, 2018 13:02
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Tired Moritz posted:so many people keep making video essays about that 13 reasons why show. this is the only one you need, fam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPMtvmAUw3M
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Jun 7, 2018 13:21
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These days people actually complain about Pokemon games leveling your whole party too fast for some bizarre reason.
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Jun 7, 2018 13:36
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Motto posted:These days people actually complain about Pokemon games leveling your whole party too fast for some bizarre reason. It’s true that is a problem. Pokémon was never a hard game making it easier to keep up makes it easier which drains a lot of the fun.
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Jun 7, 2018 13:43
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Motto posted:These days people actually complain about Pokemon games leveling your whole party too fast for some bizarre reason. It's more like in X/Y the experience share system was given a huge buff and the game was only half balanced around having the item that makes all Pokémon gain experience from every battle, so if you have it on you level extremely fast and the game is trivial, but if you turn it off the game can get pretty grindy, with not much middle ground. The actual solution is to turn it on and keep a roster of 10+ guys and rotate through them instead of a team of 6, but the game (and franchise in general) doesn't do much to encourage that kind of thinking.
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Jun 7, 2018 14:05
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Valve Endorses AIDS Simulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2caCVUWy0c
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I though AIDS Simulator was going to be some sort of walking simulator where you were living with AIDS. The truth is much worse 
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Jun 7, 2018 15:40
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:I don't think that's true. I think there's something special to playing the game yourself, and the combat is not THAT bad and if you engage with the side missions for extra weapons can actually become pretty fun/fast at the very least. The problem is the game puts its worst foot forward with the level in the lumbermill, it is bad but no other combat section is as bad as that one. Deadly Premonition is Twin Peaks filtered through Japan and then badly translated back into English. The special edition of Deadly Premonition from what I understand made combat much less tedious, and yeah, one of the first couple side missions unlocks basically the only guns you need to use for the game. Playing that around a television with a group of friends to pass the controller (not to mention navigate with the physical map they included and a copy of gamefaqs for some of the weird stuff) and enjoy the cutscenes as they unfolded was a blast, not to mention the reactions when the physics engine poo poo the bed while driving and sent our car flying. And we always served pie. None of us believed when we started that we'd actually make it through the game, but we did, and I remember more from that game than most of the AAA stuff I've seen in the last few years. DEEP STATE PLOT posted:i never minded grinding in jrpgs, in fact i really like doing it sometimes when i need to do something to clear my mind and not think. it's prolly why i really like the first dragon quest game despite it being archaic at best and consisting mostly of grinding for money and levels. I can handle the grind on portable systems; I hit a certain limit sitting on a couch where I start asking too many life questions if I've spent 60 hours of my life on a game.
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Deadly Premonition also lets you follow the townsfolk around and observe their daily routines. You can actually figure out who the Raincoat Killer is yourself this way.
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only nerds complain about difficulties in children games
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Jun 7, 2018 15:46
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MariusLecter posted:Valve Endorses AIDS Simulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2caCVUWy0c Someone might as well upload those old abandoned literal neo-nazi games on steam, Ethnic Cleansing and the like, see how far we can push this poo poo.
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Jun 7, 2018 15:51
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Max Wilco posted:Sorry, I didn't catch your post before I made the edit. It was just a design choice that I found really aggravating. I think I gave up on FF12 for other reasons as well (which I do regret a bit, since it had an interesting setup from what I remember reading about it later on). I think the entire purpose for the spear was to give players who are re-running the game an easy way to power through the early half. There are a few intentional sequence breaks that let you get to it very early.
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Groovelord Neato posted:again this isn't what i mean when i say they're the only games doing narrative right. then can you explain yourself maybe, because as is this just sounds like an extreme hot take
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Jun 7, 2018 17:50
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it's not even a mildly warm take.
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Jun 7, 2018 18:03
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Groovelord Neato posted:it's not even a mildly warm take. cool, i'm glad you've expanded on your opinion and while i may not agree with your conclusion, i can see that there is thought behind what you are saying and i respect that
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Jun 7, 2018 18:13
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most games do not integrate the story into the gameplay. they tell it to you through cutscenes (even dark souls make this mistake in the unnecessary intro). the story and gameplay are treated as separate entities. the last giant in ds2 is probably the most obvious example (and weirdly i think hbomb left it out of his defense of the game).
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Jun 7, 2018 18:16
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I've been enjoying Quintan reviews and him trawling through some of the long forgotten parts of internet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK8_dYry358
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Considering we're talking about game storytelling I feel I should mention that I've been rewatching Raycevick's Halo Years Later series. It's a great example of mediocre game storytelling that gets buoyed up by excellent presentation. At least until you get to Halo 4 after which the presentation can't even hold up some of the nonsense
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Jun 7, 2018 18:37
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Groovelord Neato posted:most games do not integrate the story into the gameplay. they tell it to you through cutscenes (even dark souls make this mistake in the unnecessary intro). the story and gameplay are treated as separate entities. "cool, i'm glad you've expanded on your opinion and while i may not agree with your conclusion, i can see that there is thought behind what you are saying and i respect that" again, but unironically this time i don't think cutscenes are inherently a failure in game storytelling but it's definitely preferable to work that poo poo into the gameplay if possible
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Thanks whoever here first linked to Good Bad or Bad Bad. I've been loving their videos so far and they cover a good abundence of white-guy-karate movies. AKA the best movies.
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khwarezm posted:I've been enjoying Quintan reviews and him trawling through some of the long forgotten parts of internet.  Candy Mountain, Charlie!
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Jun 7, 2018 21:36
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MariusLecter posted:
No poo poo, I have watched that today with a friend who never heard of it before. Still great.
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Motto posted:These days people actually complain about Pokemon games leveling your whole party too fast for some bizarre reason. When I played X and Y I threw my first pokemon into the wonder trade until I got a Beldum. I never swapped it out. Never used any other pokemon. By the end of the game my Metagross had never fainted and I'd beaten the game with a single pokemon, without any excessive grinding. They are very easy games. Groovelord Neato posted:most games do not integrate the story into the gameplay. they tell it to you through cutscenes (even dark souls make this mistake in the unnecessary intro). the story and gameplay are treated as separate entities. Last Giant/Giant King's story is told entirely through gameplay though?
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Max Wilco posted:I played a lot of Disgaea 2, but I never got to the end. I remember reading there was some weird way to super-level characters quickly in those games, but I was never clear on how you were supposed to do it. You could pick up enemies and throw them on top of eachother to create a single enemy with their combined level, iirc the rule was that it added the lower level monster's level to the higher one, you'd throw enemies on top of eachother until you had a super high level enemy(that wasn't so overlevelled that you couldn't damage it anymore) that you could finish off for a huge exp reward. Instead of killing a dozen level 10 monsters for 200 exp each, you could throw them all together and get 60,000+ exp from the exact same level.
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MariusLecter posted:
CaaaaaRRRRRRLLLL!
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Detective No. 27 posted:Deadly Premonition also lets you follow the townsfolk around and observe their daily routines. You can actually figure out who the Raincoat Killer is yourself this way. Huh, having played the game myself i never knew this. How exactly is that the case?
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Nuebot posted:
That's what he was trying to say, that that's an example of dark souls telling stories through gameplay.
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:Huh, having played the game myself i never knew this. How exactly is that the case? It's been a long time since I played so my memories are fuzzy, but I recall you follow a certain character around, they go to their very boarded up basement or something. I don't remember anything outright saying it until the plot reveals it, but you can infer it early based on the character's actions against the others.
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The killer's licence plate tells you it outright. It straight up says "HESTHE1". I'm pretty sure that it's not meant to be subtle, really.
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Nuebot posted:Last Giant/Giant King's story is told entirely through gameplay though? yeah that's what i meant (i was replying to two points). although in scholar of the first sin they ruined it by making it explicit in the soul description.
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Detective No. 27 posted:It's been a long time since I played so my memories are fuzzy, but I recall you follow a certain character around, they go to their very boarded up basement or something. I don't remember anything outright saying it until the plot reveals it, but you can infer it early based on the character's actions against the others. Things like that are why I have an unironic love for the game; it's one of the few games where I look at it and say "man, this game really just needed a bigger budget and team".
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Detective No. 27 posted:It's been a long time since I played so my memories are fuzzy, but I recall you follow a certain character around, they go to their very boarded up basement or something. I don't remember anything outright saying it until the plot reveals it, but you can infer it early based on the character's actions against the others. You can also see how all the victims go to the same seedy place with the same people and hang around in an inaccessible secret room for a while. ALSO there's one red tree in one yard, and it's the killer's yard. It's pretty amazing.
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Yardbomb posted:Someone might as well upload those old abandoned literal neo-nazi games on steam, Ethnic Cleansing and the like, see how far we can push this poo poo. maybe. from what valve is saying it sounds like they are gonna ban like that because its obvious gross troll poo poo and weird CP anime poo poo. other then that hosed up poo poo apperently, anything goes. which i am kinda alright with. if people want to buy their sad anime porn then go ahead, same with other stuff. i'll just stick to the stuff i like. i am just kinda of amused about how angry alot of sites are over it. I get some of there reasoning but some of it i find eye rolling. Also vampyr is pretty good, jankey but good. i have only eaten one person so far. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Jun 8, 2018 |
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it owns that valve is going in the complete opposite direction they should with steam.
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Groovelord Neato posted:it owns that valve is going in the complete opposite direction they should with steam. GOG is slowly beating steam in various ways. mostly with old games and reliability of play. valve has the same operating system as twitter, it doesnt care from whom the money flows, only that it flows.
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