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haveblue posted:It's a good title because the juxtaposition of "fractured" and "whole" is portentous enough to sound significant but it's also a butthole joke. It's the like movie title. First glance, innocent. Second. WHOA NELLY
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I've been replaying Mass Effect and noticed a neat little detail. One of the bits of flavor on the elcor species is that they use body language and scent to convey emotion when speaking with each other; to humans it just sounds like they speak in monotone, so whenever you talk to them they preface every sentence with an explanation of the emotion they mean to convey. It's basically their species gimmick. However, there's a bit early on where you can overhear a background conversation between two elcor, and sure enough, they don't do any of that when speaking to each other. It's a minor thing, but I like when they're consistent with the lore even on tiny details.
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Nov 27, 2018 08:45
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Lord Hydronium posted:I've been replaying Mass Effect and noticed a neat little detail. One of the bits of flavor on the elcor species is that they use body language and scent to convey emotion when speaking with each other; to humans it just sounds like they speak in monotone, so whenever you talk to them they preface every sentence with an explanation of the emotion they mean to convey. It's basically their species gimmick. However, there's a bit early on where you can overhear a background conversation between two elcor, and sure enough, they don't do any of that when speaking to each other. Andromeda could have been saved if they went all-Elcor. Main character, party, supporting cast, villains, all of it all Elcor all the time. As it is they axed every non-biped in the lore and got their own series cancelled.
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Nov 27, 2018 09:49
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The Hanar shortage in ME2 and 3 is an absolute outrage. Floating evangelical jellyfish not accessible enough, EA?
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Nov 27, 2018 12:46
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Still, probably for the best that the concept art for elcor husks in ME3 didn't translate into the game. They apparently would have been enemies in the vehicle sections, and were scrapped along with the vehicle.
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Nov 27, 2018 14:48
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Sometimes I still smile when I remember the incidental dialogue in ME1 or 2 about a Shakespeare play with a cast of Elcors.
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Nov 27, 2018 14:54
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Samuringa posted:Sometimes I still smile when I remember the incidental dialogue in ME1 or 2 about a Shakespeare play with a cast of Elcors. You can find audio snippets of being advertised on the Citadel in ME2, and it's exactly like you expect it would be  .
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Nov 27, 2018 15:02
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There's also the elcor action movie where the star prefaces all of his lines with "badassfully."
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Nov 27, 2018 15:39
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Neddy Seagoon posted:You can find audio snippets of being advertised on the Citadel in ME2, and it's exactly like you expect it would be In the Citadel on ME3, you can hear snippets of Blasto the Jellyfish Sting being advertised. And Javik's scene in the Citadel DLC is something to behold. Also in ME3 you can find out that the all-Elcor play of Hamlet was such an amazing success they're doing King Lear next. 
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Nov 27, 2018 15:40
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Cythereal posted:In the Citadel on ME3, you can hear snippets of Blasto the Jellyfish Sting being advertised. And Javik's scene in the Citadel DLC is something to behold. I love that they actually roll with people in-game wanting to see an all-Elcor Shakespeare production for the same reason the joke was made to the player, rather than trying to portray it as something taken seriously in-universe.
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Nov 27, 2018 16:20
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Related to that: Because I am a masochist I picked up the latest tie-in novel for Andromeda (Annihilation) and it is something to behold. One of the main characters is an elcor on the quarian/elcor/volus/etc. Ark who is perennially angry that he wasn't cast in Hamlet despite several callbacks. He spends a good page and a half in the book poo poo-talking the guy who got the lead, and it's explicitly stated that he's going to Andromeda solely to be the new face of entertainment there. He's taking his ball and going home, since he isn't appreciated here. His primary profession? Pediatric ear/nose/throat doc. The entire book is like this. It's a cast of comically low-tier nobodies trying to solve a mystery about why the quarian ark's falling apart, 30 years before everyone's even scheduled to wake up. If this is any indication of what the quarian ark DLC was going to be like, EA made a huge mistake axing it.
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Nov 27, 2018 18:09
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The entire story of Andromeda’s development is mostly the dev team trying their best to desperately put together a game while the leadership dicked around and refused to make decisions on stuff. The script wasn’t even written until like 18 months before release which is why they ended up outsourcing so many of the cutscenes to have the animations just procedurally generated. They didn’t have time to animate most of the game.
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Nov 27, 2018 18:36
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Internet Wizard posted:The entire story of Andromeda’s development is mostly the dev team trying their best to desperately put together a game while the leadership dicked around and refused to make decisions on stuff. The script wasn’t even written until like 18 months before release which is why they ended up outsourcing so many of the cutscenes to have the animations just procedurally generated. They didn’t have time to animate most of the game. So all the dumb eye tracking and poo poo wasn't even bioware? Someone needs a drat good kicking for that decision
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Nov 27, 2018 20:36
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Olaf The Stout posted:Andromeda could have been saved if they went all-Elcor. Main character, party, supporting cast, villains, all of it all Elcor all the time. As it is they axed every non-biped in the lore and got their own series cancelled. It should have been all Krogan. Paragon options are headbutts, Renegade options are headbutts followed by shotgun blasts. Instead of that lovely little rover you get the big-rear end truck thing in ME3.
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Nov 27, 2018 21:21
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RBA Starblade posted:It should have been all Krogan. Paragon options are headbutts, Renegade options are headbutts followed by shotgun blasts. Instead of that lovely little rover you get the big-rear end truck thing in ME3. It'd be interesting to see a sci-fi setting without any humans at all, that DOESN'T dip into furry poo poo.
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Nov 27, 2018 22:04
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PubicMice posted:It'd be interesting to see a sci-fi setting without any humans at all, that DOESN'T dip into furry poo poo. Depending on your definition, "furry poo poo" covers anything even remotely humanoid, so I guess you're stuck with aliens that are actually alien. Sentient molluscs and so on.
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Nov 27, 2018 22:35
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Depending on your definition, "furry poo poo" covers anything even remotely humanoid, so I guess you're stuck with aliens that are actually alien. Sentient molluscs and so on. This but I actually want that.
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Nov 27, 2018 22:42
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Depending on your definition, "furry poo poo" covers anything even remotely humanoid, so I guess you're stuck with aliens that are actually alien. Sentient molluscs and so on. That would actually be really cool, but mostly I meant "but not like Star Fox". e: Oh yeah, Star Control! That's a really interesting universe, it's too bad it's in such a licensing mire. PubicMice has a new favorite as of 23:34 on Nov 27, 2018 |
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Nov 27, 2018 22:57
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Mass Effect Star Control 2
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Nov 27, 2018 23:07
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Leal posted:Goons acting like they're above fart and butthole jokes is more hilarious then fart and butthole jokes. 
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Nov 27, 2018 23:17
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Another Mass Effect one: I just realized that one of the Citadel elevator music tracks is a Muzak version of the main theme.
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Nov 28, 2018 05:57
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God of War 4: At the peak of the mountain, you meet a guy trapped in a tree, who tells you he has been enchanted so that no weapon can cut his body free. In the background, Atreus pulls out his knife and tries to cut at the tree a couple of times. Just a cute little detail, not called out in anyway. This is such a well crafted story, so far.
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Nov 28, 2018 06:53
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As a definite video game gorehound, I have to give some serious props for RDR2's assorted systems of violence. The game can get really brutal at times, but it doesn't do it constantly, meaning those rare moments where someone gets completely ripped to shreds have so much more impact. Two that stood out. One: Shotguns loving melt people.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgDvAp5LHy8 Two: Lethal shots, as in "you get a red X hit marker" aren't always instantly lethal.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zio1iFDK_Zg I really, really, really hope there's a Manhunt 3 in the works after this. 
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Nov 28, 2018 08:18
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The fact that people can bleed out from certain wounds is pretty insane. I remember shooting somebody in the neck and he didn't die immediately but bled out on the floor.
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Nov 28, 2018 12:37
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I just finished a boss fight in Fractured But Whole, around two thirds (maybe) of the way through the game that was infuriating, but for good reason. See, you're fighting Cartman...sort of. And he is just as annoying to fight as you might think he is, because his refusal to play by the 'rules', and make up his own, bleed into the combat mechanics. So, he'll hit you, and after the fact say 'oh wait also that makes you sick.' then suddenly you're hit with a status effect. Or you'll attack him and he'll just say 'nuh uh that doesn't count' and, annoyingly, the damage is removed. Or he'll do the 'I'm rubber you're glue' and reflect your attack. As a battle it was challenging and annoying, but I just love whenever this game leans hard into the reality that these are just a bunch of kids making poo poo up for their powers and having some sort of implicit agreement to play by the 'rules'. The answer of why the rest of the town also get affected by these 'powers' is probably just because the entire town of South Park is a pile of idiots.
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Nov 28, 2018 14:55
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Morpheus posted:I just finished a boss fight in Fractured But Whole, around two thirds (maybe) of the way through the game that was infuriating, but for good reason. See, you're fighting Cartman...sort of. And he is just as annoying to fight as you might think he is, because his refusal to play by the 'rules', and make up his own, bleed into the combat mechanics. So, he'll hit you, and after the fact say 'oh wait also that makes you sick.' then suddenly you're hit with a status effect. Or you'll attack him and he'll just say 'nuh uh that doesn't count' and, annoyingly, the damage is removed. Or he'll do the 'I'm rubber you're glue' and reflect your attack. Yeah, I’ve been replaying it myself and I love how it really leans into the fact they’re kids. It’s like the episode where they try to return the LotR tape on steroids.
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Nov 28, 2018 15:47
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Frustrating though is not being able to adjust the in game resolution. For what looks to be south park animation it makes my computer chug, but I can't get it off 1920x1080.
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Nov 28, 2018 16:12
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Morpheus posted:I just finished a boss fight in Fractured But Whole, around two thirds (maybe) of the way through the game that was infuriating, but for good reason. See, you're fighting Cartman...sort of. And he is just as annoying to fight as you might think he is, because his refusal to play by the 'rules', and make up his own, bleed into the combat mechanics. So, he'll hit you, and after the fact say 'oh wait also that makes you sick.' then suddenly you're hit with a status effect. Or you'll attack him and he'll just say 'nuh uh that doesn't count' and, annoyingly, the damage is removed. Or he'll do the 'I'm rubber you're glue' and reflect your attack. The problem with the end reveal of Fractured But Whole is it just tanks any interest you'll have in the story because it's Mitch Connor behind it all, and therefore you know full-well the rest of the story will be Cartman just beating the one joke into the ground of "Nuh-uh, it's not me you guys!! :rolleyes" and undercutting anything else going on so there's no potential for a decent conclusion. Which is a real letdown after Stick of Truth escalated to a point you could figure out what the final boss was going to be as a culmination of everything so far, right before it happened. And it was gloriously wrong.
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Nov 28, 2018 16:17
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All I remember of Stick of Truth is the nuclear bomb going off.
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Nov 28, 2018 16:23
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So has South Park grown out of its ironic racism thing (I know they apparently did an about-face on global warming) by now or what cause the idea of an Obsidian-made comedy-RPG doesn't sound too bad but I'm pretty sure I got enough of people quoting Cartman's hilarious slurs back in middle school
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Nov 28, 2018 17:02
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Casey Finnigan posted:So has South Park grown out of its ironic racism thing (I know they apparently did an about-face on global warming) by now or what cause the idea of an Obsidian-made comedy-RPG doesn't sound too bad but I'm pretty sure I got enough of people quoting Cartman's hilarious slurs back in middle school I mean I don't think Cartman calls anyone a jew or anything in this one (at least not yet). People quoting a genuine monster like Cartman should probably be ignored anyway. There is a stereotypical black pimp character as part of a side quest that I thought was pretty offensive, but really the biggest racists in the game are the cops that lock up most of the african-american community of South Park in order to feed them to Shub-Niggurath, who only eats dark meat and who dies when you feed it too many white people. It's weird. I haven't seen the show in nearly a decade, so I have no idea what the show itself is like.
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Nov 28, 2018 17:13
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Morpheus posted:I mean I don't think Cartman calls anyone a jew or anything in this one (at least not yet). People quoting a genuine monster like Cartman should probably be ignored anyway. it did lead to one of the game's better gags where the racist police chief is all "oh i bet you'll say H.P. Lovecraft was racist too," resulting in a hushed and increasingly awkward conversation between him and one of his deputies
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Nov 28, 2018 17:16
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Oxxidation posted:it did lead to one of the game's better gags where the racist police chief is all "oh i bet you'll say H.P. Lovecraft was racist too," resulting in a hushed and increasingly awkward conversation between him and one of his deputies Haha yeah I liked that bit. "What like how racist?" ... "Really really?" Like, there are some actually good chunks of writing in the game between the fart jokes.
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Nov 28, 2018 17:22
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Stick of Truth was the far funnier game (nothing beats NES Canada), but Fractured But Whole had it's moments, and the combat was far better. Crab People taking over the cell phone store had me in stitches.
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Casey Finnigan posted:So has South Park grown out of its ironic racism thing (I know they apparently did an about-face on global warming) by now or what cause the idea of an Obsidian-made comedy-RPG doesn't sound too bad but I'm pretty sure I got enough of people quoting Cartman's hilarious slurs back in middle school it hasn't and both south park games are full of the exact lovely humor you expect, it's just that a lot of people apparently have a really bizarre blind spot about South Park and what they're willing to overlook
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Nov 28, 2018 17:47
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flatluigi posted:it hasn't and both south park games are full of the exact lovely humor you expect, it's just that a lot of people apparently have a really bizarre blind spot about South Park and what they're willing to overlook Or maybe, just maybe, they’re actually kinda funny. I know, it’s a difficult concept to grasp, but it’s possible.
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Nov 28, 2018 21:56
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I remember being kind of impressed and depressed by how many of the gags in Stick of Truth I recognized from when I watched the show in college. I graduated in 06.
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Nov 28, 2018 22:13
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Dewgy posted:Or maybe, just maybe, they’re actually kinda funny. if you want you can explain to me why cartman's superhero name is a hilarious gag and not just a lazy use of an outdated racial slur
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Nov 28, 2018 22:16
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flatluigi posted:if you want you can explain to me why cartman's superhero name is a hilarious gag and not just a lazy use of an outdated racial slur Cartman’s a complete piece of poo poo and it’s funny because everyone hates him for it. Depicting racism as part of a joke isn’t endorsing it.
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Stick of Truth was the far funnier game (nothing beats NES Canada), but Fractured But Whole had it's moments, and the combat was far better. 8 bit Canada had me laughing for a good while the first time I saw it.
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