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Inzombiac posted:World will always be inferior to GenU since you can't play as a cat. I spent 20 minutes last night wailing in a velocidrome so I would question Palico modes greatness
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Palicos will straight up push you out of the way of a powerful attack and take the brunt of it themselves like a goddamn action hero
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Samuringa posted:Palicos will straight up push you out of the way of a powerful attack and take the brunt of it themselves like a goddamn action hero They'll drop what they're doing to free you from a chunk of ice too. Those little dudes are legit.
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Just like in real life, if you are asleep, your cat will run over and kick you in the face repeatedly to instantly wake you up from one of the most debilitating statuses in the game. Of the various flaws Monster Hunter (World) may or may not have, the palicoes definitely are not one.
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Emily Is Away Too has a really smart method of using licensed music and not paying for it. Characters in the game send you 'Youtoob' links, which take you to a page that embeds the YouTube version of the song. http://emilyisaway.com/youtoob/pT68FS3YbQ4/ What a neat way of getting around licensing fees, plus the very precise choice of music really contributes to the 2006-era mood of the game.
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CJacobs posted:Just like in real life, if you are asleep, your cat will run over and kick you in the face repeatedly to instantly wake you up from one of the most debilitating statuses in the game. Of the various flaws Monster Hunter (World) may or may not have, the palicoes definitely are not one. Unlike real life your Palico will not stop in the middle of a monster beat-down to hork up on the floor after eating that meal in town too quickly.
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Sometimes the cats will smack you out of being paralyzed and other times they will just run to you and crawl around shaking their butt. They are, after all, still cats
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Necrothatcher posted:Emily Is Away Too has a really smart method of using licensed music and not paying for it. Characters in the game send you 'Youtoob' links, which take you to a page that embeds the YouTube version of the song. "not available in your country" well i guess that's a game i should not be buying
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Got to the point in Legends of Troy where Ajax is driven mad by Athena and the boss fight at the end is a surprisingly deep cut: Lyssa, the goddess of Madness, Rabies and Unfettered Rage. The same goddess that Hera sent to drive Hercules to murder his wife and children, and that Artemis sent to drive a shepherd's dogs to tear him apart for seeing her naked. Now Athena has sicced her on Ajax for looting her temple and possibly raping Cassandra (unless that crime happens later, it seems to be off screen if not) It's a mildly annoying fight, but a neat Deep Cut that I didn't expect.
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Dr Christmas posted:If I will be playing the Yakuza games through Steam, which one should I start with? Start with 0 then skip Kiwami and go straight to Kiwami 2.
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Kiwami is good though. If inconsistently paced.
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play Kiwami, it's good. The side quests aren't as great and it has some very PS2 bits but it's a fine game with a better story than 0 imo
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I dropped Kiwami 70 percent in, having long passed the level-cap, because I would get knocked flat on my rear end a dozen times in every boss fight. Yakuza 0 may have been easy but at least you could maintain your combo-meter without relying on items.
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Boycotting Kiwami until they bring back Mark Hamill.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:play Kiwami, it's good. The side quests aren't as great and it has some very PS2 bits but it's a fine game with a better story than 0 imo Boss fights in Kiwami are incredibly tedious. Just finished Kiwami 2 and it's a huge improvement.
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oh definitely, K1 is the weakest of the 3 on PC but I wouldn't recommend skipping it at all. I'm playing K2 now and really enjoying it. I'm in two minds about the combat changes, on one hand the "feel" is really improved and being able to take the fight into stores is great, but I miss the styles and the skill trees are incredibly boring now compared to some of the awesome/funny/novel1 poo poo you could unlock in 0/1
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Man there’s just so much to do in Witcher 3. Also titties
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:oh definitely, K1 is the weakest of the 3 on PC but I wouldn't recommend skipping it at all. Yeah, it’s hard to pick a better game between 0 and K2 for these reasons. I lean towards 0, but I cheered out loud when I did the throw attack in the first fight in K2 and not only did it actually hurl him through the air and then through the window of a Smile Burger, but I was able to chase him inside and continue the fight in there, completely trashing the place, which was a really cool moment you can’t get in 0.
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I missed the part where you mentioned taking the fights into stores in the post I was replying to so I’ll just add that it’s really funny how mad the clerks get when you just calmly walk up to them and try to order a burger after crashing through the window with four other guys and then breaking all the restaurant’s furniture over the other guys’ heads
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Honestly, I think Kuze was a better villain than Ryuji
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Smirking_Serpent posted:Honestly, I think Kuze was a better villain than Ryuji
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I've been watching, and have almost finished, the Let's Play of a computer game from 1980 called The Prisoner, and while it's certainly slow going and not to everyone's taste, I was amazed to discover that, in a sequence that gauges (among other things) your susceptibility to subliminals, the words gently caress and oval office actually appear in the game, almost inperceptibly. That's not only wild for a mainstream computer game from 1980, but it's especially wild for a game published by a company that largely published educational software.
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The Prisoner wasn’t a properly licensed game, so the developers could get away with a lot of crazy poo poo. (There are a number of differences from the show so they could avoid getting sued.) I really like the design of the game. The only way to technically lose is to type in your secret code, at any point, and the game will try its hardest to trick you into typing it in. If you’re paying enough attention, you can always catch yourself in time. That said, you will get punished in other ways, either by lowering your score, or by wasting your time. Score is needed to win the game or get crucial hints; there is no lower limit, so you can get such a negative score that it’s better to just start over. Wasting time comes in the form of a long, unskippable cutscene that happens whenever you fail a task, and a maze you solve after to continue the game. I think those punishments capture the experience of the show very well. Number Six always makes progress towards escaping, but he always seems to end up where he started, despite being “ahead”.
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Yeah! It's loving bonkers, and that's what makes it so great - it was metagaming in 1980, way before the rules had really even been codified so that they could be broken. It's an outstanding achievement, really. ETA: there's a bit where the game pretends to crash, and if you know anything about the Apple operating system, and try to fix the error, you'll type in the series of key presses that will make you lose the game. I suspect the subliminal aspects were suggested by late 70s-early 80s alarmist Wilson Bryan Key, who wrote several books about subliminal advertising (one of which suggested that the Howard Johnson chain of restaurants churned up an appetite for its fried clam platter by having a doctored photo of said platter subliminally suggest an orgy). In the case of a Prisoner game, and in the way it's implemented, it's actually smarter than contemporary reality. Pastry of the Year has a new favorite as of 22:31 on May 23, 2019 |
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The game also has an actual crash screen. They wrote a custom error page and put a note on the screen saying that it was not a trick. The fake crash looks like a default BASIC crash handler that dumps you back to the shell, but the shell is really an in-game text prompt. The narrative in the game is very much like a prototype for games like Off, OneShot, and DDLC in how much it involves the player directly instead of through a player character. I can’t think of an earlier game that does that.
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I'm playing Muramasa on the Vita right now. It's the second time I've played it (first time was when it first came out on the Wii) and, drat, I forgot how gorgeous this game can get. Running through corn fields with stalks swaying in the breeze in the foreground and background was so nice I had to stop to take it in.
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When your Khajiit gets in a fight in Skyrim without a helmet, they lay their ears back. 
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Morpheus posted:I'm playing Muramasa on the Vita right now. It's the second time I've played it (first time was when it first came out on the Wii) and, drat, I forgot how gorgeous this game can get. Running through corn fields with stalks swaying in the breeze in the foreground and background was so nice I had to stop to take it in. You should try Odin Sphere Leifthrasir next. It's just as gorgeous. I also really wish they'd port the Vita version of Muramasa to PS4 so I could play it  .
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Neddy Seagoon posted:You should try Odin Sphere Leifthrasir next. It's just as gorgeous. Oh yeah I know, that one blew me away with how much better it was than the original. I switched between it on the vita and the ps4, and while you can't beat the portability of the vita, seeing those animations in HD was something.
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Started trying again at Bravely Second. Something I like is that the plot isn't structured like a normal game, now objectives are arbitrarily scattered all over the place rather than visiting areas in order and it feels more organic. Currently at the Ba'al Crater
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BioEnchanted posted:Started trying again at Bravely Second. Something I like is that the plot isn't structured like a normal game, now objectives are arbitrarily scattered all over the place rather than visiting areas in order and it feels more organic. Currently at the Ba'al Crater I feel like this is a strength of them making a direct sequel to an RPG with the exact same engine, which doesn't happen very often, especially with JRPGs. So they can start everything with the assumption that their audience is familiar with and recognizes the world around them, and doesn't have to worry about slowly introducing them to all these places.
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I was extremely disappointed with Bravely Default, but that sounds like they tried to address my biggest problem with the original, at least. Are the towns any less flat and lifeless feeling?
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I picked up Team Sonic Racing on a whim, and I'm actually really enjoying how they made teamwork an actual thing in a kart racer. You can share item boxes out to your teammates just by hitting B instead of using it with A, but you can also request they share items with you the same way. Sharing an item box to someone also just lets them roll on a flat-out better drop table, AND sharing boosts your team's Ultimate bar, so there's almost no reason to ever use an item you picked up yourself instead of sharing it to a teammate. The real trick is that if you get a box shared to you and it has 3x Rockets or something, you can use 2 of the Rockets and then share the item box again to keep the chain of item boxes going. There's also the stuff like how the teammate currently in the lead leaves a trail for other teammates that massively buffs acceleration and lets them charge a boost off of it, or how if you're close enough when overtaking a teammate and there's a big enough speed difference you give them a boost up to your speed which is great for recovering from attacks, but at this point I'd just be saying the game's entire gimmick is a 'little thing' It's just a shame there doesn't seem to be enough people playing online to have multiple human players on the same team Icedude has a new favorite as of 13:50 on May 27, 2019 |
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One small thing I like about Undertale is that you get a raw glimpse into the character of the person playing it For instance, my girlfriend pet the lesser dog to the point of maxing out it's neck length, then killed it, so now I might break up with her???
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It's kinda the antithesis of something I was bitching about in the sister thread, but an issue with another game made me realize how Descent 2 really set the mark for helping players navigate a game's space. How did they do it? Maps? Alerts? Nope, they gave you Guide Bot; you release your little robot buddy and he'll guide you exactly where to go, every step, and never once slammed its cute little guidebot face against a wall or anything.
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Riatsala posted:One small thing I like about Undertale is that you get a raw glimpse into the character of the person playing it 
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Riatsala posted:One small thing I like about Undertale is that you get a raw glimpse into the character of the person playing it
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Icedude posted:I picked up Team Sonic Racing on a whim, and I'm actually really enjoying how they made teamwork an actual thing in a kart racer. I had a lot of problems finding matches on release but I have found 2 nearly full rooms via quickmatch today on a monday of all days, so people might have just been cautious about buying it until reviews or just couldn't until the weekend.
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MisterBibs posted:It's kinda the antithesis of something I was bitching about in the sister thread, but an issue with another game made me realize how Descent 2 really set the mark for helping players navigate a game's space. I'm not really sure this was a good decision, because it led them to make a lot of maps that are almost impossible to navigate when you aren't being led by the guide-bot.
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haveblue posted:I'm not really sure this was a good decision, because it led them to make a lot of maps that are almost impossible to navigate when you aren't being led by the guide-bot. It was Descent. You couldn't really make a map that was possible to navigate without him, which is why he was put into the sequel. Content/addition: it wasn't very good overall, and its low-hanging appeasement, but I loved in Descent 3 one of the levels was set on the moon. They put the little "hey here's the first level of Descent 1!" moment in a perfect spot, where you're going around all this stuff without thinking too much, and then oh man, I know this room.
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