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Nostalgia is a blight on art That's my manifesto Subscribe to my zine
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smooth wander looks like he just walked out of a resident evil 2 cutscene
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May 24, 2020 07:54
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Chasing the dragon of realism and fidelity is weird to me. Like, applied to other games, I can't say I'd be into an okami or kirby game that went for full hair/skin mapped detail and whatnot. There's nostalgia and there's aiming for a style.
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May 24, 2020 07:54
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Samurai Sanders posted:Accusing people of being angry or yelling on the internet is worthless, always has been and always will be. It's completely deniable and unprovable no matter what written evidence you can point to. Calm down bro, you will live longer 
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May 24, 2020 07:55
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Samurai Sanders posted:Accusing people of being angry or yelling on the internet is worthless, always has been and always will be. It's completely deniable and unprovable no matter what written evidence you can point to.
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May 24, 2020 07:56
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:Chasing the dragon of realism and fidelity is weird to me. Remastered with vibrant twenty first century paints  (yes, hyperbole)
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May 24, 2020 08:04
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Wander's face in the remake looks dumb but fortunately you barely have to see it. I can see what people mean by the world not feeling as mysterious as the original, but the original also had an overdose of bloom lighting. Bluepoint changed the skybox from purplish to gray which I think was a big mistake, but they also did neat things like having the morpho butterflies from Last Guardian in some of the more verdant areas.
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May 24, 2020 08:07
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Peacoffee posted:Am I correct in believing that I can play Nier: Automata without playing Nier/going down the drakengard rabbit hole? Should I maybe at least watch a video? The one I checked out just started right off with spoilers for automata. Yes you're good. There are a few parts where knowledge of Nier would provide more context but that's about it. And the connection to Drakengard in the original Nier was almost non-existent, even moreso here. If you want the story of Nier then The Dark Id did a great Let's Play of it. There's also a Nier remaster probably coming out sometime this year. RatHat fucked around with this message at 08:35 on May 24, 2020 |
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May 24, 2020 08:31
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I wouldn't mind a PS4 version of the latest Drakengard with an okay frame rate. The game has a lot of other problems but I'd still give it another try.
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May 24, 2020 08:33
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bows1 posted:Ok FYI you have to do this before the boss you mentioned. I’m at the bird now after the two mini bosses. He’s definitely hard as hell but I’ve also now had a drink and that makes the timing much harder. However does anyone actually go toe to toe with him? Even parrying wipes you out. It was awhile since the last time I fought him but I don't think I braved trying to parry him at all, mainly blocked and dodged around him on the attacks where that's possible to get hits in on his back. There's also a thrust move he does a lot where a mikiri counter is really easy to pull off and I think there's a firecracker move that you can dodge through and get some attacks on him. You gotta keep a close eye on your posture and back off when it gets high, it's a tough and long fight but I never stopped having fun doing it. Alternatively you can just be way better than me and learn to deflect him properly. Good luck!
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May 24, 2020 08:41
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:Chasing the dragon of realism and fidelity is weird to me. Convincing animation is going to be a lot harder than convincing graphics in the new gen You could make everything almost photo-realistic but the suspension of disbelief will fall apart even more easily because of the graphics when you see some dude's head clip through a tree, or robotically change posture.
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May 24, 2020 09:03
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Zedsdeadbaby posted:Convincing animation is going to be a lot harder than convincing graphics in the new gen This is why I basically don't give a poo poo about photorealism or whatever and prefer to just have solid art direction. I want to play a video game not go outside.
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May 24, 2020 09:06
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Zedsdeadbaby posted:Convincing animation is going to be a lot harder than convincing graphics in the new gen Yeah there are already a lot of games that are photorealistic in screenshots(when there are no people/animals).
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May 24, 2020 09:10
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Peacoffee posted:Am I correct in believing that I can play Nier: Automata without playing Nier/going down the drakengard rabbit hole? Should I maybe at least watch a video? The one I checked out just started right off with spoilers for automata. Nier most definitely isn't necessary to play before Automata, but I would recommend you check out this really good video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8xx4sT6rEI
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May 24, 2020 09:34
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Just wanted to post and say Shadow of the Colossus is a really excellent game. One of the best!
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May 24, 2020 10:37
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VideoGames posted:Just wanted to post and say Shadow of the Colossus is a really excellent game. One of the best! Argh Videogames your latest Kirby AV is giving me some weird flashback to some kids cartoon and I can't quite think what it is: it had a bunch of spherical monsters, I think one was wrapped in mummie bandages edit: I think it was called Madballs
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May 24, 2020 10:44
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Spiderman trip report from the first couple of missions : Wheeeee! Not sure why they thought the science mini games were a worthwhile addition, though.
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May 24, 2020 10:48
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RatHat posted:Yeah there are already a lot of games that are photorealistic in screenshots(when there are no people/animals). It's weird watching PS5 game trailers and not being wowed at all by the visuals. I mean goddamn Crysis 1 and 2 had photorealistic foliage and nature shots more than 10 years ago. Same with racing games. I hope the big pushes this upcoming gen are to fidelity. Realistic cloth physics and attention to detail in things other than graphics, like interactivity and animation interactions. VR stuff with this gens best graphics on the next Gen consoles will be amazing on its own too I think.
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May 24, 2020 11:05
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OxMan posted:It's weird watching PS5 game trailers and not being wowed at all by the visuals. What PS5 trailers?
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May 24, 2020 11:09
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GodFall? Or god awful as I call it.
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May 24, 2020 11:10
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The brand new genre of looter-slasher.
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May 24, 2020 11:13
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:The brand new genre of looter-slasher. 
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May 24, 2020 11:13
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JollyBoyJohn posted:Argh Videogames your latest Kirby AV is giving me some weird flashback to some kids cartoon and I can't quite think what it is: it had a bunch of spherical monsters, I think one was wrapped in mummie bandages Ahhh! Real Monsters.
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May 24, 2020 11:17
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Quantum of Phallus posted:GodFall? I looked it up and saw 'Gearbox' before seeing 'Publishing' and immediately had flashbacks 
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May 24, 2020 11:42
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Infinitum posted:I looked it up and saw 'Gearbox' before seeing 'Publishing' and immediately had flashbacks Please don't post footage of me getting up at 3am for a piss.
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May 24, 2020 11:45
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Best thing about Colonial Marines is a single typo apparently hosed up most of the Alien programming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J8SzBhjqaQ
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May 24, 2020 11:49
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JollyBoyJohn posted:Argh Videogames your latest Kirby AV is giving me some weird flashback to some kids cartoon and I can't quite think what it is: it had a bunch of spherical monsters, I think one was wrapped in mummie bandages  Madballs is a game tho, I think I own one of them on Steam. Edit: o drat, beaten
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May 24, 2020 12:01
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Dan Didio posted:Ahhh! Real Monsters. How the hell did I not realise that show had Tim Curry and Jim Belushi.
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May 24, 2020 12:31
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JBP posted:I want to play a video game not go outside. So you won't be buying a Switch then.
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May 24, 2020 12:42
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Infinitum posted:Best thing about Colonial Marines is a single typo apparently hosed up most of the Alien programming There was way more wrong with that game than just the AI. The story was a dumb mess, the game had some odd decisions like cutting the magazine sizes in half from the movies, etc.
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May 24, 2020 12:54
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I've gotta see a realistic Kirby
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May 24, 2020 12:55
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Inspector Hound posted:I've gotta see a realistic Kirby 
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May 24, 2020 12:57
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Next time on Things I Immediately Came To Regret vv Kirby is not this handsome (I have a bunch of extra hands) vv
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May 24, 2020 12:58
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Inspector Hound posted:I've gotta see a realistic Kirby Turn off your monitor
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May 24, 2020 12:58
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Lobok posted:So you won't be buying a Switch then. I have a switch it doesn't leave the dock
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May 24, 2020 13:14
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Ten hours into The Sinking City (picked it up for 15$ on PSN right now) and I'm kinda loving this janky game? Pros: The setting is fantastic. Just getting around the city is creepy as poo poo in a Silent Hill way. Assests are reused alot because the city is huge, but I still get goosebumps just driving my skiff around the sunken parts of the story. The first diving section had me making GBS threads myself. The story is great. A lot of modern Cthulhu games have the problem of the protagonist going insane and discovering the horrors blah blah, but it's lost much of the impact as the Mythos became pop culture. In The Sinking City this isn't the reveal as much as the premise explicitly stated in the first minute. The game shaves off a lot of unnecessary explanation and gets right into an actual mystery that I don't already know the answer to. The VA and character designs are pretty great. I haven't seen one re-used speaking npc and they all look interestingly creepy and different. Middling: This game actually has you detectiving which is cool. There's a alot of different gameplay elements, good poo poo like recreating crime scenes and researching in archives. But also a lot of pixel hunting BS (I felt no shame referring to a walkthrough when I knew it was because I didn't look at something at the right angle or something). Bad: The combat and every element around it is terrible. Just set the combat to easy. The game also runs like rear end on my PSpoor. Just constant frame drops and texture popping. In conclusion, I definitely don't regret paying $15 for it, but it's definitely a Focus Home Entertainment game so set your expectations accordingly.
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May 24, 2020 13:19
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Samurai Sanders posted:Accusing people of being angry or yelling on the internet is worthless, always has been and always will be. It's completely deniable and unprovable no matter what written evidence you can point to. agreed "Nice Meltdown" has never been the own people thought it was.
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May 24, 2020 13:24
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Infinitum posted:Best thing about Colonial Marines is a single typo apparently hosed up most of the Alien programming The funny part is I played this with the typo fixed, and the AI is still complete dogshit. Like exceptionally bad. Worst than "run at you and try to kill you without consideration", because it can't even do that right. I tried to play this with every mod enabled that tried to restore and repair this game, and similar the Snyder cut, it's still garbage and people were making excuses for a shoddy product.
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May 24, 2020 13:32
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That’s the game Randy Pitchford outsourced to a smaller dev and used most of the budget to jumpstart production on Borderlands 2, right?
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May 24, 2020 13:43
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And Duke Nukem Forever 
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May 24, 2020 13:45
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