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RichterIX posted:Yeah, the whole lab bit was the only part of the game that really had me tapping my foot. I know some people have called other parts "filler" but that's the only part that really felt that way to me. Also, and it might be just me, but for games that open up again after the endgame, I always tell myself it'll go back and do stuff that I missed, but I never actually do. Once I know the end of the story, the motivational push just goes away.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Cheese him off the cliff like god intended Time to look this up, thank you Edit - lol was easy as hell bows1 fucked around with this message at 02:12 on May 26, 2020 |
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Bust Rodd posted:Just a heads, this is precisely the point where the game goes almost completely on-rails and everything from here on out will be extremely linear. That's fine, I think the reason I stopped playing was not-Venice's confusing layout and burning out on the terrible sidequests so I'm ready to push through to the end.
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RatHat posted:So is the stream going to only be TLoU2? I don’t really care enough about the gameplay to watch it. Probably since it's like a month away from release. It'll be funny to hear them talk about a camo index or prone crawling as exciting new features.
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precision posted:Can someone give me the TLDR on Cities Skyline DLC?
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homeless snail posted:Hi Joel gently caress!!
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Replaying Portal 2 here. Got drat it is so so good. I'm playing it for the first time. 
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univbee posted:I've been curious for a while if it would be possible to make a rough port of FF7 onto an actual modern-ish N64 cart, like one that's got too much storage to be cost-effective at the time while still being realistic to the hardware (like 96-128 megabytes). The challenge is that all the game's assets for the PS1 version minus the cutscenes takes up 200 megs. I think it'd be possible. Resident Evil 2's two discs were crammed into a 64MB cart, and they even left the FMV cut scenes in. It took quite a lot of compression wizardry, and the cut scenes look like poo poo, but if a competent dev team handled it, I think it'd be possible. The question is whether it'd be too ugly for the average person to want to play.
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Fix posted:I'm playing it for the first time. It's so good. Gah, both of them.
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Is the playstation network just kind of rear end during quarantine? I can't stay connected to anything (streaming, games, etc) during this time but everything else on my network is fine.
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The Grey posted:Call of Duty: WWII announced as a June PS+ game. Oh nice, I was just thinking I’d like to shoot some old school FPS guns after playing with rifles in division 2. Perfect timing.
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seiferguy posted:Is the playstation network just kind of rear end during quarantine? I can't stay connected to anything (streaming, games, etc) during this time but everything else on my network is fine.
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Hey, someone mentioned Tomb Raider a few pages ago and I'm actually on Rise right now. Its...pretty good. It kinda feels like the jump from Arkham Asylum -> City where they made it a liiiiiiittle too open and kinda messed up the pacing. The first time I met a guy who gave me a sidequest to destroy five radio relays I rolled my eyes so hard. Also, maybe I'm just an amazing tomb guy after beating the first one a couple weeks ago but the puzzles seem a little easier so far? I'm only about four tombs deep though so maybe it gets harder later. I like the setting, though! I thought it was funny that all the outfits are appropriately cold weather gear, even all the DLC bonus stuff, and then the very first new outfit you can buy from the vendor is a tank top with a kevlar vest 
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Samurai Sanders posted:I haven't noticed anything specific about the PSN but my internet is way slower on especially weekend evenings than before. It's hard to tell. I watch either netflix or hulu on my ps4 and the stream will die midway, but if I run a speed test I'm pulling 100mb down like usual, and my ps4 is plugged directly into my router. I'm just assuming its everyone using the internet in my area causing the slowdown.
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Wolfsheim posted:Hey, someone mentioned Tomb Raider a few pages ago and I'm actually on Rise right now. Its...pretty good. It kinda feels like the jump from Arkham Asylum -> City where they made it a liiiiiiittle too open and kinda messed up the pacing. The first time I met a guy who gave me a sidequest to destroy five radio relays I rolled my eyes so hard. Also, maybe I'm just an amazing tomb guy after beating the first one a couple weeks ago but the puzzles seem a little easier so far? I'm only about four tombs deep though so maybe it gets harder later. I found the DLC stuff and all the cards to be better than the actual game. Give it all a shot.
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Yeah the Baba Yaga DLC is great, and the mansion DLC is full of Easter eggs if you’ve played the older games.
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veni veni veni posted:Baba Yaga was Rise Yeah I got Rise and Shadow mixed up.
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RatHat posted:Yeah the Baba Yaga DLC is great, and the mansion DLC is full of Easter eggs if you’ve played the older games. There is also the coop survival roguelike mode in it that is surprisingly deep. I liked the Cold Darkness scenario too.
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If you have PSVR, Rise of the Tomb Raider is also worth having for the bonus mode for Lara’s house. I don’t know if I’d say it’s worth the cost of the whole game just for that, but it is pretty enough in VR that it made my mom cry over how cool it looks. 
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Fix posted:I'm playing it for the first time. What blows me away with Portal 2 even now is how good the in-game animations look. It's still light-years ahead of most stuff you see in modern games where everything looks so badly keyframed. I know Valve really started pushing that with Episode 2 (they talked a lot about the opening bridge sequence back in the day) but Portal 2 is on another level. The way the two main non-player characters animate is just so well done, it's incredibly evocative given what they actually are and what the designers had to work with. Then all the little animations around the test facility like the broken plates moving around, the turrets, doors, EVERYTHING. I'm playing on Xbox and you could absolutely slap this game on PS4 no problem, it's a testament to how important art design is over photorealistic graphics, something I've always thought Valve really understood and why HL2 still looks way better than some of its contemporaries, specifically Doom3. It's an astounding game and I'm sure you'll enjoy it!
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I can’t wait for the day TLOU2 is released and we can talk about stuff using tags in here and not be followed around by a cabal of pants-shitters 
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Lara being a straight up sociopath really rubbed me the wrong way at the beginning (maybe back when she was a blob of pixels it kind of distanced you from it) and then the actual game being pretty bland is what's stopped me playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider later.
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So I'm playing Horizon Zero Dawn and I kinda like it, but it hasn't really wowed me so far... Do the different dialogue choices have any impact on the game? Because I kinda zoned out on some dialogues and then I had to choose how to react. Especially in the beginning everybody loves to chat away, while I just want to stab things. And the campfires, how do they work? If I encounter one, do I have to quicksave at it in order to be able to fast travel to it later? Or is just discovering it enough? And one more stupid question: if you buy a new type of weapon, you get some kind of tutorial 'quest'. Do I have to activate those quests in order to complete them? Or will they auto complete when I shoot 3 watchers in the eye (for example)? shut up blegum fucked around with this message at 07:51 on May 26, 2020 |
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shut up blegum posted:Do the different dialogue choices have any impact on the game? Because I kinda zoned out on some dialogues and then I had to choose how to react. Especially in the beginning everybody loves to chat away, while I just want to stab things. 1. Not that I can remember, the story is very linear 2. Just discovering 3. I don't think you have to activate them
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It's been a while since I played through it, so I don't recall the answer to the final two questions. Dialogue-tree choices do not have any major bearing on anything. Just role-play Aloy however you'd like! HZD gets better as you reach the mid-game. The combat against the larger robots is really what sets the game apart, and it's a lot of fun.
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lordfrikk posted:Lara being a straight up sociopath really rubbed me the wrong way at the beginning (maybe back when she was a blob of pixels it kind of distanced you from it) and then the actual game being pretty bland is what's stopped me playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider later. IT helps that the original game has you killing mostly animals and not people. But now that technology has advanced to the point where you actually have dialogs and personalities, its a lot more apparent. Also, Shadow of the Tomb Raider does something I thought was really annoying but is emblematic of a lot of media. They kill off the queen and person that was supposed to do the actual thing of saving the World, and has Lara do it instead. But whatever, the stealth in that game is really fun.
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The dialogue choices in HZD have slightly different cutscenes for the main quest stuff, maybe other ones too but I’m fairly certain the differences are pretty minor, don’t think they affect the actual gameplay or overall plot. The fires I believe just automatically ‘activate’ and when you die you’ll start from the last or closest bonfire. I also don’t remember exactly how the quests work, but I’m pretty sure you do have to activate those quests to complete them, but other side quests you can complete without having them activated. I could be wrong but I feel like I had a few of them not active for a long chunk of the game, specifically because I’d done most of the stuff a ton of times so I was confused. But yeah, I also agree that HZD gets better like halfway through, it took me about a year before I actually got into it and finished the game, I found the combat confusing for the first half and I’m sure most of that was just because I took so many breaks in between advancing the main quest that I couldn’t quite figure out how to effectively use anything aside from the bow and the spear, and sort of used the sling. But doing the training ground quests or the hunting lodge quests were useful and helped me wrap my head around the trip caster, etc. Hopefully Exquisite Tea sees this and can actually give the correct answers, I’m fairly certain about the quest stuff, and I know that certain dialogue choices of quests will make more NPCs show up in the final quest because there’s a trophy for it but I don’t think it changes anything even in that quest besides the dialogue. Edit: it’s cool, you’re not an rear end. I post from my phone a lot and I’m not good at like, imhotep fucked around with this message at 09:48 on May 26, 2020 |
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don't mean to be an rear end, but would you mind paragraphing your posts, imhotep?
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DID SOMEONE SAY PORTAL 2????????????????????????
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VideoGames posted:DID SOMEONE SAY PORTAL 2???????????????????????? Yeah boiiiiii
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VideoGames posted:DID SOMEONE SAY PORTAL 2???????????????????????? Edit: minor spoilers I guess? I dunno. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 09:56 on May 26, 2020 |
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veni veni veni posted:Baba Yaga was Rise Yep. Baba Yaga is the only thing from the second game that stuck in my mind a month after finishing it. It's not that it was a terrible game or anything, it was just so safe in it's choices it became unmemorable. Friendly Fire fucked around with this message at 10:22 on May 26, 2020 |
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VideoGames posted:DID SOMEONE SAY PORTAL 2???????????????????????? No spoilers please I still haven't played it. (Mostly because my Microsoft Xbox 360 home computer system's power supply unit started making an awful noise when I first started it, and I still haven't gotten around to replacing it.)
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^^ I would never dream of spoiling it or any other game I laud  ---- you give me a piece of paper and a pen, an empty txt document or a mic and a recording medium and I could explain for hours and hours why I think Portal 2 is the best game ever made.  So happy whenever someone mentions it or says they are playing it or anything to do with it! I have so much portal 2 related gubbins back here. The final hours doc, chell figures, wheatley keyring, the physical version of the soundtrack, the big art book, the valve comic book because it had some portal 2 stuff in (the tf2 stuff was a nice bonus).PORTAL 2 YEEEEEEEEEEAAAHHHH
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VG have you played the Co-Op?
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