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buglord posted:Don’t forget the half naked chick who must remain half naked in all cutscenes and environments otherwise she dies from asphyxiation I feel shame for my words and deeds.
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Edmond Dantes posted:yeah, drawing only increases accuracy, if you're at close range (or your target is big enough) you can just spam the button. Unless you're using the awesome DLC bows, which blow everything else in the game completely out of the water in terms of damage but only if you full draw. buglord posted:Don’t forget the half naked chick who must remain half naked in all cutscenes and environments otherwise she dies from asphyxiation You will be ashamed of your words and deeds
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Jul 18, 2021 18:42
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Oh good, I've always been full drawing for serious hits and have been using the DLC bows. Triple-shot with the dlc sniperbow is a great way to start fights or end them before they begin.
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Eason the Fifth posted:That you're a brainwashed off-brand version of Big Boss, which is an incredible gently caress-you to the player that only Kojima could deliver with the straightest of faces literally just MGS2 but more literal, and the obvious explanation of big boss being back in MG2 without making it canon he actually was a SNATCHER that and it was obvious from the first trailer that showed the first person hospital bed with kaz on one side and snake on the other
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Senator Drinksalot posted:Windows 11 looks really bad, is proton good enough to finally switch to Linux? I totally get this but keep in mind there’s no rush. We’ve got probably 5 years from the official release date where Win10 will be getting regular support. Just uh, maybe check the news every Patch Tuesday to make sure MS doesn’t try to install the new OS automatically.
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ymgve posted:Is Horizon better with mouse+kb or gamepad? Seems like there's a lot of precision aiming going on, which makes me lean towards mouse controls I tried both and prefer an Xbox controller. It's easier on the hands.
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Psycho Landlord posted:You will be ashamed of your words and deeds kojima: a genius, but also a loving idiot
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Jul 18, 2021 19:52
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Ciaphas posted:kojima: a genius, but also a loving idiot
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Jul 18, 2021 20:03
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Ciaphas posted:kojima: a genius
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Did anyone talk about how Quiets body had every part scanned including the feet? Now if you want to talk about feet, what about Miyazaki have the woman you interact with the most being barefoot with the most HD quality texture on them? Except for Bloodbourne.
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After revisiting everspace on a clean save, I've now 100%ed the game including all the DLC stuff and achievements exclusively on hard mode. So I will be purchasing everspace 2 whenever it's done assuming it doesn't somehow turn into a trash fire. how has it been shaping up?
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Gay Rat Wedding posted:After revisiting everspace on a clean save, I've now 100%ed the game including all the DLC stuff and achievements exclusively on hard mode. So I will be purchasing everspace 2 whenever it's done assuming it doesn't somehow turn into a trash fire. how has it been shaping up? Solid base, but slow progression with major updates. I think it's weakest part is the story currently and exploration which can get repetitive. I find it hard to judge right now if they can come around and make it satisfying in the end, or if it will fall short with the classical issues of rng loot in an open world. Supposed to be released in about a year so there's still some time.
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Senator Drinksalot posted:Kojima - Tarantino collab when? Lol, Kojima would cream his pants. (and so would I)
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Senator Drinksalot posted:Kojima - Tarantino collab when? Not enough gigabytes on earth to hold the combined fetishes.
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Senator Drinksalot posted:Kojima - Tarantino collab when? The highest quality rear end and feet rendering mankind has ever known
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State of Decay 2 heads: Does the game change dramatically as you progress? I’m finding the skinner box cycle kind of fun, but the gameplay is a little dull. I’m most interested in the macro-level gameplay. I assume that eventually I will be able to send out teams, build facilities remotely, etc? If the strategic layer of this game never goes beyond personally doing scavenging runs and playing the farmville base building game, I’ll probably check out.
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but of all the EEs, putting IWD into the BG2 enhanced engine is the most disappointing of them. The cool archeology and colony ecology story is still gonna be there but that's a hard hook to set for most people. So instead you have one of the tighter encounter tuned of those games stuck into an engine that makes the tuning mush.
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Senator Drinksalot posted:Windows 11 looks really bad, is proton good enough to finally switch to Linux? Win 10 will still exist, you know. You can just keep using it, at least until it stops receiving security updates in October 2025. I did the same for Win7 until it finally reached EOL and I took the free 'upgrade' to 10. Luckily by then there were already nice guides on all the switches you have to flip to remove/disable the worst stuff like the start menu ads and stupid cortana stuff. In 2025 Win11 will probably go the same way. Plus there'll be 4 more years of Proton development too.
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Anonymous Robot posted:State of Decay 2 heads: Does the game change dramatically as you progress? I’m finding the skinner box cycle kind of fun, but the gameplay is a little dull. I’m most interested in the macro-level gameplay. I assume that eventually I will be able to send out teams, build facilities remotely, etc? You eventually need to rely less on scavenging but will still be doing scavenging. Really for me the fun is finding the biggest spot on the map for a base and trying to get as self sufficient as possible. That said the gameplay is pretty repetitive. The other game modes (Heartland and whatever the other one is) are fun twists on the formula but I think you know what the game is at this point.
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Xander77 posted:I know very little about IWD or the enhanced engine. Elaborate? The enhanced edition of Icewind Dale includes all the extra class kits from Baldurs Gate 2. Some of those kits are more powerful which fucks up the game’s balance. This is an issue because IWD is basically a linear series of tactical fights that are super tightly tuned for the player’s level. I haven’t tried it personally, but can guarantee that some kits like Inquisitor or Undead Hunter would totally trivialize long stretches of the game. It’s not an issue so long as you build your party only using classes that were in the original game.
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Anonymous Robot posted:State of Decay 2 heads: Does the game change dramatically as you progress? I’m finding the skinner box cycle kind of fun, but the gameplay is a little dull. I’m most interested in the macro-level gameplay. I assume that eventually I will be able to send out teams, build facilities remotely, etc? Nope, you pretty much have it there. Unless there have been some big changes the management aspect doesn't increase in scope beyond some basic base upgrading and capturing outposts/scavenging personally. Hub Cat fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Jul 18, 2021 |
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Senator Drinksalot posted:Kojima - Tarantino collab when? If this ever happened it would be either a trilogy of five-hour movies released over fifteen years or a 200-hour video game with no ending and at this point I'm not sure which would be better/worse
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Hub Cat posted:Nope, you pretty much have it there. Unless there have been some big changes the management aspect doesn't increase in scope beyond some basic base upgrading and capturing outposts/scavenging personally. That’s a real shame. The base game mechanics are kind of shallow, and given the way that they’re structured, I had assumed that eventually you would be able to engage in high-level management, establish trade convoys, send units out to definitively repel the zombie incursion, and start making alliances with/eliminating enemy factions in other regions. Kind of a gradual zooming out of scope as you increase your capabilities.
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Xander77 posted:I know very little about IWD or the enhanced engine. Elaborate? Fruits of the sea posted:The enhanced edition of Icewind Dale includes all the extra class kits from Baldurs Gate 2. Some of those kits are more powerful which fucks up the game’s balance. This is an issue because IWD is basically a linear series of tactical fights that are super tightly tuned for the player’s level. I haven’t tried it personally, but can guarantee that some kits like Inquisitor or Undead Hunter would totally trivialize long stretches of the game. There's far more subtle differences no one has any business noticing since IWD:HOW was a fork of an early BG2 build that went its own way. Like on dual wielding for example that is now working the BG2:TOB way. And they did a do over on the enemy scripts which were originally simpler but very evil in the way it had class and AC based triggers - the game was originally about jockeying with disables or smurfing stats mitigated with buffs the AI doesn't "see" to prevent stuff from laser beaming your wizards and its much more BG2 bump combat leading up to spell duels. It all just feels icky if you've played the game before but new people don't need to worry about that.
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exquisite tea posted:Troy Baker at least knew the script he was reading, unfortunately none of the starfucker casting choices besides Mads did.
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Finished my Max Payne replay, first time in 20 years or whatever. Now its onto 2, going in blind. I've finished 3 some years back however. My god I need to remember to quicksave more often
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zedprime posted:There's far more subtle differences no one has any business noticing since IWD:HOW was a fork of an early BG2 build that went its own way. Like on dual wielding for example that is now working the BG2:TOB way. And they did a do over on the enemy scripts which were originally simpler but very evil in the way it had class and AC based triggers - the game was originally about jockeying with disables or smurfing stats mitigated with buffs the AI doesn't "see" to prevent stuff from laser beaming your wizards and its much more BG2 bump combat leading up to spell duels. It all just feels icky if you've played the game before but new people don't need to worry about that. Yeah, despite having played BG1 through TOB and spent a while posting on Spellhold, this reads like pure gibberish.
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Infinite Karma posted:Is it worth saving ~$25 (and hoping you can source the part that will inevitably be perpetually gobbled up) to do this pretty intensive modification to the system, instead of just getting the higher cost 256gb or 512gb models? I guess we wont know until there is a hardware/software teardown someone does. teagone posted:You void the Deck's warranty if you open the device and install your own M.2 drive. The slot is not meant to be end-user accessible. Nowadays if you look at it wrong you void a warranty.
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Darkrenown posted:I'm befuddled by the constant references to Cyberpunk being bad. Since we're in the Steam thread I assume we're not talking about the terrible previous gen console ports. On PC while it had a fair bit of UI/combat jank, it was unparalleled in storytelling/worldbuilding/atmosphere. It was certainly a flawed diamond, but some parts of it really shone. It's wild to hear someone say that Cyberpunk 2077 had unparalleled worldbuilding. It's a mishmash of cyberpunk pastiches that the IP it's based on helped popularize but it does almost nothing new or original and almost everything about the way it presents the world is bad. Everything about Cyberpunk is incredibly bad except for a couple of the characters being memorable and fun. I'm constantly befuddled by people who try to say that Cyberpunk 2077 was an even lukewarm okay-ish game. It's the Space Jam 2 of video games. The game is packed full of hundreds if not thousands of readable text logs but every single one of them follows one of two or three formulas. Like... GANGSTER 1: I got the stuff, choom! GANGSTER 2: You got the stuff? GANGSTER 1: Yea I got it choom! GANGSTER 2: Ok hold onto it until tomorrow GANGSTER 1: No way I'm going in right now GANGSTER 2: No don't! Wait did you go already? Snake?... SNAAAAAKE?! -found conspicuously on the corpse of a gangster that you looted different stuff from. And most of the worldbuilding storytelling that exists takes place in these text logs. There's no interesting incidental dialog that you overhear, almost no visual storytelling whatsoever, nothing that you infer yourself - you find out about sweet tech that powers the world because you read a few text messages about a gangster trying to sell it and getting murdered. There are a few interesting pieces of storytelling but percentage-wise they make up a fraction of a percent of the game and they all rely on the same gimmick of storytelling; you show up, see some people, have to decide whether or not you want to kill them, and then find out afterward whether they were good people or not. Most of the memorable emotional hooks in the game are "Gah! I shouldn't have let that person go!" or "Gah! I should have let that person go!". The illegal porn dad, the suicidal vet, basically the entire questline with the psychos. We're supposed to believe that you, the player, met Jackie and became BFFs within 6 months of doing crimes together that we only see in an awkward montage cutscene at the start of the game. This is supposed to be believable in a world that posits that literally everyone is out to get you and you can't trust anyone. The protag is implied to have faced plenty of nasty poo poo in their life before the game starts, yet the major emotional turning point and catalyst for large parts of the plot is that this person you did crimes with for 6 months died while doing a crime with you. That's not to even get into how often it trips over itself with sexuality and gender and how its whole "woke" take on LGBTQ issues is that everyone is sexually attracted to everyone and gender/sex/orientation are invisible non-issues that got swept under the rug, but then it shoots itself in the foot constantly by for example being full of hetero male-centric sex ads about how cybernetic penises will make all the women want to gently caress you for 12 hours straight, and how when you go in brothels the male sex workers are all fully clothed and the female sex workers are all naked.
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Today I learned the secret to enjoying Baldur's Gate: getting a mod that increases the out-of-combat walk speed to 150%. I am now actually playing and enjoying the game instead of waiting for everyone to crawl everywhere!
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StrixNebulosa posted:Today I learned the secret to enjoying Baldur's Gate: getting a mod that increases the out-of-combat walk speed to 150%. I am now actually playing and enjoying the game instead of waiting for everyone to crawl everywhere! Whenever I replay BG I always make heavy use of the console. If you use it to enable cheats ctrl + j will teleport whoever you have selected to your cursor. Not good for unexplored areas but cuts down on the backtracking a ton.
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Senator Drinksalot posted:Kojima - Tarantino collab when? Imagine a visor staring at a human foot--- forever.
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exquisite tea posted:Keanu is fine in Cyberpunk, the acting overall is really good with a few standout performances in Judy and Jackie. Where the game falls short is the really weak and half-baked open world systems and unsatisfying role playing. For years CP2077 hyped itself up on presenting some vast, highly reactive and expansive world, with the tag line “and that’s just ONE quest.” Turns out they were kinda right! Pretty much. After "The Witcher 3", it's crazy how little your choices actually matter in the game. Literally the only point of the game that changes the ending is right before the climax and you can just reload the save from that point on and get all the different endings of the game. Dominoes posted:Troy Baker's char was an unforgivable B-movie villain. Yes. Stux posted:actually insanely easy, the character is literally esl. everyonec omplaining did not pay any attention and as such shall be duely mocked. "esl"?
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StrixNebulosa posted:Today I learned the secret to enjoying Baldur's Gate: getting a mod that increases the out-of-combat walk speed to 150%. I am now actually playing and enjoying the game instead of waiting for everyone to crawl everywhere! but have you tried the one where everyone's in their panties
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deep dish peat moss posted:It's wild to hear someone say that Cyberpunk 2077 had unparalleled worldbuilding. It's a mishmash of cyberpunk pastiches that the IP it's based on helped popularize but it does almost nothing new or original and almost everything about the way it presents the world is bad. Everything about Cyberpunk is incredibly bad except for a couple of the characters being memorable and fun. I'm constantly befuddled by people who try to say that Cyberpunk 2077 was an even lukewarm okay-ish game. It's the Space Jam 2 of video games. You're really exaggerating the text logs here there's like dozens variations like that including ones highly specific to a location or context, and are flat out wrong about there being no incidental dialogue. You can listen to tons of context conversations going on around you from strangers to quest NPCs when you aren't talking to them. Multiple times during quests you can stay nearby and listen in to conversations before taking down enemies and they'll be talking about their job, the mission they're on, their rear end in a top hat boss, etc. The whole Jackie/BFF thing is only specific to the nomad beginning. In the others it's set up from the start you grew up with Jackie and your lives just took a different path.
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