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Alhazred posted:That's another thing I liked about Hellblade. She looks like your average person, nothing about her is exaggerated. Which probably stands out a lot among video game protagonists. Actually, should say a lot that one of the most well known and iconic video game protags is a short, pudgy Italian plumber. People aren't actually that fussy about what your protag is or looks like as long as they're interesting. A rounded, realistic character if anything will stand out and get people invested because there's actual depth to it.
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I also like that while Senua looks "regular" she still looks distinctive. She has tattoos, blue facepaint and is one of the few white people that looks good with dreads.
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FFXIV Porn posted:Dokapon Kingdom For when you want a thinly veiled excuse to yell at your friends
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Just Cause 3: Some of the things you hear when you hijack a vehicle can be pretty good. Often its just screaming, but sometimes its like an indignant 'at least let me grab my purse  ', othjer times its someone yelling 'I LOVE YOU, RICOOOOOOooo-', and one I only heard once, 'careful with the shifter, it sticks in second' in a tired voice.You unlock vehicles for rebel drops which deliver them anywhere by taking them to a garage in a friendly town. If you bring like a high end sports car you'll get a comment from an ally on how cool it is, and how they may need to try it out on their own. If you bring a 'vintage' car, here meaning a junker that is more rust than metal, you can hear the eye roll as whe confirms you can now call one in. If you bring a tractor, her response is a kind of flat disbelief The game had three major DLCs, themed aroud Air, Land and Sea, with Sea coming last. How could they make the Sea DLC as interesting as the Air one that gives you a jetpack with homing missiles, or the Land one where you get mechs with gravity guns that can punt tanks? By making the main boat absurd as gently caress. Its like someone went 'what if jet firepower and speed, and tank armor, but boat?' and the results are amazing. It helps that you can then use it in any water race in the game, and it can devastate any military base near water with ease.
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Ashsaber posted:Just Cause 3: The vehicle unlocks really were the little thing in JC3, around release there were tons of twitter threads talking about how they unlocked the agency boat from the first game. It only spawned in one particular lake up in the mountains pretty far from the closest delivery point. So for a lot of people it turned into a whole adventure to unlock it. There were lot of valid solutions but they each had their own troubles, you could load it on a trailer, air lift it with a helicopter, slowly lower it down the cliffs to the ocean or load it into a cargo plane, etc.
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Sep 5, 2021 17:36
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People used vehicles in Just Cause 3? Even before I upgraded my wing suit with the rocket pack I don’t think I touched a car outside of a mission. It’s nice when open world games give you so many movement options that you never have to touch a car.
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Does Senua have good difficulty settings? My wife has been getting into a bunch of games with cool strong characterizations and from what I've heard/seen it looks like Hellblade would be up her alley, but at the same time she is definitely not someone I feel comfortable recommending a Ninja Theory game to at her level of comfort.
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Rockman Reserve posted:Does Senua have good difficulty settings? My wife has been getting into a bunch of games with cool strong characterizations and from what I've heard/seen it looks like Hellblade would be up her alley, but at the same time she is definitely not someone I feel comfortable recommending a Ninja Theory game to at her level of comfort. The game defaults to an adaptive difficulty that adjusts the number of monsters depending on how well you are doing, but there's also a standard easy mode. Although there are some fancy combo strings and techniques like perfect parry, you can just mash through the campaign with light and heavy attacks. If Senua ever gets knocked to the ground you can button mash to cheat death. It's not a very difficult game. Early on they give you a warning about dying too many times but this is (potential huge spoiler) also just an illusion, in that it doesn't mean what you think it means and becomes totally recontextualized by the end.
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Hel posted:The vehicle unlocks really were the little thing in JC3, around release there were tons of twitter threads talking about how they unlocked the agency boat from the first game. It only spawned in one particular lake up in the mountains pretty far from the closest delivery point. So for a lot of people it turned into a whole adventure to unlock it. There were lot of valid solutions but they each had their own troubles, you could load it on a trailer, air lift it with a helicopter, slowly lower it down the cliffs to the ocean or load it into a cargo plane, etc. That boat was such a pain to get. There was only one helicopter that could lift it, so you had to hijack one of those from a military base and get it out unscathed, then work out how to attach the cables to the boat so that it wouldn't swing loose, then lug it alllll the way over to the cliffs without hitting any peaks or trees so you could safely drop it into the ocean. My only complaint was that the game was so big it made everywhere feel the same. Why bother looking round this little village when you can zipline past it at 50mph?
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The big problem with JC3 for me is that you can't do fun drive-bys and keep going, since to progress in the game you have to 100% towns, areas, provinces, etc. Half the fun of JC2 was starting a car chase in one end of the map and ending it on the other and strafing whatever was by you on the way. Did JC4 fix that?
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RBA Starblade posted:The big problem with JC3 for me is that you can't do fun drive-bys and keep going, since to progress in the game you have to 100% towns, areas, provinces, etc. Half the fun of JC2 was starting a car chase in one end of the map and ending it on the other and strafing whatever was by you on the way. Did JC4 fix that? JC4 still requires you to take over the world to progress, but I think both 3&4 now let you reset towns and bases so they are enemy controlled again. But this is a big problem in some open world games, as you progress the world becomes less interesting.
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Something I do like with Far Cry 4 is that the main character has reactions to some of the missions rather than being a total blank slate - like one optional mission where the briefing is "Kill all the honeybadgers because my wife was eaten by rabid honeybadgers!" results in Ajay, shortly after leaving the guy to do the thing, just giggling to himself at how ridiculous that death was.
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Sep 5, 2021 20:31
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darkwasthenight posted:That boat was such a pain to get. There was only one helicopter that could lift it, so you had to hijack one of those from a military base and get it out unscathed, then work out how to attach the cables to the boat so that it wouldn't swing loose, then lug it alllll the way over to the cliffs without hitting any peaks or trees so you could safely drop it into the ocean. I could never get the tethers on the helicopters to balance the load out, so I tether-after-tether dragged it the entire way to the nearest* garage. The things you do for achievements.  *not nearby at all!
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You could probably fault Tomb Raider 2013 for deciding to off its main antagonist using a couple of simple QTEs after the actual final boss fight, but I hardly even care because quick-pressing LT/RT to dual-wield pistols out of nowhere is both hilariously and satisfyingly over the top 
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Axiom Verge 2: The PC in 2 has an entirely different set of powers to the PC in 1, and its actually a plot point. Not only in things like her primary weapons are axes compared to the gun user from the original, but pretty much all the movement powerups are also completely different. There are a couple that work similarly, but even for those they work differently enough to change the feel completely. Like, in the first game you have the address disruptor which lets you change enemies and the environment, because that's what the main character can do, but in 2 you have an explicitly mechanical hacking power instead that gives you more control over what you do to things and can't really backfire on you like the first could in a couple situations, but it can never do anything to organic enemies you can find later on. Also, a little thing that has huge spoilers, at the start you have a red healthbar for your human body, and a purple one for your little remote control drone. Later on once you can turn your body into the drone your healthbar turns permanently purple The game takes place on a toroid world, so when you can see the far off background you can usually see more land, often similar to the area you're in at the time.
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Len posted:For when you want a thinly veiled excuse to yell at your friends it's genuinely excellent. mario party is a hug party compared to how much dokapon kingdom will make you so loving mad at everyone you're playing with. they should make a new one
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I played dokapon one time with a friend then they renamed me to buttface and I ragequit
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Kitfox88 posted:I played dokapon one time with a friend then they renamed me to buttface and I ragequit 10/10 goty more games need to let me rename my friends to buttface
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Played through more of the story of Death Stranding after a long while of just doing deliveries, and one of the lines after a major event genuinely made me laugh. After doing some MGS4 boxing with bad guy Higgs, Fragile steps in for the actual killing part while Sam goes to his sister. Fragile goes back to Sam with Higgs' mask and says "I've brought you a metaphor." Pretty funny to me after Higgs just spent the last half-hour of the game trying to hammer home the mask as a metaphor.
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Red Minjo posted:Played through more of the story of Death Stranding after a long while of just doing deliveries, and one of the lines after a major event genuinely made me laugh. After doing some MGS4 boxing with bad guy Higgs, Fragile steps in for the actual killing part while Sam goes to his sister. Fragile goes back to Sam with Higgs' mask and says "I've brought you a metaphor." Pretty funny to me after Higgs just spent the last half-hour of the game trying to hammer home the mask as a metaphor. https://youtu.be/QB13q0cJ7xc
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FFXIV Porn posted:it's genuinely excellent. mario party is a hug party compared to how much dokapon kingdom will make you so loving mad at everyone you're playing with. they should make a new one Make it on PC and throw it on steam. It doesn't even need to be a new one just port what already exists
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Rockman Reserve posted:Does Senua have good difficulty settings? My wife has been getting into a bunch of games with cool strong characterizations and from what I've heard/seen it looks like Hellblade would be up her alley, but at the same time she is definitely not someone I feel comfortable recommending a Ninja Theory game to at her level of comfort. I died a lot, but I don't think you should use me as a baseline for how difficult the game is. I found the combat less rage inducing than Heavenly Sword (no savepoints when you fight wave after wave of enemies) and more interesting than Enslaved (you can use just use light and heavy attack but you can also string combos together). To put it like this, if I got through the game without throwing the controller at the wall then your wife should be fine.
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I beat Hades last night. Limped out of the last fight with a whole 7 hit points, but I did it. I was aware I was getting close, while also knowing there was a lot of stuff in the game I hadn't done, skills to unlock and weapons to enhance, people to make friends with, and I wasn't sure if I was going to want to keep playing past that point, even if there was so much more to unlock. But man, i need to go talk to Persephone again. And yeah, of course a cthonic god on an orphic quest can't escape the underworld permanently.  in retrospect, not a surprise. Also my dad is such a dick.
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As in you beat Hades the dude, the boss, the final man of the run? If so, you absolutely haven’t beaten the game yet. The credits don’t roll until you’ve done that about ten times and even then the story isn’t over by any means. 
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Dewgy posted:As in you beat Hades the dude, the boss, the final man of the run? Yeah, this is where I am. I'm pumped to keep doing the same thing a few more times, shocking me. I did put the game away for a week or two because I wanted to work on my Stardew Valley farm, but I'm back into this now I guess.
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Speaking of Death Stranding: there's this one dude who asks Sam to bring him pizza. The guy's name is Peter Englert. The rest is spoilers: after doing all of these painful timed deliveries, including loving hand-carrying a crate of champagne all the way up from Timefall Farm, I informed the television that some day I would meet Peter Englert in the flesh, and on that day, I would hit him over the head with the largest cargo crate currently in my possession. Well, guess what. You eventually find out that Peter Englert is actually Higgs. And when you meet and fight Higgs in person, that's exactly what you do. The game knows, man. The game knows.
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The stuff with Peter is maybe the biggest gently caress you the game gives you and I love it.
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Philippe posted:The stuff with Peter is maybe the biggest gently caress you the game gives you and I love it. Post-game you can go inside his bunker and it's just full of discarded pizza boxes.
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RoboRodent posted:I beat Hades last night. Limped out of the last fight with a whole 7 hit points, but I did it. I was aware I was getting close, while also knowing there was a lot of stuff in the game I hadn't done, skills to unlock and weapons to enhance, people to make friends with, and I wasn't sure if I was going to want to keep playing past that point, even if there was so much more to unlock. I beat the final boss for the first time yesterday with aegis/aspect of chaos and the ares special doom buff along with a bunch of the Artemis + crit perks. As if that wasn’t enough, I also got the legendary perk that makes the Ares call do incremental damage on consecutive hits from Charon’s shop in Styx. It ate half his 2nd form’s health bar in one use lol. I think it’s kinda cool that bosses will react to what you’re doing situationally. Like the final boss will shield himself and summon minions if you damage him too fast. Also occasionally if you use a call ability on him, he’ll say “how dare you drag the olympians into this” and throw up an invulnerable shield. Now I have to go back and beat it again but I’m not looking forward to it since the only weapons I like are the shield and the spear and I have no more titan blood to upgrade the others. Edit: also I’m kinda annoyed that the achievements for this game are hosed just like Returnal. Some of them unlock fine, some refuse to no matter what (catching fish from each region, killing the skeleton guy 15 times) Frank Frank has a new favorite as of 13:24 on Sep 7, 2021 |
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Alhazred posted:I also like that while Senua looks "regular" she still looks distinctive. She has tattoos, blue facepaint and is one of the few white people that looks good with dreads. Same but with Aloy from HZD. She’s just a normal looking woman. They don’t even make her wear female boob armor or any of that bullshit.
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Frank Frank posted:
This doesn't actually happen at all. The shields and minions happen at set health percentages.
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Frank Frank posted:Same but with Aloy from HZD. She’s just a normal looking woman. They don’t even make her wear female boob armor or any of that bullshit. Of course she wears female boob armor. Male boob armor would require her to have a bigger gut for it to fit properly (I know what you mean, but I choose to interpret it this way).
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bewilderment posted:This doesn't actually happen at all. The shields and minions happen at set health percentages. He absolutely does say the thing about "the other olympians" - maybe shielding at that exact moment was a coincidence but it didn't look like it
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Frank Frank posted:Same but with Aloy from HZD. She’s just a normal looking woman. They don’t even make her wear female boob armor or any of that bullshit. Something something hire fans something.
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Pavlov VR is essentially counter-strike in VR, and many game types have significant downtime as you wait to respawn. Therefore you can end up spending a lot of time flying around the map in VR as a spectator. This has had two unexpected effects on me: The first is that I can fly a lot better in dreams, just straight up superman around instead of the weird impotent gliding I used to do. The second is that I've gotten over my phobia of heights, leaving only what I assume is the natural inclination to not fall off a cliff, but none of the extreme anxiety that wouldn't let me drive mountain-side roads or hike across grated bridges.
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Frank Frank posted:He absolutely does say the thing about "the other olympians" - maybe shielding at that exact moment was a coincidence but it didn't look like it Shielding is at set percentages, which is what I think they were referring to
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There are also special dialog lines (and a trophy) for using a god’s own call against them in a forced choice room
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Little thing in FTL- you can mind control an enemy and abduct them onto your ship with the teleporter unfortunately you can't shang hai them into your crew, but it means you can take em on 1 by 1, or stop them from going to the med bay, or be really mean and keep the teleport room in vacuum with reinforced doors
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christmas boots posted:Shielding is at set percentages, which is what I think they were referring to Win #2 came with the lovely bow of all things and in a heat run to boot
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The bow owns. 
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