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playing game of the year it takes two. we’ve skipped every cutscene because the dialogue is unbearable but the gameplay is pretty tight and fun
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barotrauma status: someone accidentally(?) loaded a nuclear shell into one of our ventral railguns and one of the new players saw a crawler swim up to pursue the submarine while we were about 10 seconds away from station docking. they shot it at point blank it's moments like these that make me enjoy multiplayer games 
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https://twitter.com/caIamarti/status/1492322228955983876
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Vintersorg posted:it'll always bug me how they rat hosed that series in the name of greed Unless posted:they had a silly plan to release the sequels to hl2 as episodes and quit after the cliffhanger at the end of 2 and then retcon’d This take is so off the mark I'm actually curious where you got it
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Feb 13, 2022 18:32
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They pioneered the money printing concept of episodic content and then cancelled it for a decade until they released a vr only game on money losing hardware None of that would have been possible without Gabe Newell owning Valve privately and steam paying their bills enough they could be perfectionists about the series
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RokosCockatrice posted:This take is so off the mark I'm actually curious where you got it right?
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Feb 13, 2022 18:53
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seemed a reasonable take to me 
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Feb 13, 2022 19:23
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but it's the exact opposite of greed. they said they made a mistake with the episodic format and didn't feel like they could keep turning out high quality episodes so they scrapped it altogether. if they were driven by greed they would have just cashed in and released bland episodes until they drove it into the ground
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Feb 13, 2022 19:34
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Gordon Freeman Forever is gonna come out one day
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i interpreted the greed comment as them taking the easy route cashing in on stuff like tf2 hats instead of finishing what they started
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Feb 13, 2022 21:44
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they completely abandoned finishing the story after they saw how much money cosmetic microtransactions make they could have had a team continue it while still making their 100s of millions but didn’t that’s what I meant
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Feb 13, 2022 22:06
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RokosCockatrice posted:They pioneered the money printing concept of episodic content is it though cause they also invented lootboxes and tf2 hats shortly afterwards
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Feb 13, 2022 22:42
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Vintersorg posted:they completely abandoned finishing the story after they saw how much money cosmetic microtransactions make this is where you're wrong- HL3 development was started two times in the intervening years and abandoned once gabe said it wasn't good enough
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I mean, you're wrong in several ways but that's a good starting place
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Feb 13, 2022 23:01
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a few years ago someone posted a maybe gender-swapped summary of what hl3's story would have been, and they didnt release that because the ending would have been pretty disappointing
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it was Marc laidlaw, the writer for the half life series. it was the hl3 script he had written that tied it all up. he released it with different names for stuff but if you’ve played the games you’ll know what’s happening he released it as “Epistle 3”: https://www.marclaidlaw.com/epistle-3/
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finished Death’s Door. What a nice time. Needed a map though. True Ending: was disappointing… only one extra boss who was fairly meh in comparison to the lord of doors fight. not sure I would collect ALL THE THINGS if I knew it was going to be underwhelming
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y'all complaining about half-life like they didn't just ship a new half-life two years ago
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pseudorandom name posted:y'all complaining about half-life like they didn't just ship a new half-life two years ago didnt the steam thread get extremely salty that alyx was vr-only?
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Feb 14, 2022 06:42
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drat. has it been 2 years already
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i read more than one post where the poster was really disappointed with alyx and said it was boring and crappy and lame and short, and then it came out some time later that they didn't have a vr headset and had used some hack to play it on a flat screen with a mouse and keyboard.
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lol no way
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Silver Alicorn posted:drat. has it been 2 years already 2 years or 1 pandemic, however you measure it
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Sagebrush posted:i read more than one post where the poster was really disappointed with alyx and said it was boring and crappy and lame and short, and then it came out some time later that they didn't have a vr headset and had used some hack to play it on a flat screen with a mouse and keyboard. They were wiser than the people spending four figgies on a metaverse intterfacing helmet
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ichiban is such a good dude. i hope things end up better for him in the next yakuza.
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got the hitman 3 elusive target by making him slip on a banana peel and then shooting him in the head. the perfect crime
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Jenny Agutter posted:got the hitman 3 elusive target by making him slip on a banana peel and then shooting him in the head. the perfect crime Open and shut Johnson, the banana shot him, shed it's clothes and left
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RokosCockatrice posted:this is where you're wrong- HL3 development was started two times in the intervening years and abandoned once gabe said it wasn't good enough seems still abandoned sooo? stop splitting hairs ive read "hl is only made to push hardware" which seems like some BS - i'll stick with my hyperbole  my friend has Alyx though and im gonna try that once the plague settles. remember this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d6yBHDvKUw
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Alex is cool for what I tried of it but aiming guns kinda sucks. maybe it’s just me though. I have to shoot left handed because I can’t see well enough with my right eye
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my right eye is my bad eye (its the one my brain doesnt use) but i always shot right-handed growing up cause it was good enough and im right handed. i was a really good shot back in the day, except i never got the hang of wing shooting and never had the opportunity to actually sit down and practice i bet my right eye is bad enough now that i'd do better re-learning to shoot left handed
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Vintersorg posted:seems still abandoned sooo? stop splitting hairs it's not to push hardware, it's to push their software. basically the half-life series is any time they want to work on next-generation stuff. they then release the game as a tech demo to say, 'this is what this new stuff is capable of'
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alyx was made to push hardware, hl2 and episodes were made to push steam, I'm not sure if hl1 was made to push anything aiming a gun is hard in vr because it's exactly like aiming a gun in real life, namely a lot harder than aiming a gun in a normal fps
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haveblue posted:alyx was made to push hardware, hl2 and episodes were made to push steam, I'm not sure if hl1 was made to push anything do you even get to hold your gun with two hands for stability in vr
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Jabor posted:do you even get to hold your gun with two hands for stability in vr you can if you want, if you can get two hands on the controller without blocking a sensor or something it does help stabilize it I meant more that in VR you do have to pay attention to the angle of your hands, and the orientation of the gun, and use the sight or scope as it was intended to be used, as opposed to normal FPSes where the character aims unerringly at the center of the screen so you just have to get the crosshair on the target with the mouse or sticks if you shell out for accessories or get into maker poo poo you can have a VR controller shaped exactly like a pistol grip or a stock or whatever and then it feels like a real gun in your hands and must be aimed in literally the exact same way as a real one. the recoil and kick is still impossible to simulate, though haveblue fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Feb 14, 2022 |
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yeah VR is where I start to go like, why am I using my meat body and shifty nervous system here, I suck at coordination and this is just too realistic let me play dark souls instead
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elite dangerous is good though. I can fly a ship alright
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new Multi-Blank Technology: for gamers
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I'm gonna have to see if i can get elite dangerous going on my lovely internet, it's been way too long and i want to Space again
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