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tsushimachat: yeah i felt the same way re: the story. one thing i really liked was that the story was so completely on rails. like, i have criticisms for what the story _was_ but I was really glad not to have to janitor relationships or make sure to keep people alive (beyond full-on failure conditions, which was fine) or make Hard Decisions About Honor every twenty minutes. Having the narrative 100% divorced from the gameplay meant that I was pretty happy to sometimes be an honorable samurai-man doing standoffs and playing yojimbo, and sometimes happy to shank fuckers from the grass, and was always able to switch as soon as I got bored one way or the other. it was really nice that I never felt like the game compelled me to do something that I wasn't enjoying so that I could get the narrative outcome I wanted
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I felt like the game was pretty strongly telling me to fight with HONOR! Which put me as a (admittedly broke-brained) player in the same No-Fun position as trying to do the opening few missions of GTAIV by trying to honor Niko's dream of going straight this time.
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it's also nice ludonarrative harmony that the dishonorable tactics are significantly easier than the honorable tactics. you can be an upright samurai warrior guided by bushido like your uncle is telling you to, and get your rear end kicked a lot, or you can be a sneaky underhanded ninja backstabber like all the other characters are telling you to, and actually get poo poo done on the first try. you do make decisions about honor, the game just doesn't make a big deal about it, and the fact that you're doing it is written into the story challenging a dozen motherfuckers to a duel and winning is still totally badass though
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haveblue posted:it's also nice ludonarrative harmony that the dishonorable tactics are significantly easier than the honorable tactics. you can be an upright samurai warrior guided by bushido like your uncle is telling you to, and get your rear end kicked a lot, or you can be a sneaky underhanded ninja backstabber like all the other characters are telling you to, and actually get poo poo done on the first try. you do make decisions about honor, the game just doesn't make a big deal about it, and the fact that you're doing it is written into the story If you follow the story, even if you try to be honorable, you commit fairly serious war crimes. Like... we're talking about going from "underhanded guerrilla tactics against a superior invading force" on the dishonorable side of things, straight to genocide. It's jarring even if you're playing in a "ninja assassin" sort of way.
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MrQueasy posted:straight to genocide loving goons never change
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https://twitter.com/stablediff/status/1556646851675394048
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there wasnt any genocide in tsushima. there were definite war crimes, but the people you warcrimed were military invaders (the mongols bring zero civilians/support with them almost certainly to avoid this issue), and you were targeting them for being invaders, not because they're mongols
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Aug 9, 2022 16:17
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The story starts with you watching your dad get murdered by villagers who's island he's massacring. >_>
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Talking about war crimes the samurai slasher video game ftw.
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doesn't your dad get murdered by the mongol invaders? or is this some pre-story prologue I've forgotten about
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Aug 9, 2022 16:24
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Super Punch Out has a secret mode where two people can play against each other. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdVWQpeSupo
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really thought ghosts of tsushima was about picking rice all day and living the honorable peaceful life of a farmer, i am distraught that it is actually about killing people over and over again I have been sucker punched
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jins dad gets killed in battle when jin was a kid, later it turns out what he was doing at the time was fighting rebels on an island that you do as dlc or something (i think 'jins dad was on iki island' came later, before that it was 'generically died in battle' im pretty sure). i havent done the dlc; idk if your dad is supposed to be massacring innocent villagers but i somehow doubt it
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i’m gutted I can’t play it someone said it was assassins creed japan gently caress I love me some rear end creed. when it’s good it’s so good. origins owned and odyssey was good until I ran thin valhalla was too long and drawn out but the landscapes were incredible and the fighting was real good
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Achmed Jones posted:jins dad gets killed in battle when jin was a kid, later it turns out what he was doing at the time was fighting rebels on an island that you do as dlc or something (i think 'jins dad was on iki island' came later, before that it was 'generically died in battle' im pretty sure). i havent done the dlc; idk if your dad is supposed to be massacring innocent villagers but i somehow doubt it Your dad is sent to pacify the island. What does that usually entail? Maybe I am misremembering the DLC vs the actual story but I remember it being alluded to several times.
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that's basically what it is, yeah. you're turned loose in a large chunk of feudal japan and given a map full of icons. each icon is something you can do by either stealthing around or challenging it to a duel and getting mobbed by mongols. do enough of them and you get a mission that advances the overall plot and sometimes unlocks additional chunks of feudal japan and more map icons
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the best thing about asscreed valhalla was ninja sniping a whole fort then calling your longboat in to “pillage” with almost no opposition nothing will beat strategically placed plague corpses in origins, though. you could take out 50 guys by just waiting
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The 1 on 1 duels are some of the best content in that game, wish there were more of them. One of the most beautiful ones was the one in the garden.
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qirex posted:the best thing about asscreed valhalla was ninja sniping a whole fort then calling your longboat in to “pillage” with almost no opposition oh those dudes you poisoned? yeah my fave
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AnimeIsTrash posted:The 1 on 1 duels are some of the best content in that game, wish there were more of them. One of the most beautiful ones was the one in the garden.  i didnt even enjoy the fighting all that much, but they were awesome just for the backgrounds and stuff. i say that i really want a game like this but with no combat. but idk what would go in place of the combat for something like this - i guess it could be a survival sim sorta thing. only thing i can really think of is a puzzle game or photography game, and i dont think the technology is really there to do a really good photography game idk i like walkin around waterfalls and forests and petting foxes i guess
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Man i could not get into rear end origins, just excessively brown, splattered all over the landscape
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i really liked origins, weirdly for a desert setting i thought it was way more interesting than odyssey. once you’ve seen one pretty greek island you’ve seen em all, but origins had proper desert, semi-arid bits, lush delta plains. drat i like that game world a lot
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I knew he was a Quake Master, but it's good to see that he kept up with the professional gaming scene
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he also had his own thps spinoff iirc
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Stephen Hawking Pro Scientist
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Stephen Hawking Pro Scientist oh man i loved that game
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i wasn't great at it but you could get pretty far just spamming the 'research' and 'publish' buttons
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Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up, pick it up So here I am Doing everything I can Holding on to what I am Pretending I'm a science man
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Mr. Crow posted:Man i could not get into rear end origins, just excessively brown, splattered all over the landscape what the heck? origins has one of the most varied and interesting environments of any outside game
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i wanted to like assbro multiplayer, but the grind + being able to matchmake with max level players with everything unlocked made it a bit frustrating
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https://twitter.com/CommodoreBlog/status/1557081277102264325?s=20&t=a7t0fOTkGWCyljjW57byog Soldering all those boards by hand  Full video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JJywbVZvCI
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 Paid more than I probably should have for the SNES colorscheme model, but drat if it doesn't look gorgeous. Can definitely recommend the SN30 Pro if anyone's looking for a decent portable PC/Mobile/Switch controller, it actually feels really nice to use and it's become the go to for me whenever I need a pad for a game. Now to hunt down the SF30 model at some point heh.
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Does it have R1/R2 and L1/L2? I'm thinking of getting something other than an xbox controller for emulator stuff and that looks promising
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Yeah, not analog triggers unfortunately though so bad for racing games. Also has rumble and motion control, though I haven't figured out getting motion control on PC working yet, handy for Breath of the Wild and the like though. The Pro 2 has handles and analog triggers and macro mapping support, but it's also first party controller price so that's a consideration to make.
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echinopsis posted:what the heck? origins has one of the most varied and interesting environments of any outside game yeah but if you don't get out of bayek country you never learn this 
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The frustrating thing about the 8bitdo controllers is they have a wide variety of features but not all of the features are accessible in any one emulation mode -- the gyro isn't available in the Xbox emulation, the analog triggers are purely binary in the Switch emulation, the Android mode (normal USB HID DirectInput) limits basically everything and I've never gotten the macOS mode (some kind of half-assed DualShock 4 emulation) to work at all
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:yeah but if you don't get out of bayek country you never learn this the first time I played I didn’t get out of the tomb and didn’t come back for a while
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InternetOfTwinks posted:
yo the slight extension of the dpad and button circles to accommodate the twin sticks makes that controller look stacked
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even i own an sn30 pro. its very good
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I finished Forbidden West, and I enjoyed it a lot. It made a lot of improvements over the first game, and most importantly the boss fights were way better than the first game. I toned it down to easy for the majority of the game, and then story for the final boss fight. Don't know if it was because I didn't understand the combat mechanics but I kept on getting owned. Lol The 3rd game sounds like it will have a cool story.
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