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quote:DS3 is incredible. Especially at the point you're at. I hope you got the Ashes of Ariandel DLC, too, since it's got 2 awesome bosses and major Bloodborne vibes. I will always appreciate the DS3 dlc; it's the closest Miyazaki can get to physically breaking into your house and shrieking if you get it yet while shaking you like a madman.
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Bust Rodd posted:I’m in Chapter 4 of FFXV and the game seems very interested in expanding the world for all of CH3 and than dramatically reducing the scale and forcing me to find my own car. Should I just power through Story missions to get back my whip and enjoy the open world? I don’t remember any more when chapters happen or how the DLC has affected the main game but way back when at some point the story abandons the car entirely.
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Two hours in, but Rise of the Tomb Raider seems pretty good! It definitely has Metroidvania vibes.
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exquisite tea posted:Well there are some rumors that Control might be getting a movie adaptat-- This genuinely saddened me because I always mix up the names Gareth Edwards, director of Monsters, Godzilla, and Rogue One, with Gareth Evans, director of The Raid, and The Raid II, and Apostle. And hooooooly loving poo poo would I kill for a Control adaptation directed by the latter.
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Control being lit and shot like a Korean horror movie would be so unbelievably cool good lord I’m weeping.
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I stand firm that Remedy hasn't ever made a good game
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Standing Wrong Standing Strong
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RBA Starblade posted:I stand firm that Remedy hasn't ever made a good game Only great ones, agreed.
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Kilometers Davis posted:Only great ones, agreed. 
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RBA Starblade posted:I stand firm that Remedy hasn't ever made a good game I agreed with that right up until Control. They finally did it!
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Jan 24, 2020 17:50
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Max Payne 2 you dumb fucks!
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Lobok posted:EB Games and Best Buy are totally out of stock in store and online of the Back Button Attachment and Amazon.ca has it but for sixty goddang dollars for some reason. Guess I won't be getting it for a while!
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Housh posted:Southern Ontario didn't get a shipment. I searched Walmarts in Burlington and went to Bestbuy and Ebgames flagship shops in Toronto. They all said they never got the shipment. My amazon preorder updated to first week of feb. The sixty dollar ones are people posting on Amazon marketplace. What the gently caress? That's so weird when my Maritime rear end got them promptly. I'd flip you my extra one, but with shipping costs it's probably not really worth it when you can probably just wait a week and get it for normal price.
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Housh posted:Southern Ontario didn't get a shipment. I searched Walmarts in Burlington and went to Bestbuy and Ebgames flagship shops in Toronto. They all said they never got the shipment. My amazon preorder updated to first week of feb. The sixty dollar ones are people posting on Amazon marketplace. Ah yeah, I don't go on Amazon much and I always forget how they present items from people other than them. univbee posted:What the gently caress? That's so weird when my Maritime rear end got them promptly. I can feel the Centre of the Universe arrogance welling up in me. The GTHA region alone has a population of--! No Lobok, don't go down that road. Don't be that guy who justifies the Toronto hate. It's not even a controller. It's like a third of a controller.
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Lobok posted:I can feel the Centre of the Universe arrogance welling up in me. The GTHA region alone has a population of--! Yeah but that doesn't explain why Amazon shipped mine but not Housh's, Amazon doesn't care how dense your neighborhood is.
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I pity the people who started on Remedy with Alan Wake. I think I made it in this thread but see my previous posts regarding Max Payne 2. Quantum Break isn’t good though.
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Kibayasu posted:I pity the people who started on Remedy with Alan Wake. You're not a real gamer if you didn't start with Death Rally
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AllisonByProxy posted:This new photo mode they added in the KH3 DLC is too much fun. 
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Oh I forgot about Death Rally. Okay, one good game
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RBA Starblade posted:I stand firm that Remedy hasn't ever made a good game VVVVV Kilometers Davis posted:Only great ones, agreed. VVVVV VVVVV Quantum of Phallus posted:Max Payne 2 you dumb fucks!  Necrothatcher posted:I agreed with that right up until Control. They finally did it! VVVVV Quantum of Phallus posted:Max Payne 2 you dumb fucks! Death Rally, Max Payne, Max Payne 2, Alan Wake and Control are loving top tier.
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Alan Wake loving sucked I gave up on Max Payne 2 but I apparently hit that bug where the more you reload the more impossible it gets
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Alan Wake was OK and taught me a lot about reliable cell phone service and battery brands
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haveblue posted:Alan Wake was OK and taught me a lot about reliable cell phone service and battery brands In its defense its got a good Bad Seeds song in it so that gives it at least a couple points
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Not sure if posted but according to a study PlayStation has the biggest brand loyalty of the big three.
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punk rebel ecks posted:Not sure if posted but according to a study PlayStation has the biggest brand loyalty of the big three. Bah, Playstation fans never really had their loyalty tested.
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SONY’s biggest fuckup in the last decade was just “getting hacked”
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This is propaganda intended to stoke divisions among gamers to the benefit of our common enemy: the chore-responsibility complex (parents, spouses, teachers, bosses, etc)
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Approaching the end of Judgement. It's always a little bittersweet playing these games when all the sub-stories start to wrap up and you know the end is near. I'm just glad I was able to help that big-boobed hostess reach her dreams 
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punk rebel ecks posted:Not sure if posted but according to a study PlayStation has the biggest brand loyalty of the big three. I try not to be a fanboy but Sony has earned it over the last 5 years imo. Save for some hardware issues I really couldn't be happier with PS4.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Max Payne 2 you dumb fucks!
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Made some improvements. Honestly not sure why I didn't think of this first. Also: https://twitter.com/AllisonByProxy/status/1220809520454258688
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I feel another major factor is how relatively inconsistent the other platforms are. Nintendo consoles are a rollercoaster. Starting from the NES which was THE defacto standard to the SNES which while was a worthy successor found itself in direct competition with a rival platform. While SNES was still seen as the primary platform at the end of the generation being the king of many genres, the same can't be said about the N64 as it had far less third party support and was seriously lacking outside of platformers, sports, and FPS titles. The GameCube made things even worse because while third party support improved a tad, it lost out on being the powerhouse system as well as the system for FPS titles. The Wii was a huge departure for Nintendo, the company's main target was non-gamers and it became a family system rather than one primarily for core gamers and children. It also had a very divisive control scheme. I literally don't need to bring up the Wii U at all. It's self explanatory. However, with the Switch, Nintendo really laid back in it's experimental control schemes and decided to invest in a hybrid console where you can play your favorite games anywhere. So looking at it, pretty much every Nintendo console is very different from one another, so a successor my alienate previous users, while a theoretical new console might be met with understandable skeptism. In contrast, Sony consoles have little variability. The PlayStation was the market leader that had every genre under the sun covered. The PlayStation 2 was the defacto market leader that had every genre under the sun covered. The PlayStation 3 saw Sony fall as the market leader, but it still met the criteria as a console to purchase if you wanted to play every type of game with current gen technology. The PlayStation 4 was a return back to form, with the added advantage of it not only bring cheaper than it's competition, but also having better technology as well. Microsoft on the other hand always finds their main selling point changing, despite also being in the game of selling current generation titles under modern technology. The Xbox was marketed as THE powerhouse gaming system. It's library wasn't as big as the PS2, but it made up for it in having the best ports and best looking exclusives as well. The Xbox 360 was the defacto console of the previous generation as it had nearly every game on it, with it performing the best on it to boot (thanks to it's relatively ease to code for chipset). The Xbox One was a bit of a mess in the beginning, but is now being sold as the best way to experience your games with quality services in Xbox Live and Gamepass, as well as offering the most powerful SKU on the market. TLDR: Brand loyalty is low with Nintendo consoles since you don't know what you are going to get. Brand loyalty is high with Sony consoles since all of their systems offer a very similar objective and philosophy of being the "defacto" console, in which they almost always acheive. Microsoft doesn't always have their house in order, and it shows, plus their consoles mostly seem to exist as the alternative to Sony's consoles.
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Back paddle update: my hands hurt a little after playing Modern Warfare for an hour (binding L3/sprint & R3/Melee). It may just be a MW thing where I am pre-clenching my hands because it’s a pretty twitchy game. No pain during Bloodborne binding R3(lock-in) to the left paddle and circle(dodge/sprint) to the right paddle. It’s definitely going to take some getting used to. I still find myself often pressing the default buttons instead of the paddles.
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punk rebel ecks posted:I feel another major factor is how relatively inconsistent the other platforms are. Pretty much. When a Nintendo console is on a good streak I'm like "I love this thing! Nintendo rules!" and then they don't put out a single goddamn game I'm interested in for 2 years. Sony seems put out something top notch a couple of times a year. I wish Nintendo would match their consistency. At least the Switch gets a lot of ports so it doesn't end up collecting as much dust while I'm waiting for the next good exclusive as most of my Nintendo consoles.
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Pulcinella posted:Back paddle update: my hands hurt a little after playing Modern Warfare for an hour (binding L3/sprint & R3/Melee). It may just be a MW thing where I am pre-clenching my hands because it’s a pretty twitchy game. No pain during Bloodborne binding R3(lock-in) to the left paddle and circle(dodge/sprint) to the right paddle. It’s definitely going to take some getting used to. I still find myself often pressing the default buttons instead of the paddles. i was worried it'd be replacing one pain for another
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veni veni veni posted:Pretty much. When a Nintendo console is on a good streak I'm like "I love this thing! Nintendo rules!" and then they don't put out a single goddamn game I'm interested in for 2 years. Sony seems put out something top notch a couple of times a year. I wish Nintendo would match their consistency. It's not really an issue that Nintendo lacks exclusives. Their consoles are almost always easily in the running for th best exclusive library in most generations. The thing is that people don't just factor in exclusives when purchasing a console, but the library as a whole. Sure, Nintendo has phenomenal exclusives, but it also misses out on tons of titles. It's not meant to be a "defacto platform" where all the latest and greatest titles go. Sure things are improving due to developers pushing the boundaries with The Witcher 3 and the console being a darling to independent developers. But at the end of the day you won't find Cyberpunk or Red Dead Redemption 2 on the Switch. In contrast, the PlayStation 4 will have everything you want to play. The exclusives are just icing on the cake to the lionshare of owners, and even that is gradually disappearing with Detroit on PC, and both Death Stranding and Horizon: Zero Dawn following suit.
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A reminder that the ps3 only stumbled for the first half of its lifespan and mostly in the USA and UK. Globally it still beat Xbox 360. It still sold more by the end of the generation and really improved its library in the second half of its lifespan.
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Ineffiable posted:A reminder that the ps3 only stumbled for the first half of its lifespan and mostly in the USA and UK. Globally it still beat Xbox 360. For the most part this is true. While it did improve in US and UK, it still got outsold by the Xbox 360 every year. The damage had been done. But yes, it did do better globally mostly due to Microsoft constantly tripping over their own dick in Asian markets
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I’m with aksplode. I am so loving sick of the constant call of duty updates blocking me from playing the game I almost just want to uninstall it. This last one is a joke. It’s like updates hidden within updates and I’ve been trying to play for 2 days but there is always another step. It’s loving inexcusable.
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