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Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

Koishi Komeiji posted:

Don't know who bobby kotick is and don't care. bye bitch?

the actor? hes brad pitt's boss in moneyball

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damn horror queefs
Oct 14, 2005

say hello
say hello to the man in the elevator
Kotnick is just a rat fleeing a sinking ship. ActiBlizz is going to continue to get more exploitative and mediocre, him leaving will make no outward difference imo

(I base this on my extensive knowledge of never having worked in the games industry or accomplishing anything of note in my entire life)

Ben Nerevarine
Apr 14, 2006

Goa Tse-tung posted:

Lords of the Fallen is Mostly Negative already D:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1501750/Lords_of_the_Fallen/#app_reviews_hash

I watched Cohh play some and had high hopes

hasn’t a game with this same name come out like 3 or 4 times now?

sick of all these fallen lords

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
kotick is a poo poo but hew escaping with a golden parachute. gently caress him.

actiblizz is heading towards zombie studio status like bioware. they own some brands people recognize but utterly incapable of making something new.

snoremac
Jul 27, 2012

I LOVE SEEING DEAD BABIES ON 𝕏, THE EVERYTHING APP. IT'S WORTH IT FOR THE FOLLOWING TAB.

Ben Nerevarine posted:

hasn’t a game with this same name come out like 3 or 4 times now?

sick of all these fallen lords
Once in 2014.

I was hopeful for this because I thought the original developer really improved with The Surge 1 and 2 but just learned they did not actually make this game.

Goa Tse-tung
Feb 11, 2008

;3

Yams Fan
they made Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 1 and 2 before this, seems SGWC2 at least was very good? never heard of it

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1338770/Sniper_Ghost_Warrior_Contracts_2

edit wait Steam now says thats a different developer? what the hell

snoremac
Jul 27, 2012

I LOVE SEEING DEAD BABIES ON 𝕏, THE EVERYTHING APP. IT'S WORTH IT FOR THE FOLLOWING TAB.

Goa Tse-tung posted:

they made Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 1 and 2 before this, seems SGWC2 at least was very good? never heard of it

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1338770/Sniper_Ghost_Warrior_Contracts_2

edit wait Steam now says thats a different developer? what the hell
CI Games published LotF, a new company named Hexworks developed.

BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

MonsieurChoc posted:

I really like Dead Money. :shrug:

its cute imo

Zokari
Jul 23, 2007

its hosed up that in dead money there's a skill check that actually punishes you if you pick it

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


Dead Money isn't that fun to play, but the atmosphere is intense. The gold bit is a weirdly great usage of the video game medium to make a point about greed.

Koishi Komeiji
Mar 30, 2003



Goa Tse-tung posted:

seems SGWC2 at least was very good?

It's mid. Like a dollar store version of Sniper Elite. Not a bad game though.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

snoremac posted:

Once in 2014.

I was hopeful for this because I thought the original developer really improved with The Surge 1 and 2 but just learned they did not actually make this game.

The Surge worked!!!

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


the bit in this "all my favorite brands together!" video where united states senator john fetterman the warcraft orc poignantly says "so, this is home now?" is very funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYU4q594LJ0&t=32s

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

got New Vegas going on Steam Deck after some initial troubles getting it to launch...gonna be a good weekend

stumblebum
May 8, 2022

no, what you want to do is get somebody mad enough to give you a red title you're proud of

Zokari posted:

its hosed up that in dead money there's a skill check that actually punishes you if you pick it

if youre talking about killing dean domino then that's not a punishment at all imo

BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

stumblebum posted:

if youre talking about killing dean domino then that's not a punishment at all imo

only John fetterman was halfway innocent

Hubbert
Mar 25, 2007

At a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

gradenko_2000 posted:

Another New Vegas sesh today:

...
...
...

The first thing I want to talk about is that the gunplay in this game is quite good. Pistols have a severe drop-off in range, but the bolt-action varmint rifle that I have costs a lot of AP if I'm using VATS, or can't shoot rapidly (because it's bolt-action, of course) if I'm just shooting in real-time. So there's a real sense of using the rifle to drop a dude from afar and from stealth, and then needing to switch to a gun once things close-in. Or, alternatively, that the player has to run in and get up close if, like me, they run out of 5.56 ammo.

Because that's exactly what happened partway into trying to break into the NCRCF - there were still two or three gangers up in the guard towers, and I plum run out of bullets for the rifle, so I switch to the 9mm and just ran for the door to the Visitor's Center. Luckily, I'd already killed the named ganger that had the keys to the center and I was able to walk right in ...

... to about half a dozen more gangers inside the building. In this case, a pistol did have its time to shine, since it's cheap on the AP, and the close environs meant VATS percentages for headshots was high. I did my best gunslinger impression, doming three enemies in the first burst of VATS, then jumping out of the way of a thrown grenade, and then gunning down the rest, before freeing Meyer.

He needs a pardon from the NCR before he'll sign-on to be Primm's sheriff, and he points me towards Camp Mojave, way down in the south, so I go back up to Goodsprings, stock up on ammo once more, and begin the long trek across the wasteland.

The gun design comes up again when fighting off radscorpions in the blasted freeways: I could take one out with a double-shot of VATS with varmint rifle targeting its stinger, but if there was more than a single one, I'd have to switch to the 9mm again and blast them in the face up close.

I make it to Camp Mojave, and thankfully securing a pardon for Meyer is a simple matter of talking to the CO in the camp, and using my high Speech skill to convince him to sign-off on it. I take a fast-travel back to Primm, talk to Meyer, and tell him the good news.

+400 XP, and I hit level 4.

Before I save and exit, I check back on the casino, and I find that all the NPCs are filing out to exit into the outdoors to take their old places across the town, now that it's safe again. It's a good feeling.

everyone please attempt to minimize spoilers for Gradenko, I want him to be able to enjoy the rich community, detailed NPCs, and narrative quest chains available in Nipton and Camp Searchlight.

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

https://twitter.com/tombomp/status/1712912800991920286

lol

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

Afghani Mario https://twitter.com/gamedevdotcom/status/1712921900496609282

oscarthewilde
May 16, 2012


I would often go there
To the tiny church there
about halfway through cyberpunk and I’m enjoying it, but still not entirely convinced. the rpg bits and the gunplay are definitely better than before the expansion, but it still feels like better version of a Ubisoft collectathon. like half of all sidequests (and pretty much all of the gazillion map icons) come down to shooting a room of gangbangers with mediocre ai, and the story quests aren’t much better. just had the forced sex scene between Johnny silverwick and his gf, and that was so bad. the low point so far

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007


does he sound like voice actor Chris Pratt

Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

double nine posted:

regarding gunplay, some enemies have armor - there's an icon that pops up in the hud when your bullets are plinking off of their armor.
you need to use a lot of bullets or find/craft armor-piercing bullets for those.

I say this because I don't think the game explains this very well.

when in doubt, use a billion explosives
in the complete edition of the game you can make these:

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Satchel_charge

which requires the bare minimum of explosives skill points and is comprised of parts you'll find everywhere and in vendors. the only possible reason they did this was to have a goofy incentive to buy the DLC

Fuckt Tupp
Apr 19, 2007

Science

anti-italian discrimination rears its ugly head once again

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
and redheads think they have it bad.... smdh

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

in the complete edition of the game you can make these:

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Satchel_charge

which requires the bare minimum of explosives skill points and is comprised of parts you'll find everywhere and in vendors. the only possible reason they did this was to have a goofy incentive to buy the DLC

I'd completely forgotten how the ammo/weapon crafting system could have been so good if it wasn't married to bethesda's unsortable, limited by weight and frustrating inventory system.

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
everyone who currently or has ever worked for Bethesta should be executed for their inventory system

skooma512
Feb 8, 2012

You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.
I like how Cyberpunk has just as much looting but I didn't run into inventory limits nearly as much as Starfield.

Buck Wildman
Mar 30, 2010

I am Metango, Galactic Governor


skooma512 posted:

I like how Cyberpunk has just as much looting but I didn't run into inventory limits nearly as much as Starfield.

you can also dismantle on the spot, which you should be doing p much after you've got like 2 mil in the bank

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

lol he was so righteous about Ukrainians suffering literally 3 says ago

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
what fuckin documenting is the twitter guy doing

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

posting

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

Homeless Friend posted:

lol he was so righteous about Ukrainians suffering literally 3 says ago

he knows his audience and his audience would be very mad about a pro palestine video

Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

Grapplejack posted:

he knows his audience and his audience would be very mad about a pro palestine video
should get a better audience imo

Goon Boots
Feb 2, 2020


Nichael posted:

the bit in this "all my favorite brands together!" video where united states senator john fetterman the warcraft orc poignantly says "so, this is home now?" is very funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYU4q594LJ0&t=32s

from the comments

quote:

DIOS MIO, ESTE TRAILER ME HIZO SACAR UNA LAGRIMA... QUE BUEN DIA PARA SER GAMER ❤❤❤

MY GOD, THIS TRAILER MADE ME TEAR UP... WHAT A GOOD DAY TO BE A GAMER ❤❤❤

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

https://twitter.com/Polygon/status/1712922816968904825?t=oElpjLqxmevtDY-2mTac1w&s=19

Reveal yourself

DaysBefore
Jan 24, 2019

MonsieurChoc posted:

I really like Dead Money. :shrug:

Of course you do, it's the best New Vegas DLC

snoremac
Jul 27, 2012

I LOVE SEEING DEAD BABIES ON 𝕏, THE EVERYTHING APP. IT'S WORTH IT FOR THE FOLLOWING TAB.
After playing Doom Eternal I went back for a bit of 2016 and noticed how well they refined the combat between games. 2016 isn't as quick and punchy. Eternal is great work and I look forward to whatever is next from them, although Mick Gordon is a one of a kind composer and even in the DLC his absence is missed.

Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

DaysBefore posted:

Of course you do, it's the best New Vegas DLC
also make sure you get all the gold bars else you have demonstrably played it incorrectly

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

also make sure you get all the gold bars else you have demonstrably played it incorrectly

yep this


also i cant remember who linked this earlier but gradenko playing new vegas made me remember and lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnXB5eUElns

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Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

It's nice that Obsidian managed to design a cool looking armor set that isn't just more power armor.

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