SiKboy posted:

Yeah, much as I love FO3 the good/evil karma scheme was patchy at best. its fine for some things (stealing from friendly NPCs, killing friendly NPCs = evil, giving water to people dying of thirst = good) but anything more nuanced than that then it was all down to the opinion of the quest writer what was "good" or "evil" and how good or bad it was. Not to mention that in a RPG the players motivation isn't always what it is assumed to be. If you are following the "good" quest line because you prefer the reward to the reward of the evil quest line (eg doing as much legwork as possible in the Wasteland Survival Guide questline instead of lying because she sends you interesting places full of people you can kill and plunder and because you want the full rewards from the guide) isnt really "good" is it? Because you are only doing it for a selfish reason. Crushing Moiras dreams and persuading her to give up on writing the guide (IIRC) gave you a pile of bad Karma, but no reward. A player might decide to do that to protect her from herself because she was plainly not well suited to wasteland survival, but still bad karma. Murdering random vendors is evil, but its also dumb because thats one less person to sell your poo poo to.

Nuebot posted:

Skyrim almost does it right. Kill all the witnesses and your crime goes away! Unless you do murder, sometimes?. Murder never goes away and guards are psychic. There are also certain NPCs who, upon being killed, everyone will just know and you get a bounty, even if you teleport them to a dark, sealed void where no one could see.

Tweet Me Balls posted:

Wild Wasteland is a trait, which was a thing in the original fallouts, and seperate from perks.

Bloody mess could have been popped back into its former spot as a trait though, I guess, since perks are a bit more valuable in New Vegas and +%damage is boring unless it also makes you gay.

Ryoshi posted:

They're not even specific, one of them is in a room full of chests and the forbidden one changes game to game.

E: but I swear there was an alternate way to farm for it as like a 1/256 drop in the late endgame.

My Lovely Horse posted:

As far as I know they specifically do that sort of thing to sell guides. Like, in the old days when video game mags had cheat sections (when there were video game mags period ) and you'd see stuff like "for a level select press this 16 step nonrepeating button combo while plugged in port 2" and you'd go "who on earth stumbled across that"; most likely given to the mag by the publisher, either as a review aid or to generate some buzz.

Kimmalah posted:

I understand wanting to complete as much as you possibly can and normally I'm all about saving NPCs, but I think this would be the point that I'd accept some people just aren't meant to survive a zombie apocalypse.

muscles like this? posted:

Every human enemy in a Dead Rising game is the worst. They're all super annoying gimmick fights.

Regalingualius posted:

I know I'm a bit late on the draw on this, but I've been playing MGS5 slowly but surely, and I have to ask: Did loving NO ONE on the dev team stop to think that maybe a more convenient checkpoint or save system would've been a good idea?

In particular, I'm thinking of that mission in Afghanistan where you're supposed to destroy a number of vehicles in 15 minutes. Just as I got the last one, I ended up dying during the "get the hell out" part of most missions.

I got sent all the way back to the very loving start of the mission.

Aphrodite posted:

Animating Quiet's shower scenes.

Screaming Idiot posted:

Ryoshi posted:

The Skate games totally own and the controls are great when you get used to them but 3 (I think??) had the worst unfun awful world design of any game ever.

Josef bugman posted:

I wish more games were as fun to play as Alpha Protocol. It might be broken in places but I wish there were more games just like it.

Somfin posted:

NO loving WAY.

I specifically play all games as a naive earnest poo poo because I'm 100% positive that there's no way the devs actually considered the 'play along so as to get as close as possible to the bad guy and then loving take him down' path.

Maxwell Lord posted:

And you've totally lost me here. You should eat a pork bun!

dordreff posted:

Big Smile Lee personally appears around halfway through, when Wei becomes a Triad leader, but the game's been building to him for a long time. All through all of the earlier stuff with Dogeyes they're talking about how he's backed by Big Smile Lee, and he's linked to most of the plot missions. He's not at all out of nowhere.
The bigger problem with the story is that it's very clearly incredibly rushed, especially towards the end, and leaves a ton of poo poo unexplored and unexplained. Never addresses why Big Smile Lee apparently has a bunch of a rival Triad working for him, for example, or what happened to Ricky and Vivienne. More importantly they never really give a conclusion to the storyline of Wei getting too involved in the Triads and potentially joining them for real; they spend a ton of time on it, and then he's just suddenly a cop again and it's all good and fine. It also goes straight from finding out Commissioner Pendrew was crooked and sold you out, to finding out he's now untouchable, to... suddenly finding a perfect piece of evidence against him. IN THE SAME CUTSCENE. Very clearly like 5 hours of the game dropped there.

StrixNebulosa posted:

My hands-down favorite thing about Titan Quest is the complete lack of fiddling to get it running. No compatibility modes, no weird hacks or patches, just booting up and telling the option screen I want widescreen windowed mode with a zoomed in hud - and then I could play.

I know GOG used to do this for old games and now they don't, but that's the biggest barrier between me and a round of, say, Doom: gotta fiddle with it.

e: X-COM is a better example. Even once you have the special launcher and it's set up, welcome to micro-management hell. No, the buttons aren't labeled.

It might be a fundamentally better game than XCOM, but ye gods the work to get there and enjoy it, from technical stuff to actually playing.

Devdisigdu posted:

If you're thinking of playing the original X-COM I would highly recommend using OpenXcom.

Includes tooltips for battlescape buttons, Saving soldier loadouts, bug fixes etc. Much more playable on a modern PC.

2house2fly posted:

The most fun way to find it out is to get shot by her

then convince her Leland won't leave her flapping around as a loose end so she ices him

then have Heck blow her away, whereupon he reveals he knew the whole time and assumed Mike was letting it slide to get in her pants

Convex posted:

Psi-Ops was terrible for this. 90% of the game was awesome mind controlling scanners type stuff, then right at the end they introduced invisible floating monsters and mines which made the game completely impossible. If you somehow stuck that then oops turns out theres no ending as they never made part 2

John Murdoch posted:

Speaking of games getting horribly chopped to pieces. The story goes that 2K made them cut out all the fat and package it as DLC. Either way, there's a ton of references to unseen content in the files.

jojoinnit posted:

I've never played a Metal Gear game before. Everytime someone posts about the gameplay in MGSV in this threads twin I really want to play it. But then somebody in this thread posts something about the story and I just can't be bothered.

Inco posted:

This implies that Peace Walker is better than 3, and a good game

Sunswipe posted:

Did you fight or evacuate from the valley?

scarycave posted:

Really convenient they just leave everything in a box at the end. Saves you the trouble of having to reverse pickpocket everybody.
Personally I do like the fight ending better though - as long as I can pass the final speech check anyways.

2house2fly posted:

wtf! Lonesome Road has probably the best looking environments that engine was capable of producing, I was wandering around half the time gaping at the teetering edifices on the horizon, and at the end there's the Divide itself, a huge canyon that a city just fell into. Not to mention the places that open up if you launch the nukes at the end; finally a series about nuclear war actually has some scary nuclear impact zones.

Inco posted:

Or you could just not play Fallout 3 because it's trash and New Vegas is better in every conceivable way

Sunswipe posted:

Getting Caesar to crucify him was pretty sweet, though.