MisterBibs posted:

This comes to a head when his brother gets out of jail, and CJ is so excitedly eager to tell him how much stuff he's got going on (he's a manager to a rap artist, he owns an airport, whatever) and his brother chews him out about how Only Grove Street Matters and suckers CJ back in.

gently caress you, man.

Josef bugman posted:

I really liked the blind Yakuza guy.

Captain Lavender posted:

I played Assassin's Creed (again), and everything that's wrong with it came flooding back.

QuietLion posted:

Also GB is a ghost, why does he have a shadow and can be shot by normal bullets?

Thin Privilege posted:

GTA related: in 4: no checkpoints in original game. gently caress this forever, Driving the dudes across the city every time if you fail a mission i.e. you die (and specifically that bank mission)--that drive is like 20 minutes long blah blah "C4; PE4" I DONT CARE!

Action Tortoise posted:

can we all agree that anarky was the dumbest loving enemy in the arkham games?

besides zsasz and electrocutioner i can't think of any other rogues in the games that are stupid as hell.

John Murdoch posted:

City was definitely the worst about this, IMO. And I'm still bummed that Hugo Strange ended up being largely wasted. For story stuff I always preferred Origins and now that I've played Knight I think I like it the best, even if it's still full of problems. Like having Joker talking almost non-loving-stop. I'm pretty sure he has more dialogue in the game where he's dead than the three where he was alive.

John Murdoch posted:

In the same way you'll never see Poison Ivy as Batman, he shows back up as the final boss for Catwoman. And not a very good one at that, since it's basically a clumsy prototype for stuff Knight would do better way later - a predator encounter where Two Face has a large health bar so you have to thin out the guards, then beat on him a bunch, then run away before everyone in the room tries to shoot you. Except to make the encounter work, the guards infinitely respawn. And it takes place in one of the crappier predator rooms.

FactsAreUseless posted:

The time has come for Clock King.

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

that reminded me of this great blog and lol the latest example is in fact the Stanley Parable. kill all nerds

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

I kind of loved it because it turned out Ulysses was in fact just a gibbering crazy person who'd latched on to you as one more symbol among many and nothing he was saying meant anything whatsoever

OldTennisCourt posted:

Resident Evil 7 is amazing buuuuuut

Holy poo poo the molded can gently caress off. One or two are fine, but holy loving poo poo, the basement has like 12 of them and I'm getting my poo poo kicked in. I can take out like 7 but then I'm out of ammo and just furiously slicing at them and blocking them. Once or twice I get VERY lucky and take them out in like 2 headshots, but sometimes the fuckers eat all my ammo in like two battles.

Holy gently caress, there was no loving need for that many of them in one small area.

poptart_fairy posted:

His AI is definitely dumber than your other companions. Fits his personality like a glove.

Who What Now posted:

"This is Pierce. We purposefully programmed him wrong, as a joke."

Olaf The Stout posted:

Some parts of 3 were good. Vaz the villain was pretty great and unsettling. A lot of the story is definitely not presented well, but Jason Brody has an actual arc. It didn't work so much in cutscenes, but in play as a FPS, your character is extremely physical and tangible within the world which is grounding. From there, watching him go from a kid way over is head to a bloodthirsty god of war as depicted by the increase in your power from unlockables attacks and arms and armaments, and especially through his increasingly unhinged voice acting through game.

Pity that most of the cutscenes are pretty crap though.

Feonir posted:

There is not really a game where all of your direct in game actions follow you around like a cloak inside the cut scene zone. Well except for Alpha Protocol.

2house2fly posted:

My favourite is how it introduces and resolves a plot thread involving your boss being corrupt during the ending cutscene.

Guy Mann posted:

And when games do have a lot of optional content people still complain because they missed it and then weren't aware that it was there in the first place. Like the backlash against SUPERHOT being "only two hours long" because they didn't bother playing any of the tons of extra modes that the story mode was basically training for. Or that the ending of Firewatch was terrible because it made no sense and came out of nowhere because they didn't bother to explore and find all the clues. Or missing out on the entire final act of Undertale because they murdered just a few people.

Dr Christmas posted:

The Deus Ex: Human Revolution DLC had you on a PMC's ocean base were a bunch of innocent people are taken and often experimented on. A whistleblower has a sub prepped and ready to go, but then the bad guy decides to gas everyone. So you're given a choice at a terminal to vent the gas to save either the single whistleblower, or the many prisoners, who will languish indefinitely.

However, if you do some exploring (or spoil yourself by looking up up achievements), you can find the machine that makes the gas and save everyone. I'm not quite if that cheapens it or not.

Piell posted:

Scanning in Mass Effect Andromeda is even worse than ME2. To travel between planets, it has to zoom to the current planet, then zoom across the system to the new planet, then zoom into the planet for a couple seconds, then zoom out slightly. It's unskippable and dumb as hell.

Gitro posted:

But the correct way to land planes in sandbox games is to jump out and let gravity handle it???

Brazilianpeanutwar posted:

New vegas pet peeves, Benny is such a missed opportunity, matthew perry sounds like he's in a coma and the character model sucks, i'm trying to change it in the geck but he keeps on looking like an alien with fetal alcohol syndrome.

Olaf The Stout posted:

But sandstorms have the best loot and aren't that bad? Hook megaloot crates and position your car so you're in the lee of the wind when you jump out to break and loot them, make like 2,000 scrap per storm. You actually want sandstorms they're the fastest way to make scrap in the game.

Action Tortoise posted:

Brotherhood was great because you could summon Assassin's to spawn from hay bales and stab targets or call down a rain of arrows. Poison stabbing a guard in a group of four was the funniest thing since he'd swing violently around and kill his buddies for you.

But they could never make the Apple a compelling (or sensible) weapon.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

There's maybe 2 chase missions in the entire game.

Both are easy as gently caress and barely require you to be cognizant of what you are doing, then go back to murdering Nazis.

Brazilianpeanutwar posted:

btw Jack from mass effect 2 was a good character, i'm a sucker for space punk psychopaths and I thought she was the best bit.

SiKboy posted:

TOO MANY GOBLINS posted:

Did anyone even play these games? I don't think I've ever met a single other person who did.

Agents are GO! posted:

I know it's not really germane, but when playing ME1 everytime I heard about Sovereign, I would think of Sovereign Citizens start laughing.

Inspector Gesicht posted:

What games did the whole "Item Crafting" mechanic well? A lot of time it's either mostly skippable (Witcher 3) or baffling (Assassin's Creed 3) or just promotes farming for it's own sake (No Man's Buy). There is an appeal to it like how Dark Cloud 2 did it very well. You take photos of everything, and then combine three photos together to come up with an idea for an invention, which you can then make out of a box of scraps. This all works well for verisimilitude because the player character is supposed to be a genius-mechanic in the making.

So what are best examples of Item Crafting? Yes, I've heard of Atelier.