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Or the classic renaming "Angelo" as "Vaginal" in FF8 (the character's name is announced prepended to all its attacks like an 80s anime)
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:I don't understand why Goldeneye, Perfect Dark then Timesplitters 2-3 did this so perfectly and got it down to a fine art, and then it just disappeared. In Timesplitters 2 the Hard levels were like twice as long with totally new areas, enemies, bosses and events, like an Indiana Jones temple in the jungle level and an evil underground lab leading to a zombie outbreak and a helicopter boss fight in the dam level Killzone: Mercenary sorta scratches this itch. There's the standard campaign, but it also has three alternate modes which add or change objectives for each mission. Aside from the Story campaign, there's the Stealth Operative campaign, Demolition Specialist campaign, and Precision campaign (you're basically a secret space agent and you have to complete a bunch of challenge tasks within a time limit). It doesn't really advance the difficulty related ideas from Goldeneye, Perfect Dark and Time Splitters, but it's still nice to see that some developers using them. Unfortunately, Mercenary will probably always be Vita only.
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Inzombiac posted:I don't get it. The demo has a really good atmosphere and it actually did get me to jump near the end but there's just something about a bike in a bathtub filled with blood that seems too silly to be scary.
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Dec 21, 2016 02:33
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Way back in the day I would play UT99 while named "his own rear end". Player riddled his own rear end full of holes with the Enforcer. Player was ripped to shreds by his own rear end's Flak Cannon. Player inflicted mortal damage upon his own rear end with the shock rifle. Player ate his own rear end's burning plasma death.
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Call of duty 4 had very simple messages: "You killed ____" and "Killed by ___" I met a Yourself.
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Inzombiac posted:I don't get it. The Game Grumps are playing Pokemon Sun using the character name 'Dang dude, I' to get around the profanity filter. It's great, because when it doesn't make grammatical sense it just makes everyone sound stoned.
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I've not been watching that series because I just started Moon but that's pretty good.
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jojoinnit posted:One of my favourite little things in Twilight Princess is that Nintendo didn't include a swear filter allowing many gigglable moments. Named my horse "My Balls" once, at one point a guy told me "if you want to herd goats, hop on my balls and give them a hollar!"
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jojoinnit posted:One of my favourite little things in Twilight Princess is that Nintendo didn't include a swear filter allowing many gigglable moments. 
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Sentient Data posted:Or the classic renaming "Angelo" as "Vaginal" in FF8 (the character's name is announced prepended to all its attacks like an 80s anime) I always went with "Jizz", as in "Rinoa's limit breaks use Jizz." "Jizz Cannon"
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poptart_fairy posted:the Division -Snow actually gathers onto my character's head and shoulders when it's snowing. -If I take cover behind a car with open doors and move along the side of it, my character will actually push the doors shut with his hand. -When I pick up a mission item briefcase thing, if the handle is facing away from my character he'll turn the case around to actually grab the handle, instead of just doing a generic vague pickup animation. -Explosions set off the alarms in all the surrounding cars -The sound design in general is just great, from gun sounds to the sound of my character's gear when moving around. And so on. Also, shooting the gas tanks on the flamethrower dudes' backs will never get old.
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In Chrono Trigger, if you know their names already, you can name everyone their real or true name. It really cuts out a lot of dramatic tension.
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Nordick posted:I don't have any of the DLCs (yet), but I just got into The Division during the Steam free weekend and the game has a lot of cool little touches: I like how when a car is on fire for a little bit, the tires all overpressurize and blow out realistically. Also, there's so much customization. I managed to dress my dude up exactly as myself at work (but with a shitload of guns).
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Wild ARMS 1 played with this a bit; in Jack's introduction, he's breaking into an ancient ruin and the name select screen is also the password for the part of the ruin he wants to get into. Obviously, putting in any old name opens a trap door and the rest of the tutorial plays out, but if you actually put in the correct name (Emiko), the dialogue actually changes slightly and he mentions how weird it is that the password is also his own name. Then he hits a bunch of other random buttons to see what happens and the rest of the scenario plays out as normal.
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Inzombiac posted:In Chrono Trigger, if you know their names already, you can name everyone their real or true name. I did that with the player character in Knights of the Old Republic.
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Internet Wizard posted:I did that with the player character in Knights of the Old Republic. I named mine Never, and just assumed it was vampire rules.
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VanSandman posted:I named mine Never, and just assumed it was vampire rules. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBOfj61PWCo
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Nordick posted:I don't have any of the DLCs (yet), but I just got into The Division during the Steam free weekend and the game has a lot of cool little touches: Snow falls off car windows realistically when you bump into them. I assume it's one canned animation used every time but it's a nice touch.
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Digirat posted:Call of duty 4 had very simple messages: "You killed ____" and "Killed by ___" I believe SA's own youreviltwin uses his handle for similar giggles.
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Digirat posted:Call of duty 4 had very simple messages: "You killed ____" and "Killed by ___" Always had a good chuckle when A Tiny Red Ant logged on, it was for the Medal of Honor psp game which had surprising good multiplayer.
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Watch Dogs 2 has a set of side quests where you hack an ATM exploit. The rewards are alright, nothing major, but it's so much fun reading the tiny blurb about the person who walks in and deciding whether or not you'll give their money to a good cause, or reward them with stolen corporate cash. It's seriously one of my favorite things in the game.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Watch Dogs 2 has a set of side quests where you hack an ATM exploit. The rewards are alright, nothing major, but it's so much fun reading the tiny blurb about the person who walks in and deciding whether or not you'll give their money to a good cause, or reward them with stolen corporate cash. It's seriously one of my favorite things in the game. You can choose? I could've sworn it was just a single option.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:You can choose? I could've sworn it was just a single option. Left pad or right pad. If you look to your right, you give away their money. The left gives them 200/1000/makes it rain, depending on if it's the first, second, or third choice.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Left pad or right pad. If you look to your right, you give away their money. The left gives them 200/1000/makes it rain, depending on if it's the first, second, or third choice. Huh, so that's why most of them got a poo poo-ton of money from me. I thought it was just a "lol, gently caress the Bank and their money" thing.
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everything i've heard about watchdogs 2 makes it sound like a great game, but the protagonists look so loving insufferable.
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The Iron Rose posted:everything i've heard about watchdogs 2 makes it sound like a great game, but the protagonists look so loving insufferable. I full agree they look like they would be, but they're actually anything but. The mid-mission chat during stretches like long drives is generally just them shooting the poo poo about their favourite movies. Stuff like who'd win; Alien or Predator? Anytime they're doing a job, they're all business.
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The Iron Rose posted:everything i've heard about watchdogs 2 makes it sound like a great game, but the protagonists look so loving insufferable. According to SuperBunnyHop, they doubled down on making the protagonists funhaving dipshits who know that they're good and don't take this all that seriously, and it really helps the game's tone.
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I was tripping balls once and kind of freaking out at my old lady friends place when she decided we should play watch dogs to help calm me down. She had never played it, and neither had I. It did not calm me down.. Actually it made me much more anxious, it's like the developers designed the beginning just to gently caress with some poor sap who was tripping out. I really can't explain why it messed with me so badly, but if you have played it recently you would probably understand. I guess that's my favorite thing, heh..
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Regarding goofy naming with prior knowledge, I always got a small chuckle in Final Fantasy 7 with "huh? Nanaki's real name is Nanaki?"
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Somfin posted:According to SuperBunnyHop, they doubled down on making the protagonists funhaving dipshits who know that they're good and don't take this all that seriously, and it really helps the game's tone. That's about right. The game's also properly built around infiltration and being Hacker Assholes, instead of Watch_Dog's approach of "infiltrate and ha-MURDER! KILL! SHOOT EVERYONE!" It's entirely possible to sneak through the game without engaging in a single firefight or even being seen if you plan it carefully. Rather than having a hit-list of people to kill, the main story missions are just getting in, stealing the big naughty cover-ups major tech companies are trying to hide about how they're abusing customer metadata or are in bed with other corporations, and generally leaving a virus that blasts every screen in the building with DedSec artwork (mostly raised middle fingers) while a choral recitation of "All Things Bright and Beautiful" blasts out of every speaker it can  . It's also freely open about things like Marcus doing dodgy stuff like shooting people, it's just accepted and ignored as a necessary evil because, gently caress it, it's happening to the corrupt tech companies. Wrench is generally implied to do more hosed up poo poo than anything Marcus could anyway.edit: Here's a good example of what the dialogue's like between missions (or at least, in this case, filling time in while you're stuck on a long drive to your mission destination); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZaQaPoa4R8 Neddy Seagoon has a new favorite as of 11:57 on Dec 21, 2016 |
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Dishonored 2 just updated to add new game plus and surprised me with the NG+ not only retaining your acquired schematics, learnt bone charm effects and runes, but also actually adding the ability to use both characters' powers. Now I plan to huff as much whale bone (that came out wrong) as I can over several playthroughs to become some kind of super wizard.
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Choco1980 posted:Regarding goofy naming with prior knowledge, I always got a small chuckle in Final Fantasy 7 with "huh? Nanaki's real name is Nanaki?" During one playthrough I named changed Aeris's name to Sephiroth. It was a mess.
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In GTA3, the first car you get in is the Kuruma, which is a totally bog-standard boring Toyota-looking family car. I'm learning some Japanese for my honeymoon in 2018 and it turns out that Kuruma means 'car'. It's so generic that they just called it 'car'. Unfortunately it's been ruined in GTA5 as the Kuruma is clearly the not-a-Mitsubishi-Lancer. Also from Saints Row, 'genki' means energetic or healthy. 
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FFVII: name everyone "sephiroth" FFVIII: name everyone "..." FFIX: name everyone "dagger" FFX: name everyone "Jecht"
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thecluckmeme posted:FFVII: name everyone "sephiroth" I always liked in FFIX when you go digging for Garnet's real name, which has no bearing on the story at all, and it's not some long fancy or exotic name like you'd expect out of a JRPG, it's just "Sarah".
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In online games with changeable online handles I liked to use names of embrassing diseases Player was killed by diarrhea, for example. Also, renaming Link to I say makes everyone talk like Foghorn Leghorn.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I always liked in FFIX when you go digging for Garnet's real name, which has no bearing on the story at all, and it's not some long fancy or exotic name like you'd expect out of a JRPG, it's just "Sarah". That's probably a reference to Princess Sarah from the first game.
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https://twitter.com/leyawn/status/803435576468926464
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One of my friends used to use a handle that was something like "Twelve Angry Hippos" which always made me laugh during FPS matches
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Constipated posted:I was tripping balls once and kind of freaking out at my old lady friends place when she decided we should play watch dogs to help calm me down. She had never played it, and neither had I. Well...alright. It's better than taking you to a shooting range, I guess. Still a very weird solution though.
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