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The part in Wolfenstein II when ypu meet hitler was cool and caught me off guard GelatinSkeleton has a new favorite as of 21:05 on Nov 6, 2017 |
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Does the new Wolf have the same feature as the first one, where when you are sneaking up on a nazi BJ starts to breath more excitingly and almost grunting when you are about to stealth kill? Also does anybody else remember the Desperados? It was a western version of Commandos! And for content.. new Cod WWII The Atari Games in HQ
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Nov 6, 2017 21:30
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TheCool69 posted:Also does anybody else remember the Desperados? It was a western version of Commandos! I got Desperados from a box of cereal. Nowadays all you get is, well, cereal. I wonder if it's illegal now to have toys or games in them or something?
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Nov 7, 2017 00:18
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Jerry Cotton posted:I got Desperados from a box of cereal. Nowadays all you get is, well, cereal. I wonder if it's illegal now to have toys or games in them or something? I remember getting the demo in a box of cereal, one of the best demos ever.
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Nov 7, 2017 00:51
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The only game I got from cereal was Chex Quest, and I loved it since I was seven or eight and not allowed the full glory of Doom.
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TheCool69 posted:
I loved the first one, shame the sequels sucked. Robin Hood & Chicago 1930 the other games by the same dev were pretty good and in a similar style.
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Nov 7, 2017 15:14
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Jerry Cotton posted:I got Desperados from a box of cereal. Nowadays all you get is, well, cereal. I wonder if it's illegal now to have toys or games in them or something? Cereal prices didnt increase because the companies decided to cut costs instead when it turns out parents dont give enough of a poo poo about a toy. Its why in about 30 years its gone from “toy in box sometimes” to “5 proofs of purchase + shipping and handling for a toy” to “not a goddamn thing”.
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Nov 7, 2017 16:30
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Barudak posted:Cereal prices didnt increase because the companies decided to cut costs instead when it turns out parents dont give enough of a poo poo about a toy. I don't know about you but there were many times where I wanted a garbage cereal, like Cookie Crisp, because it had a toy in it, but my parents knew I wouldn't eat it so I never got the toy.
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The toys were almost always hot garbage. Except one cereal that had, like, the first 3rd of Baldur's Gate 2 as it's prize.
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Nov 7, 2017 16:56
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DDLC really, really wants you to know upfront that poo poo's gonna get weird, and I think it kind of undercuts the effect
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Nov 7, 2017 18:23
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Who What Now posted:The toys were almost always hot garbage. Modern (UK) Weeto's boxes have stunt ramps that you cut out of the back of the box for toy cars. Just built one for a laugh. Curving the track became a total crapshoot. Bout what I expected TBH.
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Nov 7, 2017 19:05
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Who What Now posted:The toys were almost always hot garbage. Holy poo poo. That's probably the most top-tier thing ever gotten from a cereal box.
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Nov 7, 2017 19:49
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Buzkashi posted:DDLC really, really wants you to know upfront that poo poo's gonna get weird, and I think it kind of undercuts the effect I don’t think you’re wrong but it was considerate to be specific with the content warning
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Nov 7, 2017 19:55
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It's weird because it lives in 2 fandoms that might not neccesarily cross. People who want a dating sim might not be thrilled at having the rug pulled out from under them, while horror fans who like the games brand of horror basically have to be told up front what this game is, otherwise they wouldn't even bother playing it, since it looks like every other anime game making GBS threads up steam these days. And yet knowing that does undercut the surprise a bit. I wish i coulda gone in being totally blindsided but I'm just not sure how it woulda been possible. RagnarokAngel has a new favorite as of 20:46 on Nov 7, 2017 |
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Nov 7, 2017 20:29
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Because I kept hearing about it (and it's infamous translation issues) in the RPG thread in Games, I've started playing through the original Wild Arms. I'm enjoying it so far, I like that true to life, Guns are really powerful, but best saved for emergencies, and the intro to Jack's first chapter was hilarious with the boulders and spears chasing him through an increasingly elaborate dungeon. I also like that you can change characters whenever you want, and get prompted to at each chapter break, it feels pretty loose and less linear than it otherwise would be. Pretty fun so far.
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RagnarokAngel posted:It's weird because it lives in 2 fandoms that might not neccesarily cross. People who want a dating sim might not be thrilled at having the rug pulled out from under them, while horror fans who like the games brand of horror basically have to be told up front what this game is, otherwise they wouldn't even bother playing it, since it looks like every other anime game making GBS threads up steam these days. And yet knowing that does undercut the surprise a bit. Secret would have been out seconds after it got released anyway. Frog Factions 2 faintly irritated me like that. Everyone was all teehee coy about the game it was disguised as but we already knew you goddamn clowns.
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Nov 7, 2017 21:22
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I think the idea of DDLC keeping it's content a secret would have been loving insane. Just attract an audience that would be pissed off because what you created isn't what they wanted and your actual audience won't even know about it because they won't care about your game. Also some of the actual content of the game is 100% not ok to inflict on someone completely blind.
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Nov 7, 2017 21:33
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BioEnchanted posted:Because I kept hearing about it (and it's infamous translation issues) in the RPG thread in Games, I've started playing through the original Wild Arms. I'm enjoying it so far, I like that true to life, Guns are really powerful, but best saved for emergencies, and the intro to Jack's first chapter was hilarious with the boulders and spears chasing him through an increasingly elaborate dungeon. I also like that you can change characters whenever you want, and get prompted to at each chapter break, it feels pretty loose and less linear than it otherwise would be. Pretty fun so far. Wild Arms 2 is actually the one especially infamous for its translation, the original's not quite as bad.      The best part about that last one is the fact that the original had the anime "vein-pop" thing meant to signify someone being pissed off like the one in the corner here:  So not only did they make the highly questionable decision of using an emoticon, but they also managed to convey the completely wrong emotion with it. 
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Nov 7, 2017 21:34
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Is that font for real?! 
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RyokoTK posted:Is that font for real?! :-(
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Nov 7, 2017 21:41
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RyokoTK posted:Is that font for real?! I suspect some emulator filter might be making it worse than normal but yeah, WA didn't get a good clear font until 3.
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Nov 7, 2017 21:45
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Glagha posted:Also some of the actual content of the game is 100% not ok to inflict on someone completely blind. Having given up and played it, there's nothing in the game that shocked me or was even mildly upsetting compared to games that don't have dead-eyed anime girls. It's not like it's the first game to have suicide.
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Nov 7, 2017 21:45
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By the way, Wild Arms 2 uses a mechanic where you have to scan new locations on the world map before they appear on it. Good goddamn luck figuring out where they are as you fight random encounters and the games poor translation giving you in some cases literally wrong hints.
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Nov 7, 2017 21:46
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Who What Now posted:Having given up and played it, there's nothing in the game that shocked me or was even mildly upsetting compared to games that don't have dead-eyed anime girls. It's not like it's the first game to have suicide. No but maybe suddenly taking a hard left turn from bright and cheery anime game to "here's a swinging corpse" without any forewarning at all is probably a bit a bit too much? At least tell someone "btw this is a horror game just so y'know".
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Glagha posted:No but maybe suddenly taking a hard left turn from bright and cheery anime game to "here's a swinging corpse" without any forewarning at all is probably a bit a bit too much? At least tell someone "btw this is a horror game just so y'know". It's less "horror" and more "depression porn".
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What one considers scary and disturbing varies massively, while you say "there's nothing in the game that shocked me or was even mildly upsetting", other people have had the exact opposite reaction and said that it got to them in a way almost nothing else has. You're making a weird argument here.
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Nov 7, 2017 21:56
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I'm not arguing, I'm saying the game fell flat for me, which was super disappointing after so many people talked it up like God's gift to gaming.
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Nov 7, 2017 21:58
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Who What Now posted:It's less "horror" and more "depression porn". Did you play the first act of the game and then quit or something? That's like saying Wolfenstein is coma porn because a character in a coma kicks off the plot. Like, I get it, the game's far from perfect and isn't for everyone so I'm with you if you didn't like it but that's the worst take.
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Who What Now posted:I'm not arguing, I'm saying the game fell flat for me, which was super disappointing after so many people talked it up like God's gift to gaming. I figured you were implying the content warning is unnecessary and anyone can play it blind because it's actually not scary at all, considering the post you originally replied to. In any case that'll happen with anything that gets a lot of hype yet isn't for everyone, it was always going to be one of those things that was best experienced back when it was fresh and unhyped.
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It's pretty half-baked y'all. It's a clever demo but it really needed to be fleshed out. It doesn't come together in an interesting way at all. Bad pacing, loosely sketched characters, themes not matched by gameplay, a "meta" narrative that seems like its commenting on a different game. Basically what the game wants to do isn't backed up by what it actually does.
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Glagha posted:Did you play the first act of the game and then quit or something? That's like saying Wolfenstein is coma porn because a character in a coma kicks off the plot. Like, I get it, the game's far from perfect and isn't for everyone so I'm with you if you didn't like it but that's the worst take. Explain what's supposed to be scary about it. VVVVVVVVV I played through the meta stuff, meta has never been scary. Who What Now has a new favorite as of 22:24 on Nov 7, 2017 |
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Nov 7, 2017 22:16
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Who What Now posted:Explain what's supposed to be scary about it. Play it again. This is the same thing that occasionally hit Nier Automata when it was overt about telling you, so I don't blame anyone for missing it or the dev for not making it clearer. But play it again.
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Cleretic posted:Play it again.
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Who What Now posted:I played through the meta stuff, meta has never been scary. Good opinions right here, please tell us more about how so not scared you were by this video game, guess we're all a bunch of wimps for engaging with the experience
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Nov 7, 2017 22:38
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I'd like to give DDLC a go but I'm not very good with horror games or movies  How much horror are we talking about here?
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Vidaeus posted:I'd like to give DDLC a go but I'm not very good with horror games or movies And no, giving everyone a dark secret doesn't count as depth.
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More DDLC stuff: The whole Just Monika thing fell super flat for me because she openly admits to using her friends mental illnesses as weapons and causing them to commit suicide, which is loving atrocious from a Monika standpoint, and exploitative and lovely from a writing standpoint. Everyone praises the writing for having realistic portrayals of mental illness, but in the end it's just a tool for the main goal of having them kill themselves and make the player sad. So not only do I hate Monika but now the writing's got me hacked off too. Also why did Monika cranking depression to 100 make peoples eyes bleed pixelated blood and do other creepypasta stuff? The more I think about DDLC the more annoyed I get. Maybe I read the whole thing wrong since I never really see anyone echoing the same sentiments, but ugh.
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Who What Now posted:Explain what's supposed to be scary about it. "Explain to me why this joke is funny." Like, I'm not trying to argue with you my dude, I just pointed out, in reference to some discussion of trying to surprise people more on the horror themes of DDLC that it would be a dumb idea for trying to sell the game and that maybe going happy happy big eyed anime girls cute cute fluff pink corpse is kind of a dick move if you were to actually just bury the type of game it is.
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I get very invested in every anime person.
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