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I'm partial to the coffee machine in Civilization Beyond Earth: Rising Tide. Archaeologists believe it was used in religious rituals.
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HenryEx posted:It's Bangkok, actually. It's the worst 2016 level. Bangkok is great because you can maneuver one of your targets into killing the other. It's always wonderful when Hitman lets you do that, complete with snarky comment from Diana about outsourcing.
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Oct 5, 2019 19:24
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Sakamoto just had a huge brain fart and made her a submissive waifu, Didn't help that he called her a bounty hunter from the very first game, then flipped out when the makers of Prime 3 wanted to include... bounty hunting, as a game mechanic, because in his mind she'd never do something like kill/capture people for money.
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Oct 10, 2019 17:26
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Don Gato posted:I may have had issues with Homeworld 2's story compared to the first one but man does it still hold up in terms of graphics and scale. Each Beast cell functions like... like a biomechanical virus...
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Oct 16, 2019 03:25
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I've been playing Destiny 2 since it's free and something different, and a thought's sunk in: the Cabal look like musclehead volus from Mass Effect. Even their helmets look similar, and they're apparently from a high-gravity/high-pressure world so their helmets pop off in a geyser of pressurized gas when you get a headshot. Makes fighting them hilarious, and the story cutscenes with off-brand Darth Vader hilarious because I can't even pretend to take the Cabal seriously anymore. They're just angry volus who've been at the gym.
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Oct 23, 2019 17:39
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I do like that the Mortal Kombat games worked all their guest fighters into the lore. Freddy Kreuger and Jason Voorhees? They're revenants, undead spirits brought back to torment and kill the living. Revenants are a well established part of MK's story. Alien and Predator? Sure, there's aliens running around our galaxy, and Aliens are from another dimension's outer space. Kratos? Yeah sure, he's from Outworld as well. The Terminator? Another alternate timeline from a game full of them. He also gets "I see now why you cry" as a victory taunt when he wins a round.
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Oct 25, 2019 23:38
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CJacobs posted:Calling Geralt generic and boring is a great way to let people know you don't know anything about the Witcher series. The rest of that is your choice though. People have told me about the Witcher series at great length. I still feel Jerry is generic and boring.
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Oct 26, 2019 02:44
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Someone at Square-Enix was having way too much fun writing item descriptions for FF14's new patch.
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Nov 12, 2019 23:58
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So Mortal Kombat is a game where you end up seeing the insides of the cast on a regular basis, and The Terminator was recently added as a guest fighter. Cyborg characters in the series have always had regular old human gibs inside, at most colored black. Not so the Terminator, which has unique and fully done internals to the point of his eyes having visible electrical wires instead of nerves and his 'intestines' being some kind of textured cables if you look closely.
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Nov 26, 2019 03:23
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SiKboy posted:I know now why you cry. That is in fact one of Terminator's taunts when he wins a round. 
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Nov 26, 2019 18:27
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Captain Hygiene posted:Every game should be required to have goofy stuff carry through to dramatic cutscenes. 
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Dec 29, 2019 15:00
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A bit of optional content in Fire Emblem: Three Houses just did a stellar job integrating into the main story. I'm playing the Azure Moon story, and along the way poached Marianne from the Golden Deer. I got her to B support with Dimitri before everything went to hell in the story. I'm well into the second half of the game, and just finished Dimitri's character arc, which let him do support conversations again. I immediately hit his A support with Marianne, and it fit absolutely perfectly into the ongoing main story and the cutscene immediately prior as the natural capstone to Dimitri's character. Congrats, Marianne, you are going to become the Queen of Faerghus. No way I'm letting Dimitri A-rank with anyone else after that scene.
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Dec 31, 2019 04:33
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RBA Starblade posted:My favorite fun fact about Roman gladiators is that vendors would sell little clay dolls of the popular ones, complete with accessories like signature weapons and helmets. Between that and the graffiti walls announcing the equivalent of "I'm gay", fart jokes, and "lol", it tells you a lot about the human condition. Namely, that it wasn't the internet that made us stupid. And they were hired by merchants to do advertisements and endorsements of products. Supposedly the director of that Russel Crowe Gladiator movie years ago had thought about including a scene of Crowe doing just that, but decided that audiences wouldn't believe that that actually happened irl.
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Jan 14, 2020 18:19
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Feb 7, 2020 02:26
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Fire Emblem: Three Houses, every character has their own color scheme they wear with every outfit, more visible with some classes than others. Heading into the final pre-timeskip mission, for kicks I have a crop of five Swordmasters who together form a goddamn power rangers team: blue (Dimitri), green (Felix), orange (Leonie), black (Sylvain), and red (Manuela).
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bewilderment posted:While the Blue Lions and Black Eagle outfits are mostly variations on their team uniform/colours, Golden Deer instead decides post-timeskip to go maximum power rangers and they all split into different colours. It fits the Deer, too, being a disparate collection of weirdos united only by being against everyone else. The Lions, on the other hand, not only almost all wear blue or teal, they visibly are all dressed for the cold climate of their home - every single one of them wears heavy clothing, typically a long coat or fur cloak. And the Eagles, being from the wealthiest and snottiest part of the world, all dress more fancifully and less practically than their peers. FETH is really good about the visual details and themes in that respect, enough so that I suspect some characters were kind of meant to be poached to other houses when their post-timeskip outfits adhere closely to another faction. Sylvain post timeskip wears red and black - Imperial colors, and he's a natural fit for Edelgard's crusade. Marianne, in turn, wears the colors of Faerghus and a similar style of heavy robe, fitting for someone whose family closely supports the Kingdom (and, in my opinion, has the most touching support line in the game - with Dimitri, which leads to her becoming Faerghus' queen).
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Mar 11, 2020 14:06
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:10 minutes of Doom 2016 is all you need to experience the entire game, just get through the first arena room and pretend that the imps were bigger and the gun model you shot them with was also bigger, and it went on for 10 hours This is my experience with the game. Doom 2016 was incredibly boring.
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Mar 25, 2020 03:08
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haveblue posted:Some games now ask you specifically to choose pronouns rather than gender, too Shovel Knight got a patch to let you choose the appearance and pronouns of every character in the game - and they're independent settings for each character.
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Mar 25, 2020 18:40
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When one of the many bosses in Final Fantasy 14 that can freeze you solid does so, it can happen while the player is in the middle of one of their animations.
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Apr 4, 2020 02:28
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Zoig posted:No i think the glitch is the little gun barrel poking out of the ice there, the blob of ice is normal looking because its a repurposed rock jail. The raid is from the early years of ff14 so they had to do a lot of stuff like that and all. It's this. I was fighting a boss that turns members of the raid into a block of ice, and it fired while my character was reaching out her gun to shoot the boss. So it wound up with the gun's barrel and bayonet sticking out of the ice block, which I thought was amusing.
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Apr 4, 2020 13:19
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Starcraft 2 co-op. Stukov. Brutal. Units Produced: 21,397 Units Lost: 21,384 This is what Heart of the Swarm should have been like.
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May 8, 2020 22:38
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Cleretic posted:Wow, I just accidentally found out about a character detail in Fire Emblem: Three Houses that you'll only learn about if you like a character and then didn't recruit them. And it's so understated that the game never outright says it. Not necessarily. She's very close to her father, and if you play as the Blue Lions she says she's there mainly because her father asked her to be. It's entirely possible that if you didn't recruit her, she and her father just stay out of the war entirely, just like Annette by default never shows up in the Church and Deer routes if not recruited, and Raphael never appears in the Edelgard and Church routes.
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May 11, 2020 17:35
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Dr Christmas posted:The new DLC was just announced. I think all we have so far are two trailers, one for story and one for gameplay that just came out yesterday, so I don’t think we’ve seen the customization options yet. One's been shown, makes Robocop look like an MK3 cyber-ninja.
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May 15, 2020 15:27
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Speaking of 40k, I started a new Tyranid campaign of Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2, and I forgot how early you start breaking canon to a hilarious degree. Only the third main campaign objective is to go eat Medusa, homeworld of the Iron Hands chapter of Space Marines, and implicitly with it most of the chapter. Tyranids need iron in their diet, too.
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May 28, 2020 03:06
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Dr Christmas posted:I've heard GW keeps a tight leash on their IPs, so I it seemed they wouldn't allow named characters to be touched or the status quo changed. In Dawn of War 2, the main chaos guy Abaddon the Despoiler showed up in couple cutscenes to give orders, and it was a big deal. Then in the Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2 campaign, you are guaranteed to kill Abaddon, basically winning the current 10000 year war against Chaos, or a freaking Primarch, or both if you're playing an alien. In theory, you kill more than one Primarch - when you invade the Eidolon sector, among the world you're required to conquer/consume are the daemon homeworlds of the Thousand Sons, Death Guard, Iron Warriors, and Word Bearers. So there's an excellent chance Magnus, Mortarion, Perturabo, and Fulgrim have all been destroyed as well. I'm not sure whether it's a good or bad thing that there are only two Gloriana class battleships in the game, though, two more were in fluff active during the 13th Black Crusade and there likely could have been several more beyond that to engage.
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Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2: I just ate a Craftworld as the Tyranids, and I really liked how it was handled. A Craftworld is beyond even this game's scope of handling on the battlefield, so it's background scenery - mobile background scenery, advancing on the battlefield beneath the 2d plane the battle takes place in, providing excuses for it to shoot up into the battlefield and you to have to make it to particular locations to start attacking the craftworld below while fending off its escort fleet (and the poor, doomed Imperial Navy flotilla that came to the craftworld's aid and were goaded into being the expendable front line to buy the Eldar time).
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Another thing for the Tyranid campaign in BFGA2: since the Tyranids don't talk, the campaign's story is told by everyone else in the galaxy as the Hive Mind listens in on their communications. And for once, the fact that almost everyone in 40k acts completely, self-destructively stupid is played entirely straight and gets everyone killed for it. From the very first mission where the overconfident Adeptus Mechanicus gets in way over their heads and are turned into Tyranid poo poo for it, to "WE HAVE NO NEED OF ALLIES OR FANCY TACTICS! TYRANIDS ARE MINDLESS BUGS AND THE IMPERIUM OVERCOMES!... Oh God-Emperor they're eating everything and everyone..." it's honestly refreshing to see the dumbass space Nazis get exactly what they deserve. The point is repeatedly made that if any of these morons actually worked together and took the threat seriously, rather than being space Nazis who believe their own propaganda, the Tyranids would get blasted out of the Segmentum without fanfare. But they're space Nazis, so they're morons and fall one by one into the maw of the Great Devourer. As someone who used to like 40k but started to dislike it intensely in recent years, and picked this game up since it was on sale for ten bucks, it really is quite refreshing to roll in and kill all the goose-stepping space Nazis and laugh at them. 40k really needs more games where you don't play as the Imperium. Bash a fash, in space. Or eat a fash, as the case may be.
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More Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2, from da Green Kroosade's last stand against the Great Devourer. One, the name of the clan flagships in this mission was great. The Spitfiya (Evil Sunz), Moonraka (Bad Moons), and the It Hurtz (Blood Axes). Two, nothing says Tyranids like seeing 61 troop assaults ticking down on an enemy ship. Two Space Hulks, and I took them both by boarding. No one beats Tyranids in a boarding fight in this game, which is how it should be. What you call a fleet, they call a buffet line hidden inside tin cans.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I love how NRS consistently doesn’t care about that kind of stuff. When they updated the costume design to get rid of the whole “titty ninja” thing a bunch of Twitter nerds got mad (one even complained about NRS trying to kill off “boner culture”) and Ed Boon’s response was basically “lol, deal with it, nerds”. For a studio that was basically founded on being edgy as all hell they’re actually pretty progressive. They also had an openly gay character in MKX, and the only character who made any derogatory comments about it was an rear end in a top hat to everyone in general.
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Shadowrun Returns. You've just saved the city of Seattle (for the moment, from one particular threat). One of the more powerful people in the world has decided that he owes you a favor. One option you can select? Getting a corrupt, pain in the rear end cop who's been hassling you for the whole game fired. It's so hilariously petty, and the best part is the guy who owes you decides that that doesn't count, pick another.
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Captain Hygiene posted:That's about what I expected quality-wise, I could probably deal with that for a while just to see that level of love for TOS. Just note that the TOS sequence is only for the first ten levels, then you get booted up into the main era for the game. On the upside, you keep all the TOS animations, visual effects, and sound effects for the rest of the game, including the TOS style tricorders and beam-out effects.
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Hel posted:Yeah, the only problem is tying it to the ending, which makes it surprising that they did the same for the sequel and only got rid of it in the death of the outsider. It also makes more sense if you consider Dishonoured as a sequel to Dark Messiah rather than Thief, because if that was made more clear the, expectations on ghosting etc. wouldn't be there. The killing vs non-lethal thing is what kept me from getting into the modern Deus Ex games. Don't give me a lot of cool and interesting tools to kill people with, then call me an rear end in a top hat for using them.
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RoboRodent posted:You can skip the quest line of break the PC out of jail , but you can also send your dog in as the head of the rescue team and it's pretty great. When trying to sneak in and you have a choice of who to fool the mooks, the dog is also always a correct choice!
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Anno 2205 wisely decided to ditch the washed-out, desaturated color palette of the previous (and subsequent) games and went with a rich, colorful palette that I think makes the game look so much prettier than most city-builders even in areas like the arctic and moon.        
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I picked up the Anno 2205 DLC season pass in the sale last night, and the game is really loving pretty with the new regions. The orbital research station. The big tech here, imo, is Animal Rights Policy: you can substitute rice for beef in luxury meals, letting you eliminate all those expensive, huge, awkwardly shaped cattle ranches and the soy farms that feed them. The cows moo no more within the Tlaloc Initiative (my main save's name), and the soybean blight has been eradicated.  The tundra is just plain pretty, despite the unholy amounts of fish and drugs these people consume.
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Son of Rodney posted:What sale? I love me some anno and got bored with 1800. Steam had, or has (don't know if it's still going) a huge city-builder sale. Picked up the 2205 DLC season pass for five bucks, and 2070 complete edition for eight. All 75% off.
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buddhist nudist posted:This mfer bragging about doing a cow genocide. Saved me about $8,000 per status report in maintenance costs, too! Cattle ranches are expensive to maintain! The soybeans not so much, but that's just an added bonus. (the in-game effect is that you get to substitute rice - vastly cheaper to produce in much larger quantities - for beef in the production of luxury meals) Also, Anno 2205 is just plain pretty. 
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  So turns out there's a cool, atmospheric game in Assassin's Creed, buried somewhere beneath the enormous and almost entirely pointless game world and tedious, repetitive gameplay. Finally clicked with me after bouncing so hard off the game before that ignoring 90% of the game is not only possible it's downright recommended.
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exquisite tea posted:Kass by comparison was very easy to understand: She wants her drachmae, she wants to get the fam back together, she wants to gently caress. And everyone treats her like a walking natural disaster for hire. I have very mixed feelings about Odyssey, but Kassandra is my favorite video game protagonist of the last ten years or so and one of my all time favorites (assuming you ignore the DLC that butchers her character because Ubisoft is run by misogynistic, homophobic shitheads). There's even an optional dialogue exchange with Barnabas where Kassandra notes that as a woman she shouldn't have been allowed to watch the Olympics much less compete. Barnabas shrugs and says those rules don't apply to demigods.
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