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WirelessPillow posted:The game was advertised as having tough choices, many not necessarily good. They couldn't figure out how to create a scenario where the player had to choose to do something as bad as hitting those civilians so they forced it, then call you bad for doing it from that point on. Up until that point it felt like everything the character was doing was the players fault, that was taken and it diminished the impact of the game for me. I was still drained at the end of the game. Ultimately the failure was that they took the selling point "Tough choices" and took it away from the player to force a rough outcome on the player. I remember being instantly annoyed that the game hyped for its ability of choice in key moments straight up took that away from me, not because the situation needed a "Right now call" but because there was no other way to progress gameplay wise. lol here we go. Kill or be killed is the tough choice. You can't be the goodboy in a lovely war sorry 
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May 5, 2023 18:45
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Games's called The Line because you're going to have to cross it to see things through. They should've just called it Spec Ops: The Whole loving Point
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May 5, 2023 18:55
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WirelessPillow posted:The fact is they threw enemies at you in a location where it feels like you can either go around it or just shoot them like you have been the whole game. It doesn't feel as necessary as the game tries to tell you it is and that diminishes the experience. Especially when there are other moments in the game where it genuinely feels more tense as if you are legitimately stuck between a rock and a hard place. I don't agree because the only way was through and you were pinned on that rooftop by enemy fire. You see an entire brigade blocking the way on your drone cam. We could be lawyering about how you could just backtrack, jump over that car blocking a side street, break that window or whatever, forever. You are always artificially constrained in these games but you only notice that because you had to do a lovely thing you didn't want (as opposed to just keep shooting dudes which kinda works in it's favor as a COD critique). It boils down to not really having a choice which... you know
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Crowetron posted:I dunno, I always felt like the white phosphorous scene in Spec Ops undercut its own message by basically coming away with the same morality as the CoD games. It's bad because it was civilians. If they had been the Enemy it would've been fine to war crime them. The rest of the game has that vibe, too. The other soldiers you kill turn out to be Americans, which makes it horrible. "How many Americans have you killed today?" from the loading screens etc. It feels like the horror of the whole game only applies to killing certain kinds of people. See I always saw it as specifically targeted at people who enjoy COD and such. Because you do warcrimes in those games on the regular. It begins the same, and they turn the war-crime knob higher and higher as you go. These games usually do the "war is bad" lip service but then you're the least bad guy, or like a "dark hero" type. The "How many Americans have you killed" isn't implying it's worse than killing others. It's calling out people who think like that.
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jokes posted:Is teleporting across a battlefield and stabbing a knife in some dude's neck a warcrime? I didn't play many of these but for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hors_de_combat
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:"The writing is terrible"- all goons about every game Except anime games
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"heavy handed"? No! Undertale was good and interesting because it nailed the tone/expectation! So was Spec Ops: The Whole loving Point. I'm a big proponent of the idea that videogames are throwing people for a loop to this day and this thread is proof. It's good to criticize stuff but people are just dumping rear end over so many neat things... drat
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Hattie Masters posted:It feels like it's judging me for having the temerity to not just go to the main menu and hit Quit to Desktop. It's not "Stop hitting yourself" but "Stop sending people into lovely wars and then glorifying it in videogames". It's not making a value judgement about you personally, it's not about you at all. It's about being a good guy in a situation where you are forced to do bad guy stuff. The Line  about not playing is not about you not playing the game, it's about loving United States in the Middle East.When I say "knock knock" you need to say "who's there"
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Perestroika posted:It's more of a collection of little things, but I just finished Resident Evil 4 (the remake) and I really appreciate all the ways they managed to build a nearly game-long escort mission without it ever once feeling annoying or like a chore. There are mechanical aspects like having Ashley automatically stay out of the way during combat and frequently being useful for opening doors and getting at loot. But it's also in the writing and presentation, with her being spirited and brave, and never once coming off as whiny or helpless. That one mission where you play as her having to dodge dozens of horrible monsters without any weapons to free Leon was a really good way of driving that home. Narrowly escaped to the elevator: "I'm loving done with armors" *ding* Elevator opens to a room full of armors.
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Biplane posted:Too late, you'll have to powerwash it off me... lmao
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTpRsEp-_04
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credburn posted:Fallout 1 is the only good Fallout and it's actually kind of not that great. There are degrees of "kind of" in which I bury the entire medium of videogames.
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Aug 5, 2023 23:37
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Baldur's Gate 3 is so full of these fun little interactions, and the fact that they're tied to Inspiration (A bonus reroll) based on your character's background and goals is amazing.
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A BG3 pro strat: Cover the room in grease, jump up on the rafters and drop a lit torch.
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Taeke posted:In Baldurs Gate 3 you can not only pet the dog and talk to him using magic, you can also play fetch with him using game mechanics. The ball allows you to summon him as a familiar
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I woke up with Asterion hovering over me trying to suck my blood, so I stabbed him in the heart with a wooden spike and now he's dead as poo poo. Game rules
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Zero_Grade posted:You can use them to do things such as cover vents, block doorways, trap your friends who haven't figured out how to pick them up yet, etc. I found a spot only accessible by jumping (to me) so I had my Jump Barb get up there, stick two giant chests in her pockets, jump down and let my rogue lockpick them comfortably. Before yeeting them down a waterfall
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Aug 14, 2023 19:36
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Yeah the offsalami isn't as good as prime salami.
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Aug 15, 2023 16:26
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You can use these as nunchakus These as a whip  And this is how a well stocked quiver with different damage types looks like: 
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Aug 15, 2023 16:42
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All resident evil games have giant spiders in them.
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Aug 25, 2023 08:49
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It is true. Either just giant spiders, or at least spider-like 8+ legged monstrosities. You cannot prove me wrong.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Being sincerely wacky and 100% buying into your goofy-rear end setting is vastly superior to being self-aware about how weird everything is.
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jokes posted:"Uhh yeah-- that just happened" - Kept you waiting huh? Extreme closeup on Revolver Ocelot's eyeroll.
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Metal Gear Rex bursts through a wall and roars like a dinosaur. Snake, slowly backing away, "Nice doggo... Easy boy"
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Aug 31, 2023 18:48
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RareAcumen posted:Is this all just Avengers 1 dialogue? I do not think I've ever played a video game that sounds like this aside from one level of Uncharted 2 where Nathan Drake is like "Oh come on, how did they get a tank up here?!" It's called Whedonism. Characters quipping like they're Chandler from Friends. It's not bad in itself, it just became very popular with Avengers. It's kind of poo poo if you want something else than a Marvel Superhero movie. It's lampshading the absurdity. It's like laugh tracks. It's cheesy and lacks any kind of subtlety.
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sebmojo posted:It's more referring to people trying to 'do whedon' badly imo Should've qualified here yeah. His thing is being "ahead of the trope" and that in itself has now become one.
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Really wish we weren't talking about the twitter chode in any capacity, a fantasy cyberpunk 2.0 thankfully provides.
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Can't tell if this is
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Necrothatcher posted:I always loved the PS2-era "reflections" where they just duplicated the map and models under an opacity layer. That's what all games are doing if they aren't using ray tracing. In DOS era or today.
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Yeah #1 is definitely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnMR6SOBa9k
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Yakuza 3 Melee Match: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfShqW9aD4k
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How about "Spider, man". A quite blasé spider?
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The phrase is "Let sleeping dogs lie" which means do no contradict lying dogs who are sleeping in any way. They might not remember and get real grumpy about what the gently caress you're on about. Basically leave dogs alone in general.
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Shooty soldier was the most fun because all three games were balanced around it.
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When slavs learn english they tend to pick up on the U being pronounced like A the last. So when me and my friends were playing Shadowrun on the Genesis/Megadrive we would read the chum/chummer as choom/choomer.
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Last Celebration posted:Hell, I’m still not really up to date on a lot of modern slang. “Bouji” in particular confuses me because, like, if I’m gonna call someone stuck up I’ll just use the full word (bourgeois) to convey my full contempt. Lame because you think people don't know.
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moosecow333 posted:I do have a soft spot for when your starting weapon can turn into an absolute monster with enough love and care. Same. I'm thinking of Resident Evil 4, where fully upgrading the starting pistol gave it a high chance to instakill on headshot. On normal difficulty it's whatever, but on professional it becomes really good because everyone's got high health.
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drat horror queefs posted:In the original RE4 this was a trap option because it doesn't stop beheaded enemies from reviving as a parasite monster and it isn't worth the low damage vs other pistols and high investment for max upgrading. HA! Another neat RE4 trick. Plaga spawns are decided randomly on map load. It's a commonly accepted fact that headshots trigger plagas and it's completely bogus. *tips fedora*
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