toasterwarrior posted:

They went and got Ghost Rider's VA from his past Marvel cartoons, of which there were a grand total of two appearances according to Wikipedia. That's some deep cuts.

Calaveron posted:

Orcs ain't dead unless you decapitate them/blow up their head, so The Mountain will eventually rise again.

Sleeveless posted:

My favorite is Mega Man X4 having all its villains be named after members of Guns N' Roses.

khwarezm posted:

In Metal Gear Revengeance I like it when I cut guys in half and cool music plays.

Nuebot posted:

Tell me more, I want this game so bad but I can't justify spending more cash on toys right now. It looks super fun though.

The Moon Monster posted:

How about if you like Platinum but couldn't care less about Transformers? Do you think it would hold up?

My Lovely Horse posted:

Aw man, I read some old posts and now I'm sad I never got a "the Friendly" captain. Maybe I'll do some timeskips and see if one pops up that I can support.

samu3lk posted:

I've finally got to playing Shovel Knight and I like his useless one-pixel duck animation.

haveblue posted:

If you load up the 360/PS3 version of Metal Gear Solid 2 and find the secret codec conversation where Snake is jerking it to a pinup in the locker he's hiding in, you unlock "Snake Beater".

Polaron posted:

My favorite bit is during the Cyberdemon cutscene, when he and Doomguy are sizing each other up and Doomguy just flexes his hands like "Oh. You again. Okay, let's do this."

DOOM is such a great game and they need to release some expansion packs already.

Nostradingus posted:

I'm playing donkey kong tropical freeze again and my goodness if it doesn't just have the best soundtrack. Every single level is a winner. I'm so glad they got David Wise back

scarycave posted:

I got World of Final Fantasy for Christmas, it's like pokemon and final fantasy had a baby, you can change the battle theme to a remix of an old ff battle theme if you unlock the champion from that game. More jrpgs need to have more than one battle theme.

Glagha posted:

The God of War Kratos being an rear end in a top hat thing is my least favorite thing in that series because it totally overturns his cool and good Greek hero arc in the first game. He's a larger than life hero brought low by his own hubris and confronted with the fact that nothing will take away his responsibility for his crimes. Then in the sequels he learns nothing and starts acting like a big baby because the gods weren't nice to him.

TontoCorazon posted:

Goddamn the intro song to DOOM is so loving rockin, I didn't even realize doom guy cocked his shotgun to the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqwG-LoDRvU&t=831s

Doom guy is such an angry motherfucker.

Jerry Cotton posted:

Vidaeus posted:

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?

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.

frankee posted:

in fallout 3 you can improve your health by drinking out of filthy toilets

Samuringa posted:

I think that similarly to RE4 cited above, they all sorta came out in the same timeframe and shaped a lot of mechanics and staples for future games.

muscles like this! posted:

His reply to Tifa's reaction to seeing him crossdressing, "I know, nailed it."

HenryEx posted:

that's the board from Control, kinda

Ariong posted:

It's honestly not a little thing at all, it's actually quite a big thing, but I'd like to post about The Outer Worlds, which I have been playing lately. I knew going into it that it takes place in a sort of corporate dystopia. Based on everything I had heard about it going into it, I had assumed that it would be a very cynical sort of game in the style of Borderlands. It's not. With almost every character you meet, what you find is another example of a person trying to express their humanity in an environment where that is a very hard thing for a person to do.

Cleretic posted:

So, a weird question: What non-English/original developer language dubs have been exceptionally good or interesting to people?

Recently the Final Fantasy VI pixel remaster made the decision to dub the opera scene in every supported language. For the most part it sounds amateurish but charming (which was the intention, since Celes isn't a trained singer), but the Italian voice actor just loving went for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO25BooQnuI

My friend also recommended the Spanish dub for Sekiro; apparently Spanish voice actors use really similar techniques to Japanese ones, so the voice acting fits well while still giving it a very unique sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-5_YQRop_c&t=279s

PsychoInternetHawk posted:

I know I'm very late to the party on this one, but I'm playing The Stanley Parable for the first time through the Director's cut and the number of ways the game accounts for your actions is wild. It's like an old adventure game or CYOA book, except you can get back at the writer by being an uncooperative little poo poo.

BioEnchanted posted:

Started playing The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age partially because it was cheap but partially because following 6 losers who were just missing the main characters is a fun idea to me, and I like how they intertwine. Like in Moria when Pippin knocks the corpse down the well, you are at the bottom of that very well and find an item on that corpse. That's cute. I also like how it mostly avoids grinding because most areas don't have random encounters, only a few level segments do. Most encounters are fixed. Also the unique pieces of armour make exploration worth it as you might get a new axe for the dwarf or a new breastplate for the elf. Finally, while I haven't engaged with it yet, evil mode sounds like a fun time.

Cleretic posted:

A weird one for a game I've never played, but wound up watching a Youtube video on and thought was really neat. Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions was a PS3/360/Wii game that's mostly famous for what it started than the game itself: it was the first piece of media with multiple different Spider-Men meeting, and the guy that wrote the plot treatment would take that idea on to write the first Spider-Verse comic storyline.

The neat thing about Shattered Dimensions though is that all four Spider-Men are voiced by different actors who played Spider-Man in his various cartoons. Regular 616 Spider-Man is played by Neil Patrick Harris (from the CG MTV cartoon), Spider-Man Noir is played by Christopher Daniel Barnes (from the 90s Fox Kids cartoon), Spider-Man 2099 is played by Dan Gilvezan (from the 80s cartoons), and Ultimate Spider-Man is played by Josh Keaton (from the 00s CW cartoon). That just strikes me as a really cool idea.

credburn posted:

What franchise has had the most titles that are the exact same title as the original? Has any of them done it more than twice? How many sequels use the same title for a sequel that isn't a remake/reboot?

TooMuchAbstraction posted:

Thanks for linking that essay. I liked especially this bit:

quote:
I think a lot of folks have confused "a funny character" with "a character who doesn't take their own situation, no matter how perilous or interesting it is, seriously."

For me, some of the best comedy comes when characters seriously engage with absurd situations (a.k.a. a farce). The contrast is a great source of humor, and because the characters are being serious, the setting's internal consistency isn't damaged by the writing. You can, if you need to, dip in and out of the comedy just by altering what kind of events are occurring moment-to-moment. You don't need to have fourth-wall-breaking personalities or to change how characters are written in order to make a joke land.