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grittyreboot posted:In the first Halo, there is a cut scene where Sarge is playing generic butt rock. Some marine complains about it and Sarge admonishes him because it's his heritage. I always thought that was funny. They were going to license Magic Carpet Ride for that scene, but Bungie was vetoed.
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timp posted:Who the gently caress is seanbaby Honestly, one of the funniest writers ever, and the only reason to go to Cracked anymore. codenameFANGIO posted:
Rejoice, I am youthful and know of them, so it might not be a young person thing. (You still may be super old though)
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Xoidanor posted:"Telltale Games will remember this" I nearly jumped when that happened. Good metajoke.
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Len posted:What game? Tales From The Borderlands. It uses a "X will remember that" for important decisions, and if that pops up if you skip the credits.
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Esroc posted:I've always loved this aspect of Elder Scrolls. It's still mostly a fantasy themed game, but there's actually quite a bit of sci-fi mixed in if you dig deep enough into the lore. Might and Magic was a lot less subtle.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:It never ceases to amuse me that some players unironically accept the Imperials as the good guys when the game literally dresses them up as Romans. No nation is perfect. Look at all the atrocities the US committed. It's very much a "better then the alternative" scenario, but honestly, even then the game really does bend over backwards to portray the Imperials as the good guys, morally and practically.
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The Thalmor were probably more willing to not give up and turn it into mutually assured destruction unless the Imperials gave them incentives to drop it.
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Geokinesis posted:(James Bond) I think you mean Double Bro 7.
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AngryRobotsInc posted:I fully expect we'll never get a game set in Black Marsh, Elsweyr, or Valenwood. Because then they couldn't get away with not putting in the crazier lore stuff, because that's all those areas are. That goes for Morrowind, too, though.
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muscles like this? posted:Fun fact, Shadow of Mordor was originally supposed to be a Batman game but the deal fell through (it was going to have Christopher Nolan involved with the production but he pulled out..) It sounds like that would just be the Arkham games with a few different features.
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To be fair, they're supposed to be about/from the perspective of the bosses the song plays over.
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Chinaman7000 posted:Cerberus in ME2 had a good chunk of moral ambiguity and decent characters fighting for a dirty cause. They also didn't betray you... I'm pretty sure. TIM was manipulating you all along, let you walk into a trap in the middle of the game, and then you tell them to gently caress off in the end by destroying the Collector Base and officially breaking off from them.
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Broforce has so many little things that's fun to figure out. For instance, you can kill grunts by literally hitting them in the head with a grenade. Also, if you throw your boomerrang and get an ammo refill before you recover it, you'll get two.
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Bear Enthusiast posted:Basically this is amazing and I can't wait to play this goddamn game. I predict in a short while, this thread will start feeling like PYF little things in games: But not Pillars of Eternity. Shut up about Pillars of Eternity. It's such a good loving game.
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Kaubocks posted:portable ops is so unimportant that the only thing you need to know is "big boss meets kazuhira kaz mcdonell benedict master miller and they decide to create an army without borders" The only reference to it in Peace Walker is Kaz saying "Finally, we can leave all that crap in San Hieronymo behind...". It wasn't directed by Kojima, so it's only kind of sort of canon. 1000% skippable.
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I can't afford Phantom Pain, so this thread is just the epitome of  for me.
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Baba Yaga Fanboy posted:No joke. DOOM is one of those rare games where the dev team fully understood what was fun about it and kicked it up to 100% at all times. it's funny because everything is so geared towards the multiplayer despite having the best single player campaign of maybe any first person shooter ever with an extremely sub par multiplayer.
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GTA peaked with San Andreas. It has so many unique things to it I don't think Rockstar really understands, and short of an updated HD re-release I don't think GTA even has the potential to be as good.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Dorito Gremlin is infinity times more better than what I was expecting. Canon D.Va is just a Sword Art Online-esque perfect Asian gamer waifu. The fandom's take salvaged her.
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Letting kids play a Star Trek MMO is bad parenting regardless.
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Guy Mann posted:I kind of love those really weird moments in time where fidelity, budget, and ambition clash so awkwardly. Like Custom Robo on the Gamecube, had a bunch of hand-drawn anime portraits for text boxes but the actual models couldn't emote so you'd get scenes like your boss angrily yelling at you in text buy staring forward with a blank That reminds me of one of my favorite little things in games, when you get asked if the world is flat or round. Your character is expected to say flat. It''s the reveal that you live in an artificial world because the real one was destroyed. Custom Robo was great, in that awkward "early 2000s English dub of a stupid children's anime" way.
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spooky like this! posted:In Mafia 3 when you take over mob rackets you have the option of letting the guy in charge live and getting a bonus to how much they make or kill them and get some cash up front. Except when dealing with the racist quasi-Klan "Southern Union" them Lincoln just straight up murders. What, they couldn't use the actual KKK?
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I could see it winning for historical, artistic, or parody related reasons, but I guess that'd still take money to argue in court. Though I'd think "so and so v the KKK" would be great PR.
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Glagha posted:I love all the weird public messages in Doom. Like holograms that mention vaguely menacing things like "the blind council is always watching." The lore books are great too because they tend to zigzag hard between stuffy corporate-speak that suddenly turns into "oh also see an HR representative about getting your pentagram forehead tattoo" or something It's very Night Vale.
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BioEnchanted posted:I liked what the animated series did, with his split personality only being exacerbated by the attack - "Big Bad Harv" already existed, hell he almost beat Falcone to death, the acid just brought him to the surface. He also had a third personality as a lethal crime fighter called "The Judge"(who went after Two-Face, of course).
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Cleretic posted:WRONG! Wasn't it also, literally, the first war on such a global scale? You don't need to be psychic to say "this is the first time that's happened".
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CJacobs posted:I acknowledge that it's not a very valid complaint because you definitely can separate Overwatch the story from Overwatch the videogame. But every time the characters are like "ha ha we're all buddies!" and then shoot each other I'm like "oh..." I get what you mean but it's not like if they were more solidly split between bad guys and good guys you'd be playing out a gritty war drama where the characters died for real anyway. It's better than Mortal Kombat, where fatalities are such a big part of the series but everyone goes un-brutally murdered. Overwatch is super cartoony and barely above Splatoon in childish fake shooting each other as far as the gameplay side goes.
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Triarii posted:If you were only familiar with the game's backstory, you might think this is what you'd be playing, though. I'm only vaguely familiar with it but I know it involves robot uprisings, politics, betrayals, and arguments over the civil rights of sentient machines. And then, as you say, the gameplay is basically Splatoon. (Except the characters keep referencing that heavy backstory in voice clips, to remind you how much it doesn't match what's happening around you I guess.) I don't think it's too different from like, that one DC moba that came and went super fast, where Batman and the Joker could be fighting Superman or something. Overwatch is basically a mix up of Street Fighter, GI Joe, and a superhero universe.
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Killed By Death posted:Uh, like 50% of the cast bites it in MK9 In a cutscene by a random last minute plot development.
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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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dordreff posted:On the other hand, having a likeable, well-written protagonist does mean you don't get anything as funny as how desperate the first Watch_Dogs guy was to go balls deep in his sister What?
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Agents are GO! posted:Asha's loyalty mission mocking the poo poo out of Metal Gear. How do you make fun of a clown? Pointing and laughing at it's big floppy shoes?
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Poops Mcgoots posted:I'm probably misremembering since it's been years since I played it, but I could've sworn CJ had some degree of agency in San Andreas since that game had the whole revenge plot. San Andreas is the best GTA imo, but even so, that game was pretty much all about CJ getting dicked around by other people until the very end.
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Febreeze posted:Tiny Tina is a little too "lol random" but the humor is mostly just goofy hit or miss. Tiny Tina was awesome when she was 90% more wigger before Gearbox suddenly reversed course on that aspect out of virtue signaling. I mean, I wanna note here, I'm normally super into the whole idea of calling out "problamatic" poo poo, but Gearbox and Anthony Burch in particular are a bunch of hypocrites who's only interest in social justice is preening.
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codenameFANGIO posted:I just checked and it is not the 90's and I am not in middle school so what the hell I know, I know, but I couldn't think of anything else to concisely get the idea across. That's pretty unambiguously her whole "gag" in vanilla Borderlands 2.
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Feonir posted:Nier: Automata is a platformer by Platinum games with Taro Yoko at the helm. The first Drakengard is a terrible game filled with amazing little things.
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Alteisen posted:Drakengard is amazing game for the simple fact that the character you play has 0 redeeming qualities, he's not someone with a heart of gold, he's not some anti-hero, he is the most hosed up, evil rear end in a top hat in the entire game surrounded by a motley crew of even more hosed up people than you, and this is the guy you're supposed to root for as murder child soldiers by the thousands. More games need a reprehensible rear end in a top hat as the main character. Hey, give him some credit, he rejects his sister's incesty love for him. That should technically count as a redeeming quality, aside from it resulting in her suicide and as a result of that the apocalypse.
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Hotline Miami 2 had a kickass limited edition vinyl run of the ost I would kill for.
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Oxxidation posted:Killing the Orphan/Sweet Child of Kos is basically euthanasia, since it's the lynchpin holding the Hunter's Nightmare together. Yharnam's original sin was Byrgenwerth aborting the Sweet Child from Kos (which might have been the only Great One to ever successfully give a live birth) and using its blood as the foundation of all their experiments. I thought Ebrietas was the source of the blood? I need to rewatch a lore video some time.
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J.A.B.C. posted:Drakengard 3 was all sorts of screwed up, even disregarding the sex-crazed murder waifus. But had way less elf cannibalism and incest. It's like they were only barely trying to be as balls crazy as the first one. (we speak not of the second game)
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