ImpAtom posted:

Assassin's Creed Ezio spoiler
Technically he doesn't die of old age, he was assassinated at an old age. Still pretty good.

Croccers posted:

What the poo poo happens in Resonance of Fate, aka A JRPG version of John Woo?

HMS Boromir posted:

Can someone tell me what happens in Deus Ex Human Revolution - The Missing Link? It was so abysmal compared to the main game I gave up in disgust (I assume about) halfway through.

If, god help you, you played the Director's Cut, it's the part after you plant Tong's bomb and climb into a stasis pod.

Artix posted:

Anyone want to take a stab at Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy? I've heard it's way better than Miracle Mask and Last Specter were, but I'm in the middle of Layton vs. Wright and I just can't bring myself to care about it any more. I played up to the point where the game tells you to go scour the globe for the five MacGuffins.

Pseudoscorpion posted:

I thought the plot of Azran Legacy was absolute garbage and the 2nd worst game in the series (behind Last Specter and ahead of Diabolical Box), but let's give this a shot.

So now Layton & co. have all five MacGuffins, except Aurora discovers one is a fake! One of them was swapped out by Targent when they weren't looking. They infiltrate Targent's base where they meet Bronev, who gives them the real egg. The crew returns to Froenborg where Aurora was originally trapped, only to find out that Sycamore was secretly Descole, the vaguely villainous character from Last Specter (who I think also appeared, albeit briefly, in Miracle Mask). They chase him and find Bronev deeper within. Then, Emmy reveals she was a Targent double-agent the WHOLE TIME. And if you think that plot twist is stupid, just you wait. Emmy and Bronev make their way deep into the Azran ruins, and Layton and Descole team up to get through the traps within. Descole gets grievously injured, and reveals that Layton and Descole are brothers. Their original names? Layton was Theodore, and Descole was Hershel, who...tricked Layton's adoptive parents into adopting Layton instead of him. Oh, and their father? Bronev.

Artix posted:

loving WHAT? Okay yeah I feel totally justified in not bothering to finish it because that whole sequence would have royally pissed me off. Thanks!

Accordion Man posted:

Wow the only Layton I've gotten into was the movie, which was cool, so I understood that and that sounds utterly dumb. I guess Level 5 just wants to kill the series, right?

Pseudoscorpion posted:

I dunno about that. Layton vs. Ace Attorney seems to be pretty good so far Granted, I'm not SUPER far into it (end of the 2nd trial), but it's a solid Layton game and Ace Attorney game.

DrManiac posted:

Can someone spoil the most generic game in all of existence kingdoms of amalaur?

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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning follows the story of a mortal known as the "Fateless One", who, having died before the game's outset, is revived in the experimental Well of Souls by the gnomish scientist Fomorous Hugues. The first and only success of the experiment, the Fateless One must escape the facility when it comes under attack by the Tuatha Deohn, a subsect of the immortal Winter Fae, who are currently waging a "Crystal War" on all the mortal races in the name of their new god "Tirnoch". Having escaped the facility, the Fateless One – having no memory of his life before his death – is briefed on the intricacies of the Faelands and the Tuatha Deohn's ongoing war. Agarth is astounded and pleased to realize that he cannot read The Fateless One's future: having already died, the Fateless One's return from the grave has taken them out of "Fate's weave"; theirs is the only life in the world without a predetermined end. This power also allows the Fateless One to alter the fates of others, as Agarth discovers when the Fateless One saves him from his fated, "lonely" death at the hands of a native creature.

It is eventually decided that the only way the Fateless One can uncover the truth of his death is by locating the scientist who revived him, Fomorous Hugues, who went into hiding following the Tuatha attack on his laboratory. The Fateless One is opposed in this by Gadflow, the king of the Tuatha Deohn.

Meeting with Hugues' patron, a gnomish Templar (a sect of Mages) named Ligotti Octienne, the Fateless One is directed to a former laboratory of his, deep inside the gnomish territories of Detyre, where the two are subsequently ambushed by assassins sent by Octienne. Surviving the ambush, the two make plans to publicly reveal Octienne's betrayal and, in turn, prise the location of another gnomish scientist, Ventrinio, who Hugues believes might know the details surrounding the Fateless One's death.

Travelling to the gnomish city of Adessa, the Fateless One confronts Octienne and forces his true allegiance into the public, in the process learning that Ventrinio was previously spirited away by Octienne to the region of Klurikon, deep behind Tuatha Deohn lines. In order to reach him, the Fateless One is directed to the Alfar city of Rathir, and then on to Mel Senshir, the besieged Alfar city in Klurikon at the centre of the Crystal War. Once again defying the dictates of Fate, the arrival of the Fateless One and his allies breaks the siege and turns the tide of the war in favour of the Alfar, earning him the moniker of 'Siege-Breaker'. Together with Alyn Shir, an Alfar who admits to knowing the Fateless One in his previous life, and Cydan, one of the few immortal Winter Fae unaffiliated with the Tuatha Deohn, the Fateless One locates and confronts Ventrinio, who reveals that they had previously entered Alabastra, the centre of Gadflow's empire, in an attempt to collect the valuable prismere crystals which not only powered both Fomorous' and Ventrinio's own respective Well of Souls', but guide the Tuatha armies.

Determined to return to Alabastra, the Fateless One and his allies, Agarth, Alyn Shir, Cydan and Ventrinio help spearhead the Alfar counter-attack through Klurikon and into Alabastra. Splitting up, each made their way into the heart of Gadflow's kingdom, with the Fateless One eventually happening upon Alyn Shir and a dead Ventrinio. Alyn Shir reveals that the Fateless One was her fellow member of a non-descript organization dedicated to protecting the secret of Tirnoch's existence and her true nature, silencing any who might learn and ensuring Tirnoch's continued imprisonment. She reveals that Tirnoch is a dragon, with powers that rival those of Amalur's gods, who had previously foreseen the Fateless One's dedication to his mission to destroy her, as well as the fact that he was fated to fail and die. Tirnoch helped revive him through the Well of Souls, freeing him of the dictates of Fate, so that the Fateless One might return and be used to set her free.

Deep beneath the Bhaile, capital of the Tuatha Deohn and former home to the Winter Fae, the Fateless One fights and slays Tirnoch. He awakes several days later in the city of Rathir and learns from Agarth that Alyn Shir had extracted him from the rubble of Bhaile before disappearing. Agarth also reveals that following the battle, many Alfar soldiers had approached him for readings, but that he had been unable to provide for them, indicating that all were now free of the dictates of Fate.

DrManiac posted:

Can someone spoil the most generic game in all of existence kingdoms of amalaur?

pentyne posted:

Irish Joe posted:

Skyrim is boring. Tell me what I'm missing by not finishing.

Mister Adequate posted:

At first you work with Delphine to find out what exactly is going on and why, teaming up with Max von Sydow a bit later to continue this. Basically Alduin is rezzing all the dragons to eat reality. You cast your mind back in time to learn how the ancient Nords originally hosed up Alduin (It's a shout called Dragonrend), you learn this, you come back to the present and use Dragonrend to basically murder the poo poo out of dragons and wreck Alduin, who runs away like a little bitch. Then you force a dragon called Ohdaviing or something like that to help learn how to get to Sovngarde so you can kill Alduin because he went there after you beat his pansy rear end up. Then you go to Sto-vo-kor Sovngarde, meet various hardcore heroes, and murder Alduin dead.

Throughout you're also working against the Thalmor because they are huge dicks. If you've not ended the civil war by the time you reach the summoning Ohdaviing quest, you'll have to broker a peace summit at High Hrothgar because Baalgruf the Greater won't let you use his city for dragon summoning bullshit while the war is on and there's nowhere else you can do it.

Oh also Alduin wasn't in hiding or anything, he was sent way forward in time by the ancient Nords and basically got right back to business the minute he arrived in the present.

Afterwards, the Dragonborn goes to hang out with The Nerevarine and Sheogorath (in my headcanon).

Alabaster White posted:

Don't forget the part where you pledge your eternal soul to basically every Daedric god for insane power with presumably no consequences, because they'll all have to fight over your soul when you die

Anatharon posted:

How did Bioshock infinite end? Did the cast kill themselves because they were just so moved by the artisticness of it all?

Anatharon posted:

How did Bioshock infinite end? Did the cast kill themselves because they were just so moved by the [i]artisticness[i] of it all?

Stux posted:

Comstock is you from another timeline where you got baptised, elizabeth is your daughter who you have to comstock in exchange for wiping your debts. You regret it and are offered to get her back but when taken between universes forget all of this and think you have a contract to get elizabeth in order to wipe your debts. You realise all of this and decide the only way to stop everything from happening is to kill yourself before you make a choice at the baptism. Elizabeth and her million of other universe versions of her drown you at your request because that somehow kills you forever despite the entire point of the game being that every possible action happens and splits into multiple universes, meaning that by the games logic the possibility that you don't die and the events of the game still happen regardless, because a split would be formed at that decision like at every other moment in history, is an utter certainty, making the entire exercise pointless because Levine isn't as clever as he likes to think he is.

Short version: Literally nothing happens due to the multiple universe story angle meaning every possibility has to happen always and forever

Lets! Get! Weird! posted:

I don't think you understood it, every version died.

Lets! Get! Weird! posted:

I don't think you understood it, every version died.

Stux posted:

Yeah, which would instantly cause a split where none died, where only one died, where every possible combination of deaths and no deaths happened and everything else that is possible to occur.

widespread posted:

So from what I understand, Infinite's plot is just "make more multiverses by the end"?

pentyne posted:

Not even the end, you jump universes halfway through the game.

widespread posted:

So from what I understand, Infinite's plot is just "make more multiverses by the end"?

Stux posted:

It tries to ignore it's own rule of "a choice makes a split/new universe" just to give the game an ending, although that means by it's own internal logic and the theory it borrows from that dewitts choice to die before the baptism would instantly create another universe where that doesn't happen. Except it does create a split because the DLC occurs in the future with both dewitt and elizabeth still existing. It's really dumb.

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Then there's the DLC, which is another (much worse) story...

MagusProject posted:

So what's the plot of the DLC, then?

Mahuum Aqoha posted:

Isn't it still possible for Booker to exist? Because there's two things that happen at the baptism - either he gets baptized or he walks by and doesn't get baptized. Elizabeth just drowns the Booker that gets baptized, so that wipes out all the Comstock possibilities. But the Booker timelines still exist, right? That little post-credit scene where he's in his office in front of the door to babby Elizabeth's room kind of sealed that for me.

Edit: can someone spoil The Old Republic for me? I loved both of the Knights games but I'll be damned if I'm going to start playing another MMO.

Stux posted:

No matter which booker is drowned, even if it's all/both, the act of being drowned would make a new universe where he doesn't get drowned, then continue to him either choosing to be baptised or not, creating another split where he becomes dewitt or comstock, rendering the entire exercise utterly pointless along with the entire game. Except they just decided arbitrarily that it doesn't for the standard game to give you an ending. Then the DLC has them all alive again to make rapture happen 30 years later because...??????

Anatharon posted:

Why were people sucking this game's dick again?

Accordion Man posted:

Low standards, the AAA hype machine, and game reviews trying to desperately validate video games as a serious art form even though Infinite is laughably bad in all narrative aspects.