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Soul Reaver posted:That might be true now, but in 2007 Doug Lombardi stated that the plan was for Episode Three to 'end the current Half Life 2 story arc'. "New release of episodic content every 6 months", Gaben newell, 10 years and 1 releases later.
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Drone_Fragger posted:"New release of episodic content every 6 months", Gaben newell, 10 years and 1 releases later. Did anyone believe that? I know Newell is the king of wishful thinking when it comes to deadlines, but even he had to know that was bullshit.
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# ? Mar 9, 2015 04:16 |
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:Did anyone believe that? I know Newell is the king of wishful thinking when it comes to deadlines, but even he had to know that was bullshit. Maybe ask Ritual back when they started making SiN episodes?
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# ? Mar 9, 2015 04:28 |
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Nier has a bunch of them. Things like sidequests that take literal days of farming flowers to get no real reward. Or my favourite, having multiple endings through new game plus, but one ending completely erases your saves. All of them for the game, not just the latest.
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# ? Mar 9, 2015 05:01 |
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I'm pretty surprised actually that these weren't mentioned:
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# ? Mar 9, 2015 08:58 |
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Speaking of the Stanley Parable, take a wander through the SP announcer pack for Dota 2: http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Stanley_Parable_Announcer_Pack I don't know if it's a troll per se, but at some point you've paid to get an announcer pack dripping with derision for you, the game, the meta, mobas, video games in general, and especially e-sports. It's amazing. I couldn't play the game without it.
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# ? Mar 9, 2015 10:14 |
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After weeks of playing the original Cannon Fodder on my Amiga, I finally beat the last levels to be presented with this:
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# ? Mar 9, 2015 10:27 |
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The basketball raising sim in Barkley's Shut up and Jam Gaiden.
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# ? Mar 9, 2015 13:53 |
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im pooping! posted:I'm pretty surprised actually that these weren't mentioned: 17.1% of players have the final one
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# ? Mar 9, 2015 14:59 |
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is that the one where you shoot the baby for 4 hours? im too lazy to check
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# ? Mar 9, 2015 16:26 |
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The entirety of Stanley's parable is a game Dev troll. Might as well name this thread pyf Stanley parable moment
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# ? Mar 9, 2015 22:02 |
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im pooping! posted:I'm pretty surprised actually that these weren't mentioned: Can you get those by messing with your clock?
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# ? Mar 9, 2015 22:05 |
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The Moon Monster posted:Can you get those by messing with your clock? you can get them by using the Steam Achievement Manager to unlock all of the achievements for every game you own on Steam like everyone else does anyway because who gives a gently caress about Steam achievements
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# ? Mar 9, 2015 22:28 |
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Clearly the people downloading and running something to give them all achievements don't care about them at all, nosiree. I like getting periodic "hey, you did something cool with our game's mechanics" notifications. Any way, have some Eternal Darkness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSXcajQnasc Highlights: quote:3. Your TV will appear to change video modes while it sounds like your character is getting attacked.
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# ? Mar 9, 2015 22:47 |
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These things popping out of chests and exploding in your face in Binding of Isaac: http://bindingofisaacrebirth.gamepedia.com/Pickups#Troll_Bombs Actually most of that game goes out of its way to troll the player pretty hard.
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# ? Mar 9, 2015 22:56 |
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f#a# posted:
The best insanity-effect was the one that showed silhouettes of bugs crawling on your TV. I was playing in the dark, so of course I jumped to the conclusion that my entire room was covered in bugs.
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# ? Mar 9, 2015 23:33 |
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f#a# posted:Clearly the people downloading and running something to give them all achievements don't care about them at all, nosiree. I like getting periodic "hey, you did something cool with our game's mechanics" notifications. i think most people use them to get TF2 weapons that you can only get through achievements in it/other games
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Alouicious posted:you can get them by using the Steam Achievement Manager to unlock all of the achievements for every game you own on Steam like everyone else does anyway because who gives a gently caress about Steam achievements I didn't know you could do that because I don't care about steam achievements. Can you get those ones by messing with your clock though?
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The Moon Monster posted:I didn't know you could do that because I don't care about steam achievements. Can you get those ones by messing with your clock though? You can at least get the "Dont play for five years" one by setting your clock forward yeah.
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# ? Mar 11, 2015 21:17 |
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im pooping! posted:I'm pretty surprised actually that these weren't mentioned: I am fairly certain the impossible one is given out very rarely at random for no reason whatsoever.
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Re: trolling pirates, the developers of the 2012 Syndicate FPS put a fake .nfo in the game's files to mess with pirate groups that do the same thing with their own .nfo files.pre:████████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ███ ███ █ ▓ █ ██ ▓ ██ █ ▓▓ █ █ █▓ █ █ ▓█ █ █ ███ ████▓ █ █ █ ▓ ███ █ █ ██ ████ ▓███ ████▓ █ █ ████████ ▓███▓ ▓█ ▓▓ █ █ ▓▓ ██ ████ █ █ █ ██▓ ██▓ ▓█▓ █ █ ▓████ █████ ████████ █ █ ▓███ ███████████ █████▓ █ █ ▓█ ███████████████ █ █ █ █████████████████ █ █ ██▀▀███████████▀▀██ █ █ ███▀▄▀██▀█▀██▀▄▀███ ▓ █ █ █▓ ▓█ ████▄ ▄███▄ ▄████ ▓███ █ █ █ ▓▓ ███ █████████████████████ ██████▓ ▓ █ █ ▓ █ ████ ████████ ▄█▄ ████████ ███▓ ██ ██ █ █ █████▓▓ █████████████████████ ███ ██ █▓ █ █ ███ ██ ▀▀▀█████████▀▀▀ ██ ▓▓ ▓█▓ █ █ ██ ██▄▄▄▀▀▀▄▄▄██ ██ █ █ ███▄▀█████████▀▄███ █ █ ████▄▀▀███▀▀▄████ █ █ ▓ ██████▄▄▄██████ █▓ █ █ ████ ███████████ ██▓ █ █ ▓██████ █████ ▓███ █ █ ██ ▓██▓ █ █ ▓█▓ ████ ▓███████ █ █ █▓ ████ █████▓█▓ █ █ ██ ████ ▓ ▓ █ █ █▓███▓ ▓███ █ █ █ ▓ ███ ▓█ █ █ ███ █ █ ▓██ █ █ ██ █ █ ▓█ █ ██ █ ██ █ ▓ █ ███ ▓ ███ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████████ Syndicate™ © 2012 ELECTRONIC ARTS, INC. · ─ ─·-────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────-·─ ─ · DISC Count.......: 01 Protection.......: Yes · ─ ─·-────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────-·─ ─ · Support the software companies. If you play this game BUY it! · ─ ─·-────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────-·─ ─ · Release Information · ─ ─·-────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────-·─ ─ · Game Notes: ~~~~~~~~~~~ Set in 2069, Syndicate takes players into a dark, Machiavellian world run without government oversight with many syndicates vying for total dominance of their local market place. With no one to question their intentions or actions, three mega corporations - Eurocorp, Cayman Global, and Aspari - are at the forefront of this brutal war for control of the pivotal American market. In the world of Syndicate, everything is digitally connected, including the people. Players aren't limited to the weapons in their hands. Through DART 6 bio-chip technology implanted in their head, players can slow down time and breach the digital world around them to take down their foes using a variety of upgradable hacking mechanics. Syndicate's blend of fast-paced, futuristic, action shooter settings and story combined with innovative chip breach gameplay instantly immerses players in a unique digital world. Install Notes: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1) Insert disc 2) Play ;) · ─ ─·-────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────-·─ ─ · Starbreeze Application Information · ─ ─·-────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────-·─ ─ · Are you bored with watching from the sidelines? Ready to make the switch? Do you have considerable talents in any of the following areas? - Art, modeling, texturing, sound design - Programming - Game design If you meet one or more of those criteria, and want to be a part of the fun, email us at jobs@starbreeze.com today! For other ways to contact us, see below. Over a hundred people spent several years of their lives making this game. If you like what you play, please consider purchasing it if you haven't · ─ ─·-────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────-·─ ─ · How to Contact Starbreeze · ─ ─·-────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────-·─ ─ · E-Mail: jobs@starbreeze.com Forum: http://www.starbreezeforum.se/ Web: http://www.starbreeze.com/ SBZ: No sleep until gold · ─ ─·-────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────-·─ ─ · Ragequit posted:I am fairly certain the impossible one is given out very rarely at random for no reason whatsoever. The original plan was to have it be randomly unlocked doing tasks that the dev would change periodically (at launch it as quickloading) but when people figured it out and posted guides to unlocking it he threw a hissy fit about people compromising his vision and just removed the unlock entirely. You can still earn it in-game by editing a text file and using a console command.
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Back when the MMO Vanguard was still around, one of (and at one point THE) hardest raid targets in the game was a huge turtle with a case of the shits. He was named Sparkles the Irritated.
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If you beat the Sega CD version of Earthworm Jim on easy mode, you don't even get a real ending.
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Lizard Wizard posted:If you beat the Sega CD version of Earthworm Jim on easy mode, you don't even get a real ending. This is better than the real ending.
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# ? Mar 12, 2015 08:30 |
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the impossible-to-reach pizza in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on NES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjUz8IT0CYg&t=241s
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olaf2022 posted:the impossible-to-reach pizza in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on NES The unjumpable gap 2 segments later is far, far worse.
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# ? Mar 12, 2015 12:09 |
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Diablo 3 is its own can of worms but Whimsyshire therein is a "gently caress YOU" to the people who complained that the first screenshots of the game were "too bright" or "too colorful" or "not dark and gloomy enough"
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Breetai posted:The unjumpable gap 2 segments later is far, far worse. And then one of the PC versions has jumps that are literally too long to ever get past and thus you can't even finish the game.
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Seamonster posted:Diablo 3 is its own can of worms but Whimsyshire therein is a "gently caress YOU" to the people who complained that the first screenshots of the game were "too bright" or "too colorful" or "not dark and gloomy enough" There is this accelerating feedback cycle between game companies and consumers where constantly-iterating franchises become part of the conversation about themselves. I think I don't like it. I'm thinking of like Warcraft commercials or the meta stuff in Assassin's Creed The Pirate One or especially Dragon Age 2 where the characters are vaguely aware of being in a big sloppy erotic fanfic of themselves. Does someone want this? It seems like the only reason to like Whimsyshire Therein and be all triumphally "gently caress YOU" about it is because of an internet argument-- an argument that people only cared enough to have because, at some point in history, there was this non-franchise whole new game called Diablo that had the confidence and vision to be itself, instead of some sort of loving catty riposte to youtube comments about its own trailers. Maybe that's easier to do when it's 1995 and youtube doesn't exist
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swamp waste posted:There is this accelerating feedback cycle between game companies and consumers where constantly-iterating franchises become part of the conversation about themselves. I think I don't like it. I'm thinking of like Warcraft commercials or the meta stuff in Assassin's Creed The Pirate One or especially Dragon Age 2 where the characters are vaguely aware of being in a big sloppy erotic fanfic of themselves. JOKES ARE TO BE SHOT ON SIGHT
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Lizard Wizard posted:If you beat the Sega CD version of Earthworm Jim on easy mode, you don't even get a real ending. Earthworm jim 2's ending is almost a troll by itself. A really good troll. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPsYIf3_S0M
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Deltasquid posted:Metal Gear Solid. The part where you have to use this key to disarm nukes or silly nonsense like that, and it has to change shapes by making it really cold and really warm. You basically run back to the freezer halfway disc 2, back to the end of the control room, back to the start of disc 2 to get to the forge, then back to the control room. Approximately 10-15 minutes of running around, possibly more if you forget about those dumb trap doors or that room filled with a hundred wall-mounted guns or so, or if the key changes back to its neutral state because you were too slow. Fun Fact: If you're paying close attention, the thermally sensitive key does in fact change in those regions long before it's revealed that it should, but you'll never think to look at it at that time and notice. All the foreshadowing and double-backing the plot does is actually there in that game if you look for it, all of it. It's just presented in a very ingenious way as to make you not expect it on your first trip through.
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swamp waste posted:Assassin's Creed The Pirate One Ubisoft explicitly portraying themselves as the villains in their own video game series was so wonderfully smug and on the nose that I can forgive almost everything else they've done wrong. Even Kojima wouldn't go that far.
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Any video game that references this website, for example: Fallout New Vegas this website survives a nuclear apocalypse posted:-The YCS/186 Gauss rifle is named for the "Your Console Sucks" forum that has the forum ID number 186. GTA Vice City have sex with, then kill some hookers, then post about it here posted:There are several references to the humor website Somethingawful.com including the title SA Goon when your score is between 1000 and 1010, and there is a newspaper called Front Page News, a reference to the Front Page of Somethingawful. apparently Pokemon??? I'm sure this website has all Easter eggs ever but gently caress if I'm going to spend any more time on it posted:
Elder Scrolls Morrowind Bethesda and ubisoft both suck and like to gently caress. Each other. posted:In Azura's Coast (13, 5), you can find the corpse of an NPC named Arlowe. On the corpse is the BanHammer. This is a reference to the Something Awful Forums, where the site's creator, Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka, uses the Banhammer to ban trolls. On the forums, Kyanka is sometimes referred to as R-Lo, which is a homonym of Arlow Apparently In Final Fantasy IV for Game Boy Advance some goon translator put this in oh boy it's from 日本 posted:Obviously Slender There's some other game (mmorpg?) that has a poo poo ton of SA references that's escaping me right now but yeah. Goons.
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# ? Mar 12, 2015 21:31 |
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Accordingly, the most effective way to play as this character in Super Smash Bros. is to be a camping, projectile-spamming piece of poo poo.
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Lets Pickle posted:Accordingly, the most effective way to play as this character in Super Smash Bros. is to be a camping, projectile-spamming piece of poo poo. I can confirm this is true. edit: Although, you can't really launch people like this (except maybe with "the can", which is magical). His aerial A+up is the real killer. scarycave has a new favorite as of 21:51 on Mar 12, 2015 |
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Breetai posted:The unjumpable gap 2 segments later is far, far worse. You don't jump it you need to get the rope and it makes a bridge across this gap, you're welcome.
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swamp waste posted:There is this accelerating feedback cycle between game companies and consumers where constantly-iterating franchises become part of the conversation about themselves. I think I don't like it. I'm thinking of like Warcraft commercials or the meta stuff in Assassin's Creed The Pirate One or especially Dragon Age 2 where the characters are vaguely aware of being in a big sloppy erotic fanfic of themselves. It's a series tradition so you're a decade behind the curve unless you were also raging about Diablo 2 having a hidden cow level making fun of a the rumors of a cow level in the original
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Lizard Wizard posted:If you beat the Sega CD version of Earthworm Jim on easy mode, you don't even get a real ending. The original Killer Instinct for the SNES did the same thing if you beat single player with only one-star difficulty.
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I love the Secret Boots from Symphony of the Night, hidden in a tiny alcove halfway down a 100ft. waterfall: They literally just stretch your sprite 1 pixel taller and nothing else.
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