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45 | 22.73% |
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55 | 27.78% |
| Nintend'oh! |
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63 | 31.82% |
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Lizard Wizard posted:I think the Persona games are good RPGs and don't see the appeal in turning them into fighting and rhythm games. Atlus was smart and made P4A a visual novel with occasional fight scenes using an established system from a good developer but made even more casual and easy by basically automating combos and poo poo. It is the most I've played a fighting game since Street Fighter 2 Whatever Version on SNES.
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Aug 2, 2017 20:56
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Macaluso posted:Why did Doom drop from $60 to $30? Not that I'm complaining cause now I can afford it but it doesn't seem like it's been out that long Bethesda has enough business sense to permanently discount their games. Doom was $20 by black Friday last year, if not earlier, so who the hell expects to sell anything at $60 after that just drop it to $30. See Dishonored 2 which is $40.
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Aug 2, 2017 23:36
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anime sidemouth has come a long way since mega man legends where they had to hand draw each facial texture depending on the camera angle.
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Aug 3, 2017 08:32
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I wish I didn't install the M4-78 planet in KOTOR 2 because this is the most boring poo poo I've ever experienced in an RPG, let alone a video game. People who complain about fetch quests in RPGs needs to see this and be humbled instantly.
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Aug 4, 2017 07:27
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Endorph posted:no, he means people who disagree with HIS gamergate/alt. right poo poo Goddammit and that game totally looks like my poo poo
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Aug 5, 2017 20:43
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Lizard Wizard posted:Time to get high and watch Sonic Underground on purpose, have fun games chat Sonic Underground or Quack Pack, what is the king of 90s 'tude?
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Aug 5, 2017 21:47
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Raserys posted:We did this actually Try Gauntlet. Your mom can play a ranged character while you play the wizard who is the best.
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Aug 5, 2017 23:37
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Don't mix your work life with your sex life, keep them separate.
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Aug 6, 2017 15:51
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In Training posted:It's more that Mayo/ketchup was only close in Japan and everywhere else in the world thinks Mayo is kind agross and except for like...the Benelux region And all those people are wrong and I bet they regularly eat emulsions of egg and oil without ever thinking "yuck, mayo."
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Aug 6, 2017 19:11
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I bought this over Super Mario RPG, am I the worst human alive?
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Aug 7, 2017 00:10
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I learned today on Binging with Babish that some people put ketchup on cheese steaks and now I want to watch the world burn.
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Aug 7, 2017 00:23
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Help Im Alive posted:That looks fun I guess Yeah, when it popped up on the Humble Bundle I thought it was a bad team shooter like LawBreakers but it's actually Saint's Row 4 + Crackdown and that's a'okay. Still seems like they're having trouble advertising what it actually is and putting out joke videos on porn sites doesn't really help the marketing imo
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Aug 7, 2017 02:02
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Regy Rusty posted:I can't believe I never heard of The Sexy Brutale until today. I've wanted a puzzle game that used Majora's Mask style time loops for years and yet this passed me by for months. Any it's amazing and people should play it. I was sad I missed it on sale but looking forward to playing it. I also love these, I don't know what you would call them, "voyeur games" like Ghost Trick where you watch events unfold and manipulate them? I was the kid who unironically liked Night Trap and Double Switch.
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Aug 7, 2017 05:25
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shelob ain't got poo poo on lolth
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Aug 8, 2017 02:50
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I understand that and I am perfectly content with my dislike of BOTW. On the other hand it's extremely tiring to see the opposite side of the critical spectrum call everyone who likes a thing crazy for what they see as "fundamentally flawed" design choices as if they are objectively flawed. That this criticism always ends up being "this was done better in other games" but ignore that maybe the game being discussed is praised as highly as it is because it does all of things at once. And yes, it may not be a master of its individual aspects but video games are a collection of mechanics that work in tandem and those elements together are what create a cohesive whole. Like when Halo came out the PC crowd just had to shout at the top of their lungs that Quake 3 was a better multiplayer game and Tribes 2 was faster and larger and Half-Life had a better campaign but Halo had a big singleplayer + big multiplayer + vehicular combat and offered it to an audience that had none of those. What I'm saying is that beneath the glowing praise are plenty of criticisms even from the people giving it 10s because they don't loving matter in the face of the other elements that are enjoyable.
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Aug 8, 2017 03:59
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dogsicle posted:the weapon durability system just resulted in me cycling through a bunch of crap weapons while i saved the good ones, or using good ones on encounters that gave me shittier ones. And I just used my best weapons because the game never really puts you in a situation where you're starving for equipment and scales weapons over time so you're progressively finding better stuff. But this has to be the biggest hurdle in game design. If you give the player limited resources they're going to hoard them even if it makes the game actively harder which is why everything is going the way of timers and cooldowns.
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Aug 8, 2017 04:02
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:That's why I included the phrase "come together poorly." The weapon durability makes the bad-feeling combat feel even worse as you have to cycle through your inventory in longer battles and/or break the flow of combat by scavenging for weapons. The climbing system is supposed to make the boring empty expanses feel better because you can go anywhere, but it actually ends up being tedious, time-consuming, and full of annoyances such as when it rains. The only reason I even included part about things being done in other games is because a lot of people praised this game for its exploration when it uses an open world model based on climbing towers to reveal the map.... but wait guys, this one is OK and even better because it has the dubious innovation of making you place the map markers yourself! ...Which does nothing for me and is apparently done in the service of making you feel like you are charting your own path and telling your own story except it does it with systems that are either flat in and of themselves or transparently designed to make you chart your own path which makes it all feel rather illusory. I'm less quoting you and more like your post triggered my eye rolling over this 7,000 word article filled with cliches that crop up in every "this is overrated" article. But yeah, video games by design are more than their individual parts. I like the impermanence of scavenging and throwing poo poo in enemy faces, and it has the bonus of doing double damage or more with a shot to the head. Your arrows end up being more powerful than melee weapons in some cases, usually auto-killing elemental enemies, and your infinite bombs, stasis, and magnet abilities all work in a pinch with the designers clearly putting manipulative items like powder kegs and bee hives in populated areas. And normally I tired of the Assassin's Creed model of filling out the world map but really it's because AssCreed makes a chore out of it where the tower exists solely to trigger new things to auto-fill on your map. So yes, standing on top of a hill and looking out over the world to mark things is an incredibly good feeling in an open world game and it triggered nostalgia for Morrowind where you ask for directions and a character is like "See that giant landmark? Follow the road south of it, spin around three times, go up the third hill, then whistle at the moon." That is incredibly my poo poo and it is legitimately lost in an era of auto maps and pointers. Take apart the building blocks and you lose everything BotW is about but together there legitimately isn't a game like it no matter how you squint your eyes. Even Witcher 3, a game I felt came close to this, relied a bit too much on metagaming to enjoy. You could play without the UI and markers but it's clear the designers wanted you to play with them. quote:Edit: Like, my main loving criticism of Breath of the Wild is that it is precisely an example of mechanics not working in tandem and not forming a cohesive whole And my take away is that they do, and our experiences just can't click together. I knew I would love this game when a moblin attacked a stasis rock, ran at me, then got knocked away from behind. Critics would say "so what, what does this add" but it's an illusion of interactivity that hasn't been broken yet and 80 hours in I still approach every encounter like "how can i gently caress with these creeps" al-azad fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Aug 8, 2017 |
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Aug 8, 2017 04:26
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I guess games really are spaces to express one's values because after my fiftieth encampment I thought to myself, "What am I getting out of going there when I don't like fighting, and at best I will replace some of the weapons I have with equal to or worse weapons." The same thing with the Korok seeds, people who bash collectibles in other games drool over these and want to collect all one thousand or whatever and maybe I'm just jaded and cynical because when I read that the designers used the Hero's Path tool to see where people weren't going and placed the Korok seeds there, I was like, "Oh, they're doing that to fill the map just like other open world games do, and the reason to collect the seeds besides the fleeting pleasure of solving a one-step puzzle is to increase my inventory slots which only matters because the inventory is at a feel-bad low cap and the inventory slots only really matter because of the feel-bad durability system and aren't I trying to avoid interacting with the feel-bad melee combat anyway" I'll say this one last thing, because I'm not wild about the game and think it's pretty good not GOTY, but it ticks all my boxes because it's a game that gives out what you put in and the designers step back enough to give you room to breath. A lot of developers don't trust the player enough to walk a straight line without telling you what's going on but BotW has a pretty hands-off tutorial section then boots you out. The korok seeds are a lovely diversion as they're deliberate enough to be noticeable when you know what to look out for. Compare this to Batman where the Riddler trophies and puzzles are keyed to a color and you collect things to reveal a thing to reveal more trophies. Having a bigger inventory is nice but when every enemy drops a weapon and I've got melee and arrows, I don't need an armory to handle any challenge. That's all optional stuff I can put time into or not. BotW also made me reevaluate Zelda 2, a game I used to think was poorly designed and arbitrarily hard but now come away that where it lacks in Zelda 1's exploration it more than makes up for that with combat-as-a-puzzle. It's strange, I think the Souls games should be my favorite series of all time but I've fallen off of Demon's Souls and Dark Souls three or four times.
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Aug 8, 2017 04:50
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throw breath of the wild in the loving trash
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Aug 8, 2017 04:59
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Harrow posted:I think what BotW's durability system needed in order to really shine would be a combination of a shallower power curve, and more different weapon types. If you cared less about your weapon's attack power (because it doesn't scale that high in the first place) and more about the specific properties of each weapon, its range and speed and any projectiles it shoots or other things like that, then I don't think it'd feel like you just need to stock up on the best weapons always. Less incentive to keep going to the same places to stock up on the strongest weapons, and more variety as you use and break the weapons you find. I have never farmed for a weapon or returned to areas to get specific weapons. I take what enemies drop and toss poo poo if there's something better in a chest. If I need more strength I've got an inventory full of potions that do just that. Tying damage to character levels or abilities will drive the game in the direction as the Bethesda games where it becomes impossible to balance content without scaling everything to your character. This leads to ridiculous scenarios like a bandit wearing full plate or a rat that could decimate an army. The key to Zelda's design is that the world has a consistent rulset with the monsters and Link basically on the same level in relation to each other. What sets them apart is the equipment. And I think that's great design. You can adjust the difficulty by focusing more or less on hearts or wearing different armor. People will say there's no reason not to wear the Champion's Tunic but a level 1 tunic is the same defense as most of the other shirts and to get to level 2 you have to deliberately farm dragons, a time consuming process that I didn't discover until reading a spoiler and don't want to bother with at all because I have other poo poo to do in the game.
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Aug 8, 2017 17:52
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I have zero nostalgia for Transformers but watched the 80s film a few years ago and had a blast.
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Aug 8, 2017 20:46
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Hellblade is giving me Mark of Kri vibes for some reason and that's a good thing. I'll check it out when it's cheap
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Aug 9, 2017 13:35
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I'm going to put 100 hours into this thing hoping it becomes fun Wait Maybe it's actually fun
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Aug 10, 2017 13:40
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Nah, that's business as usual for Nintendo. They sit on ideas and prototypes for decades. Holding out for first person Zelda like Ocarina was planned to be.
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Aug 12, 2017 10:42
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Raserys posted:It's understandable, and I know and agree that swearing has been around even 1,000's of year, but I dont think the words gently caress, or poo poo, or any would be invented to know and say the words. But its just cringey to put the word of the 20th and 21st century swear word in a game that takes place of 1,000's of years ago. Pretend it's a translation decision because modern English also did not exist a thousand years ago but profanity definitely did. *translators note: "kisama" is a deragotory way of saying "you" which is an example of ironic wordplay because it is made up of the kanji for "esteemed honorable person" that is why we translated the line as "you motherfucking poo poo eating bastard"
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Aug 12, 2017 16:44
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babypolis posted:Mieu from tales of the abyss was the worst for me I loved Mieu because it was the only thing the main character could take his frustrations out on while the entire party acted like huge douches because he has the mind of a literal child.
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Aug 12, 2017 20:02
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StrixNebulosa posted:What's a good game for killing Nazis that isn't Wolfenstein or a FPS? Bloodrayne
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Aug 13, 2017 06:21
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Xenogears, Grandia, and Persona 2 still have my favorite retro aesthetic of big sprites on simple 3D terrain and I can't wait for the next generation of indies who loved it too.
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Aug 13, 2017 18:49
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The White Dragon posted:never happen, it's surprisingly hard to make nice 3d environments no matter how simple they are. there's a guy in the making games megathread who's doing something like it, but even then it looks like it's got a fixed camera and none of the full environments with textured "infinite space" walls you got in g1/xg. ps-era rpgs are really hard work and they'll be the downfall of hundreds, if not thousands, of garage meth lab devs. challenge accepted please support my kickstarter for zenogais the aesthetic is Ragnarok Online in HD.
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Aug 13, 2017 19:33
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This is the only hood I support MysticalMachineGun posted:Sonic: still the best Mario wants to maintain the status quo. He threw Sonic under the bus during the video game hearings just like John Wayne called out Carl Foreman as un-American. I completely forgot, was this scene addressed in the story or did they want to make a random Akira reference 5 minutes after introducing this character?
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Aug 14, 2017 09:26
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Not a Children posted:Literally the reason I never bothered with sonic again til I was an adult its not fair bringing SMW into the conversation because the only thing better is SMB3
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Aug 14, 2017 17:50
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Hot take: both soundtracks for sonic cd are good the truth is somewhere in the middle
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Aug 16, 2017 04:24
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FirstAidKite posted:I didn't see the eclipse because I don't have glasses for it and also I know a guy who was like "These people with their glasses, I don't get it, they don't need special glasses to look at an eclipse. Just look up real quick and then look back down." If President Trump doesn't need glasses then neither do I
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Aug 21, 2017 21:01
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I'll be the first to sign up for a robot body so I can play the hundreds of bundle garbage I keep buying.
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Aug 28, 2017 06:17
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I'll also settle for vampirism or becoming a lich
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Aug 28, 2017 06:18
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