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exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

God of War is a hack n' slash action-adventure in the vein of Darksiders with a similar structure to the latest Uncharted/Raiders: One open worldish hub area that you return to at various points throughout the story interdicted with "advance plot here" plot missions usually culminating in a big boss setpiece. There are a lot of secret areas and some looping pathways with optional bosses and treasure rooms. The story's not too bad and the level design, combat, art direction and environments are all exceptional. It's a really good game with almost zero filler, not much more to be said. If you like character driven single-player narrative games that don't look like a piece of crap or take 100 hours to beat then God of War is a must-play.

# ¿ May 1, 2018 09:58

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 07:13

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

homeless snail posted:

Imagine the power increase you could get by attaching two or three 32x stacks.

# ¿ May 1, 2018 12:34

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Horizon Zero Dawn was proudly inspired by JRPGs/anime and needed a suitably word salad title.

# ¿ May 1, 2018 13:48

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

haveblue posted:

No announcement yet but it�s a flagship first-party game and there are some things in it that stand out as obvious add-on access points so I�d say it�s likely.

It�s absolutely worth buying right now, though.

Horizon did a similar thing last year where they said "no planned DLC" but then after a couple months when it was a gigundo bazillion seller they said "okay we found some DLC under the couch." Probably to keep stragglers from waiting on some kind of GOTY edition.

That being said GoW like HZD is a totally complete-feeling game at release and doesn't need an expansion although I'd gladly welcome it.

# ¿ May 1, 2018 15:08

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Awhile back there was some rumor floating around that MS would buy exclusivity rights to Cyberpunk 2077 but that was probably just wishful thinking.

# ¿ May 1, 2018 16:21

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

I can't wait to roll a technomage in the definitely coming out soon video game, Cyberpunk 2077. I'll be real popular, some might even say a star citizen.

# ¿ May 1, 2018 17:04

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Saint Freak posted:

Yeah, it seems like Tomb Raider R3boot has this too. All the promos have big XBOX logos, but it's set to release all platforms same day.

Not too sure about this, like Sony and Steam each have their own channels promoting the game and it displays all 3 platforms in the thumbnail. They might get a gameplay showcase on the XB stage though.

# ¿ May 1, 2018 17:06

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

MS seems uninterested in making the X-Box anything more than a proprietary Win10 gaming machine if they don't pull out of the console market altogether, which is unfortunate because competition is good for the industry and exclusives are where you tend to find games that aren't multiplatform service-based monstrosities.

# ¿ May 1, 2018 17:24

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

glam rock hamhock posted:

I was watching some videos on Bloodborne lore and is there any other game series where the placement of pickups is often used to tell the story?

Gone Home.

# ¿ May 1, 2018 21:46

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Skypie posted:

How much will I be looked down on by a store clerk if I buy Dragons Crown Pro

You can always buy digital to hide your shame.

OTOH the clerk works at Gamestop so there's an even shot he's just as into anime boobies as you are.

# ¿ May 2, 2018 11:31

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

The first time I loaded up Soul Calibur on my Dreamcast and saw 100% smooth butts and boobies, I knew my life as a gamer would never be the same.

# ¿ May 2, 2018 11:38

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpNS8jYniLY

# ¿ May 2, 2018 11:45

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

You have to figure there is probably a non-zero number of people who have been crushed to death by their own video game collection.

# ¿ May 2, 2018 13:17

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

The only physical game I�ve bought in the last ten years was that expensive-rear end vinyl edition of Life is Strange and that was mostly just for the album.

# ¿ May 2, 2018 13:20

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

I had the Myst novels as a kid and it was super
cool because they had the same cover style as the actual linking books in the game.

# ¿ May 2, 2018 13:54

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

There are a few select behaviors that instantly let you know a person is not worth your time and one of them is talking poo poo about the Golden Girls.

# ¿ May 2, 2018 17:49

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Omigod never read Steam comments. Re: Lara Croft's model in the new Tomb Raider game.

Buzzardbee40AnsToujoursPuceau posted:

i'm sorry but what is see here is serena williams white, this is not lara's body from rottr,
this is a baboon with a commando outfit.

the face is nice, same as riottr but the body, wow. omg. it's a gorilla lol

# ¿ May 2, 2018 19:20

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Nina posted:

I went to double check the trailer and Lara looks the same to me though? Like she's not even particularly buff wtf

This is the actual in-game model being referenced.

# ¿ May 2, 2018 19:51

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Yeah I'd say it's definitely a little trick of the lighting causing people to go off on a racist tirade against Serena Williams.

# ¿ May 2, 2018 19:56

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

The White Dragon posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeWH4ttdO4w

Badthrow of the Tom Braider

# ¿ May 2, 2018 21:07

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

The thing is even if you put a pretty homely looking person as the protagonist of your game then they�ll naturally begin to seem more attractive in the eyes of your audience because we are conditioned to sympathize with the main character of a story.

# ¿ May 2, 2018 22:14

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Hard to tell because she's a cat person but I think Mae Borowski is supposed to be kinda chunky.

# ¿ May 3, 2018 05:27

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

I play games specifically to tune out my spouse + all worldly distractions so the podcast thing never made sense to me.

# ¿ May 3, 2018 08:33

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Mothers Day is coming up so Bayo would be more thematically appropriate as #1 Gaming Mom.

# ¿ May 3, 2018 13:58

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

I think colons are hella ugly aesthetically and much prefer direct sequel numbers or just "Name of Series."

# ¿ May 4, 2018 12:31

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Doesn't this make sense for a game like Destiny though? They've already got 96% of anybody who would buy this game for more than $40 by now and they want as large a userbase as possible to buy their upcoming DLC.

# ¿ May 4, 2018 18:24

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Wamdoodle posted:

Have there been any expansions released yet? I remember one of the complaints against Destiny 1 was you had to buy the DLC if you wanted to have people to play with because everyone had moved on.

There was one that came out in the winter that wasn't very well-received and they're releasing another one this month I think?

# ¿ May 4, 2018 18:38

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

The whole "mostly linear story missions interconnected by 1-3 larger hub areas that you return to at various points throughout the game" has been around long before Asylum, although God of War does proudly display its influences there. It's used a lot because it works, particularly for action games since the structure helps keep forward momentum.

# ¿ May 5, 2018 11:22

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

# ¿ May 5, 2018 19:28

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

I can�t believe Charli XCX�s next album is a console exclusive.

# ¿ May 6, 2018 17:42

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Incredible, nobody wanted to buy a bunch of cardboard boxes they could put their Switch in.

# ¿ May 6, 2018 19:09

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

is a stupid expensive hobby and I would heartily recommend making a six-figure income and/or never having children so that you can keep up on the hottest releases.

# ¿ May 6, 2018 21:39

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

You have to admire the forward-thinking grift of Hellgate: London and its "lifetime" subscription. Recent innovators like EA have improved on the concept by selling $199 super-deluxe mega hype editions of Mass Effect: Andromeda (game not included).

# ¿ May 6, 2018 21:56

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Anybody who says "anybody who says video game stories are good has never read a book," has never read a book.

# ¿ May 7, 2018 06:53

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

No game should take more than 20 hours to beat.

# ¿ May 7, 2018 07:13

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

I read Kim Stanley Robinson�s entire Mars trilogy as a 13 year-old and even at that age I came away from it thinking �drat, this guy is horny.�

# ¿ May 7, 2018 12:46

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

"Wow I'm sure glad that game took 100 hours to beat" - me, never.

# ¿ May 7, 2018 15:15

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

I don't know where you get that idea. I'm generally really positive about all the games I play!

# ¿ May 7, 2018 15:17

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Really Pants posted:

games are too narrow and should be wider

I miss when PC games came in those gigantic boxes with notepads and thicc instruction manuals.

# ¿ May 7, 2018 16:29

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 07:13

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Supposedly they wanted Lara Croft but PS All-Stars had a release date ahead of TR2013 and Square didn't want that game upstaging her return in the reboot.

# ¿ May 7, 2018 16:38

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