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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:I mean, it's easy to criticize a game without being called a CHUD or a transphobe: just have some opinions that are deeper than "this game is trying to make me a liberal. So is your criticism is that you don’t like the game trying to make you think of the characters you are killing as people instead of faceless goons? The naming thing does suck because characters are not uniquely named. I killed 5 “Matteos” in a row in the final portion of the game.
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Jack Trades posted:It doesn't feel sincere when the emotional manipulation is so blatant. I hardly ever had enemies call out each others names (except at the end as I mentioned) so to me it just sounds like this game system just had badly tuned RNG. exquisite tea posted:They are, but it's up to the skill of the artist to determine which emotional beats feel "earned" versus which feel schlocky and cheap. This is why the ending of Rudy, despite seemingly being developed in a lab somewhere to make all grown men cry, is recognized as one of the greatest scenes in cinema and something like Collateral Beauty is seen as dumb saccharine crap. So TLOU2 is bad because the artists who made were not skilled enough? I feel like a lot of these critiques are not very enlightening. Is the personalized killing in TLOU2 better or worse than the impersonal killing sequences in CoD games where you bomb people from 10,000 feet up?
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Imagine Come and See: The Motion Picture: The Video Game I fundamentally don't think games are a medium that can actually handle a story that condemns violence. TLOU2 doesn’t condemn violence. It’s very much pro-violence (at least in certain circumstances).
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Dapper_Swindler posted:can't wait for monday. than we can argue about the game. Game is out in 3 months and I still don’t really know what you do in this game. Like presumably it’s an immersive sim, but pretty much everything shown so far has been from the first few hours so who knows how representative of the rest of the game it is. The first few hours of TLOU2 are basically a walking sim.
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Turin Turambar posted:There was a single npc today that I thought he was iffy. The other 99% was great! The main problem was that it looked like whoever had to record the gameplay footage didn’t have a separate capture machine/beefy enough computer to play and record at the same time smoothly so they had to play/record at somewhere between 20-30fps.
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Well y’all got me to try MD. (Bought it and the DLC on sale a long time ago but never played it). Is there anything to know going in (e.g. to not screw myself over).
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Look Sir Droids posted:There is no optimal "build." Just play how you want to. IIRC the aug that helps you pick the right answer for Conversation Battles is useful, but you don't need it before the end of the Utulek Complex, so no need to rush it. Augs that help lethal or non-lethal are pretty self-explanatory. Thanks! Think I’m going to go lethal just because I’ve always done non-lethal in these kinds of games previously. Electronic old men...are not the future. 
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EimiYoshikawa posted:it really does not play nicely with less than 16 gigs of ram, but can be tamed with 8 if you do a bunch of page file stuff you can google. I haven’t killed any named characters yet but I’ve barely advanced the main plot. I’ve returned to the office and got my augs fixed by the bookstore owner but I’ve just been doing side quests and robbing every apartment in Prague. CottonWolf posted:Same. It really irks me that the game gives you all the fun tools and then criticises you for using them. I’ve just decided to say screw it and play my own way, even if it’s not optimal. I play the combat sections like Uncharted or TLOU where I start in stealth until I get caught and it turns into a fire fight. I’m already getting praxis points at a pretty good pace so I don’t feel like I have to spend them most optimally. The real problem is that it feels like you almost get too many tools and options. So far there is almost always a vent that bypasses the need to engage in combat, hack, break a wall, or stealth. You often don’t even need the “better jumps” aug to reach them. And when there is no vent you usually have enough scrap to make a multi tool to auto-hack any lock.
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Back Hack posted:As someone who grew up on games where saving was a limited commodity or could only be done at specific locations spread out in the game world, I'm glad that poo poo went away. Nothing is more irritating then losing hours of gameplay because you hit a bug or the game crashed before you hit the checkpoint that would save your progress. It not that has become less of an issue over time, these problems have only gotten worst over the years with the general attitude of, "Well fix it in post." Star Ocean 2 back on the PS1 was the absolute worst for this. Not every town had a save point. Sometimes not even every other town. At a few points you have to exit to the overworld map and go through several random battles just to get to a dungeon that has a save point a bit inside it.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsC3L0OiUf0&feature=emb_title Nothing particularly new in this except maybe the dialogue between V, Judy?, and another character right before Judy explains demos braindancing for V. No idea what they are saying though. Also in DX:MD I’ve now made it back from theUlutek Complex (the first time at least). The game is definitely more fun trying to adapt through your failures (e.g. moving to combat after you get caught stealthing). Trying to save scum every time you get caught is a huge pain in the rear end. Too bad the game really seems to want to push you towards ghosting every level. It also doesn’t make much thematic sense for Adam to bounce between stealth, hacking, combat, conversation even if it is more fun (sorry ARC! My Adam agrees with your politics, but you patrols are too good and I spent praxis points on hacking and combat instead of seeing vision cones on my radar, so we will probably have to have a fire fight when you spot me right away). Also doesn’t really make much sense for Adam to be running around doing side quests when important main plot events are happening. Which is typical for a video game and normally doesn’t bother me, except the characters in MD love to call and nag you over and over for not doing the main storyline.
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Rinkles posted:IDK, it is marketing. People seem to like image quality killing effects. Like those sharp filters on YouTube thumbnails. It’s me! I’m the person who loves chromatic aberration, motion blur, etc. If it was up to me the chromatic aberration in Bloodborne would be even more intense when you are in a dream/nightmare (though maybe the whole game is a nightmare  ).Also the lens flairs in Abrams Trek are important and should not be removed.  Edit: hobbesmaster posted:Not to go too far off into talking about DX but this is more of a game design discussion. Pulcinella fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Sep 28, 2020 |
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Tyro posted:I really hope this can actually happen in the game and is annoying as gently caress, because that would be hilarious Need to be able to hack people’s eyes Ghost in the Shell style.
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Zaphod42 posted:You got that right. Just finished playing through DX:MD. People were right about it ending abruptly. Where is the second half of the game Square? Or at least the last third? I can’t believe Prague is the only hub city in the game. The game was fun (though the buggiest and most crash prone PS4 game I’ve played by far) but it just...stops. I guess Square can spend a ten years trying to make FF15 but has to cancel the DX franchise because it doesn’t sell enough the pay for that decade of stinkers (thank god FF7R is amazing). Also I wish there was more than one boss fight in the entire game. He went down in about two seconds since I was combat (plus hacking build). One emp grenade to stun him and remove his Titan armor and then just unload on him. I think it was supposed to be more intricate, what with all the turrets, drones, mines, and the complicated arena, but if you just grenade him right at the start he dies before the drones and turrets can get to you. I had a fun time but don’t think I will replay it or the DLC missions. I feel like I did most of the side quests and there is basically just one mutually exclusive branching path. I also recommend the Ghost Stories for the End if the World podcast. It’s not cyberpunk, but it is about organized crime and spooky conspiracy theories (good for this time leading up to Halloween.)
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Well I mean, yeah, Neuromancer came out in 1984, the same year as 1984. 1984 is cyberpunk, Moby Dick is a kaiju, A Christmas Carol is a heist movie. Change my mind
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:I like the idea that it was all staged and the rich bastard fell for it. Yep. A Christmas Carol is just Inception (or really the other way around). Both are about a team of people committing mind-crime to change how a rich person handles their finances. Edit: Trustworthy posted:Inception, but make it Dickens drat. Beat me to it.
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hobbesmaster posted:*gets mirror fixed* It’s weird how there really is no mystery to the main plot in that game. The opening cutscene with the Illuminati lays everything out to the player and Jensen picks up on what is happening almost immediately. And there is no tension to the double agent plot line (except maybe one scene). Jensen has plenty of time for both jobs.
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hobbesmaster posted:One entire mission, the raid the versalife vault vs infiltrate the church decision was supposed to be this. Pff why would you not do the bank job?! Plus you find out that the bomb maker (who blew up a whole bunch of innocent people so I didn’t feel like rescuing her to begin with) is they head of that church and they all seemed happy about their “ascension” so I didn’t even feel like I missed out on anything. Also, it’s not even Jensen’s fault. His coworkers were supposed to interrogate the bomb maker’s dad and figure it out. Maybe you find out more if you actually do it, but I have no desire to replay DX:MD, even though I liked it. Also, the bank job facilitates robbing the other corporate vaults as well for huge payouts. I can’t decide if I want to do a nomad bike V or a street kid  V.
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Turin Turambar posted:I found this post from Resetera strangely poignant: Gamers are incredibly reactionary. Between “there is no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism” and “there are no such things as AAA games under communism” we all know what they pick.
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No Mods No Masters posted:Honestly the johnny heist chapter alone, pieces of which are basically all they've shown story wise, looks to be like 3,4,5+ hours long and it seems like this game's equivalent of twitcher 3 white orchard. I wouldn't worry too much about it not being giant (but enough about the cosplay dong Yeah the story so far seems to be (Speculative Spoilers): Prologue: Background specific intro. Eventually meet Jackie some how. (At least one possibility is you both are trying to steal the same car and are arrested together. The rich person whose car you are trying to steal basically just tell the cops to kill both of y’all. This might be when the car chase with shoot-out in the badlands we’ve seen takes place.). Find out you both work well together. -small time skip- Chapter 1: You and Jackie are on the job to find that missing person in that one E3 demo (the one where you see the militarized EMT guys show up. Assuming this is still in the game.) A few days later after blowing through your money you and Jackie get a job from Dax? to steal the drone for the Corp back from Maelstrom. Dax thinks you’ve proved yourself and gives you and Jackie the job to steal the chip with Johnny on it. You get the chip but Jackie dies in a shoot-out. You go back to Dax to get paid but he double crosses you (probably because you attracted way too much attention and he is trying to protect himself). You kill Dax. Chapter 2: You wake up with Johnny standing over you telling you to get to work. At some point you meat Judy and other characters.
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SniperWoreConverse posted:i thought it was formal / nonformal Cyberpunk 2077: West Germanic jīz
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Talkc posted:They fixed the cable? ( Oblig ) I think that was the Cupehead people. The two owners mortgaged their houses to be able to pay for animators. They were super lucky that they got picked up by Microsoft and no one released a similar game before they did. (Seriously don’t mortgage your home to pay for your indie game. For every person that succeeds there are dozens of people who quite their job and spend 5 years of their life making their half-baked indie Metroidvania roguelike that gets no sales (or worse. They try making their own engine solo before they get started on the game).)
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Cost of living may be lower, but CDPR sells games globally. The executives and company are making a big profit selling to Americans at American prices but paying their workers at Polish levels (it’s like reverse off-shoring: Operating in a cheaper area and selling in a more expensive one). Edit: 1glitch0 posted:I highly doubt it. They can say 3 weeks will make a big difference, but to me it sounds like hitting the snooze button for 5 minutes. You ain't gonna be less tired in 5 minutes. Pulcinella fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Oct 29, 2020 |
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CottonWolf posted:Four player Crystal Chronicles on Gamecube is still one of my fondest gaming memories, the one time we managed to get four people with GBAs and Gameboy-GBA link cables in the room with the Gamecube. The “best” way to play this was 5 TVs, 5 Gamecubes, and 4 Gameboy players for the Gamecubes.
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Well if we are posting music links might as well post GitS:SAC for completion. https://youtu.be/aAn_wyzdxgQ https://youtu.be/2iE9DkRAY3g I do like that GitS, Elysium, and I guess now 2077 all agree that in the cyberpunk future, America will be a hot, desert wasteland, even inside. We will be able to put computers in people brains but indoor HVAC is a lost art for all but the super wealthy elite.
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steinrokkan posted:There haven't been four good games released this decade. This is Bloodborne, Bloodborne: The Old Hunters, Sekiro, and Sekiro: Game of the Year Edition erasure!
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Watching the footage on YouTube, it’s honestly hard for me to tell which is better. One, it’s not side by side, but also the YouTube compression is just destroying this footage. Even on 1080P its looking pretty grey and muddy, especially in high contrast scenes (which is most of the footage). Glad to see a bit more actual gameplay.
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Au Revoir Shosanna posted:lol absolutely Seriously. Every time gamers have declared something to be the Jesus game it’s lead to massive disappointment. Fable, No Man’s Sky, etc. (Though I think this game will actually be fun, but it’s not going to come close to fulfilling some people’s expectations).)
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Zeta Acosta posted:they must be bug fixing like hell and trying to ship the loving thing in an acceptable state, there is no way in hell they drop something before the release date whenever it may be The king of all day one patches. I wonder if the disc version will have the original day one patch integrated.
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Some actual story in this trailer. Also glad they have brain hacking in this. I wish DX had incorporated GitS style eyeball hacking.
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Zeta Acosta posted:https://www.ign.com/articles/cyberpunk-2077-the-final-preview Six hours to reach the opening title card! (I’m a big sucker for a slow title card). Also that lines up with people thinking all the stuff with Jackie is just the prologue.
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hobbesmaster posted:I believe you can easily completely skip the title card in Disco Elysium. That makes it the best game, right? I have not played DE (yet, on my list) but from everything I’ve heard, yes. I love a good slow burn. If it was up to me. Alien: Isolation would have ~10 hours of mundane quests before you even get hints of the Alien. My ideal A:I game would have you work a full shift at your dead-end, minimum wage job in the Sevastopol gift shop before all hell breaks loose.
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JustaDamnFool posted:This is also because there's basically no money in writing about released games because they get such a minor fraction of the traffic a pre-release article would. Yeah they’ve talked about it on the Waypoint podcast recently. (It’s basically why Waypoint is just a podcast now and most of the people on it don’t actually “work at” Vice Games. They are all at Motherboard or some other subdivision.) Writing that’s not pre-release coverage gets almost no traffic. The only thing that comes close are reviews for huge AAA games and list articles for AAA games. Anything else is basically just prestige or written for the writer’s own sanity and need to write something more creative than re-wording a press release. Jason Schreier manages to do real journalism ™ because he has been able to build contacts with workers in the industry. Most places can’t do that because they are so reliant on insider and pre-release access that they can’t afford to have a journalist publish something too negative and have access cut off.
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Well I guess I’m blessed with lower standards because the PS4Pro footage looks great to me and the crowd density looks perfectly fine.  This game is going to get review bombed when people realize first hand that most buildings don’t have fully modeled, enterable, 3D interiors and crowd NPCs don’t all have unique models, voice actors, and backstories.
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Spuckuk posted:Whats GOGs cut? GOG and CDPR are both owned by CD Projekt.
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