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PostNouveau posted:"set in the Infowars universe"? The best viral marketing campaign EVER.
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err posted:openworld is loving trash
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Aug 6, 2020 18:27
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SniperWoreConverse posted:I was like what the hell is this fuckin braid Jesus Christ was that game pretentious. Fun, but completely up its own rear end.
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Aug 6, 2020 23:36
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smarxist posted:that call to station 41 lmao, the whole precinct is roaring laughing about DICK MULLEN losing his loving badge My first time through, I was heavy mental stats, and when they asked where my gun was I decided to go with the encyclopedic response: Describe all the mechanisms and functions of the weapon. They burst into laughter, and all of a sudden the game clicked.
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Aug 8, 2020 17:46
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I picked up Stellaris and it was just too much spreadsheets. Civ is about the most complexity I can handle before it feels like a job more than a game.
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Aug 8, 2020 18:33
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oxsnard posted:weird because the spacial/army stuff in Civ is what gives me anxiety when playing. Stellaris feels almost like an idle game. I had it on in the background at normal/slow speed during work last week and it really didn't impact my productivity much My big problem with the Paradox style is that it's overly abstracted. All the information is just a sheet full of numbers, and some go up and some go down and at the end of the day I find it hard to care about all these drat numbers. It's petty, I know, but I find it alienating. With Civ, everything feels substantial. The cities are heavily abstracted, sure. But the terrain at least provide some sort of grounding.
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Aug 8, 2020 19:24
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Chard posted:besides the WP scene what are some other gaming moments one might wish to experience for the first time again? No joke, I was a big fan of blight town.
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Aug 9, 2020 17:19
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Maya Fey posted:And It's MAde By A Goon Wasn't Hypnospace Outlaw also a goon game? That was a drat fine game.
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Aug 9, 2020 19:03
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Cup Runneth Over posted:the texan redneck in question is made-up and didn't do anything to the nazis. he is an imaginary character the game's authors wrote to be a white savior for the helpless jewish person. but mindlessly defending amerikkka when people criticize its portrayal in media because it got dragged kicking and screaming into doing a good thing almost a century ago is very "leftism activism" of you As someone who lost a lot of family in those camps, let's not do this. The beauty of WW2 is people from all across the world came together and shot Nazis. If they wanna come from Texas, huzzah. If they wanna save some Jews, great. The Warsaw Uprising was proof: The tiny majority of horrifically oppressed persons were not capable of overthrowing the most powerful military in the world. It just couldn't happen. Maybe there are some problematic aspects of the narrative, we could talk about those. But let's not pretend that concentration camp inmates were anything less than helpless, and there's nothing wrong with wanting to help those people. In fact, we should encourage it. Cpt_Obvious has issued a correction as of 01:11 on Aug 10, 2020 |
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Aug 10, 2020 01:06
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As fun as it was, the death match format is dead forever. Counterstrike saw to that. UT tried to move towards objective based shootemups with their underdeveloped rugby style game Bombing rub, a kind of reverse capture the flag. It didn't work because the game wasn't designed that way. Team Fortress has ushered in a new era of class based, objective oriented shooters, and I'm all for it. Overwatch did a great job picking up that mantle and providing a huge amount of diversity in play styles, so much so that the skills for one class may never transfer over to the skills for another.
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Aug 10, 2020 15:24
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Breakfast All Day posted:eh, i really dislike the "everything is moba heros, skills and cooldowns" poo poo that defined a few years of gaming there I dunno, it lets you have so much more variety than "dude with gun vs. dude with similar gun". OW has jetpacks and axes and tesla cannons and shields and silence and yes, a lot of guns. But, man, nothing burns me out faster on an FPS than realizing that no matter how many maps in how many modes with how many opponents, every loving player is fundamentally the same, and that makes every match you play feel redundant. Admiral Ray posted:A new UT and a new Tribes. DO IT YOU loving COWARDS!!!!!
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Aug 10, 2020 16:22
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That also ignores that everything in an FPS is already basically a cooldown: Your gun has a cooldown called reloading, your health refills on a cooldown, even your sprint can be exhausted in some games and refills over time.
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Aug 10, 2020 16:25
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Aug 10, 2020 17:18
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smarxist posted:hero casts need to loving die, they're too restrictive and hard to balance, i don't care if it's a pretense to create 5,000,000 skins and baubles and bits and bobs to sell in loot boxes, i'm over it Typical Marxist, obsessed with abolishing classes.
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Aug 10, 2020 17:32
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They need to remake Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. That game was great.
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Aug 10, 2020 17:49
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Admiral Ray posted:i'm almost done with pillars of eternity 2 and before i started the last leg of the main quest i was starting to get why people said it dragged on and on. the sea-faring bits of the game are underdeveloped given that sailing is your main method of travel. i like that they went into a different setting for the game than the standard sword and sorcery stuff and think they did pretty well with it considering that rpgs almost exclusively stick to castles and poo poo. Wow, Pillars really went off the rails after the first one. I mean, I know the head writer quit, but Jesus Christ.There is an actual, real world physical wheel? With a a machine? It's not a metaphor?
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Aug 10, 2020 18:34
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Big Mad Drongo posted:It is literally a plot about metaphysical imperialism stacked on top of a plot about real life-style imperialism and it fucken owns, OP. I'll have to give it another try, then. I got only a few hours in and couldn't stand the sailing.
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Ok, I reinstalled POE2, and I remember what bothered me so much about it. Do I have to do all the fiddly little details? The food management, the crafting? Can I safely ignore those things without hamstringing my game?
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Aug 12, 2020 14:23
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Xaris posted:it was decent but TM2 was the best Driving a hearse in TM2 that launched explosive ghosts was so much fun. I remember trying the motorcycle vehicle, but I think it had a problem where if you drove too fast and used the special super missile you actually could outpace your own projectile, meaning you shot yourself.
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Aug 12, 2020 21:36
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GC had some really great exclusives, but lacked any real diversity. It had a rather anemic catalogue, but the games it did have were real drat good.
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Aug 13, 2020 00:46
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Cup Runneth Over posted:kids still play minecraft, fortnite isn't going anywhere Minecraft is a coherent, well developed game. Fortnite is basically just a digital shopping mall with free laser tag. Maybe that has a longevity all its own in that people will be unwilling to abandon all the money they dumped into skins and dances. Dunno if it's been posted before, but Folding Ideas actually did a really good criticism of it. Here's a time stamp of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPHPNgIihR0&t=300s Edit: Better time stamp.
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Aug 14, 2020 00:05
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Farm Frenzy posted:i dunno if itll live forever but kids still love it. its survived apex legends and now cod taking away the serious gamer hype perfectly fine I think that if Fortnite is going to continue in the avenue it's going, it will need to evolve further into a kind of "digital hangout space". It will begin incorporating activities like movie premieres, concerts (which it has already done), and sporting events within the space it has already created. Kind of like an internet chatroom or forum that would exist in a visual interactive medium similar to a game.
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Aug 14, 2020 03:16
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The Breakfast Sampler posted:second life 2? This guy gets it.
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Aug 14, 2020 14:19
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Communist Thoughts posted:E: fall of the samurai got good writing out of nowhere though. They've never had that back Yeah, that trailer is still fantastic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7TCFkdFr6g
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Aug 14, 2020 15:38
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dead gay comedy forums posted:I should finish Sekiro one day, even if I just cheat the hell out of it People are going to get angry at me for saying this, but lowering the difficulty in Sekiro is like skimming over the text in Disco Elysium.
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Aug 16, 2020 22:52
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Xaris posted:tbf this is why i havent got it yet. i am genuinely loving awful at "rhythm" stuff, and really boss fights in Souls games are usually my least favorite aspects of it, like in Bloodborne (the best one) I usually had way more fun loving around exploring poo poo and slashing up demon thingies or mini-bosses than the actual boss-fights, although there were a few good ones and most were easy enough to brute-force. but having to play basically a boss-rush version of souls with heavy rhythm I figured i'd probably not enjoy very much. Yeah, I agree that the bosses were easily the worst part of the other souls games. However, in Sekiro they are the WHOLE game by design. I would not call Sekiro a souls game.
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dead gay comedy forums posted:mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I see what you mean Look, a lot of people are turds about difficulty. They tie their self-worth the their skill at video games, and therefore their ability to defeat difficult games makes them feel superior. Some people are just rear end holes. However, loss and failure are uniquely important to an interactive media. Like, if you couldn't finish a book, that could be the failing of the book. Maybe it got boring or convoluted or something. But in a videogame, the struggle against the game could be part of the work itself. And it contributes to the themes of despair and triumph throughout the soulsbhorne games. Really, the difficulty is text. As for the "fair challenge" idea, there's a lot of cheap and unfair deaths in every game in that series, but people just kind of ignore that because of the fetishization you're talking about.
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Taintrunner posted:
Whelp, Jesus isn't going around healing people's balls.
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So, I decided to fire up Disco Elysium again and start a tie run with 6 psy, and right now I'm trying to inspect the body while my tie and my volition argue over whether to get drunk. I've decided that I'm just going to do everything the tie tells me to do.
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Aug 18, 2020 17:11
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Shalebridge Cradle posted:Holdfast SUCK THEIR COCKS! THE ULTIMATE DISPLAY OF DOMINANCE!
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Aug 19, 2020 00:31
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gradenko_2000 posted:lol this dude sucks Jesus, imagine caring this much about how other people play a game. Like, I get it kinda, playing against people far better than you can suck. Sometimes you get whooped so bad that there's no learning or fun at all, and that goes for every competitive game since the dawn of time. It's literally where the term "dunked on" came from, and that's why there's ranked matchmaking in the first place. But you don't make a loving video about how NOBODY is allowed to be good at anything. Just play other people at your skill level.
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Aug 20, 2020 16:15
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Mackers posted:Enter the Gungeon is free now on Epic. Def pick it up if you haven't played it to death already I have it for console, but I guess I have it for PC now too! Seriously, it's a great pick up.
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Aug 20, 2020 17:50
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Gods Trigger is also free right now on Epic Games. Is it any good?
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dead gay comedy forums posted:btw if there any good economy games to recommend please do so except anno 1800 because while I think it is a very good game it starts to annoy the poo poo out of me after a time Does Frostpunk count? Post apocolyptic frozen hellscape where you found and manage a city surrounding a massive coal furnace that you must keep constantly supplied with fuel or else everyone will freeze. Gets a little preachy, but generally fun and tense. It's kind of like Sim City but you try to keep everyone from dying.
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miniscule12 posted:Too bad china will ban video games in like six months. Videogame addiction is actually really widespread in China. If they were going to outlaw it, they would have done so already.
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Aug 21, 2020 00:04
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Was the Witcher Netflix series anything like the game? Cuz that was like a full on fascist propaganda fable.
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Aug 21, 2020 15:06
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etalian posted:The Witcher games and books tend be more cynical and anti-authoritarian than anything else. Man, that episode with the porcupine knight was like, full on, in support of women as property (also pedophilia). And the constant theme of punishing anyone with the slightest bit of innocence because of manly tough choices that must be made. I watched the show and made a full on rant as to how insane the fascist themes were, I dunno if they are relevant to "gaming" but I can dig them up.
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Aug 21, 2020 15:26
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Communist Thoughts posted:i really didnt like how they turned TV geralt into a jock bully when the entire point of his book character is he is a sensitive flower with a rough exterior who instantly likes anyone who doesn't treat him like total poo poo Is dandelion the bard? Because in the show he exists only to be wrong. Like, that's his job, being wrong, to be a foil to Geralt's strong cool guy who just hates the fact that he always has to kill everyone always.
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Aug 21, 2020 15:30
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pentyne posted:The first episodes are pretty rough, the show doesn't really get interesting/good until you get to Jaskier and Yennefer as part of the show. Without anyone possessing energy/charisma to bounce off of Cavill's Geralt he's pretty boring. Oh, man. That date rape orgy scene was just ten kinds of  as an introduction to a protagonist. Like, wtf were they thinking trying to paint Yennefer as anything but a horrific tyrant after she mind controls a mass of people and forces them to gently caress each other.
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Doc Hawkins posted:big 👁️ energy from netflix these days I dunno, I really enjoyed Umbrella Academy.
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