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extradite THIS! posted:Papers, Please. I regularly cite this as the low-key most important game of the decade in terms of showcasing the artistic power of games as a medium to relay emotional and intellectual experiences purely through mechanics and feel it is sorely underrated, however Cavauro posted:binding of isaac. i have 456 hours in isaac and 811 hours in rebirth, so.
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My english/drama teacher loved me in high school and picked me to give the last class monologue before we graduated, and I picked Prospero's big climactic monologue from The Tempest because I was pretentious and it felt appropriate, but I was going through some poo poo and forgot all of my lines and it was terrible and I still occasionally think about it and get really mad at 16 year-old CarlCX for loving it up. Monologues are the devil, is the point.
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Playing Outer Worlds made me appreciate the TES/Bethsoft Fallout games more. Their post-Morrowind stories and character depth are unfortunately lacking as hell, but they're unparalleled for that life-simmy thing of having a living world around you. They're janky and breaking at basically every corner but they're offering something that still isn't really available elsewhere. Outer Worlds felt like walking through a series of theme parks full of stationary actors who were waiting to bark their couple of lines when I walked by.
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Dec 17, 2019 22:27
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NienNunb posted:I've never played or even watched a play through of Mother 3 because I always held out hope that I'd be able to just play it legally. I should just give in now Earthbound will always be one of the most important games of my entire life and I'm still pretty sure Mother 3 is a better game, the fan translation is 100% worth it.
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Feb 2, 2020 21:47
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Cavauro posted:has there ever been a show that was a depressing ideas depot and everyone didn't say it was really good? hilariously, netflix had a show called Flaked that was basically a proto-Bojack right down to Will Arnett again playing a depressed manchild repeatedly failing and alienating his friends while bemoaning his lack of maturity, only it sucked and no one liked it or remembers it
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My favorite movie used to be As Good As It Gets and now it's been like 17 years since I watched it and I'm deathly afraid it's bad.
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Feb 25, 2020 05:13
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I saw a ton of people going "Witcher 3 out-Skyrims Skyrim" and "Outer Worlds out-Fallouts Fallout" and I feel like I don't understand the impression most people have of Bethsoft's games
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Feb 26, 2020 21:28
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Yeah, you will spend a minimum of a few hours and a maximum of several weeks waiting. Most of the time you're gonna get excused before anything happens at all, if you're really lucky you'll be in the potential selection group and get to listen to a very exasperated judge dismiss several dozen people because they keep saying things like "I watch Law & Order so I know police always tell the truth" and such. My high score is having to sit through six days of jury selection before being the last potential juror eliminated because I'd had a previous relationship with someone who'd been a victim of domestic abuse so the defense didn't like me. It's a very slow but socially fascinating process.
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I've been using the lockdown to catch up on my ages-old quest to play through all the Final Fantasy games. Back in the day I had skipped VIII and had gone all this time without ever touching it, and now, twenty years later, I have finally played and completed Final Fantasy VIII. Final Fantasy VIII is loving trash.
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Mar 31, 2020 10:01
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bradzilla posted:Actually, it's very good and this is a very bad opinion It pains me because I genuinely hate the way GAMING DISCOURSE does the "everything is either great or it's terrible and there's no inbetween" thing, I love playing things and finding and writing about their underappreciated features, I love games that are in some way interesting failures, but man, I really didn't like FFVIII. I don't think anyone is wrong for loving it or anything else period, Daggerfall is my favorite game and it is CLEARLY trash, but this was not my trash. They put an insanely grindy draw/junction system into the same game they instituted basic level scaling into so their anti-grinding method is self-defeating and that plus the removal of equipment means their character mechanics are so shallow that aside from limit breaks every character is functionally identical, the dungeons in the main quest are all incredibly repetitive and in like four or five cases are repeated identical screens that you often have to repeatedly backtrack through (the loving prison, dude), the plot is inconsistent bullshit even by Final Fantasy standards that hinges on what might actually be the worst plot twist in RPG history, giant main points like NORG get no explanation unless you search out sidequests and even then it's barely anything, the party members outside of said protagonists contribute almost nothing to the plot of the game and are insanely unlikable, the romance between the protagonists felt incredibly forced, aside from Liberi Fatali being one of the best FF songs ever the soundtrack is nothing, everything with Laguna is stupid, the towns are annoying to get around, Ultimecia spells things with the letter K for no reason for like 30 seconds and then forgets it entirely, the final dungeon is inexcusable Like I play a lot of games and write a lot of bullshit about games and I have never been the "let me rant about how much ____ game sucks" kind of person but FFVIII did something to me, man CarlCX fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Mar 31, 2020 |
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WatermelonGun posted:the raid Dredd has that whole psychic rape thing so while I love Dredd I dunno that it counts
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Apr 8, 2020 01:39
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I persist Saints Row 2 is the best of the series and I will die fighting for this ship.
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Apr 8, 2020 17:29
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Dragon Quest was my first RPG ever thanks to that thing where Nintendo Power gave everyone a free copy of Dragon Warrior 1, and I bought 11 having not played any of them since 4 back in like 1992, and I was astonished by how, despite a quarter century of time, they were still mechanically That Game.
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Apr 12, 2020 17:40
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extradite THIS! posted:As far as I’ve understood, (this is a big spoiler, but I don’t really say anything about the events in the game) the ”remake” doesn’t mean ”HD remaster” but a reimagining of the original game, meaning at some point the story starts to go in a very different direction than it originally did. The next game is I guess going to be an entirely new story from start to finish, instead of just ”the second half of FFVII”. Also, it’s a good and gorgeous game? Correct me if I’m hideously wrong, people who’ve actually played it This is mostly accurate. Similar level of pseudo-spoiler: The story eventually takes a different tack, but it does so in such a way that the storyline of the original game is mostly intact, and as they make future installments they could change everything or nothing and either would make an equal amount of sense. I was a lot less enthused about my time with the remake than almost everyone else I've seen, but I still for the most part really enjoyed it.
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Apr 26, 2020 09:37
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RDR2 is one of my all-time favorite Gaming Things, but if you're looking for just a good game, it's probably bad.
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Apr 30, 2020 03:06
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NienNunb posted:They should make another River City Ransom game. Or just rerelease the weirdly great Scott Pilgrim tie-in game. If you didn't play it last year, River City Girls is actually pretty good and not as weirdly creepy as the name makes it sound.
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May 1, 2020 18:40
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After saving for it for several years I built a bleeding-edge super-duper gaming computer last October, and now there is a global health crisis that will lead to an ultra-recession, and I probably should have invested my money in beans.
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May 19, 2020 06:40
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Jerusalem posted:Did they ever do a remaster? I remember hearing years back that they'd lost all the original CGI files so if they wanted to put a new release in good visual quality they'd have to rebuild ALL the CGI from scratch. JMS has been trying, but no, for basically this reason. There's a Definitely Not Illegal fan remaster that redoes things to make the show actually look good again, but the method they used only works in shots that are either all live or all CG, so any shot incorporating both means everything looks like crap for twenty seconds.
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Jun 6, 2020 02:28
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I wish I were not the last person on the internet who just doesn't get the Souls games.
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Daggerfall, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 6, The Binding of Isaac, and the fifth slot is basically in permanent rotation but right now it's Mass Effect 1.
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NienNunb posted:Those three are very good choices. Virtua Fighter owns I wish it was still popular. It pains me at a deep and profound level that Noctis and Negan are in Tekken 7 while Virtua Fighter is consigned to not even the most recent Dead or Alive
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I typed "Mass Effect" and then I made myself sad.
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Brut posted:The points thing probably isn't worth anyone's time if you can actually trade your time for money in basically any other way, but google search has been dogshit for years and Bing is very good for images/videos(pornography) and pretty decent for webpages. I needed therapy as a teenager, and because I didn't get it I wound up being forced to spend time with my high school counselor instead, which was almost helpful and in some way affirming up until the moment he called me in to abruptly tell me it was our last session and he'd just called my mother and told her everything I'd ever said. I consequently became an adult who DESPERATELY needed therapy, but didn't seek it out for years. I wish I had earlier. A good therapist (but that "good" is real, real important, unfortunately) is a wonderful thing and I have come farther in the four years I've been doing it than the previous twenty of trying to do it myself. I hope you give it another shot. It doesn't have to be ideation, it's just good for feeling healthier, and it's a lot different as an experience when you're choosing to do it and you have the power to end it.
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Brut posted:"Just find a good therapist" sounds the same as "Just win the lottery" to me. You're not completely wrong. Like, NienNunb said, it varies so goddamn much. I know people who found it on their first try and consequently think therapy is always perfect, I know people who were openly abused by terrible therapists and no longer trust it period. I kind of had both; I spent a long time searching for therapists the right way, got gently caress-all for recommendations and had to learn what didn't work, and then found my awesome therapist by complete and total accident. It's absolutely worth doing, but it's very rare for it to be easy, and that sucks.
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Every time Yakuza comes up in conversation I get mad all over again that the remasters and 6 aren't on the goddamn PC yet.
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Gumball Gumption posted:I'm also being overly defensive of the souls games and I'm super cool that people don't like them. Nothing is made for everyone. I just get defensive because I've weirdly been given some mean poo poo for liking them, pretty much that enjoying them is ableism because of how difficult they are and that the games have lovely accessibility options. (They do have awful accessibility and I wish they'd have better ones.) But I've also beaten all of them while being disabled, specifically with my hands and my motor control. So it's something I'm proud of. We all got some knee-jerk gaming reaction, I still get irritatingly "let me throw my body upon you to receive these blows" about fuckin' Skyrim and Bethesda these days Tsushima looks neat and if I were not white-noising my way through the pandemic by burying myself in MMOs I would be all over it.
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I feel like the "what new console to buy" conversation is weirder than it's ever been before Like, game prices are going up to $70 at the same time things like game pass are making the value proposition of buying games more difficult than it's ever been and exclusives are becoming less common especially given PC ports, which will ALSO be weird now thanks to xcloud if that turns out to work worth a drat, and that's before getting into the whole "we know it's an unprecedented combination global pandemic/economic meltdown but our console still costs five hundred dollars" thing
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Eat My Fuc posted:I want an xbox but apparently they’ve all vanished from the earth. I went to 5 different stores yesterday. They just announced they ended production of the Xbox One X so there's kind of a run on them right now, because capitalism.
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I love a lot of the legitimately great anime films, but I also equally love that terrible piece of poo poo Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture because it was the first anime movie I ever saw, so
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Adam Sessler has weird anger management issues on twitter but it's also twitter so I don't really blame him and I hope he comes back and his show is good.
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Jul 24, 2020 21:25
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I remember laughing a lot at Kiss Kiss Bang Bang in the theatre and now I'm kind of afraid to watch it again.
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Eat My Fuc posted:I started watching The Boys" on amazon and I like it even though i'm not a super hero guy at all, but god drat the villains in this show are just absolutely devoid of any good qualities just really evil people. I'm 5 episodes in and I keep thinking they're going to humanize them in some way or show a different side than literal demon but it hasn't happened yet. This is potentially a light spoiler for something that would come in like three more seasons if The Boys ever gets that far with respect to the comic, but much later in the comic series the villains are depicted as smoking ground-up metahuman fetuses to get high, so you should probably give up on waiting for humanization, that's not what Garth Ennis does. Also, gently caress Garth Ennis.
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NienNunb posted:Ennis gets a free pass to write his sick, twisted Superman pastiche in The Boys after he proved how much he gets him in Hitman Critical posted:nothing is worse than Crossed I feel like pre-2000 Ennis and post-2001 Ennis feel like extremely different authors. Preacher and Hitman and his time on Hellblazer all have some level of his edgelordiness but they counter it with genuine heart and acknowledgment of said edgelordiness. And then he started writing Punisher and the descent into openly eschewing any sort of earnestness let alone editing began and led eventually to loving Crossed.
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ChrisBTY posted:Ok I know you're doing a James Bond thing here but I still have to say this. I can understand in a sense why people prefer Morrowind to Oblivion or Skyrim, the plot is more interesting, the map is more interesting, you had more ways to customize your character, theft was more rewarding. But the downsides to that game are just so drat enormous they're impossible to ignore. The combat was so bad that the combat in Oblivion and Skyrim was an extreme improvement, there were absolutely no map markers or directions and the directions NPCs gave you were utterly useless. Half the map was covered in ash storms so no matter how cool the setting was it didn't matter because you couldn't see poo poo, the quick travel was limited, the leveling system was stupid garbage and of course all the Cliff Racers, the enemy so obnoxious they became a meme. nothing you're saying is wrong, but all of those things can also be positives to people who are into that sort of thing, and being a big enough RPG fan to care about Morrowind when it came out meant you probably had that kind of masochistic streak I watched a 22 year-old streamer play Morrowind a few days ago and he got mad because having quests without quest markers or explicit locations was bad game design and I think it was one of the first legitimate Get Off My Lawn moments I've had and I'm still shaken about it
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my TES gaming confession is I get Actually Mad when people talk about how Witcher 3 is a better TES game than the TES games
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as someone who built their PC with a liquid cooler, liquid coolers are loving pointless and I wish I'd gotten a nice fan instead
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yea ok posted:i'm up to ant-man on my watching the marvel movies. i hate what superhero crap has done to movies, but as far as popcorn movies go there's only been a couple absolute stinkers in the MCU (up to ant-man), those being of course avengers 2 and thor 2. even iron man 3 was alright at some points. avengers 2 is probably the worst movie i've ever seen. thor 2 was just extremely boring the whole time but avengers 2 was offensively bad. thanks for reading my marvel thoughts lol I've had a text file with the release order of marvel movies in it for like two years and it's named "you know you have to do this sometime.txt" and every time I think about doing it I just feel very, very tired do you feel tired
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Frank Miller loving sucks and I feel bad about my teenaged years in which I thought he was amazing.
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I Before E posted:Frank Miller has a lot of really good stuff (Daredevil, 80s Batman, Ronin, Wolverine, the Martha Washington stuff, some of Sin City, Elektra: Assassin), a lot of weird/mixed stuff (most of Sin City, Strikes Again/ASBAR, Hard Boiled), and a lot of stuff that sucks rear end (basically everything else especially Holy Terror) It's a thing where his early output was really good but then it fell off a cliff and then it began precision-detonating the ground around it so it could sink to heretofore unseen depths and now I can't even enjoy the early stuff anymore, cf Garth Ennis also I second the hot take that Long Halloween is great and I add that I've never been able to get into the Legion despite all my friends telling me it's secretly the best franchise in DC history, and I will always be kind of mad at how Geoff Johns poo poo on Kyle Rayner.
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