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Post by RadicalRex on Jan 26, 2023 22:32:27 GMT
That secondary account thing is what I did on PS3. They're still doing that? Good grief
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Post by dangerousdave on Jan 26, 2023 23:14:39 GMT
What do you need 2 save files for? Unless you want to revert to an older save?
Weirdly you can have 2 saves if one of them is a Master Mode save.
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Post by JuniorFE on Jan 26, 2023 23:31:06 GMT
That secondary account thing is what I did on PS3. They're still doing that? Good grief Not necessary for every game, but BotW only allows one save (and an extra for Master Mode) |
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Post by JuniorFE on Jan 26, 2023 23:33:32 GMT
What do you need 2 save files for? Unless you want to revert to an older save? Doing things in different ways can have different outcomes. There's dialogue programmed if you get near a Divine Beast or visit Purah and Robbie without talking to Impa first, for instance. Or a whole other cutscene if you make it to Zora's Domain without bumping on Sidon on the way. Or maybe you just want to play the game again from scratch. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2023 12:29:36 GMT
When you are waiting for a lift/door/slow moving thing to come down or you have to protect someone while waves of enemies come at you.
Especially the ones that last ages.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Feb 7, 2023 12:37:25 GMT
Yuri Lowenthal
I'm enjoying Fallout New Vegas, thinking even the voice acting is so much better than Fallout 3, then Yuri comes running out of Nipton giving a subtle performance of someone happy to be alive after winning a twisted lottery, and we're back in Cartoon Wasteland
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Feb 7, 2023 13:25:26 GMT
Would never have known who you are talking about without context. I think he worked well enough for a very minor character.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Feb 7, 2023 13:32:04 GMT
Bioshock being mentioned in the TF2 thread reminded me of the picture taking mechanic in it. It really kills the tension when the first thing you think of when you hear an enemy is 'I wonder if I can get a good snap'
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Feb 7, 2023 13:49:00 GMT
It was even more annoying on Hard. You really need the bonuses, but you are also constantly switching guns and plasmids and ammo types and then there's the respawning as well. I wouldn't recommend it on that difficulty.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Feb 7, 2023 13:53:22 GMT
It was done much better in System Shock 2 by researching parts of enemies - made more sense contextually as well
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Feb 7, 2023 13:58:20 GMT
That's true. It was a bit complicated as the right chemicals weren't always in the storage you were visiting and it could lead to a little much backtracking, but yes, it was definitely better.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2023 23:08:41 GMT
Any time a game makes you walk slowly. I have never once enjoyed it and hated it every fucking time.
Mass Effect 3 is probably my main example.
It is always just tedious. Just happened in Plaque Tale Requiem. Everyone suddenly walks at 1/3rd speed because you are in a town and need to chat to people.makes what would be a cool 10 minute diversion and change of pace if you could explore reasonably into a very tedious head straight for checkpoint as exploring would take fucking 5 minutes just to look at something.
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Post by zephro on Feb 7, 2023 23:11:42 GMT
That's true. It was a bit complicated as the right chemicals weren't always in the storage you were visiting and it could lead to a little much backtracking, but yes, it was definitely better. Backtracking is what made it good though. Solidified the geography and sense of place, while making it feel like you earned it. |
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Feb 8, 2023 9:45:08 GMT
That's true. It was a bit complicated as the right chemicals weren't always in the storage you were visiting and it could lead to a little much backtracking, but yes, it was definitely better. Backtracking is what made it good though. Solidified the geography and sense of place, while making it feel like you earned it. I guess I have somewhat contradictory feelings on how it was done, but Rapture didn't have the same feeling of connectivity, so you are probably right there. |
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Post by Blue_Mike on Feb 8, 2023 11:08:14 GMT
MMORPGs that make you pay a micro-transaction for extra toolbars can get to fuck, especially if you're already a subscriber.
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Post by rawshark on Feb 10, 2023 17:02:41 GMT
Here’s a new one for me based off God of War: Ragnarok
Overly played out B stories / filler. With a newborn baby I’m lucky to get 30 minutes to sit down with a game at a time. For my last two sittings I’ve been stuck in the bit of the game where Atreus dreams himself into the Ironwood and simps over the girl he finds there. The whole section could have just been a short cutscene, but instead I’ve got to dick around collecting fruit, riding a cow for some reason, and clearing out cut and paste enemy spawns with his boring as hell moveset.
No side missions. No hub. Nothing interesting at all really. It’s just filler. And most might be able to plough through it but I’m making slow progress. Can we just stick with Kratos PLEASE!
It reminds me of the sinking cruise liner in Uncharted 3, which looked awesome but in practice was superfluous to everything else in the game.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Feb 10, 2023 23:14:13 GMT
Games set in the near future: Stop trying to invent slang. It never fails to sound ridiculous.
It was bad enough in Invisible War when thugs would say "scrip" when talking about money, and some of the ones in Cyberpunk 2077 drove me to distraction, chooms.
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Post by EMarkM on Feb 11, 2023 9:16:13 GMT
Games set in the near future: Stop trying to invent slang. It never fails to sound ridiculous. It was bad enough in Invisible War when thugs would say "scrip" when talking about money, and some of the ones in Cyberpunk 2077 drove me to distraction, chooms. Ha! This has "gone through me" ever since watching sci fi and starting to play games in the 1970s as a kid. "I'll be with you in ten clicks!" "That'll be forty creds!" No: that'll be a punch in the gonads. |
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Post by suicida on Feb 11, 2023 11:02:02 GMT
Games set in the near future: Stop trying to invent slang. It never fails to sound ridiculous. It was bad enough in Invisible War when thugs would say "scrip" when talking about money, and some of the ones in Cyberpunk 2077 drove me to distraction, chooms. Ha! This has "gone through me" ever since watching sci fi and starting to play games in the 1970s as a kid. "I'll be with you in ten clicks!" "That'll be forty creds!" No: that'll be a punch in the gonads. As someone who still reads 2000AD every week, and absolutely loves made up slang, by Grud, you're both a couple of filthy drokkers. Spug off. |
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Post by EMarkM on Feb 11, 2023 11:06:35 GMT
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Post by drhickman1983 on Feb 11, 2023 11:52:48 GMT
I don't mind made up slang, because frankly it's no more ridiculous than what kids* say these days.
*anyone under 30
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Post by dangerousdave on Feb 11, 2023 12:37:33 GMT
I work with a couple of folk in their early 20s and I love miss using their slang.
"That episode of Last of Us was Yeet!"
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Post by drhickman1983 on Feb 11, 2023 13:11:54 GMT
It was bare no cap, fr.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2023 13:30:45 GMT
Games set in the near future: Stop trying to invent slang. It never fails to sound ridiculous. It was bad enough in Invisible War when thugs would say "scrip" when talking about money, and some of the ones in Cyberpunk 2077 drove me to distraction, chooms. You just don't grok it you smeghead. |
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Post by Aunt Alison on Feb 11, 2023 14:43:43 GMT
That choom shit put me right off Cyberpunk
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2023 14:46:51 GMT
What the spark are you all on about?
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Post by askew on Feb 11, 2023 15:59:16 GMT
The old in-out.
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Post by JuniorFE on Feb 11, 2023 16:52:29 GMT
What the spark are you all on about? I know, right? In-universe slang (when done right) is the Queen's paninis! |
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Post by rawshark on Feb 11, 2023 16:58:18 GMT
Anyone remember Pirates of Dark Water? Noy jitat!
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Post by JuniorFE on Feb 11, 2023 17:02:24 GMT
And since we're on the subject, it actually works extra well in the context of Xenoblade 3, because: 1)"Spark" and "snuff" are both words related to fire, and the Flame Clocks are such an integral part of life in-universe that it makes sense their swear words are also connected to them 2)You wouldn't expect (multiple story twist spoilers) clone babies with no knowledge of the concept of sex or the natural lifecycle to know what "fuck" is, would you? (Not that they'd get away with the F-bomb without a rating bump, but still)
In fact, I'm pretty sure the only (or at least the majority of) times that even swears loosely connected to sex, like "bastard" or "screw it", are thrown around, it's by characters that are outside the 10-term cycle and have some idea of how life normally works, like Shania or Nia, everyone else just defaults to "spark" even for those expressions... |
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