Giant Bomb #24 | In the beginning...

I don't even know if I'd call it mediocre. It's like half a good game/half a bad game. I think they took the side content criticism in Mafia 2 the wrong way and said 'oh not enough side content? well we'll put more in.. but we'll force it into the storyline so you have to go through our pretty world.' Which it is a pretty world.

Ironically, the 'fun' levels of open world messing around look a lot higher in Watch Dogs 2.
 
I can stomach some middling open world content for an actual legitimate attempt to discuss race and discrimination in a video game, and the little I've seen of the writing has seemed really damn good.
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It looks like it's going a bit deeper than the usual "racism is bad" we get.
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I will say as badly as Mankind Divided ends up botching what it was going for in a cloud of 80's conspiracy trash, it at least attempted to do something.

As a side-note fuck Bioshock Infinite.
 
The Gears 4 QL reminded me how my Xbox 360S died while I was playing Gears 3 so I never finished it. Still, I think I'm ready to play a new Gears game and I'm so happy I can do so on PC. I'm curious to see how it feels with keyboard and mouse!
 
It's crazy how adorable DQ Builders is, I just want to curl up by the fireplace with some whiskey and murder slime creatures.
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Question what's your highest per wing price? I try not to go over ¢65 per wing.
 
Sleeping Lesson said:
The Gears 4 QL reminded me how my Xbox 360S died while I was playing Gears 3 so I never finished it. Still, I think I'm ready to play a new Gears game and I'm so happy I can do so on PC. I'm curious to see how it feels with keyboard and mouse!
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Yeah I'm really curious how the MP will port over. Rolling will be a little awkward for sure with only WASD. It definitely was in the Division.
 
Aragami doesn't look particularly ground-breaking, but at least it's a proper stealth game. That bit where Brad and Dan where talking about how modern stealth games always let you go nuts if you want to as if it was a good thing just bugged me, because for years I've always thought of that as a great failing of the stealth genre these days. If going loud and violent is just as viable as sneaking and they're presented as equal methods, why even offer the stealth? What's the character's motivation for going stealthy if he or she is sturdy enough get into fight after fight and not die?

Ugh. Yet another reason there'll never be a better stealth game than Thief 1 and 2.
 
justjim89 said:
Aragami doesn't look particularly ground-breaking, but at least it's a proper stealth game. That bit where Brad and Dan where talking about how modern stealth games always let you go nuts if you want to as if it was a good thing just bugged me, because for years I've always thought of that as a great failing of the stealth genre these days. If going loud and violent is just as viable as sneaking and they're presented as equal methods, why even offer the stealth? What's the character's motivation for going stealthy if he or she is sturdy enough get into fight after fight and not die?

Ugh. Yet another reason there'll never be a better stealth game than Thief 1 and 2.
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You spend half your time in Thief 1 killing dinosaurs, skeletons and ghosts so I don't think that's a good example. Now Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, there's a proper stealth game
 
The PlayStation pricing thread is great, it still tickles when I see some random person on a forum decides they got the secret sauce to increase sales.
 
KingKong said:
Yeah I love Thief 2. The life of the party is still one of my favorite levels in any game
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Life of the party is great. That rooftop bit with the guards of the opposing nobles on opposite rooftops talking shit to one another is one of the funniest things I've seen in a game. Garrett is just the perfect stealth protagonist, too. Maybe my favorite game protagonist this side of Geralt.

It's a damn travesty that they just turned him into Batman in Thi4f.
 
justjim89 said:
Life of the party is great. That rooftop bit with the guards of the opposing nobles on opposite rooftops talking shit to one another is one of the funniest things I've seen in a game. Garrett is just the perfect stealth protagonist, too. Maybe my favorite game protagonist this side of Geralt.

It's a damn travesty that they just turned him into Batman in Thi4f.
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Garrett is/was amazing. I hate what Thief 4 did to him, even though the game was a decent stealth game (fuck the overworld though. Shit was terrible).
 
I recently played the first level of Thief 1 and thought it was great. Then in level 2, I was fighting zombies and I was like fuck this and gave up. How many zombies are in Thief 2?
 
Fantastapotamus said:
Garrett is/was amazing. I hate what Thief 4 did to him, even though the game was a decent stealth game (fuck the overworld though. Shit was terrible).
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Thi4f broke my heart when I realized the only pure Thief mission in the game was a pre-order bonus bank heist. I put 40 hours into that game trying to love it before I gave up.

And yeah, Garrett's m.o. going from "I steal because I'm good at it and the rent is due" to "First I stole to survive, then I survived to steal" is infuriating. At least the game outright says that Garrett in Thi4f isn't Garrett in Thief 1-3, because you find his mechanical eye in a prison cell.
 
These PSVR set-up instructional videos are pretty good

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tryagainlater said:
I recently played the first level of Thief 1 and thought it was great. Then in level 2, I was fighting zombies and I was like fuck this and gave up. How many zombies are in Thief 2?
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None that I recall. Thief 1 came out at a time when stealth games weren't really a thing, so included some levels that were more standard shooter fare with standard shooter enemies. By the time The Metal Age came around, they knew what worked and what didn't and doubled down on what worked. You'd be fine to just skip to Thief 2.
 
Human Trashcan said:
You should see the comments on any Mafia 3 video
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You know better than to read the comments on anything to do with a black person.

On that path lies madness and Breitbart statistics.
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Actually yeah, making a show of shuts all your blinds and turning off your lights in the middle of the day is pretty sketch.
 
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