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AusGAF 10 - Node Country for Old Men
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reptilescorpio
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Gaming has been about more than just gameplay for a long time now. I mean even The Walking Dead cleaned up a bunch of GOTY awards and more than a few people in this thread wouldn't even consider it a game!
Sony Japan games haven't reviewed well for a while now, usually sitting around the lazy 7/10 mark.
Generally family friendly titles like it won't get a lot of positive media attention, especially when there are other blockbuster titles coming out the same day, if it isn't from Nintendo. Media will go in with a preconceived notion of what they want and if the game doesn't offer that they will give it a mediocre score.
Yeah even Sony have called it a second purchase game. Something you pick up for a palette cleanser in between more serious, hardcore fare. Solid game in all, which puts it in that bracket perfectly. Should have launched $10 cheaper to make this more obvious though.
I'll grab The Wolf Among Us at the end of next year when they finish putting the episodes out. Don't enjoy the 3 month gap between episodes, especially when they are putting out The Walking Dead 2 at the same time which will only result in even more issues with the game.
Clearing their last gen stock, just running the big titles from here on out on last gen platforms.
Marketing has been fine, streams have helped its public image a lot since launch. It's the kind of game you need to play or sit down and watch a solid stretch of to get a good understanding of it.
codswallop
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Couple of weeks of calm before the Christmas storm.
Well, it'll be different teams screwing it up at the same time, so I don't imagine we'll see any more issues than with The Walking Dead. I actually quite liked having the breaks between episodes, gives you time to think on it and discuss it with others.
Jables Swan
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Yeah good point. I'll probably wait until the whole pack is out. Got screwed over with the save game issue on TWD.
I enjoyed the discussion between episodes myself, just like a TV show. That said three months between episodes is a bit long. Hopefully as rumoured episode two ships this month.
reptilescorpio
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Ep 2 was meant to be November, when did they change the date to December?
as opposed to the physical media past, where exactly that happened?
reptilescorpio
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Did they staff up since TWD? I haven't been following them since Rodkin & Vanaman left.
reptilescorpio
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Not as much as I like beer and shooting people in the face! I promise!
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Flying to Sydney tomorrow for office xmas party.
Theme is 1920's. Hired a mobster costume. Can't take the tommy gun on the plane
Theme is 1920's. Hired a mobster costume. Can't take the tommy gun on the plane
Damo Yoshi
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do you need a +1Flying to Sydney tomorrow for office xmas party.
Theme is 1920's. Hired a mobster costume. Can't take the tommy gun on the plane
Welcome to Sydney sir!~ Thankfully, Summer decided to show up!
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Yeah, weather report says 32-33 degrees. Hopefully it will be cooler in the evening. Party is on a yacht by the seaside.
It was 35 in Melbourne yesterday
It was 35 in Melbourne yesterday
My PS4 am cry. :-\
reptilescorpio
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Ruthless_Barbarian
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You don't know how to swim?
FormallyMegadrive
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Beats paying the $40 at half price that Rocksmith 1 is!
It was 35 in Melbourne yesterday
Was supposed to be hot today and it was very cool in the city.
lacks inclusion of the term spreedsheet, 2/10 trolls.
FormallyMegadrive
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go outside
To get hotter?
I don't get why when there's a heatwave, the news shows people at the beach. WHAT THE FUCK? It's hot as fuck at the beach!
There is also an abundance of water.
Planet_JASE
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Regarding Knack: it has about 30-60 minutes more to hook me before it becomes the first casualty of the generation. There's nothing wrong with the game per se, it's just that there's nothing interesting or exceptional about it.
The main selling point, I felt, was that knack could become any size, from a small assuming miniature Knack to a hulking behemoth of destruction. The problem, so far, is that Knack mimics the scale of the foes and environment; this means that big enemies are matched by big Knack and smaller enemies by smaller Knack. This scaling that occurs reduces the impact of the size increase; Knack occupies the same real estate on the screen, as does his enemies. Any sense of wonder from the change of scope is negated. The mildly amusing factor is the games attempt to explain in story why Knack doesn't stay at a huge size and just obliterate all foes at a 300ft tower of death-a-plenty.
Second, the brawling is just (so far) fairly rote. Knack faces enemy, you identify the type and use the appropriate, corresponding tactic. Jump attack, dash and then attack, AOE attack if there are too many opponents. There's really not much to do other that learn patterns and reply with one of the very limited moves.
Enemies, as well as Knack, usually die within 1-2 hits. This results in (depending upon skill level) performing the same sections of the game (because of my skill level) multiple times until you learn the attack patterns and appropriate responses. If you die, you go back to the start of that section. Depending upon your ability to learn the correct moves, it can get boring playing the 1-2 minutes of section repeatedly until you do.
The graphic are... well, it has graphics. The texture work is good but the overly clean 3D computer animated film look remind me of a feature film from a number of years ago. There's nothing particularly special on display, especially since the art style really hasn't clicked with me. Knack, on the other hand, has not resonated with me, at this early stage. Visually he's not engaging or pleasing and his personality is beige. Boring beige.
Like I said, it's all competently done, but not much more. It's early on and I will play more of it but I'm not itching to play more of it. There's every chance that something will happen in level 3 or 4 that will change my perception and add something that will change my opinion. so far, though, it's a launch game that I would not have bought had it not been fairly slim pickings.
Chances are, this will join the pantheon of "Greatest Hits" games that is consisted of many non-deserving launch window titles.
8.8/10
The main selling point, I felt, was that knack could become any size, from a small assuming miniature Knack to a hulking behemoth of destruction. The problem, so far, is that Knack mimics the scale of the foes and environment; this means that big enemies are matched by big Knack and smaller enemies by smaller Knack. This scaling that occurs reduces the impact of the size increase; Knack occupies the same real estate on the screen, as does his enemies. Any sense of wonder from the change of scope is negated. The mildly amusing factor is the games attempt to explain in story why Knack doesn't stay at a huge size and just obliterate all foes at a 300ft tower of death-a-plenty.
Second, the brawling is just (so far) fairly rote. Knack faces enemy, you identify the type and use the appropriate, corresponding tactic. Jump attack, dash and then attack, AOE attack if there are too many opponents. There's really not much to do other that learn patterns and reply with one of the very limited moves.
Enemies, as well as Knack, usually die within 1-2 hits. This results in (depending upon skill level) performing the same sections of the game (because of my skill level) multiple times until you learn the attack patterns and appropriate responses. If you die, you go back to the start of that section. Depending upon your ability to learn the correct moves, it can get boring playing the 1-2 minutes of section repeatedly until you do.
The graphic are... well, it has graphics. The texture work is good but the overly clean 3D computer animated film look remind me of a feature film from a number of years ago. There's nothing particularly special on display, especially since the art style really hasn't clicked with me. Knack, on the other hand, has not resonated with me, at this early stage. Visually he's not engaging or pleasing and his personality is beige. Boring beige.
Like I said, it's all competently done, but not much more. It's early on and I will play more of it but I'm not itching to play more of it. There's every chance that something will happen in level 3 or 4 that will change my perception and add something that will change my opinion. so far, though, it's a launch game that I would not have bought had it not been fairly slim pickings.
Chances are, this will join the pantheon of "Greatest Hits" games that is consisted of many non-deserving launch window titles.
8.8/10
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THANKS FOR NOT TELLING ME THE BREEDERS WERE IN TOWN LIKE A MONTH AGO FUCKING HELL GOD DAMN IT
THANKS FOR NOT TELLING ME THE BREEDERS WERE IN TOWN LIKE A MONTH AGO FUCKING HELL GOD DAMN IT
These people don't have access to pools? The beach is disgusting.
roosters93
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nexus 5 black or white
tell me about it!
first thing I do when I get back from the qantas club after a long haul flight is take a dip in the pool
Those dirty poors.
bodyboarder
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You're crazy.
Ruthless_Barbarian
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White. Superior build quality and looks better.
Tell me about it. Maybe I should be thankful they're all congregating there and not terrorizing me at the country club.
FormallyMegadrive
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Wind + ocean = cooler. Plus going into the water is good stuff. Also when it's hot people go to the beach.
The beach is awesome, you cray lexi
NEW A DAY TO REMEMBER IS SOSOSOSOSOS GOOD AND IM LIKE 30 SECONDS IN
Ok, this makes sense. In theory.
roosters93
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For real? How so?
Planet_JASE
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They all go to the beach to bathe and clean their wretched rags. When the poors come to my estate to clean the pool, I make sure my butler watches them closely. Too often in the past I had spied them using my pool to clean their disease ridden bodies and loosen the caked on mud and detritus that years of huddling in their pitiful hovels had accumulated.
I had once entertained the though of breeding my own pool cleaners but found their weak genetics and high reliance on food and complaining to sully my idea completely. What one is to do with the bodies of the weak and passed was something I dealt with weekly, along with the inquiries of the police. Once I explained that the bodies were of lower economic subhumans designed to serve as pool maintainers it was all cleared up. No one's ever been charged for trying to take riff raff off the street and attempting to assign them higher, loftier roles than their menial lives; some collateral damage is understood and accepted in this noble pursuit. It did, however, take valuable time away from my strenuous afternoon wind-downs upon by fainting couch.
Absolute filth, they are, and the fact that I tolerate them is something for which they should be eternally grateful. If, for no other reason, than it actually supplies them with one thing that they can be grateful about in their disgusting and meaningless lives.
Who is this good buddy Shaneus and are they related to you?
That last part is the important part.
roosters93
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Plastic vs plastic
I heard the phrase build quality in there once but nothing to actually do with build quality
He's that cunt that hijacks my account when I'm not around.
Also, Duck Tales remake is cheap on GMG if you use the code TAREM-4PLAY-VOUCH (it was a 4hr deal, but it's under "finishing off" so I don't know how much longer it'll be there for).
Actually, fuck it. Castle of Illusion is on Steam for $9 and that's far more appealing to me than Duck Tales. Also, buy Australian.
Ruthless_Barbarian
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It hardly feels like plastic. If you're thinking of plastic material used in samsung phones, think again. You'd be better off with a glass nexus 4 if you have the mindset that plastic is bad.
codswallop
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