agreed. i appreciate the intent but given that i don't think MGSV is very good narratively, fuck that noise.
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agreed. i appreciate the intent but given that i don't think MGSV is very good narratively, fuck that noise.
I'm not saying it's a glitch, I'm saying it's
misguided, annoying, and its impact falls flat on me narratively. Treat using her in-mission as non-canon as any other mission replays post-46, I don't care how. It feels terribly unjustified.
Frankly, saying it's okay to NOT have her even for mission do-overs sounds asinine given that there are a bunch of mission replays on a harder difficulty with forced stealth or lacking your weapons and equipment and whatnot. How canon are those, exactly? How canon are the missions you go back and re-play before you lose her when you otherwise wouldn't yet have her in the story to use?
Chapter 2 is muddled as shit. And the post-game is nearly as bad, given what story beats we KNOW were excised and what we can presume were.
Frankly, saying it's okay to NOT have her even for mission do-overs sounds asinine given that there are a bunch of mission replays on a harder difficulty with forced stealth or lacking your weapons and equipment and whatnot. How canon are those, exactly? How canon are the missions you go back and re-play before you lose her when you otherwise wouldn't yet have her in the story to use?
Chapter 2 is muddled as shit. And the post-game is nearly as bad, given what story beats we KNOW were excised and what we can presume were.
ScaryShark
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I'm trying not to get spoiler-y but I think an achievement of The Witcher 3 is that it circumvents your expectations for a video game story of this type. It has the scale of an apocalyptic/'all' story but is ultimately about a guy looking for a person that he loves and considers his daughter. I liked that quite a bit and I think how Geralt is perceived in that world goes against how a lot of games in its genre handle their protagonist.
How the gameplay and size of the game hits you is personal but I think it's at least worth giving a decent look at.
It's at a minimum a GOTY contender for me in a variety of ways.
BreezyLimbo
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skLaFarebear
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Sounds really cool. I've heard nothing, but positive things about the game from various podcasts I listen to and from gaming threads, so I figure its something I got to check out sooner or later. A little too expensive for me right now at $40 for PS4 (though I think my laptop might be able to run it a little better or at least the same since its got a GTX 860M), but the time investment sounds like a lot more than I can give during the semester.
Definitely gonna put it in the winter play list, thanks for the feedback!
The writing in 3 is similar to 2 and the rest of the franchise.
I wonder how many games are going to be fucked this fall. If the rumours on AC: Sydnicate are true, it's gonna be funny.
That said, I think a weird trend in its early days is mechanically- and/or narratively-unfinished games getting polished up to not be "broken" by respected studios. And yes, I would absolutely lump MGSV into this category, along with the original release of Destiny, where it feels like parts were excised to not have anything unpolished in the final package. I expect Uncharted 4 would have fallen into this had it not been pushed back, too.
There's a lot of studios and publishers that don't want busted games under their belt given the last couple of years (and maybe the advent of Steam refunds), but I'd honestly prefer occasionally fucked ambitious games over mirror-sheened safe ones.
EDIT: I wanted to make some sort of metaphor about sanding down the corners and edges of a cube to make a smooth sphere but the sphere is uninteresting and looks the same at every angle unlike a misshapen cube or something like that. I couldn't make that metaphor work. Instead I'm going to go to bed.
That said, I think a weird trend in its early days is mechanically- and/or narratively-unfinished games getting polished up to not be "broken" by respected studios. And yes, I would absolutely lump MGSV into this category, along with the original release of Destiny, where it feels like parts were excised to not have anything unpolished in the final package. I expect Uncharted 4 would have fallen into this had it not been pushed back, too.
There's a lot of studios and publishers that don't want busted games under their belt given the last couple of years (and maybe the advent of Steam refunds), but I'd honestly prefer occasionally fucked ambitious games over mirror-sheened safe ones.
EDIT: I wanted to make some sort of metaphor about sanding down the corners and edges of a cube to make a smooth sphere but the sphere is uninteresting and looks the same at every angle unlike a misshapen cube or something like that. I couldn't make that metaphor work. Instead I'm going to go to bed.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the broken Ubisoft games of the last several years are only all the ones with the patented Ubisoft Open-World Formula, right?
LurkerPrime
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Think of open worlds as perfectly smooth spheres; safe, mundane, and all over the place. But don't worry, there's lots to do that we know you'll like! The variety in this genre is unparalleled.
Bop it! Twist it! Pull it! And not in a funny way, either!
ETERNAL. EMERGENT. ENTERTAINTMENT.
ETERNAL. EMERGENT. ENTERTAINTMENT.
ScaryShark
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Far Cry escaped unscathed.
True. Cynically, though, that really is just Far Cry 3.5.
...Maybe that speaks well for ACUnity 1.5.
ScaryShark
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When you pan out from that perfectly smooth sphere do you see other, interconnected and online spheres that your friends are playing on?
Hot Coldman
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Marie & Callie deserve a best new character nod.
Chance Hale
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I somehow managed to only run into one progression halting bug in 60 hours of the Witcher 3 and a quick load fixed it. Did play on the pc though. Also didn't run into any fun physics bugs which was disappointing.
Have the crew talked about Lego dimensions at all? I might buy it in the morning ;-; It's going to be hard going from the 120fps, 4k I get with pc versions of the Lego games to 1080P 30 fps though :/
Have the crew talked about Lego dimensions at all? I might buy it in the morning ;-; It's going to be hard going from the 120fps, 4k I get with pc versions of the Lego games to 1080P 30 fps though :/
Stay Fresh
ScaryShark
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No.
Nope. I think AC2 and Brotherhood both got in the top 5 of their respective years though.
That's fair, back when the novelty was still fresh and done well.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Weird seeing them doing Wii on Gamespot and then Wii U on GiantBomb.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xut_uZVcu8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xut_uZVcu8
Glitchesarecool
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Stayed in and got a pizza when they did this, boooooy that was long time ago
War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
"Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii........ U"
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"Wasn't expecting that"
Loved that bit of interaction on UPF
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"Wasn't expecting that"
Loved that bit of interaction on UPF
tryagainlater
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AC4 definitely made it into the top 10 which is weird. Never really saw the appeal of that game and I generally liked the series up to that point.
Splatoon is my pick for the Best Styyyyllllle award.
Glitchesarecool
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AuthenticM
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The
wormhole
stump sock
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so apparently Darude performed at twitchcon
i guess they know their audience anyway
i guess they know their audience anyway
Watching all the UPFs from the start as background noise while I play portable games.
First episode has Patrick just being real rude to Vinny about choosing to play Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. Nowadays even if someone brings trash to the show to play, no one says anything.
First episode has Patrick just being real rude to Vinny about choosing to play Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. Nowadays even if someone brings trash to the show to play, no one says anything.
Glitchesarecool
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Skylanders Superchargers QL.
If you like skylanders, it's more skylanders. More Zim voicing.
If that spitfire figure didn't bend like that, I'd probably buy him straight up. He looks rad. Gamestop does sell out of box used skylanders though...
If you like skylanders, it's more skylanders. More Zim voicing.
If that spitfire figure didn't bend like that, I'd probably buy him straight up. He looks rad. Gamestop does sell out of box used skylanders though...
stump sock
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well they can't just yell at Brad every week
NumberThree
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Well of course they don't, they saw what happened to Patrick.
Was it Kojima's plan all along to make the MGSV story so god damned awful that people are fooled into thinking Quiet is a good character just because she's the only character in the game who kind of has motivations and almost acts on them?
She's a fucking terrible character. She's a character, which is a height where most others in the game could only hope to ascend, but she's a real bad character.
She's a fucking terrible character. She's a character, which is a height where most others in the game could only hope to ascend, but she's a real bad character.
Jimmyfenix
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Ac syndicate will be on fire
Probably. And Siege will be a huge bummer judging by the beta.
CoolBatteryCharge
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I can't wait for Jeff to do a THPS5 QL.
There will be such sadness in his voice. I can already hear how bummed out he is going to sound.
War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
hey man if she didnt expose her body she'd die dont be hatin' you should be ashamed
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