That's an 8 year old game. What went wrong in that person's life? Sometimes idiots like that put things into perspective.
Fun fact, though: the 2nd Future game actually got a 5/5 on GB and Vinny wrote the review!
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Giant Bomb #17 | Baby Dan Wyckert
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Fun fact, though: the 2nd Future game actually got a 5/5 on GB and Vinny wrote the review!
LurkerPrime
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One of the Witcher 3's greatest triumphs is that it didn't forget what happened in previous games. With HoS's inclusion of Shani, I can say this honestly. There's references and callbacks to previous games sprinkled throughout everything, and uncovering or seeing these references is just such a joy to see. It's like CDPR made this game for fans of the entire series, which feels rare in this era.
MGSV reminds me a bit of Shadow of Mordor in that it makes a good first impression, but is soon (or in MGSV's case, eventually) revealed to be a hollow, empty shell of a game.
MGSV reminds me a bit of Shadow of Mordor in that it makes a good first impression, but is soon (or in MGSV's case, eventually) revealed to be a hollow, empty shell of a game.
Glitchesarecool
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That's an enjoyable jank, like the guys diving off into the water in 4.
Let's see if we get any face melting gifs this time around.
Also the random question marks are full of little details, either a small story to them, or some kind of environmental story telling that is much more interesting than a chest in the middle of nowhere.
People that are only exploring for the purposes of loot, or powering through these things à la Ass Creed, are just going to miss these touches.
Chance Hale
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The face melting is the most unfair of the Unity criticisms. If I remember right it was only in the PC version and it was something fixed in the launch patch which wasn't even that big in comparison to most games.
Mister Negative
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MGSV would have been vastly improved if it had the nemesis system a-la Shadow of Mordor. That shit was the best part of that game.
also yeah let's talk about undertale instead. it's the best game this year, after all.
also yeah let's talk about undertale instead. it's the best game this year, after all.
Yeah. It took me a while too. I couldn't get past
Olgierd
I remember finishing Cities Skyline.
I was playing and noticed my city suddenly dropped 2,000 people in population. I was very confused and then saw that my hydro-electric dam had apparently caused a river to divert onto one of my main residential districts. I had no save games so six hours of work was gone.
OdysseusVA
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TTK is so good it deserves an exception
There's still weird stuff in there.
I was playing it this weekend finally to be ready for Syndicate and when I got to the scene where
Arno and Elise discover Mirabeau dead only his clothes were appearing, so it was like they were reacting with shock to a pop in bug.
Honestly it was my favourite story beat.
Yeah, as I said, the hatred a lot of people have for MGSV combined with people thinking that they're not giving Witcher 3 a fair chance is gonna be a delightful combo.
My favorite too. It has the perfect mood and the effect is magnified by the isolation and landscape of Skellige.
jank club in full force
i guess they should embrace that jank then instead of having it be an occasional consequence of antiquated mechanics, be it ai, combat, climbing or whatever
this is the eigth game but the game's certainly not reflecting the level of refinement you'd expect at this point
i guess they should embrace that jank then instead of having it be an occasional consequence of antiquated mechanics, be it ai, combat, climbing or whatever
this is the eigth game but the game's certainly not reflecting the level of refinement you'd expect at this point
Piston Hyundai
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I don't know what you're talking about. MGSV and Mario Maker are the two best games I've played all year.
Oh my god. Everything about AC just looks so clunky and bad.
Also another thing Dan's saying about MGSV is that it kept him going for so long because of the appeal of the later equipment. I never got that vibe at all though. You can pretty much coast your way through most of the missions once you have a decent rocket launcher for bosses and the stun SMG. From there I felt zero desire to waste my time grinding out research prereqs for more things that I'd only be using on pointless repeat missions.
It's seriously strange they the game is so beloved by them. But then again they did give that repetitive and storyless mess Shadow of Mordor GOTY. Hopefully Halo, Fallout, or Just Cause can help make an argument later this year too.
Glitchesarecool
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jank is what makes these uninspired sequels worth playing if you still play them, because they're fucking identical otherwise
Syndicate is getting ready to be even worse than usual, which is just an amazing idea.
As long as Destiny get's DQed for being just an expansion pack, I'm cool with whatever wins GOTY. I will be really, really sad if (when) Life is Strange doesn't even get a mention.
funkystudent
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Speaking of jank.
I can get a good deal on Fallout 4 and I am tempted to go day 1 on it and play it when it is at its most raw and busted.
Seems like good share button use.
I can get a good deal on Fallout 4 and I am tempted to go day 1 on it and play it when it is at its most raw and busted.
Seems like good share button use.
what, you don't like him fading out of existence for a second even though this mechanic's been in every game since the first one?
Learning AI patterns, planning meticulous routes, Tranq Sniping all the dudes I can and sneaking through the rest with the trainq pistol is a pattern I always had an absolute blast with. Did not dig the non-stealth weaponry at all.
It will get mentioned. What we need to do is to get GBE to keep playing it.
The worst thing is going back to Unity and trying to use its stealth mechanics after the glory of MGSV.
Worst of all, lots of AC stuff binds a fail state to being spotted, whereas MGSV is content to let you go rambo when you fuck up.
Also I don't know if this was posted in here but Fobwashed still out there doing the lord's work.
https://youtu.be/9hM44zP4BHM
I'm willing to cut AC some slack here because technically MGSV isn't really doing the city thing (nor the open world thing).
All these complex mechanics and routines are occurring in a level (missions are instanced areas) without non-combative npcs or much of anything else. The scripting they do on the multi part objectives is wonderful, but it very much draws inspiration from linear games.
The end result in AC isn't as satisfying but the things MGSV does well are many times harder to do in the context of AC.
They really shouldn't be designing missions that way then I feel. But mission design that is at odds with the tools they give you isn't new in the series I guess.
Fable imo
Chance Hale
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I don't remember Unity having that many fail states, and they made it so that if you failed an eavesdropping mission it'd turn into a chase and you could just tackle them for the info.
There are definitely tail missions which will force you back to a checkpoint if you get spotted. It's infuriating.
wild_fire987
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Mario Maker is a great game, and will likely be in their top 3 for GOTY. But I wonder where it would stand if they weren't so popular and able to get tens of thousands of plays on their levels. They get to watch live streams, get tons of likes and other cool stuff for their levels. Would be interesting to see what they think if they didn't have twitter to pimp out their levels.
Still a good game, and this is Giant Bomb's GOTY so it's doesn't matter if they take that into consideration.
Still a good game, and this is Giant Bomb's GOTY so it's doesn't matter if they take that into consideration.
Chance Hale
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Ah, I never get caught doing those so it's not something I would have run into. Stick to cover and the roofs and such.
The one I'm thinking of forces you inside of a building and the cover is sparse and Eagle Vision has this weird mechanic to it where it turns off after a few seconds.
I miss D-Dog.
The saving grace is that the AI is dumb as rocks so even when the person you're tailing sees your genocide pile of elminate guards they're like "Hmm. Weird" and keep walking.
Chance Hale
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D-Dog being mentioned brings me back to the thought that MGS V isn't actually that great a stealth game. You're just given tons of options that all completely break the game and make it impossible to fail. D dog just flat out shows where everyone is, Quiet can easily take out entire bases on her own, and so on. There's no balance at all and despite the enemies adjusting to headshots at first it just stops after a certain point.
Which is fine on its own, as like with Blood Money or Assassin's Creed it's on you to not use weapons that completely break the challenge but I don't know. None of the areas are interesting and guard patrol systems aren't that advanced. They just shine the flashlight for a few seconds and fuck off.
Which is fine on its own, as like with Blood Money or Assassin's Creed it's on you to not use weapons that completely break the challenge but I don't know. None of the areas are interesting and guard patrol systems aren't that advanced. They just shine the flashlight for a few seconds and fuck off.
WreckTheLaw
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Cosign this whole post.
The life detector on the bionic hand is kind of a cheat too.
Where does Undertale, the true GOTY, place?
Where does Undertale, the true GOTY, place?
if i know one thing about gundam (and i only know one thing) is that kamille's a man's name, and he's a man
Incandenza
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This is one of the biggest recurring problems with stealth action games. Batman and Watch Dogs have this issue too. Either it's way too easy to just go loud and destroy everyone, or there's one or two moves that are way better than everything else.
The Last of Us is one of the few games that avoided it by making resources so scarce that you have to use everything you have available to you.
broncobuster
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I won't sit here and defend Wing. But Zechs ramming his leo into wing and parachuting out puts him in another league to the rest.
I don't think bats had that big a problem, in predator rooms you'd almost always get gunned down in a matter of seconds if you weren't at least considerate of who to target first and sightlines etc.
MassiveNights
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Look I will put up with a lot of shit in GOTY but fuck Destiny being anywhere near that list.
Zechs does cool shit, but as a character he's just an extremely piss poor version of Char.
Piston Hyundai
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Where does the Taken King fit, though? It's more than a DLC, but less than a game.
Needs more distortion to make the smile trollface.
TharpDaddy
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I read "Syndicate" and my first thought was excitement that the Syndicate shooter was getting a current gen port. Only realized it was AC after I read past that. It's probably not good marketing if the first thing that comes to mind when I hear Syndicate is a nearly 4 year old game.
It's an expansion pack in the traditional sense. It fits in with DLC far more than as a full new game. It certainly should not qualify as a full game in the official GOTY list stuff. Totally fine for personal lists, though. It also could easily make Destiny 2015's 2014 GOTY.
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