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[stump sock]

XCOM 2 is absolutely crushing reviews

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1178252

 

[LiK]

...I reached the area with color puzzles in The Witness, fuck meeeeee. I'm gonna ask for every solution because I literally can't solve them.

Witness is a cool game when things click but I have that issue where I don't have the patience to let it hit me. will probably just look up stuff as well cuz I wanna see the mind blowing stuff before people spoil it for me.

 

[Zaph]

Damnit Kerbal is incredible. They need to run this feature for at least a year.

 

[justjim89]

Sent the same email into the Bombcast and the Beastcast this week. Curious to see if it ends up being read on both like my pockets one.

 

[Patryn]

Witness is a cool game when things click but I have that issue where I don't have the patience to let it hit me. will probably just look up stuff as well cuz I wanna see the mind blowing stuff before people spoil it for me.

I hit that point.

I ended up starting (and beating!) Tomb Raider instead.

I'm a strange person.

 

[Brashnir]

They need an atmospheric re-entry tutorial.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

It's hard to get a handle on a game like Witness that has so little structure when modern games are so often the opposite and can condition you to expect to be led along a certain path, even in open world games. So far in the Witness the hardest thing for me is when I solve a series of puzzle and (seemingly) nothing happens. I have to keep telling myself that I don't think I did anything wrong, I just have to keep exploring.

 

[stump sock]

They need an atmospheric re-entry tutorial.

simple, hit it under 2km/s and not at a 90 degree angle

he basically bellyflopped into the atmosphere

 

[ratcliffja]

It's hard to get a handle on a game like Witness that has so little structure when modern games are so often the opposite and can condition you to expect to be led along a certain path, even in open world games. So far in the Witness the hardest thing for me is when I solve a series of puzzle and (seemingly) nothing happens. I have to keep telling myself that I don't think I did anything wrong, I just have to keep exploring.

I haven't played it yet, but it seems like the best attitude would to have in a game like that is that it's all about solving puzzles first and if something happens to come from it then great. Otherwise, just keep looking for more puzzles to solve.

 

[daveo42]

Witness is a cool game when things click but I have that issue where I don't have the patience to let it hit me. will probably just look up stuff as well cuz I wanna see the mind blowing stuff before people spoil it for me.

For me sometimes it's just beating your head against a puzzle on concepts you already understand. Some of those color puzzles get rough when other factors are included.

 

[Deleted member 10571]

Witness is a cool game when things click but I have that issue where I don't have the patience to let it hit me. will probably just look up stuff as well cuz I wanna see the mind blowing stuff before people spoil it for me.

But the mind blowing stuff is how it teaches you things, and how you have those AHA moments.

 

[Fantastapotamus]

Witness is a cool game when things click but I have that issue where I don't have the patience to let it hit me. will probably just look up stuff as well cuz I wanna see the mind blowing stuff before people spoil it for me.

That's kinda like saying "Oh, I will read this movies plot synopsys before somebody spoils it for me" though. There is no mindblowing stuff except the puzzles.

 

[LiK]

But the mind blowing stuff is how it teaches you things, and how you have those AHA moments.

I try for a while but if I don't get it, i'll just look it up. I did the same thing in Braid and it didn't take away my awe in the game design. I'm too impatient for these types of puzzle games.

That's kinda like saying "Oh, I will read this movies plot synopsys before somebody spoils it for me" though. There is no mindblowing stuff except the puzzles.

not even the same thing. not like I look up everything;. just enough to understand what the hell I'm looking at.

 

[Brashnir]

simple, hit it under 2km/s and not at a 90 degree angle

he basically bellyflopped into the atmosphere

Their first try would have been fine if they just clipped the upper atmosphere to slow themselves down over a few orbits. They had plenty of fuel to re-enter properly. Instead, they just aimed straight at the planet.

Though, to be fair, their Banzai Run straight at the Mun was pretty cool.

 

[Bowlie]

Witness is a cool game when things click but I have that issue where I don't have the patience to let it hit me. will probably just look up stuff as well cuz I wanna see the mind blowing stuff before people spoil it for me.

It's cooler if I solve the puzzles myself. I stopped playing it for half a week, completely stuck in three areas (their names are

Spoiler

desert, monastery and shady trees

). Today, I got back with a fresh mind I managed to finish all of them within minutes; it was an awesome feeling.

But I agree that it's better to search for answers than to be frustrated. If I still could not finish them I'd search for solutions too.

https://m.soundcloud.com/giantbombcast

great!

 

[ratcliffja]

Wait so what DID happen at the end of the latest Kerbal episode? Does anybody know how

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he accidentally time warped

?

 

[User 85168]

Wait so what DID happen at the end of the latest Kerbal episode? Does anybody know how

Spoiler

he accidentally time warped

?

Spoiler

he got distracted by the other stuff in space and didn't stop the time warp.

 

[kvk1]

https://twitter.com/jeffgerstmann/status/694262907522027520

 

[StopMakingSense]

Wait so what DID happen at the end of the latest Kerbal episode? Does anybody know how

Spoiler

he accidentally time warped

?

They were already at 1000 warp when they were look at the guy way out in space, and then he nudged it to 10k somehow.

 

[ratcliffja]

Spoiler

he got distracted by the other stuff in space and didn't stop the time warp.

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They were already at 1000 warp when they were look at the guy way out in space, and then he nudged it to 10k somehow.

Oh.... oh Vinny. Vinny Vinny Vinny...

 

[Myggen]

Weird question, but been wondering about this for a while: Anyone know what Steve Lin does for work? Jeff mentions him from time to time on the podcast when they talk about retro and arcade gaming, and listening to him on a recent Retronauts podcast he's obviously got an insane collection of old gaming hardware and software. Always been interested to know who that guy is.

 

[LiK]

Weird question, but been wondering about this for a while: Anyone know what Steve Lin does for work? Jeff mentions him from time to time on the podcast when they talk about retro and arcade gaming, and listening to him on a recent Retronauts podcast he's obviously got an insane collection of old gaming hardware and software. Always been interested to know who that guy is.

This guy

https://twitter.com/stevenplin

 

[The Technomancer]

BEAST

Spoiler

There's that moment, after Jack explodes, where Vinny spins the camera around and you know there's just about one second of hope that he'll be alive somewhere in the debris

 

[Lunar FC]

Quite pleased with the progress they made in Kerbal so far this ep.

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VINNY! FUCK!

 

[alr1ght]

243 countries. /sigh

Your video can't be played in these countries: Afghanistan, Aland Islands, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antarctica, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bouvet Island, Brazil, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Congo - Democratic Republic of, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Holy See (Vatican City State), Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia - Federated States of, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island, North Korea, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Reunion, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, United States Minor Outlying Islands, United States Virgin Islands, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna, West Bank, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Disney please.

 

[shortsFortallPeople]

you can mark it as in-game music from what i can see. Would that help at all?

 

[alr1ght]

no

Is this in-game music?
If you don't recognize the claimant, some game companies use agencies to manage their copyright policies.

I'd have to edit it manually and re-up. Pain in the balls.

 

[shortsFortallPeople]

no


I'd have to edit it manually and re-up. Pain in the balls.

and it's only the star wars music causing this, right?

what a pain in the ass. I thought youtube was figuring this gaming stuff out

 

[giant_frying_pan]

Would the remove song link help?

 

[alr1ght]

Would the remove song link help?

That option is usually broken and never works. Plus it just errors out on me because I'm in one of those 243 countries.

Not a big deal, just a pain.

 

[brainzelda]

It's hard to get a handle on a game like Witness that has so little structure when modern games are so often the opposite and can condition you to expect to be led along a certain path, even in open world games. So far in the Witness the hardest thing for me is when I solve a series of puzzle and (seemingly) nothing happens. I have to keep telling myself that I don't think I did anything wrong, I just have to keep exploring.

This is what Brad mentioned on the Bombcast about the unique pacing of this game vs pretty much any other game in the past 5 years. The reward for solving a series of hard puzzles is... a series of even harder puzzles. It just comes at you so relentlessly that it can wear on you. But the revelations you get when you persevere are that much more joyous because of it.

 

[Myggen]

what a pain in the ass. I thought youtube was figuring this gaming stuff out

That stuff is baby steps at best.

 

[Fantastapotamus]

Man, that ending to BEAST is just per-fection. It's as if the game was conscious.

 

[EdReedFan20]

Man, that ending to BEAST is just per-fection. It's as if the game was conscious.

Even without

Spoiler

the game crashing

, it would've been perfect.

 

[Fantastapotamus]

Even without

Spoiler

the game crashing

, it would've been perfect.

But that was the icing on the cake.

 

[Brashnir]

But that was the icing on the cake.

Yep. It was as if

Spoiler

the game was saying, "No. You will not re-load your save."

 

[Felix Lighter]

The game did the right thing.

Spoiler

They cannot be tempted to taint the whole series with a mid run save!

 

[ratcliffja]

The game did the right thing.

Spoiler

They cannot be tempted to taint the whole series with a mid run save!

Honestly, I think

Spoiler

they have everything they need to complete their mission. The last part doesn't require any retooling to their ship as far as I can tell, which is like 75% of the episodes so far. Unless they panic and start switching things around, they should have this done in an episode or 2.

 

[Glitchesarecool]

Honestly, I think

Spoiler

they have everything they need to complete their mission. The last part doesn't require any retooling to their ship as far as I can tell, which is like 75% of the episodes so far. Unless they panic and start switching things around, they should have this done in an episode or 2.

You know they're going to save the kerbals in orbit still, right?

 

[Felix Lighter]

Honestly, I think

Spoiler

they have everything they need to complete their mission. The last part doesn't require any retooling to their ship as far as I can tell, which is like 75% of the episodes so far. Unless they panic and start switching things around, they should have this done in an episode or 2.

I agree

Spoiler

when it comes to the primary mission but they have a lot of Kerbals to rescue and that's a whole different ball of wax.

 

[ratcliffja]

Yeah I just meant the primary mission.

 

[KingKong]

This is what Brad mentioned on the Bombcast about the unique pacing of this game vs pretty much any other game in the past 5 years. The reward for solving a series of hard puzzles is... a series of even harder puzzles. It just comes at you so relentlessly that it can wear on you. But the revelations you get when you persevere are that much more joyous because of it.

I dont think thats true, the reward is

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lighting the beam

. Most puzzle games are just a series of puzzles, does Talos Principle give more of a reward? Maybe Portal but thats a much more story driven game than most puzzlers

 

[Lunar FC]

Man, that ending to BEAST is just per-fection. It's as if the game was conscious.

I can't believe what I just witnessed.

 

[nckillthegrimace]

I find Project BEAST to be pretty boring because I am a dullard with a poor grasp of astro, quantum, and normal physics. They should play shitty DBZ games instead.

 

[TheMrPliskin]

Man, that ending to BEAST is just per-fection. It's as if the game was conscious.

I'm not 100% sure what happened but I do know that it was a perfect ending.

 

[danm999]

243 countries. /sigh



Disney please.

How the fuck is Greensleeves a violation?!

 

[Felix Lighter]

I think you can copyright a specific recording even if the song itself is in the public domain.

 

[Glitchesarecool]

Man Rhythm Heaven is a hell of a game.

 

[danm999]

Are the algorithms they use good enough to distinguish them?

 

[EdReedFan20]

How the fuck is Greensleeves a violation?!

A song (especially one as old as that) can be public domain, but if a particular performance of it is copyrighted, that version will have rights and such.