That's fair. The difference between Eva and Quiet is better justification. But that's not why for real, it's just why in the fiction. If she didn't it wouldn't take away from her character, but she does because Kojima needs skimpy ladies. Hell, I bet anything that the next Death Stranding trailer has some model or actress in skin tight or no clothes and lingering camera shots.
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That's fair. The difference between Eva and Quiet is better justification. But that's not why for real, it's just why in the fiction. If she didn't it wouldn't take away from her character, but she does because Kojima needs skimpy ladies. Hell, I bet anything that the next Death Stranding trailer has some model or actress in skin tight or no clothes and lingering camera shots.
Death Metalist
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It's part visual novel part NBA JAM. It's like Banner Saga meets NBA Jam of sorts.
kambaybolongo
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I'm only around 3 hours in but it seems more like 30% gameplay to me. That being said, I'm really digging the story and characters so far.
Death Metalist
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Giant Bomb |OTXXX| Definitely Not Small Penis
Don't miss the unarchived segment of this episode. It has a great ABBY moment.
Don't miss the unarchived segment of this episode. It has a great ABBY moment.
Pyre looks so damn weird. Good weird. I don't know if I'll ever try it, but I hope it works out for them.
Or this, basically:
Vinny should put butter in his black coffee. I do that. Makes it savory and nice.
Or this, basically:
Vinny should put butter in his black coffee. I do that. Makes it savory and nice.
LurkerPrime
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brb writing dan a very angry beastcast letter detailing the subtle but essential flavor differences between coke zero and diet coke
DanLongman
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Yup this.
Xbox had most power, GameCube was close behind and ps2 was last but had all the software support to make it king
I actually wrote a paper on the ps2 emotion engine in one of my 400 level comp sci classes, it was a pretty rad piece of hardware to be honest. I should see if I have a copy of that anywhere anymore.
there is nothing subtle about the differences betweek diet and zero.
Night and day!
I don't hate diet. But I much prefer an ice cold zero
Antiwhippy
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I mean keep in mind that dan has the tastebuds of a baby.
So obviously he can't tell how much more superior zero is.
So obviously he can't tell how much more superior zero is.
nckillthegrimace
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Diet Coke only wins against Zero when it's coming out of a soda fountain.
Incandenza
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I heard that there's a version of Mario Sunshine in Dan's garage that runs at 1080p and is very easy to capture
because its all true
Piston Hyundai
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funny you say that
booted up Dolphin to see where I left off in my playthrough from a year or so ago and guess where I was
the game might suck but it cleans up real nice at 1080p60
(don't mind the music, was listening to a podcast while playing so I swapped it)
BreezyLimbo
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what the hell is the music
what are those grey cubes under the platform
piston what
Piston Hyundai
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the secret course music but done by the DKC noises
the tracks the platforms follow (dunno why they're showing up but it's nice)
SolicitorPirate
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I just reading Kojima's review of Wonder Woman a few days back, and it was just so fucking hypocritical given his treatment of his own female characters
Antiwhippy
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I just like what butter adds to my coffee - think of it as a creamer substitute - but yeah there's a Keto thing called "Bulletproof Coffee" that claims adding butter and mct oil to your coffee promote weight loss or whatever. I dunno about how effective that is, I just like butter and coffee.
Dangansona
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What better represents the plight of the Wii U owner than Jeff praising Splatoon 2 for doing the things that Splatoon already did?
That said I do agree the abilities altogether feel better and I'm just glad he's enjoying it!
That said I do agree the abilities altogether feel better and I'm just glad he's enjoying it!
Antiwhippy
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I think the plight of the Wii U owner is that there aren't enough owners to keep it alive.
petethepanda
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It was funny to start Pyre and find it's a visual novel with "dictionary" highlights just like Steins;Gate, which I'm currently trying to force myself through. (I'm 9h into S;G, and it's... it's so bad. I don't understand.)
Dangansona
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Dog with mustache elevated Pyre from buy in a few weeks to buy ASAP.
For all the shit XIII gets for "it gets good after X hours," I say as a fan of mainstream visual novels that the opening hours of Steins;Gate were borderline unbearable to me. I hated Okabe, I hated Mayuri, I hated Moyoka (that's her name right?). However I think you are incredibly close to the turning point where the game started to become one of my favorite experiences of that last few years.
For all the shit XIII gets for "it gets good after X hours," I say as a fan of mainstream visual novels that the opening hours of Steins;Gate were borderline unbearable to me. I hated Okabe, I hated Mayuri, I hated Moyoka (that's her name right?). However I think you are incredibly close to the turning point where the game started to become one of my favorite experiences of that last few years.
Dangansona
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Transistor is really cool. Replaying now which is actually the main reason I don't own Pyre yet.
Transistor is pretty meh-worthy. I understood what they were going for but I think the execution is not good enough on pretty much all aspects of the game.
I love the ideas behind Supergiant games, but never the execution.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
That's just anime in general though.
Or just games really.
Nier automata actually feels pretty well edited.
Funnily enough I think the anime version of Steins Gate is actually good, heh.
I won't deny that many anime and games suffer the same issue. It's just so exaggerated in VNs and I haven't found a single outlier for that yet, unlike in anime where I know quite a few. Having moving visuals instead of static screens certainly helps that as well.
So this Steins Gate game I've heard so much about is a VN? And there's a show? Would it be OK to just watch that instead of playing the game?
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Might have to check it out then. Since I don't have a Vita anymore I'm not really interested in reading a VN on my TV.
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Damn, this Pyre QL is completely unselling me on this game. Yikes.
I love Nier Automata although I felt a little bit lost near the end
when in the last playthrough, the game starts throwing those faux puppet show things at you. It felt like it was trying to give the backstory but I was just confused. I remember something about robots birthing a baby and waiting for him to grow, robots questioning existence or something like that, backstory for the robot in the theatre who sings, backstory for Adam/Eve... but I don't know, I just felt like I wasn't quite getting it.
Should I just look all that up? Or maybe I just need to play through again to really get it.
Should I just look all that up? Or maybe I just need to play through again to really get it.
Antiwhippy
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Are you just in B?
No, I finished all 3.
Antiwhippy
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Huh weird,
those faux puppet shows only shows up in B so I was just confused by your wording. 
Those puppet shows are really just talking about how the various robots are discovering humanity really, because throughout the game you see machines imitating humans, but those shows are more about their thought process in a way.
Those puppet shows are really just talking about how the various robots are discovering humanity really, because throughout the game you see machines imitating humans, but those shows are more about their thought process in a way.
Huh weird,those faux puppet shows only shows up in B so I was just confused by your wording.
Those puppet shows are really just talking about how the various robots are discovering humanity really, because throughout the game you see machines imitating humans, but those shows are more about their thought process in a way.
Oh, sorry. I finished the game about a month ago, so the details are a bit fuzzy for me. I was just curious about what makes you think that Nier is well-edited.
Those scenes specifically felt out of place to me because I was unsure whose PoV they were from, who was narrating those stories and who was hearing them.
Antiwhippy
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Oh I just meant the dialogue really, because we were talking about VN prose, not necessarily about the story. Like the main conversations you go through throughout the game is snappier than most anime games really. Which also comes down to great localisation.
Though you're right in that sense.
I don't actually really know if those puppet shows are meant more to tell us what to know, or if it's to tell us what 9S knows. The B Opera singer fight implies that 9S is learning about the backstory through his hacking but the rest kinda just... came up? The Adam/Eve thing is more of a cutaway to further flesh them out in the B playthrough, till we have to fight them again.
I mean seeing Eve being cute with his brother just makes fighting him again sadder, y'know? He really just needs his brother.
I mean seeing Eve being cute with his brother just makes fighting him again sadder, y'know? He really just needs his brother.
Ahhhh okay, I get what you mean now. Yeah, most of the dialogue did feel pretty sharp and less expository than other anime games. They did a good job with those character interactions. Pascal is a standout character for me, I hope he comes up in GoTY discussions.
I'm 28 and I have no idea. This is something every europeans shouldn't/wouldn't know like people from US?
irrotational
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I'm 40 and have no idea...
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