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Giant Bomb X | Built-In Automatic Death Thing For Secret People
- Thread starter Hot Coldman
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That video is full of strong opinions on all sorts of things. People will probably like it.
Also: where's Monaco? Why would they not have it in a racing game that takes place at the Italian-French border?
That bit at the end of the QL where they are chasing down an orc and OMG he totally escaped - that is chasing the couriers in every AC game ever - only they gave you a better reason to do it than a tiny amount of gold.
It isn't a real map though. If you start putting actual real life cities in there then it just makes that more obvious.
It isn't a real map though. If you start putting actual real life cities in there then it just makes that more obvious.
Also him escaping does not result in instant failure.
ShockingAlberto
Member
GB's always had a weird relationship with AC.
They loved AC4 despite all the flaws because of some overriding general narrative of "ASSASSIN'S CREED IS SAVED AND NOW ONE OF THE BEST GAMES OF THE YEAR" (which is crazy hyperbole and I like the series a lot) but are more than willing to throw it under the bus whenever it comes up.
They loved AC4 despite all the flaws because of some overriding general narrative of "ASSASSIN'S CREED IS SAVED AND NOW ONE OF THE BEST GAMES OF THE YEAR" (which is crazy hyperbole and I like the series a lot) but are more than willing to throw it under the bus whenever it comes up.
Hot Coldman
Banned
I wish HD collections hadn't died down, because if EA did a racing game collection with Takedown, Revenge, Underground and Most Wanted... that'd be cool.
Neither does it in AC with the random couriers. They just respawn somewhere else.
It is cool that the guy will turn up again and remember that you chased him but that is all that seems new in that encounter.
TharpDaddy
Member
EA turning Criterion into a Need For Speed mill and then gutting the company is so sad. I hope that new game the remainder of their staff is working on will be good.
Well I know that, but it's Monaco, iconic racing city. And it would be right there!
The races in Paradise are fucking boring, and the crash mode is a joke. B3 was a much better single player game; so was NFS HP 2010.
SteveWinwood
Member
The specs are suuuuuuuuuper overboard. The min still looks super nice, but you can max it at like half of what they recommend, they wanted to play it safe I guess.
But that would mean EA acknowledging Burnout's existence. Lets not get crazy.
I think a lot of love for 4 just came from how terrible 3 was. by comparison it seemed like a huge improvement. It had a much better pacing with a fun but tacked on new mechanic. The core of course was still the same.
nah I meant chasing missions in general in AC. These games are pretty bad about their instant failure conditions.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I think it was mostly vinny and ryan who brought up the love. Considering that brad can't bring himself to finish brotherhood and dan stated his dislike from the outset I don't really think both of them not liking AC is that weird.
Vinny, Jeff and Alex were the guys who really liked AC4 and had it in their top 10s. It wasn't in Brad or Patrick's or Drew's.
Hot Coldman
Banned
They're not ones for acknowledging Need For Speed lately either... D:
ShockingAlberto
Member
The AC4 push was definitely Jeff. Brad was very, very easily convinced by going "I've only played half an hour, but you're definitely right."
There is less talk about saving at a church conversion event.
Looking at the FH2 map - it would be a fair distance along the coast, it isn't like it is right on the border.
Also if they did a proper job of modelling all the streets of any one city then it would be almost as dense as the entire FH2 map, one which represents hundreds of miles. Would totally fuck with the scale.
Jeff, Vinny and Alex all played a lot of AC4. Patrick was mixed on it. I don't think Brad touched it. Brad seemed to really like AC2 though. Seems to have soured on it since. Shame as I thought Brotherhood and AC4 were real highlights.
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
I heard them praising AC4, but I also remember commenting that AC in general needed to do better. Even Vinny was tired of the collectibles...
Yeah but I am not exactly that sad about that. Even Criterions second effort in that series was lackluster.
Is DX11 required, or is there a DX10 or DX9 version? Because DX11 is what makes my laptop shoot itself.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Eh, I guess you're right, but the guys are pretty prone to going with the zeitgeist in those GOTY talks with something they're not familiar with.
I guess jeff likes it too? Though from what I remembered he always had a weird stance on it.
I guess jeff likes it too? Though from what I remembered he always had a weird stance on it.
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
Also remember that Vinny mostly wanted to play it because the new consoles...
DX11
Min spec is i5, 460/5850 which sounds like it would be rough on most laptops.
I feel your pain, my desktop only just beats min spec. I am not going to even attempt it. I will either play the gimped last gen version or wait until I buy current gen/upgrade PC. At least it will only be £10 on PC by that time
EmCeeGramr
Member
Dan Ryckert, I will answer your question about what happened to "the Satan figure" in Tolkien's writings since Brad got distracted.
He was chained and thrown into space jail.
He was chained and thrown into space jail.
Monaco is between Nice (which is in the game) and the Italian border, it would be right there, but they obviously didn't want it to be. It's also much smaller than Nice, so that would totally work in their already ruined scale.
ShockingAlberto
Member
I think AC4 placing so highly on the GOTY list was a (huge over-)reaction to AC3 sucking and also that they really, really wanted something to justify new consoles. So it was their "Yep, this generation's going to bring it" 2013 game.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
To put it in terms that an anime nerd like Dan could understand, did he suffer the same fate as kars from JoJo?
Hot Coldman
Banned
oh sweet, just like on Doctor Who
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
No, more like Alphonse Elric body in FMA. Trapped beyond space and time.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Also the music in the background is just perfect for this
EmCeeGramr
Member
Oh, did Dr. Who use his phone booth to put the devil in jail?
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
Probably...
NumberThree
Member
No, he used his phone booth to travel to Event Horizon and kicked the devil's ass instead of having an ambiguous scary zoom ending.
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
Just like Morgoth...
This is amazing. 4 and a half more hours of Mordor until I take a break, I guess.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
I'm curious how Drew will fare against the final boss. I know it took me at least an hour when I played it on Vita two years ago.
RazielCuts
Member
Thank you for this, that makes it 10pm UK time. I can't wait for MGS2.
Hot Coldman
Banned
nah, someone else chained up Satan on a planet orbiting a black hole, and separated his body and mind
then the Doctor showed up and sent them both into the black hole by smashing a vase
it was pretty cool
I've only completed Assassin's Creed 2, and played bits of Brotherhood and IV. While I do want to return to those games and finish them someday... 2 was not what I'd call a GOTY caliber game. Unless the AC games have improved drastically over the years (the mission variety in 2 was particularly bad, as was the story), I'm not sure what the GB duders see in those games.
You stab dudes in the face and neck, and it's oddly satisfying.
Watching the Shadow of Mordor QL, I'm pleasantly surprised at just how much Brad knows about Tolkien. When Dan was starting to talk mess about the languages of Middle-earth I was ready to shout at my screen that Tolkien was a philologist and understood how languages are constructed - and as such built the Middle-earth Legendarium around the languages he created. They're not just random half-assed fantasy languages, they're fully fleshed-out (well, not all of them) and make sense.
But Brad pretty much said exactly that, which was cool Then Dan proceeded to give my favorite quote of the whole QL: "Tolkien sounds like a pretty big nerd."
But Brad pretty much said exactly that, which was cool
Then Dan proceeded to give my favorite quote of the whole QL: "Tolkien sounds like a pretty big nerd."EmCeeGramr
Member
i am disappointed that you did not take the bait