i'm sure a serving of a DkS3 Quick Look will help.
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i'm sure a serving of a DkS3 Quick Look will help.
SatelliteOfLove
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It's The Zelda Cycle.
If Dan going 'turn the shiny to 100' all the time isn't funny to you, go ahead and skip. The QL is pretty much all that in the character creator segment.
yeah, it's safe to turn it off once they start actually playing.
That's what I did too.
is it that bad?
I frankly couldn't get out of the character creator segment because Dan's particular brand of humor ruined it and went on for too long.
I love Dan, but they should get someone actually knowledgeable about MMOs for MMO QL. Him shit talking and being silly all the time just makes it go too long and removes any useful info you could get from it.
oh, that's a shame. guess Rorie or Brad should've been there.
Piston Hyundai
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you'd think that if you were writing dialogue for a character as distinct and memorable as Max Payne, you'd try really hard to not make him talk like pretty much every other Rockstar protagonist ever (Why yes, Max, talk all snarkily about Capitalism!)
you'd think that if you were going to change the series' signature cutscene style, that you'd at least make sure that those cutscenes A: weren't compressed to shit (Where the fuck are those 30 gigabytes I downloaded?), and B: were at least 60FPS considering the way it attempts to "seamlessly" weave in and out of them
you'd think if you were to change post-MP2 "I've moved on from what happened" Max to "I'm still tortured by what happened," that they'd at least address why
you'd think that if you were going to bite Kane & Lynch 2's style, that you'd do it better than Kane & Lynch 2
skLaFarebear
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The idea of QLing an MMO kinda makes it obvious you're not gonna get much from it unless you have multiple saves and can show off different sections of the game in a short timeframe.
I feel like having someone like Rorie ask the right questions really helps speed things along and actually does get all the useful info you could get out of that situation.
With Dan's particular brand of anarchy, you just end up spending way too long doing bullshit and get absolutely zero value out of watching the video. If his humor isn't hitting (Which for me and the BD QL, it very much wasn't), you lose any entertainment value as well.
1 - Yeah. If he spent a little more time messing around in São Paulo he'd absorb the easygoingness we all have and start to act in a more pleasant way.
2 - Computer parts are expensive here so you wouldn't see them as beautifully as they could be anyway at that time, unless you were rich (but capitalism!).
3 - If he had found the right spots in the city he could have had a lot of fun even if he kept drinking. We also have therapists here. But hey, he spent 9 years moping around in his country, don't blame us for that.
Twin Tails
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Max Payne 3. NoBueno.
Piston Hyundai
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oh also there's not jump button, and that alone is damning
I kinda don't need Maya back in the same way I don't need Phoenix back. After PW3, I felt pretty complete with those characters.
On the other hand, I really like Maya, so I can't not be excited. I really hope Athena ends up coming back sometime as well. I actually really dug her in PW5.
skLaFarebear
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Yes?
Piston Hyundai
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is switching to a scanline filter every three seconds awesome, or is that just annoying
the gameplay's fine, but god damn, man
EDIT: sorry for pretty much being off-topic when I get pissy about that when other people do it
if it makes you feel any better, I started playing through the games because of Demo Derby
If you make it out to PAX Prime, let me know. I will get you hazed properly.
Twin Tails
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Who is you favorite Giant Bomb staff member beside Drew?
We're never gonna see Kay Faraday again
Damn Maya.
kay's great, but i wish perfect prosecutor 2 got off the ground a little faster. i'm still bogged down in case 2 and have been for like four months, lol.
ur da best
And besides Vinny?
skLaFarebear
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I need to give AAI2 a playthrough already since Capcom's never bringing that shit west.
Guys, maybe I've been driven insane, but I'm starting to come around on Twilight Princess.
Divorced from Windwaker, it's a lot easier to see that game for what it does well. It's actually the inverse of Windwaker's quality. Windwaker's dungeons were a bit bland and unmemorable, but the connective tissue really drove the experience and created an amazing world full of adventure and pushed those problems far back. Here, the connective tissue is bland and makes the game seem an absolute failure compared to WW, but the dungeons themselves are super interesting and just fun to explore. Windwaker is a game that thrived on exploration where Twilight Princess really builds itself on dungeoneering and puzzle solving. The boss design and some of the enemy design in TP are really neat as well.
Wolf Link aside (he still is awful), the overworld of Twilight Princess isn't bad like a, say Majora's Mask. The problem is it's just a slight tweak on a Hyrule we've seen many times before and it feels soulless because of it.
The dungeons are really damn good though and keep me pushing through what I don't dig as much. Man, I'm becoming one of those crazy people that's going to defend Twilight Princess now, aren't I? Going in, I never expected I would end up feeling this positive on it relatively quickly. I'm glad I'm revisiting.
Divorced from Windwaker, it's a lot easier to see that game for what it does well. It's actually the inverse of Windwaker's quality. Windwaker's dungeons were a bit bland and unmemorable, but the connective tissue really drove the experience and created an amazing world full of adventure and pushed those problems far back. Here, the connective tissue is bland and makes the game seem an absolute failure compared to WW, but the dungeons themselves are super interesting and just fun to explore. Windwaker is a game that thrived on exploration where Twilight Princess really builds itself on dungeoneering and puzzle solving. The boss design and some of the enemy design in TP are really neat as well.
Wolf Link aside (he still is awful), the overworld of Twilight Princess isn't bad like a, say Majora's Mask. The problem is it's just a slight tweak on a Hyrule we've seen many times before and it feels soulless because of it.
The dungeons are really damn good though and keep me pushing through what I don't dig as much. Man, I'm becoming one of those crazy people that's going to defend Twilight Princess now, aren't I? Going in, I never expected I would end up feeling this positive on it relatively quickly. I'm glad I'm revisiting.
NumberThree
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I was laughing my ass off, especially when they started adjusting the eyes.
Disclaimer: I'm not really into Castlevania at all. Maybe uninformed opinion:
It's crazy how much better Rondo of Blood seems compared to Super just by watching the videos. Man, what a cool game. The music, the sprites, how snappy everything is...
It's crazy how much better Rondo of Blood seems compared to Super just by watching the videos. Man, what a cool game. The music, the sprites, how snappy everything is...
...the super cheesy/bad 90's anime...
Piston Hyundai
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To be fair, SCIV was made in the first year of the SNES' release, and Rondo was for a console that had been around for five years.
N
Noray
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The only goddamn reason that game's held up so highly is how much better it looks than CV 1-3 and how good Simon's theme is. CV4 is so damn mediocre.
It's no Bloodlines, I tell you what
And Max Payne 3 is Rockstar ruining the character and the franchise for reasons Piston mentioned.
Antiwhippy
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Maybe it's just me feeling fatigued from a pretty grueling fight.
But I'm starting to feel that there might be too much dragon's dogma.
But I'm starting to feel that there might be too much dragon's dogma.
Nah, you've just come around to what's been pretty much the consensus on TP for, like, ever. Arguably the best dungeons in the series but otherwise an unexceptional and uninspired game.
TP's fantastic dungeon design is enough for me to consider it a good game, but I can understand why for other people it would fall short of what they value in and expect from the Zelda franchise.
Bitterblack Island in Dragon's Dogma surfaces plenty of fatal problems with the game, namely how dumb pawns are when put up against the more interesting enemies and how damage is calculated (straight up attack - defense, meaning it's likely to do 1 damage per hit).
N
Noray
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It's also the best part of the game tho. Made me wish the entire thing was just a dungeon crawler.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
It's more like, hey,
you defeated the seemingly final boss!
collect some stuff in another dungeon
Just feels anticlimatic I guess. Hope it doesn't take too long.
If the thought of more Dragon's Dogma doesn't keep you going and you're feeling kinda impacient, you might as well stop there and move on to another game.
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