RepairmanJack
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Man, they went from awesome new screen layout back to a shitty one? Come on Vinny, if you're going to do the PIP zoom in or something.
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Giant Bomb XXI | Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
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CCG's are boring
giant_frying_pan
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Nope no typo.
Hearthstone is pretty good
Huh, alright. Are the main characters available to converse with after finishing the game? Spoiler tag just in case. I suppose it depends on your choices?
RepairmanJack
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I wish there was some kind of card game that subverted the entire making a deck aspect of them. As soon as it starts getting complicated and I have to put a deck together I fall asleep.
shortsFortallPeople
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yeah man, he's the type to download trainers to remove encumbrance from Bethesda games
Didn't they have to go back and give Triss more dialogue because of a lack of closure?
shortsFortallPeople
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yeah, i never saw what it was like before that because i waited like 6 months for all of the major patches to hit before playing so maybe it was worse?
brainzelda
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What's crazy about Vinny hoarding in this game is that the itemization in Witcher 3 is so bad that there's no reason to save anything but the best pieces you're wearing. Literally nothing is better than the upgraded set pieces because it's just all stats.
The game really needed set bonuses or unique skills on items ala Diablo 3 to make non-set items stand out.
The game really needed set bonuses or unique skills on items ala Diablo 3 to make non-set items stand out.
TheMrPliskin
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That's a real dumb exploit.
Have you ever played any card-drafting games like Dominion or Ascension? In those games, all players build their decks on-the-fly from a shared pool of available cards.
They're far better games than anything in the CCG realm.
ratcliffja
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Man this game just seems soooo boring.
RepairmanJack
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I've tried a couple, my issue more comes from wanting Chess:The card game if that makes sense? I want the cards and the set up to always be the same but there to be such a wide variety in ways to play that strategy can evolve in the game itself and not so much the cards or set up changing each time. It's probably a hard ask.
brainzelda
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That's hard to do because CCGs are like basketball, some decks match up better against other decks. So if I just hand you a premade deck and ask you to play another deck, you're going to get frustrated when you lose because the whole point is to edit your deck with alternative cards to better matchup against the deck you lost against.
giant_frying_pan
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Ghost Problems.
I see where you're coming from. So many games nowadays are designed around selling you more stuff in the way of expansions (which in most cases make the core game worse, but that's another discussion), so it's a bit tricky from a business standpoint.
There's a real fine line in game design between depth and complexity, where too many designers and players alike conflate one with the other. It's really hard to make a game as simple and deep as chess, which is probably why it took a few hundred years across multiple continents to become codified in its current form.
The only card games that come close to the chess model in that regard are also similar classics such as Pinochle and Bridge.
I thought all AAA games nowadays are divided into obvious 30-45 minute chunks, for 30-120 minute evening play sessions?
How dare they concocting a 3 hour gripping quest chain?
That's what's great about Witcher 3. It's a AAA game in scope with the sensibilities of an indie game.
RepairmanJack
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The weird thing is I think there are games that are almost close to that type of balance but then other things come into play. Something like competitive Starcraft feels like it should be almost at that level, but stuff like APM and multitasking come into play. Stuff like DOTA feels like it could be close, but variance and skill(skill in completing an action, not so much in learning) come into play to a certain degree. Something like a CCG seems like that should be possible but monetization is just something that becomes required and it kind of falls apart.
Something like Bridge/Hearts/Spades are actually things that came to mind, but I think in this day and age you should be able to go further than those with more mechanics and expansion to take advantage of being a video game.
funkystudent
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No matter the ending I think they remove a lot of the big players from the world. Basically anyone who isnt around to chat to during your normal travels wont be there.
The touch of grey on PC looks so good.
Incandenza
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This is one of the best RPG quests ever.
Salty Catfish
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The way it ends with how
Gaunter banishes Vlodimir is disturbing and almost heart-breaking, too
giant_frying_pan
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You can't resist hats, Vinny.
Honestly my favorite part is
just going back into the village the next morning and seeing everyone cleaning up. Everything was so peaceful.
ratcliffja
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I really don't think anything about this game at all aside from the visuals. Every single character is just so unlikeable.
Not a requirement for it to end like that.
Boo. You're so unlikeable.
Keyser Soze
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Never really got into the Witcher, but this is great!
Salty Catfish
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Wait, for real? What's the alternative?
I was specifically thinking of card games, and not so much video games, but something like Street Fighter also comes close in a lot of respects.
I'd also say Rocket League comes closer to replicating the process of learning and playing a real sport more closely than any of the alleged sports simulations out there.
You can
tell him he can't have Olgierd. You then have to beat O'Dimm in his own game.
Salty Catfish
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Oh, I was talking about this specific quest with the brother's ghost, not the general DLC questline. I definitely told
O'Dimm to fuck off at the end and managed to rescue Olgierd from the pact
giant_frying_pan
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Hog Pen Match time.
Oops. Yeah, I misread.
ratcliffja
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Good please switch from this game. This feels like if Bioware made a God of War RPG.
You feel like if that thing you said.
did you find out what happened with him and his brother? fuck Olgierd, he deserved the punishment
shortsFortallPeople
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shit if only bioware made good games like the one you just mentioned
Salty Catfish
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Yeah, Olgierd was
an asshole even before his heart turned to "stone" but I just couldn't bear to let that smug fucker O'Dimm win. I went with the lesser of two evils.
ratcliffja
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Oh man now the girl is implying she wanted Geralt to force himself on her? Ugh.
Backfoggen
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Where was it that Jeff or Ryan said "Listening to Joe Pesci rapping is like you're dying"?
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