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STEAM | September 2015 - The Phantom Pre-Load or: AAA Movies Are Just +1s To Us
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More_Badass
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Looks awesome, but I'm debating between getting it now or waiting for the iPad version. It looks like the kind of game I'd prefer to play on the go
I don't think this game could be more on the nose with it's references to like the most well known books of all time
its like Kojima read 3 books that always come up when talking about symbolism and just put them in there randomly
is this some hunger games thing
The Dear Leader
Banned
That's really fast, I wish there was a semi affordable option at that speed around were I live in the ol US of A.
When they
I don't think this game could be more on the nose with it's references to like the most well known books of all time
its like Kojima read 3 books that always come up when talking about symbolism and just put them in there randomly
got himback to MB
I don't think Kojima realizes that you can make homage to something without just lifting nearly everything in it and cramming it into your story.
More_Badass
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Now, I'm flashing back to all those dreaded elementary school book reports.
Atraveller
Banned
He read 1984 and thinks he's deep.
I don't think this game could be more on the nose with it's references to like the most well known books of all time
its like Kojima read 3 books that always come up when talking about symbolism and just put them in there randomly
Tizoc
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You do realize this is the guy who made Policenauts and Snatcher, with one of those games featuring areas 1:1 from Blade Runner?
I'm not kidding one of them had areas that are identical to what's in that movie.
texhnolyze
Banned
Speaking of 1984.. My wife keep asking me "how in the world Snake (Diamond Dogs) has those advanced gadgets in 1984?" everytime we play MGS V.
How should I answer it?
How should I answer it?
More_Badass
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Alternate history
Tizoc
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The same way you answer all Metal Gear Solid questions:
Nanomachines, my dear. Nanomachines.
LurkerPrime
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Hideo Kojima thought it sounded cool. That's the answer to every Metal Gear Solid-related question.
texhnolyze
Banned
Already explained it countless of times. -_-
Nanomachines and Hideo Kojima. Got it.
LurkerPrime
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So a standard open world action/adventure title, then.
Tizoc
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Yet it won GotY accolades, etc.
I'm just getting ti for the pretty graphics :V
EDIT: Turf, do a LTTP thread over in General Discussions, just for the lulz.
bobnowhere
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Garbage performance.
I quite liked the on the fly hacking in traffic but even that was simplified to a big bright flashing indicator QTE event.
texhnolyze
Banned
Worse. So much worse.
Nah. I don't have much more to say about it that I haven't said already.
I just want to close the book on it, get it out of my life, not discuss it with defenders.
Don't get it, man.
I SUFFERED SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO.
The performance was... okay, I guess?
Of course, that was on a 970.
The open world was neat at least. Bad Blood was slightly better at least storywise, but the game itself is still the same. I'm actually writing an LTTP post on it after having played through it.
Did you do most or all of the side content? Actual question.
More_Badass
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Lord of the Flies
Hell no.
I did a couple of each, but not all of them.
Definitely didn't do any of the stupid AR games.
1 criminal convoy (because they involve car takedowns, and may whoever designed those burn for all eternity)
4 gang hideouts
11 crimes stopped
2 burnerphones
2 human traffics
2 missing persons
and that's about it.
First bullshit ubi-wurst game that just KEEPS ADDING NEW TYPES OF COLLECTABLES, even late in the game.
God, I feel so drained now.
Atraveller
Banned
And bullshit writing.Nanomachines and Hideo Kojima. Got it.
Psycho Mantis + Man on Fire is so ridiculously OP, but Mantis never tried to fling Big Boss at a wall, and Man on Fire loved badass slowmo walking too much to do anything else.
And when I said 1984 I wasn't joking, prepared to be bombarded with 1984 references in chapter 2.
LurkerPrime
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PSA/correction: When last I talked about Tales From Borderlands a hundred pages ago or whatever, I was referring to Ep 2, not Ep 3. So please adjust your notes accordingly. Thank you.
Now. I have now completed Ep 3 of Tales From Borderlands and I'm happy to report it's as good as the previous episodes. It does a great job of subverting everything you expect from TellTale's new style of adventure games. Top ep.
Now. I have now completed Ep 3 of Tales From Borderlands and I'm happy to report it's as good as the previous episodes. It does a great job of subverting everything you expect from TellTale's new style of adventure games. Top ep.
The AR stuff I actually thought was interesting because some of it (like the shooter one) sorta just let you do it whereever in the open world when you felt like it. It's odd because the game sorta goes out of the way to not really let you go rip-roaring murder spree on people so they have those AR games or those minigames (like the zombie car/spider tank/hunt robots/stealth/weird flower platformer) that sorta let you use the world in different ways. Definitely a different approach. Some of them were cool overall.
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I had to use a guide to look up the remaining special characters, and what to do with the last "witness". and while I agree that there's not much to debate on price/value (I had fun for a good while initially), it got really frustrating towards the end. That one time I finally manage to complete it I had to guess at least two times, because at least two of the suspects matched all criteria. Other times witnesses will say stuff like "definitely not bald" (no, not the mr. opposite dude, before you even ask
), but then it turns out the guilty one was bald after all etc. It could do with some tweaking. And yes, it definitely has the feel of newgrounds to it
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
I thought the protagonist was hot garbage. The game was alright I felt, but I burned myself out with the side content. It's one those titles that I'll never play again.
More than that, the game actively penalises you for shit that happens with their undriveable cars, even when some fucking AI rubberbanding chase car rams you into people, it's your fucking fault?
Fuck off, piece of shit game.
MrTeachwell
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That's exactly the same feeling I had by the end of my time with it. I never finished the story, got so close but in the end I was just asking myself 'why am I playing this when I have other actually fun games to play?'
I did enjoy some of it though, the prison break mission and the initial set up of the story, but that only lasted until I got to the map screen and saw what a collect-a-thon it was going to be.
wow
how I feel
America's infrastructure stinks. it stinks.
It's not all like that unfortunately. I literally live across the road from where the NBN has been installed. 5 meters away there are people with amazing speeds while I'm stuck with a horrible provider with an over priced bundle that recently got 'upgraded' from $40 a month for 400gb (which I never go over) to a new and improved $60 a month for unlimited... thanks exetel for removing a plan that actually suited your customer's needs.
Tizoc
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Sorry turf I already bought it weeks ago!
But can save THEM TURF! MAKE THE LTTP AND SAVE THEM!
BELIEVE IN YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS! THE DEFENDERS ARE FOOLS AND A LAUGHINGSTCOK! TROLL THEIR REPLIES! LET THE HUMOR MAKE UP FOR YOU TORMENT WITH THE WASHE_DOGE!
wow
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America's infrastructure stinks. it stinks.
At least Google "Fiber" exists and is slowly being expanded. Before the government here decides to just roll out the NBN itself, it sought draft proposals from interested companies and I was a little surprised when Google AU didn't throw in its hat.
Yeah, Exetel forced me up from a $50pm 500GB plan to a $90pm 1000GB plan. Churning would have been more expensive than just paying the additional $40pm for a couple of months, so I didn't have much of a choice.
Leafhopper
Banned
I wanted to try a new game recently and couldn't think of anything. Maybe tomorrow. I need sleep.
Heh.
Heh.
Maxwood
Oh rock of ages, do not crumble, love is breathing still. Oh lady moon shine down, a little people magic if you will.
Have you found all Chicago songs in Chicago?
If you haven't...
...i'm afraid you have to go back, Turf. You have to go baaaaack!
I enjoyed my time with Watch Dogs. Never finished it and can't bring myself to do it, characters and story are astonishingly uninteresting, but I thought simply walking around was fun. The city looks really pretty.
If you haven't...
...i'm afraid you have to go back, Turf. You have to go baaaaack!
I enjoyed my time with Watch Dogs. Never finished it and can't bring myself to do it, characters and story are astonishingly uninteresting, but I thought simply walking around was fun. The city looks really pretty.
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
I get what 20mbps for like $100 or something. It is packaged deal with cable tv, but come on.
PetriP-TNT
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I get 100/100 for 20 euros a month
(I could get 350/100 for the same price or 100/100 for 9 euros but I can't change provider until december)
texhnolyze
Banned
Oh, are we playing 'who is the most unfortunate internet user'?
In my city, the cheapest internet service is $15 for 1mbps. And the most expensive one is $200 for 50mbps (i'm not even sure it truly exists). Anyway, $200 is like the overall minimum wage in my country. There's literally no other options other than resorting to 512kbps broadband modem which costs $10 for 10GB of data usage.
Be grateful with what you have right now.
Lol, it's indeed a Japanese game.
In my city, the cheapest internet service is $15 for 1mbps. And the most expensive one is $200 for 50mbps (i'm not even sure it truly exists). Anyway, $200 is like the overall minimum wage in my country. There's literally no other options other than resorting to 512kbps broadband modem which costs $10 for 10GB of data usage.
Be grateful with what you have right now.
Lol, it's indeed a Japanese game.
bobnowhere
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270x, but Team Red you know.
I get 46/7ish for AUD$50 a month. Only 100GB peak and 100GB offpeak but Steam, Iview and Netflix are unmetered so I've never run out so far.
Tizoc
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I will certainly get some good chuckles from it if I even bother to watch the cutscenes; I'm more interested in Fultoning sheep really :V
I still see Transformers having done a much better 1984 inspired story and concepts in any media I've seen so far.
You fighting an goddamn tank robot at Snake Eater, the setting is 1930s
Also MGS 1,2, 4 supposed in our current era by now.. its actually kinda clever to made the past more cyberpunk-ish to match the other game.
jediyoshi
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I don't think this game could be more on the nose with it's references to like the most well known books of all time
its like Kojima read 3 books that always come up when talking about symbolism and just put them in there randomly
They also just directly name drop Lord of the Flies in the cut cutscene
texhnolyze
Banned
I've also given that example to her, and how is human cloning already a norm in the previous games.
But the root of the problem is, she haven't played any MGS game before lol.
SOMA looks great, but it's pretty bleak otherwise. Fallout 4 might be worth it after a good year of bug fixes, but those won't make the core game play any more interesting to me.
Start of next year is stacked though. No clue how I'll fit in half the games I want.
I don't think this game could be more on the nose with it's references to like the most well known books of all time
its like Kojima read 3 books that always come up when talking about symbolism and just put them in there randomly
I'm still not close to finishing the game since I was doing many of the sideops, but I am still waiting to see if all the Moby Dick references actually have a real meaning rather than being thrown in for the hell of it
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