DAREALGUMMY
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So watching videos while I recover and I have to say I'm giving up on Guacamelee. Just don't care for it.
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Super Best Friends Thread 7: FRIENDER65
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zedreamcast
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Suffer a bit more it becomes great once they start doing co-op.
DoktorEvil
Banned
It's for the best.
The bad accent ruined a good chunk of the LP for me. The only good bit of lore and canon was finding out about Liam's fear of Hometown.
DAREALGUMMY
Member
That's the episode I gave up on.
VidulaSaix
Member
Personally enjoying Guac more than I thought I would. It's actually making me want to pick the game up.
I'd still prefer DS2 though.
I'd still prefer DS2 though.
Leon Raycloud
Neo Member
it is more fun to play it , than watch it IMO, although watching them play it made me want to pick it up
ShakuganSan
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Those dancing gifs sure did a good number on my phone, good on PG for putting studying above posting, I can't study for more than 5 minutes without getting bored or distracted
DoktorEvil
Banned
Pretty sure he posted here before.
DoktorEvil
Banned
Oh... I didn't recognize the name.
"I tripped and fell face first into a pile of cocaine. Hey guys, did you know cocaine is really good? I don't know why I ever cleaned myself up!"
I think he's still somewhat new though so it's fine.
DoktorEvil
Banned
VidulaSaix
Member
I'm still on the edge of buying it simply for the story from 90-100. Thankfully I have FF14 keeping me away from it.
At least FF is a good MMO without that crack addiction mentality.
Hey, another friender who plays FFXIV. Sweet.
VidulaSaix
Member
Good game is good.
VidulaSaix
Member
I believe Delta is just the original game with more content. Similar to Guacamelee Super Ultra Turbo Ed. or whatever.
VidulaSaix
Member
Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but isn't Delta digital only? Can't you just buy it off PSN?
PG is Jesus: Confirmed.
CreeperBlocks
Banned
Morning everyone. I'm not really enjoying evil within as much. Matt & Pat are fine but the game itself seems a bit...bleh? I dunno lol
That seems to be the general consensus
CreeperBlocks
Banned
I feel the insane asylum and creepy enemies have been done too many times. I wish the game horror genre would evolve already.
You mean playing the game or watching the LP?
Playing the game, I've heard a lot of mixed things about it. It seems to be just worse than RE4 in every way. Granted I haven't played it yet.
Thus begins the fall of Shinji Mikami.
Honestly it's a shame that the game came out so mixed, but AFAIK he never wanted to do the game in the first place.
Glitchesarecool
Member
And then turned to shit when they did the trial rooms.
Yeah it's a pity. Eventually Bethesda will fire him and he'll be left on the streets. Cold. Alone. but then, one day a man walks up to him and tells him he can relive his glory days. And thus Hideki Kamiya brings Shinji Mekami to Platinum Games and continue to make the greatest games ever made.
VidulaSaix
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Honestly from just watching some streamers and a few video of the game here and there, the game looks fine. Not perfect by any means but it looks like a perfectly acceptable and most importantly, fun, game.
I've seen some comments from people saying things like "the worst survival horror game ever made" and "it's just a RE4 ripoff" and I just get super upset. People need to stop having such raging nostalgia boners for every god damn game they played when they were kids and just enjoy video games for what they are.
I've seen some comments from people saying things like "the worst survival horror game ever made" and "it's just a RE4 ripoff" and I just get super upset. People need to stop having such raging nostalgia boners for every god damn game they played when they were kids and just enjoy video games for what they are.
True, but outside the art desgin the game really is just RE4 with stealth elements, it doesn't make it a horrible game by any means. But if you don't care for the art direction and the gameplay is a worse version of a game that's available everywhere else...
The game isn't bad by any means though.
Goddamn it Bethesda, you are just shitting up everything.
I'm only half serious.
I'm sure The Evil Within is a perfectly fine game, but expectations are high since Mikami has produced a fair amount of masterpieces.
DoktorEvil
Banned
This pisses me off so much that there are gamers that think Shinji Mikami is a ripoff... Of Shinji Mikami.
Fuck those gamers. They put me in a real foul mood.
Hemi-PoweredDrone
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To me it just seems like Mikami is trying to make RE4 again without really updating it for modern systems. It didn't seem to have anything new, it's not a rip off, but it didn't innovate.
I do think RE4 is more fun to play tho
VidulaSaix
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I know this is a bit of a cop out answer, but why change what isn't broken? I don't recall this game being marketed as something that would change the way that we would think about survival horror or anything like that.
It's a Shinji Mikami game. What else did people expect? I sure hope it's not a case of how Liam was with Smash in wanting Ganondorf to stay the same, then being upset when he was in the game exactly how he wanted him and complained he wanted something different.
In other news, I'm about to upgrade my video card on the cheap and I'm thinking about picking this up.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=
Any suggestions on potential better deals for more performance would be much appreciated as I don't know the ins and outs of this thing enough to comb through the hundreds of cards with similar names and wildly varying prices. I have a budget of under $200.
Well the problem is that people wanted it to be the successor to RE4, which wasn't wrong to think, but in the end it's just a worse version of a game made 10 years ago.
VidulaSaix
Member
This is exactly what I mean. People need to stop comparing games that have nothing to do with each other in the sense that it's not an actual sequel.
I can understand people complaining that RE5/6 wasn't as good as 4 because hey, that's the same franchise. Same with Dark Souls 1 and 2. However, The Evil Within is it's own thing and while it does share some parallels with RE4 (some strikingly so), it's not RE4 and people need to get over that fact.
Well no, the games are both similar enough that the comparison makes sense. Demons and Dark Souls aren't sequels but people compare the two all the time, it's the exact same thing here
VidulaSaix
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It's a very mixed bag when it comes to this sort of thing because I can try to compare things like Final Fantasy X to Final Fantasy XIV when they're not even close to the same genre.
Id say that's more of just square enix milking the final fantasy name
I haven't played The Evil Within yet, but if it's an unrelated property, I don't think it's appropriate to treat it like a sequel to RE4. One shouldn't necessarily expect elements of RE4 to make it into The Evil Within, nor should there be expectations of an evolution of RE4 in The Evil Within.
At the same time, it's within the same genre, there are obvious influences to RE4, and it's by the same director. That's going to encourage comparisons. I feel like comparisons are valid, but expectations related to RE4 shouldn't necessarily be a set floor for standards. You still have different teams, different budgets, different goals, and competitive influence.
At the same time, it's within the same genre, there are obvious influences to RE4, and it's by the same director. That's going to encourage comparisons. I feel like comparisons are valid, but expectations related to RE4 shouldn't necessarily be a set floor for standards. You still have different teams, different budgets, different goals, and competitive influence.
VidulaSaix
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Truly, unless you're a baby then most games anymore won't scare you unless it's stupid ass jump scares. It's more that atmosphere of the game that can really drag you into the moment and from some of the scenes I've seen from this game it has some great moments of that type of thing.
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
Tales of Hearts is filling me with feelings that I haven't felt in years. That feeling of going to sleep wanting to keep playing, only to wake up continuing to want to play it every second I wake up.
It's the first time I've really liked videogames since like, FF10 or Persona 4.
It's the first time I've really liked videogames since like, FF10 or Persona 4.
I disagree, the term "spiritual sequel" exists for a reason, and that reason is usually mired in politics and licensing. It is why a person can compare Dark Souls with Demon's Souls, Bloodbourne and even Lords of the Fallen. It's why people can compare Battlefield post-2 with CoD post-4. System Shocks to the Bioshocks. There are enough elements that are common to both to allow for meaningful comparisons. It would be very strange for a creator to not try and improve on their previous work, mechanically and design-wise.
Shame the translation is utter shit. Hey video game companies who use 8-4 for localization. Keep them on the entire project because they know what the fuck they're doing.
Listen to the 8-4 Play podcast too
That's what I've been like with Binding of Isaac
The Evil Within really is a great game, and I can see why some people wouldn't like it, but there are very few actually terrible bits except for a certain boss fight near the end of the game and a final arena standoff with enemies. But that's only because I had very low resources during those two specific instances, which is just frustrating when you know how to beat the encounters but can't do it because you ran out of ammo. Although the boss fight has a way to regain ammo in it, it still takes forever because you have to farm the method to regain ammo.
The setup for TEW is unique enough and the way the story actually affects the gameplay is awesome. I fucking loved all the questions the ending posed, because it's like "OKAY I THINK I KNOW WHAT'S GOI- WAIT WHAT"
The setup for TEW is unique enough and the way the story actually affects the gameplay is awesome. I fucking loved all the questions the ending posed, because it's like "OKAY I THINK I KNOW WHAT'S GOI- WAIT WHAT"
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
Yeah, it's a real shame about the translation. Having a cursory knowledge of the Japanese language really shows just what has been changed. It's having this weird effect where I'm learning more about Japanese because of having to pay attention to the differences "Alright, they said peanuts, so that dick joke was at least there originally."
One guy in the OT said it felt like they were translating for a dub then didn't get a dub, and that rings true with every second I play. I even noticed a typo, which is kinda weird.
It's a real shame because I think 8-4 is probably the second best translation team next to Atlus' in house team, which is pretty fucking high praise.
I've listened a couple times but never with any consistency.
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