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"Who cares about story in fighting games?"
I do.
I do.
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Ive actually always loved the water temple, mostly because I absolutely love water and like the whole underwater nautical theme it has. Honestly the only dungeons I struggled with are the ones you play through as kid Link, like the inside of Jabu Jabu and the bottom of the well because the little kid items are pretty much just shit compared to the adult items.
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Some fighting games can have good stories. One fighting game I can think of with a story is Def Jam: Fight for NY. It can justify why you beat up rappers and guys who resemble rappers.
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Preach, sister.
My friend Mouse just did a run in FNV where he tagged speech, science, and something else and did a zero-kills Dr. Who run.
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Speaking of Zelda games, it actually didn't bother me that much when I had to pay Tingle all those rupees to get Triforce maps in the Wind Waker. Throughout the game I was always autistic enough to stop my sailing if I saw those shining lights in the ocean water, which meant there was a treasure chest with rupees in them in that spot. So that way I always had like 5000 rupees I didn't know what to do with.
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Skullgirls I feel has an interesting story and cast of characters.
Peacock in particular I really liked.
Anyway, regarding Fallout, while I kinda flip flop over which game I liked best, I usually lean towards New Vegas when it came to companions.
I always enjoyed Veronica's eccentricities and her struggle to stay loyal to an organization which is slowly dying off. I enjoyed helping Boone bring wasteland justice to the person who sold his wife and unborn baby to the Legion. And Rahul is just fun to be around.
1's companions I felt were kinda lackluster in comparison. 2 meanwhile has excellent companions like Sullik, Cassidy, and Marcus. However I feel NV edges out 2 slightly in that regard.
As for the whole moral ambiguity thing, I still think the Master was the best in that regard. He felt he was doing everyone a favor by turning them into mutants. The Enclave, at least the major leaders such as the President and Frank Horrigan, always came off as genocidal to me. At the very least, the people in Navarro seem pretty normal and well adjusted. For the most part that is. (The exception being that one asshole in the soundproof room.)
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Bloodborne is pissing me off right now!
Not because it's hard, it was because played it for 3 hours without updating it to get online. Turned off my PS4, I return in 4 hours and I can't load my save without updating it to get online. Why video game why?
Not because it's hard, it was because played it for 3 hours without updating it to get online. Turned off my PS4, I return in 4 hours and I can't load my save without updating it to get online. Why video game why?
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Digital releases suck. It took too many tries just to update The Last of Us for my PS3. I'm guessing it's because the servers were busy with people downloading and patching Mortal Kombat X. My hubby and I encountered a similar problem when The Assignment was released for The Evil Within. Apparently there were also other major DLCs being released that same day.
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Five Nights at Freddy's was a fucking awful game series that was lazily developed and a rushed money grab.
I love indie games as much as the next person but I do feel that in order for them to be respected the developers need to conduct themselves as if, you know, they aren't spitting in their audiences faces. The fact three games, all of which were released within a year with minimal differences between the three have been hailed as some kind of revolutionary development just makes me really uncomfortable.
I've been hearing a lot of "but the guy is only one person!" - no, developing the first game there was only one person on the project. Here's the thing, after that he had sufficient resources and interest that the developer could have gone and made another complete game, hired other people to help him develop a new game and produce something more whole and more complete. Instead, he chose to sell out his game and the IP as youtuber fodder that had a solid premise.
I've heard people say the guy wanted to expand his story and lore or he is 'striking while the iron is hot' and I still don't think that's an excuse for how poorly developed and managed the games were. Yeah, it's hard to make sure you keep people engaged but while he had youtube support it seems really unlikely taking extra time to combine his games and release something complete would make his current fanbase wane. I always think back to the Binding of Isaac when people try to defend the shitty management of FNAF - it was an indie game developed in a month by two people who also got popular though the use of social media, but unlike FNAF the releases were staged and time was taken to make sure the game had new content and mechanics instead of rehashing the same old ones, and when a new game was released it was a really quality project with tonnes of additional content and story.
I guess if there's anything I wanted to say, it's just that there were plenty of options - and examples to go along with it - of games in the same situation as FNAF giving much, much more back to their audiences. If I were developing a game like FNAF and wanted to release quickly the way this game happened to do, I would probably develop the addendae as DLC and offer it for a paid price as that way I would not be pretending I am giving complete new games (similar to the Binding of Isaac) and perhaps work on a complete game release later on down the track. If, like a lot of defenders say, he was trying to focus on lore and story, I would have suggested releasing episodically the way TellTale has. If he is 'striking while the iron is hot', I would focus more on networking and community engagement, and perhaps look into funding a contract with a larger developer, hell do what From Software did and develop similar games while varying the settings and story I don't know.
I guess I'm just sperging out because I feel so... disrespected seeing how blatantly lazy these games are. He did not need to be a single individual pushing for something stupid like a two month deadline for his next game to build on lore. But he did. He did because he knew it was Youtuber bait. But damn, that was good to get off my chest holy shit - and as always, a lot of this is commerce based opinion so who knows, the environment may be different to what I observed but the announcement of a movie has just cemented my opinion.
Also: I think bloodborne is not a difficult game.
I love indie games as much as the next person but I do feel that in order for them to be respected the developers need to conduct themselves as if, you know, they aren't spitting in their audiences faces. The fact three games, all of which were released within a year with minimal differences between the three have been hailed as some kind of revolutionary development just makes me really uncomfortable.
I've been hearing a lot of "but the guy is only one person!" - no, developing the first game there was only one person on the project. Here's the thing, after that he had sufficient resources and interest that the developer could have gone and made another complete game, hired other people to help him develop a new game and produce something more whole and more complete. Instead, he chose to sell out his game and the IP as youtuber fodder that had a solid premise.
I've heard people say the guy wanted to expand his story and lore or he is 'striking while the iron is hot' and I still don't think that's an excuse for how poorly developed and managed the games were. Yeah, it's hard to make sure you keep people engaged but while he had youtube support it seems really unlikely taking extra time to combine his games and release something complete would make his current fanbase wane. I always think back to the Binding of Isaac when people try to defend the shitty management of FNAF - it was an indie game developed in a month by two people who also got popular though the use of social media, but unlike FNAF the releases were staged and time was taken to make sure the game had new content and mechanics instead of rehashing the same old ones, and when a new game was released it was a really quality project with tonnes of additional content and story.
I guess if there's anything I wanted to say, it's just that there were plenty of options - and examples to go along with it - of games in the same situation as FNAF giving much, much more back to their audiences. If I were developing a game like FNAF and wanted to release quickly the way this game happened to do, I would probably develop the addendae as DLC and offer it for a paid price as that way I would not be pretending I am giving complete new games (similar to the Binding of Isaac) and perhaps work on a complete game release later on down the track. If, like a lot of defenders say, he was trying to focus on lore and story, I would have suggested releasing episodically the way TellTale has. If he is 'striking while the iron is hot', I would focus more on networking and community engagement, and perhaps look into funding a contract with a larger developer, hell do what From Software did and develop similar games while varying the settings and story I don't know.
I guess I'm just sperging out because I feel so... disrespected seeing how blatantly lazy these games are. He did not need to be a single individual pushing for something stupid like a two month deadline for his next game to build on lore. But he did. He did because he knew it was Youtuber bait. But damn, that was good to get off my chest holy shit - and as always, a lot of this is commerce based opinion so who knows, the environment may be different to what I observed but the announcement of a movie has just cemented my opinion.
Also: I think bloodborne is not a difficult game.
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To my knowledge the companions in 1 were a last minute addition and they didn't have time to properly code in companion AI. It's why you can't give them that many commands and why it's legitimately hard to keep Dogmeat alive throughout the entire game. Fallout 2 expanded on companions tremendously.
Interestingly enough Josh Sawyer admitted at some point that NCR Veteran armour in Fallout New Vegas (the armour on the cover of the game) was based on the description of one of your companions in Fallout 1, Tycho. Who is a Desert Ranger who is described as being "a man in dusty leather armor with a trench coat and gas mask". He was also a homage to Wasteland.
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I remember Tycho's armor description being very similar to how the NCR Veteran armor looks. I figured that was where the design came from.
Wasn't aware they were a last minute addition though. Very informative.
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In regards to FNAF, whether or not one thinks it is a good series or a bad series, I can say that it isn't as good as at least one other game the dev had made (and this is the only one that is on Windows since I don't own a tablet). Said game is The Desolate Hope which has alot more than FNAF such being a mix between the platforming of MegaMan and the timed battles you'd find in an old Final Fantasy game. At least with whatever YT bait he has gotten, he could theoretically work on a different game such as a sequel to The Desolate Hope or something else that isn't Furry Funtime at Pizza Place. Of course, FNAF is getting a film which makes one wonder how that will work.
Also, I honestly don't care about DLC as long is it doesn't throw off the balance of a game in some way (make the player pay a high amount of in-game money), adds in some more playtime (new adventures,enemies, another story), and has a price that is justifiable.
As a bit of a Wizardry fan, I didn't mind the online game though I kinda wish they had some of the other races that were introduced in the final main trilogy such as the Rawulf or Dracon.
I have a very unpopular opinion. Both sides on the "gamergate" issue are equally retarded. And equally right at the same time somehow. You can say "women involved in gaming receive a disproportionate amount of violence and threats" and you can also say "Gaming journalism is an utter joke" and they're both 100% correct. And they're both sane positions to take.
Seriously, you don't have to deny that gaming journalism is worthless if you are against threats of rape and violence, and you don't have to pretend those threats of rape and violence don't happen because you think gaming journalism is too biased to be worth anything. You can agree with both things, guys and gals...
There are more than two side to any subject, and it's possible that two people on opposing sides can be wrong at the same time for different reasons. In fact, it's likely that both sides are wrong if emotions are involved.
Seriously, you don't have to deny that gaming journalism is worthless if you are against threats of rape and violence, and you don't have to pretend those threats of rape and violence don't happen because you think gaming journalism is too biased to be worth anything. You can agree with both things, guys and gals...
There are more than two side to any subject, and it's possible that two people on opposing sides can be wrong at the same time for different reasons. In fact, it's likely that both sides are wrong if emotions are involved.
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The Last of Us is crazy overrated. I love it, and it is undoubtedly realllly good, but it's not perfect. Play through it a few times and you definitely start to notice the cracks in the story.
For example,
For example,
If the infection is in the city and you live in the country why the fuck did you drive into the city for no reason Joel?
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Recently, I'm convinced that Sega is the new "Bandai Namco" in terms of localization. At least Namco is getting better. Sega just doesn't care at all recently.
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I don't think cawadooby is a bad game. I've played it a bit with my friend, and I find that there is a level of depth that people look past. But then again, I was younger then, so what do I know?
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I'd like to see a new Tomb Raider game featuring the original Lara, completely separate from the reboot (which I still don't care for). I know the odds of that happening are damn near impossible, though.
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Yeah, most horror games where you don't have weapons end up with comically slow monsters that you have to hide in closets from while they shuffle around looking for you. Those sorts of games end up resembling Scooby Doo episodes more than anything else.
Probably the scariest game I've ever played would be STALKER (can't decide which one), and a big part of that is precisely because it's so lethal. You hear a Bloodsucker coming and you fucking jump.