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Are videogames for children?

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guys, quick question: should i make a thread regarding PS3 free games and where to get some from the online PS3 store before it closes down forever on july the 5th, or is this a lost cause?
im asking for a friend.
 
chris dude said:
guys, quick question: should i make a thread regarding PS3 free games and where to get some from the online PS3 store before it closes down forever on july the 5th, or is this a lost cause?
im asking for a friend.
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Sony is no longer shutting down the PS3 or Vita store anytime soon. Only the PSP store is being shut down this year. You’re fine.
 
Anybody here played Shapezio? I've recently been playing it, and the pretty colors and shapes make my autismo brain happy.
 
Xbox Game Pass is really confusing in what Bethesda games they offer. Doom 2016? No. Eternal is there along with 1 & 2 & 3 and 64. Evil Within 2? No, just the first one. Dishonored 1 & 2, yes. Wolfenstein the New Order, yes. New Colossus? No, but Young Blood is there. No Fallout 3 or New Vegas either.
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
Xbox Game Pass is really confusing in what Bethesda games they offer. Doom 2016? No. Eternal is there along with 1 & 2 & 3 and 64. Evil Within 2? No, just the first one. Dishonored 1 & 2, yes. Wolfenstein the New Order, yes. New Colossus? No, but Young Blood is there. No Fallout 3 or New Vegas either.
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Actually New Vegas is on gamepass. Which make it more perplexing why Fallout 3 isn't there. Maybe Microsoft forgot they own it.
 
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Your thoughts on his critique of Dante?

"I think my hatred for Dante stems from who he is and what he is, with all due respect, is an insufferable c***! He's that guy you went to college with is what I'm getting at. That guy who thinks he's God's gift to the world, acts like he's so much better than everyone else that it becomes all the more delightful watching him get his s*** ruined by someone else. Or to put it another way, he's that character I tend to notice in a lot of Japanese media.

The borderline self insert wish fulfilment who is ABSOLUTELY FLAWLESS in the cinematics of the game. Pulling gravity and logic defying bulls**t as a means to show off or convey to the audience "SHOWER THIS CHARACTER WITH AWE AND RESPECT!" yet when the game begins after a 10 minute cutscene you can't even replicate what you just witnessed. It's one thing to tell us characters such as Dante or Lightning from Final Fantasy are "awesome" yet unless we can actually do the utter bollocks you cram into the cutscenes then the character is only awesome because you say so.

Now Batman as much as I'm loathed to admit this IS awesome, for in the Arkham Games you CAN do all the shit he does in cutscenes. I guess you can say he's awesomely consistent. It's not really Dante's fault but it's a design choice I've come to loathe with Japanese games. An unnecessarily long opening cinematic, showcasing what the director would like us to think about their special little character, which in most cases has the opposite effect. Maybe I'm cut from a different cloth but I don't go for what I consider "a 13 year olds idea of awesome!" but if you've read my series you'll notice I tend to go for a misogynistic wanker who gets his ass kicked faster than you can say "Can I grab your tits?"

Raiden is a character I long suspected of this bulls**t, but in Metal Gear Rising you are able to perform crazier s**t in gameplay so I'll admit I was wrong about my break dancing cyborg ninja friend. So while Raiden from Metal Gear Rising dodged this accusation, I have a special place in Hell reserved for the likes of Dante and Lighting. Self insert mother....."
 
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I still think it's the gold standard of DMC games, it's got that perfect early 2000's aesthetic and devil may care attitude.
Also; that link lol, who was still making sprite/webcomics after 2008?
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DMC 1&3 were such a joyous thing to play when they came out, they both legit amazed me. I've laughed and chuckled at many games before that but when he got the guitar in 3. Jeez, it was beyond humor, it was traditional 80's butt-rock! Yngwie Malmsteen, Stevie Vai and Michael Angelo Batio would shed a tear at his self-indulgent shred fest. This can's possibly be part of the game! I can't remember anything that fun/dumb having been in a game to crack up the mood at around that time.
 
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I just love (sarcasm) his critiques on its gameplay.

“The way the game began, I figured it was something akin to Zombie Revenge mixed with Streets of Rage. Two small locations that connect together with baddies to clear before progressing. If the game kept to that formula I'd be singing a different tune, but it couldn't resist trying to honour it's RE roots with bullshit puzzles!
If you've played any hack & slasher before then you're pretty adjusted to play DMC 3. The game is pretty difficult if I'm being perfectly honest and will punish you for the slightest slip up. It gives you all of these means of dishing out the punishment when using the basic sword and guns does the job pretty well. It can take a REALLY long time to use the guns on that Cerberus boss near the start.

The flying centipede boss was another one that tested my patience until I figured out what I had to do. I tried my strategy to snipe away at it with my little pistols but what I was supposed to do was jump on it's back and hack it. I suppose it was "to be more AWESOME!" well excuse me game for taking a strategic approach to my warfare. Because some of us prefer to snipe our targets from a distance instead of run into convenient slashing distance.

Mike: Wait, you used the guns? You're supposed to get up close. You were literally shooting from a distance? That must of took awhile.

Me: You don't know the patience I have. Sadly, that patience did run out near the part I lost my 15th life.

Mike: Oh yeah, cus Crow said you had to beat the game in 15 lives, which you didn't which funn....

Me: points at the filing cabinet

Mike: ..... I'll be good.“
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So I got a bit more at work and decided to spoil myself with buying both Mechwarrior 5 and the Necromunda Hired gun.
I liked both.
Mechawrrior 5 is strange. I souldn't like it. It's basically a somehwat simplified mech combat with a light mercenary band management with repetitive missions. But I like it. Played it 6h straight- cant stop stomping around, they got that right- the combat is satisfying.
Hired gun is also good- playd 2-3h so far, but its really dynamic, customizable and reasonably hard. Gets your blood pumbing like the new DooMs.
 
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I'm downloading Balan Wonderworld right now lads, please send me thoughts and prayers in this dark time of my life

EDIT: Wow it actually is as bad as I heard. Thank god for Steam refunds
 
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I'm downloading Balan Wonderworld right now lads, please send me thoughts and prayers in this dark time of my life

EDIT: Wow it actually is as bad as I heard. Thank god for Steam refunds
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starting from the top- what sort of the name is this, Balan sounds bad, it just does, like a joke name, made up to sound bad as a parody, envoking the feel of cheap low quality imitation made to turn a quick buck
>Kropatz Krotzstowski Funfair
 
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starting from the top- what sort of the name is this, Balan sounds bad, it just does, like a joke name, made up to sound bad as a parody, envoking the feel of cheap low quality imitation made to turn a quick buck
>Kropatz Krotzstowski Funfair
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The villain of the game is called “Lance”, and he is the rival of “Balan”.

“Balance”

…Knowing the context behind these characters makes everything so much worse.
 
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The villain of the game is called “Lance”, and he is the rival of “Balan”.

“Balance”

…Knowing the context behind these characters makes everything so much worse.
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You just know the devs thought that was so clever and quirky.

I can’t believe this game costs $60.
 
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