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Rika_Furude posted...

does that actually delete you save? i clicked no but surely they dont

Oh, they do.
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I was going to buy it day 1 but after the microtransactions and then rumor(?) of always online DRM, my hype died.

I'm not so much boycotting as just don't really care anymore. Loved the first one but I think I'll only be grabbing this in a sale unless my attitude somehow changes before release.
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Battlestar Galactica. The modern series, anyway.
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I think the series peaked from 6 to 10. ATB and more interesting stories.

I did really enjoy 15 as unpopular as that opinion is, it's the most I've liked a main FF since 10 and I felt the combat worked in a way that made sense as opposed to 12's MMO-style and 13's I don't even know.

They do need to stop with the "one foot in the ATB" style though. Pick action OR ATB.

ATB absolutely can still work, the trick with modern titles though is the pacing. I loved Lost Odyssey for instance but couldn't finish it - it just went too long and lacked variety. FF7 in comparison was just right for length and had a bunch of little deviations to mix things up (motorcycle, snowboarding, Golden Saucer etc...).
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I still can't do Control. Doesn't even matter what difficulty, I cannot protect Natalya to save my life and after the third/fourth attempt I get dejected having to do the level up to that point again and just give up.

Always had to cheat to get to the last levels. Maybe I'd be better at it today but if anything games have generally become easier so I'd probably be even worse.
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The only time this has been an issue for me was in the warehouse fight scene of Minority Report, it sounded too similar to pieces of music from Attack of the Clones.

He definitely has an identifiable style but that's the only time it's ever detracted from a movie for me personally. One of the best movie composers easily.
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I still haven't played Human Revolution despite acknowledging Deus Ex as one of the best games ever made. I even own a copy but things got weird with the DLC and then the Director's Cut and it kinda sounds like I need to buy it again for the definitive version?

In the end I just buried my head in the sand and ignored it.
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-Gavirulax- posted...

All Pokemon games should have a Hard mode, I dunno why they don't.

It would be nice to have a reason to actually raise a Pokémon or two with some level of effort during the story mode.
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It definitely improved over time but I just don't need it.

The effect is just completely novel, it's like "hey that's cool" for a couple minutes and then I stop caring. After a while it just becomes a distraction. It doesn't hurt my eyes but I do also feel a kind of strain when it's on so that doesn't help.
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Highwind07 posted...

I'll probably just hold off until all of the episodes are out.

This is what I'm doing but I already own the game and the temptation to just start is unreal. I know I'd regret it in the long run with the wait between episodes though.

Doesn't help that I've been hearing good things so far, too.
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Desperate to play it (and had it pre-ordered day one) but I'm going to try and wait for the whole thing to finish releasing as I did with LiS. With how long the wait between episodes in these types of game can be (especially when there are delays), you can forget the smaller details and I'm not really into the idea of replaying just to jog my memory.

Be a tough wait, though.
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MrMallard posted...

This is a shitty Nintendo thing, sure, but I'm also pretty pissed at the scalpers who bought their share of the stock, preventing fans and excited customers from getting their share of the limited stock, so they can mark up the price and feed on nostalgia, hype and desperation.

I hate scalpers as much as the next person but Nintendo have been actively rewarding them since Amiibo launched so you can't really blame them.

Hell, I'd argue the scalpers are Nintendo's demographic for these products at this point.
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Both Uncharted and TLoU are best played on the easiest difficulty setting IMO. The story is the best part and the combat just gets in the way (especially in Uncharted as Nate ends up killing like a thousand people just because he wants to steal treasure).

The Tomb Raider reboot does it better, with more responsive combat and better pacing. That said, as much as I liked 2013's story, doesn't really compare to TLoU.
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Definitely a moment that will stick with me forever, and something that could only be achieved on the medium. It was overwhelming in all the right ways.
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Hit me in the emotions a good few times throughout. Really is a work of art, IMO.
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Riverdale is definitely self-aware of what it's doing most of the time and plays up to it in a kind of stylish way.

It's a fun show.
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Jabodie posted...

See, to me, this is how it should be in an AC game. It's how it was in the first.

I totally get your point but I was running in Unity because combat sucked, not because it was more beneficial to stealth.

I'm not really sure how I feel about the series focusing on stealth at this point. Logically, it absolutely should but it's never been a strong point and switching priorities is only going to alienate the fans. I have no problem with them adding more options though to make stealth actually worth doing just not at the expense of me being able to Darth Maul my way through an area when my patience is running thin.

That said there have been like 600 entries in the series now and I'm way past the point of buying them at launch so catering to me probably isn't going to help them.
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Vertania posted...

Most of the glitches were way overblown by reviewers and fans.

Possibly true for consoles but it was a real unoptimized PoS on PC until it got fixed up.

My main issue with the game though was what they did to the combat. Yeah it wasn't as easy but it felt so damn tedious, fights took ages in comparison to how they used to and weren't as flashy or satisfying, either. Came a point where I'd just run from every fight and only actually engage in combat when there was no other choice.
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The story can get a little difficult to follow even if you watch them all intently so I'd only suggest skipping them if you really have no intention of following the story at all for any of the games.
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Fantastic soundtrack and pacing. One of Disney's best, IMO.
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DifferentialEquation posted...

Starcraft Ghost

I don't think I had ever even played Starcraft at that point but I did have a Gamecube and would read all of the previews for this. I was practically attached to Nova before her game even released and it still bums me out to this day she doesn't have her own game.

Don't really recall any other cancelled games off the top of my head but if they were ever developing a Pokémon Snap sequel, that!
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I'm bummed there won't be any DLC. They definitely fucked up in a lot of areas, I had to swear myself off the multiplayer because it was a buggy, laggy piece of crap and that's no exaggeration.

But it is still Mass Effect and I'm sad I don't get to say goodbye to the characters in a proper way. When the credits were rolling for me, there was still the possibility of another two sequels, let alone the obvious DLC potential going by previous BioWare titles. I didn't get enough closure because I didn't think I was at the end yet, not really.

Sucks.
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I've always felt like Oak was a retired trainer, I don't know why. Just the way he treats Ash in the anime maybe, like he sees him all disheveled and thinks "Huh, I was late for my own destiny too" and hands over a Pikachu a new trainer shouldn't be able to handle because he sees himself in said trainer.

If it was revealed that Prof. Oak once beat the Elite 4, I honestly wouldn't be surprised though I'd like it hinted/implied as opposed to outright stated. There's an aura of mystery about him I like, especially concerning his past (that admittedly is probably all in my head).

Not so much of that in the games though, I guess.
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I don't think the quality difference is that big of a gap between the two, honestly. If TWD wasn't able to borrow from the best parts of the comics, they'd probably be exactly the same. Even then TWD manages to have plenty of filler and watered-down versions of characters.

I read someone's idea on a different board that the best thing Fear could do is show Madison's steady decline into becoming a fully-fledged villain and then finally pit her up against Rick's group in the main show to close the story. It would be completely original to the show and very cool to see for people already watching Fear.
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There are times in the show I genuinely have no idea what characters are trying to say. I'll be watching an episode with someone and a couple of the characters will have a conversation and when it finishes the camera will zoom in like it's a big deal and the person I'm watching with will turn to me and ask "What does that mean?" and I respond "I have no fucking idea".

They don't talk like real people. There's so much hackneyed, poetic, metaphor philosopihical nonsense, even the big, relatively simple, jacked military dude Abraham started doing it. Remember that tangent Will Smith's son went on? They sound like that sometimes.

The comic gets my vote.
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His comedy is definitely repetitive at this point. I've seen posts on Reddit where people mock it and honestly they may as well be quoting him.

The educational portion of his show is great though, I watch it more as a relatively light-hearted mini-documentary on current issues than a comedy show but I do still laugh now and then when he catches me off-guard and some of the skits with guest celebrities are particularly great.
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Two_Dee posted...

i don't do shit and i consume at least 1k calories a day

Last time I was on a diet I was consuming 1200 calories a day and losing roughly 2Ibs a week so yeah, wanna be eating at least double that -- especially if you are active.

Also this might just be placebo, no idea if it's a confirmed thing -- but I find drinking a couple cans of diet soda makes me super god damn hungry a short time after, even if I recently ate. If you're struggling to feel hunger, try giving that a shot.
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I love Reddit on account of it pulling in such a huge community, there are basically forums for everything and they're somewhat active (old TV shows and such) but yeah, not the place to go for actual discussion on Current Events.

Usually the top several comments are all some kind of attempt at humor that you've probably seen in other Reddit threads already and the fact that minority opinions can get voted out of sight is just lame. I get butt-hurt on GameFAQs from time to time but never having your opinion challenged, even when you're self-righteously indignant about it, helps nobody.
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Alucard188 posted...

Witches? Turn 'em into frogs. Moon Maidens? Have Cecil in the back row with draw attacks. Behemoths? Berserk, slow, and blink protects you. Red Giants? Lightning and Slow. Moon Masks? Reflect yourself and cast Slow + Flare to reflect it. Red and Blue Dragons? Slow and Berserk.

Basically, Slow and Berserk are a godsend in the Lunar Subterrane.

That's basically my point, though. It's not that it's hard it's that you have to do x or you're gonna run out of MP/HP too fast for the rest of the dungeon. Access to the internet makes this not so bad due to guides but if I was purely offline, that's a LOT of trial and error. It almost became a puzzle game.
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I enjoyed FF4 but this was my biggest problem toward the end of the game (in the 3D version, anyway). Every single monster began to feel like a mini-boss with a very specific way of dealing with them and if you just tried to freestyle, every fight was a slog.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

The entire point of the game (At least my read of the point) is that is Max's chance to say goodbye. She left Chloe and never spoke to her for years. Chloe never got to say goodbye to her dad before he died. She never got to say goodbye to Rachel (nobody did, Frank/Samuel/Nathan/Jefferson)

So when Chloe gets killed when Max hasn't seen her in years and barely even recongized her. She "changes" the world to a false one and gets one week with her best friend. A chance to say goodbye and get closure, as well as Chloe getting closure with Rachel. Hell Rachel and Chloe's "dead" spirits are with you the entire game pushing the plot.

By "accepting" Chloe's fate at the end Max is able to move on with her life and accept reality. Things get back to normal and life resumes. Hence Max's lack of powers.

I do really love this interpretation and it's reasons like this I'm really beginning to resent multiple endings in story-heavy video games. If the story was solely crafted for your interpretation of the ending, it would have been resoundingly beautfiul. Instead we have a couple sketchy plot points that take away from either ending making too much sense and now spend our time arguing and trying to de-value each one based on our own individual bias. It's a shame.
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Picked Chloe, think it was the easiest decision in the game for me.

It was completely selfish, sure but what's the point in not? People like to throw out the numbers game thing but if this was happening in real life would you also so easily be able to throw away your best friend/lover while they look on at you teary-eyed trying to convince themselves that maybe they deserve to die. Neither option has you walking away guilt-free, you're actively choosing to kill someone, I doubt saving the town would weigh less on your conscience. Not to mention in this scenario you've already lost them once, and since that trauma have grown even closer; it's bound to hurt a lot more the second time around.

Like I said, I made this choice instantly so didn't read about the Bay ending until afterwards but I'm glad I picked what I did because rewinding everything and letting Chloe die just seems even more unsatisfying than driving off with no real answers because you practically accomplish nothing -- except getting to hang out with Chloe one last time but she won't remember, making it every bit as selfish as saving her.

I think a lot of it of course boils down to both how endeared you were by Chloe and how you crafted the relationship between her and Max. The way Max was with her in my game, I can't imagine her sacrificing Chloe and then going on to live a normal life; she'd be so guilt-ridden and lost I just can't imagine her ever smiling again and meaning it. The Bay ending is more impactful because it clearly got more time put into it and pulls hard at the heart-strings but it's also empty, the Bae ending at least implies a future for the two of them -- that there was a reason for all of this tragedy and chaos.
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The Batmobile feels kinda shoe-horned into all of it. Like, it's amazing Batman even managed to get around in Arkham City without it because Gotham is apparently designed with the thing in mind. Complete with underground race tracks!

Speaking of underground race tracks, there are like 4000 Riddler trophies too. That's an exaggeration but it doesn't feel like it when you're doing them. You get the idea after 50 of them, by the time you hit 100 they've basically exhausted all their more clever ideas and then there are still 140+ to go!
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I was about to say this was probably a bad idea but then I thought "What if they did a 006 movie" and suddenly I became interested.

It would make zero sense because I want Sean Bean to return so it would have to be a sequel but I don't care.

Seriously though, who would these films star if not Bond? You could maybe make a movie about one of the villains showing a tragic fall from grace but it's only good for one or two times before it becomes a cliché/repetitive and I don't know if an M or Q prequel would be that interesting. Seeing M kick some ass would be cool but it would just be a James Bond movie without Bond so...
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I enjoyed 2 more than Inquisition...

Either way, play Origins and Awakening before either of the sequels, IMO.
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I think 7 is a great place to start. The graphics are obviously dated but if you consider it more an art-style, they actually have a charming aesthetic.

The game is also simple enough to easily wrap your head around, with the materia system being immediately intuitive. To anecdotally prove this point, the last time I went through the game, a friend did too and I used a guide to find all the super strong and secret materia as well as materia combos -- where my friend who barely even plays RPGs kinda fumbled his way through with whatever is freely given or bought in stores and made it to the last dungeon (had real trouble there though because of Death IIRC).

It's a good time, iconic music, characters, story (uh, as wonky as it is at times) and the combat system is such that if you choose to try any of the other games, you'll be familar with how they work outside of the most recent ones that keep attempting random stuff.
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Darkman124 posted...

fwiw there is a not-zero possibility that when someone is put on the spot like that they say yes even though they arent actually there yet, but know they are on the way to that point (which is why they don't respond with frustration/anger/whatever)

Unless you can read minds, surely you're always putting someone on the spot though?
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I liked it much more than Gale of Darkness. Played through the whole thing several times too. Even used the Colosseum itself to level a whole bunch of my Gold/Silver 'mons to 100.
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nclrwntr posted...

Sucker Punch's new IP.

I had a great time with Second Son and First Light so was really interested to see what they were doing next. Disappointing it didn't happen.

Also the general lack of Final Fantasy was a bummer. Except for the VR fishing game it's been absent. There's already a Dissidia PS4 trailer floating around the net so I thought we might get more details on that. Some kind of update or CG trailer of FF7:R would have been nice too.

Bethesda's conference fell flat for me when it became evident there was no new Elder Scrolls. It's been a long time since Skyrim so I don't think it's too much for me to be expecting the next entry. They seem to only be showing things that release the same year though, so it might just not be ready yet.
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Gamer99z posted...

I love Freddy vs Jason tbh it's so campy and fun. I'd watch an entire universe of that tbh.

Yup, miss these movies a great deal.
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CapnMuffin posted...

reason for why the cut scenes are over the top.

It's MGS?

I'm not sure why it even needs one. If anything Twin Snakes just brings the first title more in line with the rest of the franchise. Yeah it's less authetic to the original game but more authetic to the series as a whole. The sequels were just as, if not far more batshit crazy than the stuff that happens in Twin Snakes.

Really don't get the hate.
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Feline_Heart posted...

Its kind of funny to hear that because Dontnod made that terrible game, Remember Me. Its impressive how they managed to improve their reputation so much.

I actually loved Remember Me. The ending was a mess (ha, sounds familar) but otherwise I thought it was pretty great!
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Crazy how we went from not knowing if there would even be another entry to potentially two titles coming out in (presumably) quick succession.

I'm all for more but I don't know how I feel about a studio that isn't Dontnod handling it. Could end up with some jarring disconnects quality wise.
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Looked gf posted...

Symphonia - best co-op

Phantasy Star Online says hello

<3
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A friend of mine can. Sometimes when we hang out if I randomly start humming whatever tune is on my mind he'll pick up his guitar and just play along. It's a really cool skill to have but also kinda deflating when trying to learn yourself. Though, that's probably just my self-defeatist attitude more than anything; he really put the work in at getting good.
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Loved it. I was pretty captivated by the end of the first episode.
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robellr13 posted...

What was the hardest side mission to you?

One of the side missions ends with a stealth tank section. There are two in the whole game IIRC and they are atrociously bad and shouldn't exist. It's not so much that they're difficult (though they are tricky IMO) but more so that they require too much patience and sneaking considering it's a tank battle. Dumb.
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I've done them in every Arkham game and they're really not worth the "reward" which is usually a short scene and not much else.

I only do them because the idea of doing everything else and leaving one villain behind to reign free irks me from a narrative point of view.

But shit, my least favourite part of the games. Why 200? Seriously. Put like 50 in, that's still more than enough, jeez.
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The Admiral posted...

I really love this setting, but my biggest fear is that this is basically just another re-skinned Far Cry 3/4 clone. The scene with the bear chasing the one guy (which was way overdone in FC4) definitely worries me.

The formula has definitely become stale across most big Ubi franchises. I played AC: Rogue recently and though I loved the campaign I just couldn't bring myself to do the busy-work again for the nth time which of course leaves you with a short game because the menial sidestuff tends to make up the majority of the content. I can't see myself buying anymore of their games unless they're dirt cheap on sale just because I've basically already played it at least 4 times regardless of the franchise.
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TropicMoon10 posted...

There's potential in the premise but this is also in the hands of Ubisoft writers and designers, and I don't trust them to turn this into a remotely interesting or compelling game.

I like (love was too strong a word) the games but I hate their more "zany" characters, they're like really poor GTA knock-offs. Especially the junkies.
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