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No, I don't think it's like, "how to work in sales" but when I took a course on it, it seemed like a rather niche subset of humanities to require everyone to have a semester of. It was primarily an intro to the social science of communications.

Me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7ngDYFOGXw

Why didn't you see it as the classic Machinima series?

Like I'm going to let philosophical ambiguity keep me from eliminating all travel time.

Yeah, if you have total cooperation then you just need everyone to pick the same one. And it's true, nobody bears "guilt" for their choice. It's obviously set up by an evil being. You could argue for blue's stats benefiting from humans being squeamish about killing, maybe.

This is tricky retroactively but I think PC or even just Steam wins it.

We live in a society

This is being presented as a hyper-rational problem but there are two optimal solutions in conflict with one another, and in a scenario that takes into account psychology and such, the "wrong" one has better outcomes than everything except the extreme edge case of the "right" one (and that one is only equally good).

Yeah, but you only need 50% of blue to achieve zero deaths, while you need 100% of red, which obviously isn't happening. Unless you convince everyone to act rationally beforehand.

When I think about it, at least SU is its own fleshed-out gameplay mode. Like how I wished Smash Run was in Smash 3DS.

MacArrowny posted...

Anyways, it makes sense that file sizes keep increasing. SNES games were 8x as big as NES games, PS1 games were 100x as big as SNES games, PS2 5x as big as PS1, PS3 5x as big as PS2, PS4 5x as big as PS3. No surprise PS5 is over twice as big as PS4.

A good thing about current gen is you still have 2GB or less games a lot of the time, but more storage space overall.

I don't really care if Chrono Trigger is 2GB, but these games in the 80-150 range are a hassle.

I ground out 1600 jade and drew Kafka

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (Switch)
This one was long overdue. A wonderfully snappy blend of the rollercoaster mystery narrative of Ace Attorney, the supernatural tactical action of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, and a surreal gag cartoon aesthetic.

foolm0r0n posted...

big difference between novid and never testing positive

Not an observable one

ffmasterjose posted...

Hogasm in POG FORM topics were aces

He's still doing good work on another site

Been there

No Kafka
I got E1 Luka and upgraded E1 Serval and Sanpo to E2. Yayyy

I'm not sure I eat enough food to get this many, but a standard part of my meals are vegetables.

Luffy Go
These subtitle choices are baffling! They include honorifics in dialog but changed the Going Luffy-senpai into Mister Luffy Go.

Sokoban, huh? I'll try it.

real estate!

Looks like Johnny with maybe a setup placement mechanic because it's Strive
Hey, mechanic changes paying homage to SF6.

Nobody would say that. It's actually more syllables

I'm remembering a topic somewhere like "My boyfriend is OOT" and it meant "out of town" but half the replies were about him being Ocarina of Time.

What was it, a stance that changes which direction they face, and they have different attacks between the two heads? That was cool. I also liked Zim's setups. But many of the characters felt limited, particularly in only having 3 specials, one being a dedicated recovery which for some characters is little more than an extra jump.

yellowwolley posted...

This game has been such a disappointment so far. First MK game I won't be buying. (Unless Sareena somehow makes the playable base roster but given the leaks she wont).

Huh. How come?

-hotdogturtle-- posted...

I made no comment about the level of success of the first game. I was solely commenting about certain aspects being intentionally changed to be more familiar.

Alright, I came on a bit strong because it sounded like you were describing what I see as reasonable changes for the sequel as the lowest common denominator ruining original ideas. And the gameplay changes didn't at all look to me like making NASB into just Smash Bros either.

-hotdogturtle-- posted...

...So this game is just a Smash Bros clone now? Based on the first half of this video, every original mechanic and anything resembling traditional fighting game mechanics has been Smashified to function more like how all the other Smash clones do it.

Well, that's kind of what people expected the first game to be in the first place, so maybe this is the key to expanding their player base. Just goes to prove that original ideas aren't allowed in modern video games anymore

Are you suggesting the first game flopped due to mindless consumers having no tolerance for "original ideas"?

Pizza

SamSho complete is $20. I bought it and then someone told me the rollback betas were extremely bad. Ah well, we'll see.

I can't deny that at some point my reaction became "Oh no, new sidequests are available!"

If I'm balancing oldest/best I think SMB3.

"Not I", said the paperwarior

slykirby posted...

Circuits

Is that the one with Lance and Janice?
No, wait, Futurama.

Children

You also don't know what you're doing at the time because it's the first game of Blitzball you've ever played.

The story Blitzball match is annoying. The opponents are big jerks to you so you want to win, but you're at enough of a disadvantage to have to rely on RNG, and it takes more work than it should to retry if you lose.

shane15 posted...

That sounds like something Nintendo would do. They always get away with skimping on parts because people will always buy the system anyway.

I'd be okay with it, really. It won't affect outputting to a monitor, and OLED does raise costs.

Lion

I think TotK is absolutely way better, so I picked option 2.

Those are a different case, and I usually think of them more as side-modes or minigames rather than sidequests. In the case of Yakuza, it's not because of the super varied and engaging gameplay that people love Substories. It's because of the absurd scenarios and bizarre tone shifts. Ghost of Tsushima and Nier are other examples. The gameplay within them isn't necessarily that interesting or different from the main formula of the game, but the stories told through them are.

I have a theory that we remember "great sidequests" for the storytelling. Dull gameplay can make them grating, but adequate gameplay can suffice for accompanying a narrative.

I just assume the fuckery alert is always active for Twitter now. I mean "X"

This is what you're required to get when you become a Team Rocket Admin.

Yakuza is the only answer for me. As for FF16, I think they're only bad in that the gameplay is always the same. Go here, talk to this person, kill this enemy or group of enemies. They're fine as narrative segments. Also there are an overwhelming number of them.

We know it has a budget if it has AAA editions!

Blaster

MoogleKupo141 posted...

oh wow thats just the least subtle racism

who doesnt like Jax

I saw someone on Gamespot upset that "they made Tanya black."

Tremor was great in X. Other than all his voice lines being completely unintelligible.