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D-Lo_BrownTown posted...

I'm a longtime Hitman fan

But the truth is, the re-use of maps ends up boring me pretty quick. Funny enough I think it worked much better when it was episodic.

I also give absolutely zero fucks about escalations. They feel like such filler busywork to me.

This is something I agree with as well. It's one of the few games that works as being episodic, because it gives you time to actually master and 100% the content, and by the time you have a new episode comes out.

The only escalation I did was one that unlocked me a silenced sniper, because I'm not even going to attempt a non silenced weapon in the game.
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prince_leo posted...

little extra content
I can run through blood money on expert getting silent assassin on almost every level with little effort. because when I bought it in 2006 it was one of the games I got between birthday and christmas, so a lot of it is second nature

the new games, 2016 and 2018, are even worse in that regard. I love them and am having a blast, but who wants to buy a game with less than 8 maps and only a handful of really unique missions for each one? not even close to mainstream
it kinda puts them in a bind. if they made each level a third of its size they'd probably sell more because mainstream audiences would love 3 times as many maps, but they'd also lose a lot of the individuality of the franchise

The appeal of the new ones is actually the massive amount of content for each map, with the unlock system encouraging as many different ways to complete each level as possible. Not to mention the fully fleshed out added missions and the elusive targets that get added every few weeks.
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Grain Batter
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All I'm getting from this topic is that this Caution dude is a racist that wants to stick around a community that REALLY doesn't want him around.
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MarqueeSeries posted...

She should just do porn tbh

She's really not even hot enough for that. She's even rocking that terrible Michelle Duggar haircut for some reason.
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monkmith posted...

pinky0926 posted...

KOTOR, Witcher 3, Oblivion, to name a few games that were full of interesting sidequests. It is a problem in JRPGs though.

KOTOR maybe, i honestly cant remember. witcher 3 had plenty of bullshit fetch quests. and olbivion was only a passable game because of the side quests (if you count guild quests as side quests that is). otherwise it was a slough through portals.

I think the significant thing W3 did was turn those fetch quests into something more. While yeah, you were still doing a fetch quests, the writing was so good that it gave you a reason to do the fetch quests, because there was a very good chance that something that seemed basic was going to evolve into a more involved quest chain with interesting characters and choices to make.
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SchoolForAnts posted...

COVxy posted...

SchoolForAnts posted...

I really feel we live in a fucked up system when a bachelors degree is NOT an adequate qualification for work in a specific field. Sure, you may not be anyones first choice, but at least you should be able to earn a living with said degree, or else the system is just a fucking joke.

I mean, different fields require different amount of training. You wouldn't want there to be untrained doctors out there, just as you wouldn't want untrained clinical psychologists.

Then, any other path in psychology is identical to any other path in the sciences, in terms of amount of training.

I mean an engineer can do engineer stuff with his degree. You would not want a collapsing bridge or flammable electric thing (for example) either...

Even a carpenter! Your wooden bunk bed collapses and its a Mortal Kombat fatality waiting to happen...

My friend is close to his master's right now, and the way he explained it to me was that there's nothing stopping you from just getting a bachelor's and stopping, but you'll be passed over for nearly everyone else.

It's not any "system" that's the problem, it's that so many people went for psych degrees when there was a limited number of jobs to be had, so to distinguish yourself you had to get more education and pretty soon that became the norm.

Meanwhile, we're far from the hitting the upper limits of carpenters (actually trained, skilled carpenters) and engineers, so the minimum training is just fine for getting a job.
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Oh, if you're interested Valkyria Chronicles 4 is great. I've only played 1 prior, and the grenadier class alone makes this one a step above.
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pinky0926 posted...

monkmith posted...

people seem very polarized about the game, what really turned you off from it?

A number of things:

- Did a very bad job of teaching you how to play it. It just threw an entire book's worth of tutorial dialogue boxes at you right at the start and introduced so many mechanics while you were still just figuring out the absolute basics. It also threw the entire encyclopedic crafting and levelling system at you so you end up collecting a bunch of nonsense items with no idea what to do with any of it. I found it cumbersome and overwhelming.
An example of a perfect tutorial system to me would be Breath of the Wild. Not really any dialogue or descriptions, it just carefully introduces things at the beginning and invites you to use them. You learn through trial and error, not memorising what you read earlier.
- Sidequests were yet again very underwhelming. They did a better job than the first Xenoblade Chronicles but I still felt like I wasn't really invested in any of it.
- The combat started off dull and clunky and graduated into a bit like playing DDR, where you're just trying to time your button presses based on when colours pop up on screen.
- Speaking of combat, there's just so much of it. Why does it take so long to beat basic canon fodder? It's like a 5 minute battle every time even if you're just facing some low level street rats. The only way to actually get anywhere in a reasonable time is to avoid all battles.
- They didn't seem to give much thought to where the high level enemies are on the map. Maybe this was deliberate, but there's only so many times I enjoy being one-shotted by a level 90 giant bird because he happened to see me from about 900metres away and got aggro'd.
- The accents. I understand American fans really enjoyed this aspect but as a Brit I could not disassociate the accents I was hearing with the specific kinds of real life characters I would expect to have them. Nia for example sounds like a hairdresser from wales who gets wasted every friday night and ends up abusing the kebab shop owner at 4am.
- So much fanservice it was embarrassing

I could go on. I enjoyed the world and the music was pretty great, and there were aspects like the story and collecting blades that I was intrigued by. but ultimately I found it quite an annoying game to play.

Summed up my thoughts. I really wanted to like the game but I just couldn't. Exploration was decent and I liked unlocking the skills to get to new areas or treasure, but the cannon fodder enemies taking forever to kill even when they weren't a threat took the enjoyment out of it.

Most of the characters were just annoying, and I have no idea what the developer was thinking with some of those awful costumes. Anime costumes usually look kinda stupid, but this was next level
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Not much. A little whiskey in my coffee every other day or so and a couple of beer on Christmas Eve. Think I had a bourbon while smoking a cigar then other night.

I massively cut down on my drinking this year, and it's made keeping my weight down low where I want it really easy.

Edit: I went to a new brewery in town on Saturday. Pretty good stuff. Had 3 beers but they were all pretty high %
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The one thing to watch out for if you get a first person game is that the joycon sticks aren't the best for controlling them. I'd say get the pro controller, but it's expensive and you just want them portable so it might be best to stay away from Doom.
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XC2 did nothing but underwhelm with its mostly annoying cast and basic mob fights that lasted forever.
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Even if someone sucks y'all are weird as hell for having a 260+ post topic shit talking them
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Apparently she never left the school she graduated from and still just hangs around lol
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Bob's Burgers always has great holiday themed episodes for my money
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SterlingM posted...

I wish I didn't see the trailer

But I'm gonna assume the fact that its them isn't the even a twist

That's a good assumption to make since it looks like the entire plot
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Looks dope
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How do you people even remember who's who around here
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Are furries a protected group now?
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You questioning why they would even do it is part of the ploy. You've been conditioned to think it's ridiculous, but they're HIDING the TRUTH
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Dude, Pepsi sucks
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I mostly just doodle stuff I find online during class, but the painting is done from a photo of me.
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Is right wing neoliberal a thing?
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This means the school is officially on the record as saying they want to be inclusive to nazis -_-
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This is hard, honestly. I gotta let this one marinate for a while
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SpiralDrift posted...

It's getting harder to tell who are the furries and who are the bestiality fetishists.

Is there a difference? I assumed furries wanted to fuck animals
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How the fuck is the breast winning
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Thekiller37 posted...

monkmith posted...

Prestoff posted...

Vyrulisse posted...

Anything above $0

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They're just the publisher as far as I know. Dennaton Games are the devs, and apparently it's just two Swedes named Dennis and Jonatan.
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This is a psychopath test, right?
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PleaseClap posted...

ChainedRedone posted...

PleaseClap posted...

Genocet_10-325 posted...

To be history teachers i guess

is it just an endless cycle of history students turning into teachers? Does every history major want to be a teacher?

You do realize historians have other jobs, right? Like research and writing books. If someone loves history, why wouldn't they study history? That's the problem with society. It's not all about making bank. Sometimes people follow their passion

Haven't people already written all of those books? What more is there to write about?

Are you serious?
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To work in a history-related field. My friend loves history, so he became an archaeologist. Lives in Maryland now, but he does a lot flying back and forth from here to do work out in the gulf.
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I've looked, but I haven't been able to find anything since Hotline Miami 2.
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darkjedilink posted...

Serious Cat posted...

darkjedilink posted...

That's code for 'stop giving us bad reviews, and you can come back.'

The first clue that you're completely wrong is that the ban wasn't over reviews at all. Your second clue is that other critics were voluntarily boycotting Disney press screeners and disqualifying Disney from year-end critic awards until the ban was lifted. Someone had leverage here, but it wasn't Disney.

Ha ha, okay. The movie studio that owns half of Hollywood, and a third of television media, had to give in because three newspapers weren't going to give them awards.

If you really believe that, I got some beautiful oceanfront property in Arizona to sell you. Real cheap, too.

The statement followed declarations by the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. (which includes Times staff writers), New York Film Critics Circle, Boston Society of Film Critics, National Society of Film Critics and Toronto Film Critics Assn. that Disney films would be ineligible for year-end awards consideration for as long as Times film critics were banned from advance screenings.

It's not simply 3 newspapers. It's multiple widespread critic associations, which you would understand if you read the article. If these associations stop previewing, reviewing, and talking about Disney movies that's a massive advertising avenue that disappears, which means Disney now has to pump even more into their own advertising efforts and bloat their budgets even further. We're living in a time where Rotten Tomatoes scores, for better or worse, heavily influence the habits of movie goers. There's a reason high scoring movies use that number and tomato on adverts, because it sells. If people go to rotten tomatoes and see that there's no score there, it's a bad sign and it will keep movie goers from the theater.
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I assume the people that make the effort of hacking any of the classic systems understand how to run emulators on their PC so I don't think so.
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Solar_Crimson posted...

codey posted...

I don't have a problem with there being a lot, but them all being samey sword characters. FE has a massive roster to pull from and then only different playing one is Robin.

Blame the fact that Intelligent Systems keeps making their Lords (the main characters of their respective games) sword-wielders.

At least Robin and Corrin mix things up a bit.

True, I would love to see a barbarian axe wielding Lord some day.
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I don't have a problem with there being a lot, but them all being samey sword characters. FE has a massive roster to pull from and then only different playing one is Robin.
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Why the fuck isn't there a poll
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CRUNCHY bby
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Why we're all of the knight skills so expensive? You unlock it early on and move on as soon as possible because there's no point in grinding for those lame ass break skills.
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I clicked the topic hoping to learn something about some new green butter I could cook with, and I got...this.
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Good buy brah
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darkjedilink posted...

codey posted...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-et-mn-disney-lifts-ban-20171107-story.html%3foutputType=amp

I'd just like to point out that this is what happens when Disney tries to restrict ban journalists from their screenings after receiving negative press.

Did you read that article? They talked to new management and 'aired greivances.'

That's code for 'stop giving us bad reviews, and you can come back.'

The ban wasnt over reviews, and it was lifted because other papers were boycotting them.
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Greater than $15? Most AAA games
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-et-mn-disney-lifts-ban-20171107-story.html%3foutputType=amp

I'd just like to point out that this is what happens when Disney tries to restrict ban journalists from their screenings after receiving negative press.
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JACKBUTTMOMMY posted...

Gafemage posted...

Oz the Great and Powerful came out in 2013, while the original major film adaption of The Wizard of Oz came out in 1939. That's a 74-year difference, while this is a 54-year difference. Meh...

To be technical that was more of a prequel.

Wasn't there another sequel in the 80s as well? Or was that just a different adaption?
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I played Gun and liked it back in the day
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She looks like a fucking elf
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GameboyTroy posted...

Did you use dipping sauce or hot sauce? Popeye's taste great. You could've had two biscuits.

Next level is to get red beans and rice and use that as the dipping sauce
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He wasn't bad, but the movies themselves we're. I will say that any scenes he had with Gwen Stacey felt like he and Emma Stone were just improv-ing the whole time, and it came across as kinda weird.
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