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Movie: Avengers Endgame
TV series: Wandavision (I recently got Disney+, can you tell?)
Novel: The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson
Theater: Operation Mincemeat
Game: Erm... Doom Zero, if you count mods. Otherwise probably Pathfinder Kingmaker.

Do want Gotham Knights despite its reputation, but I already have everything else except Mad Max, so I think I'll wait for it to show up in a less redundant bundle.

"The story of the blank era, one that will eventually be forgotten"

... in 2025, when we cancel the game and turn off the servers.

Nanis23 posted...

(Why the fuck is Rayman dead anyway? I thought it was succesful and both Origin and Legends were actually great games)

When Michel Ancel quit the games industry, Ubisoft said they wouldn't be making any more Rayman games without his involvement. Allegedly out of respect, but this doesn't look very respectful, so...

If you count TTRPG classes, I've heard bad things about the Truenamer from one of the later D&D3.5 sourcebooks. Basically, you have to make a skill check to use any of your abilities, the DC of the check goes up by 2 every time you pass it (resetting on a long rest), and level scaling increases the base DC faster than you can increase the skill.

You either minmax that one skill and mostly suck, or never meaningfully contribute to any encounter, ever.

My usual stupid question about fighting games- does Tekken 7 have any sort of decent single-player content? As in, a story to follow (rather than just endings that all contradict each other and may or may not turn out to be canon), a helpful tutorial, all that stuff.

HaRRicH posted...

Fuck Bobby Kotick, hope he doesn't golden parachute his way out even though I'm afraid he will.

I hear there's an opening at Unity...

What about Last Action Hero?

It tends to be pronounced as if it refers to a Hero of 'Last Action' (whatever that means), rather than an Action Hero who is the Last of his kind. Really, it should have a 'The' in front of it.

Let me guess, massive retirement bonus and immediately hired by another company that will self destruct within a year or two?

So am I the only one who hates Shinada's chapter in 5? His fighting style sucks, I couldn't care less about baseball, and it ramps up the focus on Japanese... 'adult entertainment' way past the point at which it stops being amusing and becomes genuinely icky.

If they get rid of the horrible restrictions on saving, then I hope they port the updates back to the PC version.

Leonhart4 posted...

Please stop letting us name characters in voice acted games

I wonder if a game could get away with having real voice actors do 99% of the VA in a game, but have an AI programmed on their voice insert player-variable text like names into their dialogue? Actors and AI working together rather than AI straight up stealing their jobs.

Portable Ops is basically non-canon, several plot points are directly contradicted by later games (most notably, characters turn up who definitely weren't there), and Kojima's stance is essentially "MSF were active in the time and place it's set, but nothing we saw in the game happened".

Ghost Babel might be semi-canon if you go with the theory that the whole game is a VR training scenario inspired by Snake's missions, and you're really playing as Raiden undergoing part of the 'Solid Snake Simulation' program. Assuming that that definition of 'SSS' was actually a thing in-universe as well as the other, sillier definition we got later.

Grand_Kirby posted...

what is the most extreme opposite of FOMO

JONBI- Joy Of Not Being Involved.

Although I did buy the game, and... it's fine. Nice superhero story with My First Tomb Raider parkour mixed with My First Brawler combat. I've yet to get far enough to see how badly it's still affected by the GaaS grind though.

3 on GreenManGaming, so mainly I'm more worried about whether it's worth the download time and massive chunk of hard drive space than if it's worth the money.

I'm not a huge Marvel fan (much prefer DC), but since picking up Midnight Suns (fantastic game) I'm in the mood to see more of Cap, Spidey et al.

EDIT: And I've just remembered Spidey isn't in the PC version. So... Cap, Hulk, et al? Iron Man's a jerk.

KommunistKoala posted...

and play dirge of cerberus

Is this serious? Because I do own DoC but never got round to playing it. I need a nudge, and it being somehow alluded to in the R series would do it.

I'm already imagining that the new review-bombing will be running a script to repeatedly register 'installs' to try and bankrupt small developers.

I think I lost interest when I realised they expected me to care about the story arc rather than it just being a vehicle for more "What if everyone in a D&D campaign was awful" gags. It was fine as a parody, but I just didn't like the characters enough for them to carry a plotline.

Go Out Alone

Rolling a die.

Well, we've lost some great games, and pretty much the entire TTRPG industry is boned, but if it means an end to roll-and-move I guess there's an upside.

Apparently it's available on PC through the Google Play Games beta.

I'm mostly interested in this because it's supposed to adapt Before Crisis. Is that in there yet? Do you have to play all the story stuff in order, or can I ignore Crisis Core until I've finished the real game?

I misheard an announcer talking about the Sonic cartoon describing Tails as Sonic's 'sidekick', and for a while thought that Tails was psychic.

My cousin thought that if he replayed an old level in Goldeneye 64 and died in it, all the subsequent levels would be locked again until he played back to that point.

The first person I thought of was Rudy, but the first thing that came to mind was 'unpaid'.

None, but I do own two of them.

mnk posted...

I don't know what means but I don't think I like "chan" and "bara" being in the same word.

'Chanbara' is a film genre, essentially the samurai equivalent of a Western. Apparently the word means 'sword fighting'.

Square-Enix take note, and do the same for KHUX (and eventually NieR Re[in]carnation when that game wraps up).

I like the movie, but Reverend Green killed Dr. Black. I only accept Cluedo as canon.

Evil!?

(Because of No Rolls Barred Plays Blood on the Clocktower)

Weird question- does anyone else think that the MC looks permanently pissed off, or is it just the (modded) face I used not looking as good in-game as she does in the CC screen?

It kind of looks like her brow's furrowed, as if she's slightly confused and very annoyed about it, which I wouldn't blame her for except it seems to be all the time rather than her expression reacting to what's going on.

Dammit, I was waiting for a remodel in the hope that it would look less stupid, not just slightly smaller.

Disco

It's downloading, but it's entirely possible I won't even get past character customisation until all the hair and face mods for the EA version get updated to work with the finished game.

NieR

Reviews ranged from "Blandly average" to "One of the worst games ever", and it barely sold at all. Word eventually spread about its superb writing and music, causing people to actually play it and realise it's a goddamn masterpiece.

I just assume that all professional sports organisations are rotten to the core, and a slight fluctuation in the exact amount of corruption isn't particularly noteworthy.

It's kind of weird that the Switch has a touchscreen, but presumably games aren't allowed to rely on it because it would prevent them being playable docked. I assume there's an official policy banning handheld-mode-only releases, because otherwise Rainbow Curse and maybe even a new Elite Beat Agents would be no-brainers to release on Switch.

Also as a minor note, Sonic Lost World has crossover DLC levels based on Yoshi and Zelda that are exclusive to the Wii U version. And I think one of the Skylanders games has some figures of Mario characters that only work on Wii U.

Taxable (or possibly untaxable, depending on which way round things are)?

I know there are some weird classifications here in the UK about what things are and aren't VAT-exempt.

PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

Did you play Mortal Kombat 11? The Krypt Mode has a recreation of all of these areas in glorious 3D!

Shaolin Monks has several of the original stages in somewhat less glorious 3D too.

Slight off-topic rant, but it always annoys me in games like Diabloids and Borderlands where you pick one of several very mechanically different characters, that you can't switch characters mid-campaign. They're almost always written in a way that implies a group of heroes are doing everything together anyway (because they're intended for multiplayer), so why not make it that you're playing as a group, and whenever you're in a town, you can switch your active character? Have them all level up at once so you don't need to go back and grind, and only need to go through the crap early levels before you've built a decent skillset once.

So yeah, I normally only play once, and then can't be bothered to go round again with someone else.

-hotdogturtle-- posted...

GBA game ... 20 years ago

Damn, that hurts. Stupid passage of time.

Top 5 kharacters who deserve their own spinoffs (and what genre those spinoffs would be)

The thing is, because a lot of TNGS2 was recycled from unused Phase 2 scripts, Pulaski's attitude towards Data was because a lot of her material was written for Dr McCoy berating Spock.

What the writers apparently didn't realise is that Spock's reliance on emotionless logic is by choice (a very important choice, but still something he could theoretically abandon), while Data actively wants to experience emotion, but literally can't, which makes her constant complaints come across less as "I respect you but your habits annoy me" and more "I despise the very core of your existence".

Any cheap fighting game recommendations for weird people like me who have no intention of ever playing against another human being, but enjoy games like Mortal Kombat and BlazBlue for their stories and other single-player content?

Sonic and Acid damage spells are pretty common in WRPGs. They've been part of the D&D ruleset pretty much since the beginning, so they show up not only in explicitly D&D-based games like Baldur's Gate and NWN, but also D&D-'descended' games like Pathfinder and Solasta.

redrocket posted...

Now Im wondering if this game actually could be modded to make it playable.

If nothing else, texture swapping the title screen to say Wonderland should be a simple enough mod.

*Ctrl+F "Alone in the Dark"*

Still just me, then.

RuneterranSnap posted...

Apparently Heathers has a high school version and I'm really curious how they make Dead Girl Walkinf high school appropriate...

Apparently theres a SFW 'Schools Edition' of Avenue Q, of all things.

Speaking of which, there are several amateur performances of Avenue Q on Youtube. Not the best filming quality, but it's a fantastic show. With puppet sex.

Salvation isn't a Terminator film. It's a film set in the Terminator universe, but it isn't a Terminator film.

Other M has bad storytelling, but it's a good, fun game beneath all the character assassination.

If you eliminated most of Samus' inner monologue, changed her panic attack on seeing Ridley's clone to just surprise and an angry flashback, and had Adam actively working to remotely reactivate parts of the power suit after they get sabotaged by the under-utilised 'Eraser', there'd be nothing wrong with the game. IMO.

Didn't some of the 3D MK games have a sort of action RPG mode for their story? With SF6 doing World Tour, I'd love to see something similar in an MK setting.

And while we're talking about newer SF characters, what's the general opinion on Menat? I love her design, but I've heard she's really hard to play as, so was curious how popular she is.

snake_5036 posted...

Four Swords.
All the multiplayer games are last, but at least FSA and TH are full games

Maybe true for original Four Swords, but Four Swords Anniversary's single-player mode is much more enjoyable than the sheer slog of Tri Force Heroes.

Having all the Links auto-follow the one you're controlling until you need to issue specific controls is great. Having to manually move all of them one at a time is madness.

TFH might be good in multiplayer, I don't know. But that one massive downgrade from their already perfectly fine formula utterly ruined single-player.

I might be misremembering this, but didn't Lost Odyssey have a 'rightful' monarch who'd ceded power to a democratic council, and the big bad was trying to get him to re-establish the crown for nefarious purposes?

Although even if I'm getting that right, one of the other characters was the queen of another nation, so it still fits in the 'some monarchies good' category.