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I'd read The Last Wish before watching the show. While Ciri and Yennefer's plot threads in the show are original material that was hinted at in the later books, Geralt's parts are adapted from stories in TLW. A lot of people seem to be complaining that the show is hard to follow, but already knowing roughly what's going on makes it much easier, IMO.

The game is set so far after the book/show that it shouldn't have any bearing, although it does relate back to Ciri's story in the later books.

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Does that disclaimer actually work, legally? I mean, there's no way in hell the girls in those screenshots are 18, but does just saying they are let you have the uncensored version without ending up on a list?

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If you completely removed the story, and had Samus find upgrades rather than arbitrarily being given permission to use them, then yes, it would be fine.

But the plot is so goddamn stupid that it drags the whole thing down a lot. It's fun, but still hard to actually like.

So yeah, there's a good game in there, it's just a shame it shares disc space with a godawful fanfic.

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If you don't like the philosophical aspects, get the DLC that replaces 'God' with Duke Nukem.

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Xeybozn posted...

I'm confused. How am I supposed to vote for the "best Muppet" when none of the Muppets from Sesame Street are included?

Because they're muppets, not Muppets.

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GANON1025 posted...

Oh really? Witcher 1 is a sequel to the last actual book? I didn't know that.

The games are set after the books, but TW1 doesn't have a whole lot to do with them. There are loads of returning characters (who Geralt doesn't remember, of course), but in terms of picking up story threads, only the first short story is particularly relevant- the opening cutscene is basically an adaptation of it.

TW3, on the other hand, is very much a sequel to the main novel storyline.

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Looks like they still haven't added subtitles during battles. I agree with the decision not to dub it, but not being able to understand the battle speech means missing out on characterisation and strategy tips.

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It's a little weird when characters still act as if Tsubasa's suddenly half naked, but I agree, the outfit they gave her to model in the English version looks really cool on her, the original bikini is just... a bikini, same as every other gratuitous anime bikini shot.

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Lopen posted...

I can't wait for Other M 2, code name Other N

I wouldn't mind another game that plays like Other M. The story was bloody awful, but I thought it was still fun.

A proper Prime 4 would still be preferable though, obviously.

EDIT: Damn this new posting engine! I'll never get used to not typing my HTML tags.

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The PS1 version of Persona was butchered. Don't play it. Get the PSP remake instead.

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The way it works is you have to own ALL of the previous games. So to get Puzzle Book free today, you must own Geki Yaba Runner and Robonauts.

Colouring Book wasn't actually part of the 'scavenger hunt', but you had to own at least one Qubic game to get Robonauts free, and CB is free anyway, so it was the best way to get started. 'Buying' it now won't help.

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Heroic Bigpun posted...

Crap, I forgot about this. How many have already passed

Today is the first one that's only available for one day, so if you got the robot thingy a few days ago, you're still good.

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Yes, but I'm English. Our 'bad apples' are more likely to be incompetent than psychopathic.

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I wouldn't touch Facebook if you paid me. Vile site actively making the world a worse place.

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Speaking of Darth Murdoch, Boris snuck in a last minute pledge to destroy the BBC, so we're one step closer to the Tories' Australian puppetmaster finally getting his heart's* desire of being the sole source of 'news' in the country. Also, it means Doctor Who is basically over.

*Well, the gaping void of eternal darkness where his heart should be

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Corrik7 posted...

Who is corbyn?

As of today? Nobody.

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

If they actually follow through now, odds Scotland and Ireland push for independence?

100%. But they won't get it because Boris is the worst kind of overprivileged scum, and doesn't give a shit what anyone who didn't go to Eton wants.

His hobby at school was literally comitting vandalism and being too posh to be punished. Everyone in the Bullingdon club should be in prison (and would be if they weren't rich and white), instead they're running the country into the ground.

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BRB, making adorable Chao starfighter models for Freespace 2

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So I read somewhere that REsistance was planned to have a soloable campaign mode included... were they talking about RE3, or will REsistance also have a single-player story?

(Also, mousy girl on the end looks much less like Velma now than she did in the first teaser. This displeases me. Modders must fix this ASAP)

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Needs more Aayla Secura

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/812870/Sentinels_of_Freedom/

It's Freedom Force but turn-based and more strategic and with modern character creation tools and why the hell did nobody tell me this was being Kickstarted, I would have throw all the money at it.

While Phoenix Point is busy being a paid beta over on Epic, I now look forward to getting my XCOM on with superheroes.

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Heroic Bigpun posted...

Now I'm curious, what would be the second best. I didn't think the answer would be this overwhelmingly one-sided so far

Pokemon Ultra Violet. FR/LG hack that makes every Gen1/2 Pokemon obtainable in a single game without trading or real-world events, with new locations for some of them to hide out on but otherwise leaving the game as it normally is (ie- no 'hard mode' or edgy 'jokes' like so many other hacks). Although obviously going that route would be bad and wrong.

Sidenote- when I bought a pre-owned N3DSXL, it still had Pokemon Silver available to 're'-download, and I was really annoyed at whoever owned it before because why would you <i>not</i> buy Crystal?

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And suddenly I'm glad that Barbara isn't in this after all. Aside from the fact that I can write it off as not 'real' Birds of Prey, is also means my favourite comic character isn't tainted by association with this... trainwreck.

And I was so looking forward to it when it was first confirmed.

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So the rumour that the higher-ups at DC despise the Birds and actively sabotage anything they appear in is true then?

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The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York

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If I understand correctly, Classic customers can still pause (after seeing the games) and keep Classic. You won't be charged (or get access to the games) until the 27th unless you click the Unlock button. If you pause before then, you don't get this month's games, don't get charged, and will have the same option next month.

That's my plan- pause every month just to keep the option there, but probably ony get one or two a year if that. Phantom Doctrine is interesting, but none of the rest appeal to me (well, SotTR does, but I've owned it since launch).

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Xiahou Shake posted...

I don't know if those arguments work when this is "Disney's Mulan." Like yeah the stories themselves existed way before Disney but it's pretty obvious what people are expecting when they go to these.

At no point have Disney claimed that this is a straight remake. Everyone knows there's no songs, everyone knows the funny animals are gone, everyone knows the cast is different... if anyone still thinks they're being 'tricked' into seeing a film that doesn't meet their expectations, that's entirely their fault.

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I thought they were all canon, apart from TOB possibly being a remake of the first act of RtCW?

I was under the impression that later games mention Hitler, but with the hints that he might not be the real Hitler any more, but an undead puppet being controlled by the series' fictional villains.

Or was that just a theory that has since been debunked?
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I always thought that 'play as yourself' was seen as the 'normal' option, but after that other topic, I'm wondering if I just kept running to vocal minorities ranting about it being 'weird' to crossplay.
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RPGlord95 posted...

But if we didn't eat them no one would have bred them so they wouldn't exist anyway

That's why we should start eating endangered species. Big businesses don't give a flying fuck about protecting wildlife, but show them a chance to make a profit, and there'll be millions of delicious pandas within a few years.
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I'd go by the amount of time he's been alive, since some RPGs have rules for aging (including, I believe, D&D, although they're rarely used and might only have been in old editions) that only count "time you've been alive" rather than "time that has elapsed since your birth".

Although if it were my character, they'd probably joke about how old they 'technically' are whenever it's brought up.
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I just bought the things I wanted most in other sales (Parkitect, Hitman 2 Gold, Tales of Maj'Eyal Forbidden Cults).

I think I'll leave Code Vein for the next round of sales.
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I assume it started as an insult before the people being insulted started using it themselves because they have absolutely no self-awareness, because if they heard the song and thought "That guy sounds like someone I want to identify with!" then holy shit they're even more broken than I thought.
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When did Dr. Wily borrow the Death Egg?
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Every time I reinstall RE6 because I convince myself it can't be as bad as I remember it being, it turns out to be worse. It's like they took an average game and then challenged themselves to screw up every single aspect of it, and succeeded beyond their wildest expectations.
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Outbreak 1+2 need to be redone, but I think a remaster would be better than a remake. Keep the same gameplay, just improve the bot player AI, backport the File#2 abilities into the File#1 scenarios, and spruce up the graphics.

And bring back multiplayer, of course.
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I look forward to the inevitable internet shitstorm that erupts when Jill's default costume is replaced with something less hooker-esque.
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Huh... so it's been long established that Oracle exists (or at least, the codename is 'taken') in the Arrowverse, but this week's Batwoman implies that there was no Earth-1 Batgirl. Does that mean Oracle isn't Babs?

Actually, has there been any mention of either Barbara or Jim Gordon in Batwoman?
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skullbone posted...

Nanis23 posted...

This is worse than Diablo Immortal but it's not cool to hate Valve so people will be ok with this shit

Don't you guys have VR headsets?

No, I prefer proper games.
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All brilliant.

You should also play Koudelka.
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^ So... Janet is actually God?
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MegamanX posted...

Morph: Who? Like someone help here. Who

IIRC, he was an original character created for the show. Because they were hardly going to kill off a real X-Man, were they? Well, other than Jean, obviously.
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Xiahou Shake posted...

Correct order for Corpse Party is Original -> Book of Shadows -> Blood Drive, with 2 being a totally different thing and everything else being a spin-off, right? My light googling has me a mite confused.

This is correct. There are three games in the original story arc, a non-canon self-parody, and Episode 1 of the first game of the second arc. The confusion likely stems from the fact that several of the games have been remade and rereleased numerous times under different titles in Japan.

Heavenly Host arc
Corpse Party (the version we got in English is a remake of a remake, known in Japan as Corpse Party: Blood Covered- Repeated Fear, because Japan)
Corpse Party: Book of Shadows (IIRC, mostly overlaps with the first game, showing events from other points of view and revealing what was going on elsewhere)
Corpse Party: Blood Drive: Continues and concludes the storyline from the first game

Silly joke game
Sachiko's Sweet Birthday Bash (Features characters from the HH arc in light-hearted scenarios)

New Arc
Corpse Party 2: Dead Patient (Being released episodically, with the first episode already having been remade after they scrapped the original engine and decided to start over. The English version is the remake, but we don't know when (or if) Episode 2 will actually be made. Probably shares a setting with the HH arc, but is an entirely new story that stands alone)
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^To be fair, if all Republicans were immune to prosecution, America would be a one party state within a month or so, it would just also contain a lot of bullet-riddled corpses.
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ninkendo posted...

Also NISA please localize them all along with Ys IX

You mean XSEED, right?
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By the sequel I hope to see some day
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^ I assumed it was a "What can the other actors do while Grant is filming crossover stuff" episode.
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Looks like Batwoman's done the timeskip- Luke references 'the breakout at Arkham', which presumably refers to the one that happened during Elseworlds. Lampshaded a bit in that Mary has no idea what he's talking about, because it happened in a different show a year ago and wasn't mentioned in this one, so anyone who only watches Batwoman would be equally in the dark.

Sidenote- did I hear somewhere that Titans is going to be involved in the Crisis? I've been meaning to watch it, but not sure if I need to hurry to catch up.
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The Crystal Maze isn't as good as the original run, but it's still fun to watch. Apart from how fully half the episodes are now 'celebrity' specials with barely-sentient reality TV stars who have trouble working the door, let alone actual puzzles.
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T1 & T2 > The Matrix > T3/S/G/DF > [insert comic analogy of something incredibly bad here] > Matrix sequels

So... Terminator, easily.
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