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Did they actually say he got fired? I doubt the conversation was good for his career, but as far as I recall Greg just said that he'd been called in and was probably about to be fired. Did I miss it being confirmed?
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Another race, Hazers are gonna stay near the top for once!

*Race happens*

Oh, right, Hazers can't run on sand
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Continuing the Hazers tradition of throwing away a decent run at the last moment. Foggy had that in the bag if he'd just kept a straighter line across the finish.
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ZaziGuado posted...

Has anyone ever found Roldo?

There was a Funnel Endurance (can't remember which year) where he was sitting on one of the support struts and very easy to spot, but other than that, I don't really bother looking.
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Seven seems like a lot given that there's literally a 'take screenshot' button on almost every keyboard in existence.
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Escape This Podcast - A bit like an actual play RPG podcast, except instead of playing D&D or something with rules, the host runs an imaginary escape room for the guest(s) to try and solve. The odd-numbered seasons consist of standalone rooms, while the even-numbered ones connect all the rooms in that season in a story arc.
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plasmabeam posted...

I've only watched the first 7 episodes.

Can I just jump in with the ones mention in this topic?

Episode 8 (Ice) is very good. One of my favourites, in fact.
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IIRC, Grimoire NieR (and/or some other supplemental materials, I can't remember) also strongly implies that Project Gestalt was considered a failure almost from the start, since Gestalt Nier refused to do his part in the final recombination process until Yonah was cured, and the people (androids?) running the project didn't want him to find out that there is no cure once a Gestalt has started to relapse. Even if Replicant Nier hadn't killed him, the Shadowlord would have doomed humanity anyway. You just turned almost-certain doom into absolutely-inevitable doom.
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ZaziGuado posted...

Marbles sure have gotten stronger and faster.

After M1, I'm starting to wonder if the CCEs have been messing with performance enhancing inclusions
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There's a zombie novel trilogy called Newsflesh, set in a world where the big outbreak happened years ago- everyone is infected with the dormant virus, and will turn when they die or come into contact with active virus (ie- get bitten by someone who's already turned). But life goes on, and society as a whole has adapted to live relatively normally, just much more carefully.

Thanks to 2020, the part about there being a zombie virus is now the least unbelievable thing about the novels. The part where literally everyone takes all the necessary precautions very seriously and doing anything that might increase the risk of coming into contact with/spreading the active form of the virus is considered utterly unthinkable? Clearly completely unrealistic.
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I'm a Hazers supporter, but also like to see Momo do well. And Oceanics, but obviously that doesn't happen very often.
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Persona Q Collection for Switch (and probably other things) maybe? Would give them another chance to dub Q2.
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The only one I ever played a lot was Kingdom Hearts Unchained X, and I lost access to my account long before it shut down.

I do want to try Grand Order, but a) it's not available in the UK, and b) I should probably read F/SN first.
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At least, in the West.

I'm thinking of things like Yakuza, which was sort of known but not exactly popular for five games and a zombie spinoff before Zero became a huge hit, prompting remakes and remasters of all the preceeding games* to sell much better the second time round.

*Except Dead Souls. Which, despite its reputation, I still want to see remastered, Sega. Throw it in another collection with Kenzan and Ishin, call it something like Yakuza Stories, and my money is yours.
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Ah yes, "Live service". Meaning that 'infinity' refers to the total price, and it's only a matter of time before the entire game disappears into the digital ether.
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So does responding to a missed connection ad on Craigslist count as suicide, or is there still considered to be at least a small possibility that it isn't a setup from someone who wants to murder you?
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https://youtu.be/dl0LVi_U2u8?t=24
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What's left is fully 'playable' offline- you can access the avatar maker (with all the costume parts unlocked) and watch through all the cutscenes with your customised character. No gameplay, but no gacha or IAPs either.

Time to find out just what the hell was going on...
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Are we sure it isn't a false positive?
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Sonic Boom, Crush 40 style!

Still hoping for at least one of What I'm Made Of, Never Turn Back or Knight of the Wind.
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I'm reasonably sure that '06 is the only Sonic game I've never played.

Still has pretty awesome music though. I'm loving this version of His World.
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Can you feel the sunshine?
Does it brighten up your day?
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I don't know if they follow a single arc, but the Wasteland series has a continuous story (with recurring characters) that started in 1988 and had a new installment last year.

True, there were several decades before the first and second games, but still...
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I'm not interested in buying it again, but I am going to hope that remastering Alan Wake is intended to let people who missed it the first time catch up on the story ahead of them finally announcing Alan Wake 2.

I just hope that the rumour that future Remedy games will be EGS exclusives forever isn't true.
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I do like (most of) their games, but wouldn't play them on any console. They belong on PC.
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Nice to see Aperture Science is still building robot bodies in... whenever Metroid is set.
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So, assuming we one day get a re:Union remake as a proper, non-F2P game, what would everyone reckon to a Vanillaware-esque side-scrolling beat-em-up with the same graphical style (suitably upscaled, of course)? I reckon it would work nicely.
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Kingdom Hearts X (the original browser version) launched in July 2013, and Kingdom Hearts Unchained X (the mobile remake) launched in September 2015.
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Thank you.
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^I would!

(I'm mostly looking for Overture and Rev 2 if you'd rather split things up to multiple people, but the only one of those I already have is the Revelator base game)
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John Finnemore
David Mitchell
Jeremy Hardy
Linda Smith
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Aayla Secura
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Iamnodead posted...

Im just praying it isnt Pay 2 win/Gacha

I'm 90% sure that the main reason they added numerical HP is to help encourage a grind-or-pay heavy upgrade system.

"This gun does 20 damage, but if you collect all these materials (randomly dropped at low odds by rare enemies in a special level you can only play once a day... or available in the cash shop), it will do 30 damage! Or you can pay for a random chance at getting a gun that does 400 damage!"

Which is a shame, because if this was a real game, it would be absolutely incredible. But I'd be amazed if it hasn't been deliberately ruined in the name of constantly requiring microtransactions to make tiny amounts of progress.
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My 'obviously wrong but who cares' prediction- Dragon Quest Swords 2 on Switch.
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I played it a bit when it launched, and then a bit more when they added Ravenloft stuff. Dropped it almost immediately both times (the second time because Ravenloft is endgame content you can't just jump in and play).

It's just... underwhelming. And, IIRC, very quick to hit you with obvious penalties and difficulties for not shelling out large quantities of cash.
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BlackDra90n posted...

I was gonna say God of War or Kingdom Hearts but they both have random mobile and web games which I've never played.

For KH, I'd say that re:coded counts as finishing the Japan-only mobile version of Coded, and that Unchained X both counts as playing the Japan-only browser version of Unchained, and is impossible to finish as it hasn't got a ending yet (although it should do in the next few weeks).

So, with those caveats, I have finished every finishable-in-English KH game.

But if you don't accept that, then it's probably Monkey Island at five games.
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It was a magazine. I don't think it was even a guide, more like a 'tips' section that just showed where all the best weapons were. Aeris' entry ended with "Get her stuff quickly because, well, you know what happens to her"

Er, no, I didn't, but since you've said that I think I've got a pretty good guess...
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I've not got Replicant yet, but I've seen it said that the new content for Ending E ties into Automata somewhat, and is written with the assumption that you've played that game.

So the play order would be Replicant (Endings A-D) -> Automata > Replicant (Ending E).

I'd also strongly recommend reading The Dark Id's screenshot LP of Drakengard before playing NieR. I would not recommend playing Drakengard, however.
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Turns out Outward isn't what I thought it was.

Can I change my request to Endless Space 2, please?
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I used to, but these days it's mostly podcasts. Usually RPG podcasts.
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LeonhartFour posted...

more like Street Fighter vs. Mortal Kombat when

Apparently, both Capcom and NetherRealm have gone on the record to say they'd like to do a crossover, but feel the violence levels are incompatible- Capcom don't want SF characters performing or receiving Fatalities, and NR don't want to do another less violent game after vDCU nearly killed the franchise.

On topic- I really like modern MK and Injustice, but Marvel is way too overexposed these days, I got bored of all of their characters years ago.
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Nanis23 posted...

I don't understand the backlash
If people want to be dumb and spend money on bullshit, let them.

And I am someone that usually never says this because usually dumb people spending money on bullshit is the reason why non-dumb people are getting hurt (like, dumb people spending far too much on overpriced DLC, making this the norm for non-dumb people, so they either cave and buy it too or miss out)
But in the case of NFT? non-dumb people won't care about this. They won't get hurt

Because we're wasting increasingly vast amounts of power doing nothing but tracking ownership of these things that don't exist. Digital Tulips do hurt everyone because they're the dumbest contributor to our continued fucking up of the planet.
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Safer_777 posted...

So even in the games you need like 10 straight normal victories to be really victorious? How come there are like 11 main games then so far? I mean don't Earthlings win the tournament each time?

Weirdly, the tournament was never really a major factor in the game continuity- the only game in the original timeline to involve an officially sanctioned-by-the-Elder-Gods Mortal Kombat tournament was the first one, and the "ten wins in a row and Outworld merges with Earthrealm" thing was a retcon that came later- the game itself has no mention of Outworld or Shao Khan, instead claiming that Mortal Kombat was a Shaolin tournament that had been 'corrupted' by Shang Tsung.

MK2 and MK3 both involved Shao Khan trying loopholes to claim Earthrealm without winning Mortal Kombat, then MK4 through Armageddon mostly had other villains trying to conquer the whole multiverse rather than Earthrealm specifically.

It wasn't until the timeline reset in MK9 that we got a proper in-game representation of the Mortal Kombat tournament as a means of protecting Earthrealm from Outworld.

(Also, ten Earthrealm wins in a row doesn't mean Outworld is permanently locked out, it would give Earthrealm the right to invade Outworld and merge it into Earthrealm, which would probably still result in the entire human race being pulled apart by monsters)
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Three games that are (almost) certain to exist in the future, but which is furthest in the future?
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Pokemon-esque RPG where you befriend and ride cute anime versions of classic MH monsters. According to what I can dig up, it's missing some content compared to the 3DS version (some monsters added in patches, anything related to Amiibo or special events), but has better performance on a phone with the required specs. And is currently a tenth of the price of a 3DS cart.

Might be of interest to some of you MH fans.
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Nanis23 posted...

If I loved everything about Automata besides the gameplay will I like this?

Depends how much 'not loving the gameplay' is a problem.

The actual game mechanics are just... fine. Nothing special, but nothing actively bad either. Just perfectly serviceable hack & slash/platforming. It's the Yoko Taro-ness that makes it so special- the story, the atmosphere, the music, the occasional bouts of player-trolling (mostly in the sidequests) and the sheer weirdness and bleakness of just about everything.
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Incidentally, IMO the best thing about the NGP(C) was the clicky microswitch d-stick thing. If they stuck one of those on a USB controller, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
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The two Metal Slug games are good. I believe the fighting games are considered decent, at least by the standards of handheld fighters.

Needs the SNK v Capcom Card Fighters Clash series to be a proper NGPC collection though.
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Just started it, and aside from virtual controls being awful as always, it seems like a nice game. But, of course, it's F2P, which usually means a game that would be good if you could just buy it has been deliberately ruined in order to make constant purchases both necessary and worthless.

So, how badly has it been monetised, is it possible to just follow the story freely/cheaply if I don't care about PvP or rankings, and is there any beginners' advice on how to get the most out of gacha?

Also, what's Honkai Impact? I thought I'd read somewhere that it was an earlier game in the same 'series', but then somewhere else said that it was a Genshin tie-in? But looks more sci-fi than Genshin's fantasy.
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1) Fuck Facebook
2) Fuck VR
3) This makes how many RE4 remakes and still no love for Code Veronica, Outbreak or Dino Crisis?
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