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I think I have to go with Planet of the Apes just because of the absolute nonsense ending.

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It's gotta be between Planet of the Apes and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory right?

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99% of people who watch the show will have no idea about any online drama

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I started playing through it and it's starting to all make sense now. And I wasted time on dumb GF skills.

Here's the basic summary of what you need to do.

1. When you get GF's (Guardian Forces or basically Summons) make sure you immediately pick them to learn skills that are good. To start off with I recommend picking Refining skills. They are usually on Page 2 which is a mistake I didn't know for a while. Refining means you can refine items into magic spells. This is a significantly quicker process than drawing them from enemies.
2. You have a GF called Quezacotl. You'll get him at the start. Immediately get him to learn Card and then Refine Cards. This means you can convert random encounter enemies to cards. Then you can refine cards into items. Combine that with Refine Items into Magic and you've now got a quick source of magic without spending the time drawing it from enemies by playing Triple Triad
3. After you have done the refine skills done then you should start opening up the GL's junction abilities. Basically you can junction Magic skills to improve stats. You'll want each party member to have complimentary skills to junction as much as possible. To break the game is quite simple. Once you have unlocked Junction HP and Refine healing items into magic you can buy a bunch of tents, convert them into Curaga and junction that to give you quadruple the health than usual.

I think that covers the stuff I learned without constantly checking a guide. Maybe it'll bite me in the ass later but I think that covers it. Don't need to grind at all with this. Just have the right skills being learned by the GL's as you play. It's actually recommended not to level up too much due to level scaling. It's obtuse and weird but once you get the logic of it it's fine. The biggest complication is the game not doing a good job recommending which GL skills to learn by putting them on the second page.

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Don being a despicable asshole makes sense I think. Yeah it's dark.

It's the three people who pick the girls who are the really weird ones though. Only the Chocobo guy is really played off as a bad dude but all three are human traffickers who pick girls to be murdered or gang raped.

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SomeLikeItHoth posted...

Do you think the boy who posted the video should be punished? The cop could have gotten in serious trouble.

To be fair to him the bag wasn't taken off him it was taken from the other guy. From his perspective it could have looked like they were planting evidence.

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Such a great game that's still incredibly fun to play. Still up there as one of the greatest third person shooters IMO.

Sam Lake has aged pretty great. Still looks the same as that original in game model heh.

McCaffrey iconic voice is also still perfect.

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gna647 posted...

metal gear solid 2, 3 and 4 already topped chaos theory

Those games are nothing like Chaos Theory

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Pretty good. I think Series S will scale a bit better for the next gen only stuff.

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Alucard188 posted...

Joel wasn't a hero or a villain. He was doing what he wanted to do in the context of a very fucked up world.

This. The entire series is mostly driven by people doing what they think they have to do.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LuOQ8eh26g

Where did he plug it in?

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https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.video/c/3GIus1FAb4Y

When I was a teenager, I was a video game addict on machines like the
Atari 2600 and Intellivision. Even though the games on both machines
were woefully primitive by today's standards, the selection of games
was pretty varied. You could get shoot-em-ups, maze games, sports
games, action/strategy games (Intellivision Sea Battle is probably the
best example of this type), pure strategy games like checkers/chess,
role-playing games, and original games based on far-out ideas, such as
Qix. I also owned an Atari 800, which played several games that were
showcases of creativity and good game design, Archon, M.U.L.E.,
Pinball Construction Set, Rescue on Fractalus, and Ballblazer are just
a few of the original, fun games available on that system.

I've noticed that there's now a standard set of terminology to
describe features of video games. "Power ups" and "bosses". All it
says to me is that most of the games on the market (at least the
Genesis) share so many common elements that you can give them names.
These video games are following a formula. Perhaps this is because
everybody is in a race to get titles on the market. But why do I want
to buy the same game all the time, only with different graphics?

YES YES YES YES YES! Finally, somebody can see through all of this
nonsense! Another thank you to Teh Kao Yang for similar comments.
First of all, I am NOT a Genesis hater or a Nintendo hater or a hater
of any video game manufacturer. I would also say that I am not a fan
of any such corporation either. I realize that many readers of
rec.games.video have violent loyalties to certain companies and that
their reaction to my comments will be clouded by such. You can be a
fan of a particular game or of a game designer or group of designers or
maybe a company that writes games. But to be a "fan" of a giant like
Sega or Nintendo? It's like being a fan of Proctor & Gamble or
DuPont. I have better things to do than spray paint "GENESIS RULES" on
a bridge.
It is also tempting to think that I'm just reminiscing about the Good
Ole Days when every game was a classic and everyone lived in harmonious
peace and tranqulity with the universe. But the fact is that there
WERE video games before the current wave of systems and you have a very
limited view of things if you were never exposed to them. There were
games for the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Intellivision, ColecoVision,
Astrocade, Vectrex, Vic-20, Odyssey-2, Channel F, AdventureVision,
Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit computers, Apple II, and TI 99/4A. *LOTS* of
games. THOUSANDS of games. The Atari 2600 alone had several hundred
games for it. Plus, coin-op arcade games have been in production since
the early seventies, and hit a major peak from 1979 to 1982. All of
this before anyone heard the word "boss" or "power-up" or used a
conjugate of the verb "solve" in reference to a game by a company other
than Infocom.
During all of this time, video games never really "settled down."
Games were constanly changing in an effort to find a new audience.
Sure, a big-hit like Pac-Man would come along and spawn a quick splash
of clones, but unless a clone added some new feature, like the doors in
Mousetrap, it was quickly forgotten. After all, Pac-Man is a concept
more than it is graphics. Any other maze game full of things to eat
and energizers basically WAS Pac-Man. So game designers moved on to
different ideas.
From '80 to '82 there was Donkey Kong, Robotron, Xevious, Mr. Do,
Defender, Galaga, Carnival, Reactor, Missile Command, Zaxxon, Tempest,
Centipede, Qix, Crazy Climber, Dragon's Lair, Sinistar, Joust,
Kick-Man, Tron, etc--just look at the variety. Some general themes
would stick around for a few years, "cute games" for instance, and out
of that would come Pengo, Burger Time, Q-Bert, Food Fight, Frogger,
Domino Man, and so on. Being "cute" was about all they had in common.
Out of all of these thousands of games, the great majority of modern
home games are based on FOUR of them: Scramble (1981), Front Line
(1982), Karateka (1983), and Karate Champ (1984)--maybe Kung Fu Master
(1984) as well. This is completely ridiculous. Sure, these games were
great and fun and everything else, but this non-stop cloning is a
complete joke and has been for years. It's getting hard to
differentiate between individual games, the only things that that
change are the shape of the enemies, the bosses, the power-ups, and the
scenery. The game itself is still the same. You can play poker with a
different deck of cards, but it's still poker.
Of course, not ALL games for the Genesis are like this. But after
weeding through the Scramble clones and Front Line clones and Karateka
clones and so on, there's not much left. And what little there is
isn't very original and is usually attacked by the magazines for not
being shooters, so they don't sell as well, giving very little
incentive for future originality. To make things worse, a lot of the
"new ideas" may look completely different, but the underlying concept
is still "get to the end and 'win'."
It is easy to say that "there aren't any original ideas left," but this
is bunk. Atari Games still maintains that early-eighties will to
experiment, and each of their games reflects it. But for the most
part, the big game companies have everyone fooled into thinking that
there isn't anything other than shooters and RPGs so they'll keep
cranking 'em out and everyone will gobble them up so they'll make
more.
Another problem is that there are VERY few good game designers. Lots
of good programmers, but not designers. Just about all of Nintendo's
hits were designed by the same person. Designers used to first come up
with a game concept. Nowadays, they decide to write a shooter and then
concentrate on burning questions like "what power-ups should we have?"
You can put ANYTHING onto a CRT that you can possibly imagine. There
is no restriction saying that it has to be a bunch of junk that scrolls
to the left with a boss at the end. But if that's what you want, that's
what you'll get.

From 1991.

At least they did a better job actually presenting an argument.

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No. PS2/GCN/Xbox was the last gen before every game became about tacked on multiplayer modes and dull looking shooters.

No. PS1/N64 was the last gen before every game became about tryhard grimdark action games and shitty licensed tie-ins.

No. SNES/Genesis was the last generation before every game became about making bad playing 3D games.

No. NES/Master System was the last generation before every game became about shitty mascot 2D platformers.

I dunno what people said before that. Probably people that thought chasing high scores and single screen gaming was peak game design.

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Swagnet0 posted...

no. that was the last gen before every game became about open world looter shooters.

its objectively the last good one.

Yes yes yes people never said the 360/PS3 gen was when gaming got ruined because it was all about DLC, online multiplayer and season passes.

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lol this question always eventually gets bumped up to the next generation.

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It's GTA and it's online.

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He wasn't asked if he would come back. He was asked about his experience on the movie.

Kinda lame when articles do stuff like this.

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Last Stop is pretty quick. Get one in a couple of minutes and another about 20 minutes after that (if that).

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They're like this everywhere because no normal community really wants them and their behaviour around.

Look at them throwing tantrums over Twitter right now.

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Jabodie posted...

I wouldn't be surprised if we see a thread about this video with VERY different framing over there

Luckily seems like a normal poster got in first. But someone else has predictably brought up Anita Sarkeesian in that topic.

What the hell at that board though. Why is there a topic about Jordan Peele's new movie with 119 posts on the PS4 board?

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Sucks they got stuck in this mess because of fragile internet weirdos but at least their investigation was entertaining.

The whole thing about how they personally got offended over stuff like the title being called "Understanding The Last of Us 2" because they interpret that as people disliking TLOU2 being called dumb is such a good example of how pointless it is to try and talk sense to these people. They'll always take the most extreme interpretation of the most innocent statements to feel like the victim. I've noticed that users here do it too.

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Overall I think it has been a good year but yeesh. They can't all be winners I guess.

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cjsdowg posted...

They were not ignoring the women's input everyone was pleading their case. And that side won, in the end. Having debates and tossing around ideas is a no where close to what happen at Blizzard.

I don't think he said otherwise? He's saying it's important to speak up about the little things so things never get that far.

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cjsdowg posted...

From the twitter feed I linked above. Here he clearly claims that giving a character a figure harms people, and said linked to real sexual violence.

Fellow men in gamedev. This is an example of one of the VERY SMALL THINGS that build up over time to make life miserable for women and marginalized people in our industry. Something as simple as putting titties on a space rat can harm people.

It breaks people's trust when you allow things like this to happen unchallenged. If you don't push back against tiny little things, like giving Rivet tits, you're essentially saying those things don't matter. If the small things don't matter, where's the line for bigger things?

I am not perfect and I have let things like this happen unchecked before. It happened at my first job, and I regret some of the choices I made when making characters there. It's not fucking worth it. Speaking up about small things heads off Blizzard-scale bullshit.

I have been looking for them, people have just been posting his business. But he made post about wanting Finn Poe and Rose to have 3 way. When his words here ring hollow . Other posters have also claimed that he blocked black people for calling him out on his racism.

He's saying that if men purposefully disregard or ignore women's input on stuff like a character having boobs on Rivet it can lead to bigger things about women being disregarded like what happened at Blizzard.

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FortuneCookie posted...

This is too sexualized / too gendered?

No this is the final design. He's saying that this wasn't feminine enough for some people within Insomniac.

I'm sort of baffled what the controversy is here. At most a guy being a bit too melodramatic on Twitter?

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It'll be on Game Pass so I won't need to buy it. I'll at least check it out most likely.

Payzmaykr posted...

Onky for Xbox and PC? Whats up with that? No PS and no Switch?

Microsoft bought Obsidian.

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eston posted...

Does someone sunbathing really affect property values? That doesn't make any sense

He's one of those nosy fucking idiots who loves to have a whine wherever possible. I think every apartment block manages to have at least one of them.

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2SweetforTurtle posted...

You mean to tell me that someone whos seen the worst sides of humanity doesnt trust terrorists with distributing the cure?????? Oh no!!!!

Doesn't matter who is doing it or for what reason. Joel would never let anyone hurt Ellie. That's why I find the arguments over the Fireflies overall pointless. It had absolutely no bearing on Joel's decision.

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Even if the Fireflies had a guaranteed cure from sacrificing Ellie Joel would do the same thing.

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Joel's entire character arc was perfect tbh

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When you're on your way to work and your socks end up getting wet and damp from rain or a puddle.

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HaVeNII7 posted...

Your battery wasnt full then. My Dualsense lasts for hours, and hours. Only charge it while I sleep, and its never died on me more than a couple times.

Dualsense battery life is 4-8 hours. If he's playing something like Astrobot's Playroom it's on the lower end.

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This just makes me think back to a few years ago when the MeToo movement got into full swing users on here would act like women being scared of being alone in public was sexist towards men.

All it takes is one crazy loon to notice a girl he's attracted to.

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I find it kind of amusing that there's some sort of regular web show that goes into every single new story that is going on in Disneyland parks. Probably for the enthusiast theme park community who get super focused on the most random stuff like gamers do on this website. Do they argue over which is the most famous ride? Do they care about who runs the parks and what they say in interviews?

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Goatsensation posted...

It would be dumb if you encounter a whole bunch of shrines in the open world you can't do because you don't have the equipment for it. Old Zelda games were linear.

And do people seriously miss walking back through an empty dungeon with nothing going on?

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GeraldDarko posted...

Not really, just in general with huge delays. Bloodlines 2 is clearly some fuckery. Pretty sure that was less than a year. Last time they've made any announcement was February. I fear it may never release. TES has only released that bfief flyover, AFAIK, so I'm not talking about that.

Bloodlines 2 had a whole bunch of key people leave and they even moved the project to a different studio. That game has had a lot of trouble.

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Nice. There's a handful of stuff I wanna watch but didn't want to pay for. 6 months is plenty of time.

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They're only on Steam for now and you can get yourself in a queue. It's only impossible if you want one immediately.

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Fix the low pay and benefits and people will tolerate the rude customers. Rather easy solution.

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Graycap posted...

No clue. People smarter than me would have to figure it out. Like this guy:

That's how incels treat Twitch and cam sites already.

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It's really, really hard to make a video game.

Even God of War was seen as a shitty game for most of its development and only shaped up towards the end.

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If you were a woman why would you sign up for a site that exclusively has incels? That would be like a black community group for the KKK.

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Out of these four who would you say has the best video game soundtracks under their belt?

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Hayame Zero posted...

My only concern with 16 is the world and style seen in the trailer. I prefer a mix of fantasy and sci-fi in the series, but it looks a little too heavy with the medieval settings.

Even 12 at least had some technology.

Yeah I'm playing through FFVII Remake and the world is so unique and gorgeous. Looks so lived in and has such a great atmosphere. Hopefully this style of world manages to recapture it but the setting isn't as exciting looking.

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My wife has been on the Taylor Swift subreddit for years and both Lover and Folklore got a spike of new posters there so I think she still is gaining new fans lol

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I think there are a few musicians that meet or even exceed Taylor Swift in certain categories. Swift's strength is that she tends to succeed in almost all of them. Streaming, album sales, tour sales, awards etc. Then she's a business powerhouse on top of that and has been around in the mainstream for over a decade while still hanging high.

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