Board 8 > transience's video game topic 49: look over the horizon, a lot of games are nier

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Oh my god. I just watched the video myself and just now realized that if you shoot the Rival while he has his sword out he reflects your shots. I don't know how I didn't figure that out. I thought he was just...swinging pellets at you or something!
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http://transience.paragonsigma.com/screens/topics/HM%20-%20SH2%20playthrough%20topic/
http://transience.paragonsigma.com/screens/topics/HM%20-%20SH1%20playthrough%20topic/

you can see the origin story here, but I don't have the original topic where I hyped the game to hell and got his blood pumping (thanks man festival)
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Man, 2007. That's some legitimate B8 history right there.

Although here's a tease for the characters, because I'm undecided on games.

1.) Yuri Hyuga (Shadow Hearts)
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2.) Tidus (Final Fantasy X)

I miss Heroic Mario character/games lists that changed every other day.
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Man, Shadow Hearts Covenant is a great game. I even enjoyed FtNW, but that wasn't as good.
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I'm in the "SH2 is great but I preferred SH1" hipster club, myself.
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SH1 was good, but I had my complaints about it. It's better than FtNW at least. I've softened on shloop shloop splat but man was that jarring when I first played it, also I ended up having to listen to it several times for some reason I don't remember.
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SH1 is garbo

Not really, but it ain't great
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I'm surprised no rpg has tried the wheel system it had.

Sh seems like prime kickstarter bait too.

Where's the spiritual successor
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2 has the better cast

It's a more traditional anime style kind of cast, but they were a good deal more memorable.
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Going from Bleed 2 to Torment 2 is nice. Get to come down from an adrenaline rush high with lots of talking and reading and words.

It's pretty great so far, although I have some complaints:

-The feel is a bit too close to Planescape. You're a nigh-immortal being with amnesia who is learning about his past lives and remembering random vivid memories of what he's done. That's a simplification but it does feel like it's hitting a lot of the same beats Planescape did. Planescape is also 15+ years old so this isn't an incredibly fair complaint, they're allowed to re-use a concept after that long.

-The skill check system is kind of bad. You can expend points to make percentage chances on stuff like Persuasion better but there's really limited points so going with the default low percentage chance is forced onto you. And if you miss a check a lot of times you just...miss out on content. The game said early on that is was okay to miss a check because interesting stuff would happen anyway but that's a total lie. I find myself just reloading saves until it works.
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Boo.

Boo.

Boo.

Don't reload.
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http://i.imgur.com/Xxdjjdl.jpg

the world of hyrule is a very horny place.
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I think I like watching the kids play/discuss Zelda more than I enjoy playing Zelda (and I enjoy playing Zelda a lot). this game is special.
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it's cool knowing that you're imparting a game that will stick with them forever. I would do that with belle if she could handle the difficulty. sounds like that game is good at killing people.
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so on the weekend the kids were passing the controller back and forth, but they both wanted to get turns in and came up with a compromise: if you die, your turn is up. Julian lasted five minutes, going down to a swarm of bats. Sophia grabs the controller and with the widest grin I've ever seen proceeds to run away from every hazard for the next 90 minutes as she explores all the mystery of Hyrule.
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f***, man

horizon goes places

some really profound, incredible places that a triple a game hasn't taken me in a very long time

there are things about the story and the things i'm uncovering that are just blowing my mind

they address everything, every question i've had about the world as it is now and why it is

god i hope more people play this game after zelda, persona, mass effect, etc. it's GOTY material in so many ways
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I have a theory, that mass effect will be bad
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My theory is that it will be good but there will be a super vocal minority who will call it trash.
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TheRock1525 posted...

My theory is that it will be good but there will be a super vocal minority who will call it trash.

This is my guess too.

I'm guessing the gameplay is gonna be close to Goat, but the mediocre story will bring it down.
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who cares about mass effect. we're getting blaster master zero tomorrow, folks. as a kid i was convinced that blaster master was the real metroid 2.

digiiiiiiiii posted...

some really profound, incredible places that a triple a game hasn't taken me in a very long time

there are things about the story and the things i'm uncovering that are just blowing my mind

yeah? what's hitting you?
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iiicon posted...

who cares about mass effect. we're getting blaster master zero tomorrow, folks. as a kid i was convinced that blaster master was the real metroid 2.

"Now that the Space Pirates have been defeated, bounty hunter Samus Aran faces her toughest case yet: tracking down her runaway frog!"
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hey man, 80s cartoons got real weird when they exhausted their initial premise.
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iiicon posted...

yeah? what's hitting you?

aspects of the world before, the things that were done to get to the point of collapse and the things that were done to mitigate it. they're fascinating.

mid-to-late game spoilers

what the zero dawn project actually was, the full reveal of Gaia and her systems, it's done and executed so exceptionally well. the character building, all of the flavor dialogue of the alpha scientists. the video from the general explaining operation enduring victory, the video from elisabet outlining the project. the data log detailing one's choices of going out and dying on your feet or seeing to the nurse, who would administer to you -- aka kill you.

late late game spoilers

elisabet's sacrifice, ted's betrayal and the way they bring it together. sylens' true nature and the data logs within his workshop. elisabet's sacrifice is the thing that made me tear up.

more than anything, the vocal performances and the pacing are just so top notch that they bring everything home. that cutscene that came out prerelease that had everyone scared could not be more misrepresentative of what this game has to offer from a story and dialogue aspect. lip-syncing issues are still there, but easy to look past.
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the craziest thing about Blaster Master is that Sunsoft decided the goofy, partially contradictory american story of the high school kid and his mutated pet frog going underground was better than the Japanese sci-fi story and used it for all future games. They also decided that the original characters and concepts made up for a Scholastic Books novelization for kids were also canon, and used them in sequels too.
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digiiiiiiiii posted...

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Yep, that's what I was talking about when I mentioned the game doing soft sci-fi well. And how the mystery is all in the past, it has already happened, and you're in the right place at the right time to piece it all together. It's very cool. It's something Gone Home excels at as well.

I wasn't in love with Sylens' character. He exists as a foil to Aloy and to dish out plot when the game needs him to. There's not much there. But I'm not going to complain about Lance Reddick chewing up scenes.

http://kotaku.com/steven-universe-rpg-coming-to-consoles-this-summer-1793111666

hell yeah. Hopefully we get some other cool announcements this weekend at PAX. I think Adult Swim have unannounced games they're ready to reveal?
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Prolly getting an expansion for XCOM 2 announced also
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profDEADPOOL posted...

Prolly getting an expansion for XCOM 2 announced also

f*** yes.

Please be a legit one.
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oh yeah? I assume they have a panel?

the game was just in a Humble Monthly to coincide with Long War 2, and piggybacking off that to announce a new expansion makes sense. the game has done really well on PC and modding is starting to take off.
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iiicon posted...

oh yeah? I assume they have a panel?

the game was just in a Humble Monthly to coincide with Long War 2, and piggybacking off that to announce a new expansion makes sense. the game has done really well on PC and modding is starting to take off.

There are a bunch of new steamdb entries for DLC for it.

Current theory is it will be teased during this panel.

https://twitter.com/xcom/status/839222653126791168
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nice. I'll be in traffic then but I should be able to catch the archive.

http://www.capybaragames.com/2017/03/capy-cartoon-network-the-ok-k-o-videogame/

New Capy game announced today as well. Not sure what this show is.
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I'm hearing that Blaster Master Zero, of all games, has the best use of HD Rumble so far? I'm playing it on 3DS so I have to go without. I wish it were a little bit more difficult but otherwise this is definitely the best game since the original. The first area sticks fairly close to the original game but with some added bits, but after that greater liberties are taken. Some boss fights even occur in the sidescrolling areas now.
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Iconoclasts is finally almost here
http://store.steampowered.com/app/393520
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Nothing about more XCOM 2 DLC announced :(
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WazzupGenius00 posted...

Iconoclasts is finally almost here
http://store.steampowered.com/app/393520

no date =(

profDEADPOOL posted...

Nothing about more XCOM 2 DLC announced :(

this is all your fault
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I was looking at some PAX stuff and apparently there's another Emily is Away coming?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/523780/

and it's coming soon! Tentatively scheduled for May.
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hopefully it hits a spot for me more than Emily is Away did! I thought that game was poorly written. I think it missed a spot for me because I'm older.
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I think there's a lot of potential in Emily Is Away. the first game is more of a demo than a fleshed out game. there's room to develop the characters into actual people, rather than one-dimensional representations of youth.

I'm currently trying to add money to my Japanese Nintendo account and boy is it a pain. Apparently there's a workaround if you use a Japanese 3DS, which I have, but I haven't used it since I got a new router and for some reason it won't connect.
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Aw man. Apparently I missed out on a ton of flavor text in Tides of Numenara by not picking the right class/ability early on. Not sure why they would arbitraily gate something so important for a game that is all about the text. Considering restarting but I'm already 12 hours in. Might just stop for now, this poked a hole in my momentum big time.
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If you're not sold on Disc Jam on Steam or PS4 (free this month on PS+), I took a short video of a couple really good matches I had today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YklmOHw3kw
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disc jam looks great
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I played a few games with numbers earlier this week. it's not bad. maybe if we weren't in peak games I'd give it more of a chance but it's hard to find time for a MP game I like less than at least six other MP games I play with some regularity even when I'm not consumed with calendar-eating behemoths like Zelda and the looming Persona 5.
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so I'm looking through the PAX Indie Megabooth line-up right now because no site is actually covering the event. there's some cool games in there. might do a little post later.

what I really want is to actually be at the event and see the games that couldn't even get into the Minibooth. that's how I met Samantha Kalman one year. always interesting stuff on the periphery
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metaIslug posted...

Was it lack of Charisma? you always go charisma in planescape torment. its the op stat

Nah I went for that. What I missed is the Sense Mind ability, which you can only get by picking the Nano class and selecting the ability at the very beginning of the game. Didn't even know it existed!

Ended up powering through the new file while listening to podcasts and stuff. It goes a lot faster when you're skipping most of the text. The Sense Mind ability is already paying off, I noticed a lot of new stuff and my impression of several characters has entirely changed thanks to it.
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Finally got to Skellige in Witcher 3.

Skellige was my favorite part of that game.
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typical Skyrim fan

I'm not sure what my favourite part was but that might be it? there are a lot of highs though
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Skellige was definitely the highlight of that game for me
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http://wccftech.com/mass-effect-andromeda-not-port-pc/

do I need a 1080 TI... hmm...
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