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  • premiumpremium Registered User regular
    The armageddon one? Yeah I tried reading that when you linked it but my brain said nope so I stopped.

  • CorporateLogoCorporateLogo Registered User regular
    It's hard for me to take the RE games seriously these days

    Every single one has a secret underground lab at some point, and I just wonder how Umbrella had money to burn building all these stupid things, the one in 5 was gigantic and was apparently built in the late 60s?

    Probably why I liked 4 the most since it dropped all pretenses of being survival horror and turned into an silly action flick

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  • ButtlordButtlord Fornicus Lord of Bondage and PainRegistered User regular
    premium wrote: »
    The armageddon one? Yeah I tried reading that when you linked it but my brain said nope so I stopped.

    I'm gonna do it goddammit

    i'm gonna do it

    anything that starts with "“I, Satan Mekratrig, Lord of Hell, Commander of the Legions of the Damned do hereby declare my dominion over the earth and all that it contains. Crawl to me, humans, knowing the eternity of torment that awaits you.”"

    i gotta read

  • ButtlordButtlord Fornicus Lord of Bondage and PainRegistered User regular
    true story i'm reading this whole thing picturing satan as dave grohl in his tenacious d demon get-up

    whippy tail going whipcrack and shit

  • premiumpremium Registered User regular
    I skipped straight to the end and
    Spoiler:

  • ButtlordButtlord Fornicus Lord of Bondage and PainRegistered User regular
    the sequel is about conquering heaven and hell and killing god and taking over the afterlife

    i shit you not

  • MorivethMoriveth Registered User regular
    "Hail Caesar!"

    "No. Hell Caesar."

    GUITAR RIFF, FADE OUT

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  • ButtlordButtlord Fornicus Lord of Bondage and PainRegistered User regular
    an actually decent book about taking over hell: the sandman slim trilogy

    lucifer goes back to heaven to beg forgiveness

    the big bad takes over hell in his absence

    the anti-hero goes to hell and kills him and becomes the new lucifer and the book ends with him looking out over his new kingdom like fuck i never got to bang that girl back home

  • QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    “Hic non defectus est, sed cattus minxit desuper nocte quadam. Confundatur pessimus cattus qui minxit super librum istum in nocte Daventrie, et consimiliter omnes alii propter illum. Et cavendum valde ne permittantur libri aperti per noctem ubi cattie venire possunt.”
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  • ButtlordButtlord Fornicus Lord of Bondage and PainRegistered User regular
    litearlly any time you see "family" in the name of an org they're a piece of shit right wing shill

    this is no different

    it's the right being SO MAD about gay people

  • EdcrabEdcrab Registered User
    Sigh.

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  • QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    You mean my kid might possibly choose to have a gay encounter in a game, much like in real life?

    NOT IN MY AMERICA

    “Hic non defectus est, sed cattus minxit desuper nocte quadam. Confundatur pessimus cattus qui minxit super librum istum in nocte Daventrie, et consimiliter omnes alii propter illum. Et cavendum valde ne permittantur libri aperti per noctem ubi cattie venire possunt.”
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  • ButtlordButtlord Fornicus Lord of Bondage and PainRegistered User regular
    what do you mean we should treat gay people like everyone else instead of lke mutant freaks bent on stealing our children like buttsexing rumpelstiltzkins

    that's un-american

    why do you hate america

  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    There's something very, very good and right and special about "buttsexing rumplestiltzkins"

  • ArtreusArtreus Thomas AloneRegistered User regular
    We might have to explain to our children that gays exist.

    Not that they are people or anything though. That would just be crazy.

  • ButtlordButtlord Fornicus Lord of Bondage and PainRegistered User regular
    children there are things in this world

    they look like men

    and they have sex with other things that look like men

    but they aren't people

    lesbians are people though, because that's hot

  • premiumpremium Registered User regular
    So long as the lesbians don't try and get married or anything.

  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    SenorTacos wrote: »
    Hey orik, I'd love to hear why horror games often aren't scary.

    is this a thing multiple people would like

  • premiumpremium Registered User regular
    SenorTacos wrote: »
    Hey orik, I'd love to hear why horror games often aren't scary.

    is this a thing multiple people would like

    Yes.

  • EdcrabEdcrab Registered User
    SenorTacos wrote: »
    Hey orik, I'd love to hear why horror games often aren't scary.

    is this a thing multiple people would like

    Yeah. Because either I get to write a rebuttal, or a grovelling agreement in response

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    okay

    for some ungodly reason F.E.A.R. is seventeen gigs

    but i'm downloading it and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. to talk about tonight

  • ArtreusArtreus Thomas AloneRegistered User regular
    Have fun at night in STALKER

  • premiumpremium Registered User regular
    Oh god night time in STALKER.
    Just... hole up somewhere and hope the bloodsuckers don't find you.

  • StaleStale Registered User regular
    premium wrote: »
    So long as the lesbians don't try and get married or anything.

    if you thought stright divorce was messy, try a lesbian break up


    Good lord do the girls love to drag everyone into drama

  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    i'm going to be trying livestream once again tonight - www.livestream.com/mediumdifficulty

  • FyndirFyndir Registered User regular
    ugh, I want to play STALKER.

    ugh.

    UGH.

    FUCK YOU OVERCLOCKERSAEFNOGNnionijaisdrfhisdrfhhon give me my graphics card.

    :cry:

  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky Tails, You're my realest friend.Registered User regular
    Been playing a lot of STALKER recently. Fun fact: you deal as much damage and have as much health as enemies on any difficulty so Master difficulty is basically the best way to play because you have to really get good at speedy headshots.
    oh and get a mod for SoC. Complete or ZRP are the perfect starter mods.
    CoP is excellent vanilla. Misery is the best mod.

    Kochikens wrote: »
    oh man I saw an otter with a boner at the seattle one and this kid asked his dad, IS HE EATING A HOT DOG
    and I laughed forever
  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO WHY HAVE YOU SUMMONED ME? Registered User regular
    this series is fucking blowing my mind with how good it is

    http://crystalprisonzone.blogspot.ca/2012/03/this-is-second-of-multi-part-series.html

    holy fuck

    this is interestingggg

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Registered User regular
    I just started playing metro 2033 today

    STEAM
    Spoiler:
  • VivixenneVivixenne Not Mad... Just DisappointedRegistered User regular
    Protecting kids by taking an anti-gay stance is a claim that continues to baffle me.

    Surely everyone knows the anti gay thing is actually hurting kids rather than protecting them, right? Right?

    Oh wait that uses shit like logic and empathy to understand. MAH BAD.

  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO WHY HAVE YOU SUMMONED ME? Registered User regular
    as a female, you don't have the brain smarts to comprehend these matters, so your foolishness is excusable

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  • CptKemzikCptKemzik Registered User regular
    It's hard for me to take the RE games seriously these days

    Every single one has a secret underground lab at some point, and I just wonder how Umbrella had money to burn building all these stupid things, the one in 5 was gigantic and was apparently built in the late 60s?

    Probably why I liked 4 the most since it dropped all pretenses of being survival horror and turned into an silly action flick

    I still think the REmake can be pretty unnerving when played from time to time. I liked the concept of taking the haunted house in the woods cliche and cranking it to 11 by having it merely be a front to an underground big-pharma lab gone wild. It also does a decent job of consistently maintaining claustrophobic environments. I wouldn't mind seeing a REmake style treatment for RE2, but I never thought that game's post-apocalyptic setting was scary, just very bleak. Number 3 felt like an also-ran save for the initial nemesis encounters, code veronica just seemed too schlock-y and over the top even by the series' standards.

    4 I think is the high point since it managed to reinvent the wheel and distance itself from all the umbrella trappings... which capcom promptly returned to with 5 and added a dull and overly self-important "Africa!" plot. Which didn't do any favors for the (IMO) shoe-horned cooperative element which is an absolute chore to play through solo; something capcom apparently forgot when they tried that with the unremarkable 0.

    I don't think it was ever meant to be treated as serious material, but after the runaway success of 2, capcom did what capcom does best by running popular franchises into the ground. These are my opinions on some things.

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  • PharezonPharezon Struggle is an illusion. Victory is in the Qun.Registered User regular
    S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl is the best game in existence. True fax.

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    should i install anything before i play it? i haven't touched it since release

  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky Tails, You're my realest friend.Registered User regular
    At minimum, Zone Reclamation Project is a must.

    Kochikens wrote: »
    oh man I saw an otter with a boner at the seattle one and this kid asked his dad, IS HE EATING A HOT DOG
    and I laughed forever
  • PharezonPharezon Struggle is an illusion. Victory is in the Qun.Registered User regular
    should i install anything before i play it? i haven't touched it since release

    Oh, man. That's a good question. There are a shit load of different comprehensive mods. Hold on.

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky Tails, You're my realest friend.Registered User regular
    AMK is the currently most popular SoC overhaul mod.

    Kochikens wrote: »
    oh man I saw an otter with a boner at the seattle one and this kid asked his dad, IS HE EATING A HOT DOG
    and I laughed forever
  • NikolaiNikolai HHHEHEHE That one tasted purpleRegistered User regular
    Haha yeah thats actually a pretty tall order. There are a shit ton of stalker mods.

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  • CptKemzikCptKemzik Registered User regular
    I dunno if it has been mentioned already, but one game that genuinely scared me at several points is Vampire: Bloodlines.

    The hotel, prosthetic limb manufacturer, and snuff film/sewer segments all literally gave me an (admittedly mild) adrenaline rush.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO WHY HAVE YOU SUMMONED ME? Registered User regular
    the Shalebridge Cradle level in Thief: Deadly Shadows is really damn scary.

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