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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    the appeal of later AC games has been less about the challenging combat mechanics and more about the wow factor at all the cool stuff I can do

    this isn't an excuse, there's no reason why they shouldn't have both (like Batman)

    but it's still got a draw factor even if many of the enemy engagement mechanics have been simplified into irrelevence

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited March 2014
    like

    the AC series started out as a stealth game

    then it shifted into an action game

    and now it's a bastardized mish-mash of conflicting visions and gameplay mechanics

    I really hope Unity streamlines a lot of the stuff from past games instead of just putting them in "because they were there before", and basically present a cohesive independant vision

    Indie Winter on
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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    Dear Giant Bomb Thread:

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    What?

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    This is literally all I can think of

    Except it says Knight so

    Threesome with someone with knighthood?

    What the hell sign

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  • DiarmuidDiarmuid Amazing Meatball Registered User regular
    That's an ominous 'K'.

  • XehalusXehalus Registered User regular
    edited March 2014
    teach your kids how to communicate with other people while you eat greasy chicken

    Xehalus on
  • XehalusXehalus Registered User regular
    honestly, I believe that is a discount gimmick they use to get people in the place

    but every Chick Fil A I see is always packed

  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    Mr. G wrote: »
    I dunno

    The whole thing is a faux comic book about superheroes

    I'm all for grey choices but every game doesn't have to have them

    I'm OK with this series being pretty black and white

    Yeah but I would at least like a somewhat plausible motivation to do the evil stuff

    in inFamous, you're just evil to be a dick to everyone

    Being a dick is completely plausible motivation

    I love the hard swings of Infamous choices, it's a nice break from "we're gonna try to make all these choices morally grey"

    Bring me back to KOTOR days where I kill literally everyone in my party

  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    And speaking of being a dick

    Deception IV is out this Tuesday, fuck yes

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Mr. G wrote: »
    I dunno

    The whole thing is a faux comic book about superheroes

    I'm all for grey choices but every game doesn't have to have them

    I'm OK with this series being pretty black and white

    Yeah but I would at least like a somewhat plausible motivation to do the evil stuff

    in inFamous, you're just evil to be a dick to everyone

    Being a dick is completely plausible motivation

    I love the hard swings of Infamous choices, it's a nice break from "we're gonna try to make all these choices morally grey"

    Bring me back to KOTOR days where I kill literally everyone in my party

    I'm planning on replaying infamous just to see the evil stuff. Not done that with a game in a while.

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    edited March 2014
    I want to like it more than I actually like it

    yeah this is assassin's creed in a nutshell for me

    I just can't get past how boring the combat is

    You have batman right there

    Jesus just pick up something more interesting

    i would say it's worth forcing your way through the early AC4 story up until you get a boat, then have fun with the actually-enjoyable ship combat and exploring the sea to get some value out of the product before returning it

    I needed anime to post. on
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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    I want to like it more than I actually like it

    yeah this is assassin's creed in a nutshell for me

    I just can't get past how boring the combat is

    You have batman right there

    Jesus just pick up something more interesting

    i would say it's worth forcing your way through the early AC4 story up until you get a boat, then have fun with the actually-enjoyable ship combat and exploring the sea to get some value out of the product before returning it

    Yeah I got there

    I hate the ship exploration more than the town exploration/combat

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    edited March 2014
    there you go then, that game has nothing for you

    e: well unless you like the MP

    I needed anime to post. on
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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    I want to like it more than I actually like it

    yeah this is assassin's creed in a nutshell for me

    I just can't get past how boring the combat is

    You have batman right there

    Jesus just pick up something more interesting

    i would say it's worth forcing your way through the early AC4 story up until you get a boat, then have fun with the actually-enjoyable ship combat and exploring the sea to get some value out of the product before returning it

    Yeah I got there

    I hate the ship exploration more than the town exploration/combat

    Then go trade it in

  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    I want to like it more than I actually like it

    yeah this is assassin's creed in a nutshell for me

    I just can't get past how boring the combat is

    You have batman right there

    Jesus just pick up something more interesting

    i would say it's worth forcing your way through the early AC4 story up until you get a boat, then have fun with the actually-enjoyable ship combat and exploring the sea to get some value out of the product before returning it

    Yeah I got there

    I hate the ship exploration more than the town exploration/combat

    Then go trade it in

    I bought it on steam

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    I want to like it more than I actually like it

    yeah this is assassin's creed in a nutshell for me

    I just can't get past how boring the combat is

    You have batman right there

    Jesus just pick up something more interesting

    i would say it's worth forcing your way through the early AC4 story up until you get a boat, then have fun with the actually-enjoyable ship combat and exploring the sea to get some value out of the product before returning it

    Yeah I got there

    I hate the ship exploration more than the town exploration/combat

    I just cannot get a read on you, man
    If we ever met I feel like I would have completely opposite reactions to you on a minute by minute basis

  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    I want to like it more than I actually like it

    yeah this is assassin's creed in a nutshell for me

    I just can't get past how boring the combat is

    You have batman right there

    Jesus just pick up something more interesting

    i would say it's worth forcing your way through the early AC4 story up until you get a boat, then have fun with the actually-enjoyable ship combat and exploring the sea to get some value out of the product before returning it

    Yeah I got there

    I hate the ship exploration more than the town exploration/combat

    Then go trade it in

    I bought it on steam

    Now we see the flaws inherent in the glorious digital future

  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    I want to like it more than I actually like it

    yeah this is assassin's creed in a nutshell for me

    I just can't get past how boring the combat is

    You have batman right there

    Jesus just pick up something more interesting

    i would say it's worth forcing your way through the early AC4 story up until you get a boat, then have fun with the actually-enjoyable ship combat and exploring the sea to get some value out of the product before returning it

    Yeah I got there

    I hate the ship exploration more than the town exploration/combat

    I just cannot get a read on you, man
    If we ever met I feel like I would have completely opposite reactions to you on a minute by minute basis

    I'll bring you my extra act 2 poster to buy your affection

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    To be fair this is my fault

    I hated the overworld in Wind Waker so I probably should have seen this coming

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    Personally AC4 is my favorite in the series, my favorite game of 2013 by a considerable degree, and reinvigorated my faith in a franchise I was about to give up on

    Bring on Unity and whatever the PS3/360 one is

    I'm ready again

  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    Speaking of AC

    That con I went to yesterday

    So many Assassin's Creed cosplayers there

    The curious bit? With the exception of one Ezio and one Edward-inspired Assassin, they were all Connors

  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Gotta rep that tomahawk

  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    I've been wanting to back and give AC3 another run through

    Maybe during the summer lull this year

  • MikeLLMikeLL What it do NEPHEW? Registered User regular
    I guess my main complaint with the length of Infamous: Second Son is I felt like the story was a bit rushed along. I would have appreciated a few more missions with the other characters to get to know them better.
    And I didn't enjoy most of the missions leading up to the end. Also, while I think getting a new power set during the final battle was kind of a neat idea, I would have appreciated much more getting to use those powers before I'd finished the game.

  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Disaster averted I'm just playing dark souls again

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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
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    when is lightswitch simulator coming out

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    I thought Gone Home was already out?

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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    look at this thing he made!

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    Those guns he made from scratch and then cast them!

    Here is the underside
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    The note that arrived with it.
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  • TasteticleTasteticle Registered User regular
    I am really enjoying the new Infamous

    Its is a blast to play, and may have one of the best representations of a Native American tribe I have yet seen in a game

    That said I am only about 50% through it, maybe something terrible will happen who knows


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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    I thought Gone Home was already out?

    Yes but not the nexjen version on consoles

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Hey you know what's cool? I thought I posted that in the 40k thread. My appologies.

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Man it is rad as hell regardless

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  • XehalusXehalus Registered User regular
    I have burnt out on "good" playthroughs

    everyone dies, no one lives

    unless they're cool

  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    Going Good feels much more narratively appropriate for Delsin.

    I mean, I'll do an evil play through afterward, but I expect it to be a bit jarring.

  • XehalusXehalus Registered User regular
    when every plot is "stop A from causing B' or "A was secretly B" or "X died so now I have to be X"

    I just can't

    now I'm going to use your game as a stress reliever by repeatedly firing magic at anyone and everything unless I like their character design and voice actor

  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    Like, the overall story is whatever. Game stories are kind of bad, this is news to literally nobody.

    But the characters that inhabit that story are still by and large pretty likable.

  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    Second Son actually has super likable, well-done characters

    That is a first for inFamous

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  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    Maddoc wrote: »
    Like, the overall story is whatever. Game stories are kind of bad, this is news to literally nobody.

    But the characters that inhabit that story are still by and large pretty likable.

    that is a big ol' sweeping generalization

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  • Der Waffle MousDer Waffle Mous Blame this on the misfortune of your birth. New Yark, New Yark.Registered User regular
    edited March 2014
    Oh, christ.

    Peace Walker.
    There is hells of tone whiplash in this game.

    You spend like half an hour in cutscenes ruminating on nuclear deterrence and some weirdly (for MGS) mundane story twists. Some actually pretty intense drama about avoiding a nuclear war in the tradition of Fail-Safe or Wargames.

    And then bam! Butterflies everywhere and now you're facing off with the AI ghost of your mentor.

    Kojima

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  • David_TDavid_T A fashion yes-man is no good to me. Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered User regular
    Mr. G wrote: »
    Second Son actually has super likable, well-done characters

    That is a first for inFamous

    Reggie is a super likable stick-in-the-mud character.

    That may be a first for all of vidjagames.

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