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[E3 Thread] - Video Games are still a thing?

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    What's NMA

  • 3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    What's NMA

    Nine Men Allowed

    for 9 rings, you see

  • mxmarksmxmarks Registered User regular
    When I got a PS3 one of the first games I bought was Ni No Ni Kuni and I was so, so bored by it I never finished it.

    Reading that Ni No Ni Kuni 2 spoiler...should...should I go back and wrap that up or what

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  • rhylithrhylith Death Rabbits Registered User regular
    mxmarks wrote: »
    When I got a PS3 one of the first games I bought was Ni No Ni Kuni and I was so, so bored by it I never finished it.

    Reading that Ni No Ni Kuni 2 spoiler...should...should I go back and wrap that up or what

    Nah. I don’t think the sequel has much to do at all with the original.

  • KetBraKetBra Dressed Ridiculously Registered User regular
    edited May 2018
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    What's NMA

    No Mutants Allowed

    Fallout 3 wrecked Fallout, etc.

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  • KnightKnight Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    Shorty wrote: »
    Peas wrote: »
    I just watched Kingdom heart 3 trailer
    Am I the only one who thinks that it actually looks really bad

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrMr4iZPFz8

    i watch this video literally every time it's posted and it's just as funny every time.

    i love it so.

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  • vagrant_windsvagrant_winds Overworked Mysterious Eldritch Horror Hunter XX Registered User regular
    rhylith wrote: »
    RT800 wrote: »
    Ehhh... I'm sure it's a fine game and all, but I don't really do JRPGs. Not anymore, anyway.

    But what if I told you that
    The main character is the President of the United States who, upon getting hit with a nuclear bomb on his way to a UN peace summit, awakens in a fantastical realm and saves a young catboy king from assassination by shooting a mouse man with a fucking gun.

    Welp, I just bought the game now.

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    edited May 2018
    Kwoaru wrote: »
    What is rust

    Oxidation of metal, typically used specifically to describe oxidation of iron. It is characterized by the metal becoming reddish in color and extremely brittle, eventually crumbling entirely

    Don’t make up words, please.

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    KetBra wrote: »
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    What's NMA

    No Mutants Allowed

    Fallout 3 wrecked Fallout, etc.

    For some of them Fallout 2 wrecked Fallout.

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    edited May 2018
    Drez wrote: »
    Kwoaru wrote: »
    What is rust

    Oxidation of metal, typically used specifically to describe oxidation of iron. It is characterized by the metal becoming reddish in color and extremely brittle, eventually crumbling entirely

    Don’t make up words, please.

    All words are made up.

    Well, maybe not onomatopoeias.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    I’ll need more info on Sonic Team Racing

    If it’s just Sonic and his friends, I don’t care

    I wanna play as NiGHTS and Ulala again

  • WassermeloneWassermelone Registered User regular
    edited May 2018
    It always weirds me out when people complain that the world of fallout isn't realistically green and lush

    ... There's giant mutants, glowing ghouls, deathclaws, glowing soda, floating robots, everything looks like it was designed in the 50s, and people literally carry handheld nukes

    Realism was never on the table! It's a wasteland fantasy, not 'well akschyully in Chernobyl nature thrived'

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  • Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    I wonder if the new fallout will feature skeletons in bathtubs

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Was anyone here complaining about Fallout's lack of realism

  • WassermeloneWassermelone Registered User regular
    edited May 2018
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Was anyone here complaining about Fallout's lack of realism

    It's a really popular mod and a pretty common discussion about fallout 4

    Someone mentioned it a oage back but I'm not specifically saying this about a discussion anyone is having here

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited May 2018
    The issue with the lack of greenery isn't that it isn't realistic. It is that it is boring and played out by now even within just the Fallout franchise. It isn't more post-apocalyptic to have no greenery instead of nature reclaiming buildings and plants slowly destroying humanity's past

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  • ProhassProhass Registered User regular
    I like the toxic burnt out hellscape asthetic, but I can understand people who want something more like last of us.

    Also Fallout 4 is one of my all time favourite games so maybe I'm broken or something

  • ZxerolZxerol for the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't do so i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered User regular
    Couscous wrote: »
    The issue with the lack of greenery isn't that it isn't realistic. It is that it is boring and played out by now even within just the Fallout franchise. It isn't more post-apocalyptic to have no greenery instead of nature reclaiming buildings and plants slowly destroying humanity's past

    This is one of things that I appreciated about Horizon Zero Dawn.

  • WassermeloneWassermelone Registered User regular
    edited May 2018
    I mean sure play with the mod and I'm all for variety in other games. I do think the reason some people give is silly (the realism argument)

    But I wouldn't call it played out, it's part of the 50s retro aspect. Moving on from that would be changing a core visual aspect of Fallout's identity. It would be like Mad Max in a jungle. Or Star Wars without space. Neon green wasteland IS part of Fallout

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited May 2018
    I mean sure play with the mod

    But I wouldn't call it played out, it's part of the 50s retro aspect. Moving on from that would be changing a core visual aspect of Fallout's identity. It would be like Mad Max in a jungle. Or Star Wars without space. Neon green wasteland IS part of Fallout

    How? Most of the 1950s nuclear holocaust films didn't take place in irradiated wastelands where nothing grew. That is mostly a Mad Max thing and even then it was mostly because it took place in a specific part of Australia.

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited May 2018
    Horizons world is really fucking cool looking. The people crack me up, though. It was like everyone was at some renn fest I've never heard of. I tried playing it some recently and the combat really bored me after playing God of War. The actual environments, graphical fidelity, and story really was good in my opinion.

    As for fallout. I didn't really care for 4 all that much. I don't know if I was burned out on Bethesda games when I played it but it didn't really click with me. I'm personally not looking forward to their take on a multi-player survival game if this is what 76 is.

    Elder Scrolls 6 couldn't come fast enough at this point.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    I think you can figure out a way to retain a quintessentially Fallout visual style and still make changes to show this world hasn't been sitting in its own trash for 200 years
    New things can be made. Humans, for all their flaws, are fanatic about making new shit. You can hire artists who can design new things that still look like they were cobbled together in a wasteland. I bet that would be fun

    But 4 games of the same ugly-ass trash style is boring

  • WassermeloneWassermelone Registered User regular
    Couscous wrote: »
    I mean sure play with the mod

    But I wouldn't call it played out, it's part of the 50s retro aspect. Moving on from that would be changing a core visual aspect of Fallout's identity. It would be like Mad Max in a jungle. Or Star Wars without space. Neon green wasteland IS part of Fallout

    How? Most of the 1950s nuclear holocaust films didn't take place in irradiated wastelands where nothing grew. That is mostly a Mad Max thing and even then it was mostly because it took place in a specific part of Australia.

    Alright not 50s

    But its certainly part of its retro thing. Same sort of genre as Radioactive Man from the Simpsons or the Gamma World roleplaying setting.

  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    Vault City was fresh and new and clean and wonderful if you could pass the citizenship tests.

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Couscous wrote: »
    I mean sure play with the mod

    But I wouldn't call it played out, it's part of the 50s retro aspect. Moving on from that would be changing a core visual aspect of Fallout's identity. It would be like Mad Max in a jungle. Or Star Wars without space. Neon green wasteland IS part of Fallout

    How? Most of the 1950s nuclear holocaust films didn't take place in irradiated wastelands where nothing grew. That is mostly a Mad Max thing and even then it was mostly because it took place in a specific part of Australia.

    Alright not 50s

    But its certainly part of its retro thing. Same sort of genre as Radioactive Man from the Simpsons or the Gamma World roleplaying setting.
    I mean that's because they are specifically going for the Mad Max Wasteland aesthetic

    There are loads of ways to do a post apocalyptic nuclear world besides RUINED BUILDINGS, DIRT, SCRAP TOWNS

    Have one set in the fuckin Pacific Northwest where the forests have mutated and become crazy radioactive nightmares and the people have become primarily sea faring folks due to the danger posed on land

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    The vaults themselves are a nice excuse to have nice non-salvaged buildings alongside groups still living in bombed out buildings. The GECK lets them create nice livable places. The bombed out areas can have a combination of patched up old world buildings, some basic new buildings from stuff like lumber, and some basic new buildings from stuff like various scrap metal lying along the place.

  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    Couscous wrote: »
    I mean sure play with the mod

    But I wouldn't call it played out, it's part of the 50s retro aspect. Moving on from that would be changing a core visual aspect of Fallout's identity. It would be like Mad Max in a jungle. Or Star Wars without space. Neon green wasteland IS part of Fallout

    How? Most of the 1950s nuclear holocaust films didn't take place in irradiated wastelands where nothing grew. That is mostly a Mad Max thing and even then it was mostly because it took place in a specific part of Australia.

    Alright not 50s

    But its certainly part of its retro thing. Same sort of genre as Radioactive Man from the Simpsons or the Gamma World roleplaying setting.

    Cover for the first Gamma World book:
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  • WassermeloneWassermelone Registered User regular
    edited May 2018
    Christ I know there are other ways to do post apocalyptic

    You can even do it in Fallout as a spice/occasional relief to the motif

    But the main aesthetic is probably going to remain toxic wasteland because thats part of the brand. Glowing green ooze, goofy mutated giant bugs etc

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  • ProhassProhass Registered User regular
    edited May 2018
    Yeah I mean there's clean areas, like the initiative, growth in some areas for story reasons, but for good or ill the aesthetic is Derelicte. Like its a style choice that people live in shanty towns and such, I don't think it's going anywhere, realistic or not.

    And while I totally understand being bored of that, I still love it and it still has its fans.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited May 2018
    Fallout 2 literally started in a forested area. Modoc, Gecko, Klamath, and Navarro have a good number of trees that are doing fine. There are various farms and cattle ranchers.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Yeah I don't mean to tell anyone who is a fan that they shouldn't be
    I've just personally had about as much fun as I'm ever going to in that world and if Bethesda doesn't have any interest in moving that setting forward then I'll just sit on my hands til the next Elder Scrolls

  • ProhassProhass Registered User regular
    My interest in 76 really depends on how much is pve v pvp. I'm not really interested in pvp gameplay, but a coop style pve game with missions and building with friends would be awesome

  • PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    What if they clean everything up, but everything still smells bad, and they give up?

  • CelloCello Registered User regular
    I think that's why I remember the buildings in New Vegas more fondly than 3 or 4

    They had a unique feel to them thanks to the lighting and visual design and weren't just abandoned scrap

    I try to remember anything about the design of 4 and it's essentially the floating ship, and uh, how some of it looked like Boston that one time I visited?

    I definitely remember feeling disappointed that the one big city shows up so early on and that that was it for large settlements; one of the fun things about large open worlds for me is basically being a tourist and seeing new towns, and it was just like......oh.

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  • RT800RT800 Registered User regular
    edited May 2018
    I don't remember all that much about Fallout 4.

    It just... wasn't as interesting to explore as the previous two games. It was definitely a better shooter, but that's about it.

    Fallout: New Vegas was the best RPG of the three though (I'm not considering the Interplay series, since I've never played them). Obsidian actually took the time to include various checks throughout the game to make your choice of perks and character stats seem like they mattered. All your SPECIAL did in 4 it seemed was arbitrarily block off various perks.

    New Vegas also had better story, dialogue, and characters.

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  • KwoaruKwoaru Registered User regular
    It wouldn't kill people in fallout to patch their roof/walls

    Keeping the rain out is some basic shelter functionality and most fallout homes cant do it despite being occupied for decades

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    According to the Fallout Bible, Fallout 1 was gonna have an area of lush, beautiful green that was inhabited by hyper-intelligent FEV enhanced raccoons.

  • RT800RT800 Registered User regular
    Also they could get rid of the 300-year-old corpses.

    Seriously I'm supposed to believe you live here and just never bothered to get rid of the skeleton in the bedroom?

  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    really at the end of the day it's the skeletons that are the weirdest part

    sure be too tired to clean up most things but that's a dead body

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited May 2018
    Fallout 3 and 4 didn't really have much of a sense of going from more settled to less settled but still not very dangerous to here be raiders to here be where the raiders don't dare to go.

    The result is skeletons pretty close to settled areas, people going about their business right next to raiders, people not getting murdered in super mutant infested areas, trash everywhere where you would expect people to clean up, etc. I get that it all being on the same map means they can't do what Fallout 1 and 2 did, but other open world games with one giant map have done it better.

    Like would it have killed them to have that ghoul kid stuck in a refrigerator farther from his ghoul parents?

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