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Patrick Klepek Appreciation Station

Ms DapperMs Dapper Yuri LibrarianRegistered User regular
edited January 2013 in Social Entropy++
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This thread is all about the great journalist Patrick "Tricky Scoops" Klepek.

He's a rock god.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnhZrc58FYw

He hosted a pretty cool game jam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_HlwEcN0rk

Also he likes to play with Japanese toilets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9cEZc8VZ5o

Here's a list of Patrick articles I think are real good. (Not going to link the ones with massive spoilers in them.)

48 Hours Later: Thoughts on the MolyJam

$1.6 Million and counting.

A Day Late And $28 Short

Politics, The Third Rail of Gaming

On Games, Reviews, And Criticism: Part 1, Part 2

The Humans Are Dead, Long Live the Beasts

Eight Women, Eight Responses, and One Dead Island Riptide Statue

Also he's part of some personality driven gaming website or something. I think it's called Game Bomb.

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    UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    I LOVE PATRICK KLEPEK

    I know I do that for my first post in every GB thread but

    I LOVE THIS THREAD

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    -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    Video games are all right.

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    UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    -Tal wrote: »
    Video games are all right.

    Bullshit

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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
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    i can die happy now i think

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    DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    I bought mario picross on the 3ds virtual store and realized that I basically have a better version on my phone for free (it's not, like, LITERALLY mario's picross)

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    PonyPony Registered User regular
    i can listen to ryan davis laugh forever

    it soothes me

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    JarsJars Registered User regular
    edited January 2013
    I got a regular 3ds. I'd rather have it be more portable.

    anyways both fire emblem and etrian odyssey 4 come out in february. I've still got steam games left to play! but I have almost finished VLR.

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    StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    So I started up Uncharted 1 and decided to play on Normal. I thought, "The combat probably isn't as bad as I remember it."

    An hour later...

    Nope. It is exactly as bad as I remember it. TIME FOR EASY MODE!

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    UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    I love Uncharted 1 so much

    I love the combat a lot

    Playing it on the highest difficulty was like a combat puzzle

    Which is something people say about Halo but I never quite got that from Halo?

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    StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    I guess I could see them as combat puzzles if so many of the battles didn't rely on more enemies spawning from the ether.

    At that point it's less like a puzzle and more like trial-and-error plus rote memorization.

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    StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    Let's give this thread the REAL Klepek experience and have it mimick the comments of his articles.
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    MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    i did not like the first uncharted. i liked the things it was trying, but i don't think it closed the deal on many of them.

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    UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    I can't think of a single game where waves of enemies don't come from specific points

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    StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    UnbreakableVow wrote: »
    I can't think of a single game where waves of enemies don't come from specific points

    Mark of the Ninja

    Every Splinter Cell

    And basically any game where you could consider the combat to be a "puzzle."

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    simulacrumsimulacrum She/herRegistered User regular
    edited January 2013
    Give those monkeys fedoras and you'll have a more accurate picture.

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    HyperAquaBlastHyperAquaBlast Registered User regular
    I only play Uncharteds on easy. Just wanna watch my modern interactive Indiana Jones movie.

    Still haven't beat the third one cause fuck its hard even on easy!

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    StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    Besides, the point is not that "oh no, this game uses spawning enemies!"

    The point is that--if it really is meant to be a combat puzzle--having enemies spawn from points that you'd have no way of predicting without trying and dying first is bad puzzle design. You could plan out your initial strike really well, but then enemies spawn behind you and just destroy you. What defense do you have against that besides a) being lucky or b) memorizing that spawn and trying again?

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    StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    Oh, I forgot another example of a really good "combat puzzle game" that doesn't use enemy spawns.

    Hotline Miami

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    OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    Uncharted 1 had such a bullshit difficulty curve

    And FUCK the jetski segments CHRIST were those awful

    And all the sixaxis bullshit...

    Basically that game exists to make Uncharted 2 look even more impressive than it would in a vacuum

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    UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    The jetski stuff was great!

    You guys are crazy

    Though yeah, the Sixaxis stuff was dumb

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    JarsJars Registered User regular
    seriously

    one month until EO4

    I'm preeeeetty stoked

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    UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    EO4...?

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    HyperAquaBlastHyperAquaBlast Registered User regular
    Eterian Odyssey 4 I am guessing.

    The RPGs sounded cool cept for the draw your own map feature. Is that an option or something you gotta do?

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    StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    edited January 2013
    Also, there's a story-thing that weirder me out this time that I didn't remember thinking was off my first time through.

    (Really early-game Uncharted 1 spoilers)
    So after you explore the U-boat, Sully is shot and--as far as Drake can tell-killed.

    This is a guy who has been Drake's closest friend for many years.

    He was just shot dead in front of him.

    And Drake just goes back to his normal wise-cracking attitude, like, five minutes later, his only display of grief being a typical "I'm gonna kill the dude that did this!" line.

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    TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    I love patrick

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    UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    He can't be a wise-cracking Indiana Jones type if he's just moody and upset the whole game

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    PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    Any gaming I do in the next couple months is just killing time until BioShock Infinite.

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    TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    five days until sonic racing transformed hits steam yay!

    shut up, I care

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    UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    Poorochondriac wrote: »
    Any gaming I do in the next couple months is just killing time until BioShock Infinite.

    Same!

    Except Tomb Raider instead of BioShock

    Also I probably should have played some Ni no Kuni today instead of Sleeping Dogs, seeing as that's a game I've already beaten the hell out of

    But it's so good

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    JarsJars Registered User regular
    the map is required. it's a throwback to the old days when you used to play old rpgs with a pad of graph paper.

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    ZayZay yes i am zay Registered User regular
    vinny

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    StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    edited January 2013
    UnbreakableVow wrote: »
    He can't be a wise-cracking Indiana Jones type if he's just moody and upset the whole game

    Yeah, but
    In that case, why even bother "killing" Sully? The player has only known him for half an hour, so I don't give a shit.

    And Drake himself doesn't really seem to give much of a shit either.

    There's just no emotional weight at all to that scene, which is especially weird when you get more context on Drake and Sully's relationship in 2 and 3.

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    AshcroftAshcroft LOL The PayloadRegistered User regular
    Drake knows he is in a videogame. It explains every crazy thing he does.

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    Ms DapperMs Dapper Yuri Librarian Registered User regular
    When is Hotline Miami coming out on Mac? Because when it comes out I am cancelling everything.

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    StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    Also Uncharted is making me really hope that Tomb Raider turns out to be good.

    Because it looks like it could be great.

    But I just can't shake this worry.

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    Death of RatsDeath of Rats Registered User regular
    So tell me about these Vinnys

    No I don't.
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    Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    Patrick Klepek is literally the holocaust

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    AistanAistan Tiny Bat Registered User regular
    The best thing about Patrick, I think, is just how well he fits in with all the other guys there. There he is, a then-26 year-old kid, joining a team that has known each other and been working in the industry together for more than a decade. And he does fine.

    More than fine, really, since he fits a role that none of the others there can cover well, and does it quite well in my opinion.

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    UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    Stilts wrote: »
    Also Uncharted is making me really hope that Tomb Raider turns out to be good.

    Because it looks like it could be great.

    But I just can't shake this worry.

    At the very least, it'll be interesting

    Every time they "reinvent" Tomb Raider, it's always interesting, even if it doesn't turn out particularly well

    People shit all over Angel of Darkness, perhaps rightly so, but you could tell they actually tried changing it up severely with that game

    And Tomb Raider Legend is straight up one of my favorite games ever

    That newest trailer has me so damn excited

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    No Great NameNo Great Name FRAUD DETECTED Registered User regular
    Vinny was here, patrick smells

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