[BotageL]

[Vikram Ray]

[8128]

[Marshmallow]

[Mikey]

[Marshmallow]

Yes my favourite part of the game is the fetch quests, the dungeons just get in the way of the fetching

[Ymer]

[seven]

[halken]

*strawberry cubes has been added to the list*

Onto Valkyria Chronciles.

I'm gonna finish it this time guys I swear!!

[The King]

Zero is the correct way to play X4 the first time.
It feels like it's designed around him, not X.

I like X4. It let's you bring a robot suit to a boss fight.
Zero gaining new moves by defeating bosses is a nice variation on the Megaman formula.
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[Raziel]

[ionustron]

I keep forgetting about FJORDS ;.; I need to play that at some point

[The Blueberry Hill]

[Rud31]

[mauve]

[GrimmSweeper]

So Dark Days Ahead: Cataclysm. It's one of those rogue-like games in the same vein as that Norwegian open-world 'live like a native' UnReal World except settled in a universe similar to Dead Rising except with further problems than just zombies. There are things like fungal blooms transforming the landscape, triffids stalking around in the deep wilderness, C.H.U.D.S. living in the sewers, military scientists tinkering with zombies to make them untiring bionic soldiers, militarized robots gone haywire, portals to horrible places sending out monstrosities, and the natural wildlife (moose will ruin you in the first few days if you get too close). And you! You're potentially a bigger blight to "somewhere in New England" than anything there.

So it has all the interface intricacies that you'd expect from a rogue-like. Tonnes of starting classes and scenarios (Really Bad Day has you waking up in a house situated in the middle of a zombie-infested town that just caught on fire, you are fighting a cold plus zombie infection and you're either a meth-head coming down from a high or someone wearing only a towel). It also involves a fairly deep skill tree that eventually has you capable of installing your own bionics including replacing an arm with a fusion cannon or cobbling together a death-mobile out of semi-operable wrecks scattered around the towns. And drugs for temporary stat boosts and "fun" times so long as your supply holds out.

But first you have to survive! That could mean scurrying from house to house to scavenge any useful items, smashing broken up furniture with rocks and whittling cudgels and pointy sticks, or journeying into the forest to hunt critters and searching through brush/trees for food. This early game is pretty short once you have a grasp of what you're doing and potential shortcuts and then you're pretty much free to explore and make your own goals.

It ate up a good week once I sat down and puzzled out the interface. I eventually made a scaled up version of a Formula 1 car with the front wing replaced with rollers and spikes. It also dragged along a solar panel array so I didn't have to rely on siphoning gas to get places. It could only safely reach 60 KM/H even with three large electric motors and was too big to really navigate around town's wrecks but perfect for getting to the outskirts of such places. The spikes and rollers would knock over any incidental brush or animal (or zombie) in the way with minimal damage. Then I could park it out of harm's way, take a foldable bike out of storage and use that to scavenge museums, libraries for skill books and the occasional gun store.

[Mikey]

Does anyone else feel like Super Mario 3D Land feels kind of slow compared to 64/Sunshine/Galaxy? Even holding down the run button Mario seems a bit pokey.

[kiken]

This past Saturday we held a DC/MD/VA shmupmeet. We played the following throughout the day:
Batsugun (Saturn)
Mushihime-sama Futari ver 1.5 (PCB)
Armored Police Batrider (PCB)
Strikers 1945 + (MVS)
Metal Slug (MVS)
Pulstar (MVS)
Gaia Seed (PS1 emu on PS3)
Gunbird (Saturn)
Shock Troopers 2nd Squad (MVS)
Magician Lord (AES emu on PS3)
Operation Ragnarok/ZedBlade (MVS)
ESPGaluda II (PCB)
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[Broco]

[Drem]

[Ni Go Zero Ichi]

Started playing Deus Ex: HR for the Wii U.

So far (very early on) the writing is less cringeworthy than I had been expecting.

The Gamepad HUD showing up one icon at a time over the course of Jensen's operation/the opening credits sequence is a nice touch.
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Just another savage day on Planet Earth.

[end of the world]

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[notbov]

[Felix]

I tried playing the beta a week ago and the servers were down then too

[kiken]

[bort]

I'm really shitty at them and don't know much at all about 'em, but also endoftheworld and Drem told me that you are a true master... not to put you on the spot but I wanna see an expert explode things. So... I'm interested too!

[CubaLibre]

Yeah I will come to heckle.
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Let's Play, starring me.

[Drem]

There are probably enough of us around the DMV that we could just do an SB meetup even though it's irresponsible for me to say this when I don't actually have the room to host such a thing myself.

[Ni Go Zero Ichi]

So I vaguely recalled there being some controversy surrounding Deus Ex: HR due to what I had thought was a black prostitute character who talks like Jar-Jar Binks, which I was kind of morbidly anticipating, only to be disappointed (and mildly horrified) when I discovered that it's actually a hobo who talks like a female Stepin Fetchit.

Aside from the fact that "Letitia" sounds like she just stepped off of a 19th-century plantation and literally no other homeless people in the game (or, as far as I'm aware, 21st-century Detroit) talk like her... uh... mostly I'm kind of just wondering who's to blame for this. Did the voice actress come up with this voice? Or did someone actually write out that patois?

Also, I liked my half-remembered Jar-Jar version better.
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[Ni Go Zero Ichi]

[tiburon]

[Rud31]

You kind of played the best one (hi DJ!) already. As forum member and long time e-friend DeusJester (hi DJ!) currently works at TTG, well...I'm not sure how to finish that sentence.

Oh I can actually, why do all their PS3 ports run like computer punching way above it's processor speed?
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THERE ARE DEFINITELY WORSE VIDEO GAME PODCASTS

[parker]

the first walking dead one had parts where you do stuff like search places, scavenge items and supplies, nailing boards up, shooting guns at things, etc. then every game they made after that was just walking in a straight line from one dialogue choice to another, and the episodic format just seems to hinder them from being able to do anything meaningful or drastic with the choices
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[RobotRocker]

TWAU is also an outlier because they are using established characters from a long running series instead of the new characters they created for their other games. So if you read Fables before, you know what the main characters motivations are and it subconsiously worms its way into your head through the choices. I read it up to about the Fabletown War arc so playing the game I had to wrestle with "Well Bigby never did that in the comic so I guess he won't do it here" and some of the decisions with Colin were pointless if you knew what happened in the comics. It tells a great story compared to the majority of games even if you do feel railroaded

[tiburon]

[tiburon]

you can always designate one particular outcome of your choices as canon. but yeah i appreciate that it would have been a shitload of fucking work to make a branching narrative that actually branched. although that would really put it over the top.
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[Marshmallow]

Yeah, I had that problem plus the games just feel way too formulaic. I enjoyed the first season of Walking Dead, and was looking forward to the second, but after playing the first episode it felt way too much like more of the same and I quickly lost interest. I've had the same problem with all the other series I've played, too. Once you play through one, you start to really see all of the strings being pulled in the background.

Plus the way they treated that disabled character was really fucking gross and put me off anything else they've made.

[The King]

Oh Deer

It's so good.
Excellent music, excellent graphics, excellent game.

I'm getting closer to avoiding all the deer. I can get to the pyramids without hitting any, and I don't typically hit any in the final area.
SO CLOSE.

Soon the real challenge begins.
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[Mikey]

There's only been like, one difficult game in the whole series, though.

[Ni Go Zero Ichi]

I play Telltale games for the same reason that I might play a visual novel or read a comic book or watch an anime or play an RPG. "This vs. fine art" isn't really a fair comparison for any video game.

I'm glad that Telltale's games after TWD S1 dropped the attempts at "puzzle solving" and "exploration" to focus more on the dialogue trees because frankly that other stuff wasn't very good and it certainly wasn't the reason anyone was playing the game.

I feel like with each subsequent project Telltale is inching closer and closer to the illusion of choice becoming a reality so I hope they keep going in that direction. Lord knows it can't be easy, logistics-wise.
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