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Samsally
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Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 12:21 pm Post subject: |
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Yinello wrote: | I watched half an hour of Bravely Default on YToob and found it hard to get past the huge walls of explanation. I hope it gets better later on. |
Oh yeah there are a lot of words.
A huge chunk of them are pretty easy to skim through, though, and they don't -force- you to listen to the dialog or wait for the balloon to go away on its own so I've just been zipping through most of it. _________________ Samsally the GrayAce |
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WheelsOfConfusion

Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 14324 Location: Unknown Kaddath
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Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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People still play Ocarina of Time, despite the neverending tutorialness. |
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Samsally
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Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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That game is -still- probably my favorite of all time, so maybe I just have a high tolerance. _________________ Samsally the GrayAce |
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DeD CHiKn

Joined: 03 Aug 2006 Posts: 10229 Location: Baltimore, Maryla*gunshot*
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Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 6:44 am Post subject: |
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WheelsOfConfusion wrote: | People still play Ocarina of Time, despite the neverending tutorialness. |
"Do you want to hear that again?"
Default option is "Yes" |
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Arc Tempest
Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 5316 Location: Oregon
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Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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Going through the Mass Effect trilogy as George RR Shepard.
Dear god I never realized how many side characters you can just plain murder in cold blood.
Also: male shep voice actor guy really doesn't hold a candle to Jennifer Hale, does he? _________________ The older I get, the more certain I become of one thing. True and abiding cynicism is simply a form of cowardice. |
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WheelsOfConfusion

Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 14324 Location: Unknown Kaddath
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Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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Humble Indie Bundle 11!
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dream
Dust: An Elysian Tale
Guacamelee Gold Edition
The Swapper
+ soundtracks!
Pay more than the average (less than $5 currently) and get Antechamber and Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine + their soundtracks! |
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Felgraf
Joined: 10 Jul 2012 Posts: 734
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Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 4:15 am Post subject: |
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Though I already own it, that bundle is worth it for Dust *ALONE*.
I seriously have difficulty fathoming that entire game was made almost entirely by *one dude*. _________________ "No, but evil is still being --Is having reason-- Being reasonable! Mousie understands? Is always being reason. Is punishing world for not being... Like in head. Is always reason. World should be different, is reason."
-Ed, from Digger |
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DeD CHiKn

Joined: 03 Aug 2006 Posts: 10229 Location: Baltimore, Maryla*gunshot*
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Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 7:44 am Post subject: |
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Arc Tempest wrote: | Also: male shep voice actor guy really doesn't hold a candle to Jennifer Hale, does he? |
False.
Mark Meer hams it up consistently, but unless your femshep is a pure renegade she is just commander mumbles. Hale is best when she's being a snarky bitch. Actually in ME3 I think Meer knocks the whole performance out of the park in comparison to Hale.
On that note, I have never lost a member to the suicide mission in ME2 until this play through. Watching Miranda claw at Shepard before falling limp after being crushed by a sheet of metal was kind of traumatizing. There goes my 15% increased damage for the after credit DLCs. |
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WheelsOfConfusion

Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 14324 Location: Unknown Kaddath
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Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 8:46 am Post subject: |
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Felgraf wrote: | Though I already own it, that bundle is worth it for Dust *ALONE*.
I seriously have difficulty fathoming that entire game was made almost entirely by *one dude*. |
I pretty much bought it for Dust and Giana Sisters.
The chance to buy the whole bundle early and get everything for >5$ is nice, and especially since some new content will be added to it on Tuesday for everybody who pays or already paid above the average price. |
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Yinello

Joined: 09 May 2012 Posts: 3463
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 2:00 am Post subject: |
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Guild Wars 2's escape from Lion's Arch patch is really awesome. I love it. |
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Samsally
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 11:32 am Post subject: |
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Bravely Default is super wordy as hell. I don't think it's gunna get past that, I think it just is.
It does have some cool features though. Like you can 'auto' which just repeats the same moves over and over again for you until you turn it off, which combines super well with the ability to fast forward battles.
Additionally, you can just pick how often you get random encounters, everywhere from not at all to twice the normal amount. So if you forgot to explore a little nook in a dungeon you can just flip it off for a while and run and grab it without crying your way through thirty minutes of low level mobs that take forever.
The story line is super sketchy so far, though. Like, there was one part that involved actual children getting murdered. Plus aaaaall the sexism ever. The sexism usually gets called out, but the sexist characters' behaviors never really change.
Just got done with a storyline that was like "sure your sexist party member is kind of a dirtbag but LOOK AT HOW AMAZING HE IS COMPARED TO THIS FULL BLOWN MISOGYNIST SHITHEAD that literally calls women tools and kills them off when they stop being useful!! Now aren't you grateful he's not that bad?" and that kind of horrifies me a lot. _________________ Samsally the GrayAce |
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Heretical Rants

Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Posts: 5344 Location: No.
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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WheelsOfConfusion wrote: | People still play Ocarina of Time, despite the neverending tutorialness. |
I didn't! That was one of the ones I gave up on.
whheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee~ _________________ butts |
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Darqcyde

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 11917 Location: A false vacuum abiding in ignorance.
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Yinello

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Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 3:44 am Post subject: |
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Darq, what the hell happened to your avatar. |
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Heretical Rants

Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Posts: 5344 Location: No.
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Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 10:26 am Post subject: |
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Yinello wrote: | Darq, what the hell happened to your avatar. |
whether it's stretched to all hell depends on which browser you're using to look at it
my guess is that some size attributes got changed without actually scaling the image (or vice versa), but I am too lazy to actually verify that
EDIT: never mind, one browser had just been showing me a cached version or something
it appears to be intentional
which isn't very considerate, darq
image blocked, woo _________________ butts |
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