Ultimate Videogame Topic 3: The Next Generation
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Persona 5 was finally announced yesterday.
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I'm so happy that Umbrage is using an Elle Wood avatar again.- Iecerint
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It took me awhile to figure out that you guys weren't talking about some future continuity of the Mega Man X series of which I was unaware.In post 504, Gammagooey wrote:those are the best guesses
you did miss when reck was almost done with the game and said on our way home from crazy fire something like
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I think the writing is much better in New Vegas. Its main downside is that it was a totally broken game at launch.
It does have a different atmosphere than Fallout 3, though, so I could see someone liking Fallout 3 more if they really like the atmosphere.- Iecerint
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I think they patched that with Broken Steel.In post 525, hasdgfas wrote:
The Fallout 3 ending was incredibly frustrating for me becauseIn post 524, bv310 wrote:I didn't mind it, but it felt so out of place in the context of the narrative. I liked the Broken Steel ending slightly more.I couldn't send Fawkes when he's IMMUNE TO RADIATION.
Plus, it just felt like a very predictable, fairly boring story, while New Vegas was far more interesting to me.- Iecerint
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Fallout 3 has that "nothingness" feeling for me, and Skyrim also has this to a lesser extent, but New Vegas and Oblivion felt populated by some relatively memorable characters.
I still enjoyed Skyrim, though, and I liked Fallout 3 enough to soldier through the platinum PS3 trophy.- Iecerint
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Ah. Well, that's dumb, then. I think i sent inCharonwhen I did it that way, so that didn't come into play.
Fallout 3 has pretty terrible writing, anyway, so the awfulness of the ending doesn't seem so out-of-place to me. The only memorable part was the50s simulation segment, and maybe theconfrontation with Eden. And the opening hour is pretty strong.- Iecerint
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Agree with this. The quest with Harold really stands out. I didn't even find it til my 3rd or 4th playthrough.In post 541, Sotty7 wrote:I think I only played though Fallout 3's story twice. Once as a goodie once as a badie and never again. The main quest is the weakest point of that whole game. I used to love just exploring the whole map and finding little random things that would surprise me. That is pretty much where all my time went in that game.- Iecerint
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The Fade is my favorite part of DAO. I guess it's a long dungeon in the middle of a long dungeon, so I can understand the fatigue.
DA2 is so heartbreaking. So much promise, so much obvious lack of completion. The DA2 DLC is A++, too; it gives a sense of how it might have been if they'd had a proper schedule.- Iecerint
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Yeah, I like DA2, but I can't help but feel really sad while enjoying it. It's kind of like playing disc 2 of Xenogears, only a more extreme version of that, because in Xenogears your thoughts are pretty divided between FEELS and noticing that the cutscene started 2 hours ago.In post 564, Sudo_Nym wrote:I actually really like DA2, as well, I just think it really suffers in the comparison to the original. It's not a bad game, and it improves on some stuff, but it also cuts out a lot of the tactics and difficulty of the original. I have to agree, though, that Legacy especially demonstrates what Bioware could have done with the base game.- Iecerint
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I'm thinking of buying a PS4 soon for FFXIV and the Dynasty Warriors 8 mega-release thing. What are people's thoughts about, ye know, that.- Iecerint
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I think BG should be OK as long as you either play the Enhanced Edition or mod the original aggressively.
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Yeah, there's a big WHOAA moment about 3/4 of the way through BG that is casually spoiled super early in BG2. Also, you can import your BG character into BG2. I'd only start at BG2 if you know you don't want to bother with BG.
I meant it in the sense of, don't give up if it seems kind of aimless.- Iecerint
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The equivalent is not an obscenely muscular male avatar in a tank top holding a machine gun?- Iecerint
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Everyone likes an obscenely muscular male avatar in a tank top holding a machine gun!In post 868, zoraster wrote:
Now we know Iec's type? Or are you saying you agree? No fats, no fems, no Duke Nukems?In post 865, Iecerint wrote:The equivalent is not an obscenely muscular male avatar in a tank top holding a machine gun?- Iecerint
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Did anyone play the Escape From Horrorland adventure game that was released in 1996? It was a Goosebumps spin-off that some friends and I were really into and quoted from endlessly.
I just discovered that Isabella Rossellini was in it, which kind of startled me. She's probably a sex demon or something. I remember that Jeff Goldblum was Dracula.- Iecerint
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Whoa I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream is on Steam?- Iecerint
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Is it worth buying and playing through? I once stayed up all night reading a very colorfully-written summary of all of the scenarios, but I never played it myself.- Iecerint
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I'm totally buying it when the full PS4 version is released.- Iecerint
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I only have Dynasty Warriors 8 and Final Fantasy XIV. I mainly bought it to play FFXIV on something that isn't a PS3.- Iecerint
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I finally got the Walking Dead (iOS version). The thing near the start of Episode 3 really shocked me.- Iecerint
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I spent like 10 minutes trying to fix the fence with Mark in Episode 2, but it turned out it was just a glitch and I needed to restart.- Iecerint
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It's not too bad. Some movie scenes have some noticeable jerkiness and I've run into bugs once or twice and some scenes that require more precise touch recognition could be more responsive, but that's all. It's very playable. I only noticed the jerkiness after I read a negative review complaining that the port introduced the jerkiness.In post 1035, Oman wrote:There's an iOS version of walking dead? is it good/playable, I'd rather play that kind of game in bed rather than at my PC.- Iecerint
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In post 1141, Chevre wrote:I know there's a separate thread for it, but some of it is still spoilers to me, so I'm gonna post here that I finally got around to finishing The Walking Dead Season One. Here are my choices for all the episodes:
Spoiler: Chevre's Choices
If youdon't loot the car, does theStranger's origin story change?- Iecerint
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I liked the combat in DA2. The encounter design was terrible, but the combat itself in terms of ability usage felt really fluid. In DA3 it typically feels like too much of a hassle to use the tactical camera, but combat feels pretty boring if you don't micromanage a little bit.
I'm on my second DA3 playthrough now. Rogue Archer Nightmare run. It's not too bad so far. I figure I just have to massively outlevel "that one boss," and I'll be home-free!- Iecerint
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Yeah, that's the boss fight. On my Hard playthrough I just finished I had to cheese the encounter by continuously running back tothe Chantryand exploiting that some of the enemies would deaggro. :p
If you're playing as a Knight Enchanter, the game is trivial on basically any difficulty from what I understand (i.e., once you're past that boss fight and have unlocked specializations). Make an on-hit guard armor for added hilarity. Do the same for Vivienne for more silliness. I think (this one's not a story spoiler)one of the locked doors in Redcliffe may always have Fade-touched Obsidian, which I think always gives the effect.- Iecerint
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In post 1544, Sudo_Nym wrote:Also (about the attack on Haven)I'm told that the fight is a lot easier if you side with the Templars, since Fiona is a lot squishier than Denam. But I've also heard that the boss at the end of the Templar arc is harder than Alexius, so maybe it washes.
I've actually heard the opposite. I've been dreading going thetemplar pathon my nightmare run for just that reason. :p
Denamhimself isn't that hard if you can isolate him from his support. He's pretty slow and you can avoid his abilities if you don't have to worry about other units staggering you.- Iecerint
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In post 1551, Sudo_Nym wrote:Just beat DA:I. It was pretty swell, though I feel like I cheesed it too much. Going to go back through with a Warrior, see if that feels better.
When I did the last fight, I had to reload 3 times due to glitches. <_<- Iecerint
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Once he glitched out and just stood there and let me wail on him without doing his scripted attack pattern before moving to the last platform, once he did the same before thedragon fight, and once thedragon fightnever loaded and I just kinda stood around awkwardly because he was invincible at 1 HP. Maybe I killed him too quickly or something.
I thinkit's not an Archdemon in the sense that it does not have the soul of an Old God in it, but rather just part of the soul of Corypheus. The characters call it "his Archdemon" because that's their concept for that kind of dragon.- Iecerint
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During the first part (well, second part) he's supposed to go up and shoot like laser beams at random players from an inaccessible position, and you have to micro-manage your party to hide behind the walls to dodge the fireballs and such. He only actually initiated that attack pattern 1 of the 4 times I played through the segment, though. I think the fight's kinda super bugged.
Also, one of the times through he talked to each of my party members, but he only did that toCassandramost of the times. So I think he also has banter triggers that weren't triggering properly.
The other people who complained were also PS3/PS4 users, so maybe platform-specific.- Iecerint
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I think basicallyKate Mulgrew is in OITNB now and/or got more expensive and/or lost interest so they had to write her out. So Solas will kinda take her place in future games.- Iecerint
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It's the real FF3, right?
It's the worst game in the franchise IMO. It's the only one I've never been able to soldier through.
FF6 (originally marketed as FF3 in the US) is fantastic, though.- Iecerint
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9 is my favorite. 6 and Tactics come close.- Iecerint
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Huh? Yes it is. There are choices related to it in Dragon Age Keep.- Iecerint
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By the way, did anyone notice how the Tallis stuff made it into DA:I? You can choose whether you made her angry and whether you kissed her. Maybe a war table thing or a line inthe Fadeif you didn't romance anyone?- Iecerint
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If Leliana died in DA:O, you can talk to her about it. ^_^- Iecerint
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Wtf? Kaidan is extremely hot, and he's stronk in ME3.- Iecerint
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He's also gay irl. ^_^
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In post 1598, zoraster wrote:I didn't play ME3 because I couldn't go more than 5 minutes without getting motion sick :-/
You might be able to change the motion blur settings in options. Not sure.- Iecerint
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Rly sry babe.
I think ME3 is maybe the best one to be honest, though I am perhaps biased by access to (v important story spoilers)buttsex.- Iecerint
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In post 1601, zoraster wrote:you can on pc. you can't on xbox
I got kinda sick during the opening Earth scene, but it bothered me less as the game went on. This was on PS3. FWIW.- Iecerint
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Poor Velanna. Maybe she'll get mentioned in DLC somewhere.- Iecerint
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I like Nate a lot!
Velanna is pretty bland, but I liked her in the playthrough where I used her. I think most players used Anders because he's likeable and a healer and you get him earlier.- Iecerint
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Nate had lots of story stuff due to the stuff in the basement of Vigil's Keep IIRC. I think he also had lots of unique Human Noble communication options, and I was a Human Noble Queen in one playthrough.
Sigrun and Justice I usually got last, so I used them less. I lovelove Justice, though.- Iecerint
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In post 1676, Parama wrote:i was an idiot and refused to let anyone follow me at the end of S1E4- Iecerint
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In post 1725, Sudo_Nym wrote:I'm not very far into the game yet, but so far, all I've done is walk down corriders and hit attack when my gauge fills. So far, I haven't done anything that feels like the game actually cares whether I play it or not.
The entire game is like that. The area that JDodge is talking about is just an area with (tons of) sidequests that appears right before endgame.
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I couldn't even get through the free online tutorial of XIII-2. :[- Iecerint
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In post 1736, Oman wrote:Let's face it, it's a FF story. Read a Wikipedia plot summary and accept that you won't be 100% invested.
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FFVI still makes me cry at certain parts.- Iecerint
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Has anyone looked into Type 0? I was pretty skeptical, but the reviews are pretty good.- Iecerint
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In post 1803, Natirasha wrote:Bravely Default has one big flaw(there is one too many time loops), but its a very solid JRPG otherwise.
Definitely recommend playing Final Fantasy V/Tactics/4 Heroes of Light if you like the job system in BD, because Bravely Default pretty much takes all it's cues from those games.
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I've never played the 3DS games, but maybe Nocturne/SMT3 is a good place to start. That's where I started.
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New Vegas had a much better script. Pity about the instability.- Iecerint
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In post 1887, Chevre wrote:Oman, did you buy it on sale somewhere? It's the only one I don't have.
Anyway, I've been really into Audiosurf recently. Fun challenging tracks:
"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
"I Will Wait"
"Call Me Maybe"
"In a House - In a Heartbeat" by John Murphy (the theme from 28 days later) is also really neat.
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