Ultimate Videogame Topic 3: The Next Generation

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Post Post #500 (ISO) » Wed Feb 12, 2014 5:31 am

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The Weekly Sale also seems a nice way to pick up Psychonauts. I think I'll take advantage.
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Post Post #501 (ISO) » Wed Feb 12, 2014 7:45 am

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In post 477, xRECKONERx wrote:fuck VLR
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did you beat it?
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Post Post #502 (ISO) » Wed Feb 12, 2014 7:51 am

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yes.

and i fucking hate it.

but i love it.
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Post Post #503 (ISO) » Wed Feb 12, 2014 9:07 am

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Same. Need third game NOW.

Also, esurio's playing through it and I asked her thoughts and predictions and such (obv super-spoilers ahead). She's gotten the Tenmyouji ending first and I think she's working her way towards Clover's at the moment.

- Tenmyouji is a time traveler of some sort.
- She's incredibly suspicious of Clover, and still thinks Alice is All-Ice.
- When asked who Zero Sr. is, she responded sarcastically, "obviously Sigma from the future."
- When asked who K is, she responded again, "Sigma from the future."

She's on the right track with most of these even if she was joking...


I'm going to enjoy this. (it's also fun picking up on tons of little things after I know the full story).
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Post Post #504 (ISO) » Wed Feb 12, 2014 9:42 am

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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

If Sigma was Zero the whole time I'm going to throw my 3DS out the window
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Post Post #505 (ISO) » Thu Feb 13, 2014 2:10 pm

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Post Post #506 (ISO) » Thu Feb 13, 2014 4:15 pm

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Holy shit, Little Mac is going to be in Super Smash Bros?
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Post Post #507 (ISO) » Thu Feb 13, 2014 4:18 pm

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yup yup yup
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Post Post #508 (ISO) » Thu Feb 13, 2014 4:28 pm

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Post Post #509 (ISO) » Fri Feb 14, 2014 3:19 am

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Hopefully Mike Tyson doesn't follow him into the game to knock him out.
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Post Post #510 (ISO) » Fri Feb 14, 2014 3:21 am

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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

If Sigma was Zero the whole time I'm going to throw my 3DS out the window
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.
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Post Post #511 (ISO) » Fri Feb 14, 2014 11:44 am

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Cue David Hayter controversy part 4
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Post Post #512 (ISO) » Fri Feb 14, 2014 8:38 pm

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Played through a couple of the classes today for Wildstar.

This game is really impressing me. I've "forced" myself to buy into other MMOs previously, like FF14 and Rift and Aeon. This one, though... it's a breath of fresh air. It feels like it took all the best parts from MMOs I've enjoyed and rolled them into one. The combat system is really refreshing (a better version of GW2's combat), and the "Paths" system makes each experience unique. So far I've mostly enjoyed the Explorer path, climbing buildings and doing jumping puzzles, but I also really like the Builder/Settler path where you collect parts to build temporary constructs and buildings to buff allied players in the area.

I really think Wildstar has the potential to be the WoW-killer, if it plays its cards right.
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Post Post #513 (ISO) » Sat Feb 15, 2014 12:35 pm

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The Lungfishopolis section of Psychonauts was hilarious! I'm loving the game so far.
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Post Post #514 (ISO) » Mon Feb 17, 2014 10:42 am

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In post 3, Brandi wrote:Anyway
TALK OF FALLOUT 4 soon
YES!!!! I loved fallout 3 but I was really disappointed with New Vegas. I hope Fallout 4 goes back to the survival/horror.
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Post Post #515 (ISO) » Mon Feb 17, 2014 11:26 am

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In post 261, Sudo_Nym wrote:I've been playing CiV lately since picking up BNW, and is it just me, or does the new expansion make the game a lot easier? Trade Routes seem to be broken in favor of the player, so far.
Easier better?
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Post Post #516 (ISO) » Mon Feb 17, 2014 4:48 pm

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In post 514, Nero Cain wrote:
In post 3, Brandi wrote:Anyway
TALK OF FALLOUT 4 soon
YES!!!! I loved fallout 3 but I was really disappointed with New Vegas. I hope Fallout 4 goes back to the survival/horror.
Really? Wow, that's the opposite of what I've heard from most people. I hadn't played fallout before 3, but I thought New Vegas was just a far more polished game.
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Post Post #517 (ISO) » Mon Feb 17, 2014 6:42 pm

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In post 516, hasdgfas wrote:
In post 514, Nero Cain wrote:
In post 3, Brandi wrote:Anyway
TALK OF FALLOUT 4 soon
YES!!!! I loved fallout 3 but I was really disappointed with New Vegas. I hope Fallout 4 goes back to the survival/horror.
Really? Wow, that's the opposite of what I've heard from most people. I hadn't played fallout before 3, but I thought New Vegas was just a far more polished game.
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and honestly it is a great game. My 2nd favorite WRPG hands down. (next to Dragon Age: Origins) ...I've seen playthroughs of 3 and it just seems to really pale in comparison.
I really hope 4 is more like new vegas than 3.
But hey everyone has their preferences! I feel a preference for 3 is probably more rare, though.

Also new civ 5 expansion is pretty fun but yeah with trade routs you can get RIDICULOUS amounts of gold per turn...
I played a 12 hour (standard size) game with my boyfriend yesterday and he was getting like 700+ gold per turn midgame without having a golden age. He was on Bablyon, I think.
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Post Post #518 (ISO) » Mon Feb 17, 2014 6:54 pm

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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.
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Post Post #519 (ISO) » Tue Feb 18, 2014 2:07 am

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Fallout 3's ending was so disappointing to me.
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Post Post #520 (ISO) » Tue Feb 18, 2014 2:49 am

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Pre or Post Broken Steel?
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Post Post #521 (ISO) » Tue Feb 18, 2014 5:07 am

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In post 518, Iecerint wrote: 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.
Mostly this though I remember not caring about the New Vegas storyline much. I know that New Vegas took place (20 years?) after the events of Fallout 3 so it wasn't going to be the EXACT same type of game but everything feels so "together". I mean there's a pretty big
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Post Post #522 (ISO) » Tue Feb 18, 2014 5:12 am

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I vastly preferred Fallout New Vegas, partly because I think a lot of the mechanics were tightened, and also because, as a guy who played Fallout 1 and 2, I liked that it was a very similar setting to the things I've seen before, with a story that I actually cared about because I knew the NCR; Fallout 3 being in the Capitol Wasteland was kinda weird, especially when they tried to justify things like Harold or the Enclave crossing the country. Frankly, I'm not convinced their reasoning for that was anything more than that Bethesda loves to set games in the DC/Maryland area because that's where their offices are. Plus, I really hated the way they blocked off the surface so that you had to go crawling through the seweres; my sense of direction is terrible enough without throwing me in a maze.

That said, I don't feel the difference in quality is great enough to say that somebody else is weird for preferring Fallout 3. So I guess this whole post was unnecessary.
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Post Post #523 (ISO) » Tue Feb 18, 2014 6:10 am

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In post 520, bv310 wrote:Pre or Post Broken Steel?
Just the base game.
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Post Post #524 (ISO) » Tue Feb 18, 2014 6:19 am

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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.
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