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Post by Gileadan on Jul 15, 2020 14:15:21 GMT
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Post by Gileadan on Jul 15, 2020 14:10:12 GMT
And here we go:
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Post by Gileadan on Jul 15, 2020 13:53:20 GMT
DURLAGS TOWER?
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Post by Gileadan on Jul 15, 2020 10:52:38 GMT
Studios are likely going to be better off just making a good game. It's not like the people that come up with this kind of insanity or wail for it on some social media cesspit are buying their product anyway.
For those devs that decide to go with this, let's hope they'll find enough diversity hires to make my medieval strategy game where my squad of Teutonic Knights is made up of 50% women, some of them women of colour and/or LGBT, and some guys walking on crutches, as they bravely set out to overthrow the church and nobility to finally bring the highly diverse peasantry to power...
Can't wait.
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Post by Gileadan on Jul 13, 2020 18:37:15 GMT
Chances are that buying a game supports way more decent people that actually need the money and likely crunched their hearts out as the deadline approached than there are despicable people profiting from it also.
Not buying a product because there might be one asshole benefitting from that purchase is just a nicer version of the old witch hunter's creed: better an entire innocent village is put to death than that a single follower of Chaos goes free.
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Post by Gileadan on Jul 13, 2020 10:35:45 GMT
Simpler side quests than Odyssey? If true, that is a huge step back for me. His example was "fetch a girl's lost pony". You could see the pony standing there, about a dozen meters away. Feed a few orphans in the woods, just like in the Witcher 3, but with less story around it.
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Post by Gileadan on Jul 13, 2020 10:24:01 GMT
An rather lukewarm preview by Dimitry Halley from gamestar.de (in German). TLDR - Pros: - improved combat with more enemy and boss variety - raids are big, fun spectacles - neither Vikings nor English are the good/bad guys, Eivor has his/her own goals - much reduced loot grind (possibly as a reaction to GR:B tanking) - great Viking atmosphere Cons: - a bigger but less rewarding skill tree with a "fog of war" that prevents you from seeing the end of the skill branches - reduced, boring open world activities - shorter, simpler open world side quests ("Witcher 3 in super-lite without sugar or a reduced Odyssey") - very few stealth opportunities
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Post by Gileadan on Jul 13, 2020 6:11:53 GMT
El presidente smokes cigars Anyone he does not like He shoots or puts behind bars. Circle Jerks, Coup d'Etat![:D](//storage.proboards.com/6576594/images/RebJidSPcxyF0U0Rr0uW.png)
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Post by Gileadan on Jul 12, 2020 21:39:36 GMT
I just can't wait for them to explain more details about the animus and genetic memory. I mean, even if we take genetic memory as a given, something that is passed down the family tree with every new generation... how come that we can access memories that happen after a given assassin's offspring is born? After all, said offspring can only inherit memories that have happened up to his/her birth - anything that happens afterwards cannot be embedded in their genes unless there's a weird genetic wifi going on between the generations of assassins. For example, Kassandra's/Alexios's memories should have ended just before their kid was born. Anything that came afterwards cannot be in that kid's genes, and therefore cannot be passed down the line. Also yay, more Layla. AC fandom breathes a collective sigh of relief... right? The recent Animus in Origins and Odyssey doesn't rely on descendants, but the DNA of the individual we are playing as. But... if we've got their very DNA, we should know their gender, right? And there was no reason to force them to have a kid in Odyssey. Eh, maybe I shouldn't think about it too much.
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Post by Gileadan on Jul 12, 2020 21:31:12 GMT
I just can't wait for them to explain more details about the animus and genetic memory. I mean, even if we take genetic memory as a given, something that is passed down the family tree with every new generation... how come that we can access memories that happen after a given assassin's offspring is born? After all, said offspring can only inherit memories that have happened up to his/her birth - anything that happens afterwards cannot be embedded in their genes unless there's a weird genetic wifi going on between the generations of assassins. For example, Kassandra's/Alexios's memories should have ended just before their kid was born. Anything that came afterwards cannot be in that kid's genes, and therefore cannot be passed down the line.
Also yay, more Layla. AC fandom breathes a collective sigh of relief... right?
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Post by Gileadan on Jul 9, 2020 11:35:38 GMT
Aw. One's a VR game and two are Tencent Spyware Epic Games Store exclusives. Not a good day for this World of Darkness fan... ![<_<](//storage.proboards.com/6576594/images/AmvxJCAuZOKmLYdsWwUX.png) If you had to have one; Epic Games Store (and no other PC storefront), or Tik Tok as the only app allowed on your phone...which would you choose? On topic; these look cool, but Ima wait for Bloodlines 2 to satisfy my thirst. Until you posted this I didn't even know what Tik Tok exactly was... yeah, my life is pretty sheltered. Now I know. Thanks a lot.
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Post by Gileadan on Jul 9, 2020 6:40:53 GMT
Aw. One's a VR game and two are Tencent Spyware Epic Games Store exclusives. Not a good day for this World of Darkness fan... ![<_<](//storage.proboards.com/6576594/images/uJDSFxTaceXHJgvOKqTG.png)
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Post by Gileadan on Jul 5, 2020 8:17:22 GMT
I think the worst bit of Andromeda's ludonarrative dissonance is how the Ryder twins talk and act like inexperienced teenagers outside of combat and then play like N7s once the bullets start flying. It's not the number and type of people they kill, it's the expertise with which they do it despite supposedly being young greenhorns. This didn't bother me so much since they had some training from Alec, but it might have been nice to acknowledge that they hadn't actually killed anyone before. The Ryders progressed similar to other RPG protagonists -- at least they didn't start out killing giant rats/spiders in a basement like every fantasy protagonist since the beginning of time. I think Bioware brought home how much the protagonist had developed by putting us in the shoes of the twin -- trying to kill kett with one grenade and a phalanx pistol with minimal points in skills was eye opening after getting used to mowing them down as the Pathfinder. I thought the hard time the Pathfinder's twin had fighting the Kett with that Phalanx pistol were due to the debilitation they suffered from the damaged cryopod, not a general lack of experience in gunfights. But yes, it would have been nice to show that the Ryders never actually killed anyone before... especially not a bunch of never before encountered aliens, who for all they knew could be part of some galaxy spanning empire which might immediately become aware of their deaths and send in a warship to blow up the Nexus in return. It should be a terrifying thought. But it apparently isn't - just another part of the dissonance, between the characters and the story this time, not story and gameplay. I found Andromeda to be full of dissonance like that.
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Post by Gileadan on Jul 3, 2020 23:27:09 GMT
Can we all agree that this shit is borderline criminal? Borderline? That's criminally insane.
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Post by Gileadan on Jul 3, 2020 15:33:49 GMT
9.5 is just an average. The vast majority of professional reviewers rated a ~7/10 game at 10/10.
The game looks super pretty, no doubt there. The gameplay looks very solid, but standard. The story works for some and not at all for others. Many fans of the first game are extremely disappointed with the direction Naughty Dog took with this sequel. And oddly enough, none of the mass of 10/10 reviewers thought that those definitely present negative aspects were enough to dock even a single point.
I think it is a game made with critics in mind, not the fans of the franchise. It's a signpost for the ever increasing divide between professional game critics and those who used to be their audience.
Some of those who sing its praises must be outright insane. This is not the Schindler's List of gaming when everything else is John Wick. Heck, even frigging Crysis is less John Wick than TLOU2 - both are revenge stories with lots of stylish kills. Even the dog dies too.
Also, I would be really curious if someone made a "dudebro-shooter" just as competently and the same level of violence, which also depicts a gruesome revenge story... would it also be "10/10 Schindler's List"?
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Post by Gileadan on Jul 2, 2020 4:56:17 GMT
I think the worst bit of Andromeda's ludonarrative dissonance is how the Ryder twins talk and act like inexperienced teenagers outside of combat and then play like N7s once the bullets start flying. It's not the number and type of people they kill, it's the expertise with which they do it despite supposedly being young greenhorns.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 30, 2020 7:21:02 GMT
If it's not a LI I'll be extremely disappointed. I just want him to have superhuman abilities, but weakened when in close proximity to Silverite. Aaaand we have a new protagonist!
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 29, 2020 18:35:28 GMT
DAO's set of companions was the last that felt real to me from start to end. Companions after DAO felt more like realizations of templates, often narrow ones, carefully crafted to appeal to specific types of players. DA2's were worst. In DAI I'll except Cassandra and Solas. Maybe it's got something to do with its rushed development, but DA2's companions strike me as flanderized from the get go. They all have one or two traits that entirely define them and that they won't shut up about. Like, Isabela's fun, but there's not much more to her than you can glimpse from the "sexy pirate" concept. Just one example: Leliana, Zevran, and Sten made me interested in Orlais, Antiva, and the Qunari, respectively, but after going through Isabela's arc I didn't even feel like I knew more about Rivain. The other characters have the same issue. Flanderized? *gasp* That's iconic companions, good sir! ![:lol:](//storage.proboards.com/6576594/images/qUctXNjCPgwPaLsZeKry.png)
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 28, 2020 23:59:15 GMT
So no, Ellie can’t change. She can’t change because AAA games can’t change. Let’s say Ellie learns her lesson, that violence begets violence. That to save the world and herself, she must put down the gun. What would she even do? Literally, what would a AAA game even allow for her to do? AAA game design is built and marketed around killing. So I suppose Ellie would shift from killing humans to something more morally simple, like the zombie-like baddies that lurch about her world, which while less morally mucky, is no less predictable.
Thirteen years ago, critics and designers imagined games would no longer have ludonarrative dissonance, that the stories video games want to tell would align with the actions they demand we commit. But if this is the result, then you know what, I’m cool with dissonance. I’ll take violent games that strive for fun and don’t pitch any greater meaning, rather than violent games that seek to justify their violence. I don’t need more stories asking me why I love to kill things in video games, because the answer is simple: It’s what publishers sell me. What I want most, and what The Last of Us Part 2 attempts to be in brief moments, are games without violence. Do the creators truly believe their story captures how people would behave, that we’re all a catastrophe away from forming tribal murder squads? Or do we keep getting stories like this because it’s what the video games, as we understand them, allow? Until we have an abundance of AAA games that don’t hinge on violence, we can’t know for certain.
The Last of Us Part 2 suggests violence is inevitable. Sadly, that appears to be true in AAA video games.www.polygon.com/2020/6/26/21304642/the-last-of-us-2-violence *hums Deus Ex theme* All that's needed is a second button for a non-lethal take-down instead of a kill. Deus Ex gives you the Pacifist achievement for never killing anyone, and in the Dishonored series your ratio of non-lethal vs. lethal takedowns directly influences the ending. AAA gaming can avoid killing if it wants to. Ellie can't change because it's a story completely on rails that can only ever go exactly as the writers wanted to (so there's no reason ever for the player to feel bad about it since no choices are involved) and the gameplay does not allow for anything else.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 28, 2020 7:23:47 GMT
So pandering is good now? Just checking. I'm sure you have no issue with ![](https://i.imgur.com/1f1ZQ.gif) so spare us the moralization of how it's WRONG to '' pander '' Urgh. I felt like that shot actively insulted me. Like the game going "We both know why you're really here tee hee hee *rib rib nudge nudge*". Unfortunately, it ignored my glare.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 27, 2020 6:25:38 GMT
I don't own TLOU2 and haven't played it since I don't own a playstation, and even if I did I probably wouldn't buy the game in the first place. I only got interested in the weird controversy around its release and the odd unison with which game journos sung its praises, complete with utterly bizarre tweets about how it is the Schindler's List of gaming when everything else is John Wick. John Wick and TLOU2 are both revenge stories, and during both the protagonist's dog gets killed. I'd also like to know who of the throat stabbers and golfing pros is supposed to be Oskar Schindler.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 25, 2020 8:47:25 GMT
This game got effectively review bombed three times:
First with the thousands of inexplicable 5/5 reviews in the PSN store way before release, then by the 10/10 reviews from game journos before release and finally by the 0/10 user reviews past release. People mostly just complain about the bombing run they don't agree with, and the end result is two extremely different metacritic scores that are likely both bogus.
Personally I'm just glad I'm not invested in this franchise. I don't appreciate the trickery Naughty Dog pulled with their deceptive trailers, and I'm no fan of the cheap storytelling sleight of hand they attempted to pull with this game nor its fake morality. It looks quite gorgeous though and the gameplay seems solid enough, so I can definitely see people enjoying it.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 20, 2020 10:14:55 GMT
Imagine the reactions on this forum if the game was DA4, Joel was the Warden/Hawke/the Inquisitor, Abby the new protagonist with a lot of unlikeable auto-dialogue, and the creepy ass self-insert character looked like Patrick Weekes...
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 19, 2020 13:58:21 GMT
There are full story synopsis videos available on youtube since yesterday, obviously prepared during the review embargo and published as soon as it was legal to do so. If you want to know how the story plays out and whether the leaks were right, you can find out in a matter of minutes.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 19, 2020 5:44:17 GMT
Given how much the final result often differs from their early concept art in style and quality and content, this means very little to me, other than "yeah, they're doing some preproduction."
Then again, I'm good with knowing just that. They'll do their thing.
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