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Ted Belmont

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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #140 on: April 13, 2008, 08:23:00 AM »

Starfox Command is not nearly as bad as Niku led me to believe.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #141 on: April 13, 2008, 10:12:30 AM »

The all-time worst is in Prey, when aliens invade heaven.

It wasn't heaven, it was the First People spirit world.  Huge difference. ::|:

Also, finally getting around to playing some Gamecube games, namely Resident Evil 4.  I'm kind of glad that there's no rating proper at the end of the game, because I imagine that my score is currently hovering around "Ahahahahahaha!"  Pretty fun, though; I can't help but wonder what the Parasite Eve games would be like with this engine.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #142 on: April 13, 2008, 10:36:35 AM »

Pretty fun, though; I can't help but wonder what  Vagrant Story would be like with this engine.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #143 on: April 13, 2008, 10:47:05 AM »

Pretty fun, though; I can't help but wonder what  Vagrant Story would be like if anything about it besides the writing was any good.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #144 on: April 13, 2008, 11:36:28 AM »

Pretty fun, though; I can't help but wonder what  Vagrant Story would be like if anything about it besides the writing was any good.
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Vagrant Story was not that hard to understand. It could of used a learning curve that wasn't a sheer cliff, though.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #145 on: April 13, 2008, 11:41:27 AM »

My question is how in the unholy fucking cunt would it benefit from the RE4 engine?
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #146 on: April 13, 2008, 11:51:29 AM »

My question is how in the unholy fucking cunt would it benefit from the RE4 engine?
I was going about it from the basis of Parasite Eve being a prototype for Vagrant Story. Also, probably nothing besides a new coat of paint.

...I'll shut up now.  :sadpanda:
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #147 on: April 13, 2008, 12:11:42 PM »

I never got why people always say that about PE/VS.  The only thing the two games have in common is the fact that there's this wireframe thingy that shows up when you want to attack something.  Otherwise it's two very different games developed by two entirely different teams.

...oh hey, Alexander O. Smith was the translator for Vagrant Story.  So he's the one injecting bullshit middle English into all our Ivalice games.  And here I was blaming Joseph Reeder.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #148 on: April 13, 2008, 12:52:04 PM »

Question for people who have played Mass Effect.

Is 100% of the dialog with named (party) characters voice-acted? I'm wondering if the inevitable shipping mods for the PC release will be as painfully incongruous as they were in the KOTOR games - any mod that added dialog always kind of sucked, because even if the new dialog was written and edited in a way that it fit right in, the sudden absence of voiceover was a dead giveaway, and totally killed any chance at verisimilitude.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #149 on: April 13, 2008, 01:52:45 PM »

The solution here is to puncture your eardrums, so you won't be able to tell the difference.  If you care about your pairing, it's a small sacrifice.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #150 on: April 13, 2008, 03:20:56 PM »

Starfox Command is not nearly as bad as Niku led me to believe.

Hey, I told you that if you hadn't played any of the good Starfox games (i.e. the original and 64), you probably wouldn't realize what a steaming pile Command is.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #151 on: April 13, 2008, 07:54:05 PM »

Question for people who have played Mass Effect.

Is 100% of the dialog with named (party) characters voice-acted? I'm wondering if the inevitable shipping mods for the PC release will be as painfully incongruous as they were in the KOTOR games - any mod that added dialog always kind of sucked, because even if the new dialog was written and edited in a way that it fit right in, the sudden absence of voiceover was a dead giveaway, and totally killed any chance at verisimilitude.

So far as I remember, every single line of dialog in the game is voice acted.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #152 on: April 14, 2008, 06:35:04 PM »

I rather liked Star Ocean 3. I can't really defend the plot ([spoiler]The entire universe is a giant MMORPG? And you find this out by "jumping" into the real world? Are you fucking kidding me?[/spoiler]), but the game itself is pretty fun, so whatever. Come to think of it, this is my exact stance on FF8, so it's not that surprising that I'd like SO3 as well.

But yeah, don't play SO3 expecting an incredible, thought-provoking story.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #153 on: April 14, 2008, 10:05:47 PM »

I’m sitting here doing my taxes while Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 grinds itself endlessly, through a stunning combination of my own genius and the designer’s laziness, for XP points. I’m noticeably annoyed by the fact that in order to unlock decent colors and clothing for your avatar, you have to hunker down and shoot four hundred billion terrorists in the face. The whole rewards system in this series reminds me of pretty much every single korean MMO I've been forgiving enough to try - encouraging people to play for months and months by making the starting character look like a another faceless AI grunt seems like a big step back for profitability’s sake, even for Ubisoft. There are slightly less obnoxious ways to encourage replayability than this mindless slogging bullshit.

I’m sticking with it mostly out of love for Gears of War's majestically fluid cover and blind-fire systems, both having been copied here about as well as can be expected, considering the crushingly methodical pace of RS. Multiplayer's got four-player online co-op, too, so it’s not like there isn’t a good game here, it’s just buried under heaps of forced, generic business-minded changes. It screams cash-in, and it’s amazing to me how half-assing a few extra levels and adding needlessly time-consuming challenges can ruin even a fundamentally satisfying system like the one they’ve got here.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #154 on: April 14, 2008, 10:12:12 PM »

it’s amazing to me how half-assing a few extra levels and adding needlessly time-consuming challenges can ruin even a fundamentally satisfying system like the one they’ve got here.

ACTIVATING COMBAT MODE
CONFLICT RESOLVED
ACTIVATING COMBAT MODE
CONFLICT RESOLVED
ACTIVATING COMBAT MODE
CONFLICT RESOLVED
ACTIVATING COMBAT MODE
CONFLICT RESOLVED
ACTIVATING COMBAT MODE
CONFLICT RESOLVED
ACTIVATING COMBAT MODE
CONFLICT RESOLVED
ACTIVATING COMBAT MODE
CONFLICT RESOLVED
ACTIVATING COMBAT MODE
CONFLICT RESOLVED
ACTIVATING COMBAT MODE
CONFLICT RESOLVED
ACTIVATING COMBAT MODE
CONFLICT RESOLVED

Repeat 300 fucking times.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #155 on: April 14, 2008, 11:24:22 PM »

You're acting as if every single video game ever made can't easily be boiled down to CONFLICT APPEARS, CONFLICT RESOLVED.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #156 on: April 14, 2008, 11:38:45 PM »

Really?  That's the slippery-slope argument you're going to pick?

Because everything in life, ever can be described as a series of conflicts and resolutions.  Let's not go nuts generalizing; it's the kind of bullet to the brain of any rational conversation that I tend to expect from Guildenstern.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #157 on: April 14, 2008, 11:41:57 PM »

That's not my argument, it's eloH's! His problem is that the game is a series of conflicts! I love conflicts! They stop me from starving to death, or suffocating!
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #158 on: April 14, 2008, 11:42:42 PM »

A universe appears!  Command?

> exist

There is a conflict.  Command?

> resolve

The universe has imploded.  Game over.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #159 on: April 15, 2008, 12:01:53 AM »

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