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Author Topic: Stupid videogame playing stories.  (Read 26435 times)

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Re: Stupid videogame playing stories.
« Reply #200 on: July 30, 2013, 05:29:45 PM »

If I thought that just buying a controller would resolve all my issues with the game, I wouldn't have even posted anything in the first place.

Or we can speculate bizarrely about how I didn't have as much potential fun as it's assumed I should be having in a game I actually enjoyed quite a lot?
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Re: Stupid videogame playing stories.
« Reply #201 on: July 30, 2013, 05:58:15 PM »

Just saying, a gamepad would resolve all of the problems you listed, except maybe the combat being a bit too basic.  The soldiers are really just there to make it only mostly instead of completely trivial to blow up the entire world, honestly.

Nobody's really suggesting that you buy a gamepad just to play JC2 though.  If tying soldiers to exploding barrels until they get pissed off enough to send in a chopper, then stealing that same chopper and crashing it into a water tower doesn't do it for you, then you honestly need to look somewhere else, because it's just going to be variations of that same scenario over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.  It's like Michael Bay's Grand Theft Auto.
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Re: Stupid videogame playing stories.
« Reply #202 on: July 30, 2013, 06:05:45 PM »

If tying soldiers to exploding barrels until they get pissed off enough to send in a chopper, then stealing that same chopper and crashing it into a water tower doesn't do it for you, then you honestly need to look somewhere else, because it's just going to be variations of that same scenario over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.  It's like Michael Bay's Grand Theft Auto.

The promise of that was actually what sold me on the game... it just didn't feel like that kind of fun when I actually played it and not just because of the controls.

It's not like my copy's going anywhere. There's no law that says I can't give it a spin at some future date.
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Re: Stupid videogame playing stories.
« Reply #203 on: August 24, 2013, 02:40:02 PM »

You know, I was gonna play all these cool flashy new games that I'd gotten.

Then I was reminded just how awesomely designed Super Mario World was in every regard. I mean really.
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Re: Stupid videogame playing stories.
« Reply #204 on: September 06, 2013, 11:39:31 AM »

Eternal Darkness is a horror game, I suppose, but one that I've never considered in any way scary. Compelling, suspenseful in places, and a personal favorite, but you never really get much sense of dread out of it.

Unless you're playing it while fairly stoned. In which case it is simultaneously unspeakably goddamn terrifying and fucking hilarious.
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Re: Stupid videogame playing stories.
« Reply #205 on: September 06, 2013, 05:37:02 PM »

I am the spliff of God, appointed to mellow you, since no one knows the remedy for your withdrawal, except me. You are high, but I am more high than you.
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Re: Stupid videogame playing stories.
« Reply #206 on: October 09, 2013, 09:42:20 AM »



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Re: Stupid videogame playing stories.
« Reply #207 on: October 28, 2013, 02:47:37 AM »

The new Devil May Cry wasn't nearly as bad as I was led to believe, but there were so many minor problems and annoyances that bogged down the otherwise pretty fun combo system. The camera was ass, I hated the ridiculous grapple segments (which were double fucked because of the camera), and the final boss fights were pretty underwhelming.

Speaking of other Capcom-related failures, Patito and I are having hella fun with RE6.
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Re: Stupid videogame playing stories.
« Reply #208 on: October 28, 2013, 12:48:03 PM »

I hated the first three Devil My Cry games so DmC was a no-brainer for me. I enjoyed it so much that I bought DMC4, which I am enjoying also!

I understand why everybody seems to hate it, but given that I have no attachment to the series' legacy and that I don't care about how the game rates my combos, I suppose that puts me in a special position from which none of the flaws bug me at all.
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Re: Stupid videogame playing stories.
« Reply #209 on: October 29, 2013, 12:48:09 AM »

If you're enjoying DMC4, you should probably give 3, and even possibly 1, another go.  More than likely you've pushed through some sort of performance roadblock, and they'll click for you better.

2 is a lost cause, though.

DmC is not a bad game, it's just a shitty DMC.  Or more appropriately, it's a better Heavenly Sword horribly cannibalizing what is likely the corpse of a now dead series.
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Re: Stupid videogame playing stories.
« Reply #210 on: October 29, 2013, 09:19:43 AM »

It is really bizarre watching people rabidly defending all of these average/kind of bad action games now. People are ranking the new Castlevania among the best of the genre while calling DMC4 shit (No mention of DMC3 anywhere), and saying that the only reason people hate Enslaved is because everyone hates Ninja Theory for making DmC and are retroactively calling it a bad game.
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Re: Stupid videogame playing stories.
« Reply #211 on: October 29, 2013, 09:26:00 AM »

Perspective is important.
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Re: Stupid videogame playing stories.
« Reply #212 on: October 29, 2013, 12:46:16 PM »

If you're enjoying DMC4, you should probably give 3, and even possibly 1, another go.  More than likely you've pushed through some sort of performance roadblock, and they'll click for you better.

It wasn't really a performance roadblock, I think it was more a combination of whatever little bits of Resident Evil DNA remained in some aspects, and the excruciatingly dull art direction. I didn't quit playing because they were too hard, I quit playing because I got completely bored. I understand how a lot of people really dig the combo and score mechanics but I just legitimately don't care about that stuff and even if it's done super well it can't carry a game for me.

...huh. I say that, but that sort of thing did carry PN03 for me back then. Hmm. I dunno. Maybe you're right, I should give 'em another try.  :whoops:
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Re: Stupid videogame playing stories.
« Reply #213 on: November 05, 2013, 10:44:22 AM »

Expeditions: Conquistador so far seems like a really cool take on King's Bounty where you go around the new world and explore stuff while doing quests. You pick a party of 10 people who all have different personalities, and go to the main game. The types of personalities will effect how your group reacts to your actions. For example, greedy racists will be 100% okay with you digging up native burial grounds, while everyone else will be kind of unnerved.
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Re: Stupid videogame playing stories.
« Reply #214 on: November 05, 2013, 11:28:07 AM »

If you're enjoying DMC4, you should probably give 3, and even possibly 1, another go.  More than likely you've pushed through some sort of performance roadblock, and they'll click for you better.

It wasn't really a performance roadblock, I think it was more a combination of whatever little bits of Resident Evil DNA remained in some aspects, and the excruciatingly dull art direction. I didn't quit playing because they were too hard, I quit playing because I got completely bored. I understand how a lot of people really dig the combo and score mechanics but I just legitimately don't care about that stuff and even if it's done super well it can't carry a game for me.

...huh. I say that, but that sort of thing did carry PN03 for me back then. Hmm. I dunno. Maybe you're right, I should give 'em another try.  :whoops:

On the other hand there's people like me who went for 100% completion in DMC 3 & 4 and want to fire Ninja Theory out of a cannon into the sun for making DmC.
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Re: Stupid videogame playing stories.
« Reply #215 on: November 05, 2013, 12:01:14 PM »

sorry that capcom published a sequel to your game that wasn't like the other ones in the series
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Re: Stupid videogame playing stories.
« Reply #216 on: November 05, 2013, 12:13:00 PM »

Ninja Theory was needlessly antagonistic to fans of the old series in multiple ways, the story was a weak as shit Reddit vs Fox News bullshit, their way of doing "Almost shakespearean" was to have Donte repeatedly spout "fuck you" and screech dubstep in everyone's ears the entire time, the bosses were piles of shit, Mundus was hilariously weak, and the final boss twist (spoiler: it's vergil) made no sense at all, it simply existed because someone told Ninja Theory that it's a big WHAT A TWEEST to have the guy who's been helping you all along to go BUT YOU HAVE HELPED ME ALL ALONG PROPEGATE MY PLAN HA HA (in a huge mandark voice.)

The sole thing DmC has going for it is some rather remarkable enviroment design in limbo. All depth and complexity are gone. All of the fun is sucked out in one of the worst attempts to make a hip-n-edgy reboot for a new audience, complete with deliberately antagonizing and alienating the previous fanbase for no other reason than to be shitheads who got mad at the fact that you made the main character look exactly like your chief designer.

DmC is an absolutely awful Devil May Cry game. There's nothing wrong with being different, but DmC was a huge steaming pile of shit, made by a company who should stick to making skins of angry birds for a few years until they can learn how to actually write a damned game.
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Re: Stupid videogame playing stories.
« Reply #217 on: November 05, 2013, 02:35:11 PM »

sorry that capcom published a sequel to your game that wasn't like the other ones in the series while actively trolling you
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Re: Stupid videogame playing stories.
« Reply #218 on: November 05, 2013, 02:37:58 PM »

Sorry that Capcom did that to pretty much every single one of their (previous staff's) IPs.
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Re: Stupid videogame playing stories.
« Reply #219 on: November 05, 2013, 02:52:21 PM »

sorry that brentai explained the joke
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