Haven't bought a new TRIPLE AYYY game in years :michael-laugh:

  • Esoteir [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    So, let me get this straight. I’m somewhere that’s not what I would call r/chapotraphouse... I’m seeing freaking posters, and... oh yeah, I’m talking to an owl. Yeah, okay, that is something I do now. I do shitposts, report jacked-up raiders — I’ll probably lurk next.

    edit: for those who haven't seen this beautiful trailer https://twitter.com/Forspoken/status/1556679378892898306

      • Esoteir [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I unironically can't wait for this game to hit the torrent sites, a zoomer protagonist constantly marvel quipping over an eight hour fantasy plot sounds like a blast

        I don't know if the game will live up to the like five months of constant memes, or if it will run above 10 fps on my dated computer, but I'm looking forward to it

        • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
          hexagon
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          2 years ago

          Looking at that footage... do all triple A games just look like Marvel movies now? I don't mean just the dialogue, but everything .

          I hate cinematic blockbuster games :agony-minion:

          • CarmineCatboy [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            the true connoisseur would curse the name of buffy the vampire slayer instead

            • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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              2 years ago

              I was specifically talking about the overall look and feel, and this doesn't look like a 90s TV show (that would be fun though)

        • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Apparently there's a setting to adjust how much the main character and her bracelet snip at each other lol

    • ElGosso [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I expected this to have like a Danny Devito New Jersey accent and I'm disappointed it didn't. We need more comedic working class accents in video games, like Skelly from Hades

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        HIRE ME FOR THIS! My voice talent is pretty much entirely surely working class guys.

        • ElGosso [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Let's get you and Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't into a recording booth ASAP

    • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I heard a very funny theory about the dialogue

      people clowning on Square Enix for having goofy "too japanese" dialogue; then SE says fuck it, puts it in wumbo, and goes full "too american" dialogue.

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        I think they earnestly did try to make something that would appeal to Westerners, but didn't realise that constant Marvel-style Whedonisms are now seen as irritating and passé

        In terms of Japanese devs trying to make experiences that are more palatable to Western tastes I guess they at least did a better job than Tecmo with Quantum Theory

        • Esoteir [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          quantum theory

          holy shit it's art nouveau gears of war :michael-laugh:

          • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            Some Japanese dudes looking at a gameplay video of the first Gears of War for five minutes and going "This is what the gaijins like? Okay, I think I got it. Big ugly man wearing an entire scrapyard shooting at equally big monster dudes with huge guns from behind chest high walls in ruined cityscapes and also everything is dark and murky"

            As bad as everything in the game looks the worst part might still be the name, just... what the fuck, guys :lenin-confused:

          • pyrpelo [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            looks exactly how i remember GoW 1 looking lmao

              • Esoteir [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                gears of war fuckin slaps, and they did a much better job than halo continuing the series past the original devs :comfy-cool:

                • pyrpelo [he/him]
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                  2 years ago

                  at least 343 managed to release MCC on PC, only good thing they did :dumpster-fire:

                  • Esoteir [he/him]
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                    2 years ago

                    yeah good point, without the MCC I couldn't have tricked my friends into playing The Library on legendary so there's that going for them

                    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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                      2 years ago

                      Provided you can actually get the incredibly patchy co-op working. Seriously, it's so bad for 1 and 2 :sadness-abysmal:

                  • Esoteir [he/him]
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                    2 years ago

                    100% agree on all sequel complaints, the spooky hollow earth aesthetic was way fuckin better

                    that being said the cosmodrome section of 5 was pretty rad :stalin-approval:

                      • barrbaric [he/him]
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                        2 years ago

                        wasn’t the UIR supposed to be even more callous towards human life than the already monstrous COG?

                        Pretty sure that's just in-universe propaganda. The COG were the ones who used the hammer of dawn to blow up the entire enemy civilization and then destroy the biosphere.

                          • barrbaric [he/him]
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                            2 years ago

                            Makes sense. At the end of the day, the protagonists are all soldiers who were following orders. I don't think any of them were ever going to *rebuild society much, they'd just let the people in command build things and go along with it. Also obviously we need another 6 Gears games so there has to be more chainsawgun fights.

                              • barrbaric [he/him]
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                                2 years ago

                                At this point it's part of the aesthetic of Gears though, isn't it? Like how Star Wars can't get away from lightsabers and x-wings (Andor notwithstanding). The franchise is so managed by corporate that there's no room for originality, we just have to keep doing the same thing over and over again with slightly shinier graphics.

    • mazdak
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      1 year ago

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