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Giant Bomb |OT 13| I Want To Turn Into A Wolf And Shloot
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Yeah it's absolutely stunning played it originally on high at 1080p at launch and was stunned but now playing at 4k60 at ultra. With Ini tweaks to increase shadows and lighting even higher it still looks incredible. I bet it'd feel so good at 144hz! And yeah I don't get those views at all!
Yeah it's so great. The boat ride, the launch, the baptism, stepping into Columbia, the beach boy cover Barber shop song, then the raffle. It's just perfect.
Also the fare having the games as tutorials is brilliant
Yeah I totally agree the centrist thing Levine went with, "both sides are bad!!" Aged really poorly, and even more so in the current political climate
what a shame
and now with drive club closing down
how will the mechaphile community find satisfaction in the medium of video games
i feel kinda weird that in my history of video games going back to mortal kombat 2 i have really barely played any of them except for deception which i played for like 50+ hours
the core Booker/Liz parallel worlds stuff is enjoyable (especially being backed up by gorgeous art, music, and fantastic acting) but there's so much iffy stuff surrounding the story and setting
B:I is an instance where I can sorta look past that stuff and enjoy the parts I enjoy but even then
like.. they bring up all these charged themes and imagery and go about it in some very clumsy ways
and then by the end none of it is even relevant to what that story actually is?? so... why
idk
I love that game but.... yeah
anyway, I will slut shame anyone who has fucked 1000 cars
B:I is an instance where I can sorta look past that stuff and enjoy the parts I enjoy but even then
like.. they bring up all these charged themes and imagery and go about it in some very clumsy ways
and then by the end none of it is even relevant to what that story actually is?? so... why
idk
I love that game but.... yeah
anyway, I will slut shame anyone who has fucked 1000 cars
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Finally a reason to post this pic in GBera
Levine's current studio/team was announced a little over two years ago
so... we might hear about whatever they've been working on soon?
so... we might hear about whatever they've been working on soon?
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Finally a reason to post this pic in GBera
Nice to see drive club guy is living his truth.
the thing with Infinite is that my issue with the writing wasn't really just the racism/both sides stuff... like that absolutely is an issue I had while playing but I remember there was even a lot of basic "I don't understand why these characters are reacting like this" kinda things, and so on
...but I too bad no real gameplay issues
...but I too bad no real gameplay issues
It played fine, I won't disagree, but coming from the lineage it did made it feel like a major step down from the exploration of the Von Braun, Rickenbacker, and Rapture. How encounters would play out in previous games where there was an element of set up and stealth, tackling things your own way, to what effectively turned into something like Call of Duty where I was traversing down murder hallways, having no investment in my inventory, and the environment was more for pulling a Ryckert and eating hot dogs from the trash.
I mostly see it as a game of hugely wasted potential. When I heard it had a "1999 mode" I was hoping for something that really called back to their earlier design sentiments, but it was just "now it's hard mode without a waypoint button!" but I didn't need to use that because the game was so guided anyway. Elizabeth was another maaajor missed opportunity. You have this girl that can literally tap into alternate timelines and the previews played up the kind of weirdness that could come from that. In practice, she was there to generate ammo boxes, health kits, and turrets. Man.
Then Last of Us came out and took all the daddy simulator who shoot bangs attention.
Update on the "what game should I play" post from a day or two ago.
I said screw your sensible suggestions and I jumped back into RDR2 after 4 months of not touching it.
I had 1 mission left in Chapter 4 and Iran through Chapter 5 (which is only like 2 hours) in one go. I can totally see how that chapter pissed people off but the long break made it OK for me since most of that time was remembering the dumb controls and aiming feel.
I am going to mainline the shit out of this game and get'er done. I need to start finishing games again.
I said screw your sensible suggestions and I jumped back into RDR2 after 4 months of not touching it.
I had 1 mission left in Chapter 4 and Iran through Chapter 5 (which is only like 2 hours) in one go. I can totally see how that chapter pissed people off but the long break made it OK for me since most of that time was remembering the dumb controls and aiming feel.
I am going to mainline the shit out of this game and get'er done. I need to start finishing games again.
I beat the final boss in Sekiro with friends watching. I guess I just needed an audience so I could live vent my frustration.
I'll leave the option boss and the other endings to better players than me. Overall I enjoyed the game, but I didn't love it the way I loved previous From games. It's most assuredly high quality in every department, but unlike DS3 and Bloodborne, I can't see myself ever returning to it.
I'll forever take pride in my insane luck beating (boss name spoilers) Genichiro and Lady Butterfly on my first try.
I'll leave the option boss and the other endings to better players than me. Overall I enjoyed the game, but I didn't love it the way I loved previous From games. It's most assuredly high quality in every department, but unlike DS3 and Bloodborne, I can't see myself ever returning to it.
I'll forever take pride in my insane luck beating (boss name spoilers) Genichiro and Lady Butterfly on my first try.
Oh yeah, I kind of forgot that Bioshock was a series that tried to be an immersive sim at some point.
I mainlined it from there too (I did all the stranger missions but ignored everything else) but you still have quite a ways to go. Just take the game at its own pace rather than being like Dan and trying to fight against it.
I have a feeling biofinite was kinda rushed out the door after a certain point just to get the damn thing finished
iirc from people looking into cut content/old footage way back when, the assumption is the the story was massively reworked in the last six months of development or so
which is why Liz is wearing her "iconic outfit" for only a small portion of the game, or how the 1999 mode just became a hard mode instead of having character classes and permanent upgrade options and such as originally intended
iirc from people looking into cut content/old footage way back when, the assumption is the the story was massively reworked in the last six months of development or so
which is why Liz is wearing her "iconic outfit" for only a small portion of the game, or how the 1999 mode just became a hard mode instead of having character classes and permanent upgrade options and such as originally intended
I tried stealthing with sugar but he still saw me, maybe I need to try that again but it felt really the AI is cheating, or just not possible to stalth that miniboss.
Would anyone like a code for KOTOR on Xbox? Apparently I got one from watching mixer. First to PM gets it.
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Bioshock Infinite was awesome. It, and Wolfenstein are one of the very few 12+ hour linear first person cinematic shootbangs released this decade.
If you lose aggro on a miniboss you can stealth attack them. Once he breaks free, just hide until he gives up and starts walking back up the stairs. Just bear in mind that they regain all healthbars when you lose aggro so you have to fight him fairly for the second bar.
https://www.giantbomb.com/shows/shadow-giant-bomb/2970-18989
I approve strongly of this podcast's thumbnail.
I approve strongly of this podcast's thumbnail.
Fell and fucked up my knee pretty badly yesterday but on the plus side I'll be home for once when Mass Alex goes up.
Funny enough, when those E3 Anthem versus Release Anthem videos were coming out, Bioshock Infinite was the first game I was reminded of. From what I remember, Infinite was supposedly rebooted completely at least two or three times during development. It's a shame, the earlier versions looked real interesting and could probably run on today's hardware.
New Mass Alex. Blissful day.
Did you buy the Firecrackers? They help against the Ogre and every other bosses.
Ogre is probably my second least favorite boss fight. Posture will eventually stay up if you get the healthbar low enough.
Did you buy the Firecrackers? They help against the Ogre and every other bosses.
Ogre is probably my second least favorite boss fight. Posture will eventually stay up if you get the healthbar low enough.
I don't care for this semi visible Tali face
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this is what quarians look like (image includes ME3 spoilers)
this is canon
I will NOT speak further on this subject
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this is what quarians look like (image includes ME3 spoilers)
this is canon
I will NOT speak further on this subject
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I would have been OK with BioInf not being a pure immersive sim and being more of a standard shooter, but it wasn't even a good standard shooter.
By the time it came out, I was really tired of games with two weapon limits, and so many things would've felt like afterthoughts if I didn't know that the game was rebooted 3 times in times or whatever. Like, they kept the gun upgrade system, which does not work with a 2 gun limit (which encourages you to keep switching guns as the situation calls for new ones) and they add all of the Vox guns late enough in the game that I tried not to use them because they never got upgraded. And Elizabeth as a helper/powerup was so poorly done.
Best parts were the intro and any huge arena fight with the sky rails, but those were too few and far between.
By the time it came out, I was really tired of games with two weapon limits, and so many things would've felt like afterthoughts if I didn't know that the game was rebooted 3 times in times or whatever. Like, they kept the gun upgrade system, which does not work with a 2 gun limit (which encourages you to keep switching guns as the situation calls for new ones) and they add all of the Vox guns late enough in the game that I tried not to use them because they never got upgraded. And Elizabeth as a helper/powerup was so poorly done.
Best parts were the intro and any huge arena fight with the sky rails, but those were too few and far between.
Hey at least Burial at Sea 2 sorta tried to get back into the more immersive simmy stuff, as surface as it was. ...And all the other problems people have with the DLC.
At least a fully upgraded Peeping Tom vigor was OP. And the preschool teaching kids not to share was good Rapturey stuff.
Edit: Oh God Alex systematically draining planets of resources and then arbitrarily going "eh, just tired of this one" and leaving it at Moderate is breaking my brain.
At least a fully upgraded Peeping Tom vigor was OP. And the preschool teaching kids not to share was good Rapturey stuff.
Edit: Oh God Alex systematically draining planets of resources and then arbitrarily going "eh, just tired of this one" and leaving it at Moderate is breaking my brain.
If you hear that sound you've slid the breast slider too far.
Don't give me that look. None of you are free from the sin of wonky abbreviations.
Shloot's in the thread title for crying out loud.
Confession time; mass Alex is one of my least favourite series and I love the mass effect games. I have tried to keep watching but I haven't even finished the first season
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