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GasBandit
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Spurred on by @ThatNickGuy's recent frustration with getting started with Cities: Skylines, I made a "short" 60 minute tutorial/let's play of the basics.
That word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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This is why I still greatly prefer reading over watching a video when it comes to information. No matter what info you give in there, I'm 100% sure I could read it and look at some well-chosen screenshots in half the time, tops. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a written word is a lot faster than a spoken one.
GasBandit
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True, but there are also some concepts that are just easier to communicate by "showing." For example, Nick was having trouble figuring out how building roads worked, and that was answered in the first 30 second of gameplay. I'm still not sure I can adequately describe it in text.
Hah, my Gnomoria tutorial was NINETY minutes. And people watch it! For fun! I am astounded as well.
Thanks man, I'll check it out sometime. I got myself caught up in The Secret World MMO recently.
In other news, I finally traded in my PS3 to EB Games today. Because honestly, I hadn't gamed on it for over a year. Even before I had my gaming rig, I hadn't turned on the PS3 for anything other than Netflix and Bluray movies in months. And I found a solid BluRay player on sale recently. So it was time.
After the system and the few games I had left (less than half a dozen), I got $100 credit. Which is fine with me. If I'd sold it on Kijiji, I probably wouldn't have gotten any more than around $130 for it.
I used the credit to get a Steam gift card. So now I'm debating what to get. So far, I snagged Broforce and A Golden Wake. I'm debating The Witcher 3, but I'm not sure. According to Can You Run It, my system can run it; just not on the highest, recommended settings.
Goddamnit, I now want this game and didn't have any money to pick it up when it was on sale.
figmentPez
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Sold off a bunch of my TF2 stuff, and a lot of trading cards, used the money to buy a Steam controller. I'll let you guys know what I think when it gets here in a couple of weeks.
That Stanley Parable review the video took clips from was really stupid.
It's unfortunate that the video maker didn't play Undertale more than once.
I'm getting ready to do a big update overhaul to my gaming rig and I am SO READY to never use AMD again.
The new Crimson drivers are fucking abysmal, adding blocky pixelated artifacts to ALL of the games I've tried so far. Fuck.
Good timing too, Nvidia is showing off their new chipset at CES right now.
The new Crimson drivers are fucking abysmal, adding blocky pixelated artifacts to ALL of the games I've tried so far. Fuck.
Good timing too, Nvidia is showing off their new chipset at CES right now.
Not all of us think Undertale is the groundbreaking piece others seem to think it is... then again, I think a lot of this interpretation has do with the fact that the Undertale fan community has sort of ruined Undertale for everyone else. Don't get me wrong... it's DAMN GOOD and certainly deserves praise, but the hype ruined it for me. It was built up impossibly huge and it sort of failed to meet that measure when I was actually exposed to it.
Man, that applies to so many games for me. Good games, but ultimately overhyped, so that by the time I got around to playing them, I felt underwhelmed. Bastion immediately springs to mind.
I have both Papers Please and FTL waiting for me, and I'm kinda afraid it'll happen with them too.
Same; I can never get past the middle sectors.I think Papers, Please was overhyped. FTL is a game I open every once and a while when I feel like getting wrecked.
The video maker was certainly into it enough to say they wanted to leave their ending alone and just watch stuff on Youtube, so I don't think that applies there. I'm not talking about the action of replaying it though; I'm talking about an element of Undertale that makes it unique, and it isn't a shocking cutscene or plot twist, it's more subtle than that, so that most of that hype-inflating fanbase hasn't even noticed it. Since you've already played it, I have no qualms mentioning it here, but I strongly urge anyone who hasn't played Undertale to not click the spoiler.
The big deal to me and probably many gamers is that you're not playing the game you think you're playing. Each playthrough, even incomplete ones, could be considered a level or stage for a regular game. Usually a playthrough is secluded into itself, even New Game+ modes. But Undertale logs that as something that still happened, and Flowey is a character who can remember that stuff, can even use the save points (before Frisk shows up, anyway). That you're not playing the character you name is an interesting element, but ultimately only important at the end of Pacifist or during Genocide runs. What's important is that the game considers everything you've done canon, even if you didn't want it. Example, if you kill Toriel at the beginning, then reset (presumably after finding out how to not kill her online), Flowey will call you on it. Just playing neutral a second time, characters will note familiarity, but that gets more screwy the more you experiment with it.
To be honest, I don't have the time or patience to see every alteration that occurs, but the ones I've seen and read about are crazy. It even seems like the game takes what you did up to a Game Over into account. That's just nuts to me.
It has a good story on top of this, so even if it weren't for these fourth-wall and gamer-prodding elements I'd still think it was a nice RPG that captured Earthbound's vibe quite well, but the above is what really blew my mind. I hope Toby Fox does another game with this mechanic. I know others will be craving the return of the characters, but since there's no canon ending, there's no point in that. I just want to see this mechanic taken to even greater lengths, because we as gamers are so used to getting away from what we do in games.
To be honest, I don't have the time or patience to see every alteration that occurs, but the ones I've seen and read about are crazy. It even seems like the game takes what you did up to a Game Over into account. That's just nuts to me.
It has a good story on top of this, so even if it weren't for these fourth-wall and gamer-prodding elements I'd still think it was a nice RPG that captured Earthbound's vibe quite well, but the above is what really blew my mind. I hope Toby Fox does another game with this mechanic. I know others will be craving the return of the characters, but since there's no canon ending, there's no point in that. I just want to see this mechanic taken to even greater lengths, because we as gamers are so used to getting away from what we do in games.
So the fans going apeshit over how much Papyrus likes spaghetti didn't phase me before I actually played the game and is just as irrelevant now. People like that are missing the point because the creator wasn't concerned whether every player saw everything, an element I appreciate in any game. That's what I wanted out of later Mass Effect and Dragon Age games, but there was this fear that the player might miss something, so they made sure you couldn't. I don't like that. I like Dark Souls making me feel like an idiot where I've played it four times and then hear online about some NPC I somehow never encountered.
I haven't run into this yet, but that's probably because I haven't upgraded yet (and also probably because I'm not playing the same game(s) as you). I'm still using 15.11 and when I tell Catalyst to check for updates it keeps saying, "Nope! Still no updates. Check back later!" even though I know 16.1 was released 5 days ago.
--Patrick
I wouldn't of if I wasn't blue screening thanks to some corrupted drivers. Had to rollback after installing those shitty Crimson drivers.
Fuck AMD.
FWIW if you're moving from Catalyst to Crimson you have to do a clean install (completely remove Catalyst, then install Crimson) but yes, Crimson is very obviously not finished yet.
--Patrick
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BErt
Aww, yeeeeah. Hawt.
You mean there isn't already a mod that replaces the standard spacesuit with a half-naked Yoko?
--Patrick
Huh. Does it work now?
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BErt
Yep. That ship can go from suck to blow.
