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GasBandit

GasBandit

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I just learned about PUBG's replay function. It's really handy for reviewing everything that happened in a match, and it all happens automatically. Pretty cool for making videos, too, which I fool around with here, giving a quick and dirty third person perspective to a highlight video from my twitch stream that I posted in Dave's streaming thread.

 
Dave

Dave

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Wait...replay function?[DOUBLEPOST=1515011964,1515011782][/DOUBLEPOST]How long did it take you to make that video?
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Dave said:
Wait...replay function?[DOUBLEPOST=1515011964,1515011782][/DOUBLEPOST]How long did it take you to make that video?
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That was one of the fastest videos I ever made. 3 hours, including rendering time.

And yeah, turns out PUBG stores the gameplay data of every match you take part in. From the main menu, the last option along the top is "replay." Most of my matches are 16-32 megs. Which is TINY. You can rewatch the whole match, or any part of it, from any perspective (free camera, third person follow, first person spectate, whatever). Combine that with OBS to record the parts you want, then stick them together with your favorite video editing software, narrate, and boom.

It's limited to the characters you were getting game updates on during play, though, so only people within about a km of you are there to watch.

Apparently people are doing SO MUCH machinima with this.
 
Dei

Dei

My daughter really enjoys watching me play Danganronpa, which on one hand is probably totally inappropriate because it's about teenagers killing each other, but on the other hand the murders use bright pink blood and the game is essentially a logic game, so maybe it's not that bad....

.....

Maybe I should just buy her Phoenix Wright....

Wait that game is about solving murders too...

Fuck.
 
WasabiPoptart

WasabiPoptart

Ori and the Blind Forest (definitive edition). I've been toying with buying it for a while now. The kids saw an ad for it while we were in Target and it was on sale through XBox Live, so why not. We haven't played it much, but so far it's a nice platformer. Beautiful graphics. Good story.
 
Gruebeard

Gruebeard

ThatNickGuy said:
Passpartout

You know, I wasn't sure if I'd like this game when I got it through Humble Bundle Monthly. But...I kinda dig it. I suck at art, but it was kind of fun to fiddle around with the admittedly limited painting mechanics. My friend Kitara, who IS an artist, made a few great paintings. Funny enough, one of Earth, was hated by EVERYONE who passed by. And yet something as simple as writing the word "DICK" (that was me :p ) sold for a handsome amount. My only criticism so far is there's no real feedback on what potential art buyers will like or not like.
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ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Quantum Break

I really wanted to like this game. I love the concept involving time travel. And I enjoyed the developer's previous games (Max Payne, Alan Wake). The game looks great and the environments have a great amount of detail. Time-related powers are kind of fun. Nothing particularly fancy or unique, but fun.

Except there are two major problems with it for me:
1) The action boils down to boring duck-and-cover shooting with endless soldiers who long overstay their welcome. The time mechanics make it mildly more interesting, but they're more an assist rather than the core element of the gameplay.

2) The game just suddenly turns into a TV show. At the end of each chapter is a LONG live-action cutscene. I didn't time it, but I think it was around 25-30 minutes. I was kind of getting drawn into the story and the idea, but this just killed all pacing and goodwill with me.

Those things were too big dealbreakers for me to bother continuing.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

ThatNickGuy said:
Quantum Break

I really wanted to like this game. I love the concept involving time travel. And I enjoyed the developer's previous games (Max Payne, Alan Wake). The game looks great and the environments have a great amount of detail. Time-related powers are kind of fun. Nothing particularly fancy or unique, but fun.

Except there are two major problems with it for me:
1) The action boils down to boring duck-and-cover shooting with endless soldiers who long overstay their welcome. The time mechanics make it mildly more interesting, but they're more an assist rather than the core element of the gameplay.

2) The game just suddenly turns into a TV show. At the end of each chapter is a LONG live-action cutscene. I didn't time it, but I think it was around 25-30 minutes. I was kind of getting drawn into the story and the idea, but this just killed all pacing and goodwill with me.

Those things were too big dealbreakers for me to bother continuing.
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The story behind that game is interesting. It was conceived when Microsoft was full force into making Xbox a media consumption platform instead of a gaming platform. Remember when the Xbox one was revealed at E3 and all they talked about was watching TV? That time period. Quantum Break was supposed to sell their tv service, with the game tying in to a live action tv series exclusive to Xbox live TV.

Quantum Break got stuck in development hell, because it turns out making a game and a TV show at the same time is hard, and didn't meet it's deadline of being an Xbox one launch title. In the meantime, Xbox live TV died, because no one wanted to buy an Xbox to watch football, and with nowhere to put the now story required TV show, they stuck it in the game.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Ravenpoe said:
The story behind that game is interesting. It was conceived when Microsoft was full force into making Xbox a media consumption platform instead of a gaming platform. Remember when the Xbox one was revealed at E3 and all they talked about was watching TV? That time period. Quantum Break was supposed to sell their tv service, with the game tying into a live action tv series exclusive to Xbox live TV.

Quantum Break got stuck in development hell, because it turns out making a game and a TV show at the same time is hard, and didn't meet its deadline of being an Xbox One launch title. In the meantime, Xbox live TV died, because no one wanted to buy an Xbox to watch football, and with nowhere to put the now story required TV show, they stuck it in the game.
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Riiiiiiight! I forgot all about that Xbox TV hullaballoo. It definitely shows because the integration of the episodes is so jarring, I almost turned off the game right then and there.

Then I skipped it halfway through, played a bit more, and then got tired of the gameplay. Might give it a second chance. I still have the game installed.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

ThatNickGuy said:
Riiiiiiight! I forgot all about that Xbox TV hullaballoo. It definitely shows because the integration of the episodes is so jarring, I almost turned off the game right then and there.

Then I skipped it halfway through, played a bit more, and then got tired of the gameplay. Might give it a second chance. I still have the game installed.
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Which is strange, because Remedy actually understands how to make quick little TV shows; they are littered throughout Alan Wake and I found most of them to be entertaining. You'd think they'd have done a better job.

On my end, the always wonderful @ThatNickGuy (it feels weird to tag someone in a post that is a reply to their post) gifted me a copy of Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War 3 and it's... okay? It has a very serious focus on multiplayer, which isn't unusual for this series, but the robust single player campaigns for each of the armies are gone, instead giving us a short, single campaign that integrates the Orcs and Eldar into the story alongside the Blood Ravens Space Marines. This isn't inherently bad or anything, as they did this in Dawn of War: Winter Assault, but it feels like a... lack of effort. The unique perspectives of each army (even on the same maps) always made the stories really interesting.

Also, how the FUCK is Gabriel Angeleos still alive? They've killed him off like 3 fucking times, in 3 separate games. He's just back, no explanation. They literally dump him into your lap within the first minute of gameplay and go "Here's your Blood Ravens hero!" like it's no big fucking deal. They could have at least given us Tarkus or something...
 
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Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

AshburnerX said:
Which is strange, because Remedy actually understands how to make quick little TV shows; they are littered throughout Alan Wake and I found most of them to be entertaining. You'd think they'd have done a better job.
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Little tongue in cheek vignettes are a lot different than full 25 minute episodes with tv quality production value and story. But overall, Quantum Break fails because it was made to sell a service rather than a game. And double fail when that service died before the game even came out. I feel like it would have been canned entirely if not for all the money that was already sunk into its production, choosing to rush it out the door to try to attempt to get some return on investment.


On the PC side of things, they again tried to get it to sell a service, releasing it exclusively on the Windows X store instead of steam. That didn't last long, since no one was buying it.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Civilization VI

Got this through Humble Bundle Monthly yesterday. I jumped on this one.

But...I don't really like it and I think I finally figured out why. Ditto for Civ 5:

The pacing. Civ 4 is my favourite of the series. I put in more hours into that than I'm willing to admit. But its design was much faster paced, especially once I turned off a number of animations. Which I can do (and did) in 6, but it feels like eternity for other civs to do their turn. Plus, battles take several turns, which slows everything right down.

The leader screens take FOREVER to navigate. And I just don't like the hex style maps.

I'll keep playing a bit longer and hope it grabs me, but it's trying my patience.
 
Officer_Charon

Officer_Charon

One... more... turn...

If it's on the Monthly, then I've probably gotten it and not realized it.


..... Fuck, I don't have enough time to play all the games I already have!
 
Frank

Frank

Played through Far Cry 4, just the main story missions and named character sidequests, didn't do much of the other side content since it's fucking boring.

Unsatisfying trash. Every character sucks. Every character. All shit. I'm supposed to feel bad for Pagan Min? Because my shitty mom left my shitty dad and fell in love with a homicidal dictator who has a Nazi memorabilia collection? Should I side with the progressive woman who wants to free the girls of her nation from old cultural oppression, but also wants to turn the country into a drug peddling, child soldier hellscape or the traditionalist dude who wants to bring his people back to a time before so he can marry all the 8 year old girls off to men. I'll let the two assholes who keep surprise drugging me live in my yard too for no reason. Why not? Who cares.

This game loves the song Should I Stay or Should I Go. Go. Never play this. All filler, no thriller.

Why would anyone live in this shitty country? You literally live in fear at all times that an eagle is going to fucking end your life out of nowhere at any given time. They're worse than cliff racers. The game decides that you've had a full load of medical syringes and blam, you lose just enough health that you can't regen back to full without using one because an eagle is suddenly trying to rip your face off. Are you sneaking around an enemy fort, scoping shit out, too fucking bad, eagle, your eyes, ripped out. You idiot, you let your guard down for one fucking millisecond. Now a pack of wolves, dholes and badgers are tearing your dick off. You dumb fucking moron. You should have known better.
 
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figmentPez

figmentPez

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Frank said:
Played through Far Cry 4, just the main story missions and named character sidequests, didn't do much of the other side content since it's fucking boring.

Unsatisfying trash. Every character sucks. Every character. All shit. I'm supposed to feel bad for Pagan Min? Because my shitty mom left my shitty dad and fell in love with a homicidal dictator who has a Nazi memorabilia collection? Should I side with the progressive woman who wants to free the girls of her nation from old cultural oppression, but also wants to turn the country into a drug peddling, child soldier hellscape or the traditionalist dude who wants to bring his people back to a time before so he can marry all the 8 year old girls off to men. I'll let the two assholes who keep surprise drugging me live in my yard too for no reason. Why not? Who cares.

This game loves the song Should I Stay or Should I Go. Go. Never play this. All filler, no thriller.
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I haven't played FC4, but I watched an incomplete Let's Play, and I've read a lot of spoilers. Everything I know about the characters and the plot make me wonder if the intended "real" ending, is the one where you just wait at the beginning of the game until you get to leave the country and not have to put up with all the bullshit.
 
Frank

Frank

figmentPez said:
I haven't played FC4, but I watched an incomplete Let's Play, and I've read a lot of spoilers. Everything I know about the characters and the plot make me wonder if the intended "real" ending, is the one where you just wait at the beginning of the game until you get to leave the country and not have to put up with all the bullshit.
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The wait 10 minutes ending is the best one. It seriously is.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Frank said:
Played through Far Cry 4, just the main story missions and named character sidequests, didn't do much of the other side content since it's fucking boring.

Unsatisfying trash. Every character sucks. Every character. All shit. I'm supposed to feel bad for Pagan Min? Because my shitty mom left my shitty dad and fell in love with a homicidal dictator who has a Nazi memorabilia collection? Should I side with the progressive woman who wants to free the girls of her nation from old cultural oppression, but also wants to turn the country into a drug peddling, child soldier hellscape or the traditionalist dude who wants to bring his people back to a time before so he can marry all the 8 year old girls off to men. I'll let the two assholes who keep surprise drugging me live in my yard too for no reason. Why not? Who cares.

This game loves the song Should I Stay or Should I Go. Go. Never play this. All filler, no thriller.
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The most satisfying thing about the endings to Farcry 4 is that no matter which ending you pick, the second that cutscene ends you can put a bullet in the other one... which is exactly what I did.

Pagan Min has a point about Arjay though, assuming Min was honest about not forcing him to takeover; Arjay (You) could have left at any time. The only reason things ended up that fucking insane is because he (You) wanted to be a god damn action hero. Now everyone's lives are somehow worse than they were under Min and it's his (your) fault. Really, I wish there had been an ending where you just escape the country and the ending is just Arjay watching a news report about the region and how the war rages on, before he flips it off and goes to Starbucks for a latte.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

I Am Bread

Was less than $2 on PSN. You play a slice of bread on a quest to be toasted, while trying to still be edible. You can only move by gripping things and flopping or flinging yourself.

I don't know if I love it, but it's definitely making us laugh.
 
Frank

Frank

So, the Star Control 2 Award for Excellence in the Field of Eclipsing the Original Game goes to Watch_Dogs 2. It's sooooooooo much better than the first game. It's too bad that W_D left such a bad taste in people's mouths that the sequel failed to perform well financially.
 
Dei

Dei

I rue the day I ever let my daughter see me playing Danganronpa, because now if I play it without her around to watch she gets mad. Honestly, it probably isn't 100% appropriate for a 12 year old, but she's been watching anime forever, so she's already heard all the... adult references that anime loves so much.
 
fade

fade

Staff member
Finished the Hearts of Stone expansion. Hard to top
basically the Devil
as a villain. Not sure why I spoilered that. It is pretty obvious right away. I'm also glad to see with a little googling that I wasn't the only one who thought O'Dimm was voiced by Mark Hamill.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Civilization 6

Since getting the game on Friday, I've put in 45 hours of gameplay.

Before you hit the funny reaction on that, it's not a good thing when I'm also still struggling with depression. I've been playing it until 6 or 7 in the morning for several days. To fix my sleeping schedule, I purposely stayed up all day yesterday, went to bed at 8 last night, and slept for about 13 hours.

EDIT: But don't feel guilty about laughing at my first posts about the game. Those were meant to be funny. :D
 
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