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This feels like the fan reaction to the DMC show hurt him a lot, which is baffling if true because mainstream critics were generally pretty positive on it.
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"He looks friendly, Snake. Try petting him."
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Seven way tie, really, because why bother with the handheld games?
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See the tragic thing is that Pokemon's systems are robust enough to provide challenges where this won't work and experimentation and deeper knowledge of the mechanics are required, but the official games make damn sure you never see that outside of multiplayer and the odd postgame challenge.
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The implication of this argument is that if 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand were made today it would be a soulslike.
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Baffling situation where a game known entirely for its detailed artwork gets turned into HR Giger Presents Hugo's House of Horrors.
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Richard Garriott immortalizing his dumbass teenage self-insert as the face of some the most foundational and influential works in an entire medium is such a good bit. Imagine if Birth of a Nation starred a Sonic OC.
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Shouting "bawk bawk bawk chicken" at the guy threatening to stab me to prove my superior debate skills.
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Video game subtitles have never surpassed "PROVING GROUNDS OF THE MAD OVERLORD". Perfect name. Perfectly primes you for 40 hours of beating down monsters.
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You'd think he'd just crawl around manually trimming it with barber shears.
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And then there's Iconoclast, which ranges from "I think my serfs should get TWO meals a day" to sane, sensible, morally upright decisions that inevitably get everyone killed by demons.
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See this is why Rogue Trader is the purest RPG in recent memory. Sit on a throne in your flying palace doing whatever you want because you have a permission slip from God. Pick out which cities to blow up from a dry text menu for a minor bonus to your damage with shotguns.
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And sometimes the movie screen glitches out or even has to entirely restart, and somehow it's that guy's fault.
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Playing KotOR 2 is like watching a Star Wars movie on a plane while sitting next to a guy who spends the whole time telling you how stupid Star Wars is.
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I think it's pretty clear and consistent if you read the message as "Enslaving people is bad, but Droids aren't people".
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A lot, but it's also its own thing. If you're half-decent at rhythm games it's also much easier than DMC.
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Yeah, the one in the cutscene after the Security levels that's clearly just a slightly tweaked QA-MILL. If you talk to Cinnamon afterwards there's even a meta joke about how it was an obvious boss fight setup that got cut.
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I think a lot about how Hi-Fi Rush only has 5 proper boss fights across a pretty long game, and how they flagrantly made the decision to cut at least one repeat boss late in development, and how a brief glance at DMC4 makes that decision clearly correct.
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I rewatched E7 recently and was surprised by how plot-heavy the third cour is, because in episodes with lots of worldbuilding and plot twists all I really remembered was stuff like "that's the episode where Eureka learns how to put on makeup".
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I think a lot of people think fondly of Oblivion because it's weird and experimental and tends to break in funny ways, and don't really think about how a full-scale remake would sand all of that away.
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Have your checks from George Soros been coming in on time lately? The last couple weeks mine haven't been deposited until Saturday morning, a full day after my reimbursements from the CCP come through. All I want is some consistency.
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If Columbo was real he probably would have become one of those minor celebrities from the 80s who did the talk show circuit lecturing about "Stranger Danger", except all of his talks would be about how you can't trust people who own grand pianos.
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Looking forward to the twenty streams of games for dead Japanese cellphone platforms.
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I simply laugh as the Barbarian spearman easily defeats my aircraft carrier.
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"Now they're taking a bit of a creative liberty here by giving a Boston Terrier a sand-manipulation Stand. Dog Stands vary pretty specifically by breed, and rat-catching breeds typically have anti-projectile stands to counter rat Stand users."
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Bureaucracy is a game explicitly about navigating frustration and tedium, where a central game mechanic is that you have a blood pressure meter and if you get too annoyed you have a heart attack and die.
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It's very funny that Adams was openly enamored with the idea of games as an art form, wrote a lot about how it allows such direct interaction with an audience etc, but his actual approach to game design was "Douglas Adams repeatedly whacks you with a stick and mocks you if you try to hit back"
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Once you unlock the parry in Hi-Fi Rush it starts feeling surprisingly similar imo.
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I generally wasn't a fan of the KotH subplots that were wholly disconnected from the actual story, but this one was so funny I didn't care.
"Bring us... a vole!"
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Some half-assed detective work seems to say A) it's a beauty salon, species of clientele nondisclosed, and B) the owner also owns a gas station that continues the amphibian theme.
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Imagine leaving your window open on Zebes and getting one of these little bastards stuck slowly bouncing around your living room.