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Re: Video Game Thread 2.0
« Reply #5295 on: December 07, 2014, 01:21:11 pm »
On another note, that was some impressive trolling by Square Enix yesterday. Announcing FFVII for the PS4... but a simple port of the PC re-release. Oh hoho. Funny guys.

(FFVII is overrated anyway. So damn overrated. And Aerith was annoying as anything)

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Re: Video Game Thread 2.0
« Reply #5296 on: December 07, 2014, 04:36:05 pm »
I never got past disc one because the game was boring and the characters were completely unlikeable.

I immediately went back to Ultima VII and remembered what a real RPG is supposed to be like.
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Re: Video Game Thread 2.0
« Reply #5297 on: December 07, 2014, 08:00:54 pm »
I'm amazingly hooked on a Let's Play of 'This War Is Mine'.  I so need to pick it up on payday.  If you guys are into a combination of strategy and resource management in a 2D setting and enjoy bleakness, you'll get a kick out of this.
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Re: Video Game Thread 2.0
« Reply #5298 on: December 07, 2014, 10:36:30 pm »
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Re: Video Game Thread 2.0
« Reply #5299 on: December 08, 2014, 01:13:47 am »
Final Fantasy III/VI has a much more special place in my heart. I'm probably sure it has some of the same problems as VII though. *shrug*

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At the risk of sounding incredibly callous and oblivious, who?

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Re: Video Game Thread 2.0
« Reply #5300 on: December 08, 2014, 01:27:49 am »
Final Fantasy III/VI has a much more special place in my heart. I'm probably sure it has some of the same problems as VII though. *shrug*

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At the risk of sounding incredibly callous and oblivious, who?

He made the first video game console.
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Re: Video Game Thread 2.0
« Reply #5301 on: December 08, 2014, 01:32:07 am »
I'm amazingly hooked on a Let's Play of 'This War Is Mine'.  I so need to pick it up on payday.  If you guys are into a combination of strategy and resource management in a 2D setting and enjoy bleakness, you'll get a kick out of this.

I've been looking at that game as well but I need to finish a few of the games I already have before I buy another one. (And I'm gonna get into a beta of a kickstarter soonish anyway so that will also be eating up the time I do not have.)
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Re: Video Game Thread 2.0
« Reply #5302 on: December 08, 2014, 01:41:38 am »
Ralph H. Baer is dead.

At the risk of sounding incredibly callous and oblivious, who?

He made the first video game console.

Okay, that's actually pretty sad. Sad because not very many people know about the existence of the Magnavox Odyssey (which at least I do) and an even more forgotten chapter of when Nolan Brushnell got sued by Magnavox because Pong was basically a ripoff of that Tennis game on the Odyssey. For some reason this man's name had eluded me until now.

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Re: Video Game Thread 2.0
« Reply #5303 on: December 08, 2014, 09:12:15 am »
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Re: Video Game Thread 2.0
« Reply #5304 on: December 08, 2014, 10:13:48 am »
Commander tags in Guild Wars 2 have to be the single worst thing about the game, and NOT because they're game breaking or anything (well, they're hideously expensive, but that's fine), it has to do with what people become when they see one anywhere on the map.  They flock to the tag, no matter what.  If they can't find a way, they'll spam map chat with crap like "how I get to commander tag?" even when the entire map is one 24/7 battle, critically needs people to actually get it to go anywhere, AND the commanders have, for whatever reason, fucked off to an area completely unrelated to the main focus of the map.  Screaming at people to stuff the commanders and actually participate in the map's main (and pretty much ONLY) purpose goes nowhere.  People become mindless fucking automatons when a commander's around, and will at times even point-blank REFUSE to think for themselves.
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Re: Video Game Thread 2.0
« Reply #5305 on: December 08, 2014, 10:15:29 am »
You know, I've been wondering.  Why is Australia so uptight when it comes to video games?  You'd think a country literally founded by criminals would be a little more relaxed.

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Re: Video Game Thread 2.0
« Reply #5307 on: December 08, 2014, 06:13:12 pm »
You know, I've been wondering.  Why is Australia so uptight when it comes to video games?  You'd think a country literally founded by criminals would be a little more relaxed.
It wasn't founded by criminals, criminals were just the preferred source of cheap labour. Which probably made the idea of a more controlling government all the more appealing to the governors and free settlers, which come to think of it probably explains a lot.

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Re: Video Game Thread 2.0
« Reply #5308 on: December 08, 2014, 06:47:43 pm »
You were a prison colony.

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Re: Video Game Thread 2.0
« Reply #5309 on: December 09, 2014, 04:05:39 am »
I'm having a blast in Inquisition, but the big decisions are nerve-racking because I barely have any context for them.
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