The Trash Heap of the Heapers' Hangout

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  • Tachyon said:

    why are we only listing indie games, out of curiosity?

    there are a heck of a lot of widely-praised games

    Cuz the two she listed were indie games.
    I'm nitpicking here, but I'm not a "she".
    Whoops. Sorry. :<
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Nier
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    far

    whereeeeever you areee
  • I think The Walking Dead did the 'gameplay informs the story' thing pretty well. There's one particular moment where you're in the middle of a dialogue section and a zombie attacks while you're still sorting through the dialogue, which is the best scare moment that I've ever seen in a videogame. Blows all of those scripted events in Half-Life out of the water.

    I'll admit, its gameplay is limited, but it's not much worse than your standard point-and-click adventure game.
  • Tachyon said:

    from what i've seen The Walking Dead and The Last of Us are extremely highly regarded by most people

    Depends on who you talk to.

    I think The Walking Dead is the better recieved of the two but I don't see people talk about the franchise (the games anyway) too often. The Last of Us was well regarded in general but had a sizable minority of detractors who either felt the game simply lacked any reason to be a game (eg. the argument that it was basically a CGI film with some quicktime events stringing it together) or felt it was problematic for various reasons (which I can definitely understand).
  • edited 2014-03-03 22:45:23
    We can do anything if we do it together.

    Tachyon said:

    why are we only listing indie games, out of curiosity?

    there are a heck of a lot of widely-praised games

    Cuz the two she listed were indie games.
    I'm nitpicking here, but I'm not a "she".
    Whoops. Sorry. :<
    It's alright, just as long as you remember in the future.

    Your (and other peeps') recommendations are still pretty solid ones.
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    today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you

    ...somehow
  • Tachyon said:

    why are we only listing indie games, out of curiosity?

    there are a heck of a lot of widely-praised games

    Cuz the two she listed were indie games.
    I'm nitpicking here, but I'm not a "she".
    Whoops. Sorry. :<
    It's alright, just as long as you remember in the future.

    Your (and other peeps') recommendations are still pretty solid ones.
    I will try to, but I don't talk to you all that often. Feel free to correct me if I make the mistake again though, I'll try my best not to do so, obviously.
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    -puts hat on top of hat-

    -chomps fake cigar-

    You know, Heapers, I'm getting real tired of your shenanigans.  You get results, but you're a loose cannon!  Someday, I won't be chief anymore, and you won't get to pull stunts like this; you'll have to turn in your badge.
  • Oh, and there's Mirror's Edge, the Arkham series (well, the first one at least. Two's story is kind of whack and I haven't heard good things about the third), Quantum Conundrum and, of course, Portal and Portal 2.
  • edited 2014-03-03 22:49:44
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    St. Vincent's "Huey Newton" may be one of the best songs of her career.

    It's an electronic ballad that turns into a stoner metal track with gospel vocals about Clark communing with the late Black Panther leader during an Ambien blackout. It is just as bizarre and trippy and yet way more accessible than it sounds.

    Like, holy fucking shit this is great.
  • edited 2014-03-03 22:49:41
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch

    Depends on who you talk to.

    I think The Walking Dead is the better recieved of the two but I don't see people talk about the franchise (the games anyway) too often. The Last of Us was well regarded in general but had a sizable minority of detractors who either felt the game simply lacked any reason to be a game (eg. the argument that it was basically a CGI film with some quicktime events stringing it together) or felt it was problematic for various reasons (which I can definitely understand).

    i haven't played The Last of Us (again, seen videos on Youtube), but to the former complaint, there are parts of it where i think the impact is definitely reinforced by the fact that it's 'you' frantically trying to do whatever you're supposed to do
  • We can do anything if we do it together.

    Tachyon said:

    why are we only listing indie games, out of curiosity?

    there are a heck of a lot of widely-praised games

    Cuz the two she listed were indie games.
    I'm nitpicking here, but I'm not a "she".
    Whoops. Sorry. :<
    It's alright, just as long as you remember in the future.

    Your (and other peeps') recommendations are still pretty solid ones.
    I will try to, but I don't talk to you all that often. Feel free to correct me if I make the mistake again though, I'll try my best not to do so, obviously.
    Yeah, that's certainly understandable. I still think you're a cool person, even if we don't talk all that often. I admit I often have trouble with the names/genders/what-not of people I don't talk too that often, too.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Tachyon said:

    far

    whereeeeever you areee

    nier.jpg
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i know, Odra

    sorry, i couldn't resist
  • Tachyon said:

    Depends on who you talk to.

    I think The Walking Dead is the better recieved of the two but I don't see people talk about the franchise (the games anyway) too often. The Last of Us was well regarded in general but had a sizable minority of detractors who either felt the game simply lacked any reason to be a game (eg. the argument that it was basically a CGI film with some quicktime events stringing it together) or felt it was problematic for various reasons (which I can definitely understand).

    i haven't played The Last of Us (again, seen videos on Youtube), but to the former complaint, there are parts of it where i think the impact is definitely reinforced by the fact that it's 'you' frantically trying to do whatever you're supposed to do
    I only buy the first argument with some caveats as I've never played the game myself.

    The latter I can understand a lot more.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    (Oh yeah, and "Huey Newton" is immediately followed by "Digital Witness", which is also rad.)
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Half-Life's story is kinda bad.

    The characters are fine, but not out of line with a saturday morning cartoon series, the worldbuilding is slapdash and the plot boils down to "My lord, Gordan Freeman! Now go do this weird thing"

    Definitely superfun though.
  • Odradek said:

    Half-Life's story is kinda bad.


    The characters are fine, but not out of line with a saturday morning cartoon series, the worldbuilding is slapdash and the plot boils down to "My lord, Gordan Freeman! Now go do this weird thing"

    Definitely superfun though.
    now do you actually think this or did you copy and paste this from somewhere.
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Fine, then, Don't pretend to be in a film Noir with me.

    RESURGAM.

    >:(
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    He thought it himself, Burgundy.
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Triplepost.
  • My dreams exceed my real life

    Odradek said:

    Half-Life's story is kinda bad.


    The characters are fine, but not out of line with a saturday morning cartoon series, the worldbuilding is slapdash and the plot boils down to "My lord, Gordan Freeman! Now go do this weird thing"

    Definitely superfun though.
    now do you actually think this or did you copy and paste this from somewhere.
    Yes :(
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    good night, Aliroz
  • Odradek said:

    Half-Life's story is kinda bad.


    The characters are fine, but not out of line with a saturday morning cartoon series, the worldbuilding is slapdash and the plot boils down to "My lord, Gordan Freeman! Now go do this weird thing"

    Definitely superfun though.
    Basically.

    Gordon's like Lassie with a crowbar.

    "What's that? There are zombies out there? Send Freeman to take care of it."

    "What's that? The Combine's attacking? Send Freeman out through Zombie-town, he'll be fine."

    "What's that? There are weird noises in the silo? Send Freeman. I mean, sure, we're doing important science stuff here that he might have an opinion on, but nah, let's send the good doctor to do some basic tasks. No, I'm sure there are no zombies in the silo"
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    chapel of a heretic
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Burgundy, you made my buddy Odradek frown.

    :(
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i feel like my initial impression of The Stanley Parable was biased by the fact that it came from people criticizing it online

    i think if i were to play it blind i'd probably have found it thoroughly amusing
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    room of illusion
  • Acknowledgement should be had that Gamefreak saw fit to give Beedrill, of all possible Pokemon, a new, specifically-created, move in Gen VI.

    I think that's pretty cool.
    Odradek said:

    Odradek said:

    Half-Life's story is kinda bad.


    The characters are fine, but not out of line with a saturday morning cartoon series, the worldbuilding is slapdash and the plot boils down to "My lord, Gordan Freeman! Now go do this weird thing"

    Definitely superfun though.
    now do you actually think this or did you copy and paste this from somewhere.
    Yes :(
    *pat pat*
  • Tachyon said:

    i feel like my initial impression of The Stanley Parable was biased by the fact that it came from people criticizing it online

    i think if i were to play it blind i'd probably have found it thoroughly amusing

    What other game could you try helplessly to save a baby from diving into a fire?

    I mean come on.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Exactly!  So deep and meaningful.
  • Tachyon said:

    i feel like my initial impression of The Stanley Parable was biased by the fact that it came from people criticizing it online

    i think if i were to play it blind i'd probably have found it thoroughly amusing

    I'm sorry if you think I factored into that but man, I really, genuinely dislike The Stanley Parable.

    I think Jazzpunk is a better game in the same vein. It's also more overtly comedic though, so idk.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    nah, it wasn't you

    mostly my impression of TSP was 'pretentious, condescending hipster shit', but that's not the kind of opinion i would normally ever form of anything

    looking back, it actually strikes me as quite witty

    i don't know Jazzpunk, maybe i'll check it out
  • I played the game for about 2 hours, and I have never felt the need to go back to it, but I can't say I miss those two hours, I enjoyed myself.

    That is my experience with entropy, the heat death of the universe...

    Also, you could copy paste that out in the Jack Bauer Parabells.
  • Sometimes I fantasize about what Stuck would be like as a game

    I'd be cool with it as either a 2D platformer/beat 'em up or an open world 3D platformer (and either with light RPG elements), though I do think the former makes a better fit than the latter only because lol retraux

    Also I'd die forever of happiness if Ubi published/developed it but really, I'd be fine with whoever as long as they gave it a good amount of respect
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    moo
  • Also, maybe it's because I haven't played it yet but I'm pretty lost on the hate TSP has gotten too

    Then again, I'm the kind of guy who thought of the similarly minimalist Thomas Was Alone as a work of art

    Jazzpunk looks really interesting though, I want to try it
  • edited 2014-03-04 00:22:28
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    A lot of them derive from old British or Irish folk songs, actually.

    Though those may not be the kind of American traditional song you're thinking of.
  • Old John Brown’s body lies moldering in the grave,
    While weep the sons of bondage whom he ventured all to save;
    But tho he lost his life while struggling for the slave,
    His soul is marching on.
    (Chorus)
    John Brown was a hero, undaunted, true and brave,
    And Kansas knows his valor when he fought her rights to save;
    Now, tho the grass grows green above his grave,
    His soul is marching on.
    (Chorus)
    He captured Harper’s Ferry, with his nineteen men so few,
    And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled thru and thru;
    They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew,
    But his soul is marching on.
    (Chorus)
    John Brown was John the Baptist of the Christ we are to see,
    Christ who of the bondmen shall the Liberator be,
    And soon thruout the Sunny South the slaves shall all be free,
    For his soul is marching on.
    (Chorus)
    The conflict that he heralded he looks from heaven to view,
    On the army of the Union with its flag red, white and blue.
    And heaven shall ring with anthems o’er the deed they mean to do,
    For his soul is marching on.
    (Chorus)
    Ye soldiers of Freedom, then strike, while strike ye may,
    The death blow of oppression in a better time and way,
    For the dawn of old John Brown has brightened into day,
    And his soul is marching on.
    (Chorus)
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    to the sound of the monstrance clock
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    air is cleansed, assembled flock
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    black candles burn, all minds aligned
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    image
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    one more day.
  • Alright, I've decided on it.

    I'm going to redo Beyonce's Flawless as a 1930's Big Band Standard with elements of fusion and bebop.

    I am going to start this and not come back to it for months on end.

    This is my destiny.
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    why

    why bother
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