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Yarrun XIX · 2014-02-09 10:50:13

How is that a solution?

Adding a meme into my dark roguelike survival game is not success by any means!

Imipolex G · 2014-02-09 12:39:47

Well, I put memes into my superdark and serious game

so why not? you gotta have a little humor

Hexartes · 2014-02-09 13:54:18

Making something oppressively dark and gritty rarely works. There has to be some levity, or your dark content is meaningless.

Yarrun XIX · 2014-02-12 09:40:23

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

CURSE YOU, EVOLAND. CURSE YOU AND THE FETID CARCASS FROM WHICH YOU SPAWNED.

YOU ARE NOT CLEVER. YOU ARE NOT CUTE. YOU ARE A COLLECTION OF HACKNEYED TROPES AND STALE REFERENCES.

...

I'm sorry. It's just such a bad game.

At no point was there anything resembling proper difficulty. It was either mind-numbingly easy or painfully tedious. The plot was nothing but a collection of cliches, without a single attempt to actually connect the player to what was happening. It's like if Seltzer and Friedberg designed a videogame, except that they'd at least try to make things funny (and fail miserably). This just dragged on and on and on until I just wanted to get 100% completion so I could uninstall the game completely.

I finally got tired of 100% completion and decided to find the final boss so I could end it. The Boss AI could hardly hit me, the last stage was just the typical LoZ tennis match (but without any of the suspense that LoZ would have given it) and you know what the Boss's last words were? A butchered version of the frigging speech from Blade Runner. Did...did they honestly think that nobody would notice? Did they do it intentionally (because, as we all know, nothing's more nostalgic to videogamers than Blade Runner)?

I'm just so angry that someone made this and then got people to pay them money for it.

Tre · 2014-02-12 10:55:33

Well, was Analogue: A Hate Story any better? I'd hope so, otherwise I'd have unintentionally ripped you off.

I'm sorry :|

Yarrun XIX · 2014-02-12 11:05:01

It's okay, Tre. It's my fault for wishlisting it without taking a good look at it first.

Analogue: A Hate Story is pretty good though.

Tre · 2014-02-12 18:35:57

Ah, alright, glad that one wasn't a wash.

UNRELATED:

Nobody gives a crap about awards in video games, but the BAFTA nominations just went out and Tearaway got frakkin' EIGHT

for comparison, The Last of Us and GTA got 10 and 9, respectively

I know it doesn't matter but I feel validated :D

Füschlatz · 2014-02-12 18:39:51

The Last of Us got 10 BAFTA nominations? Aren't those awards limited to British media?

Yarrun XIX · 2014-02-12 18:44:56

Tre · 2014-02-12 18:45:03

I guess the video game awards aren't.

There's a "best British game" category but beyond that I see no particular limits.

Tre · 2014-02-12 18:50:47

>Luigi's Mansion

Good to see Tycho and Gabe are still as sophomoric as ever.

I'm not crazy about PA anymore but both of those are hella accurate as far as Tearaway and Legends are concerned.

Yarrun XIX · 2014-02-12 18:51:42

That's what I thought when I saw the Tearaway one.

Yarrun XIX · 2014-02-12 18:52:20

That reminds me. Papers, Please is still sitting in the 'not cleared' section.

Yarrun XIX · 2014-02-16 07:25:05

http://www.dorkly.com/article/59332/there-are-thousands-of-people-trying-to-play-the-same-game-of-pokemon

Salix Babylonika · 2014-02-16 07:40:39

I made a thread about that but no one seems to care.

Tachyon · 2014-02-16 09:13:40

>luigi's mansion
>sophomoric

explain please?

('sophomoric' is not a word we use in British English, but Google says it connotes immaturity)

Yarrun XIX · 2014-02-16 09:17:59

Filthiest Multiplayer Chat (Suck it Harder)

Tachyon · 2014-02-16 09:19:07

oh, right

Füschlatz · 2014-02-18 00:03:41

David Cage will soon be an honorary Legionnaire, apparently.

One-Winged Eagle · 2014-02-18 02:11:29

boo

give it to someone else

boo

EDIT: Actually what I'd like to talk about is WHAT FUCKING CONTRIBUTIONS

One-Winged Eagle · 2014-02-18 08:04:49

I just got Link Between Worlds.

I hear that you can either rent important equipment or buy them. So is there any reason I shouldn't just spend a day catching bees and guessing the fortune game until I have like the eight thousand needed to buy all of them at one shot? Because I already have one thousand.

Yarrun XIX · 2014-02-18 08:14:29

So, stuff like Heavy Rain, Beyond Two Souls and Indigo Prophecy rank higher than Beyond Good and Evil, Rayman, Morrowind, Prince of Persia, No More Heroes, and Assassin's Creed combined?

One-Winged Eagle · 2014-02-18 08:17:03

Moviegames are better than gamegames.

Everybody is in love with moviegames after all.

Fossilmaiden · 2014-02-18 08:22:34

kingCrackers said:
I just got Link Between Worlds.

I hear that you can either rent important equipment or buy them. So is there any reason I shouldn't just spend a day catching bees and guessing the fortune game until I have like the eight thousand needed to buy all of them at one shot? Because I already have one thousand.

No. Well, actually, play the Lorule fortune game. It's far easier to win.

Tre · 2014-02-18 08:27:50

Yarrun XIX said:
So, stuff like Heavy Rain, Beyond Two Souls and Indigo Prophecy rank higher than Beyond Good and Evil, Rayman, Morrowind, Prince of Persia, No More Heroes, and Assassin's Creed combined?

ahahaha what

Is Cage even French? I never knew...

Fossilmaiden · 2014-02-18 08:45:38

Yes, he's French.

nohaynicklibre · 2014-02-18 08:45:54

No More Heroes is not really a Ubisoft IP, they just published it in America

nohaynicklibre · 2014-02-18 08:47:04

But yeah, Ubisoft deserves that more than David Cage. Even Illusion deserves that more than Cage

One-Winged Eagle · 2014-02-18 08:50:18

Fossilmaiden said:
No. Well, actually, play the Lorule fortune game. It's far easier to win.

Are you sure? I've won like four times in a roll.

Or does Lorule pay out better?

Fossilmaiden · 2014-02-18 08:52:17

The way the Lorule game is set up gives you a better chance of winning, or at the very least breaking even. Especially if you get your hands on a 300.

Yarrun XIX · 2014-02-18 20:39:01

Got two 25% Discounts for Broken Age.

Anyone wants them? Tre? Kraken?

Füschlatz · 2014-02-18 21:10:47

Yarrun XIX said:
Got two 25% Discounts for Broken Age.

I've got one of those as well, so that's three total if anyone's interested.

Also, the inclusion of both Antichamber and Guacamelee is enough for me to highly recommend the new Humble Indie Bundle.

Klinotaxis · 2014-02-18 21:21:35

i like shooting people

Imipolex G · 2014-02-18 21:22:04

that's nice, dear

One-Winged Eagle · 2014-02-18 21:36:39

I would like one, please.

Yarrun XIX · 2014-02-18 22:02:27

It is done

Tre · 2014-02-19 00:03:54

Yarrun XIX said:
Got two 25% Discounts for Broken Age.

Anyone wants them? Tre? Kraken?

Expiry date at all? I'd love to use it but I'm broke as the dickens rn.

Obā-san · 2014-02-19 00:04:26

Tre said:

Yarrun XIX said:
Got two 25% Discounts for Broken Age.

Anyone wants them? Tre? Kraken?
Expiry date at all? I'd love to use it but I'm broke as the dickens rn.

Yarrun XIX · 2014-02-19 00:05:24

I'd also like to use them, but they expire on the 14th and I definitely don't have cash for them now.

...I might actually hold on to one of them in case Steam pulls a sale.

Tre · 2014-02-19 00:10:16

I'm probably not gonna pool together the cash for it in time, then.

Thanks a lot for offering though :)

Füschlatz · 2014-02-19 00:10:24

...can we use our own coupons when buying gifts for other Steam users?

If so, then maybe I could use my coupon to buy a copy of Broken Age for one of you and then, when you have the money, you'd buy me a Steam gift or two in return.

Or we can just call it an early birthday present or something. Your choice, really.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-02-19 00:13:21

can you use four of those coupons to get the game for free?

Probably not, right?

Füschlatz · 2014-02-19 00:15:40

Yeah, I'd be surprised if the system allows the use of more than one coupon per purchase.

Yarrun XIX · 2014-02-19 00:18:34

It doesn't. If it did, I'd keep both of them and buy the game for $12

Füschlatz said:
...can we use our own coupons when buying gifts for other Steam users?

If so, then maybe I could use my coupon to buy a copy of Broken Age for one of you and then, when you have the money, you'd buy me a Steam gift or two in return.

Or we can just call it an early birthday present or something. Your choice, really.

I believe you can use coupons like that.

...I'm not sure when I'd be able to pay you back, but I'm willing to take you up on that offer.

Füschlatz · 2014-02-19 00:24:20

Alright, then. Deal accepted!

I don't think I have you in my friends list, Yarrun. Could you link your profile to me, please?

Yarrun XIX · 2014-02-19 00:26:28

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/765611980

Füschlatz · 2014-02-19 00:28:26

Sorry!

An error was encountered while processing your request:

The specified profile could not be found.

Er...wanna try that again?

Yarrun XIX · 2014-02-19 00:30:23

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198046616908

Sorry. Copy-paste mechanic wouldn't recognize that last string of numbers.

Füschlatz · 2014-02-19 00:30:43

Ah, okay. Just a sec...

One-Winged Eagle · 2014-02-19 01:00:16

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198019970288 This is mine?

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