So, it turns out that Saints Row 3, despite everything about it, actually has a really good character customizer.
That is, one can actually make a character that's endomorphic (something that I've never been able to do with a character creator in a videogame), and make a muscular girl with small breasts (which, as some of you may recall, I was totally unable to do with City of Heroes)
Sure, the story's a collection of fancy setpieces, and the characters are stereotypes ranging from 'urban' to 'ethnic', and the game allows you to give the PC overly gigantic breasts with a function called 'sex appeal', but at least I finally have this.
For all its failings, the game is pretty damn fun, honestly
I wish it weren't as blatant with the stereotypes and stuff, but dicking around Steelport is one hell of a pastime
and they finally abandon a lot of the standard GTA-style gang shit with the fourth one, which gave it the advantage of feeling different without necessarily abandoning the fun of the Third
also, with a little bit of modification, in the third game one can spend a night on the town as a toilet, and if there isn't some merit to that then I don't know what to tell ya
From what I've heard, even the stereotypes are mitigated by something or another, but I don't know enough about Saints Row or stereotyping to form an opinion.
because it's silly and fun and enjoyable for even the hardest of asses
Depends on how you feel spending $10 on a game that's maybe gonna last you 15-20 minutes.
it has user-generated stuff now though, and Coffee Stain have gone on record to say the game will be expanding over the next couple of months via free expansions
so the $10 is more like an investment
Admittedly I did not know that.
I haven't played Goat Simulator and don't have strong opinions on it, but it does seem to be a love it or hate it kind of thing.
I just hope it doesn't overshadow Bear Sim (which, as far as I'm aware, is an actual game about being a bear, rather than a silly physics sandbox).
Oh, man, I meant to say that the game was fun despite its problems.
This is my second sandbox game in so many months, the first being Sleeping Dogs. SD is good at being a Western-style action movie with a good number of Hong Kong elements. Slow-motion moves, super-high-rez graphics, your character power-level being based on how cool he looks -- it's all about being slick and fast and cool-looking. It also does a good (if not necessarily creative) job at making you care about characters. When they kidnap one of my gang, I know who he is, I know what his deal is, and I am going to go absolutely ham on them.
Saints Row? It's about being ridiculous and ludicrous, and it is really, really good at doing that. Second mission had me shooting gangsters while freefalling from a jet engine. One of the quest-givers is a pimp with a prosthetic, auto-tuned larynx. I hijack cars by crashing through the windshield feet-first. As long as you don't take anything seriously in the game, you can do so much stuff.
As an aside, I'm currently playing as a slightly heavyset black girl with a heavy Russian accent. Yes, there were other options besides Russian accent, but I kind of rushed through the character creation and by the time I realized there were other voices, it didn't sound right to change it.
I play as a black silhouette of a person (in-story, I'm the avatar that Kinzie makes The Boss for the fight in the Decker usenet), mostly because I didn't particularly feel like being creative with my guy's wardrobe
As well as the surprisingly humorous (if stereotypical) Latina accent. I tried to imagine my Latina!Boss as having taken a trip to France and picking up the accent but it just wasn't the same.
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
seriously touhou fans that don't exist here that aren't miko or fossilmaiden or maybe burgundy queen, tighten up that belt around your arm and jam *this* into that throbbing vein!
Thought: Crimson Shroud, a game that had a tabletop-RPG aesthetic and almost reveled in its own artificiality, was still one of the most immersive games I've ever played.
I installed DOTA2 again, because that game has a lot of cool characters. I will only ever play against bots, because it has one of the worst communities of any game ever.
they're both pretty good games (and similar enough that weighing the pros and cons comes down to minutae for anyone who's not obsessed with one or the other). I only prefer DOTA2 because it's on Steam and all heroes are available from the start.
Dracula's castle should contain very little furniture, and what little furniture there is should be expensive, cast about haphazardly and obviously unused
I hear that moba games tend to be populated by a bunch of jerks.
understatement of the century
the somewhat lesser-known Awesomenauts is....sooooort of an exception, but it also has a pretty small playerbase compared to most MOBAs, because it's deliberately more accessible, so a lot of people look down on it.
i wonder if this is because moba games are dependent on team efforts
more so than even, say, team fortress 2
and there's less opportunity for individuals to shine, maybe
not sure about this last one since i am not much of a moba player
but so basically my hypothesis is that if you really need everyone to be competent to get anything done, then that increases the pressure on people to find competent players and dismiss newbies
Beat Playthrough A of Nier. Whilst most of the 2nd half of the game is pretty depressing, the lead up to the ending is just one massive gut punch. (Warning, absolutely do not read the following if you intend to play the game yourself.) The two people you've been going to for guidance for the entire game turn out to be working for the main villain. They reveal to you that you're not human, and neither is anyone else in the world. The true humans are the Shades you've been killing for the entire game. You've been slaughtering countless numbers of children and innocent people.
So, I picked up a second-hand Vita and a PlayStation Plus subscription. Any game recommendations for me? (Besides Tearaway. Or Spelunky. Or Hotline Miami, which I am enjoying a LOT more this time around.)
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I want the fourth one but I'm more broke than an Apple device under a steamroller so I won't be getting it anytime soon
that free weekend with it on Steam was a godsend though
I haven't played Goat Simulator and don't have strong opinions on it, but it does seem to be a love it or hate it kind of thing.
I just hope it doesn't overshadow Bear Sim (which, as far as I'm aware, is an actual game about being a bear, rather than a silly physics sandbox).
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
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大學的年同性戀毛皮
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Oh, and Frozen Synapse is for 5$, if anyone is interested. Good turn based strategy game, and it's like the early Rainbow Six games.
/me takes penalty card
I will only ever play against bots, because it has one of the worst
communities of any game ever.
it is rather good
I do like that League has more than one map tho.
the somewhat lesser-known Awesomenauts is....sooooort of an exception, but it also has a pretty small playerbase compared to most MOBAs, because it's deliberately more accessible, so a lot of people look down on it.
more so than even, say, team fortress 2
and there's less opportunity for individuals to shine, maybe
not sure about this last one since i am not much of a moba player
but so basically my hypothesis is that if you really need everyone to be competent to get anything done, then that increases the pressure on people to find competent players and dismiss newbies
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Hell, that whole game is great. It's probably in my top 10 favorites games, if not in my top 5.
The two people you've been going to for guidance for the entire game turn out to be working for the main villain. They reveal to you that you're not human, and neither is anyone else in the world. The true humans are the Shades you've been killing for the entire game. You've been slaughtering countless numbers of children and innocent people.