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Post by BakFu on Aug 16, 2020 17:39:02 GMT
Thanks! The first game still haunts me, I really want to dive in again but need to crush some of that backlog. If the new one is more of the same good stuff the first was made of, I’m in. 🙂
Reading game reviews often feels like looking for recipes now, you have to read a huge story about how educated and smart someone thinks they are before you get to the topic of your search, the topic itself, TLoU2 is no exception. Thanks for replying!
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Post by faulknasty on Aug 16, 2020 19:30:10 GMT
Thanks! The first game still haunts me, I really want to dive in again but need to crush some of that backlog. If the new one is more of the same good stuff the first was made of, I’m in. 🙂 Reading game reviews often feels like looking for recipes now, you have to read a huge story about how educated and smart someone thinks they are before you get to the topic of your search, the topic itself, TLoU2 is no exception. Thanks for replying! What I always say about reviews is find the people that have the closest line if thinking as you do when it comes to games or even more specific genres and then consider how their thoughts reflect your own thinking. I actually mostly listen to podcasts that have more general discussions of the games than I do read reviews anymore. |
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Post by SonnyBone on Aug 16, 2020 20:06:56 GMT
Anyone here try last of us part two yet? The game site review numbers have been awesome, but a lot of them spend a good deal of time either talking about how progressive the games themes are or bitching about them, but not a lot about gameplay. I loved the first game, if it feels like more of the same to anyone here who has tried it, please let me know! I can’t see naughty dog dropping the ball in terms of gameplay or story, but I just need some gut reactions from gamers, not huge love letters or hate mail to wade through just to find out if kicking mushroom zombie ass is as much fun and as freaky as it was the first time around! Thanks in advance! 🙂 I loved it. More than the first, actually. The gameplay is SO tight, fluid, and rewarding. If you're good at it. If you suck at the game, you make everyone look like a doofus that should've died a year into the apocalypse. But I'm also a pretentious dipshit when it comes to certain things, so I also enjoyed the story. There's more story and buildup than super-intense-gameplay, but the badass gameplay moments are REALLY fuckin badass. Plus you can easily replay encounters after you beat the game, and even go back through with New Game + and just fuck shit up if that's what you're into. I found myself being much more aggressive in part 2, relying less on slow stealth and more on commando style run-n-gun melee murder machine action. So far it's my game of the year, and I'm currently going for the platinum along with Ghost of Tsushima while patiently awaiting Cyberpunk 2077. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2020 20:58:06 GMT
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Post by OrochiGeese on Aug 21, 2020 6:45:18 GMT
 I know it's just a mount but the thing he's standing on looks like a surfboard, making this picture even better 😁 I hope Dave Thomas is his opponent attempting a Tatsu Maki Sen Puu Cowaku 🍔
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2020 11:58:17 GMT
You know who his real rival is, don't you? I did manage to find a few pictures of Ronald McDonald throwing a hadouken but I always liked that picture. |
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Post by BakFu on Aug 21, 2020 15:08:46 GMT
There should be a Final Fight game with Mayor McCheese as haggar, Hamburgler as Cody, and grimace as Guy.
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Post by OrochiGeese on Aug 21, 2020 20:07:34 GMT
There should be a Final Fight game with Mayor McCheese as haggar, Hamburgler as Cody, and grimace as Guy. The first two are perfect (especially Guy in his prison attire) but I gotta make a substitution: Guy can only be played by one McDonalds character:
Grimace as Hugo/Andore would be awesome 😁 |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2020 21:37:41 GMT
 Has this joke been done before? Duck ducks Geese. |
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Post by OrochiGeese on Aug 21, 2020 21:57:32 GMT
If it has been done, I haven't seen it before!! Love that 🦆
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2020 21:41:22 GMT
While sorting through stuff I found a few letters from pen pals I had back in 1995. One of them amused me in hindsight because it predicted that the '96 console wars would mainly be between the Saturn and Ultra 64, not the PlayStation. Not sure if that was before the famous "$299" moment or just youthful naivety.
In Googling his name, it looks like he did some programming for EA when he grew up, so that's cool.
Speaking of EA, I was also amused by a review in a magazine from early '97. In short, it said about FIFA '97, "If these are polygons, I want my sprites back."
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Post by faulknasty on Aug 25, 2020 21:47:19 GMT
While sorting through stuff I found a few letters from pen pals I had back in 1995. One of them amused me in hindsight because it predicted that the '96 console wars would mainly be between the Saturn and Ultra 64, not the PlayStation. Not sure if that was before the famous "$299" moment or just youthful naivety. In Googling his name, it looks like he did some programming for EA when he grew up, so that's cool. Speaking of EA, I was also amused by a review in a magazine from early '97. In short, it said about FIFA '97, "If these are polygons, I want my sprites back." Early polygons were pretty rough to be fair |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2020 21:54:57 GMT
"If these are polygons, I want my sprites back." Early polygons were pretty rough to be fair Very true. |
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Post by OrochiGeese on Aug 26, 2020 6:58:03 GMT
I remember those early PSX polygons and even early PS2 polygons and they were HORRENDOUS. I didn't mind that on its own, of course. You can't get better without starting out and improving. Emerging tech always deserves the chance to begin, struggle, and grow. (On that note, I'm hearing great things these days about a true evolution of Virtual Reality headsets and games.) What got me so annoyed in the late 90's (and in my memory now!) was how companies and magazines were like immediately proclaiming that these early garbage looking polygons somehow constituted "better graphics" just because they were newer technology. That happened in the video game and animation industries with both sprites and hand drawn animation being derided as ugly and "kids stuff" just because polygons were new and exciting. It still bugs me to remember people praising $50 PSX games that looked like a hobbyist tech demo compared to the height of SNES visuals and animation. I think of the years of hearing that "Fire Pro has bad graphics" and the PSX era is when thinking like that started. Of course, I love the way that 3D/polygon graphics eventually evolves. I wouldn't have my Red Dead without it. But to hold some of those early PSX games against like Chrono Trigger or Yoshi's Island or Donkey Kong Country just made me wonder if people literally saw the world differently if if "novelty as value" just had too much sway. (And the fact that many of these polygon games were much cheaper to make certainly fed the fire) So I just love that "If these are polygons, I want my sprites back." quote 😄 Given that big companies like EA had already started bashing sprites at that point, I'm glad someone called them out on it. Yeah, chalk "hate for 2D hand drawn sprite graphics" as one of my pet peeves that I'll carry through time  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2020 13:39:32 GMT
A few years back I ran into an early PSX sports game that listed "no blocky sprites" as a selling point on the back. In my head I was going, "yeah, instead it has blocky polygons."
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