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What are you currently playing?; What video game are you playing right now?
Topic Started: Dec 11 2013, 10:14 AM (143,562 Views)
Moo
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Actually no, the worst thing in the game was Jodie CONVERTING AN AFRICAN CHILD SOLDIER in the space of about 30 seconds. She meets him on the battlefield, heals his wound and exchanges names. In the next gameplay sequence he's assisting you by killing his life-long comrades. I was gobsmacked. I can't fathom the levels of non-thought that went into this.

David Cage must be the Tommy Wiseau of games.
Edited by Moo, Mar 19 2015, 01:04 PM.
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Does the African kid ever actually help you kill anyone? From memory, he helped you avoid confrontation with the soldiers. It looks like a civil war situation, so it is plausible that he'd want to avoid them too and might think Jodie was there to help.

As for the ending with Ryan, I agree that relationship was a bit of a weird one. The game seemed to focus on all the time periods where he was horrible to her (separating her from the scientists who were essentially her parents, lying about the purpose of the big mission, etc) and not really showing much to offset that. I guess it is a good thing they had more than one ending then.
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Moo
Mar 19 2015, 12:56 PM
David Cage must be the Tommy Wiseau of games.
Does the child soldier tear anybody apart? Or greet any dogs in a socially awkward fashion?
Fuck_Giver.exe has stopped working!
Does it matter how I write the truth?
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Moo
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No. He got the result of the test back and he definitely has brain cancer.

Jamesh I just looked back and while he does shoot you could plausibly argue that he's providing cover fire. I suppose it makes theoretical sense that he'd join her AND shoot if those guys you're shooting are on the other end of the civil war, but the whole concept seems so ill-conceived to me.

I think it's the lamest 'arty' story since Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, which I can't understand the praise for.
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Moo
Mar 19 2015, 01:03 AM
I tried the demo and liked the puzzles, but I didn't read a word from those logs on the computers because it was some crap about 'what is god' and whatnots like in The Swapper how it's about consciousnesses and such.

It's on my list of games to get when cheap.
I totes you were the kind of person that enjoys Philosophy
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Nah. Questions like "What is God?" and "Do we really have a consciousness?" are just so boring...

Particularly the God stuff. I stopped believing in God around 17 years old and then got a big hard-on for atheism that ex-Catholics tend to get, but now I find the whole question boring.

God is interesting as a human construct, if that makes sense. Like, I don't wish to discuss what's really out there in the universe because I don't think we can possibly know, but the idea of God and its impact on people is very different.

My points is I just want my puzzles games to have puzzles and shit.
Edited by Moo, Mar 19 2015, 09:51 PM.
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I was actually being stupid in that post. Philosophy in games is cool but it just didn't appeal to me in The Swapper. It's philosophical musing was almost completely unmoored from story and character and was a drain to sit through. It'd be like if Andrew Ryan in Bioshock wasn't a rad villain with appealing motives and flaws but some guy who simply lectures you at length about why Ayn Rand is the messiah of capitalism. I'd probably like it in The Talos Principle but when I played the demo I couldn't be bothered reading all the text.
Edited by Moo, Mar 20 2015, 06:32 PM.
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Episode 2 is finally out! :)

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I was kidding about the whole philosophy thing, because I found what you said about it with The Swapper amusing last time.

But Twisted, Moo, Chickan there's this pretty awesome puzzle in the Talos Principle that you have to try, well about 6 of them, actually.
Edited by Red Panda, Mar 22 2015, 08:33 AM.
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Started watching Heavy Rain and while the writing and direction are still strange and stupid and cliche-plagued, I got chills when the main guy got that letter in the mail about children disappearing. The murder mystery will probably have a stupid twist but I'm not minding the ride.
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Chickan once praised Heavy Rain to have one of the best stories in videogames.

lol
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Watching Heavy Rain might actually make Heavy Rain's plot twist a bit more bearable compared to playing it. If you have no agency then it might not feel quite so much like the writers cheated.
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I didn't mind Heavy Rain. I mean, it gave us Press X to Jason! after all.

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Started on Battlefield: Hardline tonight and really enjoying it. I love the 'next on Hardline' at the end of the mission when you quit. Nice touch.
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Mar 22 2015, 10:49 PM
Chickan once praised Heavy Rain to have one of the best stories in videogames.

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I don't think I went as far as to say it was one of the best but I certainly enjoyed it.
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