c10709 No.14677571
>game gives you a pretty weak weapon
>if you slog through the game with it for a while the upgrade for it becomes one of the best in the game
Only thing I can thing of an occurrence where this happens is in Cave Story with the Polar Star.
ab1051 No.14677620
>>14677571
>Find useless junk item early on
>Keep it all game hoping for a reward
>Devs just put it in there to fuck with you
4d8746 No.14677730
>game has a plot import moment happen to the player character
>instead of showing it in a cutscene or doing it the way it does everything else, it's done in a more interactive way
I really like this shit, always makes the moment more impacting and memorable.
MGS3 has this in the end where you **kills the boss*. It could've been done in a cutscene where snake shoots her and be done with it , but instead it just leaves you there, gun in hand and pointing at her head. The game sets the scene, but you pull the trigger. It really made the scene more emotional, even though your relation with her wasn't really developed throughout the game.
NieR has a really neat scene after the end of the first route. The only time you input anything is when you choose the name of the file, which the game uses as the name of your character, everything else is done via choosing an option, from when you're talking to when you need to decide what to do next. In this scene, however, your daughter is in sort of a coma and you need to remind her of things she likes to make her want to keep on living and therefore wake up before it's too late. It has four questions, the first one is "What food do I like the most?", she automatically answers "Cookies, that's it", the next two are equally mundane and answered automatically. Then comes the last question "Who do I love the most?", and, instead of prompting you to choose from "dad" and other two or three different answers, it simply gives you a prompt to write whatever you want, and the only correct answer is the name of your character. I almost shed a tear like a little bitch after that.
4d8746 No.14677733
>>14677730
So much for spoilers.
bba6f7 No.14677829
>>14677571
>easter egg that's a picture of people who worked on the game, or their spouse or kids.
>joke weapons in serious game that you can use in subsequent playthroughs
>cheat codes
4d8746 No.14677877
>>14677829
>>cheat codes
Fuck, how long has it been since a game had actual cheat codes in? The most recent one I can think of is GTA:SA.
31493b No.14677891
>>14677877
Cheat codes died when micro transactions were born.
31493b No.14677897
>>14677733
>>14677744
>>14677877
just checking the high density of dubs in this thread
24934a No.14677910
>>14677877
Fuck don't remind me, I just want this industry to crash and burn so it can ride from the ashes in a new golden age.
5219bd No.14677918
>first one
>all the smaller side quests that make it much more depressing than it already is
>the old man and the dog quest in particular
>second one
>all the small mechanical differences between characters
>pardo has special executions, jake has slow executions but his tony mask lets him use nunchucks and run fast
5219bd No.14677921
>>14677918
wait, what
where did that third image come from
499581 No.14677931
4d8746 No.14677935
>>14677918
Sidequests in Nier were really fucking good.
I liked that one where you go take a flower to the guy's GF, the house is empty and you fight a shade that drops the same flower when you exit, thinking that the shade killed the girl.
Five years later the guy has moved on and married another girl, he's selling flowers and he asks you to take one to this girl in Facade. The girl says the flower is really nostalgic, her neighbor really liked those flowers, but five years back she *turned into a shade. The girl didn't die, you killed her.
14efc7 No.14677945
The flare gun in Blood remains useful throughout the whole game. It's great for sniping and the alt fire can decimate low tier enemies. Ditto for the dynamite.
5219bd No.14677956
>>14677935
I honestly don't think I know of a game that does side quests better.
fc1476 No.14677965
>item "blue skirt"
>doesn't turn to "blue pants" when picked up by a male
90671e No.14677970
>Joke character at the start of the game
>Ends with him being one of the most powerful companions in the game
4d8746 No.14677973
>>14677956
Most games use sidequests as filler or to make little isolated side stories that makes the game seem more elaborate than it is.
NieR does it right by having the sidequests be part of the story and expand on it, with the exact same tone of the main story itself.
0d481c No.14677978
>>14677571
>the title screen of the game changes based on your progress
>beating the game, the title screen is different altogether
>early bosses are now regular enemies at the end
>boss fights have remixed leitmotifs of the game's theme
>especially during the end
>during the final act of the game, your character has a specific outfit solely for that final act
>when credits finish rolling, they end with "AND YOU"
>everything throughout the game is unlocked and openly available for the next playthrough
03ec08 No.14677994
DMC1 has two versions of the results screen depending on which weapon you had equipped when the mission ended
36129c No.14677999
>>14677978
It's neat when the game uses it to tell the story.
12a06c No.14678007
>credits has a special song made for the game
1f7ba5 No.14678019
>>14678007
>Jonathan Coulton
God I miss the 2000s. Fuck you now I'm depressed and nostlgic
499581 No.14678022
>>14678007
Still Alive and Want You Gone are really feelsy for me and I can't listen to them.
72a1c8 No.14678029
>>14678022
I almost cried at the end of portal 2
1933bd No.14678030
5654c4 No.14678033
>>14677994
I thought it changed because it was the last level
but damn that's cool
919a47 No.14678036
>>14677970
Brad… I've been a loser my whole life. Having around you has made me feel strong for once. Like a man… The first day we ever met was the best day of my life…. Even before the world changed. Maybe you don't feel the same way… But you're my best friend dude. It's just this… Brad, this is our future you're messing with… I'm sorry. We can't let you do this.
36129c No.14678063
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>>14678007
>credits are a song written in the games unique language with a foreboding story in the translated lyrics performed by an iconic artist
c1525e No.14678074
>>14677571
Well, Vagrant Story had this kind of system. Not just necessarily with the very first weapon, but one feature was to rank up your weapon against certain enemies and the possibility of keeping that streak with the same weapon or with another one built on its base parts.
Shit was great, allowing you to ready weapons for every occasion
12a06c No.14678077
>>14678063
Sounds interesting.
5219bd No.14678096
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>>14678063
>there's a different song for every ending
>they're all about the events that happened before the game
90671e No.14678107
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>>14678007
The song at the end of Max Payne 2 wasn't made for the game, but it fits perfectly well with how it ends
36129c No.14678114
>>14678077
It is, because it's actually a song about the saturn's last hope, an iconic JRPG which would either give it its place in the industry or seal its fate. A game which was in development longer than expected, became the most expensive game Sega made until Shenmue, had three deaths and a suicide on the team from stress.
>Sona areru ec paldeel?
>Sona mi areru ec sancitu?
>Art thou the bringer of ruin?
>Art thou the holy one?
it was the bringer of ruin.
>>14678107
Poets of the Fall are/were good friends with Remedy and I think the song actually was written for the game.
17a2c9 No.14678115
>>14677571
Unreal 1's laser blaster got more powerful throughout the game if you find the upgrades.
While not the most powerful shot-for-shot, it easily remains relevant throughout the game
adaf2b No.14678131
>game opens with a quote that doesn't make sense out of context
>new game+ opens with the same quote, but spoken by a different character
499581 No.14678132
>>14677744
Nezha doesn't have a penis, he's completely smooth like most other Warframes.
17a2c9 No.14678142
>>14677877
the Lego games have them but I think they were left in for testing purposes. They usually just unlock red bricks or harder-to-get characters
1c8a0f No.14678162
>game has an upgrade system
>upgrades have a final upgrade that change the meta of a weapon
Say what you will about RE4 but I had fun going through the game blasting through with beefed up starting weapons. Though the red9 did have a better feel than the increased headshot chance your starting pistol had.
464c7f No.14678197
>Buttloads of treasure items to find, even if they don't serve much purpose, like in Luigi's Mansion
Even moreso if you get a score screen tallying up the totals every so often
>Enemy corpses never disappear
It's almost never seen in other genres besides old FPS. It would be really funny to squash an enemy in a platformer, and have them just be laying there forever. Also, it's even better if you can continue to abuse the corpses by smacking them around or picking them up.
ebba71 No.14678210
>>14677571
Dark Souls did this
>Every character starts out with the Broken sword
>Worst weapon in the game
>If you upgrade it to +15 and ascend it. It becomes Artorias's greatsword
9c2bdd No.14678227
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>>14677620
>get to choose between small healing item or a key
>choose key
>go through the whole game
>right before the final area
>key opens a door on an empty mysterious mansion
>inside there's the same healing item
>but the description laughs at your misery
I love Lisa the Pointless
0912e6 No.14678258
No one posted dead space for the literal definition of this type of progression… Damned casuals reeeeee…..
72a1c8 No.14678259
>>14678258
>reeeeee…..
>>>/cuckchan/
go there and stay there
ebba71 No.14678320
>>14678258
>No one posted dead space for the literal definition of this type of progression… Damned casuals reeeeee…..
Dead Space is more an example of weapon imbalance because the first weapon you start out with is the most balanced and useful weapon in the game and remains so throughout. While you can use other weapons it's completely possible to just stick with it. Most of the time I remember switching from it was when I ran out of ammo.
a7cc9a No.14678346
>>14678258
Even right at the beginning the starting weapon is way better than the others.
e60c12 No.14678352
>>14677571
the pistol in deus ex hr is a one hit headshot and can be upgraded a ton.
the shotgun can also be made to have a longer clip and more powerful fire.
9fe97a No.14678353
>The weapon you start with is actually the strongest weapon in the game against the final boss
e60c12 No.14678360
>>14678353
I guess you could say the best weapon in that scenario is…
intellect…
tips fedora
72a1c8 No.14678363
>>14678360
please never make a post like that again.
412aed No.14678382
68b482 No.14678394
>>14677994
Ohhhh, so thats what its over.
954023 No.14678395
>>14677571
>Only thing I can thing of an occurrence where this happens is in Cave Story with the Polar Star.
Pokemon is filled with this. Best example is Magikarp evolving into Gyrados.
3cced8 No.14678422
>sidequest chain opens up lore on a hated faction and you can join.
>defeated faction ex members suddenly join you or open the old network of weapons to level the field against a new enemy
Either of those two options are my shit.
ce9fd2 No.14678446
>game gives you a pretty weak weapon
>if you slog through the game with it for a while 15 years the upgrade for it becomes one of the best in the game
98908c No.14678454
>>14677571
That gun kinda reminds me of the megidolaon pixie from smt nocturne. A weak pixie that starts off as your very first demon, but if you keep her in your party and never get rid of her, there is a way to upgrade her into a super powerful pixie with great stats.
95a53c No.14678506
>you can hear enemy chatter
>as the game progresses you can hear them talk about how terrified they are of you
>you can hear them panic at your mere presence nearer to the end of the game
499581 No.14678522
>>14678506
Shadow of Mordor was a pretty bland game outside of the character interactions.
72a1c8 No.14678618
>>14678382
It does actually have a magazine though.
2c6796 No.14678825
>>14678618
Magazine =/= clip
b09836 No.14678831
0d16de No.14678837
1277d5 No.14678842
35afff No.14678849
>>14677877
GTA IV has cheat codes, not sure about V though.
21c8d7 No.14678878
>>14677877
Cheat codes are DLC.
ebba71 No.14678879
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>>14678849
GTA5 has cheats. Some of which are really cool like the Skyfall one
03ec08 No.14678883
>>14678033
>>14678394
DMC4SE did a similar thing where the screen transition to the mission results was different depending on if you're playing as Dante or Vergil, for Dante the screen fades to gunshots and for Vergil it's sliced up instead. There's more gunshots/slices depending on what your rank is going to be, too, it's a nice little tease before you see the final result.
That gunshot screen result thing started in DMC3 obviously but I don't believe that Vergil had a unique screen transition in DMC3SE, I think it just faded to black
732b76 No.14678909
>>14677571
this also happens in Ninja Gaiden
72200a No.14678911
I love when the final boss has completely new gameplay that is only used for that one part of the game. Examples I can think of are MGS4 and Uncharted 4.
Uncharted 4 has one of my favorite finales in any game. you are locked in a burning irate ship with the story's villain and you fight with cutlasses. There is all kinds of interactive stuff you can do with the environment too. It's really fucking cool man.
b1aed0 No.14678928
>>14678454
You can actually fuse her as much as you like, just don't discard or sacrifice her.
5597ca No.14678977
I miss when games had manuals in them. Big thick ones that had full-page art and that little space in the back to keep notes. Especially when it gives character bios or info on the world.
>Beat a game
>Credits roll
>Special thanks to [a bunch of people]
>AND YOU!
>A small scene or still after the credits that says "Thanks for playing"
Also
>The main character/game theme starts playing during an important fight
>Games that have characters address the player instead of the main character for a second Even though it's been done to death now as a FOTM gimmick, I will always adore Isabelle greeting me at the start of Wild World, and the cat from OFF
c6652f No.14678986
>>14678007
>>14678019
>Portal is already over ten years old
Fucking hell.
3ad72f No.14679038
>>14678258
>The Plasma Cutter has a huge DPS early on.
>Easiest to max out.
>Cheapest ammo in the game.
>Largest capacity in the game.
>Shoot off one leg and one arm for an instant kill on everything.
>No funky reload animations.
And people thought it was a CHALLENGE to beat the game only using it. Hell, it's a challenge to beat the game NOT using the damn thing. That is until Dead Space 2.
>Pulse Rifle is better than the Plasma Cutter this time around since enemies come at you faster.
>You only need those two weapons to beat the game.
And then Dead Space 3.
>Craft Magnum.
>OHKO everything but bosses.
OR
>Craft Acid/ Electric Bola.
>Wonder why plebs tell you to use the Rocket Launcher
4487cf No.14679076
>>14677935
I really don't recall replicants turning into shades. The big twist wouldn't work if they did.
df54fb No.14679144
>game takes place over a relatively short period of time
>protag's appearance slowly changes throughout the game as they become more dirty/damaged/corrupt
19b45e No.14679177
>>14678825
Ok, tell me. What are those revolver loaders that load all 6 bullets at once called? Would they be clips?
28857e No.14679180
19b45e No.14679182
ae989d No.14679186
>>14679177
>Would they be clips?
Yes
39498a No.14679191
>>14678395
I still want my 500 pokeyen back
8032bf No.14679194
>>14679177
There are two types. The full six that you insert and break away are called speed loaders. The other kind are called moon clips and usually get inserted into the cylinders, no need to break away. Both are 'clips'
499581 No.14679231
>>14679175
I think it's a reference to Zone of the Enders.
>>14678986
>>14678991
A random thought, but the time distance from Nine Inch Nails' first album to 9/11 is the same as Portal to now.
75d95d No.14679591
>>14679144
I love that shit too. It happens a little bit in DMC3, with Dante's coat getting a sleeve ripped off and bullet holes in the back, though those holes don't show up in gameplay and outside of that one cutscene, but still. Its there if only a little.
20c908 No.14679658
>>14677571
My favorite example of that in cave story was the bubble gun
20c908 No.14679677
>>14678210
I didn't know that and I've been playing dark souls since launch. Nise
>>14678522
Was just about to give this as an example. Hivemind is imba
4e2fb1 No.14679768
4e6577 No.14679808
>>14679768
He's got no holes either so there's no fun at all to be hand with him.
4e2fb1 No.14679855
>>14679808
What if you don't need holes to have fun
4e6577 No.14679875
>>14679855
What would you do then?
He's pétite so enjoyable thighjobs are out of the question, his rear isn't large enough to hotdog, other than a handy he's useless for lewd.
eb5c0c No.14680040
>>14677956
>I honestly don't think I know of a game that does side quests better.
Baldur's Gate II. Story is worse, gameplay is infinetly better.
cf4e37 No.14680101
>Multiple ways to finish a quest including on that's really easy if you're clever enough
>Usage of actual physic over script
I mean, where did physics went in the post 2010 games? Everything seems more scripted than HL2 now
3c431a No.14680113
>>14678991
That squid is still a kid so she's now dead of liver failure.
555ef6 No.14680356
>Games that have interactive/playable credits sequences, not just having a standard scrolling text on black background (movie like) credit sequence. They are games first and treating themselves as such.
>Even better if it's an minigame you can play at anytime afterwards (Super Monkey Ball 2)
>Alternatively if a more "serious" game having a side story/s told through the credits.
Good examples of the first one, SSB series,
For the third point, games like Resident Evil 4 showing the downfall of the village or the Zelda games having prologues for the minor characters or in Skyward Sword showing Zelda visiting the various temples.
>>14679144 (checked)
Loved how Metroid Prime 3: Courrption did it, even though it's in first person so it's not as obvious.
When using the scan visor a reflection of Samus's face inside her helmet can be seen, the more Phazon courrption % Samus gets during the story the more prominent the effects of the Phazon appear on her face, such as unnatural Phazon blue colored veins or one of her eyes changing color to Phazon blue.
4e2fb1 No.14680382
>>14679875
Oh I didn't actually know who that was but, um, no, people are nice and affectionate owo
3c431a No.14680420
>>14680382
>Oh I didn't actually know who that was
Nezha from Warframe. He can't talk but he's really flexible and a good dancer.
>people are nice and affectionate owo
He's not human, he's a weird flesh robot thing. He's sentient, though.
97bfa8 No.14680459
>>14677571
>save minor optional character at the start of the game
>he comes back in the end
This is even better in really long games where you would have completely forgotten about the character until they show up again.
>>14680420
Are these meant to look slightly erotic?
4d8746 No.14680530
>>14679076
There's a part before the end where you go to the Aerie and everyone starts turning into shades, which I'm guessing implies that they've been all possessed by their human counterparts.
240f32 No.14680538
>>14678506
I love the alternate.
>go through game purging everyone and everything in your way
>enemies start getting pissed off at the mere concept of you being in the area
>once you show up, you start hearing people say they'll be the one to kill you and become the hero of their side
3c431a No.14680559
>>14680459
>Are these meant to look slightly erotic?
Probably. The game's developers hired a homosexual erotic artist to design one of his alternate skins so they definitely know the audience they're going for with Nezha.
0c522c No.14680595
>if you beat the last boss with the shittiest weapon equiped the ending changes
>>14679194
There's also speed strips, but nobody uses them anymore.
98908c No.14680639
>replaying a favorite game for the thousandth time
>feel like you know every one of its secrets, inside and out
>get proven wrong and discover something new you never knew about it
Was watching that "10 Youtubers vs 2 Speedrunners" video that someone made a thread about here a few days back. I felt like I knew everything about SM64 but then, on Tall Tall Mountain, someone used a hidden wind gust near the entrance that I never knew about. A shortcut that lets you quickly fly up to the higher floor with the Chuckya.
Much much faster than going the long way around.
324338 No.14681671
>>14680538
What game? I also like this but only Iji comes to mind for me
4d8746 No.14681820
>>14679076
>>14680530
Nevermind, I'm still playing the game.
Eventually in route B you find out some shades just wanted to live in peace among humans, so they went to the Aerie. They tried to ambush you because they thought you'd eventually find out and kill them all.
bf969a No.14681905
>>14677620
>kill some evil fuck dragon
>rescue some dragon eggs
>for some strange reason you have one egg left that nobody want
>it never hatches
>mfw no baby dragon to raise as your own
3c431a No.14681918
>>14681905
What's a fuck dragon?
5abe3a No.14681925
>>14680538
>>14681671
I sorta remember something like that happens in FFT after the church has branded Ramza a heretic.
72a1c8 No.14681930
>>14681918
I don't know, but I'd like to find out.
bf969a No.14681934
>>14677730
>but instead it just leaves you there, gun in hand and pointing at her head. The game sets the scene, but you pull the trigger.
you got that right.
4e46f6 No.14681975
>>14680382
Cease your poofery at once.
66900a No.14682155
>>14681918
I'm imagining this.
72a1c8 No.14682167
>>14682155
that's not a dragon.
bcfacd No.14682185
>>14681905
Minecraft does that.
That game is so disappointing and its kinda impressive.
The fact that kids still like it shows just how dumb and vapid they all are.
4e46f6 No.14682199
>>14682185
Most kids play with mods and on online servers with a fuckload of plug-ins to the point it ain't minecraft anymore.
110f0a No.14682320
>>14680101
>I mean, where did physics went in the post 2010 games?
A lot of developers decided that their animations are better than leaving motion to a physics system, which results in janky animations that look buggy.
a2adba No.14682354
It's a common trope in Japanese games. Which is why the pendant doesn't do fucking anything in Dark Souls, it's a joke played by the Japanese devs. See also, the wooden sword in Ninja Gaiden.
ab8565 No.14682381
>>14682320
that and physics are kinda hard to do, and most of the talented programmers are fleeing the noxious cesspool of gaming industry.
5597ca No.14682387
ffde73 No.14682424
>>14682320
It doesn't really look glitchy, just jarring without inverse kinematics. Devs try to alleviate it by adding motion blur.
72a1c8 No.14682581
240f32 No.14683342
>>14681671
I'm doing a mercenary run of Ace Combat Zero. The mission where you have to destroy the V2 before it launches is a massive fucking piece of shit though.
6d1949 No.14683475
>NG+
>NPC's gives small remarks like " have we met before?"
8b38c3 No.14683662
>>14677571
Resident Evil 4 did this. It was neat to get to the mid-endgame with a fully upgraded Handgun which had 5 times more chance of killing an enemy with a headshot. G-d that game was a blast to play.
a32b44 No.14683705
>>14683475
>it's a plot point
8b38c3 No.14683743
>>14677877 (nice)
Shovel Knight had a cheat code for unlocking the extra campaigns without having to complete the main one. That's the most recent game I can think of.
c5e419 No.14683791
>>14683743
Sadly the Treasure Trove update made them all unlocked from the get-go, but it also has some other dumb ones, like Butt Mode, codes to change your color, size, etc, a code to give Specter Knight an Mega Man X-styled wall-jump to replace his wall-run, etc.
9786e9 No.14683802
I remember that with Aragorn and Anduril in Fellowship of the Ring for GBA. Great system but a bitch to get through. Fuck the shire levels.
2147a7 No.14683809
>>14677571
>nobody mentioning the classic
Did everyone forget about Sarevok's Sword in BG2? It isn't necessarily trash, but you get it in the tutorial dungeon and its quickly outclassed an hour or two in. If you lug that thing straight to the Expansion and give it back to Sarevok though, it becomes the most brokenly OP thing in the game.
602423 No.14683820
5fa5e8 No.14684534
>>14683820
> Sarevok's Sword
He's talking about the BGII mod made by one of the developers. It's not necessarily an expansion but more like a mod by a disgruntled developer because he didn't like the game the way they shipped it out
b0dae9 No.14688442
>>14678227
Monster update soon!
62c6cd No.14688481
>Playing RPG
>equip a new armor
>character model actually wears the equipped armor
740718 No.14688483
>>14677571
I did something similar in NFS: most wanted with the starting Cobalt SS. I got almost every single after market upgrade you could get on it from the boss races minus one because the game randomly gives you either the performance upgrades or special paint reeee! giving it nearly perfect stats.
58d92e No.14689000
>>14688481
>Flashback to an earlier parts of the game
>The characters are wearing the armor you chose for them at that point instead of the armor they are wearing presently.
5219bd No.14689019
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>>14682387
>quetzalcoatl
>shit tier quetzalcoatl at that
>who's only defining trait is big boobs
>a dragon
HA
d1fbc8 No.14689083
>>14689019
>quetzalcoatl
I still think of Quetzal from Dragon Tales when I hear that despite not having seen the show in almost 20 years.
d1fbc8 No.14689120
>>14689106
What the fuck?
>commission
Why?
5a908e No.14689201
>>14680538
>go through the game being a dick
>most people in the game hate you for your choices
>the few that like you are evil
>endgame immediately go good
>save everyone
>everyone is fucking confused
>tfw even surprised the evil characters
124407 No.14689249
>>14677730
Now, why does this work for MGS3 but we now live in a day and age where "Press F to pay respects" is considered a joke throughout the gaming community?
5219bd No.14689271
>>14689249
A sense of restraint and knowing when to let shit like that happen.
773dab No.14689293
>>14689019
>the english dub
4d8746 No.14689312
>>14689249
You spend the whole game shooting shit, you need to do it to win the bosses, you instinctively know which button is the "shoot button". In that scene the game leaves you there, you, the boss and the background, that's all, no HUD or anything else to clutter the scene. You know exactly what you have to do, though you might be trying not to acknowledge it, eventually you'll either turn the game off or shoot like you've done the whole game. That's what makes the game so great.
When you put a prompt on the screen like "press F" or the gay shit in >>14681934 , it just turns into another mind numbing "press the button on screen", ruining the visuals in the progress. Not to mention paying respects isn't a game mechanic, you do that once at the beginning of the game and that's it, just another forgettable moment were it not for the game, with MGS 3 you have shooting which is widely used before the scene.
Besides, the scene is so iconic that if anyone tried to copy it, like any shitty dev would do nowadays, it'd instantly be recognized as "that scene from metal gear solid", taking even more away from it.
e19122 No.14689368
>>14677877
No, cheats died with Achievements, not microtransactions. Can't have people cheating for their cheevos.
e19122 No.14689431
>Game where money is very common and buying everything you need is easy if you're not spending frivolously
>Then you find the money sink and all the cash you've been saving pays its dividends
c89185 No.14689542
>>14689368
EU4 has console enabled unless you play in Ironman mode that enables Achievements. However it should be noted that said game has atrocious DLC policy, buying all the DLC without any discount will net multiple hundred dollars.
18776a No.14690357
>>14689368
But I thought achievements were disabled with cheats turned on.
40a027 No.14691671
ab1051 No.14695154
>>14689368
It's not difficult to prevent that.
ba0ca8 No.14704718
>>14689368
Achievements were a mistake tbh.
5ed63b No.14704763
>>14704718
I've been saying this for a decade and some.
f87566 No.14704874
>>14680538
I always had something like that as an Idea for a action game.
>Semi final level is a gauntlet
>it's implied now you've killed every mook in the enemy forces now
>except 1
>it's the most basic type of mook
>He sits there crying over his comrades
>gets up
>"I'm going to kill you"
>"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU"
>Suddenly gets some sort of power up mode the protagonist has
>He's the boss of the area with super fast and hard to read attacks but the model is just a basic mook with an aura
f87566 No.14704877
>>14704874
Put under his health bar "Last man standing"
f022e7 No.14704970
>>14704874
>>14704904
Not the same thing but "3-times" from SCWU is also pretty similar.
7f157f No.14704980
>>14678506
Metroid Prime has this from the start. Space Pirates losing their shit on computer logs because "the Hunter is here"
554e24 No.14704993
>Fighting the villain of the previous game on a bridge, who is assumed to be behind the current events
>Halfway into the fight a big robot destroys the bridge and you start fighting the robot instead thinking its the rival's ally
>They join and start attackig it as well
Noitu Love 2 had this scene, alas they leave shortly after so you fight it alone. Still i want to see more games where a third party interrupts/joins a fight causing a 3-way free for all or forcing you and your rival to accidentally work together fighting it because you both think its the other's ally at first
f86c86 No.14704995
>>14677571
What games even do this?
554e24 No.14705013
>>14704995
Cave Story is the one from the image, you are given a chance to trade away your pistol Polar Star for a machinegun and other guns but if you decide to stick with it and come back to the house of the guy who made the gun at the very start of the game, he upgrades it and it becomes an extremely powerful charge shot
54bd5a No.14705924
>>14677571
>get out of bounds or perform an action that ultimately breaks the game
>the devs knew you could do it and put something there either as an easter egg or acknowledge your behavior
>>14689293
>p18
Where's the rest
8b6ce1 No.14705927
>>14705924
>katamari
>is into fats
It's like pottery
8892c0 No.14705988
>>14677571
Dead space. The first gun in the can carry you to the end of all iterations of the game.
8b6ce1 No.14706030
>>14705988
It's the best the whole way through though. You don't have to hold onto it and pass up better stuff except maybe the line gun, but even then you'd run out of ammk in no time.
fb65d0 No.14706094
>>14678879
Reminds me of the unhealthy amount of time I spent finding roofs I could climb that were pool adjacent so I could jump in. Had more fun doing that than pretty much anything in that God forsaken game.
16315e No.14706622
>>14704874
You're watching too much anime, anon.
but your idea is pretty fun, I'd like to see it implemented in some game
bcfacd No.14706632
>>14704874
>mook
>mook
>mook
By chance are you from Brooklyn?
4417e0 No.14706722
>>14689106
>DragonTales lewds
>is faggy gay shit instead of something cute with best dragon
For what purpose?
299429 No.14707224
>>14689106
You wouldn't happen to have the Dragon Tales cursed image, would you? I think you know the one I mean.
72a1c8 No.14707237
>>14706722
that's still some pretty faggy shit you've posted there anon.
638871 No.14707260
>>14707237
Not even the best urkel that's confused and disgusted
4417e0 No.14707269
>>14707237
Well it's not like I could post the James M Hardiman versions.
233de5 No.14708021
HookTube embed. Click on thumbnail to play.
>easter egg hidden off in obscure location depicts characters acting in funny or unusual ways
72a1c8 No.14708036
>>14708021
halo reach had this with the grunt and brute dance party and vanquish with the robots break dancing.
d81334 No.14708321
>>14706722
Dubs confirm, and what I saw of it I agree.
>>14707269
Isn't he that proto >shadman from back in the day that made everything as edgy as possible with at least as bad "art"?
a760d8 No.14708383
>Game has ingame bestiary
>Game has extensive ingame encyclopedia of all items/weapons you can get with descriptions for everything, even if they're joke descriptions.
950c44 No.14708396
>>14708383
I fucking love those features.
296237 No.14708454
>>14677935
>mfw new game+ gives you the ability to understand Shade's incoherrent dialogue and shit start making sense
4e2fb1 No.14708517
>>14706722
>being straight
What are you, gay?
080141 No.14708527
8d290b No.14708612
>>14708383
Fuck yes I love that shit. TW3 has it and it's one redeeming feature of that over-rated B-game.
There was one game I can't remember where you actually got a book that worked like a weapon, and you actually hit enemies with the book to fill in the pages with its information. It was fantastic, I stole the idea for my own game.
>>14708527
The JRPG young schoolkid trip can fuck right off. At least have some party members that are cranky old men and delicious christmas cake. Can't think of any recent ones that had both.
>>14704718
> Achievements were a mistake tbh.
I remember when people played games for fun, and not for carrots.
TBH I thought Miyamoto was just being contrarian when he said he didn't like achievements because he thought gameplay should be rewarding in an of itself, since Nintendo does have a "Not Invented Here, Shit Sucks" mentality, but I've definitely come around to their way of thinking.
>>14689249
Because in MGS it was a pay-off at the end of a story that happened in gameplay to a character you've grown to know.
In COD it was a contrite and meaningless gesture that meant nothing because the person you were paying respects to was literally nobody you knew, and it came across as hollow and meaningless, especially in a place like the US that likes to say "thank you for your service" but then defund veterans affairs to provide gibs to welfare mooches. It was perfectly American TBH, and that made it worthy of mockery.
f87566 No.14709259
>>14706632
No, I just pick a term I've heard for a common enemy.
158c91 No.14709567
>>14681671
Arkham Knight for all its flaws liked to do this.
494af1 No.14709688
c94a22 No.14710419
>>14708383
>game has descriptions for all the items/weapons/monsters
>if you back out to the main menu and go to the jukebox, there's descriptions for every track in the OST for you to read while listening
a9f8a0 No.14711087
>>14689019
>See Quetzalcoatl
>Think firstly of elephant sized lizrad birb, then of ancient aztec god
>Remember its in some randoschmando animenando I haven't watched yet?
df2e71 No.14711920
286422 No.14711960
>>14678446
>TFW still have my old pokemon from GBC with me on my 3DS version of pokemon
42f385 No.14719968
>>14677571
>game does one-in-the-chamber
499596 No.14723994
>>14677571
>game remembers and rewards you for minor moral choice you made hours ago
dc3e17 No.14725026
>>14711920
wow I'm a communist now
db4066 No.14725972
>>14680595
How the fuck do you use those?
bc1fce No.14726941
>>14689249
Because you're carrying out an action you've been doing all game, but you're being set up in way. It's exactly the same as firing any other time, except that you know the weight of it is much greater.
Press F to pay respect fundamentally doesn't work. The concept of paying respect is at odds with something as simple as a button press.
If you wanted to do that scene right, you'd have to set up saluting as something you'd already done. Probably to a superior officer in a scene where not doing it quickly enough gets your chewed out and maybe by moving the joystick or the mouse in a certain way to a subtle cue. Do that a few times and then we have that scene and you leave a lasting impression as the player instinctively salutes in response.
bc1fce No.14726947
>>14677571
>Cutscene
>Character is armed with your current weapons, armor and gear and not the "default"
1dcd87 No.14727225
>>14726941
>If you wanted to do that scene right, you'd have to set up saluting as something you'd already done. Probably to a superior officer in a scene where not doing it quickly enough gets your chewed out and maybe by moving the joystick or the mouse in a certain way to a subtle cue. Do that a few times and then we have that scene and you leave a lasting impression as the player instinctively salutes in response.
I never thought of it this way.
Really, the reason why most modern games are trash is they rely on pre-existing notions of what constitutes as "impacting" or some other likely buzzword these cunts like to use. Problem with that is that it's always subjective. When you shoehorn a shitty context button to salute, or have some "deep emotional story" about homogaysex, nobody fucking cares because there's no backdrop contained within the piece of media you're presenting it in. When you just throw in things that "you just, like, have to know, man", it's not only pretentious, but shitty quality in design as well.
You have to establish things beforehand.This is a fundamental aspect of storytelling in film - establishing shots, establishing characters, etc. The ultimate irony is that all of these knuckle dragging retards writing this stuff idolize movies, yet they forget some of the most basic shit that even B movies manage to get.
90fe8b No.14727341
>>14708612
>I can't remember where you actually got a book that worked like a weapon, and you actually hit enemies with the book to fill in the pages with its information
It's name is Avalon Code
499596 No.14733782
42f385 No.14741132
>>14733782
Get some taste fag.
fffa0d No.14747763
>>14726947
It saves dev time though.
42f385 No.14754222
>>14747763
True but it's still shitty.
c2cb0b No.14754264
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>>14689106
>>14689107
>>14689120
>>14706722
Oh come on people, you're on the internet. That's not even close to the most disturbing porn you can find.
Here's something a bit more hardcore
>>14707224
Not sure if this is what you're talking about but I'm posting it anyway.
7edbbb No.14758321
>>14678063
what gaem?
>>14678837
it's hard to kill the core with it
3a5ceb No.14758339
>>14754264
I can't even tell what is happening in those.
b9e954 No.14758357
>>14758339
He's wearing her like a pants and fucks the shit and womb out of her
3a5ceb No.14758392
>>14758339
>He's wearing her like a pants
Where the fuck do people come up with this?
3a5ceb No.14758394
72445f No.14758517
>Metro 2033
>Not that redux shit
>Ranger Mode Hardcore
>Start with the bastard gun
>Despite overheating, hilarious lack of accuracy and long reloads, it is by far my favourite weapon.
>Never switch out for any other weapon throughout the game. Sell every secondary I can.
>By the last few levels, I'm weighed down by so much military grade ammo that I use it exclusively with the bastard gun.
>Because military grade ammo is game currency, it isn't subjected to storage caps like regular ammo. So I sell all the ammo I get, further boosting my military grade ammo stores.
>Military grade ammo makes up for all the bastard gun's drawbacks by being ridiculously powerful and slightly more accurate in burst fire than dirty ammo. Drops all major monsters in half a clip or less, just sprayin' and prayin'.