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>playing dragon's dogma

>your pawn AI learns fucking everything you do, and if you demonstrate a reason for doing things or a pattern to when/why you do them they will begin to mimic you

>this has actual in-game benefits, such as when my pawn (a huge beefy amazon ara) noticed me carrying tiny pawns across rivers and creeks so as not to get their lanterns wet, and started picking me up and doing the same because i was smaller than her

>anyways, picking stuff up early in the game

>get attack by goblins when i pick up a dead snake

>press R2, throw the snake at the goblin

>it flips out and gets mad

>laugh for like two days about this

>throw dead snakes at goblins whenever humanly possible simply because it's funny

>notice that my pawn now goes out of her way, when fighting and only goblins, to pick up whatever is at hand and hurl it at the nearest goblin

dragon's dogma is a magical game

One of the Earthworm Jim had a Bubble Gun that fired soap bubbles. I always thought that it had some sort of all-devastating secret attack which could be triggered by the right conditions, but as it turns out, the weapon really is just a useless joke that won't harm anybody.

>>16400181

That's not small by any means, that's a major flaw in the game and does affect the game, because you have a ton of this shit that serves for nothing as a mechanic itself, like faction armors and weapon types, making the game all the same.

Fun details would be something like, for example, how Ashley reacts when you try to see under her skirt in RE4 or how you heard comedic character lines in W3 after you click on them a few times I already told you, I'm a night lord, not a drug lord.

>>16402521

>The fairy SINGS?!?

Not in some versions tho, like the American PS1 release. So don't get your hopes up. She can sing in the PSP port (any region) & the Japanese Sega Saturn version. The song is called "Nocturne".

https://castlevania.fandom.com/wiki/Nocturne

>>16402560

dont let your ai fall in to the wrong hands

>>16400158

Didn't actually occur to me to test that in GR. But I've seen that sort of poking mechanic in a fair few Japanese games, favourite is possibly Bullet Girls 2 or Gal*Gun because you can poke enemies to make them jump and temporarily stun them. If we're talking little details sadly too many such games do that but possibly to the detriment of their more important gameplay.

But on that subject, the dressing rooms in Bullet Girls are detailed voice-wise with all of its girls having a bunch of unique dialogue for different clothing and upgrade options, you groping them, and such. Also in Phantasia at least the school gym uniforms and swimsuits have different handwriting for the name of the girl in question. Minagi's is particularly elaborate while Mai's is chicken scratch.

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>>16402521

The fairy does actually get tired and sits on his shoulder if you leave it long enough, and falls ungracefully when you get up. In Japanese versions where you have the half-fairy alt version, if her level is high enough she'll sing too.

>try to pirate okami

>it refuses to create a save game

>I am apparently totally alone with this problem in the entire world

>the version that does create a savegame doesn't have controller support

Why is this fucking game so hard to pirate?

>>16402866

Emulate the PS3 version

Worked fairly well last I checked.

Wild Arms 3, Alter Code F, and 4 have an NPC who will say something different each day using the PS2's clock and calendar function to determine which set of text to use. There's no reward for speaking to her, leaving it all just flavor text, but it's interesting to see someone on the team not only put that effort few are apt to care about in, but did so repeatedly. 3's version of the character gives trivia on daily "holidays", ACF's has sayings, while 4's expressed her interest in the occult.

Today's, for example:

>WA3: "Today is April 25, Coffee Day. A farmer who was storing beans for landowner's tax accidentally let his beans go rotten. Wondering what to do with the damaged beans, he poured hot water over it. 'Mmm, this smells good!' he said. And that's how coffee was invented."

>ACF: "Today’s saying is that sympathy is good for others. A person insisted on the saying above. People who had the same belief gathered and formed a group. They tried spreading this thought around, but it never really caught on. I guess everything needs a marketing strategy."

>WA4: ""When I was young, I once dug up in the desert a communication device used during the great war. I excitedly pushed the power but, and–'Captain! Captain! I don't know my current position! I'm enveloped by something soft in the middle of a weird mist!' That plea for help was quickly followed by a crushing sound. A cold chill ran down my spine, and I pressed the switch again…but no voice came forth.""

ACF isn't translated all that well, unfortunately, so sometimes its sayings come off feeling stilted.

>>16402421

I didn't know she could sing.

Little things like how in Conker's Bad Fur Day, he puts his hands up and pushes back against the wall if you run him into them instead of looping the walk/run animation but goes nowhere.

>>16403791

Someone's been reading the developer commentary. That game could've written the book for small details.

>>16403867

>>16402521

Anon should have mentioned that not all fairies sing. It only happens in the Japanese version of SOTN, both for the saturn and the PS1, and in the PSP release dunno if she do it in that new one released in PS4.

And it's a different fairy, it's a different familiar

flourishing lightsabers in KotOR II

>>16398046

I usually loved gta sa mods that let you have more control over the vehicle, also thought that the lights hotkey in gta iv was a nice touch

>>16403892

I like and hate how in NWN, BioWare couldn't figure out how to implement the free five-foot step rule, so to compromise your character shuffles in a totally random direction each round while in melee combat. It is ultimately a terrible game mechanic because in special circumstances this can outright fuck you, like your character stepping into a tile where they're surrounded on all sides, or fighting near a corner, breaking line of sight due to a bad step and then automatically moving to take an attack of opportunity. I do think it's interesting that they seemed to put so much effort into creating a bad five foot step mechanic though.

>>16403867

>>16403791

If anybody is curious, this is the commentary in question: https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=VgtAXCaSlpk&list=PLuCZVGSPkGdFbyGs7bh71ayDtgXBfsxbw

It's quite entertaining, and definitely worth a watch. They talk about how in the original barn sequence, they made a reference to the KKK that Nintendo made them cut out, and a bunch of other decisions like that. I wish they would have finished it, because it's a really good commentary.

>>16403550

Dynamic music is such a subtle detail but it adds a fuck ton of immersion. Having a ominous tune at night (or day, depending on the threat) makes a world of difference.

I remember a faggot speaking about BGM once. He put a 60s commercial of a can opener with a BGM of happy 60s shit, kinda like the Jetsons. Then the same commercial with a classic dreadful arrangement of distorted sounds and it made the whole thing a completely different experience.

I was outright assblasted by this detail. So much so, I started paying actual attention to BGM.

Tl;dr: BGM makes or breaks a game

In MediEvil, whenever you jump or fall any distance, the skull lags behind the body, showing for a brief moment Sir Daniel's spine.

Sage for double posting

>>16402866

The game works a lot better with M/K but it is considerably easier. Not that it was that hard to begin with.

I've always found idle animations to be sort of magical, really breathes some life into a game.

>>16404748

It's great when it works but hilarious-to-jarring when it doesn't. Most Todd games suffer from the latter.

>>16402738

Dragon's Crown, probably.

>>16404748

Don't know if it counts, but in Space Station Sillicon Valley all the music comes from speakers scattered around the levels, since the whole thing is supposed to be a zoo that went out of control in space. You have the ability to destroy the speakers, and if you do the levels go silent.

>>16402738

Recettear

>>16400181

One of them is a game going a hundred different directions at once as a result of its not having any coherent game direction and the different members of its development staff having no contact nor co-ordination with each other with which to integrate anyone's ideas in with the game as a whole, and the other is someone (possibly the director) putting a little something extra in off the side once all the main elements of the game have been created and integrated together under the game's creative vision.

In one or some of the halo games, the warthog has a horn you can honk.

>>16404748

>Dynamic music is such a subtle detail but it adds a fuck ton of immersion

You got SUCH a rush when this was done in Metal Gear Rising. Probably the best example was the RULES OF NATURE shout you got when you blocked Ray's giant swinging arm blade on you.

Happens at roughly the 2:13 mark of this video.

>I remember a faggot speaking about BGM once. He put a 60s commercial of a can opener with a BGM of happy 60s shit, kinda like the Jetsons. Then the same commercial with a classic dreadful arrangement of distorted sounds and it made the whole thing a completely different experience.

>I was outright assblasted by this detail. So much so, I started paying actual attention to BGM.

Akira Yamaoka also did some example of the effects of music, where he would take a scene with music, and then do the same scene again but play with the volume of the music. Second time around he would sometimes mute it, some times it was louder, but it made a huge impact in how the scene played out. I can't remember when he did it, but I heard about it when he was interviewed on some podcast he did for Shadows of the Damned.

>>16398055

i taught my pawns to play catch with a deer.

>>16400403

>busty wolf girl

this pleases me, more games should feature this

>>16400455

>rape is a verb

>hug isn't

>>16400455

>>NPCs change dialog every time the story advances, even if you're not sent back to that area, and have their own story

Sonic Adventure does this very well. The game also isn't told linearly, since you have six stories happening at roughly the same time, so you might play some chronological parts after parts that happen before. But the NPCs' stories actually advance based on when you're speaking to them chronologically. It even applies to NPCs who are in locations that you'd never be expected to visit at that time. Like when you play Super Sonic's "story," which is just walking a few feet to activate the final cutscene, if you go to a completely different hubworld, NPCs actually give important dialogue that makes an otherwise nonsensical part of the ending actually make sense.

>>16400455

absolutely based