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PulsatingBrain

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Codex 2016 - The Age of Grimoire Codex+ Now Streaming! Enjoy the Revolution! Another revolution around the sun that is. My team has the sexiest and deadliest waifus you can recruit. Pathfinder: Wrath
Why is there still no mod that removes the real world weapons and the unnecessary pop cultural references and such from Fallout 2?

Because there's autism and then there's Advanced Autism, and the latter is required to de-pop Fallout 2 as it has close to 400 known pop culture references.

The latter is also required to give a fuck that they're in there. Especially considering that the Americana theme of the setting is basically a pop culture reference itself.
 

Taka-Haradin puolipeikko

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Codex 2016 - The Age of Grimoire Make the Codex Great Again! Grab the Codex by the pussy Bubbles In Memoria
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Kabas

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Thanks for the reminder that i am yet to finish the last island in Magic and Mayhem.
 

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Ah, Magic & Mayhem the game where you summon brownies with Agent 47.

Only played the demo of this one, I think I didn't like very much the real time combat.
 
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That specific shot is just default GZDoom using Ultimate Doom .wad for the actual game levels, with Beautiful Doom .pak to enhance the sprite animations and lighting. Beautiful Doom also implements optional "enhanced weapons" but I disabled them for obvious reasons (they're too tryhard), and just left the animations and other small effects on.
 

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First semi-succesful game, so close to beating USA too :/
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Pretty great you almost recreated Spanish Colonial Empire.
I played with HPM mod and it gave me quite a few opportunities to expand, but i wasted quite a few good opportunities tbh.
The saddest moment was in the "3rd Great War" when french somehow got super ahead of me in military tech and with their 50k division slauthered 300k of my soldiers with gas attacks :(.
 
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Witcher 3
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Horizon mod made it mostly fun for ungodly amount of hours but the Bethpizda writing/worldbuilding has reached new heights of retardation.
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American McGee's Alice is one of the worst games I've played through to the end. On the journey to restore Alice's sanity I've almost lost my own.

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Click if you want to see what's under her dress.
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Nothing, pervert!

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It was a queen sacrifice.

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So many cool levels. If only the game was good.

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:hmmm:

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Nah.
 

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Legend (Four Crystals of Trazere) is a game I've tried to get into a couple of times, but never succeeded.

You are in for something. Godspeed.
 

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Shadow of the Tomb Raider (minor/mild spoilers if you haven't seen any trailers)

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Bringing the Croft Dynasty-Trinity story full circle - albeit not necessarily in the most satisfactory fashion - Shadow of the Tomb Raider brings Lara to South America as she delves into ancient Mesoamerican religion in a race against the secret society from previous titles and the prophecy of a looming apocalypse. Whereas the last two reboot titles were developed by Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal assumed the duty of concluding the trilogy whilst CD apparently work on more important titles, like capeshit tie-in game The Avengers. As usual, gameplay is divided between hunting for hidden tombs and collectibles in more open locations, lengthy and more linear gymnastic excursions, combat arenas that sometimes emphasize awkward new stealth mechanics, and awful scripted cinematic experiences that flip between braindead and infuriating. Unfortunately, EM's greater ambition but failings in talent and polish come to the fore.

The major break with earlier games is a reduced focus on combat - although this seems much more exaggerated in the early/mid-game due to poor pacing - in favour of faintly challenging puzzles and more platforming. Anyone who enjoys putting a bit more thought than "match the birdie" into environmental conundrums will likely enjoy these, though don't expect anything fiendishly difficult. Climbing and jumping is much the same as before, though there are some awkward surfaces that can mess up simple leaps, infrequent misbehaviour from the camera, and a few irritating detection issues when navigating certain areas. I felt as if I was punished with considerably more unfair deaths than the last two games, which doesn't stifle your progress in any way but can leave a sour taste. Lara can also now rappel from certain surfaces, which adds slightly more possibilities to exploration and level design, though this is painfully underutilized to the point of being almost redundant.

On the subject of exploration, two of these areas introduce populated settlements with a number of interactive NPCs. Whilst RoTTR also had a "hub" area of sorts, Shadow expands on this with a light Assassin's Creed vibe in that exploring all the different houses and working out alternative paths, as well as gabbing with the locals, leads to sidequests and various rewards. There is a slight awkwardness to this in the larger town, however, due to Lara being restricted to specific (and not very form-fitting) outfits and unable to use some of her abilities until a particular costume is unlocked. Even then you may have to switch between the two in order to trigger certain events. I'm not sure if introducing so many faceless nobodies was a good idea beyond the technical achievement.

Contrary to the marketing, don't expect to spend much time playing out your Predator fantasies. There are some new mechanics to help things along, such as hanging from trees and smearing yourself in mud, but you'll spend so little time in the sections that make use of these that they're barely worth the cost in upgrades. The cause of this is pretty obvious - areas have to be specifically designed around the cover and environmental aids utilized in stealth combat, meaning that unlike Rise, conventional human enemies can't just be dropped into open environments that don't provide the tools to circumvent them. This results in a weird contrast between general exploration - which might, at best, feature a handful of wild animals here and there - and the "bridges" between these areas, which are packed with ludicrous numbers of soldiers to gun down. At the end of the day, your best friend will be a properly upgraded weapon and enough resources to craft health kits and arrows. The stealth itself feels as if it could have used a bit more playtesting, as line of sight is sometimes unintutitive or seemingly inconsistent and enemies can become borderline psychic once activated, giving the impression of foes that straddle the line between imbecility and omniscience.

Production values are just about adequate for a quasi-AAA title in 2018, with some impressive environments but seemingly less realistic effects and stiffer animations than Rise. I don't own a GTX 2080 and can't speak to the quality of the "Ray Tracing" features, though from what I've seen they tank the framerate in exchange for better shadows. I mentioned that music in the previous two games is pretty forgettable, and SoTTR is an even worse offender - I barely finished the game an hour ago and can't recall a single jingle, let alone individual tracks. Voice acting is reasonable, even if the divide between major story cutscenes and the actors in side content can be noticable.

The delivery of the story overall is a little weak. The two main threads are Lara's fight against Trinity and the fate of a hidden civilization, and whilst they frequently overlap I felt that they tended to detract from rather than reinforce each other. It's not as bad as the more negative reviews would have you believe - Lara is hardly "psychopathic" or "constantly morose" - but it's mildly emotional at best, and in one instance - where Lara suddenly snaps and turns into Terminator Lady, then suffers a complete emotional breakdown two minutes later - outright comedic. There's also far too much use of the old trope of busting your ass for an objective, then watching the enemies swoop in and undo all your work in a cutscene where everyone turns into an idiot. It's not only lazy writing, but also demotivates the player.

Overall, it's still a worthwhile purchase if you wait for a sale in a year or so (or Denuvo to get cracked again), but I'd recommend Rise of the Tomb Raider over Shadow to most people.
 

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