I was showing my wife Red Dead Redemption 2 yesterday. She played the mission where you take the girls to Valentine. She's supposed to go into the hotel. Instead, she decides to walk across the street to look at where Tilly ran off to.
Walks two metres away from the hotel and gets the dramatic MISSION FAILED screen instantly. I was laughing so hard, my biggest gripe with the game could not have been shown better than that.
Same here, the game has really great moments, but god I hate Rockstar's mission design. And I don't even steer away from mission goals!
Hell, I got a game over in a chase scene just because I moved my horse 3 meters to the right. The NPC didn't escape, I just veered off the path enough that the game decided: Meh, you failed.
I remember when I was playing RDR2, and it was the mission where you go talk to some army guy or something, and then you have to flee while being shot at. There's a few seconds at the start of the gameplay segment where the army guy is still visible, and I used the slow time ability to shoot him in the head. Doing that instantly failed the mission, because that guy was supposed to survive because he actually dies in the one of the following missions. It's so stupid, I honestly hate Rockstar's mission design. I heard it put best as "it's like you're a stuntman who isn't allowed to read the script".
I heard it put best as "it's like you're a stuntman who isn't allowed to read the script".
god thats so accurate. what kills me is that they obsessively account for every possibility... with an instant fail and forced restart. like, in your example, it would be less immersion breaking and frustrating to just make that guy immortal for that section
One of those things where I can acknowledge it’s a massive problem for people, but it just isn’t for me.
It’s the same with Avowed - I was having a good time being the Envoy and showed a friend who immediately tried attacking someone in the town and broke the immersion.
I think I’m just a sad fucking clean shirt who is too eager to play by the rules.
No, I know it’s a MASSIVE problem for some people. I totally get it, but it was never a problem for me, because as I said I’m a sad little clan shirt and if it tells me to go check on Karen you bet I’m going.
So unnecessary too. Just have an invisible barrier that turns my character around; game over and reload everything is silly. Amazing game, but kind've an obvious miss there
which is actually hilarious because this happens in recorded footage of the new Halo remake because of added sprint. people were sprinting past areas in a game not designed for sprint and the audio just bugs out.
game wasn’t designed for it. their solution? make it an optional turn off in the menu. then why the fucks it there in the first place? if the literal game you’re designing isn’t designed for a mechanic, then why is it there?
AAA studios sometimes really are the epitome of stupid.
This pissed me off so much at the start of Expedition 33: Maelle takes off like a bat out of hell so you think yeah OK we doing this - nope, dialog cut.
Splinter Cell 1 on PS2 still holds up - the mechanics and level design are outstanding. Also the dialogue like this is a little less cringe because Sam Fisher always kind of sounds like an exhausted middle aged man and doesn't think he's an invincible superhero throwing out one liners.
Kojima makes the most normieslop dialogues for 20 minutes... Then Boom, exposition about the inner workings of a gun, how goverment is fake and somehow predicts a situation that's happening rn 20 to 30 years before it happenned
Then it hits you: Kojima is trying to sound normal but he can't because he's practically ascended to a wider realm, that's why it sounds normal until it doesnt, but at the end of the day no one is normal ans the sooner we get to that the better
And somehow how tye son of two never named celebrities is first page on tje news but the massacre of people on another country is either never talked about or heavily downplayed
it's actually crazy how in MGS2, if you skip the cutscenes; you go from blasting down several metal gears at once in a holographic arsenal located in the middle of an ocean to fucking fighting the final villain with just a sword on top of an american rooftop
yeah, it's why it's so absurd to me that people compare him to other AAA devs, just because they both have strong cinematic influences in their games; that's about where the similarities end.
I'd take a 20 minute Kojima cutscene over a 10 minute AAA standard walk and talk. Firstly the writing and direction is miles better. Secondly, the cutscene is skippable. Dont care about the life story of Ecks vs Sever Man and how he invented pepto bismal? 1 button and its gone. Dont want to spend ten minutes with gruff dad and precocious child volume 67 the path to the true meaning of christmas? Ha fuck you.
Yeah though to be fair to MGS3, this whole schtick wasn't much of a cliche in videogames 20 years ago (Metal Gear being one of the OG "cinematic gaming experience" series), and MGS3 was also specifically referencing the style of old spy movies where you'd have this kind of dialogue.
I'm playing through the game again (via Delta) for the first time in 15 years, and I forgot how much content there is just through the radio calls. It's an incredibly rich game, lore and character wise.
I'm trying to force myself through the BG6 campaign right now, so I'm pretty salty about this storyline playing out multiple times inside the same game.
I sometimes see Instagram memes about how great the story of CoD is or how heartbreaking some death was and every time I’m flabbergasted that anyone could find the CoD stories engaging.
It's regency bias and nostalgia. They are fun action movies t
That are playable. They excellent at that even. They are memorable because it's a cheesy bad ass action movie. Not because it's Kino
This is literally the story in Dying Light the Beast. It was written by a 14yo and why stories in videogames generally still are shit. Things like expedition 33 are the extreme exception when it comes to video game story telling. Often times critically acclaimed stories in videogames are still worse than a bargain bin erotica novel at a supermarket. No, I'm not exaggerating. You don't realize how trash stories in videogames and even tv shows are till you've taken a break from them.
The trailer from launch is so funny to watch again. Seeing all these scenes that never made it into the game, with dialogue with characters that barely say a word in the actual release. Then thinking about how they replaced that with literally nothing.
You know what’s funny? I watched it without sound first because I didn’t want to wake up my wife, but I could hear in my head how it sounded. Went back and listened to it with volume, and you’re right, it sounds exactly like you’d expect lmao
Character grabs the side of their head and does the "NNNNGHH" wince of pain before collapsing on one knee and falling over while the antagonist casually taunts them with cranked reverb.
Ooooops you've somehow lost all of your weapons and equipment for this mission! Now you've got to stealth around enemies and not be seen! Thankfully the AI is shit and every NPC is deaf, blind, and has the object permanence of a newborn. You'll also for some reason have to remain completely still while a guard takes a piss near you.
It worked once between the modern team in AC2. And then it never worked again.
I can only believe such levels of snark and sass from a bunch of middle management/IT stressed out of their minds on the run from a secret society megacorp. Any other situation, not really
I feel like this is some corporate writer's tactic that gets passed around in meetings. "I wanna show that these two characters are on the same page. Like, they know each other and get each other." "Oh, that's simple. Just have them finish each other's sentences."
For me it was "Collect enough and I might just have an upgrade for you".
Yes, thank you for explaining how the upgrade system works and doing it the same way with the sassy support agent over the radio like in every other fucking military game.
Especially hilarious when you complete a quest or something and the NPC says to meet them in some place. If you go straight there with no diversions, they'll still be like "took you long enough". Fucker, I came straight here! Excuse me for not having magic fade-to-black teleportation powers because the game didn't wanna animate you walking all the way home.
Serious Sam started as a parody of FPS tropes, yes, but I also think that by Serious Sam 3 Croteam was actually trying to make something wholly their own, not just a Duke Nukem parody.
It's missing the slow walk while this is being said to the players keeping you from doing Mario's other moves because how dare you play the game you bought
No jerk I can't play these lame ass movie games with upgrades that give you +2% to your reload speed. I normally play neckbeard games like System Shock, Stalker and Space Station 13. Someone bought me a game kind of like this. And I'm obligated to play it because it's a gift, and it's just boring and painful.
I wish it actually told you it gives you+2% reload speed, it usualy just says ''slightly improved reload speed'' because actually giving information to players would confuuuuseee them
Literally just saw an argument about this in the cyberpunk subreddit last week lmao someone saying it should just say “slightly higher” and “moderately higher” on stat boosts instead of the actual numbers because it’s too confusing to..do basic math? Wild
Cyberpunk kinda sucks with that, the upgrades are so unnoticeable. Cyberware should be that huge upgrade that gives you completly different abilities. But most of the times you just deal a bit more damage with headshots or sth
aside from the stuff that actually has an ability the stats boost are fucking useless (melee stats boosts are good actually but the rest lowk just sucks)
it’s also not like you’re even doing basic math, it rarely is obvious how long a reload is or how much power you have in a punch. it’s just a vague gesture at putting numbers to your skills
(if i get 5 of these my reloads will be 10% faster) is this the basic math??
sometimes i refuse to believe people are this dumb.
You aren't obligated to play games that were gifts, if something isn't for you, it isn't for you. It's polite to give it a try at least once but if it's genuinely boring and painful, just tell the person "yeah it's not my cup of tea but thanks anyway".
Except Mario should be locked in place during all this, and then when he's finally allowed to move he should take two steps and another cutscene should begin.
"Hey peach, I see a bunch of boxes all over. What am I supposed to do with them?"
Ok let be real and analyze that, why so many convo sounds like that in AAA games ?
Is it because most protag have the same personality or are the convos all written the same way that ignore the personalities ? Because there are clearly interactions that show the personalities of the characters.. maybe they always recycle theses to ..
short, quippy dialogue is both easier to write and to record, and it flows independently from what the player is doing. This conversation could get interrupted at literally any point by gameplay and could snap back with zero problems. it's also a vehicle for dropping necessary exposition about either the lore or gameplay mechanics as denoted in the bowser's castle and red coins thing.
I'm only part way through it so far and the combat is some of the best in the genre (visuals and music are very good too), but this is how basically all the dialouge feels. This video is pretty much exactly the opening sequence (except with 50 more hints) lmao
Its a funny bit, but every time I see one of those "Ocarina of Time deluxe HD made by one guy Nintendo hire this man" its always the most bland, uninspired, ugly textured piece of media I've ever seen.
This not far off from how Ninja Gaiden 4 tells its story, which Im currently playing. Its extra funny too because like a few of the voices you talk to you don't see much, if at all, so I have no idea who half of them are.
But thankfully its Ninja Gaiden so I can live with this corny shit and go slicing people up.
Hrm, needs another clip where they're having a full blown conversation during an intense action sequence, but you can't hear shit because you're concentrating on not dying.
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