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    I'd rate SR2 higher too. I loved Fuzz and some of the other minigames that didn't carry over to SR3. Still enjoyed SR3 though.
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    Reading the Funny Things thread before bed?
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    Never played SR co-op and probably never will. Still fun to me.
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    I think this is a blanket mis-characterization of the "anti-romancers" just as wildly off base as it would be to call "pro-romancers" a group of people who get their jollies off romancing sprites because they can't do it in real life. BOTH make no attempt to understand the interests and complaints of the other and only serve to attempt diminish the other side so as to dismiss it. One of the big problems pointed out in previous discussions is that if you choose not to romance an NPC like Aerie then the character has little to say. They become an unresponsive cypher because the vast majority of their character interactions with the PC and other party members is built into the romance. That complaint doesn't sound very much like "I dun liek to reed, I jus wanna hack n slash!" now does it? Other complaints - about resource allocations, appropriate contexts, etc. again have nothing to do with reading desire.
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    Aren't there earlier games with father / daughter relationships? (Nier is 3 years old, but would something like Silent Hill count?)
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    Stand outside of what?
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    Tecmo's Deception was Saw the Video Game before Saw the movie came out.
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    I love the Saints Row games and the new GTA trailer does nothing for me. Really? I'm not sure if you are joking, I don't want to turn this into a SR vs GTA discussion but you can't possibly compare the outlandish and exaggerated gameplay antics of the SR4 trailer to the real living world of GTA5? Both look good but GTA5 is on a different level and it always has been? Here's the thing - the kind of crime game the GTA series is doesn't appeal to me at all. I'll go out on a limb and say Rockstar Games in general don't appeal to me because I have yet to play one I've really liked. And had Saints Row stayed a GTA style game I'd have never played it. It actually wasn't until about 6 months after SR2 was released and I happened upon an article talking about the crazy stuff that I bought a used version of it and tried it out. And it was the ridiculousness of it that made me like it.
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    I'm not anti-romance. I'm not romance has to be in the game either. If romances are included, I want them to fit the game and the characters and not limit the viability of not romancing NPCs. If they're not there I still expect robust NPCs to have other kinds of human relationships with.
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    Wouldn't the equivalent of "SAW the video game" be something like TECMO's Deception: Invitation to Darkness and not a FPS?
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    One of the things I really liked about Arcanum was their backgrounds. They were generic enough not to nail down too many things but still gave the feeling that your character didn't suddenly appear from the aether either.
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    From what was reported that I can tell - She wasn't fired, suspended or disciplined One of the suicide notes did criticize the Hospital Administration but it was for a previous disagreement between her and another employee she felt the hospital didn't properly address. She blamed the DJs for her death in the third suicide note She had attempted suicide before The last one is really the one that is the most important to my mind; with an anonymous prank like this you have no clue who you're dealing with and whether they have pre-existing struggles that could trigger a suicide or rage or if they'll just shrug and go "whatever".
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    I love the Saints Row games and the new GTA trailer does nothing for me.
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    So...basically you're wanting someone to license F.A.T.A.L. for a console game?
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    I just wish they'd ditch the Guy Fawkes masks.
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    I can't say I've seen many pranks that are about "deflating truly pompous people". All the ones I've seen or heard are "lets make someone look stupid to the public and laugh at them" with pomposity being irrelevant.
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    If you'd said "People looking down on you, or considering you weird for watching it, since they consider it to only be hentai about tentacle rape" or something, I possibly could have agreed with you. But anecdotally speaking, the vast majority of people I meet seem to accept anime an manga now in ways they didn't in the 80s. The 80s was total wilderness where you usually only saw films if someone traded you a copy of a copy of a copy and everyone said "cartoons? That's for kids!" Now days you can walk into Best Buy and buy anime films. You can get Studio Ghibli films at Wal*Mart. The stuff isn't just seen as "for kids", I know a lot of adults who've watched some anime films. Not in the diehard way, but in the way of casual people watching stuff.
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    I was thinking more "Lone Wolf and Cub"... ...although I can't find the actual scene where they use the bladed babycart...
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    Maybe Sawyer meant normal doesn't require food or drink? Maybe a link to the quote to see context would help?
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    Apparently its the 1980s again, when anime in its natural habitat was a hard find and those who did find it were thought to be watching cheap kids fiction and not startling cinematic movies and tv shows of uncompromised vision that just happened to show nudity as well. When Galaxy Express 999 squeaked to theaters in NY and LA, when Castle of Cogliostro was mostly known as a laserdisc game called "Cliff Hangers" and 7 Zark 7 was seen as an integral part of the Battle of the Planets. In the future - we are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives - from around the mid-2000s on, I will not know anyone amid my niece's age and younger who will not watch anime or read manga. Do they look down on themselves in this utopian future of anime, flying cars and jetpacks, you may ask? No, my startling visions of that glorious future that awaits us all indicates that they will be well adjusted and happy with their anime and manga...but less so with flying cars and jet packs. Back to the present, however, I wasn't on the internet in the 1980s so am unsure how I'm posting this message to a forum that won't exist for 20 more years. I shall declare it "movie magic" and move on.
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    It kind of depends on the game. Usually for fantasy RPGs I play Neutral to Good though and maybe multiple runs through might try some of the evil options. I'm not a fan of "whack a villager = +1 Evil" systems.
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    I believe he is referring to the fact that PE combat is going to be a series of rock/paper/scissors. All party members will have two or more "weapon sets" that will allow each character to rapidly change their weapons. This is being implemented because they are also adding "flavor" by each type of weapon (crushing, piercing, slashing) being "best" against certain types of armor. (IE: War hammers (crushing) are better than a dagger (piercing) against plate armor.) So your characters will be constantly be switching weapon sets, even within the same battle. Unless its ranged vs melee I'm never crazy about micromanaging my weapons.
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    Whose fault is it? Default.
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