skillzdadirecta
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What's crazy is I've played and own 8 of these and beat 7 of them. I also played and beat BOTH of the bonus games. Pretty sure I beat Spec Ops on a gamefly rental, not sure if I kept it. It's going up on Ebay if so. Alpha Protocol is a game with so much potential... to bad it was a broken buggy mess.
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5 hours ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:
A large part of me feels like Im done with trailers and most media on the game. Unless shocking preview gameplay impressions or reviews say the game is just crap I think I know all I need to buy the game and I don’t want any more of the story or locations spoiled. I’ll see if I can control my hype.
I kinda feel the same way. I already have an idea what this game is gonna be... Watch Dogs with a Star Wars skin. Which I'm fine with.
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I don't know what happened but this game has really clicked for me. Been playing a lot the last couple of days, it's pretty much taken over my Dragon's Dogma time. Really digging the open world, very Rockstar-esque chock full of quests and inetersting side characters. Combat has clicked too, just beat a boss that was giving me problems. This does feel like it's on the easier side for a Team Ninja game. Really impressed with what they did with their first open world game. It's more of livel, lived in world than most other recent open world games I've played. FInally gonna start moving the story forward later.
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1 hour ago, Keyser_Soze said:
Was on that Dullhan quest and found a riftstone that had a pawn that was like 4 levels above me, and it was a Capcom pawn so I decided to hire it. Thing is like a tour guide saying, "I know of two locations of interest around here" and I took it up on the offer and it brought me to a place I would have never thought of going to so cool on them.
Also I think @skillzdadirecta was asking me earlier about traveling at night. But the interesting thing in this game is there is a benefit to doing it because things glow at night such as the seekers tokens or the bugs that increase carrying capacity so I've found myself traveling night and day most of the time. When my health gets low or pawns cry too much about being tired I might go home and rest.
yeah I've found at least three of those Capcon pawns and they're great. You have a chance to get them when you find those broken riftstones in the wild. They typically know a lot of the quests and are pretty high level. Also they're usually free to hire if you find them.
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I'd be fine with that as a series finale despite wanting more. Theydefinitely wrapped everything up satisfactorily.
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Rise of the Ronin Custom Character code megathread
Some cool custom chracters in here.
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1 minute ago, sblfilms said:
I guess I’m struggling to understand how making a terrible sequel like Resurrections on purpose protects the series from being ruined. Is the argument that it is better to set your own house on fire than for somebody else to set it on fire?
It is still a pile of ash at the end.
I think it simply is a film where the filmmaker got too cute with an idea for their own good and put out a poorly realized project. It happens, and no need to glamorize the failure with an assumption of intentionality.
Again, Bingo.
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1 hour ago, Reputator said:
Imagine deliberately bombing a sequel to your own franchise in order to... help steer your career? Oh, and deliberately involving yourself to protect the franchise's legacy by.... again, making a bad sequel?
Either that's complete nonsense or Wakowskis haven't a damn clue what they're doing.
Based on what I've seen of their work post-The Matrix, I'd say it's the latter. Sure, I enjoyed Speed Racer and Cloud Atlas, but a lot of people didn't, and they, like the Matrix sequels, are very uneven, very divisive films not for their content, but for their quality.
To expand on the Star Wars comparison @skillzdadirecta made, it's like how Lucas couldn't make a good movie without heavy studio interference. The Matrix is that movie, and when the Wakowskis were given more creative freedom... they showed weakness. Intentionally or otherwise, they aren't actually capable of replicating that success.
Bingo.
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3 minutes ago, stepee said:
I do plan to play this wether it be on ps5 pro or pc so I don’t want to l spoil too much - but it sounds like this is a bit more accessible difficulty wise than something like Nioh - is that right? I really liked Strangers of Paradise which was Team Ninja but it had difficulty options.
I would say so... it's really just learning the mechanics and which stances to use in which situations. And learning to parry... that's is ESSENTIAL to making fights easier. There's a LOT of meat on this bone though especailly for people who like to experiment with builds and people who love Samurai/Ninja movies and anime. The game is tough though... there's one boss I just can't beat but fortunately he's optional and you can also abandon any missions you get stuck on and comeback to them later. I've been basically wandering the map getting into fights and leveling up and honing my skills.
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12 minutes ago, stepee said:
I can’t remember anymore if he actually was kind of a douche or if it was just that DmC had fans going rabid to the point of sending death threats and stirring up a big controversy that he made the Dante of DmC in his own image.
Maybe that was it...
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6 minutes ago, stepee said:
Dig that Shinobi costume! I might make this a ps5 pro launch game assuming there is a patch.
I think that's the Ryu Hyabusa suit from Ninja Gaiden. This is a game that I can see myself beating and then replaying with a different build and making different choices. They apparently affect the outcome of the game... I think I'm gonna go anti Shogunate on this first playthrough yes.
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Damn somebody made their character based on Himura Kenshin... wished I thought of that!
I based my character on Miyamoto Musashi from Vagabond. Should have just said fuck it and based him on Afro Samurai or Yasuke. This guy went full on Ninja with his build
I love how deep the gameplay is and how you can play the game in a variety of different ways. Skill ceiling is high but not as high as you'd think being a Team Ninja game.
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3 minutes ago, stepee said:
Ninja Theory Co-Founder, Hellblade Director Tameem Antoniades No Longer At Studio
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He was involved in the early stages of Senua's Saga: Hellblade II's development.Meanwhile, they also just lost their main director/writer on their projects - hope this does well so they get to keep making games like this despite that set back.
Wan't he supposed to be kind of a douche?
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The game would have been the debut of the Nemesis system and eventually became Shadow of Mordor
Gameplay for Canceled ‘Nolanverse’ Batman Game That Became Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Unearthed - IGN
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Gameplay and images for the canceled ‘Nolanverse’ Batman game that was once in development at Monolith Productions have emerged online.Batman game with the Nemesis system would have been awesome.
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Jonathan Nolan Is Ready to Unleash ‘Fallout’ and Finish ‘Westworld’
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The writer-director-producer on his upcoming Amazon sci-fi series, how he wants to go back to 'Westworld' and the lessons of Peak TV: "If the lesson was to ease back on complexity or weirdness, I don't want to learn that lesson."I can't imagine he would have a hard time getting a streamer to pony up the dough to finish the series with a limited series or movie as long as WB/Discovery let's them.
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2 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:
The "rave scene" was like 2 minutes long. I always am baffled by this complaint.
because it feels longer than it actually is and is uncomfortable as HELL to sit through.
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I refuse to believe that the same two filmmakers who took every opportunity to "sell out" and exploit their first major Hollywood Blockbuster success with comic books, videogames, animes and every tie in under the sun (which they were both intimately involved in) "DELIBERATELY" made bad movies to teach the audience some kind of lesson especially when those same two filmmakers have not only failed to repeat the success of that first movie with every subsequent film they've made.
And the difference between The Last Jedi and The Last of Us part 2 is that those works are devisive because they subverted audience expectations but were in and of themselves, well made and well crafted despite the creative and narrative choices they took. You CANNOT say that about ANY of the Matrix sequels. Outside of a few action set pieces, which apparently the Wachowskis now find distasteful, The two Matrix films after the original are overly long, self indulgent dreck that get even worse upon repeated viewings. The fourth movie is even worse because it has literally NOTHING redeeming going for it and is best forgotten that it even exists. And it's interesting to me that The Wachowskis on one hand don't seem to want anything to do with the property anymore but ONE of them is on board as an executive producer on this Sequel/reboot or whatever it's going to be. No one is forcing them to be involved in any capacity which is obvious because one of them isn't involved apparently.
Lastly comparing every film under the sun to Marvel/DC is weak for the simple reason that those movies aren't trying to be anything other than what they are. Popcorn entertainment. Whether or not they succeed is in the eye of the beholder, but what those movies DON'T try to be is pretentious arthouse sci-fi epics that pretend to be deeper than what they really are. the original Matrix was a great movie... a sci-fi classic in fact and I get that it came out at a time when a lot of us were of an age where we were starting to question certain things about reality and society and it was in fact, The Star Wars of its generation. But unlike Star Wars, the first film was the best one in the franchise and as it turns out... seems to be the anomaly which is weird. The Wachowski's are what, 2 and 5 with The Matrix franchise? Counting the Animatrix and the two videogames? Not a great track record.
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9 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:
The action scenes being so-so was, I felt, intentional on the part of Lana Wachowski. Since Cloud Atlas, and particularly if one has seen Sense8, it's clear to me that the Wachowskis no longer care about action and in fact don't like it and intentionally don't put it in their work anymore. I believe they don't want to glorify action in cinema anymore, seeing it as a bad thing and a bad message to viewers (in the same way Neil Gaiman doesn't really do action in his work either because it's lazy/bad writing and not a good message to send). I believe they've gotten even more pacifist as they've gotten older. I mean, Lana Wachowski could have hired Yuen Woo-Ping and his team again for the action just like she did for the original trilogy and she intentionally didn't.
As I said in my first post in this thread, The Matrix Resurrections is a super interesting movie to me. I like it, despite it not being very rewatchable (because of the lack of good action, etc.) but that movie was a giant, intentional fuck you to both movie studios (WB in particular) and audiences who just wanted another fan service laden legacy sequel like Hollywood has been pumping out and Lana Wachowski was like: "fuck that" and made a movie with so-so action that seemed to barely care about the action despite being a Matrix movie.
The Wachowski's have only gotten more arthouse since The Matrix trilogy and in no world do they want to play that studio game of Tron: Legacy and Top Gun: Maverick, etc. They didn't want to make a fourth movie, they only did it because WB told them they were going to make one with or without them, so Lana Wachowski stepped in to protect the integrity of their previous works by remaining in control and she made a movie that, to me, intentionally was trying to kill the franchise so they wouldn't make anymore. Her sister Lilly Wachowski was working on a show but basically refused to do the movie for this very reason that they didn't want Matrix revived. Rumor was that when the film stopped midway during production due to Covid hitting that Lana Wachowski was just going to not finish the film so it would never be made and it took the cast and crew telling her to please finish it for her to do so. The so-so action scenes are a product of all of this.
I mean, the movie hilariously has a scene introducing the names of three new sentient robot characters that have switched to the human side in the intervening 60 years since the truce was established and it's such a "Hollywood blockbuster movie moment" of a scene "introducing new characters who are part of this new crew" and then they are only seen from that point on and never developed further or voiced again. It's stuff like this that shows that Lana Wachowski didn't want to make some traditional sequel. Yet here we are.
The only thing I agree with here is the The Matrix Ressurections was a giant fuck you to the audience. That movie was trash deliberately or otherwise.... the fact that EVERY MAtrix movie after the first one was mediocre to bad lends some credence to the urban legend that The Wachowskis stole the first movie from someone and were later sued and the case was settled out of court. This has been disproven of course, but there's The first movie WAAAAAY up here, then The Animatrix and THEN everything else after that.
If they are going to keep the franchise going, new blood is needed and Drew Godard is a solid choice. Hopefully he starts with a blank slate. Plenty of other stories to tell in this universe.
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Finally getting the hang of the combat in this and Hit level 10 tonight. Having a blast wandering the countryside killing bandits and getting into fights. I haven't advanced the story yet because I'm still trying to figure out which side I want to pick, pro or anti-shogunate. I'm finally at a point in the story where I have to pick a side.
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I hope the final game moves a little faster than this but otherwise I'm in. Seems like the perfect evolution of the Max Payne-esque third person action shooter.
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1 hour ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:
Open-world wuxia game Where Winds Meet is holding its first beta test in North America later this month | PC Gamer
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Applications for the beta test are now open.
Where Winds Meet's First Beta Application is Now Open!
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Sign up for Where Winds Meet's first beta now! A groundbreaking Oriental Wuxia open world awaits you!
Danke.
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Written and directed by Cabin in The Woods writer Drew Goddard and Executive Produced by Lana Wachowski.
New ‘Matrix’ Movie In The Works At Warner Bros From Drew Goddard
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'The Matrix' New Movie to be Directed, Written by Drew GoddardHopefully it's an entirey new take with new characters and stars.
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3 minutes ago, nublood said:
Are we still having fun with this? It’s kinda turned into a walking simulator for me. I might need a break, idk.
10 Single Player Games to Return to In 2024
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Really? The list has chapter breaks and you could just skip to each one to see which games are there.
10. Days Gone
9. Quantum Break
8. Warhammer 40k Space Marine
7. Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen
6. Ass. Creed Unity
5. Spider Man Web of Shadows
4. Deus Ex Mankind Divided
3. Divinty Original Sin 2
2. The Last Guardian
1. Alpha Protocol
Bonus games:
Spec Ops The Line
Watchdogs
And played 7 of the 10 on the list and beat 6 of them. Never played Ass. Creed Unity, Spiderman Web of Shadows or The Last Guardian. I think I may own Last Guardian from PS+ but I have to check. Might have Unity from Xbox Gold as well.