pretty sure it looks like the boat going upriver in Apocalypse Now
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10:40
one of the first games i got on my vita, 3 and a half years ago, was metal gear solid 3. this morning, i started playing it. itâs alright.
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this optional swimming part at the end of Majoraâs Mask is some gargantuan ho shit
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have we talked about the voice acting for Kurosawaâs in-game bits in Binary Domain yet
Please do, Binary Domain is one of those games I felt it was best to play over a single, increasingly bleary night to sodium morning
so I have very strong recall of parts in my vision but am hard-pressed to recall specifics outside that
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his bits should be in here
for the record, in all cutscenes leading up to this stage of the game, Kurosawa is voiced in Japanese as he is only scene opposite another Japanese cop. this is fine.
once you get in game, he is voiced by Johnny Yong Bosch in English. this is also fine.
the accent used is not fine.
I have tried to get into binary domain like 3 different times on the strength of the demo and the feedback here and Nagoshi but every single time I put it down in the first level because everything that isnât shooting is extremely boring and the voice recognition doesnât work
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Same
I always feel way too self-conscious to be a dork and try to give voice commands to a computer game. Itâs like trying to get a cat to listen to you, but cats are at least cute
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good: the shooting never gets worse; arguably, the situations and bosses it starts throwing at you get better/more hilarious (itâs like the modern day equivalent to a NES movie license game where all the shit is made up except itâs all Yakuza team)
bad: the plot never gets better
whatever: just pick a response with the controller
edit:
I get this but I was playing Love Plus and I wasnât ready to tell an anime that I love her, that is a bridge too far friend
Big Bo? Big Bo is better than anime man, heâs real
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Play Odama once to completion and never fear raising your voice @ a vidcon again.
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yeah I kept shooting and it just wouldnât die
trying a fourth time, love you all
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After Vanquish x 4 then Alpha Protocol 75%, I still had enough fuel for a few hours of Binary Domain. Expecting some sort of overlap experience based on thoseâŚthink I got to a point where your teamâs at a resort / villa for higher class colonists? Game was cool but short of hooking me and I canât remember why (or really anything but voice commands and the above bland grounded arcade aesthetic).
Binary Domain > Vanquish I said it donât @ me
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Vanquish is never as revelatory as you feel like it wants to be but it at least succeeds in feeling like a 2D brawler literalized as a cover shooter moreso than any other I can think of, the postprocessing effects are generally aggressive enough for it to still look pretty good, and it has a bunch of totally arbitrary Candide references which naturally endear me to it. the movement is also pretty cool.
Binary Domain is an extremely by-the-numbers cover shooter (the damage modeling isnât as interesting as it wants to be, the voice commands donât really work, the upgrade trees are boring, the visuals are really flat, the level design constantly makes me wish I were playing Dog Days) with massively endearing characters. I want to love it but in practice itâs like a slightly less novel version of Blood on the Sand
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I got a 30 day ban from the Artifact subreddit because they misinterpreted my fervent worship of the game as ironic concern trolling.
The game dropped below 1000 concurrent players for the first time today. I bought another fullset (now only $75) to cope. To the moon. Artifact is the next Bitcoin.
VALVE PLEASE
edit: they lifted the ban per my plea of sincerity and emotional turmoil
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In fairness to them, you do seem to take things extremely seriously, as a general rule.
Gaben will vindicate me
Gaben will vindicate me
Gaben will vindicate me
Gaben will vindicate me
Your grandkids will be talking about the latest Artifact patch
My emotional investments will always yield positive returns