Recent content by Lilani

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    Bubsy's back. No, just no.

    Usually when old IPs get new games after decades of being gone, it's because there is a lot of nostalgia for the original title(s) or they made a lot of money back in the day. Bubsy...fits in neither category. None of the games were well-received, and similarly there's little evidence they made...
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    The first 2 Harry Potter movies were the best imo.

    The first two, well first one especially really, does capture the proper sense of wonderment for the events. It's the first time both the audience and Harry are seeing the world of magic, and between the music, the aesthetics, and the pacing it really does feel satisfying all the way through...
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    ME: Andromeda: A Postmortem

    I gotta agree with this assessment on companions. I didn't like Miranda too much as a character (though I sympathized with her more after her story missions), but at least she made me feel something. She didn't feel like a placeholder. Jacob, Ashley, and Kaiden all feel utterly lifeless. I...
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    The real problem with "that scene" in Man of Steel (DCCU spoilers)

    My problem with "that scene" was that the film completely and utterly failed to communicate to me, as someone unfamiliar with Superman lore, that killing Zod was in any way significant. Honestly, when I saw him twist Zod's neck and then scream in agony, I thought he finally saw all the damage...
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    Favourite Game Marketing Campaigns (Good or Bad)

    To this day I am extremely fond of the Portal 2 promo videos. All of them are brilliant, but the Cave Johnson ones are the perfect combination of gameplay hype and story teasing that any trailer needs. They also balance showing old gameplay elements and new ones, showing that they haven't...
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    Best OST Covers to Represent a Game

    Aw fuck yeah, I was just about to say this. Particularly the cover of "Undertale" itself, that gave me chills. They really captured the bittersweetness of not only that moment in the game, but of the story as a whole.
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    So that whole "female main characters don't sell" bullshit

    As a woman, I would say I'm pretty conditioned to accept male leads without question. For the simple fact that if I ignored all media except that which has a female lead, I would consume next to no media. Thinking of the movies and shows I've watched in the last year or so, the only ones which...
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    Hidden Game Mechanics

    The most obvious one I can think of is EV's and IV's in the Pokemon games. I've never taken advantage of them, but I know people who wish to play a certain way have spent hundreds of hours finding ways to max out their EV's and IV's to get a perfect competition machine. Portal 2 also had a...
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    All Half life writers have left Valve

    Well yeah, I wasn't trying to say that it was the same company, lol. But I don't think it would hurt Steam or their profits much if they just sat down for a gentle chat to explain that HL3 isn't happening and why.
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    So that whole "female main characters don't sell" bullshit

    But is that because FPS's automatically become less good if it has a female protagonist, or is it because few FPS's with female protagonists have been attempted by AAA studios?
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    17 yr old sister refusing to take contraception.

    I've gotta second evilthecat, here. It sounds like you not only disapprove of her having sex without protection, but also that she's having sex with this guy at all. If she's determined to have sex with him, your disapproval is not going to change that. And if she knows you don't want her to be...
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    It's time to find another forum for us to go...

    Huh, I spent a lot of time on Neopets back in the day but I never visited the forums. Now Gaia Online on the other hand...hoo boy. I'm curious to check and see what it looks like now, but it was in the shitter even back in the days of yore. Can't imagine the hellhole it is now.
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    software to record music from spotify

    Whether or not the software is legal doesn't matter, the act of recording music from Spotify itself would be illegal, lol. Just get Spotify Premium: no ads, you can download songs to your device to play without streaming, and you can upload your own personal music into it. It's $10 a month, but...
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    All Half life writers have left Valve

    Valve has a long history of treating its customers well and providing good products. Long enough to make people feel if they have truly dropped the project, they'd do the right thing and tell us. Certain aspects of Steam have eroded that trust in them a bit, but there are still enough people who...
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    Streamlining that you agree with

    Taking all the bullshit out of using the PCs and Pokemon storage systems in the new games, oh my goodness. I can't believe it took them that long to streamline that button mashing nightmare.