The Escapist Lounge.

[B-Cell_v1legacy]

Look, I've played Dark Souls, it's good but it's not that good. Jeez, the way people talk about the series reminds me of a cult sometimes. Kinda creepy.

I found dark souls incredibly overrated.

I don't suppose you can elaborate. Well, that would require you to actually understand the game and what the creators intended, and I know you like to shit on games you've barely given a chance.

my friend, i tried dark soul for like an hour before i quit and uninstalled it.

why cant they port it correctly? why it need controller instead of KB/M?

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

My contribution to this would have to be wondering if King of Fighters 14 will be able to bring the series back into the mainstream of fighting games (Note: Mainstream of fighting games, not "mainstream" mainstream, even SF V was kinda niche)

SNK said they got back into gaming after the recent Steam releases of past KOF games, namely '98UM, 2002UM and KOF 13, but a lot of people were bitching about the graphics being lacking even compared to their past sprite work.
Now, both '98UM and 2002UM were sprite based so I don't mind if the graphics don't allow me to see every nose hair inside Kyo's nostrils but I know a lot of people might be put off by the visuals.


This was the newest trailer for the game and, while I do understand why people might be bitching, I'm just glad to get a new KOF.
Loved the games on Steam and I REALLY hope they bring back Rugal Bernstein as the final boss.
I swear, I would buy a body pillow of that man @u@

 

[Souplex]

We had a place to discuss whatever we want when the 'Pist was young and vibrant.
It still exists, it's just gone quiet.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Asylum-open-mic

 

[nomotog_v1legacy]

After playing X-COM 2, I am think games have abused the idea of player ego stroking. The game over played the players role in the story by making you the most important person and giving you a literal avatar in the final mission. It doesn't make sense in a game like XCOM.

 

[LordBaztion]

I started playing AC Syndicate last weekend and so far I love the aesthetics, always love AC aesthetics, love walking over those streets WITHOUT HUD, then the hideous hook came and have to deal with that permanent button prompt. I wish I could just unequip that thing (I won't use it anyway) or hide the buttom prompt.
At the same time, before starting the game, I bouhgt the Battle for Forli DLC of AC2 which I was missiong because at the time it came out I was afraid of DLC, only bought Bonfire of Vanities because it unlocked the last part of Florence. Anyway, going back to AC2, I really miss the older climbing animations, it where more contextual aware of the building, after AC3 climbing animations are like jumping. I suppose its a payoff due to larger buildings, at least allow me to climb slowly if I press slightly the stick. In the other hand I kinda miss climbing not being more a puzzle like activity but I appreciate that now you can approach a building from any angle.

btw, I'm new to this forum, do we have a screenshots thread?

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

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So...the secret to good gameplay has something to do with women's legs? It all makes sense!

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

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So...the secret to good gameplay has something to do with women's legs? It all makes sense!

Aha! Thats why Zero Suit Samus and Bayonetta have sweet legs... (Except Other M Samus, those legs weren't so sweet).

 

[lacktheknack]

I shall take this opportunity to state that Darkest Dungeon has terrific character designs and aesthetic.

I love how they make them look cool without falling into the trap of over-design that ensnares many if not most fantasy games.

I mean, look at these gorgeous bastards:

Spoiler: LOOK AT THEM.

I am absolutely seconding this. The enemy design is really well done too. Favorite character is probably the Abomination - perfect balance of normal dude vs being covered in scrawling scars of the letter A.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

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So...the secret to good gameplay has something to do with women's legs? It all makes sense!

Aha! Thats why Zero Suit Samus and Bayonetta have sweet legs... (Except Other M Samus, those legs weren't so sweet).

Lets not forget Liara and Miranda Lawson. Those two had legs for days!
Thus Mass Effect had good Gam Eplay.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Lets not forget Liara and Miranda Lawson. Those two had legs for days!
Thus Mass Effect had good Gam Eplay.

Ah yes. The space bisexual and the cheerleader... well thats not being fair, I liked them both actually but yes, wonderful Gam Eplay.

EDIT: I realize now I'm going to carry the term "Gam Eplay" for the rest of my days...

 

[EHKOS]

Cool, I've been wanting a thread like this for a long time. Sometimes I'm trying to fall asleep and think of something, but it's not enough to make a thread about...yeah I can chill here.

I've been playing Ironcast lately, it's kind of like if Bejeweled and Front Mission had a baby and the baby looked super easy but is actually hard as shit. It's pretty good, and speaking of pretty good, I've been playing the shit out of MGSV again. I'll have to check the playtime later, but I'm super bummed about how much fuel I need.

 

[HybridChangeling]

Awesome, finally a thread where I don't have to rewrite my post 4 times over to make sure I am on topic. Well I got some cool stuff on 3 games, so lets do it.

In Jurassic Park Operation Genesis, you can rewrite some of the games main parameters (Dino Max Count, Driving Physics, Visitor Count, and Fossil Extraction Zone limits) making it possible to have as many dinosaurs as your computer can handle.

It is true that you can use Dogmeat to get locked items in Fallout 4 and make the game easy, but did you know that was built in from the start in Fallout 3? In fact, the most powerful rifle in the game can be acquired by simply grabbing Dogmeat from Junkyard and heading to a sniper shack, and having him search a couple times.

If you ever play Fallout Online Reloaded, be sure to spend your early game time at your Shed/Tent and the nearby mine, doing nothing but crafting. Fighting at Level 1-12 is generally an impossible task against players, and a 50-50 shot with something as low as molerats. Also, focus a little bit on support skills early on and try not to make a big guns player/tank, as there is already far too many of them and the ones you see usually are math gamers whose only purpose is PVP. The best (usually empty) loot and scavenge places are San Fran Ruins and Klamath.

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

I just realized that a common thread in games I love, not just like, but love to play, is movement. Just Cause, Dying Light, Assassin's Creed, Descent, and many others. I think that VR is going to make this kind of experience reach its true potential, and I'm pretty thrilled to be around to see it. I've been dreaming about this since I was a little kid, and frankly, it's arriving sooner than I expected, however rough the landing.

As neat as that sounds, I just can't imagine someone being able to fully replicate the sights and sounds of zipping around in Just Cause or preforming a Leap of Faith in Assassin's Creed without needing to have a massive bucket nearby to hold all the sick.
Don't get me wrong, that does sound awesome, but that just sounds like a motion sickness victim's worst nightmare XD

 

[Drathnoxis]

btw, I'm new to this forum, do we have a screenshots thread?

No, and I'm not sure that such a thread would be allowed under the forums Code of Conduct:

Low Content Posts
This could be anything from simply answering a question, posting LOL, "agreed," "this," +1, or even a joking quip. These forums are used for discussion and low content posts halt discussion. In order to participate in conversation one should present an explanation of the reasoning that informs your opinion. "I like pie" isn't an argument. The fact that you like pie is well and good, but why do you like that pie? This explanation offers others an opportunity to respond to your opinion and avoids forum spam.

Pictures, Links and Videos
These will all be considered low content posts if not accompanied by a well thought out opinion, debate or reasoning. Pics, links and videos should help to strengthen your stance or opinion, not the other way around.

Code of Conduct

Sorry. The only option would be to talk to the community manager [user]n0e[/user] and maybe get him to set one up or make an exception or something.

Edit: Low content rule has just been abolished, so a thread like this could be created now!

 

[Ryallen]

I can say anything I want? Anything at all? So much freedom, and I don't even know what to say. How ironic, that in being granted complete agency in my choices to I only now wish for direction and restriction, so as to dictate my topic of discussion.

Hey, that's something!

All kidding aside, I suppose that I would like to say that I feel like it's a shame that a lot of settings are underserved and that it would be interesting to see more developers try these different routes and see where they go.

Gothic Victorian is always a fun one to do, but I suppose that with Bloodborne, Darkest Dungeon, and Van Helsing, I can't really say that it's underserved.

Besides Call of Juarez and Red Dead Redemption, there are not many Western games to play and even less on PC, which I would in all honestly love to try out.

Weird West is a setting that I find fascinating, and while Hard West was released a few months back, it didn't really hold my interest as it didn't explore the full potential of mixing Victorian and Western settings.

Cosmic horror is another genre that I would want to see pandered to more often. And I'm aware of Call of Cthulu exists, but is it so wrong that I want to see more games than just this one small series?

I dunno, I think that at this point, I'm just trying to think of something to say.

 

[Nazulu]

Alrighty, I have a beef with cel-shaded games and awkward shadowing.

- Wind Waker does cel-shading best, because it's a cartoon, which is evident by the wacky style and funny expressions. We can all agree with that, no? But what I don't get is the usual look of the Tell-Tale games, because it's seems they're trying to be both cartoony and realistic, which just looks fugly to me. It's not like it enhances their work in any way because it doesn't offer anything different, just that it's cel-shaded.

I mean, look at this asshole!

Spoiler

His eyes stick out in a toony fashion but not the rest of him. So you'd think the focus point would be his eye's, but whats with the random lines on his head? Why don't they try to blend it in like his fucking hair and other main features!? Fuck this guy!

- Also, do people here even notice that in some big title games that they have little shadows on all corners of the screen? Seriously, they even have 'em there when it's bright day! Why!? Why do so many new games have shitty shadow effects thrown in?

Even fucking Mario Maker has a tiny shadow for every piece you use, which it makes it look worse than the original Super Mario on the NES! Were they trying to give you the authentic fake looking experience? Must be the same "if it ain't broke, modernise it" dick for brains that made the OoT 3DS remake.

 

[F-I-D-O]

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Well that's pretty cool! Too bad we don't still use the shape of it in our bio-hazard suites, that'd be neat! Buuut, also a little terrifying.

Random thoughts eh? Alright, here's one: I'm really tired of so many people comparing every game to Dark Souls. Seriously, go into any reddit thread or forum topic about a game and there seems to be an 80% chance someone will say "Too bad the gameplay sucks" or something along those lines, and who if prodded, will then say that obviously Dark Souls is the shinning perfect example of everything that is good in gameplay in a modern game.

Look, I've played Dark Souls, it's good but it's not that good. Jeez, the way people talk about the series reminds me of a cult sometimes. Kinda creepy.

Hahahaha yeah, it's like everything has to be compared to Dark souls these days, good or bad. I've heard so many people say things like "_______ is the Dark souls of ______." Like "Zelda II is the Dark Souls of the Zelda series!"

Relevant twitter: [link]https://twitter.com/xmeetsdarksouls[/link]

One thing that's been standing out to me is how a lot of recent games have really bad enemy variety. The Division focuses on guys in hoodies (which has its own problems), XCOM 2 doesn't change enemies at all as it scales up - just adds more health, and MGSV has only a few guard archetypes. Fallout 4 attempted to get around this with Vicious/Murderous/Sadistic/etc modifiers for characters, but it feels like a band aid. I just want more interesting enemy design besides recolors (except in case of XCOM 2 advent - a few tweaks would have been nice as the game progressed) and subnames.
Ironically, considering the quoted text, I have to say the Souls games do a great job of this, and bring more characters to the fight because of this.

 

[StormShaun]

So anything?
Any... thing?
An... ime.

DID SOMEONE SAY-

[HEADING=1]ANIME GAMES?![/HEADING]

Sorry, I had to do that, but don't worry. This isn't anime... much. Yes, I am trying to trick you into reading this.
Yes, it is somewhat "anime", but only a very small fraction. The only thing that is anime in this game is the non-voiced conversations, and even then it's not the cringe kind of anime that most people here seem to fear. (Although I have a heavy tolerance to the stuff. Still...)

Enough of me blabbing on...
The game is Gravity Rush.
A new IP that was previously only available to the Vita, but now on remastered the PS4.
You're a hobo girl with no memories, gravity powers, and a body that can survive so, so many falls.

To stick up for me is Yahtzee.
With a Zero Punctuation [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/116793-Gravity-Rush-Review] (watch until the end) and a article [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/columns/extra-punctuation/15612-Gravity-Rush-s-Flying-Physics-Let-You-Fail-in-Style#&gid=gallery_5840&pid=1].

...Somewhat

While the game has its faults, I still love it.
- It's a neat little superhero sandbox.
- I like the French/steampunk setting.
- I like the main character, Kat, which is real surprisingly, because before I bought the game, I thought she was going to be the stoic/deadpan/emotionless character, yet in the game she's quite different.
- I found the gravity powers neat.
- And it gave me a new IP that I have hope for, especially since the second one is going to hopefully released this year for the PS4, where it will have MUCH more power to flaunt due to the hardware.

Finally I'll just leave this little video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmjCn1CJoPw] (caution intro spoilers).
It's what made me buy it.

 

[Skatalite]

Random thoughts eh? Alright, here's one: I'm really tired of so many people comparing every game to Dark Souls. Seriously, go into any reddit thread or forum topic about a game and there seems to be an 80% chance someone will say "Too bad the gameplay sucks" or something along those lines, and who if prodded, will then say that obviously Dark Souls is the shinning perfect example of everything that is good in gameplay in a modern game.

Look, I've played Dark Souls, it's good but it's not that good. Jeez, the way people talk about the series reminds me of a cult sometimes. Kinda creepy.

But that's exactly the thing, it is that good to a lot of people, including me. There was no other game like it, and besides From Software's own games and a couple of below average rip-offs there still isn't (I'm hoping Ni-Oh will change that, it's looking really good so far).

 

[B-Cell_v1legacy]

So anything?
Any... thing?
An... ime.

DID SOMEONE SAY-

[HEADING=1]ANIME GAMES?![/HEADING]

.

I absolutely hate girly animu games. and even animes in general. i mean what so great about them??