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The Brad Muir Thread: Also Starring Giant Bomb
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PRETTY GREAT.
Excited but also kinda worried about @bradshoemaker's descent into @DOTA2!
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If I wanna have fun in a big city causing mayhem, I'll just give Mister Wei Shen a call.
While there is absolutely nothing wrong with calling upon Wei Shen, if Sleeping Dogs taught me anything, it's that a solidly constructed open-world game with some unique focus is pretty much my thing.
So if Watch_Dogs can offer me a tight experience with some unique mechanics, I'll be all over it.
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To be fair, every single thought Brad Muir has probably begins with "Excited..."
If anyone else was having a thought about Brad's DOTA problem, it would just start with "Kinda worried..."
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The enemy design in this game is... inspired.
Oh yeah, I just really liked the quote and thought it was relevant for the thread
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Some of the drug busts have a huge number of enemies! There was a drug bust near the Kennedy Town condo with a dozen guys or so. There were guns around, so I started shooting back. And then the cops showed up and started shooting at Wei and the other guys. Meanwhile, there is some sort of salesperson that is scared out of his mind. Drug dealer reinforcements show up at the same time as the police back-up. They mostly killed each other off, I think Wei only shot three dealers before the cops arrived and two afterwards.
A google search suggests that poor bastard has a hot tub for Wei's condo, but I can't get him to talk to Wei anymore.
super great
Think of it as the PC version played with everything maxed out vs. put on Medium. That's the difference we're talking about.
Wonder if it would work as a TNT or Friday show game? Vinny required.
It wasn't until I read your post that I realised they weren't there.
So yeah, Sleeping Dogs manages to get a lot of things right that a lot of open-world games get wrong, the modern day ones anyway.
Also, no sign of P4A in any of the stores I checked today. This bums me out hugely.
The fact that it's on PC means I'm far more likely to actually sit down and play Sleeping Dogs, though
l-look at the payment options at the bottom....
simon's not home
yo simon, let me in bro, open a window or something!
Also the average is like $8.00 right now that seems a lot higher than usual. Weird.
well internet it's been a fun fuckin' ride but i'm out
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i miss chris...............
That one even elicited a chuckle from Drew in the background
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I've played a ton of sandbox games on my ps3-- RDR, AC2, AC2Bro, AC2Rev, AC3, SR2, Prototype 2, SR3 and I am slightly more than halfway through Sleeping Dogs I think. I'm very much planning on buying that Game of Death "go to the island and fight in a martial arts mortal combat tournament, probably led by a Bond villain guy" DLC and the post-game New Year DLC. This is one of my favorite games ever.
I do miss Winston and Jackie a lot though. The characters in the middle of the game aren't nearly as endearing.
I really do need to get back into Just Cause 2. There are some really neat ways to play with the harpoon thing in that game, and the vistas are incredible. The last time I played it, I spent more than an hour just para-gliding all over that archipelago. I should have held off on Sleeping Dogs until I finished JC2, I guess, but my nephew talked me into getting it. He also talked me into trying out the Saints Row games.
NO
i think the art style is hideous and tremendously offputting
Is he that smiling chap they often have on premium videos?
There an explanation behind this? It's gonna take half an hour to download.
Do you really wanna know?
Despite being open world it felt to me like everything mechanically about GTA4, as well as the presentation, just manifested itself way way better in these small segmented stories than the overall arc of Niko's game. Watching several small stories unfold in the scope of the city seemed more interesting than this one man's life.
I think that's partially why I'm so interested in GTA5, because it seems like they've taken that "these stories work very well in small chunks" and have done that but woven the smaller stories into a larger narrative in some kind of meaningful way. If the game actually plays out like that then I think it's going to far and away be their best work
Not to say Rockstar can't do overall narrative well though. Red Dead is a terrific example of where there narrative works extremely well on a much larger scale....but I also just really like cowboys.
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i miss chris...............
Nnnnn...Yes
the beginning of the end for the duplicitous plutocracy??
Let me tell you about video games. Let me tell you about Homestuck
Weird, it streamed for me.
It's Jeff and Ryan attempting to make a Crash Course 2 quicklook and getting stymied by the interface and some sort of server error. It's funny but probably not worth that much time.
I'm... disappointed by this for some reason
Yeah, he is a designer at Double Fine, and he is constantly happy.
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I've said this before and I'll say it again
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