I was just saying, with a game that tried to take itself as seriously as LoS did, it could have done well to leave out most of the the 'comedic' references.

Which are seriously overplayed these days anyway.

>>182333
The conversation started over questioning the "these days" part.

>>182336
I mean in the sense of overall abundance. I can't remember the last game I played that didn't have a reference or homage to an earlier work or painfully overused contemporary gag/meme. Though I don't doubt for a minute that they exist, I'm just sick of seeing the same lame jokes everywhere I go. Especially when it doesn't fit at all, like it's just shoved in there simply to try to be more popular.

It's like the equivalent of a fart joke for me. I don't really care about how much "smarter or classier" it's supposed to make me feel, otherwise you shouldn't doubt for a minute I would be using my name and gloating like a politician.

A bad overused and misplaced joke is just that. A cheap ploy. Something that shows we don't have to be clever as long as we can just be say the phrase of the week to make people go "I get it!". I guess a lot of people don't care about that but I prefer to see a lot less of that in my medium.

>>182337
No, you got the above points backwards, a reference in a modern work is NOT trying to be "smarter or classier", it's trying to be funny. And it's because it's not the former it gets under people's skin especially.

It would be kinda funny if decades from now portal references are considered historically a stock joke, like Peter Lorre impressions.

>>182339
I meat: I don't really care about how much "smarter or classier" it's supposed to make me feel -for not liking it-.

I should have made that more clear.

>>182339
Like most memes, it already is a stock joke.

Luckily, I think people are getting burnt out on 'meme culture' and we can get back to actual clever jokes and references that are actually relevant. You know, unless something worse comes along to fill the gap.

>>182341
Ah, I get it now. I still disagree with references being any more/less abundant than they were in the past or will be in the future; Good Old Days like what >>182342 is going for don't really exist except for in reteospect.

I guess it's not so much the use of references, and to a much much lesser degree memes and bad jokes, but more the consistent reuse of the same ones over and over. It gets grading.

>>182347
sign that. Portal was funny but a lot of the "cake is a lie" jokes you find in other games are just like a wink and a nudge to the original reference and they aren't really funny on their own. With Portal the gag worked because it was actually a gag. In other works, it's just a reference that we're all supposed to get because we're all familiar with gaming culture.

>>182347
>>182348

The problem with... "meme culture" is that people us punchlines as jokes. If you want to referenc something, then fine, but make your own joke of it, don't just parrot af a punchline and expect the audience to laugh at the joke you're referencing.

Example on how to balantly rip of pop culture the right way:
The Dead Parroting Sketch (Dis…

Fuck Castlevania.

I can get through all 6 stages in a single continue. But Dracula? He takes me MULTIPLE continues. Not only do I need to stock up on hearts for like 5 minutes, but I have to make sure I don't take any damage from his first form, even when he teleports right on fucking top of me. And the second form? FUCK. THAT. He NEVER jumps high enough to where I can run under him, meaning once you're up against the wall you have no choice but to take damage, and he takes a BILLION hits. Sure you can stun him with the holy water but it's required anyway, and getting a double-shot from his fireballs only happens once in a blue waffle.

Fuck.

...I'm sure it's nothing...

http://www.blisteredthumbs.net/2013/11/warlords-of-draenor-confirmed-as-the-newest-wow-expansion/
I am SO happy that Draenor is FINALLY getting the Cataclysm treatment.
Even if I dont want to pay to play it anymore.

>>182430
Heh heh. Yeah... That's Castlevania, alright.

>>182450
>New character models

OH FUCK NO

BLIZZARD NO

I'VE BEEN CLEAN FOR TWO YEARS

PLEASE NO

Presently trying to play through my backlog of tactical shooters since it's been way too long since the last time I've been engrossed in one.

Right now I'm at the sewer mission.

After this my plan goes like this:

Rainbow Six ---> Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear ---> Rainbow Six 3: Gold Edition ---> Rainbow Six 3: Athena Sword ---> ARMA 2 ---> ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead

I will give you a guess.

>>182484
You have no idea how long I've been waiting for YDKJ to be available on Steam.

Also, finally got around to starting Fallout 3.

gotta go fast(er than everyone else)

Y'know I do believe playing all that SWAT 3, has made me much better at Receiver.

SWADIA STRONK

REMOVE KHERGIT

>>182519
Imagine an ocean of Cavaliers, stretching on forever.

Brings a tear to your eye

BEYOND TWO SOULS (Zero Punctuation)
HAH

>>182519
They are bringing out a proper sequel to the original & Warband aren't they? Any dea when they are planning on getting it released

DIS NIGGA. DIIIISS NIGGA. Fucking Pavel, this has to be one of my favorite characters as of recent.

Rayman Legends coming to PS4 and Xbox One in February.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/11/12/rayman-legends-hits-next-gen-in-february?abthid=52826cc848d31da61800001e

>>182540
Ah, then you'll be able to control Murphy with SmartGlass and the touch screen in the PS4 controller.

I know it's just a shitty troll picture, but goddamn if I didn't get a laugh out of it.

Hey someone take the opportunity to educate someone clueless about video culture/history: was there ever a period of time when episodic video games were touted as "the way of the future"? Like how a lot of fads are proclaimed the next big thing before the inevitable logistical problems become apparent?

>>182628
Kinda.
When Valve was trying for episodic Half Life releases.

>>182628
Half Life 2. When Valve announced they would be doing episodes, the idea of episodic gaming had been around for a year or two, but Valve specifically said that they'd be able to use the idea to get "episodes" out every three months; instead, Ep 1 took almost two years, Ep 2 took almost a year and a half, and then they never finished the fucking story.

Which is not to say that episodic gaming has never worked; Telltale is very involved in episodic gaming, and has done well off of it. Most other devs are having a serious problem with the idea, though.

I think part of it, especially for Valve, is that they thought they could write each episode after the next was released, instead of writing a grand story to begin with and then putting parts of that into each episode.

Incidentally, the problems around Ep 1/2 were part of the creation of the creation of Valve Time. https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time

>>182630
>>182629
Did a lot of episodic series come out around the same time/soon afterwards and similarly got dropped?

>Xbone with broadcast rights for the Premier League
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Saint's Row is becoming the Scary Movie of video games.

>>182645
FREDDY MERCURY LIVES

>>182645

In a good way or a "Jesus Christ they need to stop" way?

>>182659
Considering how the Scary Movie sequels went, I'm thinking in a bad way.

>>182660
I really kind of felt "through the looking glass" for all of Saints 4.

I mean, it's goofy and it's fun and it's great but there's a point where you keep going back into the VR simulation and the whole thing just feels further and further removed from what the game was originally about. The super powers are really neat but it kind of underlines the point that the vanilla "simulation" is somehow boring or flawed. Certainly from a story perspective, the simulation seems like "fluff". Perhaps continuing within the simulation was the best way to make the game work, but I can't help but feel like the "I have no mouth and I must scream" scenario was possible the whole time I'm in the simulation. I'm supposed to beat the bad guy and have fun doing it? Too good to be true. I was kind of hoping that was a hidden ending for doing all the homie missions

>>182668
Doing all the homie missions does unlock a slightly different ending. If you didn't do them all, you don't get the ending that reveals the Zin were dabbling in time travel and cloning various people from Earth's history, leading the Saints to go on a crazy road trip through time and possibly finding a way to alter history to save the Earth from annihilation. Also, this good ending reveals the narrator to be Jane Austen.

>>182655
And, he rose to the office of the presidency. Glad someone picked up on what I was going for.

>>182659
Pretty much here:
>>182660

So much of it felt so forced and contrived. And it relied way too much on references to other Saint's Row games as well as other games and movies in general. In the end, it left me wanting to play Saint's Row 2 and 3 more. That's great, we can make references to the Matrix, I'm guffawing. The entire premise left me disconnected and it felt like there wasn't any consequence to my actions. When you did crazy shit in the previous two games, there was always that reciprocation from authority, almost like the thrill you got when you TP'd someone's house or egged their car. Some of you might argue that "Well, in the Third, a lot of that vandal thrill was lost" and, well, you're absolutely correct. I just feel that 4 completely did away with that thrill all together.

I hate to be a downer, but I just finished it to get it over with and then uninstalled. It just felt like a chore to play and I only finished it because it was a gift from a friend. Even then, the coop wasn't as good as it was in previous games due to the new player skills.

Medarot/Medabots DUAL Trailer

So I basically need to buy a 3DS now.

Lego Games are fun and co-op is fun, but boy can the split screen be dizzying at times.
Particularly when we get to a point where it doesn't want to fuse and instead the split starts spinning around.

>>182668
What the game "was originally about" was worthless shit. There's nothing special about being some gangsta on the streets, nigga.

Well if you continue the analogy, that means the whatever spinoffs are made will be infinitely worse, right?

>>182676
Yeah, the references back to the first Saint's Row were awkward, to me.

"Oh hey remember when we literally tried to just rip off GTA3? Yeah, good times." Kind of like a really crazy fun friend that you liked hanging out with trying to remind you of all the fun you had together when he was a Jehovah's Witness.

>>182676
Yeah, there may be nothing special about "being a gangsta in the street" but SR4 really feels divorced from even that basic simulation of "you vs. the cops". Making mischeif and causing havoc aren't quite as much fun when almost the instant you touch down, zin are popping out of those warp bubbles. It's like you can't interact with the city on a certain level anymore and that level of interaction was one of the primary draws.

http://www.savechristmas.saintsrow.com/

And the hits just keep coming.