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    [Discussion] 2020 Destructoid's Community ASCII T-Shirt

    Uppercase. Also there's a typo in the names list. They should all be spelled: Dangus Taargus. All of them.
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    Worst collectibles in games?

    The Dtoid Forum/Qpost inception has begun.
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    Worst collectibles in games?

    These are disqualified because the game saves after you get each one.
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    So you've finished The Last of Us 2, and now you want to talk about it

    Definitely. I think seeing Abby emaciated was the first time in the game I truly got a teary eye. Seeing that happen to her was tough, and my first thought was that Ellie felt the same way: that she had suffered enough at the hands of these slavers. That it was over. She gets that one last shot...
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    So you've finished The Last of Us 2, and now you want to talk about it

    Ah ok. I glossed over some of the firefly stuff when I was playing that part and got the impression the house was used as a way to trick people to get captured by the slavers. But I realize now I was just getting tired with the game by that point and pushing for the conclusion. It was definitely...
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    So you've finished The Last of Us 2, and now you want to talk about it

    Look. ND's older games like Jak and Crash are perfectly serviceable and fine for the era they came out in. But I just played them all recently and they are absolutely nostalgia nuggets. Gonna die on that hill, sorry. I saw the water recede in the title screen after the credits. Was there more...
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    So you've finished The Last of Us 2, and now you want to talk about it

    Alright. I night of terrible sleep and a few forum dives and YouTube reviews and I'm ready to roll up my sleeves and write it out. Maybe I'll tackle this in chunks? I'm gonna get the muck out of the way first. The controversy: - Crunch: I work in a similar crunch industry. I spent the last...
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    So you've finished The Last of Us 2, and now you want to talk about it

    I just finished it and really want to write an essay about how I feel but I'm gonna sleep on it. Quick thoughts: Great character development across the board. No one was wasted here, and no one felt superfluous to the story. Needed 'moment to moment' editing in the level design. After about 30...
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    Worst collectibles in games?

    ANY largely narrative based, linear adventure game that has missable collectables in awkward locations or off the main path. This can be an indie 2D platformer (like GRIS), or a major AAA game (like TLOU2), and even the AA middle of the road games like Senua's Sacrafice or A plague Tale. These...
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    What beloved game just doesn't hold up these days for you?

    Goldeneye is fun to tinker with here and there but yeah, if I want that style of FPS, it's either Perfect Dark or Timesplitters.
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    What beloved game just doesn't hold up these days for you?

    This needs to said. Thank you. I feel like I'm the only one who doesn't unabashedly love these games because Sonic is in them and they have terrible Deadly Premonition style cutscenes and dialog. Like yeah, that stuff is cool... but go back and PLAY them. They suck.
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    How often do you use save states on emulators?

    Ok fine this is actually what I should have written.
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    How often do you use save states on emulators?

    All of the fucking time. No shame either. I tend to create rules for myself tho, like in shmups I'll make one at the start of every level, and another before a boss. Or after a particularly tough area and especially if it's a piece of shit shmup with death checkpoints instead of a respawn where...
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    Best Butt in Video Games

    Only good thing about that game. I did a GCN exclusives/hidden gems/underrated buy up on eBay/Amazon and naturally got this one. What a mess! It's not even functionally terrible, just soooo boring, visually bland, and repetitive. Stay away!