Games you just finished - 2012

Yeah, I've often wondered something similar myself. If valve will do anything drastic to how dota works. But I doubt they will.

Also for reference on game length, heres a graph of the lenght of my last 50 games;

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As you see it looks like it usually takes 45-50 minutes for each match, just like in Hon. Also, end game heroes usually move around a lot more than in the beginning. People have bought better shoes, drums, S&Y, MoM, blink dagger, force staff and all these other stuff that affects movement speed or can teleport you (BoT) places.

But yeah, It is way slower and I have heard a lot of my friends who came from HoN complain about the same thing in the beginning. Even some of the LoL players felt that it was very awkward last hitting creeps because of how slow the animation was. But it only took a few matches until it feels natural again, so just try to stick with it

Finished Max Payne 3 (one of many games bought during this Steam sale) last night, and I liked it

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I showed the group my bite and they were shocked and wanted to help me find Clementine more since she really had nobody now. I ended up chopping my arm off but I still got infected in the end and died.

I tried to save everybody I could, it kind of sucked that Lily killed Carley. I liked Carley!

I'm pretty sure it ends the same for everyone. The story is a single timeline with branches which come off every so often but they always rejoin the main line. Different play-throughs will be slightly different though, I've seen a few cut-scenes I never saw.

Great game though, really showed how horrible a zombie apocalypse could be!

Yeah I

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showed my bite and chose to chop my arm off. Played through the rest of the game waving a stump around.

I saved Doug in my game, and he was just useless anyway. He ends up getting shot by Lilly. I then left Lilly by the side of the road and got on the train.

Also, towards the end, I saved Ben. Then shortly after, we were all jumping out of a window, and Ben falls down and gets impaled by the balcony post. Then for some weird fuckin reason, Kenny decided to lock himself down there with Ben and do some kind of suicide attempt to save Ben, when it was blatantly obvious that Ben was going to die. Only part of the game that I thought was a bit stupid.

I told Christa and Omid to meet me outside the city but obviously.. That nevers happens.

Did anyone choose to have the romantic relationship with Clementine? I thought that was a bit odd. The candelit dinner in the school was fucked up.

red alert 1. it was harder then i tought

Uncharted 3 for the second time, couldn't stop playing until it was done again! U2 is still the best though.

The Unfinished Swan (only on PSN I think?). Played it one go since it's rather short... but in a good way! I definitely recommend it! Near flawless pacing and really nice game mechanics.

Just finished Dark Souls.

The end is so sad I'm crying right now...

Wonderfull game, waiting for the second.

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Just finished Dark Souls.

The end is so sad I'm crying right now...

Wonderfull game, waiting for the second.

I absolutely love that game. I played it on 360, it's a really unique world that they have created. Something very mysterious about it. Never actually finished it though, I think I overdid it!

What was it like on PC? Did you use a controller to play it or not?

Yes I used a ps3 pad and also a fix to make it looks better.

You can't shoot me, you are a cop.

Not anymore.

Kaplow.

I played The Walking Dead Episode 1 yesterday evening, does it counts?

Great game really, doubtfully "GOTY", but I have to play all the episodes to comment on that. I was hoping to have more impact on the story, which in my first run I approached trying to be as much of a jerk I could.

I finished Hotline Miami. I did not realise this was by Cactus, I would have finished this back when there was a thread about it.

Second to second gameplay is fantastic, though every time it tried to deviate it got a little frustrating, i.e. boss battles,

The surreal story pieces didn't seem to really amount to anything, though. Maybe I'm just stupid.

they do get put together in the end, although for me there's still a few lose ends. still by far goty 2012 for me.

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everything before the hospital level is in a dream that he is gradually awakening from...

Here's how i figure the ending

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Read the dialogues and tell yourself those are the two developpers of the actual game :

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the "real" ending doesn't have any sense at all; the default one is the actual ending

nothing to search/look for actually just them making fun of you searching for answers

Btw :

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This is gonna be long. Sorry. Feel free to pick this completely apart. Just thoughts.

I don't actually think the Horse, Rooster, and Owl are actual people. Part of me believes that they're either parts of his imagination, or represented parts of his subconscious. My first assumption towards that starts at the beginning, where the Rooster tells the MC that they first met on the 3rd of April, the first mission. This could either coincide with two things, in my opinion. The Rooster is the murderous/killing aspect of his personality. Whether it's iconic, or the Rooster is more based completely off this, the package he gets on the 3rd of April, which I'm assuming is the first "job" is the Rooster mask, the first one you start off with. "The day of our first encounter" from the Rooster is likely (IMO) coinciding with either the aspect of murdering, or contact with the mask, which in turn acts as kind of a channeling of that, IE not a murderer unless the mask is on.

The Owl, arguably the most hostile towards you and most wishing to see you gone, is likely the conscience, or perhaps rational thought or maybe morals. Something therein. "I don't know you! Why are you here? You're no guest of mine!" starts off the chilly reception with the Owl, and it only goes downhill. At the second meeting, "You're not a nice person, are you? You make me sick!" as the MC continues to murder, and murder. Upon the final meeting of the Owl, you get the line "I told you not to come back here! I see that my opinion of you doesn't matter. If you insist on returning here than I should leave!" I take this as a clear example that this is the moral part of the conscience completely fed up, and the last line might be indicative of that part of the conscience fully intent on leaving, IE, all moral inclinations and remorse leaving the body, condemning the MC to simply a murderous shell.

That leaves the Horse, and to be honest I really -don't- know. The Horse seems to take the neutral tone, not supporting like the Rooster, but not antagonizing like the Owl. The Horse seems to be consciously aware of the situation, and potentially where it could go, expressing that it "A picture is starting to take form here...I wonder if its accurate. Some pieces don't quite seem to fit. Or maybe I just don't like the way it looks." expressing that if things continued on the current course, perhaps it isn't comfortable with where it'll end up. The Horse also seems to be the only one concerned with the MC's health, suggesting to see a doctor and to rest.

If we're going by Freud, the three fit in extremely nicely. Id, the instinctual unconscious animalistic pleasure deriving personality structure is the Rooster, in this case the killing. The MC isn't just some poor schmuck forced into doing this, he's relishing in it, between the clippings and the fact his life doesn't center around anything other then the next job. The complete lack of social interactions, even with the girl he brings back, shows the only thing that matters to him is that next job and that next set of murders.

The Ego is the Horse, aware of the push and pull between the Owl and the Rooster, but still concerned overall with the MC as a whole. It doesn't judge or try to sway one way or the other because it's aware of the significant pulls between the other two animals. As a result, it's also the most forgettable of the trio. Now I know the artwork and the model hints that the Horse is in fact a woman, this is something I'm not certain of myself.

That leaves the Super-Ego, the 'parental agency', the conscience. This is clearly the Owl. Never happy with what the MC does, striving to fit into the socially acceptable mold, and as it continues on and it's clear the MC has no intention on deviating, begins to self-realize it has no place here.

This doesn't explain everything, as the Rooster makes some very accurate predictions, and seems to know how the thing is going to end from the beginning. This leads me into another related theory, and probably one slightly outside of the norm. And that theory is the MC died in the fight with bikerguy, or perhaps was killed by the ratmask assassin..

There's a few things I can use to push some lee-way to that, the first is that the strange things only begin to happen right after the fight with the bikerguy. This could potentially be a spiraling of events down towards the end of the game. This could likely be the slowly dying MC having his life flash before his eyes. A possibility is that at this point, he begins to relive all the events, kicking off the initial conversations with the three masks. Only real push I have for this is the horse saying "As of lately you've done some terrible things." This is of course going off the assumption the May 3rd hit with the Rooster mask was the first job. If it wasn't, that's basically invalidated. However it's just as possible the three masks were a repressed part of his mind he retreated into inbetween jobs, or maybe it was just a dream in which his subconscious came forward. It's all up to debate.

Another theory is that after the biker scene, the MC's world begins to slowly deteriorate into madness, his subconscious beginning to bleed into his conscious as the underlying psychological effects of all those murders begin to wreck havoc on his life. If this is to be believed, it shows that he only has true focus when he is killing and murdering, as these effects and reactions only happen during the off times, what used to be his normalcy and relaxation. Now he's forced into a world where the only clarity he has is when he's killing, the rest of his world is a confusing borderline schizophrenic mess.

Regardless, it's my belief he dies, somewhere and somehow. Possibly by the ratmask assassin. After ratmask shoots him, and he goes into an out of body experience, the Rooster mask is there to talk to him. This is himself, the brutal killing personality, the only thing that's left. The Rooster reinforces this with the exact phrase of "Looks like it's only you and me left now... I'm sure you know by now, that this won't end well." As the rat wasn't part of the trio, it wouldn't make sense why the other two would suddenly leave unless we're talking the Id, Ego, and Super-Ego. The Super-ego is gone, it knows it's not wanted, the ego not far behind as the events of late have proven the MC is beyond saving. The only one left is the animalistic and pleasure seeking Id, and it too knows that with the death of MC imminent, it's time is gone. Without the killing, the MC is nothing at this point. Rooster knows something is up, and states it with "What you do from here on, wont' serve any purpose. You will never see the whole pictures. And it's all your own fault. Now it's time for you to leave. There's a warm bed across the hall from here. And you look like you could use some rest." Could this mean the Rooster knows the MC is close to death, due to the MC's own over zealousness at killing?

My only reason for thinking he dies here is because the rest of the MC's plot is completely nonsensical, including the ending. Completely clearing out a police station, and then a criminal HQ only to defeat two pink panthers, a katana wielding assassin, and a criminal underboss before delivering the coup de grace to the old and withered crime lord? It sounds like a cliched 80's movie ending, and considering the time and the refusal of a dying man to realize he'd lost, this might very well be the thoughts flashing through him as some sort of solace before his mind shuts down and goes dormant.

The BikerDude section makes much more sense, somewhat. Scarface sends him on the right track. The 50 Blessings in the timeframe makes sense. It's 1989, the Soviet bloc is slowly crumbling, and alliance and a treaty seems to be the way out. For Americans who have lived with the cold war for 30, 40, 50 years, some might find this inexcusable. It would be akin to the US making a peace deal with the Nazi's in 1944. It's important to note that -both- MC and bikerguy BOTH had pamphlets for the 50 Blessings in their apartments. And the two janitors made it clear that the members signed off that they were willing to die for the country, bikerguy included as they reminded him he was part of the group. It was likely only members of this group, 'true patriots' they were calling up to wax the Russian gangsters.

That's probably enough for now.

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which i can't deny, is extra fun added to the game ; it also remembers me this great game by vlambeer http://yetihunter.vlambeer.com/

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That would explain his visions, but you've still got the two main characters killing each other in different timelines and it’s not like strange events are limited to before he wakes up.

From what I read on the wiki there is another ending if you collect a password on each level and access the computer in the last stage. Then janitors rant some Mafia conspiracy theory nonsense instead of their usual 4th wall "it was just a game lol." I guess this is where the 50 Blessings ties are in the giant post by KoKo5oVaR. It certainly is interesting how the masks could tie into Freud’s Egos and the MC actually did die to the biker and saw some cliché ending in his dying moments... but still inconclusive. I’m guessing it’s going to be annoyingly "open for interpretation."

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Lol, spoiler tag works !!!

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lol i didn't wrote it tough, just to show how far people can go