What are folks’ thoughts on goopy?
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Right yes, but if someone does something underhanded that is being slimy, not grimy. The behaviour part
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if you had three sons named slimy, grimy, and goopy, who would be the favored?
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@MoH Great question.
Who is your favorite son?
- Slimy
- Grimy
- Goopy
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Grimy, because he’s into some criminal stuff, but he always provides for his parents out of his cut.
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Slimy and Grimy would 100% bully Goopy
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How to Enjoy slime?
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since this came up in the Here we are again: the thread where we discuss the games we are playing in 2024 thread—
what game, in your opinion, has the best writing?
my vote will claim the obvious answer of disco elysium. on a sentence to sentence level, the writing is amazing without qualifier. that said, the overall package itself may leave something to be desired, which could be another way of approaching the question.
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Night in the Woods is up there for me
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The Last Express is good. Some of those Infocoms are good in a utilitarian way, A Mind Forever Voyaging and Trinity are the best that come to mind. But Pathologic 2 is head and shoulders the GOAT. I like Disco Elysium well enough but I think it gets sappy at a few points and there are some kind of nerd-overwritten passages but matter of taste etc ofc
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I have played very few games where I found the writing remarkable in any way. I could not stand the writing in Disco Elysium (I didn’t like much about Disco Elysium, to be fair), but it’s remarkable for that reason. It certainly has some of the most writing.
Final Fantasy XII (English localization) has ambitious writing. I don’t necessarily love it, but it’s going for something and doing it well.
I sincerely think Reverse: 1999 has some of the best prose I’ve read in a video game. I don’t know if I could ever convince anybody else of that, though. So many beautiful and novel little sentences.
I think the writing in Pathologic Classic HD was very good. I don’t remember enough about the original localization to speak to that. Haven’t played 2.
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Translation bordered on incoherent lol, which had its own charm
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i think the thing i like most about disco elysium is it made me laugh. i remember the funny stuff much more/more fondly than the “wife stuff.”
honestly i think if something makes me laugh it goes a long way for me, which is why undertale gets my ranked choice vote. presumedly the mother games too if i ever played them.
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would call it the greatest but I find myself remembering the writing in Franz, which was definitely distinct. lol at Franz calling me a “jock” who “needs a wash” and called another forum users cat a scumbag. Wish there was more of that game
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I’m going to avoid some obligatories here because they’re not as fun to mention.
Obviously this wouldn’t qualify in terms of like literary merit, but for an action blockbuster game I find those PS4/5 Spider-Men to be quite competent. I think if AAA games all were able to capitalize on an energy like those do (in this case, pulpy melodrama and epic showdowns) we’d be in a better place.
On the RPG side, I haven’t played it in a while but as both a child and again as a young adult I was floored by Knights of the Old Republic 2. You can see some of the ideas in that game still influencing Star Wars now, but everywhere else it just comes off as hacky.
Then I also just think that Red Dead Redemption 2 completely owns.
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Hypnospace Outlaw is one of the all-time greatest. Incredibly funny and occasionally affecting writing with a Tim Heidecker-esque flair for kitsch and a fascinating alt-history vision of ‘90s computing, delivered entirely via static webpage, all without ever sacrificing pacing or devolving into walls of exposition. Brilliant ending too, if a bit rushed. Truly a miracle of a game.
I also really love all those Drakengards and Niers, at least on a macro level. I like the dialogue and the general sense of humor, but you really gotta respect the bigness of Yoko Taro’s swings wrt plot and characters lol. All his writing has this really dark, sorta freewheeling energy to it; it reminds me of Togashi’s work on Hunter X Hunter, where it often feels like anything can happen. I find that aspect of it super inspiring.
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ah great call. both nier games are probably the only games to ever “move me.”
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for my money probably Mother 3 or Kentucky Route Zero
mother 3 in the sense that it plays out as some sprawling novel, and has the itoi factor of wanting to do every text box.
kentucky route zero because the settings and the stories just get me there man.
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