Game has audio logs

Nice

>I should probably make an recording of me saying a password to open a container full of weapons and leave it around just in case

>NEVER SHOULD HAVE COME HERE

T-Todd? That you?

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>game has log entries
>you think they were made by the bad guy but it turns out they were made by the actual bad guy and the guy you think is a bad guy was trying to stop him

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>entry 1: things are going great with the experiment
>entry 2: experiment went weird today, i'm sure nothing is wrong
>entry 3: arghaghga the experiment is killing everyone please help
>entry 4: remember when i fucked that girl you liked in high school?

>Game has Written Diaries
>It explains the lore, but doesn't pause the game for you to read

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Doom 3 UAC were retards.

pls no spook

>You can't relisten or pause audio logs

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>game has audio logs
>you have to be close to them or else it just cuts out
Audio logs might be the worst storytelling device in games

>Game has quests focused on collecting audio logs
>Game speaks over the dialogue

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Audio/text logs in games are an inherently shitty and lazy way by hack devs to exposit information and world build. Video games are a VISUAL medium. SHOW, DON'T TELL.

>OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHH ELDEN RING

BRUUH...

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>Game has journal
>"AAAAAH OH NOW WHATS HAPPENING WAS IS THA-" the journal trails off here

The best audio/text diaries are the ones that knows you well enough to fill in the blanks whether it has complementary imagery like for example, a dead body of the doctor and his diary is just casual writings with the last log talks about how he's gonna do some experiments, and shit. You can just fill out what the fuck happen to him esp if you're in a setting that helps you fill in those. If you're in a post apocalyptic game, you can discern he got wrecked by raiders that you just recently killed awhile ago, for example.

That shit.

>diary log
>for some reason it's divided in multiple pieces
>conveniently find every entries scattered throughout the game / level just in the right order

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one of my favorite examples

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>true villain is revealed in diary entry

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This thread cracked me up. Good job everyone

>Game has audio logs
>The audio logs plays through your controller to make it more 'immersive'

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Day 1: This planet shows no signs of life, still scanning for composition
Day 2: we have detected a number of interesting alloys beneath the planet's surface, we're going in later tomorrow
Day 3: Respond to this log or your mother will die in her sleep tonight

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THEY'RE EATING HER!
AND THEN THEY'RE GOING TO EAT ME!
OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!

Day 4: If this post gets more replies than his post, it's his mother who will day in her awake tomorrow

>oh shit it's here oh my god ARGHGAGASGAGASDSAFHVDFVNJDSVNDJVNDJVNJ NOOOO-
>it's a hand written text log

>you find the writer of the diary and a few dead monsters next to him
godspeed

>Game has books you can find
>"Usually pheasant is cooked for ceremonial occasions, but ever since the king went mad the prized dish has been in demand more than ever..."
>"I was ever more partial to cooking in a real kitchen, and not this dingy storage room. A sorry excuse of..."

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It works depending on how they're used in context of the world you're in. In a game like an open world crime game, audio logs and shit don't have a place in it.

Games like System Shock, Prey, etc. works well within its setting because of it makes sense, in many ways, even The Elder Scrolls games where you can find the lore and world in the in-game books works really well for the game's atmosphere. But at the same time, there is also the factor of execution and a lot of these games admittedly tend to fall at the problem of spelling EVERYTHING out in their logs (e.g. dead body has a log with "There's someone at the door, I'll go check it out. I love you honey, I'll be home soon.") which is where the stigma exist.

They have their place in the medium especially now that video games can do things with sound and sight, esp with technology in the past couple of decades. I mean, hearing audio logs in System Shock 2 back in 1999 was mind-blowing to me.

What are some games that have actually good audio logs?
Only peace walker comes to mind

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You two are knobheads

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>game has audio logs
>can't listen to them during gameplay

>game has journals left around
>"My boss is a monster, i'm going to confront him about what he's done"
>the next page is blank

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>show
>then tell the entire white paper on the subject, plus personal takes from everyone you've ever met

you are right, I deleted mine sorry

MONSIEUR MILEEERRRRRRRRR

>first diary entry
>oh man, just moved with my wife, this place is awesome and we can't wait to meet our neighbours!
>second entry
>my wife's dead

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It's been years but I quite enjoy the BioShock audio logs. The voice acting in the game were nice to the ears especially from Andrew Ryan.

brap

Based Jermafag.

>journal of insane character gets more illegible as you read it and just becomes a jumbled mess of characters at the end or it's just them repeating a phrase getting more and more distorted

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REX

Game?

What games actually do this?

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no

Day 4: My mom is dead

>diary log speaks of a past, happier time

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>things were happier times, better times
>and then the [x] attacked

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>hologram log
>everyone gets killed and the hologram falls to where their skeleton is laying

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was it really necessary to include a toilet paper smeared in shit under the character icon?

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Journals and audio logs are so fucking boring and lazy and I have no idea why soifilled pieces of shit are dicksucking them as a great environmental/story telling device. It only works once. For me it was the journal of a killer from Dark Brotherhood in Oblivion. And then it automatically becomes tedious shit filler.

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>log writer is so obviously the "unreliable narrator" trope that every log just annoys you

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AI Log: I suppose I should make a log in case I break or something,

>oblivion
Shit taste

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>pick up diary
>QUEST UPDATED : THE KILLER WAS ACTUALLY HENRY
>lose all interest in reading it

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source?

Most recent one is that hot game all over the catalogue.

>science team has vapor for brains

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Yeah those half an hour long codec sequences are a massive improvement on audiologs.

The conversations written on walls in left 4 dead always confused me.
Were the same people coming and going from the safe houses replying to one another?

>Audiolog is interrupted if you take damage or sneeze

Nigger

question solved, boys
move on

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yes, they were practically localized forums. you want a historic example, I think either the Romans or Greeks did a similar thing and were pretty much Yea Forums on a bathroom wall.
no zombie is safe from Chicago Ted

>game has no audiologs or books
>tells story through the scenario

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AoT, some OVA after the first season

>Game has audio logs
>OH GOD HELP ME I DON'T WANNA-
>WHIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

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Crash racing?

>Game gets a million novel tie ins

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>SOMETHING'S COME ABOARD!
>HELP US! HELP US!

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It's a necessary alternative to just having a billion cutscenes to give you exposition. Reading mountains of dialogue isn't too preferable, but it works when you can pull it off and space it properly.

>Game has audio logs
>They have taken the bridge and the second hall. We have barred the gates but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes, drums... drums in the deep. We cannot get out. A shadow lurks in the dark. We can not get out... they are coming.

yeah good thing I posted a picture of an hour long codec call and not a room that filled the player with dread the first time they saw it

Nigger.

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>They can be interrupted when other characters randomly talk.

Y

Good thing you posted a game that uses the exact form of story telling you call lazy 10 fold more than any other game featuring audiologs.

good thing a game can't do anything right if it does some things wrong

You think you ripping on games with audio logs don't also have scenes like that outside of the logs? Like Bioshock, Dead Space etc?

you think those games can't also do other things well while we critique the things that they do poorly?

no, I don't think that
this isn't a thread about flawless games, it's picking out a specific flaw

That hallway seems safe to me, I need audio logs to know what happened. Maybe they fell

nigger

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grow up

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k

>Game has audio logs
>1 minute of dialogue that's completely unrelated to anything
>if you collect all 10 of those you will get a complete story that's still not in any way related to anything

>Instead of saying the password, the person recording it just presses the buttons - but they all produce a different sound, so you have to reverse engineer the password by testing each key's sound

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>writing in a journal
fucking lovecraft

Wait people back tracked to old safe houses?

It's ALWAYS this
Fuck RE2make especially

what game does this? the original resident evil, right? i lost my shit reading that guy's diary

>Game has audio logs
>"I might not be able to make more audio logs. (dangerous monster noises in the background) I've been put in a corner.... oh no.... (scary monster killing audio log man noises)
>next log found
>(just monster noises)

Dunno I was thinking RE1 when I wrote that shitpost though.

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Man I want to defile young Dodger.

>Find diary
>"I really need to talk to the guys about fixing these planks, they're really old and rotten and I'm afraid I might fa..."

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Except you see those people get killed in a cutscene as you approach the door, so not exactly ingame storytelling.

Dishonored has way more journals then audiographs but both are well implemented outside of that one log of Granny Rags killing the one guy

If you guys are implying that Itchy, Tasty is shit I'm going to find you and debate you with a kitchen knife.

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DON'T DEAD
OPEN INSIDE

Resident Evil

relax fren I don't think it's shit. I just found it humorous.

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Negro

What is the practical use of audio recordings in RL workplace?

>journals from one dlc reference the other dlc, but you wouldn't know if you didn't play it
>journals of people foreshadowing the big reveal of the main story
>journals about how dank the thug life is, found on thugs you kill for being thugs
>journals making fun of everybody writing journals when they should be illiterate

>if you're reading this that means I'm already dead
>and so are you

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Nigger

Lad..

In most of those scenarios I think the implication is whatever is doing the killing also destroys the recording device.

>log writer is obviously a ghost
>somehow the tape where she reveals to be a ghost still hits you hard as fuck

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>there was a hole here
>it's gone now
what did he mean by this

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>quest giver rewards the player with logs

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>game has audio/video logs
>you can watch the character slowly descend into insanity and increasingly racist babble and rants

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fucking loathe when developers do this

He divorced his wife

DOOM 3

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>Sound cue activates when you scroll down enough/turn to the last page

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>he
James didn't write that though.
It was just graffiti.

oh that sounds fucking awesome though.

did anyone even attempt to read the diary things the girl sends you in wolfenstein TNO? i had litteraly 0 interest at all in listening

youtu.be/MUL5w91dzbo

F

Wot gaem

What if once a game gives you an audiolog like that and in the end the guy goes... "haha gotcha broooo"

Sofia lamb audiologs, what a snore fest.

Based

>if you're reading this it's already too late

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Itchy Tasty in RE is kino, stfu

the atmosphere in this game was kino. repetitive gameplay, but it gave some serious Event Horizon vibes

>find diary
>"You're going to die, you dumb fuck."
>"This isn't a threat."

>game has audiologs
>turns out there were no audiologs and it was just you talking to yourself

>game has audiologs
>use them to strategically promote the upcoming dlc

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I only realized how fun that game was when I replayed it like 8 years later

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>logs reveal ethnic cleansing carried out by occupying military

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>see someone on the other side of a window
>thank god you're here, the whole facility/ship has gone mad
>*vent breaking sound*
>OH NO NO AAAAAAAAAAH

new vegas was awful

fuck off

>logs reveal that character is gay
Dropped

breh

>read journal
>AGGGHHH HES ABOUT TO BREAK IN THE DOOR AMD HE HAS A KNIFE I BETTER KEEP WRITING IN MY JOURNAL THATLL PROTECT ME

>they don't playback properly sometimes and just stop, but you can relisten to it, good like finding what it was called though

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I like hiw the doom 2016 text logs are all written in-universe by UAC, and hiw they gradually reveal how utterly fucked the entire company was.
It starts out as expecting extreme devotion from its employees, it could even be.a jab at modern workspaces, and then gradually shows you that it's all just fucking cult shit.
The [citation needed] also gave me a chuckle.

Witcher 3: Blood and Wine
There is also a painting which hints at the big dlc reveal.

>My dearest diary, I'd like to inform you it has come to my attention that my supplies of ink are running short and it would only be reasonable to write my thoughts down using as little of said ink as possi

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VtM: Bloodlines
You can find a written diary where a lady literally takes the time to write out her husband murdering her children and breaking in the door with an axe

>game takes place in an area with a cursed treasure
>past hunters left messages on the walls
>”If you are reading this, I am so sorry you are here.”

>message is written in crip

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youtube.com/watch?v=kg6zcctm1qI

>listen to tape
>it drops hints about a location of a powerful item
>the hints were useless because the item isn't hidden and is presented to you later on

>logs reveal the coolest dude in the game, and the previous game, was a furry all along

> so not exactly ingame storytelling.

Nibba what. Directed events unfolding before your eyes is the purest form of storytelling.

Bruh

this was pretty good despair kino in kotor 2 tbqh

Yeah it seemed like I was the only one who liked it when it came out.

>instead of warning the proper authorities, I'll just leave behind a log next to my corpse about the situation
>*log starts playing*
>GOT 'EEEM, HAHAHAHA, YALL A DEADASS NIGGA, DEADASS, YOU FEEL ME FORREAL
>FUCKIN DEADASS NIGGA

>game has audio logs.
>Character apparently carriers a backpack full of them.
>As you progress through the level he left them around as if they were breadcrumbs.
>You fell for his trap.

I mean if they unfold in a cinematic then not really ingame.

This always bugs me. I get it with audio logs, but youre telling me youre about to be eaten by a monster, and your instinct is to write about being attacked as its happening? Come on now.

Also the "dead person writes message on the wall in his own blood" meme.
REMEMBER CITADEL

>see you in hell asshole

bruh, paz story was genuinely haunting in mgsv

>Game has audio logs
>"WE MANAGED TO LOCK THE CREATURE UP IN CELL BLOCK D"
>New Objective: Explore Cell Block D

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This game still looks good

Day 4: NO STAY AWAY

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Bloodstained?

>audio logs are a key plot point

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Fucking hated this in Metroid prime 3, where a log tells you where the phazon metroids are kept minutes before you have to go there to steal a power cell that keeps the cages powered

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>game has tapes
>they’re usually serious or plot related
>near the end of the game you get tapes about hamburgers

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Vampire the masquerade Bloodlines actually does it a couple times. One of them is a guy in the sewers and his last entry is literally this:

>GOD HELP ME... SAW CREATURE... SOME SORT OF MONSTROSITY... TEETH AND BLOOD... CAN'T GET OUT... NO MORE LIGHT... CAN'T REACH ANYONE... PLEASE, OH GOD WHAT IS TH... (The writing trails off, spattered with what looks to be blood.)

Kek

Laughable.

>see someone on the other side of a window
>thank god you're here, the whole facility/ship has gone mad
>*creature skittering around behind them*
>*player character remains silent*
>OH NO NO AAAAAAAAAAAAAH

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And people praise that game because of the atmosphere and writing...

>DEAR... JOURNAL...
>GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Don't most digital devices require you to end the recording manually otherwise it doesn't save?

I wish I wasn't a superstitious autist, why can't I ignore these?

>log says the temple was robbed of gold but the books are left
>can loot valuables as well as books in temple

I dunno how many times a silent protagonist has doomed someone. Gordon Freeman's an asshole.

>pick up text log
>happy happy mommy 1 day gone

>reading the message changes the game's ending

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>Find a more difficult, hidden path
>Go through it hoping for better items or something good
>At the end is an audio log

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retard

>see someone in an apoc scenario
>"thank god you're here, I'm trapped here!"
>you HAVE to sacrifice them to continue
>"w-wait what are you doing no NO NO AAAASARFGHHHH"

because you're retarded and/or underaged

Sounds like this.

And reminded me that I wanted to ask what game this is from.

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>hack email
>Oh hey Joe remember to tell the new guy we put the railgun prototype in the safe, the passcode is 2468. Steve asked for a replacement keycard for basement access, so I left it inside the air vent next to his desk.

>I heard the Director saying something was going on at the Antarctic base, some sort of accident there so we might get promotions, hope you don't mind the cold. Lets catch up for beers soon.

>Regards.
>Bob

everyone is superstitious
most just lie about it

Oh sorry, misunderstood

Mmhm.

[Ship engines go silent as the craft slowly halts, red tumors growing on it. then it suddenly starts up again moving directly toward your guys]

>The treasure's mine, assholes

looks like Alien vs Predator
I've only played the old ones though so I'm not 100% sure but it looks exactly like the Xeno gameplay in the old ones

>computer needs password
>you can find or figure it out by looking around

the fact games don't do this more often is sickening.

>game has diary notes scrawled around everywhere that no one would ever sensibly write

Fuck, I remember that one

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have sex.

Damn, amazing.... I really felt like I was actually there, bravo Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines: The Videogame™. I really hope the sequel can live up to one of the greatest CRPGs ever made.

...

I'm confident most people reply to convince other people to reply as a joke.
Same as convincing african villagers to worship ebola-chan.
You're either a trickster or getting tricked.

Reply to this or you won't wake up tomorrow.

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Hey, nobody said it was flawless

Until Dawn does it too

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>merely pretending

>Arakune's audio logs in the first BlazBlue

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and you're an idiot

fuck you

fuck you

lol, no
learn 2 cope retard or the boogeyman will molest you in your sleep 2nite lmao

I don't bother replying to most of them out of sloth, I'm just telling you why I would.

wtf i cant do this one easily thats not fair

>journal mentions important thing in specific place
>that one specific piece is missing
>bad guy calls up and says "So you heard the tapes too huh? Too bad I was faster!"

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replying at all means you're retarded and derailing whatever thread you're posting in

Sounds like he’s being raped
thats kinda hot

idiot

I love how almost every space pirate log is
>what happens if we do this
>OH NO

go cry to your shaman I don't want to have to read your seething

Yes, that's the goal.

>that log of her being bathed by the lesbian commander
never thought I would fap to a fucking mgs codec call

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>Message in blood
>It's a door code/password

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>the logs are essential to understanding the plot
>most of them are hidden god fucking knows where

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idiot
you can go now

I don't care how stupid they are, I like them.

>childs drawing
>badly drawn monster

zzzz

>symbols have been compromised

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>lets leave a puzzle so no adventurers can get through here and disturb everything
>but lets also leave hints fucking everywhere and also anyone with about 10 minutes of free time can just brute force this anyway

>idiot
>idiot
>idiot pls go
The average IQ of a spam poster everyone

Fucking got me you shit

there's more than a few that will just keep going till the space runs out or there's a set limit where it'll just start a new file once it goes over.

>virgin text logs
vs
>chad audio logs

>journal entry
>"the last sentence ends abruptly..."

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No

Its shit

>read email logs
>Good, i've got your attention. This isn't actually Asari Military Command. They're busy tending to what's left of the planet.

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>Yeah, I record video logs, how did you know?

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>I don't know who the hell needs a whole roll of toilet paper to wipe their ass,
I've come close, unironically

Only good Borderlands character

how can i respond to an audiolog

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would be cool if you got up to an audio-log thing, hit the stop button then playback, and hear whatevers going on like 20 seconds before you walk into the room

>Message log has the new code for the safe because someone fucked up with the old code
>Message log is out in the open

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>the radio chatter during the white house mission in MW2
>supposed to stop the russians from taking over a area
>dont
>radio becomes more and more desperate

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Yeah that's AVP 2010.

Bioshock audio logs are great imo.

Fuck off

Bonus points for when you have the wiimote muted and after 3 chapters of silent phone calls you have to google it and realize what the fuck is going on.

forever an idiot

>audio/text log is "a day in the life of random Joe Shmoe"
Love this one

literally embarrassing yikes

Shit well played

This.
Those were the only ones I wanted to listen to and that was only because the setting was so interesting that I actually what was happening.

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>SpiderMan PS4
>"Peter I built this station to make sure this very specific thing never happens"
>"OH NO IT'S HAPPENING"
>repeat for every station

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>"I found this diary near some dead dude, so he probably won't mind if I use it for my personal needs"
>The rest is covered in dried shit

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Fuck