Favorite Set Piece?

[Chaosolous]

What's your favorite mission set piece in the game?

[Tokenn]

I love The Pickup...great action, interesting choices to make with significant consequences, DumDum, Royce and Brick are a hoot. Maelstrom may be a bunch of total psychos, but you have to admit they are personality-plus.

Getting through Clouds without violence is always a fun challenge. The Matsuri parade is always good, although my heart is always in my mouth when I know what's waiting at the end. Fighting beside Takemura...and although I generally don't like martial arts games, the Beat On The Brat matches are fun when you consider the personalities of the opponents.

[Irinka]

The Killing Moon. It's just so well done imo and has several plot twists with an amazing OST. Infiltrating the space center like a total agent, seeing Myers true face in action, total war starts, getting the objective "Survive" while facing an army with the OST "Contra la luna", using the blackwall, revelation from Song with amazing OST "Never looking back" and to end it all up a cowboy showdown with Reed. Truly amazing!

[Chaosolous]

I recently started another playthrough of Phantom Liberty and I gotta say the whole opening with rescuing the president and cultivating in that boss fight with the huge mech, is just amazing. The main game needed more of that kind of stuff TBH.

Phantom Liberty feels like a peek at what the game could have been had the upper management not rushed the product out.

[psionyx]

For me, it's probably the mission in Phantom Liberty if you said with Songbird, and are escaping the stadium. Just the whole setup is awesome to me. The music is a bada$$ edm track that just tickles my fancy, especially if you are in an active combat and the music spikes into it's more frenetic register. The design of Songbird, burned and glitching out, making her posture and gait like that of an Oni from some Japanese horror movie. Jerky movements, glowing red eyes, constantly backlit in red to make her be a silhouette, might even say a "phantom". That whole sequence was just really da*n cool. And I'm not even a fan of the "evil hot" vibe, or playing as a Renegade style character, but that setup just felt so well constructed to feel like a moment that a being of pure destruction is just marching forward, and anyone in their way (aside for you, their one ally) is just DOOMED.

[Revalopod]

The bit in the Black Sapphire with the Lizzy Wizzy song performance.

[mistahbungle]

Shooting Reed in the head...

[Porkhammer]

My english fails me here... what is a "set piece"?

[Chaosolous]

Originally posted by Porkhammer:

My english fails me here... what is a "set piece"?

In a game, it's a preplanned action sequence. Like for example in Phantom Liberty when the Plane Crashes or in the Main Game when you're being chased with Takemura and those guys jump on the car.

Stuff like that.

[Porkhammer]

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

Originally posted by Porkhammer:

My english fails me here... what is a "set piece"?

In a game, it's a preplanned action sequence. Like for example in Phantom Liberty when the Plane Crashes or in the Main Game when you're being chased with Takemura and those guys jump on the car.

Stuff like that.

Ah, thanks for the explanation.

I think I have too many favorite setpieces(?) so I cannot single one out.

[Ez Duzit]

Phantom liberty had a lot of amazing set pieces and incredible quests. One of my favorites is a very subdued quest with no shooting. Basically a few different fetch quests to restore a robots functionality,
The quest is called 1R-ONC-LAD and is easy to miss.

The Lizzy Wizzy performance is also very good.

[vonMoo]

Gotta agree that a bunch of the phantom liberty sequences are very well done. For me, second place is the spaceport, up to putting Songbird in the rocket, first place is the massive intro chain.

But overall, even though it's not properly a set piece, I'll go for disasterpiece. It's good balance of action and story, but what carries it for me it this line from Judy when she gets to her second staging point (IIRC), having witnessed V's trail of destruction: *You really don't f*** around, do you?*

That line has always felt perfect for where I am in the game at that point, and how I go through that mission.


Oh, Porkhammer: set pieces is the plural of set piece :)


Edit: also, fully agree about the Lizzy Wizzy performance.

[Coleman]

Originally posted by Irinka:

The Killing Moon. It's just so well done imo and has several plot twists with an amazing OST. Infiltrating the space center like a total agent, seeing Myers true face in action, total war starts, getting the objective "Survive" while facing an army with the OST "Contra la luna", using the blackwall, revelation from Song with amazing OST "Never looking back" and to end it all up a cowboy showdown with Reed. Truly amazing!

I will have to play that ending. The Reed mission is well done but I hated the robot. Not sure how my melee bruiser will be sneaky but I will try. Have the BFC 9000 ready for Meyers. Lol

As far as set pieces go Dogtown in general is my favorite.

[psionyx]

I like the "Haboobs" scene when you rescue Saul. For a couple of tiny reasons, but they add up to one of my favorite moments in the game.
1. I identify with Saul and him just loving a word that he thinks is silly, but just always amuses him to say. For me it's plethora. Ever since seeing Three Amigos, that word just lives rent free in my head as an amusing and silly word, that is never actually used in daily conversation. But I use it whenever possible, just to make myself chuckle. So Saul just randomly muttering "heh, haboobs, damn I love that word", just hits me in my heart. My dorky, goofy, dad jokey heart.
2. The hotel banter between Panam and V felt pretty genuine. Two people trying to unwind and decompress after a stressful life and death situation, in a massive sandstorm. Finally getting a moment's reprieve, and suddenly just play acting out a hotel staff and resident skit, felt really genuine to me. I've done that with lovers before, a little banter thing in the middle of the night, when you're sitting there in the dark, talking, getting to know each other and feeling out each other's quirks and oddities.
3. My favorite though, is the way Johnny reacts as you and Panam fall asleep. He appears on the table, looks over at Panam with a genuine smile, and in a tone completely devoid of sarcasm or his usual bite, he just quietly, and gently plays along with the hotel skit, and wishes you both sweet dreams. And I honestly think it's one of the few times in the game that Keanu's line reading didn't sound like he's just reading off a script. It actually felt like it had genuine empathy and humanity in it. I love Keanu as a person IRL, I think he's a good dude, but I personally find his acting incredibly wooden. And most of Johnny's dialogue feels lifeless to me. Goes too vitriolic, too sarcastic, or swings the other way and sounds dead and lifeless. But not that line. That line? Felt real, felt honest. And it was nice to see a brief moment of even Johnny dropping all ego and pretenses, and just....being a human for a moment. Not a rockerboy, or a terrorist, or a revolutionary, or the drugged out devil on you shoulder. Nah, just a person, wishing two other people sweet dreams, and actually meaning it.

[Lokaror]

The takemura car chase has been a favorite of mine so far. Havent beat phantom liberty yet though, so cant say if i'll still think that way after.

[Mander]

Main Game Secret Ending "Don't Fear the Reaper".

"Time to party like it's 2023."

Especially on Very Hard, it's a mook horror show that lives rent free in my head.