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after the emotional exhaustion of the last of us followed immediately by walking dead season two i decided to pick up deadpool. It's pretty good, feels budget as hell but is funny. I'm only like an hour in maybe it gets old, I dont know.
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Anonymous Robot posted:Hey folks, Ironclad Tactics is on sale for one more day. Well, the part of today before the sales roll over, so less than 2 more hours
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Atomicated posted:I'm looking to get a few extra controllers for when friends come over. I'm pretty sure I've heard good things about the Logitech controllers but I just wanted to double check is there any reason I should avoid the F310. For some reason it was just cheap enough to make me paranoid that it has some major issues. The sticks are rather stiff and have an enormous dead zone, but otherwise it's fine. It's a perfectly good budget controller.
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John Romero posted:after the emotional exhaustion of the last of us followed immediately by walking dead season two i decided to pick up deadpool. It's pretty good, feels budget as hell but is funny. I'm only like an hour in maybe it gets old, I dont know. For a moment I thought this meant Deadpool was back on Steam, only to have my hopes dashed. 
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Ghostlight posted:I just finished Proteus. Likely because the plot largely involves WOMEN and also the publisher pulling out of PAX because they didn't agree with how the dickwolves thing was handled.
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Anonymous Robot posted:Hey folks, Ironclad Tactics is on sale for one more day. It's three bucks and change, and it is a very good game that flew under people's radars in a big way. It's a turn-based strategy game where the turn clock is running on real time and both players take their turn simultaneously, with a card system for building an army, deploying units, and spending resources. The game is almost like Plants Vs Zombies, if both teams were zombies, struggling to control the field and push units onto their opponent's endzone. It's seriously fun and has a great depth of strategy. Agreeing with this. Ironclad Tactics is great.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Likely because the plot largely involves WOMEN and also the publisher pulling out of PAX because they didn't agree with how the dickwolves thing was handled. I pick on Gone Home because it has no content aside from a little story that serves as a framing device for lounging around an empty house for an hour or two. The story could have been better than the combined works of Dostoyevsky and it still wouldn't have changed the fact that as a game it was weak and definitely not worth 20 bucks. As a novel or a short story, maybe. But not as a game. For what it's worth, I got Gone Home as a gift, so no buyer's remorse for me. This whole interactive storytelling wankery smells a bit like the interactive multimedia buzz of the early 90s and the tripe the industry tried to push as games was utter poo poo back then too. Don't try to pull chauvinism as an excuse why people pick on these games.
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Getting mad over other people's opinion on a video game, whether it's because they like them or dislike them, is both dumb and largely pointless. Much like the inevitable arguing afterwards.
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Justin_Brett posted:http://opiumpulses.com/store/aaa-bundle/ Jonathan Yeah! posted:Looks interesting! If legit. If anyone's down for a group buy, I'd take Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. Thank you for reminding me this game exists. I'll give it a shot, as well. If anyone wants to get the bundle, but doesn't want/mind trading off the Res Evil game within, let me know!
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Laputanmachine posted:I pick on Gone Home because it has no content aside from a little story that serves as a framing device for lounging around an empty house for an hour or two. The story could have been better than the combined works of Dostoyevsky and it still wouldn't have changed the fact that as a game it was weak and definitely not worth 20 bucks. While I agree that the game is probably not "worth" 20 bucks, it's not completely valueless and it's very well-written and has solid production. Actually now that I think of it, it's about the length of a movie, and most DVDs and Blu Ray cost about 20 bucks. So its price is at about what it's worth. I think the difference is that when you play a short game in which you can experience all of the content in one go, you don't really tend to go back and replay it, where a really good movie is one you want to watch and rewatch over and over. I guess I'm a little divided then. I paid 5 bucks and played it once, and I feel I got more than my money's worth. It was like a really good rental. Also for most people who derided Gone Home the price didn't even factor into it, since they neither paid for nor played the game.
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Gone Home is legit one of the best games I've played in a while 
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Is Gemini Rue worth my precious, hard-earned dollars?
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ManOfTheYear posted:Is Gemini Rue worth my precious, hard-earned dollars? I thought it was really good. It's been in a few bundles.
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ManOfTheYear posted:Is Gemini Rue worth my precious, hard-earned dollars? Sure, it's way better than Gone Home at least. 
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Laputanmachine posted:I pick on Gone Home because it has no content aside from a little story that serves as a framing device for lounging around an empty house for an hour or two. The story could have been better than the combined works of Dostoyevsky and it still wouldn't have changed the fact that as a game it was weak and definitely not worth 20 bucks. As a novel or a short story, maybe. But not as a game. For what it's worth, I got Gone Home as a gift, so no buyer's remorse for me. Gone Home told a story where the gameplay was rummaging around a house. It's fine you didn't like it, but your argument is pretty goddamn dumb about why it's 'not a game'. Use that argument to explain that you didn't enjoy it on a personal level - for whatever reason-, but don't use it as though you're some sort of universal arbiter of what makes a game. For instance, I think Proteus or Sim City or Minecraft look like absolute poo poo, but I'm not going to deny that some people enjoy those particular systems as much as I enjoy my Shootmans and say they are not playing a game. Drifter fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Sep 29, 2014 |
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K. Flaps posted:Sure, it's way better than Gone Home at least. I don't know, Gone Home didn't have a horrendous shooting minigame implemented badly in Adventure Game Studio.
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Myst was like the best-selling computer game of the 90s, whether you liked it or not it was a valid game, and Gone Home is just in that same category. Except it's way better because you're not staring at static 640x480 pcx files (and trust me, I just played Scratches and the Dark Fall games, I know what that's like!!!).
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John Romero posted:after the emotional exhaustion of the last of us followed immediately by walking dead season two i decided to pick up deadpool. It's pretty good, feels budget as hell but is funny. I'm only like an hour in maybe it gets old, I dont know. Deadpool got old in the 90s  e: Also, in regards to Dead Rising vs Dead Rising 2, without being a massive sperg which I could be but it would be largely pointless, to me Dead Rising was sort of like Dawn of the Dead, while Dead Rising 2 was sort of like Land of the Dead. The latter may be a greater technical achievement and cover more ground, but it sort of fucks up why the original was so drat good to begin with. I mean, I can think of numerous faults with Dead Rising 2 from a purely thematic point of view. Say what you will about Dead Rising, but even in the ridiculous poo poo it had (of which it had a lot) it was at the least consistent with itself. Rush Limbo fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Sep 29, 2014 |
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Gone Home is the worst game ever made because every time it's brought up the mass-regurgitation of the exact same arguments makes such an unpleasant noise.
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The best answer to "is Gone Home a game" is "who gives a poo poo." Whatever you want to call it, just judge it by how well it succeeds in what it set out to do. Leave semantics to the professionals.
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I think Gone Home should go home, to the garbage can.
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^^^ - I'm just not getting out of you what I used to back when you posted in Manga.  Quest For Glory II posted:Myst was like the best-selling computer game of the 90s, whether you liked it or not it was a valid game, and Gone Home is just in that same category. Except it's way better because you're not staring at static 640x480 pcx files (and trust me, I just played Scratches and the Dark Fall games, I know what that's like!!!). I don't know, MYST had more environmental interaction in the puzzles ( ) it made you do.
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Freak Futanari posted:I think Gone Home should go home, to the garbage can. Then we'd have to subject Oscar to it and what kind of loving monster are you.
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Gone Home is objectively a better game than Dark Souls.
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Authorman posted:Gone Home is objectively a better game than Dark Souls. Would you call Gone Home the Dark Souls of exploration walking? I haven't played the game so this isn't a statement on the quality of the game.
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Gone Home is one of my favorite games. I am the instrument of the gynocracy that is taking away all of your precious games.
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Mr E posted:Would you call Gone Home the Dark Souls of exploration walking? No I would never say anything like that. Please don't make assumptions about me.
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I just want to remind everybody to pick up Pool Nation if/when it goes on sale. Or even at full price. Its a great pool game, if not the best, with loads of game types to play. Also you can do kickin' rad shots like this poo poo my friend just pulled... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRZDTJ6UVlY It's a great game and worth every penny.
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Drifter posted:I don't know, MYST had more environmental interaction in the puzzles ( I bought Myst as a kid back in 1991 or whenever it was, although I preferred Riven. I will admit I never saw the end of either game at the time, but I did finish Riven much later in life with a UHS hints guide. I dunno how you beat those games without resorting to some guide, even writing down everything in a notebook doesn't fully help you.
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Quest For Glory II posted:As I've said before, Ether One fills the role of Gone Home with puzzles, but it leaves them as optional, unlike Myst. I don't think people played Myst for the puzzles necessarily but just to explore a strange alien world and see how it works, as well as reading the notes/journals left behind. Which is what I tend to look for in games myself, minus the clicking at Macromedia Projector pictures. Clearly the 7th Guest was the evolutionary top of that particular game genre foodchain.
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My favorite Dark Souls comment is when someone legitimately called Shin Megami Tensei IV the Dark Souls of Persona. And by favorite I mean  Also I've played lots of games with good stories, but if you're selling one on just a story it should have more meat to it for twenty dollars.
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Hello I'm posting again to say I beat the story of Tomb Raider 2013 and am now working on all the bonus gubbins I still have to do around the island. I will say that, while the story did start firmly head-up-rear end, at least it ended on a note that was a fair bit less so. From what I had seen of the game beforehand, I did not expect much going in, so for 20 bucks I was very pleasantly surprised at just how much there is to do. I haven't seen this many flavor text/flavor model collectibles in a video game I've played in quite a while so it'll be fun to hunt it all down. The guns (and bow) were all very satisfying to use although I do wish the machine gun stayed accurate for more than .01 seconds under sustained fire. Finally, I think the transition from wimpy baby Lara to badass raider of tombs Lara didn't really hit me all that hard until you get your hands on the grenade launcher and she straight up goes THAT'S RIGHT RUN I'LL KILL ALL OF YOU BASTARDS, and then I blew up 40 men with grenades and flaming arrows. Tomb Raider 2013 is a pretty alright game. CJacobs fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Sep 29, 2014 |
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I like the Gone Home argument because it proves video games are art. As with all forms of art, people get so salty about popular, atypical games that they bother to argue that "X is not a real video game".CJacobs posted:Tomb Raider 2013 is a pretty alright game. 
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tehsid posted:I just want to remind everybody to pick up Pool Nation if/when it goes on sale. Or even at full price. Its a great pool game, if not the best, with loads of game types to play. It is awesome but I am still waiting for the Box of Tricks DLC! e: oh and it looks like the game is $1 this week! Alucardd fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Sep 29, 2014 |
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Zombie Samurai posted:...to argue that "X is not a real video game". Literally no one has said this.
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Whoa a couple of actual games snuck into the weeklong deals this week: Crysis 2 Maximum Edition - $5.99 Dragon Age: Origins - $4.99 Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves - $1.49 Jack Orlando: Director's Cut (a cinematic masterpiece) - $0.74 Obscure - $4.68 Marc Ecko's Getting Up - $3.74 http://store.steampowered.com/search/?filter=weeklongdeals#sort_by=_ASC&sort_order=ASC&filter=weeklongdeals&page=1
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^^ Sangfroid is a pretty neat tower defense-ish/Orcsmustdie game. It has some rough edges, but seemed interesting enough that I had fun with it.Zombie Samurai posted:I like the Gone Home argument because it proves video games are art. As with all forms of art, people get so salty about popular, atypical games that they bother to argue that "X is not a real video game". That argument in no way is associated with whether an object or process is art. I guess that makes your argument art too, then, by your definition. And no one, not ever, should argue that videogames are art. That's literally the stupidest endgame goal for videogames. That whole 'search for relevancy' the bloggers and industry have is pretty goddamn lame. Drifter fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Sep 29, 2014 |
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When Sang-Froid came out I was really interested until I read a couple of reviews that said the game was tedious and hard as nails. Is that still the case?YOURFRIEND posted:Literally no one has said this. About half the internet has, just not in this thread. Remember when Steam came up with the tagging system and the first thing people did was make sure that Gone Home was tagged either "Gone Homo" or "Not A Game"?
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