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gigawhite posted:Yeah, along with your characters doing little fist pumps and going "yes!!" after mowing down enemy soldiers. World War 2 seems like a lot more fun than I thought it would be based on the history books. Well, war is hell...of a good time? And running up to enemies point blink to shoot them in the face is something else.
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Saoshyant posted:...the additional bullshit they will have to pay on top of the overpriced videogame they already bought.
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GOG also has a deal right now for all the baldur's gates, all the neverwinter nights, all the icewind dales, Planescape Torment, and a few other things for $20. Pretty sure that works out to about 1 penny per hour of gaming or something so go get it if you've somehow missed all of these.
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odiv posted:None of the microtransaction stuff I heard about sounded remotely necessary. It's not, it's about the same as it was in AC:Black Flag but inside of the game. There's problems with the games, but I'm enjoying it, tempered by the fact that I got the game for free. Don't buy it for 60 bucks and wait for some of the technical issues to be patched (or not) and it's a good game. Turns out buying a game on release remains a gamble.
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gigawhite posted:Yeah, along with your characters doing little fist pumps and going "yes!!" after mowing down enemy soldiers. World War 2 seems like a lot more fun than I thought it would be based on the history books. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fl1pCPb504
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Forever_Peace posted:GOG also has a deal right now for all the baldur's gates, all the neverwinter nights, all the icewind dales, Planescape Torment, and a few other things for $20. For those AD&D grognards, this pack is great. That said, AD&D doesn't really translate that well to computer games and there's a big learning curve. Plus it wasn't really intended that one player creates 6 character sheets and plays all the characters at once. Something that would be easy for one player becomes management hell. Fallout and Arcanum are way more accessible as singleplayer RPGs since you're not expected to fully manage a party at a time.
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Tezzeract posted:For those AD&D grognards, this pack is great. That said, AD&D doesn't really translate that well to computer games and there's a big learning curve. Plus it wasn't really intended that one player creates 6 character sheets and plays all the characters at once. Something that would be easy for one player becomes management hell. You wrong about everything ever, Tezz. Oh my god. Those are all good games from the past, and you'll have to do a little learning and reading before yu start playing, but things are easy enough to follow if you read the manuals.
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That said, the Enhanced Editions are probably a far better way of going for the Baldurs and, now, Icewind Dale.
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How are the Neverwinter Nights games? It's a little cheaper for me if I leave them out (and the couple I don't recognize) and I'm not sure that I'd ever play them. Who am I kidding. I'm never playing any of this again... 
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I'd honestly recommend picking up Icewind Dale and Baldur's Gate on iOS or Android (but play on a tablet, NOT your phone). I think Baldur's Gate 2 is in the works. I have been playing Icewind Dale (first time) on a tablet and it has been great. Streamlined, really accessible for touch controls, and they beefed it up with new class kits, characters, quests, etc. It's the exact same version as Icewind Dale EE on Steam but for half the price.
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Tippis posted:That said, the Enhanced Editions are probably a far better way of going for the Baldurs and, now, Icewind Dale. Meh. I know it's a small amount of extra work, but I really don't like the extra bits Beamdog put in the games, and the mods make the games more stable while fixing things. Also, I REALLY dislike the title screens where Beamdog is selling/telling you about their dlc things. It's just an extra clickthrough to get started and exit, but gently caress it's annoying as poo poo.
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For what it's worth, a good amount of that was added in the translation which changes what's being said for bizarre reasons.
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Tippis posted:As a (very) slight opposing opinion, they need to get their store messaging in order though. Oh, I totally agree that they have a long way to go, but I really do like that GOG is getting slightly better at this, as it should (hopefully) force Steam to stay on its toes a little more, as well as EA and Ubisoft having yet another competitor to their respectively mediocre and lovely digital distribution platforms.
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There's really nothing wrong with Origin though so not sure why you call it lovely? It does some things better than steam even. Uplay definitely is an unstable and buggy piece of crap.
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odiv posted:How are the Neverwinter Nights games? It's a little cheaper for me if I leave them out (and the couple I don't recognize) and I'm not sure that I'd ever play them. Both of them are modder's playgrounds with weak campaigns and one legitimately great expansion. For the first game it's Hordes of the Underdark, for the second it's Mask of the Betrayer. (MotB is a Chris Avellone joint and has been compared to Planescape Torment.) If you do end up getting NWN2, remember to also install the NWN2 Client Extension, which is mostly multiplayer-focused but also fixes some bugs including the most annoying camera bug in the history of games.
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I can't really recommend AD&D games, they are a grog-stained window into the past.  Especially when everything that is not picking a caster and putting 18 in your casting stats is a trap option.
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Mokinokaro posted:There's really nothing wrong with Origin though so not sure why you call it lovely? It does some things better than steam even. Downs Duck posted:Oh, I totally agree that they have a long way to go, but I really do like that GOG is getting slightly better at this, as it should (hopefully) force Steam to stay on its toes a little more, as well as EA and Ubisoft having yet another competitor to their respectively mediocre and lovely digital distribution platforms. 
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Drifter posted:You wrong about everything ever, Tezz. Oh my god. Just because you're used to the system doesn't mean its accessible for people. How many hours do you have to spend reading up on the intricacies of THACO and dice rolling. When are power strikes preferable to flurries and give me edge cases where the situation flips around? At some point, you're playing the implementation not the design. Just because dice rolling is a great system for deciding tabletop results doesn't mean you want it when you can directly simulate the action with the controller input. The stories are great, but holy crap do you have to do the legwork to make any sense of the system.
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Mokinokaro posted:There's really nothing wrong with Origin though so not sure why you call it lovely? It does some things better than steam even. Origin fired their customer support awhile back, so it's now impossible to get anything out of them. On top of them they introduced a new bug that affects newer revisions of Windows 7/Windows 8 that causes it to constantly eat memory while it's up, eventually crashing the program/game. Occasionally it also just crashes for the fun of it, even without the memory leak/eating issue. Constant pestering on my end to figure out what caused it finally got them to tell me they don't care enough to bother fixing it, maybe I should downgrade to Windows XP if I want to play their games. Oh, and as someone who owns Crysis 3/Dragon Age 2/Dead Space 3/Mass Effect 3, and plays through them every few months, on top of the crashes I keep getting, I also end up having my saves eaten fairly regularly if Origin ever hiccups on the connection. This happens often enough that I had to go crack my legally owned version of Mass Effect 3 to finish it, since I kept having my saves deleted. This is a pretty common problem for people with Windows 7/8 according to their forums/twitter. As someone who literally buys and preorders every game before it comes out to play it, I've had less problems with Uplay then I ever had with Origin. Most people just don't recognize it because they've only ever bought 1, maybe 2 games off Origin, and it gets worse over time. Meanwhile Uplay just loving sucks upfront, but if you let it patch it autoloads into games, and you can cache your saves manually.
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^^^ - Can't you just disable cloud storage? I've never had origin eat a save. Batman: Arkham City, now, on the other hand  Tezzeract posted:Just because you're used to the system doesn't mean its accessible for people. How many hours do you have to spend reading up on the intricacies of THACO and dice rolling. When are power strikes preferable to flurries and give me edge cases where the situation flips around? None of this poo poo maaaaaaaters in the video game. You make your skills go up it doesn't matter what your other lovely things say, numerically. FLurry vs power strike doesn't matter because either way you're just hitting a dude. Play for the story and don't stress about the other poo poo. It's fine. God you're so spergy. Drifter fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Nov 12, 2014 |
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SelenicMartian posted:By the way, is it possible to replay every mission in VC1, or do they get permanently locked, like the main missions of VC2?
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Yeah just to put this into perspective for DnD, the first time I played a DnD game was BG2. I made a human fighter ( because I am a human, and fighter sounded cool ), and then since I was 8-14ish I decided I wanted him to be smart and charismatic, so I gave him 16-18 Int/Wis/Charisma. My Strength/Dex/Con was all ~12. I still beat the entire game, including Kangaxx. You don't really need to care in any of those games sans maybe Icewind Dale 1/Baldurs Gate 1, both because they start you at level 1 and you need to play it carefully for a bit before you get some levels/skills.
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Is the orgy of Insurgency keys over? Good. Kairo is pretty cool. If you have any kind of appreciation for grand, surrealist landscapes, Kairo will hit the right notes for you. Cubist swamps, gravity-defying mechanisms, distant stone cities, and forests of infinite pillars await. Fog and limited draw distance are used to great effect here, shrouding impossibly huge structures from you until you move close enough for them to emerge from the murk. The environments are colorful and unique and seem to tell a story by their very nature. There's no text or dialogue in Kairo, but it has hints of the Dark Souls storytelling-without-telling motif. Gameplay is about as simple as it gets. You walk, you run, you jump. There's no key for using, holding, or interacting here. Everything you need to fiddle with is done by proximity. This often manifests as pressure plates or stones to push, but there are more creative applications like devices that only activate when you stand in a certain orientation with them. The puzzles get hard too, so be prepared for some serious experimenting and creativity to work out how some of them function. There are some secrets to find as well, which require combing every nook and cranny of the dreamlike architecture... which is something you'll want to do anyway. The big knock I have against Kairo is that, as well-done as the atmosphere and design is, it still looks like a Half-Life 1 mod. All the shapes lack detail and there are only a few basic textures used throughout. However, the game makes the most of its minimalist presentation, and in the end it could be seen as more of an asset than a drawback if you can immerse yourself in it. Overall, this is a great game for the look and feel it conveys, and at $1.25 this week there's no reason not to pick it up.
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Azran posted:Especially when everything that is not picking a caster and putting 18 in your casting stats is a trap option. This is completely wrong. Casters are powerful in late-game BG2 for sure, but you still want 3 non-casters. Having more than two casters in your party in BG1 is the best possible way to never be able to progress past chapter 3, as a complete newbie. Putting an 18 in your casting stat does basically nothing for the majority of caster classes because this is AD&D2 and AD&D made no sense; you're thinking of 3.x, and even then, NWN/NWN2/IWD2/ToEE mostly don't have the feats and spells that break the lovely game system in half and have encounters designed to make non-casters useful. Don't get me wrong, AD&D and 3.x are still terrible shitpile systems, but the D&D video games mostly minimise this and are still playable despite the idiosyncrasies of their respective systems (the AD&D2 ones more so than the 3.x ones since you don't need to faff around with stuff like prestige classes, skill points and feats). e; vv there's already a difficulty slider option in the non-EE games, FYI. Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Nov 12, 2014 |
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Rookersh posted:Yeah just to put this into perspective for DnD, the first time I played a DnD game was BG2. I made a human fighter ( because I am a human, and fighter sounded cool ), and then since I was 8-14ish I decided I wanted him to be smart and charismatic, so I gave him 16-18 Int/Wis/Charisma. My Strength/Dex/Con was all ~12. Although if you play the EE versions (Android, iOS, or PC) you can change the difficulty. Easy makes enemies hit for 25% less damage and you get a 50% EXP boost, and Story mode makes you indestructible with a 100% EXP boost. You can change between modes at any time, so the earlier levels don't have to suck as much.
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Lemon Curdistan posted:This is completely wrong. Yeah, for some reason I got my systems mixed up there. Nevermind me.
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Speaking of old school isometric games, Pillars of Eternity is up for pre-order now!
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Good news everyone! http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/six-year-old-rpg-valkyria-chronicles-tops-steam-sellers-list/0141295 quote:Sega’s PC version of PS3 RPG Valkyria Chronicles has ‘blown all predictions out of the water’, the publisher has claimed.  Platinum PC ports here we go!
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^^^^^^Sweet!Ragequit posted:Speaking of old school isometric games, Pillars of Eternity is up for pre-order now! Just noticed, feels really good atm to have Kickstarted that one. Hoping it won't disappoint.
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Mutation posted:Good news everyone! C'mon sequel ports/HD upgrades. C'mooooon.
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Mutation posted:Good news everyone!  Yakuza port, now.
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Mutation posted:Good news everyone! Gimme HD versions of 2 and 3. It's all I want Sega. Well, that and Vanquish. And Bayo. And Skies of Arcadia. Those would all be nice to. Oh and some people want Yakuza I guess.
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Downs Duck posted:Just noticed, feels really good atm to have Kickstarted that one. Hoping it won't disappoint. It's the only game I have ever kickstarted. I have been trying to stay in the dark but the screenshots and video look great. I hope the stronghold upgrading is robust.
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Ragequit posted:Speaking of old school isometric games, Pillars of Eternity is up for pre-order now! $40?!? Mutation posted:Good news everyone! Hell yeah, it seems like the Steam market is finally getting through to the Japanese publishers. There are so many games I want ported.
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Papercut posted:$40?!? The kickstarter price was $25 to get a copy. This is certainly going to cause some fun in the forums though: "Yeah, I think I can safely say on this forum is not happy with the price. I think $19.99 is just about right, maybe even a bit too much. For example Icewind Dale got a remake and was put on Steam and that costs $19.99 and it is, in my eyes, no different to this." Yes, $19.99 for a 14 year old video game with some updates is totally the same as making a new game with its own lore, rules (this is not D&D), assets, etc. from scratch.
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Ragequit posted:It's the only game I have ever kickstarted. I have been trying to stay in the dark but the screenshots and video look great. I hope the stronghold upgrading is robust. I believe they're mostly spoiler free, but I guess you've already taken a look at them, then? Granted, it has been a while since I've played a recent ARPG and I haven't played that Divinity: Sin game, but I'm very pleased with how the animations look here; I feared it would be more like the old, mechanical feel of the old BG games and it looks much better than I expected.
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