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In non-anime news, BundleStars is running a couple promos and this caught my eye: Space Rangers HD for $3.75, which appears to be its lowest ever price. A fair number of goons seem to enjoy it.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 04:32 |
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in non-circlejerk territory, to be more specific, Indie Royale somehow accidentally put together an adequate (not good, ADEQUATE) bundle for $1.99 that includes Tiny & Big, The Last Door, Words for Evil and Metal Dead: http://www.indieroyale.com/?royale=204
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 04:46 |
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Jordan7hm posted:In non-anime news, BundleStars is running a couple promos and this caught my eye: Space Rangers HD for $3.75, which appears to be its lowest ever price. A fair number of goons seem to enjoy it. The video on that site doesn't seem all that informative. So it's a 2d action/arcade space shooter? With I guess what looks like some sort of planet-based RTS portion?
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 05:10 |
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Quest For Glory II posted:in non-circlejerk territory, to be more specific, Indie Royale somehow accidentally put together an adequate (not good, ADEQUATE) bundle for $1.99 that includes Tiny & Big, The Last Door, Words for Evil and Metal Dead: I am reasonably sure this is going to be more worthwhile than their current mystery bundle by the end of that.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 05:16 |
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Quest For Glory II posted:in non-circlejerk territory, to be more specific, Indie Royale somehow accidentally put together an adequate (not good, ADEQUATE) bundle for $1.99 that includes Tiny & Big, The Last Door, Words for Evil and Metal Dead: I think they've just nearly exhausted their supply of bottom-of-the-barrel dung so they've resorted to one or two good games per bundle now. But don't worry, I'm sure with the new influx of anime crap they'll be back to making the worst bundles in the world in no time.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 05:22 |
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Kragger just dropped Ziggurat on me, and I only just wishlisted it because it was mentioned recently in this thread. What a man!
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 05:23 |
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WarLocke posted:The video on that site doesn't seem all that informative. So it's a 2d action/arcade space shooter? With I guess what looks like some sort of planet-based RTS portion? From the RPGCodex review: quote:let's combine Elite-like trading and exploration, turn-based space battles, arcade space battles, some pirate stuff, dynamic universe, text adventures, saving the universe from some impeding doom stuff, liberating planets RTS style, some Mechwarrior stuff, and all kind of crazy little things, like getting a plastic surgery at a Pirate Base, when you become too popular and not in a good way. e: and the steam link is here http://store.steampowered.com/app/214730/
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 05:35 |
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Speaking of Indie Royale, is QP Shooting good enough to justify getting this bundle (http://www.indieroyale.com/?royale=202) just for it? I have a lot of shooter games in my library already.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 05:47 |
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God damnit I thought I liked time travel shenanigans but Achron is just hurting my brain.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 05:56 |
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Quest For Glory II posted:in non-circlejerk territory, to be more specific, Indie Royale somehow accidentally put together an adequate (not good, ADEQUATE) bundle for $1.99 that includes Tiny & Big, The Last Door, Words for Evil and Metal Dead: 2 bucks for Tiny & Big is some good poo poo.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 05:59 |
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WarLocke posted:God damnit I thought I liked time travel shenanigans but Achron is just hurting my brain. I bought it back when it was in beta and holy crap it's insane. On the other hand, it's actually a fairly "legitimate" handling of time travel, up to and including correct handling of paradoxes, etc.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 06:10 |
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Jordan7hm posted:From the RPGCodex review: Also russian and badly translated as gently caress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlixbA7_CH4
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 06:17 |
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SynthOrange posted:Also russian and badly translated as gently caress. Yes, please use the over 5-year old video of the intro cinematic, despite the game being much reworked and patched and translated. You're so great.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 06:23 |
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Kyrosiris posted:I bought it back when it was in beta and holy crap it's insane. On the other hand, it's actually a fairly "legitimate" handling of time travel, up to and including correct handling of paradoxes, etc. Yeah I am going to keep an eye out for it going on sale, it looks neat but I have so many ther games on my account I don't feel like I can justify $20 for this.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 06:34 |
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Justin_Brett posted:Speaking of Indie Royale, is QP Shooting good enough to justify getting this bundle (http://www.indieroyale.com/?royale=202) just for it? I have a lot of shooter games in my library already. I liked it. It's a pretty good and difficult bullet-hell. Nothing too stand out about it but it does have some nice things like being able to choose your attack formations.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 06:38 |
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Justin_Brett posted:Speaking of Indie Royale, is QP Shooting good enough to justify getting this bundle (http://www.indieroyale.com/?royale=202) just for it? I have a lot of shooter games in my library already. I can't speak for the quality of the game itself, but the bundle is about half the price of what the game by itself went for in the recent Steam anime sale.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 06:41 |
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Justin_Brett posted:Speaking of Indie Royale, is QP Shooting good enough to justify getting this bundle (http://www.indieroyale.com/?royale=202) just for it? I have a lot of shooter games in my library already. I only played a level and my game crashed after two animes spent what felt like forever discussing pudding, I'd say avoid
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 06:46 |
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QP Shooting is a very good and cute game and it's not a bad bullet hell game either. I'd say it's worth 4 bucks. I have never had it crash on me and the pudding chat goes on for like 2 minutes before each boss. If you don't like pudding, avoid. If you're a human being, buy it. edit: vvv Also buy Ziggurat like this dude says. It is also a good game. CJacobs fucked around with this message at 06:52 on Jan 22, 2015 |
# ? Jan 22, 2015 06:48 |
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I picked up Zygurat on recomendation from this thread and I just had to come by and say thanks. Game is extremely my poo poo, plays like a procedural Wizard's Serious Sam with so many unlocks. It is awesome and I'd recommend it to anyone who likes throwing napalm grenades at carrots or stuff like that.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 06:51 |
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How many unlocks are you talking?
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 06:56 |
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There are so many goddamn unlocks. On my first playthrough I unlocked 2 new classes, 10 new upgrade perks, 4 new weapons, and I only made it to the third floor. I don't even know how long the game is but drat I unlocked a lot of stuff. To give an example of how cool this game is: The first gun I picked up was a blunderbuss that shoots flaming magma cannonballs. The second wand I picked up consumes enemies' souls and leaves them stunned while giving you more mana energy. edit: i cant do math, math has been fixed CJacobs fucked around with this message at 07:00 on Jan 22, 2015 |
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CJacobs posted:There are so many goddamn unlocks. On my first playthrough I unlocked 2 new classes, 10 new upgrade perks, 4 new weapons, and I only made it to the third floor. I don't even know how long the game is but drat I unlocked a lot of stuff. How much variety in the enemies/gameplay does it have? Is it basically just strafe backwards while shooting everything constantly?
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 06:59 |
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That is most of the gameplay, yes. The Serious Sam comparison was not unfounded, most of my time playing so far was spent juking enemy projectiles. There's pretty good enemy variety though, no two enemy types behave the same way, and there are bonus modifiers to rooms (big enemies, everything does x4 damage including you, enemies explode into giblets) and rare modifiers put on enemies that give them more health or faster attack or whatever. edit: I should note though that it's not entirely like Serious Sam in that you're expected to just eat bullets to the face all the time 24/7. This game does not work in that way. Enemy projectiles are telegraphed or visible or otherwise in a pattern that you can recognize and avoid if you're paying attention, which is good because the only way to refill your health is to collect health vials from killed enemies (besides some of the upgrade perks). CJacobs fucked around with this message at 07:13 on Jan 22, 2015 |
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Jamfrost posted:How many unlocks are you talking? There are about ~151 perk/weapon unlocks, plus 11 unlockable characters, from a quick look at the skulls. There is a lot of variety in how you have to play. I am spoiling it because figuring out enemy patterns is part of the gameplay, but you get Yoshis that poison surfaces, crossbow kobolds that will lead their shots if you get predictable, flying crocodiles with homing bolts of lightning, flying ramming skulls that I loving hate, kamikaze golems, giant skeletons with hugeass shields and shockwave attacks you have to jump over and and other stuff. It can get pretty hectic, specially when enemy types get mixed up and you will usually be switching weapons according to the situation. Game's friggin' boss.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 07:10 |
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Oh my god, on max everything Ryse becomes a bit choppy .
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 08:34 |
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Space Rangers pre-HD was janky, but not in a bad or unplayable way janky. I played the poo poo out of SR2 a few years ago when it wasn't newly revamped so four bucks for is a great price, it should only be better.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 10:04 |
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Palpek posted:Oh my god, on max everything Ryse becomes a bit choppy . Better watch a different movie then.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 10:35 |
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Space Rangers HD: A War Apart is the reworked, retranslated one. It's perfectly playable now.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 11:30 |
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Better watch a different movie then.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 11:51 |
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Palpek posted:Oh my god, on max everything Ryse becomes a bit choppy . Out of sheer curiosity, what GPU/resolution are you running?
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 12:54 |
Imagined posted:Here's something I will never understand. Some games, like Train Simulator, gives customers a free and forced upgrade whenever they release a new version. A lot of people who played Train Simulator 2014 or whatever absolutely hated 2015 so that game has people with tons of hours played write bad reviews.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 14:03 |
Developers not only have released DLCs for several hundreds of earthly dollars, but also have forced to upgrade?
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 14:06 |
I might be confusing it with another "simulator" game, but there was definitely one of them where this was the case. Anyway, I think there are probably more games like this. a7m2 fucked around with this message at 14:15 on Jan 22, 2015 |
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 14:09 |
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I think the majority of game play times like that are due to glitches/bugs, I'm fairly sure there's a way to modify your playtime manually as well. That being said, I could certainly see how someone could invest 1000 of hours into a game and not recommend it. Kinda of like "hey this game destroyed my life plz don't let it do the same to you" -man who really likes trains
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 14:50 |
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I've played 300+ hours of STALKER: Clear Sky and I wouldn't recommend it because I know most people wouldn't like it (or many things I do). I wouldn't go out of my way to write a negative/thumbs-down review, but I know objectively that it turns a lot of people off.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 14:52 |
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Morter posted:I've played 300+ hours of STALKER: Clear Sky and I wouldn't recommend it because I know most people wouldn't like it (or many things I do). I wouldn't go out of my way to write a negative/thumbs-down review, but I know objectively that it turns a lot of people off.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 14:54 |
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Zedd posted:When are you going to beat The Stalin Subway: Red Veil that I gave you. When it starts working
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 14:55 |
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Man, why didn't anyone tell me that Toybox Turbos was a thing?! I loved the poo poo out of pretty much all incarnations of Micro Machines games back in the day (especially the N64 version, it was perfect), and I love that this is the spiritual sequel. I can see myself someday playing this with my son, and it makes me happy. And there's a demo! Man, downloading the demo so hard when I get home tonight. Oh, that reminds me, I assume this has local multiplayer; when you play local multiplayer on Steam, only one person can be signed in, right? The other people would just be known as 'Player 2/3/4/etc'? Is there any way to sign in to a Steam profile even for the purposes of being an additional local player, like you can do on the 360, PS3, and I assume the Xbone/PS4?
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 15:13 |
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Something to look forward to in the future - Devolver have just signed Ronin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLmbeogBfqU I played a prototype build of this a while back. It looks kinda like Gunpoint, has goals and gear similar to Mark of The Ninja, but what really sets it apart is the turn-based combat. One hit is death, and you basically plan out one action at a time, with lines showing you which enemies will be shooting where, during that turn. Coolest thing I did in the prototype was leap off a ledge above a guard, throw my sword down through his body fast enough to have it bounce off the floor, grapple-swung from the ceiling and caught the flying, rebounding blade all without touching the ground.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 15:19 |
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Dominic White posted:Something to look forward to in the future - Devolver have just signed Ronin. OK I can see myself playing that
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 15:37 |