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Environmental Station Alpha was released today. I've played about four hours total and it's an amazing metroidvania style game. Very good music. Highly recommend a controller though, I tried keyboard initially and that just wasn't working for me. There's also a demo if you want to give it a try.
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Yeah I'm gonna try both the ESA demo and the Not a Hero demo. ESA's calculator-resolution aesthetic really clicks for me (I loved Hero Core which was another Metroidy calculator-res game). I'm absolutely fine with pixel art, IF it's aesthetically pleasing, which for a lot of games it isn't
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Fun Times! posted:I like them. Waiting for Gat Out of Hell to get a sale. gibbed posted:Environmental Station Alpha was released today. I've played about four hours total and it's an amazing metroidvania style game. Fur20 fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Apr 23, 2015 |
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Apr 23, 2015 04:43
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The White Dragon posted:poo poo, isn't there some goon involved with ESA too? I seem to recall someone posting something that looked a lot like it a couple months ago in the gamedev thread and mentioned it was coming out on Apr 22.
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Apr 23, 2015 04:49
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I don't think there's a thread for Life is Strange, or if there is it's buried super deep. I just started playing and had a question: Assuming I stay in one map area, can I always rewind to undo an action, or can I ever spend so much time wandering around looking at posters and poo poo that it's too late to rewind past something I did? LibbyM fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Apr 23, 2015 |
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Apr 23, 2015 04:51
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I found the Not A Hero demo pretty fun, the voicework was pretty funny and the gunplay felt good.
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Apr 23, 2015 04:54
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Fun Times! posted:A couple weeks ago I played through Saints Row 2 for the first time, Monday I beat Saints Row The Third and I'm 6 hours into SR4 at the moment. Here are my reviews of each. discworld is all I read fucked around with this message at 04:57 on Apr 23, 2015 |
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Apr 23, 2015 04:54
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Did you miss the giant text saying "region locked outside of Brazil"?
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Apr 23, 2015 04:56
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LibbyM posted:I don't think there's a thread for Life is Strange, or if there is it's buried super deep. I just started playing and had a question:
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Apr 23, 2015 05:04
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sarmhan posted:Did you miss the giant text saying "region locked outside of Brazil"? Sure you don't mean India? Life is Strange is pretty cool, y'all.
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Apr 23, 2015 05:30
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I just finished the demo for Ronin and I was really not digging it. The control scheme just feels really awkward and doesn't flow as well as Gunpoint.
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Apr 23, 2015 05:31
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Rookersh posted:I dunno, the "well, that's another story actually." makes me think this is more of a quick "get the series back in the market again, get some funds together to get a real Overlord game built" style game then anything.
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Apr 23, 2015 05:40
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Ok, i'm way more likely to buy Environmental Station Alpha after playing the demo. It nails the Metroid feel real well. Almost too on the nose. Jumping is slightly floaty but the character has pretty solid weight to it. And the super lo-res aesthetic is cool. Well that's my story, see ya
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Apr 23, 2015 05:46
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Apparently, Glenn Beck isn't the only one who thinks SA is front for a villainous shadow cabal  buy dragon game on friday
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Apr 23, 2015 06:19
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Internet blames SA for a lot of stuff, probably because of EVE if I had to guess.
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Apr 23, 2015 06:38
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quote:The fact its being curated by the Anime Butt league(USA) is highly suspicious
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Apr 23, 2015 06:40
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Thread title if ever I saw one. Steam Thread: The Anime Butt league(USA) is highly suspicious
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Apr 23, 2015 06:41
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The only curator worth following tbh
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Shima Honnou posted:Internet blames SA for a lot of stuff, probably because of EVE if I had to guess. It is. People on the internet hate goons in any form of online interaction because goons did stuff in Eve. Even if the person in question hasn't played Eve. I'm sure I've once read someone literally say "Well I didn't experience it but I heard in Eve goon players blah blah". I'm having some serious deja vu here.
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The White Dragon posted:buy dragon game on friday 
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Apr 23, 2015 06:45
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Gotta wait until it's 95% or more off, sorry TWD
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Shima Honnou posted:Internet blames SA for a lot of stuff, probably because of EVE if I had to guess. I used to play L4D 2 with a guy until he saw I was in the SA steam group, and assumed all goons were part of Goonswarm.
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Shima Honnou posted:Gotta wait until it's 95% or more off, sorry TWD 75% off, don't be cheap
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Shima Honnou posted:The only curator worth following tbh Hey, the one that finds all the skull based games is good too.
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Apr 23, 2015 06:51
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I think he vanished, because he didn't add Dokuro. 
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Apr 23, 2015 07:05
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Got a lot more play time out of the first episode of Life is Strange than I was expecting. Granted a lot of that playtime was exploring and looking at every little poster and stuff but still, I probably got twice the time out of that atleast than I get playing the TellTale episodic games in a similar fashion. Is Episode 2 similar in length to episode 1? Edit: Wow my foil Life is Strange card starts at 2.12 dollars on the market. Do people still care enough about cards to pay that much for one just cause it's foil? Buy orders are 1.46 which still feels silly. LibbyM fucked around with this message at 07:16 on Apr 23, 2015 |
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StrixNebulosa posted:75% off, don't be cheap If you pretend it costs $20, it'll have a 75% discount at launch 
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Apr 23, 2015 07:26
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So I bought two games recently, as they were mentioned here in the thread somewhere and I thought they sounded up my alley. Out There is a game where you fly through randomly generated space (with a map that kind of reminds me of FTL) and go from star to star on your quest to return to Earth or something. You have a ship that has a limited number of 'slots', each of which can store either equipment or goods. Goods range from the critically-necessary (oxygen, fuel, and iron to repair your ship's hull) to elements that can be used to repair or build new equipment. There's technology you randomly get to build equipment, like telescopes to see basic (and later, in-depth) stats on the stars you might want to travel to, shield gens (plus upgrades), probes, and other stuff that I haven't found yet. The planets you visit so far seem to fall into three types: ones that have metals, so you land on them and drill for iron and other elements; gas giants that you can gain fuel from by orbiting and sending a probe in; and "Garden" planets which you can land on and which have oxygen, metals you can drill, and sometimes native life that you can encounter to get techs or other stuff from. There are also different stars types (yellow, blue, red dwarfs, supernovas etc) that probably influence what planets are found there. There are random events, like meteor storms, minefield star systems, derelict ships you may be able to take over (my first game I managed to upgrade to a ship that had a few more slots and some crazy alien tech). The game basically amounts to: jump to the next star, mine for ores, probe for more fuel, maybe visit a garden planet or other stuff if it's there, repeat. My first game I ran out of fuel and was unable to mine more from a gas giant (I guess I scooped up all the helium the gas giant had!) and then had to give up. It's neat, but I don't know what the long-term gameplay will be, seems it will get pretty boring as ultimately there's not many choices to make other than "pick a star" and then "decide which planets to visit to land on/probe". Also, there are a lot of elements (copper, gold, iron, hydrogen, helium, oxygen, and more) so you end up trying to decide which ones to keep in the hopes that a future tech (that you may or may not randomly find) will need that specific element. Cosmonautica is an early-access game where you start with a space ship with limited slots and outfit it with facilities and crew, then travel around trading goods, moving people/goods/fighting for missions, or just go hunt pirates I guess... haven't gone down that road yet. You hire crew and research new stuff like bigger crew cabins, weapons, recreational facilities, etc. as well as researching to unlock outer rings of a solar system, more solar systems, etc. It's pretty neat so far, but I think it will also end up fairly light on gameplay so won't be something long-term. I've played for a few hours and trading basically comes down to "buy the most expensive thing" and "go elsewhere to sell it". The AI doesn't really do a good job distributing goods, so it doesn't seem like you can make a specific planet really strong at producing a good that's in high-demand, so often you will buy out the entire supply of goods. Traveling between stars is not exciting, you point and the ship flies, and you can watch your crew live on the ship (according to a four-shift schedule you set for each crew member) but other than occasional random events (pick up this floating probe? yes/no) you just hit fast-forward and wait to reach the destination. You can upgrade your ship, I did, now I have loads of room to haul junk but due to the issues mentioned there's not that much worthwhile junk to haul. Maybe if I optimize a route or whatever I can make better use of my time but it doesn't seem worthwhile. You also only get one ship, so can't really set up your own supply chain unless you do all of the hauling yourself. Overall it seems like it could be fun, haven't tried other ways of playing, but until the economy is fixed it will remain fairly shallow. Also, it's buggy and crashes pretty regularly. So I guess these may get better, but unless you see videos and are in for kind of light gaming, wait a while to see how these shape up.
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LibbyM posted:Got a lot more play time out of the first episode of Life is Strange than I was expecting. Granted a lot of that playtime was exploring and looking at every little poster and stuff but still, I probably got twice the time out of that atleast than I get playing the TellTale episodic games in a similar fashion. Is Episode 2 similar in length to episode 1? And since I saw you mention looking for a thread earlier, here it is if you want to read some of the discussions. It's a great game so far, I hope they can keep the quality up through the rest of the season.
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Sleeveless posted:I liked how they collected people's in-game political and diplomatic choices and then published the results. Most people voted no to genetically modified super soldiers? Shameful.
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Apr 23, 2015 08:57
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I cant believe 'Ban all video games' wasnt 100% yes.
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I like that gamers are equally divided on only two subjects - whether the state should employ torture, and whether children should be taught to smoke. The latter especially since most of them support government healthcare.
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If you don't teach kids to smoke, they'll be led astray and start using vaporizer like a bunch of hipsters.
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Apr 23, 2015 09:49
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New Concept Hole posted:If you don't teach kids to smoke, they'll be led astray and start using vaporizer like a bunch of hipsters. Exactly! It's Harm Reduction. Just ask TCC!
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The Iron Rose posted:Exactly! It's Harm Reduction. Just ask TCC! I can see how those votes would turn out... 100% of users voted in favor of having a crack party with children in the house 100% of users voted to open up trade with Russian chemical run-off suppliers 100% of users opted to have their arm removed after passing out on top of it over the weekend
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There was discussion a few days ago, but we've seen a lot of indie platformers in the past few years. What are the absolute best? You can justify that however you like, I'm just looking the reap the cream of the crop.
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HardDisk posted:Life is Strange is pretty cool, y'all. Is the lipsync in Ep2 as bad as it was in Ep1? Still a great game but goddamn it was like watching an old Godzilla movie.
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razorrozar posted:Is the lipsync in Ep2 as bad as it was in Ep1? It's still a bit lip-flappy, but definitely better.
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