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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Blood Dragon is not great. Just skip all the way to Far Cry Primal I am liking primal a lot more than I thought I would.
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Zetsubou-san posted:List Thank you sir. Stranger of Sword City and God Eater 2 look like something I could get into. Everyone seems to recommend Rabi-Ribi, is it worth it if Im bad at video games? Metroidvanias are supposed to be pretty hard right? Mokinokaro posted:Very bad games. Mad Father and Conception are basically wannabe fetish porn. I thought Conception 2 was supposed to be really similar to the Persona series. I love me some Persona but if its nothing like that then Ill probably pass.
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Furnaceface posted:I thought Conception 2 was supposed to be really similar to the Persona series.
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SelenicMartian posted:Well, imagine Persona where your demons are made by "Class-mating" with your team and making Star Children. And you need to spend time with girls to practise making the babies better. also the gameplay, story, all the characters and dungeons are boring as gently caress. edit: I got the vita version for like 2 dollars and felt ripped off.
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Ragequit posted:Figured I would ask here as well: All the DLC (not the online currency) is cosmetic and entirely ignorable. The outfits can be worn in the campaign after a certain point in the story so knock yourself out if you like any, I suppose.
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SelenicMartian posted:Well, imagine Persona where your demons are made by "Class-mating" with your team and making Star Children. And you need to spend time with girls to practise making the babies better. Leper Residue posted:also the gameplay, story, all the characters and dungeons are boring as gently caress. Well that sounds tedious and sucky. I need something to fill the Persona shaped hole in my life, especially since P5 is never actually going to come out here. 
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Probably a larger discussion but....Elite Dangerous? Thinking of grabbing it and the Horizons pass. I'm someone who likes the truck simulators and also space combat.
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Tim Whatley posted:Probably a larger discussion but....Elite Dangerous? Thinking of grabbing it and the Horizons pass. I'm someone who likes the truck simulators and also space combat. Get a truck simulator game or a space combat game. Elite does a lot of things not very well, it won't satisfy you in any particular genre, with or without the expansion.
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I'd like to talk about another gem that flew under people's radar - Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRYu56EelKw&t=10s Basically imagine an adventure game where you solve a string of murder mysteries but there's quite a lot of freedom in how you solve the cases: -There are always 2-3 culprits with believable motivations that you can accuse. -It's only up to you to find all the clues and get the full picture of the crime. If you only find enough to accuse one person (this requires making logical connections in a special deduction system) you can finish the case right then and there. -Even when you decide whom to accuse you can choose what to do with the fact: choose the legal way or find a bit more 'unofficial' approach. -Your final choices can be sometimes pretty tough to decide on as the game doesn't really give you the answer on a silver platter - there is one correct culprit but it's up to you to deduce it from the available evidence. -After each case your 'morality rating' is adjusted according to your choices and you get letters from people connected with the crimes that give you little epilogues. -There's some cool gameplay involved like deducing things from the suspects' appearance, doing chemistry analysis, looking up relevant info on found names and symbols etc. It's nice that these things are somewhat more involved than in other games, it feel like doing detective work. The game also looks absolutely gorgeous and the puzzles are pretty varied. It's pretty much a perfect Sherlock Holmes game and hell, I'll say it - it's the best detective game ever made. Palpek fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Dec 27, 2016 |
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Dec 27, 2016 21:12
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Palpek posted:I'd like to talk about another gem that flew under people's radar - Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments. How easy is it to go back and re-do a case if I realize I got the wrong person? While I like the challenge brought by the game not holding your hand through the proceedings, if I miss the right answer I will have to go back and fix it. I'm Sherlock Holmes!
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Also if anyone has more questions to ask about either Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments or its predecessor, you should consult one Justin McElroy of Polygon.com and My Brother, My Brother, and Me fame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHaayrkqhdA
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Palpek posted:I'd like to talk about another gem that flew under people's radar - Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments. I concur with all of this. The fact that you can make logical deductions and accuse the wrong person makes this the best detective game. Wonderful freedom to gently caress up and be a weird Sherlock
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Antti posted:How easy is it to go back and re-do a case if I realize I got the wrong person? While I like the challenge brought by the game not holding your hand through the proceedings, if I miss the right answer I will have to go back and fix it. I'm Sherlock Holmes!
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Slayaway Camp is the real winner for me this sale. What a fun game - it's a bit like the squeenix GO series but more fun. With a rad Jason Vorhees aesthetic.
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Should I get Don't Starve or Dungeon of the Endless?
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ArbitraryC posted:Farcry 3 worth snaggin for 5 bucks I feel like the game has always intrigued me but I've also heard it feels pretty grindy by today's standards. "Grindy by today's standards" is a weird way of putting it because FC3 is pretty modern and the two Farcry games that came after it follow the same basic formula. I guess it really comes down to whether or not you have a problem with the standard Ubisoft Open World Formula. If you don't, it's a fiver well spent. Chairman Pow! posted:I am a bit confused about dying light. I bought it when it came out, and steam says I have the enhanced version. Was there a free upgrade? Don't take this as gospel but IIRC, it comes down to whether or not you bought the season pass. If you did, you got The Following as part of that. If not, you have to buy the season pass (or just The Following by itself, if you don't care about the other DLCs). John Murdoch fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Dec 27, 2016 |
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Blood Dragon is not great. Just skip all the way to Far Cry Primal Young babby that didn't live through the 80s/early 90s spotted.
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nerdz posted:Should I get Don't Starve or Dungeon of the Endless? Quirky Burton-esque survival game or room-by-room dungeon crawl roguelike?
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Furnaceface posted:Thank you sir. Stranger of Sword City and God Eater 2 look like something I could get into. Everyone seems to recommend Rabi-Ribi, is it worth it if Im bad at video games? Metroidvanias are supposed to be pretty hard right? Rabi-Ribi is extremely good and has a lot of difficulty options, and it even gives you free buffs if you keep dying at the same part if you want them. The boss fights are dope and there's a lot of them. I'm having a hard time thinking of games that have as many boss fights that are as good as they are in RR. They're all bullet hell themed so that may be too much for some, but it feels and looks cool to dodge a bunch of pretty patterns. It's also very non-linear and repayable. I've been replaying it lately and it's without a doubt one of the best metroidvania's out there gameplay-wise. The only real downside to it is there's too much talking in it and it's not very entertaining, though all talking parts are skippable. I'd highly recommend it for people that like 2d action games. It'd be my surprisingly excellent game of 2016. Solaris 2.0 posted:I got a $50 steam gift card for Christmas and immediately went about thinking of how to spend it. This is what I came up with. I think I did alright. I'm currently working my way through Witcher 3 but am very excited for Alien Isolation based on the recommendations in this thread. Also I wanted to get The Witness, but saw Braid on sale and figured I could play that first and pick up The Witness on a summer sale. Lots of people have issues running the steam version of Jade Empire fwiw. I know I could not even launch the game properly a few years ago. Sivek fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Dec 27, 2016 |
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Following up on Sherlock, the Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective series of FMV games has a brilliant system and garbage cases. If they ever made more cases I'd hesitantly try them but the ones as-is are so disappointing. The board game might be much better. Problems with the cases available: 1) One ends with an intuitive leap about how something works that requires you to know nothing about it. It basically requires you to make up something with no scientific basis and that's the answer. 2) Another makes it insanely clear who the culprit is very early but there's a zillion threads you can tug to reach that conclusion and only one is considered "right" by the game. 3) Another is far more police procedural than mystery. Hammer out every possibility, tug on every thread, and the culprit is given to you with no deduction or thought needed.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Blood Dragon is not great. Just skip all the way to Far Cry Primal WTF is this post
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Blood Dragon tried way too hard to force its humor and didn't deliver gameplay. I thought I'd give it another try a couple days ago and when it asked me to reinstall Uplay I just said "actually nah gently caress this"
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Mystic Stylez posted:Any opinions on Knee Deep? It has a unique presentation style where you're basically controlling a theater play, and they swap out the backgrounds during transitions. It's really neat  The story is extremely confusing though, you get thrown right into the poo poo and there's different 3 protagonists who get rapidly switched back and forth. Lots of choices, but I'm not entirely sure how much of an impact they really have sorry. It's a decent 5$ game, or premium bundle material.
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Blood Dragon has one note that it hammers on for five hours. If you like that note, it's probably good, but I'm just exhausted by 80s nostalgia at this point.
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Blood Dragon has lots of 80s references but it also has a shotgun that lights people on fire, a laser uzi, and the ability to summon giant neon kimodo dragons to eat your enemies. If the theme bothers you so much you can't stand to play the game I guess that's one thing but it legitimately has really fun gameplay. Also just the idea of someone saying "Blood Dragon isn't worth playing but Primal is" is a whole other level of craziness to me.
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I have a 75% off coupon for ori and the blind forest definitive edition, unsure if it stacks with the sale or not but first to pm me gets it.
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Fuzz posted:Young babby that didn't live through the 80s/early 90s spotted. More like I did live through that era and am tired of the nostalgia trip. Game isn't funny, it looks ugly, and the sex thing is weird and not funny. In Far Cry Primal you can pet over a dozen different animals and ride a bear
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nerdz posted:Should I get Don't Starve or Dungeon of the Endless? They're both good, but I preferred Dungeon. Don't Starve is a crafting survival game with a unique setting and a really cool take on sanity. Being near anything scary, weird, or just dehumanizing (like getting soaked by rain or eating raw food) slowly drains your sanity. Doing 'civilized' stuff (making tools, eating cooked meals, shaving) boosts your sanity. If your sanity drops too low, some of the fauna turns more evil and you start seeing creeping shadow monsters at the edges of the screen. If it gets low enough, they start solidifying and attacking you. If you're going to play it, look up a basic guide first. I got annoyed, because it has (somewhat) final death and it's very easy to die instantly to stuff hours into the game that you don't know about in advance. Dungeon is a very cool roguelike dungeon crawler. It has a great mix of planning defenses, risk management, and tactical decisions. Also very replayable due to a huge range of diverse characters. My only complaint about it was that on later floors, it was possible to get totally hosed over by the RNG. This might have been fixed though.
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Palpek posted:You making a choice ends the case so it's the absolute last thing you do during a "level". Which means that there's nothing stopping you from making a savegame at that very moment and choosing again if you're not happy with the outcome. The game also only reveals the correct answer if you insist that it's shown to you so if you wanted you could stay unspoilered and never learn if your choices were right. Oh that is cool! So I could play through the whole game and then if I set my par at "get it right at least once" I can read up later if I want and then find out if I hit my par. I was afraid I'd get a big "WAH WAH" noise after a case if I made the wrong pick.
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Tim Whatley posted:Probably a larger discussion but....Elite Dangerous? Thinking of grabbing it and the Horizons pass. I'm someone who likes the truck simulators and also space combat. If you want a space game that lets you play documentaries or something on your second monitor while you tool around in space then E:D is great. You kinda make your own fun for a lot of it, and there is some serious grind. I've got over 250 hours in it but haven't touched it in months, and would only play it without a video on if I had grouped up with some friends for some meta-gaming. You could ask in the E:D thread if you want more opinion as the people in there are pretty aware when it comes to how much game there is.
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Palpek posted:I'd like to talk about another gem that flew under people's radar - Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments. That actually sounds very cool. I liked the idea of LA Noire, but the way it railroaded you through the investigations really ruined it. The funny thing about it was that sometimes the script had no backup plan if you totally botched interrogations, so your character would just schizophrenically pull the right information from thin air. Player Character: "Miss, where is your husband?" Wife: "He's grocery shopping." <believe> Player Character: "Come on partner, let's go break up this underground street racing ring." ...What?
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Avasculous posted:They're both good, but I preferred Dungeon.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Blood Dragon is not great. Just skip all the way to Far Cry Primal Embrace your own wrongness. All the far cry games are good. Except 1 which isn't bad but it also is a very different game.
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Far Cry Primal is second only to Far Cry 2, I'd say
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Bolivar posted:Germans with their zombie sensorship The worst part about this is that Dying light isn't actually censored because it is too brutal. They literally couldn't be arsed to rate it at all (i.e. were too lazy to do it), and if a game is not rated, you can't sell it. 
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Avasculous posted:
I'm gonna have to say not to do this one part, at least until you have died 5-10 times... and even then, just read enough to get you comfortable with whatever it is that is killing you first. You can ignore this advice for recipes once you get a crockpot Figuring everything out is half the fun IMO.
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nerdz posted:Should I get Don't Starve or Dungeon of the Endless? Dungeon of Endless is a weird amalgamation of genres and is pretty drat hard without knowing how to cheese at least one or two things, but I enjoyed the hell out of it all the same
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Played Dying Light a bit last night, finished out the prologue and just the first few conversations in the tower afterwards. Seems fun so far. I'm still getting used to the parkour (there were a few times last night where I just wanted to let go of a railing, but kept jumping off or jumping to the railing beneath instead). Also getting used to just how far I can jump and catch the next edge, how far I can fall, what breaks falls and by how much, etc. My intuition for these things has been pretty bad so far (how can he not climb a tall chainlink fence?). It definitely gives that feeling of danger early on when I can just barely take down a regular zombie before running out of breath. Guessing this will change based on videos. Haven't had a real night yet, just that fake one in the prologue, so looking forward to getting caught unawares by the time. By the way, any way to tell the time apart from the sun? I looked around the menus but didn't see anything. The character has a watch, but not sure how to look at it.
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Best purchases so far. Slayaway Camp is so cool. So fun. It's a puzzler with a sort of crossy road Friday The 13th theme where you murder Camp counselers. The game gets really hard after the 3rd or 4th movie and there's lots of unlockable stuff that rules. Borderlands The Pre Sequel runs like butter on Linux. It is a fun shootymans game like other Borderlands games but for some reason runs like a million times better than the other ones on a Linux box. Yesterday is a really hosed up adventure game with great art and animation. Reminds me a lot of Knee Deep with adventure game item puzzles thrown in. Does not get too moon-logical but there have been a few points where I got stuck because I failed to notice something I could interact with. Painkiller Hell & Damnation is hilariously, nonsensically fun to play. You are ridiculously overpowered from the outset and just run around eviscerating everything nonstop. Reminds me a lot of DOOM. Well worth the $5. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided has a bad rep but considering I play Deus Ex like a serial killer and actually ENJOYED Invisible War, I'm pretty much into it. My favorite part was never so much the story as much as murdering as many key npcs as possible and stuffing all of their bodies in the same sewer grate. $20 is too good to pass this up, IMO. DLC is the biggest winner for me - buying up the remainder of the Borderlands and X-Com franchise content has breathed new life into my favorite, most often played games. I think I'm tapped out now. I bought Pillars of Eternity and Divinity Original Sin but they were boring so I returned them and got GTA V. I think 414 games is a good number to stop at for now.
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