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Spoke Lee posted:Any opinions on Hard West?
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Relin posted:what are some good roguelites that have a permanent aspect to them. i have isaac, rogue legacy, and darkest dungeon Hand of Fate builds your dungeon and some of your encounters according to a deck of cards that you can build. So unlocking stuff in one run allows you to slot it in next time to have a chance of finding it, there's persistent quests from run to run as you unlock parts of the storylines, etc. Hand of Fate is so drat good.
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Dec 30, 2016 07:30
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StrixNebulosa posted:Perfect, thank you both! Alternate take - if I were in your shoes I would be inclined to finish the bundle off and get the lot while it's all so very cheap. It won't cost you over getting the two must-have expansions, and it'll let you install this, which improves things so much it's scary. If this isn't your first Civ game, I would say that's a must instead, in my opinion.
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Dec 30, 2016 07:42
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Or is it Sputnik posted:I liked it, but don't expect to play Weird West XCOM. The game is set up in 8 vignettes in which you play different characters, with a different tactical layer and different resource management in each. While this keeps the game fresh in one way, I felt I'd rather had more time with fewer characters. It's still a fun game, and well worth a couple bucks. I liked the DLC:s tactical layer the most, so get that if you like the base game. Thanks! I actually like the smaller scale and things like trick shots and shooting through walls.
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Dec 30, 2016 07:55
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Gameko posted:Thanks so much for all the anime game recommendations, goons. I'm popping a few in my wishlist so I can grab them in the future. For this sale though this is what I'm looking at so far: I've given all these games a try and put in 30m~1hr minimum. Everything is super good and fits what I was looking for. Thanks a bunch goons! Now I just need to figure out what my capstone game purchase will be.
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Dec 30, 2016 08:00
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Relin posted:Thanks for the rogue suggestions. The devs are a bit anal and don't want to put it on sale. It's been in two Humble bundles though, so if you want you could search for a better price from someone who got it there. I got my copy with a coupon someone was giving away; don't really get the point of completely slamming the door on sales if you have stuff like that for it. What's the difference? Justin_Brett fucked around with this message at 08:07 on Dec 30, 2016 |
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Dec 30, 2016 08:03
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Just double the regular price and make it -50% for sales. I guess that would gently caress with people who buy on release and who want to buy it outside of sales, and I respect not doing it for that reason, but I'm fairly sure that purely from a bottom line perspective it would be a good move.
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Dec 30, 2016 09:59
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Furnaceface posted:Why didnt anyone tell me Death Road to Canada was so much fun? Yeah, it's hilarious. The referential humor appeals to me a bunch and the game generates fun anecdotes like an assembly line. Definitely the game I've enjoyed the most out of my haul so far!
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Dec 30, 2016 10:41
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So I've been playing a bunch of puzzle games during this sale, I'm almost done with Tri: Of Friendship and Madness so I'm looking for my next fix, fortunately my queues are nothing but puzzle games now because that's how steam works I guess, anyone have thoughts or feelings about A Story About My Uncle or Rememoried (both came up in my queue and looked interesting)? I was also recommended Infinifactory and A Good Snowman is Hard to Build here in this thread but I'm sort of digging the first person POV games where I have a strange gimmick machine that enables me to solve the puzzles and also doesn't require me to pay attention the the 'story' in any capacity and those games look more sandboxy? I dunno I'm still on the fence. I was also looking at The Room but that's more like point and click adventure than puzzle innit ?
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Dec 30, 2016 11:02
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I wouldn't exactly call ASAMU a puzzle game. Sometimes it was awkward finding out where it wanted me to go, but mostly it's timing and momentum.
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Dec 30, 2016 11:06
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Spoke Lee posted:Thanks! I actually like the smaller scale and things like trick shots and shooting through walls. Don't get me wrong, I still like it a lot. Even though I would have liked a longer story akin to "XCOM, but with demons", I feel they really nailed the feel of "a story about a dozen lovely people doing lovely things" and I'm glad for it. But if enemies didn't activate all at once, were spread out more on bigger maps or in pods XCOM style, if Overwatch wasn't always on and/or had a chance to miss, and if Luck costs went down a bit and abilities were rebalanced, Hard West would be a GREAT game instead of a GOOD one.
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Dec 30, 2016 11:42
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Pigeotic posted:I was also looking at The Room but that's more like point and click adventure than puzzle innit ? You're essentially presented with a giant puzzle box you need to open. I mean, you point at stuff and click it but the puzzles involve you finding odd little buttons and stuff as well as working through logic. You will be changing your viewpoint to look around the other sides of things, and I certainly don't recall any sort of inventory management.
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Pigeotic posted:So I've been playing a bunch of puzzle games during this sale, I'm almost done with Tri: Of Friendship and Madness so I'm looking for my next fix, fortunately my queues are nothing but puzzle games now because that's how steam works I guess, anyone have thoughts or feelings about A Story About My Uncle or Rememoried (both came up in my queue and looked interesting)? I was also recommended Infinifactory and A Good Snowman is Hard to Build here in this thread but I'm sort of digging the first person POV games where I have a strange gimmick machine that enables me to solve the puzzles and also doesn't require me to pay attention the the 'story' in any capacity and those games look more sandboxy? I dunno I'm still on the fence. Infinifactory gives you minimal story: you have been captured by aliens. Design production lines for them. You then proceed to be dropped into every puzzle and you poke around trying to solve it, and it's mindbending and brilliant. It's Sandbox-y due to how you can find multiple ways to solve a puzzle and optimize it if you want. Also, have you played Talos Principle, the Swapper, Portal 1/2, Antichamber, Gateways, or the Quell series?
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Dec 30, 2016 11:54
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Arkham Knight is downloading now, is there anything specific I should do within the refund time limit to see if it's going to run like poo poo on my machine, or is it usually apparent straight away?
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Dec 30, 2016 12:58
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Party Boat posted:Arkham Knight is downloading now, is there anything specific I should do within the refund time limit to see if it's going to run like poo poo on my machine, or is it usually apparent straight away?
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Dec 30, 2016 13:03
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Gameko posted:Also, I still feel like I have room for an additional $10~$20 purchase. There have been some good suggestions in that price range, and there are some old standbys I've never played. Here are the games on my short list: I can help with this a little. Skip the remake for sure. It's not the catastrophe that it was looking like for a while but it's definitely not better than 3 or 4. I like 4 more than 3. You get two very different characters in the story mode, and I think the curve to get you from button mashing to being a SSStylish player is much smoother than in 3 thanks to Nero's design. Dante also plays way more flexibly since you can change fighting styles on the fly (unless they added that to the PC conversion of 3.) Legendary Dark Knight mode in 4 is hilarious. 4's environments are also prettier, if it matters to you. DMC3 deals in greys and browns a lot. The downside of 4 is that they basically made two characters and a short game. So you play through the game with Nero, then do it in reverse as Dante (there are plotline explanations for this, but who cares about the plot in a DMC game). You will repeat levels, bosses, whole nine yards. Nero and Dante play very differently, so it's not like you can sleep through the runback, but it's a big turn off to a lot of people. Oh also there's an enemy type that makes some people want to tear their hair out, but you can look up tutorials on how to kill them. I love action games. 
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Dec 30, 2016 13:15
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Pigeotic posted:I'm sort of digging the first person POV games where I have a strange gimmick machine that enables me to solve the puzzles I think you've played most of the good ones already, but if you really want to dig deep on that genre you could consider Magrunner: Dark Pulse, The Ball, Qbeh-1: The Atlas Cube, Q.U.B.E, Quantum Conundrum and possibly MirrorMoon EP? I don't feel like I can actively recommend any of those games but none of them are completely terrible. There's also Magnetic: Cage Closed which I've never found time to try. e: Technically I don't think you've ever mentioned having played Portal, so on the remote off chance that you haven't you should play that and it's sequel immediately; I don't think it's unfair to say that they invented the genre. NRVNQSR fucked around with this message at 13:51 on Dec 30, 2016 |
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Dec 30, 2016 13:46
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Weird recommendation request, is there anything out there in the sale that is pretty much identical to farmville? My 70 year old Grandmother loving loves Farmville, but she gets caught into a million farmville phishing scams so my family had to shut her down, wondering if there is something in the sale for her?
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Dec 30, 2016 14:31
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Stardew Valley? I don't actually know what Farmville is like as a game 
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Dec 30, 2016 14:34
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Me loving either, and I did think about Stardew Valley too. I think you set up a farm and then people come and work it for you.... I really don't know. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FarmVille
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Dec 30, 2016 14:36
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How long does a run take in Renowned Explorers?
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Dec 30, 2016 14:47
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Wildtortilla posted:How long does a run take in Renowned Explorers? 2-3 hours at most. Depends how long you take in the fights. Even if you lose, the expeditions you finish with a crew count towards captain unlocks.
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Dec 30, 2016 14:59
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Never played any of the Tales games, how is Zestiria, worth the sale price? Is the combat any good?
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Dec 30, 2016 15:15
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Texibus posted:Weird recommendation request, is there anything out there in the sale that is pretty much identical to farmville? My 70 year old Grandmother loving loves Farmville, but she gets caught into a million farmville phishing scams so my family had to shut her down, wondering if there is something in the sale for her? Stardew valley will give her the experience of making a farm and harvesting crops. But she can also raise animals , get married while digging in a mine to gain more metals to upgrade weapons.
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Party Boat posted:Arkham Knight is downloading now, is there anything specific I should do within the refund time limit to see if it's going to run like poo poo on my machine, or is it usually apparent straight away? Straight away. You start up high looking over the city and its pissing rain. It should be quick to notice if your computer can handle it. But if you have an 970 onwards it should be fine. Then again, turn off the physx poo poo in the options and you get some good increases in performance.
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Dog Fat Man Chaser posted:Never played any of the Tales games, how is Zestiria, worth the sale price? Is the combat any good? Zesteria is really rough because you can tell they really rushed it out the door to hit an anniversary date. You'd honestly be better with Symphonia (only the first one) even if it's rather aged. Or wait for Bersaria on Jan 20th though it'll be full price.
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Dec 30, 2016 15:27
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Thanks, I picked up Symphonia instead.
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Budgeted about 63ish for the sale. Currently waiting to pull the trigger on, -8-bit armies -Just Cause 3 XL - Halcyon 6: Starbase commander I'm torn between grabbing either Astroneer, Starbound or Stonehearth. Any thoughts?
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Astroneer: - really bloody pretty and has an awesome interface. There's a decent amount of content in the game, but at the same time there's no challenge to it currently. It's purely build for the sake of building and exploring. Devs have been incredibly quick with fixing most bugs. Stone Hearth - one of the better survival town builders I feel. The art design's lovely, the UI is easy to get a hang of overall, but it does have the issue of once you make a stable town not much is going to threaten it. Development is a little slow but ongoing due to the small team but it shows a ton of promise. Starbound - the only "finished" game on your list but I find Starbound kind of dull to play as the devs decided a creative sandbox game needed to gate everything behind grind and tedium. It's a shame too though as most of the game works really well. It just makes you do unfun things to experience a lot of it for no real reason.
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NRVNQSR posted:There's also Magnetic: Cage Closed which I've never found time to try.
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psychopomp posted:Picked up Dying Light and so far I'm having a blast parkouring over zombies. Scratches my Open World itch pretty well. I picked this up as well, haven't tried it yet. Which is best, a mouse & keyboard or 360 controller?
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Nehru the Damaja posted:Hand of Fate builds your dungeon and some of your encounters according to a deck of cards that you can build. So unlocking stuff in one run allows you to slot it in next time to have a chance of finding it, there's persistent quests from run to run as you unlock parts of the storylines, etc. I want to like and buy Hand of Fate but everything I've seen on youtube makes the combat look so half-assed, simplistic and janky I just can't bring myself to do it. Does the combat ever get better or more complicated than "1. see warning lights above enemy head, 2. press 1 button to counter with melee, 3. repeat" ? Am I only seeing level 1 combat or something or does it stay like that through the whole game? GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Dec 30, 2016 |
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GreatGreen posted:Does the combat ever get better or more complicated that "1. see warning lights above enemy head, 2. press 1 button to counter with melee" ? Am I only seeing level 1 combat or something? A little bit. You start getting enemies with attacks you can't counter and must avoid, poison abilities, maps with traps, etc. as it goes. You also start getting some equipment that adds quirks after a bit.
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I'm maybe gonna get Binding of Isaac, Renowned Explorers, and Wolfenstein. With BoI, should I get Afterbirth? If I remember correctly from the original version of Isaac some people recommended waiting to get the expansion until you got comfortable with the game because it was a universal difficulty increase. Does anything like that happen with Rebirth + Afterbirth?
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Is there any way to remove that difficulty bump if you already bought Afterbirth (which I already did...and have been getting my rear end kicked)
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Lowness 72 posted:Is there any way to remove that difficulty bump if you already bought Afterbirth (which I already did...and have been getting my rear end kicked) You can uninstall the DLC in steam. Not sure what that'll do to the save files though.
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I'm getting Farcry 2 vibes from Dying Light with all the map-spanning fetch quests.I hope it stops but this game seems well acquainted with sending me miles away to flip an electric switch.
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drat, Arkham Knight with the season pass is a 50.1 GB download. Good thing we finally got our vectoring VDSL2+ line last week  70 mintues instead of 24 hours.
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Lester Shy posted:Could I play Shenzhen IO if I'm too stupid for TIS-100? It looks more user friendly, but I assume the puzzles ramp up in difficulty pretty quick. It only looks more user friendly. It's actually just as puzzling if not more so than tis-100. That said, if you loved/hated tis-100 like I did then it's a must have. One day. When I finish tis-100. I hit a real wall during the image generator programs.
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Well that's disappointing. I enjoy the idea of Binding of Isaac but I hate how floating the controls feel and I hate aiming tears. I thought maybe that was a problem with the original release being plagued with issues but it's not. It's just my opinion of the controls. 12 minutes of play time and I've requested a refund. 
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