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Anybody here heard about that metroid prequel romhack thing, metroid before dawn or whatever? How is it?MinibarMatchman posted:River City Ransom Underground is FINALLY arriving this month after almost 4 years and it is glorious Yessssssssssssssssssss fuckin finally!! I was so excited this time last year but they were like "yeah it'll be released q1 2016!" "q2!" "q3!" "q4!" so I'm glad it has a definitive release date. I'm excited as gently caress for it
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 06:24 |
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# ? May 21, 2024 17:05 |
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Gray Fox was Rob Paulsen?
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 06:39 |
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Happy February, games chat thread. I will enjoy stopping by to talk about my latest incompetent blunders in Bloodborne, my Saturday visits from my brother for Final Fantasy XV, and my quest to get my friend to come over to play The Witcher 3, since he is the only one at our weekly game night who has not played it, and would very much enjoy it.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 06:40 |
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precision posted:Comic book stores often have used games way cheaper than GameStop. In my experience, used game stores all have eBay storefronts and price appropriately, maybe five bucks off Gamestop tops Unless you catch Gamestop being lazy, but they always correct to the market eventually
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 06:46 |
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Quest For Glory II posted:Yeah I'm hip to it, I asked for a review copy but idk if I'm gonna get it. I am digging the return of the Spectrum-style room-by-room metroidvanias I'd love to hear first impressions, i'm gonna be working late tomorrow so i can't impulse buy it immediately, rip
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 07:04 |
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Finished up Environmental Station Alpha. Pretty good game, bit frustrating at time (especially some map segments of the game), but maintained a nice level of challenge throughout. Well, until the Overcharge powerup anyway, but I'm guessing that's intended to be a 'secret' powerup much like the 3-way was. Kinda annoying that there really isn't a 'good' ending or anything like that. There's just the normal Bad ending, a Worse ending, then a whole slew of bizarre ARG-like end things that involve doing a bunch of obscure nonsense. Oh well. Guess next up is Wuppo. Sounds like Shantae HGH is getting all of the modes they listed on the Kickstarter, even the ones they didn't hit the goal for. Risky, Sky, Bolo, Rotty, and the 3 different outfits (which I guess are stat/skill swaps). Should be fun to revisit again with the new modes. Started playing X-Com 2 this month, never bothered to play the first new remake but it doesn't sound like I'm missing out too much anyway. Game is fun but boy is it stressful.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 07:22 |
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Seems legit
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 09:03 |
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30 hours in and Berseria is starting to wear on me, mostly because the pacing stumbled a bit and the game decided to dump 2.5 hours of voiced exposition with little combat or comedy in between. I've started to skip talking to npcs that aren't voiced too. I've also heard that the final dungeon is really bad so my interest is waning
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 13:02 |
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Even if you prefer it I feel that mastering the float jump in Plague Knight is almost mandatory, otherwise the platforming just becomes too much.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 13:51 |
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I wanna try to doing a no upgrades run of Plague.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 13:53 |
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goon Succinctandpunchy speedran the first stage demo for Freedom Planet 2, game looks much prettier than the first one, and way smoother than any recent Sonic game, moreso than Freedom Planet 1 too which is good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJD_KEMHc4c&hd=1 edit: it's blurry due to them loving up the recording, but it's easy to see it's a lot smoother than the original behind the blurriness Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 14:04 on Feb 2, 2017 |
# ? Feb 2, 2017 14:00 |
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Put up the pre-order page already, the makers of Freedom Planet 2.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 15:38 |
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Not putting my money down until I can be assured that Freedom Planet 2 has an overlong and frankly bizarre main story that's totally at odds with the bright bubbly gameplay.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 15:42 |
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Rest assured the world will be in peril again, and also the galaxy.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 15:44 |
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But there's also plenty of shenanigans, and sushi, and slumber parties!!!!
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 15:53 |
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http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-201_en.htm neat quote:The Commission is investigating bilateral agreements concluded between Valve Corporation, owner of the Steam game distribution platform, and five PC video game publishers, Bandai Namco, Capcom, Focus Home, Koch Media and ZeniMax. The investigation concerns geo-blocking practices, where companies prevent consumers from purchasing digital content, in this case PC video games, because of the consumer's location or country of residence.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 16:00 |
Captain Invictus posted:But there's also plenty of shenanigans, and sushi, and slumber parties!!!! Sold! To the creepy man in the overcoat who lives in the alley behind my apartment!
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 16:01 |
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That's cool Shame we won't be in the EU much longer....
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 16:12 |
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Is that saying that you can't disallow people from buying a version of a game from a country where it is priced cheaply and activate it on your Steam account from outside that country?
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 16:19 |
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MMF Freeway posted:Is that saying that you can't disallow people from buying a version of a game from a country where it is priced cheaply and activate it on your Steam account from outside that country? I think so - if both countries are within the EU single market, anyways.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 16:37 |
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MMF Freeway posted:Is that saying that you can't disallow people from buying a version of a game from a country where it is priced cheaply and activate it on your Steam account from outside that country? Yes, basically. EU citizens have a right to be able to buy from the whole EU market.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 16:48 |
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Dragon Quest 8 posted:Yangus's Humanity level increased!
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 16:59 |
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Wanna play dat game
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 17:37 |
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Started Shovel Knight last night and I'm really feeling it after only one level (well, plus the village). It's so authentic throughout, like I really am playing a game from the era. Well, except for the screen size. Having the game make use of modern huge and widescreen TVs is one welcome change. I look forward to getting a calloused thumb from using the d-pad so much!
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 18:09 |
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Playing shovel knight on an 8bitdo controller is heavenly.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 18:36 |
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Shovel Knight somehow strikes this uncanny balance between feeling like an old game while having none of the annoying issues that actual old games have. It's really a true gem and I can't wait to see what Yacht Club does next once they're finished delivering on alllllllll of the stretch goals.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 18:48 |
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bloodychill posted:We have a handful here in Austin. In small towns, I'd guess to be very rare or impossible to find an independent game store though. Wait what why did we never hang out
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 19:03 |
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Monkey Fracas posted:Shovel Knight somehow strikes this uncanny balance between feeling like an old game while having none of the annoying issues that actual old games have. There are obvious things that are unmistakably modern or not of the era, like everything that has to do with saving. Or the feats. Or tying what would have been a SFX/BGM menu screen into a collectibles hunt. But I'm not looking to play an actual NES game. I want it to be a modern game but one that can replicate what made the best games of that era so fun. Well, fun and also beautifully pixelicious and cartoony in the vein of Mega Man or Duck Tales rather than the less-detailed pixel sprites of Contra or Bro Force.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 19:05 |
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The devblog where they discuss the four or five colors they used that weren't in the NES pallette was fascinating
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 19:10 |
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there's a dev diary about how plague knight originally collected like 10 different materials from different levels to craft stuff but it was awful so they made plague knight fun instead
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 19:13 |
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Dr Cheeto posted:The devblog where they discuss the four or five colors they used that weren't in the NES pallette was fascinating The part on HUDs as a background layer was cool and how on the NES, because the HUD was technically background, you could be in front of it so to speak. You don't get much more authentic or iconic an NES experience than mimicking this: Article here: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DavidDAngelo/20140625/219383/Breaking_the_NES_for_Shovel_Knight.php
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 19:29 |
exquisite tea posted:Not putting my money down until I can be assured that Freedom Planet 2 has an overlong and frankly bizarre main story that's totally at odds with the bright bubbly gameplay. I knew what I was in for when cute fuzzy Panda Prince saw his dad get decapitated by a Power Rangers villain.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 19:34 |
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oddium posted:there's a dev diary about how plague knight originally collected like 10 different materials from different levels to craft stuff but it was awful so they made plague knight fun instead I really appreciate this "Waaaiiiit a minute... crafting sucks! Dammit!"
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 20:08 |
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In lieu of a Nioh review, Polygon posted an apology that they haven't been able to get far enough into it to write one.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 20:29 |
Implying game journalists finish videogames. Implying game journalists play videogames.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 20:32 |
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Seems fair to me tbh
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 20:33 |
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I'll start a video game publication for gamers, by gamers!
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 20:34 |
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Help Im Alive posted:I'll start a video game publication for gamers, by gamers! Will you pay me to write about the maybe one or two games a year I manage to finish?
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 20:36 |
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Help Im Alive posted:I'll start a video game publication for gamers, by gamers! Hell I'm with you.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 20:37 |
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polygon should apologize for doing things other than making griffin / justin / nick videos
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