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CharlieFoxtrot posted:You're an anthropomorphic cat but also own a cat. 
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Ciaphas posted:What is Night in the Woods anyway? I haven't really been paying attention, just kinda seen pictures and such. Someone just used it in the same sentence as Undertale so now I'm paying attention I'm playing it now and went in completely blind. It's a story driven game with some light platforming and minigames. I'm not very far into it, I don't think, but so far it's about coming back to your home town after dropping out of college. I think it's really good so far, but it's text heavy. Its visual style works really well. The read a lot of conversations, but I think the dialogue writing is good and they do a neat thing where each main character has a color associated with them and their dialogue is always in that color. It helps me keep the characters straight.
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Mar 31, 2017 03:32
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cats are good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2UyJDS9XBo
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Mar 31, 2017 03:34
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:You're an anthropomorphic cat but also own a cat.
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Mar 31, 2017 03:36
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I don't really know if Valve is the worst but they sure do seem to do some things that I would characterize as "sketchy" like the recent Dota2 shop monetization thing where they drastically hosed over people creating the content, the whole "CSGO weapon skin gambling" thing which they seemed perfectly content to let ride until it blew up in their faces, the history of Steam refunds being "we had to do this or it would open us up to legal problems in the EU," etc. I can't even bring myself to give a poo poo about the whole "early access and greenlight flood the Steam store with garbage" argument because I'm not aware of there being much in the way of concrete evidence that this negatively impacts deserving indie games, and as other people have pointed out it's largely to developers' benefits to have an easier time getting their game on perhaps the largest (or at least one of the largest) video game content delivery pipeline in the world buuuuut they do seem to be more concerned with raking in fat stacks of cash than, for example, improving their customer service or making QoL improvements.
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Mar 31, 2017 03:36
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Valve has a very... uncommon management structure.
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I would have loved for Yanis Varoufakis to write about what he saw at Valve as an economist and outsider, but I guess he had bigger problems to deal with these past few yearsQuest For Glory II posted:cats are good CharlieFoxtrot fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Mar 31, 2017 |
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Mar 31, 2017 03:42
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Quest For Glory II posted:cats are good I agree. After my cat died earlier this month, I refined some of the clay we dug up to bury him (most of the soil here is clay-heavy) and yesterday I made this.  Sorry for the low quality photo, my phone camera sucks.
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Mar 31, 2017 03:53
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Quest For Glory II posted:cats are good Hope says hello and thank you for the compliment 
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Mar 31, 2017 03:57
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:I agree.
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Mar 31, 2017 03:58
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Kai Tave posted:I don't really know if Valve is the worst but they sure do seem to do some things that I would characterize as "sketchy" like the recent Dota2 shop monetization thing where they drastically hosed over people creating the content, the whole "CSGO weapon skin gambling" thing which they seemed perfectly content to let ride until it blew up in their faces, the history of Steam refunds being "we had to do this or it would open us up to legal problems in the EU," etc. I can't even bring myself to give a poo poo about the whole "early access and greenlight flood the Steam store with garbage" argument because I'm not aware of there being much in the way of concrete evidence that this negatively impacts deserving indie games, and as other people have pointed out it's largely to developers' benefits to have an easier time getting their game on perhaps the largest (or at least one of the largest) video game content delivery pipeline in the world buuuuut they do seem to be more concerned with raking in fat stacks of cash than, for example, improving their customer service or making QoL improvements. Early Access is the concept of the scam legitimized so that all parties involved except the consumer can profit. The company should be dismantled from the inside out.
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Ciaphas posted:Hope says hello and thank you for the compliment 
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Mar 31, 2017 04:01
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No kitty that's my bed!!!
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Mar 31, 2017 04:04
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Lurdiak posted:No kitty that's my bed!!! Is that a Maine Coon or something like it?
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Mar 31, 2017 04:10
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Yes puppy my bed is your bed!!!
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Mar 31, 2017 04:13
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Lurdiak posted:No kitty that's my bed!!! wash your pillowcases
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Mar 31, 2017 04:17
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And I hope that's the recycling bin there 
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Mar 31, 2017 04:20
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When you let your digital storefront get filled with broken asset rips, scams, and UnitZ with the serial numbers filed off it makes it harder for the actual, possibly good indie games to get noticed. There's a lot to like about a system that allows indie developers a simple way onto the largest digital distribution platform, but nobody benefits when the standards for that platform are lax enough to allow games that are literally unplayable due to missing executable files or are simply packages full of stolen assets. Edit: cats are awesome Dr Cheeto fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Mar 31, 2017 |
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Mar 31, 2017 04:32
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Dr Cheeto posted:When you let your digital storefront get filled with broken asset rips, scams, and UnitZ with the serial numbers filed off it makes it harder for the actual, possibly good indie games to get noticed. Again, this is the argument a lot of people go to but is there actual significant evidence that all the cheap lovely scamware actually has a negative impact on the good indie games out there? Everybody rolls their eyes at "games journalism" for good reason but at the very least they don't seem to give a lot of exposure to the asset rips and broken Russian shovelware as opposed to, say, the Brigadors and Hollow Knights of the world. Has there actually been some legitimately great game whose sales were crippled as a direct result of Valve's lack of curation?
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Mar 31, 2017 04:47
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Kai Tave posted:Again, this is the argument a lot of people go to but is there actual significant evidence that all the cheap lovely scamware actually has a negative impact on the good indie games out there? Everybody rolls their eyes at "games journalism" for good reason but at the very least they don't seem to give a lot of exposure to the asset rips and broken Russian shovelware as opposed to, say, the Brigadors and Hollow Knights of the world. Has there actually been some legitimately great game whose sales were crippled as a direct result of Valve's lack of curation? yes.
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Mar 31, 2017 04:50
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Kai Tave posted:Again, this is the argument a lot of people go to but is there actual significant evidence that all the cheap lovely scamware actually has a negative impact on the good indie games out there? Everybody rolls their eyes at "games journalism" for good reason but at the very least they don't seem to give a lot of exposure to the asset rips and broken Russian shovelware as opposed to, say, the Brigadors and Hollow Knights of the world. Has there actually been some legitimately great game whose sales were crippled as a direct result of Valve's lack of curation? I think it harms Steam's legitimacy as a platform. "I got my game on steam!" means literally nothing anymore and that sucks.
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Mar 31, 2017 04:51
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have you, the idiot who doesn't do research, heard of TAHIRA TENTH LINE VOIDSPIRE TACTICS CODEX OF VICTORY LINK WUPPO because those are games that are good but sold like poo poo because they are buried under garbage
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Mar 31, 2017 04:53
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How did you hear about them?
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Mar 31, 2017 04:55
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Snak posted:I can't believe anyone still wants or cares about Half Life 3. That's as bad as Firefly fans... At this point I think people only care about it in the way people used to "care" about Duke Nukem Forever, as in they don't really give a poo poo anymore but they just want it to get released and get it over with.
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Mar 31, 2017 04:58
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Jay Rust posted:How did you hear about them? i used to obsessively browse the new release list and mark anything that looked remotely interesting
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Mar 31, 2017 04:59
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corn in the bible posted:have you, the idiot who doesn't do research, heard of Yes because before Greenlight those games would have gotten into Steam via, uh
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Mar 31, 2017 05:00
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raditts posted:At this point I think people only care about it in the way people used to "care" about Duke Nukem Forever, as in they don't really give a poo poo anymore but they just want it to get released and get it over with. But Valve isn't even claiming to be developing HL3, as far as I know... so... You're probably right though.
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Mar 31, 2017 05:04
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I want a new Half Life because I like the series and think Valve makes good video games. hth
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Mar 31, 2017 05:07
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Well, given Valve's management structure, it will be an absolute miracle if it ever happens.
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Mar 31, 2017 05:13
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Man there was a string from like HL2: Ep 2 to Portal 2 where Valve was just putting out a steady stream of solid-great games. Couldn't wait to see what they did next then DOTA 2 happened and welp.
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Mar 31, 2017 05:18
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corn in the bible posted:have you, the idiot who doesn't do research, heard of Yeah sorry when I put in "good games drowned out by Steam Greenlight" into Google it didn't instantly return a bunch of neatly compiled data for me to read.
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Mar 31, 2017 05:19
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plz dont pull out posted:Man there was a string from like HL2: Ep 2 to Portal 2 where Valve was just putting out a steady stream of solid-great games. Couldn't wait to see what they did next then DOTA 2 happened and welp. Basically, for half life 3 to get made, someone who works at valve would have to raise their hand and say "Okay, I'll make Half Life 3" and then, if it fails, it's on them. And they would have to recruit people to work on it from other, lower risk projects. Valve, as a whole, isn't going to decide to do Half Life 3 and then assign people to work on it. Some idiot has to propose it and then it will be their project. Their neck.
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Mar 31, 2017 05:24
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I can't say I really care one way or another about Half Life 3 but for a while Valve basically had some of the best comedic writers in video games on hand and it's kind of a shame that we don't even get TF2 animations from them anymore let alone something like a new Portal.
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Mar 31, 2017 05:27
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corn in the bible posted:i used to obsessively browse the new release list and mark anything that looked remotely interesting Sounds like you failed these games by not telling us about them sooner. 😑
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Mar 31, 2017 05:39
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plz dont pull out posted:Man there was a string from like HL2: Ep 2 to Portal 2 where Valve was just putting out a steady stream of solid-great games. Couldn't wait to see what they did next then DOTA 2 happened and welp. Valve didn't make Portal.
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Mar 31, 2017 05:46
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It's always worth reiterating that I feel. Like Valve's greatest achievement ever is buying the publishing rights to a student project that they summarily ruined by producing an unnecessary sequel.
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Mar 31, 2017 05:47
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Portal 2 was, and this may be controversial, good.
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Mar 31, 2017 05:49
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I enjoyed Portal 2 more than the first. Co-op was really neat!Kai Tave posted:I can't say I really care one way or another about Half Life 3 but for a while Valve basically had some of the best comedic writers in video games on hand and it's kind of a shame that we don't even get TF2 animations from them anymore let alone something like a new Portal. Someone has to write those Dota 2 announcer packs
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Reminder that Portal 2 has a hats buying system.
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