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RentACop posted:DROD is a fantastic game but jesus christ the entirety of level nine can gently caress off straight to hell is that the maze? i bet that one is the maze StrixNebulosa posted:but can you imagine not buying a game purely because it doesn't have characters in it who look like you? lucky for me everything is a misshapen blob if Zetsubou-san fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Jul 22, 2017 |
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ymgve posted:Is there anything to do in Omegaland after the world is fixed again? Can you do anything except talk to various people and monsters?
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Jul 22, 2017 21:20
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Zetsubou-san posted:is that the maze? i bet that one is the maze That's the one where it's all roaches in enclosures and you have to herd them into the right positions before you toggle the gates.
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Really Pants posted:That's the one where it's all roaches in enclosures and you have to herd them into the right positions before you toggle the gates. Is this some kind of Delphine game? Operation Stealth II? 
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Grapplejack posted:I might pick up omegaland later but goddamn if you're an indie Dev please scrape together 2 grand and pay an artist, I'm so tired of seeing programmer pixel art for everything lately. in this case at least it was a deliberate decision instead of being cheap (not saying you're wrong to be annoyed by it) The dev wrote an article about it if anyone who cares wants to read some 
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Jul 22, 2017 21:51
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Zetsubou-san posted:short answer: yes From what I've noticed, the size of the update only includes what will be downloaded. Steam copies the file that will be patched to a downloading folder, downloads the update, patches that file and then copies it back to the game folder if it was successful. This is really annoying for games like Hitman where it seems like all the data for a chapter is stored in one file. So if they are patching Paris and Marrakesh with 400 MB of patches, those two files might be 15GB each so you need at least 30GB free before the patch in order to do the 400 MB patch.
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Ceyton posted:Ahhh, the old crowdfunding/EA trick of leaving out the year. I don't own the game yet but given the guy's track record it seems like he has a pretty good handle on things.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:£20 a year is what I pay, and that's allowed me to play 20 games that I've had a passing interest in but not enough to give money for. That works out at £1 a game. Even if you just want anything in the Bioware back catalog, it's still a good deal for say the Mass Effect or Dragon Age trilogies plus access to great short single player campaigns like Titanfall 2 soon. Grab the $5 if you just want to play one game that's already there, grab the (I'm guessing it's $30 for a year) if you want to play many games on that list. This is cool and good, but it does remind me that one of the stated (and lying) purposes for moving away from Steam to Origin by EA was "Steam devalues properties with their constant discounts" and now they basically give games away for free or essentially charge $1 a game.
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Jul 23, 2017 03:21
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For them, anything is better than letting Steam take a cut of your profits. If you're large and prolific like EA, you can afford it.
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I would buy some EA games if they were on Steam but I'll be damned if I'm going to launch up the Origin account that has Sim City on it.
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Origin Access is the only way they will get non Bioware/Dice fans to play on Origin. Entire platform is poo poo and customer service is worse than Indian telemarketers. Too bad EA has had some underrated gyms like Syndicate.
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Origin hasn't really ever given me any problems for the couple games I've played on it in the past couple years. At this point with a few exceptions launcher wars seem like they're getting as silly as console wars.
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Ulio posted:underrated gyms like Syndicate. I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks that. It owns bones. 
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deep dish peat moss posted:I would buy some EA games if they were on Steam but I'll be damned if I'm going to launch up the Origin account that has Sim City on it. My origin account has sim city and the free Battlefield 2 or whatever that wasn't even free because I would have to pay another 30 dollars in DLC just to find someone to play with online.
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Jul 23, 2017 03:55
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Maybe someone in here knows, is Planetoid Pioneers Cortex Command but not garbage?
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Jul 23, 2017 03:56
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Morter posted:I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks that. It owns bones. The single player is merely okay but the coop mode was some of the best stuff in the genre. The research trees really takes a lot of the repetitive bite out of the "Now do the same level on a harder difficulty" that a lot of those coop FPS games have. I just wish it was possible to reset your progress so I could convince more people to get it on the cheap and play with them from the start rather than with my maxed out gear.
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Ulio posted:Origin Access is the only way they will get non Bioware/Dice fans to play on Origin. Entire platform is poo poo and customer service is worse than Indian telemarketers. Origin customer service has always been great to me. Fixes up any issue in minutes and throws huge vouchers at me for like 25% off consistently. Compare this to Steam customer service who
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Ulio posted:Origin Access is the only way they will get non Bioware/Dice fans to play on Origin. Entire platform is poo poo and customer service is worse than Indian telemarketers. I've always had good customer service on Origin, and while it's had a few hiccups every now and again I can easily say the same about Steam.
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I've never had to use Customer Support with either, but Origin does it's job well enough. It's more stable than Steam, but it's library is nowhere as large and probably has nowhere as many concurrent users so that's expected. They also give free games once in a while which is kinda nice.
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Just in case I'm not literally the only person who waited this long, DOOM is really good. Like, I'll play a level, have fun, then Save & Quit to go do something else. But I don't want to do anything else. I just want to play DOOM. So I load back in and either replay the same map to find all the secrets or run through the next map. I've done this like 3 separate times today. It takes a couple of maps to get used to how you move, but once you do you'll be mantling up a ledge, diving off, shotgunning an imp in midair then landing on him and squashing his skull with your boot. In tech-chat, I've got a GTX 770 which I thought was good enough for Vulkan, but apparently it's right on the lower edge of compatibility. I can run the game with Vulkan, but every once in a while the text comes up all garbled, and my performance is actually slightly worse than with OpenGL. With Vulkan I had to drop down to 1280x800 to keep steady 60fps, with OpenGL I was able to bump it up to 1680x1050.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Is dream daddies good? it's cute and fun
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mutata posted:Origin hasn't really ever given me any problems for the couple games I've played on it in the past couple years. At this point with a few exceptions launcher wars seem like they're getting as silly as console wars. Just to name one example, Origin cash cards are a scam. You can't combine them with cash (like you can with Steam, natch), and unlike Steam Origin charges sales tax (on some games, at least) so if you don't have access to a credit card and want to buy something for $60, you have to spend an additional $20 for the privilege and be stuck with ~15 EA funbux that you'll never use. VVV: Bioware points aren't SPECIFICALLY Origin's fault but I'm still amazed that EA made such a terrible deal. "So basically we can't release GotY editions of your games, ever? Awesome, where do we sign?" Random Asshole fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Jul 23, 2017 |
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Jul 23, 2017 05:35
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i believe i still have bioware points
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Takes No Damage posted:Just in case I'm not literally the only person who waited this long, DOOM is really good. Like, I'll play a level, have fun, then Save & Quit to go do something else. But I don't want to do anything else. I just want to play DOOM. So I load back in and either replay the same map to find all the secrets or run through the next map. I've done this like 3 separate times today. In Dark Souls, you're trapped in a room with Demons. In Doom, Demons are trapped in a room with you.
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I picked up Crypt of the Necrodancer in the Steam sale, and i had a lot of fun playing it so far. Well, kinda. I cleared the first two zones after 2 hours, and clearing the next two zones took me a frustrating 15 hours. All zones have roughly the same gameplay length, which is about 6-9 minutes per zone if you don't die. This is not a game for people who don't like to die repeatedly. The game has quite some questionable decisions, though. To be honest, my first clear with the first character (there's like 10) was mostly up to good loot luck and being basically impervious to damage in the winning run, so i was not in the least confident that i'd ever be able to repeat the feat without sinking another 15 hours into it. But it turns out, the "second" character you get (for story purposes) is almost easy mode compared to the standard one, since you hurt every enemy around you on every move you do. Took only like half an hour to acclimatize and then i was basically blazing through these devilishly hellish zones in what felt like ez-mode. Why do you unlock easy mode 15 hours into the game? Speaking of boneheaded decisions: The music in this game is real good. Different characters even get different remixes of the entire soundtrack to play along to. The original level soundtracks are real good (the remixes range from so-so to Almost As Good), while the boss music is mostly Okay. Now why would you give Melody, the character who has the easiest time with that particular boss, the most kickass remix of a boss theme in the game, so you never get to hear it for more than like 10 seconds? Really, this is the hypest poo poo i've ever wanted to fight a boss to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msAwRFSGtrI Actually probably the only remix track that surpasses the original soundtrack.
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Tangledeep is solid for EA, but I got to floor 5 on a pretty solid tear as a Paladin when my game crashed. I thought about saving on the floor prior but could see no way to do so. No auto saves/suspends either, so I lost my progress. Though I suppose that fits right in with the genre.
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Ragequit posted:Tangledeep is solid for EA, but I got to floor 5 on a pretty solid tear as a Paladin when my game crashed. I thought about saving on the floor prior but could see no way to do so. No auto saves/suspends either, so I lost my progress. Though I suppose that fits right in with the genre. Please, please report this to the dev. He's been working super hard on bugfixes - and has noted that he'll add an autosave at some point. As for saving midgame you can save/quit to title, then load back up, I think.
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HenryEx posted:Speaking of boneheaded decisions: The music in this game is real good. Different characters even get different remixes of the entire soundtrack to play along to. The original level soundtracks are real good (the remixes range from so-so to Almost As Good), while the boss music is mostly Okay. Now why would you give Melody, the character who has the easiest time with that particular boss, the most kickass remix of a boss theme in the game, so you never get to hear it for more than like 10 seconds? you can switch the soundtracks at will to play any theme on any character, somewhere in the options menu
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Croccers posted:I mean, I guess Steam Customer Support can't be bad if it doesn't exist in the first place It's probably more like Steam support is like 50 people trying to answer thousands of requests and Origin support is 50 people answering 5 requests.
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Light Gun Man posted:It's probably more like Steam support is like 50 people trying to answer thousands of requests and Origin support is 50 people answering 5 requests.  We can only dream.
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Croccers posted:If only Steam had more money to hire some people. I was going to make a joke about how Valve should monetize the Steam itself interface with loot crates but then I realized that's what they've been doing for the last decade with cards + gems.
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Croccers posted:If only Steam had more money to hire some people. exquisite tea posted:I was going to make a joke about how Valve should monetize the Steam itself interface with loot crates but then I realized that's what they've been doing for the last decade with cards + gems. Clearly the answer is the gamify and crowdsource support. Solve someone's issue? You got a hat crate!
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I would do it for the badges.
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Jamfrost posted:I would do it for the badges. same, I'd do it for cards.
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Light Gun Man posted:Clearly the answer is the gamify and crowdsource support. Solve someone's issue? You got a hat crate! A week later at Valve: "Wow, these chinese people sure are good at solving problems for each other!"
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Light Gun Man posted:It's probably more like Steam support is like 50 people trying to answer thousands of requests and Origin support is 50 people answering 5 requests. If you're curious, there are public support stats detailing submitted support requests, backlog and estimated response times split up by common issues.
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Morter posted:I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks that. It owns bones. Yeah, agreed. Syndicate is one of the best and most plausibly chilling renditions of cyberpunk in videogame form imo, largely by retaining the icy lack of empathy from the original Bullfrog game.
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