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Stick Insect posted:Ignoring the story, is the single player gameplay of SC2 any good? Specifically, how does it compare to SC1? IMHO, the Wings of Liberty campaign is varied enough with enough alternate and secondary objectives that I feel like it's the most well rounded single player campaign in an RTS There is a cool mix of escort, survival, squad maps, and other levels and I found the Brutal difficulty challenging enough without feeling like complete bullshit, it is one of the only games I have ever gone back and gotten 100 percent achievements because I had so much fun with it Ignoring the story of course, which loving renders all of SC1 pointless. Raynor: gently caress you KERRIGAN you piece of poo poo I'll hunt you down and kill you *next game* Raynor: KERRIGAN is my waifu and I will save her from being *CORRUPTED* And as someone else pointed out loving lmao that line from Tassadar about the Overmind and it's bravery, hm yeah I'm sure this disgusting alien race that infests poo poo and is vile and weird is actually the good guys omg!!!!!111 gently caress you Christ Metzen
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Angry Lobster posted:Wings of liberty is the best of the three campaigns, and that's not saying much. Still fun enough to play. Nooooo. I haven't played the Protoss one but the Zerg campaign was 1000x more fun than WoL to me. In WoL every single one of the first, like, 20 missions is just "build lots of the unit you unlock in this mission and then attack-move to victory". And gently caress that time wasting mission with the day/night cycle that takes absolute goddamn forever because heaven forfend you miss ONE building.
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Most of the WoL missions are far faster to complete by not using the units that the game suggests. I remember in particular that just spamming marines works really well on a lot of them, and ghosts with nukes are good for most of the rest.
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Stick Insect posted:Ignoring the story, is the single player gameplay of SC2 any good? Specifically, how does it compare to SC1? It's better than SC1 I would say. You actually make "choices" and stuff to power up your units beyond what they would be normally, or in multiplayer. There's even branching paths and stuff. There's literally zero other RTSs on the market right now so I say if you are even passively interested you will enjoy it. Also you can download something called Mass Recall which is the entirety of Starcraft 1 in the Starcraft 2 engine. It's very very good. You can actually play that with the current free version that exists right now.
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:It's better than SC1 I would say. You actually make "choices" and stuff to power up your units beyond what they would be normally, or in multiplayer. There's even branching paths and stuff. There's literally zero other RTSs on the market right now so I say if you are even passively interested you will enjoy it. Also you can download something called Mass Recall which is the entirety of Starcraft 1 in the Starcraft 2 engine. It's very very good. You can actually play that with the current free version that exists right now.  please tell me the quick and easy way to do this, I want to play this so bad now
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Here are some instructions. Its been too long since I played it for me to give you any advice beyond that. Step 1 would be to download Battle.net and install the starter edition of Starcraft 2 Oh I already have the full version of SC2. I just finished up that video's instructions, I'm not used to things like this being so easy  Gonna try it out nowedit: the latest SC2 patch seems to have caused some issues, but they're easy to fix and get it working. drat this is a trip down memory lane without going backwards in time to a much worse interface precision fucked around with this message at 11:32 on Nov 6, 2017 |
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Watch_Dogs is a bad game but it's free if you claim it on UPlay by November 13th.
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precision posted:Oh I already have the full version of SC2. I just finished up that video's instructions, I'm not used to things like this being so easy Yeah they did a good job. Even edited the units and stuff to be like SC1
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:Watch_Dogs is a bad game but it's free if you claim it on UPlay by November 13th. Behold the majesty of the Chicago Chicagos!
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Watch_Dogs is definitely not so bad that you should pass on at least trying it. It has some really fun stuff in it.
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Captain Monkey posted:with their [...], low hassle online system is this sarcasm
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RareAcumen posted:is this sarcasm No, battle.net is super painless. Unless you somehow don't have an email address. Do you not have an email address? You should get an email address! Its all you need for this free AAA developer's game!
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:Watch_Dogs is a bad game but it's free if you claim it on UPlay by November 13th. Hahaha this poo poo is free and I still don't feel like claiming it, god drat Ubisoft
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Good soup! posted:Hahaha this poo poo is free and I still don't feel like claiming it, god drat Ubisoft Watch_dogs gets a super bad rep but it really isn't that bad. There was a bit of controversy at release because it looked pretty much nothing like it was advertised as AND it was at least partially because they wanted parity with the console version of the game (the prettier files were even included in the PC release but inaccessible), but taken as its own thing, it's a decent GTA game with an interesting but criminally underused gimmick. The multiplayer can also be extremely fun. Years later, I'm still not sure if the story was an attempt at a commentary on how video game heroes are actually violent, deranged vigilantes or if the game really was this tone deaf. Unless you're talking about uPlay, in which case I can only agree.
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the game is actually that tone deaf. there's no reason to think the game had anything profound or interesting to say as its development was so troubled it couldn't even stay on message mechanically.
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Yeah Watch_Dogs 1 is not "bad" at all, just somewhat bland. Good soundtrack though and worth a playthrough, especially since W_D2 is amazing
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Coolguye posted:the game is actually that tone deaf. there's no reason to think the game had anything profound or interesting to say as its development was so troubled it couldn't even stay on message mechanically. I'm pretty sure you're right; it's just difficult to accept that anyone, even at Ubisoft, could seriously design missions around beating mentally ill people into a coma because my phone told me they were about to start a fire, or invading innocent people's privacy in an activity actually called "Privacy Invasion".
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Some other games can get away with that by making a strong protagonist, either by letting you be so righteous that the bad things you do can be justified or so evil that being bad is part of the fun. The lead in watch_dogs is just so bland and poorly-written that you don't get away with that. It's a shame, the game was reasonably fun, but as others have said, torpedoed by poor writing and severely average gameplay design. On the plus side, yeah the pretty E3 graphics are fairly easy to unlock and not even that demanding to run. The downside is that they clearly weren't meant to be used to actually play the game, they're just there to show off- it makes some areas too dark to see, blurs and blooms too much sometimes, etc.
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The lead in Watch_Dogs is the rare Father/Uncle and the story never stops being hilarious because of it.
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Watch_Dogs is, in fact, bad. The missions are boring and unfun, the driving sucks, the story sucks, the controls feel bad, the abilities are plain and boring, the main character is aggressively bad. It's nothing to do with the graphical controversy, it's that every single system that makes it a video game is, at best, passable and not worth your time. By all means, for free, go for it. "What do you have to lose?" But don't say it isn't a bad game.
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aniviron posted:Some other games can get away with that by making a strong protagonist, either by letting you be so righteous that the bad things you do can be justified or so evil that being bad is part of the fun. The lead in watch_dogs is just so bland and poorly-written that you don't get away with that. I mean, the game opens by showing that you basically killed your Of your 2 allies, one is obviously a literal psychopath, the other one is French Canadian. Also, she dies because of you. I'm also French Canadian, don't hate You kill deadmau5. Human trafficking, slavery and serial murders are just regular old collect-a-thon sidequests. Some of that HAS to be tongue in cheek... I also cannot get over the fact that there's an activity called "Privacy Invasion". CordlessPen fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Nov 7, 2017 |
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Who cares about the actual game, just play VR-drugs mini games. 
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:But don't say it isn't a bad game. Must be tough to live without a concept of subjective opinions!
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precision posted:Must be tough to live without a concept of subjective opinions! Not really, just means I always get to be right. 
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Steamworld Dig is available for the price of installing & registering Origin https://www.origin.com/nld/en-us/store/steamworld/steamworld-dig/standard-edition
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Not in all regions, it seem. Already got it on Steam tho, good game, everyone get it.
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for refence, i dont have starcraft2 WoL installed but today i got a gift notification for HotS when i loaded the app so dont sweat the gigglebytes i guess, dont need to reinstall it to cash in
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Watching_Dawgs does have the glorious Spider Tank, so it's totally worth free. The Alone minigame is really decent too.
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precision posted:Yeah Watch_Dogs 1 is not "bad" at all, just somewhat bland. Good soundtrack though and worth a playthrough, especially since W_D2 is amazing There's no reason to play wd1 even if you want to play 2
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Syberia (the original first part) is now free on https://gog.com/ for 33 hours or so. Click the bar at the top of the screen after logging in.
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Plants vs Zombies GOTY on Origin https://www.origin.com/nld/en-us/store/free-games/on-the-house
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Killer Is Dead is free on Humble Bundle! It's a weird anime action game from Suda 51 that I didn't like but maybe you will!!!!!
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Holy poo poo, my laptop is so weak it can only run Starcraft 2 on the lowest settings across the board. But on the plus side, I get like 35 FPS though.
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:Killer Is Dead is free on Humble Bundle! I know a lot of Suda51 fans didn't like it but I'll definitely go to bat for Killer is Dead, its core character action gameplay is some of the most competent of anything his team has put out and aside from a really gross dating minigame that is thankfully only mandatory once to unlock some subweapons it's just the right level of weirdness to be interesting without being completely impenetrable. Also the soundtrack is by Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill) and is pretty cool.    
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Coolguye posted:is that colonel sanders doing a kamehameha What a stupid question. Of course it is
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Coolguye posted:is that colonel sanders doing a kamehameha That's a planet.
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