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basic hitler posted:outposts are how you grow your territory now, and they cost an influence amount, instead of reducing monthly influence. You even have to drop them before colonizing. they upgrade into defensive structures or military ship production depending on what you choose to build/upgrade  i haven't played Stellaris in a while but i was thinking of getting back into it. but hyperlanes only is unacceptable, is there mods to fix this? if not, what version was the last one before they removed the alternative FTL types? what a bunch of dingleberries!
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I haven't played Witcher 3 because I use a keyboard and mouse and my tolerance for running a third-person view on the character I'm playing has decreased over time. If I had a controller I might reconsider, but as it is I just have no patience for the awkward control poo poo that often ends up happening in third-person games.
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Mar 28, 2018 03:15
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Rutibex posted:
i loving hated hyperlanes but weirdly, i'm loving fine with it now. I dunno, it took all of about a minute of mental acceptance. the thing is, there are about 2x as many map generation options as pre-2.0, including raising the number of links between systems, you can set it so high that the galaxy is basically a honeycomb of linked systems and it's basically warp. but really, since everyone is on hyperlanes, and i'm not at a strategic disadvantage against a warp-player or wormhole thing, if i take it, it's fine. it's really quite good. pre-2.0 stellaris was excellent but 2.0 is an improvement even when it steps on your toes.
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Mar 28, 2018 03:23
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basic hitler posted:i loving hated hyperlanes but weirdly, i'm loving fine with it now. I dunno, it took all of about a minute of mental acceptance. i don't care about dumb multiplayer balance. i liked stellaris as a singleplayer galactic exploration and politics simulator. taking out different FTL types really hurts one of the things that makes Stellaris unique. different AIs having different FTL types makes for very complex strategic situations but from the patch notes they don't seem to have added much after the removal of FTL types so I can just stick with version 1.9 and i'll be good to go!
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Mar 28, 2018 03:38
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i feel the same, i think multiplayer sucks except for an occasional comp stomp. 2.0 is worth trying man. roll back if you hate it, but try it first. like, honestly try it.
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Mar 28, 2018 03:47
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but if i want to play warp lanes only i can just set all the empires to warp lanes and get that same experience in 1.9. what does 2.0 add thats actually good?
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Mar 28, 2018 03:52
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I really like how they've reworked basically everything having to do with combat and expansion just try it man. worst case is you have to roll back later.
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Mar 28, 2018 03:55
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Mandrel posted:i redboxed it and this seems 100% accurate. it honestly feels like 99% of the FPS games i've played in the past few years despite ever increasing production values just straight up aren't good or fun to play. like their mechanics are poo poo and it's not actually fun. it's like everything is designed to give the impression of fun but nobody remembers to actually make it fun to do the very basic things which is shoot people with a gun Bad Company 2 was the last good multiplayer FPS
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Mar 28, 2018 15:24
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ditty bout my clitty posted:Bad Company 2 was the last good multiplayer FPS that would be true in a world without Titanfall 2
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Mar 28, 2018 15:30
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bc2 was a gem, but pubg is a good multiplayer fps all of the main battlefield games have been terrible clusterfucks tbh. which reminds me, overwatch is loving terrible
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Mar 28, 2018 15:31
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battlefield 3 multiplayer has some of the absolute worst map design i've ever seen anywhere
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Mar 28, 2018 15:36
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DrPossum posted:i played for a few hours and it just felt so creepy to be in some polish dude's power fantasy that i was just grossed out Like, the opening tutorial section at the castle is a scene lifted near-verbatim save some inconsistencies that the game itself calls out immediately after the tutorial ends as the main character idealizing the past with his own hang-ups. That is a good microcosm of how The Witcher world works-- traditional power fantasy stuff, you notice the cracks, the cracks pull back and you see how rundown and sad things really are. The games have a really hard time shaking the "you are a badass monster hunter" gloss because it's not trying to be Silent Hill, but both it and the books are ultimately about deflating the romance from the entire concept. That's why everyone praises the sidequests and DLC where the writers focus on that raison d'etre over the tethers of narrative propulsion. Now the books aren't some genius revolutionary concept--The Sandman comic series in the 90s was a contemporary of the books and has a very similar thematic ethos--but for all the creep factor poo poo like the nudie trading cards there is a reason why the Polish people are proud enough of the franchise to give Obama copies as a gift.
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Mar 28, 2018 15:41
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AutumnDDP posted:The New Super Mario Bros games are mediocre platformers at best. They're actually probably a little below average tbh; this is coming from someone who's played perhaps thousands of 2D platformers. I played NSMB1, NSMB2, and NSMBWii. The fact that so many professional reviewers rate these game highly has created a huge distrust of all game reviewers for me.
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Mar 28, 2018 16:03
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Current day game reviewers grew up with Nintendo so that's why they generally shatter their kneecaps to get down and give Mario games sloppy blowjobs. They can remember playing Mario after Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. That's why things like NSMB and Mario Odyssey are considered fantastic games. They remind people of Super Mario/Mario 64.
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Mar 28, 2018 16:10
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VictorianQueerLit posted:Current day game reviewers grew up with Nintendo so that's why they generally shatter their kneecaps to get down and give Mario games sloppy blowjobs. They can remember playing Mario after Rescue Rangers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and things like NSMB are pretty close in appearance. That generation is pretty old now for game reviewers isn’t it
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Mar 28, 2018 16:13
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Return to Castle Wolfenstein was the best Wolfenstein and the new ones are boring
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:That generation is pretty old now for game reviewers isn’t it They've been releasing the same poo poo for so long it's just different games but the same concept depending on how old you are.
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Mar 28, 2018 16:15
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mario odyssey is really good, not the second coming of gaming jesus or anything, but some people seem hellbent on making sure that everyone knows that they did not have fun with this game that sold millions of copies and is nearly universally praised
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Mar 28, 2018 16:19
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That's what makes my opinion unpopular. A five hour collectathon that an infant could beat is just boring and 99% of the people universally praising it are instead praising the company that makes it while remembering M. It's weird how so many valorious knights can not withstand yon game companies honor being besmirched. "It sold millions of copies! A lot of people like it!" So? it's a lovely boring game. 62 million people voted for Trump. A lot of people like garbage.
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Mar 28, 2018 16:23
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counterpoint: it's not, it's fun, and you're VQL
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Mar 28, 2018 16:25
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I don't really give a gently caress about Nintendo's honor, but if you really think all the Mario Odyssey praise is from nostalgia then you're an idiot, not paying close-enough attention, or being contrarian for its own sake. You don't need to like it, but if you really can't see the appeal while comparing the game to the voting base that put a reality television trust fund washout into the White House.... yeah you're probably just being a turd for the sake of being a turd. Yeah it's a children's game. It also happens to be really dynamic, colorful, and charming in a way most commercial art only dreams of.
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Mar 28, 2018 16:29
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You are right, I'm sorry. Your five hour long game for small children transcends art itself. Nintendo and Mario are the line and shall not be besmirched. Got it. Dragon's Age is the most boring series of games that has ever existed and the first one should have bankrupted Bioware.
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Mar 28, 2018 16:31
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Earwicker posted:Return to Castle Wolfenstein was the best Wolfenstein and the new ones are boring yeah new Wolfenstien is not good. I don't get the appeal when there are way better shooters out there.
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Mar 28, 2018 16:33
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mind the walrus posted:I don't really give a gently caress about Nintendo's honor, but if you really think all the Mario Odyssey praise is from nostalgia then you're an idiot, not paying close-enough attention, or being contrarian for its own sake. You don't need to like it, but if you really can't see the appeal while comparing the game to the voting base that put a reality television trust fund washout into the White House.... yeah you're probably just being a turd for the sake of being a turd. Yeah it's a children's game. It also happens to be really dynamic, colorful, and charming in a way most commercial art only dreams of. Mario is trash for trash children. 
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VictorianQueerLit posted:You are right, I'm sorry. Your five hour long game for small children transcends art itself. Nintendo and Mario are the line and shall not be besmirched. Got it. steinrokkan posted:Mario is trash for trash children. veni veni veni posted:yeah new Wolfenstien is not good. I don't get the appeal when there are way better shooters out there. --------- Super Metroid's control scheme sucks.
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mind the walrus posted:Sorry about your broken brains. Mario is for boys - Sonic is for men.
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*sneers pcmasteraceishly*
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steinrokkan posted:Mario is for boys - Sonic is for men.
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mind the walrus posted:If you're a man without a little boy inside you, are you really a man at all? And thus the Catholic church, the longest running MOBA was invented.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW7xy4-TQhs e: also I feel like Sleeping Dogs has the best soundtrack selection of any game I've played but I have no idea if that's an unpopular videogame opinion. maybe?
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mind the walrus posted:If you're a man without a little boy inside you, are you really a man at all? AATrek parachute spotted VictorianQueerLit fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Mar 28, 2018 |
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Oscar Wild posted:And thus the Catholic church, the longest running MOBA was invented. VictorianQueerLit posted:AATrek parachute spotted
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food court bailiff posted:that would be true in a world without Titanfall 2 
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Jeza posted:
It comes close, but Saints Row 2 had the best soundtrack of any game.
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Mar 28, 2018 17:04
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VictorianQueerLit posted:Dragon's Age is the most boring series of games that has ever existed and the first one should have bankrupted Bioware. 
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Mar 28, 2018 17:09
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I can certainly see how 2 and 3 could colour your opinion of the series. The first DA was pretty good for the time though imo.
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Mar 28, 2018 17:14
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The first DA was sorta boring and generic but at least it had the cool system where the spells itneracted with each other
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Earwicker posted:Return to Castle Wolfenstein was the best Wolfenstein and the new ones are boring The first new Wolfenstein was definitely boring, I haven't played the new one made by antifa developers yet Also yes, Dragon Age 1 actually sucks out loud. It's a loving terrible game.
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mind the walrus posted:Super Metroid's control scheme sucks. So did that of super punch out, but fortunately both games allowed you to change it to something more sensible. I’ve never played another platformer that had shoot on X and jump on A, except on Xbox where they swapped the letters.
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DA1 is an RPG with: - 100% opaque game design that makes it very easy to create a character who either can't complete the game or trounces all over it. - Really dull WoW-style cooldown combat that has aged terribly - Several sections that are dumb to do the first time and a complete loving slog after that, with mods to skip one entirely. - A complete letdown of a climax - An assortment of extremely annoying characters that are defined by their sexuality, from effeminate templar to bi elf to permiscuous witch Like a lot of Bioware stuff, the game has aged like poo poo and didn't live up to the hype when it was brand new. For that matter I think the only Mass Effect with any staying power was 2. ME1 was overrated tripe right out of the gate.
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