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The Jackbox Party Pack https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/jackbox-party-pack-1/home You Don't Know Jack 2015 + 4 other party games, playable via the Epic Games Launcher. Free from Jan 24th - Feb 7th
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If you somehow don't already own Jackbox it's a fantastic party game, the gimmick of everyone playing via the web browser on their phone/tablet/laptop is unbeatable for pick up and play in a casual environment.Zesty posted:Why is that? The protagonist is supposed to be a send-up of adventure game protagonists being assholes but it misses the mark so badly that it just becomes a misanthropic slog. Probably the most infamous is the puzzle where you sell a black woman into slavery to replace an organ grinder's pet monkey.
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Jan 24, 2019 20:45
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Guy Mann posted:The protagonist is supposed to be a send-up of adventure game protagonists being assholes but it misses the mark so badly that it just becomes a misanthropic slog. Probably the most infamous is the puzzle where you sell a black woman into slavery to replace an organ grinder's pet monkey.     
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Jan 24, 2019 20:50
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I've never disliked the main character of a video game in the first twenty minutes as much as the dude from Deponia. I loving love point and click adventure games but holy hell did they ever go out of their way to make him an obnoxious piece of absolute poo poo. I'm not against rear end in a top hat characters as a general rule in narratives but I seriously could not handle his bullshit. I think their idea of humour just doesn't really mesh with mine. Jackbox is good though.
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Jan 25, 2019 00:05
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Jackbox is an amazing party game. Shame I've moved away from the group I usually play it with
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Jan 25, 2019 00:26
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Distraint is free on GoG.
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Jan 25, 2019 00:34
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Fried Watermelon posted:Jackbox is an amazing party game. If you've got a halfway decent connection, you can use Discord's group chat (not a server) to stream the game screen to everyone while you play. It's what I typically do with my group of friends. There's latency, but it's not a big deal. Especially if you turn on the settings for more generous timers. Can't really play Fakin' It though.
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Jan 25, 2019 01:14
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Blacula posted:You Don't Know Jack 2015 + 4 other party games, playable via the Epic Games Launcher. Once you install it from the launcher, you can pin the exe into your start menu and launch it directly without starting the Epic client.
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Jan 25, 2019 02:32
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I launch GOG, Twitch and Epic games all through Steam
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Jan 25, 2019 03:02
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~Coxy posted:Once you install it from the launcher, you can pin the exe into your start menu and launch it directly without starting the Epic client.
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Jan 28, 2019 23:27
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Xander77 posted:Why the hell do people care so much about that. I've read at least a dozen "you can just download the game and launch it independently" comments, and it seems like so much more of a hassle than just launching it from the client.
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Jan 28, 2019 23:39
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Making out with your roommate is an experiment, they opened a digital storefront and are straight up robbing games from the competition. They're not Desura, if this goes down it'll be with a massive blow, not a couple of losses.
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Xander77 posted:Why the hell do people care so much about that. I've read at least a dozen "you can just download the game and launch it independently" comments, and it seems like so much more of a hassle than just launching it from the client. I'm no Steam lover, but the Epic client is kind of a pain. Even minimised to tray, it will keep playing the videos on the store within its own embedded Chrome process. Despite having hardware acceleration turned on, this keeps it at a constant 10% CPU usage. For Fornite or whatever you're gonna need to launch it through the client because it has an update to download every 3 days.
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Jan 29, 2019 00:56
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Samuringa posted:Making out with your roommate is an experiment, they opened a digital storefront and are straight up robbing games from the competition. They're not Desura, if this goes down it'll be with a massive blow, not a couple of losses. When desura closed it was a massive blow to my collection of metal gear solid ripoff games from Turkey, you monster
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Jan 29, 2019 01:15
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~Coxy posted:I'm no Steam lover, but the Epic client is kind of a pain. That’s dumb as hell. There should at least be an experimental option to kill the Chrome process on minimize, even if it takes longer for the storefront to reload on restore. Aren’t Steam and GOG Chrome based also?
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Jan 29, 2019 01:26
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Xander77 posted:Why the hell do people care so much about that. I've read at least a dozen "you can just download the game and launch it independently" comments, and it seems like so much more of a hassle than just launching it from the client. Memory is expensive, so I don't want gaudy digital store launchers soaking up my paultry 8gb.
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Jan 29, 2019 02:24
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you can close launchers when you're not playing the games, and depending on the storefront even after you've launched the game
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Jan 29, 2019 03:31
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flatluigi posted:you can close launchers when you're not playing the games, and depending on the storefront even after you've launched the game
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Jan 29, 2019 05:53
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I don't have any launchers start when I start the computer, unless you count Discord.
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Jan 29, 2019 09:10
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flatluigi posted:you can close launchers when you're not playing the games, and depending on the storefront even after you've launched the game Or I can Windows key+E my way to C:/Games, browse my library organized any way I choose, and launch whatever I want to play from the install folder the same way I always have. Launchers are DRM, that's all.
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Jan 29, 2019 22:41
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treat posted:Or I can Windows key+E my way to C:/Games, browse my library organized any way I choose, and launch whatever I want to play from the install folder the same way I always have. Launchers are DRM, that's all. Old man spotted
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Jan 29, 2019 23:06
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Old man spotted Running the world. A new age!
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Jan 29, 2019 23:36
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Jesus that is a lot of extra steps to accomplish the same thing as Steam
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Old man spotted
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Len posted:Jesus that is a lot of extra steps to accomplish the same thing as Steam It's 2 key presses and 3 double-clicks.
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Jan 30, 2019 01:28
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Wait doesn't anybody use shortcuts on the desktop?
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Jan 30, 2019 02:07
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Shrimp or Shrimps posted:Wait doesn't anybody use shortcuts on the desktop? Haven't you heard? Nowadays if you have more than 5 icons on your desktop it's cluttered and you're using your computer wrong!
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Jan 30, 2019 02:18
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treat posted:Or I can Windows key+E my way to C:/Games, browse my library organized any way I choose, and launch whatever I want to play from the install folder the same way I always have. Launchers are DRM, that's all. do you connect with a baud modem to the old usenet boards too The way we interact with video games has fundamentally changed, even the selling of physical mediums only exists due to inertia. Image Gabe Newell selling your videogames on sale, forever. That is the future of the medium.
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Geemer posted:Haven't you heard? Nowadays if you have more than 5 icons on your desktop it's cluttered and you're using your computer wrong! this but unironically
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Jan 30, 2019 03:57
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lol who the gently caress even looks at a desktop enough to consider it "cluttered"? i have 2 monitor and there's rarely more than a couple square inches that aren't covered in windows.
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Lone Goat posted:lol who the gently caress even looks at a desktop enough to consider it "cluttered"? i have 2 monitor and there's rarely more than a couple square inches that aren't covered in windows. 
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Lone Goat posted:lol who the gently caress even looks at a desktop enough to consider it "cluttered"? i have 2 monitor and there's rarely more than a couple square inches that aren't covered in windows. i see it for 0.3 seconds at startup and that, sir, is enough
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Lone Goat posted:i have 2 monitor only 2? check out my setup: 
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doctorfrog posted:I think I can one up this guy. I use an old launcher designed for flash drives to organize my video games, give them little custom icons and launch them, as well as any helper programs, manuals, or wikis. I mostly have GOG titles but it’ll launch Steam games too. It’s probably a manifestation of a significant mental illness but it makes me a jolly gamer. Pssh, real pros launch into command line and run the batch file they created that goes to the directory with cd\ commands and then runs the exe. Sometimes this may include a boot disc to give yourself more EMS ram.
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Fuzz posted:Pssh, real pros launch into command line and run the batch file they created that goes to the directory with cd\ commands and then runs the exe. This is all of my drag-drop games for LANs.
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Thief posted:only 2? check out my setup: Is that ur dick or a turd?? either way, nsfw
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treat posted:Or I can Windows key+E my way to C:/Games, browse my library organized any way I choose, and launch whatever I want to play from the install folder the same way I always have. Launchers are DRM, that's all. The remapping WSAD to arrow keys of launching games
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Do you remember when the free games thread had posts about games that were now free? Pepperidge farm remembers 
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Thief posted:only 2? check out my setup: What's that from?
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Guy Mann posted:The remapping WSAD to arrow keys of launching games When games first started using WASD, I remapped them to the arrow keys. Until I realised that was stupid
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