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Pseudohog posted:My favourite thing about Gothic was that they only added mouse support at the last moment... until then it was planned to be keyboard only. I know people bring up the control scheme as the main thing they hae about Gothic... But I love it. You can play the whole game with one hand because everything is invoked by using combinations of a handful of keys. It's incredibly easy to use and intuitive once you accept it.
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Cardiovorax posted:What's it that makes people like The Technomancer? I looked into it back when it was new and I couldn't really find anyone saying a lot of positive things about it. One review put it as "it's a game in the same way frozen convenience store pizza is food" and that didn't really sound very appealing. I don't know why mainstream reviews hated that game so much. It looks good, it has an interesting setting, plenty of quests, good voiceacting, acceptable combat... I mean. it is Eurojank, but it is by no means bad. In fact it is at points outright inspired, and arguably more technically competent than e.g. anything Bethesda has ever produced...
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steinrokkan posted:I know people bring up the control scheme as the main thing they hae about Gothic... But I love it. You can play the whole game with one hand because everything is invoked by using combinations of a handful of keys. It's incredibly easy to use and intuitive once you accept it.  
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If you can play through the game without cranking your hog about the sexy molerats, you are a better person than me.
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steinrokkan posted:I don't know why mainstream reviews hated that game so much. It looks good, it has an interesting setting, plenty of quests, good voiceacting, acceptable combat... I mean. it is Eurojank, but it is by no means bad. In fact it is at points outright inspired, and arguably more technically competent than e.g. anything Bethesda has ever produced...
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The speedrun for two worlds is very good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NeR-bT3uv0
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Jul 6, 2019 04:29
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Technomancer is cool and I hope Greedfall owns.
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Disposable Scud posted:Technomancer is cool and I hope Greedfall owns. I saw Greedfall at E3 a couple of years ago. I kind of dig it, if only because it's a weird fantasy version of the French and Indian War.
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Just finished The Sinking City and overall I found it pretty enjoyable if never actually scary. It does fall into the very common trap of starting of pretty tense when you have a fairly weak arsenal but as the game goes on you get better weapons and figure out the weak points/patterns of the 5 types of enemies so the tension drops off as you go along. The investigation stuff is never really challenging but is there enough to give a taste of the "experience" of being a detective though the retrocognition thing is pretty much always just going from one place to another marking things 1-2-3-4 as you go along. I honestly like the map system of marking addresses in the map yourself, I feel it's better than just going "I've marked it on your map" especially since the marks are only shown on the map for the current case. The districts being more like hubs makes the game feel like an empty open world and for me at least avoids the oasis/desert issue with so many open world games. Unfortunately like a lot of games it falls apart at the ending which is just walking in corridors and pushing a button for good/bad/neutral ending.
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Bogart posted:The speedrun for two worlds is very good. this is very very good
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SardonicTyrant posted:How can anyone talk about eurojank and not mention EYE: Divine Cybermancy? I forgot what that game was called! I played that back in the day and ground for hours until I had the stats to actually make that game playable, and eventually lost all my saves to a scripting error in one of the story missions that locked me in a room that was supposed to open but didn't because of eurojank. The plot was pretty incomprehensible, but it used a LOT of assets from Mamoru Oshii movies, and that was pretty cool. I'd go back and play this if not for the awful initial grind.
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Skyscraper posted:The plot was pretty incomprehensible, but it used a LOT of assets from Mamoru Oshii movies, and that was pretty cool.
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Anyone know when you get some decent weapons in Sinking City, I've been dealing with stuff with a crappy pistol for too long
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Skyscraper posted:I forgot what that game was called! I played that back in the day and ground for hours until I had the stats to actually make that game playable, and eventually lost all my saves to a scripting error in one of the story missions that locked me in a room that was supposed to open but didn't because of eurojank. The plot was pretty incomprehensible, but it used a LOT of assets from Mamoru Oshii movies, and that was pretty cool. I'd go back and play this if not for the awful initial grind. There's a map you can download just to get experience/money/research really fast. Whenever i replay EYE I just level up there and unlock some of the fun stuff early.
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Improbable Lobster posted:There's a map you can download just to get experience/money/research really fast. Whenever i replay EYE I just level up there and unlock some of the fun stuff early. Oh, neat! Thanks!
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Sakurazuka posted:Anyone know when you get some decent weapons in Sinking City, I've been dealing with stuff with a crappy pistol for too long The only way is to progress through main quests. You get a weapon with each new chapter. And frankly, there is no reason not to rush the main story since there is no point in dilly dallying on exploration and such.
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Have I been conned by a friend, or does Night in the Woods actually delve into cosmic horror?
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Jul 10, 2019 12:09
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Cheers! Just needed a little reassurance there. It's not nearly as twee and as "I can't adult without my coffee" as I thought it'd be, so I'm looking forward to pushing on with it tonight.
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Drunken Baker posted:Have I been conned by a friend, or does Night in the Woods actually delve into cosmic horror? I wouldn't say it ever becomes a "horror game" but yeah those themes are there and it's a very good slow burn . You don't see games built with that kind of restraint very often IMO
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Drunken Baker posted:Have I been conned by a friend, or does Night in the Woods actually delve into cosmic horror? It does but it's never actually a horror game and the cosmic horror elements kind of pale before much more mundane horrors of everyday life. That being said, NitW is an excellent game and I love the poo poo out of it. Edit: Consider playing Lost Constellation if you end up liking it. It's a free side story game that came out before NitW did that plays into a story that's much more explicitly supernatural (because it's a fairy tale type story being told to a younger Mae). Glagha fucked around with this message at 13:46 on Jul 10, 2019 |
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Glagha posted:It does but it's never actually a horror game and the cosmic horror elements kind of pale before much more mundane horrors of everyday life. That being said, NitW is an excellent game and I love the poo poo out of it. I'll look into it, cheers!
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Drunken Baker posted:Have I been conned by a friend, or does Night in the Woods actually delve into cosmic horror? Sort of but probably not as much as you’ve been led to believe.
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New chapter of Visage is out. And it nailed Something Awful thread darling Youtuber John Wolfe pretty good. He's usually pretty resistant to those things. (except in VR) (Spoiler alert for the best kind of jumpscare) https://twitter.com/JohnWolfeYT/status/1147662266751492096
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Holy poo poo that jumpscare was amazing. Like, without a sound or even motion. Just... something you weren't expecting.
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Cyberdud posted:New chapter of Visage is out. And it nailed Something Awful thread darling Youtuber John Wolfe pretty good. He's usually pretty resistant to those things. (except in VR) Hahahahah. That was loving great.
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Anyone in here? Oh sorry, occupied, I’ll leave now. Such an excellent jump scare. I’d have to go back and rewatch the first part but remember there seemed to be issues with the light/sanity mechanic in Visage, has that tightened up with the update?
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That is probably the best jumpscare I've seen since that one in Prey.
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"Your sanity is decreasing fast" lolGlagha posted:That is probably the best jumpscare I've seen since that one in Prey. What are you referring to because I don't recall any in Prey? SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Anyone in here? Oh sorry, occupied, I’ll leave now. It functions noticeably the same it's just the game isn't as opaque about it. Candles prevent sanity decrease from the darkness but you have to set them down and the lighter doesn't prevent sanity decrease at all, it just helps you see in the dark. As your sanity decreases more scary stuff happens which further decreases sanity so it's a downward spiral until you trigger instant death. If you visualize the sanity meter as starting at 100 and it decreases exponentially by your current sanity compared to max sanity, you can see how a temporary increase is only buying you minimal time. You're supposed to take pills until you're at max but John rations them which is why he keeps dying and it looks like the game as Resident Evil style adaptable difficulty so it'll always spawn more pills. Compare to MrKravin, I don't think he ever dies because he pops pills like mad once he hits red. I don't think the system is inherently bad, it makes thematic sense that the worse your health is less resistant you become, but it's one of those things that's counter to how you would play most games. It reminds me of RE2 remake where headshots have a chance of instant death but the chance of a critical factored in to normal damage means if you miss a single shot you wasted your advantage so it's more efficient to aim for the center. al-azad fucked around with this message at 19:16 on Jul 10, 2019 |
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I didn't expect The Sinking City to be a horror game but I thought it would at least have horror elements. Nope. It's not even remotely spooky. It's not like they failed to create a compelling atmosphere, it's like they didn't even try. What a weird game.
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When you are prompted to calibrate a screen by pressing a bunch of buttons on said screen by walking up to them an interacting with them.
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Jul 10, 2019 20:22
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Morpheus posted:When you are That could've used a spoiler.
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al-azad posted:What are you referring to because I don't recall any in Prey? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cen5oyld8fw
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Jul 10, 2019 20:38
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Either I completely missed that or shot the glass without ever interacting with it.
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As soon as it went to calibrate I pulled out a shotgun. Ain't taking no poo poo.
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That's really sad because that is one of the funniest moments in that game and like, justification for the entire looking glass system.
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It's a great setpiece, but as a jumpscare it's really kinda crap. The whole thing is telegraphed so hard you can see it coming from a mile away.
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