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Nihilumbra is a good game and very much worth it at 70% off.
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Gay Rat Wedding posted:older games (<2005 or so) are very tough for me to put up with anymore but system shock 2 felt like it held up very well for its age. it definitely acts like the 1999 game that it is with some of the content in the back half of the game that goes on for too long, but I was surprised how much I enjoyed it & it’s probably the oldest game I’ve actually managed to finish in the last decade or so. but IMO, if you’re not enjoying the first three levels then you should drop it since I think it overstays its welcome and if you’re not enjoying it now, that’s probably not about to change. Thanks for this. I like classic games despite their clunkiness sometimes, and I'd read a lot about how much this game holds up. It feels pretty drat clunky in the beginning, but I like the UI and the sound effects. Today is a new day and I'm in the mood to give it one more go. I used an OS upgrade to boost my speed and zooming around has actually made it more fun so far. CLARPUS fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Feb 24, 2020 |
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Feb 24, 2020 23:15
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Snakebird was cool but hard, so Snakebird Primer became a thing. This is good.
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Feb 24, 2020 23:52
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Idle thoughts: what's the largest ARPG? In the sense of maps, or places to explore. I expect it's Path of Exile, but with how Van Helsing final cut is three games that could be it. Does anyone know for sure?
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Feb 25, 2020 00:09
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Maybe Grim Dawn, honestly, especially in that it's largely one single, contiguous map.
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Feb 25, 2020 00:16
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StrixNebulosa posted:Idle thoughts: what's the largest ARPG? In the sense of maps, or places to explore. I expect it's Path of Exile, but with how Van Helsing final cut is three games that could be it.
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Feb 25, 2020 00:31
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Alright time to check my queue, see if anything interesting pops up.  Oh for gently caress's sake, Steam. Why is this even in my queue!? 
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Feb 25, 2020 00:35
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I'm guessing it's because this doesn't have the anime tag which you probably have blocked?
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Feb 25, 2020 00:38
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Adult only content is one of the very few things that Steam lets you keep out of your queue. Change your settings. You're still going to see a lot of crap because almost nothing gets tagged as adult only, but it still helps.
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Feb 25, 2020 00:46
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I have the 'hentai' tag blocked, which apparently this game doesn't have somehow. I've left 'adult only' on in case something comes up to my taste but that's never going to happen, it's all gross weeb trash. I never blocked 'anime' or 'sexual content' either because of games like the Atelier series which people keep trolling by tagging it as 'sexual content', and Steam still hasn't removed those tags months after I flagged them. It's infuriating.
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Feb 25, 2020 00:50
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The Joe Man posted:Not really my favorite genre but I'd guess Sacred 2. Sacred 2 really is insanely huge (and in one piece!). Maybe Titan Quest at this point, considering it was never small and it's now got 3 (?) expansions.
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Feb 25, 2020 00:52
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Serephina posted:Yea, no boss ever showed any resilience from what I recall. The chinese evil lady was more notable for having that dungeon prior to her than her fight itself, where she probably just got gunned down like everybody else. Also if your flamethrower isn't automauling everything you might wanna check your files, cuz that's just not right. Same experience, i think I cheated past her as well.
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Feb 25, 2020 01:13
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For those who might be interested, there's a demo for the English version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms 14 up on Steam.
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Feb 25, 2020 01:13
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Nuramor posted:But then how would you know who made the game, who published it and what its name is? At obscenely loud volume because they link system settings to your savefile and one isn't loaded yet.
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Feb 25, 2020 01:21
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atholbrose posted:For those who might be interested, there's a demo for the English version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms 14 up on Steam. I guess people shouldn't sit on this, since uh, they're taking the demo down in a month? What a pointless thing to do. I don't understand the reasoning behind time limited demos like that.
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Feb 25, 2020 01:21
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Van Helsing: Final Cut: so that was exactly the kind of colorful nonsense I want out of this genre. First boss of the game, a werewolf pack and their leader. You beat him once, he takes you to magical spirit world where you have to destroy five summoning totems, beat him again...and it's gorgeous. Pure neon nonsense that looks great in motion, with lots of setting detail. That said, argh! I installed this as a podcast game but the writing and dialogue is actually good enough to want to read and hear everything. The interplay between Helsing and his ghost friend is great, and I'm having so much fun. But... my poor neglected podcasts...
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Feb 25, 2020 01:21
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The Joe Man posted:Not really my favorite genre but I'd guess Sacred 2. Oh, duh, I always forget about Sacred. Never actually got far in either game.
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Feb 25, 2020 01:28
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You just need to watch the in-game metal concert featuring Blind Guardian and that's the full Sacred 2 experience.
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Feb 25, 2020 01:31
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Mischievous Mink posted:I guess people shouldn't sit on this, since uh, they're taking the demo down in a month? What a pointless thing to do. I don't understand the reasoning behind time limited demos like that. Some executive somewhere said "It'll cut into our bottom line and damage game sales for the long term if we're giving away a version of the game for free!"
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Feb 25, 2020 01:36
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A new Sacred but this time with actually good combat would be neat tho...
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Feb 25, 2020 02:00
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Too Shy Guy posted:Disco Elysium is up in the Weeklong Deals if you've foolishly not grabbed it yet, along with gems like Noita, SYNTHETIK, and Sundered. I got a big roundup list right here for ya. Disco obviously everybody should get but just adding on to Too Shy Guy's recommendation of Noita, which is goddamn great.
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Feb 25, 2020 02:06
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ErrEff posted:Some executive somewhere said "It'll cut into our bottom line and damage game sales for the long term if we're giving away a version of the game for free!" Which is hilarious considering "give away a part of our game" was literally the business model of PC games. Imagine Id decided not to do Episode 1 of Doom shareware. They replaced Demos, a proven concept, with "spend as much as the entire budget of the game again on marketing" and called it good.
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Feb 25, 2020 02:10
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Safari Disco Lion posted:I have the 'hentai' tag blocked, which apparently this game doesn't have somehow. I've left 'adult only' on in case something comes up to my taste but that's never going to happen, it's all gross weeb trash. If the ESRB is any indication, a woman's bare midriff is sexual content and partial nudity.
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Feb 25, 2020 02:24
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Happy to report that I can play Sacred 2 for the first time ever since the community patch makes it actually work with Windows 10. I installed the game, installed the patch, and now it runs fine. As for the game itself, I can play as a robot doggie
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Feb 25, 2020 02:32
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Sacred 1 and 2 were neat, mostly in part because they had some real crazy classes to play, a kind of insanity not seen in any others. a weird flawed euro-janky game though. i wouldn't replay them today though, too many good games. shame Ascaron never really succeeded and lol sacred 3
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Feb 25, 2020 02:35
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Xaris posted:Sacred 1 and 2 were neat, mostly in part because they had some real crazy classes to play, a kind of insanity not seen in any others. a weird flawed euro-janky game though. i wouldn't replay them today though, too many good games. shame Ascaron never really succeeded and lol sacred 3 I mean, the real shame is that the ex-devs trying to do the spiritual successor folded when one of their key programmers died. That was a long depressing rabbit hole to chase one night.
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Feb 25, 2020 02:39
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classes include: a literal angel, a kind of Egyptian anubis robot with a megaman arm???
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Xaris posted:Sacred 1 and 2 were neat, mostly in part because they had some real crazy classes to play, a kind of insanity not seen in any others. a weird flawed euro-janky game though. i wouldn't replay them today though, too many good games. shame Ascaron never really succeeded and lol sacred 3 I mean, what's good in the ARPG genre today? Path of Exile, Titan Quest+Grim Dawn, Van Helsing Final Cut, Soldak's weirdo games, maybe Book of Demons, How to Survive 1+2, Torchlight (ehhh), and Victor Vran. Maybe Diablo 3 but I can't justify buying it. Maybe the new 40k ARPG by the Helsing people. Apparently Wolcen sucks? So while there are clearly better choices, there aren't enough of them to write off the early Sacreds forever. As far as I know it's a weird tiny genre.
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Feb 25, 2020 02:41
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"strix, does this new interest in ARPGs mean you're done with zombies" nah, it just means I need a podcast game! also I was playing Project Zomboid this morning and dad walked in mid-combat and I had to pause and listen to him tell a dad joke and by the time I unpaused I'd lost the tempo of combat and got bitten and there went that run.
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StrixNebulosa posted:I mean, what's good in the ARPG genre today? Path of Exile, Titan Quest+Grim Dawn, Van Helsing Final Cut, Soldak's weirdo games, maybe Book of Demons, How to Survive 1+2, Torchlight (ehhh), and Victor Vran. It's a fair point that it's pretty limited, but ARPGs are already in themselves like 400 hr behemoths if you want them to be, especially PoE; and there are lots of other non-arpg spectacular games out there as well. I would recommend D3+RoS if you haven't though, i think it goes on sale pretty cheap. I'm actually lukewarm on it and even after they "fixed it" i still didn't like it that much, but it's still a good modern and simple one that it would be remiss to miss im playing through Grim Dawn+DLC with a friend and it's a drat good game if you haven't played that either. I usually put a TV show or podcast on my second monitor and play through it just fine
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StrixNebulosa posted:I mean, what's good in the ARPG genre today? Path of Exile, Titan Quest+Grim Dawn, Van Helsing Final Cut, Soldak's weirdo games, maybe Book of Demons, How to Survive 1+2, Torchlight (ehhh), and Victor Vran. I'll stan for Wolcen. It's got great underlying combat mechanics and is easily the prettiest ARPG around, but it's buggy and unbalanced as all hell. It's pretty obvious the studio ran out of money and released it as is, but it sold a shitload and if they keep working on it I'd recommend it wholeheartedly. I don't usually get far into engame stuff, but if they fix what's broke, then it's good for a few campaign runthroughs if nothing else. Otherwise Grim Dawn's definitely my favourite game in the genre, probably of all time. D2's got some sick mods also.
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Xaris posted:It's a fair point that it's pretty limited, but ARPGs are already in themselves like 400 hr behemoths if you want them to be, especially PoE; and there are lots of other non-arpg spectacular games out there as well. I would recommend D3+RoS if you haven't though, i think it goes on sale pretty cheap. I'm actually lukewarm on it and even after they "fixed it" i still didn't like it that much, but it's still a good modern and simple one that it would be remiss to miss I cannot give money to Blizzard currently, but if it ever turns up in a bundle I'll give D3 a go. As for Grim Dawn I'm struggling to find a groove in it. I've put four hours into it over the last few years and it just hasn't clicked. Might be the build, might be me. I'll give it more time tomorrow.
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Feb 25, 2020 02:55
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StrixNebulosa posted:Apparently Wolcen sucks?
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What I know about Wolcen: it was missing like 75% of its content until the 1.0 release, the release dropped, and now it has mixed reviews on steam, and the general tone of those reviews are "I want to love this game but" Which is to say I'd be up for buying it in a few months, maybe years, but certainly not now.
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Feb 25, 2020 03:02
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StrixNebulosa posted:I cannot give money to Blizzard currently, but if it ever turns up in a bundle I'll give D3 a go. Also yeah Wolcen is "bad", I bought it and refunded it. It has too many structural issues to probably fix but worth a check out at the end of the year for winter sale if it's $15. it ain't worth $40 at all though and needs some serious time in the oven because it was totally rushed as hell. I mean it has some good parts, it's general moment-gameplay stuff (if you don't fall through a floor or off the map) is really good, but everything else is a real mess and itemization is horrendously bad.
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You definitely want that auto-attack/spell skill that's satisfying to you in grim dawn early on. And then cheat yourself super speed after 3 dozen hours.
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Wolcen is still very very much in early access, don't be fooled by the release moniker. The good news about it is that the game looks good, and the combat feels good. The bad news is that it is buggy and unbalanced as all hell. Half of the passive tree nodes don't even work. Some of the skills are doing orders of magnitude more damage than others. There have been some seriously nasty progression being lost or not registered properly kind of bugs, online stash tabs disappearing, and so on. Not sure how many of those have been fixed by now, but still worth noting. I would say give it another 6-12 months or so and then take another look and see how much they've fixed it up. It has a lot of potential if they keep working on it.
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wolcen makes a pretty strong impression in the first 2-3 hours and seems like it has a lot of promise, then quickly unravels and reveals itself to be an unfinished, buggy bad game
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Feb 25, 2020 04:45
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please don't buy Wolcen before waiting a few more weeks to see how it pans out
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oh yeah, that reminds me of one of my biggest complaints where i took a talent that poisoned everyone in a 10 yard radius every 2 seconds and others that boosted my damage to poisoned enemies. except the former talent gets turned off in cut scenes, presumably so it doesn't kill people and break them, and doesn't get turned back on after so i had to struggle through every single boss fight doing much less damage than i should have been and constantly exiting the game to reactivate my build. the pinwheel tree is a cool gimmick though.
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