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Zereth posted:I played some of the first Eschalon game but all i remember was that it was real slow. I mean, like, just moving around and stuff, not talking about the plot or anything.
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Cardiovorax posted:Yeah, that's a common reaction and actually one of the most common criticisms that the Eschalon series got. Everything just took for-loving-ever to do. Anyway, Balrum plays the same in a lot of ways - quasi-turn based gameplay in isometric 2D, grid-based, exploring a world and dungeons while talking to the occasional NPC and solving quests. It's very basic and old school. Not necessarily in a bad way, but if you've ever played a game like that at all, you basically know what you're getting into.
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Mar 3, 2020 11:41
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Zereth posted:But is Balrum also real slow?
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Mar 3, 2020 11:52
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Balrum is nice, but I believe it could be 70% longer. All skills end in lv 3 and everything designs within these capacity.
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Mar 3, 2020 14:21
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Holy poo poo that Suicide game Though relatedly I'm reading a Hemingway novel about a 50 year old colonel and a 19 year old countessa He calls her "Daughter" Please stop Ernest DatonKallandor posted:Yeah it's a shame they're disappearing up Destiny's rear end in a top hat. Especially when it comes to things that Bungie is absolutely awful at, like player movement and most of the gun feel. 
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Mar 3, 2020 16:16
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Kennel posted:Everyone, remember to check out Yoku's Island Express. This is from pages back, but I had a lovely few hours with it. Super cute game, my only niggle was the bouncing physics on the flippers not being realistic. Everyone should give it a try.
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Mar 3, 2020 20:27
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Halo 1 Anniversary suddenly dropped for the PC version of the Master Chief Collection today, I knew testing was finishing but I didn't expect them to just drop it without announcing a date or something. Haven't played it yet, so no idea if it's launching in a better condition than Reach.
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Mar 3, 2020 20:41
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Have they fixed the audio in reach?
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Mar 3, 2020 20:48
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According to this Development Update from the end of January they are "working on it," but the problem hasn't been solved yet.
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Mar 3, 2020 20:50
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There is a VN sale going on. Baldr Sky, Aokana, The House in Fata Morgana are all games with more recent localizations that are highly worth checking out if you can deal with the weeb factor. The discounts aren't too hefty, though. Then you have large collections of well-established VNs like Umineko, Higurashi, Steins Gate, and Zero Escape which have fairly large discounts.
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Mar 3, 2020 21:32
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Both the Ace Attorney and Zero Escape games are a great pick for mystery games, even though the biggest puzzle in ZE tends to be what kind of situation you even are in.
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Mar 3, 2020 21:37
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In the interest of accuracy, in that Suicide of Rachel Foster tweet, the character (Irving) that the streamer jokes about is not the gross 50 year old guy who was grooming the title character, but the FEMA agent who is communicating with the character you play as. I don't know what the joke is referring to, as there seems to be some late twist in the story involving this character and I haven't played it myself, but it seems like it is not as tasteless a joke (or dev response) as it initially seems. Still seems like a lazy and tasteless joke, but not as extreme as it would be if it was actually referring to the main character's gross pedo dad.
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Mar 3, 2020 21:57
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I'm gonna say maybe don't apologize even laterally for the dude who wrote the story of that game, such as it is.
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Mar 3, 2020 22:01
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Orv posted:I'm gonna say maybe don't apologize even laterally for the dude who wrote the story of that game, such as it is. I consider accuracy in online pillorying important, but eh you're probably right. Honestly even if I hadn't incorrectly assumed the character the tweet was talking about was the old pedo guy, it's still pretty gross, and only seemed less so in in comparison. On reflection, I shouldn't have bothered posting. Oh well 
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Mar 3, 2020 22:21
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I'm aware this is an extreme longshot, but is there a way to transfer my save for Yakuza 0 from PS4 to PC? I wouldn't have gotten it at all, but the pack is on sale on steam and it was like $2.60 more to get it than to get Kiwami and Kiwami 2 without 0.
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Mar 3, 2020 22:33
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Samuringa posted:Both the Ace Attorney and Zero Escape games are a great pick for mystery games, even though the biggest puzzle in ZE tends to be what kind of situation you even are in. The Ace Attorney games are all great and very charming, though. Definite recommendation.
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allow me to re-re-re-re-recommend AI: The Somnium Files and 428 Shibuya Scramble
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Cardiovorax posted:I personally wouldn't recommend going past the first Zero Escape game. They kinda keep getting progressively more batshit in what I thought was a bad way. Counterpoint: They get more batshit in an amazing way.
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Mar 3, 2020 22:47
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I didn't mind VLR's escalation as much as the last 1/4th of the game or so going full midquel whose only purpose was to retrofit everything that happened so far to set up Zero Time Dilemma. Even then, it was a fine game overall.
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Mar 3, 2020 22:53
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Hwurmp posted:allow me to re-re-re-re-recommend AI: The Somnium Files and 428 Shibuya Scramble AI: Somnium Files is on sale for half off right now.
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sebmojo posted:Have they fixed the audio in reach? For a bit more in depth discussion, I found this in a PC Gamer article about crouching issues in Halo: Reach vs Halo quote:In converting sounds engineered for the Xbox 360, which has a very different architecture than a PC, the audio mix didn't come out true to the original.
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Mar 3, 2020 23:13
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:Is the Borderlands Lilith DLC that bridges the gap between 2 and 3 worth picking up? I just noticed it's on sale Not really, even in terms of Borderlands 2 dlc it clearly didn't have much of a budget. It's more promotional.
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Propaganda Hour posted:lol if you remember video game trailers i will always remember this trailer just because of its absolutely inspired musical choice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGmmXd8r4YQ and also for apparently being better than the actual game lmao
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dmboogie posted:and also for apparently being better than the actual game lmao Basically everything GW related is that. I wonder how cheap they pawn off their IP for, since it's everywhere and they're almost all trash. edit: I should clarify, I mean in the context of video games, and the gameplay/mechanics/end product is trash, the assets themselves are usually quite well done.
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Serephina posted:Basically everything GW related is that. I wonder how cheap they pawn off their IP for, since it's everywhere and they're almost all trash. They gave one of the Space Hulk games to a random studio because they met them at GDC and the guy happened to have a pitch while THQ was imploding.
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Oh gently caress those guys, they made that spacehulk game that I bought and still rue to this day.
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Just give us a good modern remake of Chaos Gate, please God
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dmboogie posted:i will always remember this trailer just because of its absolutely inspired musical choice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug_gqH1tzPk Nordick posted:Just give us a good modern remake of Chaos Gate, please God  - Anything in the Visual Novel sale worth checking out in particular? I'm thinking about getting AI Somnium, but I dunno if there's anything else of interest. Someone mentioned 428 Shibuya Scramble, and I'm thinking about doing that over AI Somnium, only because AI Somnium still seems a little on the expensive side. Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Mar 4, 2020 |
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Max Wilco posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug_gqH1tzPk To reiterate, Baldr Sky, Aokana, The House in Fata Morgana are all extreme top tier VNs that are fairly new to Steam. I guess Fata Morgana has been around for a few years, but I don't think the other two have.
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BabyRyoga posted:To reiterate, I remember Fata Morgana being recommended before. Baldr Sky looks interesting in that it's mixed with an action game with mechs. Aokana looks...eh? Doesn't really pique my interest (summary makes it sound like it's about world where they invent shoes that let you fly, and there's some competition), but it doesn't look bad, and the reviews for it seem pretty positive.On another note, how long has Nightshade been for sale on Steam? And how does it qualify as an otome game?  (It doesn't seem to be up there anymore, but it was for a short while.) Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 05:30 on Mar 4, 2020 |
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Max Wilco posted:Anything in the Visual Novel sale worth checking out in particular? I'm thinking about getting AI Somnium, but I dunno if there's anything else of interest. Someone mentioned 428 Shibuya Scramble, and I'm thinking about doing that over AI Somnium, only because AI Somnium still seems a little on the expensive side.
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Demonheart was a mod for the original Neverwinter Nights, it was surprising to seeing a standalone version on Steam this many years later.
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Cardiovorax posted:If Analogue: A Hate Story is on sale, I recommend getting that. It's less a VN and more a pretty solid science fiction novel in VN format. Isn’t “novel” what the N in VN stands for?
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Isn’t “novel” what the N in VN stands for? I guess you could say that it's just heavier on the "being a novel" part of it than on the "being a game" part.
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Visual Novels aren't defined by having choices, several of them are static and all you do is click to move the text forward if even that much. Analogue is a VN by any metric.
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If that's how you prefer it, sure. Point was more that as a general thing, the whole choices and branching paths thing is something VNs do a lot and Analogue isn't very heavy on that. Just so that anyone interested is aware.
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And even then, Analogue is a VN with choices, you pick whether to side with *Mute or *Hyun-Ae and seeing their different routes; although the game is a bit more focused on Hyun(And Hate+ on Mute), there are still different paths and endings.
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The framing device has multiple endings. Hyun-Ae's story doesn't, though, seeing as one of the first things you learn is that she has already been dead for over a century by the time the game starts. Since I consider that the actually important part of the story I personally don't think the rest matters all that much, but if you disagree, then whatever I guess. VVV I swear, VN nerds are even worse than anime nerds when it comes to making everything into a dumb argument. Cardiovorax fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Mar 4, 2020 |
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The definition you made up in your head doesn't matter to other people, correct.
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If it's voiced then it's not a visual novel, it's a visual audiobook.
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