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StrixNebulosa posted:I own it! Also man. It's crazy to me that such a giant game is so cheap. That thing shoulda been 60$, not 20$ Also I DID buy it when it was $60, on the PS4 and don't feel like I made a bad choice at all 
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haldolium posted:Black Mesa comes out today as final version with Xen. Having played a couple of the beta versions of the end product in the last month or so, I have to say: Black Mesa is ASTONISHINGLY GOOD. As a huge HL1 fan, it was worth the long wait for this. It’s really a fantastic product and everyone should take a look.
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Mar 5, 2020 14:56
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Did they remove the two hour crate escalator section at the end?
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Mar 5, 2020 14:59
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Actually they replaced it with a four hour crate seesaw section.
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Mar 5, 2020 15:11
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Fallom posted:Did they remove the two hour crate escalator section at the end? Not sure which crate escalator part you are referring to but the entire thing has been streamlined. And then some new stuff added. A lot of Xen is literally brand new with visual callbacks to parts of the old game. The Gonarch fight/chase is a much bigger thing now and more of a spectacle. Orv posted:Actually they replaced it with a four hour crate seesaw section. Hey, Seesaws are the cutting edge of gameplay* *circa 2003
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Mar 5, 2020 15:13
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AirRaid posted:Having played a couple of the beta versions of the end product in the last month or so, I have to say: Yeah I have not been following this at all and wow, what an upgrade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAIJich73NY
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Mar 5, 2020 15:16
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AirRaid posted:Not sure which crate escalator part you are referring to but the entire thing has been streamlined. And then some new stuff added. A lot of Xen is literally brand new with visual callbacks to parts of the old game. The Gonarch fight/chase is a much bigger thing now and more of a spectacle. the version of black Mesa Xen I played through had a massively boring and lengthy crate escalator sequence after all the pretty outdoors stuff I thought the whole thing should’ve been removed before the full release
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Mar 5, 2020 15:18
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Fallom posted:the version of black Mesa Xen I played through had a massively boring and lengthy crate escalator sequence after all the pretty outdoors stuff Oh you mean the whole factory section with the conveyor belts? I dunno if that fits the description of “crate escalator”, and I enjoyed that section too, tho the early version had one part where you were getting quite heavily sniped by the flying Controllers and was quite challenging. Not sure if the final version has changed that but I can’t imagine the entire segment being removed.
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Mar 5, 2020 15:27
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AirRaid posted:Oh you mean the whole factory section with the conveyor belts? I dunno if that fits the description of “crate escalator”, and I enjoyed that section too, tho the early version had one part where you were getting quite heavily sniped by the flying Controllers and was quite challenging. Not sure if the final version has changed that but I can’t imagine the entire segment being removed. Well it’s got crates and you escalate with them. It struck me as something they must have designed much earlier in the process and never gone back over it like they did with the earlier parts of Xen. It’s a real sharp change in quality and ends up being some weird alien version of On a Rail. But overall I really liked Black Mesa so I still recommend it.
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Mar 5, 2020 15:38
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That part is very clearly based on part of Interloper in the original game. The Black Mesa version is still miles better than the original, but the whole concept doesn’t lend to the absolute best gameplay, granted. I really enjoyed that they broke up the conveyor belt stuff with the little side puzzles and mini boss rooms to open up doors etc to progress. Those also teach you an important mechanic for later boss fights.
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Mar 5, 2020 15:46
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AirRaid posted:That part is very clearly based on part of Interloper in the original game. The Black Mesa version is still miles better than the original, but the whole concept doesn’t lend to the absolute best gameplay, granted. I really enjoyed that they broke up the conveyor belt stuff with the little side puzzles and mini boss rooms to open up doors etc to progress. I enjoyed all of Black Mesa but I’m also one of those people who enjoys all of Half Life 2. Even that part you hate.
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Kibayasu posted:I enjoyed all of Black Mesa but I’m also one of those people who enjoys all of Half Life 2. Even that part you hate. How can you possibly enjoy storming Nova Prospekt with an army of ant-lions.
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My 300+ hour ARK experience is playing on a private PvE with about 3 other people, and we had a blast. Not sure I'd be as into it as a solo experience. Most of the fun was doing goofy poo poo like building floating fortresses on the raft, and circumnavigating the map, going on "whaling" expeditions. Or using pteranodons and wingsuits to glide from the peak of the volcano to anywhere on the map. Or building a giant ramp covered in tame dodos to collect their poop for fertilizer as it rolled to the bottom. Or getting assault rifles and RPGs, and staging a commando-style ambush to gun down a high level alpha T-Rex.
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Kibayasu posted:I enjoyed all of Black Mesa but I’m also one of those people who enjoys all of Half Life 2. Even that part you hate. I actually didn’t dislike any specific part of HL2, it was more several high level design decisions I was disappointed with. It’s not a bad game, but I felt it wasn’t the best sequel to Half-life we could have gotten.
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Mar 5, 2020 17:31
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Mutazione, Anodyne 2 and A Short Hike are all free on EGS next week, which is pretty amazing
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Foehammer posted:My 300+ hour ARK experience is playing on a private PvE with about 3 other people, and we had a blast. Not sure I'd be as into it as a solo experience. see that's the kind of thing that makes me want to pick it up - maybe I can convince a BFF to play it with me and do some silly things. Hmmmmm.
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Mar 5, 2020 18:09
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The Longing is out now. https://store.steampowered.com/app/893850/THE_LONGING/ quote:Play as a lonely Shade, the last servant of a king who once ruled an underground kingdom.   
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Mar 5, 2020 18:13
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Mar 5, 2020 18:22
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looking forward to this, which drops tomorrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiyIKagm6dI
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I haven't played the Stanley Parable in longer.quote:Read tons of classic literature from Nietzsche to Moby Dick right in the game - or at least have the shade read them. After all, time goes by faster if you learn to keep your mind occupied. It's already got 0,5-hour-playtime positive reviews.
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AirRaid posted:Having played a couple of the beta versions of the end product in the last month or so, I have to say: Even their first release of it without Xen was amazing. Really looking forward to playing through again with Xen attached. I only really disliked the beginning of Interloper back then because entering that area with low HP was a nightmare. Eventually I played so often through the game that the bad memory faded though. From design over sound to enhancing the original the BM team did an astonishing job.
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I remember when they were being ragged on for taking so long to do the remake. I was following their progress in the very beginning and lost interest around year 6 I think. It's been a long road but I'm glad they finally have it completed. It really is nice seeing the comparison, especially the sections that looked impractical or far fetched to be part of the facility in the original, so they added little details to make it work.
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I honestly find it a little odd that Black Mesa even exists. Does Valve just not care that people make things with their properties? Or did they make a deal with the devs? If they did, what about Hunt Down the Freeman? Why is that allowed to exist and be sold for money on Steam? Edit: The guy who made Hunt Down the Freeman now has a job at Activision Blizzard  https://twitter.com/BerkanDYRN Rotten Red Rod fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Mar 5, 2020 |
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Yeah iirc the black mesa team struck a deal with valve to sell it. Previously it was available on steam as just a free download. I can only imagine that after valve saw the professional quality of black mesa that they just assumed hunt down the freeman was up to par?
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Edit: The guy who made Hunt Down the Freeman now has a job at Activision Blizzard I find that hard to believe. It's too perfect.
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Antigravitas posted:I find that hard to believe. It's too perfect. It's real: https://www.linkedin.com/in/berkandenizyaran/ Mordja posted:As what, a janitor? Production Coordinator on Call of Duty Mobile, lol That makes me feel less bad, that type of position is basically a very, very junior level Project Manager position. He's not a game dev at all, he's kinda one step above an Admin Assistant. My guess is he got the job because he's Turkish and knows the language, so he's like a QA liason for the Turkish language version of the game. Rotten Red Rod fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Mar 5, 2020 |
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Antigravitas posted:I find that hard to believe. It's too perfect.
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I think I missed the earlier critical mass in the thread for Void Destroyer 2. But as an angle I don't think was stressed, it is the best Mount and Blade like game I've played. The individual progression treadmill, economy, and combat are all OK but come together as something really special and great. It has more than a few frustrations that crop up by the mid game holdings expansion phase, but also like Mount and Blade that's a couple dozen hours in and if you bounce off you've already played a decent game up to that point. I'm hoping those edges get rounded off with some of the 4X development the dev has said he's applying to this game paralell to his next.
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Oh man, seems like the ARK devs poo poo the bed once again with the new, and incredibly expensive, expansion according to RPS. I wouldn't have looked if there hadn't been ARK chat in here, so I though I'd share it.
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Flimf posted:The Longing is out now. I've actually been looking forward to this one, I love dumb games where you kind of do nothing.
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Mar 5, 2020 21:02
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You guys are posting like the bar for entry is high at Blizzard/Activision.
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Mar 5, 2020 21:40
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Hey, if all my chatter about Dynasty Warriors earlier interested you, they're all on sale on steam! Everyone should pick up 7 and/or 8 and enjoy them!
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What's a good coop building things game? My husband and I are really enjoying Subnautica and would like something in that vein. We've already played Mindustry and Factorio, is there anything else out there? Edit: Also played Terraria. Zaphiel fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Mar 5, 2020 |
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Mar 5, 2020 21:53
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If you're down with using the epic game store I hear Satisfactory is cool. Also, have you heard of a little game called Terraria?
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StrixNebulosa posted:Hey, if all my chatter about Dynasty Warriors earlier interested you, they're all on sale on steam! Everyone should pick up 7 and/or 8 and enjoy them! Also, the sequel to the best musou game (One Piece Pirate Warriors 3) is finally coming out later this month!
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Givin posted:You guys are posting like the bar for entry is high at Blizzard/Activision. It used to be (Blizzard, anyway). Their games used to be the gold standard for online multiplayer. I'm kind of sad that we're never getting another (good) installment of Starcraft or Warcraft. With how they're running now though, I'm more surprised that they're still hiring new people at all than about any specific person they hired.
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I got Savage Vessels last night and it's really neat - asteroidsing your way around an bunch of rocks and angry robots. It has great physicality, everything clunks and whirs and ptoonks.
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I think this thread sold me on Black Mesa. Are they close to the official 1.0 now that Xen is in? - Monster Hunter World. What a game. I think I'll squeeze around 10 more hours out of its post-game hijinks before finally uninstalling. The crossover questslines were pretty neat. I'm feeling too burned out to commit to the expansion though. Maybe I'll give it a year or two before coming back for more hunting. I do want to see the next monster siege with the Safijiiva or uh... however you spell it. - I highly recommend A Short Hike. It's a nice little game.
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Jamfrost posted:I think this thread sold me on Black Mesa. Are they close to the official 1.0 now that Xen is in? 1.0 is supposed to drop today - no idea when, though.
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