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Ghostlight posted:uncompressing audio requires cpu cycles which means you have less resources to send things to the graphics card, so it's a pretty easy cut when you're being asked to produce games with cutting-edge graphics for hardware that is several years old and even on release featured a cpu that reflected the need for that hardware to produce profit on a specific price point well below the cost of a consumer pc. Yeah, I could see that playing into it quite a bit. ZearothK posted:Re: file sizes. Back when Steam started I remember noises about users eventually choosing what texture sizes they'd download as well as audio languages, but I guess broadband and later fiber became more common and studios decided not to bother? Plus, the devs and publishers would have to be willing to provide special file packages for each level of texture quality, because these days, those are usually bundled into big package files instead of being individually accessible, and I guess the publishers just don't think it's worth the effort.
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Calladuty admitted they were paying zero attention to reusable assets (and more specifically had zero development practices and zero technical ability to use it in a space saving way) and on second thought their 190GB was obnoxiously duplicated data and said they might think about how to avoid it in the sequels maybe. There's a lot of bad compromises to be made doing size management for cheap and a lot of expensive technical overhead to do it right but I hope they start paying attention soon. I guess it could be worse as the worst size queens are games that live and die on their texture and model work and there's a lot of good stylized indies that run 1-15 GB and still look fine.
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Apr 4, 2020 23:42
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Life is Strange 1 was about two kooky fun teens who solve crimes and mess with the space-time continuum. Life is Strange 2 is about two angry depressed brothers who go on the run and suffer at the hands of institutional racism.
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Apr 4, 2020 23:43
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hi i love kassandra please stick more priceless rocks up sheep's bums thanks
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Pwnstar posted:Life is Strange 1 was about two kooky fun teens who solve crimes and mess with the space-time continuum. For whatever reason after having played Ep1 of LiS2, I have an easier time relating to single child white potentially lesbian girl than I do latino older brother. Maybe it's because I'm white with no siblings. Also it's way more interesting to have the MC have the superpowers rather than some NPC.
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So I've played some more Demoncrawl and I have never been so engrossed with Minesweeper in my life. Sometimes the RNG will screw you over - par for the course when it comes to rougelikes - which is why instead of trying not make a mistake, you're trying to mitigate potential mistakes as much as possible. It's definitely worth checking out because if it clicks for you, we're talking Slay the Spire levels of "one more try" here. The music is also something else.
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Apr 5, 2020 11:45
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Got some Steam credits and Sunset Overdrive looks fun and bright and wacky, sort of like a cross between Saints Row + Infamous? Or that's what it looks like to me with the power line riding. Not sure if that's a good buy or if I should hang onto my credits.
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Apr 5, 2020 11:48
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Artelier posted:Got some Steam credits and Sunset Overdrive looks fun and bright and wacky, sort of like a cross between Saints Row + Infamous? Or that's what it looks like to me with the power line riding. Not sure if that's a good buy or if I should hang onto my credits. The idea of Sunset Overdrive is a great deal more fun than the reality, I would pass on it except for genuinely free.
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Apr 5, 2020 11:49
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Orv posted:The idea of Sunset Overdrive is a great deal more fun than the reality, I would pass on it except for genuinely free. It's a great fit for a platform like Game Pass, and since it was published by Xbox Game Studios I think you can expect it to be on there forever.
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Apr 5, 2020 11:56
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StrixNebulosa posted:hi i love kassandra please stick more priceless rocks up sheep's bums thanks She's wonderful and I want to be her friend
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Apr 5, 2020 12:13
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The most endearing thing about Kassandra is that she ain't too bright from a character perspective so it's actually plausible that you continually find yourself in harm's way. In most RPGs there's usually some disconnect between the intellect of the main character compared to the amount of times they willingly throw themselves into danger but Kass being kinda dumb works in her favor.
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Apr 5, 2020 12:20
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zedprime posted:Calladuty admitted they were paying zero attention to reusable assets (and more specifically had zero development practices and zero technical ability to use it in a space saving way) and on second thought their 190GB was obnoxiously duplicated data and said they might think about how to avoid it in the sequels maybe. Acitivision don't care. They've got a captive audience. It's a little nuts that a launch PS4 has 400GB of storage and a single game today can take up half of that.
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exquisite tea posted:The most endearing thing about Kassandra is that she ain't too bright from a character perspective so it's actually plausible that you continually find yourself in harm's way. In most RPGs there's usually some disconnect between the intellect of the main character compared to the amount of times they willingly throw themselves into danger but Kass being kinda dumb works in her favor. *Yes*. She's a hero in the ancient Greek sense of the word, someone intensely passionate and dangerous who's less a saviour and more an ambulatory hurricane.
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Which is really quite a lot like regular hurricanes, when you think about it.
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Wow, the bosses in Kiwami 1 are total dogshit damage sponges. I think I'll play this one on easy, it feels more like Yakuza 0 that way. Majima everywhere is loving amazing though, I have had so many surprise guffaws.
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tripwood posted:Wow, the bosses in Kiwami 1 are total dogshit damage sponges. I think I'll play this one on easy, it feels more like Yakuza 0 that way. I don't think the game tells you this but when bosses do their regen bullshit you can cancel it with any heat move, not just the special Kiwami moves that you may or may not have yet.
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Apr 5, 2020 12:36
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Farming Simulator 2019 Tournament. Because we all need this in our lives! https://www.twitch.tv/giantssoftware
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PowerBeard posted:Farming Simulator 2019 Tournament. Because we all need this in our lives! This is kind of amazing. Also Farming Simulator is sneaky super fun and addictive and has a crazy good modding scene.
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God now I want to get back into Farming Sim but there's so many other games to play.
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So this came up in a Discord discussion today, but what's the name of the Egyptian or Mesopotamian city builder that was coming out this year/came out recently? The one like the old Caesar games. Is it any good?
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A Sometimes Food posted:So this came up in a Discord discussion today, but what's the name of the Egyptian or Mesopotamian city builder that was coming out this year/came out recently? The one like the old Caesar games. https://store.steampowered.com/app/818520/Builders_of_Egypt/
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A Sometimes Food posted:So this came up in a Discord discussion today, but what's the name of the Egyptian or Mesopotamian city builder that was coming out this year/came out recently? The one like the old Caesar games. Builders of Egypt, presumably. It's more like Children of the Nile than an Impressions game (an almost meaningless distinction unless you super give a poo poo) and from the previews I read a while back it's got a ways to go before it offers anything over that old game.
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Apr 5, 2020 14:11
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Orv posted:Builders of Egypt, presumably. It's more like Children of the Nile than an Impressions game (an almost meaningless distinction unless you super give a poo poo) and from the previews I read a while back it's got a ways to go before it offers anything over that old game. So I googled after I posted and I was actually thinking of Nebuchadnezzar, but awesome to know there's more than one.
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tripwood posted:Wow, the bosses in Kiwami 1 are total dogshit damage sponges. I think I'll play this one on easy, it feels more like Yakuza 0 that way. Despite opinions on YK1, Majima Everywhere made it so worth it. https://thumbs.gfycat.com/DefensiveBriefEmeraldtreeskink-mobile.mp4
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A Sometimes Food posted:So I googled after I posted and I was actually thinking of Nebuchadnezzar, but awesome to know there's more than one. Oh huh yep that sure is. Awesome.
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Speaking of Yakuza, I finally started Kiwami 2 and I can't beat the first boss even on easy  From my previous experience with Kiwami I'd say I forgot to buy some essential skill because the fight requires me to be on the loving ball instead of just going ham and mashing keys.
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IMO Kiwami 1 bosses weren't too bad (or as bad as everyone says) outside a few special cases, but I did a lot of side stuff, so I got plenty of upgrades and as able to destroy most of them relatively quickly. Not the best system, but I expected much worse.
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800peepee51doodoo posted:Killing *loor 2: 7QN6P-B508X-9*3RC Dang someone already snagged this 
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I'm really trying to get into this expanded Xen experience in Black Mesa, but i'm beginning to see why Valve never bothered to expand it. The endless caves and underwater sequences are like the equivalent of a sewers stage in space. It's just so boring after a while compared to main half-life game. It's not helped by the puzzles the devs put in being kind of obtuse or having two chase sequences that are basically the same thing. It was pretty (at the beginning) but now it's just a slog.
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Kin posted:I'm really trying to get into this expanded Xen experience in Black Mesa, but i'm beginning to see why Valve never bothered to expand it.
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Kin posted:I'm really trying to get into this expanded Xen experience in Black Mesa, but i'm beginning to see why Valve never bothered to expand it. Could've been much shorter indeed. Nihilant fight is better and the known parts are too, but it's way too long. Especially Interloper.
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anilEhilated posted:Interloper? Hah, yeah that's exactly where i am. Just at the bit after i powered up 3 sets of platforms and at a section where i'm having to jump up even more platforms to get sucked into a wall vent. Now i'm looking at another loving 'plug-power-into-things' puzzle where one of the power sockets is behind a spinning set of somethings and all effort has drained out of me to try and figure out how this bloody one is solved.
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Is anyone else having connection issues with Steam right now? e: never mind, it's working again. No idea what the problem was. Cardiovorax fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Apr 5, 2020 |
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5 hours into The Witness and I think it's starting to fray at the seams a bit. It started strong, with teaching scenarios for its (one, singular, loving-) mechanic and some blurbs both praising god and condemning religion. The puzzles started getting harder and more sideways thinking, which is good, but also started getting stupid; like, try to decipher notes that we're playing sounds over, or memorize-this moments. And the blurbs lost all focus, and now see to be some sort of grab-bag of meaningful sounding long rambling speeches that they scraped from wherever they could in the public domain. Does the game pull it together soon? Because at the moment its seeming like a knock off of Talos Principle, but lacking all charm or stimulation.
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Serephina posted:5 hours into The Witness and I think it's starting to fray at the seams a bit. It started strong, with teaching scenarios for its (one, singular, loving-) mechanic and some blurbs both praising god and condemning religion. The puzzles started getting harder and more sideways thinking, which is good, but also started getting stupid; like, try to decipher notes that we're playing sounds over, or memorize-this moments. And the blurbs lost all focus, and now see to be some sort of grab-bag of meaningful sounding long rambling speeches that they scraped from wherever they could in the public domain. You can honestly ignore any of the philosophical stuff, it really doesn't matter to any of the puzzles. Just focus on it as a puzzle game and if you're still not enjoying it you don't have to continue. From what I remember the area puzzles are reasonably independant so if you get stuck in one area you can go to a different one. Also if the sound puzzle is the one I think it is I also got stuck on it for a while, the answer kinda annoyed me but figuring out on my own felt really good.
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I got most of the way through The Witness and then stopped because I got stuck on the few remaining puzzles, and with nothing else left to do and the charm of wandering around the same areas over and over wearing thin, I ended up just fizzling out and never finishing it. For a really well done open-world puzzle game (though not the same type of puzzles as the Witness as it's more adventure game style) check out Supraland. It's a silly Metroidvania that managed to engage me enough that it became the only game on Steam that I actually got all the achievements for. It's by the guy that made the Notpron flash puzzle game from back in the day if anyone remembers that.
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Kin posted:Now i'm looking at another loving 'plug-power-into-things' puzzle where one of the power sockets is behind a spinning set of somethings and all effort has drained out of me to try and figure out how this bloody one is solved. I really liked most of Black Mesa but Interloper soiled the entire experience. The final boss is cool though.
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It took me five hours to make it off of the first island in AssCreed Odyssey and make it to Megaris. That included exploration, sidequests, and enjoying ocean combat. Jesus christ. I knew this game was huge but it's really gobsmacking how giant the map is, the scale of it.
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StrixNebulosa posted:It took me five hours to make it off of the first island in AssCreed Odyssey and make it to Megaris. That included exploration, sidequests, and enjoying ocean combat. It's amazingly big. And there's stuff absolutely everywhere, even out in the middle of the ocean they've dotted rare ships to find and fight, so there's always something to reward exploring. You can also sequence break the poo poo out of quests by doing stuff like accidentally finding and killing a guy before you even know about the quest and you'll still get rewards whenever you eventually stumble across the questgiver.
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