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Anonymous Robot posted:Holy poo poo, the sequel to King of Dragon Pass actually came out
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Cardiovorax posted:Six Ages has been on iOS for quite a while now. I'm glad to finally see it on something I actually own, though. Yeah, I picked it up on iOS where it apparently came put last year. But I remember when it announced, the release seemed so distant and frankly unlikely that I just pushed it out of mind.
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Not sure this is the right thread for it, but anyway. I signed up for the Humble Choice thing with the coupon from the covid bundle. I picked out my games for this month, but I saw that they would start billing me like the 24th of May or some such. Doesn't that mean I could also pick out games for May once they get released, and then cancel the Choice before the bill hits? In effect, you'd get two months? It sounds weird to me but I don't really know how it works.
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Sprenk posted:Not sure this is the right thread for it, but anyway. I signed up for the Humble Choice thing with the coupon from the covid bundle. I picked out my games for this month, but I saw that they would start billing me like the 24th of May or some such. Doesn't that mean I could also pick out games for May once they get released, and then cancel the Choice before the bill hits? In effect, you'd get two months? It sounds weird to me but I don't really know how it works. Nope, you get access to May's games on the 24th unless you choose to have them bill you early for them.
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Sprenk posted:Not sure this is the right thread for it, but anyway. I signed up for the Humble Choice thing with the coupon from the covid bundle. I picked out my games for this month, but I saw that they would start billing me like the 24th of May or some such. Doesn't that mean I could also pick out games for May once they get released, and then cancel the Choice before the bill hits? In effect, you'd get two months? It sounds weird to me but I don't really know how it works. You can, however, choose to be billed early and get access to the games you want to select early. Think of it as kind of like a pre-order, basically: you put in your order for it now, but you only pay cash on arrival.
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goferchan posted:Nope, you get access to May's games on the 24th unless you choose to have them bill you early for them. Cardiovorax posted:No, the billing for a given month only goes into effect at the end of the month, so that you have time to decide if you want the stuff or not, at which point you can then pick out which of the games you want. A week or so later, the stuff for the next month will be revealed. Ah yeah, that does make more sense. Thanks for the clarification!
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I liked all the ancient aliens stuff in Origins but it was really weird how neither Bayek nor the animus lady ever commented on the stuff you came across. Surely Bayek would have some thoughts on putting on a glowing iron man suit after being teleported out of a hologram cave?
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I like to imagine the Final Fantasy tie-ins as actual in-universe paid advertising added by Abstergo.
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I'm weird, I actually liked the BUT ALIENS real world part of the Desmond substory and wasn't really interested as much in Ancient Italy/Rome or whatever. I mean like it was cool like, OLD ANCIENT CITY, but the Today parts were easier to relate to....because well, it's today. But it seemed like they weren't doing enough of them.
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1247163040664977412 
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Since someone asked a Humble Choice question: If I pause a month (I already own everything I'd want from this month) do I lose access to the Classic plan I'm grandfathered into?  This kinda makes it seem like I will (I pay annually if this makes a difference)
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101 posted:If I pause a month (I already own everything I'd want from this month) do I lose access to the Classic plan I'm grandfathered into? I pay monthly, though, so you should check if this actually pushes your due date back a month.
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101 posted:Since someone asked a Humble Choice question: Pausing does not terminate the Classic plan. You can find that statement on the transition FAQ they put out. 
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The reason they shitcanned the obvious modern day AC is because they had no idea how to adapt the AC formula to a time when cars and guns existed. Like their dumb, by committee, "this is how X is done, Y works like this, climb the towers yo reveal the map etc etc." Iirc, that much has even been said in interviews before. They just don't know how to do an AC game where you're not stabbing everyone while running around on foot.
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ShootaBoy posted:The reason they shitcanned the obvious modern day AC is because they had no idea how to adapt the AC formula to a time when cars and guns existed. Like their dumb, by committee, "this is how X is done, Y works like this, climb the towers yo reveal the map etc etc." Iirc, that much has even been said in interviews before. They just don't know how to do an AC game where you're not stabbing everyone while running around on foot. Watch Dogs?
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ShootaBoy posted:The reason they shitcanned the obvious modern day AC is because they had no idea how to adapt the AC formula to a time when cars and guns existed.
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ShootaBoy posted:The reason they shitcanned the obvious modern day AC is because they had no idea how to adapt the AC formula to a time when cars and guns existed. Like their dumb, by committee, "this is how X is done, Y works like this, climb the towers yo reveal the map etc etc." Iirc, that much has even been said in interviews before. They just don't know how to do an AC game where you're not stabbing everyone while running around on foot. While you are mostly wrong about this (Watch Dogs) let us not forget the final modern day section of AC3, wherein Desmond breaks into an Abstergo facility to find that all the security guards are armed with glocks that fire one round every minute.
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Does anyone have any opinions on Let It Die? The idea of a gear-based dungeon-crawler where you need to craft/scavenge gear as you climb a huge fuckin tower is really appealing, but I know it's F2P and shot-through with microtransactions and mobage-style inticements to spend. Is it fairly lenient or do you hit a point where you need to spend real money to advance? I'm looking for a new (non-supernatural, non-charactyer action) brawler after finishing the Yakuza series but it's tough. Pierson fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Apr 6, 2020 |
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Pierson posted:Does anyone have any opinions on Let It Die? The idea of a gear-based dungeon-crawler where you need to craft/scavenge gear as you climb a huge fuckin tower is really appealing, but I know it's F2P and shot-through with microtransactions and mobage-style inticements to spend. Is it fairly lenient or do you hit a point where you need to spend real money to advance? You reach a point where it becomes extremely prohibitive to advance without paying, though not impossible and you do this within like three to six hours played depending on how good you are at Souls-likes. It's also an exceptionally bad Souls-like atop that.
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Cardiovorax posted:... but like every game since Black Flag has has guns in it, at the latest? I think this was a solved problem by then. The answer is to give the player a fuckload of mobility options.
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Cardiovorax posted:... but like every game since Black Flag has has guns in it, at the latest? Blackpowder firearms, not 600 round a minute automatics. Big difference. And I'm saying what I remember from old interviews I read at the time, when gaming magazines still existed.
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Pierson posted:Does anyone have any opinions on Let It Die? The idea of a gear-based dungeon-crawler where you need to craft/scavenge gear as you climb a huge fuckin tower is really appealing, but I know it's F2P and shot-through with microtransactions and mobage-style inticements to spend. Is it fairly lenient or do you hit a point where you need to spend real money to advance? It can be really brutal and unforgiving, which initially seems like big incentive to spend money, but in almost every case spending money won't help you either. It's honestly most like a weird indie roguelike, with bizarre design decisions everywhere. Kinda like, what's the name, that Dreamcast roguelike RPG. Baroque! It's kinda like that, a little.
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Orv posted:While you are mostly wrong about this (Watch Dogs) let us not forget the final modern day section of AC3, wherein Desmond breaks into an Abstergo facility to find that all the security guards are armed with glocks that fire one round every minute. I always thought it would be cool for the modern game to have you say running around the coliseum modern day, and the screen flashes and you're Ezio in Italy and the guys with submachine guns are now guards with crossbows, and then mix that up for the other games in the Desmond series. Climbing through scaffolding in an under construction high rise and now you're Edward running around a sea of ships' yards and masts, etc.
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This is a very weird question: I have a few games in my inventory left over from when you could do that. Are they worth anything more than what the game is normally worth? Someone is asking for one of the games in my inventory and I don’t know if that makes it special since I guess he could just buy it from the Steam store itself
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Orv posted:It's also an exceptionally bad Souls-like atop that. I did try chasing a good new Souls-like game for a while and tried like a half-dozen (Code Vein, Surge 1+2 etc) but they all suffer from being Not As Good As Bloodborne.
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:This is a very weird question: I have a few games in my inventory left over from when you could do that. Are they worth anything more than what the game is normally worth? Someone is asking for one of the games in my inventory and I don’t know if that makes it special since I guess he could just buy it from the Steam store itself What game is it?
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:This is a very weird question: I have a few games in my inventory left over from when you could do that. Are they worth anything more than what the game is normally worth? Someone is asking for one of the games in my inventory and I don’t know if that makes it special since I guess he could just buy it from the Steam store itself Not inherently simply by being giftable but depending on the game it might be a bit of a rip off. PlushCow posted:I always thought it would be cool for the modern game to have you say running around the coliseum modern day, and the screen flashes and you're Ezio in Italy and the guys with submachine guns are now guards with crossbows, and then mix that up for the other games in the Desmond series. Climbing through scaffolding in an under construction high rise and now you're Edward running around a sea of ships' yards and masts, etc. They actually kind of sort of flirted with this a couple times, first in Unity with the WW2 sections and then more recently in Origins and Odyssey which both have sequences where your perception of reality shifts during a given sequence, but nothing that overt. Would be cool though.
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Pierson posted:Ouch. It's a shame too because the aesthetic looked fun. it's pretty crummy but it is free so it's got that going for it at least. gachapon mechanics, money traps, and a power creep curve so violent it's criminal ahoy though. if for whatever reason you do end up pulling the trigger on it just to check it out, never use real money currency (which the game throws a bunch at you when you're starting out to get you hooked) for anything besides expanding your stash. the game will beg you for fifty cents each time your character dies and it's absolutely the worst way to spend real world money on the game since all your characters get obsoleted as you climb the tower anyway, and if you want your inventory full of blueprints back you can just pay a pittance of in game cash for that
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PlushCow posted:I always thought it would be cool for the modern game to have you say running around the coliseum modern day, and the screen flashes and you're Ezio in Italy and the guys with submachine guns are now guards with crossbows, and then mix that up for the other games in the Desmond series. Climbing through scaffolding in an under construction high rise and now you're Edward running around a sea of ships' yards and masts, etc. This would rule, if you handled combat as Desmond having some  type flashbacks and then snapped back to reality after it was done it would both solve the modern combat problem and really sell that Desmond’s constant animus usage and the Bleeding Effect are really scrambling his brain.
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Sininu posted:What game is it? Child of Light But I got a few other games hanging around too
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ShootaBoy posted:Blackpowder firearms, not 600 round a minute automatics. Big difference. And I'm saying what I remember from old interviews I read at the time, when gaming magazines still existed.
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:Child of Light
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:Child of Light As far as I can tell that game has nothing special about it so I wouldn't worry much about getting ripped off. I got a game lying around too. Someone pls take my Awesomenauts copy. It's f2p now, but you'll get two characters for free with it!!
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ymgve posted:Just ignore the sound stuff, you only need to activate 7 of the 11 lasers to finish the game. Also ignore the village area until you've been through every other area, if that has stumped you - it is placed close to the start of the game, but you are not supposed to understand the puzzles there yet. Woof, what a game. I got a bunch of lasers up, started to descend into the 'endgame' area and then left when I found the puzzles with broken screens. That's not stimulating, that's just being a loving dick. Opened a few doors in the village, came to a puzzle about color mixing, and was about to alt-tab out to find out what color red and blue light mix into when I realized I really don't care anymore, I'm done. 10 hours in and I'm not going to bother to finish the game, it's really reinforcing my belief that someone got inspired by Talos and then totally failed to make a good successor. btw that's a 30 minute video...
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New GTFO rundown scenarios seem fun, played and beat the first one. Some new graphics, they introduce a few of the new mechanics.
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Superanos posted:Just in case you didn't know, that game does not end when you've built your last snowman. The other half of the game is even more insane. I am super super curious but also too dumb to solve this final puzzle. I'll keep pokinig at it!
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StrixNebulosa posted:
I think I remember this puzzle! Specifically, I remember looking up the solution because I'd had enough.  If I remember correctly the solution is super long and complicated. I couldn't bring myself to do the post-game. Think overall I like Cosmic Express and Sokobond better than Snowman.
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Serephina posted:I got a bunch of lasers up, started to descend into the 'endgame' area and then left when I found the puzzles with broken screens. That's not stimulating, that's just being a loving dick. Yes, those broken screen puzzles were obnoxious but I guess the idea was that if you were this far into the game you'd put up with them? Them and the timed/randomized puzzle stuff near the end go against the general laid-back nature of the game. Outside of those I think it's a very well realized puzzle game.
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