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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:It lets you charge into Genestealers, killing them by sprinting at them. Somehow it makes this incredibly unsatisfying. The trailer is still spectacular though. If you've not seen it, it's well worth a watch.
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AC Origins: I'm so glad I had a breakthrough with the combat system in Odyssey, as I'm enjoying the combat in Origins a lot better. I'm done sweeping through the old zones with ? marks I missed, and now I'm back at level and oh god, I'm so glad I understand combat now because this would've murdered me before. So - score! Odyssey isn't just an amazing game, it retroactively has made Origins even better! I do have one complaint though: why the gently caress did the ancient Egyptians put so many counterweight puzzles in their pyramids and tombs?!
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:It lets you charge into Genestealers, killing them by sprinting at them. Somehow it makes this incredibly unsatisfying. The trailer is still spectacular though. If you've not seen it, it's well worth a watch. That trailer was so awesome and it made so many Warhammer nerds angry that the trailer music wasn’t generic Ominous Latin Chanting, so it was a bit of a twofer. Seriously was too bad the game couldn’t live up to it.
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StrixNebulosa posted:I do have one complaint though: why the gently caress did the ancient Egyptians put so many counterweight puzzles in their pyramids and tombs?! they used all their pushable blocks on the outsides
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StrixNebulosa posted:I do have one complaint though: why the gently caress did the ancient Egyptians put so many counterweight puzzles in their pyramids and tombs?!
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Hwurmp posted:they used all their pushable blocks on the outsides giving me war flashbacks to Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver thanks Cardiovorax posted:They're supposed to keep people away, so of course they would be obnoxious. It makes perfect sense. uuughhhhhhhhh
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StrixNebulosa posted:giving me war flashbacks to Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver thanks I'm sorry but that's demonstrably a good thing.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:That trailer was so awesome and it made so many Warhammer nerds angry that the trailer music wasn’t generic Ominous Latin Chanting, so it was a bit of a twofer. Seriously was too bad the game couldn’t live up to it. Also, apparently full mariachi skins were just an april fools joke and not available in-game?
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And such a shame, that. El Mariachi Misterioso was the best Metal Gear Rising skin.
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Is the PC version of Gloomhaven worth it in it's current state or should I wait for a full release?
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Orv posted:I'm sorry but that's demonstrably a good thing. I would kill for a Soul Reaver series remaster, I finished playing through the first game recently and the 10 or less FPS was killing me inside by the end.
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I want a Blood Omen 1 remaster. I remember the game being pretty clunky to play even when it was brand new.
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going through Far Cry New Dawn since I got it on sale. it is really funny, to me, that when you clear out a nest of hooligans the music switches from that dang hippity hoppity music to gold ol' 50, 60s tunes. post nuclear maga!
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Floodkiller posted:I would kill for a Soul Reaver series remaster, I finished playing through the first game recently and the 10 or less FPS was killing me inside by the end. I hope they remake the entire series into one game. There's a lot of fluff that can be cut out, and a lot of assets can be reused since a lot of the game takes place in similar locations, just at different points of time. Then we can finally get that last bit of story after Defiance. It's a travesty that this franchise is gathering cobwebs is what I'm saying. In all those years, there are few games that come close to what LoK could in a single cutscene.
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Well A Hat In Time's cruise ship's 2nd level just broke me, uninstalling forever. Time to go back to something more forgiving like Nioh or Dark Souls.
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Blattdorf posted:I hope they remake the entire series into one game. There's a lot of fluff that can be cut out, and a lot of assets can be reused since a lot of the game takes place in similar locations, just at different points of time. Then we can finally get that last bit of story after Defiance. I kind of agree, but could it ever be the same without Tony Jay?
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So I bought Pillars 2. Any opinions on the difference between real time vs turn based, or is it just kind of a personal preference type thing?
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I haven't been keeping up with this thread so I don't know if this game is a thread darling yet (I sure hope so!), but in case it isn't: World of Horror is Junji Ito the Video Game, and it's loving amazing. It plays like an Arkham Horror that's actually faithful to it's source material, the visuals are loving outstanding, it's ridiculously replayable before even leaving Early Access, I can't recommend it enough.DeadFatDuckFat posted:So I bought Pillars 2. Any opinions on the difference between real time vs turn based, or is it just kind of a personal preference type thing? The game is balanced around Real-Time, I feel that mechanically it works better in that mode. I loved the idea of Turn-Based Mode but it kind of fell flat for me, try Real-Time and see if it feels too hectic for you, I thought that at first but eventually got used to it. Random Asshole fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Apr 12, 2020 |
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:So I bought Pillars 2. Any opinions on the difference between real time vs turn based, or is it just kind of a personal preference type thing? RTwP is by far the more polished mode. TB isn't bad, really, it just never had time to mature and the encounters aren't really built for it. Unless you really feel strongly about playing TB I would go for RT.
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Up to personal taste, but I found turn-based way, wayyyyy too slow for poe2. It's a long game and every little encounter taking 5+ minutes to resolve is brutal. Great game, but it was designed around rtwp and the addition of turn-based, while a neat touch, feels a bit half baked in execution.
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What games are there like Terraria and Starbound? I tried playing Terraria after years of having it and I bounced hard. The interface is awful and the only help you get is one guy with some repeating lines. Starbound handles the onboarding much better but I already finished it years ago. I want exploring, crafting and NPCs.
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lunar detritus posted:What games are there like Terraria and Starbound? I tried playing Terraria after years of having it and I bounced hard. The interface is awful and the only help you get is one guy with some repeating lines. Starbound handles the onboarding much better but I already finished it years ago. Minecraft.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Minecraft. Already played it. 
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lunar detritus posted:What games are there like Terraria and Starbound? I tried playing Terraria after years of having it and I bounced hard. The interface is awful and the only help you get is one guy with some repeating lines. Starbound handles the onboarding much better but I already finished it years ago. Alright, effort time. Subnautica. Instead of NPCs you get plot. You can turn off survival stuff if you don't want to bother. Hand-crafted world, lots of underwater stuff. No Man's Sky: controversial but fun space exploration game with lots of NPCs and a weird plot. Lots of procgen, and ongoing updates. Staxel. It's Minecraft, but with a focus on hand-crafted stuff and farming. Very cute.
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lunar detritus posted:What games are there like Terraria and Starbound? I tried playing Terraria after years of having it and I bounced hard. The interface is awful and the only help you get is one guy with some repeating lines. Starbound handles the onboarding much better but I already finished it years ago. Dragon Quest Builders, sort of
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:So I bought Pillars 2. Any opinions on the difference between real time vs turn based, or is it just kind of a personal preference type thing? There are also a few bugs, such as certain battles that take place inside towns causing every single guard to aggro you and townspeople just walking around freely in the middle of the battle, not observing initiative order.
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Did anybody play It Lurks Below, that Terrarialike by David Brevik?
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Volte posted:As others have said, RTwP is probably the best bet. I enjoyed Turn Based for awhile but after hitting 30 hours and only having barely started the main quest, I used the console to switch back. The thing that made me decide to switch was a ship battle that I failed after 25 minutes of fighting. Once I switched, it took about 30 seconds to resolve. I wish they had borrowed the AP system from Fallout 2, and not the "Prostitute uses Jet (x20)" issue. Edit: Seriously though, I love turn-based RPGs but REALLY wish the people that made them would cotton on to having trash mobs (and civilians caught in a crossfire) move and act as a single unit, rather then have them all take an individual turn that takes like 15 seconds each to complete. This is how XCOM2 handles it's trash mobs (The Lost) and it feels like the Nemesis system in terms of "things that should be in literally every game from now on". Random Asshole fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Apr 12, 2020 |
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Yeah thinking that blowing away a whole town in Fallout 2 is a mistake I think we all made once. Let's wait around 10 minutes for each brahmin to move.
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Oh man, that Chinatown battle. As an aside, it really is a tragedy that the Legacy of Kain series is a dead franchise.
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ZearothK posted:Oh man, that Chinatown battle.
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Hwurmp posted:I kind of agree, but could it ever be the same without Tony Jay? No, it couldn't but realistically there are many talented people out there and I would accept a close enough facsimile.
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A few months ago, my buddy Kragger99 gifted me Mafia 3. After spending ~40 hours into it (and not beating it yet) I decided to post my recommendation to this thread. Yes, it's an open world game that's kinda repetitive. However, I found the setting interesting, characters + story well written, and graphics nice to look at, and that's worth the time to me. Definitely recommend it, with a caveat - it's repetitive (sorta). You take over districts, and to do that, you have to kill enforcers and take out rackets. The rackets and enforcers are different in each district, but the idea and approach are similar. However, one district might have you taking out gambling stuff, another might have you taking out garbage cleaners (hitmen), and another might be fencing stolen goods. Is it an A+ game? Nah, but it's solid, and if the first few hours after the intro (I didn't think the intro did a good job of grabbing me) get you hooked like they did me, you should get a lot of enjoyment out of this one. Plus, stabbing dudes who call me the N word never gets old. americanzero4128 fucked around with this message at 03:27 on Apr 12, 2020 |
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americanzero4128 posted:A few months ago, my buddy Kragger99 gifted me Mafia 3. After spending ~40 hours into it (and not beating it yet) I decided to post my recommendation to this thread. Yes, it's an open world game that's kinda repetitive. However, I found the setting interesting, characters + story well written, and graphics nice to look at, and that's worth the time to me. Definitely recommend it, with a caveat - it's repetitive (sorta). You take over districts, and to do that, you have to kill enforcers and take out rackets. The rackets and enforcers are different in each district, but the idea and approach are similar. However, one district might have you taking out gambling stuff, another might have you taking out garbage cleaners (hitmen), and another might be fencing stolen goods. Is it an A+ game? Nah, but it's solid, and if the first few hours after the intro (I didn't think the intro did a good job of grabbing me) get you hooked like they did me, you should get a lot of enjoyment out of this one. Hell yeah. Imo Mafia III is a pretty mediocre gameplay experience that still rules because it nails its tone and sense of place so well. Cruising around New Bordeaux with the radio on and murdering the KKK never gets old.
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SardonicTyrant posted:I mean, I only played it for the cutscenes and the acting, I played a few of them and the gameplay was universally bad. Didn't play Blood Omen 1 though. Blood Omen 1 ruled, I got a demo of it as a kid from some magazine demo disc and it was one of the few games I went out of my way to track down a real copy of instead of settling for the demo. It was basically Zelda LttP: Vampires Edition. I was so hyped when Soul Reaver came out, I played for about 15 minutes, realized it wasn't the same thing, then never touched the franchise again.
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vaginite posted:Yeah thinking that blowing away a whole town in Fallout 2 is a mistake I think we all made once. Let's wait around 10 minutes for each brahmin to move.
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Random rear end in a top hat posted:The game is balanced around Real-Time, I feel that mechanically it works better in that mode. I loved the idea of Turn-Based Mode but it kind of fell flat for me, try Real-Time and see if it feels too hectic for you, I thought that at first but eventually got used to it. Agreed with the caveat that turn-based really does work well, it just definitely makes a long game even longer. If you've got all the time in the world right now, they did a good job at making combat feel good in turn-based mode, it just requires a lot more of an investment. If you're mostly interested in story and dialogue and stuff though I'd 100% recommend playing RTWP; regardless of difficulty settings it's gonna be a lot faster edit: and while at the end of the day I'm glad they added turn-based and I prefer it, the game's a good example of why it's hard to design something for two masters. "Trash encounters" feel good in a RTWP game because they let you justify your builds and loadouts and it feels empowering when you can roll through them while taking little action. In a turn-based system they're really just a time-waster. PoE2 doesn't have TOO many gimmies like that but it's still enough that in turn-based they feel like a chore real quick goferchan fucked around with this message at 07:32 on Apr 12, 2020 |
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Random rear end in a top hat posted:I haven't been keeping up with this thread so I don't know if this game is a thread darling yet (I sure hope so!), but in case it isn't: World of Horror is Junji Ito the Video Game, and it's loving amazing. It plays like an Arkham Horror that's actually faithful to it's source material, the visuals are loving outstanding, it's ridiculously replayable before even leaving Early Access, I can't recommend it enough. Everything about it is outstanding. The music and sound effects are on point and set the tone so well. The options are incredible, changing from 1 bit to 2 bit makes a world of difference. I'd set it to green to get that Amstrad feel. The only reason I'm not playing it over and over is I want to wait for the full release.
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deep dish peat moss posted:Blood Omen 1 ruled, I got a demo of it as a kid from some magazine demo disc and it was one of the few games I went out of my way to track down a real copy of instead of settling for the demo. It was basically Zelda LttP: Vampires Edition. I was so hyped when Soul Reaver came out, I played for about 15 minutes, realized it wasn't the same thing, then never touched the franchise again.
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deep dish peat moss posted:I was so hyped when Soul Reaver came out, I played for about 15 minutes, realized it wasn't the same thing, then never touched the franchise again. I'd really love to see a remake but given what happened with Nosgoth it seems unlikely at best. Another franchise lost to stupid marketing decisions.
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