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drat Dirty Ape posted:Outer Wilds Doesn't exist until it gets to steam  Artelier posted:Every time I think of racing games I think "I should pick up Forza" and then I remember it's only on the Microsoft Store and it's CRAZY EXPENSIVE here like the base edition is more expensive than Doom Eternal I played it via gamepass when that was a dollar, but then I stopped when I dropped the dollar thing, and I keep thinking I want it, but it NEVER goes on sale and I don't want pretty car game enough to spend that kind of dosh.  Hwurmp posted:Virtue's Last Reward has every possible Groundhog Day happening at once As does Hashihime of the Old Book Town, but I don't know if I'd include visual novels in the list? I mean yeah they do go in here and they play with time loops in fascinating ways and other weird things, but games that are less novels and more... games don't have enough time fuckery.
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Apr 21, 2020 03:59
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StrixNebulosa posted:I played it via gamepass when that was a dollar, but then I stopped when I dropped the dollar thing, and I keep thinking I want it, but it NEVER goes on sale and I don't want pretty car game enough to spend that kind of dosh. Not in the US so Game Pass isn't an option for me, I don't mind paying a bit for a month or two of Forza. It looks so good and fun but I seriously can afford like Animal Crossing and a cheap Steam game for what they're charging for the game
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Apr 21, 2020 04:13
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hi thread. I need something like Simcity 4 but also like Cities Skylines. The former one is the prettiest to look at. The latter has the traffic complexity I like. Factorio and those infrastructure building games seem a bit too far on the complex end, but something about Cities Skylines just feels so shallow. Doesnt have to be a city builder per se, but it needs to scratch that itch. I bounced off the Anno series pretty hard too.
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Apr 21, 2020 04:22
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StrixNebulosa posted:As does Hashihime of the Old Book Town, but I don't know if I'd include visual novels in the list? Ah, but there was another timeline where you did
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Apr 21, 2020 04:30
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Pylons posted:Counterpoint: The survivor AI isn't suicidal in Dead Rising 2, then Capcom decided to gently caress it all up in Off the Record.
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Apr 21, 2020 04:38
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StrixNebulosa posted:The groundhog day style loop is really novel and I wish more games would try it, as there's some real potential in there. I think the only games that do it are Majora's Mask, Dead Rising, and Shadow of Destiny/Memories (god I love that game)
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Apr 21, 2020 05:31
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I picked up that Urtuk game since it was on sale and the, uh, Two Worlds Epic Edition since I have an affinity for jank. Should be fun
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Apr 21, 2020 05:33
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thicc_waluigi posted:and the, uh, Two Worlds Epic Edition since I have an affinity for jank. Should be fun
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Apr 21, 2020 05:50
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when will we get a Two Worlds/EYE Divine Cybermancy crossover
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Apr 21, 2020 06:12
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You tell the final boss to kill himself in the opening cutscene, he does, and you get the credits roll.
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Apr 21, 2020 06:23
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bamhand posted:So I've got a game that won't run, just crashes on load. I can't refund it because I purchased it more than 2 weeks ago. Devs didn't respond to my post in the forums. And I can't give it a bad review because I can't put time in it. Does that about sum up my lack of options? Are you using RTSS? That’s my number one cause of “random indie application/game crashes on startup.”
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Apr 21, 2020 06:50
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Stickman posted:Are you using RTSS? That’s my number one cause of “random indie application/game crashes on startup.” Since we are talking about that kind of thing, Nvidia's sharpening filter also messes up some games when you try to apply it globally. I've had to disable it for theHunter COTW, Rising Storm 2 and Tabletop Simulator.
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Apr 21, 2020 07:07
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buglord posted:hi thread. I need something like Simcity 4 but also like Cities Skylines. The former one is the prettiest to look at. The latter has the traffic complexity I like. Factorio and those infrastructure building games seem a bit too far on the complex end, but something about Cities Skylines just feels so shallow. Doesnt have to be a city builder per se, but it needs to scratch that itch. I bounced off the Anno series pretty hard too. Hmm... You've got most of them. Have you tried Tropico? Changing gears here, Planet Coaster? Although probably more shallow than Cities Skyline. How about Satisfactory?
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Apr 21, 2020 07:09
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StrixNebulosa posted:The groundhog day style loop is really novel and I wish more games would try it, as there's some real potential in there. I think the only games that do it are Majora's Mask, Dead Rising, and Shadow of Destiny/Memories (god I love that game)
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Apr 21, 2020 07:10
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Pylons posted:Counterpoint: The survivor AI isn't suicidal in Dead Rising 2, then Capcom decided to gently caress it all up in Off the Record.
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Apr 21, 2020 07:14
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buglord posted:hi thread. I need something like Simcity 4 but also like Cities Skylines. The former one is the prettiest to look at. The latter has the traffic complexity I like. Factorio and those infrastructure building games seem a bit too far on the complex end, but something about Cities Skylines just feels so shallow. Doesnt have to be a city builder per se, but it needs to scratch that itch. I bounced off the Anno series pretty hard too. Not sure if this will fit, but maybe Parkasaurus? Build dinosaur theme park! Early access though, and not sure if it's complex enough for you. I'm using it as my "casual break" game
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Apr 21, 2020 07:15
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buglord posted:hi thread. I need something like Simcity 4 but also like Cities Skylines. The former one is the prettiest to look at. The latter has the traffic complexity I like. Factorio and those infrastructure building games seem a bit too far on the complex end, but something about Cities Skylines just feels so shallow. Doesnt have to be a city builder per se, but it needs to scratch that itch. I bounced off the Anno series pretty hard too. A-Train PC Classic. It's about developing cities by controlling transport networks so it's like a mix of Sim City and Transport Tycoon, leaning more towards the former. The problem is that it's a port of a 3DS game so it looks ancient and it also has a ridiculous price tag outside sales. Solid game though. Railway Empire leans further into the Transport aspect of things but there's also some city development as you connect cities. It's also not too hard to pick up but works on a much bigger scale so maybe not your thing. Finally, Transport Fever 2 has city development too but is 100% transport grognard stuff for people that really like vehicles and whatnot. If you know what a MAN SL 202 is and the idea of one of those being in the game excites you then go nuts.
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Apr 21, 2020 07:24
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here we go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXQwx1EolD8
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Apr 21, 2020 07:25
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Anonymous Robot posted:XCOM 2: War of the Chosen is a good enough game that I’m not even that pissed off that it somehow managed to crash hard enough right before the final mission that not only could I not recover my save, I can’t even launch the game anymore off a clean reinstall. I guess I could try again now that I’m on a new machine. Why would a reinstall help? It has most likely written garbage to its config or something similar, so I'd look up where it saves its configuration ( https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/XCOM_2 ) and rename the config folder to see if it starts again.
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Apr 21, 2020 08:12
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Pylons posted:Counterpoint: The survivor AI isn't suicidal in Dead Rising 2, then Capcom decided to gently caress it all up in Off the Record. Survivors kinda went from being absolutely braindead and a nightmare to escort in the original Dead Rising to being too competent and good that a group of them properly armed would take on any of the game's bosses without any interaction from the player in Dead Rising 2. They understandably nerfed survivors for Off the Record and there's a book you can find ingame which when held in your inventory gives you a passive buff that makes survivors more like how they were in Dead Rising 2.
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Apr 21, 2020 09:10
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Goddamn Nioh sucks. I finished the first island or whatever and it's not terribly hard but I uninstalled. It's just extremely clunky/feels terrible to control, the equipment/blacksmith system makes zero loving sense, and the level design is confusing garbage with monster closets every 5 steps. Also it runs like poo poo. DO NOT RECOMMEND. Now, time to finally get back to some actual good games I need to finish, like Mars: War Logs.
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Apr 21, 2020 09:36
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The Joe Man posted:Goddamn Nioh sucks. I finished the first island or whatever and it's not terribly hard but I uninstalled. It's just extremely clunky/feels terrible to control, the equipment/blacksmith system makes zero loving sense, and the level design is confusing garbage with monster closets every 5 steps. Weird, it runs fine on my PS4. Bad port, perhaps. I quite liked the combat in Nioh, but the equipment system showering you with worthless poo poo on every kill needed to die.
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Apr 21, 2020 09:44
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Nioh is basically a Diablo-style ARPG with Soulslike combat, yeah. The constant, generic loot drops are something you'll either like or really, really hate.
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Apr 21, 2020 09:47
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The Joe Man posted:Goddamn Nioh sucks. I finished the first island or whatever and it's not terribly hard but I uninstalled. It's just extremely clunky/feels terrible to control, the equipment/blacksmith system makes zero loving sense, and the level design is confusing garbage with monster closets every 5 steps. I really didn't like Nioh at all and never finished it, but I never had any problems per se with the controls (some spinning plate design like ki recovery I didn't care for). But yeah it's kind of an real ugly rear end game with generic xbox 360 blue-brown filters/aesthetic, really bad and ugly level design, repeating same encounters with very limited variety but now theres 2 chain guys!!, ton of worthless loot and inventory management sucked and never got good. still, i'd be interested in Nioh2 if they improved on most of what I hated about it
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Apr 21, 2020 10:33
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Sorry to say that they kind of didn't - the Ki recovery thing seems to have become only more important, the loot is still randomly generated and mostly boring, and the levels are still very "brown-green landscape with rocks, ramshackle village, brown-green landscape with different rocks." It also now has a Pokemon mechanic where you can collect the souls of enemies and get special attacks from it, but all the drops are randomized. The special missions are still remixes and the difficulty tends to be all over the place, because you can go into them at any point, but they don't adjust for how strong you actually are. Going by what you didn't like about Nioh 1, I don't think you'd enjoy the sequel very much.
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Apr 21, 2020 10:38
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Det_no posted:Since we are talking about that kind of thing, Nvidia's sharpening filter also messes up some games when you try to apply it globally. I've had to disable it for theHunter COTW, Rising Storm 2 and Tabletop Simulator. applying sharpening globally is probably a bad idea anyway since it'll apply to any desktop apps that happen to use hardware acceleration, not just games your text rendering will get all messed up
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Apr 21, 2020 12:02
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Antigravitas posted:Why would a reinstall help? Yeah check around those save/config folders, and see if you can find several gigabytes worth of log files to exterminate. I wish I was joking 
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Apr 21, 2020 12:08
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https://twitter.com/KojiPro2015_EN/status/1252545842575142913
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Apr 21, 2020 12:20
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repiv posted:applying sharpening globally is probably a bad idea anyway since it'll apply to any desktop apps that happen to use hardware acceleration, not just games It does mess up Photoshop's and Clip Studio Paint's windows, makes some faint and ghostly edges. Everything else seems ok so far.
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Apr 21, 2020 12:29
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I actually don't think Nioh is that bad. Yeah the loot system is awful but it's easy to just grab whatever good items you get and roll with them. The combat system is really good and enjoyable for me, and while I'm sure the game feels grindy if you do all the repetitive optional missions I'm skipping them and focusing on the main missions and it's been fun. There's definitely better Soulslike games though.
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Apr 21, 2020 12:32
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Yeah, I definitely wouldn't be playing Nioh if I hadn't already finished Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Dark Souls 1-3. It's in that knockoff area that The Surge inhabits for me. I do kinda dig the, "Here's a 1500s historical figure that we've turned into a goth made of magic bats" thing the early story has going on.
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I really enjoyed Nioh and I'm looking forward to when Nioh 2 comes to PC, but I can understand why a lot of people were annoyed with it. It contains some dubious design decisions that make it a bit less than the sum of its parts; things like, for example, there effectively being only seven "real" melee weapons, because everything else about them was mostly just cosmetic skins over the same (and universally identical, as far as I know) moveset, reach, and advantages between them. The only real difference between any two katanas is at which point of the game you get them and therefore how high the magic bonuses attached to them can go. I think that's a fairly valid criticism and it makes the experience a bit bland in the long run. The Dark Souls series of games is stronger in itemization because it tends towards giving its weapons a bit more of an individual identity within a given weapon group. They feel more special to find, even if the only difference between a Iaito and an Uchigatana is their heavy attack, things like that.
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It’s coming to PC???  
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Apr 21, 2020 14:23
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Man, every drat game I’ve preordered has been postponed.
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Apr 21, 2020 14:29
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buglord posted:It’s coming to PC??? It’s had a steam page for months lol
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Apr 21, 2020 14:32
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buglord posted:It’s coming to PC??? They announced it was eventually coming to PC a few weeks before the PS4 version launched, not sure how you managed to miss that  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9W7dDQUcBo
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Apr 21, 2020 14:33
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Man, every drat game I’ve preordered has been postponed.
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Apr 21, 2020 14:34
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Speaking of all this Nioh talk, anyone see any deals on it recently? Didn't snag it a month ago when it was 15 bucks on steam and now its basically full price everywhere.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Man, every drat game I’ve preordered has been postponed. don't preorder games
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