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Trickyblackjack posted:Because of this thread, I went into Shadow of War expecting MGSV levels of male gaze and what I got was that they replaced the spider with a female character. But I do understand people being shocked at seeing a woman in Lord of the Rings. yeah, she's a fairly well-done character imo. it's theoretically sort of in line with the books but practically absurd, since she's only ever described as a horrible spider monster, but the well of hilariously terrible vg ladies is p deep, so she's basically bobbing round on the surface by comparison.
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i feel like gabe finally wore out the last of his goodwill because barely anybody mentions him anymore. i don't think i've even seen a new sale.gif for over a year.
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There's nothing special about Steam sales these days because the "Steam sale" model has become the new standard across the entire game industry, including on consoles. The way things work now is that publishers never decrease their base prices ever, and during sale events they lower the price to what they're actually intending to sell the game for along with a big "75% OFF!!!" advertisement. It's clearer on consoles where you still have physical retail games to compare to. Retail copies go down in price over time while the digital download version of the same game stays full price forever except when there's a "discount" on it.
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May 11, 2020 14:05
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My library of free games I'll never play has ballooned recently thanks to Epic Store freebies and global crises prompting Ubisoft to give away various Assassin's Creed games. Hopefully there's an earthquake or something in Ireland soon since I never got to play Rogue.
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May 11, 2020 14:11
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Weird benefit of Hitman 2 needing a billion gigs: before I uninstalled anything I did a deep clean of my laptop and found nearly fifty gigs of junk data - old stuff I don't need, files that weren't removed when I uninstalled stuff, etc. I'm such a hoarder and I should do this more often, haha. At least it's easy to clean up! ... and yes I'm reinstalling Hitman 2, I have the urge to go knock off some more achievements in it. I miss playing it.
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May 11, 2020 14:13
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With all this talk of a Steam sales I thought there was a Steam sale going on, but no
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Phlegmish posted:With all this talk of a Steam sales I thought there was a Steam sale going on, but no I think there's a humble sale going on.
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May 11, 2020 14:14
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Phlegmish posted:With all this talk of a Steam sales I thought there was a Steam sale going on, but no  Some
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Ghostlight posted:i feel like gabe finally wore out the last of his goodwill because barely anybody mentions him anymore. i don't think i've even seen a new sale.gif for over a year. Actually, the Golden Week Sale finally felt a bit like making an effort. Lowering prices is no longer tenable, so instead it's better to curate a bit to provide a more focused selection of titles. It's impossible to keep up with all the stuff that lands on Steam, but it is possible to take a closer look at a particular section of Steam's library to check whether something fell through the cracks.
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Ghostlight posted:i feel like gabe finally wore out the last of his goodwill because barely anybody mentions him anymore. i don't think i've even seen a new sale.gif for over a year. Sales haven't felt the same for quite a few years now. We used to have giant event and giveaway threads here, especially for the Winter sale. The sale formats changed and they restricted gifting to other countries which finally put a nail in the coffin.
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May 11, 2020 14:46
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Surge 2: Yay or Nay? Beaten DeS, DS1, DS2, DS3. Gave up on Sekiro before the first Owl fight. Never played the Surge 1.
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May 11, 2020 15:01
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Surge 2: Yay or Nay? Surge 1 is five dollars right now, give it a spin before you do Surge 2.
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May 11, 2020 15:04
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I'm one of those terrible people that couldn't get into all of the dark souls games (purchased and tried 1, 2, and 3) but fell in love with NIOH because the combat and loot own, or are at least good at tickling my lizard brain. I know the gimmick about Surge but is the combat good enough to hold it up? Morter fucked around with this message at 15:27 on May 11, 2020 |
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May 11, 2020 15:19
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Surge 2: Yay or Nay? Surge 2 combat is fun, ripping people apart is awesome. The story is extremely bad and the level design is just alright tho If it’s cheap it’s an easy yay if you enjoy Souls-like combat.
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May 11, 2020 15:33
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Serephina posted:Wait, they where serious? Where the gently caress did somone make Shelob a chick? She was never a spider even in the books. In the form of a spider at the time of LotR? Yup. But she's a shapeless ancient evil from the dawn of time and changing shape is explicitly something all the ancients can do (except Sauron who gave up that ability to make the Ring - that was the cost). She's also used really well in Shadow of War and how she appears to Talion makes perfect sense (it plays on his dead wife among other things). Hell the entire Shadw of War story I'd argue is it's strongest aspect. The gameplay is a step down from Shadow of Mordor but the story is good. Especially Middle-Earth Japan and all the Nazgul backstories. Also setting up for a sequel at the end takes some balls and doing it without contradicting the books? That's clever.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Surge 2: Yay or Nay? Surge 2 has Very Good Combat and pretty mediocre everything else and you do not need to have played 1 at all.
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May 11, 2020 16:08
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Morter posted:I'm one of those terrible people that couldn't get into all of the dark souls games (purchased and tried 1, 2, and 3) but fell in love with NIOH because the combat and loot own, or are at least good at tickling my lizard brain. can’t comment on surge 2, but extremely no to the surge 1. It has the most infuriatingly designed weapons I’ve used in any of these games, the camera is worse than any of them except for bloodborne, and the devs’ response to the complaint that the environments in lords of the fallen were too indistinct and easy to get lost in was to absolutely double down on that. I managed to navigate lords of the fallen without too much trouble but repeatedly got lost in the surge.
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DatonKallandor posted:She was never a spider even in the books. In the form of a spider at the time of LotR? Yup. But she's a shapeless ancient evil from the dawn of time and changing shape is explicitly something all the ancients can do (except Sauron who gave up that ability to make the Ring - that was the cost). The similarity to Talion’s wife is obvious if you remember what she looks like. Most people however, do not remember the character that was there for two minutes in another game.
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May 11, 2020 16:21
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How's Railway Empire? Tired of OpenTTD, want something prettier to look at. Already have Transport Fever 2 but the industry chain is a bit too shallow and dull, but I don't want full on Spreadsheet management.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:The similarity to Talion’s wife is obvious if you remember what she looks like. Most people however, do not remember the character that was there for two minutes in another game. Talion had a wife? I just skipped every cutscene and as far I care Shadow of Mordor was simply about 20 hours of loving with orcs.
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May 11, 2020 16:36
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Talion had a wife? I just skipped every cutscene and as far I care Shadow of Mordor was simply about 20 hours of loving with orcs. The wife was a sneaking tutorial
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Shelob looked like Talion's wife to you folks? She looks more like Milla Jovovich to me  
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Missed Hydroneer chat over the weekend. It's a very budget game and against all better and logical reason I strongly recommend it. If it cost any more, was any less meditative, or the dev was any less active you could accuse it of being an asset flip. The last part about the dev is kind of a double edged sword. There's been daily patches introducing regression bugs every time which he fixes the next day and one of these times it's gonna make the game unplayable. But anyway it's an amazing meditative experience when or in spite of things doing physics blast offs. Your efficiency is entirely based on how well your organize the junk in world yourself not unlike My Summer Car with it's similar one thing in hand conceit. There's some quality of life stuff he needs to consider which won't short circuit that but honestly I've gotten my ten bucks out of it already so if it suddenly turns unplayable or he ignores all good sense recommendations I won't feel out. I haven't tried it since the patch today which supposedly addresses it but it was an Unreal engine game with no frame cap/minimum optimizations so if you didn't set the graphics down a notch and put on a GPU level frame cap it would try to melt down your GPU into it's constituent ores so buyer beware I guess. Croccers posted:How's Railway Empire?
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DatonKallandor posted:She was never a spider even in the books. In the form of a spider at the time of LotR? Yup. But she's a shapeless ancient evil from the dawn of time and changing shape is explicitly something all the ancients can do (except Sauron who gave up that ability to make the Ring - that was the cost). You know, that's a great point and I'm re-evaluating my previous thoughts. Having Shelob, the spirit of darkness whose spawn spin webs of shadow take on another form is totally legit, which probably explains why the Tolkien foundation was ok with it. And I can totally see them wanting more big canon names with a face to talk to the protag (I only played the first game not second, but I feel I get the vibe). Except... of all the cool forms to choose with a literal blank slate, they chose "hot chick in evening gown". So yea, it's still awful.
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zedprime posted:Missed Hydroneer chat over the weekend. It's a very budget game and against all better and logical reason I strongly recommend it. Dumb question because I'm not seeing anything regarding any of the following terms in the store page nor the forums: Is the world randomized or procedurally generated? Or is it static?
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Shadow of War features Milla Jovovich in a nightgown? Need to get around to playing it
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DatonKallandor posted:She was never a spider even in the books. In the form of a spider at the time of LotR? Yup. But she's a shapeless ancient evil from the dawn of time and changing shape is explicitly something all the ancients can do (except Sauron who gave up that ability to make the Ring - that was the cost). Gonna cry foul on this one. Shelob literally means well... she-spider. She's the daughter of Ungoliant, also a giant spider demon, and her children are the spiders of Mirkwood. She's definitely only ever meant to be a spider in the material. It's fine that they decided to make her a hot woman but it's also lazy and they just wanted to be able to have someone with a name the general public would understand. If they wanted to do it right they could have made her any old nameless Maiar and called it a day
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Morter posted:Dumb question because I'm not seeing anything regarding any of the following terms in the store page nor the forums: Good Soldier Svejk posted:Gonna cry foul on this one. zedprime fucked around with this message at 17:25 on May 11, 2020 |
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Pausing the utterly fascinating spidertits discussion for a bit of news: https://twitter.com/thexpaw/status/1258825537172189184
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zedprime posted:I think Chris Tolkien specifically signed off on Shelob having glamor like a maiar so it's canon laziness if anything.
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anilEhilated posted:Imagine that being remembered as one of the last things you did before you died. "Approved putting tits on a spider."
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This is what I get for making a dumb post about a Tolkein thing before going to bed, two pages of magic spider boob arguments.
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Orv posted:two pages of magic spider boob arguments. too long for a username but thread title!?
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Terminally Bored posted:Pausing the utterly fascinating spidertits discussion for a bit of news: Time for gamers to get angry that valve is celebrating anything china related!
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anilEhilated posted:Imagine that being remembered as one of the last things you did before you died. "Approved putting tits on a spider." I'd have it engraved on my tombstone, personally
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More games need sexy creatures of evil imo
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Zeta Acosta posted:More games need sexy creatures of evil imo  Still fondly remember the succubus from Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, though we fell out in the end. e: when are we going to get a sequel, that game was adolescent in all the best ways
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