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Didn't like it much myself, but 20$ for Control is good value for the money.Ragequit posted:Here is a high level summary:
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Like many of you, I can't believe I'm reinstalling Terraria. What in the world? I also can't believe I have more hours in Starbound, so I'm going to fix that over the next couple of weeks. I hope this expansion/remastermake launches smoothly.
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Hub Cat posted:The devs were pissed because Epic took a flat dollar amount off all games over a certain pricepoint without asking, which dropped their Lowest Sale Price on deal sites(effectively the "do not buy above this" amount for a lot of people), and a number of the games this happened to were newly released or still in Early Access like Hades. The 10$ coupon is a compromise because it doesn't affect their numbers. It wasn't the coupons, back in the early days they had a big deep-discount sale on everything which meant you could pick up some games on pre-order that weren't even available yet for up to 75% off. I got Hades for just over £5 a year ago (this even included the OST apparently, which costs extra). So this blindsided a lot of developers as they weren't informed, but they still kept the full price so if you bought the game it was kind-of a win-win for them as Epic took the discount hit. However like you say the "lowest price" is now super-cheap and likely never to reach that again for a long time as it's not even out of EA yet.
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May 15, 2020 10:04
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My bad if my post was unclear but that's what I was trying to say, I was responding to somebody that thought the coupons were what had made the dev's mad. It was the same terms as the coupons $10 off games over $15(in addition to % discounts presumably decided by the devs) but it was applied to the base price shown on the store originally which was immediately scraped by the price bots, later they changed it to show ${price}-$10 but by then the damage was done. As you said Epic did pay the cost of the $10 so they ended up getting the full price and hopefully extra sales though. Supergiant was more upset than most because they had intended to raise the price of Hades to coincide with adding content, it also ended up discounting preorders for VTM:Bloodlines 2 who pulled their game from the store temporarily. Edit:Anyway this was a pointless post so people should play Snowrunner and The Outer Wilds which I loved, has a great soundtrack, and a fantastic bittersweet ending, even if I always forget to post about it, it doesn't get talked about nearly enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPyaFR7poL4 Hub Cat fucked around with this message at 12:28 on May 15, 2020 |
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May 15, 2020 10:59
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Oldstench posted:Since we're talking about the EGS sale in here, let me ask you if Control is worth $20? Rebel Blob posted:Pathfinder: Kingmaker  Jamfrost posted:Like many of you, I can't believe I'm reinstalling Terraria. 
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May 15, 2020 11:06
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Control strikes me as the first “next gen” game. It’s more or less the only game that has ray tracing worth mentioning besides Minecraft. Other games like Call of Duty you actually struggle to tell the difference and in some cases the ray tracing somehow looks worse
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May 15, 2020 11:28
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Zereth posted:Are you complaining that a D&D game uses the alignment system?
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Sounds like it's suffering from a case of "the writer thought Lawful Stupid is actually how the alignment is supposed to work."
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May 15, 2020 11:32
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Zereth posted:Are you complaining that a D&D game uses the alignment system? There are games using the D&D corset that still do interesting things. Mask of the Betrayer, for one. Kingmaker is violently bad with its alignment system. It includes such classics as "good aligned characters are always morons" and evil doing evil for evil's sake
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May 15, 2020 11:35
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Zereth posted:Are you complaining that a D&D game uses the alignment system? D&D alignments have always been garbage, even more so than Bioware morality gauges
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May 15, 2020 11:37
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Hwurmp posted:D&D alignments have always been garbage, even more so than Bioware morality gauges Order of the Stick makes them work.
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May 15, 2020 11:39
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Antigravitas posted:There are games using the D&D corset that still do interesting things. Mask of the Betrayer, for one. It locks out certain choices if you're not the right alignment but 90% of the time you can pick whatever option you want regardless of the alignment label and all that happens is a dot shifts slightly on a chart.
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May 15, 2020 12:00
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Outer Worlds, Outer Wilds, Journey to the Savage Planet, or Control?
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Hollandia posted:Outer Worlds, Outer Wilds, Journey to the Savage Planet, or Control? Outer Wilds or Control.
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May 15, 2020 12:42
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Hollandia posted:Outer Worlds, Outer Wilds, Journey to the Savage Planet, or Control? Outer Wilds, if I had to pick one. It's a really one-of-a-kind game, if you're down for a contemplative, exploratory sort of experience with some existential dread in place of action or combat. Don't play Outer Worlds.
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Hollandia posted:Outer Worlds, Outer Wilds, Journey to the Savage Planet, or Control? Take Control.
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May 15, 2020 12:46
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SardonicTyrant posted:We all know what makes a bad open world game, but what makes a good open world game? Seconding Breath of the Wild. I found it compelling to explore in a way that I haven't since the GTAIII/VC/SA era, can't put my finger on why exactly but it was a refreshing change from the icon-blizzard of most modern open world games.
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May 15, 2020 12:48
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Humble is giving out free copies of Aegis Defenders until Sunday (or while supply lasts).
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I just started Control, and I have to say more games need prestige television-style opening title sequences: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDmC5-GN910 RE2make also has a good one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-txGTtqyyY
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May 15, 2020 14:18
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Hey, shoutout to Irritated Goat for helping me get Forager, I appreciate it! Also Forager is the perfect skinner box. I can see myself putting many happy hours into this as an alternative to solitaire. e: An idle game where you have to do the idle stuff.... alternatively, factorio, but you have to mine everything yourself with no automation. I like it, very soothing and mindless and sometimes that's just what I need, y'know? StrixNebulosa fucked around with this message at 15:19 on May 15, 2020 |
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May 15, 2020 15:14
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This Steam recommended queue seems like a cool feature, I've got a bundle of games that I've picked up on humble bundles or steam sales which I haven't really touched, hell I'm sure most of us could probably say that Just played Battleblock Theatre for the first time, nothing special but its a neat 2-d platformer
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Mechwarrior 5 and Rebel Galaxy Outlaw are both in the epic sale and with the coupon they're both pretty cheap. Which one does the mercenary/upgrade my poo poo gameloop better? e: Or should I say gently caress it to both and buy Anno 2205
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May 15, 2020 15:37
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Just picked up One Step from Eden. It's really fun.
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Mechwarrior 5 and Rebel Galaxy Outlaw are both in the epic sale and with the coupon they're both pretty cheap. Which one does the mercenary/upgrade my poo poo gameloop better? Mechwarrior 5 can be played for $5 with the Xbox Game Pass if that helps your decision.
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Mechwarrior 5 and Rebel Galaxy Outlaw are both in the epic sale and with the coupon they're both pretty cheap. Which one does the mercenary/upgrade my poo poo gameloop better? Anno 2205 is my favorite of the Anno games, and the best "starter" one as it's simplified/streamlined enough mechanics that you can see how you're supposed to set up your production chains. Also it's pretty. If you're already into the rest of Annos is might be a let down, but I wish I could go back in time and just make past!me play it first before trying the others and getting hopelessly lost. e: hmm, I should think about reinstalling Anno 2070 now that I have a better idea of how the game works. Hmmm.
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Huh, that's interesting. Trying to claim GTA 5 for free on Epic Games Store and I get: Your account is unable to download any more free games at this time. Wonder what that's about. I guess I could make a second account. Edit: Apparently waiting 24 hours and trying again is the solution, according to Epic Gort fucked around with this message at 16:58 on May 15, 2020 |
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May 15, 2020 16:55
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Gort posted:Huh, that's interesting. Trying to claim GTA 5 for free on Epic Games Store and I get:
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Nope, no 2FA - probably they just rate limited it because they're getting hammered.
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Gort posted:Nope, no 2FA - probably they just rate limited it because they're getting hammered. Uh, you need 2FA on your Epic account to get GTA5. That's probably why you get an error.
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Mechwarrior 5 and Rebel Galaxy Outlaw are both in the epic sale and with the coupon they're both pretty cheap. Which one does the mercenary/upgrade my poo poo gameloop better? i haven't played either so keep that in mind, but i do know that mechwarrior 5 was made by the same guys who did mechwarrior online and that game was a disaster, so i would have major reservations about mechwarrior 5
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Cowcaster posted:i haven't played either so keep that in mind, but i do know that mechwarrior 5 was made by the same guys who did mechwarrior online and that game was a disaster, so i would have major reservations about mechwarrior 5 MW5 is also a disaster! Shocking I know. However it is all basically fixable with mods, which you can do on EGS but you cannot (currently) do on GamePass. So do with that info what you will. Even at the heights of its bullshit the one thing MWO got right was that the shooty robot parts felt really good and MW5 is the same way.
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ymgve posted:Uh, you need 2FA on your Epic account to get GTA5. That's probably why you get an error.
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MW5 recently got some updates for fancy poo poo with NVidia 2000 series cards, if you have one of those. Be warned, it says it supports controllers but actually trying to use one is a disaster, or at least it was the last time I played.
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ymgve posted:Uh, you need 2FA on your Epic account to get GTA5. That's probably why you get an error. Ugh, between this and needing the Rockstar launcher too this is a lot of work for a game I only wanted to play if it's free.
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Hwurmp posted:D&D alignments have always been garbage, even more so than Bioware morality gauges  Exactly. Gort posted:Nope, no 2FA - probably they just rate limited it because they're getting hammered.
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Look Sir Droids posted:Ugh, between this and needing the Rockstar launcher too this is a lot of work for a game I only wanted to play if it's free.
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FYI for anyone hoarding chrono.gg coins:quote:Starting today, like right now, we’re celebrating Chrono Coins by adding 5, rather than the normal 2, great games to the Coin Shop, but that’s not all. Two weeks from now, on May 29th, we’ll be adding 5 more awesome games, giving you over 30 titles to choose from before the Coin Shop closes one month later on June 29th. At that point, coin collection, unspent coins, and the shop itself will be removed from Chrono.gg.
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Far Cry 3, or Far Cry 4? (I already have Blood Dragon)
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Schneider Heim posted:Far Cry 3, or Far Cry 4? (I already have Blood Dragon) 4, probably
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Jesus, Control is Dark Souls difficult, god drat. I can't get that flying bastard to half health before he two-shots me. edit: ah I was supposed to hide behind a pillar and take pot shots at him. Pretty lame. Trickyblackjack fucked around with this message at 17:45 on May 15, 2020 |
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