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Rutibex posted:Daggerfall is peak Elder Scrolls. its also been ported to Unity so it runs on modern computers and people made tons of graphical mods oh poo poo im gonna check this out
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is pepsi ok posted:"You see that mountain off in the distance? Well guess what you can actually go there." also you can sort of keep humping/jumping up the side until the janky physics lets you "climb" your way up you will do this for way longer than it would have taken you to just go around the drat mountain
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Jun 13, 2020 21:36
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Excelzior posted:also you can sort of keep humping/jumping up the side until the janky physics lets you "climb" your way up So many hours spent humping the mountains...
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Jun 13, 2020 21:38
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"See that mountain? You can gently caress it."
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Jun 13, 2020 21:46
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use your horse to get up slightly higher on slopes you cant hump! get stuck in areas you cant get down from without dying from fall damage and also the game has dragons but you're still glued to the ground (don't tell anyone but the dragons are too, we just add a lot of negative space to make pretend flying)
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Jun 13, 2020 23:01
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Rutibex posted:speaking of humble bundles the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality is now up to 1,658 items for $5. its only has 2 days left, if you have not purchased this bundle you need to buy it now. its literally the best deal in video games to ever exist: there are Photoshop brushes. holy poo poo.
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tango alpha delta posted:there are Photoshop brushes. holy poo poo. It's seriously nuts it's a must buy for anyone who's ever wanted to try their hand at game making. Pico-8 alone is worth the 5 bucks imho
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Sid Vicious posted:It's seriously nuts it's a must buy for anyone who's ever wanted to try their hand at game making. Pico-8 alone is worth the 5 bucks imho lmao pico-8 is in there? I have an actual honest-to-god PocketCHIP charged up and within arm’s reach right this second, I should learn that poo poo
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food court bailiff posted:lmao pico-8 is in there? I have an actual honest-to-god PocketCHIP charged up and within arm’s reach right this second, I should learn that poo poo Yeah man grab it while you can if you haven't it's got Pico-8 with the built in cart browser and some other recently made not free Pico-8 games too
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Sid Vicious posted:Yeah man grab it while you can if you haven't it's got Pico-8 with the built in cart browser and some other recently made not free Pico-8 games too oh yeah dude I grabbed the bundle the second I could, because ACAB, just haven’t really dug through it much drat I’d kinda forgotten how cool the PocketCHIP is, I bet I could do something really cool/stupid with the exposed i/o contacts lmao e: drat sunvox is cool as hell Rockman Reserve fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Jun 14, 2020 |
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Jun 14, 2020 16:10
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Sad thing about how bad Civ VI and Beyond Earth are, because they have a few really good ideas in mechanics and gameplay intertwined with flavour. Cities and Wonders in VI taking up multiple hexes makes them feel more interesting and adds more layers to long-term planning. And I love that the victory conditions in Beyond Earth aren't just incrementing numbers but are large, obvious and vulnerable megaprojects, requiring large and ongoing investments of time and resources and make the endgame far more tense and competitive as they invite finally using all the endgame military units to potentially knock you back to square one to buy themselves more time.
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Civ VI wonders take up multiple hexes on the map? So like is the Eiffel Tower supposed to be 50 miles wide or something
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Jun 14, 2020 23:09
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This might be controversial but I like video games
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video games... are bad 
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poverty goat posted:video games... are bad you want the "pretty popular videogame opinions" thread
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christmas boots posted:This might be controversial but I like video games games rule and i cant wait till im an old man organizing lan parties with other old men at the local old people home
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QuarkJets posted:Civ VI wonders take up multiple hexes on the map? So like is the Eiffel Tower supposed to be 50 miles wide or something It's been really depressed lately and overeating. 
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QuarkJets posted:Civ VI wonders take up multiple hexes on the map? So like is the Eiffel Tower supposed to be 50 miles wide or something Each wonder takes up a hex and a lot of them require a certain configuration of hexes to be built at all. Like it has to be a hill hex next to a river and stuff like that. Like everything else in Civ VI, it really doesn't add anything interesting to the game.
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I looked at what games I like to play based on controls and environment and came to the conclusion that games that benefit from using a mouse a lot for selections like Slay The Spire, 4x games, RTS etc are obviously gonna be better on a PC but honestly the games I wanna play at my desk just don't require new hardware. I've seen people talk about 120hz gaming and poo poo like that a LOT but the cost of a PC that pushes that kind of framerate in games I'd care about that for in addition to a monitor that hits 1440p 120hz instead of the monitors I have now is a lot of money. So now I'm comfortable just riding out my 970-based machine until it dies and then I get a PC that can do office stuff and the games I would actually wanna play on PC, which just doesn't require much. I'd rather play games on my couch with a bigass tv and a gamepad. It's not like you're getting new games in humble bundles. Anyway anyone who disagrees with my viewpoint for my own preferences can suck m'balls
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Jun 15, 2020 11:37
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:Each wonder takes up a hex and a lot of them require a certain configuration of hexes to be built at all. Like it has to be a hill hex next to a river and stuff like that. It sort of hints at a better way to do things than having cities be a zoom-in screen that's a massive pain to have 10+ of, but they never really go anywhere with it. It's kind of the story of civ in general, but especially 5 and 6. The game has to try to be so many differrent things that they can't innovate in interesting ways lest they risk losing someone. Also i think the trend of strategy games since ck2 to try to be narrative games is awful and is leading to a bunch of dumb mechanical decisions where randomness takes the place of designing systems that offer genuine strategic choices, and having many of your strategy choices be decided by A or B dialog boxes rather than actually how you play the game.
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No shut up, there are already like a billion strategy games that just focus on offering strategic choices with minimal flavor and they are boring as gently caress to play. And there are a million that provide strategic choices with flavor, but the flavor is bad or boring. I don't give a single gently caress about the Galactic Civilizations or Endless Space games, they're good strategy games that are not fun to play. I love Stellaris, which is a bad strategy game that's a lot of fun to play, and it's basically one-of-a-kind for the Space 4X genre. "Playing optimally" is idiotic you're supposed to play games to have fun
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Jun 15, 2020 23:44
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QuarkJets posted:No shut up, there are already like a billion strategy games that just focus on offering strategic choices with minimal flavor and they are boring as gently caress to play. And there are a million that provide strategic choices with flavor, but the flavor is bad or boring. I don't give a single gently caress about the Galactic Civilizations or Endless Space games, they're good strategy games that are not fun to play. I love Stellaris, which is a bad strategy game that's a lot of fun to play, and it's basically one-of-a-kind for the Space 4X genre. "Playing optimally" is idiotic you're supposed to play games to have fun You seem to be very confused about Endless Space (especially #2). It is hard in the "focus on narrative/atmosphere over mechanics" camp. Even more than Stellaris, easily.
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Endless Space tries really hard to be flavorful but the flavor is sour milk, and both games fall under the "their flavor is bad or boring" category that I mentioned. In ES1 and 2 that stuff is really shallow imo
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civ needs to go partially back into the direction it went in with IV which introduced religions and ethnicity as things that can exist within a certain area. itd be cool to have balkan-like situations where, over the course of a game, historical areas are formed, like a region between certain natural boundaries is considered a single unit for purposes of statecraft instead of arbitrary zones of control around the cities. maybe even have nationalism mechanics where your people will clamor for war because the site of an ancient battleground that they lost 1000 years ago is occupied by their old conqueror, and things like that. it needs to have a narrative arc over the course of a single game where events matter and wars are more traumatic for better or worse
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QuarkJets posted:No shut up, there are already like a billion strategy games that just focus on offering strategic choices with minimal flavor and they are boring as gently caress to play. And there are a million that provide strategic choices with flavor, but the flavor is bad or boring. I don't give a single gently caress about the Galactic Civilizations or Endless Space games, they're good strategy games that are not fun to play. I love Stellaris, which is a bad strategy game that's a lot of fun to play, and it's basically one-of-a-kind for the Space 4X genre. "Playing optimally" is idiotic you're supposed to play games to have fun There are plenty of dumb narrative strategy games now with single optimal choices that offer very little meaningful strategic choice. Congratulations, you got your wish.
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Panzeh posted:There are plenty of dumb narrative strategy games now with single optimal choices that offer very little meaningful strategic choice. Congratulations, you got your wish. No I didn't I said good flavor Paradox seems to have gotten the magic right as far as flavor goes. Other makers give a token effort but do it poorly or don't do enough. Yes, sometimes the "optimal" strategy entails getting a lucky event; I do not care that much about playing optimally, so long as the game largely respects your strategic choices then it's fine to not get that lucky massive pop growth bonus from the magic space fungus event. QuarkJets fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Jun 16, 2020 |
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I'm addicted to construction simulator 2, deep down I know it's probably garbage trash but it's so god drat relaxing
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Sid Vicious posted:I'm addicted to construction simulator 2, deep down I know it's probably garbage trash but it's so god drat relaxing Years and years and years ago I played Demolition Company for the same reason. It was a janky weird mess with all of like 8 different things to do but man it was chill as hell knocking down a building then placing every single piece into a big rock grinder.
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PinheadSlim posted:Years and years and years ago I played Demolition Company for the same reason. I built a two story house and it took me like two hours and I was just relaxed the entire time
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civ 4 had the best take on religion, where it's a cool bonus for everyone, you can leverage it into early-game power blocs, and the founder gets a cut of the profits. civ 5 and 6 making it into a zero sum game made it "dumb." all it does now is make everyone hate each other because spreading it gives penalties, and you lose out on bonuses if someone spreads theirs to you. you don't get any of the diplomatic intricacies of "all religions are good but this is the one the winners are with right now" because it's just a constant struggle to keep everyone else out while doing your best to get in progress against them edgewise. very rarely, i'll play games of civ 5 where i either capture or corner a holy city of another religion, and you'll start generating great prophets for a defeated civ's religion from that. i've experimented with using those to overwrite my own religion so i can buy their special buildings, and then paving back over with mine. you actually keep the other buildings and their bonuses--imagine how cool it would be if 5 or 6 could support multiple religions in their cities like 4 did, just doing your best to coax missionaries out of civs that hate you so you can get in on those unique buildings.
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Sid Vicious posted:I'm addicted to construction simulator 2, deep down I know it's probably garbage trash but it's so god drat relaxing the level of sheer zen i achieve performing violence at nazis in sniper elite 4 has started to worry me it should not be nearly as relaxing as it is today i shot a gunner out of a moving tank at 70m as the turret was spinning without using the slowdown bullet time mechanic at all
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food court bailiff posted:the level of sheer zen i achieve performing violence at nazis in sniper elite 4 has started to worry me hundreds of thousands of years ago humans survived by chasing animals until the animals ran out of strength and died where they stood doing well at violent games brings peace to a very primal, inextricable part of your brain
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Sid Vicious posted:I'm addicted to construction simulator 2, deep down I know it's probably garbage trash but it's so god drat relaxing if its fun then its a good game, it doesn't matter how some reviewer or youtuber who dissects it "objectively" thinks, the answer is in your heart
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Yo, someone has made Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge in Unity. Since we can't play Bonestorm it's the only option. https://aaron-demeter.itch.io/lee-carvallos-putting-challenge
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The White Dragon posted:hundreds of thousands of years ago humans survived by chasing animals until the animals ran out of strength and died where they stood And when it’s a nazi, man, *chef’s kiss*
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The White Dragon posted:civ 4 had the best take on religion, where it's a cool bonus for everyone, you can leverage it into early-game power blocs, and the founder gets a cut of the profits. civ 5 and 6 making it into a zero sum game made it "dumb." all it does now is make everyone hate each other because spreading it gives penalties, and you lose out on bonuses if someone spreads theirs to you. you don't get any of the diplomatic intricacies of "all religions are good but this is the one the winners are with right now" because it's just a constant struggle to keep everyone else out while doing your best to get in progress against them edgewise. There actually are a couple civs at least in 4 and 5 that encourage letting religions spread, Indonesia's unique building even gets more bonuses the more religions you have.
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The White Dragon posted:hundreds of thousands of years ago humans survived by chasing animals until the animals ran out of strength and died where they stood It's about the precision of the violence too. Hitman can be incredibly tense and stressful right up until you put everything into motion to kill exactly your targets and calmly walk out the door as no one else notices.
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the best Civ is the first one. all the others are just derivative.
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the first and only good civ game is Alpha Centauri
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birth of the federation is a good space 4x game because you can be the cardassians
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