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Morter posted:Easily? Goddamn I must've been playing a different game.
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Blattdorf posted:Ars Technica did a quick rundown of the new Keighley documentary about Valve. It seems they got rid of the flat hierarchy structure. There were absolutely some benefits to their previous structure as it allowed for A LOT of experimentation like Proton. However, it is a bad practice if you want to actually make games.
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quote:Keighley's account of Valve's history is blunt about the studio's lack of significant game launches during the '10s and about the issues they had in common—particularly that they all pulled the in-development Source 2 engine in different directions. "We sort of became the highest-paid blog post writers of all time," longtime Valve writer Jay Pinkerton admits, while other staffers talk frankly about the studio's reputation for spinning up multiple small projects and then watching them fall apart internally.
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Jul 10, 2020 19:06
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IMPORTANT Command and Conquer 1 advice that power crystals just gave me: "yeah either scatter ("X") or you have to just be on your feet to get out of the way" YOU DON'T HAVE TO GET SQUISHED 
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Blattdorf posted:Ars Technica did a quick rundown of the new Keighley documentary about Valve. It seems they got rid of the flat hierarchy structure. That's good to hear. Left3Dead would sell like absolute loving hotcakes and an obscene amount of people are still playing L4D2, like one of the most populated games on Steam. It's rather absurb how much Valve is allergic to money and they've left so much money on the table by not doing it. And if they really want to cement Steam against upcoming competition then exclusives like L3D, Portal3, HL3, Team Fortress 3, DoD2 (DOD:S sucked rear end but understandable because early source sucked), utilizing Campo Santo to make games instead of just farting off into the ether once they bought them, etc would go such a long loving way. Unfortunately I don't think Valve is, at current, up to it so it'll probably be rocky if they wanted to actually start making games again. I would really like to see Valve partner up with UWE like was originally intended and do Natural Selection 3, NS2 was such a dissapointing shitshow but NS1 was one of my favorite mfps games of all time. Xaris fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Jul 10, 2020 |
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StrixNebulosa posted:IMPORTANT Command and Conquer 1 advice that power crystals just gave me: "yeah either scatter ("X") or you have to just be on your feet to get out of the way"
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StrixNebulosa posted:IMPORTANT Command and Conquer 1 advice that power crystals just gave me: "yeah either scatter ("X") or you have to just be on your feet to get out of the way"
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Jul 10, 2020 19:26
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 Curse of the moon 2 is out! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1257360/Bloodstained_Curse_of_the_Moon_2/
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Edmond Dantes posted:I really liked Exodus, but not as a Metro game. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great game, it just didn't feel... well, Metroy. And I don't mean the jump to open world in itself (although that may have contributed), just the overall mood of the game; the last level is the closest it gets to that 2033/LL feeling. I think Exodus is the weakest of the trilogy. It's a real good game but... eh. It's trying to be more like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. but isn't willing to give up some of the more distinctly Metro elements either and the two don't mix quite as well as you think.
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Mr. Fortitude posted:I think Exodus is the weakest of the trilogy. It's a real good game but... eh. It's trying to be more like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. but isn't willing to give up some of the more distinctly Metro elements either and the two don't mix quite as well as you think. Yeah, it's a good STALKER but a bad Metro. Again, I'm not saying it's a bad game by any stretch; I really enjoyed it for what it is, but was left wanting Metro.
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Gotta admit, I'm not really quite seeing it. It felt fine to me, personally. 
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Shipbreaker just updated with an option to play the campaign mode without shift timer and unlimited oxygen.
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Exodus is the best one and has the lowest % of NPC-railroaded sections
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Exodus is great but the last section of the game was painful. It was also annoying that there was no Ranger Mode (e.g. the real proper way to play the games). No "Hardcore Ranger" isn't the same thing. I'll agree that Last Light is the best of the trilogy.
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Edmond Dantes posted:Yeah, it's a good STALKER but a bad Metro. Again, I'm not saying it's a bad game by any stretch; I really enjoyed it for what it is, but was left wanting Metro. I loved Exodus and this is a good summary. It's like if STALKER was fun (hot take maybe but I can't get past STALKER's jank despite wanting to like it). It has a lot less of the scrabbling around in tunnels and fearing the open sky that distinguishes the first two games, but it does what it does extremely well, I think.
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Darkrenown posted:Shipbreaker just updated with an option to play the campaign mode without shift timer and unlimited oxygen. We're slowly getting closer to the day where devs realize they'll sell a ton more copies if they just build in all the cheat engine functionally people end up using. Seriously, this was figured out years ago, I'm sure anyone played PC games in the 90s remembers more then a few cheat codes for their games. Now with the achievement/gamer-score atmosphere just include all the invincibility, inf ammo, inf money, noclip etc. and have the cheats just disable any achievement progression.
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pentyne posted:We're slowly getting closer to the day where devs realize they'll sell a ton more copies if they just build in all the cheat engine functionally people end up using. Very optimistic take over "they'll sell it as DLC" which is what they've been doing for years.
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anilEhilated posted:And that's how micro was invented. It's like '95 again.
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pentyne posted:We're slowly getting closer to the day where devs realize they'll sell a ton more copies if they just build in all the cheat engine functionally people end up using.  If your game is good enough, people will come back to play it "The Real Way" anyways. It's the real reason people remember the Konomi code, because it let you practice to go back and beat contra a second time without it just because you felt like it.
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Unreal_One posted:Very optimistic take over "they'll sell it as DLC" which is what they've been doing for years. i bought at least 1 of those giant blockbuster cheat code books back in the day last game i cheated in was duping humanity in dark souls but i didnt have to pay for that
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Just gonna be a contrarian and say that the campaign is way better with limited time and oxygen, but I'm totally cool with someone not wanting that.
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Yeah, if you don't have pressure, you have no reason to make mistakes, and gently caress up failure spirals are what make Shipbreaker's campaign fun imho. Sandbox is better for chill podcast poo poo.
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Ainsley McTree posted:It is good to have options How loving dare you.
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Section Z posted:If your game is good enough, people will come back to play it "The Real Way" anyways. It's the real reason people remember the Konomi code, because it let you practice to go back and beat contra a second time without it just because you felt like it.
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I think my favorite compromise with games that let you cheat in the modern era is that if you cheat they disable achievements. Basically I'm in the camp that's pro-player choice where you can play how you want, as long as it doesn't mess with multiplayer or cheevos.
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Alright I did a Zachtronics thread. Feel free to hop in and correct me or post cool poo poo or something. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3932334
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Hwurmp posted:achievements should be outlawed having starscream's mug on my steam profile gives me great joy, so no 
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So in the end, what was the final verdict on Bloodstained? I consider Symphony of the Night one of my favorite games of all time, but I'm also one of those people who think Hollow Knight is the absolute pinnacle of the genre it created* and I'm not sure I could really enjoy playing something as floaty as SotN again. I took out my DS not that long ago and started Aria of Sorrow and after an hour thought "wow, was it always this boring?" So, addressing my fellow HK cultists: did you end up liking Bloodstained? *Super Metroid is also one of my favorite games and I don't think we need to get into this
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OzFactor posted:So in the end, what was the final verdict on Bloodstained? I consider Symphony of the Night one of my favorite games of all time, but I'm also one of those people who think Hollow Knight is the absolute pinnacle of the genre it created* and I'm not sure I could really enjoy playing something as floaty as SotN again. I took out my DS not that long ago and started Aria of Sorrow and after an hour thought "wow, was it always this boring?" So, addressing my fellow HK cultists: did you end up liking Bloodstained? It's basically all the good things about IGAvanias rolled together. It's not as good as Hollow Knight but that is kind of an unfair standard.
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OzFactor posted:So in the end, what was the final verdict on Bloodstained? I consider Symphony of the Night one of my favorite games of all time, but I'm also one of those people who think Hollow Knight is the absolute pinnacle of the genre it created* and I'm not sure I could really enjoy playing something as floaty as SotN again. I took out my DS not that long ago and started Aria of Sorrow and after an hour thought "wow, was it always this boring?" So, addressing my fellow HK cultists: did you end up liking Bloodstained? You played Metroid Fusion, yeah? That's my personal favorite in the genre. I know it's more linear than others but I really got into it. (not on PC sadly)
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OzFactor posted:So in the end, what was the final verdict on Bloodstained? I consider Symphony of the Night one of my favorite games of all time, but I'm also one of those people who think Hollow Knight is the absolute pinnacle of the genre it created* and I'm not sure I could really enjoy playing something as floaty as SotN again. I took out my DS not that long ago and started Aria of Sorrow and after an hour thought "wow, was it always this boring?" So, addressing my fellow HK cultists: did you end up liking Bloodstained? Ritual of the Night is not quite Hollow Knight but it's pretty good and has good dress-up
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StrixNebulosa posted:You played Metroid Fusion, yeah? That's my personal favorite in the genre. I know it's more linear than others but I really got into it. (not on PC sadly) I loved Fusion and Zero Mission. That reminds me that they did a remake of Metroid 2, which I loved when I was a kid. It was lonely and weird and scary.
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OzFactor posted:So in the end, what was the final verdict on Bloodstained? I consider Symphony of the Night one of my favorite games of all time, but I'm also one of those people who think Hollow Knight is the absolute pinnacle of the genre it created* and I'm not sure I could really enjoy playing something as floaty as SotN again. I took out my DS not that long ago and started Aria of Sorrow and after an hour thought "wow, was it always this boring?" So, addressing my fellow HK cultists: did you end up liking Bloodstained? I love HK and also consider it the best of it's kind and just hits the absolutely perfect dead-empire beats for me. I also played Bloostained several months back on Xbox Game Pass (which I originally got for Outer Worlds and man that game sucked complete rear end so at least I could play Bloodstained instead) and i loved it. It made me realize how much Castlevania I actually just missed in some ways that are missing in some other metroidvania games (and not that's that that's a bad thing per se) like lots ofaction, beating up demons, collecting poo poo, and wandering around and power-levelling/upgrading yourself into the stratosphere. It's basically SoTN but flashier. HK is great because it's a tighlty designed exploration game with some good action, but there's something to be said about the raw junk food energy of Castlevania games like Bloodstained
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Xaris posted:That's good to hear. Left3Dead would sell like absolute loving hotcakes and an obscene amount of people are still playing L4D2, like one of the most populated games on Steam. It's rather absurb how much Valve is allergic to money and they've left so much money on the table by not doing it. Even if they made a blockbuster game, how much would it make compared to what Steam is bringing in? The Steam money is so enormous that the company can afford to just basically gently caress around with an entire division for a whole decade and it won't show anywhere. Or ignore problems until they just become too big, because otherwise they won't chip your revenue at all. It would be different if it was a publicly owned company. In those the management needs to wring out every penny out of the company in profit or the shareholders will sue. The only drive the company as a whole will have to make any games is that the people in the company will really want to make games. (This is not a value judgement, that they "should" be making games. They can do whatever the gently caress they want)
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There's something about finding a new weapon or shard and being excited to try it out and see what its swing arc is.
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Update on sorting my Steam library into a single page of categories. 58% done.
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