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Awesome! posted:did these superhot guys really just give me their brand new game for free? thats kind of cool Yeah. They've talked about it a little bit, in the FAQ for MCD and a couple other places but basically the massive success of Superhot, Superhot VR and the early access period for MCD allowed them to take their time, massively expand it and then give it out for free to everyone who already owned Superhot. They're a small team so hopefully they've got the time to try and do some other cool stuff in the years to come.
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Finally beat INFRA after like 2 years on the backlog and it's actually really good. You play as Markku a structural engineer in the fictional Scandinavian city of Stalburg and you're tasked with documenting damage for repairs at key locations in the city and along the way you encounter hazardous situations, solve puzzles, and uncover the dark secrets of the past. It's too long imo but the writing keeps it interesting. The machine repair puzzles are interesting and good but they can be difficult to understand at times, be warned there are many box stacking puzzles, a lovely mantling system, and lots of Source ladders. Overall a good unique game if you're into the specific niche of first person adventure*/crumbling infrastructure world**/civil engineer picture taking simulator/weird euro jank humor. Probably worth a look if you're a fan of Tacoma/Gone Home, the Myst games, Observation etc. Some observations -The game does not tell you what to do or where to go -There are a few action segments that require you to act quickly and sections that will lock you out of going back in a level. -Lack of map can be frustrating. People with bad spatial memory probably want to steer clear. -Finicky interaction mechanic can make using or grabbing things difficult. -No viewable inventory makes one section especially frustrating if you're achievement hunting but it's annoying throughout with the key hunting. -Lots of puzzles with actual realistic mechanics and labeling that make you feel super clever when you figure them out but also -So many unmarked keys and doors. -One really annoying rafting section. -It's basically all sewer level if that's an issue  .-The game keeps track of your puzzle solving and "quests" so earlier sections can have positive and negative effects on later levels. Immersive sim would be too strong a characterization but it's definitely immersive sim inspired. -It's really funny that a large portion of Stalburg's essential infrastructure is maintained by one incompetent alcoholic   *Walking Simulator **It makes me think of Dishonored like some weird alt cousin. I am compelled to point out the Remove Kebab meme achievement which is a bad look especially now but I don't think there is anything else in there. Hub Cat fucked around with this message at 07:06 on Jul 17, 2020 |
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El_Elegante posted:Rats! No that was Vermintide. 
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Jul 17, 2020 03:08
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Ugly In The Morning posted:It’s worth playing PoE 1 first anyway, since the improvements in 2 make going back and playing the first one pretty difficult when you’re used to them. e: unless you're specifically into the between-game reactivity, which i don't think is a huge factor but ymmv
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Jul 17, 2020 03:13
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Det_no posted:Here's one for fans of apps about caring for a garden or a virtual pet or something like that. Snap purchase and already I'm in love. I always wanted an aquarium without the hassle of fishing out the dead cichlids after my water's pH goes bad and the survivors catch ich
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Jul 17, 2020 03:18
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I wish I could have that but as a desktop background. And have an icon that's labeled fish food that you shake to feed them. We are not living in the future yet.
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Jul 17, 2020 03:32
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I would be shocked if Wallpaper Engine didn't have that. It's the best $7 I ever spent on Steam
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Jul 17, 2020 03:34
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I should take a look. I did have a dancing puppets background that let you drag the puppets around, that was cute.
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Jul 17, 2020 03:36
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Hub Cat posted:and lots of Source ladders. 
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Jul 17, 2020 03:36
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Almost through my first POE playthru and while I have no doubt the sequel is better there’s nothing wrong with the first one
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Jul 17, 2020 03:36
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PoE1 is very good and the White March content might actually be better than PoE2
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Jul 17, 2020 04:02
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pentyne posted:Guijan 3 is a bit of a decent game at first but after ~10 hours it hit the point where I know I'm going to put 50-100 hours in it. Realtalk: if I didn't already own this game and weren't already playing it this post would be responsible for a purchase. This sounds SO much like my kind of jam, I NEED it. Also omg sidequests??? Gimme gimme!
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Just got the weirdest text: "I'm trying to remember a game you played on steam a few years ago. You were a wisp and you possessed bugs in a desert. You could be a wasp or a scorpion....it was 3D graphics." The only one I can even think of is the Wii game "Deadly Creatures" but uhhhh??? I have no loving idea what game this is, does anyone have a clue?
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FastestGunAlive posted:Almost through my first POE playthru and while I have no doubt the sequel is better there’s nothing wrong with the first one the main thing about deadfire is the multiclassing / general combat / rest improvements, I love rolling POTD solo builds with that game
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:Just got the weirdest text: "I'm trying to remember a game you played on steam a few years ago. You were a wisp and you possessed bugs in a desert. You could be a wasp or a scorpion....it was 3D graphics." The only one I can even think of is the Wii game "Deadly Creatures" but uhhhh??? Earth-2 is leaking.
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Jul 17, 2020 05:22
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Dunno where else to put this but I won the meme number lottery from an amazon ordercode:
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Orv posted:Earth-2 is leaking. It was deadly creatures. When I told him that the game was 10+ years old, and a console game, he was like "but you were PLAYING IT last YEAR" which is certainly not true! Weird guy.
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pentyne posted:Guijan 3 is a bit of a decent game at first but after ~10 hours it hit the point where I know I'm going to put 50-100 hours in it. Nice, I'll probably give it a try then, thanks for the additional in-depth review on the game. BTW you can google the mini-game answers right? Sure the game itself doesn't have a guide, but that kind of question seems like something that you can research using real-life knowledge. Or is there some timer thing? Also can you just save scum it?
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StrixNebulosa posted:Realtalk: if I didn't already own this game and weren't already playing it this post would be responsible for a purchase. This sounds SO much like my kind of jam, I NEED it. Also omg sidequests??? Gimme gimme! I just felt like the sky opened up and relief was raining down on me that I found a research guide that tells you the question answers. I failed a rare item research because I didn't know what kind of bricks would be used in Qinxia style architecture. I did feel like a total badass when I was guessing the cooking research based on what I thought was the correct technique though. I'm in love with this game, it's basically Witcher 3 done Chinese style with the focus on mythological Chinese heroes from the Yellow Emperor era. Add in some absolutely sublime QoL features that I'm amazed this game has when games like RDR2 and modern ARPG's are still ignoring for the sake of "immersion". Like collecting stuff? Run over and press B, no pause, no animation, no crouch down to collect, just a note that it's in your inventory. Fast Trave? Same deal travel from anywhere at any time to FT spots, no animation, no swirly lights, just click confirm and bam, 2-3 seconds of loading and you are at the FT point. Tons of cutscenes? All skippable entirely, can skip dialogue, and you can pause every single cutscene Managing a ton of NPCs aides and monster pals? Well in Fallout 4 you had to talk to them in person to change their orders. In here there's a streamlined menu you just scroll down to pick the NPC in question. Having to giving individual gifts for HP/exp? Nope their selection screen also has hot buttons to their preferred foods you just thumb over and press A. No "Yes to confirm" just shovel rice down his throat until his HP is back at max. Built out your character and don't like it? Respec for free from the menu at any time, free take backs for each and every attribute point whenever you want. It's so insane that this game has so many fundamentally amazing features that people have to regularly mod into most AAA western games. srulz posted:Nice, I'll probably give it a try then, thanks for the additional in-depth review on the game. BTW you can google the mini-game answers right? Sure the game itself doesn't have a guide, but that kind of question seems like something that you can research using real-life knowledge. Or is there some timer thing? Also can you just save scum it? No save scumming, it stores the saves server side. Yes, it's a 25-30 second timer. There's complete guides in English for the research questions. pentyne fucked around with this message at 07:45 on Jul 17, 2020 |
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So here's a good example of the kind of off the wall stuff to expect some is just ??? some is okay and some is off the walls bonkers. There's a Spirit Realm, the Real World, and the Dreamscape for starters no I don't want to explain. Here's where you enter someone's dreamscape and their imagination is all like the vibrant, artistic 2-D art style you'd see on watercolor prints  That's not a frame for just that scene, for the entire stage you lose camera control as your clearly 3D characters fight 2D paper monsters in a 2D world.  And because everything is Wuxia overly dramatic style you have a scene with spear wielding shrimp and mace wielding crabs fighting while dramatic yelling at one another. pentyne fucked around with this message at 07:44 on Jul 17, 2020 |
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Jul 17, 2020 07:41
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I think I need to play this game at some point.
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kirbysuperstar posted:I think I need to play this game at some point.
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Pretty glad I got it when it was on sale now.
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I was waiting to finish the game before giving my opinion, but here are my two cents about Gujian 3. I'm 8-ish hours in and the game hasn't opened yet. I'm aware that there is city building, and I'm a sucker for secondary systems added to a game halfway through, so that's the main reason I'm pushing through. First of all: The game is always online. You cannot even save the game offline. I haven't had problems with the servers, but someone is going to be pissed about it. Combat is pretty similar to FFXV, actiony but with bad controls. For example, parrying takes a good half second, and you often get hit from outside the screen or dodge into an enemy attack because you have no iframes. The special skills are pretty boring and amount to "hit enemy with sword". You can only use a sword, by the way. History is nothing to write home about, either, and every sidequest I've found so far is a fetchquest. The most involved sidequest I’ve done required me to backtrack for 10-15 seconds to an empty spot in a cave just after a cutscene and collapsed the floor behind me when I moved ten meters forward from where the cutscene ending put me. Speaking of moving, the first two dungeons require plataforming, which is never a good idea in an engine not thought for it. Failure meant only some life loss, but still. There are also a million stones, herbs, rocks and flowers to pick up, so get used to hitting your radar button all the time and to stop constantly to look around. I managed to ignore the Witcher medallion because it was open world, but here the paths are much more lineal so the temptation to stop is stronger. On the other hand, the setting is very, very, VERY pretty. Maps even have sightseeing spots that give you an aerial view, and the cutscenes give you plenty of chances to see the views. I probably have more screenshots of the game than I have of any other game. Plot is speeding up, and the main character has started teleporting around AND I’ve seen the first aerial combat of the game. Maybe it will improve! To be honest, I wouldn’t keep playing if I weren’t trying to finish games instead of buying new ones, but I’m cautiously optimistic that it will open and eventually draw me in.
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... ok this is going to sound really loving stupid but this My Koi game seems to be stuck at 30 FPS and I don't like it. Like the whole point is for it to look pretty and feel smooth but this messes up with that, especially when it comes to camera movement and what are supposed to be delicately flowing animations of things moving around in water. Edit: Dev says they'll hopefully add a 60 fps mode. Det_no fucked around with this message at 10:31 on Jul 17, 2020 |
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Holy drat how did Othercide fully slip under my radar. That single video got me intrigued and I couldn't even play sound.
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punk rebel ecks posted:Eww. It uses 3D models instead of 2D. That's pretty normal for anime lately. It's, somehow, hand over fist cheaper to make the models and animate in 3D than it is to draw them. Probably has to do with scope and speed of how fast they want to get a series out. DB Super does a "quick" first pass for TV episodes and then does a SECOND pass (basically re-drawing the whole loving thing) for Blu-ray Hunter x Hunter does this too, for the manga. His excuse is he was sick (probably just bored and burnt out) so the releases look like almost rough sketches until much later.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Hunter x Hunter does this too, for the manga. His excuse is he was sick (probably just bored and burnt out) so the releases look like almost rough sketches until much later. I'd take rough sketches over whatever that dragon is supposed to be, it looks really bad. Should have had the castlevania people do this.
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graventy posted:This has been I grabbed Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® - Game of the Year Edition
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Jul 17, 2020 15:31
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Is there an add on of some kind that shows me how long games in my library take to beat / get all achievements? preferably one that lets me sort games by those numbers? I want to start completing games in my library, but I'm fairly agnostic about what to play.
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Jul 17, 2020 16:05
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there's a site called howlongtobeat and i think you can plug your steam into it, i forget if it can sort or not
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The 7th Guest posted:there's a site called howlongtobeat and i think you can plug your steam into it, i forget if it can sort or not I knew about HLTB but didn't know you could plug in your steam name: https://howlongtobeat.com/steam thanks!
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Jul 17, 2020 16:20
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1230 days and 9 hours for me. 
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Jul 17, 2020 16:22
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413 days for Steam alone but I've got a ton of stuff on other stores so.. 
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ketchup vs catsup posted:I knew about HLTB but didn't know you could plug in your steam name: I imagine this looks at all of your Steam games for the figure, whether you’ve already played them or not. So the actual figure may be something less than that. I say that because I’ve got like 450 games and I think 65 of them are already 100%’ed, with an overall completion rate of 69% 
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ketchup vs catsup posted:I knew about HLTB but didn't know you could plug in your steam name: Some of these hours are exceedingly farcical (in that most of them would be a great deal higher for games that already round out in the high 80s or low 100s) but it's still a horrifying number.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Hunter x Hunter does this too, for the manga. His excuse is he was sick (probably just bored and burnt out) so the releases look like almost rough sketches until much later. Unless the panel is of a delicious turkey dinner.
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ketchup vs catsup posted:I knew about HLTB but didn't know you could plug in your steam name: Neat. 552 days for me, but it's being grossly inflated by this Time Clickers game which I forgot I had ever played. Apparently it takes 2000 hours to beat on average?!? 
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Mine is 672 days, but how long to beat also has multiplayer only games on the list including MMOs, which have extremely long playtimes. Also some of them don't even make sense, how can you even beat a MOBA like Nosgoth?
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