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I just bought a new game, but it's too large to fit on my (small, old) SSD. I see there is an option to create a new Steam library on my other HDD. Is there any downsides to doing this (other than load times)?
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Jul 24, 2020 20:11
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Nope. I do the same thing.
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Jul 24, 2020 20:12
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space marine todd posted:Kind of a weird request but I'm looking for single-player adventure/role-playing games that my wife and I can co-play together (if that makes sense). She has been abroad for her job for the last year and unfortunately can't come back to the US until likely next year due to COVID-19 travel lockdowns. We're getting bored of syncing up and watching movies together long-distance so I was thinking I'd just stream a game for us via Discord so we can do something different. Life is Strange Season 1 is very inspired by Twin Peaks. As is Deadly Premonition. As is Alan Wake. As is Silent Hill 2. As is
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Uthor posted:I just bought a new game, but it's too large to fit on my (small, old) SSD. I see there is an option to create a new Steam library on my other HDD. Is there any downsides to doing this (other than load times)? I have three Steam libraries across my drives that I'm constantly shuffling games around on these days. Games playing now/games maybe playing soon/games i'm not playing but are too big to keep redownloading. It's one of the more convenient features Steam has imo.
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Jul 24, 2020 20:21
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space marine todd posted:Kind of a weird request but I'm looking for single-player adventure/role-playing games that my wife and I can co-play together (if that makes sense). She has been abroad for her job for the last year and unfortunately can't come back to the US until likely next year due to COVID-19 travel lockdowns. We're getting bored of syncing up and watching movies together long-distance so I was thinking I'd just stream a game for us via Discord so we can do something different. Disco Elysium is a great choice. Pillars of Eternity 1/2 and Divinity Original Sin 1/2 may also work. I liked the stories of the Pillars games, but Divinity gets wild with the environment. Your wife could throw out crazy things for you to try in puzzles and battles. Throw a mine down a hall to block attackers from heading your way? Welp, the AI just teleported that mine on top of you. You can do some crazy things to bypass puzzles (and are subsequently called out for it in some cases) with the teleport spell in that game. There is quite a bit of variety in how you tackle things.
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space marine todd posted:Kind of a weird request but I'm looking for single-player adventure/role-playing games that my wife and I can co-play together (if that makes sense). She has been abroad for her job for the last year and unfortunately can't come back to the US until likely next year due to COVID-19 travel lockdowns. We're getting bored of syncing up and watching movies together long-distance so I was thinking I'd just stream a game for us via Discord so we can do something different. Unavowed Tales from the Borderlands
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Jul 24, 2020 20:27
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Hwurmp posted:Unavowed Aw yeah Tales from the Borderlands is fantastic.
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Jul 24, 2020 20:28
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Uthor posted:I just bought a new game, but it's too large to fit on my (small, old) SSD. I see there is an option to create a new Steam library on my other HDD. Is there any downsides to doing this (other than load times)?
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Jul 24, 2020 20:30
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You can even move games between libraries directly from steam once you have more than one set up, instead of having to download the game again or do manual move shenanigans.
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Jul 24, 2020 20:34
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Uthor posted:I just bought a new game, but it's too large to fit on my (small, old) SSD. I see there is an option to create a new Steam library on my other HDD. Is there any downsides to doing this (other than load times)? Nope, and if you want to boost loading times in games that you launch often or that load the same assets over and over, Primocache + a tiny old or cheap ebay SSD can do the trick. Like hybrid drives it'll only boost loads after the data has been pulled at least once, but you'll have a lot more SSD space to work with than hybrid drives and a single SSD will work for multiple HDDs! If you only set up a read cache you don't have to worry about possible data corruption if the SSD dies, either. On the other hand $45 can also get you a cheap 500GB SSD, so whether Primocache is worth it kind of depends how much overflow you have...  E: You can also just set aside 50-100GB of your current SSD instead of using a separate one just for the cache. Stickman fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Jul 24, 2020 |
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Jul 24, 2020 20:44
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Kanfy posted:No Man's Sky definitely seemed to have recovered a ton from the immense shitstorm around it at launch. I can't say they haven't made the effort at this point, but it is still far removed from an enjoyable experience and the bugs present make Bethesda look downright competent. A couple months ago I watched someone stream it and he couldn't go 10 minutes without encountering something game breaking. Judging by recent reviews, it's still possible to have your entire fleet disappear when you try to move it, a bug that's been in the game for years now. And the loving thing still costs $60.
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Jul 24, 2020 20:45
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Edmond Dantes posted:You can even move games between libraries directly from steam once you have more than one set up, instead of having to download the game again or do manual move shenanigans. Yeah this is the ticket. Create new library, move games you aren't playing right now to the slow drive, install new game to SSD.
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space marine todd posted:Kind of a weird request but I'm looking for single-player adventure/role-playing games that my wife and I can co-play together (if that makes sense). She has been abroad for her job for the last year and unfortunately can't come back to the US until likely next year due to COVID-19 travel lockdowns. We're getting bored of syncing up and watching movies together long-distance so I was thinking I'd just stream a game for us via Discord so we can do something different. I'm shocked nobody's said Pathologic 2 yet when Lynch, Cronenberg, and Stanley have been discussed. Granted, not point-and-click/turn-based but then DE isn't quite that either.
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Jul 24, 2020 20:59
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Thanks for all the recommendations! I asked about point and click games mostly because my wife's internet speeds aren't that great where she is at so FPS games/games with lots of motion wouldn't really work.
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Jul 24, 2020 21:03
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Ciaphas posted:I just finished the first real dungeon in CrossCode, Temple Mine There's no curve to worry about. Do the sidequests if you think they are fun, and don't do them if you don't. You'll have everything you need for the main path on the main path itself. It really is the chillest of games. The best way to describe CrossCode is that is is full of love. It is made with love and it loves you and wants you to be happy. If you love it, there's a ton of game to play. If you just like it but don't love it, it's perfectly fine with that relationship.
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Jul 24, 2020 21:06
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Stickman posted:E: You can also just set aside 50-100GB of your current SSD instead of using a separate one just for the cache. K8.0 posted:Yeah this is the ticket. Create new library, move games you aren't playing right now to the slow drive, install new game to SSD. Not unless I uninstall literally every program on my computer other than Windows, I can't!  I definitely need to upgrade the PC, including getting a much bigger SSD, but since I lost my job in March, I don't really feel the need to drop hundreds of dollars on doing this right now.
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Jul 24, 2020 21:26
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Megasabin posted:My friends really want to have a virtual lan party. I'm not really sure what that means nowadays since we all play games together online all the time anyway. Essentially I think they want games that would be fun to play with just our group of 7-10 people with no other random players from the internet. Unreal tournament 2004
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I had an absolutely magical moment playing the Forest co-op last night where we were walking down the beach talking about Shadow of the Colossus and I was relating the story of how I traversed that empty open world to go to a beach and it took so long to get there and there was nothing but a beach. Exploration for the sake of it, not to find the marker and such. And as we're talking I spot a cannibal up ahead run out towards the water and go "one... two three, four, OH no back up BACK UP" We turned around instantly and ran for our lives as there were like eight cannibals and I have never had the sense of fun? adrenaline as I did in that moment where I was having fun but simultaneously terrified because if that pack caught us we would've probably died.
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Jul 24, 2020 21:39
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space marine todd posted:Kind of a weird request but I'm looking for single-player adventure/role-playing games that my wife and I can co-play together (if that makes sense). She has been abroad for her job for the last year and unfortunately can't come back to the US until likely next year due to COVID-19 travel lockdowns. We're getting bored of syncing up and watching movies together long-distance so I was thinking I'd just stream a game for us via Discord so we can do something different. If your anime JRPG tolerance is high enough, Persona 4 just came out in Steam and might fit the bill. It's turn-based small-town murder mystery and they've admitted that a lot of the feel/aesthetics of the series are heavily inspired by Twin Peaks (if Twin Peaks were set in an anime Japanese high school). If you need more low-fi low-bandwidth but less Twin Peaks, Phoenix Wright series could fit the bill but that's Switch not Steam.
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Megasabin posted:My friends really want to have a virtual lan party. I'm not really sure what that means nowadays since we all play games together online all the time anyway. Essentially I think they want games that would be fun to play with just our group of 7-10 people with no other random players from the internet. You could do Killing Floor 2 as a co-op wave shooter, but you'd have to run your own server and also add a mutator to support more than 6 players. Not trivial, but there's a page with instructions as well as Steam workshop for what you need. The added bonus is you can turn on friendly fire and really get to yell at people.
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So is "based on Twin Peaks" just mean "slightly quirky, involving a small town with a hint of supernatural?" cause I remember that show being basically a soap opera
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Jul 24, 2020 21:50
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helps if it's in the pacific northwest but that's not a requirement
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You also need offbeat townie characters and a bangin soundtrack.
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Also horror. Twin peaks is so good.
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Jul 24, 2020 22:08
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You can have a little horror, as a treat.
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The art design in Persona's Velvet Room is "we changed it from red to violet and kept everything else the same" level of "inspiration".
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:So is "based on Twin Peaks" just mean "slightly quirky, involving a small town with a hint of supernatural?" cause I remember that show being basically a soap opera The "Dark Souls" of urban fantasy.
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A lot of people like to say Twin Peaks isn't horrifying but I can't think of much worse than having a fish in the percolator.
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Persona 4 has the small town with a hidden world thing going. Fair warning, though, it deals with adolescent psychosexual themes in a Frank and very anime way. The dungeon delving parts are pretty much aggressive Jungian psychotherapy, which is pretty fun.
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Lakitu7 posted:If you need more low-fi low-bandwidth but less Twin Peaks, Phoenix Wright series could fit the bill but that's Switch not Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/787480/Phoenix_Wright_Ace_Attorney_Trilogy/ ?
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GrandpaPants posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/787480/Phoenix_Wright_Ace_Attorney_Trilogy/ My mistake. Thanks!
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...did they end up turning a profit after all the co-op stuff? I thought it was a disaster. EDIT: oh god the $30 hello neighbor and $20 secret neighbor each sold >200k copies according to steamspy.... what the hell. No Wave fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Jul 24, 2020 |
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No Wave posted:...did they end up turning a profit after all the co-op stuff? I thought it was a disaster. Nothing matches Game Theory advertising for indie games. I'm telling you, make a game, put a bunch of vague lore and hope MatPat catches wind of it.
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I don't get Hello Neighbour. It's apparently this multi-media franchise with books and spinoffs and stuff that's big amongst kids but I don't know where they actually play it. From the metrics I can suss out it's only got between 200 and 500k owners on Steam which isn't bad, but also isn't groundbreaking for a three year old mid-priced game and it has about 170k ratings on the android store and while I don't know from phone games, that's actually fewer than some of it's ripoffs have gotten. For example, Evil Nun : Scary Horror Game Adventure has almost 400,000. Mordja fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Jul 24, 2020 |
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space marine todd posted:Kind of a weird request but I'm looking for single-player adventure/role-playing games that my wife and I can co-play together (if that makes sense). She has been abroad for her job for the last year and unfortunately can't come back to the US until likely next year due to COVID-19 travel lockdowns. We're getting bored of syncing up and watching movies together long-distance so I was thinking I'd just stream a game for us via Discord so we can do something different. The Sea Will Claim Everything is a pretty great point and click. Its got humor, its weird as hell, and i don't recall having to look up any puzzle solutions.
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Braking Gnus posted:The Sea Will Claim Everything is a pretty great point and click. Its got humor, its weird as hell, and i don't recall having to look up any puzzle solutions.  +1 for TSWCE. It goes for a sort of children's children's story book theme and its writing is wholesome while staying interesting throughout. From one of the two writers of The Talos Principle.
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Mordja posted:I don't get Hello Neighbour. It's apparently this multi-media franchise with books and spinoffs and stuff that's big amongst kids but I don't know where they actually play it. From the metrics I can suss out it's only got between 200 and 500k owners on Steam which isn't bad, but also isn't groundbreaking for a three year old mid-priced game and it has about 170k ratings on the android store and while I don't know from phone games, that's actually fewer than some of it's ripoffs have gotten. For example, Evil Nun : Scary Horror Game Adventure has almost 400,000. It's super popular with kids on youtube it's basically the same thing as FNAF. Edit: Also I would look at console and app sales since their main demographic is kids. https://venturebeat.com/2020/03/31/tinybuild-hello-neighbor-indie-game-hits-30-million-downloads/ Hub Cat fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Jul 24, 2020 |
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