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Flimf posted:Also the aptly named Hellscreen: That's one or two steps away from a shooter with the art style of The Return of the Obra Dinn.
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the problem with all these new retro styled shooting games is that DOOM still owns and there are hundreds, thousands? of rad free mods for DOOM and you can just play DOOM forever basically
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Light Gun Man posted:the problem with all these new retro styled shooting games is that DOOM still owns and there are hundreds, thousands? of rad free mods for DOOM and you can just play DOOM forever basically All the more reason to play Amid Evil since it does the herculean feat of tearing us away from Doom.
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Sep 7, 2020 01:36
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Light Gun Man posted:the problem with all these new retro styled shooting games is that DOOM still owns and there are hundreds, thousands? of rad free mods for DOOM and you can just play DOOM forever basically I mean that's true but having the world's most perfect infinite cake doesn't mean I don't want to try these other weird new cakes
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StrixNebulosa posted:I mean that's true but having the world's most perfect infinite cake doesn't mean I don't want to try these other weird new cakes yeah, that's fair. i've been eying some of them too. and have like a dozen mods lined up for future playing. embarrassment of shoots
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Even though I only got into Doom and Doom mods a few years back, I'll probably be playing it for the rest of my life, so long as there's more stuff being made for it. But different shooters have different "feels" to them and I like to mix it up.
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Hub Cat posted:Kinda wish The Bureau was a better game or they had made a sequel, there are flashes of something interesting buried in that cobbled together mess. No joke, Control is making me want to go back and replay it.
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Krazyface posted:I just, JUST realised "Amid Evil" is a pun on medieval
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StrixNebulosa posted:so I bought Death Stranding i loved the poo poo out of this game.
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Krazyface posted:I just, JUST realised "Amid Evil" is a pun on medieval or an anagram whatever.
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Morter posted:or an anagram whatever. 
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Sep 7, 2020 02:43
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Made it to the Hinterlands and I'm immediately getting bombarded with a bunch of 'collect the 5,000 puzzle pieces scattered around the map' challenges. No wonder multiple goons were driven to insanity when they actually tried to do these. I won't make the same mistake, I'll do as many quests as possible, but the collections will remain incomplete.
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Phlegmish posted:I'll do as many quests as possible You do you, but imo you might want to be flexible on this part too. Edit: That might sound super negative, but I'm just saying this won't be the only zone stuffed with quests, so I'd try not to play until you're starting to feel burned out and then expect to move on and hit the "real game" where that isn't an issue anymore or anything. That's what I was expecting when I played, and it made the game suck more than it had to that I had that expectation. Dr Kool-AIDS fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Sep 7, 2020 |
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i want to play a game i know i own but i forget the name and steams new sorting situation wont let me just see everything i have. its an older game maybe 4ish years old, fps rogueish game the ads for the game were like old 90s shooter ads levels are on a spaceship. i thought it was called strife but thats showing a different game.
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Kly posted:i want to play a game i know i own but i forget the name and steams new sorting situation wont let me just see everything i have. https://store.steampowered.com/app/295770/Rogue_Shooter_The_FPS_Roguelike/
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Hmmm... I heard that the Rise of the Triad remake was too faithful to a lot of the not-so-good mechanics the original had, and that's also buggy and unstable. It's only $1.69 which seems cheap enough that I should get that much enjoyment from it... but then again I bought Lichdom: Battlemage because it was only $1, and that wasn't fun either.
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I can almost guarantee that ROTT will be more fun that Lichdom, if only for the fact that every enemy doesn't start taking 1000 shots to kill as you go further in the game.
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Kly posted:i want to play a game i know i own but i forget the name and steams new sorting situation wont let me just see everything i have. Close, Strafe.
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Sep 7, 2020 05:06
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Mordja posted:Close, Strafe. thats the one, thanks
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Sinteres posted:You do you, but imo you might want to be flexible on this part too. yeah there are plenty more hinterlands where that came from. don't feel compelled to do everything, just know it's not much different elsewhere. it was a dumb, misleading defense of the game. it is what the game is, but it's not something everyone will hate.
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Sep 7, 2020 06:01
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Mordja posted:Close, Strafe. That's just the protagonist of FFVII
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Yep, Clamp Strafe.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:Hmmm... I heard that the Rise of the Triad remake was too faithful to a lot of the not-so-good mechanics the original had, and that's also buggy and unstable. It's only $1.69 which seems cheap enough that I should get that much enjoyment from it... but then again I bought Lichdom: Battlemage because it was only $1, and that wasn't fun either. It's rough around the edges but generally fun except for the boss battles. I'd otherwise even call it a "good", if flawed, game well worth a couple bucks but holy gently caress the bosses are a miserable experience even on normal difficulty. I was only able to beat NME after something like 4 hours of trying when its pathfinding bugged out and it got stuck on one of the shipping crates. For about the third time. The other two times it happened it got unstuck before I could unload enough ammo into it 
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Black Griffon posted:Yep, Clamp Strafe. Clump Strife, the poorly done laundry that haunts all anime.
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El_Elegante posted:Arcanum dwarf women were canonically kept secreted away from non-dwarf society I prefer the Pratchett version: Every dwarf has a beard. An important part of dwarven courtship is delicately finding out whether the other interested party is male or female.
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MonkeyforaHead posted:It's rough around the edges but generally fun except for the boss battles. I'd otherwise even call it a "good", if flawed, game well worth a couple bucks but holy gently caress the bosses are a miserable experience even on normal difficulty. I was only able to beat NME after something like 4 hours of trying when its pathfinding bugged out and it got stuck on one of the shipping crates. For about the third time. The other two times it happened it got unstuck before I could unload enough ammo into it That's pretty true to the original. That boss was ridiculously difficult.
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Phlegmish posted:Made it to the Hinterlands and I'm immediately getting bombarded with a bunch of 'collect the 5,000 puzzle pieces scattered around the map' challenges. No wonder multiple goons were driven to insanity when they actually tried to do these. I won't make the same mistake, I'll do as many quests as possible, but the collections will remain incomplete. Yah, about that... All the quests in this game are of the "go here and collect 10 goat horns" variety, so... The only exception are the main story quests you unlock by doing enough of the collectathons.
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Sep 7, 2020 15:12
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Mordja posted:Close, Strafe. Gott "Strafe" England?
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MonkeyforaHead posted:It's rough around the edges but generally fun except for the boss battles. I'd otherwise even call it a "good", if flawed, game well worth a couple bucks but holy gently caress the bosses are a miserable experience even on normal difficulty. I was only able to beat NME after something like 4 hours of trying when its pathfinding bugged out and it got stuck on one of the shipping crates. For about the third time. The other two times it happened it got unstuck before I could unload enough ammo into it Yeah the boss fights in ROTT 2013 are pretty abysmal. I played on Hard and legitimately defeated every boss except for El Oscuro, who I beat my head against for a long time. I think I even rage-uninstalled the game because of it (one of the only times I’ve done that in years), cooled off, reinstalled it a day or two later, and finally killed him after he glitched onto a piece of geometry and I found a relatively safe vantage point to wear down his health from—just to see how insurmountable of a task it was. It still took an uncomfortably long time and I have no idea how you would do it legitimately...to say nothing of attempting it on “ludicrous” mode.
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alan wake thing - while the game's really short on visual imagination outside of the dlc's, thomas zane is an incredible piece of character design also the game designer's rant in the sanitarium is as perfect as i remembered it being
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steinrokkan posted:Yah, about that... All the quests in this game are of the "go here and collect 10 goat horns" variety, so... The only exception are the main story quests you unlock by doing enough of the collectathons. Yeah, I was wondering about that. I do the 'bring this letter to a guy standing 10 m from here' quest and they give me a Power point. You must end up with thousands of Power if you do all of the quests.
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So now that I have a month of Humble Choice again, I need to ask: is there even a single game on the entire storefront that actually offers you the advertised 20% Choice discount? Because I've yet to ever see that number go above 5-10%.
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MonkeyforaHead posted:So now that I have a month of Humble Choice again, I need to ask: is there even a single game on the entire storefront that actually offers you the advertised 20% Choice discount? Because I've yet to ever see that number go above 5-10%. It defaults half as a discount and half to charity. You can go into the sliders and change it to get the 20% discount. Monster
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And for the record, most of them do. It's usually just specific games that literally just came out or from specific (predictable) publishers that don't.
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5,000 Somali orphans died so MonkeyforaHead's video games could be slightly cheaper
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Hackan Slash posted:It defaults half as a discount and half to charity. You can go into the sliders and change it to get the 20% discount. I... somehow never actually realized that. Phlegmish posted:5,000 Somali orphans died so MonkeyforaHead's video games could be slightly cheaper oh noooo
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I must be bad at recognizing bad writing because I didn't think the text in Alan Wake was bad at all
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ymgve posted:I must be bad at recognizing bad writing because I didn't think the text in Alan Wake was bad at all It was pretty bad. Stephen King's writing is much better, to me, although I've no doubt you could cherry pick some real stinkeroos out of context (there's a lot of shifting writing styles to communicate character's mental states, which bothers some people but works really well for me), so maybe that's what happened to Alan Wake's writing? But I got the impression that the excerpts from the books were supposed to be characteristic, in which case yeah, it's not good.
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