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steinrokkan posted:It's not that they are more valuable, rather that it's probably harder to blow all your savings that way than playing an online lottery and at least you get out of the house. Maybe a better comparison would be stamp collecting.
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steinrokkan posted:It's not that they are more valuable, rather that it's probably harder to blow all your savings that way than playing an online lottery and at least you get out of the house. Maybe a better comparison would be stamp collecting. Well, not anymore
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I've got some 200-300 hours in mhw and I had no idea it had cosmetic dlc outside of that one preorder outfit.Boba Pearl posted:I think loot boxes are predatory, but I also think magic cards where you blind pull from packs, are 100x worse, and also should also be banned. Banned or regulated like gambling? Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Sep 27, 2020 |
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Sep 27, 2020 16:37
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Mega Comrade posted:I've got some 200-300 hours in mhw and I had no idea it had cosmetic dlc outside of that one preorder outfit.  I only realized it when someone brought up the Mr. X handler DLC and I went to look for it and saw like $400 worth of stuff. There's nothing predatory about selling a lot of purely optional cosmetic DLC that is never once advertised to you in game. If you have a compulsion to buy every piece of chandelier cosmetics because the option is there then I guess you should never walk into a store ever. Also who gives a poo poo about decorating your room in MHW, it's free to capture a bunch of Anglerfish and let them flop around your floor which is the best decoration in the game. This discussion sucks.
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Sep 27, 2020 16:51
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Stickman posted:Your “perfect world” where “artist” doesn’t get to be a real career and is just something people do in their spare time sounds like a really lovely place. im not going into the argument anymore cos ive made my point now, but dont do this. trying to throw out peoples viewpoints because "they arent real fans" or "they dont actually play the game" is a pretty stupid position to take and one some real gross people use in the same manner to shout down concerns from people who think maybe a game shouldnt have a homophobic joke in it. i own mhw on ps4 and pc, including the dlc on pc, and i have around 300 hours in the game across both platforms. if you disagree with someone then just disagree with them, dont try and justify it in your head that they dont care and are kicking up a stink for the sake of it and its not because they also play the game.
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Just finished Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. Initially I totally can't get into it, because people kept on comparing it to Hollow Knight and holy poo poo it's not even close, especially the combat part is way too light & floaty. But little by little I actually am able to actually enjoy the game. And the game's abilities actually ramp up so fast, like by endgame you're so goddamn different from when you've started. Funnily enough, 1 of the most enjoyable parts of the game for me personally is the food preparing part. For those who don't know, food in this game is not purely healing/mana items, but also grants you a permanent bonus the 1st time you use one. So I'm happily scouring the world searching for recipes & ingredients and such, especially with such good automap. The fact that RNG drops feel fair, and you can actually get whatever you're farming for in a short time with high enough Luck skill feels good as well. So any other games like that? Bear in mind that I can't actually get into MHW even with trying all weapons and such. I just really need a good story and such to tie it all together, not just pure grinding all the time.
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Bloodstained is a sendup of the Igarashi Castlevanias (SOTN, Rondo of Blood etc.) and you can play them if you have a PS4. Unfortunately none of The Good Ones seem to have ever been made available on Steam. I'm also keeping my eye on Vigil: The Longest Night which might be good, who knows!
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Mokinokaro posted:The bot seems to have possibly blocked me. Probably because I told it to get hosed. Quite a lot of you (correctly) did so, went ahead and removed all the folks "I" blocked. Tortolia fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Sep 27, 2020 |
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My last word on it is that I feel there's a double standard at play. If I said I didn't care about game balance, and therefore P2W items are fine and in fact meaningless - after all, you don't have to buy them, they're totally optional - you would think I was a loving lunatic. Because gameplay is the game, period, anything else is set dressing. Anything that ruins the gameplay is anathema to the game as a whole, anything that fucks with the set dressing.....eehhhhhh who cares. I pointedly don't view games that way. And I don't find it fair that while you get to have all of your fun for a single one time fee, I often need to spend much, much more in order to have all of mine. Solely because it was arbitrarily decided that cosmetic items weren't important enough - not gameplay enough - to receive the same gut check "oh gently caress this, you can't do that" call that P2W stuff does so they can be freely exploited by rear end in a top hat companies. USING MHW SOLELY AS A QUICK AND DIRTY EXAMPLE, you can go ahead and play "Monster Hunter World, the game about hitting increasingly larger monsters with increasingly larger sticks" without much fuss. Just pay Capcom their $20/50/whatever and go nuts. There is no extra weapon selection behind a paywall, no extra depth to the palicos only unlocked by throwing down some more money, nothing is explicitly withheld from you or externalized from the game itself. You can fully engage with the mechanics - the mechanics you've decided are the most important to you personally - without paying any extra. Meanwhile, if I wanted to play "Monster Hunter World, the game about decorating a home inbetween hitting increasingly larger monsters with increasingly larger sticks" then in all likelihood I would feel the lovely obligation to pony up for the extra decor junk because my equally valid way of playing the game has been co-opted to rake in extra $$$. My experience is artificially degraded, left intentionally incomplete until I elect to fill in the blanks or give up. So yeah, it loving sucks when I say "actually this is unfair and messed up, please don't brush it off or minimize it" and the response I hear is "well I personally don't care about that stuff, so, yawn". Great for you if your enjoyment of a game isn't affected, but mine often is and it blows.
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Stickman posted:Your “perfect world” where “artist” doesn’t get to be a real career and is just something people do in their spare time sounds like a really lovely place. This post reminded me of a podcast I was listening to that involved talking about a commune and describing how everybody shared the workload, which was sometimes hard. One of the hosts jumped in to say "Sounds like this socialism thing sucks, I'd rather order UberEats" and then I just screamed and screamed HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Some folks here seem to have the impression that "predatory" means "this needs to be banned it is the worst". I'd like to reiterate that pretty much any modern sales strategy is in some part predatory. This seems like the crux of the issue. We swim in a sea of predatory marketing and a lot of people just don't see it because its so ubiquitous.
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steinrokkan posted:You misunderstand, the perfect world would be one where people wouldn't be forced by artificial scarcity to take on jobs, so they could instead be productive in ways they found meaningful, i.e. there would be no distinction between free time and work. Ah, sorry, carry on then. I was thrown by the description of their time spent crafting games as “off time” which I thought would imply some other “on time” when they were presumably doing some other primary tasks.
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Look I pet him every time I can but sometimes he's just not loving there for some reason!!!  EDIT: Also everyone, play Hades already. It's out of Early Access and it owns.
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all the achievement percents are very low because they include everyone who played in early access but haven't played since they just added the achievements
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PowerBeard posted:EGS has achievements for Hades. Wait, EGS has achievements? I have never noticed them.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Wait, EGS has achievements? I have never noticed them. It was only added a few months ago, and not many games have gone back and added support retroactively
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I only patted cerberus out of paranoia that some kind of progress bar was tied to it. (I don't think any were)
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TheOneAndOnlyT posted:Look I pet him every time I can but sometimes he's just not loving there for some reason!!! I pet him repeatedly in one visit and the achievement popped when I left the hall and entered the bedroom. Same goes for beating up Skelly, I think. Hades is probably Supergiant's best game and the best rogue-ish thing, action or otherwise, since... gently caress, FTL? I don't know. A long time, for sure.
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The biggest problem with MTX, cosmetics, and etc. is that the video game industry is one of the most rapidly evolving and blatant examples of the slippery slope argument at work, and "X doesn't bother me" or "Y isn't as bad as Z" doesn't discount that X, Y, and Z are all bad in the first place, and the apathy is exactly why they keep happening and getting worse.mycot posted:Why are people arguing about Monster Hunter when Train Simulator and Dead or Alive 5 exist. e: I'm still waiting for Hades to come out on GOG
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Adding an achievement for petting a dog sufficiently causes us to focus on the reward instead of the action itself, thus undermining the simple enjoyment that petting a dog should provide on its own. Supergiant has failed.
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Clockwerk posted:The gameplay is really good. The voice acting and characterization is also great, with a few characters being downright excellent. The only character I don't actually care for is the main protagonist. "eh blimey m8, here I go deadpan dying again"
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Been messing around with Game Pass and one major highlight was Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid. Man, this game is good. As a bad fighting game player, I appreciate the game's easy controls and how each character has a well defined archetype (Ranger Slayer has a bow and likes to zone, Dragon Yellow Ranger has zord armor and hits like a tank). The story mode is pretty decent with evil Rangers trying to conquer the universe and random Rangers teleporting in for surprise fights. The gameplay loop of losing and learning the character to win the rematch is awesome. The game is a bit buggy on Game Pass plays much better on Steam. Tezzeract fucked around with this message at 01:56 on Sep 28, 2020 |
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Tezzeract posted:Been messing around with Game Pass and one major highlight was Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid. Man, this game is good. Earnest posting about a power ranger. 2020 is fuckin wild man! I’ll have to check it out on gamepass though!
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Beat Jedi Fallen Order. A solid 8/10 game, definitely a babby's first Sekiro but that's exactly what I was looking for. The combat wasn't as tight, the bosses fewer and not as memorable, and it is a little silly in a Stars War game to have your lightsaber deflected by a guy with a billy club but oh well. There were a few issues with the difficulty, I thought. Because it's fairly easy, when it does get rough it felt like the rest of the game hadn't trained me for those moments. Respawn knows its movement though, because the running around felt good, though the number of sliding sequences definitely got over the top. I was a little surprised at how well designed the levels were, though. Well, mostly one of the levels, Zeffo, the others are considerably more linear but still cool and the structure of the game has you revising planets as you unlock more of your abilites. Or rather, it would be an 8/10 if it weren't an unoptimized mess. Dathomir and one particular section if that first planet chugged for unfathomable reasons which you really don't want in a precision game like that. Some very noticeable glitches with the enemy models too, getting stuck on things, juddering, sometimes loading in literally on top of you. I know the game was rough when it launched and it seems they didn't patch it at all!
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gambling owns just put the statistical odds of each tier up front before you open it  problem solved 
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Mordja posted:Beat Jedi Fallen Order. A solid 8/10 game, definitely a babby's first Sekiro but that's exactly what I was looking for. The combat wasn't as tight, the bosses fewer and not as memorable, and it is a little silly in a Stars War game to have your lightsaber deflected by a guy with a billy club but oh well. There were a few issues with the difficulty, I thought. Because it's fairly easy, when it does get rough it felt like the rest of the game hadn't trained me for those moments. Respawn knows its movement though, because the running around felt good, though the number of sliding sequences definitely got over the top. I was a little surprised at how well designed the levels were, though. Well, mostly one of the levels, Zeffo, the others are considerably more linear but still cool and the structure of the game has you revising planets as you unlock more of your abilites. I've seen the technical problems mentioned 2x now, but it ran pretty smooth for me. Might be a specific card/driver issue. The only problems I noticed were with the large boss creatures getting some clipping issues. pentyne fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Sep 28, 2020 |
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pentyne posted:I've seen the technical problems mentioned 2x now, but it ran pretty smooth for me. Might be a specific card/driver issue. The only problems I noticed were with the large boss creatures getting some clipping issues. I dunno I'm on a 1070 and the thing is it'd run perfectly fine most of the time and then tank in certain areas.
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Hades is very very good. I'm terrible at games and I still feel like I'm making progress and having a blast. Every run I get some powerup that makes everything awesome. And the art, music, writing - Supergiant are maybe the best developer around.
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pentyne posted:I've seen the technical problems mentioned 2x now, but it ran pretty smooth for me. Might be a specific card/driver issue. The only problems I noticed were with the large boss creatures getting some clipping issues. ^^^ I also had no issues with the game other than some small clipping issues.
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It varies basically randomly, which often speaks of porting issues, but the technical problems are definitely common enough to be worth taking into account if you're interested in purchasing the game. In one playthrough I watches, the amount of glitches (mostly graphical, some not) was crazy. It wasn't that bad on my end, but it can be and there's no real way to tell what you'll get before you try.
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wait how did i never notice that the Steam points shop was a thing until now. I have over 26k points. Can you sell items bought in the shop for "real" money like you can cards?
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Mordja posted:wait how did i never notice that the Steam points shop was a thing until now. I have over 26k points. Can you sell items bought in the shop for "real" money like you can cards? Point shop started in the summer sale.
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You can't even give the stuff away, it's 100% account-bound.
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Welp time to not care then! My profile is as barren as my heart.
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Mordja posted:wait how did i never notice that the Steam points shop was a thing until now. I have over 26k points. Can you sell items bought in the shop for "real" money like you can cards? I think you can't sell the items you buy off the points shop. It seems like the card prices have tanked though, because of this change.
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