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explosivo posted:It's definitely a bit overkill for playing Among Us Honk if you have seen this: someone spends a grand building/buying a monster rig and then uses it to play toaster games like Minecraft, Among Us, CS:GO, and Rocket League. "But 144Hz in CS:GO!" "You forgot to spend half a grand on a screen, too" I can't tell you how many times I've seen this sort of thing and it's kind of hilarious. When getting into PC gaming, a lot of people, if they have the money, will spend way too much on something they aren't going to fully use. Saoshyant fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Oct 21, 2020 |
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Ragequit posted:Oh hey a big tabletop sale kicked off today. Has anyone tried Popup Dungeon? It looks charming. I don't know popup dungeon but there are some cool games on sale. Iratus is 40% off https://store.steampowered.com/app/807120/Iratus_Lord_of_the_Dead/. In my opinion it's also vastly superior to darkest dungeon, but opinions differ of course. Slay the Spire is 50% off https://store.steampowered.com/app/646570/Slay_the_Spire/. For the few people who have not yet played it. (If you haven't, you should.) Monster Train is 25% off https://store.steampowered.com/app/1102190/Monster_Train/. A very good evolution of the ideas of slay the spire. Trials of fire is also 25% off https://store.steampowered.com/app/1038370/Trials_of_Fire/. I just noticed it's in my top 10 of most played games, even though it's still in early access. Any other cool/similar games you guys would recommend?
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Ilhan Omar posted her PC specs. What's this build like? Low-end, medium-end, what? Solid medium build, minus the RAM + storage which is more than I figure most go for. Saoshyant posted:Honk if you have seen this: someone spends a grand building/buying a monster rig and then uses it to play toaster games like Minecraft, Among Us, CS:GO, and Rocket League. I got to use one of my parent's 4K screens from work for Minecraft back in 2015 and it ran flawlessly even then, on a 2012-era machine.
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Saoshyant posted:Honk if you have seen this: someone spends a grand building/buying a monster rig and then uses it to play toaster games like Minecraft, Among Us, CS:GO, and Rocket League. yes I've looked in a mirror ty
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Saoshyant posted:Honk if you have seen this: someone spends a grand building/buying a monster rig and then uses it to play toaster games like Minecraft, Among Us, CS:GO, and Rocket League. I agree with you but I think this was a case of them putting out a call to get systems for them to do this with basically the day of according to AOC. I think they probably gave some kid a wad of money to get a system the same day and this is what they got.
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explosivo posted:I agree with you but I think this was a case of them putting out a call to get systems for them to do this with basically the day of according to AOC. I think they probably gave some kid a wad of money to get a system the same day and this is what they got. Oh, I wasn't even talking about this specific case, just an observation I keep noticing. Which is fine. People can do whatever they want, but I think most of them don't realize they could do it for less money.
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Someone in another thread said the gobs of ram and lots of fast storage pointed towards video editing.
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Walh Hara posted:I don't know popup dungeon but there are some cool games on sale. Is Griftlands fun yet? I remember reading here that it wasn't quite finished cooking yet.
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tight aspirations posted:Someone in another thread said the gobs of ram and lots of fast storage pointed towards video editing. Yeah it belongs to one of her staffers.
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tight aspirations posted:Someone in another thread said the gobs of ram and lots of fast storage pointed towards video editing. Oh, yep, that makes sense. I guess the new i7 does well enough to warrant getting that over the much pricier i9, too.
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The squad got me looking at my PC like I'm a proud boy eyeing protestors
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steinrokkan posted:I'm no expert, but the GPU seems kinda wimpy for all the other stuff in there (it's still better than what I have) there was a tweet from someone who was apparently the rig's owner as well as omar's deputy comms chief, so it is probably the video editing terminal for omar's campaign
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steinrokkan posted:I'm no expert, but the GPU seems kinda wimpy for all the other stuff in there (it's still better than what I have) It's apparently her comm director's PC, which also explains why it has an insanely big SSD
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Anyone have experience with Mordheim: City of the Damned? It's 75% off on steam ($5).
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Helical Nightmares posted:Anyone have experience with Mordheim: City of the Damned? It's 75% off on steam ($5). Mordheim is an extremely neat and extremely punishing squad tactics game that I would not recommend to the vast majority of people. Playing through a campaign of it your time is primarily spent losing units and very slowly exploring maps. If ultrabrutal, high attrition melee and some ranged squad tactics sounds like your jam, give it a try at least. You will very definitely be sure if you want to refund it or not within the two hour window.
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Helical Nightmares posted:Anyone have experience with Mordheim: City of the Damned? It's 75% off on steam ($5). My buddy who only really plays dota loved it and put 200 hours into it but he's also a massive warhammer fan
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JollyBoyJohn posted:My buddy who only really plays dota loved it and put 200 hours into it but he's also a massive warhammer fan I guess I should also say I have over a hundred hours in Battle Brothers and 50+ hours in Gloomhaven already.
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Helical Nightmares posted:I guess I should also say I have over a hundred hours in Battle Brothers and 50+ hours in Gloomhaven already. Same vibe, plays very differently to either.
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Helical Nightmares posted:Anyone have experience with Mordheim: City of the Damned? It's 75% off on steam ($5). Might as well get Bloodbowl 2 instead.
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Serious Sam 4 was such a huge success on Stadia that Croteam had to sell the studio.
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ErrEff posted:Serious Sam 4 was such a huge success on Stadia that Croteam had to sell the studio. God I wish the Stadia thread was open, even if it's just for the Cyberpunk launch.
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Mordja posted:If you like seeing hard rods forcefully inserted into tight orifices as much as I do, there's a new SCORN video. A shooter but everything is made of meat is right, looks dull. 
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Cardiovorax posted:I always felt that even more than the difficulty, which is pretty punishing, the biggest problem Darkest Dungeon has is how much of an unrelenting slog it is. The game is an incredible grind. You will go through ever-similar random dungeons over and over again for tiny gains, but at the same time you can't ever afford to pay it less than your full attention because tiny mistakes can and will cause catastrophic failures that set you back entire in-game months. You can have something difficult and punishing or you can have something over-long and repetitive, but having both at the same time just made it into a game I do not enjoy without extensively modding it to my own tastes first.
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I got my fill of that game when it was shown during that Xbox reveal thing this summer. I'm fine with not seeing more oozing wall penises ever again, thanks.
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FreeKillB posted:The issue here is that tiny failures causing catastrophes is the fundamental thing that makes the game compelling. The game is really good at getting its hooks into you regarding attachment to your characters at least for a while. Once you develop a layer of detachment the only real cost to losing a character is the time it takes to grind up a replacement. I loved the game when it was fresh to me but after playing it to ground I have no interest in a sequel. Would be interested in seeing anything else from the team/studio, though. There's are limit o that, and Darkest Dungeon really gets way past those. Specifically the mechanic where your heroes refuse to take part in crawls below their level is something that exists only to make the game more grindy, and it's no fun.
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steinrokkan posted:Specifically the mechanic where your heroes refuse to take part in crawls below their level is something that exists only to make the game more grindy, and it's no fun. similar to the issue i have with hades now where i unlocked life/gold from vases and now i feel like i need to break every vase in every room when i need a heal.
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Awesome! posted:that sounds like a case of devs trying to save players from themselves. if the "optimal" strategy is to do super boring low level grinds with a team that cant lose players will definitely do it and then complain that the game "forces" it on them. In practice it means if you need a specific resource, or if you need to reinforce your team, you need to grind from bottom up all over again... It stopped being fun way before I reached the final dungeon.
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Awesome! posted:that sounds like a case of devs trying to save players from themselves. if the "optimal" strategy is to do super boring low level grinds with a team that cant lose players will definitely do it and then complain that the game "forces" it on them.
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FreeKillB posted:The issue here is that tiny failures causing catastrophes is the fundamental thing that makes the game compelling. The game is really good at getting its hooks into you regarding attachment to your characters at least for a while. steinrokkan posted:There's are limit o that, and Darkest Dungeon really gets way past those. Specifically the mechanic where your heroes refuse to take part in crawls below their level is something that exists only to make the game more grindy, and it's no fun.
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Is Endless Space 2 worth picking up? Looking at the reviews, it mentioned that the latest (and what sounds to be final) patch has issues.
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Max Wilco posted:Is Endless Space 2 worth picking up? Looking at the reviews, it mentioned that the latest (and what sounds to be final) patch has issues.
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Max Wilco posted:Is Endless Space 2 worth picking up? Looking at the reviews, it mentioned that the latest (and what sounds to be final) patch has issues. I don’t know why but every time I try to play it my brain slides right off of it. I play plenty of games like it, I have like 100 hours in the original, but for some reason I cannot retain a single thing about how to actually engage with the game.
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Awesome! posted:that sounds like a case of devs trying to save players from themselves. if the "optimal" strategy is to do super boring low level grinds with a team that cant lose players will definitely do it and then complain that the game "forces" it on them. The gold carrying urns are always a different color than the normal ones, and the extra life on urn break is only if you have her trinket equipped, which usually isn't the best option. Her trinket does slow down the game, though, you're right.
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Max Wilco posted:Is Endless Space 2 worth picking up? Looking at the reviews, it mentioned that the latest (and what sounds to be final) patch has issues. Yes but don't buy the last expansion cause that one is universally recognized as garbo. The "final" patch was the last patch of a series of rehauls they made, not necessarily the last patch ever (although it could be but who knows).
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About the Croteam sale and announcement, what would a Talos Principle 2 even entail story wise? The first gane told a pretty complete story. It would have to be a prequel by nature.
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Max Wilco posted:Is Endless Space 2 worth picking up? Looking at the reviews, it mentioned that the latest (and what sounds to be final) patch has issues. The base game is fine/good. It's a solid contender in the most recent batch of 4X games, some DLCs (all of which try to be transformative) are a very big swing and miss and can be disabled. If someone's talking about how game foo is a better 4X, they're usually referring to a game that a literal-human-generation old and probably unpalatable for modern audiences. For context of my opinion: I think Endless Legend is brilliant, Civ6 ok, Stellaris a rip-off, StarControl2 timeless, and couldn't get into GalCiv2 when I tried to install it this year.
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