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Control is an OUTSTANDING game. It has excellent writing with a great emotional core, and the gameplay is centered around using your psychic powers to throw things at people at high speeds and maybe shoot them and it's easily the best "i am a psychic wizard" game out there. Plus it's fun to explore a broken not-SCP foundation and see all the terrible, terrible choices its people made while studying weird objects. e: Also the moral of the game as "accept yourself" is something I really needed to hear this year. Also there's a section in the game that has the most perfect marriage of butt rock and intense action gameplay and I wish I could replay it right now it was so good.
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Det_no posted:Is that game still a graveyard of poorly translated, half-baked gameplay systems? Nah, as others have said, the translation is way better than the Steam page might make one think and the actual tactics gameplay is excellent, I wouldn't really call any of its systems half-baked. It is in essence a deep JRPG using the tactical layer of XCOM. While the characters you have access to are determined by the story, they are all highly customizable in their abilities through class choices, masteries, skills and item sets. Troubleshooter is at 94% positive reviews for a good reason and is honestly one of the biggest bargains I've seen in 30 years of videogames, it is positively insane how much content this thing has. I am at 166 hours and I haven't even done all the scenarios and I am still finding new ways to build characters (that said you can complete the narrative part in like ~70 hours if you laser focus it) and the devs are at this moment adding an entire new chapter with two extra characters for free.
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drat Dirty Ape posted:Make sure you check out other retailers (like Fanatical and Green Man Gaming) because they usually have cheaper prices than Steam. I am pretty sure I just got Control for $16-17 from one of them. I enjoyed Fallen Order and would recommend it to Star Wars fans. It's not nearly as difficult as Dark Souls games. Oh yeah, I forgot about GMG and Fanatical. It does look like they're cheaper on there, and I think I don't have to pay sales tax through them (unless that's changed). It looks like you can only get Fallen Order for Origin, but I suppose it's not that different from buying it on Steam, since it has to link to Origin anyway. As far as MK11, Stellaris, and Doom Eternal go, I guess it's just that I have a passing interest in them, and they're relatively cheap. - Something I'm curious about : the Sherlock Holmes games are on sale too. A lot of the games like Devils Daughter and Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper are like $2. However, I remember there was thing a while back where the developers (Frogwares) got screwed over by one of their publishers or something, where they weren't making any profit off of sales of their games. Was that ever resolved?
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Avoid old Frogwares games. I bought Dracula: Origins when it was on sale, and it kept crashing. Apparently they never recompiled it for Windows 10. One solution is here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1990017394 The solution I used was to turn off custom cursor and run in windowed mode, which also works. In either case, though, the discussions are full of "This sucker crashes" and the developer did nothing.
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drat Dirty Ape posted:Make sure you check out other retailers (like Fanatical and Green Man Gaming) because they usually have cheaper prices than Steam. I am pretty sure I just got Control for $16-17 from one of them. I enjoyed Fallen Order and would recommend it to Star Wars fans. It's not nearly as difficult as Dark Souls games. Sidenote: Wasteland Remastered is FINALLY on sale (Steam, 40%). Not the greatest deal but I've been waiting for any discount for ages and been hankering to play it once I finally finish Pillars 1.
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Yakuza K2 ($$ = EL, ** = TD) D2$$4-LBA**-60GXV
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Iverron posted:Yakuza K2 ($$ = EL, ** = TD) Oh wow, I actually got this! Thanks! I, um... you know I'm gonna take this as a sign and finally play Yakuza 0.
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Nov 28, 2020 02:07
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A new Hero of the Kingdom came out? Is it better than 3 was? 3 was terrible.
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Stupid question: if I am using an Xbox Series X controller with Steam, is there a way to turn it off without removing a battery? I have a guide chord button combo that works on Steam and PS4 controllers, but no Xbox stuff. I tried enabling Xbox controller configurations. In addition to not working, it also screwed with some games by pretending it was a steam controller and using someone else's set ups. You can probably answer this question as though it were just an Xbox One controller.
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Oh wow, I actually got this! Thanks! I, um... you know I'm gonna take this as a sign and finally play Yakuza 0. I only started playing them about a year ago and you can’t go wrong. Great series. Forgot about Humble again and already owned 
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nordichammer posted:Stupid question: if I am using an Xbox Series X controller with Steam, is there a way to turn it off without removing a battery? Hold the Xbox/Home/Guide/whateveritscalled button for a few seconds
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StrixNebulosa posted:Control is an OUTSTANDING game. It has excellent writing with a great emotional core, and the gameplay is centered around using your psychic powers to throw things at people at high speeds and maybe shoot them and it's easily the best "i am a psychic wizard" game out there. Plus it's fun to explore a broken not-SCP foundation and see all the terrible, terrible choices its people made while studying weird objects. Actually I’m pretty sure the moral of the game is TAKE CONTROL
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Kibayasu posted:Actually I’m pretty sure the moral of the game is TAKE CONTROL It's about looking like dynamite
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Nov 28, 2020 02:55
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GreenNight posted:A new Hero of the Kingdom came out? Is it better than 3 was? 3 was terrible. It's back to the older style, but it's still missing something. It's not nearly as awful as 3 was, but it's nowhere near as good as 2. I'd rank it about the same as 1, maybe a bit lower.
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I just beat the story campaign of Carrier Command Gaea Mission! What a GREAT game, wow! It has some significant flaws, but overall I adored playing it and wish there was a sequel and/or more games like it. The concept is, you need to capture a whole bunch of islands and you're armed with a carrier, four hovercraft, and four tanks. You can drive/fly all of those in third or first person POV, or control them via an RTS-view. They feel pretty great to control, and the AI is generally good/decent so if an island is easy enough you can take it entirely with attack-move from the map. ... But most of them need you to get in there and shoot things down better than the AI does, or place your tanks or do missile nonsense with hovercraft. As you capture islands, they generate resource that lets you build more stuff - more guns, more tanks, more everything. If a tank blows up you have to replace it, after all! And this is balanced oddly - when you're sailing between islands you jump into time-warp where everything is built really really fast, which means that the most efficient way to restock is to run out of fuel between islands and wait for everything to be built before you build more fuel and send it to yourself. This is vaguely countered by an enemy carrier who is sailing around grabbing islands, and he'll find and kill you - or take your stuff! So you can't idle forever in the time warp. The campaign naturally hides this amazing core of a game behind some of the dumbest decisions I've ever seen in a game: first, extremely bad and bland FPS sections. Second, a plot that's insanely stupid. Third, as you progress through the plot it gives you a few more FPS sections that all uniformly suck. There's also some turret sections or "drive this one tank through an area" sections, and ehhh. Fortunately there aren't that many of them, but the game keeps trying to interrupt it's actually good stuff with this bad plot stuff. Fortunately for me, now that I've beaten the game (and it was fun enough to stick through, the progression of weapons and difficulty was really cool) I can now sink my teeth into skirmish mode...and mods. There's a Deadly Islands mod that adds all kind of difficulty tweaks and bugfixes to the game, so you can conquer islands to your heart's delight. If any of this sounds cool, I highly recommend picking this game up now, it's on sale for 6.59$ and it's one of those surprising finds that I would have missed if my boyfriend hadn't insisted I stick with it. And he was right, I love it! PS: Next up is Hostile Waters, as I understand it's the other game in this genre and does a lot of what it does but better/more interesting, and I'm extremely into that.
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Got an email from Steam letting me know that Divinity Original Sin Raft Edition was on sale: Should I buy it? What do you folks think about this edition of the game?
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Lonjon posted:Got an email from Steam letting me know that Divinity Original Sin Raft Edition was on sale: Start your first game with the Raft DLC enabled unless you like swimming for the first four hours
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Lonjon posted:Got an email from Steam letting me know that Divinity Original Sin Raft Edition was on sale: Jokes aside that's the best Steam deal ever for D:OS2 and it's a ludicrously huge game for that price. I started my first playthrough a couple months ago and I'd be happy to answer any questions I can answer.
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Actually, how is Raft? That kind of construction / exploration loop sounds like it would really hook me in.
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Hollandia posted:Actually, how is Raft? That kind of construction / exploration loop sounds like it would really hook me in. It is a really well-crafted simple gameplay loop. I enjoyed the game a lot even before the expansions got put in - I could lose hours just trotting around my absurd raft picking up all the floating junk and occasionally smacking a shark on the nose. Spend a few minutes dragging in junk, build a thing, put down more raft, put the thing on it, get thing started, drag in more junk. The little islands provide a nice and lucrative break from the loop, too.
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Hollandia posted:Actually, how is Raft? That kind of construction / exploration loop sounds like it would really hook me in. I hope this was intentional. I enjoyed it for a while if you like the building/survival game loop, seems like the kind of thing that might be more fun with friends though.
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It's not remotely difficult. The combat starting out is a bit hard to grasp but it's MMO style meaning you're always wanting to use basic attacks to build up energy, then use cooldown attacks in certain orders, like defense lowering aoe attack and next a high damage single target attack etc. The only issue would be healing/recovery early on but you can stock up on healing items as there isn't much else you have to spend $$$ on before you get the private island base.
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Picked up Troubleshooter thanks to this thread recommending it! First impressions in the tutorial is that this is XCOM But Faster which is good to me! Also picked up Ori and the Will of the Wisps for Not Hollow Knight but haven't tried that yet. Artelier fucked around with this message at 07:28 on Nov 28, 2020 |
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Ori and the Will of the Wisps does borrow a lot from Hollow Knight but it's all to the game's benefit. I'm also going to remind everyone once again to buy MO: Astray because it is a lovely little game that went completely under the radar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5_SqCOFsnM
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I've watched quite a few LPs of Raft. It really is a 2-4 player game. Looks enjoyable though. But I kinda like a single player aspect also. e:Heres a Lets Play of Troubleshooter Checking out now. Does it have all that backend minutiae of Xcom? Those were the parts I hated most. open link for playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxhRniFL2eo&list=PLe_YGpBW0r1u59dO_tebnTYqIibpOVq9L&index=2 OgNar fucked around with this message at 09:10 on Nov 28, 2020 |
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Wamdoodle posted:Picked up Deep Rock Galactic last night and had a blast mining and shooting. There were some open lobbies even at like 3 am CST so the game seems to have legs still. I have a feeling anyone trying it out during the 2 hour refund window will know if they want to get into it. They're still adding significant content updates to it. The escort and extraction modes (extraction being the best one in the game now IMO) were added quite recently. My only complaint with DRG is that there's a significant hump to get over between getting all the equipment upgrades and getting your first promotion, which is what allows you to start earning overclocks. Some of the overclocks are loving incredible and will completely change how you play the classes.
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Question about Battle Brothers and Troubleshooters in terms of how they handle the Tactics Game Death Spiral: Are they more like Darkest Dungeon (in which failing a mission in a total squad wipe is a setback you need to grind easier areas to recover from, but you can't ever really lose the campaign), or XCOM (a squad wipe likely means you will lose the campaign 10 hours later)? I really like the nuXCOMs, but the failure spiral is what kept me from absolutely loving them. I know how DD handles it is a sticking point with many, but I sort of appreciated it. Losing sucks.
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Trickyblackjack posted:Question about Battle Brothers and Troubleshooters in terms of how they handle the Tactics Game Death Spiral: I don't think you can lose units at all, they just need to rest for a mission or two? I do own the game but I haven't played much of it..I'm fairly sure there's no actual failstate.
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explosivo posted:I hope this was intentional.  But yeah thanks for the explainer, might grab it this sale - sounds like it was decent and now they’ve added even more. Deep Rock too, played a free weekend and really enjoyed it.
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nordichammer posted:Stupid question: if I am using an Xbox Series X controller with Steam, is there a way to turn it off without removing a battery? Like repiv mentioned above, you need to hold the big lit X button (so not the smaller blue x button) for several seconds. You need to hold the button for much longer than you think it should be, like Microsoft wanted to make sure that no one would ever turn off their controller by accident. If you remove the wireless receiver/connected wire the light will keep flashing for 2-3 minutes, but the controller will eventually turn itself off. Not sure how it works if you use bluetooth.
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Trickyblackjack posted:Question about Battle Brothers and Troubleshooters in terms of how they handle the Tactics Game Death Spiral: In Battle Brothers if your guys get very low in battle then they will get injuries like losing a nose or a wound which impacts their ability to continue fighting. If they actually die they have a chance to survive with an injury or they do just die. You can buy replacements easily, but expect to pay a lot if you want something more than a peasant. A total wipe means game over. So there is totally an element of a death spiral where some runs will be abandoned. Troubleshooter has your characters with a motivation bar and getting knocked out will lower their motivation. But this just means that you can buy them a beer afterwards (or a soda for the underage character, lol) to perk them up. There is no other penalty to losing a mission or abandoning it halfway through other than losing some items collected in the mission which you can still buy back. You're encouraged to try out new builds or jump into missions specifically to farm one enemy. The game gets really tough as even though the skill system allows you to make your characters into nigh-immortal superheroes, the enemy design and AI will get better through the game at almost the same rate to still be able to challenge and surprise you. So there being functionally no penalty for a character getting knocked out is great imo. Nephthys fucked around with this message at 10:55 on Nov 28, 2020 |
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SirSamVimes posted:Ori and the Will of the Wisps does borrow a lot from Hollow Knight but it's all to the game's benefit. While we're on the subject of underrated 2D Soulstroidvanias, I also recommend Vigil: The Longest Night for 20bux.
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So in the past I always used to get emails that an item on my wishlist went on sale but I never received any emails when this Black Friday Steam Sale happened - is that intentional?
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Busy Bee posted:So in the past I always used to get emails that an item on my wishlist went on sale but I never received any emails when this Black Friday Steam Sale happened - is that intentional? Not intentional, I got mine a few hours after the sale started.
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Mischievous Mink posted:Not intentional, I got mine a few hours after the sale started. That's weird.... the last time I received a notification email was on October 31st..... Anyway, how's Metal Gear Solid V? The last one I played was MGS 3 Snake Eater and I enjoyed it, along with the first and second one. Busy Bee fucked around with this message at 11:19 on Nov 28, 2020 |
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Busy Bee posted:That's weird.... the last time I received a notification email was on October 31st..... It's a bit of a departure. No David Hayter, more audio log lore dumps than usual, more sandboxy. The story is pretty much unfinished because Kojima happened, and then Konami happened. It's absolutely the peak of the series in terms of loving-around and stealth mechanics, although the open world can tend to feel pretty barren between setpieces.
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Mierenneuker posted:Like repiv mentioned above, you need to hold the big lit X button (so not the smaller blue x button) for several seconds. You need to hold the button for much longer than you think it should be, like Microsoft wanted to make sure that no one would ever turn off their controller by accident. Thank you and repiv. I didn't realize how long it was. I was skeptical because when I tried holding it, it just brought up steam big picture mode.
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Im_Special posted:BTW, What the hell are people voting for? I haven't been gaming much let alone new stuff this year, I can't even nominate Bad Rats, I'm literally out of ideas here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh5im0rRX6U I assume for GOTY everyone is just going to nominate H A D E S as it counts for releasing on Steam this year. Or is there some goon game we should nominate instead? Assepoester fucked around with this message at 12:25 on Nov 28, 2020 |
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Unless you're going to play the game RIGHT NOW, I'd hold out for the Winter Sale. They'll probably throw in a one-time coupon towards your purchase or EGS might again do a clearance sale. But do consider Cat in the Box. If you like RPGMaker style horror games, this one has you covered. It does a bunch of neat things that I can't even bring up because of spoilers.
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MonkeyforaHead posted:It's a bit of a departure. No David Hayter, more audio log lore dumps than usual, more sandboxy. The story is pretty much unfinished because Kojima happened, and then Konami happened. It's absolutely the peak of the series in terms of loving-around and stealth mechanics, although the open world can tend to feel pretty barren between setpieces. Yeah it’s the best MGS game in terms of gameplay. Lots of opportunity to action or stealth your way through anything with lots and lots of weapons and vehicles. That said it feels like an action game with a MGS skin put on it at the last minute. I didn’t realize how much I equated MGS with ridiculously long cutscenes mixed in with oodles of real life/historical footage. Sutherland instead of Hayter was kind of nice, as much as I love goofy hammy big boss. He’s also a lot quieter, which kinda blows. And of course, you will feel shame for your words and deeds when you see one of the supporting characters and think Kojima is a perv. Great game. Get it if you like MGS or stealth-action. It’s a blast to play.
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