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Hub Cat posted:Flipping through your list unless you really want to play Ultrakill or Shipbreaker right now you're probably better off holding off on them for another sale. They are mostly gameplay complete but neither is anywhere close to done on their campaign and looking at mid to late 2021 for completion.
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is Star Wars Squadrons a real resource hog? My PC is old but I don't intend on upgrading anytime soon, and Squadrons is the first game where I don't meet all the minimum requirements; it says it needs a i5-6600k minimum, but I have a i5-4570 (I also have 16gb RAM and a 980ti which exceed what they want). Is the processor really going to make a huge difference? Because of refunds I did grab it but haven't really had time to test it yet, my computer made some bad noise during the splash screens but turning on vsync and setting the graphics down from the ultra preset seemed to help, but I am a bit sad about it all, was planning on playing with friends. The last recent game I played was Avengers and the graphics card fans would get a workout but Squadrons seems to be something else.
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Nov 30, 2020 20:37
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 The only place giving EoS a truly bad rating is PCgamer, googling around I'm mostly finding fairly positive reviews and it's at a 70% on metacritic.
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Nov 30, 2020 20:49
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Not meeting the CPU minimum likely means you would bottleneck a bit at certain spots, but it will not keep you from running the game. I still run all of mine on an i5-2500K from literally almost ten years ago and it does well enough.
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Processors are pretty forgiving. Maybe blow the dust out of its fan. It’s going to be stressed running under load all the time.
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Nov 30, 2020 21:13
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how long is a normal run of noita? i was just looking for some videos to see if i want to buy it and im seeing like a 9 hour run and 18 hour run and that seems absolutely insane to me for a game where you can die in about 3 seconds
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Nov 30, 2020 21:41
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The 7th Guest posted:yeah, 70 out of metacritic is fine. there are a lot of solid games that wind up with a 65-75 metacritic, i compiled a list of them a month ago. victor vran, tiny & big, dreamfall, jazzpunk, RIVE, full bore, dark messiah of might and magic, alwa's awakening, binary domain, the last remnant, primordia, ys oath in felghana, plenty of good stuff Just from skimming, a lot of the complaints sound like bugs, which should hopefully get fixed.
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Awesome! posted:how long is a normal run of noita? i was just looking for some videos to see if i want to buy it and im seeing like a 9 hour run and 18 hour run and that seems absolutely insane to me for a game where you can die in about 3 seconds You can loop into NG+ infinitely so you're probably seeing vids of people doing that. If you just wanna beat the game its closer to 30-45 minutes
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If you play slowly and make a point of going everywhere that isn't one of the looping Works areas, then I'd say you can get to two hours for a single run. That's about the upper limit, though.
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Nov 30, 2020 21:50
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I'd say 2 or 3 hours is a little more typical if you're not exhausting the map and moving fairly deliberately, but also spending a little bit of time setting up your wands at every shop. I've done a speed run in 4 minutes 40 seconds.
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Nov 30, 2020 21:52
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Cardiovorax posted:Not meeting the CPU minimum likely means you would bottleneck a bit at certain spots, but it will not keep you from running the game. I still run all of mine on an i5-2500K from literally almost ten years ago and it does well enough. Fruits of the sea posted:Processors are pretty forgiving. Maybe blow the dust out of its fan. It’s going to be stressed running under load all the time. Thanks, I'll give it another go tonight (after blowing the dust out)
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Nov 30, 2020 21:57
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StrixNebulosa posted:I have it, but haven't read it yet. It's a 55 page PDF artbook and it looks and reads like this: Fair enough, cheers. I think I'll just grab the base game and see if I feel this would enhance the experience. Now if it was narrated by David Attenborough...
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Nov 30, 2020 22:11
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Palpek posted:I'm on the lookout for hidden gems so here are some smaller titles on sale under $10 that look interesting to me. Anybody has any thoughts on any of them? I have no idea what this game's about, but it's a shame it doesn't have Steam Trading Cards™ because I would insta buy whatever wallpapers they come out with.
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Noita was pretty disappointing for me. I was hoping there’d be more sandbox and experimentation but it’s way more rougelike than I care for. I was expecting those burning sand/falling sand type flash games with a dash of combat, but meh. Adding the edit wand anywhere mod and adding a few spell packs increased the level of fun and sandbox feel, at the least.
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Noita is a lot like an Elder Scrolls game to me in that the base mechanics and the framework it offers for cool mod ideas area almost better than the game itself.
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Im_Special posted:I have no idea what this game's about, but it's a shame it doesn't have Steam Trading Cards™ because I would insta buy whatever wallpapers they come out with. It's all bits and pieces of Renaissance paintings.
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Taintrunner posted:Holy poo poo Empire of Sin getting ripped apart in reviews today. what a shame Which reviews are you reading?
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I bought Mankind Divided and I have to say I think I'm refunding it tomorrow. The game did not waste time pissing me off by being unfathomably blurry (caused by temporal AA apparently), then the first hidden thing I found was some code I was supposed to scan with some dumb garbage companion app (no. gently caress off. let me play my drat game in peace for fucks sake), then all dialogue and exposition through the entire first level was bottom of the barrel exposition-talk. Like, bad even by the standard set by DX:HR. The Illuminati conference was especially hackneyed. And of course, the last bit of the first level was a gently caress you to any stealth player. (also, lmao at having a loud conversation about your secret group IN PUBLIC) Does this get better at all?
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I'm getting a fancy new 1440p, g-sync compatible, high refresh monitor soon, supposed to arrive in the next week. Now, it's kind of the first step in an eventual computer upgrade/new build but for now I'm running a (still totally legit!) 1070gtx with a 6600k, which has mostly served me well in 1080p. What are some games that I can still play smoothly on this hardware that'll also show off my new monitor's bells and whistles? E: Followup question: I can still play games in 1080p and they'll still look fine, right? Mordja fucked around with this message at 23:52 on Nov 30, 2020 |
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Antigravitas posted:I bought Mankind Divided and I have to say I think I'm refunding it tomorrow. Yes but you’re mind is made up, probably best to refund. The gameplay gets better but the story won’t. The ending is abrupt as it was supposed to get a third game. But Square pulled their funding and gave it to the Marvel game instead...
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Cartoon Man posted:But Square pulled their funding and gave it to the Marvel game instead... Which, by all accounts, is also failing...
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Mordja posted:Which, by all accounts, is also failing... Yes indeed. Would much rather have seen the conclusion of the Adam Jensen story which sets up JC Denton. The previous poster has some valid points but I really enjoyed both games, warts and all.
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Recently I've been playing a bunch of Blight of the Immortals with a few friends. Basically it's a co-op, extremely real-time (as in, games take literally a week to run, in real time) strategy game where the goal is to defeat the zombie plague and burn all the infected bodies. I was wondering, is anyone aware of any other games with a similar concept - you start a game and it runs real-time until it ends, days later? Co-op, preferably.
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Gort posted:Recently I've been playing a bunch of Blight of the Immortals with a few friends. Basically it's a co-op, extremely real-time (as in, games take literally a week to run, in real time) strategy game where the goal is to defeat the zombie plague and burn all the infected bodies. It's more hours instead of days and less co-op so much as alliances of convenience but Defcon has a real-time mode
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Mordja posted:I'm getting a fancy new 1440p, g-sync compatible, high refresh monitor soon, supposed to arrive in the next week. Now, it's kind of the first step in an eventual computer upgrade/new build but for now I'm running a (still totally legit!) 1070gtx with a 6600k, which has mostly served me well in 1080p. What are some games that I can still play smoothly on this hardware that'll also show off my new monitor's bells and whistles? I just got an LG27GL83A, hooked up to a 970. HL2 at 144Hz blew me away. Little else will run that well (and i can't use the Freesync mode because my card's a generation too old). The contrast of this thing is really awful, though. Bad enough that I'm considering returning it. Surprised more people didn't raise the issue. All I saw was praise. Mordja posted:E: Followup question: I can still play games in 1080p and they'll still look fine, right? Unfortunately they look like crap from a normal monitor sitting distance.
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They might and just can't tell the difference because they don't use different types of monitors often enough. It can be a bit of an issue when buying things like this where subjective differences can make a real difference to individual perception.
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Are the Styx games worth checking out? I was looking at the first one on GOG ($1.99 at the moment), but the reviews for it on GOG and Steam make it sound like it's really rough, and one review said it had a game-breaking glitch. I don't know much about it, other than that it's a stealth game where you play as goblin.
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Antigravitas posted:I bought Mankind Divided and I have to say I think I'm refunding it tomorrow. Having just started Mankind Divided myself I will say the first level is awful but have warmed to it since. I took two attempts to get through it and then bounced off the very start of Prague but after that I sank in to the comfortable world of rummaging around people's apartments and stumbling across sewer hide-outs. I also balked at the tie-in phone app, I'd forgotten those used to be a thing and wasn't pleased to be reminded. Seeing the prominent store on the main menu reminded me of the paid for praxis kit nonsense which also left a sour taste. However I haven't been prompted about any of that in the next 8-10 hours. So far it feels like autumnal HR and I'm enjoying it but I agree with the dapper Skeletor, if you had that strong a reaction there may be no saving it.
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Max Wilco posted:Are the Styx games worth checking out? I was looking at the first one on GOG ($1.99 at the moment), but the reviews for it on GOG and Steam make it sound like it's really rough, and one review said it had a game-breaking glitch. I don't know much about it, other than that it's a stealth game where you play as goblin.
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Gort posted:Recently I've been playing a bunch of Blight of the Immortals with a few friends. Basically it's a co-op, extremely real-time (as in, games take literally a week to run, in real time) strategy game where the goal is to defeat the zombie plague and burn all the infected bodies. Have you looked into Neptune's Pride? I think there's another one too about vying for control of Hell but I forget its name.
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Has anyone tried Amazing Cultivation Simulator? It looks neat and has pretty positive reviews, but I've been burned on some really janky indie wuxia games in the past, and gameplay footage makes it look like it's more focused on base building/tycoon stuff.
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Omi no Kami posted:Has anyone tried Amazing Cultivation Simulator? It looks neat and has pretty positive reviews, but I've been burned on some really janky indie wuxia games in the past, and gameplay footage makes it look like it's more focused on base building/tycoon stuff. Then Amazing Cultivation Simulator is for. One of the top games on 2020 in my book, hands down. Nyaa is running an LP of it over in Let's Play. Check it out.
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buglord posted:Noita was pretty disappointing for me. I was hoping there’d be more sandbox and experimentation but it’s way more rougelike than I care for. I was expecting those burning sand/falling sand type flash games with a dash of combat, but meh. Adding the edit wand anywhere mod and adding a few spell packs increased the level of fun and sandbox feel, at the least. yeah i'm in the same boat, I bought Noita very early on when it first hit EA and kinda didn't like it but stewed and was hoping 1.0 would change my mind.. but no it did not at all. The physics are kinda neat and wand building is sort of interesting but not a big enough hook. mods improve it somewhat but meh. i really can't recommend it on it's own
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I'm pretty sure Son Goku is called Gohan.
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HopperUK posted:Have you looked into Neptune's Pride? I think there's another one too about vying for control of Hell but I forget its name. Yeah, Neptune's Pride is by the same company and is (as far as I know) PVP only. The Hell one's PVP and turn based, isn't it? (assuming we're thinking of the same one - Solium Infernum)
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Gort posted:Yeah, Neptune's Pride is by the same company and is (as far as I know) PVP only. The Hell one's PVP and turn based, isn't it? (assuming we're thinking of the same one - Solium Infernum) That's the one! I think so? I read a playthrough of it on RPS once and it sounded exhausting, not really my cup of tea.
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Xaris posted:yeah i'm in the same boat, I bought Noita very early on when it first hit EA and kinda didn't like it but stewed and was hoping 1.0 would change my mind.. but no it did not at all. The physics are kinda neat and wand building is sort of interesting but not a big enough hook. mods improve it somewhat but meh. i really can't recommend it on it's own It's not uncommon to hear of people looking at the game and wanting a powder toy kind of thing, but in my view the game part of it really is near the top in terms of serving up both "gently caress, I died to THAT?" and "oh poo poo, how did I live through that?" experiences. That's not to say that the simulation going on around you and complicating everything isn't a big part of the appeal. If you absolutely loathe losing progress and having your runs ended then maybe avoid it, but if you can laugh at that kind of thing the game will be great.
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