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RPATDO_LAMD posted:Actually they're superman flying 1 foot off the ground or something Everytime you stop and walk they opine about how slow it is and "remember running?" "Geez, I can't even remember the last time I ran" and I was like  how are you not both 20stonelordfrikk posted:I played the demo and didn't get this feeling. The banter felt pretty good and not weird at all. This. They've nailed the back-and-forth of being in a relationship with someone you're really familiar with and know each others cool stuff and pet peeves and poo poo, and are comfortable saying anything to each other. Cactus fucked around with this message at 12:43 on Dec 4, 2020 |
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Hwurmp posted:goons still recoiling from all social interaction and intimacy I see
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiyiaqlaiTA https://store.steampowered.com/app/1251460/Tanuki_Sunset/
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Realistic relationships in MY video games?! Well I never....
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surc posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiyiaqlaiTA It's a commercial release of a free itch.io game you can play in your browser, just FYI. https://squidsquadgames.itch.io/tanuki-sunset
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...of SCIENCE! posted:It's a commercial release of a free itch.io game you can play in your browser, just FYI. Ah, had no idea. I stumbled on it looking for steam racing games a while back and wishlisted it, just got the email it was released this morning. That's awesome though, wonder if it's better to support them through their patreon or by bumping steam sale numbers?
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Played a bit more of Haven. The relationship feels pretty natural for one that is beyond courtship phase and it 100% throws you into its world and its geopolitical situation without explaining things so if you don't like that, well tough. It has some weird inexplicable roughness and is obvious not a big budget game so like don't expect that but the "hold to confirm" mechanic is not good anywhere, least of all as a mechanic for enforcing turn time like the ATB system had a more dysfunctional baby. The two characters also talk about, attempt to, or try to initiate loving quite a lot, so if you aren't expecting long discussions about the phrase "don't start pushing till the panties come off" well, surprise.
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Hwurmp posted:goons still recoiling from all social interaction and intimacy I see It's not my fault 99% of these kind of games suck balls with relationships so I expect the worst. I'm on board with this game now after trying it out. ghostinmyshell fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Dec 4, 2020 |
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surc posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiyiaqlaiTA Is this set in the world of sayonara wild hearts or donut county?
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Creeper World 4 came out yesterday! https://store.steampowered.com/app/848480/Creeper_World_4/ I found the others to be pretty inaccessible, but this one is really clicking for me so far. Its basically a tower defense/RTS kind of deal -- there is a giant virus fog thing you have to fight by building up infrastructure and towers etc. I'd definitely recommend it if you're into fighting vs the computer in RTSs or turtling 
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tildes posted:Creeper World 4 came out yesterday! https://store.steampowered.com/app/848480/Creeper_World_4/ I loved the early CW games. They were challenging* and free to play back when flash games on Kongregate were good. I'd also still recommend the short metroidvania Flash -> Steam game collection Robot Wants it All There were some surprisingly good Flash games that have moved to Steam or iOS and a lot more I'd like to see migrated. *challenging with a real smooth learning curve just at higher levels the earlier games (haven't played 4) really push you like idk Starcraft when you had no idea
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I was super into Creeper World 3, the gameplay was unique and fun, and the plot was like a weird outsider art paperback scifi short story. I'll probably pick this up soon.
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Creeper World 2 is cool because where the others are top-down, that one is side-scrolling 2D. Full fluid physics on the creeper, too. It's the most unique game in the series, I think, and if you like unique experiences, that one is definitely that. Major recommendation.
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Star Renegades. JRPG combat meets Darkest Dungeon mechanics in a rogue-lite(?) with a great pixel art style rendered in a 3D engine. The campaign takes 2-4 hours, and when you finish you do it all over again from scratch except with new classes/class variants and equipment unlocked in the previous playthrough. Actions have consequences, party wipes end your current campaign and you have to start over again, but there's very little RNG so you can almost always solve problematic encounters. Decent fun, I did 13 campaign play throughs and have started chipping away at the five higher difficulty levels they just added. It's early access, updates are fairly beefy and they seem to be sticking to their roadmap, but still you can probably wait for full release or nab it on sale unless it really sounds up your alley.
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Chocobo posted:Star Renegades. I'm not so big on pixel graphics, but i've really been looking at this for when I get a Switch. Action is pretty cool looking. https://store.steampowered.com/app/651670/Star_Renegades/
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OgNar posted:I'm not so big on pixel graphics, but i've really been looking at this for when I get a Switch. Be warned, the third party partner that ported the game to Switch apparently hosed it up terribly. Performance drops to nothing, crashes are everywhere. They're working on it.
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Chocobo posted:Be warned, the third party partner that ported the game to Switch apparently hosed it up terribly. Performance drops to nothing, crashes are everywhere. They're working on it.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:I loved the early CW games. They were challenging* and free to play back when flash games on Kongregate were good. Honestly playing 4 makes me feel like I didn’t give the earlier games enough of a try! The whole gameplay loop is super up my alley.
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Shadow Empire is out on steam for the wargame grognards. Been playing it and it's a sci-fi mad-max version of dwarf fortress.
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I think about 1/3rd of all the conversations, if not more, in Haven come back to loving and its kind of dragging down the writing for me. Im approaching a point where whenever they start talking Im mentally waiting for them to then segue into talking about loving instead of anything to do with their situation or solution.
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they are on their honeymoon and that's just not a very interesting relationship phase.
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Barudak posted:I think about 1/3rd of all the conversations, if not more, in Haven come back to loving and its kind of dragging down the writing for me. Im approaching a point where whenever they start talking Im mentally waiting for them to then segue into talking about loving instead of anything to do with their situation or solution. Noticed this as well, along with the dialogue for combat being pretty repetitive (harvest time!). Even with those caveats the game is charming as gently caress, and the core gameplay of flying around floating islands, listening to chill music and cleaning up pollution is very nice.
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being 20 and deeply in love owns to experience but is incredibly annoying to witness
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has anyone tried the Last Spell also I have been sucked into Star Renegades its great the visuals are top notch
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Haven's story is a little undercooked (Im at what appears to be end game and I have no idea how long these two have actually known each other or why exactly why they want to smash the state beyond "its dating service picked someone else") but the ongoing reinforcement that their universe does not follow any of the same fundamental underpinnings as ours is quite nice.
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Sjs00 posted:has anyone tried the Last Spell No, but I see it has a demo https://store.steampowered.com/app/1105670/The_Last_Spell/. Looks neat enough to try.
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luxury handset posted:being 20 and deeply in love owns to experience but is incredibly annoying to witness I think it's sweet! 
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The Conquest of Go - I need someone to play this and tell me if it's actually good at teaching you how to play Go
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Barudak posted:Haven's story is a little undercooked (Im at what appears to be end game and I have no idea how long these two have actually known each other or why exactly why they want to smash the state beyond "its dating service picked someone else") but the ongoing reinforcement that their universe does not follow any of the same fundamental underpinnings as ours is quite nice. Laffo there was a bunch more to go and I still don't know why they hate the government so much but I have learned several positions they like loving in goddamit stop talking about loving.
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Do you need a reason to hate the government or enjoy loving?
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isn't the conceit of the story that the government is trying to take them apart. you would think an observer so fixated on the loving aspects of the game could imagine a reason why they would hate the government then.
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al-azad posted:Do you need a reason to hate the government [...]? I do if you want to keep talking about it and having sexy revolutionary roleplay Snooze Cruise posted:isn't the conceit of the story that the government is trying to take them apart. you would think an observer so fixated on the loving aspects of the game could imagine a reason why they would hate the government then. They fled the government because they didn't want to accept their matches. Sure, fine. Then they talk about abolishing their post scarcity conflict free 1,000 year social structure (and one of them comes from rulership class ultra privlege) not clear why they hate it beyond the matchmaking part. It also comes up that the government breeding program was established because there is some sort of genetic disease the population had and this prevented that from wiping them all out so just going "free love" is not inherintly viable in setting. It basically comes across like to listening to 2 libertarian trust fund kids talk about politics and it suuuuucks
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Barudak posted:They fled the government because they didn't want to accept their matches. Sure, fine. Then they talk about abolishing their post scarcity conflict free 1,000 year social structure (and one of them comes from rulership class ultra privlege) not clear why they hate it beyond the matchmaking part. It also comes up that the government breeding program was established because there is some sort of genetic disease the population had and this prevented that from wiping them all out so just going "free love" is not inherintly viable in setting. I don't know where you're from but eugenics has a pretty bad rap around here. Are we sure there is an actual disease and it's not just, like, space nazi propaganda? I haven't actually played the game so I really can't say.
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Haven sounds like pretty standard utopic fiction, where the world and society appear perfect on the surface but have dark undertones that the protagonists realize render the "perfection" of society invalid. You know, stuff like eugenics for instance. Plus if you need more reason for a couple in love to want to tear down society than "our love, which is the most important (and horniest, apparently) thing in existence, is forbidden" then, uh, I feel like there's a whole lot of fiction that just isn't gonna work for you. I haven't played the game though, these are just thoughts based on this thread.
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Shadowlz posted:I don't know where you're from but eugenics has a pretty bad rap around here. Are we sure there is an actual disease and it's not just, like, space nazi propaganda? I haven't actually played the game so I really can't say. Because characters don't talk about things I have no idea. I assume its all propaganda because this game isn't exactly going for untrod ground but Ive soured so much on the writing that Ive decided to take the most uncharitable reading possible.
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Barudak posted:Because characters don't talk about things I have no idea. I assume its all propaganda because this game isn't exactly going for untrod ground but Ive soured so much on the writing that Ive decided to take the most uncharitable reading possible. Just as a counter perspective I’m what feels like pretty close to the endgame and while there is the occasional bit of dialogue that doesn’t quite land the vast majority is just... a nice, healthy relationship. It’s lovely, it’s refreshing. It’s by no means a perfect game but it’s just so nice.
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Isn't there a genre of (anime) fiction where a large world changing event is a metaphor of the relationship between two persons? This feels like part of that sort of stories
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please knock Mom! posted:Per aspera is an incredibly slick and cool colony building sim in which you play an AI about to discover its own sentience. The soundtrack is also a real bop. StrixNebulosa posted:The Conquest of Go - I need someone to play this and tell me if it's actually good at teaching you how to play Go
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