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Reading the reviews of Conquest of Go, the summary of what I got is that it's excellent for casual and new players to the game of Go, and also good for people who can use a campaign as motivation to play. It is not meaty enough for Go experts. Also has incredibly limited reviewing options, so using it as a learning tool outside of its campaign is not the best.
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Gonna applaud Haven for having a pretty dang bleak as hell ending (dunno about the other). I did not like you Kay and Yu, and the map is goddamn liar regarding one of the islands, but not bad. Would play someone elses take on this concept. Edit: I also forgot about a major setting point thats dropped on you like 5 minutes from the end so Im the dum dum. The ending is ruuuuuushed Barudak fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Dec 8, 2020 |
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Dec 8, 2020 17:05
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TACD posted:I was looking forward to this for ages but now it only has ‘Mixed’ reviews I’m not sure if I should jump on it or not 😕 I have hopes that the game can be patched up to a better state, the developers seem to be already on it, but I wouldn't really recommend the game right now.
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Dec 8, 2020 19:52
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Has anyone been playing Shadow Empire? I'm a civilization guy but civ VI was too much like Civ V so I didn't play it much, but the focus on logistics in shadow empire looks like a new mechanic that might be interesting but then again it appears like that's basically all there is to it from watching a few lets plays.
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Dec 10, 2020 03:40
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Washout posted:Has anyone been playing Shadow Empire? I'm a civilization guy but civ VI was too much like Civ V so I didn't play it much, but the focus on logistics in shadow empire looks like a new mechanic that might be interesting but then again it appears like that's basically all there is to it from watching a few lets plays. There's actually a thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3926377 There's a very in depth military sim paired with the logistics/economy side as well. It's a very grognardy game. Good if that sort of thing is to your taste though, and actively being updated - just before the steam release, airplanes were added.
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Dec 10, 2020 03:50
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The Wind and Wilting Blossom just dropped, it's a - lemme quote a review:quote:It's partly FTL-clone, with classic HoMM1-style tactical battles on hexes, about nightmarish japanese folklore.
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Dec 11, 2020 18:46
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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 It is, yeah, and a fun way to learn the basics of the game. Once you get into it and want to get serious online rank and start getting reviews, you can move to OGS, KGS or Tygem. (KGS and Tygem are gross clients but well established playerbases, OGS has a nice browser client but as you get closer to 1d you'll probably want to start playing insanely agressive Korean players on Tygem).
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StrixNebulosa posted:The Wind and Wilting Blossom just dropped, it's a - lemme quote a review: I picked up this and have been playing it for a couple of hours. It's fun, but it's definitely rough around the edges here and there. The UI doesn't always feel responsive, and it's not always obvious when and what resources you get (What did I get from that chest, game?) It also feels like it has some serious balance issues, particularly with stage modifiers, like wind, earthquakes and cold. There's nothing really you can do about it, so it's just gonna tear your squad down over time. Also stuff like not being able to do quests if they spawn in nodes you've already been to. All that said, this is all stuff that is fixable, and the core gameplay is solid, so it gets a recommendation from me. Edit: Ok, beat it. Get the weapon that causes disarm if you ever see it, it's the most OP thing in the game. Broken Cog fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Dec 13, 2020 |
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Rebel Blob posted:I like Per Aspera, it consumed my entire weekend, but it is painfully unbalanced right now. The game is pure logistics, everything is inputs and outputs (even colonists: dump water and food on them, get research in return), but you can find yourself painfully short of certain materials through no fault of your own. Ironically for me, water was a major problem because the randomly placed ice deposits were almost entirely under the terraformed seas I created and the only way to get water is to mine ice deposits. Deposits themselves are also too small, obviously to force players to constantly expand, but currently, it is all too easy to run out of a vital material when it is too costly to expand to other mining sites. The end game is also somewhat lacking, too slow and with too little feedback. I keep seeing this criticism but does it not occur to people that every landing site comes with one of every resource (most of the time) and that there is no limit to them? It kinda broke the game for me having spaceports constantly churning out new landers and just dropping them next to my existing bases. My criticism is definitely the endgame grind, drags on too long and I think I might just ditch it now with hyperloops encircling the planet and infinite resources but still having to wait 20 minutes for every new technology to be researched. Chadzok fucked around with this message at 09:12 on Dec 14, 2020 |
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I haven't played it yet but Calico was pretty much an instabuy for me. It's the first game my wife has been interested in in a while. In a sentence, magical girls rebuild a cat cafe.
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So I kept seeing stuff about American Truck Simulator and a new release of the Colorado state expansion. Why would anyone want to pretend to be a truck driver. Why would anyone care about Colorado. Hey, this looks kinda popular, sure are a bunch of rednecks buying games I guess. They have a demo, lets fire up some Willie Nelson and find our cowboy hat and crash 40 tons into an unsuspecting Prius driver and make his day! 33 hours played over four days later and every expansion bought I am a big dumb rear end in a top hat. You know what they say about assumptions, etc. This is probably one of the best games I've come across in a while. It has enough RPG type mechanics available to keep a lot of people happy from customizing your truck(s), starting your own business(es) and hiring drivers to drive for you and make money while you drive your own, or take out loans to buy even more stuff. The driving itself is like zen. The scenery at some points is no-poo poo I can't believe it looks so real right now. Try the demo, you might get a new addiction. KB/M kinda suck bad, but my 360 controller after getting it all set up is the bee's knees. It's so smooth for driving. People with steering wheel and head tracking setups are gunna love this if they haven't played already. It's an old game, yeah, but the amount of new stuff coming out is amazing. I feel like I've been missing out for so long because who the hell wants to drive a big rig around? yeah. I DO. 
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Dec 16, 2020 18:57
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its pretty good when you have a backlog of podcasts to get through too yea
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Euro/American Truck Simulator with Podcasts/Audiobooks is pure bliss
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It and Euro Truck Simulator have their own thread as well if you wanted to talk truckin' some more. I haven't played ATS but assuming it's basically the same as ETS they're great games for chilling out.
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It's one of the reasons I bought my g25 steering wheel setup.
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Tenebrais posted:It and Euro Truck Simulator have their own thread as well if you wanted to talk truckin' some more. Thanks, my half-assed search came up empty.
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Philthy posted:Thanks, my half-assed search came up empty. Check out Snowrunner as well if you wish to disappear completely from the material world
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Dec 16, 2020 22:08
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Sometimes I think I would like a steering wheel but a large part of me is quite sure that if I did get one I would start driving my actual car like it's a videogame.
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Dec 16, 2020 22:26
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This indie game Airborne Kingdom just came out and seems real neat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfr9PHKb_RI Its a city builder like Sim City or Caesar but your city is floating so you can move it around to gather resources, but you also have to manage how you build it so it stays floating
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Dec 16, 2020 22:35
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Oh poo poo, ATS and ETS are all on sale for like $5 ea.
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Zaphod42 posted:This indie game Airborne Kingdom just came out and seems real neat you can get this for ten bucks on Epic right now and then get a ten dollar off coupon thanks to their holiday coupon loop deal, fyi
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Failed/salvaged Kickstarter project Unsung Story is apparently actually coming out. Just got a Steam key in my email from a different company than the one I remember backing six years ago? As a spiritual successor to Final Fantasy Tactics, I expect profound disappointment.
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lol they really mean it when they say early access. apparently only two classes are in and even those have wonky rear end balance.
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Karma Tornado posted:you can get this for ten bucks on Epic right now and then get a ten dollar off coupon thanks to their holiday coupon loop deal, fyi This is a good game- it’s kind of short for a city builder (I beat it in 9 1/2 hours) but it feels “just right” in the way all of the gameplay elements come together. Highly recommend, especially at $10.
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Yeah, it's a very good ten dollar game, I'd say it's a pretty good twenty dollar game, but it's an extremely good ten dollar game that also knocks ten dollars off something else game
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Epic store showed it as a $20 game to me.
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Epic gives you a ten dollar off coupon for logging in during these sales, and then another one when you buy something. Gotta be things over 14.99, though
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It's basically just a tricky way to make everything in the store $10 off without having to actually negotiate $10 off sales with all the publishers. AFAIK Epic is paying the difference out of their own pocket instead of paying the devs less, too. They're probably losing money on this and treating it as an expense to increase their customer base.
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Alamoduh posted:This is a good game- it’s kind of short for a city builder (I beat it in 9 1/2 hours) but it feels “just right” in the way all of the gameplay elements come together. Highly recommend, especially at $10. It also has a nice photo mode, as you are obviously meant to show off your cities. Here is my end-game city, self-sufficient when it comes to water and food. 
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Are there any recent chill managment/tactics-games? I've been in a Pikmin/Dungeon Keeper/Settlers-mood the last few days.
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If you want FFT style tactics games, Fell Seal and Fae Tactics are both good. If you're willing to use EGS, there is a Battletech-style mecha SRPG called Phantom Brigade that is currently in Early Access. Then there is Troubleshooters, an anime-themed SRPG that is notorious for being insanely complex and continuously introducing more and more game mechanics. Finally we have Gears (of war) Tactics which is currently 50% off, but which is supposedly not really anything special except for the Gears of War license. On the building sim side, we have Airborne Kingdom, which is apparently fairly short (10 hours for a full playthrough) but otherwise supposedly very chill and fun. Otherwise I can't think of much in that genre right now aside from Cities: Skylines, but there's more slated to come out sometimes next year I think. Hope this helps.
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The Saddest Rhino posted: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 Sekai-kei, for the record.
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Cardiovorax posted:If you want FFT style tactics games, Fell Seal and Fae Tactics are both good. If you're willing to use EGS, there is a Battletech-style mecha SRPG called Phantom Brigade that is currently in Early Access. Then there is Troubleshooters, an anime-themed SRPG that is notorious for being insanely complex and continuously introducing more and more game mechanics. Finally we have Gears (of war) Tactics which is currently 50% off, but which is supposedly not really anything special except for the Gears of War license. That's a few to look into. Thanks.
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Cardiovorax posted:If you want FFT style tactics games, Fell Seal and Fae Tactics are both good. If you're willing to use EGS, there is a Battletech-style mecha SRPG called Phantom Brigade that is currently in Early Access. Then there is Troubleshooters, an anime-themed SRPG that is notorious for being insanely complex and continuously introducing more and more game mechanics. Finally we have Gears (of war) Tactics which is currently 50% off, but which is supposedly not really anything special except for the Gears of War license. Huh I had heard quite a few people say Gears of War Tactics was surprisingly good?
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Ms Adequate posted:Huh I had heard quite a few people say Gears of War Tactics was surprisingly good?  I've mostly heard people say that it's okay but nothing special and that the story is completely forgettable. I guess it depends on who you're talking to. At a 7/10 average, you'll always get a lot of mixed opinions.
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Ms Adequate posted:Huh I had heard quite a few people say Gears of War Tactics was surprisingly good? If you're here for X-Com its pretty good but honestly has maybe too much/too slow content.
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Anyone try this early access Neolithic city builder? I love that period of history, so I've been looking forward to this, but I don't know if I'll ever find the time these days. https://store.steampowered.com/app/667610/Ancient_Cities/
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Charlz Guybon posted:Anyone try this early access Neolithic city builder? I love that period of history, so I've been looking forward to this, but I don't know if I'll ever find the time these days. I think it was posted earlier itt and its not good, not yet anyway. Premise is fine, but the content is not there yet
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Ms Adequate posted:Huh I had heard quite a few people say Gears of War Tactics was surprisingly good? It's not bad, but it's also not great. It does a really good job of translating Gears style combat(oohrah big beef hulkmans chainsawing monsters) to a turn based strategy game, and it has some really cool mechanical ideas, but it falls down because it's a completely linear campaign with little variance or reason for replay, the generic troops are utterly replaceable/forgettable, and the loot system loving sucks rear end(literally loot crates with random items with % bonuses to random poo poo bolted to them). It's not a waste of money but it's pretty far down the list of turn based strategy games I'd spend AAA money on.
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I picked this up at the Steam Sale and its a nifty asymmetrical card game. The main hook is defeating enemies cause them to drop "data" that when you then play your "reprogram" card you can add and upgrade cards in the middle of the match. But the game has a lot of nifty ideas, like you can execute an entire row of cards causing them to all activate from left to right (which has some neat synergies like cards that give +2 attack that you want to put at the very left) and remove them from the row. It kinda throws you into the deep end after the first few tutorial matches but this thing has a lot of neat ideas.
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