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StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA



:psyduck:

hey steam what the gently caress

e: spoilered for boobs

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ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


Unlucky7 posted:

Got Anodyne 2 because it was basically $5 on Epic and I was surprised that I am actually kind of digging it, even though I could not get into the first one.

Anodyne and Anodyne 2 don't really have a lot in common beyond the title. I loved the first one and was slightly disappointed by the second, but I can easily imagine a lot of people having the other preference.

bamhand
Apr 15, 2010

John Murdoch posted:

How did the Age of Wonders: Planetfall season pass turn out? Fanatical has the complete edition for a mere :20bux: which is the best the pass alone has even been, let alone the whole thing.

Det_no posted:

I hated it. Moving units around the map was extremely slow even in comparison to 3 and the writing was so awfully insipid and directionless, factions felt more generic than the orcs and elves of 3. I'm pretty sure I'm in the extreme minority when it comes to that though.

Just wanted to add, most people really loving love the game and it's incredible. The DLC also added ways to speed up travel. And I personally felt the races were very cool and unique. They all play differently.

Det_no is in the minority like he said. Definitely entitled to his opinion but I think most people who enjoy strategy or X-Com tactics games would really like it.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

StrixNebulosa posted:

e: spoilered for boobs

Don't forget the dicks!

sirtommygunn
Mar 7, 2013



StrixNebulosa posted:

:psyduck:

hey steam what the gently caress

e: spoilered for boobs

What, you aren't interested in futa fix dick dine and dash? That isn't the exact first thing you wanted to see when you opened the store page?

Blueshirt
Sep 27, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

ultrafilter posted:

Anodyne and Anodyne 2 don't really have a lot in common beyond the title. I loved the first one and was slightly disappointed by the second, but I can easily imagine a lot of people having the other preference.

I played Even the Ocean, the platformer that they released between Anodynes, and found it utterly soul destroying. A fair-to-good indie platformer, but with reams upon reams of the worst loving writing. Got as far as the never ending flashback about a twee indie couple bickering while making soup and uninstalled.

Is Anodyne 2 similarly wordy, or does it have the same terse and evocative atmosphere as the first one?

Angry Lobster
May 16, 2011

Served with honor
and some clarified butter.

Nephthys posted:

I'd term it as good/janky now. It's not a particularly pretty game and some of the mechanics are questionable but if you can look passed that its a compelling game.

I've been trying to play Necromunda again and man is it a stark difference between that and Mordheim. The new DLC adding the Van Saar brought me back because they looked cool and I heard that the AI had improved. The Van Saar are indeed just about cool enough to get me to keep playing. It feels like I'm playing as a sci-fi spec ops squad going up against a bunch of mad max gangs. The games visuals are great compared to Mordheim. Also the actual skill and ability system in the game is good, I've started to work out various synergies with the classes unique abilities which is pretty rewarding.

But holy poo poo has the AI not improved nearly enough to be passable. It still gets stuck on objects, wastes its turns applying useless buffs and rushes the objective to stand right in the open. It is exceedingly rare that I get attacked at all. To make it in any way challenging I went up against gangs twice my level with equipment 2-3 times better than what I have and I still won the first battle with some difficulty and then I've smashed them ever since since I stole a bunch of their weapons. The problem isn't just the AI. Mordheim has a great and challenging campaign where you fight random warbands to get loot and exp in between each factions story missions. Necromunda has a boring campaign with set characters which they locked cosmetics behind. If you want to run your own gang you start an Operation. You go up against 2-3 gangs each Operation you start and you fight them over and over until the Operation is over. Which means that if you win a fight and steal everyones weapons then at least a few will have to go into the next fight without a weapon which means you win even easier and steal even more of their poo poo. You need to purposefully limit yourself to not doing that to allow the AI to compete which it still can't do because it just cannot handle the game mechanics. Mordheim has a great system where a character getting downed has a good chance to be crippling or lethal but with the morale mechanics you can still lose and continue and the AI can keep up with the player because you can't steal all their weapons before they run away and its rarely worth stealing their weapons anyway. Necromunda is way less lethal but with the game being so easy and no morale in play that really just gives the player more of a chance to loot and snowball out of control. They even give you a looting round which just means you win even more easily.

If they could fix the AI a lot of these problems might get better but I'm really not sure they can. I want to like the game but between the terrible AI and the fundamental flaws with the game the only real joy in the game is in playing dress up and optimising your guys which is fun I'll grant you. Mordheim sidesteps all of these issues and has decent AI which is why its fundamentally a much better designed game even if it is showing its age.

Thank you for the write up, I'll give Mordheim a try. It's weird that they went into that direction with Necromunda after their experience with Mordheim, maybe they wanted to focus more in the multiplayer aspect of the game and failed miserably.

Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


sirtommygunn posted:

What, you aren't interested in futa fix dick dine and dash? That isn't the exact first thing you wanted to see when you opened the store page?

ngl, at least egs doesn’t advertise porn without asking me

[not that it’s ever asked but you know what i mean]

Cream-of-Plenty
Apr 21, 2010

"The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering."
Looks like the storefront has rolled over to the Winter Sale (22 DEC to 05 JAN) but as usual, it's going to take a little bit before the discounts actually start appearing on individual store pages.

Blattdorf
Aug 10, 2012

"This will be the best for both of us, Bradley."
"Meow."

Cream-of-Plenty posted:

Looks like the storefront has rolled over to the Winter Sale (22 DEC to 05 JAN) but as usual, it's going to take a little bit before the discounts actually start appearing on individual store pages.

Bummer.

Also, it seems every game that is NOT on sale cannot be bought in many regions. It'll probably get fixed in a moment once the servers catch their breath.

SirPhoebos
Dec 10, 2007

WELL THAT JUST HAPPENED!

StrixNebulosa posted:



:psyduck:

hey steam what the gently caress

e: spoilered for boobs

I'm more amused by the Winter Sale event starting and there being almost no price reductions



e;fb

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


Blueshirt posted:

Is Anodyne 2 similarly wordy, or does it have the same terse and evocative atmosphere as the first one?

It's much closer to the original.

G-Mawwwwwww
Jan 31, 2003

My LPth are Hot Garbage
Biscuit Hider
Has anyone played Tricky Towers? Is it fun?

Antigravitas
Dec 8, 2019

Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:
Ngl, a winter sale were they just go "nothing is discounted, just buy it anyway" would be a power move.

LGD
Sep 25, 2004

StrixNebulosa posted:



:psyduck:

hey steam what the gently caress

e: spoilered for boobs

damn horror queefs
Oct 14, 2005

say hello
say hello to the man in the elevator
How come they gotta dash after getting their futa gently caress fix? Why can't somebody settle down and form a long lasting relationship with their fuckable fellow futas?

Pretty sad.

Saoshyant
Oct 26, 2010

:hmmorks: :orks:



6,001

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Steam GOTY awards voting is up:



What the gently caress???

Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


ah yes, the unique look & feel of the world of battlefield

Galaga Galaxian
Apr 23, 2009

What a childish tactic!
Don't you think you should put more thought into your battleplan?!


Taintrunner posted:

Steam GOTY awards voting is up:



What the gently caress???

Its a stupid popularity contest, the actually merit is seconday. It always has been.


Ciaphas posted:

ah yes, the unique look & feel of the world of battlefield

It'll probably win too.

LGD
Sep 25, 2004

drat horror queefs posted:

How come they gotta dash after getting their futa gently caress fix? Why can't somebody settle down and form a long lasting relationship with their fuckable fellow futas?

Pretty sad.

apparently the title is misleading, so your concerns may be misplaced

Scalding Coffee
Jun 26, 2006

You're already dead
Labor of Love - Among us

Mordja
Apr 26, 2014

Hell Gem

Ciaphas posted:

ah yes, the unique look & feel of the world of battlefield
I actually thought Battlefield One had a legitimately great art style that really immersed you in their (admittedly insane) take on WW1. BFV on the other hand though just looked like a generic WW2 shooter.

Rage McDougal
Jul 28, 2013

Dicey Dungeons


To be honest I thought Dicey Dungeons was fine. It has a great style and I enjoyed it's humour. The deckbuilding-esque combat is clever and it's fun to puzzle out the most effective combinations of dice + equpments you can make in a turn. The main reason I'd say it was one of my top games of the year was how well it worked playing it with my girlfriend.

My girlfriend loves boardgames but is less keen on videogames. I'm the opposite. Dicey Dungeons worked as a great mix of the two that we really enjoyed playing together. She would be the one controlling the game and we'd puzzle out the combat encounters together. Would definitely recommend for any others who might be in a similar situation.

Also we both think the witch is super cute.


Unworthy


Unworthy is a pixel graphic, metroidvania, indie platformer that's clearly inspired by Dark Souls wait whereareyougoing?

Honestly though, I think it works becasue it manages to include the bits I love from games like Hollow Knight, Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight and yes, Dark Souls. Exploration is challenging but rewarding - there's a lack of overt exposition or guidance which lets you feel like you're really discoveringing things rather than just following a marker. It's not fully open, but there are often multiple ways you can go at a given time, with optional bosses and secrets to find. I believe there's even a hidden ending you can get through sequencing breaking to leave a certain boss alive.

I thought the greyscale look would be annoying, but it generally works really well. The animations are good and it provides a strong, bleak atmosphere to the whole thing.

It's not perfect by any means. The map is often pretty useless. Bosses feel like they have a bit more health than they really need to, and I got pretty fed up of fighting through their easy phase so I can just die again on their harder phase(s).

Saoshyant
Oct 26, 2010

:hmmorks: :orks:


Scalding Coffee posted:

Labor of Love - Among us

In a fair world, the only game that could possibly win that award is Terraria. Which doesn't stop loving updating for free nearly a decade later.

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

Or comic boox cinematic franchise merchandising expansion, which looks predictably like a Hollywood concept artist threw up, all DynX-2 Bshade workflow matrix and no talent.

Broken Cog
Dec 29, 2009

We're all friends here

Saoshyant posted:

In a fair world, the only game that could possibly win that award is Terraria. Which doesn't stop loving updating for free nearly a decade later.

Hollow Knight

strange feelings re Daisy
Aug 2, 2000

Taintrunner posted:



What the gently caress???
I've only just discovered Futa Fix but I would still vote for it over Battlefield V or Avengers.

Also I thought that screenshot cut off more entries below. It didn't. That's it. 5 games and all of them but Ori are completely awful choices.

Rage McDougal
Jul 28, 2013

Scalding Coffee posted:

Labor of Love - Among us

To be fair, they did cancel/postpone the sequel and have instead been updating the original for free after it suddenly became so popular.

Damn Dirty Ape
Jan 23, 2015

I love you Dr. Zaius



Taintrunner posted:

Steam GOTY awards voting is up:



What the gently caress???

lol @ avengers game and their 'movie stunt double' art style.

Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


Saoshyant posted:

In a fair world, the only game that could possibly win that award is Terraria. Which doesn't stop loving updating for free nearly a decade later.

Broken Cog posted:

Hollow Knight
Stardew Valley updated very recently, too

Helical Nightmares
Apr 30, 2009

Angry Lobster posted:

Thank you for the write up, I'll give Mordheim a try. It's weird that they went into that direction with Necromunda after their experience with Mordheim, maybe they wanted to focus more in the multiplayer aspect of the game and failed miserably.

Owning both Necromunda and Mordheim, I highly recommend Mordheim (particularly at $4) but I cannot say the same for Necromunda because the enemy AI doesn't bother attacking most of the time. The maps for Necromunda are really creative though, I will say that.

Also, play Skaven. They are the best, yes-yes!

Harminoff
Oct 24, 2005

👽

Saoshyant posted:

In a fair world, the only game that could possibly win that award is Terraria. Which doesn't stop loving updating for free nearly a decade later.

Runner up, No Mans Sky? Stardew Valley?

Saoshyant
Oct 26, 2010

:hmmorks: :orks:


Harminoff posted:

Runner up, No Mans Sky? Stardew Valley?

Yeah, both good choices. Stardew Valley may be going at it for longer than NMS.

Kragger99
Mar 21, 2004
Pillbug
This has to be the wettest fart of a Winter sale steam has ever had when it comes to it's gimmicks. Like there's nothing? Even this thread moved only 1-2 pages since the sale started almost an hour ago. I can't remember the last time it started on a Tue as well.
Probably for the best.

Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


Kragger99 posted:

This has to be the wettest fart of a Winter sale steam has ever had when it comes to it's gimmicks. Like there's nothing? Even this thread moved only 1-2 pages since the sale started almost an hour ago. I can't remember the last time it started on a Tue as well.
Probably for the best.

i almost wonder if Tuesday Shenanigans are messing with the sale

Too Shy Guy
Jun 14, 2003


I have destroyed more of your kind than I can count.



Kragger99 posted:

This has to be the wettest fart of a Winter sale steam has ever had when it comes to it's gimmicks. Like there's nothing? Even this thread moved only 1-2 pages since the sale started almost an hour ago. I can't remember the last time it started on a Tue as well.
Probably for the best.

Ragequit
Jun 1, 2006


Lipstick Apathy

Scalding Coffee posted:

Labor of Love - Among us

If Terraria doesn't win Labor of Love, gently caress all y'all

strange feelings re Daisy
Aug 2, 2000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNpIOlDhigw

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Scalding Coffee
Jun 26, 2006

You're already dead

Kragger99 posted:

This has to be the wettest fart of a Winter sale steam has ever had when it comes to it's gimmicks. Like there's nothing? Even this thread moved only 1-2 pages since the sale started almost an hour ago. I can't remember the last time it started on a Tue as well.
Probably for the best.
It could be worse, they might have more ways to pimp out your profile page by spending points.*cough*

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