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Anonymous Robot posted:Is the combat pretty rote? I can enjoy that with a 3d brawler but less so an rpg. I just bounced off of Dragon Quest XI because it was all so boilerplate simple. The presentation at least is still 100% Yakuza craziness, and there are minor environmental and QTE wrinkles, but the fundamentals are all pretty similar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpjDLwTXLuw&t=392s Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Dec 23, 2020 |
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Thanks for the replies about Death Stranding, everyone. I picked it up and it seems to be running alright. Need to fiddle with some of the settings because of my potato-card but I'm excited! Didn't think the game would run on my 970!
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Rage McDougal posted:Sands of Salzaar generated a bit of buzz earlier in the year as a kind of 2D Dynasty Warriors meets Mount and Blade.
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Hwurmp posted:The combat & job systems might frustrate you if you don't care for super basic Dragon Quest-style game mechanics, but I think 7 is just as good as 0. Sold.
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Sounds like a dumbass question, considering the franchise I'm asking about, but I got Civ6 for free on Epic a while ago. Never got around to playing it, as the early reviews were lukewarm at best, but between the purchase price of the base game, the sale and the coupon, the Platinum upgrade (2 expansions + various DLC) sounds like a good deal. Is the game good (yet)?
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Tonton Macoute posted:Sounds like a dumbass question, considering the franchise I'm asking about, but I got Civ6 for free on Epic a while ago. Never got around to playing it, as the early reviews were lukewarm at best, but between the purchase price of the base game, the sale and the coupon, the Platinum upgrade (2 expansions + various DLC) sounds like a good deal. People seem okay with it now just don't expect great AI.
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Tonton Macoute posted:Sounds like a dumbass question, considering the franchise I'm asking about, but I got Civ6 for free on Epic a while ago. Never got around to playing it, as the early reviews were lukewarm at best, but between the purchase price of the base game, the sale and the coupon, the Platinum upgrade (2 expansions + various DLC) sounds like a good deal.
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Kragger99 posted:Yeah, this is pretty much what I was complaining about earlier. There’s usually “something” of a gimmick going on. It may be poo poo, but it’s something on top of mediocre sale prices. Even the points thing the past 1-2 years that lets you unlock a coupon was a nice addition, even if you could only use it once. This sale, just a birby sticker. As you get older like me, those small things are missed more and more as the poo poo of the world keeps piling up on top of you. I still wistfully miss the Coal era though, it was so drat fun and cozy  and I really liked that they worked with indie devs putting in little snowman and santa hats and secret wintery-achievements. Suprised, but not surprised, nothing like that has happened again. I'm sure there'd be enough devs willing to participate. Big problem was the Humble Bundle at the time (back when they were really good) could be bought for like 10 cents.
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did people actually interact with those sale gimmicks? I've never given half of a poo poo about any of the cruft on the sales, I just buy things, and the fact that prices don't change through the event via flash sales or whatever means you don't have to wait for the last day to buy anything and keep constantly checking the store. the sales would be better than before if the prices hadn't gotten worse.
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Quantum Conundrum: *8RP8-F*88G-64WG3 * = The first letter of the English title of the Ryū ga Gotoku series. Tonton Macoute posted:Sounds like a dumbass question, considering the franchise I'm asking about, but I got Civ6 for free on Epic a while ago. Never got around to playing it, as the early reviews were lukewarm at best, but between the purchase price of the base game, the sale and the coupon, the Platinum upgrade (2 expansions + various DLC) sounds like a good deal. Civilization VI vanilla is arguably the worst in the series. With the expansions it's arguably the best. However, the A.I. is still painfully poor. It ranges from stupid to just plain...boring. punk rebel ecks fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Dec 23, 2020 |
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Xaris posted:I agree, even the increasingly lamer stuff was still more interesting than nothing. I won a bunch of games from that Winter sale way back when. It was how I got Skyrim among other things.
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Xaris posted:I agree, even the increasingly lamer stuff was still more interesting than nothing. The last decent gimmick was the Steam Grand Prix and it was such a debacle that I doubt we'll get anything that high concept ever again.
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I know that if I bulldoze/reinstall Windows (it's in it's own partition), I can just install Steam, then point it at the folder where my games are and have it pick everything up, but... what about EGS/MS Pass games? Particularly concerned about MS since it does that weird poo poo where it locks the folder it installs to, I don't want to end up with an undeletable folder because it doesn't recognise the user hash or something.
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I miss the gimmicks, also. They were usually good fun. It's not as easy to get cards this year, either.
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Death Stranding is just what I needed. It's like going for a walk in the park. An oddly meditative game where unseen strangers help you.
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I'm phone posting so can't easily provide links, but on the topic of sleeper hits, I've really enjoyed what I've played of Chrono Ark, which is a roguelike deck builder RPG. I'm not the best at deck builders so maybe there's a major mechanical flaw that I can't see, but it's a combination of stuff that just works, and each character in the party feels meaningfully different.
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Anything positive come from Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning? Launch had a bunch of people comment it was a cheap update with an expanded camera and literally nothing else, including game breaking bugs that were in the original.
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Edmond Dantes posted:I know that if I bulldoze/reinstall Windows (it's in it's own partition), I can just install Steam, then point it at the folder where my games are and have it pick everything up, but... what about EGS/MS Pass games? Particularly concerned about MS since it does that weird poo poo where it locks the folder it installs to, I don't want to end up with an undeletable folder because it doesn't recognise the user hash or something. I dont know about EGS, i think you have to reinstall it because it doesnt have a nice and easy "verify files + point to a new library location", it was locked to just one location last I tried. MS Pass can let you do multiple library locations (on a per drive basis anyways) but it absolutely locks that poo poo down hard making it an utter pain in the rear end to delete all the very very vague and vaguely malware-ish named folder locations (located at root no less!) and you will have to just reinstall.
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I’m deeply upset that we don’t get a new bird sticker today what kinda loving bullshit is Valve trying to pull???
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Gay Rat Wedding posted:did people actually interact with those sale gimmicks? I've never given half of a poo poo about any of the cruft on the sales, I just buy things, and the fact that prices don't change through the event via flash sales or whatever means you don't have to wait for the last day to buy anything and keep constantly checking the store. the sales would be better than before if the prices hadn't gotten worse. Agreed, I've never once interacted with any of the sale gimmicks either. I've been accused of hating fun though, I don't even do the seasonal things in like MMO's or DOTA. Have played Diretide since it was like first implemented. Gimme cheap games and go away 🤷♂️
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Xaris posted:I dont know about EGS, i think you have to reinstall it because it doesnt have a nice and easy "verify files + point to a new library location", it was locked to just one location last I tried. MS Pass can let you do multiple library locations (on a per drive basis anyways) but it absolutely locks that poo poo down hard making it an utter pain in the rear end to delete all the very very vague and vaguely malware-ish named folder locations (located at root no less!) and you will have to just reinstall. So, uninstall everything MS-Pass related before bulldozing. Got it.
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Into the Breach is unfairly good. It is the first tactics game that I have played that places support maneuvers (shields, repositioning) on the same plane of utility as attacking.
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Edmond Dantes posted:So, uninstall everything MS-Pass related before bulldozing. Got it. yeah i think you can probably do some command-line chprops or something to override ownership and delete them, but it definitely does not make it easy and doesn't let you even view them by default even with admin iac override. it's not impossible of course and if you're doing a complete reformat then fine, but yeah i would delete them just to be safe. iirc the folder it creates are /windowsapps/ and /wpsystem/, actually i guess it can also be program files/windowsapps/ also the way it installs game structure is really loving annoying and makes it really hard to link with Steam non-steam games feature.
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Any thoughts on Quern? Looks like a solid Myst-like, and it's currently 75% off.
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Nephthys posted:You can adjust it in the menu whenever you want. The difficulty isn't nearly that bad anymore. I had to increase the difficulty even. Anything you fight that seems super hard can be fought later if you level up and come back. You don't even need to fight any swarms to complete the quest any more, they're optional in the back half of the caves and you can come back to be killed by them later.
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LLCoolJD posted:I miss the gimmicks, also. They were usually good fun. My favourite was the summer camp one, where you could trade tickets for in-game dlc. The clicker game ones were also fun. I guess the closest we have is the spring cleaning sale now?
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Cartoon Man posted:I’m deeply upset that we don’t get a new bird sticker today what kinda loving bullshit is Valve trying to pull??? You have to wait 48h per pull. Yes, they are so valuable Valve can only give one every two days. Powerful birds.
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Are the Anno 1800 season passes worth it? I've clocked in 5 hours since release and need some zen time.
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Been playing bloodroots for some time and while the game is fun, it is so absurdly difficult, i have to play something easier like, inno, dark souls to wash off the obscenities.
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cave emperor posted:Any thoughts on Quern? Looks like a solid Myst-like, and it's currently 75% off. If you like Myst, you'll enjoy it. Pretty dry, very puzzly.
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strange feelings re Daisy posted:Death Stranding is just what I needed. It's like going for a walk in the park. An oddly meditative game where unseen strangers help you. yeah the invisible multiplayer aspect is really cool and never felt like it was making things too easy. I know someone upthread mentioned they turned it off, but I'd implore them to reenable it because it makes sense thematically and trying to build highway networks on your own would be stupidly tedious. its a great podcast game I 100%'d, which is something I hardly ever do nowadays. My only gripes with it are that Kojima could have dialed down the crazy a few notches, because eventually you get fatigue and things don't hit as hard as they would have. And that the boss fights are very unreasonably hard on the hardest difficulty. They become tedious slugfests. Do yourself a favor and dial down the difficulty to normal when you get to a boss fight, or better yet, play games on regular and dont be a tryhard like myself :V
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cave emperor posted:Any thoughts on Quern? Looks like a solid Myst-like, and it's currently 75% off. I liked it a lot. It's very much a homage to Myst but doing its own thing. Lots of cool interactive puzzles and figuring stuff out through experimentation. It does not hold your hand in that regard.
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buglord posted:yeah the invisible multiplayer aspect is really cool and never felt like it was making things too easy. I know someone upthread mentioned they turned it off, but I'd implore them to reenable it because it makes sense thematically and trying to build highway networks on your own would be stupidly tedious. its a great podcast game I 100%'d, which is something I hardly ever do nowadays. Plus you have to make the first journey on foot with only your own structures and supplies, and then once you reach out there are people to help you almost as if that's the entire thematic point of the game lmao
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Death Stranding is about the friends you made along the way
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Is Okami HD worth a play? I like the doggo and the art, but I hear it drags at many points and is too long, plus 30fps cap is rough.
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Hub Cat posted:Death Stranding is about the friends you made along the way and also about the really weird emoji infested emails you get from people 💦
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buglord posted:its a great podcast game If this means what I think it means, in that the game has long stretches of low engagement where you can focus your attention elsewhere while still 'playing'... that's really not a glowing endorsement, you know!
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Serephina posted:If this means what I think it means, in that the game has long stretches of low engagement where you can focus your attention elsewhere while still 'playing'... that's really not a glowing endorsement, you know! You know, people like to chill when playing video games, sometimes?
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Unlucky7 posted:You know, people like to chill when playing video games, sometimes? I like to chill and do stuff too man. Video games, books, movies, tv, whatever. But if someone ever recommended me a book or movie that's good for reading/watching while also listening to a podcast... yea.
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