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2021 reminder if you love trainwrecks: https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1345574443498655744
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wow, Wide Ocean Big Jacket is really good. one of those indie narrative games that doesn't look like much but ends up being way more than the sum of its parts (it was in the itch.io Racial Justice Bundle last summer, so there's a good chance you already own it)
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Jan 3, 2021 05:44
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I actually think I would have enjoyed Battleborn as a coop game. Shame it won't even be playable in that state.
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Jan 3, 2021 06:14
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So I finally bought Nier Automata. Installed the FAR mod, played about an hour and got to the first resistance camp. Doesn't seem like any graphical issues yet, aside from the frame rate dipping to 30 for FMV cutscenes. All the threads about it seem to say by this point I should've seen some graphics issues if I was going to so...all good? The gray semi transparent boxes at the top and bottom of the screen during dialogue/cutscenes suck but I'm pretty sure that's a game design thing not a glitch.
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Jan 3, 2021 06:33
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bees x1000 posted:Rimworld's dev doesn't do sales. You may get a bit of a drop from key sites like Humble or Fanatical but you'll (probably) never see it for $20. Really not surprised that the dude who coded  differences between men and women in the game's AI is also such a beep boop he thinks marketing doesn't work.
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Jan 3, 2021 06:52
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nordichammer posted:I actually think I would have enjoyed Battleborn as a coop game. Shame it won't even be playable in that state. I dunno, I think I wanted to enjoy it as well, but the only thing I remember back from the beta or demo or whatever it was, was that you needed to wait constantly for doors to open because the people on the radio needed to finish their quippy dialogue. For example, even if you worked hard to beat up a boss really fast, it didn't matter: they'd still be talking, and boy did they love to talk, so you just had to sit there and listen to it before being allowed to proceed. To give it some credit, I think they had variations of the mission dialogue, but I think that's the wrong fix for the repetitive situation: that's not attacking the root issue, that's applying a patch over it. Also, it was probably only like 3 variations, so for a mission you're going to be replaying constantly, I'd imagine it would be infuriating. See Borderlands series for similar issues, or Destiny 2 with "whether we wanted it or not...". FutureCop fucked around with this message at 07:25 on Jan 3, 2021 |
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Jan 3, 2021 07:23
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Barry Convex posted:wow, Wide Ocean Big Jacket is really good. one of those indie narrative games that doesn't look like much but ends up being way more than the sum of its parts Thanks for this. Ive had it earmarked for various platforms and just never bit. Ill certainly consider more next time.
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Jan 3, 2021 07:24
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Barry Convex posted:Remember Me and Vampyr are absolutely worth playing imo, just not for the overall storyline or core gameplay mechanics. What did everyone hate about Vampyr? I remember it being OK but it was possible to screw yourself if you went too hard into vampire magic without killing people.
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Jan 3, 2021 07:25
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:What did everyone hate about Vampyr? I remember it being OK but it was possible to screw yourself if you went too hard into vampire magic without killing people. I had an alright time with Vampyr. The whole difficulty of the game being a reflection of your own characters difficulty deciding whether to feed on people was quite nice and clever. My complaints were that the execution was a bit awkward at times, as 1) you can beat the crap out of a million vampire hunters and suck their blood, and still be a good guy, but suck the blood of one civilian and oh no you bad 2) the combat mechanics are a bit janky with how attacks kind of auto-correct glide into you, among other things, making the difficulty feel unfairly annoying until you get used to the jank factor 3) unless you play on hard mode, the whole morality behind the difficulty can be sidestepped from how easy it is to be good 4) dialogue interactions can be a bit awkward at times with certain choices not being quite what you expected and a lot of dialogue boiling down to boring questions 5) the experience/levels can be a bit annoying in that it's just you fighting against enemies becoming unfairly spongy and super-powerful in terms of stats, not actual movesets or tactics 6) world navigation can be annoying with a lot of backtracking and you having to remember to open a lot of one-way locked gates between districts unless you want to go the looooong way. Basically, a neat idea with some cool stuff in there, but there's just some rough edges and jank around that: kind of expect it from any experimental game, I suppose. FutureCop fucked around with this message at 07:37 on Jan 3, 2021 |
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Jan 3, 2021 07:34
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Really not surprised that the dude who coded Go away Guy Mann.
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Jan 3, 2021 07:56
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END ME SCOOB posted:2021 reminder if you love trainwrecks: Gearbox once again ruins everything.
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Jan 3, 2021 08:29
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FutureCop posted:I dunno, I think I wanted to enjoy it as well, but the only thing I remember back from the beta or demo or whatever it was, was that you needed to wait constantly for doors to open because the people on the radio needed to finish their quippy dialogue. For example, even if you worked hard to beat up a boss really fast, it didn't matter: they'd still be talking, and boy did they love to talk, so you just had to sit there and listen to it before being allowed to proceed. To give it some credit, I think they had variations of the mission dialogue, but I think that's the wrong fix for the repetitive situation: that's not attacking the root issue, that's applying a patch over it. Also, it was probably only like 3 variations, so for a mission you're going to be replaying constantly, I'd imagine it would be infuriating. See Borderlands series for similar issues, or Destiny 2 with "whether we wanted it or not...". That's fair. MOBA but without the time and community of MOBA would scratch a lot of good itches for me if implemented well. Sounds like this isn't. Still, I find it sad when any big game is delisted or otherwise cancelled. I think that tying single player to online servers is stupid because it keeps games from being experienced at all, good or bad.
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Jan 3, 2021 09:00
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END ME SCOOB posted:2021 reminder if you love trainwrecks: So long, Battleborn. May your rule 34 porn forever live on the Internet.
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Jan 3, 2021 09:34
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Jamfrost posted:So long, Battleborn. May your rule 34 porn forever live on the Internet. I'm sure Randy has all 10 of those images saved on his trusty memory stick that he'll promise not to leave at Wendy's or Burger King.
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Jan 3, 2021 11:11
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The legacy of Cyberpunk 2077 will be the bad_news.jpg
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Jan 3, 2021 12:07
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END ME SCOOB posted:2021 reminder if you love trainwrecks:
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Jan 3, 2021 12:12
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In a sense I am sad that Battleborn is going away forever because it was one of the easiest things on the internet to make fun of, and I can't tell if that makes it more or less funny now.
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Jan 3, 2021 12:17
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More like Battledead. Ahaha. 
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Jan 3, 2021 12:39
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Really not surprised that the dude who coded quote:How many copies of RimWorld have been sold?
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Jan 3, 2021 12:43
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Jan 3, 2021 12:43
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Palpek posted:Pouring one for the *looks up the most recent peak* 39 players still enjoying this title. It's more likely its gone the fate of the obscure GameFaqs boards where its been turned into a forum for niche fetish discussion/RP .
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Jan 3, 2021 13:11
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Soooo....when did steam start selling straight up hentai games on their store?
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Jan 3, 2021 13:19
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It feels like a year ago but it's been longer then that
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Jan 3, 2021 13:20
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It was around the same time as they ditched Greenlight and said "okay we give up we will just host literally any game you can upload"
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Jan 3, 2021 13:23
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BigRed0427 posted:Soooo....when did steam start selling straight up hentai games on their store? The official policy change was in June 2018 so exactly two and a half years ago, not that they didn't exist at all before that.
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Jan 3, 2021 13:46
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And before then the straight-up hentai games sold a censored version on steam and put a link to the "free nudity patch" in the store page description
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Jan 3, 2021 13:51
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don't you have to tick a box deep in your settings to even see them
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Jan 3, 2021 14:16
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GrandpaPants posted:This was a few pages back, but I worked on a Google sheet that I'll try to keep updated as new allegations come up. Links mostly courtesy of the #metoo in gaming thread. This isn't a purely objective list, as I'm not one to dictate your moral lines, so don't @me. Useful list but yeah it’s hard to make a call on some of these without context. Like the Night in the Woods guy is dead and the other 2 devs probably deserve some cash for what they had to go through.
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Jan 3, 2021 14:19
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Just wanted to give a shout out  Carrionhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/953490/CARRION/ Play as a tentacle monster and slither/spread/consume your way through a research facility. Mechanically, you are surprisingly vulnerable and don't last long to bullets, so it's essentially a stealth/puzzle game where you need to figure out how to overcome various obstacles and enemies with the the abilities you acquire throughout. I don't want to spoil the abilities themselves as part of the fun is in discovering all that stuff on your own. It's awesome and the 5-6 hours it takes to beat feels just right. The graphics and sound are on point. The surprising speed the creature moves and the wet sounds of the tentacles swishing through the air and slapping against surfaces is just grotesque. I would summarize my experience as a mix of  ,  & It rules.
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Jan 3, 2021 14:21
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Gamerofthegame posted:don't you have to tick a box deep in your settings to even see them Not that far down: https://store.steampowered.com/account/preferences/ There's a check box for Nudity or Sexual Content, and one for Adult Only Sexual Content
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Jan 3, 2021 14:28
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FutureCop posted:I had an alright time with Vampyr. The whole difficulty of the game being a reflection of your own characters difficulty deciding whether to feed on people was quite nice and clever. My complaints were that the execution was a bit awkward at times, as 1) you can beat the crap out of a million vampire hunters and suck their blood, and still be a good guy, but suck the blood of one civilian and oh no you bad 2) the combat mechanics are a bit janky with how attacks kind of auto-correct glide into you, among other things, making the difficulty feel unfairly annoying until you get used to the jank factor 3) unless you play on hard mode, the whole morality behind the difficulty can be sidestepped from how easy it is to be good 4) dialogue interactions can be a bit awkward at times with certain choices not being quite what you expected and a lot of dialogue boiling down to boring questions 5) the experience/levels can be a bit annoying in that it's just you fighting against enemies becoming unfairly spongy and super-powerful in terms of stats, not actual movesets or tactics 6) world navigation can be annoying with a lot of backtracking and you having to remember to open a lot of one-way locked gates between districts unless you want to go the looooong way. Basically, a neat idea with some cool stuff in there, but there's just some rough edges and jank around that: kind of expect it from any experimental game, I suppose. I agree with all of this, but there's one additional thing I'd add- at least for me, the combat became unbelievable amounts of unfun BS in the last few hours. I was shooting for a perfect ending, e.g. I never ate anybody (even the jerkasses who really deserved it), which means that I was pretty underleveled. I think that's what the devs intended, but combat while underleveled feels super-duper bad. By the end of the game I was wholesale sprinting through areas because most enemies took a zillion hits to kill and could kill me in 2-3 hits, and the high enemy lethality turned a couple of legitimately awesome late-game bosses into unfun slogs. TL;DR the setting is great, graphics are great, combat's okay, but for gently caress's sake set that difficulty slider as low as it'll possibly go.
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Jan 3, 2021 14:34
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every time any game pointedly not going on sale comes up it's within like two pages of discussion of how somebody doesn't want to buy something because it wasn't as dirt cheap as it was in an earlier sale, which is then followed by a list of reasons why the non-sale devs are actually fools even though they've sold a million copies at full price "well, it would be a million and ONE if they understood MARKETING"
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Jan 3, 2021 14:35
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Gamerofthegame posted:don't you have to tick a box deep in your settings to even see them I decided to check out the LGBT tab on the steam store and...yep...there's a game about futa girls in the featured games. I'm just more shocked that the previews can be THAT explicit on the store page itself. Anyway. You know what I wanna play? A JRPG, but something thats more of a throwback to like...SNES-PSX era of games. Good story and turn base is a must.
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Jan 3, 2021 14:47
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Just think about how much money devs would have if they gave me a game for 5 dollars
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Jan 3, 2021 14:49
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BigRed0427 posted:I decided to check out the LGBT tab on the steam store and...yep...there's a game about futa girls in the featured games. I'm just more shocked that the previews can be THAT explicit on the store page itself. "Good story" is dependent on how much you like corny humor but this is Cosmic Star Heroine.
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Jan 3, 2021 14:49
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Omi no Kami posted:I agree with all of this, but there's one additional thing I'd add- at least for me, the combat became unbelievable amounts of unfun BS in the last few hours. I was shooting for a perfect ending, e.g. I never ate anybody (even the jerkasses who really deserved it), which means that I was pretty underleveled. I think that's what the devs intended, but combat while underleveled feels super-duper bad. By the end of the game I was wholesale sprinting through areas because most enemies took a zillion hits to kill and could kill me in 2-3 hits, and the high enemy lethality turned a couple of legitimately awesome late-game bosses into unfun slogs. I didn't have that problem with mobs during a perfect ending playthrough, but I did have boss fights that boiled down to "is the Abyss skill on cooldown?" - Yes? Dodge, dodge, a single swipe I guess, dodge, dodge, a different ability, repeat. - No? USE ABYSS. I was fine with the challenge, but to any new player I would definitely say: vampyr can have little a neckbite, as a treat. Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Jan 3, 2021 |
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Jan 3, 2021 14:54
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BigRed0427 posted:Anyway. You know what I wanna play? A JRPG, but something thats more of a throwback to like...SNES-PSX era of games. Good story and turn base is a must. This is what you want.
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BigRed0427 posted:Anyway. You know what I wanna play? A JRPG, but something thats more of a throwback to like...SNES-PSX era of games. Good story and turn base is a must. I decided to go through FF7 again for the first time in 20 years with the New Threat difficulty mod to make the game actually engaging to play (also some graphics/sound mods) and it's pretty good.
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