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Ugly In The Morning posted:I really want to like Gamepass but I just don’t. The windows store sucks so goddamn bad and it makes me never actually use it. Leal posted:My only experience was PSO2, where it:  The fact that when (not if) something goes wrong you'll likely end up with a bunch of unusuable files taking up space in somewhere you have to jump through a bunch of hoops to even get at to delete, let alone do anything to fix the problem, is the biggest issue.
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Gamepass owns, I wanted to try these games but not anywhere near enough to buy them outright. I'll play them for a while and if I like them I would consider purchasing them. Yes there were issues with PSO2 and yes it was a colossal pain in the rear end to fix but have used gamepass for years now and that was the only time anything remotely like that has happened to me. You don't have to use the Windows Store, you use the xbox app which organizes gamepass games separately from windows store games and lets you buy them through there if you really wanted to.
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Feb 16, 2021 22:44
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Unless it's an mmo or games as service thing I never replay games. Owning them isn't that big of a deal to me. I've also never had an issue with gamepass not working but maybe I'm in the minority.
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Feb 16, 2021 22:48
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OK sorry they went an released another bundle and I went and did what I do again. Neurovoider 0?HH8-?02K?-?J0ZG just a bunch of lucky numbers Sundered: Eldritch Edition 06Z3D-AH??E-XR?RF Good Game Guys (actually I don't know I haven't played I just buy things...twice) Epistory - Typing Chronicles 026?H-DF977-QXG?N the starting titular letter Chroma Squad 00L62-8GL2?-YHCF? or should i say chroma squaDD Dead in Vinland 2B4?I-H5MK?-EZ5XR how Quotidian (again not a judgment haven't actually played) Sigma Theory: Global Cold War 4?GA9-DCLI0-RKXT8 wow no doubles weird, anyway no sigmas but there was a zeta
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Feb 16, 2021 23:25
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graventy posted:
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Feb 16, 2021 23:30
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awesmoe posted:how so? im struggling to get worked up about it - if you want them permanently you can buy them. I got 5 months of game pass free with a CPU and the only thing I was interested in was Metro: Exodous, which was removed 3 days after my subscription started. It's great for trying things I'd never bother buying, especially since those sorts of games are almost exclusively what the service offers. It turns out that owning ever more games is a pretty weird point of stress in my life that makes me feel obligated to play them, and by not actually buying a game and avoiding that sense of obligation I am apparently a lot more likely to actually play something instead of endlessly browsing my library thinking "I should play that at some point" That said I have no idea why I'm still paying for game pass 
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Feb 16, 2021 23:33
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Gamepass has STREETS OF RAGE!!! which everyone should be playing.
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Feb 16, 2021 23:52
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Det_no posted:The fact that games are regularly removed from gamepass is awful. Barring a bad instance like treat's, games are up on GamePass for months or sometimes years now depending on the agreement Microsoft has with the dev/publisher. Not perfect but you have often like half a year to play something once it gets added, very often longer.
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Feb 17, 2021 00:21
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E: wrong thread
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Feb 17, 2021 00:28
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Finally canceled my Humble Choice classic subscription. I knew for some time the only reason I kept pausing it was the FOMO but I at last decided it's just not worth it for me. I prefer buying things that I want to play regardless of price or sale instead of getting a bunch of random titles of which I'm usually only interested in like one.
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Feb 17, 2021 00:31
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when you went to cancel do they have special "are you really sure" pages beyond the normal ones where they play up the fact that its something you cant get back to really scare you
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Feb 17, 2021 00:36
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Orv posted:Barring a bad instance like treat's, games are up on GamePass for months or sometimes years now depending on the agreement Microsoft has with the dev/publisher. Not perfect but you have often like half a year to play something once it gets added, very often longer. Also unlike say Netflix or Amazon Prime you don't have to rely on third parties reporting on licensing deals to find out what's coming and going, xbox just tells you. It even has stuff that pops up and tells you games if games you have installed are leaving soon. Unless you're just 100% flat opposed to not owning every single game you ever play (guess they weren't a fan of game rentals either?) it's a great service that currently has a lot of value. If they stop dumping money into it or third parties start pulling their games to try their own game sub service a la what's happened to Netflix then yeah it's gonna get shittier.
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Feb 17, 2021 00:42
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star traders: frontiers, brilliant 40k/dune style spaceship management game with lots of politics and space battlin'
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Feb 17, 2021 00:49
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This game Hellish Quart is on the top sellers list, looks like a 3d bushido blade fighting game. I actually have fond memories of playing that terrible Deadliest Warrior game way back when and I'm getting similar vibes from this game. Reviews are surprisingly positive, I watched the trailer and laughed at how they look waving the swords around real fast and assumed it would be relentlessly poo poo on in the reviews. Maybe it's better in game 
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sebmojo posted:star traders: frontiers, brilliant 40k/dune style spaceship management game with lots of politics and space battlin' Hell yeah! Star Traders owns. Every time I open that game it consumes the rest of the month in my gaming time.
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Feb 17, 2021 02:38
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aw crap now you got me thinking about it again too 
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explosivo posted:This game Hellish Quart is on the top sellers list, looks like a 3d bushido blade fighting game. I actually have fond memories of playing that terrible Deadliest Warrior game way back when and I'm getting similar vibes from this game. Reviews are surprisingly positive, I watched the trailer and laughed at how they look waving the swords around real fast and assumed it would be relentlessly poo poo on in the reviews. Maybe it's better in game There's a demo available, I've downloaded it but haven't tried it yet.
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Feb 17, 2021 02:58
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Star traders has a good Android port as well
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Feb 17, 2021 03:12
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PlushCow posted:There's a demo available, I've downloaded it but haven't tried it yet. I played a bit of it, it's actually pretty awesome. Definitely got a Deadliest Warrior/Bushido Blade feel to it.
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Feb 17, 2021 03:40
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Yakuza 2: not gonna lie, I miss Majima Everywhere. The streets feel kind of empty without him.
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Feb 17, 2021 03:40
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Walh Hara posted:What are some good tactical games for just keyboard + laptop touchpad? I have been gaming exclusively on a thinkpad for a few years, I use a mouse with mine and can't imagine life without one so I can't help with that side of it, but I will give a solid recommendation for cloud gaming services like GeForce Now (limited library but inexpensive) or Shadow (no limitations on what you can play/do with it, install mods or whatever all you want, it's just a cloud-based gaming PC that you have exclusive access to, but on the more expensive end of the spectrum for these services). That way you're only limited by the mouse thing and not by hardware specs too I've been playing tons of Total Warhammer 2 via Shadow lately which would be just fine with a touchpad, i think you can rebind right click stuff to e.g. alt+left click Also shoutout to Factorio which has minor click+drag elements but you can instead click+wasd to move your character, which moves your screen/mouse pointer too. deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Feb 17, 2021 |
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Feb 17, 2021 04:23
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StrixNebulosa posted:Yakuza 2: not gonna lie, I miss Majima Everywhere. The streets feel kind of empty without him. Majima Everywhere should be an unlockable feature in every game. Yes I said every game, not every Yakuza game. 
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StrixNebulosa posted:Yakuza 2: not gonna lie, I miss Majima Everywhere. The streets feel kind of empty without him. https://thumbs.gfycat.com/DefensiveBriefEmeraldtreeskink-mobile.mp4
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Feb 17, 2021 04:43
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I just finished Dragon Quest 11 and really enjoyed it. First JRPG I've played since I think Lost Odyssey on the 360. Anything recommended on Steam? Alternatively, I've never actually played Chrono Trigger and have been meaning to. Is the steam version a good enough port for $15?
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Dom is Here posted:I just finished Dragon Quest 11 and really enjoyed it. First JRPG I've played since I think Lost Odyssey on the 360. Anything recommended on Steam? Yes! The port was terrible when it launched, but they updated it when everyone complained/review bombed, and it's really good now. Has all the PS1 cutscenes without the PS1 load times, and the extras from the DS port. For other JRPGs, I really liked Octopath Traveler as another throwback, and I've heard good things about the Atelier games, but haven't played them myself. Particularly the latest trilogy, the Dusk ones, I think? Also, you should definitely check out the Trails in the Sky series, it's extremely long but extremely good.
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Feb 17, 2021 05:13
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Yakuza 7 is the best JRPG I’ve ever played.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Yakuza 7 is the best JRPG I’ve ever played. Oh duh, yes, of course, Yakuza 7 is excellent, and actually the battle system is very similar to DQXI.
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Dom is Here posted:I just finished Dragon Quest 11 and really enjoyed it. First JRPG I've played since I think Lost Odyssey on the 360. Anything recommended on Steam? If you're after Dragon Quest design and story telling more than the JRPG elements, then Dragon Quest Builders 2 is supposed to be flawed but worthwhile if you really like Dragon Quest.
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Feb 17, 2021 05:26
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Dom is Here posted:I just finished Dragon Quest 11 and really enjoyed it. First JRPG I've played since I think Lost Odyssey on the 360. Anything recommended on Steam? If you've never tried it and can tolerate quake-3-era 3d and jank, Anachronox is very much worth the $1 it regularly goes on sale for. Shame about the rest of the trilogy, though...
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Dom is Here posted:I just finished Dragon Quest 11 and really enjoyed it. First JRPG I've played since I think Lost Odyssey on the 360. Anything recommended on Steam? Please play Chrono Trigger, it is literally my favorite game of all time and a top ten rpg period. As the other poster said the steam port sucked at launch but is good now. Just be sure you play with original graphics setting and not the smoothed out stuff with the super weird tiling.
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Dom is Here posted:I just finished Dragon Quest 11 and really enjoyed it. First JRPG I've played since I think Lost Odyssey on the 360. Anything recommended on Steam? If you're looking for old school games, I just played FF9 on Steam and had fun with that: no problems with the port that I could see. Has a lot of nice built-in boosters, from simple things like a switch to speed boost (to skip through long animations and such, as well as grinding faster) and turning random encounters on/off, to more complex cheat codes like infinite gil or unlocking all abilities immediately. It's not a perfect fix, but the boosters really helped my impatient self get through some of the archaic design to get to the cool story bits. Beating FF9 did make me want to consider going back to play FF6, but man, looking at it on Steam gives a really bad impression, what with the really ugly mobile-looking HUD and art. Is there a way to get around that or something? I'm assuming there are mods? FutureCop fucked around with this message at 07:03 on Feb 17, 2021 |
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Dom is Here posted:I just finished Dragon Quest 11 and really enjoyed it. First JRPG I've played since I think Lost Odyssey on the 360. Anything recommended on Steam? There's the remaster of Grandia II, which is not my favorite Grandia game but it's solid.. and the Grandia battle system is just great in general (the main draw is being able to interrupt enemies and keep them from attacking). There's Persona 4 if you want to anime super hardcore while playing a good game (don't play the Neptunia series as that is anime super hardcore while playing a bad game)
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FutureCop posted:Beating FF9 did make me want to consider going back to play FF6, but man, looking at it on Steam gives a really bad impression, what with the really ugly mobile-looking HUD and art. Is there a way to get around that or something? I'm assuming there are mods? I'm hesitant to suggest piracy, but if the only legal way to play (outside of finding an ancient SNES and cartridge on ebay, lol good luck) is that abomination on Steam, then I'd say just go emulate it. Really.
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Begemot posted:Oh duh, yes, of course, Yakuza 7 is excellent, and actually the battle system is very similar to DQXI.
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Dom is Here posted:I just finished Dragon Quest 11 and really enjoyed it. First JRPG I've played since I think Lost Odyssey on the 360. Anything recommended on Steam? I love DQ11 a lot and it makes me really happy to hear about someone enjoying it as their first JRPG in a while. Definitely not gonna talk you out of the classics, and Chrono Trigger holds up great, but if you're interested in something else that mixes classic RPG mechanics with modern design conveniences, Yakuza: Like A Dragon may be a great fit for you. edit: Oh duh and I forgot Persona 4 got a Steam port. Structure is pretty different and may take some getting used to but it's an excellent game
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I've also heard good things about Digimon Cyber Sleuth Complete and it's $17 right now. Anyone have impressions?
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Feb 17, 2021 07:50
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Stickman posted:I've also heard good things about Digimon Cyber Sleuth Complete and it's $17 right now. Anyone have impressions? It’s not bad but it has major JRPG slow start problems. I liked it but wish it would have gotten to the fun stuff a bit faster.
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Stickman posted:I've also heard good things about Digimon Cyber Sleuth Complete and it's $17 right now. Anyone have impressions? Oh yeah, I played that. It's pretty decent, very similar to the mainline SMT games in a lot of ways. You collect digimon and fuse them together with abandon to make lots of different, new digimon. And then de-evolve them to unlock different possibilities. The combat system is good, if a little slow sometimes. The plot is okay, not as compelling as P4, but it has some fun characters and twists. It's kind of hard to recommend now that Persona 4 is actually on steam, though. I'd say that if you have any pre-existing affection for Digimon, as a franchise, then it's an easy recommendation, but otherwise, there are better options out there.
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it's a digimon game, so your enjoyment will depend mostly on how much you like breaking rpg systems over your knee.
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Thanks! I don't really know anything about the Digimon franchise so I'll give P4 a go first.
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