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I'd be so stoked if TLOU got ported to pc, replaying that and getting to play 2 is like, the prime reason I'm considering grabbing a playstation. God of War and Tsushima would be up there too.
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The Kins posted:From Humble Bundle's Facebook post comments section: If it has a Steam key option presumably it's Ultimate. Which would be super cool and I hope is true! More than happy to be wrong.
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I'm going to be keeping an eye out for Epiphany City. The trailer makes it look like it might be extremely my thing.
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ultrafilter posted:I'm going to be keeping an eye out for Epiphany City. The trailer makes it look like it might be extremely my thing.
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Feb 24, 2021 05:04
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theres a peaky blinders video game?
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Feb 24, 2021 05:06
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Awesome! posted:theres a peaky blinders video game? IIRC it's a squad tactics thing murder puzzler which was regarded as "pretty okay."
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I came around a bit on Pathologic 2 after setting it to the easiest settings I could. To it's credit its keeping me engaged for hours on end when usually most games I'll play for an hour or two before wanting to quit and do something else all other things aside its a very tightly focused narrative. It's definitely playable now with 95% less hassle on the survival stat "timers" so to speak and the ability to run for more then 10 seconds at a time. "Playable" by the easiest standards means don't gently caress around and find out because 2 thugs with knives can kill still you before you can pull your weapons out. It still has several moments where I just ask wtf were they thinking, and every time some bullshit happens all I can think is "yeah, this would've killed me on normal". It's like a 20-25 hour game where you could expect to lose an entire run 1/2 of the way in. I missed out on a fund (a huge deal) because I did exactly what the text told me to do, it didn't trigger the quest completion, so I assumed I'd have to come back later and since everything is one an extremely tight schedule I didn't have time to trying a diagnose a glitch or obscure quest trigger. And my god, the combat. A game where you're on the razor's edge of survival should not come down to absolute garbage hitbox problems, hitting an ally pretty much through an enemy, and having the screen constantly go super blurry the moment an enemy grabs you for 5-10 seconds. Seeing the NPC's have a variety of combat moves they can do but you can't do back is infuriating. There's an extremely strong vibe of trying to surprise the player with some new mechanics and dropping it right on them with no explanation, so you might start clicking buttons because you're not sure what it wants and then you completely gently caress something over. There's a thing where the game rolls the odds on who survives or gets infected, and the first time it happened I sat watching a roulette needle bounced between 2 different colors until it stopped on its own. Later I seems like I can click the mouse to stop the roulette needle where I want, or maybe I'm just speeding the process up? When one of the core game-play elements over who lives and dies isn't clear if the player has agency in the outcome that is loving garbage game design. Oh, and the first time I started clicking to stop the needle people died or got infected as I also couldn't tell what color meant which outcome. All that aside, I will say the designers are loving brilliant in a crazy way, but I keep thinking back to this quote:But the game’s final structure is actually quite straightforward compared to what it once was. “In the beginning of development,” Slovtsov said, “there were no quest markers and many quests didn’t follow the ‘breadcrumbs’ logic where every step… gives you information on what to do next. We wanted to create an ‘old-school’ adventure feel where the players feel like an explorer of both the game-world and the story. Unfortunately, even our internal playtest showed that players are not ready to delve that far into the past of gaming right now, so what we did is make all the ‘main’ story content much more straightforward… while doubling down on obscure optional game mechanics like kids’ stashes, blood-drinking roots, hidden optional events, etc.” They really, really wanted it to be as minimally guided as possible, no clues no icons, no arrows, just pure exploration. Yet you can't even mark on your map any areas of interest you find or anything. Tons of those "old school" adventures also let you drop pins to keep a record of the stuff your were finding in game. It really makes me think they are so in the clouds about how to create this ideal of what they think "old-school" is they are making it deliberately obtuse contrary to how said games actually worked. pentyne fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Feb 24, 2021 |
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Oye, can anybody help me remember a game? It was a 2D top-down survival game set in the Scandinavian wilderness. I played it like five years ago and it was probably at least five years old at that point. It looked like it was from circa 1995. It was a gather stuff, make camp, kill moose, don't freeze to death kind of game. I just played Wayward, which kind of reminded me of it.
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Mescal posted:Oye, can anybody help me remember a game? It was a 2D top-down survival game set in the Scandinavian wilderness. I played it like five years ago and it was probably at least five years old at that point. It looked like it was from circa 1995. It was a gather stuff, make camp, kill moose, don't freeze to death kind of game. I just played Wayward, which kind of reminded me of it. UnReal World? It’s from literally closer to 1995 but has been developed continually since then, and is set in Scandinavia. http://www.unrealworld.fi/
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tildes posted:UnReal World? It’s from literally closer to 1995 but has been developed continually since then, and is set in Scandinavia. http://www.unrealworld.fi/ That's it, thank you. What an unfortunate name! I tried to google it but didn't get it because it suggested unreal world but I thought that was like unreal tournament or something. And, poo poo! It's been out since 1992 and there's still no co-op mode?
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so I want to destress with some good ol' stardew valley, but the recent update obviously broke my mods I had installed, so I removed them and reinstalled. now it's doing this, even when I've wiped the folder and done a fresh reinstall, rebooted my PC, relogged into steam, cleared my cache, etc how do I fix this poo poo, I've been following recommendations on the linked support page but nothing is working so far. I don't understand how uninstalling the game and reinstalling it doesn't fix the problem of it missing files.
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Captain Invictus posted:so I want to destress with some good ol' stardew valley, but the recent update obviously broke my mods I had installed, so I removed them and reinstalled. now it's doing this, even when I've wiped the folder and done a fresh reinstall, rebooted my PC, relogged into steam, cleared my cache, etc a thread on reddit for this issue states "When you installed SMAPI did you configure the launch properties on Steam? If you did, you'll have to go and blank it out so it goes back to launching Stardew's exe instead of SMAPI's" Maybe that will help? I also assume you have already tried verifying the local files?
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yep I literally just saw that as you posted, as I could start the game from the SV executable normally and was like "oh, it's probably something in the startup options". welp. thanks 
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HopperUK posted:Sent you a PM! Let me know
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Feb 24, 2021 09:36
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Steam operates on Eurovision rules, clearly
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Skullgirls is yet again lurching out of it's grave like the killer at the end of a slasher flick. https://steamcommunity.com/games/245170/announcements/detail/3017946057966482919 quote:In addition to the Annie DLC (and our recent announcement of a brand new character in the works), we are excited to announce the first ever Skullgirls Season Pass!
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Feb 24, 2021 09:45
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You mean to kick it off the Wishlist? Couldn't you just click the checkmark there and it'll remove it anyway? I feel like that's how I could do it before...
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Artelier posted:You mean to kick it off the Wishlist? Couldn't you just click the checkmark there and it'll remove it anyway? I feel like that's how I could do it before... i think it was an enhanced steam feature
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Awesome! posted:i think it was an enhanced steam feature It is. ES, which is now called Augmented Steam has had that feature for at least 5 years. Sininu fucked around with this message at 10:08 on Feb 24, 2021 |
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Anno posted:Steam page for Days Gone. Is it releasing a few months from now or two years ago? Who can say. I guess that's the PS4 release date maybe? I think Dwarf Fortress is still on "time is subjective" as if they're working on Halo 7 and not something that's simpler to run than a browser game.
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Feb 24, 2021 10:46
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Anno posted:If it has a Steam key option presumably it's Ultimate. Which would be super cool and I hope is true! More than happy to be wrong.
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Imagine updating a game so it doesn't become the GOTY version anymore by default, just to add it to some other subscription service outside Steam.
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Feb 24, 2021 11:21
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Sodomy Hussein posted:I think Dwarf Fortress is still on "time is subjective" as if they're working on Halo 7 and not something that's simpler to run than a browser game. You do realise that Dwarf Fortress is kinda incredibly complex and made primarily by one guy?
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I've reached the Item World in Disgaea 5. The game is over. I'm home now.
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Sodomy Hussein posted:I think Dwarf Fortress is still on "time is subjective" as if they're working on Halo 7 and not something that's simpler to run than a browser game. Look at this dude who never had a fortress brick over miasma.
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>Dwarf Fortress >Simple to run 
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Dwarf Fortress also continues to bring every processor in existence to its knees, once you start tweaking with the world generation settings. Not because "lol game bad," but because Tarn Adams is a genius lunatic.
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This text character looking game is a simple affair that should have been finished forever ago. It's a loving browser game! --a red text av idiot who has no idea what they are talking about
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Was going back through some older, weird games and found the store pages for a few of them. The "More like this" sections can be hilarious: The Void: Red Dead Redemption 2, Far Cry 5, Resident Evil 2, DayZ, The Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted, Death Stranding Sacrifice: Mostly RTS games like WH40K, AoE and Total War (which are genre fits) though for some reason it also has The Elder Scrolls Online and Final Fantasy XIV... Evolva: SMITE, Red Dead Redemption 2, Grand Theft Auto V, Batman: Arkham Knight, Sekiro, Mafia: Definitive Edition, CS:GO, Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord Zeno Clash: Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Warhammer: Vermintide 2, Batman: Arkham Knight, NARUTO Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2, Red Dead Redemption 2, Half Life: Alyx, Bioshock: Infinite (let's not recommend Zeno Clash 2) Algorithms are great.
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ErrEff posted:Was going back through some older, weird games and found the store pages for a few of them. The "More like this" sections can be hilarious: Augmented Steam has an option of using SteamPeek instead, which suggests much more sensible games instead.
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ErrEff posted:Algorithms are great. The guy who developed Defender's Quest (and currently working on Defender's Quest 2) wrote a long post about his contract work at Steam on search/recommendation algorithms last year. It was really neat but it looks like most of his work never made it to the app and is either relegated to the steam labs or cancelled entirely: https://twitter.com/larsiusprime/status/1280159036634271744 The Diving Bell was actually pretty great for finding new games similiar to something I liked. RIP
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Wasn't there a 'Steam Deep Dive' thingie that did good recommendations based on a starting game you liked, and it chained together titles you clicked on to form a tighter suggestion thing? Where the hell did that option go, I can't find it anymore...
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Yeah, that was the diving bell I think. Steam Labs says it's "shelved".
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*enters a page for a shoddy visual novel with a couple of puzzles* Steam: this is totally similar to Obra Dinn!
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Fruits of the sea posted:Yeah, that was the diving bell I think. Steam Labs says it's "shelved". Oh, I did try that when it was available. It was really slow and cumbersome but I did like the results it offered. Guess the overhead was too much for Valve to consider fully deploying it, or something.
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Yo, Shadow Tactics is 90% off.  I was gonna skip it and just get Desperados 3 (eventually) but that is a deeeeeeep discount you rarely see these days.
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Mordja posted:Yo, Shadow Tactics is 90% off. Buy it. It's super good.
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I regret never finishing the last stage. It's such a good game, but there's no way I can just reinstall and pick it back up where I left. edit: Holy poo poo is it cheap! You should all be purchasing this instead of reading lovely internet posts.
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Mordja posted:Yo, Shadow Tactics is 90% off. D3 has so many QoL features, but ST is still hugely awesome and for $4 I can't recommend it enough for anyone who just wants a fun, tactical real time but pausable strategy-of-sorts game. Played both back to back last spring and they are such good games. Serephina posted:edit: Holy poo poo is it cheap! You should all be purchasing this instead of reading lovely internet posts. this is the truth
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