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exquisite tea posted:I won't play the game until someone can answer the burning question of whether you can in fact deedle it in the wonder labyrinth. If you need to Google something on Bing, Deedleit.
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Ambaire posted:Astroneer got a big update today! I wish there was an option to build a base with an interior.
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twistedmentat posted:I wish there was an option to build a base with an interior. 
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Apr 1, 2021 00:27
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My lifehack is that hollowing out underneath a monolith both provides you with a nice roof for an 'interior' as well as provides a convenience factor in that you're now living underneath a monolith.
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Apr 1, 2021 00:29
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I really wish i'd paid those few extra dollars and bought Astroneer on something useful like Steam and not MS store.
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Apr 1, 2021 00:33
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Oh poo poo.
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Apr 1, 2021 00:44
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TMMadman posted:You know, I just realized that it's pretty funny when Steam asks me if I want to recommend a game I have 'played' for 2100+ hours (EU4). Although to be fair, I have often let the game sit paused in the background for days at a time while playing a bit here and there. You'd think so, but there are people on this forum with 500 hours in Fallout 4 who absolutely hate it.
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Apr 1, 2021 00:53
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For sure. Some of the most bitter and negative reviews are from people who have just played the game to death
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it’s also possible for a game to be ruined after you’ve sunk hundreds of hours into it, by a bad update or toxic community.
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I played Diablo 3 for the whole summer of 2012 because it felt like the fun part was right around the corner, right after I find that one really expensive drop that I can sell for millions of gold. Needless to say it never happened. I probably had 300 hours in it by the time I finally abandoned it.
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bees x1000 posted:it’s also possible for a game to be ruined after you’ve sunk hundreds of hours into it, by a bad update or toxic community. This was me, with Robocraft. 200+ hours in it, then they removed the tiered blocks system and the pilot seat system and then made it pay to win with all sorts of micro transactions and poo poo... Game was really fun back in early 2015. Haven't played it in at least 4 years.
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A lot of games also sold on the understanding that it will take many many hours to get where you're going, either through mastery or grinding or whatever. When you sink many hours into a game on the premise that good things are right round the corner, only to find out it's all a sham, you're allowed to vent on the internet. Like you can tell if a puzzle game is trash within 10 minutes, but something like a (single player-) MMO takes fuckin' 20 hours before you've done the tutorials.
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Serephina posted:but something like a (single player-) MMO takes fuckin' 20 hours before you've done the tutorials. FFXIV is a good example of this. It's an MMO wrapped around a JRPG and it can take 200-300 hours to get to max level for the first time, if you do every quest and watch every cinematic. Might be an exaggeration, but it's what I've heard; I never kept track of how long it took me to get through stuff. And then there's leveling the gathering and crafting professions... Leveling crafting in FFXIV is an entire game in itself.
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Apr 1, 2021 02:08
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Ambaire posted:This was me, with Robocraft. 200+ hours in it, then they removed the tiered blocks system and the pilot seat system and then made it pay to win with all sorts of micro transactions and poo poo... 230 hours in Trove. Not that it was ever a high concept game, but then all at once they locked basically everything behind paywalls and I think disabled the player market sometime shortly after. Nowadays they apparently just "hibernate" your account if you've been inactive for ~6 months, and it doesn't sound like anybody has ever successfully gotten support to un-hibernate their account!
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Fawf posted:I was about to go "holy poo poo!" because it's literally the first time since its release 5 years ago that it's gone on sale but lol they just bumped the base price up and it's the same cost as before Eh, it's the difference between $12 and $15 CDN, and if it was originally released at $12 CDN, it was probably a bit undervalued anyway - certainly for a game with so much voice-acting.
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Hey steam thread, the best cyberpunk game released in 2020 is getting an expansion/sequel! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1536370/Cloudpunk__City_of_Ghosts/ https://twitter.com/ionlands/status/1377237239042834432
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Ripper Swarm posted:Hey steam thread, the best cyberpunk game released in 2020 is getting an expansion/sequel! Ok so like I read the steam information and some user reviews and I’m not 100% what kinda game this is. It’s like a delivery simulator?
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Apr 1, 2021 04:28
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what if euro truck simulator....was neon???
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It's supposed to have quite a bit of story, so it's not just atmosphere and trucking.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:Okay, that one looks interesting too... but given the warnings below, I'll probably hold off on that one. Actually... I think Jesse Cox or Dodger did a longplay of that. I might check that one out. While the criticisms are fair - I did get stuck a fair bit - the game does have a fairly robust hint system where clicking to the side of the writing prompt brings up a list of relevant questions or answers you can use and there's an option to enable subtitles with important phrases marked. The game does a couple of cool things - the killer is randomly chosen each playthrough which changes some dialogue so you can deduce who it was and there are multiple endings for patients and yourself so there's a bit of reactivity to what approach you take.
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Finished Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth clocking in at about 4 and a half hours with 94% map completion. Great game, but definitely on the shorter side if length is a concern.
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Yeah, Cloudpunk is a story game first and foremost: You're a delivery driver trying to get by in a strange futuristic city you've just arrived in. The assignments you're given send you off to meet some odd characters who are thriving or not in the megalopolis. Maybe you'll have to make some decisions about which deliveries it might be best not to do? Your hovercar AI will help you out with his thoughts on events, although his advice is biased as he currently has the personality of your pet dog (who's a good car?). Maybe one day you'll save up enough to get him a dog chassis again. There's a fair amount of meditation on cyberpunk themes in the story, particularly around AI. It's also one of those 'experience' games you play to soak in the vibes. The low-poly neon, rainswept aesthetic is strong and there's nothing really stopping you from just wandering/driving around, checking out the vistas. Heck, maybe you'll stumble on a interesting character in an alley or a good noodle stand. Very chill experience.
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Did they ever do anything about the cloud punk voice acting being godawful? And the skip button was weird, it would always just jump to the next line even if the dialogue box wasn’t full yet, instead of just doing the usual thing of filling the dialogue box on a first press and skipping on the second. Which sucked when you liked the story but hated the VA.
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TMMadman posted:You know, I just realized that it's pretty funny when Steam asks me if I want to recommend a game I have 'played' for 2100+ hours (EU4). Although to be fair, I have often let the game sit paused in the background for days at a time while playing a bit here and there. I think it's the other way round, Steam is basically asking why you haven't recommended it given that you played it so much. I mean, they can't auto-recommend it for you because that would be a pretty massive manipulation of the review system.
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GhostDog posted:I think it's the other way round, Steam is basically asking why you haven't recommended it given that you played it so much.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:I just started (and finished) "Her Story" today, and it was pretty interesting, and it got me wondering about other similar games. How is Contradiction: Spot the Liar? It's currently on sale at the moment. Very solid and a really interesting FMV game made on a budget of like $4000. I actually just played it for the first time despite owning it for almost a decade, a few weeks ago, and really liked it. They also just did a big UI overhaul/update a few weeks prior to that which reminded me to play it. There's not really much puzzles or anything, it's a lot of talking to people and then selecting things they said that contradict each other to open up another plot point and then taking that to other people. It was clearly pretty rushed and ends... semi cliff-hangerishly because they didnt have the money to fully realize all the plot lines. Hopefully with the latest March 2021 Major Update that came out of nowhere + going on sale and giving it more attention, that means Contradiction 2 may be in the works. not sure why else they would do a big UI update on it 10 years later after neglecting even putting it on sale for so long but I really hope so. It was a very unique game and would love a follow-up Xaris fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Apr 1, 2021 |
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I just fired up Disco Elysium to check out the voice acting and my god it's so good. I've already played through it 3 times so I don't feel like doing another one right now but I also kinda want to because just listening to the voices is so enjoyable. It also looks better on my big 4K screen. It's fine on a laptop but I can definitely appreciate all the detail and how much effort they've put into the environments. And even after 3 playthoughs the writing in the game still kinda blows my mind. Anyone remember this banger of a trailer that was put out before the release? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqVzFjna00Y "roleplaying adventure of a lifetime" indeed lordfrikk fucked around with this message at 11:29 on Apr 1, 2021 |
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Apr 1, 2021 11:25
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I bought Disco Elysium on sale over Christmas but delayed starting it when I heard this update was coming. I'm guessing it would be better played at my PC on mouse and keyboard than streamed to my TV using a controller? Both screens are 4K
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Controller support is new, so who knows. It's a bit text heavy, which seems bad for couch playing.
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rt4 posted:Controller support is new, so who knows. It's a bit text heavy, which seems bad for couch playing. The Final Cut's full voice acting does alleviate this somewhat.
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The console threads say that the controller inputs aren't great, so I wouldn't try that as your first choice.
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I've played with a controller for about 40 minutes and it's perfectly fine. There's a tiny bit of wonkiness but definitely not something that would prevent you from playing normally.
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lordfrikk posted:I just fired up Disco Elysium to check out the voice acting and my god it's so good. I've already played through it 3 times so I don't feel like doing another one right now but I also kinda want to because just listening to the voices is so enjoyable. It also looks better on my big 4K screen. It's fine on a laptop but I can definitely appreciate all the detail and how much effort they've put into the environments. And even after 3 playthoughs the writing in the game still kinda blows my mind. I can't think of a single game that could approach the level of "role-playing" in such a distinct and unique way. I only played 6/2/2/2 but from everything I could tell from context playing 2/2/2/6 would be almost an entirely different experience, and that's not even taking into account the sad cop/disco cop/apocalypse cop dynamic.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Did they ever do anything about the cloud punk voice acting being godawful? And the skip button was weird, it would always just jump to the next line even if the dialogue box wasn’t full yet, instead of just doing the usual thing of filling the dialogue box on a first press and skipping on the second. Which sucked when you liked the story but hated the VA. Yeah from watching some clips it didn't sound great from what little I've heard, but from quick googling you can turn the VA volume down and just read the text. Edit: but I guess your second point about dialogue skipping may screw that up as well Edit2: and it seems the music/fx lowers during dialogue even if VA volume is turned to 0. Ya just can't win Trickyblackjack fucked around with this message at 12:48 on Apr 1, 2021 |
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what does this mean? they are removing a game i got in 2018 three years later?
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Read the explanation you got a stolen key
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err posted:what does this mean? they are removing a game i got in 2018 three years later? Whoever you bought the key from almost certainly got it in some fraudulent manner. Do you remember who you bought it from?
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Kibayasu posted:Whoever you bought the key from almost certainly got it in some fraudulent manner. Do you remember who you bought it from? I had the same thing happen. It was from Fanatical. Aren't they legit?
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