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Retro Futurist posted:Playing the Back 4 Blood beta and it's absolutely just next gen Left4Dead, it's great It’s 100% L4D, Turtle Rock just doesn’t own that name.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:You know you can just connect your Dualshock 4 to your PC via USB or Bluetooth and use it as a native gamepad, right? Oh yeah I know but i don't have a ps4 controller anymore i launched it into a wall
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Aug 14, 2021 14:56
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Aphrodite posted:It’s 100% L4D, Turtle Rock just doesn’t own that name. Playing the beta now on Steam, it's pretty ok but still buggy, as betas tend to be. Went to the discussions tab in Steam to see what the playerbase was saying, and wow, it's like the angriest people from SomethingAwful, Reddit, and 4chan descended into it.
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Aug 14, 2021 17:48
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I started playing Hades last night. I went into it knowing I have a very limited patience for impenetrable difficulty levels, but so far it's doing a really good job of not feeling punishing. I'm dying constantly, of course, and I'm constantly picking things up that I don't know what they're for yet, but I still feel like I'm making progress. Also, I pet Cerberus every time I die.
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Aug 14, 2021 18:21
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hades is a great game and it's definitely the best game from a company I was already incredibly sold on
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Aug 14, 2021 18:32
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I love how the protagonist in Jupiter Hell is a hilarious stereotype of action game hero cliches. Also how he swears constantly. “IT’S loving LOCKED.”
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Aug 14, 2021 18:39
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RoboRodent posted:I started playing Hades last night. Yeah the progression in that game is near flawless. You feel a gradual level of improvement, with milestones like "oh poo poo I just got a perfect on this boss thats been kicking my rear end" that make you feel powerful as hell and want to dive even deeper.
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Aug 14, 2021 20:01
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Also your interactions with the bosses get better and better. So far my favorite is naming the bone hydra. Then after every time you meet them the name is changed.
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Aug 14, 2021 20:09
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Yeah the persistent reality of the circumstances of the game lead to some awesome interactions. For anybody who hasn't played it, you are the son of Hades attempting to escape the underworld by fighting your way out. Hades has multiple layers of underlings placed to keep you inside. The game is played in runs, usually ending with you dying and starting over, but everyone knows this and remembers your interactions. So if you keep banging your head against a boss, they might start to mock you and boast, and when you finally beat them they are shocked and your character is jubilant. And you can sometimes talk to them on the next run about it lol
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Aug 14, 2021 20:23
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Kaincypher posted:Playing the beta now on Steam, it's pretty ok but still buggy, as betas tend to be. Went to the discussions tab in Steam to see what the playerbase was saying, and wow, it's like the angriest people from SomethingAwful, Reddit, and 4chan descended into it. Some players are reporting a bug with the sounds some of the Zombies make. Crossposting from the Glitch thread: Velocity Raptor posted:Back 4 Blood is a L4D clone currently in beta.
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Aug 14, 2021 20:27
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Man, if something like that happened in my game, a) I'd be mortified, and b) I'd immediately release a patch that just removed one of the sound effects so this wouldn't happen. Gotta practice harm reduction here. "It'll be fixed Soon" isn't good enough.
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Aug 14, 2021 20:39
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I don’t even know how something like that passes QA at all. I get that mistakes happen but hoo boy. Hades boss chat. When you unlock all three sisters as the first potential boss and Zagrius starts guessing which one will show up is always a hilarious riot.
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I found a ps2 game based on Zathura in CEX that has a surprising amount of effort in the encounter design, and some neat setpieces. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7URxN6LKh0 I made a video of the third level. Different characters have different types of enemies based on their combat styles too, like the younger brother fights long range so has tiny ufos that show up and zip around, needing his long range attacks, compared to the older brother's robots who are fairly dangerous at close range so you have to work out the best ways to avoid them. Also it seems like it'll be surprisingly long, according to the level select there are 26 levels across multiple different planets (so it's not ALL robot planet). Also in the first level, before you find the board game that starts everything off you can see the gardens outside the windows. When the robot shows up for the first time, all that's out there is space. I like that attention to detail. I also like that the big puzzle in level 3 isn't JUST simon says, you also have to actively move around the platform and dodge the enemy fire while doing it. It's also just a neat room, my genuine reaction when first turning the corner and seeing the place was "Oh. That's cool." BioEnchanted has a new favorite as of 21:06 on Aug 14, 2021 |
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Aug 14, 2021 21:02
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Alright which one of you motherfuckers is out there making cozy platformers
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Aug 14, 2021 22:10
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thecluckmeme posted:Alright which one of you motherfuckers is out there making cozy platformers man i googled frog dog hotdog and is this a racism? https://trademarks.justia.com/763/86/frog-dog-the-hot-dog-with-a-french-twist-76386531.html
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Aug 14, 2021 22:22
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Len posted:man i googled frog dog hotdog and is this a racism? It's a reference to the Doobie's Doghouse saga where many goons Kickstarted some guy's hot dog restaurant and then he turned out to be both incompetent and a racist.
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Aug 14, 2021 23:45
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Red Minjo posted:It's a reference to the Doobie's Doghouse saga where many goons Kickstarted some guy's hot dog restaurant and then he turned out to be both incompetent and a racist. Phew, I was thinking about making a Doobie joke but I'm glad I turned out to be as lazy as the Doobster himself 
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Aug 14, 2021 23:49
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Len posted:man i googled frog dog hotdog and is this a racism?  
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Aug 14, 2021 23:51
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Red Minjo posted:It's a reference to the Doobie's Doghouse saga where many goons Kickstarted some guy's hot dog restaurant and then he turned out to be both incompetent and a racist. Yes. But also someone tried to patent that at one point as a French hot dog
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Aug 14, 2021 23:57
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doobie's dog house is our chris chan and the existence of it is a condemnation of this community that is a cute poster though
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Phobophilia posted:doobie's dog house is our chris chan and the existence of it is a condemnation of this community I'm not sure that's entirely fair though maybe I'm missing details about it. As far as I know it was just a lot of people who got really excited about helping someone and it turned out later that someone was a poo poo. It sucks that happened but people being optimistic and wanting to help others isn't something worth condemning. (If there was something else involved then I stand corrected.)
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Aug 15, 2021 01:10
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I think it's more the site obsession with him post kickstarter that the person was complaining about via the comparison
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Aug 15, 2021 01:27
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Spoilers for Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart The game talks about a shared Sly Cooper/Ratchet/Jak/Knack(maybe?) multiverse. Now I just want a new Jak game 
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Aug 15, 2021 01:28
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Push El Burrito posted:Also your interactions with the bosses get better and better. So far my favorite is naming the bone hydra. Then after every time you meet them the name is changed.  After successfully beating Megaera twice in a row, the third time I lost (I think I just don't do so well with that weapon) and she accused me of letting her win.
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Aug 15, 2021 02:04
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"with au jus" 
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verbal enema posted:how does it play with m+kb? I only had it on my ps4 solid, had no issues
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Ruffian Price posted:solid, had no issues hell yeah
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Aug 15, 2021 03:40
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I had been pretty much burnt out entirely on open world games, but Botw got me back in and I'm finishing up Fenyx Rising and enjoying that too. I love this trend of smaller, manageable open worlds. When I look at the map in Fenyx, I don't imagine I'm going to 100%, but I feel like I could
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Aug 15, 2021 07:07
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I downloaded MLB The Show 21 on a whim off Gamepass and there's so much more love and effort put into it than other big name sports franchises. You can treat it like a realistic simulator, or have Dog Dick the mutant dwarf do a pimp strut when he hits a home run. https://twitter.com/boring_as_heck/status/1416211270345265152 They even included the "American" names from Fighting Baseball in the announcer audio, so you can have Bobson Dugnutt, Sleve McDichael and Todd Bonzalez be called up to bat. Another nice touch is that your controller rumble will pulse like a heartbeat during high stress and crucial plays.
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goodog posted:MLB The Show 21  I don't even play sports games much, but I need to give that a try
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On a small video player that gameplay looks freakishly realistic (monster child aside)
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flatluigi posted:hades is a great game and it's definitely the best game from a company I was already incredibly sold on Sold.
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goodog posted:I downloaded MLB The Show 21 on a whim off Gamepass and there's so much more love and effort put into it than other big name sports franchises. You can treat it like a realistic simulator, or have Dog Dick the mutant dwarf do a pimp strut when he hits a home run. I hate baseball but this insanely owns
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Yeah the progression in that game is near flawless. You feel a gradual level of improvement, with milestones like "oh poo poo I just got a perfect on this boss thats been kicking my rear end" that make you feel powerful as hell and want to dive even deeper. The dragging things down thread just had a post that the progression is trash garbage. Different strokes and all that. I thought hades was a real good game
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ilmucche posted:The dragging things down thread just had a post that the progression is trash garbage. Different strokes and all that. Hades is extremely widely lauded for its sense of progression. It isn't going to work for everyone but it is basically held up as the ideal of getting people to keep going in a game that kills you frequently. It's fine that someone dislikes it but it's also a pretty niche opinion considering.
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ImpAtom posted:Hades is extremely widely lauded for its sense of progression. It isn't going to work for everyone but it is basically held up as the ideal of getting people to keep going in a game that kills you frequently. It's fine that someone dislikes it but it's also a pretty niche opinion considering. Something I think Hades gets very, very right is that even outside of the gentle ramp offered by the mirror and god mode if you use it is that you can just bump your dumb face into some absurdly broken poo poo through merely playing, so the progression isn’t the only thing compelling you to keep going. I personally didn’t care whether I won or lost because the mere act of mixing and matching boons with weapons was a joy all on its own and while the weapons themselves are lightly tied to progression, gods/boons mostly aren’t with one big exception. Slay The Spire does this too. Leaving fun broken poo poo in breaks up the pace a little and helps players think outside the box when doing more runs.
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I really appreciate that Hades stepped away from the usual roguelike difficulty model and added in a mouse to gradually ease up the difficulty for chumps like me who'd never play it otherwise. It was a proud moment when I finally beat the game before the damage absorption from that capped out 
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BurningBeard posted:Something I think Hades gets very, very right is that even outside of the gentle ramp offered by the mirror and god mode if you use it is that you can just bump your dumb face into some absurdly broken poo poo through merely playing, so the progression isn’t the only thing compelling you to keep going. I personally didn’t care whether I won or lost because the mere act of mixing and matching boons with weapons was a joy all on its own and while the weapons themselves are lightly tied to progression, gods/boons mostly aren’t with one big exception. Yeah, that is something important about certain breeds of roguelike that a lot of developers miss. A big part of the appeal of them is getting stronger and stronger until you have some ridiculous superbuild, either because the game demands it or because it allows it. Attempts to 'balance' roguelikes to avoid incredibly powerful builds usually just leads people to get bored. It's why Ascensions/The Heat System/etc are so useful because they offer ways to make the game more difficult for people who like that without boring gameplay. (And to keep this even more on topic, the Heat System is a fantastic implementation of the idea. Getting to mix and match your difficulty means you can focus on challenges that are fun to you instead of having to deal with crappy modifiers.)
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ImpAtom posted:Yeah, that is something important about certain breeds of roguelike that a lot of developers miss. A big part of the appeal of them is getting stronger and stronger until you have some ridiculous superbuild, either because the game demands it or because it allows it. Attempts to 'balance' roguelikes to avoid incredibly powerful builds usually just leads people to get bored. And here I was just complaining about this exact thing in another thread. I guess some people see it as "this could be the run that I luck into an incredibly powerful build" and get excited to play, but I see it as "this will probably be a run where I don't luck into anything and my build just sucks" and I lose interest.
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Triarii posted:And here I was just complaining about this exact thing in another thread. That is what makes something like Hades work though. It's well designed enough that basically any combination of Gods and Weapons can create something incredibly powerful so it's nearly impossible to screw yourself. By making sure everything is potentially game breaking they avoid runs doing that.
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