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Tombot posted:I've seen gameplay footage before and Tharsis looks miserable, everything is literally just a dice roll and none of your descisions really matter because it's all down to luck. The game is not about finding solutions to logical problems like Into the breach. It's about gambling on the option most likely to allow you to achieve your mission, and the necessity of cannibalism to space exploration.
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Drunk in Space posted:Tharsis is kind of cool, and has some nice touches (like how the dice get bloody after you cannibalize someone), but yes, if you're someone who hates RNG in games, then this is your kryptonite. A lot of playthroughs are doomed right from the get-go no matter what you do, and you will often find yourself in a situation where you've seemingly done everything right and the dice have actually gone your way for once when one single event completely fucks you and that's that. It is soul-crushing in the extreme. Of course, fans of the game would probably argue that's the point of the experience, but in my case, after my 10th 'oh sorry your dice got lost to the void again gently caress you' I just wanted to complete the loving thing, dev's 'vision' be damned. Fortunately there is an easy mode (which was patched in later apparently because of the deluge of complaints about difficulty), which will give you a reasonable shot of experiencing the whole story. This is how I feel about Sheltered. All fun and games until the game decides to take a poo poo on you for some reason.
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I went through Tharsis on normal, i lost on the tutorial, got one person onto the planet on the second attempt, got all of them there on the third (i didn't realise you needed them all in flight control to win.) I assume its a by the numbers timeloop story? Not quite sure what the point was.
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I will probably just play it on easy, like the shameless faker I am
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Even on easy you can get turns where you have 3* events each of which reduces health/hull if not complete and each of which has 18-26 die roll total to beat. It's an unforgiving slog that is poorly balanced and entirely based on rng and artificial difficulty that can't be reasonably tempered by skillful play at all. The central gimmick of making sacrifices in order to get the least worst outcome has been done in other games and can be genuinely compelling and very well executed, but it's poorly done here.
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Couple of decentish? retro indies free for the next 15 hours on itch: Super Win the Game [Steam page] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6i1kYMmkPk Gunmetal Arcadia Zero (handcrafted narrative prequel to Gunmetal Arcadia) [Steam page] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2EFLXtGx8c Gunmetal Arcadia (procedurally generated roguelite) [Steam page] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foIi-3sD6Ag Eponymous [Steam page] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlBb6IL2Gqo Stickman fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Sep 20, 2021 |
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Also, Leisure Suit Larry - Magna Cum Laude and Marvin the Hatter on IndieGala.
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Super Win The Game is really fun, it's kind of like Zelda 2 but with a focus on exploring and discovering secrets above fighting enemies, levelling up and dying a lot.
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The Escapists is free on Epic, again. Europa Universalis 4 next week.
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Xander77 posted:The Escapists is free on Epic, again. Europa Universalis 4 next week. Excited for EU 4. Always wanted to get into that series.
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Xander77 posted:The Escapists is free on Epic, again. Europa Universalis 4 next week. This game appears to be unplayable for a lot of people inc. me. Tried a lot of weird fixes so far and no joy.
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Duderclese posted:Excited for EU 4. Always wanted to get into that series. It is one of the greatest strategy games ever made. But I say it as someone who owns all the gameplay DLCs. A lot of DLCs are about adding regional flavor and mechanics as you'd expect, but there's also a lot of quality of life UI features there, it's bizzare. Like you have to pay for ability to see a list of nations who would like to ally you, in vanilla you have to click each nation individually and check. Some other payed features are kinda like design fixes, e.g. the game heavily depends on random stats of rulers but with a payed feature you can affect their stats (give +2 to one stat and -1 to other two) which is extremely helpful button you could buy. Maybe when they release on EGS they'll have some sort of affordable bundle.
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ilitarist posted:It is one of the greatest strategy games ever made. I noticed this too, and of course Epic will just be the vanilla base game. I'm immediatley disdainful of games with massive DLC lists because it's blatant money spinning. I wanted to try Skylines, but when I saw the ridiculous DLC roster I lost interest.
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JustJeff88 posted:I noticed this too, and of course Epic will just be the vanilla base game. I'm immediatley disdainful of games with massive DLC lists because it's blatant money spinning. I wanted to try Skylines, but when I saw the ridiculous DLC roster I lost interest. Skyline is a great game, even without DLC. The DLC just introduces new aspects to keep the player base engaged. Like creating parks or sport arena's or specific industry zones etc
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JustJeff88 posted:I noticed this too, and of course Epic will just be the vanilla base game. I'm immediatley disdainful of games with massive DLC lists because it's blatant money spinning. I wanted to try Skylines, but when I saw the ridiculous DLC roster I lost interest. With most of EGS games it's fine, they don't usually give out shells for DLCs. But here the base game was often enough sold for spare change and DLCs never go lower than 50% sale. Crusader Kings 2 (released 1 year before EU4) is now free to play and you only pay for DLCs, and I'd argue its DLC policy is not as predatory. And other Paradox games like Stellaris or Imperator are fine if you only own the base version. EU4 DLCs came out with patches that remove some base game mechanics or apply debuffs to specific playstyles in a free patch, while replacement mechanics and improvements to nerfed playstyles come in expansions. Sometimes it's silly, like there's Devastation mechanic in a free patch, making so that your provinces suffer economically from being a warzone. And in a payed DLC you get a Prosperity mechanic that is basically an inversion: it simulates improved economy from being at peace.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1260130/Banana_Hell/
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/46500/Syberia/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/46510/Syberia_II/
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Wowee I have Syberia 1 + 2 on like 5 different platforms now. They're trying real hard to get me to buy Syberia 3 but it isn't gonna happen.
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i think it might be more about promoting the upcoming prequel, the world before
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treat posted:Wowee I have Syberia 1 + 2 on like 5 different platforms now. They're trying real hard to get me to buy Syberia 3 but it isn't gonna happen. that's like ten syberias you have. they should give you 3 for free (I mean three more copies of Syberia 1 + 2)
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It's not listed on the front of the store page but 2064 Read Only Memories is free (to claim/keep) on EGS for the next 24 hours-ish.
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kirbysuperstar posted:It's not listed on the front of the store page but 2064 Read Only Memories is free (to claim/keep) on EGS for the next 24 hours-ish.
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kirbysuperstar posted:It's not listed on the front of the store page but 2064 Read Only Memories is free (to claim/keep) on EGS for the next 24 hours-ish. Note that if you got the big Itch Racial Justice bundle last year, this was included in that so you may already have it.
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treat posted:Wowee I have Syberia 1 + 2 on like 5 different platforms now. They're trying real hard to get me to buy Syberia 3 but it isn't gonna happen. Good call. I enjoyed the first 2 so bought the third but man it was dire.
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I did not expect a sequel to Siberia 1 & 2 to be optimized for gamepads and unplayable on keyboard and mouse.
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New Amazon Twitch Prime Gaming things aren't up yet, but they've been announced so I'll just dump them here now: Star Wars: Squadrons (Presumably an Origin key) Alien: Isolation Ghostrunner Song of Horror Complete Edition Red Wings: Aces of the Sky Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures Blue Fire Tiny Robots Recharged Whiskey & Zombies: The Great Southern Zombie Escape Secret Files 3
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The Kins posted:New Amazon Twitch Prime Gaming things aren't up yet, but they've been announced so I'll just dump them here now: It’s nice to see Amazon offering some “real” games these days. Thanks for the heads up.
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Europa Universalis 4 up on Epic. PC building simulator next week (probably the biggest "why the gently caress am I even going to get this free game" in a while for me)
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If you like building your own PC or the idea of doing support for people without any of the actual hard work or idiocy it's a great game.
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Xander77 posted:Europa Universalis 4 up on Epic. PC building simulator next week (probably the biggest "why the gently caress am I even going to get this free game" in a while for me)  There are 3 free DLCs
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:If you like building your own PC or the idea of doing support for people without any of the actual hard work or idiocy it's a great game. Which is why this is the perfect game for me etc etc. Sure.
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man, who the gently caress wants to buy a game with 30 dlcs on a store with no cart
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I'd say play the base game on epic and then if you like it wishlist it on steam for when they'll have a sale that includes most DLC for like 20 bucks.
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karoshi posted:
I only see two, one is more songs and one is a handful of new military units for Evangelical nations.
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Skwirl posted:I only see two, one is more songs and one is a handful of new military units for Evangelical nations. There's also one with extra catholic freedom fighters.
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site posted:man, who the gently caress wants to buy a game 
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karoshi posted:There's also one with extra catholic freedom fighters. For some reason this one was unavailable to me until a few minutes after I
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karoshi posted:Re: Free Games: DLC with extra catholic freedom fighters.
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Hollandia posted:For some reason this one was unavailable to me until a few minutes after I it worked for me just fine
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Lutha Mahtin posted:it worked for me just fine Lmao
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