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Rebel Blob posted:Well, a couple of rungs down in popularity: I really like this game. Played it for free on Game pass, then made another group and beat it again. Very faithful adaption of 5e mechanics, for better and for worse. Carry out a plan flawlessly! Completely get slaughtered because nobody in your party can roll higher than a 5 on a D20. The voice acting is my favorite part of this game. Skilled writing? Funny? Memorable or quirky characters? NOPE. Every line is delivered straight by non voice actors. It's so amateur and non-pretentious it's actually charming.
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Age of Decadence is fun but it very strongly enforces character concepts. At the start of the game if you play as a thief you get ambushed by 3 soldiers, if you try to fight them head on instead of running away you will get absolutely loving murdered. If you play a fully combat specced dude, you can gently caress up 10 scrub bandits at once no problem though.
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Hwurmp posted:This list probably seems like a stretch but these should all at least be similar to LiS in terms of emotional weight, if not gameplay or presentation: Seconding The Talos Principle. Come for the puzzles, stay for the crushing existential dread. I wonder if Croteam made that game just to prove that they can do more than just Serious Sam, they just choose not to. The Talos Principle is condensed 
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Gay Rat Wedding posted:I have found the best way to play deathloop. I'm not sure why I spent so long filling my upgrade slots with poo poo like "have more defense! I missed if you killed Julianna during all that chaos or not, but I'd like to think she showed up, saw what was happening and decided,"You know what... gently caress it, Imma let him have this one today." 
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Oct 3, 2021 08:49
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ANNO: Mutationem visuals are incredible but man is the combat lackluster from the demo. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368030/ANNO_Mutationem/
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Propaganda Hour posted:Two more demos. Totally seconding this, it certainly jumped straight to the top 10 for my anticipated games.
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punk rebel ecks posted:ANNO: Mutationem visuals are incredible but man is the combat lackluster from the demo. Gonna say I feel a bit disappointed that this wasn't a city builder
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gently caress you Scourge of Armagon, you terrible pustule. gently caress your rear end in a top hat level design, gently caress your floating mines, gently caress your dumb worthless blood apes or whatever they were, gently caress your lovely boss fight, gently caress your absolutely pointless proximity mine launcher, gently caress every single time you made me fight a vore with a basic shotgun. gently caress you.
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Ghostlight posted:gently caress you Scourge of Armagon, you terrible pustule. gently caress your rear end in a top hat level design, gently caress your floating mines, gently caress your dumb worthless blood apes or whatever they were, gently caress your lovely boss fight, gently caress your absolutely pointless proximity mine launcher, gently caress every single time you made me fight a vore with a basic shotgun. gently caress you. I had to laugh at the end where it just throws teleporting Vores at you. They knew what they were doing, and they liked it
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RE: Unsighted. Sorry, it's not actually a block button - it's still parry. But yesterday (or the day before?) they patched the game to make it combat a little easier overall, including the length of the parry window. I think they said enemy attacks are less likely to go thru if you're a little late on the parry. They also added 6 or so more meteor dust to the game and slowed the timer a tad 
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so F.I.S.T. appears to be an indie metroidvania populated by silky-voiced furries. has anyone given it a spin yet
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Gay Rat Wedding posted:I have found the best way to play deathloop. I'm not sure why I spent so long filling my upgrade slots with poo poo like "have more defense!
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Propaganda Hour posted:Two more demos. not only is this game super amazing, but i'm really glad we're getting past "everything must have an Early Access period!" and just doing "here's a demo and the game will be out later" again
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Oxxidation posted:so F.I.S.T. appears to be an indie metroidvania populated by silky-voiced furries. has anyone given it a spin yet Played it on PS5, and it's pretty good. Reminds me of a mix of Shadow Complex and a beat-em up. A bit harder than the average metroidvania, though.
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Man that Inscryption demo really sold me on the game. Glad it's coming out so soon, too!
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A few days after but I have finally fad time to play the music recommendations so posting impressions:NObodyNOWHERE posted:This is not a genre I'm well versed in, so apologies if this isn't what you're looking for... But Sequence Storm is one you might check out. It's F2P on Steam and it's made by a cool goon who posts very actively on the forums, Baby Puzzle. The game is being continually supported and developed with a lot of accessibility features, which I think is very cool. https://store.steampowered.com/app/630640/SEQUENCE_STORM/ Not quite what I wanted but this is a great take on the genre! It looks like Audiosurf at a glance but it really is like a normal vertical scrolling rhythm game, where the ship has to secretly best girl posted:You may like MUSYNX. It does 4/6 key, but it's got a good spread of charts and is pretty moddable for a lot of playstyles. Musynx is exactly what I wanted It's really cheap in my regional pricing (RM3 which is like...less than one US dollar). I also appreciate the DLC model; the Friends Forever pack gives you access to all current DLC songs and all future DLC songs. All the other DLC packs are cosmetic stuff, to make the game a bit more pretty, or to just support the devs. All in all, I spent about RM30 which is maybe...7 to 8 US dollars for the whole playable game and have put in a few hours already. I'm not too skilled in the genre so I can't really tell you the differences in terms of how the scoring system or the input system plays a role, but it does have customisability to fine-tune each gameplay session if you want. Thanks for the suggestion, totally nailed what I wanted! Artelier fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Oct 3, 2021 |
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So I decided to give Doom 2 a try after...god since I was in like the 6th grade? I have the GOG version that runs off DOS Box and im trying with just a keyboard and... look, is there a way to get this to control with a WASD and a mouse or should I just plug in doom 2016 or Doom Eternal?
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BigRed0427 posted:So I decided to give Doom 2 a try after...god since I was in like the 6th grade? I have the GOG version that runs off DOS Box and im trying with just a keyboard and...
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BigRed0427 posted:So I decided to give Doom 2 a try after...god since I was in like the 6th grade? I have the GOG version that runs off DOS Box and im trying with just a keyboard and... unless you have a massive desire for nostalgia i would play Doom 2016 ASAP
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Use a souce port such as Zandronum or ZDoom, dude. The original Doom is still a lot of fun, BUT not so much with the original controls and resolution.
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Infinity Gaia posted:Man that Inscryption demo really sold me on the game. Glad it's coming out so soon, too! The beta was recently updated to include the final portion of the game, and having now seen it all (which is maybe a little presumptuous based on how much secret stuff has been hidden in his other games, up to and including a secret ending hidden in a completely different, nondescript Steam game released under a different author's name in the case of The Hex) I can say it's a great ride all the way through. Don't go in expecting the next Slay The Spire, it's still very narrative focused, but it's clearly created by someone with a great love of card games and knowledge of what makes them tick.
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 Spectacular Sparky has the Treasure look but it doesn't have the Treasure charm or the Treasure quality boss design. Enemies feel like they come from separate games at times, the camera is framed a bit too closely, the Kirby-esque float mechanic is not very satisfying... but the biggest problem for me is that the bosses only had one attack pattern. C'mon now!  Prose & Codes is basically a cryptogram game based on classic literature. Similar to Apple Arcade's Dear Reader but purely for ciphering. This one doesn't throw a ton of bells and whistles at you, it just lets you get straight to the decoding.   Treasures of the Aegean (by the developers of SuperEpic and Mail Mole) shows promise... a treasure hunter touches down on a resurfaced ancient Minoan island & volcano, and runs around parkouring and collecting treasures.. and then the Earth blows up, and time resets. So you've got the trendy time loop structure, combined with side-scrolling Mirrors Edge platforming, combined with exploring a massive island for ancient treasure Tomb Raider style. It looks like, much like Outer Wilds, information is the key thing retained between loops, as anything you learn gets added to a 'prophecy' tab in your menu. A funny glitch happened though where instead of the second loop happening, the game got caught in a cutscene loop instead, replaying the Earth blowing up over and over. Must've got a Bad End!!  Lone Fungus: I don't love it but I don't hate it. It's a teensy bit dull due to the character being a little sluggish and not very powerful (I do not have the dash ability shown in the gif). This absolutely is taking from Hollow Knight, and you see the descriptor thrown around a lot when something is visually similar, but this one is MECHANICALLY similar, with a map that only updates at save points, a pin system for the map, parrying and limited healing, how you get healing charges, etc. I think it may need to do a little more with theming areas to keep it from getting stale.  Aeterna: Noctus is another Metroidvania I'm not sold on. I want to give it props for having hand-drawn animation for most enemies and the main character (as opposed to cut-out tweening), but the combat is unfortunately very stiff, and there's a lot of very flat level design... the screenshots show better theming and level design so I dunno why the opening area is so flat. Probably trying to mimic Hollow Knight, as this game ALSO has pins to buy for the map (and I bought a region map from the merchant and it didn't seem to do anything? Not sure if that was a bug or if I'm missing something). Thing about HK though is that seconds beyond the opening town you already have deep platforming and exploration in that game, here it's just flat each way to start off.  Haiku the Robot: Alright, now we're getting more on my level. Haiku's nearest comparison would likely be Kunai just based on looks, but it's not quite the same (that game has much crunchier combat, for starters). This is more atmospheric. An interesting aspect of this one is healing. The currency of the game is gears, and to heal yourself, you use a wrench to replace faulty gears with new ones... so you heal with currency. You also have to hold the wrench button down for 2 seconds to get a heal in, so boss fights are a bit more tense as a result, trying to find the right window in which to repair yourself. The map is updated in real-time on this one, unlike Lone Fungus, but a region's map can be blocked off from you until you find the jamming device and disable it. Two big things that need to be addressed are the atrocious UI (which uses plain Windows fonts and had glitched text in the settings menu), and the frame pacing which is quite herky jerky. A lot of little micro-hitches that are a bit unpleasant.  Bat Boy: Moving away from Metroidvanias, here's a linear baseball-themed platformer from the creators of Smelter. With rad music and decent movement tech this feels a bit like Shovel Knight. The demo feels like a very early alpha build though, as I could see the seams in the tiling at times at the default resolution (1080p for some reason, with no ability to change it). But seems very promising.  Astlibra Revision: Whoa, hellooooo where did this game come from?? A side-scrolling ARPG with fast, fluid combat that reminds me of PSP-era Ys games. It's apparently a remake and expansion of a 2015 Japanese freeware game, and although the localization is a little stiff it's perfectly readable. I'm all about this one. Also, MAYBE closeted trans protag? It's implied by a text-only flashback.  Gastova: The Witches of Arkana: Here's a pretty polished Wonder Boy style game with a PS1 look to it (although I feel like it's zoomed out a little too much, makes it look a tiny bit less retro than it should). My only problem with it is the main weapon is kind of a puny feeling pea shooter of a magic wand. If you're going to choose magic combat over sword combat, you gotta make the magic combat as powerful as a sword would be. IDK. That's maybe just me. This does have a lot of effort put into it though, considering its initial kickstarter only had a goal of $10K. It's also scheduled for this year so that's probably why it's more polished than some of these other demos. The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Oct 3, 2021 |
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Rebel Blob posted:The Age of Decadence is also quite a niche cRPG, but at least it has a demo.
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ENDLESS Indie Metroidvanias https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaoVyzB9RFw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zIUrQDVnJw BigRed0427 posted:So I decided to give Doom 2 a try after...god since I was in like the 6th grade? I have the GOG version that runs off DOS Box and im trying with just a keyboard and... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34HfmGvUJIM Assepoester fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Oct 3, 2021 |
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Dread Delusion is really rad and I enjoyed the demo immensely. At the end of the demo my athletics was super high that I was tearing rear end at the speed of DOOM across the map. Lots of fun and rewarding secrets to find and it really makes use of the skills available. The game has a ton of potential.
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Lots of cool looking games this year. I'm really happy there are not a billion games that use card combat like last year. Edit: Oh, I see. They were replaced by retro shooters. Det_no fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Oct 3, 2021 |
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Played the demos for Inscryption and Strange Horticulture. Both look great. Between those and Heroes Hour, I think that's enough upcoming games to lust after for now.
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Is time loop a steam tag yet1
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Is time loop a steam tag yet1 
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They seem to get Time Travel or Time Manipulation.
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Yeah I'm getting recommendations for Time Manipulation now. Ya nailed it steam, I just love making clocks go the wrong way, I live for that poo poo.
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Where tf are my save points in Outer Wilds this gives me so much anxiety
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The game autosaves. Don't worry about it. If you die during the tutorial, just skip what you did, nothing unlocks based on it. After that, it will autosave.
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I think the game could've used an eventual 5 minute time limit for levels, it's at it's most fun when you're going fast and you act fearlessly.
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Mr. Pardiggle posted:Where tf are my save points in Outer Wilds this gives me so much anxiety The games saves every 22 minutes but occasionally it does save after a shorter time based on specific criteria.
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Despite having enjoyed many of them, after having like 8+ bigger and smaller time loop game releases this year alone the concept is starting to lose its appeal. 12 Minutes The Returnal Deathloop The Forgotten City The Outer Wilds DLC Lemnis Gate Kraken Academy Loop Hero I'm only wondering when the biggest studios start incoroporating it into their CODs and their rear end Creeds.
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