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Sounds/Looks like it's going to be a Northgard style RTS with Dune skin, tbh. I think you'll literally be exploring unknown region with a scout unit, and each region will have 1 or 2 POI you can exploit. Heavy upkeep will limit expansion and unit production to a slow pace. That's how similar it's going to be with Northgard. Not necessary a bad thing.
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Anno posted:There's a new Dune RTS? https://store.steampowered.com/app/1605220/Dune_Spice_Wars/?curator_clanid=4777282&utm_source=SteamDB Wartales is extremely unfinished unless I'm missing something so I hope they are not just abandoning it in favor of the dune license money. Like, units stop gaining exp at level 5. There are only 3 tiers of weapon and 2 tiers of armor. Most of the life skills/trade skills have no actual use, and the combat is massively unbalanced in the player's favor since the player and AI play with completely different rulesets. The world is full of invisible walls due to unfinished areas. deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 05:52 on Dec 10, 2021 |
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Mordja posted:That's the same player character as the first, though unfortunately not voiced by Mark Strong anymore. I honestly couldn't tell. I even looked up the first one and went "...maybe?"
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I just want to signal boost a game that I came across entirely by accident on Steam: Golden Treasure: The Great Green is a CYOA / "King of Dragon Pass"-like about being a dragon. You start out as a dragon within an egg, hatch to immediately discover your mother was just killed by "No-tails" (Bronze age people), Bambi style. You have to make it on your own, explore the land, stalk and hunt prey, and gather up treasure and artifacts in your hoard. Every encounter will help you grow your four elemental attributes (earth, wind, fire, water) that govern your combat stats and event skill checks. Once you're big enough, you flee the initial land of your birth to establish your own territory in the untouched wilds beyond human territory, the Great Green. It's a three act game, with the first act being your initial childhood, your second act being your adolescence in the Great Green, and the final act being your ascension into adulthood and the making of an Important Choice. It's charming. It's well-written, has beautiful art, and a genuinely touching story with a real message that you can tell was made by real people. Only caveat I have is that, somewhat unusually for the genre, they implemented a roguelite style death system. Three deaths and your run is over, and deaths come quickly for a young dragon hunted by humans. Your game is automatically saved with each choice, as well, so no reloading from a previous save. But there is some meta-progression. As you're hunting, your knowledge of the animals you hunt increases, and when you restart each animal you've fully learned about will give a bonus to your attributes for the next run. And when you reach a major story milestone or complete certain sidequests, you will unlock tarot cards that carry over that provide major attribute bonuses or special mechanic bonuses (eg get hungry slower or automatically identify all artifacts). I died twice before completing my first run, both times in the first chapter, after which I had enough of a skill base and player/game knowledge that things went smoothly after. There's a time limit on each act (between 20-50 turns depending on the chapter) that would prevent a completionist run. If that bothers you (like me), it's easy to edit the xml files and extend that limit arbitrarily high until you've done everything you want for that act, and then lower it back down so you can move on to the next. It's also easy to edit the xml files to start with whatever stats you'd like, so if you really feel the need to play on story mode you absolutely can. It costs $20 and took me 18 hours to finish. There's three main endings determined by the Important Choice you make at the end, and one secret ending locked behind unlocking every tarot card and maxing your stats. Having save scummed to see all 3 main endings, I didn't feel like running back through the game 2 more times to officially complete all 3 main endings just to unlock the secret ending, and I'm okay with that. It still was a really quality game that left good memories I can tell will stick with me. I highly recommend it.
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Dec 10, 2021 07:46
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GTFO added checkpoints and AI partners.
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Dec 10, 2021 08:43
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Anno posted:Homeworld 3 page - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1840080/Homeworld_3/?curator_clanid=4777282&utm_source=SteamDB Oh hell yes. I could do with less Gearbox, but Blackbird Interactive made Deserts of Kharak, which is awesome. They completely nailed the soundscape and feel of Homeworld. Hype. Hey, let's watch the Intro of Deserts of Kharak again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bseNXBUKlJM The strings, the cinematography, the seamless shift from animation to in game graphics, the cinematography, the music. Hell loving yes. Just look at how they strategically placed smol humans in there to make it clear how crazy the scale is.
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Dec 10, 2021 08:48
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Wiltsghost posted:Is this the first 70 dollar game? lmao 80 euros in Europe Square Enix jumping straight from 60€ to 80€. There's a GMG 20% off discount and it's still more expensive than previous full price games.
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Dec 10, 2021 08:48
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That price hike bullshit can go gently caress itself.
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Jack Trades posted:That price hike bullshit can go gently caress itself. But dawg, video games are just so expensive to make these days. How else are we gonna recoup the thousands of man hours spent ensuring you can accurately count every pore on the main character's flesh? Plus you gotta satisfy those share holders!
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Leal posted:But dawg, video games are just so expensive to make these days. How else are we gonna recoup the thousands of man hours spent ensuring you can accurately count every pore on the main character's flesh? Plus you gotta satisfy those share holders! Give each shareholder only half a bucket of cocaine every meeting. I don't care that you're bad at budgeting.
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Dec 10, 2021 09:05
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$93.50 for Canadians.
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Dec 10, 2021 09:06
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The Final Fantasy 7 Remake (Intergrade) is coming out in 6 days lol https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/final-fantasy-vii-remake-intergrade Epic exclusive and probably also ridiculously priced.  square
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Dec 10, 2021 09:19
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Dec 10, 2021 09:24
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Flimf posted:The Final Fantasy 7 Remake (Intergrade) is coming out in 6 days lol It seems to be the same price as Forspoken on Steam. The price is on the front page of Epic Store on one of the cycling banners. It's $69.99 in US and 79.99€ in Europe.
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Dec 10, 2021 09:26
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Superanos posted:It seems to be the same price as Forspoken on Steam. The price is on the front page of Epic Store on one of the cycling banners. It's $69.99 in US and 79.99€ in Europe. Thanks, weird that they only show the price there. Regardless, that is certainly a ridiculous price.
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Dec 10, 2021 09:30
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....and nothing of value was lost.
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Wiltsghost posted:Is this the first 70 dollar game? About $40 in Argentina, pre-tax (jumps to about $67 after tax  )
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TOOT BOOT posted:Unfortunately it seems like a lot of times you have to wait until a game is ancient to get a decent discount now. Sekiro is still $37 on sale. Sekiro is published by Activision. It will literally never go on deep discount.
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Antigravitas posted:Oh hell yes. I could do with less Gearbox, but Blackbird Interactive made Deserts of Kharak, which is awesome. They completely nailed the soundscape and feel of Homeworld. Hype. Homeworld 3 is going to look and sound incredible and play like crap. It's a real shame none of the gameplay people from Relic made the jump.
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Dec 10, 2021 12:01
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DatonKallandor posted:Homeworld 3 is going to look and sound incredible and play like crap. It's a real shame none of the gameplay people from Relic made the jump. I was very disappointed by HW2 already. Possibly because Cataclysm was so much better in every way.
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Dec 10, 2021 12:06
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I played Cataclysm for the first time like two years ago and holy poo poo, that was so loving awesome. It is definitely in the upper tier of all time RTS campaigns. I enjoyed Deserts of Kharak a lot, though not enough to finish it.
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Dec 10, 2021 12:14
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They're charging that price and they couldn't even come up with a better premise than every loving isekai anime shovelled out in the last few years?
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Wiltsghost posted:Is this the first 70 dollar game? I guess you mean on PC? Major PS5 games are that much too.
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somehow the map in Transiruby gives you a ton of useful info without actually telling you where the hell you need to go
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deep dish peat moss posted:Wartales is extremely unfinished unless I'm missing something so I hope they are not just abandoning it in favor of the dune license money. I’m sure they didn’t just get the Dune license last week and rush to announce this game, putting everything else on hold. Judging by the screenshots it’s probably been in development a year or two already. Wartales seems to have sold quite well (and it’s reviewed very well), and they’ve put out their initial roadmap. I’m sure the game will continue to be supported just fine.
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The Homeworld games are a big blind spot for me so I tried to get into the Gearbox remaster but it's disappointingly lovely. Deserts of Kharak was awesome, though.
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Wiltsghost posted:Is this the first 70 dollar game? 
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John Murdoch posted:Sekiro is published by Activision. It will literally never go on deep discount. 
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I hope the $70 video game idea brings out the 'weaponized gamer' crowd and they review bomb or whatever, sales are low, and the price increase for all games is delayed for another couple years. I also wouldn't be surprised if they lower the price almost immediately, then the $70 initial price becomes a kind of a first-in-line fee that boost profits for two weeks. In AoW Planetfall, I got some kind of perk that gives all ranged characters overwatch, but I guess I have to activate it somehow? It's not a weapon mod. How do I find it and use it? I don't see anything on character upgrade options even when we're on base.
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Mescal posted:I hope the $70 video game idea brings out the 'weaponized gamer' crowd and they review bomb or whatever, sales are low, and the price increase for all games is delayed for another couple years. I also wouldn't be surprised if they lower the price almost immediately, then the $70 initial price becomes a kind of a first-in-line fee that boost profits for two weeks. The protagonist is a young, African American woman, so don't worry, "weaponized gamers" have been hysterically screeching and foaming at mouth about this game for a while. Also, I dunno if I understood you question about AoW: Planetfall correctly, but Overwatch is an activated ability that you have to manually use in tactical combat. Outside of tactical combat, there should be "Overwatch" in the ability tab of ranged units in the same army as the hero with that perk.
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Lt. Lizard posted:The protagonist is a young, African American woman, so don't worry, "weaponized gamers" have been hysterically screeching and foaming at mouth about this game for a while. Sure, but it just wasn't added to the archers' hotbar. It's possible that I misread the perk, but it said something about overwatch for all ranged characters. I'm 90% sure.
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Flimf posted:The Final Fantasy 7 Remake (Intergrade) is coming out in 6 days lol Wow finally. Bit of a bummer it's not on Steam though. Guess that'll be the first game I ever buy on Epic Games.
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Mescal posted:Sure, but it just wasn't added to the archers' hotbar. It's possible that I misread the perk, but it said something about overwatch for all ranged characters. I'm 90% sure. There is a lot of ranged attacks and abilities that can't be granted Overwatch (most of AoE ranged attacks for example). Bow-wielding units (and heroes) are one of those, IIRC, because bow attacks ignore cover. For Amazons, Overwatch can be granted to most of their laser wielding units (including the T-Rex). I want to say that it's mentioned somewhere in the in-game help, but I'm genuinely not sure.
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Anno posted:There's a new Dune RTS? https://store.steampowered.com/app/1605220/Dune_Spice_Wars/?curator_clanid=4777282&utm_source=SteamDB Looks interesting but I bounced off Northgard so hard. It was definitely missing something but I can't put my finger on exactly what.
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DatonKallandor posted:Homeworld 3 is going to look and sound incredible and play like crap. It's a real shame none of the gameplay people from Relic made the jump. The gameplay features they've talked about are literally a laundry list of everything you were loudly mad wasn't in HW2, including the all important fully simulated ballistics so you can gently caress up and shoot your own ships
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Psycho Landlord posted:The gameplay features they've talked about are literally a laundry list of everything you were loudly mad wasn't in HW2, including the all important fully simulated ballistics so you can gently caress up and shoot your own ships He hate's DOK, he might as well be dead.
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Tiny Timbs posted:The Homeworld games are a big blind spot for me so I tried to get into the Gearbox remaster but it's disappointingly lovely. Deserts of Kharak was awesome, though.
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Lt. Lizard posted:There is a lot of ranged attacks and abilities that can't be granted Overwatch (most of AoE ranged attacks for example). Bow-wielding units (and heroes) are one of those, IIRC, because bow attacks ignore cover. For Amazons, Overwatch can be granted to most of their laser wielding units (including the T-Rex). I want to say that it's mentioned somewhere in the in-game help, but I'm genuinely not sure. We're amazon and the shrikes and lancers (pterodactyls and velociraptors) don't have overwatch on their lasers. The commander (sniper) and arboreal sentinel are the only who do.
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Foulbrood posted:Was it the remaster or the gameplay of Homeworld 1/2 you found lovely? If the former, as someone who has it on their wishlist and played the originals way back when, what's wrong with it? The Remaster launched with some of HW2's changes backported into HW1 haphazardly which made HW1 play less effectively than it did (which could be circumvented by just playing the OG HW1 which was included in the package) HW2 was the best it had ever been, meanwhile. A couple years later BBI did a passion patch and ended up reintroducing a lot of HW1 mechanics that were missing into both games like ballistics sim and all that, which made the HW1 remaster play more like the original and also made HW2 a hilarious clusterfuck of friendly fire in the later missions. The remasters are Fine (tm) now and definitely pretty, plus there's a genuinely good community patch in circulation to help with some of the last few mechanical sore spots. The package also has the OGs updated to run on modern systems so it's still a good buy if you don't have your old discs or feel like screwing with compatibility.
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