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Psycho Landlord posted:Just finished up UnderRail I've been looking at it for years every time I glance at it in my library but it gives off that old school unintutive design with some arbitrary punishing difficulty. The Before I play page https://beforeiplay.com/index.php?title=UnderRail has several mentions of skills that are non-negotiable, how you'll need to max dexterity in many cases, and a note of "don't ever kill these faction members for any reason" because of long term game consequence. Is it old school hard but with modern QoL options, or just old school hard?
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https://twitter.com/GarbageWitchy/status/1480064473385762817?s=20 Been playing this game https://store.steampowered.com/app/846030/V_Rings_of_Saturn/ and its a pretty fun time if you love space, rocks and rocks in space and shooting them with lasers or drivers and scooping up ore nuggets. Dev is hinting there might be a sale soon again, but its already pretty cheap. Hire crew, improve your space rock gobbler, learn the horrors of physics as you decelerate with your cargo door open and all your rocks fly back into space.
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Omi no Kami posted:The thing is, I've heard a lot of people say that Dying Light gives a terrible first impression but improves significantly when you're halfway through the skill tree and have enough poo poo to actually run and fight effectively. Do you guys think it's worth pushing through to see improvements, or is it one of those jobbies where everything that bugs me by hour 5 is still going to be bugging me at hour 30? Sounds like me with Elex. At least I’d read about its lovely “power”levels beforehand, though, so I was prepared up front to muscle my way through until I could kill stuff without instant death. The game is vastly different after 4-5 hours than at the starting gate. The jetpack was cool immediately, though…it’s pretty up there and tbh I’m really looking forward to Elex II now!
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I will be real; I continuously tried to get back into Dying Light but I keep bouncing off. I am pretty sure it is a me problem, in that in the early game at least it has no problem throwing you into situations that you may not be prepared for, on top of there being an experience penalty when you die. There is an early game sidequest that is an example of this, where you suddenly need to knife fight 3 or 4 dudes at once. Of course you can do it later once you have some skills and good weapons, and I don’t have a problem with that, but the game never signposts these moments until you smash headfirst into them, which I find I have not patience for. There is a real good, fun game there, but it can be prickly. Anyway, now that I got it on the mind I will try it again sometime soonish.
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I really appreciate the tips from everybody, thanks guys! I somewhat lamed out an early solution- I found an area that was ridiculously easy to farm Power points (the Voltage sidequest near the beginning, there's a fenced-in square with a shitton of zombies, a van you can stand on top of, and a tiny oil slick you can light on fire with firecrackers). I spent like an hour carefully murdering hundreds of dudes, and beefed my poor guy up enough that he at least won't be immediately murdered by a sneeze. ...except then I progressed the story and immediately ran into kamikaze zombies that literally do murder you with a sneeze. It's absolutely more fun now that I've grinded most of my skills up to 10-12, although the balance still feels super-weird: the nighttime experience bonus is so huge, and the penalty from death is so minor, that it feels like there's almost no reason to not do everything at night. Which is fine, it's not that much harder, but it has the unfortunate effect of making the terrifying murder zombies way less scary. Good game though! I can't tell if I'm gonna finish it (the combat's still kinda frustrating, and I'm not at all a fan of the kamikaze dudes), but at the very least I'm having way more fun than I was yesterday.
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credburn posted:Is this game worth playing single player? It has multi-player? 
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Givin posted:Atom RPG had some Fallout 1/2 vibes with it, with a dash of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. thrown in. The combat sucks rear end too.
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pentyne posted:I've been looking at it for years every time I glance at it in my library but it gives off that old school unintutive design with some arbitrary punishing difficulty. It's definitely got a lot of QoL options over the games it's trying to be like - my favorite is that if your character sees a trap they will instantly stop moving and also auto-path around them if possible when you give a move order, more games need that - but it is pretty grognard hard and there absolutely are trap building options. I'd take a lot of that before I play with a grain of salt because it's info is outdated but I would highly, highly recommend looking up a build and playing on easy for your first run. You'll learn pretty quick what works and what doesn't but those first several hours are crucial and being forced to restart because your build can't clear a mandatory fight isn't for fun for most folks. The thing about the faceless is right tho do not kill any of them Psycho Landlord fucked around with this message at 13:48 on Jan 10, 2022 |
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quote:Rough start in Dying Light quote:fallout 1/2 + Stalker The best one for me is Encased, which done it right with the turnbased system with its slice of innovation in feat system. Also perfectly incorporated the fun Stalker’s abnormally and throwing bolts system.
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Vampire Survivors is way too good, and the two people in this thread who still haven't played it should do so post-haste. Steam Thread: Dramatic chest opening
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One Man Crowd posted:I'm currently hopelessly addicted to Motor Town: Behind The Wheel This is pretty neat but I refunded it because it's pretty janky and I'm already playing Snowrunner which is kinda the same feel of this except with mud. I'm going to put it back on the wishlist and keep an eye on it for sure.
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PantsBandit posted:Randomly had a craving for a good top-down rpg. Anyone have any recs? Games I've liked are Div 1/2, dragon age Origins, wasteland 3. Tried with the shadow run games but they haven't stuck. https://store.steampowered.com/app/921800/Encased_A_SciFi_PostApocalyptic_RPG/ Don't feel bad about cheating/hacking the Fatigue system, you get to bust it in-game at some point anyway.
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Synthbuttrange posted:https://twitter.com/GarbageWitchy/status/1480064473385762817?s=20 $10 is both a steal and the right price because it really just is Asteroids, but it's possibly the best game you could have ever made out of Asteroids.
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The rare chests give me big  energy and I love it
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Wait, what's this Vampire Survivors thing?
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A fun new game someone discovered that costs less than a cup of coffee.
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Someone should probably make a thread for Vampire Survivors based on the amount of conversation about it (I don't know the game at all)
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If ya'll like Vampire Survivors and you have an android phone then definitely check out Magic Survival. It's pretty much the same game but free and on mobile and with an honestly less eye destroying aesthetic.
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Is there an android app for tracking game completion/backlog/achievement status for your Steam profile, other than the Steam app itself? Something like backloggery or true achievements, but on Android app format. Edit: for clarity, I'm looking for something that can look at my Steam profile and automatically add games into it, rather than me doing it manually. Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 16:59 on Jan 10, 2022 |
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On that note, is there something similar (or a way inside the program) to sort games by time played?
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explosivo posted:A fun new game someone discovered that costs less than a cup of coffee. I feel like the dev is honestly doing themselves a disservice by charging $3. It's such a low price point it belies how many hours you'll get out of it. Like I got a good 15 hours out of it and only just starting to get fatigued, and that's more so because I'm like "Oh the bible is comically over powered compared to everything else"
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Sab669 posted:I feel like the dev is honestly doing themselves a disservice by charging $3. It's such a low price point it belies how many hours you'll get out of it. Like I got a good 15 hours out of it and only just starting to get fatigued, and that's more so because I'm like "Oh the bible is comically over powered compared to everything else" It's at the beginning of a planned year-long EA period and they said the price will go up over time.
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Eason the Fifth posted:On that note, is there something similar (or a way inside the program) to sort games by time played? Your profile -> Games It may even be the default option.
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Eason the Fifth posted:On that note, is there something similar (or a way inside the program) to sort games by time played? https://steamcommunity.com/id/<your Url or username>/games?tab=all playtime should be the default sort. Hub Cat fucked around with this message at 18:22 on Jan 10, 2022 |
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Deakul posted:If ya'll like Vampire Survivors and you have an android phone then definitely check out Magic Survival.  This is the game I played for a while. It's pretty fun for what it is and it has a bit more longevity than Vampire Survival. The spells and enemies and everything are pretty much exactly the same. It's much more frustrating to control on android but having precise keyboard controls (in VS) made the game too easy for me. Magic Survival also has better balance where nothing is really overpowered/game-breaking
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great, thanks guys
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credburn posted:Is this game worth playing single player? I never bothered with the MP. I've heard good things about it, but I typically don't enjoy MP as much as SP. It seems like it's presented as primarily an SP experience.
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credburn posted:Is this game worth playing single player? Depends on what kind of fun you're looking for. Single player is Dawn of the Dead. Multiplayer is Shaun of the Dead.
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Psycho Landlord posted:Just finished up UnderRail There’s so much I want to like about it, but can’t get past the constant asymmetric disadvantage in numbers you have, coupled with what I learned later is a bias in pre-planned builds. 1. It’s always only you; no allies, or summonables, or support - unless you’ve had the foresight (through quick saving) to set traps. Getting stunned means everyone gets a full turn to wail on you. I get the realism of that, but it makes for very annoying save scummy play. 2. It seems like Dex is king. If you aren’t getting as many AP’s as possible, you’re going to have to RNG your way through fights. You can’t be a barterer, or charisma char, or sniper. That said, there’s a lot I do like. The setting is good, with decent enough writing. It does a great model of an isometric RPG a la wasteland, or fallout. And the barter system is actually really good, with specific vendors wanting specific good - and even being able to eke out profit by crafting items and selling to traders at a premium. It’s not for everyone. I’ve gotten to the end area twice now, but been so burned out getting there that I finally drop out. But there is a lot of scratch-itching it does.
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So God of War releases in a few days, I only just realised  Is there any reason to think it might be a garbage port or anything? I don't wanna get too excited...
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:So God of War releases in a few days, I only just realised It's a total wildcard, Santa Monica Studios internal engine has never shipped on PC before, and the port is being outsourced to a third party (Jetpack Interactive) Really could go either way
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:So God of War releases in a few days, I only just realised It's being ported by Jetpack Interactive, who have previous worked on the PC ports for Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare II, Dark Souls, and a few NBA games. Also looks like they ported Orcs Must Die! Unchained from PC to PS4, so they should have some familiarity between PC and PS4 porting. It's not a slam dunk of quality ports like when you see something is being ported by Night Dive (Turok, Doom64), but it's not anything that screams it's going to be a garbage fire. I'd keep an eye on it and check out reviews once it launches, and maybe be prepared to wait a month or so for patches. That's what I'm doing, at least. Definitely don't preorder.
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If anyone desperately wants it on day one, GMG has 15% off pre-orders https://www.greenmangaming.com/games/god-of-war-pc/ Remember you can't refund games bought this way though
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Gay Rat Wedding posted:on the bright side, if the port is bad we can call it god of poor Bad of Port.
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deep dish peat moss posted:in Vampire Survivor you can just get the evolved bible and then go afk and you'll survive until 30 minutes I had a similar setup going until a boss spawned literally on my head and insta-killed me at 25 minutes. 
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Sloppy posted:I had a similar setup going until a boss spawned literally on my head and insta-killed me at 25 minutes. Hahaha owned I have yet to best my first run which was 21 minutes and let me unlock everyone who was unlockable at the time. I do well with the extra projectile guy and badly with everyone else. Still having a blast though and it's so nice for my dumb ADHD brain to have a game I can start up and *know* that no matter what, there'll be a natural pause point in 30 minutes.
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HopperUK posted:Hahaha owned Projectile Man was my go-to for a while, but I've switched back to the first dude after unlocking the +1 Projectiles skill. Starting out with the Whip that hits both forward and back, as well as gaining +Damage every 10 character levels is just too strong
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