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Still, Valves fell off much harder than the competition. TFT has 38k Twitch viewers right now, in the same ballpark as Hearthstone and WoW, while Underlords has... 31 not 31 thousand, just 31 repiv fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Jan 28, 2022 |
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StrixNebulosa posted:yo, Mini Motorways is really, REALLY good A goon works on it! Their office is just down from my house.
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TOOT BOOT posted:I doubt Underlords would have survived long-term anyway, autochess wasn't a genre that ended up having staying power. I think it's still really big in Chinese and Korean markets but Valve games have never really been top dog there anyways. And at least a few months ago a Blizzard dev implied that while they can't release numbers, if Hearthstone's Battlegrounds mode were it's own client it would likely beat out Hearthstone in mobile app store popularity
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ZearothK posted:Any takes on Black Skylands or The Last Spell? Last Spell is great as a roguelite base defense. I am not positive if you could beat it on first play due to the upgrades you get from earning meta currency, but i have played 20 hours, beat the maps multiple times, and will come back with more updates. Keep in mind it is very hard and meant to be that way, but they have handicap settings that makes the game easier (and i abused because i'm here for a good time, not a hard time)
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My return to Shovel Knight continues with Specter of Torment now beaten. It's a neat new episode in the series, with Specter Knight coming up with his own movement gimmicks: running up walls and dashing mid-air through enemies. Also, though that's an armour upgrade, scytheboarding, including on spikes. The movement options are cool and the levels designed to cater to them, so the rooms tend to be pretty straightforward. Even more so as the game is completely open ended Megaman style, allowing you to tackles the other knights in any order, which is pretty cool. Each beaten boss will unlock a special power (curio), and they feel almost overpowered with mid-air floating up, teleport to enemy across any walls/obstacles, HP regeneration... This makes both platforming and combat even easier than the already generous move/attack options you get by default. This all combines into making it a rather short campaign: it took me just over 5h to beat, half what I needed for Shovel and Plague. Together with the non-linearity, it probably makes it fairly replayable without requiring much time. The story is a prequel to that of the previous two, and is ok, but that's about it. It doesn't have the charm of Plague's. Ultimately, it was enjoyable and I can see myself replaying it at some point, but Plague of Shadows remains my favourite. I guess Plague's identical stage layouts from Shovel make the movement shine a lot more and feel more game-breaking. Here Specter gets tailored levels straight made up for the abilities so it feels more like following a script (although scytheboarding and curios allow some serious shortcutting). If you liked the idea of Shovel Knight but found it too difficult, you may want to try Specter of Torment. It's a *lot* easier, and fully open-ended so like in Megaman, you get 8 stages to explore straight away. No getting stuck on the first few!
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repiv posted:Dota Underlords bombed pretty hard too. Riot have really been eating Valves lunch as of late, they've tackled a lot of similar projects and come out ahead every time Valorant is terrible though
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Flython posted:Thanks Hub Cat. I'll give that a go. I'm tempted to get a more recent controller but I really like my PS3 pad.
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Gaius Marius posted:Valorant is terrible though Honest question: Why? From what I've seen it's exactly CS, pistol rounds bombs and all, with the added rainbow effects of a bunch of superpowers that are popular nowadays. Gameplay is still a bunch of people peeking and headshooting each other. What's so bad about it?
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yeah its CS gameplay to a tee, but with the regular dripfeed of content that zoomers demand cs:go is fine but valve does very little with it besides poo poo out some new hats every so often
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I'm no Valorant expert but I imagine all those powers make the way matches play out a lot different from CS
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valorant doesn't have purchasable grenades, so a significant chunk of the abilities are just analogues of CS frags/flashes/smokes/molotovs in slightly different variations the ultimates tend to be wackier but the cooldown on those is tied to kills or objectives so you need to perform well at the core counterstrike-ish gameplay to actually use them
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Serephina posted:Honest question: Why? From what I've seen it's exactly CS, pistol rounds bombs and all, with the added rainbow effects of a bunch of superpowers that are popular nowadays. Gameplay is still a bunch of people peeking and headshooting each other. What's so bad about it? Valorant is a game where almost every character is one that I wouldn't want to play if they were in a different game. The abilities are based mostly on sight lines or gaining information rather than something that feels more directly impactful, mostly stuff like deploying smoke screens or sentry cameras in 20 different variations. You also can't aim unless you're standing still, which is probably more accurate to real life but not fun to actually play. Maybe if you played a bunch of Counterstrike it would feel more natural but I bounced off it hard. At least it's free so there's nothing to lose from giving it a try.
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I didn’t like how long the matches seemed to drag on for. People said it was just like CS but I don’t remember those games taking so long.
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Valorant is exactly like CS and that’s why it’s bad.
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I only install CS:GO every couple years, play a few rounds of Gun Game, and then uninstall it.
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TOOT BOOT posted:I doubt Underlords would have survived long-term anyway, autochess wasn't a genre that ended up having staying power. There's a bunch of autochess games but most of them have shifted to singleplayer. The multiplayer one just straight up called "Autochess" is very popular particularly in China, it's on Epic, console and mobile so I don't know how to get an actual player count but the reddit is far more active than the underlords reddit. It's made by the person who made the original Autochess custom map IIRC, or they sold the rights to the devs that made it or something. deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 06:56 on Jan 29, 2022 |
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Serephina posted:Honest question: Why? From what I've seen it's exactly CS, pistol rounds bombs and all, with the added rainbow effects of a bunch of superpowers that are popular nowadays. Gameplay is still a bunch of people peeking and headshooting each other. What's so bad about it? CS is terrible, so Valorant is terrible yea Riot has def been eating Valve's lunch on their projects, hopefully their MMO ends up not being garbo
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i try csgo once a month and almost everytime im in a game with a hacker. idk if its me or valves anticheat just not being up to snuff anymore but i rarely play more than a few games cause once i see hacking bullshit i quit again.
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Yeah, CS was fun for its time, but nowadays it's very much apparent that its main gameplay dynamics are more than 20 years old and have remained largely unchanged since then. If you really love CS for one reason or another then I guess Valorant is fine, but also game design has come a ways since 2000.
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Wasn't Ruined King just a reskin of Battle Chasers? Ruined King seemed to do much better for the devs, though. Probably sold way more copies in a few months than Battle Chasers ever did in 4 years.
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Perestroika posted:Yeah, CS was fun for its time, but nowadays it's very much apparent that it's main gameplay dynamics are more than 20 years old and have remained largely unchanged since then. If you really love CS for one reason or another then I guess Valorant is fine, but also game design has come a ways since 2000. It is a tragedy that CS and its imitators (Valorant and Crossfire) have survived while Unreal Tournament died to never even have a spiritual sucessor. I didn't even like CS when it was new.
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EA Sports posted:i try csgo once a month and almost everytime im in a game with a hacker. idk if its me or valves anticheat just not being up to snuff anymore but i rarely play more than a few games cause once i see hacking bullshit i quit again. VAC isn't up to snuff, Valve mostly relies on Overwatch at this point (human review of suspicious replays, crowdsourced of course because lol at Valve ever hiring moderators) Most serious CS:GO players play on 3rd party matchmakers (FaceIt/ESEA) which use their own stronger AC solutions instead of VAC Valorants custom AC got a lot of flak for being invasive but it is very effective repiv fucked around with this message at 13:04 on Jan 29, 2022 |
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ZearothK posted:It is a tragedy that CS and its imitators (Valorant and Crossfire) have survived while Unreal Tournament died to never even have a spiritual sucessor. I didn't even like CS when it was new. I mean there have been lots of Go Fast Shoot Mans since UT. But none really caught on, and I don't think any have had the array of cool guns with cool alternate fire modes.
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I'm thinking of grabbing RE4 for cheap, having enjoyed 2make, 8, and half of 3make and 7. Are any of the post-4, pre-7 games worth a look if I really enjoyed the specific exploration/survival loop of 2 and 4?
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Omi no Kami posted:I'm thinking of grabbing RE4 for cheap, having enjoyed 2make, 8, and half of 3make and 7. You couldn't really have timed RE4 better, the insanely ambitious RE4HD mod project is launching on Wednesday after like 8 years in development https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57q_IkEPd18 They went to the lengths of digging up the original photo references that Capcom used in order to recreate everything repiv fucked around with this message at 14:29 on Jan 29, 2022 |
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Heh heh heh... Thank you!
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Never understood the appeal of Valorant too, its just bland to play personally. It was designed for esports, so its obviously too sterile to have fun with. It's meta or gtfo. Same as CSGO really, the top competitions only play the same 4 maps all the loving time.Still watch the big games on twitch, but holy poo poo it can be boring. drat I want to see a cs_office just once Navi vs Astralis final or whoever. Only play Gun Rush in CSGO these days. Its a random clusterfuck which was how the game was at the start.
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Splitgate scratched my itch for a UT successor, personally. People compare it just as much to Halo as UT, but for me it was exactly what I wanted in a UT successor.
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Omi no Kami posted:I'm thinking of grabbing RE4 for cheap, having enjoyed 2make, 8, and half of 3make and 7. Are any of the post-4, pre-7 games worth a look if I really enjoyed the specific exploration/survival loop of 2 and 4? It technically came out before RE4, but you don't mention it so: REmake is excellent. I played through it recently for the first time and couldn't be happier with it. The pre-rendered backgrounds still look amazing and and it is very much a classic exploration/resource management game akin to 2make. I played through with normal controls after dying twice in a row to tutorial zombie with tank controls, and they worked much better for me. It did make bosses kind of easy, but whatevs. After beating it with Jill, I immediately replayed on the harder difficulty with Chris and had a blast. It was like a puzzle game. I really recommend checking it out. Easy a top 3 RE game imo.
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Project Warlock is on sale for $3 until February 3rd.
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I am waiting for retro shooters to hit the 1998-2005 era. I'd also like a UT2K4 clone that has Onslaught and Assault.
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Cowcaster posted:ut2k4's onslaught was the herald of arena shooters transitioning into aping battlefields and calladoodies with its capture points and vehicles and anyone attempting its revival will die by my hand I understand this take but I still had tons of fun with the mode. You didn't enjoy slicing dudes in half with that car?
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While I like myself some UT, I'd like to interject with a hearty Shazbot!
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Disposable Scud posted:I understand this take but I still had tons of fun with the mode. You didn't enjoy slicing dudes in half with that car? PANCAKE
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It's pretty easy to revive that style of arena shooters, just look at Quake Champions and don't do it like that
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Baller Time posted:It's pretty easy to revive that style of arena shooters, just look at Quake Champions and don't do it like that its amazing they were like what if we took the skill based shooter and tacked on random health and abilities to it
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