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BabyRyoga posted:It isn't really any worse so to speak than actual Celeste, which is a pretty tough game when all is said and done. Celeste is tough but it still has a modern control scheme, I've found the Mario romhack games to be significantly tougher but maybe that's just me.
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BabyRyoga posted:It isn't really any worse so to speak than actual Celeste, which is a pretty tough game when all is said and done. From the horse's mouth: quote:I did my best to make (at least) the first level approachable for beginners so they could at least enjoy some of this game, but the difficulty ramps dramatically as the hack progresses. This game assumes that you have a strong, fundamental understanding of Kaizo mechanics and if you lack these, this hack may be something you approach at a later point in time. I would consider beating Summit ("any%") a Kaizo: Intermediate hack, but going for a full 100% completion (all berries, all hearts, all chapters) would be Kaizo: Expert. Are they seriously overselling the difficulty?
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1871620/Covid_Simulator/quote:COVID SIMULATOR is an outbreak simulation that visualizes how quickly Covid-19 spreads, becoming a disaster. The game is an open sandbox where you can add (or remove) Covid mandates and see what happens! Create your workplace, enact your mandates, and roll the dice with your workers. quote:I am NOT a statistician or a virologist. I am a game developer. This simulator/visualization appears to have similar outcomes to real world results - however it will likely never be real world accurate. It is only a game, meant to demonstrate the dangers of unchecked Covid-19 spread. Within the game files is a stat sheet which can be edited if you would like to change the outcomes/results! If you ARE a statistician or a virologist, please contact me - I would LOVE to expand the accuracy of this game. quote:
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1871620/Covid_Simulator/ Goon project as well!
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1871620/Covid_Simulator/ Goon-made - Coldrice has regularly posted updates in the cspam COVID thread
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Pelican Dunderhead posted:Goon project as well! Deceptive Thinker posted:Goon-made - Coldrice has regularly posted updates in the cspam COVID thread 
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Thoom posted:From the horse's mouth: It seems like it does really start to ramp up later in the game. Something that is Kaizo: Intermediate is probably doable by anyone, but you might struggle with some trial and error on figuring out how to do certain things from a mechanical perspective if you've never finished a Kaizo: Intermediate hack before. Something that is Kaizo: Expert on the other hand could fit into a wide variety of difficulties, but you'll probably come across something that completely blocks your progress unless you are very familiar with how everything in SMW controls. That being said, i'm pretty sure anyone who has finished the A/B/C sides in vanilla Celeste can at least complete the any% route of this (from what i've seen, haven't had a chance to flash it on to my cart yet).
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I managed everything in Celeste short of the golden strawberries, so I'll give it a shot later on. I don't know much about kaizo tricks other than that I'm bad at shell jumps, so we'll see how that goes.
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Thoom posted:I managed everything in Celeste short of the golden strawberries, so I'll give it a shot later on. I don't know much about kaizo tricks other than that I'm bad at shell jumps, so we'll see how that goes. The most important thing you need to know about movement in Kaizo is that there is a profound difference between landing on something while holding jump, and pushing jump immediately after landing on something. There usually tends to be a lot of instances where you will hold jump (and also usually run), release it for a few frames as you land, then push it again, which is called a "regrab".
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BabyRyoga posted:The most important thing you need to know about movement in Kaizo is that there is a profound difference between landing on something while holding jump, and pushing jump immediately after landing on something. There usually tends to be a lot of instances where you will hold jump (and also usually run), release it for a few frames as you land, then push it again, which is called a "regrab". That's useful to know, thanks!
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1296360/Archvale/ This game is like catnip for me, pixel art bullet hell... zelda? I don't know if it will suddenly start to suck later but the intro charmed me completely
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victrix posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1296360/Archvale/ It's loving fantastic. I played it a little out of order after hitting some difficult patches so when I had to do clean up I was a bit OP but it's really charming and challenging. I didn't beat the final boss because it comes in two stages and the first one took everything I had though. I just kind of left it. But man is this game fun.
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victrix posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1296360/Archvale/ It gets quite a bit harder at the end, with the final boss being way too big a difficulty jump, but its good. On game pass for those fence sitting. BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:I didn't beat the final boss because it comes in two stages and the first one took everything I had though. I just kind of left it. But man is this game fun. Friend, it has 3 stages Barudak fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Jan 26, 2022 |
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I've tried to play Archvale a couple times on Game Pass, but it's buggy to the point of unplayable with my Xbox controller. Some buttons just don't work, and occasionally it will freak out and stop accepting right stick input to aim. A pity, because I really liked the concept.
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Barudak posted:Friend, it has 3 stages drat. I beat every one of those challenge stages but that first boss was all I could handle.
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Barudak posted:It gets quite a bit harder at the end, with the final boss being way too big a difficulty jump, but its good. I don't know how it plays out on Normal, but on Hard the entire game turns very rough about halfway through. The death and respawn cycle is fast enough and not very punishing that it doesn't get too annoying, just expect to die dozens of times potentially if you play on hard.
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haldolium posted:Hidden Deep came out in EA today brief first impressions: It has good atmosphere and an interesting setup, the rotoscope movement feels pretty nice until I felt down 3 meters and died in a puddle of approx. 10L of blood. Unfortunately the developer is not aware of what year it is and I was greeted with a disturbing information about resolution  and it is true, I can't read the text in native resolution. So thats just the start, but the actual game? I managed to softlock myself in the tutorial area getting past an enemy to grab some ammo (I guess, couldn't read the text) in a dead end but could not go back the same way for some reason. Apparently when skipping over the "mostly positive" reviews thats currently just one of many ways to softlock the game. IDK if their "Early Access" means they're actually going to turn this into a good game, or if it's just a payed open beta and will release with just more content upon broken design choices. Currently I would not recommend it and just wait until it grows some more... or doesn't.
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1871620/Covid_Simulator/  Nice Fresh Release / Terrible Awful Games crossover trying to search for this in client.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1147550/Not_For_Broadcast/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256870480/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1643131986 quote:Not For Broadcast is a darkly comedic game of televised chaos that lets you pick what you want to see on TV, no matter what anybody else wants. Egotistical celebrities, dishonest politicians, and strange sponsors clash on the airwaves. You’re here to ensure that the show goes on uninterrupted. Not For Broadcast is a very unique-looking FMV-style game in which you are a TV producer/editor choosing the shots, censoring, and otherwise affecting a live TV stream. Seems to take place in some kind of authoritarian system and has an overarching story with non-TV elements as well. Large download at over 40 gigs due to all the video, has Overwhelmingly Positive reviews. I'm definitely playing this one. Love the concept.
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I saw this Mega-Man X with a gimmick game mentioned in the mega man thread and it looks neat: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1514380/COGEN_Sword_of_Rewind__COGEN/  quote:Defy Death by Rewinding Time!
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Play posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1147550/Not_For_Broadcast/ can confirm, this game loving rules.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1855240/PRINCESS/ I saw this come up on my Steam recommendeds and seeing as at the time literally nobody had actually played it and it looked interesting (weird af), I picked it up. Even though it's RPGMaker and usually that tempers my expectations for plasma-hot garbage, I've ended up putting like 30 hours into this game and still haven't made that much progress. It has some old fashioned simon's quest-level game design where just about everything is super cryptic, but this makes figuring out the strange logic going on in the game to be a bit more satisfying too. Pretty much all progress is secret based but with a few limited hints about what's going on, so you get stuck constantly but eventually can discern what's meant to be done based off of ingame lore / NPC hints and go from there. Anecdotal exception - there is a bonus boss hidden in a dungeon which is itself hidden in a single tile that you need to have a special VIS boosting item to interact with, at the end of a very long featureless corridor, down a hatch you need to equip a specific necklace to see/enter, which contains a boss that is immune to all of your attacks. In order to damage it, you need to equip an item that lets you talk to ghosts, find a specific ghost who wants 99 zombie bones, give the bones to the ghost, which then gives you the 'eclipse' necklace, which thematically gives you the vaguest suggestion that if you have it equipped you will be able to do damage to the boss which is sun themed. i liked that for some reason Also distinctly has the aesthetics of those Indie DOS games you'd get on one of those '100 FREE games!' CD samplers that they'd pack 20 hours of AOL for free in with, which isn't an art style you commonly see anymore much less deliberately.
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NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD came out about a week ago and I've been hearing some positive buzz about it (have not yet played it myself). Manage a cute streamer girl!  Who has some real life issues. Apparently some of the endings get pretty dark. Like Doki Doki Literature Club dark. It says something that like half the Steam reviews are like "I can fix her" (Probably obviously, you should consider there to be a trigger warning here about suicidal thoughts, self harm, etc when approaching this game) StarkRavingMad fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Jan 27, 2022 |
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StarkRavingMad posted:Apparently some of the endings get pretty dark. Like Doki Doki Literature Club dark. It says something that like half the Steam reviews are like "I can fix her" it's less of a streaming simulator and more of a "try and keep your mid-nervous-breakdown friend from just completely destroying their life" simulator. definitely an interesting experience, but one that carries a massive amount of content warnings with it.
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I didn't really like the tone although I only played for a little bit. I dislike streamers and the attention-starved as much as anyone but definitely felt some weird misogyny there. Maybe the further you go that changes, I don't know.oldskool posted:can confirm, this game loving rules. Now that I've played it, I can say that this is incredibly true. Not For Broadcast rules, it's so creative and unique, never played anything remotely like it. Just love how they've put it all together with fun gameplay, interesting multi-layered story, and really amusing performances by the actors.
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I haven't kept up with the thread and this title hit Steam in December sooooo, not so fresh but: https://poncle.itch.io/vampire-survivors Vampire Survivors is a rogue-like with no button mashing, just directional controls. It's super addictive for the first few hours. Try it or buy it at the link above.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:I haven't kept up with the thread and this title hit Steam in December sooooo, not so fresh but: You're a page or two too late, but you're right that it's fun: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3991144
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Hello Sailor posted:You're a page or two too late, but you're right that it's fun: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3991144 Yeah I kind of figured. A friend bought it for me on a lark and I just love the hell out of it. I was not reading forums for a month or two busy with work. Anyways, game's still good y'all. Sorry for necro.
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Play posted:Now that I've played it, I can say that this is incredibly true. Not For Broadcast rules, it's so creative and unique, never played anything remotely like it. Just love how they've put it all together with fun gameplay, interesting multi-layered story, and really amusing performances by the actors. 25% off on Steam right now to celebrate 1.0 release! (also was in September 2021 humble bundle if you're like me and signed up for that ages ago & just keep paying for it without paying attention to it) might make a thread for it later...can't imagine it has one, which is a shame tbh
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oldskool posted:25% off on Steam right now to celebrate 1.0 release! (also was in September 2021 humble bundle if you're like me and signed up for that ages ago & just keep paying for it without paying attention to it) Do it! Even if it's just us. More people should play that game. The 7th Guest posted:
This one's good too! The controls can be a little awkward sometimes, and the endless healing function is interesting to say the least, but it's fun game that looks amazing with a nice 32 bit feel. Fun platforming, level navigation and a nice variety of enemies. Play fucked around with this message at 05:56 on Jan 30, 2022 |
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Really gotta second Not For Broadcast being an excellent experience. Got it this weekend and binged the whole thing, and after watching some people streaming it I realize that like, there's so much stuff you don't even see on the first playthrough. If you're on the fence, do it, game is great.
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Play posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1147550/Not_For_Broadcast/ I've been playing this and it's pretty good. A lot longer than I was expecting too. After producing an episode (each one is 20-40 minutes) you can go back to check the rushes and see what bits of story you might have missed in the mayhem of production, as well as go through and watch all the commercials. I think when I'm done playing through once, taking into account the time I've spent scrubbing footage for missed scenes, I'll have spent about ten hours playing, and it seems like there are some wildly different story branches that are gated behind choices you make during production and the interstitial cyoa segments, so god knows how long you could spend exploring all the paths before even touching the other game modes. I wasn't expecting this much content in a $18 fmv game.
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mysterious frankie posted:I've been playing this and it's pretty good. Absolutely. Honestly the first time I finished a level and it had the ads to watch and the rushes and also just watching how you did in the broadcast itself, I was like ehhhh I won't be wasting time on that By the third episode I was watching ever single thing to make sure I didn't miss anything because they are genuinely amusing. And yeah the story can change quite a lot depending on certain choices. Not sure I'll play it a second time but it is genuinely adaptive to choices.
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Play posted:Absolutely. Honestly the first time I finished a level and it had the ads to watch and the rushes and also just watching how you did in the broadcast itself, I was like ehhhh I won't be wasting time on that According to Wikipedia, the game has just shy of 43 hours of footage in it, which seems insane to me.
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mysterious frankie posted:According to Wikipedia, the game has just shy of 43 hours of footage in it, which seems insane to me. To be fair, a lot of the time, it's the same footage with four camera angles, which would stretch that out quite a bit.
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