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BlankSystemDaemon posted:According to GOG, I have over 300 hours in X4 already (and that seems like a low estimate) - and I'm planning another complete story-run through and completionist run once all the expansions and patches have come out. If you do find something like Freespace or freelancer then do share with the group. I have such fond memories of FS2 cap ship battles which I have never experienced after. I have checked all the games already mentioned in the replies and they all look inadequate. There is always a chance some semi indie title flying under the radar. Chorus - while not very good imho - came out of nowhere so I keep hoping someone will do spiritual successor to Freespace. Hope dies last.
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Venuz Patrol posted:grapple dog and webbed are part of a new trend of developers correctly recognizing that the grappling hook overshadows every other movement technique available in any metroidvania game. might as well make it available from the start and build the entire game around it Bionic Commando growing up. Man, that poo poo was hard, but so fun.
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Philthy posted:Bionic Commando growing up. Man, that poo poo was hard, but so fun. Not a fresh release, and probably way way quieter than it used to be on multiplayer, but man, swinging in SpeedRunners felt so good. Even if you weren’t a master at it (doing all sorts of little micro swings), you could still get some great movement, and converting vertical momentum into horizontal momentum never got old
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Things are heating up in terms of releases!  https://store.steampowered.com/app/1272320/Diplomacy_is_Not_an_Option/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256871933/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1643837760 quote:You were born a feudal lord. Sounds good, right? But you're bored of hunting, executions and tournaments. Even of feasts with beautiful maidens. The only dream left - your castle surrounded by hordes of enemies. You would waste no time on negotiation. This is your chance to show'em who is in charge. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1431230/Gods_of_Sand/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256805188/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1603118951 quote:Train gladiators. Manage a ludus. Fight in the arenas. Conquer the tower. Gods of Sand is a gladiator manager with intense turn-based combat, inspired by the Swords and Sandals series, in a dark and unforgiving setting. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1164250/Model_Builder/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256872663/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1644333600 quote:Model Builder is a game about building and customizing model vehicles. Assemble, customize and display your creations - fill virtual shelves with amazing machines! Whether you’re a veteran or a novice, you are bound to have fun! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1033080/Letters__a_written_adventure/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256873001/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1644417941 quote:Letters is a fun word puzzle game about friendship, growing up and finding your place in life. Follow Sarah, a shy girl from Switzerland, by moving through her pen pal letters and chat messages. Use the power of words to solve riddles, interact with her friends and decide who she will grow up to be.
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Play posted:Positive reviews. Looks cute and people seem to like the word riddles although I don't really understand how they work. The puzzles in the trailer seemed a bit like Scribblenauts. I was hoping for something more like Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It.
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madfury posted:If you do find something like Freespace or freelancer then do share with the group. I have such fond memories of FS2 cap ship battles which I have never experienced after. I have checked all the games already mentioned in the replies and they all look inadequate. There is always a chance some semi indie title flying under the radar. Chorus - while not very good imho - came out of nowhere so I keep hoping someone will do spiritual successor to Freespace. Hope dies last. If I find something that's like FreeSpace, you can definitely believe that I'm going to shout about it from every rooftop.
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Prose & Codesquote:Explore the wonderful world of books through deceptively simple ciphers. A portion of every purchase benefits Project Gutenberg, an online library of over 60,000 free ebooks.
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madfury posted:If you do find something like Freespace or freelancer then do share with the group. I have such fond memories of FS2 cap ship battles which I have never experienced after. I have checked all the games already mentioned in the replies and they all look inadequate. There is always a chance some semi indie title flying under the radar. Chorus - while not very good imho - came out of nowhere so I keep hoping someone will do spiritual successor to Freespace. Hope dies last. It's somewhat arcadey and VERY shallow but the closest thing to Freelancer/Privateer in years was Rebel Galaxy Outlaw You can make it less arcadey by not using the auto-tail-a-ship function in combat, if you want
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madfury posted:If you do find something like Freespace or freelancer then do share with the group. I have such fond memories of FS2 cap ship battles which I have never experienced after. I have checked all the games already mentioned in the replies and they all look inadequate. There is always a chance some semi indie title flying under the radar. Chorus - while not very good imho - came out of nowhere so I keep hoping someone will do spiritual successor to Freespace. Hope dies last. Seriously. I think I might pay a ridiculous amount of money if someone just straight-up remastered FreeSpace 1&2 into HD. I still can't believe they released Star Wars: Squadrons without any real single player campaign. I was so hyped for that game. What an absolute disappointment.
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ChickenMedium posted:Seriously. I think I might pay a ridiculous amount of money if someone just straight-up remastered FreeSpace 1&2 into HD. It can be installed via Knossos, which also features a metric shitton of user-created content (some of which is just as good as the original FreeSpace). EDIT: You'll wanna grab FreeSpace Port, FreeSpace Port MediaVPs, Silent Threat: Reborn, and Freespace Upgrade MediaVPs - and it goes without saying that you'll need the game files, but they're easily available from GOG. As far as user-made mods that are worth playing, Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius (the first part of a trilogy, where the second part is still being worked on) is probably the best one, but here's a complete list - I'd suggest looking for things that work in FSO and optionally are voiced, if you want the full experience. BlankSystemDaemon fucked around with this message at 12:18 on Feb 14, 2022 |
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I brought freelance 2 yesterday and can confirm that it does look pretty drat nice with the HD mod, and having never played it before has a really interesting story so far. I can also confirm that I am bad at stopping space stations from being destroyed by bombers.
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Doki Doki Ragnarok, a dating simulator where you are a Viking and your love interests are European villages not villagers, villages 
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i hate ironic dating sims. the only thing i hate more is ironic dating sims that are so tone deaf they think dating villages you pillage is funny— despite the fact that pillage is often paired with another word that starts with a r. haha, this sounds funny and is not gross at all if you don't think about it more than a few seconds but hey you can use any voice with any appearance, so its all good!
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Snooze Cruise posted:i hate ironic dating sims. the only thing i hate more is ironic dating sims that are so tone deaf they think dating villages you pillage is funny— despite the fact that pillage is often paired with another word that starts with a r. I found the idea amusing for a few seconds. But yeah, you kinda ruined that mood. That is indeed a bit messed up.
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"Doki Doki Ragnarok is a viking visual novel in which you pillage and date villages around the world. It takes place in a ridiculous world where viking raids are like going on a date - with the village! For vikings, raiding a village is more than warfare: it means dating, flirting, and understanding each other consensually. Show that you carry a conversation as easy as you carry an axe." yep, it's cringe
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what the gently caress is a rillage? e: nvm my head is filled with rocks and fluff instead of brain matter.
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Wait so is it just the word 'pillage' that is objected to, or any war game ever made?
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Morpheus posted:Wait so is it just the word 'pillage' that is objected to, or any war game ever made? there is a difference between the average game that ignores war time rape and this game where you are seducing towns to let their guard down so you can enter and pillage them which through innuendo compares the act to sex
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Snooze Cruise posted:there is a difference between the average game that ignores war time rape and this game where you are seducing towns to let their guard down so you can enter and pillage them which through innuendo compares the act to sex These feel very strange words to type out, but the pillaging is consensual. I don't see anything objectionable in the silly viking dating game.
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Bug Squash posted:These feel very strange words to type out, but the pillaging is consensual. I don't see anything objectionable in the silly viking dating game. Villages cannot give consent to violence Constructing an artificial scenario in which villages give consent to violence is at best a strange thing to do Like, imagine if it were violence being carried out on any other target that, in the real world, we consider unable to give consent, we would probably see that as pretty hosed up This is a game where sex is a metaphor for violence and while that can be funny to some folks it is deeply concerning to others
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I would probably have found the whole premise of the game funny 20 years ago.
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Yeah if this was a 2001 Newgrounds game I might have chuckled but uh
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You were all fine with games where you had sex with swords and pigeons. What possible violence could be implied by a sword?
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Bug Squash posted:You were all fine with games where you had sex with swords and pigeons. What possible violence could be implied by a sword? Pillaging towns involved real violence and rape against it's citizens throughout our history, this game is framing that as some 'funny' consensual date between the invaders and the town. It is completely unlike a dating game with swords and/or pigeons 
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Here's a scholarly treatise on the subject which should help put the debate to rest: https://youtube.com/watch?v=uJqEKYbh-LU
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having now tried the demo, posting it was a waste of everybody's time mea culpa
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/887570/NEBULOUS_Fleet_Command/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256864705/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1639345649 It looks like Homeworld 3's dropping into Early Access  Sensor layers! 
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Gahmah posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/887570/NEBULOUS_Fleet_Command/ It looks so perfect, but we've been burned so many times on space games. Eagerly awaiting the grog reviewers giving their impressions before dropping my  .
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Libertequote:A story-driven, top-down rogue-like set in an alternate-history, Lovecraftian version of the French Revolution. Play solo or Co-op and influence the fate of four unique factions in their clash for power. This just came out in EA but might be worth keeping an eye on.
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madfury posted:If you do find something like Freespace or freelancer then do share with the group. I have such fond memories of FS2 cap ship battles which I have never experienced after. I have checked all the games already mentioned in the replies and they all look inadequate. There is always a chance some semi indie title flying under the radar. Chorus - while not very good imho - came out of nowhere so I keep hoping someone will do spiritual successor to Freespace. Hope dies last. I think it's stuck on Xbox 360, but check out that version of Sylpheed. Remarkably nimble ship, lots of cool weapons, small capital ships start appearing in the second mission, and there are some great enormous fleet battles later. If you play it, start on Hard - there's more enemies, which means more post-mission points, which means more weapons to buy and more escalation. Learn to aim bombs with your afterburner. It's the best thing I've played since Freespace 2.
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PROBABLY not something most goons would be incredibly interested in but.... https://store.steampowered.com/app/1866710/Draft_Day_Sports_College_Football_2022/ https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256871517/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1644950958 quote:Prepare to lead your favorite school to championship glory as you experience the most realistic college football simulation on the planet. Customize your game world to suit your desires - change everything from the team names and logos all the way to the custom playoff option! Create custom plays and playbooks, get immersed in the game world with the in game media news and magazine options and do what it takes to lead your favorite school to a championship! Link your DDS: College Football 2022 game world to DDS: Pro Football 2022 for seamless integration of the two games for the ultimate football universe!
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ultrafilter posted:Liberte I happen to be working on a deck-based ARPG prototype so I was jealously interested in what this thing was going for and having tried it for a few minutes, whoo boy it's worth waiting on for now. There's a lot of quite brutal control jankiness in the moment-to-moment of how the character moves around and they've gone for an ultraflat icons-only UI that kinda doesn't fit with the Path of Exile worldspace they're putting together or the frankly gorgeous painted character portraits. I suspect that aspect would grow on me with a bit more time. The way the cards work is, loot drops occasionally put cards from your (prebuilt) deck into your hand; you play cards to buff your character with skills and passive effects, where the cost of playing a card is paid in mana; mana is gained by burning cards, on a one-for-one basis with what their cost would be. One tutorial situation in the game is choosing between equipping two 1-cost cards by burning a 2-cost card, or vice versa. After the card is played, it's equipped to the character- passives go in a list, skills go on your skill bar and are now governed by cooldowns. All equipped skills lose one cooldown tick every time you land a basic attack, which means you'll be clicking bad guys a lot to bring your non-clicking skills to bear (tutorial skills have cooldown values around 4). Your basic attacks are big sweeping things but they come out at a slightly slower-than-expected, more-delayed-than-I-wanted pace; skills come out fast as hell and feel pretty powerful, which is nice. Strong cards are balanced by needing to burn more cards to play them initially, and by having longer cooldowns once played. What I'm saying is there's some very solid bones here for some interesting stuff and the rules feel like a nice blend of tabletop and video game, but right now the moment-to-moment is just a little bit on the rough side and the character motion needs tuning. Somfin fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Feb 16, 2022 |
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GetsuFumaDen: Undying Moonquote:Death is not the end: defeat infernal foes until you die and carry on the fight with your eternal soul and memories in a new body! Konami's take on Dead Cells, apparently. The game's gorgeous and the EA reviews are mostly positive.
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Prophet of Nixon posted:I think it's stuck on Xbox 360, but check out that version of Sylpheed. Remarkably nimble ship, lots of cool weapons, small capital ships start appearing in the second mission, and there are some great enormous fleet battles later. If you play it, start on Hard - there's more enemies, which means more post-mission points, which means more weapons to buy and more escalation. Learn to aim bombs with your afterburner. It's the best thing I've played since Freespace 2. Never owned a console but I appreciate the tip. At the very least I will check a playthru and try to relive olden glory days of great space games.
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ultrafilter posted:GetsuFumaDen: Undying Moon Enjoying this. The game doesn't really tell you that you lose almost all metaprogression materials upon death, and I was wondering how the hell I was going to afford any upgrades. Turns out you can end your run after each boss to bank your stuff.
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Some game called "Horizon Forbidden West" has been released. People seem to like it. But to PC release yet, so I guess I'll pass on it.
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cant cook creole bream posted:But no PC release yet, so I guess I'll pass on it. That's the forbidden part.
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I played the first one, and it looked great, but the gameplay was so samey to other big games that I lost interest almost immediately.
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