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Wow, Tunic was never on my radar but after about two hours I think it's fantastic. Love everything about this game.
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Foul Fowl posted:can you just imagine how hosed up elden ring would have been if it had been made by any of these big money companies. I'm confident that now that they've reached the sales number stratosphere things will turn to poo poo one way or another. They get greedy, their owner corp gets greedy, or they'll be bought by MS for 7 billion dollars.
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Mar 17, 2022 11:57
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so far they seem to be holding the course so i'm confident we'll get a few more amazing games before the people with the vision and talent retire or leave and we get DARK SOULS REMASTERED REMASTERED: HD REMASTER and SOLAIRE'S JOURNEY, AN APPLE ARCADE EXCLUSIVE: Prepare to Die . . . On Your Commute
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Mar 17, 2022 12:13
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Foul Fowl posted:can you just imagine how hosed up elden ring would have been if it had been made by any of these big money companies. you mean skyrim?
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Mar 17, 2022 12:31
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I'm pretty sure if Bandai Namco, a merger between a big rear end fuckin toy company and a pretty big Japanese publisher/developer was going to pressure From in a weird way they'd have done it some time in the last 11 years they've been working together on these games, just a hunch.
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Mar 17, 2022 12:43
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I think Namco-Bandai understands that From Software lays golden eggs.
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Mar 17, 2022 12:54
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i don't mean it like their big bad publisher will force them to stop making good games, just that fromsoft at some point will go the way of almost all other game dev companies. much like the plot of their games, it's an inevitable cycle where the people who made the games what they were in the first place aren't there anymore. the elden soulsbornekiro franchise will be another rotting corpse swarmed by flies and maggots, like warcraft or mass effect or elder scrolls or fallout or etc. etc. probably. i guess there are exceptions.
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Mar 17, 2022 13:02
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blizzard, bethesda, bioware, bungie, demigods all, claimed their profits. the mad taint of their newfound strength triggered the shattering.
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Mar 17, 2022 13:05
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Does Elder Scrolls really count? The last mainline title is one of the most well regarded and widely played games ever made, and even ESO is popular and recommended by a lot of ES fans. I don’t think they’ve jumped the shark in the way that BioWare has.
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Mar 17, 2022 13:24
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idk that the same thing is going to happen to fromsoft at all anytime soon when miyazaki is much more of an auteur-esque figure than those other companies have or had as creative leads and he's both president of fromsoft and still acting as lead director & writer on nearly everything they do
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Mar 17, 2022 13:24
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Anno posted:Does Elder Scrolls really count? The last mainline title is one of the most well regarded and widely played games ever made, and even ESO is popular and recommended by a lot of ES fans. I don’t think they’ve jumped the shark in the way that BioWare has. you're right, i kinda bundle elder scrolls in with fallout 3/4/76 in my head since they're basically the same except one's got swords and the other's got guns.
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Mar 17, 2022 13:45
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goferchan posted:Tunic is delightful. Zelda 1 by way of Fez, maybe? It's a little early to tell . But it definitely feels like it shares DNA with the ambitious, thoughtful, and sometimes difficult and obtuse indie games like Hyper Light Drifter etc that seemed to be everywhere around 5 or 6 years ago but then dried up when everyone switched to making roguelikes. If you're nostalgic for that period at all this is definitely something you should pick up, but if you hated those games it might be an easy choice to avoid. I was worried it'd be too similar to Death's Door but it has a different feel and I like it. The combat isn't as good as Death's Door though
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Mar 17, 2022 13:55
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Anno posted:Does Elder Scrolls really count? The last mainline title is one of the most well regarded and widely played games ever made, and even ESO is popular and recommended by a lot of ES fans. I don’t think they’ve jumped the shark in the way that BioWare has. I am not the biggest Morrowind stan by any measure but I've liked it a lot, and I've also liked Skyrim a lot but I could definitely see the latter being much worse in a lot of regards. Popularity almost never implies quality anyway.
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lordfrikk posted:I am not the biggest Morrowind stan by any measure but I've liked it a lot, and I've also liked Skyrim a lot but I could definitely see the latter being much worse in a lot of regards. Popularity almost never implies quality anyway. Yeah but I think there’s a difference between games like, I dunno, Far Cry and Skyrim. Both are very popular but Far Cry never became an institution like Skyrim was, and is! Tons of people still play and buy and mod it and probably will forever in a way that no current Ubisoft game ever will. I get thinking it’s a downgrade from Morrowind (though I don’t agree it is) but I don’t think it’s comparable to the other companies listed at all. I don’t even really think Fallout qualifies except for maybe 76. Anecdotally I think it’s reflected in peoples expectations for their respective next games, too. Tons of people are hyped as gently caress for Starfield in a way that doesn’t seem to be the case for the next Dragon Age or Mass Effect or whatever. Anno fucked around with this message at 14:12 on Mar 17, 2022 |
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Mar 17, 2022 14:09
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Skyrim was good in spite of itself, like they forgot to take Oblivion's strongest point (the crazy rear end quests) and instead did some rote dungeon crawls. The emergent gameplay was as goofy as ever though and the setting was very cool at the time. People are expecting Starfield to be the spiritual successor, so I guess we'll see what happened with Bethesda when its released.
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Mar 17, 2022 15:03
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ErrEff posted:Wow, Tunic was never on my radar but after about two hours I think it's fantastic. Love everything about this game. Yeah it's really turning out to be something special. In case anyone's not aware, it is on Gamepass -- I think this was a surprise launch day announcement so I wasn't aware until yesterday.
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Mar 17, 2022 15:08
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Fruits of the sea posted:Skyrim was good in spite of itself, like they forgot to take Oblivion's strongest point (the crazy rear end quests) and instead did some rote dungeon crawls. The emergent gameplay was as goofy as ever though and the setting was very cool at the time. People are expecting Starfield to be the spiritual successor, so I guess we'll see what happened with Bethesda when its released. All I want to know is if Starfield is literally just Skyrim/FO4 in Space, or if they'll actually try to do something new eg piloting your space ship or anything cool Until I see anything to the contrary though, I assume it's just Skyrim In Space
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Mar 17, 2022 15:13
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Starfield is gonna be No Man's Sky in Space.
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Mar 17, 2022 15:17
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Sab669 posted:All I want to know is if Starfield is literally just Skyrim/FO4 in Space, or if they'll actually try to do something new eg piloting your space ship or anything cool
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Mar 17, 2022 15:28
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Sab669 posted:All I want to know is if Starfield is literally just Skyrim/FO4 in Space, or if they'll actually try to do something new eg piloting your space ship or anything cool I definitely assume this is going to be FO4 with a coat of scifi/space on it and it's going to be hilarious with all of this buildup for it to be just that. I will be happy to be proven wrong though when it releases
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Sab669 posted:Until I see anything to the contrary though, I assume it's just Skyrim In Space No Man's Skyrim
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Mar 17, 2022 15:32
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Latest Elden Ring patch nerfed the OP poo poo people had been using to curbstomp their way through the game and the reaction online is amazing to watch  It's not even that those things got dumpstered, they were brought down to a reasonable level but no longer 'mash this button to win'-level
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Mar 17, 2022 15:32
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Azran posted:Latest Elden Ring patch nerfed the OP poo poo people had been using to curbstomp their way through the game and the reaction online is amazing to watch regardless of how i feel about the nerfs, the reaction is very funny
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Quick reminder that there's about 16 hours left to get in on the itch.io's Bundle for Ukraine. They're almost up to 6 million dollars so far. 
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Mar 17, 2022 15:56
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Azran posted:Latest Elden Ring patch nerfed the OP poo poo people had been using to curbstomp their way through the game and the reaction online is amazing to watch Though for people complaining about smithing stones they did cut the requirements in half and added NPCs locations to the map. So it isn’t all nerfs
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Mar 17, 2022 15:58
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From catering to the CASUALS again by marking merchants and NPCs that you've met on your map
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They also restored a whole bunch of cut or incomplete NPC quests.
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Mar 17, 2022 16:00
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CharlestheHammer posted:Though for people complaining about smithing stones they did cut the requirements in half and added NPCs locations to the map. We're gonna see retractions of those 10k-word thinkpieces about the majesty of Elden Ring's lack of map markers
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Mar 17, 2022 16:02
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Is there any roadmap to the stutter/performance fixes to ER? Probably gonna get it in the next couple of days regardless...
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Mar 17, 2022 16:03
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Tiny Timbs posted:We're gonna see retractions of those 10k-word thinkpieces about the majesty of Elden Ring's lack of map markers They will move on to the next thing just like how they accepted map markers in the first place despite NPC markers being the same drat thing
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CharlestheHammer posted:They will move on to the next thing just like how they accepted map markers in the first place despite NPC markers being the same drat thing I think it's a nice addition, considering dungeons and other POIs were already automatically marked on the map. Crucially, if an NPC moves from their spot, their new location doesn't show up on the map until you find them again -- all this really does is cut down on bookkeeping and it means I don't have to rack my brain to remember which of the 50 NPCs I meant to indicate when I put a map marker down. It is very much not a "quest log" re: all the discourse on that
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Mar 17, 2022 16:12
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Yeah, a map that logs stuff I’ve discovered is good. The thing that sucks in games is when all you do is follow the dot
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Mar 17, 2022 16:25
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That "Shredders" snowboarding game came out on Gamepass today. Looks pretty nice actually!
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Mar 17, 2022 16:44
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Mordja posted:Is there any roadmap to the stutter/performance fixes to ER? Funniest thing is if you play it on linux with proton, it fixes the problem.
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humble games will be publishing ghost song in 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X71-wlczQU this game had its kickstarter 9 years ago, so silksong has a lot of work ahead if they're gonna beat that
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The 7th Guest posted:humble games will be publishing ghost song in 2022: A sci-fi Metroidvania? That'll never work!
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Protocol7 posted:Are you playing Far Cry 6? I thought it was laughable how the story is basically your character wanting to run away, then just deciding "eh, gently caress it, what's being a guerilla for a while gonna hurt" Well nearly getting killed and losing your best friend to the dictator of your island nation might have something to do this that. At the same time I didn't pay much attention to that, it's a sandbox game by nature with thin plot elements on top to tie it all together. Right after that you get this wacky alligator wearing a t shirt for you that will attack enemies with guns and kill them. CharlestheHammer posted:And it should be said the delay is consistent so it’s pretty much a shake up, once you get used to it not much has changed other than you can get a few more punishes in if your feeling fiesty Not all enemies have it, tons of enemies attack extremely quickly. It's just about learning general patterns and dealing damage/stagger when you have the opportunity. The Elden Ring thread is literally the fastest moving thread on the entire forums, lol
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Lol speak of the devil, Tunic had me thinking about the early-2010s indie boom and now they've announced Monaco 2. I had a lot of fun playing the original in local co-op and I could see a sequel really taking off in the Twitch era. https://youtu.be/q4eU18oF-X8
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Oh hell yeah that's awesome. I loved Monaco but could never get enough people to try it with me.
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goferchan posted:I think it's a nice addition, considering dungeons and other POIs were already automatically marked on the map. Crucially, if an NPC moves from their spot, their new location doesn't show up on the map until you find them again -- all this really does is cut down on bookkeeping and it means I don't have to rack my brain to remember which of the 50 NPCs I meant to indicate when I put a map marker down. It is very much not a "quest log" re: all the discourse on that It is a nice addition and one I said would be good, but the ER thread assured me they would never stoop so low. I thought they would wait until the next game, but considering how fast they did it it was probably just cut from release to get it shipped
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