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Saxophone posted:I’m just too old for dick-kicking games. Like I wanna play a game, have fun, be moderatelyish challenged and yeah. So many games are going for the Uber hard ‘souls-like’ stuff and I’m over here like ‘but no? There's a no fail mode option for tunic.
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Dreylad posted:Norco is a wild ride, especially at the end, and linear as all adventure games are but really good. What kind of play time did you have at the end?
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:What kind of play time did you have at the end? 18 hours but only because I left it on the main menu several times due to new parent living. I'd say it's probably 3-4 hours long.
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:What kind of play time did you have at the end? I also played it, it is about 4-6 hours for a normal playthrough, maybe an hour or 2 more to 100%.
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Yeah, Norco starts weird and then just goes "oh yeah, it motherfucking southern gothic scifi time buckle up" its great. Theres a reference/joke about a local new orleans law firm. GOTY entirely on nailing new orleans
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Barudak posted:Yeah, Norco starts weird and then just goes "oh yeah, it motherfucking southern gothic scifi time buckle up" its great. Which last name will people not be able to pronounce btw? Is it Leblanc?
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Dreylad posted:Which last name will people not be able to pronounce btw? Is it Leblanc? Melancon Edit: Im not done with the game but lord help me gently caress you Kenner Esplanade mall. If its not clear nearly every location in the game is a real physical place in New Orleans and all the neighborhoods and areas it mentions are real. I mentioned elsewhere but the game borderline admits the most sci-fi part of its premise is that theres still a New Orleans in the future Barudak fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Mar 27, 2022 |
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1247360/Grand_Mountain_Adventure_Wonderlands/quote:https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256876329/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1646301668
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Pill Babyquote:A stylish hack and slash game about an immigrant who takes drugs for her job. Play as Anna, finding a job and moving to a new country. Explore her new life, struggles, loneliness, relationships, language barrier. 100% positive based on 23 reviews.
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Heard about Norco from Austin Walker tweeting it out and Ren over at waypoint being effusive with praise, comparing the writing to Disco Elysium and Kentucky Route Zero. Having played a little bit I’d say the comparisons are apt. This is absolutely stellar writing. The mood also reminds me of those two. Check it out. This is one you don’t want to miss. Also it’s on game pass. https://youtu.be/PFVhJNfnxCY theblackw0lf fucked around with this message at 07:10 on Mar 28, 2022 |
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theblackw0lf posted:Heard about Norco from Austin Walker tweeting it out and Ren over at waypoint being effusive with praise, comparing the writing to Disco Elysium and Kentucky Route Zero. Having played a little bit I’d say the comparisons are apt. This is absolutely stellar writing. The mood also reminds me of those two. I agree with those comparisons, but there's something else it reminds me of even more. A fantastic novel called Tropic of Kansas by Christopher Brown. The writing just called that book to mind so much, which is a good thing. It's not as pompous as Disco Elysium, but definitely there are some shades there. I like it a lot so far.
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Nightmare Reaperquote:Progress through the cursed depths of a nightmare while finding an arsenal of powerful weapons and improving your abilities along the way. This retro-inspired FPS with looter shooter and rogue-lite elements breaches the wall between classic and modern gameplay. Just heard of this and it looks sick as hell, overwhelmingly positive reviews. Gonna try and report back grate deceiver fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Mar 28, 2022 |
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Apparently it releases today, but no news post just yet. I can vouch for it's quality though, even if the pixel graphics are a bit chunky, it perfectly blends first person shooter and rogue-something-or-another and it's only got better over time. Edit:https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1051690/view/3091165066129856583 Aha! Looks like we are ready to go. Tombot fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Mar 28, 2022 |
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Tombot posted:Apparently it releases today, but no news post just yet. I can vouch for it's quality though, even if the pixel graphics are a bit chunky, it perfectly blends first person shooter and rogue-something-or-another and it's only got better over time. This game has the worst feeling FPS weapons I have ever experienced  Gonna give it the full 2 hours before deciding if I want to refund because it has some cool ideas and hopefully the guns get better and those overwhelmingly positive reviews have gotta be for something, but so far everything from pistols to shurikens to chainsaws to grenade launchers has absolutely no feedback at all when you fire, and the double barreled shotgun sounds like an airsoft gun.e: Actually the problem might be the enemies as much as it is the guns, they don't react to being hit and they don't have big obvious death animations like in other 2.5d boomer shooters so it feels like you're firing ineffectively a lot of the time deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Mar 29, 2022 |
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Trailer looked interesting, but got about 3 seconds into the gameplay footage, thought "this looks like it was made with a Doom (1993) level editor" and noped out.
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Yes? Computer graphics from thirty years ago looked like poo poo and I don't miss them at all. I hate this trend of indie games putting pixel graphics in every drat thing.
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stylistic choices > "good graphics" any day of the week
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well there's plenty of call of duties out there for you
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deep dish peat moss posted:This game has the worst feeling FPS weapons I have ever experienced it's okay. sound and camera doing their thing for a sprite shooter (all bobbing OFF of course and fov to the max). I find it boring for other reasons but it's very far away from the worst weapon feedback.
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Snooze Cruise posted:stylistic choices > "good graphics" any day of the week
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Nitemare 3D has a better aesthetic
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Sylphosaurus posted:That said stylistic choices aren't always implemented in a good way and I have to say that this title doesn't really feel like it nailed the aesthetics. Yeah I would agree, it at least looks more visually interesting to me than most aaa games but that is something of a low bar.
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I'm into it so far. My complaint would be that I'm not a fan of the cramped procgen levels, would prefer open arenas to really let loose, but it looks like it might open up later. Overall I dig it.
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Snooze Cruise posted:stylistic choices > "good graphics" any day of the week Is there some reason they couldn't do both or are you mistaking 80s&90s nostalgia for "style"?
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Semi-procedural Thief-like, Abermore, just got released https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256873231/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1644840482 quote:Abermore is a first-person stealth RPG where players adopt the mantle of "The Unhanged Man", a legendary Robin Hood-esque figure in the strange and surprising city of Abermore, during the 18 days in a run up to a daring heist. Every campaign is unique, daisy chaining together robberies, across countless level variations. Each new day provides new stories to stumble into, spoils to sell on the Blackmarket, and potential collaborators to help you as you prepare for the ultimate score: "The Feast of the Lucky Few."
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Metavaxx is a sharp shooter that balances mild strategy with good action controls. I'm not big on bullet hell shooters nor puzzle games, this one is my goldilocks compromise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI0FNuNwNak As I played it I kept thinking that if Cryptark had a way to disable the mission timer I would have enjoyed it as much as I liked Metavaxx. https://punkcake.itch.io/metavaxx
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Sylphosaurus posted:That said stylistic choices aren't always implemented in a good way and I have to say that this title doesn't really feel like it nailed the aesthetics. Yeah, I'm a fan of all the things that it claims to be and I'm passing after seeing a few gameplay trailers.
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Hello Sailor posted:Trailer looked interesting, but got about 3 seconds into the gameplay footage, thought "this looks like it was made with a Doom (1993) level editor" and noped out. With all respect to your preferences, that description makes me go [!] because I fuckin' love the original Doom and anything that looks and works like it is my jam. (I've also been playing more old shooters recently too - nearly done playing Unreal for the first time, then gonna tackle FEAR and Quake)
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I wish that game looked more like Doom, because I think the spritework is pretty ugly.
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moonmazed posted:is there some reason you're such a dick? Lots of old games were just ugly and just being 'retro' isn't a free pass on having ugly graphics. And to say 'well it's this or Call of Duty' is pretty dumb given all the other stylistic options available.
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moonmazed posted:is there some reason you're such a dick? You recommended upthread that anyone who isn't currently deepthroating an artist who worked at id in the early 90s should just play Call of Duty forever, so this seems like a pot & kettle situation.
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I'd like to nth the recommendation for Super Graphics Whiner XIX Turbo Championship Edition
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Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Sun Seriesquote:Unleash your imagination into a vast, savage world, sun-scorched and wind-scraped. This series contains the radiant classics, Dark Sun: Shattered Lands, and Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager. Part of the Gold Box series of Dungeons & Dragons games from the early 90s. They were among the best of their generation and are probably worth checking out if you like older games.
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Scut posted:Metavaxx is a sharp shooter that balances mild strategy with good action controls. I'm not big on bullet hell shooters nor puzzle games, this one is my goldilocks compromise. This looks cool but I have something to admit: I never figured out as a kid how minesweeper worked and I've always been too scared to play it since then https://store.steampowered.com/app/1881180/Aery__Calm_Mind_2/ quote:Aery - Calm Mind 2 is an interactive game experience that is designed to relax your mind and soul. You jump into the role of a little bird, explore beautiful landscapes and collect magical crystals that mark certain landscapes. Super chill game, 7 to 0 positive reviews. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1315210/Ikai/ quote:Fear and anxiety prevail after the darkest tales from Japanese folklore come to life in this first-person psychological horror game. Set in a feudal era, Ikai revolves around the priestess of a shrine struggling to defeat the spirits of her past and her present. 6 to 5 reviews right now as seems to have some bugs. Looks scary though and is relevant to me since I've been playing a lot of Ghostwire Tokyo which owns
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ultrafilter posted:Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Sun Series
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fez_machine posted:Semi-procedural Thief-like, Abermore, just got released I really like the idea of this but its getting terrible reviews right now, apparently due to it being super-buggy. Hopefully it gets some patches and shapes up.
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