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Dick Trauma posted:I lost a health point trying to get the tie. The first two times I tried to get that tie I died of a heart attack
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Also finished Citizen Sleeper this weekend. Cool game, if a bit short. Largely an interactive fiction/ CYOA game with some dice game mechanics attached. Beautiful artwork and visuals. My only complaint aside from length is that eventually after a few lucky cycles and well picked upgrades, there isn't much challenge in the actual dice game anymore. By the time I had played through all the major endings I was maxing out credits and health bars every day. Once you "solve" the game part, it's mostly just clicking through to read the story.
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mrmcd posted:Also finished Citizen Sleeper this weekend. Cool game, if a bit short. Largely an interactive fiction/ CYOA game with some dice game mechanics attached. Beautiful artwork and visuals. I noticed that too but I kind of liked it from a "ludonarrative consonance" standpoint. Mechanically, when you start the game, you are constantly struggling to keep up. You're sacrificing health or energy constantly, you're always struggling to survive, you can feel yourself on the knife edge. Then by the end of the game, you're getting by. You have your little life put together and mechanically, you can feel that sense of relief. There was a point where I realized that, mechanically, I could just live my life on the space station without having to worry about dying. I thought it was a really interesting way that the physical gameplay itself mirrored the character's condition in the game. Does that make for compelling gameplay? YMMV on that, but luckily the game is short (6-8 hours) so for me, the experiment worked.
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That Dang Dad posted:I noticed that too but I kind of liked it from a "ludonarrative consonance" standpoint. Mechanically, when you start the game, you are constantly struggling to keep up. You're sacrificing health or energy constantly, you're always struggling to survive, you can feel yourself on the knife edge. Then by the end of the game, you're getting by. You have your little life put together and mechanically, you can feel that sense of relief. There was a point where I realized that, mechanically, I could just live my life on the space station without having to worry about dying. I thought it was a really interesting way that the physical gameplay itself mirrored the character's condition in the game. Yeah, I came away from it thinking the same thing. I'd wager that it's even intentional, that you reach a certain level of stability on the station where you could see yourself living there indefinitely.
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Sachant posted:Yeah, I came away from it thinking the same thing. I'd wager that it's even intentional, that you reach a certain level of stability on the station where you could see yourself living there indefinitely. Actually, would someone mind spoiling if you can stay in the station indefinitely? I'm of a mind to sit around and churn through all the content, but don't want to run into some hidden timer. A simple yes/no is all I need.
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Haystack posted:Actually, would someone mind spoiling if you can stay in the station indefinitely? I'm of a mind to sit around and churn through all the content, but don't want to run into some hidden timer. A simple yes/no is all I need. yes
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1904040/Fantasy_Fishing_Town/ https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256876762/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1650687329 quote:Welcome to Fantasy Fishing Town! Cute pixel graphic x side scroll fishing. It's a unique pleasure! Legendary fish! You're mine! Also, this cool game which I saw in the creator's youtube channel. It's basically worldle in a way, you fly around a textured globe with a day/night cycle, picking up packages in certain places and then doing your best to deliver them to the correct city somewhere around the globe. Nice and relaxing, but very challenging in terms of geography. https://sebastian.itch.io/geographical-adventures I also wanted to recommend a game I posted earlier after playing it. This game is really really fun, challenging, and takes a unique approach towards city building/governance. I really like it and would strongly recommend it to anyone who is interested. I also absolutely love the graphical style they chose, in some ways that retro style looks better than anything else: Play posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1399700/Kapital_Sparks_of_Revolution/ Play fucked around with this message at 00:08 on May 10, 2022 |
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The original Heroes of Might and Magic's spiritual pixel art successor Songs of Conquest is out today. https://store.steampowered.com/app/867210/Songs_of_Conquest/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256879255/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1648162287
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1658290/Eiyuden_Chronicle_Rising/quote:Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising is an action RPG set in the same world as Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes. Features town-upgrading mechanics, fast-paced combat. A prequel to the world of the Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes. I don't know what this is
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1658290/Eiyuden_Chronicle_Rising/ Well, it's quote:an action RPG set in the same world as Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes. Features town-upgrading mechanics, fast-paced combat. A prequel to the world of the Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes. Looks kinda neat though. The game they're referring to is slated to come next year and is more of a traditional turn-based jRPG, by the looks of things.
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Rad Russian posted:The original Heroes of Might and Magic's spiritual pixel art successor Songs of Conquest is out today. * in Early Access.
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Morpheus posted:Well, it's Yeah the game coming out next year is a kickstarted project for a not-Suikoden game. This one looks to be a pretty simple beat-em-up 2d platformer.
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We Were Here Forever is out today, the fourth game in the We Were Here series. I've played the first few puzzles and it's been solid so far. each game in the series has been substantially better than the last so I'm looking forward to seeing what kinds of puzzles this one has down the line. for those unfamiliar We Were Here is a first person puzzle series for 2 players where puzzles require a lot of voice communication and asymmetrical roles. the players are usually separated so you need to verbally describe what you can see to your partner and work out what you're supposed to do. they're extremely budget, but the puzzle design is highly varied and challenging enough to be engaging without ever getting too absurd, and there aren't many other games like them.    (from we were here 3)
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It's always fun playing games like that. I played the first game with my gf and there's a part where, from my pov, I'm just setting up some stage backgrounds, making sure the right characters are on stage and such. Nothing too harrowing. Meanwhile I'm hearing my gf get more and more harried on the other side of the mic because some sort of shadow harlequin is getting closer and closer to murder her while I'm just like "So is the king on the correct side of the stage?" "he's getting closer!" "Okay but the king?"
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Morpheus posted:It's always fun playing games like that. I played the first game with my gf and there's a part where, from my pov, I'm just setting up some stage backgrounds, making sure the right characters are on stage and such. Nothing too harrowing. Meanwhile I'm hearing my gf get more and more harried on the other side of the mic because some sort of shadow harlequin is getting closer and closer to murder her while I'm just like lmao yeah, my wife and I had a similar experience with that exact same puzzle. I was oblivious that there was a shadow puppet thing approaching her so I was like "uhhh, how's this?" while she was freaking out the entire time We also had fun with the chess puzzle where we got queens and kings confused.
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1658290/Eiyuden_Chronicle_Rising/ I played it. Kind of an insultingly easy action RPG where you do quests, talk to people, advance the story, and visit the same areas repeatedly to collect things and such. It's not bad at all, but the combat is pretty uninspiring and overall gameplay is just basic. Not bad if you just wanna chill, but you can tell it's made by JRPG devs (or so I assume, since the action almost seems like a weird mix of the two). Also I've been playing more of Trek to Yomi, I doubt it has it's own thread so I'll just say here that drat I love the style of this game and I'm really enjoying getting immersed in it. Haven't gotten too far but it's a banger for me
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Gay Rat Wedding posted:We Were Here Forever is out today, the fourth game in the We Were Here series. I've played the first few puzzles and it's been solid so far. each game in the series has been substantially better than the last so I'm looking forward to seeing what kinds of puzzles this one has down the line. As someone who played the others with a windows/mac pair. Be warned this new one dropped mac support.
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Also if you play it in the same room as someone else but on separate computers, be aware that the other person is going to get fed up with you at some point and cheat and look at your screen and ruin the game. What? No, of course this never happened to me and I’m definitely not still frustrated about it, what do you mean?
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Hatchwellquote:A series of disruptive events cause uneasiness among the people. The mayor needs your help to investigate different parts of Hatchwell and figure out what's causing these events, which seem to worsen as the day goes by. One positive review so far.
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ultrafilter posted:Hatchwell That looks cute enough to add to the wishlist and watch for more reviews.
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Also, in case anyone was wondering, the Gloomhaven video game is an accurate simulation of the board game, for better or worse. As a fan, I'm very happy with it.
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Somfin posted:Also, in case anyone was wondering, the Gloomhaven video game is an accurate simulation of the board game, for better or worse. As a fan, I'm very happy with it. I enjoyed it in the begging but then I started getting to a point where every mission was a super-long slog and I would lose right near the end just by running out of cards, which is super lame. But maybe I was playing it wrong?
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Red Rox posted:I enjoyed it in the begging but then I started getting to a point where every mission was a super-long slog and I would lose right near the end just by running out of cards, which is super lame. You playing solo or with friends? Because I find the experience vastly different and absolutely cannot play it solo without it feeling like a job. With friends, it's basically the opposite.
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Red Rox posted:I enjoyed it in the begging but then I started getting to a point where every mission was a super-long slog and I would lose right near the end just by running out of cards, which is super lame. That's kind of the the Gloomhaven experience, yeah. Our group with the pen and paper version ended up doing a few "let's just pretend we won and move on" missions where we barely lost by running out of cards and we didn't feel like running that scenario again.
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frytechnician posted:You playing solo or with friends? Because I find the experience vastly different and absolutely cannot play it solo without it feeling like a job. With friends, it's basically the opposite. I'm in the middle of a 4 player tabletop run of Jaws of the Lion and that is a quick and lightweight little game once you get it set up- and its tutorial missions are the best possible intro to the game- but running even just two mercenaries solo through the video game tutorial's short missions has been a real slog of trying not to step on my own toes. As I said, it's very accurate to the real thing. GH is best played as an RPG where you have your own little dude with your own little deck, you know as little as possible about your allies' abilities, and you occasionally cheekily let someone else take a hit while you loot the room. It's incredibly taxing if you have to double that brain load. E: I say lightweight because with four players there's very little need to play perfectly and "good enough" usually carries the day. It's definitely a heavy ruleset but it feels quite casual and breezy once you come to grips with how little you can plan ahead. Somfin fucked around with this message at 22:45 on May 15, 2022 |
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The Gloomhaven learning curve is rough for a lot of people, and some things that seem like they should be minor mistakes can quietly compound into a heartbreaking last second scenario loss. The most important thing to keep in mind is that your ultimate constraint is running out of cards (not health, because as long as you have cards, you can burn them to ignore damage). Burning cards shortens all future rest cycles, so it's much better to burn cards late in a scenario (where you're borrowing from fewer future rest cycles) than early, unless it has a really vital persistent effect. The second most important thing is that "tank" isn't really a role in Gloomhaven. Even the characters with big beefy health pools are better off dodging than taking hits and healing, because healing costs card plays that could be better spent doing something that actually makes progress. You can avoid a lot of damage with clever manipulation of initiative, and it's important to keep cards with a variety of different initiatives in your deck so you can have options to go both before and after your enemies. Internalize these two things, and the rest will fall into place.
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frytechnician posted:You playing solo or with friends? Because I find the experience vastly different and absolutely cannot play it solo without it feeling like a job. With friends, it's basically the opposite. Ah ok yeah I was trying to play it solo. The longer missions do feel a lot like work!
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Red Rox posted:Ah ok yeah I was trying to play it solo. The longer missions do feel a lot like work! Calculating initiative turns is what ultimately makes the game almost impossible for me in solo. It saps all the fun out of the game - you just get paralysed by overthinking. With buddies? One of the best co-op games I've ever played.
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Ampersatquote:A shooty, slashy, RPG-y game mixing retro and modern sensibilities. A blend of influences from Gauntlet & Smash TV to Zelda & Angband, Ampersat is a handcrafted adventure but with appeal to Roguelite fans. Battle ASCII creatures in colorful areas & free letters to return language to the village! 90% positive based on ten reviews.
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This is forthcoming, but Card Shark is worth keeping an eye on.quote:Instead, Card Shark is all about the palming and stacking and counting of cards, rather than an actual card game like your classic deckbuilders and such like. It will be out in full on June 2nd, but last week I got to play a larger version of the current Steam demo - about four hours worth of it, in fact - and I discovered that while I'm very bad at card games, I am pretty good at (pretend) cheating at them.
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Indie horror game one of my friends is working on The Chant - Some kind of cult in the woods stuff going on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yiGRrpzing
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ultrafilter posted:Ampersat Huh this looks neat but the gifs hurt my head a little. Grew up on ZZT so I have nothing against ASCII but the color contrast and backgrounds look super busy. The sprawling skill tree and the stat screen with all the tiny text are no joke very tantalizing, though. Glad there's a demo & I'll definitely check it out, thanks for the heads up edit: ^^^^^^ Little Witch In The Woods also dropped on Gamepass today, if you have that. Haven't tried it yet.
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goferchan posted:edit: ^^^^^^ Little Witch In The Woods also dropped on Gamepass today, if you have that. Haven't tried it yet. Appears to be labelled a preview - any idea how much game's in there?
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