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Trickyblackjack posted:I would say 99% of games benefit from headphones. It's like VR, but like just your ears. Huh
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gohuskies posted:One of the Might & Magic series of RPGs had an option where your characters could just "do odd jobs for a week" for some NPC and get some money for it, and I did that over and over and over again until I was fabulously wealthy and could buy the best gear available at the shops, but unbeknownst to me the game had an aging mechanic and all the characters in my party were now 100 years old and had cripplingly low physical stats. Or don't do it in the first place because "the best gear available in the shops" is not very good.
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Sab669 posted:Last Spell is so good, it absolutely devoured 62 hours of my life like a month ago. Yeah, spear/sword is the only weapon combination I had in both my succesfull runs. It's mr Henry in the screenshot below.  I didn't realize you could upgrade the inn until day 9 or something, which is why the last two guys have so few kills. But it seems to have helped me, focusing on 4 heroes made it much easier to abuse the multiplicative damage bonuses and stacking defenses. Build was: - plague staff mage with very high crit (glass cannon), +4 propagation, and the park that gives mana back on crit. - one-handed crossbow archer with +5 targets, high crit, and the perk that disables the second weapon slot for +1 spell limits. - sword/spear warrior with 94% dodge and perk that gives +1 AP on dodge. - power staff warrior with 70 block and spiky counter. (which reflects damage based on block value) The last two heroes never got to comparable strength as the others. In the strategical layer I spent the big majority of my money on buying stuff in the shop. I only built (a lot of) ballistas and wooden walls. Don't mind the time spent, I left it idling sometimes because you can't save mid battle.
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Trickyblackjack posted:I would say 99% of games benefit from headphones. It's like VR, but like just your ears. Hellblade benefits far more than most because it makes heavy use of binaural audio
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gohuskies posted:One of the Might & Magic series of RPGs had an option where your characters could just "do odd jobs for a week" for some NPC and get some money for it, and I did that over and over and over again until I was fabulously wealthy and could buy the best gear available at the shops, but unbeknownst to me the game had an aging mechanic and all the characters in my party were now 100 years old and had cripplingly low physical stats. The alternate to this to actually play the game while this goes on is to already start with a few young guns who can then wander back alleys at night hoping to get mugged and turning the tables. You'd still have an old guy or two as you'll probably spend weeks at a time healing from a bad encounter besides potions also being really useful in combat. Funding secured, you could then gallivant around Germany hunting Baphomet from a much more financially stable position.
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Playing games with headphones is also a good way to damage your hearing.
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Dr Kool-AIDS posted:Playing games with headphones is also a good way to damage your hearing. You know volume buttons exist right?
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I simply just don't like being deafened to my surroundings. I'll use headphones for voice chat and that's it. And incidentally I don't even play multiplayer games with friends anymore 
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MarcusSA posted:You know volume buttons exist right? Volume what now? Really though just from personal experience I get tinnitus a lot more easily if I listen to things with headphones, even trying to keep the volume down, so I assume it's worse for my ears than using speakers. Dr Kool-AIDS fucked around with this message at 23:05 on May 11, 2022 |
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If you have housemates headphones are better just because you're cutting down on noise pollution and not filling everyone else's ears with meaningless videogame shooty noises. If you don't have housemates who might be talking to you then what surroundings could you be deafening yourself to? Pets?
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I actually can't talk since I don't really play with headphones anymore either since I'm in the same room as my wife when shes working. I'm actually playing through Shadow of Mordor on my Deck and I'm about 15 hours in and I think I might be kinda over it? I've cleared a bunch of the map but it seems really repetitive and even when you clear the map you don't actually clear it which kinda sucks? The game has been cool so far but I'm just not sure if a whole lot is going to change over the next 10 hours till I finish it?
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SoM is going to be more of the same until the end boss. It is all about making friends and then mindblasting them.
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Scalding Coffee posted:SoM is going to be more of the same until the end boss. It is all about making friends and then mindblasting them. OK fair enough. Do you ever actually clear the map though? It kinda gets annoying having to sprint all over because dudes are just roaming around.
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MarcusSA posted:OK fair enough. Do you ever actually clear the map though? It kinda gets annoying having to sprint all over because dudes are just roaming around. You don't because new orcs will take open spots in the hierarchy but it doesn't matter if the warchief positions are taken by your dudes.
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Sab669 posted:I simply just don't like being deafened to my surroundings. I'll use headphones for voice chat and that's it. a good set of cans is basically a wallhack for any multiplayer game with decent audio. Its nuts once you get used to pinpointing enemies through walls with just their footsteps
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vaginite posted:It's a real legit good game. If you like 40k and xcom it's a slam dunk. I wouldn't call it AAA, the human faces on the models are pretty lol, but the rest of the graphics are passable. is the strategic layer any more or less complex than in xcom? I never managed to finish a campaign in either of those, too many decisions to make
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Ciaphas posted:is the strategic layer any more or less complex than in xcom? I never managed to finish a campaign in either of those, too many decisions to make Its very different. You get a similar choice of missions (though unlike XCOM you can do more than one of them if your ship is fast enough) and upgrades for your ship are pretty varied, but it doesn't have the juggling approval aspect of XCOM and ramps up a lot slower so you have more time to acclimate. Also we have a Chaos Gate thread now people should come post in it and have this game advertised to them
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Played some of Soundfall and it's dope. Very much like BPM but competently made.
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MarcusSA posted:OK fair enough. Do you ever actually clear the map though? It kinda gets annoying having to sprint all over because dudes are just roaming around.
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Ciaphas posted:is the strategic layer any more or less complex than in xcom? I never managed to finish a campaign in either of those, too many decisions to make Probably a similar number of options, but a lot less punishing. Early barracks/meditation chamber are very helpful but I don't feel like the wrong decision is gonna sink me, and xcom very much felt like that sometimes.
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MarcusSA posted:OK fair enough. Do you ever actually clear the map though? It kinda gets annoying having to sprint all over because dudes are just roaming around. SoM isn't the kind of game where you can clear the map in a Far Cry type sense or w/e. There needs to be more orcs so orc politics can keep happening. At best if you mind control a bunch of high ranking orcs you'll see fewer enemy orcs and more mind controlled ones roaming around, that's about it.
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I need a game to replace vampire survivors as a podcast + bedtime kind of wind-down, something engaging but low-stakes and controller only. I probably have some things like that from the charity bundles... I used to use hades since I knew it inside-out it wasn't stressful, but I've had enough of that one
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Mescal posted:I need a game to replace vampire survivors as a podcast + bedtime kind of wind-down, something engaging but low-stakes and controller only. I probably have some things like that from the charity bundles... I used to use hades since I knew it inside-out it wasn't stressful, but I've had enough of that one Are you done with vampire survivors because you're tired of the gameplay or because you've just done everything in vampire survivors? There's another game that came out called Nomad Survival that I've seen some people recommend that is a bit more in depth.
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sadtrombone.wav https://twitter.com/bethesda/status/1524721132720566272
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I hadn't even heard of Redfall before :v
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repiv posted:sadtrombone.wav See this is why it's good to not really show off your game until it's definitely coming out. I'd be bothered by this a lot more if they had started the marketing hype train months and months ago. And yea wtf is Redfall? ESO expansion?
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Redfall was that Arkane co-op vampire shooter thing they showed like one pre-rendered video for at E3
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Dr Kool-AIDS posted:Volume what now? try a different style of headphones, you're probably using something like a smothering cup as opposed to something lighter like on ear or something that lets more bleed out/in
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Yeah Redfall is Arkane’s vampire Borderlands-ish game. No real surprise that anything is getting delayed in 2022.
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Sab669 posted:And yea wtf is Redfall? ESO expansion? It would be nice to get a Redguard expansion but this year is Bretons over in High Isle
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Sab669 posted:Dang I didn't realize Arkane had anything else in the pipeline other than Deathloop I sincerely hope they do, because Deathloop already looped itself into the bin. An early death. If you know what I mean. It's no bueno and its various flaws did not make it the classic it could have been. Also, enough about treadmills: Games > Steam Thread: Headphones, it's like VR for your ears Saoshyant fucked around with this message at 14:17 on May 12, 2022 |
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Saoshyant posted:Also, enough about treadmills: 
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Never forget that Todd jinxed it like an rear end in an interview with The Washington Post last June.quote:Despite the challenges Bethesda has faced — primarily the pandemic, which has delayed numerous highly-anticipated games over the past 15 months — Howard firmly believes “Starfield” will meet its just-announced release date of November 11, 2022.
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Fun Times! posted:Never forget that Todd jinxed it like an rear end in an interview with The Washington Post last June. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Y2CsfzaOs (edit: fixed wrong vid, loving Youtube reposts) Saoshyant fucked around with this message at 14:51 on May 12, 2022 |
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