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Ah yes, the extremely non-jank Creation Engine...
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For as jank as the Creation Engine is, it should tell you something that I’m comparing Daggerfall to it unfavorably. It’s jank in only the way early-mid 90s PCRPGs can be. In Skyrim if you swing your weapon you’ll generally hit something. Daggerfall is quite happy to let you miss for an hour straight because you didn’t roll right. It’s still worth checking out, but just be aware that it’s a product of the time when game controls only made sense to the mind of the person who programmed them and nobody else.
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Jun 15, 2022 23:27
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DoubleNegative posted:For as jank as the Creation Engine is, it should tell you something that I’m comparing Daggerfall to it unfavorably. It’s jank in only the way early-mid 90s PCRPGs can be. And that assumes you don't clip into your opponent while fighting them and end up stuck. Or through the floor and into the void. Or a Quest Item got spawned out of bounds.
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Jun 16, 2022 02:15
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JazzFlight posted:Also Seven Sirens doesn't have Virt's music to my knowledge. I think the GOG daggerfall unity has some extra mods added as well.
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Jun 16, 2022 02:37
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Seven Sirens' big update makes it a lot better, about on par with Half Genie Hero imho, sans virt music of course.Zereth posted:I think the GOG daggerfall unity has some extra mods added as well. Yeah quite a few, there's a list at the bottom of the page. It's a nice big getting started package that's good to go out of the box.
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Jun 16, 2022 03:03
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kirbysuperstar posted:Seven Sirens' big update makes it a lot better, about on par with Half Genie Hero imho, sans virt music of course.
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Jun 16, 2022 04:14
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Since we talk about the Twitch/Amazon stuff here: Amazon Prime will throw 30+ freebies at people from June 21 to July 13, as part of Prime Day and the lead-up thereto. Here's the first 29 they announced: GRID Legends Need for Speed Heat Star Wars Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy Star Wars Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast Star Wars Republic Commando 10 Second Ninja X 8Doors: Arum’s Afterlife Adventure Addling Adventures Bang Bang Racing Clouds & Sheep 2 Death Squared Fatal Fury Special Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams Gone Viral HUE Manual Samuel Metal Slug 2 Metal Unit Pumped BMX Pro Puzzle of the Year - 10 Pack Rain World Road Trip - 3 Pack Samurai Shodown II Serial Cleaner The Crow’s Eye The Darkside Detective The King of Fighters 2000 The King of Fighters 2002 The Metronomicon: Slay the Dance Floor
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Jun 16, 2022 16:24
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rain world is probably the most interesting one of that package, although 8doors, serial cleaner, 10 second ninja x, darkside detective, and hue are also solid
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Jun 16, 2022 16:30
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Republic Commando is the poo poo.
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Jun 16, 2022 16:40
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Supraland is up on EGS next week is the game of thrones board game, and car mechanic simulator 2018 
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Jun 16, 2022 17:48
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CMS 2018 is a lot of fun, but lmao. It has so loving much DLC and is end of life in favor of the 2021 version. Which itself has been out for 10 months already.
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Jun 16, 2022 18:08
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Fuzz posted:Republic Commando is the poo poo. One the best paced and tight military shooter ever made. Really deserved a sequel, but maybe or was lightning in a bottle
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Jun 16, 2022 19:25
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Fuzz posted:Republic Commando is the poo poo. Republic Commando is indeed the poo poo. I have the Xbox and PC releases, played both to death. It has a couple of uneven spots of difficulty, mostly in the holdout sections, but it is a surprisingly competent squad tactics fps from Star Wars of all thing. Great soundtrack and surprisingly atmospheric in some levels. I still remember the first time I got to the abandoned ship section. Very spooky and atmospheric. I also really enjoyed how they tried to change up some of the more goofy alien designs in favour of more threatening ones. Oh, and I love the modular weapon system. It's so minor, but so drat cool to see your gun change utility by adding or removing bits. Also has one of the best sidearms in gaming. My brother and I used to do sidearm and melee only runs on the highest difficulty for fun. Zushio fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Jun 16, 2022 |
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Jun 16, 2022 22:22
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Zushio posted:Republic Commando is indeed the poo poo. I never really noticed it before, but it does look good and I have it on GOG. I'm going to give it a try but, don't worry, I paid money for it.
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Jun 16, 2022 22:30
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repiv posted:Supraland is up on EGS I know it's unlikely considering the thread I'm in, but just in case: don't play Supraland. It sucks. For the first few hours, it's merely a flat, uninspired game that works well enough (aside from the janky first-person platforming). Then you get to the point where you need to solve a puzzle using a mechanic you haven't needed for several hours, and rather than finding some clever game-design way to remind you that the mechanic exists (because they're well aware that most people have forgotten it by this point), they let you stumble around for several minutes and then mock you for forgetting.
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Jun 16, 2022 22:58
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i really enjoyed supraland and i think people should play it, it's a really fun metroidvania-style first person puzzle game and i've been waiting for the dlc-sequel to go on a good sale for a while
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Jun 16, 2022 22:59
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I may not play it but I definitely now own it
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Jun 16, 2022 23:40
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I got it to make sure I never have to play it again. I played it somehow, maybe it was on gamepass or something, and it was garbage.
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Jun 16, 2022 23:43
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flatluigi posted:i really enjoyed supraland and i think people should play it, it's a really fun metroidvania-style first person puzzle game and i've been waiting for the dlc-sequel to go on a good sale for a while I ended up buying it when the "lockdown" started in the US. I enjoyed it but there were definitely some issues with it. For free I'd say give it a shot.
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Jun 16, 2022 23:47
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Zushio posted:it is a surprisingly competent squad tactics fps from Star Wars of all thing. It's so sad that we live in a generation where this is posted in all seriousness, when there was an era when practically every Star Wars game, even Rebellion, was drat good if not excellent. gently caress you, EA. gently caress you.
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Jun 17, 2022 00:03
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flatluigi posted:i really enjoyed supraland and i think people should play it, it's a really fun metroidvania-style first person puzzle game and i've been waiting for the dlc-sequel to go on a good sale for a while there wasn't a shop or any signs of a future shop in the place selling the chest finder when I went through there the first time!!!
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Jun 17, 2022 00:39
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Fuzz posted:It's so sad that we live in a generation where this is posted in all seriousness, when there was an era when practically every Star Wars game, even Rebellion, was drat good if not excellent. There's always been a solid foundation of dogshit Star Wars shovelware, it's just that we've blissfully forgotten a lot of the older ones. Just read through the complete list. E: Yoda Stories, Masters of Teras Kasi, and the terrible Phantom Menace game all released within a year of Rebellion, lol. Stickman fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Jun 17, 2022 |
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Jun 17, 2022 00:46
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I loved Supraland. It's primarily a puzzler, but with a Metroidvania world and some combat thrown in. It all felt really well designed to me; there was only one spot where I had to look up what to do. It also has a ton of secrets, even in areas you wouldn't expect to find anything in.
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Jun 17, 2022 00:51
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Stickman posted:There's always been a solid foundation of dogshit Star Wars shovelware, it's just that we've blissfully forgotten a lot of the older ones. Just read through the complete list. Yeah, I'd swear I remember when Rogue Squadron came out, the reviews I read were relieved it was a good Star Wars game.
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Jun 17, 2022 00:54
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I had Supraland wishlisted for a while, eventually bought it on sale, then refunded it after an hour. For free, though, I will definitely pick it up and maybe even play it 
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Fuzz posted:It's so sad that we live in a generation where this is posted in all seriousness, when there was an era when practically every Star Wars game, even Rebellion, was drat good if not excellent. This has never been true lmao
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Jun 17, 2022 01:06
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Manky posted:Yeah, I'd swear I remember when Rogue Squadron came out, the reviews I read were relieved it was a good Star Wars game. I like Empire at War, and Jedi Outcast/Academy. I don't have anything futher to add.
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Jun 17, 2022 02:33
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Stickman posted:and the terrible Phantom Menace game all released within a year of Rebellion, lol. I liked that game! The talky puzzle levels where you had to barter your way through things were neat.
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Jun 17, 2022 09:18
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kirbysuperstar posted:This has never been true lmao Yeah there's definitely been good SW games, but it's never been all hits all the time. Hell for every Rogue Squadron or Jedi Outcast there's probably a Jedi Starfighter or whatever Outcast > Academy, that's the truth
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Jun 17, 2022 09:25
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THE BAR posted:I liked that game! The talky puzzle levels where you had to barter your way through things were neat. To this day, I still remember "Yousa gonna get pasted, outlander!" And the Tatooine level was Qui-Gon's big fetch quest day and it was awesome.
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Jun 17, 2022 09:29
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Who can forget Star Wars Pit Driods (1999), the Lemmings clone? I certainly can't.
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Jun 17, 2022 09:33
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Serperoth posted:Yeah there's definitely been good SW games, but it's never been all hits all the time. Hell for every Rogue Squadron or Jedi Outcast there's probably a Jedi Starfighter or whatever Jedi Outcast has some wonderful highs and some deep lows*. Jedi Academy is all-round in the middle, which means I'd have more fun replaying it. *not starting with a saber or force powers, the turret sequence in the mine/prison where the people you need to protect die way too quickly on the hardest difficulty, a whole lot of things in the Nar Shaddaa levels, having to escort a small droid in Bespin that is way too eager to drive through tripwire explosives
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Jedi Outcast was one of the last FPS where level designers thought figuring out where to go next should be a puzzle. I distinctly remember being totally stuck for an hour at least twice. I've played some other games that did something like that, like Unreal, and they were never this bad.
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Jun 17, 2022 11:26
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Yeah yeah sure whatever you're missing the point, key feature of the game, puttinhg it above the competition in a very objective, impersonal sense I played it as a kid and when I tried Academy it wouldn't run properly I should play that whole series, all joke aside. Might have them on gog or Steam or something.
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There was a Jedi Outcast custom map that was an arena battle where you had full force powers and all stances and had to fight successive waves of enemy force users starting with a single yellow dark Jedi and culminating with the end boss, which had smack my bitch up as background music for some reason, and playing it with g_saberrealisticcomcat=1 was 99% of the reason I'd install it at any given instance.
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Jun 17, 2022 12:03
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repiv posted:car mechanic simulator 2018
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Jun 17, 2022 12:23
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Stickman posted:Yoda Stories This was one of the first games I got with my own hard earned cash and it was awesome albeit critically short. There was far worse shovelware at the time.
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Breetai posted:There was a Jedi Outcast custom map that was an arena battle where you had full force powers and all stances and had to fight successive waves of enemy force users starting with a single yellow dark Jedi and culminating with the end boss, which had smack my bitch up as background music for some reason, and playing it with g_saberrealisticcomcat=1 was 99% of the reason I'd install it at any given instance. 
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Jun 17, 2022 12:57
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Stickman posted:E: Yoda Stories
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ilitarist posted:Jedi Outcast was one of the last FPS where level designers thought figuring out where to go next should be a puzzle. I distinctly remember being totally stuck for an hour at least twice. I've played some other games that did something like that, like Unreal, and they were never this bad. I think that the Thief games, at least the first one, were also in that camp.
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