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Cowcaster posted:more than anything i'm shocked and amazed that ea's still got the mass effect 3 multiplayer servers spooled up which seems especially funny given ubisoft just announced they're retiring a bunch of them To be slightly fair to Ubi, even though I shouldn't be, it was only April that they shut down the master server that handled things like R6 Lockdown for PS2 and Gamecube, as well as R6 Vegas for PSP
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Hwurmp posted:A manager's Influence modifies the collection payout for their assigned area. A security specialist's Influence affects enemy encounter rate in their assigned area. They all cycle through their five modifiers after each collection.
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Mescal posted:I guess I misused the word. It is handcrafted with love! I meant joyless in terms of what it provokes in the audience, the emotional weight where it's depressing and feels pointless, how the landscapes are beautiful in the sense of being appropriate for giant prints on the walls of a cafe rather than a place that feels worth visiting. The emotional rhythm of the gameplay is this technique of forcing frustration followed by relief, the same way a comedy routine does, but comedy provides joy when you laugh. when you overcome your obstacles, HK gives you charms that are as exciting as a piece of armor in Grim Dawn. The character progression and how it opens up increasingly wild traversal in Ori 2 makes me feel delight! The emotions I feel playing these two games contrast pretty strongly. hmm yes I'm just not having any feelings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkVwuWH-woA Nope, nothing. I have no feelings here Listen, I get you didn't like it but you're declaring things are true that are absolutely subjective.
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kazil posted:It's funny this thread brought up Ori because I've been replaying it recently.
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Some reason for me, movement in HK never clicked, despite being a fan of metroidvania platformers. The jumps always felt odd and the sword always too short for the range of movement options. Not saying it's bad though, it's a wonderfully conceived world with a great art direction, but something about how the game handles always felt weird to me and I've never been able to put words to what exactly is the cause.
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Hollow Knight is like exhaustingly big, especially with all the DLC, some of which is hard as balls. And it charges you money to put down map pins. Aside from that, it's pretty close to perfect.
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HopperUK posted:hmm yes I'm just not having any feelings
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Kazzah posted:Hollow Knight is like exhaustingly big, especially with all the DLC, some of which is hard as balls. And it charges you money to put down map pins. Aside from that, it's pretty close to perfect. The Silksong release trailer came out right after I finished Hollow Knight and my first thought was "....there's more?".
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While I initially enjoy Hollow Knight, it’s way too drat long and I always get bored and have never gotten anywhere near the end. I never got bored with either Ori game and even completed them both, which is a very rare thing these days.
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Mescal posted:The character progression and how it opens up increasingly wild traversal in Ori 2 makes me feel delight! The emotions I feel playing these two games contrast pretty strongly. HopperUK posted:
ok yeah i'm talking about my subjective experience. who else's would it be? you can go ahead and tell me where i'm wrong in the more concrete examples if you want, but I'm sure this is getting tedious
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Rinkles posted:Cross posting: Wonder if there's a less stupid way to do it than clicking "Get it for Free" on each of the dozens of DLCs in Origin, and have the interface reload each time.
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thoughts on rune factory 5 for someone who hasn't played any of them? steam reviews say the PC port fixed all the performance problems.
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I had a good time with it. Both it and RF4 are on steam and they're pretty similiar in alot of ways. I think your average person might get turned off by the sorta janky combat. It's really not very polished at all. For me that wasn't enough of a detractor to stop. What eventually killed my interest is when I was in the post game and going for 100% completion. I had already done alot and I was working on gathering some of the rare resources to make all these high tier, end game weapons/armor when I realized some of them are like .01% drops and I'd need half a dozen of them to make everything. Just a loving ton of the late game items require insane amount of monster farming for rare drops to make and it was too much for me. Up until that point I thought it was p good. Maybe try RF4 first if it's cheaper, it's most of the same game.
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ShadowMar posted:really wish steam had a better way to distinguish between "this is an extremely alpha/beta build of a game" early access and "this is episode 1 of a multi-episode game and what is already in the game is fully polished" early access because ultrakill is the latter. Ocean Book posted:So you can install things that aren’t games on one of these?
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Agent355 posted:What eventually killed my interest is when I was in the post game and going for 100% completion. I had already done alot and I was working on gathering some of the rare resources to make all these high tier, end game weapons/armor when I realized some of them are like .01% drops and I'd need half a dozen of them to make everything. Just a loving ton of the late game items require insane amount of monster farming for rare drops to make and it was too much for me. My roommate was at that point and he used "happy rings" I think on his main character and buddies and used clovers and some rare can to forge his weapons and got the drop rates to increase by a lot. Apparently it's not as a bad as it seems at first but I haven't actually played the game myself 
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The 7th Guest posted:
lol thanks i realized too late i was in the wrong thread 😅
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hollow knight had one irredeemable mistake and that was having a lot of bosses above you/teleporting around and your attack not being diagonal whatsoever piece of poo poo
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Agent355 posted:I had a good time with it. Both it and RF4 are on steam and they're pretty similiar in alot of ways. ok. these days I'm pretty comfortable not 100%ing games so as long as they're good up to the credits I'm ok with that.
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juicefest posted:My roommate was at that point and he used "happy rings" I think on his main character and buddies and used clovers and some rare can to forge his weapons and got the drop rates to increase by a lot. Apparently it's not as a bad as it seems at first but I haven't actually played the game myself Yeah, there are some things you can do to increase drop rates but they stay pretty bad even with those things.
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Agent355 posted:Yeah, there are some things you can do to increase drop rates but they stay pretty bad even with those things. I just asked him about it and he said you can literally increase it over a hundred-fold if your main character and buddies all have the right gear, so that nothing has a rare drop rate.
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Gay Rat Wedding posted:ok. these days I'm pretty comfortable not 100%ing games so as long as they're good up to the credits I'm ok with that. It's especially annoying when the game is mostly easy with a single achievement that's absurdly difficult. Looking at you, Stardew Valley.
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i set limits. klonoa for example - getting the six thingamajigs in every stage? very reasonable. getting all 150 gems? oh no, no, no
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RF5 lets you be gay, so it's objectively better than RF4
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Oxxidation posted:i set limits. klonoa for example - getting the six thingamajigs in every stage? very reasonable. getting all 150 gems? oh no, no, no Also, when's Tomba?
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juicefest posted:I just asked him about it and he said you can literally increase it over a hundred-fold if your main character and buddies all have the right gear, so that nothing has a rare drop rate. Worth noting that the item that increases drop rates, rare can, is like a sub 1% fishing catch rate. So even going this route is going to involve quite alot of farming. It's a tough game to go for completion in, is all. kirbysuperstar posted:RF5 lets you be gay, so it's objectively better than RF4 But you can't date the dragon in either of them so they suck.
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The main problem with not going completionist in RF5 is that the main plot/events/dungeons dry up pretty fast. I was like, halfway through the first year and ran out of stuff to do besides grind friendship and such. I think having it on PC would have solved most of my issues with the game though, esp since you can just cheat after you get to the grinding only stage.
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Bad Seafood posted:How is the Klonoa port? adventures of lomax hd
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Agent355 posted:Worth noting that the item that increases drop rates, rare can, is like a sub 1% fishing catch rate. So even going this route is going to involve quite alot of farming. I watched him for a bit when he was trying to get his first rare can and this can also be mitigated. There's some specific pond where the fishing rate for it is significantly higher. I don't think anyone should bother 100%ing rpgs though, my roommate just happens to really get a lot of satisfaction out of this poo poo and I don't understand it.
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Gamerofthegame posted:hollow knight had one irredeemable mistake and that was having a lot of bosses above you/teleporting around and your attack not being diagonal whatsoever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eSwG6RYk-c
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also by all accounts the absolute worst recent collectathon platformer for people with completionist tendencies recently was Crash Bandicoot 4 which was fun if you played normally and literal hell if you tried to collect everything
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Bad Seafood posted:How is the Klonoa port? It's fine. It does a good enough job of recreating the gameplay of the original but I felt the new graphics took away a lot of the charm. Cutscenes in particular were very stylized and expressive in the PS1 version, in the new one everything is rendered in the same engine as the gameplay and just feels kind of flat and uninspired. The scene of the Moon Kingdom rising out of the ground in particular was a standout moment in the original and the remake doesn't do it justice at all. You go from this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge7ZKcuQ1fg to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvkvLQb_xIE&t=9115s Not to say that it's bad, but I think I'm always going to load up an emulator and play the original every time. Haven't played the second game yet, I might like it more since I never played it on the PS2 enough to have any real nostalgia or point of comparison.
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I would have slam purchased the Klonoa remaster if it wasn't charging full modern game price for a PS1 game and a PS2 game.
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HopperUK posted:Listen, I get you didn't like it but you're declaring things are true that are absolutely subjective. there are almost no useful things you can say in a video game review that aren't subjective, beyond really basic stuff like "it's buggy" or "the campaign is about 15 hours of gameplay" (or dumb graphics nerd stuff that you shouldn't care about like "it uses the new version 12.3 of nvidia's cutting edge ultra hd hair physics on the pet dog")
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so I made an SA-Mart thread selling a shitload of steam keys I've accrued over the years to help my mom who has gone through a ridiculous amount of poo poo in the hospital for a bit over a month. Any support would be appreciated. be warned, the list is loving huge, CTRL + F for anything you're looking for specifically, or just browse the entire drat list https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4007249 I'm not entirely sure what I should ask for game codes, half steam store price? less? I don't want to ask for too much, but also want to be able to get an appreciable amount to help cover mom's expenses, since the FIRST bill she's received so far right after getting out of the hospital was for $1700, so I think she's going to need quite a bit.
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Captain Invictus posted:so I made an SA-Mart thread selling a shitload of steam keys I've accrued over the years to help my mom who has gone through a ridiculous amount of poo poo in the hospital for a bit over a month. Any support would be appreciated. be warned, the list is loving huge, CTRL + F for anything you're looking for specifically, or just browse the entire drat list
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The Joe Man posted:On my sales, I usually do a flat 75%ish off whatever the full list price is on Steam but that's based off me personally never buying anything unless it's 75% off so I might be an outlier.
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I felt this.NoEyedSquareGuy posted:You go from this: Still might pick it up when it goes on sale though, after I've burned through some more of my backlog.
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