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Ciaphas posted:Dome Keeper (formerly Dome Romantik) is out today. Any strong goon opinions one way or the other? Enjoyed the demo, not sure the full game would hold my attention for long. Like the post above says, I got the feeling that even with multiple types of dome to mix up combat, runs would end up playing out in mostly the same way because you absolutely need stuff like carry weight/speed/digging no matter what. Wishlisted it anyway, will probably grab it if it goes on sale for ~$10 or so.
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Discovered Grounded is on gamepass. So far I'm not feeling good about the game - even on normal difficulty I feel like absolute paper - everything that's actually aggressive kills me in two or three hits, and I have no clue what to do after the oak tree lab. The quest told me to check out the hedge lab, when I finally got there the door was...just closed. And I can't get any of the cool toys, armor or weapons since those require parts from the very enemies who keep wiping the floor with me.
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Sep 28, 2022 00:54
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deep dish peat moss posted:
this week: Jack Move: unskippable splash screens, characters talking like "Zow! That's so fortran!" Eastward: completed the cooking tutorial, watched the cute cooking cutscene, saw a recipe book with thirty-five entries and said "nope" Beacon Pines: text-heavy game with no options for text speed or auto advance Prodeus: the initial zombieman enemies are boring as gently caress
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Sep 28, 2022 00:55
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but it's a lot better than the old pre-refund way of just buying a bunch of neat-looking games and then not playing them for reasons that are dumb & petty
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that's all well and good as long as you don't sink later on into the typical goon behavior of making GBS threads on other people's enjoyment of a game because you didn't like the 5 minutes you played i want to play jack move but i'm focusing on other games at payday first. i want to play the mouse game! and then next payday i'll have golden idol cases to solve! beacon pines i really liked, i didn't think it needed auto-advance because picking a spot in the flowchart just takes you right to the decision, and each decision plays out with entirely new dialog/story except for the very very first choice. as for text speed i could just hit a button to bring the end of a sentence up early so that was no big deal to me, although i was annoyed that non-portrait NPC dialog could be skipped on a button press before it all shows on screen. i'm never a fan when games do that
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Sep 28, 2022 01:01
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you should never have to click a button six times to hear/read one single page of a book, this is Immoral
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Sep 28, 2022 01:15
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K8.0 posted:F2P and the double-hell of quadruple teams and a virtual guarantee of SBMM? Nope. gently caress that trash. u dont want matchmaking? why lol Ciaphas posted:Dome Keeper (formerly Dome Romantik) is out today. Any strong goon opinions one way or the other? demo was really good deep dish peat moss posted:I bought it and refunded it after an hour - it's a neat concept but it has the same problem I immediately remembered the demo having: early resources are very scarce and combat is very finely tuned, if you don't buy your upgrades in a specific order (alternating between digging upgrades and combat upgrades on specific waves) then you fall behind the curve and can't win. After a bunch of failed starts where I realized I was unable to progress because I needed to buy a digspeed upgrade last wave when I bought a gun damage upgrade instead, or whatever, I just gave up. demo wasnt like that at all. didnt feel like there was a required order.
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Sep 28, 2022 01:20
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Hwurmp posted:this week: 
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Sep 28, 2022 01:20
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Cookbook with 35 entries? Just sold a copy
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Sep 28, 2022 01:21
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Hwurmp posted:
absolutely insane
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Sep 28, 2022 01:22
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Game with food should just simplify everything into “food” and “not food”.
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Sep 28, 2022 01:22
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i think prodeus is a better doom than doom 2016, that's just my opinion tho
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Sep 28, 2022 01:27
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I liked the style of Dome Keeper and the running around mining stuff seemed cool but thought the dome defense gameplay itself looked pretty blah. I have not played it and am basing this on watching someone stream it for like 20 minutes earlier today so maybe it's one of those things you have to play.
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Sep 28, 2022 01:29
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Is 35 recipes supposed to be too many or too few I don't know anything anymore
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Sep 28, 2022 01:32
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That list reads like you either need more stimulants or less stimulants. I can't tell which though.
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Sep 28, 2022 01:45
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The 7th Guest posted:i think prodeus is a better doom than doom 2016, that's just my opinion tho It's a more classic Doom than 2016, for sure, though whether that ends up being a good or a bad thing is I think largely down to personal taste. 2016 managed to break away from the industry-standard CoD tropes while still modernizing the old formula a bit, but Prodeus is entirely content playing itself like a gussied-up Doom 2 campaign/weapon pack. And that, if anything, is its biggest weakness; it's honestly up against some stiff competition in the form of various free modpacks because people have done some absolutely bonkers poo poo with GZDoom in the last decade or so.
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Sep 28, 2022 01:56
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idk i played that gzdoom game demo, selaco or whatever, and it doesnt feel even half as smooth and fluid as prodeus.
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Sep 28, 2022 02:27
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quitie frankly and i do not say this lightly, prodeus has possibly the best fps game feel ive ever experienced outside of quake 3
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Sep 28, 2022 02:29
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Prodeus is a lot of fun but I've got to the part where Ultra Hard becomes Nearly Impossible in certain places. In the first half of the game I was doing all the levels with zero deaths but I'd say I'm averaging 1-2 at this point (with one particular sudden cramped arena battle costing me 4 deaths due to the respawn point being right in the middle of the chaos). I do like the respawn mechanic though. It lets me get through the maps without hitting any hard roadblocks but also gives me a chance to go back to each map and perfect it as a continual run. I'd like to do a deathless Ultra Hard 100% run of every level once I've finished the game.
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Sep 28, 2022 02:32
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MonkeyforaHead posted:It's a more classic Doom than 2016, for sure, though whether that ends up being a good or a bad thing is I think largely down to personal taste. 2016 managed to break away from the industry-standard CoD tropes while still modernizing the old formula a bit, but Prodeus is entirely content playing itself like a gussied-up Doom 2 campaign/weapon pack. And that, if anything, is its biggest weakness; it's honestly up against some stiff competition in the form of various free modpacks because people have done some absolutely bonkers poo poo with GZDoom in the last decade or so. I played it for a bit when it was EA a few years ago. I absolutely loathed the reloading; was relieved when they seemed to back off a bit on it with the rocklauncher and lightning spammer, then they dove back in with the grenade launcher being junk. It also took forever to get some fun fights to show up. Setting aside its gfx/aesthetic, why would I play it over DOOM wads? As a comparison, when I played the Selaco I was blown away. Sure, the gameplay is FEAR instead of DOOM (So I've been told, I've not played it), but it's really doing something interesting and new to me and the reloading was fun considering the gameplay loop. So uh, would you recommend it to a grumpy grognard?
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Sep 28, 2022 02:37
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more like blowdeus
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i never even heard of this game but it looks cool
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Sep 28, 2022 02:51
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Thanks to whoever suggested Brotato, best $5 I've spent in a minute
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Sep 28, 2022 02:54
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Eason the Fifth posted:Thanks to whoever suggested Brotato, best $5 I've spent in a minute woo $0.50 off if you buy the bundle and already have 20 minutes till dawn.
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Stux posted:idk i played that gzdoom game demo, selaco or whatever, and it doesnt feel even half as smooth and fluid as prodeus. Dude I had the two completely mixed up in my head and didn't check out Prodeus because I didn't like the Selaco demo and thought they were the same game 
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Sep 28, 2022 03:30
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Eason the Fifth posted:Thanks to whoever suggested Brotato, best $5 I've spent in a minute Yeah I loved the demo and this is just a lot more of it. Some of the new weapons and the whole engineering class are great.
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funkmeister posted:woo $0.50 off if you buy the bundle and already have 20 minutes till dawn. It's basically the same gameplay as 20MTD but I think it's more charming and I like the Risk-of-Rain style way your potato wears the gear. Gave one of my potatoes 5 pistols and it was John Wick, awesome
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Sep 28, 2022 03:30
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goferchan posted:Dude I had the two completely mixed up in my head and didn't check out Prodeus because I didn't like the Selaco demo and thought they were the same game lol they do ahve a similar aesthetic of like, v fancy doom with more sci fi, and with gun models that are similar in style. an understandable mix up
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Stux posted:idk i played that gzdoom game demo, selaco or whatever, and it doesnt feel even half as smooth and fluid as prodeus. That's true but I liked selaco too Don't sleep on the user maps in Prodeus btw, the high rated ones have all been very solid and its actually been fun not having a fully kitted out inventory after coming off the campaign.
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Sep 28, 2022 04:02
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selaco is really impressive for what its doing in the engine but i think its just not for me, however thats because i have a chimp brain and i just want to skate around at 1000mph like a lunatic without stopping, rather than the gaem being bad
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Sep 28, 2022 04:08
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refunded super mario bros because the initial goomba enemies are boring as gently caress
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Stux posted:selaco is really impressive for what its doing in the engine but i think its just not for me, however thats because i have a chimp brain and i just want to skate around at 1000mph like a lunatic without stopping, rather than the gaem being bad Hell, I'll play them all. Well, really I'll play the good ones there are quite a bunch of also-rans being made now
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Refunded Tetris because the first block was a square and how can it possibly be fun to stack squares?
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Serephina posted:Setting aside its gfx/aesthetic, why would I play it over DOOM wads? But I like to see other people take a swing at the formula and I think Prodeus does a great job of it. And it seems like a great engine for the community to take off with, vs D16's snapmap
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Moonscars is absolute dope. I love it. If you recognized Blasphemous for the work of genius it was, you will like this one. Fantastic action, fantastic art, an eerie and vague storyline. It's good as heck https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256876584/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1647528850
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ShadowMar posted:refunded super mario bros because the initial goomba enemies are boring as gently caress What the fu cc k is that title font, what kind of sans serif nightmare is that I'm smashing the cart rn
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Serephina posted:I played it for a bit when it was EA a few years ago. I absolutely loathed the reloading; was relieved when they seemed to back off a bit on it with the rocklauncher and lightning spammer, then they dove back in with the grenade launcher being junk. It also took forever to get some fun fights to show up. Setting aside its gfx/aesthetic, why would I play it over DOOM wads? As a comparison, when I played the Selaco I was blown away. Sure, the gameplay is FEAR instead of DOOM (So I've been told, I've not played it), but it's really doing something interesting and new to me and the reloading was fun considering the gameplay loop. It sounds like you've already formed pretty solid arguments for why you probably wouldn't like it and if you were having that much better of a time with Selaco, might as well just wait for that. I liked Prodeus' early access but I was kind of worn out by the end of the first set of levels. Definitely didn't grab me as hard as I was hoping. I at least liked it better than Viscerafest, which just feels like it's fighting its own design at every turn. Doom-alike that demands hyperkinetic mobility and pinpoint precision shots from projectile weapons, while constantly squeezing you into cramped, boxy levels with enemies that exist exclusively as side-on sprites and distort pronouncedly when approached with any verticality. THESE THINGS DO NOT MESH
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MonkeyforaHead posted:It sounds like you've already formed pretty solid arguments for why you probably wouldn't like it and if you were having that much better of a time with Selaco, might as well just wait for that. I liked Prodeus' early access but I was kind of worn out by the end of the first set of levels. Definitely didn't grab me as hard as I was hoping. I at least liked it better than Viscerafest, which just feels like it's fighting its own design at every turn. Doom-alike that demands hyperkinetic mobility and pinpoint precision shots from projectile weapons, while constantly squeezing you into cramped, boxy levels with enemies that exist exclusively as side-on sprites and distort pronouncedly when approached with any verticality. THESE THINGS DO NOT MESH Prodeus let's you turn on aim assist to any degree you want and also all enemies are full on 3d models, not sprites. They do distort somewhat to simulate og doom feel though.
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iirc, the enemies in prodeus are straight up just 3D models with a shader applied to them to make them look like 2D billboard sprites but you can turn off the shader in the options menu if you really want to shaders are crazy as gently caress
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Stux posted:idk i played that gzdoom game demo, selaco or whatever, and it doesnt feel even half as smooth and fluid as prodeus.
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I fully expected to not like Rune Factory 4 based on the screenshots but I actually really dig it. Does it hold up until the end?
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