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dang, i had a copy of whatever game that was in the second picture when i was a kid, never figured out how to play it though
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Fantasy Empires  also comes from that very specific era of dos games that have my favorite glowing pixel animation of all time
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Is there anything similar to the old Romance of the Three Kingdoms games which a) isn't sixty bucks on sale (thanks, Tecmo Koei), and b) focuses on strategy over combat/army stuff? I've heard a lot of people recommend Paradox games as a replacement, and I do love their schtick, but EU/CK/Imperator just doesn't scratch the same itch for me.
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Serephina posted:Honest question: Why have AO games visible at all? Which games have you played and would recommend fell under that category, which aren't just porn? When the option was first presented Steam gave me a bunch of examples, and Witcher3 was 'Mature' instead of AO, and that game has plenty of violence, naked ladies, and (gasp!) sex. Maybe it's to deal with people mis-tagging games. There have been several times when I see a game I will like, so I will search for it on steam and it showed up as hidden from discovery because someone tagged it as Anime.
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fit em all up in there posted:Anyone here play Wildermyth ? How is it ? It's one of those games you have to play at a fairly high difficulty and for awhile to get the most out of what it's doing. If nobody ever dies and you don't go pretty deep into multiple campaigns you'll only get a taste rather than the full dynamic narrative experience.
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Dec 28, 2022 01:10
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fit em all up in there posted:Anyone here play Wildermyth ? How is it ? It's really quite lovely. The combat is very simple turn-based, grid-based stuff but there's some fun to be had with character abilities and the magic system. The main draw is how the stories unfold. Your characters undergo experiences that change them, shift in their relationships to each other and grow old as you play. Eventually their kids might join the adventuring party. If it sounds even slightly fun to you, I'd say give it a try. You'll know within the 2 hours whether you like the writing style or not. e: above poster is right - play on a difficulty that means you lose people sometimes.
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Squiggly Beast posted:(*: In Archolos, any permanent bonus stats/lp are stored separately and added after all calculations. So you can chug permanent stat/skill potions and eat foodstuffs that give bonuses without having to worry about permanently loving up your character. Still have to focus your build as costs do scale up rapidly, but that single change removes stupid logistical headaches like having to sit on huge piles of apples, dark mushrooms etc. until lategame to avoid wasting most of their bonus value.) Ooh that's extremely cool to know, I'm only a few hours in so far and I figured I had to hoard everything like usual. I've been pretty impressed so far, I think anyone who's a fan of G1 and 2 is gonna have fun.
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Omi no Kami posted:Is there anything similar to the old Romance of the Three Kingdoms games which a) isn't sixty bucks on sale (thanks, Tecmo Koei), and b) focuses on strategy over combat/army stuff? I've heard a lot of people recommend Paradox games as a replacement, and I do love their schtick, but EU/CK/Imperator just doesn't scratch the same itch for me. Three Kingdoms: The Last Warlord is probably what you want. I found it a bit boring but then I also thought the same about ROTK so YMMV; and it's only like 3 dollars on sale right now. e: The top two English reviews: One Guy - Positive posted:Thanks to koei ruining the romance of the three kingdom series, this is the next best thing. Another Guy - Negative posted:Just a game of endless lists screens. Have "fun" assigning and reassigning tasks while looking through endless number and character lists and menus within menus. Don't know why anyone would wanna play such a convoluted game when there's much more straight forward strategy games. I think those two just about say it all really. It's basically a native Chinese ripoff of the older ROTK games, with some minor jank and a few extra features. Comes with somewhat rough but official English localisation. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 03:33 on Dec 28, 2022 |
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victrix posted:there's a fan mod somewhere that nerfs dialogue and buffs guns and drops, I can't remember the name offhand though I didn't notice that they had SO MUCH DLC for the game though.
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Finished burning through Titan Quest on Normal. I think somebody was complaining recently about Ragnarok being a decent expansion but really loving with the pacing and I'd say that even applies to Immortal Throne to some degree too. Also Ragnarok's designers had no clue what they were doing w/r/t not putting things in front of the camera, goddamn. I entertained the notion of continuing through on Epic but ehhhh. Game is just not that fun or interesting enough to justify another playthrough, let alone two more. Probably doesn't help that I picked an arguably boring build (which somehow always seems to happen) and I kinda messed up my stat assignment too. But I dunno, never really liked the whole Diablo "now do it again, but harder, we promise to drop mildly better gear this time" loop stuff. I think I'm a bit more equipped to grok Grim Dawn now, so that's nice. But I don't think I actually want to jump right into that right away either. Need a big ole break from loot games. Edit: Also I guess this explains why there's a ton of overlapping/combined more mobs, more XP, better loot, more loot, better crafting, etc. etc. mods. John Murdoch fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Dec 28, 2022 |
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I'm loving Cruelty Squad except the enemy that makes your FOV continually go in and out while the camera swirls around makes me feel like poo poo every time it happens and now I have a headache and just feel slightly dizzy. I've never had anything do that to me. I don't think I can keep playing it because of it.
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John Murdoch posted:Finished burning through Titan Quest on Normal. I think somebody was complaining recently about Ragnarok being a decent expansion but really loving with the pacing and I'd say that even applies to Immortal Throne to some degree too. Also Ragnarok's designers had no clue what they were doing w/r/t not putting things in front of the camera, goddamn. I really want to like Titan Quest and I have played through it probably four times since it came out, the environment and areas and enemies are all phenomenal, but yeah - every single build in the game is incredibly un-fun, they are all so ridiculously boring and most of them rely on just using a skill that modifies the basic attack. Like I don't know if it's still this way but Ternion Staff used to be the #1 most powerful build in the game by an enormous margin and all it does is make your basic attack with a staff shoot multiple projectiles. The pacing is glacial and you spend the entire time basic attacking enemies with a slight tweak to your basic attack. Unfortunately Grim Dawn feels the same to me. I've attempted to play through it a few times but all the builds and skills just feel so boring, tiny, and wimpy. The loot is extremely hard to parse and has a hugely inflated list of possible mods, most of which are not even remotely useful for your build - there are literally like 9 different "elemental" damage types and each one has its own resistances and damage modifiers and you will want at most one of those nine in your build. But even in later difficulties with completed builds it feels like you're running around playing early-game Diablo, just like in TQ  For some reason I still occasionally get the itch go go try it again but I'm always disappointed. deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Dec 28, 2022 |
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Omi no Kami posted:Is there anything similar to the old Romance of the Three Kingdoms games which a) isn't sixty bucks on sale (thanks, Tecmo Koei), and b) focuses on strategy over combat/army stuff? I've heard a lot of people recommend Paradox games as a replacement, and I do love their schtick, but EU/CK/Imperator just doesn't scratch the same itch for me. Total War: 3 Kingdoms has a fantastic campaign layer, and you can auto resolve the actual battles. In terms of similar gameplay to RotK the series, you might try Chaos Galaxy 2 or whatever the best recent Gundam One Year War game is
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deep dish peat moss posted:I really want to like Titan Quest and I have played through it probably four times since it came out, the environment and areas and enemies are all phenomenal, but yeah - every single build in the game is incredibly un-fun, they are all so ridiculously boring and most of them rely on just using a skill that modifies the basic attack. Like I don't know if it's still this way but Ternion Staff used to be the #1 most powerful build in the game by an enormous margin and all it does is make your basic attack with a staff shoot multiple projectiles. The pacing is glacial and you spend the entire time basic attacking enemies with a slight tweak to your basic attack. I played through Titan Quest + Immortal Throne, Atlantis, and Ragnarok lately and agree even my powerful build (nerfed as it was) felt slow and unfun. I never got the sense that it would turn into something more interesting as I kept playing so I put the game on hold after finishing the first difficulty.
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deep dish peat moss posted:I really want to like Titan Quest and I have played through it probably four times since it came out, the environment and areas and enemies are all phenomenal, but yeah - every single build in the game is incredibly un-fun, they are all so ridiculously boring and most of them rely on just using a skill that modifies the basic attack. Like I don't know if it's still this way but Ternion Staff used to be the #1 most powerful build in the game by an enormous margin and all it does is make your basic attack with a staff shoot multiple projectiles. The pacing is glacial and you spend the entire time basic attacking enemies with a slight tweak to your basic attack. Yeah it's also the reason I bounced off Grim Dawn to begin with. Then it turned out I was doing it "wrong" and instead of relying on an auto-attack modifier I should've grabbed a spammable active skill that basically accomplishes the same thing and use that for the entire span of the game instead... Also the map and art design in GD is also just kinda...not anywhere near as good as TQ's. Tellingly, literally any time you see a streamer or Youtuber or whoever play Grim Dawn they will universally have a mod installed that color codes loot properly so you actually have a chance in hell of parsing it all. Most menus have a search bar so you can filter for specific keywords on items and while it's well implemented, it also kinda speaks to a problem... John Murdoch fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Dec 28, 2022 |
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I really like Grim Dawn. I do wish it was easier to navigate and that the artstyle was better.
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Grim Dawn also has a bit of a problem with how it tells the game's story and the pacing in general - I've never played an ARPG where I was surprised that the boss I just killed was the final boss of the game, but the base game, Ashes of Malmouth, and Forgotten Gods expansions all had endings that felt that way. I'd gotten an hour or so into Ashes of Malmouth before even realizing I was in the expansion because the climax of the base game fizzled and the new areas looked the same as the old ones. Part of that is that there's just not a lot of buildup or fanfare, but the bigger thing for me was that by the time I reached those bosses I felt like I'd only just scratched the surface of the game. I'm sure it's intended to move into elite/ultimate but I don't think it does as good of a job as other similar games at incentivizing loop 2+. Fart of Presto posted:I absolutely love Ubisoft-style open world collectathons, and the ones already mention are all good.
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Is Mechwarrior 5 worth it at all? I haven't heard good things but that was mostly at launch.
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Tiny Timbs posted:I played through Titan Quest + Immortal Throne, Atlantis, and Ragnarok lately and agree even my powerful build (nerfed as it was) felt slow and unfun. I never got the sense that it would turn into something more interesting as I kept playing so I put the game on hold after finishing the first difficulty. I enjoyed my time with it but my Soothsayer pet build felt finished around midgame, the moment I had one point in every skill I wanted, as opposed to endgame with some better weapons and gear and upgrades. The bare minimum is all it wants for a lot Unlucky7 posted:Is Mechwarrior 5 worth it at all? I haven't heard good things but that was mostly at launch. It wasn't at launch but with all the DLCs it's a pretty good game now. It still has some procgen jank though. Definitely way better coop though - the AI is braindead at best
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Azran posted:Man, the first boss in River City Girls 2 is kicking my rear end something fierce which is amusing since I've played a shitton of Streets of Rage 4. From what I can gather the block button is very, very weak in this game. Get more stat-boosts by eating food at places around town, also stock up on healing items in your inventory Everytime there's a new store it's like 1-2 levels worth of stats right off the bat.
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RBA Starblade posted:I enjoyed my time with it but my Soothsayer pet build felt finished around midgame, the moment I had one point in every skill I wanted, as opposed to endgame with some better weapons and gear and upgrades. The bare minimum is all it wants for a lot You're tempting me to give PGI another chance and I'm not sure how I feel about that
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RBA Starblade posted:I enjoyed my time with it but my Soothsayer pet build felt finished around midgame, the moment I had one point in every skill I wanted, as opposed to endgame with some better weapons and gear and upgrades. The bare minimum is all it wants for a lot I will be real, having to buy all the DLCs does not sound tempting. On the other hand I sorta want to play River City Girls 2. I liked the first one well enough, and I already know that it is probably not nearly as good a brawler as Streets of Rage 4 (Play Streets of Rage 4, ya'll), though the price feels a bit steep. That said, I have spent more on worse.
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Runa posted:Get more stat-boosts by eating food at places around town, also stock up on healing items in your inventory You can carry food???? Lol thank you
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Streets of Rage 4 is so good it ruined the rest of the genre for me.
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Unlucky7 posted:I will be real, having to buy all the DLCs does not sound tempting. It's on Game Pass too if you have it, but without the DLC. The base combat is identical to MWO too afaik (I haven't played it)
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Haha, I didn't realize that fisting the WAU sphincters in SOMA heals you. Once I realized what that was, I just stopped doing it; I thought the glitches and color effects I saw throughout the game were part of the thematic style. But no, it just indicates I'm at low health. Played the entire game that way.
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Fuligin posted:Total War: 3 Kingdoms has a fantastic campaign layer, and you can auto resolve the actual battles. Thanks for putting Chaos Galaxy on my radar, that's a new one for me! I'll probably end up grabbing TW: 3 Kingdoms eventually, but since I just started working through Immortal Empires I don't want to try dual-wielding total wars. But it's absolutely the one I keep looking at every time I end up thinking about RTK.
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Jack Trades posted:Streets of Rage 4 is so good it ruined the rest of the genre for me.
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Decided to take a peek at my wishlist for upcoming releases next year Wild Hearts - Feb. 16th Like a Dragon: Ishin - Feb 21st COH 3 - Feb 23rd Wo Long - March 3rd Star Wars Jedi: Survivor - March 16th Odds are that some of those are gonna be bad and not worth picking up, but drat thats a lot of new game in a 1 month period. Also Everspace 2's 1.0 release is "Early 2023" but I already bought that.
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:Decided to take a peek at my wishlist for upcoming releases next year This hasn't been announced, but based on the other games with a 6 or 12 month EGS exclusivity period, I'm betting stranger of paradise will have a complete edition release on steam in march.
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I'll pick up that Dead Space remake. That's coming end of January I think.
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Was this a prototype game or something? How can it have a release date that predates Steam? https://store.steampowered.com/app/60/Ricochet/
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pentyne posted:Was this a prototype game or something? How can it have a release date that predates Steam? Sometimes games have their original release date listed, not when they were first put on steam. See also: https://store.steampowered.com/app/211600/Thief_Gold/
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pentyne posted:Was this a prototype game or something? How can it have a release date that predates Steam? E: I forget if Ricochet was like Counter-Strike/Day of Defeat (HO mods turned commercial) or just a weird Valve experiment thing with the HL engine.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/529890/Maniac_Mansion/
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Omi no Kami posted:Is there anything similar to the old Romance of the Three Kingdoms games which a) isn't sixty bucks on sale (thanks, Tecmo Koei), and b) focuses on strategy over combat/army stuff? Sengoku Rance (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1443430/Rogue/ I'm sure there is something older on steam.
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