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drat Dirty Ape posted:So I've got Grounded and Vermintide 2 in my cart. Any thoughts on Grounded? Just watched some videos and it looks pretty entertaining. It's fantastic, one of the better survival games I've played tbh. If you can convince some friends to check it out as well it'll only improve the experience. Gets a little long in the tooth towards the back half but I really enjoyed my time with it. They've done some updates since I beat it that seems like it'll improve the experience too.
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drat Dirty Ape posted:So I've got Grounded and Vermintide 2 in my cart. Any thoughts on Grounded? Just watched some videos and it looks pretty entertaining. I initially thought it was very good but it eventually became an utter slog. it really thinks you’ll love its basic, boring combat against way too many bugs with about four times as much HP as they should have and respawn about four times as quickly as they should. maybe it’s better on easy difficulty, but on normal I was pretty shocked at how much of the game is just really floaty & bad combat against endlessly respawning sponges
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Vasler posted:Thanks! I'm not sure either of these were the games. They do look interesting and are on sale. Have you played either of them? If so, how are they? I've played both! Urbek looks more traditional as a city builder but it does some fun things where buildings change in proximity to other buildings. If you play, only follow the tutorial until you have the general idea and then turn it off. It's a bit intrusive. Dorfromantik is a tile-laying game, like Carcasonne if you know that. You get a lovely little landscape out of it but if an annoying gap in a tiled area drives you mad, then beware. 
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Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is funny, nothing beats being handed a document and just ripping it in half
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scourgeofthe7bees posted:Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is funny, nothing beats being handed a document and just ripping it in half There is a phrase from that game which has stuck with me ever since I played it that just keeps making me laugh. "Ah, I see you can also wield a weapon without hands, it's a sign you have mafia blood in you."
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Fart of Presto posted:Hero of the Kingdom: The Lost Tales 1 + 2 are both really good and chill adventure-lite/hidden object type of games, that were released after HotK 3 was a grindy mess. -The Hex is a neat meta game from the guy who did Pony Island and Inscryption -Styx 1-2, Epistory, King's Bounties and Space Rangers are pretty good -People seem to like Tangledeep -Jotun is meh
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SKULL.GIF posted:I'm really itching for a nice "classical" PC RPG in the vein of Might & Magic VI-VIII. Demise: Ascension https://www.decklinsdemise.com/news.php 
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Kennel posted:-People seem to like Tangledeep Tangledeep is a lovely traditional roguelike (dungeons, turn-based, bump to hit in melee), with cute graphics and extra stuff on top like a job system allowing you to mix and match skills from different classes and a pet system where you can tame/raise monster companions to tag along in the dungeon. It also has full controller support I believe, so it probably plays ball pretty well on Steam Deck.
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drat Dirty Ape posted:So I've got Grounded and Vermintide 2 in my cart. Any thoughts on Grounded? Just watched some videos and it looks pretty entertaining. I loved Grounded. Played through it this fall with two other people. It is a surprisingly harsh RPG, though. Enemies have extreme weapon resistances if you are using the wrong damage type and the game leans heavily into rock/paper/scissors balancing. poo poo will absolutely gently caress you up if you are not prepared. The inventory is also really restricting and the punishment for death can be high. The writing is not without its charm, but it can get grating. Really the heart of the game is the exploration and reward for taking risks in adventure. Jumping into an unlit chasm, pushing forward when you're almost out of breath underwater, ducking under cover as you escape a monstrous wolf spider. It's exhilarating and incredibly fun. For people that have played it: the area under the deck was insane. One of the coolest and most terrifying places I've ever seen in an RPG. Did anyone else feel the same?
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Okay, vanilla MW5 might have been justifiably ignored but post-dlc Career mode with mods hasn't just gripped me, it command grabbed me with Raging Demon and I am defeated Years of all the free games in the world couldn't convince me to download egs but access to the mw5 modding tools to make my own custom portraits did the trick.
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Best of Steam 2022 is up if you're into (loose) sales charts and whatnot.
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KNR posted:My big problem with the Japanese blobber genre isn't the anime, it's that the entire genre is built upon Wizardry 1-6. Even 7 would be an improvement. Some of the combat systems are nice, but they're pretty much always extremely grindy. And the level design has been consistently awful in every single one I've tried. Just the same identical-looking hallways of invisible traps, invisible walls and teleporter mazes as in games from 40 years ago. Sorry, I'm still kinda vague on what you call a 'blobber' as I never played the Wizardry games; will I like these campaigns if I really really enjoyed Grimrock 1 & 2, or do they diverge from the base games and do something weird with actual roleplaying or stat grinding or whatever?
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A blobber - as far as the world is concerned, your party is a homogenous blob.
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Wow. Dota 2 is in the platinum revenue tier? Must have been a good year.
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I noticed this in some game pages for recently released gamesquote:Notice: This game only supports Japanese interface/voice for customers in Japan. What is this, some kind of restricted publishing agreement?
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Probably means at least one VA involved has a pain in the rear end agency and they only dealt with them for in-country matters, not caring for the rest of the world.
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anilEhilated posted:A blobber - as far as the world is concerned, your party is a homogenous blob. Oh wow, that's super freaking broad. The SpiderWeb Software games all fall under that umbrella then. Heck, like half of the western party RPGs probably do too.
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pentyne posted:I noticed this in some game pages for recently released games
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It's crazy how loving bad the Android Steam apps are. The chat app has been broken since they decided to break it out into it's own app I think, where if you type too much it slows the app down to a crawl until it eventually crashes and this is apparently happening for almost everybody using the app judging by the reviews. I don't think I've seen a more universally 1* voted app on the app store than the steam chat app.
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Well, it usually refers to games where the blob occupies one square on the map, so there's no splitting or positioning. Think Grimrock.
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The wording is unclear, I figured it meant the Japanese voices were exclusive to Japan but apparently it means Japanese players can't select any language other than Japanese https://twitter.com/108/status/1399753836286316545 Maybe related to Japan-specific censorship, if cutscenes are recut so the original voice tracks don't fit?
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explosivo posted:It's crazy how loving bad the Android Steam apps are. The chat app has been broken since they decided to break it out into it's own app I think, where if you type too much it slows the app down to a crawl until it eventually crashes and this is apparently happening for almost everybody using the app judging by the reviews. I don't think I've seen a more universally 1* voted app on the app store than the steam chat app. Yeah, its crap. I don't like the idea of having the apps split off into 2 in the first place
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Anno posted:Best of Steam 2022 is up if you're into (loose) sales charts and whatnot. Gotta say, pretty impressive that Terraria, released in 2011, is in the Bronze category.
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I'm a fan of how the Steam app intercepts all Steam URLs but if it wasn't already running in the background it just loads to the Steam frontpage, so you have to go back and click the link again for it to actually go there It's been like that since the redesign
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Serephina posted:Sorry, I'm still kinda vague on what you call a 'blobber' as I never played the Wizardry games; will I like these campaigns if I really really enjoyed Grimrock 1 & 2, or do they diverge from the base games and do something weird with actual roleplaying or stat grinding or whatever? The biggest departures design wise are the addition of an economy (Which ends up working fine, especially in Guardians. Your progression is still pretty much entirely based on finding hand-placed loot.) and some grognardy features I could have done without such as cooking, but which didn't detract from the overall experience being amazing. Final Adventure also reworks the classes and splits magic into multiple spell schools. Also, despite what the author says, I would still recommend against a farmer in Guardians.
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KNR posted:They're largely base Grimrock 2 but better, so if you really liked Grimrock you should definitely play them. The Lost City is just a big high quality mod (which I still enjoyed). The Guardians and Final Adventure are both massive enough to be commercial games and feature a ton of custom content. Thank you! Gonna give them a go, and I implicitly trust your taste after you called Eador 'cool but terrible', which gave me a chuckle.
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Sab669 posted:When you spend your entire art budget on 2 backgrounds 😬
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Det_no posted:Wow. Dota 2 is in the platinum revenue tier? Must have been a good year. That really surprised me too. I guess they did have like their highest numbers in years due to giving away a free Hat for TI. But then also TI had like its lowest prize pool in a long long time so... Yea surprised it's Platinum.
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It was still like $17M contributed right? And that's 25% of revenue earned over that period, so $68M in just those couple of months.
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Anno posted:It was still like $17M contributed right? And that's 25% of revenue earned over that period, so $68M in just those couple of months. https://liquipedia.net/dota2/The_International#Tournaments Assuming GabeN throws exactly $1M in the pot, yea, the remaining $17,930,775 would've been 25% of the hats sold. The real surprise was seeing TF2 on that list at all 
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I wonder how much of that money is from people who actually want TF2 items, versus people buying them to use in the Extended Valve Economy of unregulated casinos that use hats as chips
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Serephina posted:Thank you! Gonna give them a go, and I implicitly trust your taste after you called Eador 'cool but terrible', which gave me a chuckle. Also just remembered one more unfortunate design departure in Guardians, there is exactly one important permanently missable thing - give a red gem when asked a gate toll which accepts any gem. This one's weird since, while he doesn't go to lengths the base game did to make sure you can't lose a single item by throwing it somewhere unrecoverable, this is I think the only instance where you don't have to go out of your way to lose something.
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...I just added DMCV's Vergil DLC to my cart, why are steam's Recommended For You based on the items in your cart all hentai games? I guess I'll just have to deal with DMCV being the best hentai game ever made. Who knew!
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Hwurmp posted:how do genre names keep getting dumber "Keep"? We already hit the apex with schlooter. Blobber is positively pleasant (not to be confused with Bloober, which is just bad).
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Omi no Kami posted:...I just added DMCV's Vergil DLC to my cart, why are steam's Recommended For You based on the items in your cart all hentai games? Judgement Nut indeed
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Waste of Breath posted:"Keep"? it's like yall have never seen a MUD before
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Ok sounds like Grounded is a keeper, thanks for the opinions. Came thiiiiiis close to buying Sea of Thieves again but then remembered I have no gamer friends to coop with so I'd probably just be a constant victim.
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