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victrix posted:Rain World is a genuinely incredible game with some really, really cool stuff in it, and a really cool setting with an interesting story 100% this. It's kind of reminiscent of OOTW/Another World in that respect, except OOTW was much more scripted. Rain World is so explicitly unscripted that it becomes a serious goddamn issue when any given screen transition could hold a bullshit instadeath to any of the roaming predators. Or when one happens to track you directly to your most recent hideout at the end of a tile-wide corridor, kills and drags you off, and then when you respawn (and subsequently disappear from its mouth) it turns around and eats you again, four loving times in a row with absolutely no possible recourse, tanking the stupid loving rank you need to maintain to progress at the stupid loving biome transition gates. I love and hate that loving stupid wonderful game, and gotta say a price increase is going to be a hard sell.
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OgNar posted:Looks like a new Freelancer is coming our way. wooo I keep trying to go back to Freelancer but, of all things, I get turned off by the total lack of subtitles even though I'm not that hard of hearing
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Awesome. Thanks so much everyone! I happen to own a decent number of those and will pick up a couple more. My wife asked why I owned them and didn’t know until today, told her that’s probably best left unsaid.
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OgNar posted:Looks like a new Freelancer is coming our way. For some reason I thought this was that game a guy on /agdg/ was developing that was basically freelancer but the game revolved around fighting giant space snakes/whales/other things in between your cargo runs
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MonkeyforaHead posted:100% this. It's kind of reminiscent of OOTW/Another World in that respect, except OOTW was much more scripted. Rain World is so explicitly unscripted that it becomes a serious goddamn issue when any given screen transition could hold a bullshit instadeath to any of the roaming predators. Or when one happens to track you directly to your most recent hideout at the end of a tile-wide corridor, kills and drags you off, and then when you respawn (and subsequently disappear from its mouth) it turns around and eats you again, four loving times in a row with absolutely no possible recourse, tanking the stupid loving rank you need to maintain to progress at the stupid loving biome transition gates. That's not really how the game works though. When you die the whole day restarts, and almost all of the creatures are moved off the map and have to re-enter from spawn points, simulating them emerging from their own shelters after the rain. Unless it was like one of the pole plants I guess? But those don't follow you.  I can totally believe you were killed over and over because it's tough out there but not sure how it happened to you like that.
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OgNar posted:Looks like a new Freelancer is coming our way. Thanks for the heads up. This looks very promising and the surreal twist is refreshing.
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OgNar posted:Looks like a new Freelancer is coming our way. i get that it's the tutorial and all but "hint: point your ship towards the purple arrow" made me laugh
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did everspace 2 end up being any good? i liked everspace 1 well enough but i didn't think the genres of space flight sim and roguelike meshed together very well which sounds like was the major thing everspace 2 changed Cowcaster fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Jan 11, 2023 |
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There's an early access build on Gamepass, I played the first couple missions. It's nice to look at but it feels just kind of "there" without an interesting hook like Chorvs and some boring characters. Who knows how it will end up though!
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hmm that reminds me i should put chorvs on the ol' wishlist
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The people who love Rain World love it so much that it's definitely convinced me to give it another shot soon, as it didn't stick with me the first time.
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goferchan posted:The people who love Rain World love it so much that it's definitely convinced me to give it another shot soon, as it didn't stick with me the first time. it's a great game, but it's not a great for everyone game
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Cowcaster posted:did everspace 2 end up being any good? i liked everspace 1 well enough but i didn't think the genres of space flight sim and roguelike meshed together very well which sounds like was the major thing everspace 2 changed I like Everspace 2, it's a more traditional game, I'd compare it to Freelancer.
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Every time I see a spaceship fighting/trading game it reminds me that I wish Rebel Galaxy kept with its 2D plane Age of Sail gameplay for the follow-up rather than trying to make Privateer again. Everyone always tries to make Privateer again.
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Cowcaster posted:did everspace 2 end up being any good? i liked everspace 1 well enough but i didn't think the genres of space flight sim and roguelike meshed together very well which sounds like was the major thing everspace 2 changed Been waiting for the full release but it looks to be coming along well. ES1 is one of the few SP roguelikes I actually like, although there was no way I was going to beat i a bunch of times for the full ending.
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The base game rain world update is adding some tips and tutorials as well as a stupidly large amount of options to make the game more accessible. Definitely wait for it if you're going to start. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/312520?emclan=103582791437572627&emgid=3229664706316528818
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I liked House of the Dying Sun, although I'm bad at it and it hasn't had any updates in a long time.
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murklins posted:The base game rain world update is adding some tips and tutorials as well as a stupidly large amount of options to make the game more accessible. Definitely wait for it if you're going to start. This is all great looking. I've always thought the lack of tutorial on swimming hurt the game a lot. Tapping the jump button makes you go faster underwater, just like in every other game, but in Rain World it also rapidly depletes your air. It's such a bad trade-off it's practically never worth doing, and if you want to go faster in water you're better off just wiggling your sluggy tail like a tadpole (seriously, it works). It's real difficult to get anywhere underwater if you're assuming it works like Mario or w/e, which makes things even worse for anyone unfortunate enough to find their way into the drainage system at the beginning of the game.
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victrix posted:it's a great game, but it's not a great for everyone game I know they're not exactly equivalent genres but I like difficult/obtuse stuff like La Mulana etc so I'm pretty sure I'm in the Rain World target audience, it just hasn't clicked yet
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https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1613223920706129921 You are seeing this across tons of industries, most prominently with cancellations of already completed projects at Warner Bros. and AMC. Everyone is scaling back on content and I suspect is has to do with the fact that you can't borrow money for free anymore. I wonder if this will cut across all the major publishers. Also I bet one of those cancellations was the return to the good version of Ghost Recon : (
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Did not know anything about Rain World. There are too many games being made for me to keep up! It looks like one of those games I would play for a hundred hours and burn out on before I got good enough to beat it, so I'm going to skip it. But I read the wiki for an hour and the background lore sounded very cool. Lately, (spoilering because the subject is adjacent to core themes of Rain World that aren't clear at the start) I've been spending a lot of mental energy thinking/worrying about existential issues, specifically stuff about consciousness, what happens when we die, the apparently temporary nature of the connections and relationships we build with other people and creatures, and I don't want to immerse myself in what looks like a pretty bleak and nihilistic situation. Ending spoilers: I know you reunite with your family at the end but there's still sentient life stuck in the cycle and that's a bummer. The whole concept of being a cute little animal that reminds me of my pets, being caught in an eternal loop of furtive survival that seems more like manic torture than living, is probably not something that someone with my disposition for depression should spend a lot of time with Back to Elden Ring! Wait...
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Kibayasu posted:Every time I see a spaceship fighting/trading game it reminds me that I wish Rebel Galaxy kept with its 2D plane Age of Sail gameplay for the follow-up rather than trying to make Privateer again. Everyone always tries to make Privateer again. Yeah, there are far too few capital ship spacegames around. Let me captain a single big-rear end battlecruiser, directing gun batteries, dispatching fighter squadrons, and launching giant missile salvoes. But it seems like almost all games that aim for that scale are either higher-scope strategy games or the endgame of clunky 4xs.
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zoux posted:Also I bet one of those cancellations was the return to the good version of Ghost Recon : ( This chaps my rear end so much. *turns Ghost Recon into bullshit Live Service game with levels and loot that literally nobody wants* *breaks the neat immersive elements of previous games. So like you can no longer holster all weapons, instead you always have to be holding a gun, which removes an entire pillar of the old games. Camera can no longer zoom out and center your view, allowing you to actually scope out the world you're in* *the entire movement and character control system is a hamstrung, horse-built-by-committee mess due to said previous decision.* *destroys bullet projectile physics system, every individual trigger pull fire two things, a "tracer round" which doesn't do anything but light up, and the "actual projectiles" you can't see, and these two things fire at noticeably different speeds so enemies drop before the tracer round reaches them* *game doesn't do well, shockingly* Ubisoft: "WELP GEE WHIZ IT LOOKS LIKE NOBODY LIKES LARGE SCALE GUN STEALTH GAMES ANYMORE AND THAT'S THE ONLY POSSIBLE REASON SALES WERE LOW, CANCEL ALL FUTURE PROJECTS." gently caress Ubisoft.
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I was joking idk if it was. I do know the planned sequel was announced and was also GAAS trash
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1613223920706129921 Maybe Ubisoft should stop investing money in project for 8 years and just kill them when, by year two, the design document isn't finalized and there's nothing to show for it. I'd love to get another Beyond Good & Evil but whatever that game may end up being is going to be a goddamn mess and maybe have 1/100th the amount of charm and creativity the original game had. Also whatever Skull & Bones ends up being. I'm sure it'll be delayed again before its release and be a total mess.
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And they've delayed Skull & Bones again lol.
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Gorn Myson posted:And they've delayed Skull & Bones again lol. loving laffo. I didn't even see that tweet when I typed that post. Welp. https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1613225086336569362
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Early 2023-24 what does that even mean lmao
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I can't believe a giant company would change their plans on some of their potential products. I am in constant shock 24/7 of my life that said company would keep making the kind of product people keep buying. I come here to have these life changing revelations. Thanks The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Steam Thread: Creating a Tag for "Never Played" Flimf fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Jan 11, 2023 |
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Flimf posted:I can't believe a giant company would change their plans on some of their potential products. This is a weirdly aggressive response to some pretty basic gaming news.
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Cowcaster posted:i'm not mad you're mad 
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The best part is Skull and Bones can't be canceled because Ubisoft is contractually obligated to the Singapore government
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Gorn Myson posted:And they've delayed Skull & Bones again lol. This is turning into a real Skull & Boner
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Jelly posted:This is a weirdly aggressive response to some pretty basic gaming news. people get mad when others share and talk about this stuff for some reason lol
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It is baffling how there have only ever been two good pirate games, and one of them was an AC game. Dunno why that's not a very popular genre instead of basically not existing.
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