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The 7th Guest posted:is that really a "meme" so much as a tropey joke that is in a lot of 80s-90s fiction
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The 7th Guest posted:is that really a "meme" so much as a tropey joke that is in a lot of 80s-90s fiction
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Jan 26, 2023 18:40
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Volte posted:I don't care about loot tiers, but what I don't like is over-emphasizing the raw numerics of it all. They could literally just replace "9% resistance to melee damage" with "Minor resistance to melee damage" and it would feel a million times better. It's half placebo anyway since 9% melee resistance vs 5% or 12% is not likely to change your outcomes very often. I really hate the overall "power number" concept because at that point it just feels like you might as well not have varied weapon power at all and keep the upgrades completely on the player side if you're just going to have a linear progression of straight upgrades. Yeah, the ever-increasing granularization of game stats is one of my pet peeves. I don't give a poo poo if gun A does 4% more damage to enemies on fire. Hell, I barely even care if gun A does 45 base damage compared to gun B's 40. What I care about is how it changes how I use it, and in practice the only relevant aspect there is whether I need three, four, or five hits to kill an average enemy. Same with rate of fire, 700 RPM vs 800 RPM doesn't make a meaningful practical difference, just put it into coarse categories like "slow, medium, high, very high, brrrrrt" and leave it at that. If you absolutely must, give me a raw DPS stat and leave it at that.
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Jan 26, 2023 18:41
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Volte posted:The specific format "*record scratch* Yep, that's me..." is an online meme that references tropes from back then. That was my point, the reaction was "I'm never going to play this because they did the old freeze frame trope unironically" when in fact it wasn't unironically...it was ironic. doing a joke that makes me want to barf ironically makes me ironically want to barf
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Jan 26, 2023 18:44
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Give me a game with extremely detailed absurdly granularized random gun stats except don't let me reload guns so that I am always just using whatever I find and it behaves unpredictably every time. Give me a John Wick looter shooter. e: All the guns you loot go in a queue and display in a "next up" bar on the side like in Tetris.
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Jan 26, 2023 18:46
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Cowcaster posted:doing a joke that makes me want to barf ironically makes me ironically want to barf It's honestly your loss.
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The 7th Guest posted:is that really a "meme" so much as a tropey joke that is in a lot of 80s-90s fiction "Meme" now basically means anything you want it to. It rules.
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Jan 26, 2023 18:47
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I took a sociology class before memes were a thing and the textbook referred to the modern interpretation of memes (not like a specific image meme, but 'meme' as in a category of image memes or whatever that are all variations of the same joke) as "Anomie", pronounced "an-o-may" edit: I misremembered, "Anomie" refers to something that makes society's moral values break down, which checks out 
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Jan 26, 2023 18:49
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Hi-Fi Rush is really a joy to play so far. There's a pretty clear difference between the humor in this game compared to the worst stuff getting shown from Forspoken. If it's not your thing that's fine but there's a lot of conclusions being drawn itt over like a 2 minute trailer. It is possible that it being a gamepass title has lowered the bar considerably but it feels like a very well polished saturday morning cartoon kinda thing.
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Jan 26, 2023 18:54
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pizza tower is out!
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Sab669 posted:I feel like that Morrigan Burst-fire Assault Rifle is always going to have the same 2 mods. Though really it's the modern trend of generic power ratings that really baffles me. While Diablo likes have always been repulsive to me, I can at least conceptually see the appeal in crunching all the numbers and finetuning your build to get the maximum dps or whatever. Replacing that with a power level treadmill feels like expressly highlighting the meaningless artifice of it all, which doesn't feel like something either game designers or players would want to.
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Jan 26, 2023 19:04
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Kibayasu posted:"Meme" now basically means anything you want it to. It rules. Cowcaster posted:it's the easiest thing in the world not to play a videogame, for any reason, actually
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Jan 26, 2023 19:07
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I can't not play a videogame
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gentlemen this is the steam thread, you can only not play a game once you’ve paid for it
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Jan 26, 2023 19:13
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Volte posted:Don't play it for whatever reason you want, such as not giving a poo poo about the game, or thinking it looks bad, but if you're writing off a game that you would otherwise be interested in because of this, well that's weird! i didn't even know the game existed before yesterday and the trailer instantly gave me a violent allergic reaction, what's giving the impression that i would otherwise be interested in it
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Jan 26, 2023 19:18
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Dread Templar is out, one of you nerds go play through the entire thing and tell me how it is before Feb 2.
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Jan 26, 2023 19:19
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I had negative interest in the game based off that announcement trailer. Then I found out it was a rhythm action game and those are literal crack to me. So wishlisted.
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Jan 26, 2023 19:20
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What's the deal with Pizza Tower?
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Jan 26, 2023 19:21
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kazil posted:What's the deal with Pizza Tower? It's wario land.
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Jan 26, 2023 19:22
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I love big chunky granular stats but I hate when games have multiple stats that do essentially the same thing. I always think of Grim Dawn as my go-to example of terribly overblown stats. First of all there are like 17 different elements, and each element has an associated damage type, and each damage type has its own set of associated stats like damage, damage over time, crit, and also it's own unique resistance value. Your character generally only deals one type of damage, so right off the bat a whole lot of items are useless to you. But it gets even worse because sometimes an item will roll with a stat that's split between two damage types, like pierce/acid damage, each of them at a lower value than pure pierce or acid would be, and those items are only useful to very specific builds that deal split damage types. That's not even including the possibility of items that don't have ANY stats related to the damage type you deal, which are almost always not worth using. The end result is that approximately maybe 1 in 60+ items is even potentially relevant for your build.
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Jan 26, 2023 19:24
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Mordja posted:Dread Templar is out, one of you nerds go play through the entire thing and tell me how it is before Feb 2.
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Jan 26, 2023 19:24
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Cowcaster posted:i didn't even know the game existed before yesterday and the trailer instantly gave me a violent allergic reaction, what's giving the impression that i would otherwise be interested in it Cowcaster posted:ironically even though i'm never going to touch it for that grave insult of the first 15 seconds of the trailer my brother did pick it up on game pass and is having a good time with it
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Jan 26, 2023 19:38
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my brother likes gears of war and disgaea games too. we like different things.
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Jan 26, 2023 19:39
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He sounds cool
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Agent355 posted:It's wario land. Oh man, I loved Wario Land as a kid. I will definitely check this out.
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Jan 26, 2023 19:42
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Cowcaster posted:my brother likes gears of war and disgaea games too. we like different things. He got gears?
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Jan 26, 2023 19:49
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Cowcaster posted:my brother likes gears of war and disgaea games too. we like different things. Is he single
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Cowcaster posted:my brother likes gears of war and disgaea games too. we like different things. The phrasing on this is just making me imagine the dumbest Fight Club reboot imaginable The self-assault scene is a dude beating himself over whether to play a title kb/m or controller
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MarcusSA posted:I’ll get the game if I can play it on my steam deck.
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https://twitter.com/DemonsTilt/status/1618659216897748993 2023 is going to be a pog year, for games
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Hi-Fi Rush grades you on three metrics after each fight, so I can't play until I know how to get A/S/S every time e: actually I do, I do know how to get A/S/S, I get it without even trying sometimes
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https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-lunar-bundle Lunar Bundle: Heroes of Hammerwatch Avicii Invector encore edition Those who remain Helhiem Hassle Size Matters Red Ronin Shadow Hand Riot-Civil Unrest My big sister Heal Cat lady Monster Slayers Complete Savage Halloween S.W.I.N.E. HD Remaster 10 second Ninja X/ Indie mixtape bundle 1 for $1/5 for $2.99/10 for $4.99 https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-strategy-bundle-january-2023 Build your own Strategy Bundle: War Mongrels Beholder 3 Blood Bowl Legendary Edition Wargame airland battle Interstellar Space Genesis Secret Goverment Acts of aggression:Reboot Edition Deep Sky Derelicts Grand Age Rome: Gold Edition Crookz the big heist Train Valley 2 War game: European Escaltion The Shrouded Isle Company of Crime Townsmens- A kingdom rebuilt Tropico 4-Collectors edtition 3 for $4.99/5 for $7.99/7 for $9.99
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The 7th Guest posted:https://twitter.com/DemonsTilt/status/1618659216897748993 Wait, are pogs making a comeback?
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Tried the Forspoken demo on PC. Thoughts: Gameplay was alright, but open world games isn't really my favourite anyway Environments were quite pretty, calming The demo didn't have any story, so don't know about that. 80 euro list price is bonkers, unless this is a 120-hour storytelling masterpiece, which I doubt. I'll probably get it when half price or cheaper, unless another "run around and make things explode in a chill manner" game comes along in the meantime.
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Jan 26, 2023 20:11
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how was it decided that S should be a higher grade than A anyway
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Sounds like the Dead Space remake is good which, you know, hard to gently caress up.
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Hwurmp posted:how was it decided that S should be a higher grade than A anyway 
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Jan 26, 2023 20:20
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Hwurmp posted:how was it decided that S should be a higher grade than A anyway It comes from Japan and apparently derives from "special" class tickets for seating on trains and in theaters and the like, eventually spreading to sake grades and the school system letter rankings
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It comes from The Mask (1994) where Jim Carrey used "Sssmokin'!" to denote something of high value or skill.
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