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Gay Rat Wedding posted:Steam seems to have updated the wishlist UI so it's bloated and takes up twice as much vertical space per entry. If you click on options there's a "compact" view. Although I feel like it's been like this for a long time.
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Anno posted:If you click on options there's a "compact" view. Although I feel like it's been like this for a long time. yeah I'm dumb, I deleted my steam web browser cache trying to fix the broken friends list thing I mentioned 2 days ago and that reset it to the expanded view. I'd apparently had it on compact for so long I forgot there was a different view by default.
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Agent355 posted:Golf with your friends is also a good time, with your friends 
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And another one https://twitter.com/knockoutcity/status/1621306004162985984
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I grabbed PGA Tour 2K21 cause maybe golf is relaxing? I dunno, I'll find out I guess Oh I forgot to say thanks. Thanks anno!
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Posting what might be left for the new page: PJNPG-JWQXD-0HGG6 - Book of Demons YYA3Z-Y043M-KJL6N - Rise of Industry XDMX3-AZW84-NPRHQ - Imperator Rome Deluxe Anno fucked around with this message at 04:52 on Feb 3, 2023 |
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Resdfru posted:I grabbed PGA Tour 2K21 cause maybe golf is relaxing? I dunno, I'll find out I guess i like it a lot but it's honestly kinda rough. if you're expecting something like tiger woods pga tour, it's not that. the pga 2k games are the successor to the "golf club" games which are notoriously unforgiving sims. they've gotten friendlier since being subsumed into the 2k sports brand but they're still pretty demanding. prepare to take a lot of practice swings
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Wow, they're releasing a free "offline" version allowing for players to host their own games after it shuts down. That's pretty wild for one of these live service games, but very cool. edit: I messed around with it back in beta and it was honestly very fun. Just another one of those games in a tough spot where it's hard to sell as a full priced multiplayer centric title but it's also not going to ever take off enough to support the full live service f2p ecosystem goferchan fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Feb 3, 2023 |
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Anno posted:Posting what might be left for the new page: Opus Magnum has been redeemed by someone
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goferchan posted:Wow, they're releasing a free "offline" version allowing for players to host their own games after it shuts down. That's pretty wild for one of these live service games, but very cool. Yeah, this game made the mistake of both launching as a paid game but then also tried to transition over a year after release to F2P, while going up against other monstrously popular games in this category. They were also tied to Origin's account system (because EA was their original publisher) until they self-published the game and changed over to Epic. From wikipedia: quote:The team, which has about 85 employees, spent four years developing the game. 
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explosivo posted:They just rolled out a big year one update for Dying Light 2 that overhauled the hit animations to make them more ragdoll-ey, which if you spent a decent amount of time with both DL1 and 2 you'd know felt like a regression between sequels and it actually feels a whole lot more dynamic now. Hits with impact bats send bodies loving flying now which is really satisfying and the zombies kinda stumble around more when they get knocked around. Definitely feels like a good change, and it's cool seeing them supporting it with significant updates like this so far after launch. I might have to actually finish that drat game (although they can't fix the story, i'm still skipping that poo poo) Yeah I've been thinking about going back and finishing that one up. Just gotta remind myself how to play Speaking of going back to games I never finished, Jedi Fallen Order is actually a dope game. For some reason I fell off it, so this week I went back and played it all the way through from the beginning and had a great time. Super excited for the next in the series from Respawn Weedle posted:i like it a lot but it's honestly kinda rough. if you're expecting something like tiger woods pga tour, it's not that. the pga 2k games are the successor to the "golf club" games which are notoriously unforgiving sims. they've gotten friendlier since being subsumed into the 2k sports brand but they're still pretty demanding. prepare to take a lot of practice swings However, once you get it, you get it, and you can place your shots down really really nicely. It's fun to try and account for everything, and how you really have to focus on the swing so you don't totally shank it Play fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Feb 3, 2023 |
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There's a new ea sports golf game coming out next month, looks pretty good. I didn't like PGA 2K23 at all so hopefully this is better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeJ_KuMZPb4
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ErrEff posted:From wikipedia: This reminded me to look up Death By FrostByte because it always makes me sad.
You can tell by looking at it why it's not exactly making waves (it looks serviceable, but not memorable), and I'm not interested in it myself (and too broke to give it a pity buy), but it was the first game to make me realize that a bunch of games on Steam just never sell any copies at all (much like phone app stores), even if they get regular updates from a committed dev. It's just kind of a bummer to think about and now I am inflicting it upon all of you  I've been tempted to make a post about it on Reddit or something to try and get it a bunch of pity purchases, but then again there are a whole lot of other games with the same plight, so  At least they still have the potential of a bigger launch whenever they hit full release.
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goferchan posted:Wow, they're releasing a free "offline" version allowing for players to host their own games after it shuts down. That's pretty wild for one of these live service games, but very cool. The landscape is going to be insane depending on how aggressive these publishers get with DMCA takedowns. You're gonna see a era where people are running private servers for decade old games because they've been shut down, delisted, no server auth, etc.
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deep dish peat moss posted:This reminded me to look up Death By FrostByte because it always makes me sad. I think I've seen similar stories about at least a couple of other games in this thread, though I can't remember their names. What a tragic fate.
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Anno posted:Posting what might be left for the new page: Rise of Industry is taken already too.
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I posted this in the Fresh Releases and Roguelikes threads, but I'm posting it here too because this game is (a) very good and (b) flying completely under the radar It's a roguelike seemingly inspired by Rift Wizard and Magicka. Released a few days ago, usually $20 but currently on sale for $15. Also it has online co-op and supports at least 5 players at once, possibly more  https://store.steampowered.com/app/1618380/Spellmasons/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256920995/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1671202863 I've only put about 30 minutes into it so far. My initial reactions are very, very positive but I haven't made it very far and don't know how much the complexity keeps stacking up. The video above has the dev explaining and showcasing the gameplay better than I could through text, but here's the more traditional trailer from the steam page: https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256921604/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1671203179 deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 09:21 on Feb 3, 2023 |
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deep dish peat moss posted:This reminded me to look up Death By FrostByte because it always makes me sad. It's sad but all art is like this.
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deep dish peat moss posted:This reminded me to look up Death By FrostByte because it always makes me sad. I feel like you'd have to be putting absolutely no effort at all into any advertising to end up with just one little review. Putting it on itch.io or even just a thread on TIGSource would probably get you a couple, at least. I know marketing sucks but that just doesn't make sense.
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I don't want to come off as rude but that game resembles about a thousand other zero-budget projects on Steam with no cohesive presentation or any real inkling to the consumer about what they're supposed to enjoy about playing it. There's having a purposefully 8-bit aesthetic, and then there's having an aesthetic whatsoever. I look at the preview videos and all I see are mismatched tilesets, a disproportionate UI and obnoxious synth accordion. Or as the kids would say, visual AIDS. I have a lot of sympathy for indie developers because making games is hard and it's often totally arbitrary as to what will catch on, but video games are fundamentally a visual medium and you have to engage people on an aesthetic level as a baseline.
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How is Evil West? I've heard it described as "Awesome AA ps2 action," but I'm unclear if it's "This is a great deal for twenty bucks" AA, or Piranhabytes-style "I mean yeah, it's a piece of crap, but it's also a surprising amount of fun" AA.
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Omi no Kami posted:How is Evil West? I've heard it described as "Awesome AA ps2 action," but I'm unclear if it's "This is a great deal for twenty bucks" AA, or Piranhabytes-style "I mean yeah, it's a piece of crap, but it's also a surprising amount of fun" AA. The former, I'd say.
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I liked Evil West quite a lot. It's definitely got that AA PS2/PS3 feeling but it's done with a lot of confidence on the part of the developers and you get a lot of tools in combat which come together surprisingly well for being made by a company making their first third person combat action game. As a result you can really dominate the enemy if you're playing well, but you can also get killed very quickly. I paid about £30 and don't feel short changed because I did that plenty of times in the 2010s. It also runs pretty well on the Deck if that's something you're interested in. From what I've seen, Wanted Dead kind of looks similar, maybe with more of an emphasis on difficulty, so I've ended up quite looking forward to that coming out on the 14th.
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Sgt. Cosgrove posted:2016 Strider also has this limitation and it loving pains me to not be able to play one of the best metroidvanias of the last decade. Do you mean Strider 2014? Because I bought and played that summer 2022 and it worked fine.
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Thanks to whoever recommended the monster titty dungeon crawler, Labyrinth of Refrain. I'm half a dozen hours into it so far and It's actually decently fun. The gameplay has some unique mechanics that create some interesting spins on the combat and exploration formula that I haven't seen anywhere else, and the story surprisingly has relatively few boring anime-isms and isn't even being that horny. So far I've only seen the game do one comically played attempted molestation scene and a few innuendoes. Also maybe it's just me but I find the main character being an absolute sociopath with zero regard to anyone around her to be very entertaining.
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Trickyblackjack posted:Do you mean Strider 2014? Because I bought and played that summer 2022 and it worked fine. Yea sorry 2014, and theres a bug where if you have more than 8 cores or something it just doesn't boot
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I have a friend who is just discovering gaming for the first time. It's a joy to see. They want to play "the classics" but insist on only games with simultaneous co op. Either local or online. We beat Minecraft recently and it was a blast. They have been surprisingly good with adapting to mouse+keyboard controls. So there's Sven Coop and something similar for playing through all of Half Life 1 & 2 campaigns in co op. Does anything similar exist for Doom or Quake?
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Quake 1 definitely had co-op in some form, but I can't remember if it was the whole single player set of missions or a special selection. EDIT: Yep, all of Quake 1 is playable in co-op, Quake 2 too. This site may help you out as you go! Squiggle fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Feb 3, 2023 |
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Heran Bago posted:We beat Minecraft recently
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Jack Trades posted:Also maybe it's just me but I find the main character being an absolute sociopath with zero regard to anyone around her to be very entertaining. I think it's supposed to be depressing, but I imagine the game seems a lot less crushing when only the gameplay and not the story is relentlessly heavy and crushing. Not actual game spoilers: The real part that makes it depressing is that little girl's undying loyalty, making it straight-up familial/domestic abuse
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Jelly posted:This is a thing? You can go to the end dimension and kill the ender dragon. Then you get this 7 minute long awful poem thing before the credits. It was a really fun time. Everyone got into their own little projects or buildings along the way and we would meet up occasionally to see each other's progress. Some people would go hunting or mining together. I got into automated farms. Squiggle posted:Quake 1 definitely had co-op in some form, but I can't remember if it was the whole single player set of missions or a special selection. Hell yeah. Tyvm Heran Bago fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Feb 3, 2023 |
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Jelly posted:This is a thing? Minecraft has had an end boss for over a decade
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explosivo posted:Anyone here try Inkulinati? It's on Gamepass and I have it downloaded but haven't checked it out yet. It's kind of unclear what the hell it is, it seems like maybe it's a Steamworld Heist style 2d sorta xcom thing but in the style of medieval manuscripts? I watched Nextlander play some of this and played a bit into the tutorial myself, this is a weird game but kinda neat. It's not entirely unlike Steamworld Heist but seems more focused on pushing and positioning? Like enemies can be pushed off the side of the map to instakill them. The presentation is possibly the coolest thing about it though; the game is being played through the lens of two people playing a board game so you see hands come off screen and move pieces around when you commit to a move and can also just poke enemies with your finger to delete them essentially. I'm not sure if I'm going to play more of it since it's early access and while it feels polished now I think it could be something really cool if they support it well.
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big cummers ONLY posted:Minecraft has had an end boss for over a decade The last time that I tried Minecraft was when it first came out after that janky little Infiniminer game. 
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deep dish peat moss posted:I posted this in the Fresh Releases and Roguelikes threads, but I'm posting it here too because this game is (a) very good and (b) flying completely under the radar This sounds like exactly what I want out of a wizard game. Going to give it a try soon.
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What are the most graphically demanding games with stylized/unique art direction? The standards (Cyberpunk 2077, Control, Metro Exodus) don't really do anything for me-- and I think it's because they're all going for cinematic realism with different color palettes. I'm curious if there's a video game equivalent of Into the Spider-Verse - that pushes current tech in a way that isn't just about repeating what's come before.
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Lego Builder's Journey, kind of? The shading is realistic (with a bunch of raytracing options) but it's stylized in the sense that everything is Lego
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AfricanBootyShine posted:What are the most graphically demanding games with stylized/unique art direction? Hyper Demon Hi-Fi Rush
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That ray-traced Minecraft thing certainly isn’t going for realism and, I think, is fairly capable of putting up a fight against the best hardware.
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Heran Bago posted:
The original co-op mode in Quake is kind of a hasty added-at-the-last-minute sort of thing FYI. If your friend is new to FPS games anyway then ehhhh it will probably be just fine! But if you did happen to want an (IMO) more polished co-op experience, then using the Copper mod to play through the original Quake campaign is a fine idea. The Copper changes relevant to co-op are here: http://lunaran.com/copper/changes/#cooperative-mode (and reading those changes will also give you an idea of what the original issues are) ========== One other thing to mention... original-style Quake co-op is fairly easy to run & will work great if you guys are on the same LAN together, but if you're trying to do it over the Internet then you will face more faffing-about ... router configuration for port forwarding, careful selection of appropriate Quake-playing programs, and one player being pretty lagged (unless you are playing a different kind of QuakeWorld-based co-op). So hopefully you are going to be doing this on the same LAN together? If not, you might actually want to get a QuakeWorld client (like ezQuake) and just both connect to an online QuakeWorld co-op server: https://www.quakeservers.net/quakeworld/servers/t=coop/ ========== Edit: Just occurred to me that you might be playing Quake Enhanced (the rerelease/remaster). If so, it should probably be fine for doing online co-op through its own new networking stuff, and FYI Copper is available as one of the official addons there. JLaw fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Feb 3, 2023 |
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