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Mr.Acula posted:Otoh, is it worth it to get an Index just for HL:Alyx? no, get a quest 2 or pico 4 for a fraction of the price if you're just dipping your toes into VR the index isn't even unambiguously the best headset anymore, it's very well built but the cheaper alternatives have better resolution and wireless PCVR streaming while the index is still tethered
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imagine if video game controllers took after musical instruments instead of typewriters  it didn't make what i was describing, but still imagine
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GrandmaParty posted:this game is a love letter to FLCL I know you’re criticizing it, but this got my attention. How, the art style? Story?
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Mescal posted:imagine if video game controllers took after musical instruments instead of typewriters That was an entire genre in the late '00s
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Mescal posted:imagine if video game controllers took after musical instruments instead of typewriters I play fighting games on something similar to this 
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there's already a universal standard for "chording." they'd develop games differently if input could be that complex and nuanced. if it made piano sounds you'd always know whether you fat-fingered an input.
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Fruits of the sea posted:I know you’re criticizing it, but this got my attention. How, the art style? Story? This trailer really tells you everything you need to know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgd4aU56Kig That, and the fact that it's 98% positive with almost 7000 reviews.
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Played some more pre-Next Fest demos... starting from least interesting to most interesting. Legends of Kingdom Rush Kingdom Rush trying to be Braveland basically. It's ok. Heavily handholdy in the beginning, with an aesthetic that is still basically 'premium mobile title'. I liked Braveland but I think I need something more uptempo than this.  Freeride Playtest This was the previous demo before the Act 1 demo that they just put up for this coming week. There's a lot of style here but I have no idea what's going on, because the playtest was mostly just to see how people felt about the controls. Also it seems to be a mouse and keyboard game despite looking like a controller game (you use the mouse to telekinetically grab and throw objects). The concept sounds neat on the store page so I might give the new demo a try later this week, but it's weird that they can't make this a game that can work with a controller.  Glitched JRPG that disregards the fourth wall entirely, as the player is an overseer guiding the character's actions and making important choices that determine their personality, how people respond to them, and what skills they have in battle. It's got more going on than I thought it would, suggesting it's a little bit deeper than the usual game of this ilk (a game about a game, and things are glitchy!). The art is kind of simple but functional (and not asset-filled), and has a lot of unique descriptions for interactive spots. I looked at a bunch of different trees and the main character had something unique to say about each of them. Then I got some sort of achievement and Frog Coin for looking at five different types of furniture. Definitely has some promise.  The Tartarus Key Hell yea. An escape room game with a story, designed to look like a PS1 horror game, complete with hardcore texture warping. If the zombie shooting part of classic RE games got tedious to you and you only cared about the puzzles, Tartarus Key might be your speed. I like the banter between the main character and the private investigator who assists her. Not every quip works but it is an amusing back and forth, and examining objects will queue up 'party chat' opportunities where the two characters opine on what they saw. Very good foundation here. The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Feb 5, 2023 |
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Does Steam not have the option to update all games currently in the library with a single button press? I've currently got 75 games scheduled to update and I'd like to just get it all done now without having to click each manually and I'm not sure if my internet will be available during the month that it's all currently scheduled for.
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chestnut santabag posted:Does Steam not have the option to update all games currently in the library with a single button press? I've currently got 75 games scheduled to update and I'd like to just get it all done now without having to click each manually. If it’s there I’ve never seen it. It’s kinda annoying that it’s not an option
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Valve’s saving pennies making it more difficult to keep your games updated so it’s not going to happen
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chestnut santabag posted:Does Steam not have the option to update all games currently in the library with a single button press? I've currently got 75 games scheduled to update and I'd like to just get it all done now without having to click each manually and I'm not sure if my internet will be available during the month that it's all currently scheduled for. steam used to do that automatically even without a button press I guess they changed it to delayed/scheduled updating to stop a million steam clients hammering the servers at once when an update releases because people like me were just hoarding more and more games they weren't actually playing on their hard drives
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:steam used to do that automatically even without a button press They changed it because during the pandemic everyone was sitting inside without having anything to do but downloading their backlogs, which was causing too much strain on the servers.
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the feature was introduced in 2014 or so though, not really that new. Just been pushed even more into the future now depending on last played.
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Yeah, I think it auto-downloads if you've played in the last two weeks now, and delays/makes you manually update if past that? I know my regular games get patched without a hiccup.
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Is there a thread on morrowind modding around here? I'm getting the urge to play it but obviously not vanilla. (Don't think that'd even run right on windows 10.)
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Morrowind thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3430891 Not sure what the current recommendation is, been a couple years since I last tried. Open Morrowind is a relatively hassle free way to get it running.
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Zereth posted:Is there a thread on morrowind modding around here? I'm getting the urge to play it but obviously not vanilla. (Don't think that'd even run right on windows 10.) I recently had the same urge and used OpenMW plus a modified version of the 'I heart Vanilla: Director's Cut' on this web page. It's been great so far, but the process for modding it is kind of annoying. I eventually got it to work and added a few extra mods that I was interested in (at the bare minimum I suggest one of the 'expansion delay' mods to avoid getting attacked by an expansion assassin on like your very first night in the game).
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Fruits of the sea posted:I know you’re criticizing it, but this got my attention. How, the art style? Story? No, I love that it's a love letter to flcl. The art style. The story. The weapon and some things that happen to it. And then there's this from the credits. It's not a spoiler but this definitely says "yes we loved flcl."
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drat Dirty Ape posted:I recently had the same urge and used OpenMW plus a modified version of the 'I heart Vanilla: Director's Cut' on this web page.
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Just picked up Monster Hunter World for 11 bucks on a key site. Hopefully it is a good gameParadoxish posted:In this game that features lots of combat, good and fun combat isn't the point? I've heard good things about the combat as well, not going to make an opinion on one extremely short twitter clip, but my main point is that it's going to be accessible to kids, so from the start I've doubted that it's gonna be that great in the combat. Serviceable and sometimes challenging would be good enough imo. Plus I know there are tons of spells, not just two, so maybe that is early in the gam If anything it reminds me a bit of BioMutant. Which admittedly did not have the best combat.
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Decided to play a poo poo ton more Hades. I forgot how hard this game fucks. I do suck at it though. Plus it's a Bi Paradise! I'm hyped for hades 2.
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Hades is fun but all the stupid dialogue you have to click through sucks
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mystes posted:Hades is fun but all the stupid dialogue you have to click through sucks 
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Jack Trades posted:They changed it because during the pandemic everyone was sitting inside without having anything to do but downloading their backlogs, which was causing too much strain on the servers.
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mystes posted:Hades is fun but all the stupid dialogue you have to click through sucks This is the bad takes thread. You're in the right place.
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Although, how are you suppose to get the Very rare fishes? I know it's timing when you press the button but...I never caught one. Is there a way to make it easier or something?
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BigRed0427 posted:Decided to play a poo poo ton more Hades. I forgot how hard this game fucks. I do suck at it though. kinda funny how off-kilter some of the conversations get when you start winning consistently earlier than the devs evidently expected. i keep jumping backward in time on things like turning extreme measures on and off, or zag asking what that blood stuff is after my, like, 20th win mystes posted:Hades is fun but all the stupid dialogue you have to click through sucks Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Feb 6, 2023 |
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Am I seriously the only one who doesn't like the dialogue?!
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well idk about only one, but
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mystes posted:Am I seriously the only one who doesn't like the dialogue?! Yes, and we are all judging you for it. harshly. *Now goes off to make their Zagreus, Magera and Thanatos plushies all kiss.*
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The 7th Guest posted:
I just tried the demo as well based off your review and yep, feels great and looking forward to it! Getting that very polished sense I got from other cool recent retro games like Cyber Shadow. Thanks as usual for showcasing some cool games that might've slipped past my net. --- Pinging the Tales fans in here: would you say Tales of Arise is worth it? Currently sitting at around $20 on Humble, so I was a little curious. A lot of people seem to love it, but I'm also hearing a lot of people slamming it for bad difficulty (which I'm curious to see if I can figure out a way around with skill) and rushed story (which actually I feel might be a blessing since I feel most stories are a slog, like Persona 5) among other things: was hoping for a good Tales game finally after most modern ones have let me down (including Berseria, in my opinion, with its very boring dungeons/exploration and weird combat) but it unfortunately seems to have not righted the ship, mayhaps. I do have Tales of Vesperia still to play, so I'm wondering if I should just do that instead, but I actually hear a lot of people slamming it as well for a terrible back half, so hmm, maybe I should just move on from both?
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mystes posted:Hades is fun but all the stupid dialogue you have to click through sucks I don't click through it, I listen to it because it's good and I always want to hear what dad has to say.
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mystes posted:Am I seriously the only one who doesn't like the dialogue?! I mean, Supergiant has achieved pretty universal praise for their dialogue and storytelling elements over the course of their history (usually paired with mediocre gameplay). Hades is their first game that had actually good gameplay, but still feel like the story is really the front and center thing from them.
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Zereth posted:See I'd be more interested in the "Total Overhaul" one except there's no way I'm manually downloading 419 mods They have easy one click download mod lists for Skyrim and FO4 and such so I'm surprised that hasn't reached Morrowind.
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mystes posted:Am I seriously the only one who doesn't like the dialogue?! I don't think it's necessarily low quality but it definitely drove me away from the game. It bounced off me the same way Disney/Marvel/Star Wars movies do where it feels like it was written for a very specific fandom that I'm not a part of. (which for the record I'm not saying is a bad thing, just that I'm not the audience) Edit: The audience Hades is for is people who wrote horny fanfic about the greek gods 
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