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Oldstench posted:What are the good demos to try? There are too many games for Next Fest. What I've downloaded so far: Astra: Fading Stars, Boxes, Bzzzt, Cosplay Club, Crystals of Irm, I Am Future, Koa & the Five Pirates of Mara, The Last Case of Benedict Fox, Mr. Saitou, PictoPull, Pixelshire, The Ramsey, The Repair House, Scene Investigators, Shadows of Doubt, A Sister's Journey, SunnySide, Unmurk, Zid's Journey, Grim Guardians: Demon Purge, Full Void, Afterimage, Prison City, Teslagrad 2, Slave Zero X, Schism, Coven, Radio the Universe, Vividlope, End of the Sun, Valfaris, Glitch Busters, Star Hearts The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Feb 6, 2023 |
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Cook Serve Forever demo is light on content but it's pretty fun
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exquisite tea posted:Hi-Fi Rush solves a lot of parry problems by having all actions land on the beat. So you never really have to guess which enemy has some wildly unsynced windup attack because you know it'll always come out with regular timing. I see you have not yet faced the haiku bots
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I have and they were no match for me.
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Next Fest I’ve found is the perfect time to just give in to the algorithm, choose a genre you like and select the first recommendation. That said I’m looking forward to trying out Planet of Lana, Inkbound and Afterimage.
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Feb 6, 2023 19:42
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KazigluBey posted:
How is resetera taking this lol
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Feb 6, 2023 19:57
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Ready your grim-voiced narrators. https://twitter.com/DarkestDungeon/status/1622642005095636992
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Really digging Planet of Lana.sebmojo posted:How is resetera taking this lol All talk of the game is banned there lol.
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The Kins posted:Ready your grim-voiced narrators. Ayy a goon friend has been writing for this, she's real good so looking forward to it.
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The Kins posted:Ready your grim-voiced narrators. I hope this one has tighter pacing than the first one. I really liked the aesthetic and writing of the first one, but it just felt too drat long for its own good. I played it for some five hours, got to the point where I kinda felt like I had seen most of what it had to offer and should be about to head into the endgame, but then when I checked the ingame progress counter it was like "lmao you barely even completed a quarter of the game". Even accounting for purely optional content, that's just too drat much.
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I've only been able to get one demo to successfully download so far, but I will say that Dungeon Drafters is a real fun one, being somewhere between a Mystery Dungeon game and a deckbuilder (unsure how much of the latter thus far, it's giving me classes who have specific colored cards to choose from and I don't know how much you build between runs). An interesting mix, though, it kinda reminds me of the chaos of Roundguard's "Every turn, your skills randomize" modifier.
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Perestroika posted:I hope this one has tighter pacing than the first one. I really liked the aesthetic and writing of the first one, but it just felt too drat long for its own good. I played it for some five hours, got to the point where I kinda felt like I had seen most of what it had to offer and should be about to head into the endgame, but then when I checked the ingame progress counter it was like "lmao you barely even completed a quarter of the game". Even accounting for purely optional content, that's just too drat much. If the metaprogression isn’t too arduous/required to win I’m thinking this one should be better about it because the format has been changed to roguelite runs instead of a single long campaign. I’m interested in this one because DD1 was an incredible coat of paint around one of the worst and most luck-based gameplay paradigms I’ve played and this one seems to have addressed a lot of that (more effects are guaranteed to have results in fights, losing a run just means losing that run and not a set of heroes you’ll have to spend 5 hours of grinding to replace, etc). also, if you told me “they applied darkest dungeon’s art style to 3D graphics” I’d expect that to be a terrible change but in reality the animations are 
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Tiny Timbs posted:Probably for the best. The demo I played a while ago didn’t do much at all to distinguish it from the first game, so I hope they’ve put a bunch of work into it since then. I mean at the core its the same 6-DOF shooter, not really a full-on space shooter. Dont really know where the demo was at but the core gameplay didnt change and wont for the final release either. Neihter will the subpar story/characters/vo tbh, its not the selling point imo. Combat is fun enough and locations are very varied. Its a good game, but still a 6-DOF playing like a TPS in space, not the next Freespace or whatever.
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Gay Rat Wedding posted:if you told me “they applied darkest dungeon’s art style to 3D graphics” I’d expect that to be a terrible change but in reality the animations are Oh, the transition to 3D for Darkest Dungeon has been downright nearly flawless on the visual side. The animators had a ton of fun and the art is unmistakably DD but even more refined. It's been a few months since my brother and I have played it, but progression is a hell of a lot better (although at the time, it almost gets harder at times by the nature of all the negatives that get unlocked with the positives). Dealing with getting your band of miserable idiots to not hate each other or have their love triangles backfire while dancing on and off death's door constantly in the endgame is uniquely fun (but frustrating in that roguelike way). We played it enough to eventually pull a Dark Torch run through to the end after completing all the present content, so I guess it does play better for me personally. No idea if they've fixed it, but the only real mechanical gripe I have is how the random subclasses can really screw up a run. It's a real pain to get a subclass on a character that makes them nigh unusable without the abilities it's specifically made for, which you so happen to not even have unlocked yet. I wish there was an optional take vanilla version option.
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Last night I finished Homeworld 1 for the first time ever. I loved it so much, the story, music (ESPECIALLY THE MUSIC), and now its time to play Homeworld 2.
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I said come in! posted:Last night I finished Homeworld 1 for the first time ever. I loved it so much, the story, music (ESPECIALLY THE MUSIC), and now its time to play Homeworld 2.
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That Homeworld: Cataclysm has a really cool story.
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Mordja posted:Don't let other people tell you what to think, just listen to me instead: HW2 is actually the better game even if the story isn't as good. Yeah and honestly neither are that long of games anyways. So ready for Homeworld 3.
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Anyways I played some of the Meet Your Maker demo and it commits one absolutely cardinal sin that I hope they can fix: you die in a single hit to everything and there's a not-insignificant loading screen when you restart a run. Unacceptable.
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exquisite tea posted:Why DO the wizards dodge roll instead of having a magic teleport? are you a teen wizard in this game? in the books they make a big deal out of teleportation magic being NOT FOR KIDS!!!! because if you do it wrong/badly you can leave parts of your body behind. maybe the grownups were like absolutely not it is too dangerous, you should be fine just rolling around on the floor
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Got really excited when I saw a demo of an Uncharted Waters game in Next Fest but it turns out it's a port of a mobile MMO 
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Weedle posted:are you a teen wizard in this game? in the books they make a big deal out of teleportation magic being NOT FOR KIDS!!!! because if you do it wrong/badly you can leave parts of your body behind. maybe the grownups were like absolutely not it is too dangerous, you should be fine just rolling around on the floor If only it was a world where everything is made up and you can write any bullshit reason you want for cool things to happen. Alas. Rolling around is the only way to respect the source material
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I'm trying the demo for Phantom Brigade and it looks like blurry muddy garbage. This is what things look like off the center of the screen: What is this poo poo and how can I disable it? Some kind of DOF?
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GhostDog posted:I'm trying the demo for Phantom Brigade and it looks like blurry muddy garbage. This is what things look like off the center of the screen: Chromatic Aberration
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big cummers ONLY posted:If only it was a world where everything is made up and you can write any bullshit reason you want for cool things to happen. Alas. Rolling around is the only way to respect the source material The end result was wizards rowling all over the place
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Jack Trades posted:Chromatic Aberration Oh of course. How do I kill it? How do I kill it so good it will never be used in another game again?
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Oh goodness this seems problematic for sure https://twitter.com/PistolRick/status/1622606193481994240 Ragequit posted:Yer a wizard, Parry! absolutely yes
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https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1622550945442791426 Current twitter conspiracy is that this is actually a bad review that 1- the guy who wrote it is a HP crypto facist so blind for his love for the series that he overlooks the many flaws he listed in his article 2 - reviewers are afraid of angering gamergaters and are thus giving this game really good reviews despite it's many many flaws.
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GhostDog posted:Oh of course. How do I kill it? If you can get to the game's Engine.ini you should be able to modify it so that these effects are disabled - probably somewhere in the game's AppData folder. code:Scene fringe is Unreal's term for chromatic aberration: https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/RenderingAndGraphics/PostProcessEffects/SceneFringe/
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3 - games journalists are easily amused by shiny things. You can probably jiggle some keys in front of one and they'll give you a 7/10 at the very least.
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i cant believe game journalists gave an AAA game with a lot of cinematic polish a good score this is a conspiracy
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Jack Trades posted:3 - games journalists are easily amused by shiny things. You can probably jiggle some keys in front of one and they'll give you a 7/10 at the very least. I'm just repeating things I've seen, but this implies that games journalists never give bad reviews
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Feels Villeneuve posted:i cant believe game journalists gave an AAA game with a lot of cinematic polish a good score this is a conspiracy
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1622550945442791426 I was really hoping more people would quit twitter for their own sake. Twitter brain is a very serious disease
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To be clear, if this game had gotten bad reviews, we would currently be reading about an SJW conspiracy to squash what is the finest game ever made.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1622550945442791426 As people have pointed out elsewhere, it reads a little schizophrenic. It kinda goes like "Performance is garabage, bugs are common, controls are bad, enemy variety is nonexistent, story is dumb, 9/10 love it"
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Didn't IGN give overwatch a 10/10 in their 2020 re review? Isnt that already the lowest possible level a website could sink to?
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zoux posted:To be clear, if this game had gotten bad reviews, we would currently be reading about an SJW conspiracy to squash what is the finest game ever made. I'm honestly looking forward to hearing all these gamergaters frantically trying to justify how it's a masterpiece of a game. Anyways game reviewer interacts with media in the most shallow way possible, news at 10
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Perestroika posted:As people have pointed out elsewhere, it reads a little schizophrenic. It kinda goes like "Performance is garabage, bugs are common, controls are bad, enemy variety is nonexistent, story is dumb, 9/10 love it" Oh he doesn't have anything good to say about it at all? e: comments section is, well, it's exactly what you'd think
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CuddleCryptid posted:I'm honestly looking forward to hearing all these gamergaters frantically trying to justify how it's a masterpiece of a game. I'm not looking forward to any of that OP
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