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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Hey folks, the game I spent the last three and a half years working on is done! It's called Waves of Steel, and it's a ridiculous build-your-own-warship arcade naval combat game.
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Nancy posted:sentai pose I really want to emphasize this, when typing this out addressing non-Japanophile audience, nobody knows what that means. And no, don't tell me either, I don't want to know. The same thing happened when I was discussing Hades during early access, I made a comment about how I was surprised that a character that was dismissive to the protag all of a sudden changed tack and wanted to bang. Some helpful poster replied with "Well of course, that's a well known anime trope called ____, it was obvious all along!" and... I don't know how to respond to that politely. ------------ edit: TooMuchAbstraction posted:Hey folks, the game I spent the last three and a half years working on is done! It's called Waves of Steel, and it's a ridiculous build-your-own-warship arcade naval combat game. That game is not my jam unfortunately, but that is one heck of a sales pitch on the Steam Page; Kickflips? nice. Serephina fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Feb 7, 2023 |
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Serephina posted:I really want to emphasize this, when typing this out addressing non-Japanophile audience, nobody knows what that means. And no, don't tell me either, I don't want to know. sounds like a you problem op
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 23:08 |
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Registered here since 2005, doesnt know what sentai is? Is that really possible?
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 23:12 |
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Serephina posted:I really want to emphasize this, when typing this out addressing non-Japanophile audience, nobody knows what that means. And no, don't tell me either, I don't want to know. I’m old. I see poo poo like that and just assume, completely biased from exposure and experiences on The Internet, “This person holds views on Age-of-Consent laws.” Like Bitcoiners.
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 23:14 |
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it's power rangers. Sentai is power rangers.
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 23:17 |
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You can Google words and it'll tell you what they mean. Less effort than acting like your inability to learn is a point of pride
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Serephina posted:I don't know how to respond to that politely. "oh that's neat, thanks" "i see, i wasnt familiar with that" "thanks"
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 23:22 |
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hentai pose
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 23:30 |
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does anyone have that harry potter clip where the enemy just glitches/slides in front of your character and hits them? sorry it was a while back and i forgot who posted it
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:"oh that's neat, thanks" I'm sympathetic to Serephina's OP, but this is still a good post.
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 23:33 |
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I’m not googling the anime words, you can’t trick me.
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Serephina posted:I really want to emphasize this, when typing this out addressing non-Japanophile audience, nobody knows what that means. And no, don't tell me either, I don't want to know. https://i.imgur.com/iRxEy3c.mp4 It's turned out really lame.
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Serephina posted:I really want to emphasize this, when typing this out addressing non-Japanophile audience, nobody knows what that means. And no, don't tell me either, I don't want to know. a childe who didn't watch power rangers is a sad childe
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how someone old enough to post in these forums and presumably had electricity growing up didn't even hear of power rangers is positively mind boggling
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I can say with 100% confidence that no american child who watched power rangers knew what sentai was or that they were watching it
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Kibayasu posted:I’m not googling the anime words, you can’t trick me.
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LLSix posted:I'm sympathetic to Serephina's OP, but this is still a good post. yeah like, i get a little annoyed when people post about stuff and act like everyone should know the very specific thing, but acting morally superior about not knowing the thing because Japan is just such a bad look No Wave posted:Registered here since 2005, doesnt know what sentai is? Is that really possible? No Wave posted:it's power rangers. Sentai is power rangers. like i take as much issue with this - if you grew up with power rangers as a child, not only do they not stop and say "this is based on super sentai, which is part of the tokusatsu genre", most people who grew up with power rangers did not keep watching it and probably forgot a lot about it even if they were super huge fans as a child, don't be an elitist poo poo because someone doesn't know your niche interest come the gently caress on
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:yeah like, i get a little annoyed when people post about stuff and act like everyone should know the very specific thing, but acting morally superior about not knowing the thing because Japan is just such a bad look
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Not knowing specific anime tropes is fine but the concept of "two characters constantly bicker and talk poo poo until they smooch in a heated moment" is an extremely common theme that has been in movies for a hundred years and books for even longer.
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imagine having the internet right there at your fingertips and completely making GBS threads yourself because you don't understand a word
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No Wave posted:You don't get it. In 2005 all anyone talked about here was power rangers, pants making GBS threads, and ecto cooler. they might just have been around the pants making GBS threads threads!
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Pwnstar posted:Not knowing specific anime tropes is fine but the concept of "two characters constantly bicker and talk poo poo until they smooch in a heated moment" is an extremely common theme that has been in movies for a hundred years and books for even longer. What are you, my wife?
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# ? Feb 8, 2023 00:08 |
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Merely google the word one letter off from hentai (on your employer’s network)
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Googling duck videos but my finger slips and hits the key one letter over.
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I would love it if we could bring the conversation back to videogames at some point. Actually wasn't there some little tactics game that was a power rangers knockoff? Chroma Squad? Was that any good?
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HopperUK posted:I would love it if we could bring the conversation back to videogames at some point. Actually wasn't there some little tactics game that was a power rangers knockoff? Chroma Squad? Was that any good? It was alright
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HopperUK posted:I would love it if we could bring the conversation back to videogames at some point. Actually wasn't there some little tactics game that was a power rangers knockoff? Chroma Squad? Was that any good? Yeah, Chroma Squad is a good time. Fun combat, good music and self-aware humor that doesn't suck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm5AJLD-1yg
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Is there a list of what demos are worth checking out during Next Fest / additionally Steam Deck friendly?
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HopperUK posted:I would love it if we could bring the conversation back to videogames at some point. Actually wasn't there some little tactics game that was a power rangers knockoff? Chroma Squad? Was that any good? Almost every night I play an hr or so of elden ring, usually beating a miniboss or cave dungeon or two. This is my second playthrough, my first was dex based and now I'm running a sword of night and flame/int base and it's pretty fun though it's a lot more spatial positioning than I normally like. The wind up takes forever to trigger.
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Oscar Wild posted:Almost every night I play an hr or so of elden ring, usually beating a miniboss or cave dungeon or two. This is my second playthrough, my first was dex based and now I'm running a sword of night and flame/int base and it's pretty fun though it's a lot more spatial positioning than I normally like. The wind up takes forever to trigger. More difficult or just more to think about during the fight?
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Harlock posted:Is there a list of what demos are worth checking out during Next Fest / additionally Steam Deck friendly?
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HopperUK posted:More difficult or just more to think about during the fight? More to think about really. Since I'm playing a wimpy sorcerer guy I can't poise through hits so the smallest thing will knock me out of my wind-up. It's not difficult yet, though finding windows might get tough with some of the more energetic bosses toward the end. I'm up to the end of Volcano and starting the capital right now. It helps that when it hits it hits hard.
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Harlock posted:Is there a list of what demos are worth checking out during Next Fest / additionally Steam Deck friendly? I haven't really gotten to play a lot of demos for Next Fest, though there's a lot that looks interesting. I guess I'll review the one that I did play. I can list the others that looked interesting to me if people want though. The Ouroboros King is a new addition to the storied "what if we took chess and made a different game out of it" subgenre. It's more of a puzzler with chess rules that lets you build up a selection of customizable pieces along with a collection of items over the course of a run, with the ability to modify how much the odds are stacked against you. It's probably not winning any game of the year awards, but if you wanted a less RNG version of Pawnbarian or less drawn out version of Chess Evolved Online, it's worth looking into.
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Commander Keene posted:7th Guest usually does huge posts about a bunch of the games that get demos in these events, just gotta wait for them to play them. Scene Investigators Given that the game has been in production for a couple of years now, I'm a bit concerned that the only screenshots on the store page are of the demo itself. The KS does promise keys in May though. This is by the dev of Painscreek Killings, a mystery walking simulator that I thought was pretty good until the weird chase scene at the end, because it just let you roam and break into buildings and figure things out yourself. Scene Investigators looks to slide right into the "Deduction" sub-genre of mystery games by giving you a crime scene and asking you questions about it. Your only interactions are to zoom in and pick up things to examine close-up (and then put back down). That's it. So it all comes down to your observation skills and the clues you find. It's PROMISING, but not perfect. The demo locked off certain doors, which, is kind of weird for an investigation? You CAN theoretically deduce and get all the answers right, but it does feel like you have to do some stretching and leaping in your mind to get to where the devs are, which probably would have had less of a gap if you could go into those rooms. Shadows of Doubt Folks, we've got an immersive sim on our hands. An immersive sim with procgen, so... it's a real rollercoaster ride of ups and downs. Two of the three words, very exciting. Detective + ImmSim. Yes, very good. Third word, procgen? I have concerns. You take on cases as a private investigator and go around hunting down leads, finding clues, and amassing a very cluttered mental pinboard (yes you can get pepe silva up in here, like the show on tv). Because it's an immsim that means you have a lot of freedom in how you do this. You can lockpick doors and shut off security systems, enter ventilation systems, break windows and jump in, or just wait until someone opens a locked door, run in and punch people until they're knocked out and you can explore in peace. There's computers with passcodes, safes with keypads, sticky notes everywhere, emails to read. It's got all the stuff you expect. It also looks like there will be augments/upgrades in the full game (I couldn't figure out how to install them in the clinic when I tried it in the demo). HOWEVER, all that cool stuff aside, I've got issues with the proc gen. NPCs will often say the same exact poo poo to you no matter what you ask them, and their dialog hasn't been fully proofread. I encountered two separate workstations in the same building that had identically-written emails from differently-named spouses. The voxel look of the game means that NPCs don't look super distinct from each other. And we're at the surface level right now... what concerns me is that there are supposed to be procedurally-generated cases in the full game (and a sandbox mode). Granted, you can put together a Cluedo randomizer without much difficulty these days so creating standard murder investigations to solve is not like a crazy concept. But if the NPCs don't have any flavor to them, then that bodes poorly for any flavor text that I would expect from a murder mystery. It's not just about whodunnit, you gotta get to know the players involved! What their deal is! What they do in secret! Their communications with each other! At the very least the demo case is hand-crafted, and I would assume that there will be a number of hand-crafted cases in the game as well, so if they have a decent level of quality to them, then I think this is worth a recommendation regardless of the issues I had.
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HopperUK posted:I would love it if we could bring the conversation back to videogames at some point. Actually wasn't there some little tactics game that was a power rangers knockoff? Chroma Squad? Was that any good? Surely you meant Cruelty Squad, OP. Play that as well. It’s really really good.
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buglord posted:Surely you meant Cruelty Squad, OP. Play that as well. It’s really really good. I would, but I literally have visual impairments that I think will make it even harder to look at than it is for most people.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Hey folks, the game I spent the last three and a half years working on is done! It's called Waves of Steel, and it's a ridiculous build-your-own-warship arcade naval combat game. bought a copy because a friend sent me a screenshot of not!Char and his crazy ride
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big cummers ONLY posted:You can Google words and it'll tell you what they mean. Less effort than acting like your inability to learn is a point of pride
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All according to sentai (sentai means power rangers)
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