jmistajay posted:

Hey, that's me! I am said brother and am working hard on Cache Grabbers. The cool stuff you've said is greatly appreciated! I'd love to hear any feedback, or if you wanna play it I've got a Beta demo build that I can link you to if you DM me. Thanks, everyone!

Mescal posted:

code vein $9 or nioh 2 $30?

edit: looks like Nadir is out of EA today? sale on that too

Runa posted:

bought a copy because a friend sent me a screenshot of not!Char and his crazy ride

Strong Sauce posted:

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

The Gripper posted:

This isn't the exact clip but it's the same fight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJM-fsGJVDw

It's the dodge tutorial though and the movement is intentional, probably to stop people outranging it and never needing to dodge.

Sab669 posted:

Meet Your Maker is definitely getting more fun the more time I spend. At first you're just doing crude puzzles made by other people new to the game, and there's some clever gatchyas but nothing too crazy. Then once you start learning more and build more elaborate traps it's really fun. You can watch Replays of other Raiders raiding your base and it's so fun watching people figure your maze out as they die 3-5x in the span of 2 - 10 minutes.

Definitely looking forward to seeing what some people in the community can come up with for devious, bullshit traps.

My first base has had 22 Attempts and it's killed 29 times, giving it a Kill Ratio of 1.3
My second base, a Medium sized one now that I've got my bearings on the game more, has had 4 attempts and has killed 26 times already for a KR of 6.5

You can also apply up to 2 of 4 Tags at the end of a Raid on someone's base, Fun, Brutal, Ingenious, and Artistic. Also fun seeing how people rate your maze afterwards.

Immensely cool concept for a game.

FutureCop posted:

Dad by the Sword - HMMM - As a Dark Messiah of Might and Magic fan, I really want to like this. It has a lot of cool stuff like kicking enemies into spikes, Metal Gear Rising-esque dismemberments, directional slashes and blocks/parries based on movement, and so on. But the game just feels really wonky and unfocused at the moment with all sorts of bugs, and the levels are pretty boring and repetitive. Something to keep an eye on though, as if it gets polished I think it could be great.

The 7th Guest posted:

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.

FutureCop posted:

Cool (and not so cool) Next Fest demos I've tried:

Radio the Universe - COOL - Very stylish and atmospheric top-down Zelda-like where you play as a surprisingly heavy robot who clunkily explores a ruined techno city, keeps jumping down pits and battles enemies while using the appropriate sequence of moves to ensure they reduce the enemies HP to exactly zero for EXP. Also features a lot of 2.5D jumping puzzles, similar to ones seen in Unsighted, Crosscode, Alundra, and other Zelda-likes.

lih posted:

it's planned for release in winter 2020

FutureCop posted:

Picayune Dreams - COOL - Interesting Vampire Survivors-like that, like Hades, differentiates it from the crowd with an incredible sense of style, tons of dialogue that changes every run and a mysterious story you piece together as you progress with all sorts of lore nuggets being dropped in Yume Nikki sidestories as you defeat bosses. Gives me Evangelion, Returnal or maybe Ender's Game vibes.

C.M. Kruger posted:

they made cruelty squad into a vampire survivors

LLSix posted:

I'm glad you mentioned this game.

The theming would usually make me ignore it, but it's a genuinely fun game. The tutorial works well and raiding is legitimately fun. Some people are assholes and have a single room full of every guard possible - I finally beat that one but I think I'll skip any others I see like that. Others are really clever. My last raid of the night killed me an average of 4seconds past my previous death location 12 times in a row and I was laughing the whole time.

I must be terrible at this game, but I still enjoyed it a lot. Everything dies in one hit, including you. It feels fair in a way a lot of "hard" games don't.

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FutureCop posted:

Gripper - NOT COOL - It looks stylish and I think the whole motorcycle combat where you hook onto enemy body parts and pull them off, only to chuck them right back at them is very novel. But currently the game feels really unpolished and janky, lacking any sort of satisfying punch to the combat due to sparse audio, and is overly cinematic/QTE focused. It has that kind of feeling where it was built assuming the best case scenario, and anything you do outside of that best case causes bugs (very common with a lot of these Next Fest demos, I feel)

explosivo posted:

I pushed through to the end of the story in Dying Light 2 last night and hooboy that whole ending bit stunk. Laughable plot contrivances, corridors leading to cutscenes followed by another corridor and another cutscene (etc), and to top it off a lovely FOUR PHASE boss fight where the boss AI frequently glitched out and either had him standing there while we wailed away or jankily teleporting between locations where he was supposed to be. The moment to moment gameplay in DL2 is pretty fun and it's been made much better with this new ragdoll update but the plot sure does loving suck and that ending was bad. I also hate how often they do the "Aiden is turning into sicko mode Aiden and has to stop to look at his hands as he contemplates what he has become" thing for no reason other than to stop you for a couple seconds before you continue on your way. Reminds me of the thing in Fallout 5 where you keep getting stunlocked out of nowhere to force you into plot; it's just never fun having control taken away from you and it feels worse when your character just gets up and is able to continue as normal right afterwards.

explosivo posted:

I pushed through to the end of the story in Dying Light 2 last night and hooboy that whole ending bit stunk. Laughable plot contrivances, corridors leading to cutscenes followed by another corridor and another cutscene (etc)

Fwoderwick posted:

Some of the plot and chat is entirely passable, but the bits that drag it down (like how nearly everyone is an unlikeable idiot with too much to say) just kill alls of it.

Fwoderwick posted:

Currently playing through it in co-op and spending a lot more time trying to game the systems to get upgrade materials than touch the plot. But boy, every time we do we're in permanent eye-roll mode. The sequence with Lawan as you move to the second area for the first time where it's walk->chat-->walk->chat->walk->chat was just exhausting. Glad to know we're in for more!

Some of the plot and chat is entirely passable, but the bits that drag it down (like how nearly everyone is an unlikeable idiot with too much to say) just kill alls of it.

kazil posted:

Improving the dialogue and writing from DL1 should have been the easiest slam dunk in gaming history and yet

Jack Trades posted:

Dying Light 1 had too much bad story that was in the way of the gameplay and by the sounds of it Dying Light 2 has even more even worse story that's even more difficult to ignore, which is the reason why I haven't bothered touching the game at all.

explosivo posted:

It's actually incredibly easy to ignore because you can insta skip any conversation and I think the game is better if you do. I just decided to start paying attention at the very end to see how it all wrapped up.

Jack Trades posted:

They changed that? I remember people say that at launch you could only skip one sentence at a time.

Croccers posted:

Looks more like Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1507780/Space_Warlord_Organ_Trading_Simulator/