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Played a bit of Ctrl Alt Ego during the weekend. I saw some people claim it was the best immersive sim in years, which I guess just means that immersive sims are a starved genre. It's...fine. The controls are floaty and the physics janky, and the "approach any way you want" gameplay seems to only give one or two options most of the time. Hacking and taking over enemy robots requires you to spend your most precious resource, which means that straight up combat is the most economic way to get through things, especially if you get the upgrade that turns scrap into ammo. Stealth is bad, mostly because of the aforementioned bad physics. I can't count the number of times I've teleported into a camera or something, and then got an alert an enemy attacked my main robot, because the robot continued sliding across the floor after I teleported out of it. It's still an OK experience, but I'd suggest getting it on sale.
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ymgve posted:Played a bit of Ctrl Alt Ego during the weekend. I saw some people claim it was the best immersive sim in years, which I guess just means that immersive sims are a starved genre. It's...fine. That was my experience too. And yeah, it probably IS still the best one in years but only because there haven't been any others.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Whats the Wizard gameplay like in Gedonia? How doe sspell casting work? Most people I've seen talk about it seem to go for rogues or warrior types. I would guess it's very powerful, at least the one follower I had briefly was wreaking havoc everywhere with his spells. Read about mage builds primarily using lightning as main and then fire + take the magic overload skill from Arcane tree to the max and use it 3 times for maximum carnage (I had that one as well on my Dark Knight build). Look into joining the mage's guild as soon as you can for some epic relics (if it's anything like the warriors' guild). However respeccing is so easy you can try different things out. 3 points in alchemy can craft the Oblivion potion and it only costs 1600 gold to buy anyway. Really maybe one thing I would've liked would be crafting skills be separate from the traditional skill points you gather and have progress in them some other way. Now I basically just specced into crafting to see what I need, then craft it and re-spec back. Lakbay posted:Thank you Gedonia posters for making me look up the game, I bought it and I've put about 6 hours into it and I'm having way more fun than I was expecting Really at this point with so many people posting the exact same experience the tagline for the game should be "Gedonia - way more fun than you expected" TeaJay fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Feb 26, 2023 |
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Feb 26, 2023 20:38
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Gooses and Geeses posted:... oh dear Jesus Christ lol, why
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Feb 26, 2023 21:29
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Ciaphas posted:something humans something real monsters something
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Feb 26, 2023 21:37
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Beating your nonhostile AI companion to death for having the wrong number of limbs Strong cop energy
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Feb 26, 2023 21:38
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its like every time people mention that the cannibals in the original arent hostile by default and tons of folks are like "whaaaaaaat but i hit them with my axe on reflex"
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Feb 26, 2023 22:12
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Gamers are monsters. What else is new.
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Feb 26, 2023 22:14
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I once killed a nonhostile NPC in Outcast, but in my defense I had just gotten mauled by a bear trap, so when I saw the fucker who was setting traps in the distance I just started blasting.
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Feb 26, 2023 22:15
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Perhaps the real monsters were the friends we made along the way.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:its like every time people mention that the cannibals in the original arent hostile by default and tons of folks are like "whaaaaaaat but i hit them with my axe on reflex" I think they get mad if they see you cutting down trees though, which you kind of have to do if you want to build anything
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Feb 26, 2023 22:30
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Dr. Video Games 0069 posted:Perhaps the real monsters were the friends we made along the way. If only we made the effort to speak to them...
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:I think they get mad if they see you cutting down trees though, which you kind of have to do if you want to build anything you have an opportunity to back off and apologise, then go back to cutting things down elsewhere
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Feb 26, 2023 22:43
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:you have an opportunity to back off and apologise, then go back to cutting things down elsewhere Makes sense, considering the game's setting. 
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ymgve posted:Played a bit of Ctrl Alt Ego during the weekend. I saw some people claim it was the best immersive sim in years, which I guess just means that immersive sims are a starved genre. It's...fine. The controls are floaty and the physics janky, and the "approach any way you want" gameplay seems to only give one or two options most of the time. Hacking and taking over enemy robots requires you to spend your most precious resource, which means that straight up combat is the most economic way to get through things, especially if you get the upgrade that turns scrap into ammo. Stealth is bad, mostly because of the aforementioned bad physics. I can't count the number of times I've teleported into a camera or something, and then got an alert an enemy attacked my main robot, because the robot continued sliding across the floor after I teleported out of it. Also it was actually funny at times, though admittedly it is mostly Programmer Humor which is not going to be everyone's cup of tea.
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Serephina posted:I once killed a nonhostile NPC in Outcast, but in my defense I had just gotten mauled by a bear trap, so when I saw the fucker who was setting traps in the distance I just started blasting. I mean that's just irresponsible hunting so I see no issue here
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Feb 26, 2023 22:55
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ymgve posted:Played a bit of Ctrl Alt Ego during the weekend. I saw some people claim it was the best immersive sim in years, which I guess just means that immersive sims are a starved genre. It's...fine. The controls are floaty and the physics janky, and the "approach any way you want" gameplay seems to only give one or two options most of the time. Hacking and taking over enemy robots requires you to spend your most precious resource, which means that straight up combat is the most economic way to get through things, especially if you get the upgrade that turns scrap into ammo. Stealth is bad, mostly because of the aforementioned bad physics. I can't count the number of times I've teleported into a camera or something, and then got an alert an enemy attacked my main robot, because the robot continued sliding across the floor after I teleported out of it. yeah its massively overrated jank/junk.
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Gedonia is a weird combo of early 3D action rpgs like Dungeon Lords or Ultima 9 and Everquest. I like it since sometimes I just wanna play around with builds and get XP and not bother with a story. The graphics look worse on the store page than they do when you are playing. On the deck it runs alright and the gamepad controls are a little wonky but acceptable. The one issue is that load times are kinda long but the dev said they are looking into it.
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Unlocking characters in Octopath Traveler 2 and one of the scenarios starts off as Count of Monte Cristo but Edmond Dantès knows magic. Hell yeah, game continues to own.
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Feb 27, 2023 01:12
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Ragequit posted:Edmond Dantès knows magic. 
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Feb 27, 2023 01:38
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I started Gedonia with a controller but I suspect I'm actually supposed to be using mkb.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:its like every time people mention that the cannibals in the original arent hostile by default and tons of folks are like "whaaaaaaat but i hit them with my axe on reflex" No... No, it can't be....  That friendly hexalimb lady sounds cool as beans.
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Feb 27, 2023 06:28
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I miss Burnout and NFS: Most Wanted. It's crazy that there haven't been another game like that in 11 years.
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Jack Trades posted:I miss Burnout and NFS: Most Wanted. EA is sat on some of the racing genre's most prestigious IP and a couple of years ago acquired the industry's leading racing game focused studio. I hoped that would lead to more than we've seen so far. We've got to be close to an announcement on this years rally game (EA can use the WRC license they acquired with Codies from this year) but even then I guess we'll see if that's actually a good thing vs what could have been a theoretical Dirt Rally 3.0.
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I played the Wo Long demo and I can say that whatever journo outlets were comparing it to Nioh were full of poo poo. Nioh had a whole bunch of interesting and mechanics to learn which were extremely satisfying to use and Nioh 2 tripled down on that with even more cool mechanics. Nioh 2's combat was so extremely customizable and varied you could have a bajillion different playstyles. Meanwhile Wo Long has you press 3 buttons. You mash some X until the bar goes up then you mash some Y and watch the bar go down. Then when you feel like you're in trouble you press B. I guess you also have up to 4 magic moves, which in the demo were all practically the same, and up to 4 weapon moves, which were all superfluous in the demo. Holy poo poo what a disappointment. If I wanted to watch a bar fill up and deplete, I'd play a souls game.
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Feb 27, 2023 13:34
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Nioh's garbage compared to souls games
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Gort posted:Nioh's garbage compared to souls games Uh-huh. Circle strafing with your shield up until you can get a backstab sure is peak gaming.
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Feb 27, 2023 15:50
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Last Command. This game is great! Shooter game which is about navigating your snake around to pick up power ups during crazy boss fights. The core gameplay design here is so solid and the bosses have a ton of different mechanics, would love to see more games like this. Not ultra hard though the harder difficulties can be tough. If anyone knows anything else like this would be interested.
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Jack Trades posted:Uh-huh. Circle strafing with your shield up until you can get a backstab sure is peak gaming.
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I don’t think circle strafing has really worked as a consistent strategy since the first dark souls. Hell it’s probably more effective in Nioh
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Gort posted:Nioh's garbage compared to souls games Eh, I think they're an interesting offshoot. I can take or leave the Diablo-style loot (I like ARPGs so I'm used to aggresively filtering stuff, so that helps) but the weapon/moveset variety and the addition of onmyo/ninjutsu/spirit guardians/soul cores on top give you A LOT of room to experiment and levers to pull. Souls games do exploration better but Nioh empowers the player much, much more in terms of combat mechanics. Also co-op is 100% hassle-free and painless in Nioh and that's a big point in its favor. Edit: FWIW I love every single FromSoft Souls title so it's not even a preference thing - Dark Souls 3, Nioh 2 and Bloodborne are some of my favorite games ever. Azran fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Feb 27, 2023 |
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CharlestheHammer posted:I don’t think circle strafing has really worked as a consistent strategy since the first dark souls. I don't know what you're smoking. It worked perfectly fine in Dark Sous 2 and what little of 3 I could stomach playing, and Nioh doesn't even let you backstab in combat.
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Why would you need to backstab? That wasn’t how you used circle strafing in actual combat, hell most bosses can’t even be backstabbed
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*Sees the most obvious Dark Souls vs Nioh bait on the planet.* *Bites anyway*
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we got Nioh and then Nioh 2, which was Nioh but Moreso. I can’t blame the devs for wanting to change up the formula a bit more even if they still won’t back off from the loot vomit
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Let's all just ignore the obvious Jack Trades troll bait intended to belittle those who have different tastes from them
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Jack Trades posted:I miss Burnout and NFS: Most Wanted. What's the most modern of these arcadey racers that's still considered good to play with controller today?
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chird posted:What's the most modern of these arcadey racers that's still considered good to play with controller today? The newest Need For Speed (NFS: Unbound) is actually very good and very much worth playing. Feels a lot like a newer Burnout Paradise with a dash of Most Wanted.
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Yeah, poor extremely neglected souls fans. Whomst've gonna defend them from mean 'ol grandpa Jack.
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you're like the guy sitting in the corner spraying cheez whiz into his mouth telling everyone the immaculate gouda served up on a plate is poo poo
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