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Kennel posted:Could be neat. That's been tried: https://store.steampowered.com/app/546430/Pathway/ A good attempt but I didn't dig it, but also I think tactical combat doesn't pair well with every type of setting. Its easier to add variety with magic/scifi that's basically magic or JA style hardcore gun stuff. If it's grounded but vague that's easy to be boring. If the tactical combat isn't crunchy enough to be interesting, then it just takes too much time compared to alternative combat styles and Lamplighters looks like its story focused.
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Fwoderwick posted:Also generally poking around for what is the next easiest fight for your level. I remember instances where there'd be incredibly hard fights along the way that you're better off ignoring initially. There was a super tough gang guarding a tunnel entrance early on and it was better to sneak through and come back for them later. I think this is where I bounced off. I didn't think about... just avoiding them.
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Man, I am sure getting thrown a lot of 30-50% sales on my "only play through old/untouched stuff" run. Where were these sales a week ago, huh, Steam? Spring (Sale) Cleaning - March 6th  PREVIOUSLY NOT PLAYED - Phoning Home is a game that a kind and generous soul bought me as a part of one of the reciprocal gift giving threads, which is probably the only way I was going to try this thing out. It's a sort of... Action-Exploration game with crafting and puzzle elements? It starts off sort of rambling all over the place while you collect resources to build up your kit and advance the story. The game gets a little bit more focus later on, but also introduces a companion that you have to escort (read: babysit) for the rest of the game, increased necessity of navigating the idiosyncracies of the game's physics engine beyond jumping (which is present and somewhat annoying from the start), and mechanics that start pressuring you to get to the end of the game faster. Phoning Home can be a lovely experience, but it also makes you ask yourself if dealing with all of its annoyances is worth the effort. Jossar fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Mar 7, 2023 |
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AngryBooch posted:Lamplighters League may not be Crimson Skies but I'm still a sucker for 1930s pulp adventures, I love tactical RPGs, and Harebrained Schemes has a great batting average for me. So I'm definitely in. This looks neat and I'm glad to finally hear something from HBS after all this time, but I really want more Shadowrun RPGs someday.
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credburn posted:I found Mutant Year Zero to be fuckin hard as hell. I'm not bad at video games you guys MYZ is all about scouting the perimeter one-shotting stragglers from stealth and then setting up alpha strikes on groups. And don't use silenced weapons for the stealth part, noise range is low so as long as you're somewhat far away and the target drops in one round you're good. The silenced weapons simply don't have enough damage to do that reliably. It's a bit rote but the world and atmosphere pulled me through.
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HumbleBundle Choice March 2023: $11.99 for: quote:Biomutant
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Mar 7, 2023 20:14
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fit em all up in there posted:HumbleBundle Choice March 2023:
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anilEhilated posted:Is there anything, y'know, good in there? Yes. I played a good bit of Rogue Lords and it was really fun and had good depth, even if the unlocks come too slow. Golden Light is supposed to be very weird and interesting. I’ve been wanting to try that one for a while. I’ve heard people say good things about Jurassic Park, but can’t vouch personally.
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anilEhilated posted:Is there anything, y'know, good in there? Heros hour is HOMM with semi uncontrolled real-time battles. It was free with prime a couple of months ago and I've had some fun.
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anilEhilated posted:Is there anything, y'know, good in there? Played Biomutant on PS5 (was a psplus game) and can say it is very rough. It feels like they left a lot of placeholder stuff in the game and then just never changed that or polished it up. I havent played enough to say its bad or good but it feels very "okay"
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When’s the next big sale? Also what’s that site that tracks deals? Want to see if I can get tabletop simulator cheap.
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googling "next steam sale" tells me a spring sale is starting in 8 days. isthereanydeal.com is the deal site
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fit em all up in there posted:HumbleBundle Choice March 2023: Holy poo poo Biomutant lmao. That game must have been a colossal commercial failure. Hero Hour and Jurassic Park 2 kick rear end, though
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drat, Blood Bowl 2 plus all of the DLC can be had for $5.99 right now on Steam.
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Mar 7, 2023 21:41
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Oh nice I've had Monster Crown and Edge of Eternity on my wishlist forever.
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Propaganda Hour posted:Holy poo poo Biomutant lmao. That game must have been a colossal commercial failure. I got it for $3 from some pricing mistake somewhere, and could only stomach 2-3 hours. Which is wild because the world, art direction, combat, etc. were decent enough, but all together created an experience that just didn't feel right. I don't know how else to describe it.
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i've been going through the steam demo list, like the entire one, and just alphabetically earmarking anything interesting and downloading what i can to the Deck (as I think I mentioned before, right-hand menu demo links don't show up on the Deck's store page). i'm through 0 to M. the list so far: 77p Eggwife, 8-Bit Adventures 2, A Rat's Life: The Cat Conspiracy, A Space for the Unbound, Absinthia (Knight Bewitched 3), Backpack Hero, Belle Boomerang, Betrayal at Club Low, Beyond Sunset, Bits & Bops, Butcher, Chants of Sennaar, Chester's Revenge, Chorvs, COGEN, Conscript, Corsair's Madness, Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk, Cult of the Lamb, Dancin' Divas, Dandy Dungeon, Dead Horizon, Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum, Decline's Drops, Demons of Asteborg, Discolored 2, DoubleShake, DROP, Dynacat, Ekorella, Elementallis, Enchain, Fall of Porcupine, Fallen City Brawl, Find All: Magic, Froggo Swing 'N Grapple, Fur Quest, Garbanzo Quest, Gedda Cake, Gem Venture, Germinal, Grappin, Gravity Heroes, Greek Tragedy, Heart of the Woods, Heartbound, Hellscreen, Hellslinger, Hero.EXE, Humanless, illWill, Infinitevania, Interwoven, Iridium, Junkienator, Justice Sucks, Justice.exe, Kapia, Knight of Exile, Ladybug Quest, Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery, Looking for Aliens, Madcap Mosaic, Magenta Horizon, Mala Petaka, Mana Circle, Mariposa & the Galaxy Man, Mazeman, Mechanic 8230, Meg's Monster, Memoria (not the Daedalic game), Mindhack, Mirror Layers, Mirrored Soul, Monomyth, Mothmen 1966, Mr. Sleepy Man, Murica, My Familiar, Pixel Noir these I will have to download later through Desktop mode because of what I mentioned above: Burrowburrow, Beyond the Edge of Owlsgard, Beep's Escape, Card Shark, Cuboid Keeper, Devil Engine, Dormiveglia, Everblade, Fobia, Freedom Planet 2, Funk Unplugged, Ganryu 2, Golftopia, Grimfield Mystery, Hamsterdam, Hancho, Hannah, Infinos Gaiden, Jet Kave, Kraino Reanimated, Life on Mars, Madness: Project Nexus, Marco & the Galaxy Dragon, Max: the Curse of Brotherhood, Mayhem in Single Valley, Mechblaze, Million to One Hero, Mira's Tale, MURI while i'd like to go through the entire alphabet before actually playing any of them, there's no way the Deck will have enough space unless I just hold off on some of them... either way, it's entirely possible to create your own Next Fest if you wanted to, the amount of demos on Steam outside of festivals is insane. the sadder thing is how many demos I passed on because I'd look to see how development is going and the game was abandoned  (and I don't even mean in Early Access, they didn't even get to that point)
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explosivo posted:drat, Blood Bowl 2 plus all of the DLC can be had for $5.99 right now on Steam. Keep in mind the Blood Bowl 2 player pool will be smaller than ever with the sequel out, and there's no telling how long the servers will stay up. It's essentially a fire sale to compensate for BB3's horrible launch after it was stuck in development hell.
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Donnerberg posted:Keep in mind the Blood Bowl 2 player pool will be smaller than ever with the sequel out, and there's no telling how long the servers will stay up. It's essentially a fire sale to compensate for BB3's horrible launch after it was stuck in development hell. Yeah I truly don't care about online stuff, prob just going to play against CPU's to see what the game is about. I imagine anyone left playing 2 online are going to be real nasty fuckers.
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explosivo posted:Yeah I truly don't care about online stuff, prob just going to play against CPU's to see what the game is about. I imagine anyone left playing 2 online are going to be real nasty fuckers. BB2 is well made. The AI is kind of weak but if you just want to figure out the game and have fun whomping the CPU and leveling up your guys and killing opponent players then it's fun. I've played a bunch of it that way because I don't care enough to actually get good.
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Donnerberg posted:Keep in mind the Blood Bowl 2 player pool will be smaller than ever with the sequel out the player count has actually gone back up to more normal numbers after declining in 2022 specifically due to BB3's release lol https://steamcharts.com/app/236690#All
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Donnerberg posted:Keep in mind the Blood Bowl 2 player pool will be smaller than ever with the sequel out, and there's no telling how long the servers will stay up. It's essentially a fire sale to compensate for BB3's horrible launch after it was stuck in development hell. If you look at SteamCharts, Blood Bowl 3 was so poo poo that there has been a massive spike in player numbers for Blood Bowl 2.
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Okay, yeah, that makes sense. I just assumed those of us who've suffered Cyanide's games for this long were conditioned to accept misery. I wouldn't recommend BB3 to anyone, but I have fun with it. I read somewhere it was the 14th worst rated game on Steam. That has to be worse than even Cyberpunk 2077 did, surely. Attack on Princess fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Mar 7, 2023 |
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The first class for Remnant 2 got shown off and it just so happens to be the one I'll be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqD7thpTmHQ
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Ragequit posted:I got it for $3 from some pricing mistake somewhere, and could only stomach 2-3 hours. Which is wild because the world, art direction, combat, etc. were decent enough, but all together created an experience that just didn't feel right. I don't know how else to describe it.  except for the price error part. It’s like 4 different teams had a specific components of the game to build and none of the teams knew what each other was doing, so nothing seemed to gel.
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Mordja posted:The first class for Remnant 2 got shown off and it just so happens to be the one I'll be Stoked for Remnant 2, not really interested in being a Gunslinger but DOES ONE OF THE CLASSES GET A DOG 
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Where does Biomutant land on the Eurojank scale? I played Elex 1 recently and it was surprisingly okay. Sad to hear about the state of its successor. The kung fu combo combat is not my thing, looking for decent writing and quest design.
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sauer kraut posted:Where does Biomutant land on the Eurojank scale? Ooooh boy you are not going to find that in Biomutant.  And yeah it's just not even fun to play, combat is brainless and there's a boring loot system tacked on.
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sauer kraut posted:Where does Biomutant land on the Eurojank scale? I really enjoyed Elex…I posted a long while back that the main reason I didn’t bounce off early is because I was warned way in advance that you are absolutely poo poo at everything starting out. Like, worst early-game experience ever poo poo. But once you can actually kill one thing at a time you start being able to end doing ridiculous Eurojank combat and it’s one of my favorites. I’m glad I was warned, though. The jet pack is baller as hell, too 😬
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sauer kraut posted:Where does Biomutant land on the Eurojank scale? Don't bother. It's somehow jankier than Elex. The narrator is constant and atrocious, the systems are on the scale of half-baked to completely abandoned and the story doesn't reach what little potential it was aiming for. It's a cool premise and a beautiful world let down in every single fashion. I was really hoping it would let me enjoy something like "The hosed up adventures of hideous monster man" after seeing the opening and character creation but it was not to be.
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Oh dear, thanks guys. Gonna skip then, no interest in micromanaging dinosaurs either.
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Mordja posted:I thought Biomutant had pretty strong initial sales too and figured it would be one of those labor of loves the devs would stick with for a long time but nope, it got like one patch and then as far as I know the studio dissolved. I assumed it was a complete flop but apparently it sold a million units in the first few weeks and made back the money spent developing it. Surprising when every review I saw for it was negative.
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I got Aces and Adventures and it seems very good but it also makes me angry that we will never get another Sword And Poker game ever again. 
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sauer kraut posted:Oh dear, thanks guys.  I can't muster the energy to do another Spring Cleaning post, so I think I'm calling it here, especially since it was already starting to wind down. Such is the nature of my brain that I can only be fanatically obsessed with a single individual game for months on end or can't commit to a bit for more than a week. The closest thing I'm giving to a retrospective is that like NextFest I'm overall glad that I went back through everything because there were a couple of good games to be salvaged, but there is the sense that I did have to wade through a lot of stuff that I'm pretty much committed to putting down for good in order to get there. EDIT: Fiiiine, I'll do a low effort ranking too, but this is entirely about whether I plan on playing the games in question again, not about how good they are. DEFINITELY BUYING/STILL PLAYING: Terra Nil, Meltdown PROBABLY BUY ON A DECENT SALE/KEEPING INSTALLED: Nova Drift, Warm Snow, Night of the Full Moon MIGHT BUY ON A REALLY GOOD SALE/MIGHT PLAY AGAIN IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS: Sailing Era, HOARD, Empires of the Undergrowth, Black Ice WON'T PLAY: Hexarchy, Waves, Erra: Exordium, Warhammer 40,000: Dakka Squadron - Flyboyz Edition, Chorus, Seven: The Days Long Gone, Rollers of the Ream 2: Reunion, FIVE: Champions of Canaan, Torchlight II, Book of Demons, Grim Dawn, Darkest Dungeon, Phoning Home Now somebody tell me if Per Aspera is good enough to justify buying it at 50% off. It's the only one of the games that I'm considering buying that I'm on the fence about. Jossar fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Mar 8, 2023 |
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