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Spaseman posted:Can someone who doesn't own Shadow of War tell me what the definitive edition costs? I bought the base game without thinking and now I see that the definitive edition costs only a dollar more but I'm not sure if thats because I already bought the base game or if I screwed up and need to do a refund. $8.99 currently E: Page snipe and missed an entire page of posts. My bad
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John Murdoch posted:A big thing I hated in Shadow of War was how due to the way they rebalanced the difficulty modes (ie, just shifted them down one from Shadow of Mordor) the new normal difficulty had every single orc almost unfailingly higher level than you by default. Which meant recruiting them inevitably required mindfucking them to drop their level down, which was both increasingly uncomfortable and unpredictable, and most importantly loving tedious. Difficulty levels don't change orc levels in any way.
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Jack Trades posted:Difficulty levels don't change orc levels in any way. Okay then I hate the way they made every orc higher level by default then.
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Anno posted:Big ups to rope kid and team winning Best Narrative at GDC for Pentiment and Josh then using part of his acceptance speech to dunk on the conference. I’m guessing they are expecting participants to arrange transport and lodging on their own dime? Wouldn’t surprise me if nominees choose not to attend. I like the Bill Watterson cosplay
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Stereo Boy is a good game, and I recommend it for any puzzle game fans.
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I unlocked most of the base forms of the skills in Shadow of War and combat really does become a lot more tolerable once you are able to do the ice strike thing and freeze people while shadow striking multiple enemies in a row and plugging away with headshots along the way; you just have a lot more options to deal with the packs that surround you. I still find most of the time that the hold X sweep attack works really well against really stubborn enemies because they don't seem to be able to block it but it's a bit boring and the feedback on the attack isn't really that satisfying. I still don't find all of the upgrades for the abilities super compelling, kind of running out of the upgrades I actually want to get and am now just unlocking things for the sake of it but it is nice that it lets you juggle equipped upgrades around mid combat to try stuff out.
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Before the sale ends are there any other good games (indie or not) of the style of Recettear, Mystia Izakaya or the cabaret minigame from Yakuza 0? Basically running and building up a small business where you directly control the boss/employees and the gameplay is fulfilling guest/buyer requests?
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So, what were people's problems with Wolfenstein TNC compared to TNO? I haven't tried playing it since it came out and I've been thinking of giving it another shot.
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Deakul posted:So, what were people's problems with Wolfenstein TNC compared to TNO? I haven't tried playing it since it came out and I've been thinking of giving it another shot. I played Old Blood and New Colossus back to back and IIRC the controls felt worse and NC had tons of effort put on talking with your buddies in the hub world, but they weren't very interesting or particularly likeable. Overall bad pacing.
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John Murdoch posted:Okay then I hate the way they made every orc higher level by default then. Its why I bounced off it too. Every time I'd go to recruit some orc I could never get them alone because it would randomly pop another orc in or some alarm would go off and I'd end up dying and the orc would just get loving stronger
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Checked out the old Shadow of War thread.Jack Trades posted:My new Gravewalker playthrough is already resulting in some interesting stories and since I decided to be clever this time, and actually bound steam taking a screenshot to one of the buttons of my controller so I can easily document everything that's happening, I have a bunch of stuff to show even. Jack Trades posted:Nemesis System, being as unpredictable as it is, cut the story of Dugz Lucky Shot short. I love that game. 
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LegoMan posted:Its why I bounced off it too. Every time I'd go to recruit some orc I could never get them alone because it would randomly pop another orc in or some alarm would go off and I'd end up dying and the orc would just get loving stronger Same here. I really wanted to enjoy it after loving Shadow of Mordor, but I felt that I couldn't actually do anything in the game without being swarmed by a mob of no-name orcs, and the captains were all so densely packed that I could never get one out in the open by himself.
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Pierson posted:Before the sale ends are there any other good games (indie or not) of the style of Recettear, Mystia Izakaya or the cabaret minigame from Yakuza 0? Basically running and building up a small business where you directly control the boss/employees and the gameplay is fulfilling guest/buyer requests? I dunno if I'm homing in and exactly scratching the itch you want, but in terms of nice management games, there's Potionomics, Moonlighter, Cooking Simulator, Potion Craft, the Cook Serve Delicious series, PlateUp, and...uh...Lobotomy Corporation?
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I'm finally playing Return of the Obra Dinn and it might have the best "Feeling Incredibly Overwhelmed By Game Mechanics At The Start" to "Feeling Incredibly Satisfied When You Actually Start To Figure Stuff Out" - ratio I've had in years. The last story based mystery games I played recently - Pentiment and Case of the Golden Idol - were also very good in this regard.
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I'm about halfway into Golden Idol I think and I love it so much. Just give me more stuff in this format. My only complaint is that I've accidentally cheesed the right answer a few times when it tells you that two or fewer answers are wrong. If you change something and it changes from "two or fewer" to "incorrect" then you know it must have been correct. I think I'd prefer it if it didn't give you that hint.
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FutureCop posted:I dunno if I'm homing in and exactly scratching the itch you want, but in terms of nice management games, there's Potionomics, Moonlighter, Cooking Simulator, Potion Craft, the Cook Serve Delicious series, PlateUp, and...uh...Lobotomy Corporation? If you are looking for a store management game, do not play Moonlighter. Moonlighter is a randomly-generated classic Zelda game with a terribly unfun store management minigame bolted on to it. The Zelda part is great and the game has exceptional pixel art but the store is bad, bad, bad.
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OzFactor posted:If you are looking for a store management game, do not play Moonlighter. Moonlighter is a randomly-generated classic Zelda game with a terribly unfun store management minigame bolted on to it. The Zelda part is great and the game has exceptional pixel art but the store is bad, bad, bad. Like a reverse Recettear
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Deakul posted:So, what were people's problems with Wolfenstein TNC compared to TNO? I haven't tried playing it since it came out and I've been thinking of giving it another shot. It's a few things. One is that the difficulty is strangely tuned, you only have half your health for about half of the game. You can hold more armor to supposedly compensate though but in practice I remember it making BJ feel annoyingly squishy. Then it's just the general map/game design. The previous games were excellent in letting you mix stealth with balls-to-the-wall action but in TNC, the stealth is a lot harder to maintain thanks to enemy placement and the fact that I think the levels are more linear. For me there was also the fact that Doom 2016 had come out between TNO and TNC, making the latter just feel kind of flat and obsoleted. But at the end of the day, the whole thing's just sort of boring. Like, they made attacking Hitler's Venus Fortress dull and short. I still remember listening to GiantBomb's GOTY and hearing everyone praise the game and absolutely everything good they said about it happened in cutscenes. E: That said it's *all right* for a single play through, the actual shooting is still good. Mordja fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Mar 23, 2023 |
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Jack Trades posted:Difficulty levels don't change orc levels in any way. Don't think that was the case; I remember Orcs frequently being much higher level than me back when I played at launch, while it happens pretty rarely now. This is from the patch notes around the time they removed all the marketplace/MTX stuff: "Increased the variability of levels of Orc Captains in late game. Now, more Captains could appear lower than the player's level, particularly on high difficulty settings."
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1144770/SLUDGE_LIFE/ is free to claim for a week because they announced a sequel is in development The soundtrack is the only thing I know about the game https://doseone.bandcamp.com/track/bubble-up
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goferchan posted:Don't think that was the case; I remember Orcs frequently being much higher level than me back when I played at launch, while it happens pretty rarely now. This is from the patch notes around the time they removed all the marketplace/MTX stuff: "Increased the variability of levels of Orc Captains in late game. Now, more Captains could appear lower than the player's level, particularly on high difficulty settings." Different zones have specific level ranges that determine what level a captain could spawn at. Those patch notes refer to widening those possible level ranges in post-game. It has nothing to do with difficulty modes. The only difficulty level that has any effect on the orc levels specifically is Gravewalker. It doesn't cause orcs to spawn at higher levels but if they kill you they go up 10-20ish levels instead of 1-5ish levels.
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Ey, I'm crosspostin' here!:Mordja posted:Time for another unsolicited modpost. This time it's about everyone's favourite hero-based, fantasy RTS that later became a popular MMO, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II: The Rise of the Witch-king. BFME2 modding may not be as widespread as its Command & Conquer cousins' and definitely not as diverse, considering every single mod is a LOTR mod. Well, there was an early attempt by the Blitzkrieg 2 team to port their WW2 game to the newer engine, but turns out it wasn't a great fit. Still, there's a decent community for the game and today I'll talk about its two biggest projects.  Quoting this because 8.0, the final (?) version of the Age of the Ring mod just hit. Possibly their biggest update yet, this release's marquee features include a fully-realized Haradwaith and an overhauled War of the Ring mode, which is basically Total War lite for BFME2. Alongside the usual glut of bugfixes, balance changes, and faction overhauls, 8.0 also introduces the concept of Adventure maps, which let you play as even more factions. Some are relatively minor variants, such as the Grey Company, while others are practically full-on races with their own unique units, heroes and spellbooks, such as Arnor and Rhûn.  I really do urge everyone to give this a try. It's one of the most professionally made fan projects I've seen and it breathes new life into a largely forgotten title. The mod and its installation instructions can be found here (it needs a fanpatch) and BFME2+ROTWK are essentially abandonware and have been hosted on GameReplays for more than half a decade so I doubt you'll have EA's lawyers knocking your door down.
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Gyoru posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1144770/SLUDGE_LIFE/ is free to claim for a week because they announced a sequel is in development Oh cool, thanks for the heads up. Doseone's involvement piqued my interest on this one but not enough to, y'know, buy it.
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I didn't realize people modded BFME2 at all, I'll have to check that out since I had downloaded the game to replay anyway.
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Mordja posted:It's a few things. One is that the difficulty is strangely tuned, you only have half your health for about half of the game. You can hold more armor to supposedly compensate though but in practice I remember it making BJ feel annoyingly squishy. Then it's just the general map/game design. The previous games were excellent in letting you mix stealth with balls-to-the-wall action but in TNC, the stealth is a lot harder to maintain thanks to enemy placement and the fact that I think the levels are more linear. For me there was also the fact that Doom 2016 had come out between TNO and TNC, making the latter just feel kind of flat and obsoleted. But at the end of the day, the whole thing's just sort of boring. Like, they made attacking Hitler's Venus Fortress dull and short. I still remember listening to GiantBomb's GOTY and hearing everyone praise the game and absolutely everything good they said about it happened in cutscenes. That's remarkably about how I remember feeling actually, Doom 2016 totally ruined nu-Wolf for me but I've recently played through The Old Blood and was surprised at how much I dug it up until the wicked dumb boss fight. Well, we'll see how I feel about it these days now that it's been a minute since I've played 2016 and Wolfenstein's more fresh in my mind, can't wait for daddy issues and wheelchair shootout. gently caress I wish Wolf '09 was still on Steam. 
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I think im one of two people that liked Wolfenstein: Youngblood the most, the person I cooped with is the other person that likes this game. Its a fun game and the armor types that gamers got real pissed at amount to just switching between two categories of weapons to exploit what the enemy is weak against. The levels are really intricate and the movement is super fast and frantic so its fun to optimize a route through the hub areas while you go on missions. Also the hatchet is low-key the best weapon in the game and will completely butcher enemies while you sprint through them at 50 mph its also coop, which makes everything more fun. The story is definitely the weakest part though. I never played New Colossus but from what I heard, some of the characters were kinda butchered in the new one ScootsMcSkirt fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Mar 23, 2023 |
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https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-play-on-the-go-bundlequote:Snooker 19 3 for $4.99/5 for $6.99/8 for $9.99
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fit em all up in there posted:Snooker 19 Ah, my favorite genre of b-sports game: numbered like an annualized release but they only got to make one
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Deakul posted:That's remarkably about how I remember feeling actually, Doom 2016 totally ruined nu-Wolf for me but I've recently played through The Old Blood and was surprised at how much I dug it up until the wicked dumb boss fight.
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Scalding Coffee posted:Wolf 09 somehow corrupted every single save I made right near the end, so I couldn't fight the last boss. That’s fine because the last boss is pretty awful IIRC.
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And to be clear, I'd almost certainly play a third nu-Wolf game. If anything Machine Games has shown that they actually can design maps with that new Quake episode they made. But other than that dev-hell Indy game they're supposed to be working on, I have no idea what's going on with them.
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Oh cool, 9 full minutes of Rem2, I didn't know people still did that anymore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9j1S-x2etM
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Warning If you played the demo for Storyteller, you essentially played the full game. Don't buy even at the launch discount, unless you like supporting the dev. fez_machine fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Mar 23, 2023 |
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Mordja posted:Oh cool, 9 full minutes of Rem2, I didn't know people still did that anymore Looks like more Remnant 1, which means I'll probably pick it up. Hopefully there won't be a boss you have to fight on a bridge this time.
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Deakul posted:So, what were people's problems with Wolfenstein TNC compared to TNO? I haven't tried playing it since it came out and I've been thinking of giving it another shot. TNC has some pacing issues and levels that are way too big and open and easy to get lost in, but I was just today reminiscing about it with a friend. Its high points are really high, the plot gets way out there in a great way. It gets more and more absurd in the best of ways. I think it's worth enduring the struggle to play through it. I put like 15 loving hours in Youngbloods though and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone ever holy poo poo
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HopperUK posted:Who's the best Shadows orc? I like the one who rhymes all the time. And the one who's creepily in love with you. It's just so unexpected. Best for me was The Tower. No, not the boss from the first game. The random orc in the second game who peeled his armor off, put it on, and got possessed by it. That armor was really pissed to see Talion. It also became my chief nemisis.
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Mordja posted:Oh cool, 9 full minutes of Rem2, I didn't know people still did that anymore This looks the exact same as remnant 1 and I'm unironically stoked about that
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