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Filtering loot *is* trash design. (also as a pun ho ho ho) No other game has a 'remove the tedious content' slider quite like it, e.g. could you imagine playing DOOM with a slider that cuts out all the smaller enemies, RTS's that have a slider to remove low tech units, etc etc. It's a "Fix the problem, not the symptoms" type of pitfall. ARPGs are like MOBAS, some awful stylized mess that's just rehashing the same dopamine of a runaway hit decades ago through ever-more-degenerate mechanics. The genre really needs to be quarantined away.
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Other games call the 'remove the tedious content' slider "the difficulty level".
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Jack Trades posted:D2 and D2-inspired games like Grim Dawn are so loving boring because you're just stacking numbers and I'm allergic to spreadsheets. They're fun for me because I just play them and don't care about beating the very hardest difficulty levels.
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Serephina posted:Filtering loot *is* trash design. (also as a pun ho ho ho) PoE's filter capability is pretty flexible, it's not just "don't show common rarity items", you can also set it up to like specially highlight certain item types etc. -- lots of build guides have custom filter settings you can use when leveling that are built around items that may be useful to that specific build but relatively worthless to anyone not playing it.
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D3 was good because killing hordes of enemies was fun and it was very easy to find a fun-rear end build for killing those hordes of enemies. When you get to deep endgame the balance flips and you're stuck with fewer (or one) option, but the trick is that you're allowed to stop playing whenever you want, including when the game sucks or isn't as fun as it used to be. I think most people hit a skill/effort or time wall before long they'd really butt up against any of the real build issues.
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I'm failing to see the appreciable difference between "you get 99% trash and then 1% of the time a shiny drops and you go ooh wow" and "the filter lets you more easily ignore the 99% trash and then the same 1% of the time a shiny drops and you go ooh wow".
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John Murdoch posted:I'm failing to see the appreciable difference between "you get 99% trash and then 1% of the time a shiny drops and you go ooh wow" and "the filter lets you more easily ignore the 99% trash and then the same 1% of the time a shiny drops and you go ooh wow". Why are you engaging in this argument if the fundamental point of Diablo games is not to your liking? Nobody who actually plays these is going to agree with you.
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The Gripper posted:D3 was good because killing hordes of enemies was fun and it was very easy to find a fun-rear end build for killing those hordes of enemies. When you get to deep endgame the balance flips and you're stuck with fewer (or one) option, but the trick is that you're allowed to stop playing whenever you want, including when the game sucks or isn't as fun as it used to be. Yeah, I played that game for hundreds of hours and never felt like my options were limited. I also never had to look up builds from external sources in order to have fun. But I guess that's an insignificant amount of time for most ARPG fans 
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yeah hundreds of hours is like, per league for a lot of us lol
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John Murdoch posted:I'm failing to see the appreciable difference between "you get 99% trash and then 1% of the time a shiny drops and you go ooh wow" and "the filter lets you more easily ignore the 99% trash and then the same 1% of the time a shiny drops and you go ooh wow".
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Ghostlight posted:It's the difference between going to the bathroom to take a poo poo and taking a poo poo in your diaper. Yes, they're both making GBS threads but one of them has you stop doing your activities and go to a room where you read the SomethingAwful forums until it ends while the other one doesn't even ask you to interrupt your live speech for the 2024 Republican nomination. lol
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Awesome! posted:lol
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Awesome! posted:lol
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https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4784-4F2B-1321-800AWindows 7 and Windows 8 Support posted:As of January 1 2024, Steam will officially stop supporting the Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 operating systems. After that date, the Steam Client will no longer run on those versions of Windows. In order to continue running Steam and any games or other products purchased through Steam, users will need to update to a more recent version of Windows.
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makes sense, Win7 and Win8 will just get more and more vulnerable
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How am I ever gonna finish Sam & Max now.
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That can't be right Windows 7 only came out like 5 years ago.
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Deakul posted:That can't be right Windows 7 only came out like 5 years ago. You're gonna wanna hop back in that time machine, trust me
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Deakul posted:That can't be right Windows 7 only came out like 5 years ago. Yep, exactly. Not gonna check on this one
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It was drat near 15 years ago, feel my pain
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Ragequit posted:It was drat near 15 years ago, feel my pain I feel it. Ow, my back.
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Ghostlight posted:How am I ever gonna finish Sam & Max now. By getting the remastered version that came out three years ago: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1440440/Sam__Max_Save_the_World/
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FutonForensic posted:By getting the remastered version that came out three years ago: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1440440/Sam__Max_Save_the_World/ That's how they get you.
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Heeeeeeeeeeeeere's Dolphin https://store.steampowered.com/app/1941680/Dolphin_Emulator/
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I still have my old compy around with a bunch of stuff installed. Hope that Steam offline mode really works so I can turn it on come the end of December! spoilers: it doesn't work
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DROP just uh... dropped 11 minutes ago. Am slam-buying it after that amazing demo, will report back.
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The 7th Guest posted:Heeeeeeeeeeeeere's Dolphin
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I suspect they just want to avoid mentioning Nintendo by name.
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Coupled with the console allusions, they pretty clearly don't want to say EMULATE GAMECUBE AND WII GAMES
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Scalding Coffee posted:Never heard of Nintendo being referred to as "big N" before. I stopped using their console after the SNES years. I use "The Hard N"
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Kanfy posted:I suspect they just want to avoid mentioning Nintendo by name.
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Scalding Coffee posted:Never heard of Nintendo being referred to as "big N" before. I stopped using their console after the SNES years. The Kins posted:They're doing some pretty impressive work sidestepping using any Nintendo trademarks in that store page. Funny thing about IP laws is that it's not enough to be in the right. Like, it's "fine" for Dolphin to use Nintendo's trademarks specifically to identify Nintendo's products, perhaps with a disclaimer that the trademarks are Nintendo's and Dolphin is unaffiliated. But, in doing so, there's just enough room for Nintendo to create a "consumer confusion" argument, and threaten lawsuit to ultimately have it delisted from Steam. In short, Nintendo has the resources to bring upon a fight that the Dolphin folks can't afford--even if they'd ultimately win--and Valve probably doesn't really want to get into these specific cross hairs either.
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Nintendo shouldn't be allowed to do anything about emulation of systems and games that they have abandoned. If they aren't printing new physical copies, and/or selling these games on a digital store front, then tough poo poo; they should be free for people to download from anywhere else and do with as they please.
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I said come in! posted:Nintendo shouldn't be allowed to do anything about emulation of systems and games that they have abandoned. If they aren't printing new physical copies, and/or selling these games on a digital store front, then tough poo poo; they should be free for people to download from anywhere else and do with as they please. Since when are laws based on whether or not something is "right" or rational?
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It just seems like such a needlessly risky idea to put an emulator that is basically only known for doing things that Nintendo would happily decapitate them for, on Steam. Nintendo of all people, especially.I said come in! posted:Nintendo shouldn't be allowed to do anything about emulation of systems and games that they have abandoned. If they aren't printing new physical copies, and/or selling these games on a digital store front, then tough poo poo; they should be free for people to download from anywhere else and do with as they please. Pretty sure this has already been litigated as not the case multiple times. Not that I disagree but money.
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Jack Trades posted:Since when are laws based on whether or not something is "right" or rational? They aren't, they are made up and none of them matter. Do whatever you want.
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Orv posted:It just seems like such a needlessly risky idea to put an emulator that is basically only known for doing things that Nintendo would happily decapitate them for, on Steam. Nintendo of all people, especially.
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My F to those brave soon-to-be-murdered developers fighting the good fight against the evil $intendo.
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