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AngryBooch posted:I literally just played this one so it stood out to me. I really liked this game. It also features Lance Reddick. I was really hoping to see him work with Remedy again 
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No Wave posted:Idk. I guess Tommy Refenes stuck with it, I think Ed hasnt been involved with anything meat boy related since 2014. There was some game called Super Meat Boy Forever that came out a few years back that a lot of people seemed to not like. After Ed left Team Meat, the studio has pretty much just been churning out games that are just 'game type that was trending at the moment -- but with a Meat Boy skin applied to it'.
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Foul Fowl posted:it was a proc gen one button autorunner which seems about as far from the original as you can go while still staying a platformer I didn't even hate the concept, it just wasn't fun. It also had randomly-generated levels per-savefile (so you could like share your seeds online and try other people's i guess) but there was some bug in the RNG at launch that made quite a few seeds impossible to fully complete
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I was wondering what head injury or force trick was going to strip Cal Kestis of his hard won force powers but apparently they aren't doing that https://twitter.com/thejustinperez/status/1642946703228825600 I did think it was pretty light on the number of force powers you could earn in the game, so there's plenty of force powers they could put in the skill tree
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zoux posted:I was wondering what head injury or force trick was going to strip Cal Kestis of his hard won force powers but apparently they aren't doing that I’m old now so I actually don’t necessarily mind a power reset in a sequel. If things are fairly simple already keeping and expanding in a new game is usually fine but I also look at Batman Arkham City, Origins, and Knight where by the end you get so many abilities and so many different enemies that you need to fight with specific abilities that by the end I’m mildly flailing until I remember the right combination of buttons to push.
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Kibayasu posted:I’m old now so I actually don’t necessarily mind a power reset in a sequel. If things are fairly simple already keeping and expanding in a new game is usually fine but I also look at Batman Arkham City, Origins, and Knight where by the end you get so many abilities and so many different enemies that you need to fight with specific abilities that by the end I’m mildly flailing until I remember the right combination of buttons to push. Arkham Knight is the funniest example of never resetting abilities ever because from the start you have like 20 different novelty batarangs.
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Bought Grim Dawn years ago and I'm giving it a shot, pretty fun! I never got too deep into Titan Quest but I recognize a lot of inspiration here. Almost never play ARPGs in Hardcore but I'm giving it a shot here, made it to (I think?) the end of Act I on my last guy before eating poo poo. All the different class combos are keeping me from getting bored by starting over, currently running a Forcewave soldier which I understand is a very good attack, and picked up Occultist as my subclass but haven't gone too deep into that tree yet.
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Kibayasu posted:I’m old now so I actually don’t necessarily mind a power reset in a sequel. If things are fairly simple already keeping and expanding in a new game is usually fine but I also look at Batman Arkham City, Origins, and Knight where by the end you get so many abilities and so many different enemies that you need to fight with specific abilities that by the end I’m mildly flailing until I remember the right combination of buttons to push. Thats fair but the powers you unlocked in the first one were about 50% wall-run or double jump that require 0 mental energy to keep track of. The unlockable Force powers were Push and Pull, so basically the "bare minimum Jedi" starter pack.
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goferchan posted:Bought Grim Dawn years ago and I'm giving it a shot, pretty fun! I never got too deep into Titan Quest but I recognize a lot of inspiration here. Almost never play ARPGs in Hardcore but I'm giving it a shot here, made it to (I think?) the end of Act I on my last guy before eating poo poo. All the different class combos are keeping me from getting bored by starting over, currently running a Forcewave soldier which I understand is a very good attack, and picked up Occultist as my subclass but haven't gone too deep into that tree yet. I have also been finally beating this after several years of false starts, as part of an effort to clean up my back log. I did necromancer + arcanist. Lots of minions while i sit back and shoot my dbz laser. I just finished the main game now i need to do the dlc
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boofhead posted:Tbh I think it's perfectly fine to not have an SSD. You turn your PC on as normal and while it's starting up you just do whatever for a little bit. Rewind some tapes, call your friends house and ask their mum if theyre around and can come cycle to the park and throw rocks at that tree that got hit by lightning a few years back, go play in a storm drain, that sort of thing. Then when you're done you come home, exit the screensaver, log in to windows 95, chuck the command and conquer 1 play cd into your gaming rig, make sure the turbo mode button is pressed even though you're not quite sure what it does, and off you go. I challenge any SSD cultist to point out a single observable difference between this experience and theirs 
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boofhead posted:Tbh I think it's perfectly fine to not have an SSD. You turn your PC on as normal and while it's starting up you just do whatever for a little bit. Rewind some tapes, call your friends house and ask their mum if theyre around and can come cycle to the park and throw rocks at that tree that got hit by lightning a few years back, go play in a storm drain, that sort of thing. Then when you're done you come home, exit the screensaver, log in to windows 95, chuck the command and conquer 1 play cd into your gaming rig, make sure the turbo mode button is pressed even though you're not quite sure what it does, and off you go. I challenge any SSD cultist to point out a single observable difference between this experience and theirs Haha, goddamn nice.
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goferchan posted:Bought Grim Dawn years ago and I'm giving it a shot, pretty fun! I never got too deep into Titan Quest but I recognize a lot of inspiration here. Almost never play ARPGs in Hardcore but I'm giving it a shot here, made it to (I think?) the end of Act I on my last guy before eating poo poo. All the different class combos are keeping me from getting bored by starting over, currently running a Forcewave soldier which I understand is a very good attack, and picked up Occultist as my subclass but haven't gone too deep into that tree yet. FastestGunAlive posted:I have also been finally beating this after several years of false starts, as part of an effort to clean up my back log. I did necromancer + arcanist. Lots of minions while i sit back and shoot my dbz laser. I just finished the main game now i need to do the dlc I'm playing it now too. I read that dual-classing is basically required, but I've been having a lot of fun and wrecking pretty much everything as a pure shaman.
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I want to mention the one and only FIGHT KNIGHT is on sale right now https://i.imgur.com/nPo8bQL.mp4 https://store.steampowered.com/app/792120/FIGHT_KNIGHT/ I think it leans into it's silly concept really well.
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The Mighty Moltres posted:I'm playing it now too. I read that dual-classing is basically required, but I've been having a lot of fun and wrecking pretty much everything as a pure shaman. I think that to beat the game on normal and maybe even hard difficulty there isn’t any need to optimize. Most builds only have a few active skills so I don’t think sticking with one class would be an issue
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In GD you'll often spend the first 50 levels or so investing into one class heavily anyways, which is pretty much the entire game on the first difficulty level, but you will absolutely want to pick another class eventually even if its just a dip.
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You don't have to put a ton of thought into the second class, either, because you only need to pay attention to its buffs. Once you don't feel like there's anything particularly useful to do with your main class points, look for a secondary class that either has buffs that support your damage type, or all-around defensive buffs. That class will most likely have other relevant buffs/passives for you (unless it's Demolitionist)
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Lord Lambeth posted:I want to mention the one and only FIGHT KNIGHT is on sale right now It looks really fun but the lead dev is a psycho rapist, I wouldn't give them money if you can avoid it. https://twitter.com/rivalerose/status/1444019711662907397
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"psycho rapist," that's a charged phrase. let's see if it's an exaggeration *skims the blog* mmmnope, it isn't
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Yeah I hate to be a killjoy but I read that when it was new and it's bad. The callout post kinda buries the lead because the first half is about the guy being a nightmarish petulant manchild to work with and then you get to 
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Mischievous Mink posted:It looks really fun but the lead dev is a psycho rapist, I wouldn't give them money if you can avoid it. https://twitter.com/rivalerose/status/1444019711662907397 Thanks for making me aware of this. I am not sure If I will refund. I think it's worth sharing though, everyone has a line.
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Yeah Grim Dawn is pretty cool and playing in HC for my first run is kind of refreshing. Definitely have to take a different approach than I usually do in ARPGs (pump DPS and run into the meat grinder)
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Somehow, Marvel Avengers feels more authentically like a Marvel movie than Midnight Suns, and somehow looks better at times, though it's inconsistent. Midnight suns looks technically better but runs far worse. However, marvel avengers has qtes and spammy combat
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Somehow, Marvel Avengers feels more authentically like a Marvel movie than Midnight Suns, and somehow looks better at times, though it's inconsistent. Midnight suns looks technically better but runs far worse. i grabbed it for $8 and playing it kinda just makes me sad seeing how much of waste of talent and effort it is. i don't really like MCU poo poo but the bones of a good game are buried deep in there, they're just covered in a mountain of worthless poo poo like the meaningless rpg loot, the failed live service model, etc
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How is Way of the Hunter? I enjoyed call of the wild, and I'm hearing that WotH feels like a small team building what they wish CoTW was. But I've also heard that animal AI sometimes freaks out and bolts for no reason. That sounds absolutely infuriating in a slow-paced hunting game, and I can't tell if it's a design flaw, or reviewers screwing up and not realizing it.
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boofhead posted:Tbh I think it's perfectly fine to not have an SSD. You turn your PC on as normal and while it's starting up you just do whatever for a little bit. Rewind some tapes, call your friends house and ask their mum if theyre around and can come cycle to the park and throw rocks at that tree that got hit by lightning a few years back, go play in a storm drain, that sort of thing. Then when you're done you come home, exit the screensaver, log in to windows 95, chuck the command and conquer 1 play cd into your gaming rig, make sure the turbo mode button is pressed even though you're not quite sure what it does, and off you go. I challenge any SSD cultist to point out a single observable difference between this experience and theirs drat, I feel young again. 
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My favourite run of GD was just using the level 16?greater Fireball addon with supporting constellations through to the end of Veteran, you don't need to meticulously specialise until much later.
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Mischievous Mink posted:It looks really fun but the lead dev is a psycho rapist, I wouldn't give them money if you can avoid it. https://twitter.com/rivalerose/status/1444019711662907397  I wish I had something constructive to add, but drat. What the gently caress is wrong with people? Most of the folks I've met in the IT industry are (generally) normal. I guess the games industry breeds a different kind of person.
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I just finished with DREDGE myself too. I agree with the others that the last area or two perhaps felt a bit too gimmicky but nevertheless I still had a lot of fun with the game. I even enjoyed the little bit of story there was. The fishing was enjoyable, although towards the end the one special skill you get made it a bit too easy to get the rare ones - but I guess it's fine since you're nearing the end there. It still had a pretty exciting atmosphere throughout and especially the night romps were sometimes quite hectic. For me it was a 12+ hours to the ending and I felt like I got my money's worth, and I will still continue for a bit to get the things I missed. Although I'm guessing the good ending was not the one where I brought my wife back from the dead against her specific wishes and woke up the loving Dagon in the process, eh? And by the way, once you go for an ending, the game tells you so very clearly and then you can continue later to get another one if you like or just continue playing (I didn't get all the upgrades yet nor all the fish, and I definitely plan to try).
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Oh poo poo, Everspace 2 is out in a couple days, why did I think it was releasing in May?
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Mordja posted:Oh poo poo, Everspace 2 is out in a couple days, why did I think it was releasing in May? I just noticed this yesterday as well. I played it briefly when it came to Gamepass but haven't touched it since then. Looking forward to seeing what's changed!
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April's Humble Choice just landed, copy pasting, so sorry but all caps: DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT ALIENS: FIRETEAM ELITE ROLLERDROME LIFE IS STRANGE 2: COMPLETE SEASON THE LIFE AND SUFFERING OF SIR BRANTE MONSTER PROM 2: MONSTER CAMP REVITA FOUNDERS' FORTUNE Death Stranding Director's Cut will be enough for me not to skip the month, yay. Curious about Rollerdrome too, shades of Rollerball in there, even though it's actually a shooter. FishMcCool fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Apr 4, 2023 |
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Rollerdrome is good. Vague vibes of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater mixed with something like Max Payne.
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2023 BAFTA awards winner for British Game, Rollerdrome.
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Meet Your Maker, the Tecmo's Deception but Multiplayer game, is out today too - caught me by surprise! I really enjoyed playing the demo and flummoxing players with my creations. The FPS bits felt pretty good too (edit) Going by early Steam reviews it seems like it might be unchanged from beta, and with paid DLC on top. I hope it's not so 
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zoux posted:I was wondering what head injury or force trick was going to strip Cal Kestis of his hard won force powers but apparently they aren't doing that There's a lot of ways to add new traversal options without stripping existing ones, something as simple as 'climb boots' for slick surfaces or something. The first game was charming as hell despite having a story that seemed like it got cut in half and then never changed around to accommodate it. The highlight was listening to the enemies dialogue while sneaking around or the combat reactions.
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Revita is super good (and sometimes super frustrating). It's another 2D platformer take on the Isaac/Gungeon formula. Like Neon Abyss but actually good. I wonder if the timing of being in this bundle means the big 2.0 update is moving forward soon.
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Ciaphas posted:Meet Your Maker, the Tecmo's Deception but Multiplayer game, is out today too - caught me by surprise! I really enjoyed playing the demo and flummoxing players with my creations. The FPS bits felt pretty good too The DLC is cosmetic: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2313691/Meet_Your_Maker__Scorched_Necropolis_DLC/ But yea kinda lame to not just put that into the base game 🤨 I bought it, was surprised to see all my poo poo from the demo/beta was all unlocked. Did one or two raids and then haven't really felt like continuing to play it despite having a blast the other month
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