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My main issue with Fallen Order is people billed it as being like Sekiro/Souls but a lot of that is purely surface-level. There were maybe 3-4 fights in the entire game that were what I would call a Souls-level fight. The first half of the game's bosses didn't even have a second phase that I could discern. It felt more like Uncharted but without the shooting and sometimes you could create a shortcut.
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The 7th Guest posted:My main issue with Fallen Order is people billed it as being like Sekiro/Souls but a lot of that is purely surface-level. There were maybe 3-4 fights in the entire game that were what I would call a Souls-level fight. The first half of the game's bosses didn't even have a second phase that I could discern. It felt more like Uncharted but without the shooting and sometimes you could create a shortcut. That’s funny to me because basically all of the things I find myself not liking about it are things stripped straight out of Souls (ignoring antecedent things) without really good consideration or context. Dudes hiding in the corner of doorways happens constantly in FO, to an exhausting degree. Fights with reinforcements feel pretty terrible with how the combat is set up. Large creatures all feel terrible to fight which isn’t really a Souls thing directly but there’s almost always one larger animal in every really long run to the next bonfire they do. Those really long bonfire distances also love to have super unnecessary platforming parts that really slow it down.
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Apr 10, 2023 01:17
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anilEhilated posted:Slightly related, but I'm some 20 hours into Steelrising now and I think this might finally be the good Spiders game. Surprisingly solid combat, lots of stuff to explore (even if all the areas look the same), all in all a very fun soulslike. Steelrising is a game I still want to get. It makes me hopeful that Greedfall 2 will be really good.
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FutureCop posted:Couple of thoughts while playing these games: There is a new gameplay trailer for Jedi Survivor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmj3ty-Wt48 and gently caress, it looks so amazing. Like, takes every single thing about Fallen Order, and improves upon and fixes all of the issues with the Fallen Order. Very excited for this game.
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MarcusSA posted:I think you have that battle star galactic game on your wishlist and it’s free till tomorrow or something. Thank you! Purchased the complete bundle, it was on a deep discount.
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Any recent cozy game suggestions? My wife is finished with Wylde Flowers (don't see it mentioned much but she adored it) and looking for something new. She is looking for a life/farm/witch/etc sim but with a proper story. Played and liked: Stardew Valley, Cozy Grove, Dreamlight Valley, Wylde Flowers Neutral: My Time at Portia, Harvestella Not Liked: Rune Factory (stiff gameplay, overwritten stilted story), Animal Crossings (not enough gameplay and story)
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FuzzySlippers posted:Any recent cozy game suggestions? My wife is finished with Wylde Flowers (don't see it mentioned much but she adored it) and looking for something new. She is looking for a life/farm/witch/etc sim but with a proper story. Unfortunately she's already played all the best life sims and the ask for a proper story eliminates my usual next suggestion. Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town very heavily influenced Stardew Valley. It's older and feels rougher in a lot of ways, but if she's looking for a new set of stories, maybe give that a try. For a good story, maybe try Golden Treasure of the Great Green. It's a CYOA but it's one of the best narratives I've enjoyed in a game and for me it was a pretty cozy game. I don't usually recommend Pumpkin Days because the controls are a bit rough, but it may be worth checking out since she's already played most of the better options. Maybe try cross-posting in the Farm sim thread https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4011042
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FuzzySlippers posted:Any recent cozy game suggestions? My wife is finished with Wylde Flowers (don't see it mentioned much but she adored it) and looking for something new. She is looking for a life/farm/witch/etc sim but with a proper story. NGL here but Disney Dreamlight Valley is great. It’s early access but I’ve put in a good 5-6 hours and it doesn’t feel like it’s EA. I’m digging the story too
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FuzzySlippers posted:Any recent cozy game suggestions? My wife is finished with Wylde Flowers (don't see it mentioned much but she adored it) and looking for something new. She is looking for a life/farm/witch/etc sim but with a proper story. Has she looked at Atelier? It's more on the RPG side than life sim, but retains a lot of sim elements with gathering and various alchemy crafting. Some of the games are so chill about progression they might as well be life sims. The stories are usually solid at minimum, others quite good, and are proper stories. There's Potionomics too, but that's more of a timed Recettear thing than freely directed. It's less about making actual potions than it is haggling and it's characters. Mystia's Izakaya has proved to be rather fun, though it's chillness is dependent on how well you handle floods of customers (the patience timers are pretty generous though). It is quite cozy though and you don't need to know anything about Touhou to enjoy it, coming from someone who knows nothing about Touhou. It also has a main story it sets up immediately, but very gradual in it's progression to that point. As for any outright farming-sim stuff, you've already hit all the recent ones I can think of.
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MarcusSA posted:NGL here but Disney Dreamlight Valley is great. It struck me as odd how it's EA on Steam but the PS store versions don't have any classification like that. Especially after the PS4 Cyberpunk launch fiasco; you'd think Sony would be bit more upfront with disclaimers.
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Another demo batch: Cuboid Keeper A decent twin-stick shooter that gives me nostalgia for the early Xbox Live Arcade era of indie games, it has that look and feel. You blast enemies and then hoover up their gems whenever you're not firing, then between levels you can use the gems to create weapon/skill/stat blocks that you can add to your ship as long as you have a spare slot (with each level completed you can add another free block). Pretty neat and I think at sale time it hits $2.  Chester's Revenge Another one where the artist of the game should maybe pair up with another developer. It wants to be Contra, but it doesn't feel good to jump or shoot, and you can't shoot diagonally. Very boring level design.  Dandy Dungeon A former mobile game, Dandy Dungeon deserves a look because it's by Onion (Chulip/Moon) and it's got that trademark weird tone. The gameplay takes the draw-a-line puzzle concept and applies it to a dungeon crawler, where you draw a line through an entire floor of a dungeon, carving through enemies and collecting treasure in the process. Don't mistake it for Grindstone, however. This leans more on the puzzle side and application of items/gear that you collect. Since it was a former mobile game, the full game seems to have a ton of content and gear, although it will be very repetitive in nature due to its mobile origins. Still, it's pretty neat.  Funk Unplugged Honestly, I've played much worse indie 3D platformers, especially from 5+ years ago when this originates. It's still low budget in its presentation, but it feels ok to jump around and collect things, and its regular price is $5, so I might dip in when it has a sale.  Garbanzo Quest A cute platformer with a badge mechanic that allows you to equip 2 different abilities to suit your particular playstyle. In the demo I didn't have any sort of run button in the opening couple of levels so that kind of put me off, because the pace was a bit too slow for me to super enjoy it. But it's got fun art and music. Just maybe not for me.  Infinitevania Meh platformer, doesn't feel super great to run around or jump. These are such basic things that are a baseline expectation for me and I can't go forward with a game anymore if it doesn't at least clear this low hurdle.  Justice Sucks Definitely the best and most polished demo I played today. It's an action-stealth game where you zoom around as a roomba and activate traps to kill intruders, then suck up their blood/corpses in order to power up additional abilities like teleporting and ramming into people. Then when the level's over, you have a countdown to try and clean up all the remaining footprints/blood to get a better grade. This is very solid and... I'd get it but I don't actually remember if I maybe got it in a bundle already or not? Like maybe I have it through Amazon Prime or something? I'll have to check.  Life on Mars Maybe this plays better when you have a lot of upgrades, but it didn't feel good to play the demo, even though the idea of an MSX2 remake is neat to me. Makes me wonder what the original game was like. But I'm not interested in this version. I also tried an upcoming game called Gem Venture but it flat out was broken on the Deck, which is a rarity. The game booted up but the first level was unplayable, with sprites and most of the level not showing up. The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 05:39 on Apr 10, 2023 |
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FuzzySlippers posted:Any recent cozy game suggestions? My wife is finished with Wylde Flowers (don't see it mentioned much but she adored it) and looking for something new. She is looking for a life/farm/witch/etc sim but with a proper story. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1432860/Sun_Haven came out of EA pretty recently and is supposed to be pretty similar to Stardew but with more of a narrative.
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Crab Champions is very fun and I think I might be ready to move up from the easy difficulty since I just managed to complete a three loop run. Bubble launcher is great.
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I've never really got into space games so Everspace 2's arcadey feel has gelled with me. As pretty simple as it is, rooting through all the nooks and crannies to find hidden loot/solve puzzles is pretty chill. I'm in the second system on hard and the combat does get more difficult. Until I saved up for a 150k scout sniper ship, now my railgun can shoot out 4500km away. With the teleporter device upgraded, Good luck getting near me fucko's. Can instantly move 2.4km away if I get swarmed. If that's on cooldown, my ult's usually up so time to go invisible and do double damage while I'm at it. Great for boost strafing fights too, so zippy.
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FuzzySlippers posted:Any recent cozy game suggestions? My wife is finished with Wylde Flowers (don't see it mentioned much but she adored it) and looking for something new. She is looking for a life/farm/witch/etc sim but with a proper story. My wife has very similar tastes and recently enjoyed Wytchwood and Bear and Breakfast. I didn’t get the sense that either were huge on narrative tho.
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She might want to try Recettear? It's a shop sim, not a farming sim, but it's similar.
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FuzzySlippers posted:Any recent cozy game suggestions? My wife is finished with Wylde Flowers (don't see it mentioned much but she adored it) and looking for something new. She is looking for a life/farm/witch/etc sim but with a proper story. Spiritfarer might appeal, very story focused.
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FuzzySlippers posted:Any recent cozy game suggestions? My wife is finished with Wylde Flowers (don't see it mentioned much but she adored it) and looking for something new. She is looking for a life/farm/witch/etc sim but with a proper story. Oh and Dreamlight valley is free on gamepass if she wants to give it a try. I also think the music is pretty fantastic but I like disney stuff so 
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There's also Dreamlight Valley
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Don't forget about Dreamlight Valley
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If no one has suggested yet, you should give Dreamlight Valley a look.
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I wasn't rich enough to know about Disney growing up so I have no nostalgia for it, but I think they made some kind of Disney-themed farming sim too.
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I can't understand anyone who likes Stardew but doesn't like Rune Factory since it does everything pretty much better. Also Everspace 2, don't ever take any station repair job, I just had to hunt down 21 leaks and they don't even highlight the last few ones remaining, it's terrible.
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Even just the first mission to go fix the 3 "Beanies" really killed my enjoyment of the game. Flying around shooting things is fun enough I suppose, but not enjoying any of the "puzzle" aspects like needing to ferry Power Cores into Sockets and such 
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FrickenMoron posted:I can't understand anyone who likes Stardew but doesn't like Rune Factory since it does everything pretty much better. Anime.
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Rune Factory 4 has a really arduous opening and tutorial (thread topical!) so I can understand bouncing off it.
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I didn't like how Rune Factory looked or played.
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mycot posted:Rune Factory 4 has a really arduous opening and tutorial (thread topical!) so I can understand bouncing off it. Yeah I absolutely love 4 but this is definitely true.
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I’ve only played RF5 and its first few days are pretty painful. they send you to talk to every single villager in town as one of your first objectives instead of introducing them organically.
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Some release date updates: - Tron Infinity (officially-licensed VN by the dev of Subsurface Circular) releases tomorrow.  - Rusted Moss on April 12th.  - Desktop Dungeons Rewind (3d remake of the original) releases April 18th  - Dysmantle DLC (Doomsday) releases April 19th and the big one...  - Shadows of Doubt launches in Early Access on April 24th. quote:The game is in a very advanced state of development - while there are plans for new content and further optimisations, the game is functionally complete with a full suite of features, cases, content and a complete Sandbox Mode, beyond what you may usually expect from an Early Access title. Both myself and the publisher are confident in the overall quality, breadth of content and playability of Shadows of Doubt’s Early Access release. It releasing so soon after the Next Fest gives me the (likely legitimate) concern that procedural NPC conversation will still be very bad, but hopefully the rest of the investigation work is good, given that the cases are meant to be hand-crafted. The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Apr 10, 2023 |
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I'm not sure which specific Rune Factory's folks are talking about, because while I like 4 well enough (although I never completed it) the first three were all sort of arduous.
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FutureCop posted:Couple of thoughts while playing these games:
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The Gripper posted:Yeah it really does have a rough feel to it. I tried playing and when I really got into it it was fine, but if I put the game down for even a few days and pick it back up I have to push past that feeling all over again. I wouldn't go as far as to say the movement is poo poo, but I don't think I would have given it the chance I did if it weren't a Star Wars(tm) game with high review scores. Just really hoping the sequel fine tunes the movement. It felt like Respawn was getting into unfamiliar territory with Fallen Order. As a studio they haven't made a game like this before, but it felt like their senior leadership had never made a game like this before period at any other company either.
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Why do all these farming games keep shoving mediocre combat stuff into them? I don’t want to fight, I want to chill and grow turnips.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Why do all these farming games keep shoving mediocre combat stuff into them? Serious answer: because they generally want to add some kind of alternate gameplay loop involving crafting, and it's a lot easier to tack on a bare-bones RPG with combat and stats that way than try and shoehorn layers upon layers of stats into the farming aspect (since, let's be real, this would make the actual farming loving miserable).
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Why do all these farming games keep shoving mediocre combat stuff into them? I got you covered, check this one. Well rated, no combat, relaxing, original Harvest Moon series under a new name.
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The 7th Guest posted:
Forgot to reply to this earlier, I kinda know the devs through a local indie game dev group! The art is in fact really great. I haven't played it though to weigh in there, just thought it was kinda neat to see a random project I kinda figured no one would ever hear about 
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But, but, but, I liked the cave dungeon systems in Stardew Valley.
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secretly best girl posted:Serious answer: because they generally want to add some kind of alternate gameplay loop involving crafting, and it's a lot easier to tack on a bare-bones RPG with combat and stats that way than try and shoehorn layers upon layers of stats into the farming aspect (since, let's be real, this would make the actual farming loving miserable). it's good in Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin
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