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Pwnstar posted:Shadow of War's story has powerful "multi-million dollar adaption of a 13 year old's fanfic" vibes and it's great.
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FutureCop posted:Ah yeah, I haven't gotten repeated dialog yet, but I was already getting slightly annoyed at how indulgent the orc intro dialog can be: you'd think they would just be rather snappy quips but some of 'em really gab on and on, and I'm not just talking about the bards where it might make sense, but even just the regular orcs. Like say there's an orc called the Crusher or some-such, I would want their intro to be like "Is that a ranger I see? It's crushing time!" but instead it's stuff like "Your pathetic frail sword will do no good here, human! You don't appreciate the beauty that a stout blunt instrument can provide, like my sledgehammer right here! Her name's Daisy: she's one of a kind, absolutely top-heavy, and me an Daisy will crush you into such a fine bloody paste that not even your fellow Gondorians will recognize you! Rarrrgh!" Such long-winded speeches can really kill the pace and make me absolutely regret triggering them by accident when I'm just trying to run through an area. I wish that for the long speeches, maybe they just have the speech continue but over gameplay, keeping the intro pause/freeze to a consistent 2-3 seconds where you have time to hit the identify button instead of dragging the pause over the whole speech. Plus the game's already got a reputation for spawning like six captains on top of you any time you deign to stay in one spot for too long, so the problem compounds.
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Sylphosaurus posted:That part of the games was great, especially when you got to read the hardcore Tolkien fans online meltdown on various forums.
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Loved to go into a fort and try to stealth kill my way through, and how - 3 minutes after going in with that intention - I'd end up racing around inside a fired up fort full of insane orcs all trying to kill me, seeing how long I could stay alive and how many I could kill before one of them got me.
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Warhammer: Boltgun releases May 23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJzGLICnZrg
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I cherish orc intros so much. Love the voice acting. The Moaner is my favorite, makes me laugh everytime.
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Apr 16, 2023 12:21
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Totally agree on the fanfic vibes, I love it. I had a notion once to write a story where Galadriel takes the Ring when offered to her and what happens then. If nothing else she's Elrond's mother-in-law and there's got to be some good drama there.
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DarkDobe posted:I ended up picking up Meet your Maker and it's very much what you would expect: I played a bunch during Next Fest, liked it enough to buy it but then I haven't touched it a whole ton since; 14 hours according to Steam. I feel like I've kinda seen all the major base concepts that the community has come up with? It's still fun to just get a few runs in every other day or so, and I love logging in and seeing Replays and watching people get murderized by my favorite base. But it feels like it's definitely missing just a little something, not sure what.
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Apr 16, 2023 12:33
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Game developers always seem to be specifically into sexy spider ladies.
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Because of this thread I've also spun up Shadows of War and I've been having fun with it. My favorite orc so far is one who has a lute and sings songs as he is chasing me around. Last night I finally got him as my bodyguard. The game is so large I always end up kind of petering out without actually completing it. After watching a little bit of Diablo 4 footage I was also in an ARPG mood and loaded up Warhammer Inquisitor: Martyr because I wasn't sure about buying Last Epoch and.... it's kind of a lot of fun? I even bought the expansion on sale for like $5. The first time I played it I played the assassin class and had an 'ok' time. This time I chose the Psycher and I'm having a lot more fun. I thought for sure I would end up playing Diablo 2: Resurrected again to scratch that itch but I think I'll stick with playing this for a while. I will say it's strange that you have to basically go through like 4-6 tutorial missions before it allows you to customize your psychic powers, but once you do it's a pretty fun system of choosing your abilities and unlocking combinations of runes for them to modify them (maybe add an armor penetration rune and a lifesteal rune or something). I'm even finding the story (so far) mildy interesting which is more than I can say for most ARPGS.
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exquisite tea posted:Game developers always seem to be specifically into sexy spider ladies. They should keep doing that.
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Jack Trades posted:They should keep doing that. Only if they also do some sexy spider dudes. Else it's unfair.
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HopperUK posted:Only if they also do some sexy spider dudes. Else it's unfair. In two flavors even https://store.steampowered.com/app/1817070/Marvels_SpiderMan_Remastered/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1817190/Marvels_SpiderMan_Miles_Morales/
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Jack Trades posted:In two flavors even Eh Spider-Man always reads as a kid. Semi-seriously I do think horniness in games is fine if it's even-handed. No reason everybody can't have some sexy things to look at while gaming.
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Ghostlight posted:I always beheaded orcs that talked too much. 
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why can't they have the spider part on top and the lady part on the bottom
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Hwurmp posted:why can't they have the spider part on top and the lady part on the bottom 
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Hwurmp posted:why can't they have the spider part on top and the lady part on the bottom Not exactly a spider but reminds me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-lRdR0AlSw
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loving hell. Could you please put something like that in spoiler tags?
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I know that cops can be upsetting, but there's no need to put them in spoiler tags.
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I think they mean the abdomen and cephalothorax of a spider, but the legs are human.
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Spiders: NSFW to most goons, but for different reasons.
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exquisite tea posted:Game developers always seem to be specifically into sexy spider ladies. Just giving me what I want
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anilEhilated posted:loving hell. Could you please put something like that in spoiler tags? i think he should put all his posts in spoiler tags
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My great great uncle served in the trenches with Tolkien and he said Tolkien always intended shelob to be sexy
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FastestGunAlive posted:My great great uncle served in the trenches with Tolkien and he said Tolkien always intended shelob to be sexy Is she not???  
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I love big mandibulae!!!!
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exquisite tea posted:Game developers always seem to be specifically into sexy spider ladies. fear and excitement are one and the same
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ZearothK posted:fear and excitement are one and the same If you're not scaroused, are you even living?
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Jack Trades posted:Oh, I didn't think of actually reading the contents of the "Your purchase has been refunded" emails.
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:I love big mandibulae!!!! Shake those fat mandibussae for me
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It was a cold and snowy day, so I cozied up and finished Hi-Fi Rush. The entire game felt like a Saturday morning cartoon. Fun dialog and antics, solid rhythm gameplay, and the soundtrack was great. I constantly dashed around because the dash sound effect throws percussion into the level's music. Just a treat all around. Don't sleep on this one! Now to play through again to unlock all of these doors I can finally open.
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going through my backlog and trying to finish eiyuden chronicles the gameplay's nothing to write home about but the dialogue has a lot of heart. hopefully it carries over to hundred heroes
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trying out a couple of towny games. starting with the bad one Townopolis is by the dev of Hero of the Kingdom and it seems like they wanted to make something kind of managey in a similar way, but it doesn't really work super great with city planning because it basically boils down to only one or two specific solutions for each level. This is on top of the dev's already laughably amateur presentation quality, which holds a tiny bit of charm with HOTK, but feels like it fell out of the back of Artifex Mundi's truck on the way to delivering their undesirable hidden object games directly to the dollar store.  Concrete Jungle is one I had in my wishlist for a long time before getting it in the Jingle Jam bundle back in December. to be honest, the city planning/building stuff is really just aesthetic trapping for what is instead a pretty ruthless deckbuilding puzzle game. you place down buildings which affect neighboring tiles with positive or negative point values, then place houses on those point tiles to capture the points, in order to build up a required point total for each column. if the front-most column reaches the point total, it clears and the map moves forward a column (so you can get up chain combos). But man is it tough. Granted, I am mostly working with the starter cards, but it is really easy to get a string of bad luck draws that leave you with a lot of buildings that don't gather points, or even worse, buildings that generate negative point values, and not a lot of buildings that DO gather points. You can edit your deck between levels but I just haven't yet gotten a deck that I'm happy with. I will keep playing this though. Versus mode against AI, I'm not a fan of. Solo mode levels, I'm fine with though. Campaign being a mix of both? Ehh...   Tinytopia is the most conventional city builder of the ones I tried and it's cute and simple (maybe too simple). It's not for major sim nerds for sure. Buildings are basically boardgame-like pieces that you place on a physical city board, and then to upgrade buildings you stack them together/on top of each other. If you place them incorrectly they can fall over or topple the whole structure and start a fire you'll have to put out. The game has all the typical simcity disasters at your beck and call, and each new level is either based on a real world location or is very silly (one level involves just stacking buildings as tall as you can without it falling over). Very chill and fun. e: just an addendum on tinytopia, the goals in the campaign levels are typically to build a signature building on the map, which is broken up into several pieces that unlock as you hit population milestones. you can't just litter the map with housing without going broke from maintenance costs, so it's not completely braindead gaming, you do have to be a tiny bit smart, it's not just a complex systems-driven city simulator like the big boys. making more money generally means upgrading job buildings and placing decorations to increase happiness which increases the taxes people pay, and upgrading the housing buildings allows for more occupancy and big increases in taxation. i've completed 5 of the first 22 levels and i haven't really been challenged much, so like i said, it's more a lo-fi city builder to relax and survey to The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 01:56 on Apr 17, 2023 |
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Oxxidation posted:going through my backlog and trying to finish eiyuden chronicles They really need to bring something new for Hundred Heroes. The same game but twice as long just isn't going to work at all.
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ultrafilter posted:They really need to bring something new for Hundred Heroes. The same game but twice as long just isn't going to work at all. it's going to be a completely different game. chronicles is a side-scrolling action game that's really more of a primer for the world, consisting of a single outpost and a very small handful of characters. hundred heroes switches genres to suikoden and expands its setting to the entire country
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This is a rather generic question but what is up with games in Unity making my cpu/gpu sweat regardless on how graphically complex they are? For example Warhammer 40k Mechanicus, Against the Storm or even a super simple game like Planet Crafter. Or really any Unity game really. My PC can easily take it (3080 TI, i7 9700K, 32gb ram) but these games all make my gpu/cpu fans go apeshit and produce intense heat even if their graphical quality isn't that great. Meanwhile games like RE4 Remake (RE Engine) or even Unreal Engine games only go this hard if they actually display the kind of graphics that demand my PC going all out. So what's up with Unity just going apeshit regardless of whats required? And yes, FPS limits / vsync don't help with this.
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FrickenMoron posted:This is a rather generic question but what is up with games in Unity making my cpu/gpu sweat regardless on how graphically complex they are? For example Warhammer 40k Mechanicus, Against the Storm or even a super simple game like Planet Crafter. Or really any Unity game really. My PC can easily take it (3080 TI, i7 9700K, 32gb ram) but these games all make my gpu/cpu fans go apeshit and produce intense heat even if their graphical quality isn't that great. Meanwhile games like RE4 Remake (RE Engine) or even Unreal Engine games only go this hard if they actually display the kind of graphics that demand my PC going all out. Have you checked that your framerate is actually limited? Unity's problem is that it's a generic engine build for convenience of development and being able to fit any project and not performance, and it requires a great deal of effort from the developer to actually optimize Unity games. Meanwhile RE Engine is made from scratch by the same developers that are making games with with to be optimized to their specific needs from the start.
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FrickenMoron posted:This is a rather generic question but what is up with games in Unity making my cpu/gpu sweat regardless on how graphically complex they are? For example Warhammer 40k Mechanicus, Against the Storm or even a super simple game like Planet Crafter. Or really any Unity game really. My PC can easily take it (3080 TI, i7 9700K, 32gb ram) but these games all make my gpu/cpu fans go apeshit and produce intense heat even if their graphical quality isn't that great. Meanwhile games like RE4 Remake (RE Engine) or even Unreal Engine games only go this hard if they actually display the kind of graphics that demand my PC going all out. It's not strictly true that all Unity games run badly, and dev experience/resources is a factor, but there is no better predictor that your computer is about to fight for its life. There's nothing you can do and the problem isn't on your end.
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