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the main thing for me from playing the demo, is they've GOT to improve their random NPC conversations. a lot of it is so terse that it feels like placeholder dialog. needs a lot more flavor and personality. i don't care if the person i'm interviewing is not even remotely connected to the case, they should at least say more than 5 words to my questions.
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threelemmings posted:Snow stuff. Awesome! posted:Links. Mordja posted:
Communist Bear posted:Shadows of Doubt is being released today (in 4 hours actually).
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Apr 24, 2023 15:49
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Communist Bear posted:Shadows of Doubt is being released today (in 4 hours actually). Only had time to check it out for a few minutes after it released, but it seems to be running much better than the demo did for me in terms of optimization, which is great since that was my main complaint with the demo.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:The "immersive" part of the genre comes down to the highly grounded systemic interaction, and for that, I've seen no game do it better than Shadows of Doubt. Rooting through people's trash, seeing what channel they left their TV on last, re-dialling the last called number on their phones to find a lead - any lead - on a case quickly going cold, it's brill. Jack Trades posted:The term "immersive sim" has nothing to do with whether or not the game feels immersive or not. The only requirement to be an immersive sim is the first door you come across has to be locked and require the code "0451" 
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Humankind is on super sale, how did that end up being vs Civ6?
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Ah, Cult of the Lamb is on sale apparently. I liked the demo way back when but did not get it at launch for whatever reason. Don't know if this new update fixes the issues I have heard about but now is as good a time as any to play it and it should be a good time at bare minimum.
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socialsecurity posted:Humankind is on super sale, how did that end up being vs Civ6? Mechanically it's what you can expect from Amplitude: A lot of neat ideas and systems that ultimately end up being disappointing. But this one doesn't have the extremely creative worldbuilding to prop it up. Check the last page of the Humankind thread for a lot of recent opinions (someone asked this question there back in November). If you're itching for a 4x game and like Amplitude you might enjoy it for a couple games but it doesn't seem to hold anyone for long. edit: It's not on sale but for what it's worth Old World is a much more recommendable (IMO) historical 4x game that was released from Epic Jail last year, though it definitely shakes up the 4x formula quite a lot by making it more of a roleplaying game about your ruler and their dynasty (as in Crusader Kings) than a traditional empire-based 4x. Its lead designer is Soren Johnson, who also designed Civ 4. deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Apr 24, 2023 |
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OK, I’m gonna ask the dumb question. Is Aliens Colonial Marines worth playing? Like, at all? Some qualifying notes; 1.) I’m a sucker for Alien/Aliens 2.) I’m a sucker for fan service 3.) I have a fairly decent tolerance for wonky rear end shooters. FPS games are my bread and butter and I’ve enjoyed mediocre ones before. 4.) I’ll be playing the PC version, so I can fix the AI with the .ini edit, but on Steam Deck, where the bigger overhaul mod apparently doesn’t work It’s currently on sale aaaaand.. I guess I just want verification that it’s even possible to have a decent time with it. Or a warning if it’s irredeemable and not even worth that.
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It's real bland, man. Your love of Aliens has to outweigh a lot of "if this had no license nobody would remember it". A:CM is basically Dreamkiller with a 20th Century Fox skin.
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I know there's a big mod that obstensibly fixes a lot of stuff but I don't know if even that makes it worth playing. I have been playing Fireteam Elite with some friends and that's pretty fun, if also complete nonsense. E: Oh wait you mentioned said mod
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Apr 24, 2023 19:57
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Lord help me I'm playing XCOM 2 again
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I tried to play XCOM 2 recently and was surprised to learn that I actually hate almost everything about it in retrospect. I ended up playing XCOM 1 again instead and it felt like a much better game despite some nice QOL changes in 2 
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I played XCOM 2 again stuffed to the gills with content mods about a year and a half ago and while I won't argue that it was balanced, I had a blast.
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deep dish peat moss posted:I tried to play XCOM 2 recently and was surprised to learn that I actually hate almost everything about it in retrospect. I ended up playing XCOM 1 again instead and it felt like a much better game despite some nice QOL changes in 2 I didn't like xcom 2 either despite loving the first game.
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deep dish peat moss posted:I tried to play XCOM 2 recently and was surprised to learn that I actually hate almost everything about it in retrospect. I ended up playing XCOM 1 again instead and it felt like a much better game despite some nice QOL changes in 2 Same. While I can appreciate XCOM2's improvements, I think I vastly prefer XCOM1's setting and aesthetic.
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Yeah, that's a good way to put it. As a tactical rpg it's great, but it just does not feel like "xcom". No UFOs, less-alien opponents, fairly generic battlefields, forcing you into aggressive pacing, using stealth, etc. Somehow it took away all the tension and mystique of the x-com series. deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Apr 24, 2023 |
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Now I'm bummed out that Phoenix Point sucked, again.
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Jack Trades posted:Now I'm bummed out that Phoenix Point sucked, again.
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I enjoyed XCOM 2 removing your ability to snooze your way through most missions with overwatch traps and the randomly generated maps making each mission feel more unique. hell, the randomly-generated maps felt like they had better cover placement and gameplay flow than some of XCOM EU’s handcrafted maps. the geoscape also felt more interesting.
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Finished Days Gone over the weekend at about 50 hours played. Note, I only used fast travel about 12 times because riding the motorcycle around is so drat fun. There is about 4 seasons of a heavily cliched TV show in there but I was just heavily involved with the core gameplay loop. I refrained from killing Hordes until the story pretty much says: "OK, we're going to need you to start killing groups of 300+ zombies at the same time now" because I wasn't even certain it was possible. But now I'm going back to starting areas and clearing mini-hordes of 25-50 zombies with an alarm clock and couple frag grenades, I think I could have done this much earlier in the game but I was under the impression that the Hordes would just respawn - but it turns out they don't! Near the start of the game I spent an hour or so killing off a horde streaming out of this cave via hit and run tactics before giving up. I returned to that horde like 45 game hours later and the Horde's "Health Bar" started at about 40%, I'm really impressed it tracked that state over that long. The last reveal is utterly batshit crazy and got me intensely excited for a sequel that will probably never happen lol
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For such a core feature Days Gone hiding the hordes until basically the last act of the game is pretty weird. I liked the huge ones like at the lumber mill and school and sure keep those in your pocket but those small ones could probably be done the moment you have a machine gun.
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Well Valve finally blocked the old Steam app from connecting to the chat servers so you now have to use their fresh new pisstake of a separate app for that. If you even CAN use it.
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If you bounced off Phoenix Point at release or even a year ago I'd say give it another try, very different game to what it was imo. It's still kind of an odd mix of tactics and faction sim game, but the experience overall has been rebalanced significantly with numerous patches. The DLC itself is kind of a mixed bag & the cybernetic augments one is the only 'must have' in my opinion.
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MonkeyforaHead posted:Well Valve finally blocked the old Steam app from connecting to the chat servers so you now have to use their fresh new pisstake of a separate app for that. If you even CAN use it. Good guy Valve saving you from having to chat with gamers
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I am hoping mods would fix whatever flaw on Pheonix Point over time.
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Viewfinder ("photographs become reality" first-person puzzler) has a demo out now. will try it out later
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MonkeyforaHead posted:Well Valve finally blocked the old Steam app from connecting to the chat servers so you now have to use their fresh new pisstake of a separate app for that. If you even CAN use it. I tried using it this morning and the textbox lags on my Pixel 5 if there's like more than 2 lines of text in the message I'm typing. I don't know how they are so bad at releasing mobile apps.
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How scary are The Forest, Sons of the Forest, and Green Hell? Also which survival builder has the best combat system? If they're gonna force me to fight stuff I'd rather do more than just spam LMB.
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Nancy posted:If you bounced off Phoenix Point at release or even a year ago I'd say give it another try, very different game to what it was imo. Yeah, I kinda liked Phoenix Point a lot, coming at after it was content complete. My major issue with it was pacing, a lot of doing the same mission types before the game opens up with more variety of equipment, classes and scenarios.
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Did you know? Dead Island 2 came out last week. Of course you didn't! It's an EGS exclusive.
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The Find All games are on sale now, just picked them up and played through 1 and 2, thanks to The 7th Guest, Jordan7hm and Blattdorf for the recommendation.
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Communist Bear posted:Shadows of Doubt is being released today (in 4 hours actually). trip report; solid. It has some early access jank that you'd expect, mostly in the odd bug here and there. nothing show stopper in five hours. it feels pretty lively and there's a lot of paths to solve a problem because of that, but at the end of the day the gameplay loop basically is; get a shoestring information on someone run around using the crumbs to fill out the dossier until you get a name look them up in the phonebook break into their house and do whatever task you need to do the biggest thing against it I guess is it does simulate a pretty dense, tall city; most of the buildings are skyscrapers with 10-20 floors, all but the ground floor being residences of office - and the ground floor being cafes, little medical clinics, pawn shops, etc - so it does get kind of samey. On top of that the maximum map size is 5x5 blocks I believe, or somewhere around there. It's a very vertical map admittedly, but again that's all just same-y residences, so there isn't a lot going on. still good tho, an easy recommend especially for 18 bucks
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Bumhead posted:OK, I’m gonna ask the dumb question. I mean, it's about on par with Duke Nukem Forever to me. It's a janky cobbled together frankenstein of a game that should have been taken out back to pasture long before it saw the light of day. But it sounds like you have your mind made up already, me and 2 buds played it all the way through while drunk off our asses and had some semblance of a good time just making references and laughing at broken scripted sequences, glitched models, hilariously awful voice acting, and crashes. Get Fireteam Elite instead but only if you have buds to play it with cause the bots are braindead.
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Anybody play Archmage Rises yet? I liked the demo from what I saw of NextFest, but I'm not sure how that translates to the full game (albeit still in early access).
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Mordja posted:Did you know? Dead Island 2 came out last week. Of course you didn't! It's an EGS exclusive. I was waiting for this until I found out it was EGS. There was some site that got a preview copy and tried changing their cpu config around to try and test for different speeds. Turns out it has Denuvo and they got locked out from playing it after too many tests. https://www.dsogaming.com/news/dead-island-2-is-using-the-denuvo-anti-tamper-tech/ e: oh, it looks like they later got that fixed, still lol.
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zoux posted:How scary are The Forest, Sons of the Forest, and Green Hell? There's a Survival Simulation megathread that can offer more specific advice. In some games you can turn off hostiles altogether. I've heard a lot of praise for Green Hell's survival stuff. The Forest scared me quite a bit back in the day.
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Gamerofthegame posted:but at the end of the day the gameplay loop basically is; Wait, you mean this thing is nearly a Covert Action-alike? Why did nobody tell me???
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Nancy posted:If you bounced off Phoenix Point at release or even a year ago I'd say give it another try, very different game to what it was imo. Thanks so much for posting this. I kick-started it then never played it when all reviews said it was trash.
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