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Jimbot posted:This is a fun little RTS. It reminds me a lot of Battle Realms except there isn't really any macro. Hearkens back to just build a fat doom stack o dudes then roll your way to victory, which is fine by me. Thank you for reminding me to check in on the Battle Realms remaster which is somehow a thing, of all things to get one.
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Scalding Coffee posted:Far Cry 6 is pretty drat big. It’s also and I say this as someone who really likes the modern ones, pretty drat bad.
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May 12, 2023 01:24
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What makes it bad? Is it more of the same?
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I hated the glider in far cry 6, if you so much as grazed the ground while you were flying you just loving die instantly. I found the game overall pretty boring and put it down after maybe 10 hours or so.
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Eason the Fifth posted:What makes it bad? Is it more of the same? The biggest sin for me was that the bow and arrow felt bad to use. Far Crys 3-5 are about hiding in a bush and killing everyone in an outpost with the bow and arrow, that didn't really seem viable in 6. I went through the whole game using the same silenced single-shot rifle because it would kill everyone with a one headshot regardless of armor and it felt pointless to use anything else.
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Eason the Fifth posted:What makes it bad? Is it more of the same? It’s more of the same which isn’t necessarily bad in and of itself but they seem to have really scraped the bottom of the barrel to add even a couple new ideas in 6. The general gunplay holds up but the AI was weirdly stupid even for a game like Far Cry and I never had an outpost spiral into a giant shitshow like 3/4 occasionally would. The backpack ultimate abilities are all basically pointless in the face of the very first one you get, which is the case for a lot of the guns too. Esposito kills it, of course, though equally of course it’s another Far Cry title about revolutionary ideals and social upheaval that is handled with all the subtlety of a mortar barrage. Where as Vaas was fun and Pagan Min was fun to roll your eyes at, Esposito kills it as Castillo but the things surrounding Castillo are often vacuous at best and insulting at worst.
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:The biggest sin for me was that the bow and arrow felt bad to use. Far Crys 3-5 are about hiding in a bush and killing everyone in an outpost with the bow and arrow, that didn't really seem viable in 6. I went through the whole game using the same silenced single-shot rifle because it would kill everyone with a one headshot regardless of armor and it felt pointless to use anything else. Oh yeah, same here, I forgot about that. There were a decent amount of guns and ammo types but nothing beat the silenced rifle with armor piercing rounds because everything dies with a headshot.
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Rock Paper Scissors with guns sucked rear end in the newest Wolfenstein game and it sucked rear end in Far Cry 6
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Mordja posted:Godsworn has a demo out Steam's Tacticon fest. I've only played part of a skirmish so far, but it's definitely midway between Age of Mythology and Warcraft 3 with some convenient, automated resourcing mechanics. Man, this is fun. I've really missed a nice mellow RTS, nothing has really scratched this itch since WC3.
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:The biggest sin for me was that the bow and arrow felt bad to use. Far Crys 3-5 are about hiding in a bush and killing everyone in an outpost with the bow and arrow, that didn't really seem viable in 6. I went through the whole game using the same silenced single-shot rifle because it would kill everyone with a one headshot regardless of armor and it felt pointless to use anything else. That's the majority of the problem with most of these open world shooters. It gets to the point where you have to to move mountains to get a silenced sniper rifle because they are so grossly overpowered in every game. Which is a shame because a lot of them do put effort into making other guns work well and have a good variety of them, but when it's "use the flamethrower to try and burn out the place before they kill me" and "instantly kill everyone I can see with no danger", well...
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Good news! The basic assault rifle with silencer you get immediately requires no replacement ever.
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Sloppy posted:Man, this is fun. I've really missed a nice mellow RTS, nothing has really scratched this itch since WC3. Yeah it's cool. And one of the only nu-RTS that doesn't seem to want to be an e-sport, the devs have said the focus will be on the campaign (which is supposed to be co-op) and skirmish.
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FutureCop posted:But why work harder when you could work smarter? Because I like hurting other people.
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i've downloaded more demos (a couple I might have listed before but havent played yet): The Bunny Graveyard, Castle of Secrets, The Chronicler, The Creation of a Self, Diluvian Winds, Escape First Alchemist, Farworld Pioneers, Golftopia, Grimfield Mystery, Hancho, The Hand of Glory, Head As Code, Hellslinger, The Inn Between, Justice.exe, The Lotus Holidays, Mainframe Defenders, Mala Petaka, The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo, Marco & the Galaxy Dragon, Miniland Adventure, Monomyth, The Mystery Cleaner, One Dreamer, OPUS: Rocket of Whispers, Outpath, Outshine, Pan'orama, Papetura, The Plague Doctor of Wippra, Project Sphinx, Reaver, Relentless Frontier, The Safe Place, The Santo Island Incident, Second Star, The Sentient Box, Side Effect, Space Wreck, SpaceNET, Splittown, Star Stuff, Strawhart, Super Brawl Rush, Super SpaceMail, Techtonica, Terra Alia, Theropods, They Came from Dimension X, Through the Fragmentation, Trepang2, Turbo Overkill, Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane, Ultreia, Urbek City Builder, Utopia Syndrome, Voidborn, Voidtrain, Whateverland, What's Missing, Who's Lila, Wizordum, Wormatozoa but I'll be playing none of them tonight because it's almost Zelda time
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Sloppy posted:Man, this is fun. I've really missed a nice mellow RTS, nothing has really scratched this itch since WC3. I'd like to suggest Bad North, which looks deceptively simple or 'lite', but is actually a clever little tactical game. RTS without the resource gathering, if you will. edit: Oh, persistent units, a la Myth or Homeworld
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I have been trying to finish Afterimage for most of this entire week so I can write up my thoughts on it, thinking I'm about to see all the content, and it literally will not end. I'm over 40 hours in and there's still something I haven't seen. undoubtedly the biggest metroidvania I've ever played, and unfortunately that's not a good thing because the result is that a lot of it feels very diluted and tepid with some inconsistent quality. it's not bad, but it's a shame that it's too big for its own good because it started out great.
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FutureCop posted:Since we're all talking about hacking games like DROP, and I very much like to flatter 7th Guest by following his example of recommending cool stuff, one that showed up for me recently was Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum which I've been very interested in: I had these games on my wishlist already, just skipping over them for stuff like Prey and Watch Dogs that you mentioned. Thanks for the post: it was a fun read!
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The 7th Guest posted:
Big recommendation to this game. It's a chill dungeon crawler with a bigger focus on exploration, puzzle-solving, and resource management instead of combat. There isn't really a need to minmax your builds, as battles are pretty simple and enemies are more like obstacles that block your path rather than actual threats. Also, you don't really need to grind in this game, and there is almost always a better path if you decide to look around. If you find yourself stuck at an enemy, it usually means you should try something else instead of trying to brute-force it with raw numbers (which aren't really effective anyway). There are some challenging combat encounters in the very late game, but they are still relatively easy once you craft the gears you need for the fight. As for character builds, there is a way to respec your character that becomes available quite early on, but the cost to respec each character increases exponentially, so it's only really worth doing it once or twice. But you don't really need to do that anyway, as leveling a new character is pretty quick, and in the late game, you can just bring your new character along with two high-level characters and have them leech experience off the higher-level encounters, and they will catch up in no time. The labyrinths are a joy to go through and cleverly designed with shortcuts and secrets that reward your exploration. There aren't any traps that I felt were unfair, and the puzzles aren't too difficult. I feel most players should be able to figure them out without external help. The game might be a little short for $18, though I personally think it's well worth the price and the length makes sure that the game doesn't overstay its welcome.
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Mozi posted:As a Dorfromantik enthusiast, PanOrama is different enough to be enjoyable. You don't have to worry about matching edges which removes a lot of what made Dorf challenging but it has a bunch of other stuff going on. Seems like another nice relaxing little game. Just hopped on this as well, good solid fun. Like you said it's a fair bit easier than Dorfromantik, but there's enough interesting stuff with the buildable structures there to keep things interesting.
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Just finished playing Midnight Fight Express and had a pretty good time! https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256902267/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1661282049 Overall it delivers a very decent isometric beat-em-up experience, like a fusion of Arkham freeflow combat and Streets of Rage gang violence and Hotline Miami's violent and confusing storyline. Very fun to style on enemies, clobbering them with all sorts of takedowns, parries, combos and finishers, and the improvisational use of the environment was a blast, picking up anything that isn't nailed down and throwing it at enemies. The huge variety in the levels is both very good as it constantly keeps things fresh and prevents it from feeling stale with all sorts of setpieces and fantastic arenas and new enemy types, but also very annoying at times when the levels just go too far: the sudden zombie level, the jet ski/motorcycle chase levels, the snipers overwatching you while you fight, and the overabundance of gun combat later on were particular pain points. Some other aspects like the scorpion queen boss fight were just plain bad and terribly designed and I have no idea how they didn't fix it by now: it was seriously so bad it almost made me quit the game completely. Luckily, more often than not the levels are great. Controls were mostly solid, but sometimes it'd get frustrating: many a time I'd get stuck doing an action I hadn't requested because of some weird environmental context (or vice versa I want to do some environment context takedown but it doesn't happen for an unspecified reason), many a time the autotargetting for shooting/throwing would target the wrong guy and get me killed unfairly (like I'm trying to kill a gunner far away in front of me and my guy keeps snapping 180 degrees to target the melee unit close behind me), many a time the guns just wouldn't function when I want to shoot or throw them, and there were some boneheaded decisions like having the button to shoot your special gun be the same as your finisher, making it so many a time when I'm trying to finish a guy I'd shoot the gun instead and waste a bullet. Story was kind of a wet fart for me: it sets up a lot of intrigue with this whole amnesia and unreliable narrators/flashbacks and it does enough to get you pumped and enjoy the chaotic, violent journey. But in the end, there was a lack of any serious twists or development, a lack of cool boss fights to serve as a nice finish, and it all just tumbles at the end into a very unsatisfying and undeveloped blah, with some sort of awkward sequel hook or something. I do very much recommend playing it: yes some of the levels are stinkers, yes the controls can be a bit whack at times and yes the story was a bit unsatisfying, but overall it provided an excellent amount of high-energy beat-em-up action that I already want to go back and replay the levels on a harder difficulty and try to beat the special challenges.
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 Grab a Hotshot Racing Steam key for free from Fanatical https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/hotshot-racing
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Shadows of Doubt seems like a cool game, but both times I tried the tutorial it generated the vent escape route in the tutorial murder apartment on ceilings that were too high for me to reach, so there was no way to escape when the police showed up  Refunded it for now but I'll check back when it's out of EA
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deep dish peat moss posted:Shadows of Doubt seems like a cool game, but both times I tried the tutorial it generated the vent escape route in the tutorial murder apartment on ceilings that were too high for me to reach, so there was no way to escape when the police showed up
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usually you can stack plastic stools & cardboard boxes under them if it's a 10-foot ceiling
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I took a screenshot of the second one: It was above the shower, I could go into the shower but couldn't reach it from a jump and could not climb ontop of the shower to reach it (so I wasn't able to like, jump off the sink to catch it). The cops were in the apartment so I couldn't leave the bathroom to pick stuff up to stack it and stand on it. I guess there was a plastic stool in the kitchen I could have used if I knew I was expected to move stools to the bathroom before starting an investigation!! The game seems really cool but having something like that happen twice in a row was enough for me to let it bake a bit longer! deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 00:01 on May 14, 2023 |
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The first thing that happens when you enter the apartment is that the tutorial pops up telling you to always prepare an escape route in advance. You can stack some boxes to reach the vent or just hide in a closet.
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deep dish peat moss posted:Shadows of Doubt seems like a cool game, but both times I tried the tutorial it generated the vent escape route in the tutorial murder apartment on ceilings that were too high for me to reach, so there was no way to escape when the police showed up I'm in the same boat. It just hasn't finished cooking, needs a bit more time in the oven.
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Hows Synthetik 2 so far? I really enjoyed playing the first game, second one is still in EA. Cant find a more recent road map than what was posted in 2021. Reviews seem kinda polarized. What do yall think?
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buglord posted:Hows Synthetik 2 so far? It's great but not finished yet. They keep dropping huge patches at regular intervals though.
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Jack Trades posted:The first thing that happens when you enter the apartment is that the tutorial pops up telling you to always prepare an escape route in advance. To be pedantic, the tutorial specifically tells you to "look for an escape route", not to prepare an escape route. Then it puts a waypoint objective marker on the vent, which goes away once you open the door of the bathroom and center your camera on the vent. If hiding in closets for 5+ minutes at a time is a major part of the gameplay I guess it's just not for me  I waited in the bathroom for a long time and they never left the apartment. But more realistically I think it's just weird tutorial fuckery where it was expecting me to play by its specific set of rules and the police don't get triggered to leave during the tutorial, which is the exact kind of problem that made me refund it for now 
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I tried Shadow Of Doubt and really what it showed me is that if you have better than even odds of knowing who is the killer you're best off just beating them unconscious and then taking their fingerprints as evidence to put them at the crime scene. The game feels like it waffles hard between blindingly obvious, where everyone leaves "I know I shouldn't do this but my personal code is 1234" and the victim writing "wow I sure am scared that XXX might try to kill me" to "idk the victim was kind of a flirt I guess, anyways they bled him like a deer good luck". Since there's no real penalty for just beating the poo poo out of people as far as I can tell it gives the game a weird pacing where you are upholding law and justice by sneaking through the air vents til you get caught then incapacitating the person (who then will not remember you) and leisurely wandering around their apartment while they bleed on the floor.
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CuddleCryptid posted:I tried Shadow Of Doubt and really what it showed me is that if you have better than even odds of knowing who is the killer you're best off just beating them unconscious and then taking their fingerprints as evidence to put them at the crime scene. You mean it's secretly a Batman simulator?
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ponzicar posted:You mean it's secretly a Batman simulator? More like, Rorschach simulation.
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make sure you handcuff any strangers you've beaten into submission, so you have more time to loot their apartments I'm the best detective
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I found the local Landlord, cuffed him then looted his apartment. Sadly I haven't been able to Physics him out of a window yet.
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CuddleCryptid posted:I tried Shadow Of Doubt and really what it showed me is that if you have better than even odds of knowing who is the killer you're best off just beating them unconscious and then taking their fingerprints as evidence to put them at the crime scene. Hey, the Cola Government doesn't care how the job gets done as long as they don't see you doing anything illegal. Verbal testimony is completely disregarded when it comes to making an arrest, only physical evidence is respected and they only need a name anyways. The reason you can stare right into a security camera and nobody will know it's you once you leave the building for 5 seconds is that every PI is dressed like the Invisible Man and has no fingerprints or something and you can't expect the extremely busy legal system to care about finding which one did it. But seriously, the legality factor is very odd currently, yeah.
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Are there any non-survival game farming RTSes out there? Nothing at all like Rimworld or its ilk. More like something like Farming Simulator but you control everything from a top down perspective. I'll settle for city builders in the same vein as Anno but with a heavier focus on agriculture. Deakul fucked around with this message at 19:48 on May 14, 2023 |
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