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commander john hawken thought his days of mech fighting were behind him, but when the badguya cartel kidnapped his wife and daughter, he had no choice but to go back to the life he thought he had left behind
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i think i briefly tried hawken but it was a mp game with a high skill cap so i got constantly owned. the f2p elements were also kind of bad, maybe? something to do with upgrades.
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CuddleCryptid posted:https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1658169185682493441?t=cUZiFW0BsJAOSzOBQzij_g&s=19 (i think the closest i've seen to a AA/AAA game in a festival to date was Ys IX) The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 02:54 on May 16, 2023 |
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May 16, 2023 02:52
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Do we have an Omega Strikers thread? I played a few rounds and would like to party up sometime
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:i think i briefly tried hawken but it was a mp game with a high skill cap so i got constantly owned. the f2p elements were also kind of bad, maybe? something to do with upgrades. Yeah, it was super cool but definitely needed better stratification between skill tiers.
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May 16, 2023 03:01
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Orv posted:The actual question about Steam… trials? Undemos? Is does that 90 minutes cut into your refund time because of how Steam tracks gameplay time? I assume someone has thought this far ahead but then again Valve. I would assume they have not thought that far ahead. If you play remote on a friend's copy of a game you can't refund that game later. I think they only have one way they measure play time.
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FastestGunAlive posted:Do we have an Omega Strikers thread? I played a few rounds and would like to party up sometime there's a thread here, though i dont think people are really using it for matchmaking https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4012962
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I would definitely try out way, way more games if time trials became a standard thing developers could opt into. There’s plenty of games I have an interest in but aren’t quite at that point where I’d charge my credit card and then worry about having yet another return.
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briefly looked at the "sports festival" happening on steam and saw 'motor doom' you know what, sure
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The 7th Guest posted:briefly looked at the "sports festival" happening on steam and saw 'motor doom' I appreciate, though maybe this is a false idea, that we seem to be back in an era where you can just make a video game-rear end video game like this or Vampire Survivors or just games that revel in "Do a stupid thing because it's cool" vibes. Feel like we lost that for a bit but maybe I just wasn't looking in the right places.
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Orv posted:"Do a stupid thing because it's cool" 
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Orv posted:I appreciate, though maybe this is a false idea, that we seem to be back in an era where you can just make a video game-rear end video game like this or Vampire Survivors or just games that revel in "Do a stupid thing because it's cool" vibes. Feel like we lost that for a bit but maybe I just wasn't looking in the right places. thank god for indie gaming and the very few big devs that still make good AAA games (fromsoft, whoever made returnal, probably one or two others). every other expensive game sucks a sour lemon.
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FuriousGeorge posted:Does anyone have any impressions of Songs of Conquest? Normally I don't buy games in EA, but it's currently on sale for 40% off, and seems like it's shaping up nicely. I love HoMM3 but I never liked the Ubisoft sequels. Kinda hoping this is the evolution I've been waiting for. I bought it and refunded it back in the week it entered EA so I don't know exactly what has been done to address this but there was virtually zero player decision-making in SoC when I played it. You build the same buildings in the same order every map, you build the same units every map because there are no branching unit upgrade paths or any strategic reason to use one unit over another (they don't have interesting passive skills or gimmicks or active abilities). Higher level spells are the same thing as low level spells except with higher numbers/more targets. There's no strategy to battle, it's just mashing autoattacking stacks of units into each other and casting generic nuke or buff/debuff spells. At least in HOMM units had unique traits that made some units function differently or occasional active abilities or whatever. It had a wonderful art style so I hope they did something to address all of that. I glanced through the update history but it looks like there have only been 4 big updates in the year it has been out and they added new game modes, a random map generator, a map editor, and better combat AI, but I didn't see anything about making combat mechanics actually interesting. Disclaimer: I am pretty grognardy about strategy games and don't like them when they feel "pre-solved", which is exactly how I'd describe how SoC felt at launch: The game had already sussed out your strategy for you and all that was left was churning out units and marching them to enemy bases. I dislike Advance Wars and Wargroove for the same reason, if that serves at a litmus test for anyone reading this post deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 11:11 on May 16, 2023 |
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I hate that feeling, too. Like when a strategy game is more of a puzzle game with an intended solution.
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If you enjoy HoMM-likes then it's worth noting that the entire Age of Wonders series is at a deep discount on Steam and Age of Wonders 4 just came out and it rules!!
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AoW4 is the diametric opposite of what I described SoC as and it owns
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I assume the new Hawken will not have an actual campaign, but just grinding multiplayer-style maps in singleplayer?
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deep dish peat moss posted:Disclaimer: I am pretty grognardy about strategy games and don't like them when they feel "pre-solved", which is exactly how I'd describe how SoC felt at launch: The game had already sussed out your strategy for you and all that was left was churning out units and marching them to enemy bases. I dislike Advance Wars and Wargroove for the same reason, if that serves at a litmus test for anyone reading this post insightful. and explanation for why i don't like AW and Wargroove. It's a shame thosetwo games have delightful art and such polish. Orv posted:I appreciate, though maybe this is a false idea, that we seem to be back in an era where you can just make a video game-rear end video game like this or Vampire Survivors or just games that revel in "Do a stupid thing because it's cool" vibes. Feel like we lost that for a bit but maybe I just wasn't looking in the right places.  we must return to video game rear end video games
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The Lone Badger posted:I assume the new Hawken will not have an actual campaign, but just grinding multiplayer-style maps in singleplayer? Yeah, they called it ‘pve’ and not ‘campaign’.
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gently caress, that sounds awful. I absolutely love mech games and it's weird/comical that we're getting the Amoured Core series revived, on PC no less, as the first meaty single-player fps mech game in ages.
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deep dish peat moss posted:AoW4 is the diametric opposite of what I described SoC as and it owns Yeah, AoW4 and Spellforce: Conquest of Eo scratch the same itch for me, just with much greater depth and complexity.
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Ziggurat 2 has proven to me I can enjoy an FPS roguelite; I'd be fine if Hawken was that and not multiplayer only
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Some news and deals of note:
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The Kins posted:Some news and deals of note: That's weird, I already own Origins, Mass Effect and Inquisition so the cost of the two remaining items - Andromeda and DA2 - are cheaper to buy individually than to buy the discounted package. For whatever reason, it shows the modified bundled up price as only discounted by 46% when the individual items are 84% and 75%. It's a moot point since I'm not interested in buying either of those remaining games anyway, but it's still weird!
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deep dish peat moss posted:AoW4 is the diametric opposite of what I described SoC as and it owns By what I've read it appears to be strongly in the Master of Magic school of "here's a shitload of options, some of them might be completely broken, go hogwild", this about right? Good old MoM still the one fantasy 4x I look back at most fondly so that has sounded promising. Pretty sure I'm picking it up anyway at some point during summer.
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Jerusalem posted:That's weird, I already own Origins, Mass Effect and Inquisition so the cost of the two remaining items - Andromeda and DA2 - are cheaper to buy individually than to buy the discounted package. For whatever reason, it shows the modified bundled up price as only discounted by 46% when the individual items are 84% and 75%. King Boo posted:that bundle can't be purchased if you already own any of the games
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Guys buy Shadows of Forbidden Gods https://store.steampowered.com/app/1741640/Shadows_of_Forbidden_Gods/ It's CK2, but you play as a horrifying elder thing, and there are different ones like you can be a big snake or a guy who makes a book that drives people mad, or a lady who gives away golden roses but it's not a good idea to take them, and you send agents around and you can start plagues, and the goal is to awaken and bring darkness upon the world. It's really good. The demo is 200 turns. Do not ignore people becoming aware of you and do not let your agents' Menace score get so high that the Chosen One travels across the world to come kill them. And if you do, make sure they have the Infamous trait, so that when they die everyone in the world goes 'phew! Well I guess everything's okay now!' and stops paying attention. ...it's great. I think a goon made it also.
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- not a huge surprise but Wholesome Direct is happening this year, on June 10th. i'll have a "Road to Summer Games Fest" thread in a couple of weeks maybe. there is a Humble event on the 18th but it's pretty isolated from a lot of the other events. as for Wholesome Direct, it usually has around 50-60 trailers in it, but they're all very short trailers, and half of the games might never come out because they're by single devs. and also a lot of the games are farm sims - HROT is out of early access today - Dead Cells launched a kickstarter for a board game
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HopperUK posted:Guys buy Shadows of Forbidden Gods I have avoided posting about Shadows because of the bizarre That Which Sleeps curse that seems to hang over the “be the bad guy” strategy genre where they all turn out shallow and terrible. Shadows did not! It’s got some rough edges and there’s a couple design choices I don’t love but it’s really cool, really fun and is fairly moddable with some pretty hefty ones already out there. And yeah it’s by Bobby Two Hands, the person from Shadows Behind The Throne in the TWS days, though I don’t think they post in games anymore.
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exquisite tea posted:If you enjoy HoMM-likes then it's worth noting that the entire Age of Wonders series is at a deep discount on Steam and Age of Wonders 4 just came out and it rules!! how is the AI? biggest issue with map games is bad AI.
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Lunsku posted:By what I've read it appears to be strongly in the Master of Magic school of "here's a shitload of options, some of them might be completely broken, go hogwild", this about right? Good old MoM still the one fantasy 4x I look back at most fondly so that has sounded promising. Pretty much, although the devs (one of which is a goon) were putting out balance patches and tweaks for years after the last dlc. Good people. err posted:how is the AI? biggest issue with map games is bad AI. I haven’t played AoW 4 yet but ask in the thread. Historically the combat AI is really good. Overworld AI has been mediocre although apparently they have made some changes to the mechanics that should prevent the endgame consisting solely of slamming doomstacks into each other, which was sorely needed. Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 21:19 on May 16, 2023 |
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https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/play-on-the-go-premium-edition-build-your-own-bundle Fanatical Play on the go bundle: (2 for $6.99/3 for $9.99/$14.99) quote:Wolfenstein The old blood Bethseda VR Collection: $24.99 for: quote:Skyrim VR Star Deal: Batman Arkham Collection $7.19 https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/batman-arkham-collection
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HROT 1.0 came out. Nice boomer shooter I got in a bundle. https://twitter.com/kotolout/status/1658502576105734145
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Rarely awake at this hour so not sure if this is normal but...is Steam down?
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Artelier posted:Rarely awake at this hour so not sure if this is normal but...is Steam down?
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Thanks! I normally don't check Steam until say 9am (it's almost 630am rn) but I woke up early and couldn't go back to sleep and wasn't sure if this was still maintenance time or not
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err posted:HROT 1.0 came out. Nice boomer shooter I got in a bundle. It makes me laugh that they defined what Czechoslovakia was in the description.
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