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Rebel Blob posted:Is there any consensus on what games make up the top tier of boomer shooters? I'm interested in playing some, but only have the time to play a handful and they all kinda blend together in my mind. Dusk, Cultic, Ashes 2063 and Ashes Afterglow. The Ashes games are free. e: that's not the consesus, just my personal opinion  GhostDog fucked around with this message at 08:59 on May 28, 2023 |
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Golden age of gaming started and ended when Final Fantasy 9 was released.
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Gorn Myson posted:Golden age of gaming started and ended when Final Fantasy 9 was released. 
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Rebel Blob posted:Is there any consensus on what games make up the top tier of boomer shooters? I'm interested in playing some, but only have the time to play a handful and they all kinda blend together in my mind. Definitely check out some Doom mods if you haven't, such as Golden Souls 2.
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Lt. Lizard posted:The only way I can see the whole "the golden age of gaming was actually x years ago!" sentiment being somewhat true, instead of being a nostalgia brainrot, is if the person saying that is a die-hard fan of one of the genres that had their boom in the past and are pretty thoroughly dead now, like MMORPGs, RTSes, or arena PvP shooters (or whatever the hell was the name for the genre of things like Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament). Yeah so much of this depends on genre. Same with qualifying things as “retro”. Gaming was quantifiably better for arcade racing games during the PS3 and 360 era, and the modern industry treats that period as if it happened in 1712.
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Last decent arcade racer was Burnout Paradise and it's hosed up that nobody bothered to make anything half-way decent since. No, the last two NFS games were also phoned in trash.
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FuzzySlippers posted:That got me to buy it. I've never played a xanxia game (aside from Amazing Cultivation Simulator which I could never get into) but I've read a bunch of novels and have always wanted to play one since the conventions seemed perfect for a game. Neat. Anyways, having played some more, I'm torn between recommending the Dragon Sect for a first playthrough. Because while it's a great way to get to know the game, fully taking advantage of its questline turns out to be kind of a trap in the long run, since its core feature is pretty much useless, and I eventually got stonewalled against a world boss some time in Tier 5 and died out of frustration. I probably could have level grinded on skills though, so most of the blame still belongs to me. Planning on starting again using what I've learned for a more freeform, but still "simple-ish" playthrough, maybe adding in working on the Alchemy subsystem this time. I figure that if the game really has its hooks into me, I'll get into all the complicated stuff eventually on higher difficulty settings.
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FuzzySlippers posted:That got me to buy it. I've never played a xanxia game (aside from Amazing Cultivation Simulator which I could never get into) but I've read a bunch of novels and have always wanted to play one since the conventions seemed perfect for a game. A bit late but another excellent xianxia game with that effect is Immortal Way Of Life: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1189490/_/ It doesn't have an official translation, but the fan translation is by the same people who did the Taiwu and Tale of Immortal ones. It's an open-world turn-based RPG/life simulation hybrid, with lots of systems for alchemy, breakthroughs, artifact crafting, exploration, socialising, tournaments etc. I think probably the best aspect is the fact that the world continues on in the background regardless of what you do, and does so at a scale of years, decades, centuries and millenniums - as you reach higher cultivation (which is not necessarily trivial, it's very possible to die of running out of lifespan instead) you get more years but also need even more years and better cultivation resources to continue. The main difference from ToI is that it's less linear and that the combat is turn-based instead, somewhat similar to The Scroll of Taiwu. They are both S-tier xianxia/wuxia games, alongside The Scroll of Taiwu, ACS and Sands of Salzaar. e: Here is what mid/late-game combat looks like (in English), although 99% of victory is about choosing how and what you cultivate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c0aJcpitXk And here is some end-game combat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pypSjkS7u2E Private Speech fucked around with this message at 15:27 on May 28, 2023 |
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Rebel Blob posted:Is there any consensus on what games make up the top tier of boomer shooters? I'm interested in playing some, but only have the time to play a handful and they all kinda blend together in my mind. Mordja posted:The earlier ones are still the best, imo, so Dusk, Amid Evil, I like Ion Fury a lot. I know people are into Hedon but it sounds like a real commitment, there Cultic, but I'm waiting for the second episode's release. If Wrath ever fully comes out it'll probably be up there, then there's also Turbo Overkill which lives up to its name, supposed to be leaving EA soon. It's not exactly a new game, but the Arcane Dimensions mod for Quake 1 has enough modern design sensibilities that it frankly blows the original campaign out the water. I know I was a bit down on it earlier in the thread, but I actually went back and tried Dread Templar and I'm enjoying it quite a bit for some old-school shooting fun and secret hunting with some modern aesthetics like cool-down abilities, slow-mo, dashes, upgrades/builds, etc. It's a little janky and took me a bit to warm up to it, but I'd add it to the list of recs. As Mordja mentioned earlier, I'd also add Prodeus to the list of recs as well, though I agree with their points where, while it feels good overall, it is a bit generic, and some of the arena combat and enemy design and weapon mechanics are annoying/unsatisfying at times. Some ones I've heard recommended but I don't: STRAFE and Forgive Me Father and Project Warlock have potential and I can see why some people would recommend but I found them quite unsatisfying and boring. Ones I hear recommended but I haven't personally tried yet so can't vouch for: HROT and Nightmare Reaper and Viscerafest and ULTRAKILL and Serious Sam 4 and of course, the recent Warhammer 40k Boltgun
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Orv posted:The situation we have now with PC ports is basically just a rehash of approx 2008-2011 where every PC port was also completely hosed. I don’t really remember (anything ever anymore) why that stopped being the case so I don’t know what the way out here is. the ps4 was around forever, the JP companies had mostly figured out ports, and that was the pre-COVID/crypto era where cards were cheap as hell
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There's this 70 dollar Zelda that's full of crazy amounts of content and it's missing micro transactions and season pass It feels like it broke a law Are PC games allowed to do that?
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Miyamoto is above the law, he cannot be stopped.
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100 rupees for the Zonai translation dlc
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kazil posted:100 rupees for the Zonai translation dlc thread title, but for here or the totk thread
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Upsidads posted:There's this 70 dollar Zelda that's full of crazy amounts of content and it's missing micro transactions and season pass
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Upsidads posted:There's this 70 dollar Zelda that's full of crazy amounts of content and it's missing micro transactions and season pass Knowing Nintendo the season pass will get added later.
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Nintendo typically do a "DLC pass" to effectively preorder all the DLC for the game in one go. BOTW's was announced on the day of the game's release, I think?
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Upsidads posted:There's this 70 dollar Zelda that's full of crazy amounts of content and it's missing micro transactions and season pass
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Volte posted:Breath of the Wild has a season pass and there's no reason to think TOTK won't too. Also, Nintendo's version of microtransactions are amiibo. Amiibo unlock stuff you can unlock about six+ hours in I'm shocked it wasn't amiibo only I do suspect the next switch will have a Tears of the Kingdom Dx But as it stands now it's a hell of a game with a hell of a lot of ambition and content and none of the micro or season pass crap
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The 7th Guest posted:for a fair number of people, TOTK -is- a pc game it runs vastly better on PC than it does on a real switch
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Jack Trades posted:Last decent arcade racer was Burnout Paradise and it's hosed up that nobody bothered to make anything half-way decent since. They don't have to be small downloads, or written in assembler or use only KB/M. Develop a focused, fun game. There are still developers doing this, but the recent trend seems to be release early, release broken and beg for forgiveness once that check has cleared.
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repiv posted:it runs vastly better on PC than it does on a real switch
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deep dish peat moss posted:On one hand I think it would be a great fit for a Total War game but on the other hand I don't think it would be meaningfully different from Total Warhammer. Maybe someone will make a cool Total Warhammer LOTR mod though I think there's some conversion mods for games like Crusader Kings but not active fighters like Total War. Imo part of the issue is that if you want to do a lore-heavy strategy game you have to contend with the fact that during the events of the Lord of the Rings the forces of good were explicitly losing and would have been done for if not for the sneaksy hobbitses. You'd have to do a lot earlier in the lore where there was more inter-racial fighting before The Ring became a major force and that's getting dangerously into the Simarillion-level of lore territory, which won't have a lot of wide appeal. We do really need Battle For Middle Earth 3 though, the original was great. I'm not sure of any legal way to play BFME1-2 now so probably not going to happen. CuddleCryptid fucked around with this message at 17:08 on May 28, 2023 |
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Ciaphas posted:I tried it but cutscenes got desynced and that bugged me the latest version of the 60fps mod caps the framerate back to 30 during FMVs, which fixes the desync/speed issues
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i mean mod-free. maybe it's because i'm trying to use ryujinx or something
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CuddleCryptid posted:I think there's some conversion mods for games like Crusader Kings but not active fighters like Total War. Imo part of the issue is that if you want to do a lore-heavy strategy game you have to contend with the fact that during the events of the Lord of the Rings the forces of good were explicitly losing and would have been done for if not for the sneaksy hobbitses. You'd have to do a lot earlier in the lore where there was more inter-racial fighting before The Ring became a major force and that's getting dangerously into the Simarillion-level of lore territory, which won't have a lot of wide appeal. There are LotR mods for Total Wars Medieval 2 and Atilla, but the latter doesn't have the campaign map yet, just the battles.
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GhostDog posted:Dusk, Cultic, Ashes 2063 and Ashes Afterglow. The Ashes games are free. Blattdorf posted:Definitely check out some Doom mods if you haven't, such as Golden Souls 2. FutureCop posted:I know I was a bit down on it earlier in the thread, but I actually went back and tried Dread Templar and I'm enjoying it quite a bit for some old-school shooting fun and secret hunting with some modern aesthetics like cool-down abilities, slow-mo, dashes, upgrades/builds, etc. It's a little janky and took me a bit to warm up to it, but I'd add it to the list of recs. As Mordja mentioned earlier, I'd also add Prodeus to the list of recs as well, though I agree with their points where, while it feels good overall, it is a bit generic, and some of the arena combat and enemy design and weapon mechanics are annoying/unsatisfying at times.
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Lt. Lizard posted:The only way I can see the whole "the golden age of gaming was actually x years ago!" sentiment being somewhat true, instead of being a nostalgia brainrot, is if the person saying that is a die-hard fan of one of the genres that had their boom in the past and are pretty thoroughly dead now, like MMORPGs, RTSes, or arena PvP shooters (or whatever the hell was the name for the genre of things like Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament). The golden age of gaming ended with the release of golden horse armor Ironic, really
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Frictional has put up a demo for their new Amnesia game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1944430/Amnesia_The_Bunker/
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Jossar posted:snip So I take it that you still have to delete that game file? I was reading through reviews and I heard someone say that there are constant crashes, which is making me worry a bit cuz the game does seem interesting.
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Yami Fenrir posted:So I take it that you still have to delete that game file? I finally installed the game—was sitting on it until it came out of early access. It wouldn’t start for me either. I had to follow this guide and switch the settings on my system locale to support UTF-8. Then it worked.
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Do we have an emulation thread here, btw? I wouldn’t mind playing some games of all varieties from Nintendo to Atari on my PC, but I don’t even know where to start. I haven’t played a Zelda game since the side-scrolling one in ‘88/‘89, or played anything on a console of my own since I got a PC in 1991. My son started out with a Wii (NBA 2k10) and all the Xbox consoles since then, so I’ve “seen” modern console stuff (and bought many games as he grew to adulthood), but I’ve not actually played any console-exclusive titles on any ecosystem since 1989 and I feel like I’ve missed some bangers. Just missed lots of games outta my wheelhouse as I’ve been exclusive to PC gaming (or released to PC alongside/later on like Elden Ring). Not asking for  or even recommendations (yet!), but stuff like Shadow of the Colossus and BotW have completely passed me by on my PC. Not enough to buy a 7DS AmnioBoy 4, however I am aware emulation exists. I even have Retro Arch on Steam (never clicked), but have absolutely zero clue where to start with getting old-to-current games to play strictly on my gaming rig. I figure I can read an OP or something just to dip a toe in and check what’s out there and if it’s worth reading further! I Knowing Goons there has to be at least a “how to get started” post somewhere, and since I’m stuck on a phone until late AM hopefully I can read/learn to pass time while cut off from site searching on AwfulApp. Thanks for any help!
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For anything PlayStation 2 and older, I think the recommended emulator is RetroArch (although use Duck Station by itself for PS1)? I don't think we have an all-in-one megathread for emulation though.
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DarkDobe posted:Not sure if it was suggested here or by someone else but I really want to shout out to: Thought I was burnt out on these, this game just consumed my morning
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homeless posted:Thought I was burnt out on these, this game just consumed my morning Same, it's definitely a cut above the rest. There's a lot I'd like to see but it's a very solid early access base to build on.
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Yeah, I knew that was why RetroArch was there, and I can Google how to use it/find games no problem on my own. To be clear: I’m not talking about playing old PC games because I know about DOSBox/compatibility modes/etc for games on PC (even have USB 1.44” floppy & DVD/RW drives to play a mountain of games I own physically). I would love to try out some Nintendo on my PC, though, mainly from watching BotW video on YouTube and TotK streams and while I don’t mind paying $70 for a legal copy of Tears to emulate, I just can’t see myself buying a Switch. I would just be playing in my room in my chair anyway; might as well do it on my 32” monitor if it’s possible
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DarkDobe posted:Not sure if it was suggested here or by someone else but I really want to shout out to: To quote my own steam review of this game's pre-EA demo: "The inclusion of gameplay is a welcome departure from genre conventions" It's the only one of these games I've played that feels like the player actually interacts with it beyond picking upgrades and sometimes running in circles, though that kind of fell apart once I got most of the metaprogression upgrades at which point, much like the rest of the genre, your power scaling strips the mechanical interaction away (at least in the demo) also here's the demo if anyone wants to try it out before buying, there's a solid amount of content here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2316660/Halls_of_Torment_Prelude/ deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 19:56 on May 28, 2023 |
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Assepoester posted:While I appreciate the dig at Blizzard pests stealing other employees' breast milk from the fridge because seriously what the gently caress, this is a myopic attempt at "back in my day" nostalgia bait at best and deliberately malicious agitprop at worst. It blames devs for things that are neither the choices nor the fault of devs, like the DRM used - that's all on the publisher, aka the money men. Maybe if Devs weren't such pushover crybabies we'd get DRM free games for €$£35 as God intended.
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woke kaczynski posted:Same, it's definitely a cut above the rest. There's a lot I'd like to see but it's a very solid early access base to build on. It's another one of these, but a very good one of these. I like the retro style and the pacing of it is a little more methodical.
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FWIW last I checked Sony’s subscription thing for PC includes Shadow of the Colossus and bunch of other PS2 titles. Don’t know if the streaming service is any good. I check it every couple years because I want to play Bloodborne but always end up playing a different Souls game. Anyways, my partner has Zelda on switch. Is it easy to emulate on pc? I’m too old and lazy to bother with pirating poo poo anymore.
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