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Has anybody checked out Homebody yet? June is very bad for the wallet.
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al-azad posted:Has anybody checked out Homebody yet? I got randomly sent a Steam key and might take a look over the weekend. There's also an LP on Game Grumps as of today, but they're pretty awful at showcasing games.
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Jun 1, 2023 21:18
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Wanderer posted:I got randomly sent a Steam key and might take a look over the weekend. Key point it's one of their in-house games lol It looks like a fairly competent horror themed adventure game but I'm waiting on a second opinion before dropping $20. e: Alright so Homebody seems to be a Groundhog Day game so I'm pretty interested in it. al-azad fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Jun 1, 2023 |
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Jun 1, 2023 22:21
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al-azad posted:Key point it's one of their in-house games lol Watched a little bit of a playthrough, there's a part right after the first loop, where you speak to someone. As you select your prompts, which are all variants of, like, "oh my god we just got murdered what happened?!", your character instead just says "I'm fine, nothing's wrong" which intrigues me to no end. I love that sort of stuff.
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Jun 2, 2023 02:57
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Oh God yes https://twitter.com/BenjiSales/status/1664645953222070272?t=uJAb2Q2gp6mBVvKPTRaoVA&s=19 True Detective and Se7en inspired campaign is just an angelic choir to my ears
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Jun 2, 2023 16:25
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"True Detective... season 2" oh no!
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Jun 2, 2023 16:27
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al-azad posted:"True Detective... season 2" oh no! Who knows, maybe they'll go for season 1 vibes and have it be pretty great until the final act, which fails in a way that makes you retroactively like the whole story a lot less!
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Jun 2, 2023 16:34
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Oh my loving god, a Remedy pastiche of Pizzolato. It’s going to be so rank
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Jun 2, 2023 16:36
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Captain Hygiene posted:Who knows, maybe they'll go for season 1 vibes and have it be pretty great until the final act, which fails in a way that makes you retroactively like the whole story a lot less! Or season 3 where they lure you into thinking it's a rehash of season 1 until the finale where it makes you feel shame for your words and deeds.
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Jun 2, 2023 16:41
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I'm glad they finally got to make the open fieldy Alan wake they always wanted to
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TheWorldsaStage posted:Oh God yes This all sounds great.
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Jun 2, 2023 17:37
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It's gonna be painful to wait another year for it to come to Steam.
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Jun 2, 2023 19:55
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Pyrolocutus posted:It's gonna be painful to wait another year for it to come to Steam. Uhh... I don't know if this is a joke, but this being fully funded and published by Epic, so it has the same chance of coming out on Steam as Counter-Strike 2 does on EGS.
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sam16 posted:Uhh... I don't know if this is a joke, but this being fully funded and published by Epic, so it has the same chance of coming out on Steam as Counter-Strike 2 does on EGS. So was Control, no? And that eventually came out on Steam.
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Jun 2, 2023 20:54
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Epic paid for exclusivity but this seems like an actual Epic funded and published game so not likely.
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might be late on the fear and hunger posting train, but really wanted to talk about this game. it's hard for me to describe how I feel about it other than it being one of the most profound works of art I have ever experienced. it is wrong, grotesque, horrible, off-putting, degrading, sickening, and extremely offensive. in a world where "offensive" things are in the "edgelord" domain of demeaning others and promoting reaction, this game is offensive in a much more visceral way, like human beings should not be viewing and experiencing this because it is just so wrong. this, of course, made me magnetize to it to the extreme. the artwork, the background, the settings, all of it just engrosses you in its degradation, and it is the syncretic combination of all these things that synergistically adds to the experience (especially the artwork). I've always been on the look out for something similar (and I feel like RPG maker is the best medium to have something like this without getting too weird - the artwork is just stylized enough to just barely not be too over-the-top). can never find anything that does it like fear and hunger though (probably because whatever might be similar is hidden behind some kind of "not safe for life" filter). someone mentioned the game "Decarnation" in another thread earlier and the artwork seemed cool, might have to check that out. if anyone has some other recs that would be cool too, because dam is it hard to find people who would admit to being into something like fear and hunger lol.
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Pyrolocutus posted:It's gonna be painful to wait another year for it to come to Steam. You could just buy it from epic?
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Evil Kit posted:So was Control, no? And that eventually came out on Steam. Control was published by 505 Games apparently. Still, there's a good chance that AW2 will come to steam eventually, since years from now it'll be worth the steam tax to sell it to a larger audience. It's not like Fortnite where they're processing microtransactions every single day of its existence.
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My whole experience playing Fear & Hunger was "Wow, gently caress this. I hate this. But I know what I did wrong and I can get there fast so I'll give it one more go." Repeated over and over ad infinitum. I just started 2 after being reminded it exists in this thread. It doesn't seem nearly as difficult, but it might be even stingier with save points. The whole thing has very heavy Pathologic vibes, I dig it.
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Len posted:You could just buy it from epic? I don't like the Epic store much but it's always funny hearing people talk like an epic exclusive is coming to a console they don't own lol.
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Jun 2, 2023 22:04
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True Detective S1 was great all the way through. Awake2 is gonna own bones.
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veni veni veni posted:I don't like the Epic store much but it's always funny hearing people talk like an epic exclusive is coming to a console they don't own lol. My computer just isn't compatible with running an exe 
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veni veni veni posted:I don't like the Epic store much but it's always funny hearing people talk like an epic exclusive is coming to a console they don't own lol. The Epic hate is real, I know folks who pass on AAA games they've wanted for years when Epic tosses them out for free or a few bucks. I'd get it if they were actually intrusive spyware or whatever people claimed early on, but they're just another launcher to deal with as far as I know. I'll deal with that to save some bucks.
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It's just dumb culture war bullshit, frankly. The epic client sucks and is worth loling at but, well steam isn't much better at this point tbh.
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Ashurbanipal posted:might be late on the fear and hunger posting train, but really wanted to talk about this game. it's hard for me to describe how I feel about it other than it being one of the most profound works of art I have ever experienced. it is wrong, grotesque, horrible, off-putting, degrading, sickening, and extremely offensive. in a world where "offensive" things are in the "edgelord" domain of demeaning others and promoting reaction, this game is offensive in a much more visceral way, like human beings should not be viewing and experiencing this because it is just so wrong. this, of course, made me magnetize to it to the extreme. the artwork, the background, the settings, all of it just engrosses you in its degradation, and it is the syncretic combination of all these things that synergistically adds to the experience (especially the artwork). It's actually horrible, in a specific, deliberate way that I think elevates it into the realm of actual horror-as-art. It's really rare to see this these days, we're all so drowned in shock value that being meaningfully disturbing is sort of a rare treat.
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Captain Hygiene posted:I'd get it if they were actually intrusive spyware or whatever people claimed early on, but they're just another launcher to deal with as far as I know. they've been caught multiple times siphoning up data they shouldn't from, for example, your steam install, and sweeny has been involved in multiple shady deals to sell data to unsavory folks in the past. data sharing was a large part of the tencent deal when that company bought up a major stake in that company, sweeny got a very good deal for what he gave up and the data packages appear to have weighed very heavily on tencent's valuation, for whatever reason. considering tencent's SOP, that means nothing good for privacy. this was further substantiated in 2021 when the biden administration started forcing tencent out of a lot of company ownership positions because of all the shady poo poo they were doing, and one of the only two positions tencent negotiated to keep was the one in Epic. that same year, epic made very little money despite the end-of-pandemic situation because running EGS was costing them billions a year. when you pair that with the fact that they took many, many years to add basic features because it made it more difficult for them to collect data insights it's very clear that epic is not in the game selling business at all. the entire deal with them is that you give them an undisclosed amount of your personal data and activity in return for games. which, just so we're clear on where i stand on this and this doesn't become a sniping contest: this is functionally the same deal that most of the world made with gmail. you give google an SORTA disclosed amount of your personal data and activities in return for reliable, clean email with quite good spam filters - on the email, anyway. privacy experts have directly linked putting a number on your gmail to a sharp increase in spam calls/texts and identity theft attempts, so even if it's not directly provable it's highly likely that there's a habit of data getting out, however it gets out. despite all that, in general, the world decided that gmail's service was worth the massive invasion of privacy and subsequent hassle from invariably having your data leaked, sold, or stolen. epic is no different. if you're comfortable with the extra risk or think you have nothing to lose from the risk, then the hundreds of hours of quality entertainment you can get from getting stuff from them is a pretty decent trade. the reason this is not a bigger deal on the internet is because frankly a lot of the most horrifying poo poo companies do with your data is perfectly legal and done every day. people yell and scream about it but ultimately there ain't a lot of paid privacy activists in washington, but there are plenty of paid activists trying to make data protections weaker. a lot of it gets wrapped up in other innocuous poo poo and nobody even notices for a while. consequently, lots of folks are uncomfortable by default because there's no telling what the rules really are. gmail has SOME disclosures, but the ones that exist are mostly due to government intimidation. which means you can be reasonably sure that google will obfuscate or ignore their own rules if they think they can get away with it. epic hasn't attracted the ire of any regulators yet, not really, so the rules there are a pretty big question mark. is there any recent smoking gun or anything obviously illegal? no. but people are not being irrational by avoiding EGS, consumer data is still a very wild west situation and epic is much closer to butch cassidy than wyatt earp.
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Yeah I'm at the point where I always assume everyone is selling my personal data anyway. They can have it.
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Captain Hygiene posted:The Epic hate is real, I know folks who pass on AAA games they've wanted for years when Epic tosses them out for free or a few bucks. I'd get it if they were actually intrusive spyware or whatever people claimed early on, but they're just another launcher to deal with as far as I know. I'll deal with that to save some bucks. I used to feel the same was as you, but for a long rear end time Epic had literally none of the important features that Steam did. No I'm not talking about the shopping cart, the main issue was there were no cloud saves. Let me tell you have distraught I was when I reinstalled Zombie Army 4 on a new computer and learned the tens of hours I'd sunk into it was just gone. Really, really turned me off to Epic launcher in general. Don't care if you get free poo poo, it took them so long to even implement the most basic of poo poo that actively ruined your experience in any game for not being there. e;fb in terms of other major issues per coolguye. Heck to the Epic launcher and heck to Epic exclusives.
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Oldstench posted:True Detective S1 was great all the way through. Awake2 is gonna own bones. Anyway the real problem is that CONTROL’s actual gunplay was very basic and very swingy, meanwhile my most vivid memory of ALAN WAKE is waiting for generators to start while the “use flashlight to strip invincibility” mechanic got beaten into the ground along with a thousand chainsaw wielding construction worker ghosts
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Actually I lied my most vivid memory of ALAN WAKE is laughing at the first words of the game which are “Stephen King once wrote”. Big subtext.jpeg hours.
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Coolguye posted:epic is not "just another launcher" in the way i think you're referring to it. You got any sources for that yet? Don't forget you got a whole rule created for the free games thread because of this  posting
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Len posted:You got any sources for that yet? Don't forget you got a whole rule created for the free games thread because of this yes, there's lots of sources on that and it's silly to say i was the cause of anything in that thread because i was absent from the SA as a whole for years due to work and making my own game. i just had to go check but the rules you are apparently referring to were made in my absence. you can check the rimworld thread if you want proof of the fact that i disappeared. consequently this is in such ridiculously poor faith that i don't really feel the need to engage with it further. as i said in the post you quoted, i am not interested in starting a sniping war. i'm just stating the situation. what you choose to do is none of my concern nor my business. though i'd appreciate it if you could get the gently caress over a years-old internet grudge. Blockhouse posted:Yeah I'm at the point where I always assume everyone is selling my personal data anyway. They can have it. it's a very reasonable assumption to make that unless you are paying for a service with money, you are paying for it with your data. and in a lot of ways that's a great equalizer. these services are set up to aggregate and yeah sure there's a lot of personally identifiable poo poo that goes in there, in the Big Data sense it's kind of unlikely that they will use a pauper's data too differently from a prince's. which means that even homeless person leeching off of their friend's wifi can have a legitimate looking email to find work and also have decent entertainment options while they are trying to hustle for work, because their data is treated just the same as BigFinance McDouchebag's. or whatever the situation is. i legit think that's a great thing that marketplaces have ended up offering people. if that pauper ends up theoretically making it big and becoming a prince they can have the mo money mo problems situation of trying to get their poo poo off the darkweb. at that point they have the resources to give a poo poo. Coolguye fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Jun 3, 2023 |
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Coolguye posted:yes, there's lots of sources on that and it's silly to say i was the cause of anything in that thread because i was absent from the SA as a whole for years due to work and making my own game. i just had to go check but the rules you are apparently referring to were made in my absence. you can check the rimworld thread if you want proof of the fact that i disappeared. Please. Please let us have the horror games thread in peace. I promise to never install the Epic Games launcher ever again.
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World War 3 was started when Comrade Xi refused to release Alan Wake 2 in America.
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Coolguye posted:epic is not "just another launcher" in the way i think you're referring to it. Didn't read lol
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Coolguye posted:yes, there's lots of sources on that and it's silly to say i was the cause of anything in that thread because i was absent from the SA as a whole for years due to work and making my own game. i just had to go check but the rules you are apparently referring to were made in my absence. you can check the rimworld thread if you want proof of the fact that i disappeared. You mean the rule that came up on the same page as this post? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3760415&pagenumber=54&perpage=40&userid=0#post503639692
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lmao stupid launcher wars bullshit Has anyone played Chromosome Evil?
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Len posted:You mean the rule that came up on the same page as this post? Plenty of time after I made the post and more people dog piled over a culture war thing. Kindly get over your grudge from years ago. Thanks in advance.
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Coolguye posted:Plenty of time after I made the post and more people dog piled over a culture war thing. Kindly get over your grudge from years ago. Thanks in advance.   it's eight posts down the page and less than 12 hours later lol i might be holding a stupid internet grudge but at least i can read (sometimes)
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Len posted:
OK. Forgive me for remembering that one thing wrong. Rather than the other problems that showed up in that thread while I wasn’t around. It amazes me that you can remember that with such clarity. Now I’ve apologized. Can you stop with the stupid grudge now? Forever, preferably?
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