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The Kins posted:Fair Warning: "Some time in the next month", the very good twin-stick shooter Monolith will switch from being an $8 game with a $7 DLC pack to a single $15 game with the DLC pre-installed. This means anyone who doesn't own the DLC will effectively get it for free, so I guess consider this a sale with an uncertain end date. Thanks for the heads up! That game has been on my wishlist for a stupidly long time considering how cheap it is: should probably just snatch up the base game now so I get free DLC. But then again, according to this video, am I actually gonna play it? Or am I just getting it because deal and there it will sit in my library? FutureCop fucked around with this message at 14:12 on Jun 22, 2023 |
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Wait, you’re telling me you can play the games you buy on Steam too? I don’t believe if for a second 
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Buying games is my hobby.
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Macichne Leainig posted:Wait, you’re telling me you can play the games you buy on Steam too? I don’t believe if for a second You can play some of them, don't be silly, otherwise you'd have stopped buying them ages ago. The one problem is that you keep tricking yourself saying you'll play them all, then play nearly none of them... and that's alright. Whatever makes us happy is what matters.
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The trick is that you play the games first and buy them later.
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One of that guy's (three) other videos is called "Why Spammers And Cheesers Are HATED In Every Game", really hard hitting stuff. Also the channel has like no subs and barely 900 views on that video, and yet there are 46 top-level comments, not even counting replies. That seems like an insanely high amount of engagement for such a low-view video on such a tiny channel. I am suspicious.
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Volte posted:Also the channel has like no subs and barely 900 views on that video, and yet there are 46 top-level comments, not even counting replies. That seems like an insanely high amount of engagement for such a low-view video on such a tiny channel. I am suspicious.
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its because spam and cheese are both disgusting foods
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Croccers posted:Calm down there Twitter Blue user.
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https://www.dsogaming.com/news/metal-gear-solid-master-collection-vol-1-wont-support-keyboard-mouse-on-pc/ It seemed like too good to be true. Watch it being a loving mess of a port.
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Jack Trades posted:https://www.dsogaming.com/news/metal-gear-solid-master-collection-vol-1-wont-support-keyboard-mouse-on-pc/
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Croccers posted:They're just going to be booted via emulators aren't they? MGS1 probably is though, all the footage is the same low resolution as the PS1 original with the texture warping to match.
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The Kins posted:MGS1 probably is though, all the footage is the same low resolution as the PS1 original with the texture warping to match. MGS1 has a (bad) PC port already. They'll probably use that.
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Jack Trades posted:MGS1 has a (bad) PC port already. They'll probably use that.
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Jack Trades posted:MGS1 has a (bad) PC port already. They'll probably use that.
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if you play metal gear solid 1 with a keyboard psycho mantis should make your keyboard levitate and smack it over your head
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In an ideal world MGS1 would have Psycho Mantis check your Steam library. "Ah, I see you have 1000 hours in Sex With Hitler 3D, Snake."
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Feels Villeneuve posted:if you play metal gear solid 1 with a keyboard psycho mantis should make your keyboard levitate and smack it over your head switching from the controller to the keyboard during the fight should be the only way to beat him imo
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"mouse & keyboard is not supported" he says, as you slam spacebar to open the secret bookcase door.
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how did the psycho mantis fight work on PC where there isn't a clear way to change your controller number? do you just have to fall back on the alternate solution to the fight that the game doesn't tell you until you've flailed around for a while?
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repiv posted:how did the psycho mantis fight work on PC where there isn't a clear way to change your controller number? You actually had to use the keyboard.
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repiv posted:how did the psycho mantis fight work on PC where there isn't a clear way to change your controller number? Pretty much. After a couple calls of Campbell telling you to plug your controller into port two, he'll finally be like "Oh, you must not be able to switch ports. Well, here's the alternate way to fight him."
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The Kins posted:Fair Warning: "Some time in the next month", the very good twin-stick shooter Monolith will switch from being an $8 game with a $7 DLC pack to a single $15 game with the DLC pre-installed. This means anyone who doesn't own the DLC will effectively get it for free, so I guess consider this a sale with an uncertain end date. From what they imply, they're probably working on a sequel and/or some other franchise-y stuff that could draw their attention in the future. Better to avoid that problem now than be stuck with a warehouse full of unsellable Monolith plushies or whatever in the future because WB randomly decided to be dicks. Edit: I wasn't sure if I had caved and bought the DLC for myself yet, but apparently not. Laziness wins again! 
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Thanks for the opinions on Sirlaim. Ended up picking it up. New question, are the Worms games worth looking into at all if I plan to do solo only or is it one of those games you need friends to play with ?
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[s]https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/escape-the-backrooms Fanatical star deal: Escape the Backrooms is $5.99 https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-handheld-heroes-bundle Build your own handheld bundle: 3 for $4.99/5 for $6.99/8 for $9.99 quote:The Hong Kong Massacre https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/diamond-collection-build-your-own-bundle Diamond collection: 3 for $14.99/4 for $18.99/5 for $22.99 quote:Soundfall
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Jack Trades posted:In an ideal world MGS1 would have Psycho Mantis check your Steam library. it's not how it looks i just use it as an ambient screensaver when company's over
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Ninurta posted:Not sure where else to put this but I tried out the Invincible Demo and...it has very odd quirks. For one, there's no jump button, and the whole interface feels clunky. And I have never felt queasy before playing a first person game but this is doing a number on me, I think it may be the fish bowl helmet which may make the whole game a no go for me. I like the concept and the look and stuff, but the demo felt really loving terrible to play.
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deep dish peat moss posted:So this Aliens game actually seems really good so far? Following up on this, I refunded it because the missions are well over an hour long and it seems to not be possible to save during missions. No checkpoint system or anything.
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deep dish peat moss posted:Following up on this, I refunded it because the missions are well over an hour long and it seems to not be possible to save during missions. No checkpoint system or anything. Can't you return to base and save there and then re-deploy to continue the mission?
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I didn't see a way to do that at the ARC, but I didn't even make it through the first real mission because I played for 45ish minutes then had to stop and lost all my progress twice  It gave me the impression that I needed to complete every objective before leaving (I'm pretty sure it explicitly says that in the tutorial popups but I might have misunderstood)
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You might have to do the tutorial in one go and yeah, it's slow.
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I haven't played it yet, but I did see a steam review saying the prologue is not great and everything after is good.
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There are definitely autosaves for me. As far as I can tell, it saves whenever you rest in a room or progress/complete an objective. I personally have been really, really enjoying this, but it could use some more polish. There are some bugs, but it's mostly just UI stuff like a +1 Ammo never going away. Sometimes the pathfinding gets wonky and a marine will get stuck. My biggest complaint is honestly just that the Marines responses to commands are always yells. I'll be telling them to slowly back away from the xenomorph and sneak around the corner, and they'll bark out GO GO GO. DOUBLE TIME! DO IT! NOW!! For a game that's at least 50% sneaking, these guys are real loud. Might even be another bug!
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Man, Trepang2 has really fantastic gunplay and combat but just about everything else feels very budget. I am curious to see how the levels hold up the later into the game I get because while there isn't spooky stuff there is definitely genetically mutated monsters and a Mothman or possibly men and the level design left something to be desired in the first level. They go out of their way so much to not show a single living soul in your world except for the people you're shooting, the guys who drop into a mission with you, and one Quartermaster at your hub who says hi to you. You get dropped off back at your base after a mission in a helicopter flown presumably by people and land in a completely empty hub getting orders via radio transmission. It's just so weird. Also the music sucks. In a roundabout way all of these quirks weirdly make it feel even more like a throwback to a game made in 2005. I am thoroughly enjoying the game but definitely starting to see where some corners may have been cut.
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Resonance22 posted:My biggest complaint is honestly just that the Marines responses to commands are always yells. I'll be telling them to slowly back away from the xenomorph and sneak around the corner, and they'll bark out GO GO GO. DOUBLE TIME! DO IT! NOW!! For a game that's at least 50% sneaking, these guys are real loud. Might even be another bug! oorah to ashes 
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Dunno if anyone else has noticed this phenomenon where a game that drops on PC Game Pass is actually an inferior version to the one released the same day on Steam because the day-one patch is still going through Microsoft cert lol Before it was Everspace 2 but now it's The Bookwalker, basically all the notes and things you read in the game are broken because half the text is unreadable  Devs had this to say:  It's a shame because the premise is really neat 
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torchlight 3's on sale for 8 bucks... anyone played it enough to say whether it's as decent as the 2nd? I have a soft spot for the series but I'm not interested in being *completely* fleeced if it's a total trainwreck
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When I tried Astroneer on PC Gamepass it had hardcore stuttering and frame pacing issues that were completely gone when I tried the Steam version. I'm wary about using PC Gamepass for any graphically demanding games after that.
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explosivo posted:Man, Trepang2 has really fantastic gunplay and combat but just about everything else feels very budget. I am curious to see how the levels hold up the later into the game I get because while there isn't spooky stuff there is definitely genetically mutated monsters and a Mothman or possibly men and the level design left something to be desired in the first level. They go out of their way so much to not show a single living soul in your world except for the people you're shooting, the guys who drop into a mission with you, and one Quartermaster at your hub who says hi to you. You get dropped off back at your base after a mission in a helicopter flown presumably by people and land in a completely empty hub getting orders via radio transmission. It's just so weird. Also the music sucks. It's not the best game, but sliding and shooting and bullet time are fun enough. I do agree the music was real bad though and that fight at the end of the first mission was obnoxious as I was already super low on ammo. Died once, killed him my second time. Not sure what it is but it has some sort of weak spot because I took it to under half health in no time, then ran out of ammo again and abused its AI and whittled it down with my pistol. That you can do this is pretty funny though; https://i.imgur.com/CFPDFoU.mp4
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ymgve posted:When I tried Astroneer on PC Gamepass it had hardcore stuttering and frame pacing issues that were completely gone when I tried the Steam version. I'm wary about using PC Gamepass for any graphically demanding games after that. PC Game Pass really is a mixed bag in that respect. I know that the FO/TES Bethesda games are not nearly as moddable as their Steam counterparts because none of the utilities that hook into the game executable (ala SKSE) actually work. Starfield is likely to be in the same boat. There are also a lot of titles from the mid-2010s that still are using the cursed UWP versions with locked-down folders and the tendency to bug out and not actually free up disk space on uninstall.
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