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Foulbrood posted:Having read almost nothing about it until now, can anyone give me a tl;dr on the hype surrounding Baldur’s Gate 3? It's a sequel to a game you might have heard about that was called Baldur's Gate 2
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lordfrikk posted:It's a sequel to a game you might have heard about that was called Baldur's Gate 2 Most gamers weren't even born yet when BG2 came out.
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Aug 1, 2023 07:02
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BG3, 147 hours of unskippable cutscenes.
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Aug 1, 2023 08:30
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OgNar posted:BG3, 147 hours of unskippable cutscenes. In-between bouts of butt-kicking for goodness.
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Aug 1, 2023 08:39
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Every now and then I get a hankering to try a proper rougelike, but they never stick. Brogue and Dungeon Robber are probably the closest I've come to actually sticking with one, I'll still load one of them up to waste a couple hours every now and then, but that's it. I can appreciate the mathematical purity of systems mastery, but part of what I love about RPGs is exploring a world alien to my own, and most roguelikes I come across are just the dungeon. There's no history to uncover, no culture to experience, even the NPCs and shopkeepers are largely utilitarian. I need to find a roguelike that simulates its own history like Dwarf Fortress does for your settlement.
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Aug 1, 2023 08:39
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Begemot posted:Most of the hype around it is just that it's very solidly made, and looks like it's going to be gigantic. Their other games were based around their own original setting/combat rules, but this is just D&D 5e, with all the complications that implies. And they appear to have nailed it. lordfrikk posted:It's a sequel to a game you might have heard about that was called Baldur's Gate 2
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Aug 1, 2023 08:42
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Bad Seafood posted:Every now and then I get a hankering to try a proper rougelike, but they never stick. Brogue and Dungeon Robber are probably the closest I've come to actually sticking with one, I'll still load one of them up to waste a couple hours every now and then, but that's it. You probably want to try Caves of Qud.
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Aug 1, 2023 08:43
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Bad Seafood posted:Every now and then I get a hankering to try a proper rougelike, but they never stick. Brogue and Dungeon Robber are probably the closest I've come to actually sticking with one, I'll still load one of them up to waste a couple hours every now and then, but that's it. Caves of qud efb
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Aug 1, 2023 08:48
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FishMcCool posted:You probably want to try Caves of Qud. RPATDO_LAMD posted:Caves of qud
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Aug 1, 2023 08:53
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Bad Seafood posted:Every now and then I get a hankering to try a proper rougelike, but they never stick. Brogue and Dungeon Robber are probably the closest I've come to actually sticking with one, I'll still load one of them up to waste a couple hours every now and then, but that's it. Have you tried Caves of Qud? EDIT: Err...ToME might be pretty good for that too.
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Aug 1, 2023 08:56
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I sure hope Larian can improve their writing from insufferably bad to at least halfway decent for BG3…
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Aug 1, 2023 09:02
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Jack Trades posted:Have you tried Caves of Qud?
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Aug 1, 2023 09:09
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Qud is incredibly well written and evocative.
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Aug 1, 2023 09:12
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Qud started out with Frank Herbert's Dune, and decided that wasn't loving bonkers enough and so they dropped a bunch of acid and wrote the rest of it. Seriously, read the descriptions on things: quote:The ivory sea's dunes are like waves frozen in place. There are cracks in the salt from where the earth, blistered by the jeweled sun, contracted and broke. The horizon melts the sky together with the vast plain of Moghra'yi, the Great Salt Desert. quote:Here crumble the mysterious Eaters' vine-swathed works, spun on the cyclopean lathe in an ageless past. Chrome steeples and parapets that rise above the clutches of shale hint at the labyrinths beneath them. quote:Borne on a half-dozen delicate, writhing tendrils, it runs. The sleek suggestion of an indeterminate terrestrial creature flows with shocking agility through the intervening space, its features glistering in the light like erosion-sculpted glass. It knows not what it runs from or to, it is unable to ask where or why it runs, and yet it runs still.
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Aug 1, 2023 09:23
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Bad Seafood posted:I'd heard of them both in passing, but mostly in the spirit of "This open-ended game lets you do some crazy stuff," which is what everyone says about their open-world, make-your-own-fun video game of choice. Sometimes it's true, sometimes it's not. Having a strong sense of place, however, goes a long way to selling me on the adventure, which isn't something every game like this can claim. it does let you do some crazy stuff but it's also set in a very compelling world. it feels strange and eclectic but very cohesive at the same time. i would strongly recommend you play it if that's what you're looking for. play a four armed mutant guy who chops heads and limbs for a relatively easy start.
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Aug 1, 2023 09:30
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Foulbrood posted:Thanks for the write-up! Haven’t touched anything 5e related yet. Are they doing a 1:1 rules wise like Owlcat and their Pathfinder games? thankfully no, they're got a bunch of homebrew/house rules implemented into BG3 that makes the system fun & interesting instead of a boring slog like real d&d 5e is
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Aug 1, 2023 10:00
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ShadowMar posted:thankfully no, they're got a bunch of homebrew/house rules implemented into BG3 that makes the system fun & interesting instead of a boring slog like real d&d 5e is Thank gently caress than Larian realizes how poo poo D&D system is, especially for computer games, and actually do something to make it a fun computer game rather than a poor attempt at porting D&D. I would be disappointed in them if they did anything else. After all DOS2 has easily the most fun turn-based combat in any RPG ever.
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Aug 1, 2023 10:08
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its a pretty faithful port of 5e with some balance tweaks
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Aug 1, 2023 10:15
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Is the ToME on steam the same ToME that used to be Troubles of Middle Earth and used to be PernAngband before that?
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Aug 1, 2023 10:32
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Kerbtree posted:Is the ToME on steam the same ToME that used to be Troubles of Middle Earth and used to be PernAngband before that? Yes but it's ToME 4 now.
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Aug 1, 2023 10:34
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Saddens me to see pro tier series Baldurs Gate equated with fail tier copy and paste dungeon lay outs dragon age
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Aug 1, 2023 12:22
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Looking at the INDIE Live Expo and man there is some weird stuff on display here even by Steam festival standards (immediate stand outs are: "What if we took a bunch of reincarnator/isekai tropes and shoved them into some kind of Suikoden game", Ancient Sumerian Archon, and Polandball: The Platformer), but you certainly can't complain that they aren't giving half of these games away for basically nothing.
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Aug 1, 2023 12:22
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FastestGunAlive posted:Saddens me to see pro tier series Baldurs Gate equated with fail tier copy and paste dungeon lay outs dragon age I preordered 2 and this is why I've not preordered since. I liked origins as well 
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Aug 1, 2023 12:25
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Jossar posted:Looking at the INDIE Live Expo and man there is some weird stuff on display here even by Steam festival standards (immediate stand outs are: "What if we took a bunch of reincarnator/isekai tropes and shoved them into some kind of Suikoden game", Ancient Sumerian BattleChess, and Polandball: The Platformer), but you certainly can't complain that they aren't giving half of these games away for basically nothing. an adventure game following Giovanni, the boy with the lowest human score in the universe,
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Aug 1, 2023 12:27
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villainesses are cool but that is some amazingly awful looking combat.
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Aug 1, 2023 12:34
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Hwurmp posted:an adventure game following Giovanni, the boy with the lowest human score in the universe, I'm of mixed minds on Boyhood's End. It's a dumb premise, but man are those some high end production values. Kinda wish the developer hired a storyboard person to round things out.
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Aug 1, 2023 12:40
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Bad Seafood posted:Every now and then I get a hankering to try a proper rougelike, but they never stick. On top of Qud being really good, one of the main devs is a goon and seems cool
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Aug 1, 2023 18:28
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I see this Road 96 game on the August Humble Choice ( which also has Disco Elysium) and wanted to know how it is. It also made me realize that I want a good road trip game, so any additional recommendations on that front would be good. Kentucky Route Zero is on my list, to just pre-empt that recommendation.
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Aug 1, 2023 18:47
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I really liked it, can't say exactly why. It's pretty chill to play? Played through it on xbox gamepass, and recently bought it in a bundle and played through it again on my steam deck. I normally finish maybe 1 in 20 games I play if that so it definitely did something for me. It's definitely more story than game though, but I obviously didn't mind. Sterf fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Aug 1, 2023 |
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Aug 1, 2023 18:51
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GrandpaPants posted:I see this Road 96 game on the August Humble Choice ( Road 96 is a pretty cool and unique game. I'd describe it as a narrative adventure roguelike, where you play as a handful of unnamed teenage refugees attempting to flee a failing dystopian state before the next election. You run into the same half dozen characters along the way, some comical some tragic, with enough variety in their storylines that you're unlikely to ever see them all in a single run of the game. There's some extremely light survival mechanics and a few choice & consequence-based decisions. It is EXTREMELY low budget and looks it, but the performances and soundtrack are enough to carry the experience. I liked it a lot.
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Aug 1, 2023 18:53
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Foulbrood posted:Having read almost nothing about it until now, can anyone give me a tl;dr on the hype surrounding Baldur’s Gate 3? its more like pathfinder because its a dnd game, like baldurs gate 1 and 2 were, though it's a newer version of dnd
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Aug 1, 2023 18:54
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The sequences with the offputting driver in Road 96 are genuinely some of the most uncomfortable and freaked out I have ever been in a game.
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Aug 1, 2023 18:56
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good uncomfortable and freaked out, or bad uncomfortable and freaked out
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Aug 1, 2023 18:58
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Hwurmp posted:good uncomfortable and freaked out, or bad uncomfortable and freaked out Mostly the former but a bit of the latter. I can't even entirely explain why it just really got under my skin.
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Aug 1, 2023 19:04
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GrandpaPants posted:I see this Road 96 game on the August Humble Choice ( There's Jalopy if you're in the mood for some very Eastern Europe vibe and don't mind low poly.
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Aug 1, 2023 19:05
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Serephina posted:Qud started out with Frank Herbert's Dune, and decided that wasn't loving bonkers enough and so they dropped a bunch of acid and wrote the rest of it. Seriously, read the descriptions on things: I love the Sultan lore as well, a snippet of what I've learned about one Sultan in my current run from looking at engravings and statues:   My current character has replaced his legs with treads and his hands with metal fists and I go around speeding into things and bludgeoning them to death. CoQ is very good.
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FishMcCool posted:There's Jalopy if you're in the mood for some very Eastern Europe vibe and don't mind low poly. Also The Long Drive and Road to Salvation if you don't mind some serious jank
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OgNar posted:BG3, 147 hours of unskippable cutscenes. That is... ifst thoust canst livest thatst longst
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FishMcCool posted:There's Jalopy if you're in the mood for some very Eastern Europe vibe and don't mind low poly. For even more jank, from the same developer there's Landlord's Super
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Kerbtree posted:Is the ToME on steam the same ToME that used to be Troubles of Middle Earth and used to be PernAngband before that? Kind of but not really. Troubles of Middle Earth is ToME2. ToME4 is a completely separate game in a new engine. It's very different, aside from having the same developer and sharing a few parts of the skill tree. The last version of ToME2 that DarkGod (the tome4 dev) released was v2.3.5 in 2008, however it's open source and a a fork is still being somewhat developed. (You will have to be a big enough nerd to compile it yourself if you wanna play, though) I beat morgoth in tome 2.3.5 once but died in the postgame -- "Killed by being undead too long on dungeon level 679" I still had the game around and opened it for the first time since 2017 to get this scoreboard screenshot.  and here's what it looks like during gameplay: 
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