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I stumbled into the secret you can unlock from the very first starting point in The Witness, just by looking randomly in the right spot. Without context since I hadn't played any of the actual game yet, I was very confused.
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happyhippy posted:The part of The Witness and Talos that pissed me off was when it goes from small contained puzzles, to 'you need to be standing in the correct position, angle, and looking in the exact specific angle to see that you can connect to something a mile away' ones. Those are as far as I remember optional though, so they don't hinder you from finishing the game
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Aug 11, 2023 16:37
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Jack Trades posted:Current Bottom 10 games on Steam. I'd have purged spacebase DF9 from my account personally.
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Aug 11, 2023 16:38
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FrickenMoron posted:I'd have purged spacebase DF9 from my account personally. It's there as a reminder to punch Tim Schafer in the face if I ever meet him for some reason.
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Aug 11, 2023 16:40
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Thimbleweed Park's finale made me say "holy poo poo" out loud at how goddamn stupid it is
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Aug 11, 2023 16:41
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Hwurmp posted:Thimbleweed Park's finale made me say "holy poo poo" out loud at how goddamn stupid it is WELL AKUALLY that's Ron Gilbert i.e. the other Luscasarts guy
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Aug 11, 2023 16:42
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Hwurmp posted:Thimbleweed Park's finale made me say "holy poo poo" out loud at how goddamn stupid it is
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mycot posted:WELL AKUALLY that's Ron Gilbert i.e. the other Luscasarts guy I know, the timing is just coincidence
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The Gripper posted:The Witness' later puzzles really needed you to be loving them for peak enjoyment, so the difficulty for me was that I preferred the puzzles at about the mid-point of the game and was more interested in the (light) story and exploration by the late game. Taiji is in a lot of ways a 2d Witness without the pretension. I had a really good time with it. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1141580/Taiji/
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Aug 11, 2023 16:56
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Gromit posted:With The Witness, if a puzzle looks like nonsense you probably missed an earlier one nearby that worked you up to what it needs you to do. There's a delicate and admittedly difficult balance between subtly guiding a player to "stumble across" the thing that reveals something and making it too obvious and gamey. The problem I had with The Witness is that wandering around looking at stuff is just not interesting enough to keep me looking long enough to make up for the lack of visual guidance.
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Aug 11, 2023 17:22
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Was there ever a fan attempt to do something with Spacebase? Kinda bummed people are so down on Witness, and discovering Blow is a shithead. Absolutely loved the game at the time. Also appreciated it when I got an HDR tv, but it kinda caused some of the colour puzzles to be easier to cheese.
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Aug 11, 2023 17:43
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teethgrinder posted:Was there ever a fan attempt to do something with Spacebase? Yeah, some dudes rethemed it for fantasy. It's called Dwarf Fortress.
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teethgrinder posted:Was there ever a fan attempt to do something with Spacebase? Yeah, but it went nowhere from what I recall. Double Fine open-sourced it and then nobody seemed to have the passion to tame the lackluster code when there were just flat-out better games to work with or mod by that point.
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Aug 11, 2023 17:51
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I've started playing Stray Gods and I have been having a blast! Honestly, the only issue I have with this game so far has been the fact that I'm not able to make a save for every song; I'm pretty happy in my choices, I just want to hear some of them again!
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Aug 11, 2023 18:14
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Serephina posted:Oh man, monkey's paw wish right there. The Homeworld remaster was hot trash for the OG game as they basically forward ported it as a total conversion mod for their shiny new Homeworld 2 engine. Was a total mess with a bunch of mechanics not implemented. That was, AFAIK, mostly if not entirely fixed in later patches. Bad Seafood posted:I remember reading an article that said "The Witness is Jonathan Blow's answer to Myst." The comparison between the two has always been bizarre to me. Like, I aint gonna say The Witness has zero percent Myst in the mix, but beyond "island + puzzles" their sensibilities are wildly different. The earlier comparison of Pyst to The Looker was similarly kinda nutty, but mostly because it's unfair to The Looker which is genuinely a good game on its own merits while Pyst was a half-baked shovelware joke from a company that specialized in half-baked shovelware jokes.
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Aug 11, 2023 18:25
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no one remembers the superior myst parody game, "mylk" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7xAi19R1cg
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Rebel Blob posted:Also if it helps, Jon Blow hates The Looker and even mentioning it on his Twitch streams will get you banned from his chat. Very funny to me because the looker is clearly made by someone who loves the witness. Jblow has such a fragile ego
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Aug 11, 2023 19:10
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if he wasn't so unbearably arrogant then blow could have had a decent reputation as one of the vanguards of modern indie games (iirc Braid was a flagship title for xbox live)
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Aug 11, 2023 19:11
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pyst had john goodman. the looker did not have john goodman. pyst > the looker
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Aug 11, 2023 19:33
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Titan Quest 2 no release date https://store.steampowered.com/app/1154030/Titan_Quest_II/
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Aug 11, 2023 20:18
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Wiltsghost posted:Titan Quest 2 huh. ok sure
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Wiltsghost posted:Titan Quest 2 Grimlore should be a good fit, they're really good at making absolutely gorgeous isometric environments, which was definitely TQ's strong point. E: I wonder if it's gonna take place solely in Greece tho? The first game was pretty globe-spanning, for better or worse.
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Aug 11, 2023 20:29
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RBA Starblade posted:Lol is GBO2 on PC still that busted It has a lot of jank
The actual gameplay is pretty fun though and I've been playing+liking it a lot.  I will say though that it has a big focus on stuff like stuns and a lot of players just really hate getting stunlocked in pvp games so some of the people who somehow get past all the other jank are probably rating it down just for that. RPATDO_LAMD fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Aug 11, 2023 |
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Aug 11, 2023 20:31
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Wiltsghost posted:Titan Quest 2 I'm stoked. I thought Spellforce 3 was really good and fun, so Grimlore getting a shot at this franchise is really cool.
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Wiltsghost posted:Titan Quest 2 I think I'm quite burnt out on ARPGs.... But I'll still probably buy it and play it at least a little bit. I hope they keep the feature where birds necks could get stuck on trees and stretch real long.
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Aug 11, 2023 20:33
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John Murdoch posted:That was, AFAIK, mostly if not entirely fixed in later patches. I think it helps to think of The Witness Island as more glorified puzzle book than a coherent backdrop.
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Wiltsghost posted:Titan Quest 2 As both an abominable Titan Quest and Spellforce enjoyer this could be pretty cool.
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Tempest Rising, a biggish budget C&Clike also has a demo out now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1486920/Tempest_Rising/
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Mordja posted:Tempest Rising, a biggish budget C&Clike also has a demo out now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1486920/Tempest_Rising/ Please be good, please be good, please be good 
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Mordja posted:E: I wonder if it's gonna take place solely in Greece tho? The first game was pretty globe-spanning, for better or worse. Seems that way
Nemesis, Goddess of Retribution, is out of control. She is corrupting the Threads of Fate and is punishing all those who oppose her. Pick up your weapon, fight epic battles alongside the Gods and change fate itself in Titan Quest II! But I honestly wouldn't mind
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Oxxidation posted:if he wasn't so unbearably arrogant then blow could have had a decent reputation as one of the vanguards of modern indie games (iirc Braid was a flagship title for xbox live) Say what you want about him, he didn't end up like Phil Fish.
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Also from that THQ event, the upcoming reboot of Alone In The Dark featuring David Harbour and Jodie Comer has a downloadable "prologue" (in which apparently you are a different character from those two). https://store.steampowered.com/app/1310410/Alone_in_the_Dark/
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Is the TQ2 coming from Grim Dawn devs or from the TQ later expansions developers (or similar)? That's honestly my biggest question. Even though Jonathan definitely blows, The Witness definitely was one of the best of that year for me. I haven't had that kind of strokes of just suddenly understanding the problem or mechanics in a puzzle game elsewhere than something like Baba Is You. The whole playing experience just flowed smoothly as hell for me. On comparison Talos Principle felt much more standard a puzzle game. The whole deeper padding and theme around both was just pretty eh. But they are both great games and really looking forward to Talos Principle 2.
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Lunsku posted:Is the TQ2 coming from Grim Dawn devs or from the TQ later expansions developers (or similar)? That's honestly my biggest question. It's a different studio making TQ2, not even one that was credited with the Titan Quest expansions made in more recent years. Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Aug 11, 2023 |
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The team that did Spellforce 3 and its expansions are developing Titan Quest 2. I enjoyed that game a lot too so I have high hopes for Titan Quest 2.
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ImpAtom posted:Say what you want about him, he didn't end up like Phil Fish. did phil fish cape for more white supremacists than blow did?
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Mierenneuker posted:Also from that THQ event, the upcoming reboot of Alone In The Dark featuring David Harbour and Jodie Comer has a downloadable "prologue" (in which apparently you are a different character from those two). The protagonist there was a playable character in the original series.
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Wiltsghost posted:Titan Quest 2 Oh poo poo that's my favourite ARPG ever.
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Speaking of ARPGs, now that Ghostlore has been out for a bit, has anyone played it? Impressions?
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Weedle posted:did phil fish cape for more white supremacists than blow did? It was the dude's brand to be not-so-subtly racist. He was one of the front-and-center faces for the talks about how inferior Japanese games couldn't possibly match up to Western works of genius. To his credit he appears to have walked that back somewhat and seems to have chilled out but he exploded pretty hard for a while there. He's kind of the poster boy for "mild success gets right up his own rear end" and unfortunately for him the part where he was a weird racist and told people to kill themselves is going to be remembered a lot more than the part where he chilled out. ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Aug 11, 2023 |
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