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QuarkJets posted:Controversial opinion but I like stellaris actually Same! But they keep releasing DLC quicker than I can enjoy the last one. There's so much DLC. Great game tho, super neat how things just happen 
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syntaxfunction posted:Starfield was never going to give me what I really wanted, to finish the main story, pause, reflect and go "how did they make it loss.jpg?" Good thing I can just play xcom, roller coaster tycoon, or advance wars instead of either of those then.
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QuarkJets posted:Controversial opinion but I like stellaris actually I'm genuinely sorry.
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Also super mario galaxy is a pretty good space game
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There are a ton of games out there that people herald as all time greats, but with the caveat that they're only good once you've installed 100 mods to fix all the awful poo poo in them. Like STALKER, Morrowind, and VTM: Bloodlines. Maybe the fact that the games are all weird, obtuse, and buggy to the point where you can't enjoy them that much in their unwashed form means they aren't that great? (I do like Bloodlines tho)
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deep dish peat moss posted:According to steamspy estimates right now Trine 5 and Starfield have sold roughly the same number of copies today It's on gamepass
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Stellaris is good until you've expanded into all the territory you can and seen all of the events available to you, and then things just stop happening it become hours upon hours of plate spinning resource management until the end game event occurs.
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emSparkly posted:There are a ton of games out there that people herald as all time greats, but with the caveat that they're only good once you've installed 100 mods to fix all the awful poo poo in them. Like STALKER, Morrowind, and VTM: Bloodlines. Maybe the fact that the games are all weird, obtuse, and buggy to the point where you can't enjoy them that much in their unwashed form means they aren't that great? VtM Bloodlines has never needed mods to be good, like its baseline without mods is still an all time great
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Sep 1, 2023 03:31
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Morrowind didn't need mods to be good either
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FoolyCharged posted:Good thing I can just play xcom, roller coaster tycoon, or advance wars instead of either of those then. said it before, saying it again, more games need TILES edit: maybe the tiles even have cards involved? Pokemon should have never left tileland
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Sep 1, 2023 03:33
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I know a man who beat Morrowind thrice, on Xbox.
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big black turnout posted:Morrowind didn't need mods to be good either drat right!
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I still love Outer Wilds.
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QuarkJets posted:Controversial opinion but I like stellaris actually imo the emergent narrative is significantly weaker since their major overhaul of leaders. now you just have a small handful of leaders who slowly accumulate negative traits, and then they die, and now you're screwed because your hiring limit is too low to train new leaders so you're stuck with these awful starter hires with no bonuses running your empire and the process begins anew. they also took out a bunch of traits, and psionic expertise, so materialists can't get psionics anymore unless you abuse the pathways to acquire a psionic pop. but that's way more boring than the idea of your lethargic, maniacal genius scientist sitting around one way and suddenly figuring it all out. and then developing Paranoid 50 years later
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I played through STALKER without mods and it was fine. The realism overhaul mod or whatever did make the second playthrough a lot better though.
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QuarkJets posted:VtM Bloodlines has never needed mods to be good, like its baseline without mods is still an all time great isn't the pc version just extremely buggy though i thought the mods existed to fix things like random crashes / hardlocks in mandatory story quests
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Played VtM a few years back without any mods, never noticed anything amiss.
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Drunk Nerds posted:I still love Outer Wilds. There’s an Outer Wilds and an Outer Worlds and I’ll never remember which one is which.
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Drunk Nerds posted:I still love Outer Wilds. Yeah i played it recently and it blew me away. The dlc loving sucked though
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DontMockMySmock posted:Yeah i played it recently and it blew me away. Yeah, the DLC was probably the biggest letdown I've ever had compared to a base game. You know what would really expand the experience of this amazing exploration-based game? Mandatory stealth sections where being caught means a multiple minute runback! E: If the Outer be Wilds you’re doing just fine If the Outer be Worlds Oh, buddy. Ooooof. Paper Tiger fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Sep 1, 2023 |
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Alexander Hamilton posted:There’s an Outer Wilds and an Outer Worlds and I’ll never remember which one is which. Wilds is the good one. Worlds is the fake Bethesda game.
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Alexander Hamilton posted:There’s an Outer Wilds and an Outer Worlds and I’ll never remember which one is which. it's wild how good outer wilds is outer worlds is the game where where you really quickly run 'outa worlds' to explore
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Its crazy how boring and bad Starfield looks. I just know that if I play it, I'm gonna check out by hour 5 and not go back in. It looks like the complete opposite of Outer Wilds, like they made a space game on the entire other end of the video game spectrum.
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Paper Tiger posted:E: If the Outer be Wilds I never got the Outer Worlds hate. The planets don't have huge maps, but it felt like there was plenty to do between the main quest and side quests. I liked the art and writing, and the gradual realization that, even beyond the wretched capitalist hellscape created by colonial leadership, there was something even worse happening back on Earth. And the DLC was pretty cool. Would have been nice to actually fly your own ship, but the rest was pretty good. It just wasn't New Vegas 2, and that's what people went into it expecting.
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imo there are so many good games out there, especially this year, I don't know how lads find the time to play something mediocre
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I don't know what I was expecting with Outer Worlds but playing it felt so overpoweringly bland, despite the zany style, that it made me question the entire genre of game. Like if there was something about it I though was particularly bad besides the rote predictability it would have been better. It made me realize that striped to its core with no surprises I just don't like that type of game. I'm probably not going to play that new space game even though I think I can play it for free on XBox PC thingy unless I hear it does something unexpected or interesting with the gameplay or narrative.
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Arc Light posted:I never got the Outer Worlds hate. The planets don't have huge maps, but it felt like there was plenty to do between the main quest and side quests. I liked the art and writing, and the gradual realization that, even beyond the wretched capitalist hellscape created by colonial leadership, there was something even worse happening back on Earth. The issue that I had with it is that the smallest amount of going off the beaten path got me immediately overpowered, making the gameplay between story beats an absolute slog.
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Arc Light posted:I never got the Outer Worlds hate. The planets don't have huge maps, but it felt like there was plenty to do between the main quest and side quests. I liked the art and writing, and the gradual realization that, even beyond the wretched capitalist hellscape created by colonial leadership, there was something even worse happening back on Earth. It wasn't abysmal, just extremely forgettable. Its biggest sin was choosing a title and release date that took focus off of one of the greatest indie games ever made. Devils Affricate fucked around with this message at 08:17 on Sep 1, 2023 |
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I could see someone liking Outer Wilds but that game isn't for me. Maybe I'll watch somebody else play at some point.
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VtM works alright without mods, but it feels threadbare after having used the community patches since they cut so much stuff out of the final game.
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Gaius Marius posted:I know a man who beat Morrowind thrice, on Xbox. Ha what a loser. He didn’t beat it a fourth time on Xbox like I did. That’s when you unlock the real neat stuff (seriously it wasn’t till my fourth Xbox character I learned Hla Oad has an entire underground section with multiple shops and a drug mule quest and an underwater treasure stash.)
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I don't know, Starfield loooooks preeeeety gooooood~
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I bounced off of Act 3 in BG3 and hadn't played in a week but I keep hearing how the House of Hope boss fight is the highlight of the whole game and it's so amazing and etc. etc. so I decided to soldier forward and do it, and that was one of the most disappointing things I've ever experienced in a videogame. The fight itself is boring as hell and people only like it because the enemy sings a cringey two-stanza Disney Musical song when the fight starts. And you have to deal with incredibly annoying NPCs to get there in the first place. The lyrics read like those threads where goons try to write rap songs but they don't understand meter: =Hell, Hell, Hell has its laws Hell, Hell, effects and the cause Curtain falls, but hold your applause Squirm, squirm, for now down here come the claws Fools, fools, how hard you have fought Brave, brave, but it's all been for naught True Souls that couldn't be bought Doomed, detected, and caught deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 07:42 on Sep 1, 2023 |
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QuarkJets posted:VtM Bloodlines has never needed mods to be good, like its baseline without mods is still an all time great I think it needs that fix patch but then you're golden
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VTM is especially good if you liberally use noclip to skip dungeons that suck. Like I remember a sewer level that was just a barren maze, definitely skip that poo poo.
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Beartaco posted:Stellaris is good until you've expanded into all the territory you can and seen all of the events available to you, and then things just stop happening it become hours upon hours of plate spinning resource management until the end game event occurs. Stellaris is very bad. Got very excited to play it when it was free on ps+ whatever a while back and I was having fun up until the exact point you mention and the veneer fell away completely and I never played it again. Very disappointing. Civ6 still reigns supreme as the best 4x game
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Civ6 might still be the best, but only when taking the product as a whole. There's been a ton of cool 4X entries over the years (The Endless series in particular are my favorite) who are poking holes in various parts of Firaxis's product, and hopefully the next wave of 4X's will assemble some of the better mechanics together. ...Not the current wave tho, they all went the Paradox grand-narrative-strategy route and all flopped for it. Deservedly.
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Alpha Centauri is the best 4X game you absolute noobs
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I'm Crap posted:Master of Orion 2 is the best 4X game you absolute noob
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Alpha Centauri was the best 4x game. Haven't played it in ages but i suspect it's a bit clunky these days.
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