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Runa posted:Normally I'm not one to signal boost a kickstarter but this one's very close to their goal with just 48 hours to go and I really want to see them drag this over the finishing line. Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass was a fantastic if emotionally heavy journey and I trust Kasey Ozymy to make another solid game with a standout story. I was not expecting it to get this close, hopefully they can push it over the top
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Last Celebration posted:Maybe Lloyd and Cecile? I guess you can read their relationship that way depending on your lack of faith in Falcom but also Falcom had no loving chill/subtlety wrt the “funny” joke in Cold Steel so maybe they’re not shipping the MC and his dead brother’s fiancée. That's the only other thing I could think of but it never even hints at that
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Levantine posted:Has anyone tried Mon-Yu? Steam has two reviews and there's no real discussion going on there either. I love me a good Experience game so I'm sure I'd like it on its face, but I'm reading it has some new level mechanics and rating mechanics for boss fights? How impactful are those things? I've seen a couple of people play through it and talk about it; it seems surprisingly difficult. Like, surprisingly difficult for an Experience game, so calibrate your expectations accordingly. The highest difficulty setting basically forces a level cap on you that will always leave you underlevelled for boss fights, so you may have to respec and mess around with different builds to figure out something that works for each boss. The biggest thing I've heard people get annoyed about is the equipment system: you can level up your equipment by using it in battle to increase its stats, and because of the aforementioned level cap mechanic that's one of the main ways to gain power. Unfortunately this also means that whenever you finally need to trade up to new equipment, you've gotta level it all up again from scratch. I also find the art style and theme kinda uninspiring but that's just me, and you can see for yourself whether those will bother you or not.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:At 71k out of a prospect of 112k with only three days of funding left, Hymn of the Earless God probably won't be going into production. Well hush my mouth. Only 90 bucks to go. .... And it hit the mark while I posted this.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Well hush my mouth. Only 90 bucks to go. A cocoon throbs.
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I didn't play Jimmy for more than a couple minutes, but I'll give this one a chance and back it.
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Hunter Noventa posted:Just started Chained Echoes last night, about 3 hours in and it's pretty fun so far. Though I'm a bit worried about the upgrade system since you can clearly spend money upgrading weapons/armor you'll replace. How much of a problem is that? Should I just not worry about it too much and upgrade what I can or what? I went pretty wild with upgrades. You frequently pick up loot you can sell every time you talk to a merchant. This eventually nets you a ton of money. Even after buying all the "deals" that pop up after selling X items. I spent 100,000 on a cosmetic thing last night as I am in the end game and have very little to buy.
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yeah lloyd and cecille do uh. not end up as a couple. at all. she is not even one of the options for characters you can interact with to get relationship points with.
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Blue Labrador posted:I've been itching to try Wild Arms 3, and because it's on the older side of things, I was wanting to know if there was any missable/quality of life/true ending shenanigans I should be aware of before jumping in? It's been over a decade, but--I don't think the game signposts the Secret Garden too hard, which is where you can grow healing items. The game's fairly gentle and you probably won't need the stocks, but it can't hurt to look up where it is ahead of time. (Though IIRC there's a boss to beat there before you get the actual farming.)
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you have to do a dungeon with a gimmick where your entire party is set to like, 1hp. easy to do if you've gotten to the point you can just skip all the encounters there but that might only be a while in
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The Colonel posted:yeah lloyd and cecille do uh. not end up as a couple. at all. she is not even one of the options for characters you can interact with to get relationship points with. The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Sep 27, 2023 |
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The gimmick is only for the post-boss half so it honestly isn’t even that bad if you go there as early as you can. I think I only had to use one or two gimmel coins for that part.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Well hush my mouth. Only 90 bucks to go. it's real exciting to see Hymn pull past the finish line, I helped put together that final push trailer and it's been just an awesome upswell of support in da last few days Kasey is a super nice dude and also really pours 'emself into projects, no doubt Hymn is gonna end up a very bizarre and interesting experience haha
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Everdraed posted:it's real exciting to see Hymn pull past the finish line, I helped put together that final push trailer and it's been just an awesome upswell of support in da last few days yooo nice
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Yeah very glad that it eventually got a boost, seems like the extra tiers people asked him to add worked out for him. Never been part of a tier that got to add text to the game tho, this'll be weird.
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Don't visit this thread that often, but I noticed the title. After having recently played Fuga on Gamepass, I have to agree: Fuga est un jeu fantastique! I am kicking myself for not realizing I should've set the voices to French, though. Maybe I'll do that for the 2nd one. While I'm here, I did recently put a review for Weird West in the Steam thread. Was also thinking of trying The Outer Worlds: I didn't gel with it the first time but I thought I might shake it up with a crazy build, if anyone has suggestions. FutureCop fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Sep 28, 2023 |
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I really enjoyed the hell out of Fuga, another one of those games that just floated into my Steam recommendations and I decided to give it a try. I need to go back and finish snagging the achievements, I have almost all of them at this point. I've been keeping an eye on Fuga 2 for any potential sales since I'm little broke at this point. I saw Izuna the Unemployed Ninja was getting rebooted a couple weeks ago and remembered I owned those games, so I've been chipping away at the first one. It's not the most original or well realized game I've ever played, but it has been nice to play a no-frills Mystery Dungeon style game with at least a few interesting mechanics. Now if I can just consistently remember to dump off money and items in the storage before I enter dungeons, I can have a much better time going forward with it.
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Playing the Octopath mobile gacha game now and it seems infinitely more chill than the SaGa one
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Might just be because it's newer. Those kinds of games tend to build up more and more... stuff over time.
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Everdraed posted:it's real exciting to see Hymn pull past the finish line, I helped put together that final push trailer and it's been just an awesome upswell of support in da last few days You're a nice person to help him. Kasey is such a sweet dude who really needs marketing help.
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So it has the multiple campaigns taking place across the same realm like in a SaGa game, but I hope it is otherwise nothing like a SaGa game because Frontier was the only one I could get into.
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Clarste posted:Might just be because it's newer. Those kinds of games tend to build up more and more... stuff over time. Yeah, I played Record Keeper for years until it was... too much. 
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lloyd auditioning for a AAA game the game's been mostly fine, maybe it's been too long since i played zero (an entire year!) but it feels a little pared back? like having the fast travel via car was a way of saying "look you're not going to be doing much new hiking this time around" and through the first 2 chapters the enemies on the overall overworld stayed the same, so it's like yeah.. they don't want you to hike around or get into many battles. it feels more solely narrative-focused with only maybe two dungeons per chapter (i think a reused part of geofront from zero and then a new geofront section in ch2, for example. i just did the first dungeon of ch3 (knox forest)). there's even a sidequest where you go back to stargazer tower and it's devoid of monsters so you just waltz up an empty dungeon with no chests. and then they have this Burst mechanic in dungeons which is like temporary Easy Mode where you can instantly cast spells, have two free rounds with your whole team, and auto-refill CP, almost like they just want you to blast through any combat and just experience the story. The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Sep 28, 2023 |
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Any goons here who tried that new Fate game? I know nothing about the series but it looks interesting from a glance.
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FireWorksWell posted:Any goons here who tried that new Fate game? I know nothing about the series but it looks interesting from a glance. I don't either but it's... aggressively OK? It's in the same rough vein as Persona 5 Strikers but not quite as much of a coherent whole. It's fun enough for what it is and has some fun writing moments but it suffers heavily from the fact that they comitted to the whole "you play as Johnny Shitswords instead of the cool godlike characters for most of the playtime." It gets better once you get more skills but especially early on the whole "you can't actually hurt enemies until you chip them down" thing feels kinda bad, though it does emphasize how much better the Servants feel. Saber is pretty drat adorable though, even if they drag out the truth of their identity way too long for something they make hilariously obvious five minutes into the game. ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Sep 28, 2023 |
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Yeah, didn't seem like something I'd want to blow 60 bucks on but I'm definitely wishlisting for a good sale
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That Loop 8 retrospective is baffling. It doesn't even seem to be a good idea held back by its budget (though I'm sure that didn't help), it feels more like they came up with a compelling concept (play out your day to day life in a small town, building relationships with the villagers that influence how they act as an enemy or a party member) but didn't have any idea of how to translate that into a playable game, so you just mash social interactions like you're trying to get a promotion in The Sims.
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mycot posted:That Loop 8 retrospective is baffling. It doesn't even seem to be a good idea held back by its budget (though I'm sure that didn't help), it feels more like they came up with a compelling concept (play out your day to day life in a small town, building relationships with the villagers that influence how they act as an enemy or a party member) but didn't have any idea of how to translate that into a playable game, so you just mash social interactions like you're trying to get a promotion in The Sims.
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doesnt help that the timeloop was clearly bolted on in late dev given that you have to repeat conversations every time (lol)
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i watched that loop8 video and my main take away is how sad it is that I have never got to play a game of tragedy looper in my life despite owning a copy
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Stexils posted:doesnt help that the timeloop was clearly bolted on in late dev given that you have to repeat conversations every time (lol)
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Snooze Cruise posted:i watched that loop8 video and my main take away is how sad it is that I have never got to play a game of tragedy looper in my life despite owning a copy   I've only played it once. I want to play again so bad!
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Endorph posted:the time loop was probably bolted on to try and stretch out the thin content on the ground, yeah. gunparade march doesnt really have anything like it, rather it more naturally encourages you to try again/reload with the variance in its systems. but loop8 is basically just 'well you didnt become friends with this person so theyre gonna murder you' Just like real life!
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Snooze Cruise posted:i watched that loop8 video and my main take away is how sad it is that I have never got to play a game of tragedy looper in my life despite owning a copy I own a copy and the expansion and have played maybe three games, twice as the mastermind - couldn't even get through more than one loop before they won because I was so terrible at it.
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Ooh I'm gonna buy that and play it with my wife and roommate
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I wonder if Loop8 is a worse time loop game than that Little Witch Academia game that came out a few years ago.
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