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ImpAtom posted:It probably doesn't help that Indiana Jones these days is associated with sad old men wishing they were dead. More relatable than ever!
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 18:16 |
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That Indiana Jones XCOM game looks cool, visually, but it runs like absolute shiiieeeet.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 18:19 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMTDNvYqTsI
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 18:32 |
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Did that game have a demo? I swear I played the demo, but I don't see a link to it on Steam. Either way, cool, I imagine I'll have gotten bored with Disgaea in 11 days time I need to stop buying so many games....
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 18:41 |
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Jack Trades posted:That Indiana Jones XCOM game looks cool, visually, but it runs like absolute shiiieeeet. So like Battletech did on first release. HBS isn't quite old Obsidian meme levels of buggy on release but it was probably pretty predictable.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 18:50 |
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Motherfuck, I haven't even finished BG3. Tbf this is a Treese Brothers game, I am going to spend a week playing it in a fugue state then do that again each year or two after updates.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 18:51 |
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ZearothK posted:this is a Treese Brothers game Templar Assault was probably one of the first games I played on my first Android phone in like 2012. I just checked - the game came out in 2011 and received its last update in 2019. The Trese brothers are something else.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 19:12 |
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Badly Jester posted:Templar Assault was probably one of the first games I played on my first Android phone in like 2012. I just checked - the game came out in 2011 and received its last update in 2019. The Trese brothers are something else. Also Star Traders: Frontiers. I've been really impressed by their development there. Definitely makes this worth a look for me.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 19:20 |
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StarkRavingMad posted:Also Star Traders: Frontiers. I've been really impressed by their development there. Definitely makes this worth a look for me.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 19:29 |
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Sab669 posted:Did that game have a demo? https://steamdb.info/app/2059870/ You can still play it if you still have it installed
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 19:33 |
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https://www.humblebundle.com/games/laugh-til-you-die-multiplayer-mayhem
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 21:46 |
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PlateUp and Heavenly Bodies are both very good with friends and both support Steam Remote Play Together!
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 22:07 |
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Quick Divinity Original Sin 2 question - we’re about to leave Fort Joy and go to the next act. Can we go back? If we can’t, what about the magic mirror?
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 22:11 |
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:Quick Divinity Original Sin 2 question - we’re about to leave Fort Joy and go to the next act. Can we go back? If we can’t, what about the magic mirror? You can't. There's a magic mirror on the boat for the rest of the game.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 22:12 |
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Sorry for being late on this. Here's what looks interesting to me in October. People are already discussing Diablo IV, THPS 1 & 2 and Disgaea 7, so no need to include those. Why the big gap between now and the 12th? Well, there's a Steam Next Fest next week. So some indies are probably keeping their releases out of that initial 48 hour window. Old School (out now) - It's a new (?) MDickie game. I have no idea why the classroom is on fire, or why a student is holding up a car tire. Ooblets (out now) - the hyper-colorful life sim finally comes to Steam to only mild grumbling from bitter Steam reviewers. Wargroove 2 (out now) - Advance Wars clone now has its Advance Wars 2. This one is co-developed by Robotality (Pathway) and has three campaigns in it. Thief Simulator 2 (out now) - I seem to recall people having janky fun with the first stealth-em-up. Silent Hope (out now) - Takes the combat/setting of Rune Factory away from the farming, and adopts a roguelite structure. Battle Shapers (out now, Early Access) - A candy-coated FPS roguelite with a lot of mobility. One reviewer says "Roboquest with Doom Eternal mechanics". Saltsea Chronicles (Oct 12) - Narrative CYOA by the developer of Mutazione. Lords of the Fallen (Oct 13) - Pretend the old one didn't exist. Mulligan! Outpath (Oct 16) - Looks to be a first-person cubey take on Forager. Sonic Superstars (Oct 16) - The gang's all here! Christian Whitehead has already said the game is built on Sonic Mania's physics so this is the closest a modern Sonic Team game is gonna get to actually feeling like a decent 2D Sonic. Wizard with a Gun (Oct 17) - What if Don't Starve Together had a lot more shooting in it? Well probably a lot less starving. Hellboy: Web of Wyrd (Oct 18) - The dev of West of Dead seems a natural fit for Mignola's high-contrast art.. the trailer way back when gave no explanation but I guess it's a roguelite? Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express (Oct 18) - If it's a Poirot game, you know it's Microids. Microids built a new studio in Lyon and this is their first production. The ABC Murders was actually decent, while the Poirot games by Blazing Griffin have had more mixed reviews... I guess we'll see where this one falls. Jackbox Party Pack 10 (Oct 19) - I don't like knowing this franchise has existed for 10 years now. Features Tee-KO 2 along with new games FixyText, Timejinx, Hypnotorious and Dodo Re Mi. Gargoyles Remastered (Oct 19) - I legit do not know who asked for this but here's a remake of the SNES game Gargoyles?? Endless Dungeon (Oct 19) - It's finally coming out this time for real! Cavern of Dreams (Oct 19) - 3D platformer inspired by and designed to look like the N64 classics. Forgive Me Father 2 (Oct 19, Early Access) - Sequel to last year's uneven but entertaining noir-Craftian FPS. The 7th Guest VR (Oct 19) - By Vertigo Games (Arizona Sunshine, A Fisherman's Tale), it looks to make an actual legitimate puzzle adventure out of the skeleton of the original, with all new FMV actors/acting and new rooms/puzzles. Cattails 2: Wildwood Story (Oct 20) - The unofficial warrior cats life sim returns and I know a couple of goons will enjoy this one. Apparently the dev team is just a husband and wife? Slay the Princess (Oct 20) - An all-new horror VN for this spooky month by Abby Howard (Scarlet Hollow). Noreya: the Gold Project (Oct 23) - It's a Metroidvania, I have to include it. You thought you'd make it through the whole month without one? Hahahahaha. Will have a demo at Next Fest. Vengeance of Mr. Peppermint (Oct 23) - Might be more style than substance but I'll always give a shoutout to a game inspired by films like Oldboy and Lady Vengeance. Maybe don't be AS on the nose with the title next time, though. MGS Collection Vol 1. (Oct 24) - Colonel... they're milking it again. Scene Investigators (Oct 24) - The developer of The Painscreek Killings wants to test your deductive noodle with these crime scenes and absolutely no hand-holding (also not a lot of interactivity either, at least based on the demo). Dark Envoy (Oct 24) - A 'guns and sorcery' RPG by the developer of Tower of Time, which looks to have more conventional RTWP combat (compared to ToT's odder wave-based battles) and online co-op. Cities: Skylines 2 (Oct 24) - With SimCity long dead and buried this is basically the defacto kingpin in sims. Ripout (Oct 24, Early Access) - Stop me if you've heard this one before: a 3D Realms-published boomer shooter launching in Early Access! This one looks to have much less retro appeal, however, opting for a modern horror vibe. Crymachina (Oct 24) - IDK if it will be any good, it probably won't be, but it's FuRyu and they always develop (or outsource) interesting messes. Ghostrunner II (Oct 26) - Did you know the sequel existed? Did you know it's already coming out? Did you know it's got a motorcycle in it this time? JUSANT (Oct 31) - DON'T NOD tries their hand at the mountain climbing genre and it seems like it's going to be quite lovely. This Bed We Made (Nov 1) - A narrative game where you play a maid snooping on the tenants of a 1950s hotel and see what secret machinations they're getting up to. GREAT premise for a game. Thirsty Suitors (Nov 2) - Do battle with your exes, not with fighting like Scott Pilgrim, but words and flirting. Robocop: Rogue City (Nov 2) - Teyon, developer of Terminator Resistance, hopes to bring that same "better than I expected" 7 out of 10 energy to a franchise that has been without a good game since.... actually has it had a good game at all? Like the original arcade game wasn't that great.... Star Ocean: The Second Story Remake (Nov 2) - It's that HD-2D look you know you love(/hate?), and it's being applied to the one Star Ocean game most gamers agree is "the good one". The Talos Principle 2 (Nov 2) - It's been 9 years, 9 years too many. The world has been begging for another game about setting up tripods, and finally it's back. Hey waaait a minute some of those were from November! Well I was late wasn't I, I figure I might as well peek into those first couple days. Plus I'll be on vacation at the end of the month anyway. Playing video games, of course!!! What am I, some sort of socializing... getaway-enjoyer? Get me away from the socializing, I say, I got video games to play!! As far as non-Steam goes, don't sleep on Mario Wonder
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 23:07 |
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To answer your question, no, there has never been a good Robocop game and I don't think this one will be breaking the streak either. Though it might be unintentionally very funny, from some of the clips going around.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 23:17 |
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The 7th Guest posted:... actually has it had a good game at all? Like the original arcade game wasn't that great.... Jydge
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 23:19 |
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I've been hyped for this game since it was announced. I played the original Cyber Knights years ago and even bought the Hund/full game upgrade (you can get a dog, which is worth more than non-dog stuff, imo). Templar Battleforce was a fun tactical game (you play as not-Space Marines), and Star Traders: Frontiers (not-Rogue Trader) was and still is great (and still getting updates like every month or so, with new stuff). Glad to see all the Trese Brothers love in this thread. Those dudes rule, and I will probably slam-buy every single thing they put out for the rest of their careers. edit: just read their steam announcement for the trailer (https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1021210/view/3737481075240530314) and the early access is going to include all the features except base-building. I can't wait to dig into the stuff the demo locked off. Fifty Farts fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Oct 6, 2023 |
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beats for junkies posted:Glad to see all the Trese Brothers love in this thread. Those dudes rule, and I will probably slam-buy every single thing they put out for the rest of their careers. Same, I'm hooked on the Brothers
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 23:27 |
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been enjoying mortal sin https://store.steampowered.com/app/1494810/Mortal_Sin/ do you enjoy the cleave and the slice? the hack and the slash? the bash and the crush? the punch and the kick? you should play mortal sin it's a roguelite first person melee combat game, and it's a lot of fun fps melee usually sucks, it feels good here, and the game seems enthusiastic about making you hilariously powerful so you can cut apart entire rooms
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 23:31 |
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What's the word on Ooblets? I know it's a goofy lifesim and there's drama about it going on Epic, but is the game itself good?
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 23:33 |
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Ooblets might actually be too twee
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 23:42 |
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Ooblets came out on switch a year ago?? Hwurmp posted:Ooblets might actually be too twee Also this
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 23:45 |
The Star Ocean remake is a really cool art style pretty distinct from what I think of as HD-2D, and it was one of my favorite JRPGs as a kid. But man for whatever reason I’m worried it’s one of those things that’d just be a memory-ruiner to play it again.
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# ? Oct 7, 2023 00:17 |
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victrix posted:been enjoying mortal sin https://store.steampowered.com/app/1494810/Mortal_Sin/ Ooh yeah I've been keeping my eye on this: as usual haven't jumped in yet because it's in early access, but it's mighty tempting. Saw that they got a recent combat overhaul and other cool stuff. I know it's a roguelite and it might not matter that much, but is there any sort of story/lore element to it? I always find that element helps a little, like Hades, though I can certainly appreciate rougelites that just cut to the chase and focus on gameplay.
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# ? Oct 7, 2023 00:37 |
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Anno posted:The Star Ocean remake is a really cool art style pretty distinct from what I think of as HD-2D, and it was one of my favorite JRPGs as a kid. But man for whatever reason I’m worried it’s one of those things that’d just be a memory-ruined to play it again.
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# ? Oct 7, 2023 00:45 |
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Thief Simulator 2 has a double discount if you own the original and order that one bundle for 19% off. You have more tools to rob people with and you can knock them out with violence. I just hope they fixed the map issue that existed in the first game where feature bloat caused slowdown and objects to render as opened.
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# ? Oct 7, 2023 00:48 |
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I've been on the hunt for an easy to jump in and out poker game and I've gotta say Prominence Poker is doing a pretty good job. I've just been playing on the free chips I get issued and have put 40+ hours into it over the past few weeks.
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# ? Oct 7, 2023 00:57 |
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FutureCop posted:Ooh yeah I've been keeping my eye on this: as usual haven't jumped in yet because it's in early access, but it's mighty tempting. Saw that they got a recent combat overhaul and other cool stuff. I know it's a roguelite and it might not matter that much, but is there any sort of story/lore element to it? I always find that element helps a little, like Hades, though I can certainly appreciate rougelites that just cut to the chase and focus on gameplay. not a lot of story, but it's pretty feature full as far as gameplay goes, three areas you can tackle in any order leading to a finale, tons of classes and weapons, tons of items I also really like its take on meta progression (which I generally either tolerate or actively dislike), it's similar to Card Quest for the two people in the audience who know that one - basically each time you complete a level in any route you unlock new stuff immediately - no currency farming you can easily see if you like it inside the refund window, there's no fat, it's a good coffee break murder simulator
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# ? Oct 7, 2023 00:58 |
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Jack Trades posted:You can't. Thanks!
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# ? Oct 7, 2023 01:27 |
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FutureCop posted:Since we're all talking about hacking games like DROP, and I very much like to flatter 7th Guest by following his example of recommending cool stuff, one that showed up for me recently was Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum which I've been very interested in: Synthbuttrange posted:
Jossar posted:I've barely heard of most of those. It's like what was said earlier in the thread: there are so many people pouring their hearts out on things that nobody will every play. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1545990/Deadeye_Deepfake_Simulacrum/ Has anyone played Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum ? It looks like OG Deux Ex meets the "art style" of Adventure from Atari 2600 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MUEXGaxFDA&t=2461s This video actually doesn't talk about the game but I like it better than what's actually on the store page. I've got it time-indexed to 41:01 "UwU-core deus ex with cruelty squad characteristics." "This game lets you make it into whatever genre you thought this game was at first look" "Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum is an amazing reminder of why indie passion projects are awesome. made by one developer, its like an UWUcore mix of cruelty squad, deus ex and quadrilateral cowboy." Reviews look really really good, it was released to early access last october as v0.6 and as of this september they're up to v0.7.5 with a load of updates inbetween but the above quoted is the only stuff I can find about Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum here in the thread.
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# ? Oct 7, 2023 01:48 |
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Anno posted:The Star Ocean remake is a really cool art style pretty distinct from what I think of as HD-2D, and it was one of my favorite JRPGs as a kid. But man for whatever reason I’m worried it’s one of those things that’d just be a memory-ruiner to play it again. Playing the demo on Steam made me feel like a kid again, it was really impressive how much effort they had put into this remake
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# ? Oct 7, 2023 01:51 |
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I've been playing a bit of Lamplighters League on the Gamepass, but I've been struggling with it. The controls during the stealth bits are pretty awful; I'm pretty sure it's designed for a controller and keyboard/mouse was an afterthought. You can control you guys with WASD in an Isometric view; which feels weird but is probably the intended way. You can also move them by clicking around, but it is a mess. The camera follows whoever you're controlling, you cannot pan around at will unless you go into Recon mode, which also absolutely tanks your FPS for whatever reason. If using the mouse to direct your dudes, you don't really have a lot of fine tuned control. If I tell a guy to hide behind a crate, he will probably go to the crate and then vault over it for some reason, immediately getting caught out. If you double click to run, you cannot single click to switch to walk; he will keep running. Occasionally, my guy will run past the spot I clicked on, and just keep trucking. I have no idea what's causing this and can't replicate it when I try. All the clicking around feels like an "estimation" of what you want and not where I actually clicked. When click-running past another character, for example, I'd somehow end up selecting them and making them move, even if I didn't click directly on them. I fixed this by changing the movement clicks to right click. A lot of things need the space bar to confirm, some things need a click, some things can be either. I have a guy who can shoot two different targets, but it's not clear who I have already selected and confirmed and who I have not. I often shoot things I didn't meant to shoot, or shoot the same guy twice when I wanted to spread it out. Finally, if you're the type to save scum when you get caught, there is no quick save or quick load. You'll have to manually save which takes a lot longer than expected; and when you load, not only does it also take a bit, but then it does this whole spiffy title sequence thing. It's cool the first time, but after so many reloads, it gets pretty annoying. I'm bitching a lot here, but everything else has been great. The actual turn based combat is fun and the characters all seem pretty unique (of course in sneak mode, they're all samey and one of 3 archetypes). The stealthing just needs serious rework or even entirely removed--the actual bits Harebrained is known for, turn based combat, is good as ever. Resonance22 fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Oct 7, 2023 |
# ? Oct 7, 2023 03:08 |
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tries to fight a volcano; loses but my cat has new gear!
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# ? Oct 7, 2023 03:47 |
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Strix is this your first go-around with Monster Hunter? Have fun, World is great.
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# ? Oct 7, 2023 03:53 |
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goferchan posted:Strix is this your first go-around with Monster Hunter? Have fun, World is great. Second! ... but this is the first time the monomania has hit this hard. I'm playing Monster Hunter Freedom, 4U and World simultaneously and developing opinions on how the franchise has evolved over the years Last time I made it far enough in to fight the world's coolest bat. This time I'd like to beat the game.
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# ? Oct 7, 2023 04:05 |
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What game is your volcano boss fight from? Some version of monster hunter?
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# ? Oct 7, 2023 04:14 |
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Hadlock posted:What game is your volcano boss fight from? Some version of monster hunter? Monster Hunter World! e: If you look at its steam page there’s a shitload of dlc. Literally all of it with one exception is cosmetic. The exception is Iceborne, which is an old-school expansion pack, with content you access very late in the game. If you’re new to Monster Hunter, base game World is a fantastic starting place. StrixNebulosa fucked around with this message at 04:19 on Oct 7, 2023 |
# ? Oct 7, 2023 04:16 |
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World is excellent. Iceborne is excellent. Two good-rear end games in one
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# ? Oct 7, 2023 04:23 |
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StrixNebulosa posted:Monster Hunter World! iceborne also adds the ability to actually craft cosmetics / "layered armor" by hunting monsters like you could in all the previous games. in base mhw it's impossible, probably to try and get people to buy all the cosmetic dlc, so without paying real money you only get a scant few dress-up bits from events. but now that I think about it that might need g-rank parts so it's pointless until you're able to handle the lategame content it adds anyways
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# ? Oct 7, 2023 05:13 |