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RPATDO_LAMD posted:in my experience multi tasking makes everything worse I think it's my ADHD going from "an urge" to "a demand" in the sense that if I can't tab out and browse the forums, I cannot focus on the game at all. I bought a third monitor just last week so I could read visual novels on it (it's set under my main monitor) while doing other things (like making this post right now)
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Late to Grim Dawn chat, but it's my most played game on steam, with over twice as many hours played as the next one up (which is Skyrim of all things. Shame.) For about a year, I had the game hidden because I couldn't stop playing it otherwise. I can't say what about it hooked me so hard. I'm horrible with needing to try every possible class in games, so I'd play a character to around level 60-90, depending on how quickly I got distracted and wanted to try something else. The dual classing makes for a stupid amount of possibilities. I hit the character limit for cloud saves. Sometimes I'd start a new character with a build in mind, and then find another level ~15 character going for the exact same thing that I'd started months ago and forgotten about. Yes, it's very easy to make a character that sucks rear end to play, and I made a bunch before I figured out how to be more effective. Yes, it is in the beginning, pouring all your poo poo into one skill usually, but by level 40, most of my characters had plenty of buttons to push. Early game does kinda suck for that though, and I played it over and over for some reason. In all that time playing the game, I never really did a whole lot of endgame stuff. I'd usually start a new character, thinking I'd go back and play this one again, but that rarely happened. I'm stoked that they're still releasing stuff for it, but I'm a little apprehensive about starting again, just because of how hooked I had been in the past. I mean I liked the game; I had fun with it, but a lot of the way I played it felt kinda unhealthy. Well I reinstalled it anyway, in anticipation of the 16th. Also, Farthest Frontier is good. I like that they're doing something totally different. If they put the same kind of continued improvement into it that they did GD, I'll probably play that for 900 hours, too.
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Nov 14, 2023 03:12
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Dishonored 2 is on sale for 3 bux https://store.steampowered.com/app/403640/Dishonored_2/
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Big Bizness posted:Dishonored 2 is on sale for 3 bux same sale: PREY IS 3$ holy gently caress this game is so good https://store.steampowered.com/app/480490/Prey/
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Nov 14, 2023 03:55
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Had Prey - Mooncrash on my wishlist forever, might as well grab it if it's $5. Loved the original but still don't even know what the DLC is besides something something roguelike.
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Nov 14, 2023 03:59
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Had Prey - Mooncrash on my wishlist forever, might as well grab it if it's $5. Loved the original but still don't even know what the DLC is besides something something roguelike.
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Nov 14, 2023 04:05
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You know how Prey teaches you to navigate and survive in this cool space station, but also gives you so many powers and resources that you never really have to push yourself? Well, Mooncrash has the same persistent-ish environment as the original, but stops the player from accumulating so much, and makes you play smart.
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Nov 14, 2023 04:06
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FutureCop posted:Highlighting a rather interesting demo I encountered: Erenshor: The Single Player MMORPG Thanks for highlighting it. I'm not sure I'd ever play it, but it's a cool idea.
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Nov 14, 2023 04:22
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FutureCop posted:Highlighting a rather interesting demo I encountered: Erenshor: The Single Player MMORPG Can I spend my entire Saturday camping an Idol of the Thorned, then spend a couple hours getting to East Commonlands, and my entire Sunday sitting in the North Ro tunnel spamming that I'm selling it in /ooc while people try to lowball me, rando noobs ask me for buffs, guildmates have arguments about eugenics, and my dad asks me what the gently caress I've been doing all weekend? Because if so I'm in.
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Grab dishonored 2 Prey and mooncrash if you haven't because old Arkane just didn't miss.
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Eason the Fifth posted:Grab dishonored 2 Prey and mooncrash if you haven't because old Arkane just didn't miss. Man it's such a bummer, the company name carries zero cred for me anymore.
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Wolfsheim posted:howdy steam thread I finally have a PC that can play games from this decade and I've already succumbed to humble bundle madness wait why did I spoiler this someone please take this old batman game with middling reviews
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Wolfsheim posted:wait why did I spoiler this someone please take this old batman game with middling reviews I checked not long after you posted it, it was already gone
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Just finished up Binary Domain, which was an absolutely barmy sci-fi cover-based third person shooter! Gotta admit, I came really close to dropping this a few times. First time was early on when the game was so hard to initially setup and get running properly due to it being a bad port (had to give up on getting mic to work, but probably for the best), second time was with the early game just feeling pretty bad what with cramped corridors and my aim getting knocked around so easily by unavoidable enemy fire, and there were a few other times where certain bosses were an absolute tedious slog due to their spongy health and one-hit kills (likely from me playing on Survivor difficulty, so you can avoid this by sticking to normal). All in all, though, it was pretty good dumb action-movie-esque fun, and I'm happy I stuck with it: somehow it never got old de-limbing robots with gunfire, it always had a new crazy boss or scenario happen next to keep things fresh, and the plot was absolutely bananas to witness. If you like games like Vanquish, Metal Wolf Chaos, Metal Gear Rising, Bulletstorm, Contra and so on, consider giving it a go. And if you do, feel free to follow the advice on the Before I Play page to get the best ending like I did (mostly just lets you know who to pair up with to spread the trust gain equally).
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I'm like 20 minutes into the Crystal Project demo and I really am intrigued by it, but... does it have a story? Like, at all? All the descriptions just say "go explore! adventure!" and every NPC just says "be nice to others" and "go explore!" Is the game just an expanded FFV sandbox with no plot? Going to pass if that's the case :\
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goferchan posted:Man it's such a bummer, the company name carries zero cred for me anymore. It is blowing my God damned mind that Redwall is still full price on steam
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Eason the Fifth posted:It is blowing my God damned mind that Redwall is still full price on steam *Redfall e: Redfail
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credburn posted:I'm like 20 minutes into the Crystal Project demo and I really am intrigued by it, but... does it have a story? Like, at all? All the descriptions just say "go explore! adventure!" and every NPC just says "be nice to others" and "go explore!" it has like... Lore. there is technically a story but because of how open the game it comes in the form of random vignettes with a handful of reoccurring characters and leaves you to piece together exactly what's going on with the world. i actually liked most of it (though it didn't quite come together in the ending for me) and the various books, chats, and even some areas and superbosses have you curious what's going on
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credburn posted:I'm like 20 minutes into the Crystal Project demo and I really am intrigued by it, but... does it have a story? Like, at all? All the descriptions just say "go explore! adventure!" and every NPC just says "be nice to others" and "go explore!" The fact that the start of the game involves an overly-friendly royal decree that people should EXPLORE, HAVE FUN, and most of all, FIND CRYSTALS is in fact part of the plot But honestly, there isn't MUCH of a plot, and it's mostly passive, without a lot of, like, important cutscenes with dramatic revelations, and it's not a character-driven plot at all, it's mostly a setting.
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Eason the Fifth posted:It is blowing my God damned mind that Redwall is still full price on steam It's not like lowering the price is going to make more people but it, so why not make maximum profit off the few who do?
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Eason the Fifth posted:It is blowing my God damned mind that Redwall is still full price on steam I dunno, it's only $5, that seems pretty reasonable to me, even if it is technically "full price".
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Fruits of the sea posted:Ahh, bummer. I hope they get it fixed, surprising that the PC experience is so rough. They’re pretty decent with X-input if you ask me. Triggers are analog and everything. Not sure if D-input is a must, but I’ll put that out there. You are aware of 8BitDo Ultimate Software too, right?
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Nov 14, 2023 06:21
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redfall wasn't my worst reviewed game of the year (it's actually #35 out of 40 on my 2023 game rankings). worst goes to mon-yu, unfortunately
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The 7th Guest posted:redfall wasn't my worst reviewed game of the year (it's actually #35 out of 40 on my 2023 game rankings). worst goes to mon-yu, unfortunately Please reveal the other three because goddamn
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i hadnt heard of mon-yu. it is a $50 game that came out 2 months ago and has 6 (six) user reviews. so i guess a lot of people havent heard of it.
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Orv posted:Please reveal the other three because goddamn - interference dead air, which is a neat idea but feels like only half a game and isn't randomized enough to warrant replayability. i'll be playing a similar game, killer frequency, soon... and that might be a bit more successful in this space - rusted moss, a disappointing metroidvania with clumsy controls but an interesting setting and neat challenge areas - bloody hell, a free top-down twin-stick game that just doesn't have the most fun shooting to it - pilfer: story of light, a 3d platformer that's a little underbaked and wonky, but the dev could improve and get better with their next title - mon-yu, a game that has the usual solid Experience DRPG combat and dungeoning, but has an extremely low budget, tiny enemy variety, floors that have near-identical aesthetics/architecture, and other issues that bothered me that i've talked about in other posts redfall i scored a 70 which is right on the fringe of 'good', because i found it to be trashy fun. granted, i played it after the most recent 2.0 update which added more enemy population, fixed several enemy AI bugs, added stealth takedowns, etc. it's definitely Arkane's worst game (and i'm tired of quippy protags), but like. there were times where I was having more fun playing it than Deathloop lol. but man, this was not a full $70 experience, and not nearly enough content to be a true looter-shooter co-op experience. it being so lean on content ended up being a positive for me because i prefer shorter experiences and the problems with the game didn't get a chance to ramp up in an annoying way. my playthrough was only 13 hours. the stuff that made it work better for me actually makes it worse as a game for the target audience in general, if that makes any sense?? there were times where i really liked the setting and architecture and then times where i'm like, man you didn't get enough time to finish this game. the historical markers for example are just generic copy paste models when they could've been like, cool historical sites or weird tourist-trappy things?? i dunno why that's what i'm focusing on first. there's also the cutscenes all being still frames using the 3d models. and the neighborhoods only having one mission before you unlock fighting the neighborhood boss. the special proc-gen areas you enter to stop a zone of corruption, it's obvious they wanted to do more with that but you only get the one real visual theme. none of this stuff would've made it a 9/10 game, but it would have maybe made it a 7/10 game for the average person instead of just me, the trashy game enjoyer The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 07:03 on Nov 14, 2023 |
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The 7th Guest posted:lowest score list Wow, really? Surprised to see this. I mean, granted, I haven't played it yet, so who am I to say, but the demo seemed so good, people seem to like it and I've been looking forward it. Wonder if you have any more specifics to ward me off it: was the bungee rope just really awkward to use in the end or something? Also, do you list this full list somewhere, like a website of yours? Always love a good list, me.
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nitsuga posted:They’re pretty decent with X-input if you ask me. Triggers are analog and everything. Not sure if D-input is a must, but I’ll put that out there. You are aware of 8BitDo Ultimate Software too, right? It's a catch-22 where the extra face and back buttons can't be mapped or macroed to anything (except duplicating the other buttons) in X-input and the analog trigger not working in D-input. Probably not an issue for a lot of folks! Not really workable for my use case, unfortunately
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StrixNebulosa posted:" unless you are gonna be multi-tasking and like playing the game in the background while doing other stuff on your desktop" Interesting because I think for me it has come to be the opposite. I never do more than one thing a time anymore because I felt in the past that my experience is dulled otherwise. If I feel like reading on my phone or something during a movie/TV show I've started to interpret it as my brain telling me to skip this one. Not an expert, just a dumb games enjoyer, but it's my understanding that multitasking has increasingly been found to be a myth for the vast majority of people whose effectiveness gets destroyed by context switching.
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:Are there any good recent games with a Star Fox 64 vibe - like a rail shooter where you can dodge around a little bit? There's a Panzer Dragoon Remake from couple of years ago if the space theme isn't mandatory.
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K8.0 posted:Do you have to play a bunch to unlock options or something? Or a big execution wall you have to grind past? Because my experience felt the opposite, I was constantly wishing I could do something cool but feeling like the developer worked hard to keep me from utilizing any of the theoretical options I might have that weren't carefully executing some sort of intended puzzle solution. Everything else was just suicide and throwing away what little progress I made. Sorry for not replying sooner. Its pretty much just finding gear as you go. The more stations you unlock the better gear you can buy or steal basically, and the more hurdles you'll have in your way. I dont think not having friends that played it hurts that much, you'll just find their corpses and whatever weapons and gear they'd have so it's a nice bonus but nothing you couldnt earn yourself.
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Kazzah posted:You know how Prey teaches you to navigate and survive in this cool space station, but also gives you so many powers and resources that you never really have to push yourself? Well, Mooncrash has the same persistent-ish environment as the original, but stops the player from accumulating so much, and makes you play smart. Until you break the game with Reverse Engineering. Then you stroll around and packrat it up again with the Engineer. Some might think that is cheesy, I think it was amazingly fun. Awesome! posted:i hadnt heard of mon-yu. it is a $50 game that came out 2 months ago and has 6 (six) user reviews. so i guess a lot of people havent heard of it. It's Mon-Yu around close friends. For everyone else it is Mon-Yu: Defeat Monsters And Gain Strong Weapons And Armor. You May Be Defeated, But Don’t Give Up. Become Stronger. I Believe There Will Be A Day When The Heroes Defeat The Devil King.
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And here I thought names wouldn't get more silly than Kingdom Hearts Three Five Eight Days Over Two
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Leal posted:And here I thought names wouldn't get more silly than Kingdom Hearts Three Five Eight Days Over Two If there is a game with some japanese words in the title, it may or may not actually be from japan. But if the title is something like Root Double -Before Crime * After Days- Xtend Edition, you can be absolutely sure that it's a japanese game 
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Tamba posted:If there is a game with some japanese words in the title, it may or may not actually be from japan. But if the title is something like Root Double -Before Crime * After Days- Xtend Edition, you can be absolutely sure that it's a japanese game But that doesn't even include the subtitle Accent Core R+ When They Cry CLR 
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