|
goatface posted:One of the games suggested character builds is "man with big stick and no friends", so I (perhaps naively) assumed that such a thing would be a viably entertaining way to play it. Yeah from the RPG thread it sounds like that would be viable and entertaining after you’ve mastered the game.
|
#
?
Nov 17, 2023 19:35
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 25, 2024 20:53 |
|
|
goatface posted:One of the games suggested character builds is "man with big stick and no friends" No thanks, I play games to escape from reality
|
|
#
?
Nov 17, 2023 19:52
|
|
|
What's this? More viewers watching Super Mario World than Super Mario RPG on Twitch? It's because as of 1pm PST today, Grand Poo World 3 is officially released. GPW3 is the 3rd kaizo Super Mario World ROM hack by BarbarousKing, and the most anticipated Mario fan game/hack of the year. After 3+ years of work and delays, you can now play it, if you desire difficult platforming and Super Mario Wonder just didn't do it for you. The official page for it will be up at a later time on SMW Central, but for now you can grab the patch and patch your SMW base ROM file from this page: https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=files&u=32572 The site had like 3000+ people trying to download the file and was crashing, earlier. You can find all the tools you need on the site to apply the patch, but you'll need to search the internet for the base SMW ROM file on your own. Boot up your favorite emulator (SNES9x still works great, or Retroarch) or put it on an SD card and use with a flash cart of your choice. Edit: some streamers to wach, if you want to get an idea of what this game is like: https://twitch.tv/nobletofu https://twitch.tv/linkdeadx2 https://twitch.tv/pangaeapanga https://twitch.tv/mitchflowerpower https://twitch.tv/laserbelch https://twitch.tv/grandpoobear BabyRyoga fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Nov 18, 2023 |
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2023 00:26
|
|
|
 Universe For Sale https://store.steampowered.com/app/1627840/Universe_For_Sale/ https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256982903/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1700153483 quote:A space station nestled in the clouds of Jupiter. A bizarre bazaar where a young, worried woman crafts entire universes in the palm of her hand. A mysterious cultist who's stripped the flesh from his bones in order to reach enlightenment. Here, there's a universe for sale. You buying?    Weird narrative game (point and click?) that I have no clue how it actually plays or what it is about but had wishlisted at some point anyway has released. 13 reviews that are pretty positive. Still no clue about the actual content of the game
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2023 03:42
|
|
|
ultrachrist posted:Small Saga: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1320140/Small_Saga/ I can vouch for this one, my wife hooked the computer up to the tv just so we can go through it together! Some people may be put out by the dialogue being a mix of old timey language and new slang, as well as transliteration accents of various kinds, but I personally am a fan of its sense of humor. It's like Redwall, but for gays. (There are a lot of lgbt characters, including an unabashed bisexual, which is oddly less common than you'd think). Also all of your weapons and stuff are regular human items. The bisexual rat uses a scaplel for a spear, for example!
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2023 03:45
|
|
|
DicktheCat posted:The bisexual rat uses a scalpel for a spear As we have come to expect.
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2023 03:58
|
|
|
fez_machine posted:
Oh, this looks nice. From what I can gather I'm guessing it plays similarly to Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood, in the "visual novel and there's stuff" subgenre, i.e. there's some minigames and added mechanics to keep track of, but the game still largely progresses through straightforward dialog selection.
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2023 05:36
|
|
|
cant cook creole bream posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1812370/Little_Goody_Two_Shoes/ Just wanted to leave a trip report about this, it owns. Will take about 10-ish hours to finish, there is some replay value. It's like a long lost playstation 2 or PSP game aesthetic wise with an amazing soundtrack. Story and characters are great as well, and it's pretty disturbing. Also hella gay, so the lesbian horror game enjoyers keep on winning. Absolute steal for 20$.
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2023 20:45
|
|
|
nvm
CV 64 Fan fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Nov 19, 2023 |
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2023 21:22
|
|
|
Strayaquote:An action based shooter based in Australia where everything wants to kill you. 93% out of 29.
|
|
#
?
Nov 19, 2023 15:39
|
|
|
More Australiana, Broken Roads was due this month but delayed. Fallout 1/2 inspired RPG set in WA.
|
|
#
?
Nov 20, 2023 07:50
|
|
|
Worldlessquote:Worldless is a stylised 2D platformer with a unique, active, turn-based combat system, and a mind-bending interpretative narrative. Players embark on a journey of self-growth and understanding, pushing the limits of their nature in a newly born and abstract universe. No reviews yet. 10% launch discount.
|
|
#
?
Nov 20, 2023 15:40
|
|
|
In Stars And Timequote:Live with the ever-present burden of being trapped in a time loop only you can know about in this turn-based RPG. Create a better future for you and your friends. Find hope where there is none left. Pray to the stars and free yourself from time. No reviews yet but this is part two of a series, and the first game hit 97% out of 145.
|
|
#
?
Nov 20, 2023 17:10
|
|
|
ultrafilter posted:In Stars And Time There's also a review of the Switch version on Nintendo Life.
|
|
#
?
Nov 20, 2023 18:10
|
|
|
The Expanse: A Telltale Series is now on Steam as well, all 5 episodes for ~30€ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1708010/The_Expanse_A_Telltale_Series/ mixed reviews for it on other platforms however https://www.metacritic.com/game/the-expanse-a-telltale-series/
|
|
#
?
Nov 20, 2023 20:10
|
|
|
ExcessBLarg! posted:Rebekah Valentine has good things to say about this which she mentioned last month on the Axe of the Blood God, so I've been keeping my eye on it. I got early access to it, and I liked it quite a bit. Interestingly the prequel game thing has ... a subset of the same interactions with items in the rooms, and many character dialogues however the plots are somehow completely different, which is a strange thing to be true, but somehow is. The new title does a good job of portraying "being in a time loop is pretty miserable" ala groundhog's day, and at several times i was frustrated alongside the main character with the game, but not actually at the game?
|
|
#
?
Nov 21, 2023 08:44
|
|
|
Valfaris: Mecha Therion https://store.steampowered.com/app/1647920/Valfaris_Mecha_Therion/  quote:Therion returns as the hunt for Lord Vroll continues. Pilot an advanced machine of death and destruction in this explosive 2.5D side-scrolling shoot ‘em up, and sequel to the critically acclaimed Valfaris. Strap in and unleash mecha hell!
|
|
#
?
Nov 21, 2023 18:17
|
|
|
the demo for that ruled. not the most conventional path to follow up the original valfaris but it definitely works
|
|
#
?
Nov 21, 2023 18:28
|
|
|
FrickenMoron posted:Just wanted to leave a trip report about this, it owns. Will take about 10-ish hours to finish, there is some replay value. Just picked this up and it's rad so far, especially the surprise musical number when Elise finds the shoes. How worried do I need to be about going absolutely everywhere and talking to absolutely everyone each time step? That's the kind of thing the older games it's emulating love to punish you for not doing -- didn't trigger an event with Villager C in the far corner of the map at exactly noon on Day 3? Guess you're locked out of the good ending!
|
|
#
?
Nov 21, 2023 22:13
|
|
|
This is more of a curiosity, but there aren't that many opportunities to say that a game originally from 1989 just got a brand new release on Steam in the past week. Star Fleet II - Krellan Commander Version 2.0 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1470940/STAR_FLEET_II__Krellan_Commander_Version_20/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256977799/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1698424714 quote:Star Fleet II: Krellan Commander is a complex and detailed space war simulation. Starting with just a single Krellan battlecruiser, as you rise in the game's seven ranks (each rank has five missions), you'll gain more complexity, such as escorts, planetary invasions, and eventually full sector command. For further context, back in 2018, the original developer of the game decided to fix up and polish the game beyond its existing state (which had originally launched as a fairly buggy mess, which disappointed fans of Star Fleet I, and the original publisher went under soon after release through a hostile takeover), and after 5 years of playtesting and programming, it's officially out on Steam. It's very much still a 1989 MSDOS simulation game that expects you to read the manual, though, but hey there's some novelty in a 34-year old game getting active development, yeah?
|
|
#
?
Nov 22, 2023 04:23
|
|
|
Thoom posted:Just picked this up and it's rad so far, especially the surprise musical number when Elise finds the shoes. How worried do I need to be about going absolutely everywhere and talking to absolutely everyone each time step? That's the kind of thing the older games it's emulating love to punish you for not doing -- didn't trigger an event with Villager C in the far corner of the map at exactly noon on Day 3? Guess you're locked out of the good ending! There usually is one unmarked quest per day which rewards a food item if you seek it out. It's always a villager asking for some help like talking to someone. Other than that go wild. You won't get everything in one Guide nor can you get all dates with everyone. I just focused on two people. Otherwise you're good to go
|
|
#
?
Nov 22, 2023 23:26
|
|
|
Great, thanks. That'll probably cut down my time spent per calendar day by half.
|
|
#
?
Nov 22, 2023 23:45
|
|
|
ultrafilter posted:American Arcadia This has a really cool world and some stellar voice acting. The main dude is Yuri Lowental. I finished it at 6.5 hours if anyone cares.
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 23:48
|
|
|
No wonder he sounds exactly like Spider-Man  Also I just looked him up and was blown away to find out he's in his 50s, since I always hear him playing young 20-somethings 
|
|
#
?
Nov 24, 2023 00:00
|
|
|
Knuckle Sandwich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwPFNDrb9SA quote:Guide a young man through his first day in Bright City – a bustling island paradise with a horrible secret. Find a new job, make new friends, and attempt to solve a mystery revolving around a ludicrous gang and a fanatical cult. 90% positive out of 73 reviews. Been excited about this for a while after playing the demo a year ago, just a delightful romp through surreal Australia retail work. Hoping I can crack into it soon and see how it meets expectations.
|
|
#
?
Nov 24, 2023 16:00
|
|
|
Play posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/2179850/Cobalt_Core/ Just doing a quick trip report. Finished all the content in 27 hours. But there is something very engaging with the story, which in a deck builder roguelike I was not expecting at all. And the ending is phenomenal.
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2023 17:27
|
|
|
Adding my own voice of support for Cobalt Core. Its deckbuilder gameplay loop is quite satisfying and the story is surprisingly good, carried mostly by some charming character writing. It's a bit sillier than I'd like, I'd rather it was taken down about 20%, but it's still a good time.
|
|
#
?
Nov 26, 2023 02:40
|
|
|
Finished Little Goody Two Shoes and ended up mildly disappointed. Presentation-wise, it was A+. Art, animation, music, sound design, all on point, no notes. The resolution to the main mystery is serviceable if not mind blowing. It would be very much at home as a pretty good sidequest in The Witcher 3, but can't really carry a whole game on its own. The romances are... perfunctory. The nun is definitely the best one. Gameplay is where it falls down the hardest, but in ways very typical of the indie throwback horror genre, so if you're more into that than I am it probably won't bother you. The blurb on Steam claims "all your decisions matter", but the bulk of the decision points only increment or decrement the suspicion meter, which is realistically never going over 2/10 unless you're going out of your way to get that particular game over. There are two components to the gameplay: daytime resource management constrained by how well you can do at a selection of extremely janky, not particularly fun minigames (or alternately figuring out that the save file is unobfuscated JSON that you can easily edit for infinite money), and the nighttime puzzle sections where you have to guess the thing the developer wanted you to do. Those started out reasonable enough, and they've got great thematics and atmostphere, but the Thursday/Friday night sections were both obtuse and frustrating enough to make me kind of resent the whole thing. A stealth section where you can't see anything and enemies come rocketing at you at light speed from offscreen isn't tense or scary, it's just annoying. The cutscene fast-forward feature doesn't work in almost exactly the places where you want it most, like in the pageantry before a boss fight, or during the entire ending sequence that you need to repeat 9 times to see all the endings, which was pretty aggravating.
|
|
#
?
Nov 29, 2023 05:30
|
|
|
Orten Was The Case now availablequote:Orten Was The Case - A free movement puzzle/adventure game where you play as a youngster stuck in a time loop with the simple task of saving the world from literal destruction.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnqY9r3th5U
|
|
#
?
Nov 29, 2023 10:15
|
|
|
Nerdietalk posted:Knuckle Sandwich I played about 7 hours of this and just wanted to give my thoughts: It's rough. It is, unfortunately, closer to YIIK than it is to Lisa or Earthbound. Absolutely set the battle speed to fastest ASAP and maybe turn it to automatic - it just turns the basic attack minigames off. The minigames start fun, but you're asked to do them so many times per fight and you only have two or three different ones per enemy or boss - the bosses are the big issue for this, since they're scripted to last X amount of turns rather than usually caring about the amount of damage you do. This has the added effect of making most of your stats, outside of perhaps defense and HP, largely useless. Your special moves also tend to be less effective than your basic attacks - I've heard that your first, cheapest special move becomes a one-turn kill for most random encounters if you can get the mashing right later on, though. The story is also super meandering after the demo section, feeling like a completely different game than the mean, focused experience of the first hour. I didn't finish it, so it's possible it gets back to that energy, but most of the negative reviews I've seen that have finished the game say that it doesn't. The item management is also super frustrating - most of the time you have ten inventory slots, several of which will get taken up by your equipment and any key items you've picked up. If you don't want to continually toss items not knowing if they have any use later you have to continually backtrack to item storage points, which are weirdly rarer than the free, full restore points. I don't know. I might be too hard on it because I really loved that demo, so if you're able to separate the rest of the game from that and you really love or are at least able to tolerate the slightly-too-long warioware minigames, you might still like the game. The look and the music are still fantastic. Just go in with the right expectations and maybe wait for a sale.
|
|
#
?
Nov 30, 2023 03:15
|
|
|
TEVI just came out, $29.99 with a 10% launch discount. It's from the makers of Rabi-Ribi and brings that same mix of bullet hell and metroidvania. I played and greatly enjoyed the demo, and I loved Rabi-Ribi even when it made me roll my eyes, so I'm looking forward to playing the full game.
|
|
#
?
Nov 30, 2023 04:55
|
|
|
There's also an extra bonus if you already owned Rabi-Ribi and Last Command, by completing the Bullet Hell Bundle you can get a 19% discount, taking it down to $24.29 US.
|
|
#
?
Nov 30, 2023 05:25
|
|
|
This is one of today's free games with Prime Gaming (which I think is the first time a brand new game has been included?)
|
|
#
?
Nov 30, 2023 18:37
|
|
|
Wizordum early access is out. Retro FPS in the style of Catacomb Abyss. Going to pump some hours into it this weekend.
|
|
#
?
Dec 1, 2023 06:03
|
|
|
SteamWorld Build quote:Break ground on a new frontier as the planet dies around you! Dig deep and build wide to excavate long-lost spacefaring technology, while ensuring everyone has the vital water, fuel and creature comforts they need! Do you have what it takes to reach the final frontier? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04qCQ9DwdZ4 Steamworld universe meets Anno. If it comes together nicely and gives the best of both, should be much fun to play.
|
|
#
?
Dec 1, 2023 16:00
|
|
|
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1996770/Turok_3_Shadow_of_Oblivion_Remastered/ https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256964237/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1692770422 quote:Finish the hunt in this epic finale to the Turok Trilogy. Pick up immediately after the events of Turok 2: Seeds of Evil, with dual protagonists Joseph and Danielle Fireseed, of the Turok family tree, as they battle the titular antagonist Oblivion and its followers, the Flesh Eaters. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1881290/Plutos_Island/ https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256966723/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1693384796 quote:Artsy and super weird action adventure RPG with roguelike sauce(elements) on top. Inspired by 90's RPG's, comics, and cartoons. Made by one human. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2147530/Raining_Blood_Hellfire/ https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256977206/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1697843600 quote:Annihilate countless hordes of enemies while unraveling the mysteries of the demonic invasion in this COD Zombies inspired bullet Hell. Kill, upgrade, explore, die, repeat. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1619520/Cross_Blitz/ https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256952860/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1686841257 quote:Cross Blitz is a unique RPG deckbuilder featuring fast-paced tactical combat with loads of cards to collect and synergies to wield. Explore, level up, craft new cards and build the perfect decks as you carve your own path to victory!
|
|
#
?
Dec 1, 2023 20:32
|
|
|
Play posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1996770/Turok_3_Shadow_of_Oblivion_Remastered/ Nightdive's already rereleased Turoks 1+2
|
|
#
?
Dec 1, 2023 20:47
|
|
|
Hwurmp posted:Nightdive's already rereleased Turoks 1+2 I was a little confused because I did see them on steam, but they didn't have 'remastered' in the title and the release date was noted as Nov 30, 1997 for Turok 1 and Dec 10, 1998 for Turok 2. Which I'm assuming was their actual original release dates. Meanwhile Turok 3's release date was yesterday and it does have 'remastered' in the title. So I wasn't sure what to think of that, but yeah it looks like actually they are all remastered, maybe just some marketing decision to change the format on their part, my b.
|
|
#
?
Dec 1, 2023 21:08
|
|
|
Gangs of Sherwoodquote:Fight the armies of the Sheriff of Nottingham and lead the rebellion, solo or in co-op with up to 4 players. Play as one of the Merry Men, combine your attacks, and free the people in this futuristic dystopia inspired by the legend of Robin Hood. 53% out of 26, with people mostly complaining about things that would probably be OK if the game had 2-3 more months before launch.
|
|
#
?
Dec 1, 2023 21:12
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 25, 2024 20:53 |
|
|
haldolium posted:SteamWorld Build Not too far in, but it's got the city building hook, and has a secondary city building hook underground where it feels a little like dungeon keeper where you build up utility rooms to provide certain builders to help mine and do other utility functions, while you expand up top in your normal city. Very slick so far.
|
|
#
?
Dec 2, 2023 01:30
|
|
