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Kly posted:it is and its good. they inexplicably didnt put it or any of the dlc on sale though. i played a couple hours then tabbed out ready to drop $10-20 on the dlc classes assuming theyd have it on sale to go along with the patch only to see its almost $40cdn for both. ill probably be done with it again by the time it does go on sale For what it's worth, the Grim Dawn DLCs are all 30% off in the Humble Store right now, you can get both expansions for ~$25 USD (not sure how their canadian pricing works) https://www.humblebundle.com/store/search?search=grim%20dawn The base game is 75% off. deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 05:07 on Nov 19, 2023 |
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Astral Ascent is incredibly good, what the hell. If you at all like Hades-style roguelites it's a must try. I've been playing it nonstop for the last 6 hours! It's basically a combination of Hades and Dead Cells with a Saint Seiya/Final Fantasy Tactics-style Zodiac theme. You take control of one of four different characters who are trying to break free from a pocket prison realm devised by an intergalactic conqueror called the Master who has destroyed and subdued thousands of worlds. It's room-based like Hades, but there are four biomes you'll go through (and a few special ones for specific rooms which are drop dead gorgeous, like the one in the last screenshot down below) and on each biome you'll face 1 of 3 possible Zodiacs, of which there are 12 in total. Each Zodiac is a wholly unique bossfight and has a shitton of dialogue which is different for every playable character and changes as you fight them over and over. Playable characters have a few basic features they all share - melee attacks (straight ahead, downwards, upwards), a dash, double jump and a unique skill that's always available. However, they also have access to a huge pool of spells (active abilities) and auras (passive modifiers). Spells and auras are upgradeable, but spells in particular also have slots you can insert gambits (augments) into, which do stuff like add new damage types, buff you or even spawn NPCs to help you. The kicker here is that you can have at most four spells and you have to play them in order. Outside of specific instances (safe rooms, when gaining a new one, etc), you can't mess with the sequence they're in once you get them so the order in which you cast them (and how much mana they cost, which you regain by hitting people) is crucial. You can create combos like spawning a water ball which bounces around freezing enemies and spawning sources of AoE freezing damage on contact, or having a dash that spawns clouds which shock enemies, stacking a debuff which then spawns further projectiles that home onto those enemies, etc. Add to this special features like getting help from NPCs under specific circumstances and it's just a treat seeing how powerful you become over the course of a run. To avoid special effects hindering visibility, every enemy attack gets a clearly delineated hitbox and tell, all of which makes timing dodges or determining safe areas much less of a trial and error exercise than it's common for the genre.  Just like Hades, this game has a lot of reactive dialogue. A lot of characters have something to say between runs, especially bosses, and the voice acting ranges from competent to great. Haven't heard a single bad VA so far, and it helps that the bosses even have dialogue outside their boss fights, but I'll leave that at that because it's a cool surprise  I'm just going to say the following: don't miss out on the Zodiac challenge rooms! And that's something which I like a lot about Astral Ascent - it feels accessible. It's even got local coop! It's a very rewarding game to play and experiment on due to all the characters and their 20+ unique skills but the metaprogression is mostly QoL stuff like in Hades, which gives you more margin of error and helps you get your build online faster. Once you start climbing the StS Ascension-style difficulty levels you unlock the second metaprogression layer, which progresses a bit slower since it's tied to boss and run wins.  All in all, it's one hell of a game and easily in my top five action roguelites I've ever played. Azran fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Nov 19, 2023 |
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When I bought Grim Dawn in 2016 I didn't think I'd be getting this much value.
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Jossar posted:Tried this out and, I dunno. The underlying gameplay isn't particularly compelling in a way that makes me want to come back to it. A bit too floaty for my tastes. Yeah, that was kind of the feeling I was getting: while the mechanics of resetting and such might seem novel to me, especially with the way they contextualize it all in-universe (which I always enjoy), and while I do think it is quite slick and polished, it is probably the same ol' game underneath as many other space ARPGs out there and therefore perhaps not that notable. Maybe I'll look into some other space ARPGs like Drox Operative you mention for comparison: I feel like the last one of these games I played was SPAZ way back when! Azran posted:Astral Ascent is incredibly good, what the hell. Had this on my wishlist for some time, waiting for it to come out of early access: looking forward to getting into it sometime! Similar to above, there are so many action roguelites out there that it can be difficult to determine the cream of the crop, so it's nice to have impressions like this.
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Phlegmish posted:Next on my list of games to play is Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness. This is a CRPG that I backed on Kickstarter years and years ago. I don't remember anything about it, so I have no idea what to expect. None of my Steam friends own it, and it has a 73% rating, so anything could happen! How are you finding it? I did the same recently and hated the unexpectedly ugly character models so much I put it down again. Just weirdly low quality, way below Solasta etc.
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FrickenMoron posted:Trip report on Little goody two shoes It's pretty much german horror fairy tale combined with a 1990s anime style.It's the surprise horror game of the year for me personally. Its mega niche but it hit me right in the feels. Feels like someone decided to make a Playstation 2 RPG style horror game in 2023 and I'm all for it. Wild that it's published by Square Enix too. Also incredibly gay so the lesbian horror game enjoyers with a german setting keep winning.
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Chubby Henparty posted:How are you finding it? I did the same recently and hated the unexpectedly ugly character models so much I put it down again. Just weirdly low quality, way below Solasta etc. I haven't played it yet, but I'll let you know what my first impressions are. I'm not expecting much, but who knows? I played Temple of Elemental Evil and Arcanum more than a decade after they came out, so I like to think I have a pretty high tolerance when it comes to outdated graphics.
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Earlier this year I played and really enjoyed Ender Lillies so I bought another game by the co-developer: Redemption Reapers. For a game from a small publisher it has very high production values, clearly a lot of effort and money was invested. Which is a shame because given the lack of interest online it must have flopped massively. The story was bizarre, it takes place in a medieval setting but it's been invaded by creatures called the Mort, which look like a less jacked version of the Locust from Gears of War.  It's never explained where they came from or what they want (other than to kill people.) They decimate an entire human army midway through the game. Then on the final mission after killing their leader who looks more like some sort of cyber knight, instead of all falling down dead or at least being routed, they overwhelm and brutally slaughter my entire party wtf? Not even a sequel hook either, how bleak. I did enjoy it though, the negative reviews seem to mostly be from technical issues which all seem to have been patched, no crashes or bugs playing on Steam Deck.
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I’m here to reap… your redemption!!!
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may be redeemed for any reaper of equal or lesser value
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how is konami going to gently caress up Felix the Cat for all the Felix heads out there?
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Upsidads posted:how is konami going to gently caress up Felix the Cat for all the Felix heads out there? Metal Gear Survive reskin
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My 5 year old was looking through my games to see if anything stood out and insisted on playing Lunistice, which I’d maybe acquired through a bundle or something. The first couple levels were decent for her to practice on as her first ever platforming game, but even when it became too difficult she loved watching me play as the vibes are simply immaculate. Not too difficult for my haven’t-platformed-since-Mario-Galaxy brain but a decent enough challenge if you want to get all the collectibles and still rank well in the levels, basically no story that’s all easily skipable, and again great vibes. Easily worth $5 and a 4-5 hours if you fancy some chill jumping.
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EDF is top tier co op fun, folks. Get it if you’ve never played
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Bloons TD6 or the best Kingdom Rush, whichever that is? It seems like they're both pretty popular
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Azran posted:Bloons TD6 or the best Kingdom Rush, whichever that is? It seems like they're both pretty popular
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Yoku's Island Express is $4. The Dark Souls of pinball metroidvanias
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Azran posted:Bloons TD6 or the best Kingdom Rush, whichever that is? It seems like they're both pretty popular anilEhilated posted:Dungeon Warfare. They’re all are top notch but the lore and environmental storytelling puts BTD6 ahead of the competition Imo
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The 7th Guest posted:apparently a game called 'lethal company' is absolutely blowing up on steam right now It's sort of SCP by way of DRG. Up to 4 people are trying to loot random abandoned complexes to fulfill a corporate quota while being stalked by assorted horrors. It's pretty rudimentary but I don't think I've seen any other game generate so many Perfectly Cut Screams entirely through organic gameplay.
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MonkeyforaHead posted:It's sort of SCP by way of DRG. Up to 4 people are trying to loot random abandoned complexes to fulfill a corporate quota while being stalked by assorted horrors. It's pretty rudimentary but I don't think I've seen any other game generate so many Perfectly Cut Screams entirely through organic gameplay. https://clips.twitch.tv/SparklyAverageToothAMPEnergy-Y7L_6pxBEGkLmNDy Worth mentioning it has great proximity voice chat, you hear the other people with you, their voices echo inside the complex, they get fainter as they get farther away. Nothing quite like hearing someone start screaming far away in the distance and you can't make out what they are yelling about. There's also walkie talkies that you can use to communicate when not in proximity that sound all scratchy and can be hard to make out too. You can have some posted in your ship, phasmo truck-style, to warn you about stuff over the walkie talkie, but they aren't entirely safe either. https://clips.twitch.tv/SassySmellyGiraffePipeHype-yHES8WKBetJlhjlM It's pretty good!
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The 7th Guest posted:apparently a game called 'lethal company' is absolutely blowing up on steam right now BG3 casually sitting at #5 three and a half months after release
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Phlegmish posted:BG3 casually sitting at #5 three and a half months after release  It sitting at the third place among the concurrent players still is even more impressive. It has more players on Steam than Cawadoody 2023, or Apex, or PUBG.
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The news and updates section at the top of Steams Library shelves has disappeared. A quick search leads me to a reddit thread from 3 years ago that all of a sudden has people posting the same thing in the past day. None of its suggestions of deleting cache has brought it back though.
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OgNar posted:The news and updates section at the top of Steams Library shelves has disappeared. delete clientregistry.blob
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Gone for me too. Going to assume it's a bug on Valve's end
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My issue with the news tab is that it doesn't update as frequently as I'd like and sometimes it unearths 'news' from months ago, displacing stuff from, like, yesterday lol At least the News section is pretty thoroughFastestGunAlive posted:They’re all are top notch but the lore and environmental storytelling puts BTD6 ahead of the competition Imo Thanks!
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Yeah, given player retention BG3 might very well be the most successful primarily single-player game of this generation.
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Does anyone ever play these voice-chat-dependent games on public servers? I guess maybe like every few months I'll give it a shot, but it's always a hilarious nightmare of slurs and people blasting music through the headphones or little kids just screaming and screaming. I have a good group of friends who play these games, but they refuse to use in-game mechanics like the walkie-talkie, instead just chatting over Discord, which I feel defeats the purpose 
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credburn posted:Does anyone ever play these voice-chat-dependent games on public servers? I guess maybe like every few months I'll give it a shot, but it's always a hilarious nightmare of slurs and people blasting music through the headphones or little kids just screaming and screaming. I watched some people play it with randoms, seemed like a good community. I also play Hell Let Loose with randoms all the time with no issue.
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Having an issue where the "invite to game" option on the friend list just never shows up when I right-click on someone. I think this may have been going on for a while so I don't think it's a recent setting change. Anyone bump into anything like this?
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I returned to Rebel Galaxy Outlaw on my tour of space games. I liked the original RG a lot, though I never finished it, but bounced off RGO at release when I didn't feel like dragging out my flightstick and mouse control sucked. I got to say this game has the greatest cockpits in any game ever. They are so amazingly detailed and create an incredible mood all on their own. I want to live in one. They are retro vibe but utilize the harsh directional lights of Elite Dangerous which really add to the ambiance. Unfortunately basically everything else sucks. The game is a good example of having a lot of dialogue and time devoted to story without saying anything. It's just words and words and words that tell little story, aren't funny or interesting, and don't even provide world details. I still know little about the universe that I didn't already know by hearing it was Space Texas. They've improved mouse control since release but it's still far below what Freelancer achieved nearly 20 years ago. As much as I love the ambiance of the UI it's a pain in the rear end to use and could have plenty of usability improvements that wouldn't hurt the mood. The missions have been boring and fairly paltry with the pay so I guess it is supposed to be grindy. It also has weird and aggressive scaling so you gotta be careful with the money you spend on your ship because it seems you can hit certain thresholds and suddenly all the bandits are in daedric equivalents. The difficulty is quite spiky because even traveling within a system I can blow through groups of pirates barely paying attention and then suddenly hit a wave of annihilation before I realize it. Worst of all the space combat has already gotten boring and doesn't seem to promise any future additions. To be fair to them, the original Privateer combat did get boring after a while. It didn't have a lot of variety so the game survived more on mood and the novelty of being an Elite like game with story and characters. In general the Origin space sim gameplay tended to get stale if you didn't keep spicing it up with story or interesting missions, but RGO so far lacks either. It's a shame they are so slavishly devoted to their 90s Origin gameplay because they could still bring the vibe of it while refining it with an eye towards the last few decades of gaming. I'm assuming it did fairly poorly because it is a game that demands you play it in the exact 90s way they envisioned and doesn't really try to meet you halfway. It isn't a complex game like ED as it is fairly simple (like the old Origin space sims) but it is a very very ornery one. I'm probably gonna play a bit longer liberally using cheats to fly around in more of these incredible cockpits. The artist behind them should make a My Summer Car kinda game about keeping incredibly detail spaceships going across a mostly peaceful universe. I'd play the gently caress out of that.
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Jack Trades posted:Pardon me for being a massive ignoramus when it comes to spaceship games genre but what does good space combat look like? Freespace 2, where there is generally a good pace of new toys & new enemies to keep things fresher
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