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deep dish peat moss posted:ALI BABA and the INTELLIVISION FOOTBALL sounds like a great game  Was a weird RPG adventure thing where you wander around screens, collecting allies and solving puzzles and going through hidden doors, and everything is a unique entity. Most enemies were restricted to their rooms but the titular 40 Thieves were individually wandering the whole map and could just appear and gang up on you while you were already fighting a minotaur or something. I never figured it out all the way but I gave my 6 year old best.  It probably would have been more interesting to me if it was ALI BABA and the INTELLIVISION FOOTBALL.
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StrixNebulosa posted:So I'm reading Computer Gaming World magazine from 1982 and I thought this was interesting: Did they have post release apology faxes?
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Hogama posted:While there's some audacity in claiming those titles, as far as I can tell they aren't lying about having made the games. The Wild Eight was their first Kickstarter while they were still under the name 8 Points (now Eight Points?), but after development petered out they sold the rights to HypeTrain Digital and rebranded. You can even look at the steamdb history, they only just changed the Developer listings in the last day (the previous change was 3 years ago). how long until Eight Points and/or HypeTrain Digital also shut down 
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Looked up ZORK II and I agree with the guy saying it needs better graphics. “lol…type “gently caress you” “No, type “Scratch my rear end with sword” “Stick dick in lantern” I remember all the time in the school computer lab, yes.
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JAnon posted:how long until Eight Points and/or HypeTrain Digital also shut down 
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Commander Keene posted:Eight Points is apparently FNTASTIC's old name, so not long.  , and  ;  , even
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That is masterful trolling. 
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Warhammer is fashy but in a funny way. At the start of the game theres an uprising on your ship and you as a newcomer are asking "wtf how is this happening wasn't anyone paying attention?" All the old salts are like "lmao there are a million guys on this ship, its absurdly big people get worked up and start poo poo all the time its not a big deal"
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Pwnstar posted:Warhammer is fashy but in a funny way. At the start of the game theres an uprising on your ship and you as a newcomer are asking "wtf how is this happening wasn't anyone paying attention?" All the old salts are like "lmao there are a million guys on this ship, its absurdly big people get worked up and start poo poo all the time its not a big deal" Yeah, 40K is basically fascists all the way down, outside of like the orks, who just like to fight stuff and the eldar, who are too busy being dorks but the whole "40K is all about fascism and nothing else" is pretty patently untrue unless you're just looking at surface level aesthetics. If you drill down on the fiction even a little bit it becomes extremely absurd and stupid, very quickly. Average, normal spaceships in the universe contain entire modern cities worth of people and there are centuries of generations that grew up and died in the bowels of these miles long ships. Space Marines, the guys every fash idiot beats their meat raw over are basically all super-powered idiots, so compromised by dogma that they're either intellectually intractable and always gently caress up in exactly the same ways or they're so far gone in the other direction that their tactical acumen is that of a very dumb child. The Bad Space Marines serve as the antithesis to this problem by having the emotional depth of a teenager going through their first breakup and occasionally being able to say "Well, wait what if we didn't do that?" My favorite "40K is dumb" thing though is always The Bell of Lost Souls. Whenever a Space Marine is reported dead or MIA, there is a giant bell the size of a huge building on Terra (Earth) that is rung for each lost Space Marine. The populace for miles around the bell has to get into bunkers or the air pressure created by the bell ringing will burst them like balloons. 40K is extremely fash positive in that every fash person is a drooling moron who just sees the surface aesthetics and goes "Yeah I want that," because of course. Occasionally it falls into taking things a little too seriously in some books but the setting itself is mocking the ideals of the people who love fascism at every turn. E: 40K is just "dudes will see this and say hell yeah" taken to every stupid conclusion it can be.
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Orv posted:My favorite "40K is dumb" thing though is always The Bell of Lost Souls. Whenever a Space Marine is reported dead or MIA, there is a giant bell the size of a huge building on Terra (Earth) that is rung for each lost Space Marine. The populace for miles around the bell has to get into bunkers or the air pressure created by the bell ringing will burst them like balloons. The Bell of Saint Gerstahl is a good story as well, a holy relic of the Imperium that was stolen by Trazyn the Infinite and kept in stasis in his massive collection. When the 13th Black Crusade kicked off it broke stasis and rung out 13 times destroying a bunch of his other stolen artifacts in the process, so he threw it into the Webway just to troll the Eldar.
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StrixNebulosa posted:"strix you should post this in the spiderweb software thread" no they already know avernum owns Holy poo poo I’ll play it already Awesome write up seriously I have owned it for a while now and never really gave it a fair shake but this write up tipped me over the edge 
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I didn't read that huge block of text at first as I already love the poo poo out of Avernum, but I just browsed it now and man, you made a dedicated thief? They have always sucked, sorry. I just put a bunch of trap skill on the #2 melee bruiser. SilkyP, if you are gonna pick up the game, just roll a pretty vanilla party of some burly guys up front, a mage, and a priest. Getting fancy with the party comp results is challenge runs. Also, welcome, the series's creator Jeff Vogel once said "innovation is overrated", as he churns out the 20th of the same game in as many years. He's not wrong! Sometimes you just wanna dungeon crawl in intricately bespoke worlds, and graphics can take a back seat.
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Orv posted:My favorite "40K is dumb" thing though is always The Bell of Lost Souls. Whenever a Space Marine is reported dead or MIA, there is a giant bell the size of a huge building on Terra (Earth) that is rung for each lost Space Marine. The populace for miles around the bell has to get into bunkers or the air pressure created by the bell ringing will burst them like balloons. So do they just massively under-report their losses so that the bell isn't ringing 24/7?
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Sab669 posted:So do they just massively under-report their losses so that the bell isn't ringing 24/7? In 40k I’m pretty sure it just rings constantly but that concept moved forward to Halo, where Spartans don’t die, they just go missing in action.
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Sab669 posted:So do they just massively under-report their losses so that the bell isn't ringing 24/7? Nothing has ever said specifically I don't think but that's probably the case. The Imperium relies on the myth of its supermen as much as some modern nations do so it probably just gets wrung for "Woops we lost an entire company in the Warp" and not "Joe Space Wolf got a bolter round in the face cause Space Wolves." Could go either way though really. There's also the consideration that "when a SM gets reported dead" is an extremely nebulous time frame in a universe where entire ships going missing and popping up years later is fairly regular, as are entire planets getting obliterated and no one knowing it happened for decades. Orv fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Dec 12, 2023 |
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Serephina posted:I didn't read that huge block of text at first as I already love the poo poo out of Avernum, but I just browsed it now and man, you made a dedicated thief? They have always sucked, sorry. I just put a bunch of trap skill on the #2 melee bruiser. I wish he churned out clones of the original exile series. I bought exile 2 over the phone with my mom’s credit card and I loved the hell out of that game.
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Orv posted:Nothing has ever said specifically I don't think but that's probably the case. The Imperium relies on the myth of its supermen as much as some modern nations do so it probably just gets wrung for "Woops we lost an entire company in the Warp" and not "Joe Space Wolf got a bolter round in the face cause Space Wolves." There's also thee fact that the numbers don't make any sense and there's supposed to be like a few thousand space marines in a galaxy of quajillions.
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Whimsy and Wonder (encore) bundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/cozy-games-holiday-encore
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Looked up ZORK II and I agree with the guy saying it needs better graphics. You had blue. We used to dream of something other than black and not green/grey monochrome. I see blue and grey and all kinds of fascinating colors
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Looked up ZORK II and I agree with the guy saying it needs better graphics.
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Steam Thread: complaining abaout anything u find
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My only experience with 40k is what I read here. This is first I'm hearing they have gigantic ships. I love gigantic ships like the GSVs in Culture. Are there games or books or anything about the big ships and their logistics specifically?
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Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 1 and 2 are ship combat 40k games, with a decent amount of upgrading and building and maintaining your fleet between missions. Everything's on a 2D plane because it's based on a tabletop game from once upon a time, but also because of course everyone fights like they're on an ocean. You can mess around a lot with your big ship in the tabletop RPG version of Rogue Trader that this video game is also derived from.
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Resdfru posted:My only experience with 40k is what I read here. This is first I'm hearing they have gigantic ships. I love gigantic ships like the GSVs in Culture. Are there games or books or anything about the big ships and their logistics specifically? Battlefleet Gothic. https://store.steampowered.com/app/363680/Battlefleet_Gothic_Armada/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/573100/Battlefleet_Gothic_Armada_2/ This is a Cobra Class   She is 1.5km long and 0.3km abreast at the widest point and has a crew of ~15,000 souls. She is classified as a light escort, a torpedo destroyer. 
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Luv 2 fire torpedos the size of the Empire State Building
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Battlefleet Gothic. That is why I like 40K as a setting despite all the fashy stuff; everything is so maximalist that it becomes stupid, which integer overflows into being awesome again. Another example: Bolters being essentially full auto grenade launchers.
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Resdfru posted:My only experience with 40k is what I read here. This is first I'm hearing they have gigantic ships. I love gigantic ships like the GSVs in Culture. Are there games or books or anything about the big ships and their logistics specifically? You should check out the Terminus Est:  Commanded by Typhus, a Chaos Lord of Nurgle who has a giant demonic wasp hive embedded in his back. Originally given to the Death Guard by the Emperor before their legion turned traitor, it's since been fully corrupted and now exists as a hulking battleship made of rot and disease.
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Unlucky7 posted:That is why I like 40K as a setting despite all the fashy stuff; everything is so maximalist that it becomes stupid, which integer overflows into being awesome again. Now now, full auto rocket propelled grenade launchers. Important distinction.
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Orv posted:Now now, full auto rocket propelled grenade launchers. Important distinction. That eject spent shell casings for some reason. (The reason is that it’s cool)
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Resdfru posted:My only experience with 40k is what I read here. This is first I'm hearing they have gigantic ships. I love gigantic ships like the GSVs in Culture. Are there games or books or anything about the big ships and their logistics specifically? Just from memory, pretty much every book that takes place in a ship will by its nature involve details about its logistics. Spears of the Emperor has most of the book happening aboard a ship (the first chapter in particular shows what happens when a ship makes a warp jump and gets horribly unlucky), Execution Hour is apparently pretty popular but I never read it. There's also Relentless but, again, I haven't read it yet. Lastly, the Battlefleet Koronus book for the Rogue Trader RPG has a lot of info on ships and their operation. Lots of books have ship stuff but there aren't that many that are exclusively about it or are, you know, good to begin with Know No Fear has a pretty great scene where the writer spends a whole chapter painstakingly describing what happens to a planet's orbit-side docks, its atmosphere and surface when one of these gets sent on a collision course as a terror tactic. It's a pretty good read in general but that chapter's a standout.
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The Lone Badger posted:That eject spent shell casings for some reason. The rounds are also made of "depleted deuterium," presumably because one of the writers thought it sounded cool and didn't look up what that actually meant.
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On the topic of 40k bolters, I think Roboquest's depiction of a Bolter's pretty good. The rounds even explode! Deserves a spot alongside Space Marine and Darktide's.
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Mordja posted:There's also thee fact that the numbers don't make any sense and there's supposed to be like a few thousand space marines in a galaxy of quajillions. The numbers still don't make sense because the scale of 40K is ridiculous and beyond comprehension, but this in particular hasn't been true since they just took endless amounts of Primaris marines out of the fridge. And even before that, the unknown amount of chapters served as a cop out. Badly Jester fucked around with this message at 07:03 on Dec 12, 2023 |
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Azran posted:On the topic of 40k bolters, I think Roboquest's depiction of a Bolter's pretty good. The rounds even explode! Deserves a spot alongside Space Marine and Darktide's. 
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Cross-posting from the 'just beat a game' thread since it was mentioned here a few times:FutureCop posted:Just beat SPRAWL: pretty decent movement-focused cyberpunk boomer shooter.
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Question about Dragon's Dogma: Do escort quests on Notice Boards start right after you accept them?
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StrixNebulosa posted:So I'm reading Computer Gaming World magazine from 1982 and I thought this was interesting: "The computer gaming industry is small in comparison to the board game industry which has a much larger sales volume. With the smaller market, a profit must be turned on a smaller number of units sold, hence the current price structure. Prices will come down as the market grows and volume allows a lower unit cost." At first I was gonna say "lol" but then i remembered I bought vampire survivors for $1 so I guess it's true, just not for AAAs
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