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Playing Blood West at the moment and it's pretty neat. It has a pet peeve of mine though: I don't really like it when these RPGs have all these fun skills to invest in, but one of them is 'get 5/10/15% more exp' and 'get 5/10/15% more gold' or whatever. It always makes me annoyed that I feel like I need to invest in them to be efficient in long-term, but wonder if it's actually going to make a difference when you factor in the point investment versus game length: am I just going to end up breaking even, or maybe at a loss? And why do I need to trade in immediate fun for efficiency: I want to get the cool perks now, and I'm sure going for the exp perks just leads to people getting bored with the game due to being stuck with a bland skillset for so long! Anyway, while usually I would go for these perks, this time I don't think I'm going to bother, and I'd prefer if games just get rid of these!
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kazil posted:use code GOONER The thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in.
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FishMcCool posted:The thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in. I understood that reference
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Mind over Magic is out today - did anyone play it in the next fest?
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Velocity Raptor posted:I bought and started playing Signalis yesterday, and that looks like it could be a good game on a handheld. It's a survival horror game from a third person fixed perspective, like the OG Resident Evil, but the perspective is per-room instead of cinematic shots. The game also defaults to having a "modern" control scheme so pressing up always moves you towards the top of the screen. tildes posted:Steamworld Dig 2 and Dave the Diver were good I thought. Thanks for the tips! Halls of Torment and Steamworld Dig 2 look like prime candidates.
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tango alpha delta posted:I understood that reference I'm.... uhh... putting a pony on Liverpool this weekend....
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a steam game I def would play on a handheld: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1244800/Terraformers/ one of my favorite games this year
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Jerusalem posted:I'm.... uhh... putting a pony on Liverpool this weekend....
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Serephina posted:We might be all hoity toity with our presumptuously refined tastes in here, but 'gamers' are a bit of a niche market compared to the real profit generators. Nobody here even plays mobile games! There was a period a few years back where I did play mobile games, or one in particular, mostly to keep myself busy during my daily commute (by train) to and from Brussels. At one point I even started buying booster packs and things like that, reasoning that I had already spent so much time playing this free game, it was no big deal. Fortunately I quickly realized what was happening, and uninstalled before I could become a true whale. Let this be a cautionary tale to all goons, do not start playing RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS even if every content creator on Earth recommends it
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Wartales expansion is out. No news to anyone here probably, but If you liked battle brothers, mount and blade's straregy map, or XCOM, you'll probably like Wartales.
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Subjunctive posted:What’s the backstory there? My Creative Assembly lore knowledge is scant. They absolutely shitted out the last couple of Total War games because they were focusing on Hyenas, the stupidly large budget extraction shooter that Sega really wanted them to make, that was so shamefully bad thast they scrapped it right after anyone got hands on it.
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Jack Trades posted:They absolutely shitted out the last couple of Total War games This part I very much disagree with. TWW3 as a game is great, and Pharaoh seems pretty much just about what you’d expect from their previous SAGA games. The problems were increasing prices for Pharaoh and the expansions for TWW and the slow pace of updating/bug fixing the games. All of which have been spoken to in this note. I agree it was probably because a lot of TW developers had to be pulled in to try and do something about Hyenas, and to that end I think CA/Sega made the right choice in cancelling it and focusing back on what they’re good at.
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Have those games just been mediocre lately or are they fundamentally broken somehow?
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explosivo posted:Have those games just been mediocre lately or are they fundamentally broken somehow? cant speak for pharaoh but TW3 is a crazy ambitious game that mostly pulls it off. Theres a million little bugs and usability stuff that has been in the series forever, but the game itself works and is a ton of fun the big stink came from charging $25 for the most recent dlc and the content it added was pretty drat lackluster for that price. The old prices for similar content was $15 and even at that price, the dlc would still be mediocre they also kept introducing bugs with each big patch, which is really frustrating because there used to be months and months between patches where some of the bugs were super obvious and broke some of the characters ever since Hyenas (the f2p extraction shooter from CA that no one wanted) got cancelled, theyve been releasing hot fix patches at break-neck pace. CA honestly seems to be trying to fix their broken relationship with the customers and between the patches and the partial refund for pharaoh, it looks like they arent bullshitting
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explosivo posted:Have those games just been mediocre lately or are they fundamentally broken somehow? The SAGA games have always been kinda mid, used to test new gameplay ideas or focus on points in history too small for a full sized game but without a huge budget. Which is why they haven’t been full priced games. TWW3’a launch campaign was pretty meh, but the actual issue is how long it took to update to the Immortal Empires campaign and bug fix it after that. Then they launched an expansion that had 30-40% more content than their previous game’s expansion model but for almost 3x the cost, and that was the final straw that ultimately led to this.
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The overpriced expansions are also necessary to give the 4 chaos demon factions well-rounded rosters which is kind of a bummer
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deep dish peat moss posted:The overpriced expansions are also necessary to give the 4 chaos demon factions well-rounded rosters which is kind of a bummer Under the TWW2 model people wouldn’t really care, though. They’d want them just for the unique characters and new campaign mechanics and updates to old races etc. etc. Like they had the model perfected, people were begging for more expansions. I think they could even get away with a price increase, just not the crazy one they did while making the model worse.
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ScootsMcSkirt posted:cant speak for pharaoh but TW3 is a crazy ambitious game that mostly pulls it off. Theres a million little bugs and usability stuff that has been in the series forever, but the game itself works and is a ton of fun Yeah the recent expansion both costing a lot more and not adding nearly as much really set people off on TWW3. I'm a pretty big fan who has all of the previous DLC but even I haven't purchased it. e: Also they used to give out some pretty generous free DLC stuff (heroes, LLs, etc) that hasn't been seen nearly as much lately.
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My autism zero'ed in on this game and I kinda really want to get it https://store.steampowered.com/app/2002570/SeaOrama_World_of_Shipping/ wouldn't mind some user reviews first though, but it looks perfect for the kinda sims I enjoy.
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I said come in! posted:My autism zero'ed in on this game and I kinda really want to get it https://store.steampowered.com/app/2002570/SeaOrama_World_of_Shipping/ wouldn't mind some user reviews first though, but it looks perfect for the kinda sims I enjoy. If they nerfed ANTWERP I'm going to be pissed
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drat Dirty Ape posted:Yeah the recent expansion both costing a lot more and not adding nearly as much really set people off on TWW3. I'm a pretty big fan who has all of the previous DLC but even I haven't purchased it.
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PowerWash Simulator just got a free Santa's Workshop update
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Hwurmp posted:PowerWash Simulator just got a free Santa's Workshop update I haven't seen it but I hope it's just the Viscera Cleanup Detail level but with a power washer.
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anilEhilated posted:Well, that, and them not fixing any bugs for a long, long time, including gamebreaking ones. This was what tanked my interest in WHIII after playing it initially for good amount of time. After waiting multiple months for big updates that fixed old stuff and then broke other stuff that wouldn’t be fixed for another few months, I was ready to just put off playing more until they were done. The increased update cadence brought me back though, I’m so glad they’ve made that change.
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There's a little red "1" on the steam app icon on my tablet I just installed steam on but I have no notifications or invites I can see, how do I clear it?
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Sab669 posted:Do you get to powerwash the reindeer, or just the sled? they appear to be out playing reindeer games but they have done an impressive job of making GBS threads on the ceiling
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Hmm, Epic sale along with the 33% off coupon is pretty tempting: Sifu for $13, Stranger of Paradise for $16, HITMAN World of Assassination for $19, Returnal and Lords of the Fallen around $25, and so on. Wonder if I should just go for it or stay away: just to check since I haven't been keeping up, is there any big reason to avoid the Epic store at the moment, apart from the split library? I suppose I lose out on easy Steam refunds.
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I said come in! posted:My autism zero'ed in on this game and I kinda really want to get it https://store.steampowered.com/app/2002570/SeaOrama_World_of_Shipping/ wouldn't mind some user reviews first though, but it looks perfect for the kinda sims I enjoy. It's free with Prime on Twitch right now, fwiw.
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FutureCop posted:Hmm, Epic sale along with the 33% off coupon is pretty tempting: Sifu for $13, Stranger of Paradise for $16, HITMAN World of Assassination for $19, Returnal and Lords of the Fallen around $25, and so on. Wonder if I should just go for it or stay away: just to check since I haven't been keeping up, is there any big reason to avoid the Epic store at the moment, apart from the split library? I suppose I lose out on easy Steam refunds. The main reason for me to try to avoid it is that it's a pain in the rear end to get things working on the steam deck. I've not had any real problems with the epic store for things like Alan Wake 2 that make me use it though.
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Today I realized that every time I look at my Steam library and don't see anything I want to play, I just reinstall Battle Brothers. Probably the best purchase I've ever made on Steam through the years.
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FutureCop posted:Hmm, Epic sale along with the 33% off coupon is pretty tempting: Sifu for $13, Stranger of Paradise for $16, HITMAN World of Assassination for $19, Returnal and Lords of the Fallen around $25, and so on. Wonder if I should just go for it or stay away: just to check since I haven't been keeping up, is there any big reason to avoid the Epic store at the moment, apart from the split library? I suppose I lose out on easy Steam refunds. Nah it's adequate.
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Scary games to play in the Dark (encore): https://www.humblebundle.com/games/scary-games-to-play-in-dark-holiday-encore
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://www.totalwar.com/blog/message-from-total-war-leadership-dec-2023/ drat, they really must be worried And to think I just came here to post about House Flipper 2
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anilEhilated posted:Well, that, and them not fixing any bugs for a long, long time, including gamebreaking ones. I feel like that's kind of always been the case with them and not really a recent thing though
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Broken Cog posted:Today I realized that every time I look at my Steam library and don't see anything I want to play, I just reinstall Battle Brothers.
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FutureCop posted:Hmm, Epic sale along with the 33% off coupon is pretty tempting: Sifu for $13, Stranger of Paradise for $16, HITMAN World of Assassination for $19, Returnal and Lords of the Fallen around $25, and so on. Wonder if I should just go for it or stay away: just to check since I haven't been keeping up, is there any big reason to avoid the Epic store at the moment, apart from the split library? I suppose I lose out on easy Steam refunds. Epic store mostly works fine now and the most annoying part at this point to me is that I could not figure out how to turn off achievement notifications/sounds in Epic which really killed the vibe at points when a loud upbeat sound plays in a horror game. Also Sifu is incredibly good.
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