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Ainsley McTree posted:How is harvestella? I’m intrigued but also skeptical of it general opinion is that it's a mediocre life sim hiding a xenogears-level nutso storyline on a shoestring budget and, as usual, a rocking soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBv8ykEVDws
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Oxxidation posted:general opinion is that it's a mediocre life sim hiding a xenogears-level nutso storyline on a shoestring budget I think I’m sold now, thank you
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Squiggle posted:Its...what? A valid criticism of Stardew is how short the days last and how pressured the game makes you feel to min max your day. Some of the most popular mods are the ones the reduce the speed of the in game clock so you can get more done during the day. My counter argument to that has always been that there’s never any real penalty for not getting something done that can’t be made up the next day or at the worst, the next seasonal year. The only real awful thing the game penalizes you for is dieing in the mines which randomly causes you to loose like 5-10 items in your inventory. You can only pay to retrieve one of them. Lots will mod that out too.
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Cartoon Man posted:A valid criticism of Stardew is how short the days last and how pressured the game makes you feel to min max your day. Some of the most popular mods are the ones the reduce the speed of the in game clock so you can get more done during the day. My counter argument to that has always been that there’s never any real penalty for not getting something done that can’t be made up the next day or at the worst, the next seasonal year. Yeah stardew required a mindset adjustment for me; the days feel packed until you internalize that there’s no real pressure to optimize them, you just accomplish your goals (which are up to you to choose, really) more slowly.
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Det_no posted:God, there are like five million farming games now. Does anyone have any recommendations? Dinkum is heavier on the Animal Crossing than the Stardew, and it's aggressively Australian.
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Squiggle posted:Its...what? The days were too short and I was not a fan of the community center either. The idea that you could miss out on a reward and only get it a whole year later when it might not even be useful anymore was crazy to me.
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Beve Stuscemi posted:They're all taken. Post up and say thank you at least, you cowards This thread is public. As far as we know, someone who does not have a SA account took the remaining keys.
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Det_no posted:The days were too short and I was not a fan of the community center either. The idea that you could miss out on a reward and only get it a whole year later when it might not even be useful anymore was crazy to me. Mmmm, gotcha. I guess I can see that, I just never approached the game with a sense of urgency in the first place. The seasonality felt natural, and always had plenty to do in the interim. Since time passes so quickly, it all comes back around soon enough. You'd probably still like Sandrock, then, I think - time is slower and there's not a community center concept, although there is certainly a yearly calendar and events. Squiggle fucked around with this message at 18:42 on Dec 22, 2023 |
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I don't know if it's because I've bought less stuff the last couple sales or what, but I found a bunch of stuff I wanted in this sale for some pretty good deals. Starcom:Nexus / Tony Hawk 1&2 / Ultrakill / Anno 1800 / Pizza Tower... and a few <$5 throw ins, and I don't think I paid over $15 for any game I got. Now if only I could find some time to play all this stuff.
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disposablewords posted:Anyone have anything resembling a strong opinion on Miasma Chronicles? It's one of the front-runners on my possibly-futile attempt to stick to a relatively sane budget on the sale. Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden has a demo and the combat is very similar, if you'd like to check it out.
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Need a shooter. Dusk? Or WH40K Boltgun? I’m leaning Dusk.
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Cartoon Man posted:Need a shooter. Dusk? Or WH40K Boltgun? I’m leaning Dusk. given the choice between the two, definitely dusk
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Cartoon Man posted:Need a shooter. Dusk? Or WH40K Boltgun? I’m leaning Dusk. Dusk Turbo Overkill Amid Evil Cultic
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Det_no posted:God, there are like five million farming games now. Does anyone have any recommendations? You've already played the best options. My Time at Sandrock is probably a good pick if you thought SV was too fast paced. It is mostly like playing Robin instead of being a farming game. Still fun and chill. The My Time series is what I usually recommend to people as one of the top 3 games in the genre (the other two being RF4 and SV which you've already played). RF5 is fine. It's disappointing after RF4, but then everything is. RF3 is also available on PC now. Have you looked at Animal Crossing games? Dinkum is fine, but boring, and not really a farming game. You have to unlock a specific character to even unlock farming, and even then, large scale farming isn't how you'll make most of your money probably. You can, but there are much better effort/profit options. There's a surprising amount of fighting (mean old crocodiles) Harvestella is more of an adventure/role-playing game with farming trappings, but it's not a farming game like RF4, or SV. Wylde Flowers has a demo. I suspect you'd like it better than either Dinkum or Harvestella. You might take a look at Garden Paws too. There's no fighting in it at all. We enjoyed it for ~20 hours but ultimately but it down because it wasn't challenging enough, but you might enjoy it more. Coral Island has crashed every time I've tried to play it, so I warn people about that, and it being generally buggy even for people it doesn't crash on. If you ask in the Farming game thread we'll be delighted to talk about this all day.
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My farming game recommendation is an N64 emulator and Harvest Moon 64 
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Cartoon Man posted:Need a shooter. Dusk? Or WH40K Boltgun? I’m leaning Dusk. Boltgun is decent but Dusk is one of the best in the genre.
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Dusk it is. I’ll keep the others on the wishlist for another day or sale.
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deep dish peat moss posted:My farming game recommendation is an N64 emulator and Harvest Moon 64 I have so many fond memories of that game 
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Kingdom of Amalur: I can't believe I'm saying this but I think the game might be too colorful? I want to turn the contrast down.
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Cartoon Man posted:Dusk it is. I’ll keep the others on the wishlist for another day or sale. Amid Evil is a close second (or even better depending on who you ask), so think pretty hard about that one too.
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Cartoon Man posted:Dusk it is. I’ll keep the others on the wishlist for another day or sale.
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ultrafilter posted:Amid Evil is a close second (or even better depending on who you ask), so think pretty hard about that one too. At that point you'd really be silly not to get the whole New Blood FPS bundle and get Ultrakill too. It just makes sound financial sense.
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Whoah Dusk is slick as hell, having fun!
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Cartoon Man posted:Whoah Dusk is slick as hell, having fun! 
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StrixNebulosa posted:Kingdom of Amalur: I can't believe I'm saying this but I think the game might be too colorful? I want to turn the contrast down. Alt-F4 fixes it.
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Dumb question: I'd like to get my kid Bluey on PC for Christmas (I know it's not a great game but if you have kids you'll understand). It'll be on my Steam account but I'd like to buy it as a gift so that I can write the product key in a card and we can input it together. However the only gifting options are to send it directly to a friend, no option to email a product key. It's not available for purchase on any other storefronts like Humble either. Is there any other way to purchase a game and get a product key instead of associating it with your account? I understand why it's locked down but I'd like to give him something to open that tells him he's got the game. I might just have to write a card from Santa to say he's added it to daddy's Steam Deck.
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Party Boat posted:Dumb question: I'd like to get my kid Bluey on PC for Christmas (I know it's not a great game but if you have kids you'll understand). It'll be on my Steam account but I'd like to buy it as a gift so that I can write the product key in a card and we can input it together. However the only gifting options are to send it directly to a friend, no option to email a product key. It's not available for purchase on any other storefronts like Humble either. Is there any other way to purchase a game and get a product key instead of associating it with your account? I understand why it's locked down but I'd like to give him something to open that tells him he's got the game. I might just have to write a card from Santa to say he's added it to daddy's Steam Deck.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Kingdom of Amalur: I can't believe I'm saying this but I think the game might be too colorful? I want to turn the contrast down. That changes later on as you get closer to the whole semi-apocalypse that drives the plot. The art design is weird but it isn’t thoughtless.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Kingdom of Amalur: I can't believe I'm saying this but I think the game might be too colorful? I want to turn the contrast down. Someone's been skipping retina day
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Tinybuild, owners of Versus Evil, publishers of Banner Saga, POE2 Deadfire, Mothergunship among others. Lays off entire team days before xmas. Hooray for corporate ownership.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versus_Evil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TinyBuild https://twitter.com/vs_evil/status/1738260315203059812 Looks like they also published Wintermoor Tactics Club. Isnt that a goon dev? Oh, how nice is this. Tinybuild just announced yesterday that Atari was investing $2mil in them. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/12/21/2799784/0/en/Atari-announces-investment-in-tinyBuild.html OgNar fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Dec 22, 2023 |
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  So my phone is absolutely making it look worse than it is, but yeah, contrast is up way too high on KOA .... which then led me to discover that my TV had itself set to "vivid" color mode instead of "just output what you're given" mode. Anyways I'm sick and playing KOA because it's not very involved, fun, and easy to play while resting on a couch. Run around, do quests, look cool casting fireball. I do genuinely like the setting of "if you do tarot readings and tell the future you're 100% correct and there's no way to change the future" and now this generic fantasy setting is just used to no free will, ever. Like that's weird and cool philosophically speaking, especially when applied to fae. It's also a weirdly perfect way to justify main character syndrome. You're immune to fate gently caress yes. Local tarot readers hate you!
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StrixNebulosa posted:
It came out not long after Skyrim and made Skyrim look like dogshit IMO. The writing was better and actually kind of unique for games, it did respecs well (an early adopter of simple respecs, if not the first) and the mix and match class system was fantastic for the combat it used. Also being able to go apeshit with crafting was a lot of fun.
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Ainsley McTree posted:I think I’m sold now, thank you Fuckin hell
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StrixNebulosa posted:
KoA was way more fun than i expected when i played it last year. Easy rec for anyone looking for an ARPG
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Was running through my daily discovery queue and came across...this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w3tR9e0OJs I usually don't play idle games but it looks pretty rad.
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Ragequit posted:Was running through my daily discovery queue and came across...this? We've been discussing it a bit in the idle games thread, it is indeed pretty rad. The animations are funny and seeing the gnorps running around doing stuff is cute. It's not a tremendously long game but will require some thought to progress past a certain point because there's skills and upgrades that are more useful than others.
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OgNar posted:Tinybuild, owners of Versus Evil, publishers of Banner Saga, POE2 Deadfire, Mothergunship among others. Checked the list of Versus Evil published games and at the bottom of the list is Stray Souls, which uh, might have something to do with it.
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Alright, I got the My Time At X series and Volcano Princess too cause it looked fun. Thanks for the recommendations, folks.
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