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Are we still posting immersive sim achievements? Because woohoo, Prey Mooncrash is complete! Was a pretty cool and addictive roguelike-meets-immersive-sim experience! I can definitely understand some people not enjoying it because of the tedium: even I was getting a wee bit bored near the end with so many repetitive aspects like unlocking story objectives and then doing the actual story objectives afterwards. I also felt like some of the conveniences like the summonable storage operator and pre-run loadout purchases could get a bit overpowered and kill the scrappy improvization and individuality of the characters that I loved. Finally, I was surprised that there wasn't quite as much weaving interconnectivity as I would've wanted: it's really only the mimic portal that creates some ordering. Nevertheless, had a great time, especially at the start where the different character archetypes really shined and I got to experience so many of the powers that I didn't touch in Prey! ...oh, the achievement posting was for EYE? I never finished that, but here's my rarest one (for some reason): 
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Leal posted:Poor Lucio, no ability, no age, no sexual identity, only ethnicity Hey but on the upside he's just as cultured as the russians
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None of the Overwatch heroes have any sexual orientation. They'll gently caress whatever.
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Rolo posted:There’s no way to customize cloud save stuff right? I don't know if there's anything you can do as a workaround, but unfortunately that's on the devs not listening to Steam's stated best practices for cloud sync. It'd be rather trivial for devs to exempt graphics options from the sync, but so many of them don't. As a horrible hack, you might be able to set the graphics options to read only on all of your devices, if there's a separate .ini for them or something.
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Ghostlight posted:HITMAN World of Assassination package is now the base game, which includes all the content from 1 and the base content of 2  Amazing they "simplified" everything into World of Assassination but they couldn't help themselves but keep the DLC in the Deluxe Edition which I don't think is even appropriately named for what it is.
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Can anyone recommend a good benchmark tool I can use to see if my graphics card is dying? I'm having trouble running some games and I wanna make sure it's not the card itself.
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Does NieR:Automata have autosave? It's told me five or six times that it doesn't, which seems strange for a game to do, unless it's hiding something.lordfrikk posted:
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BigRed0427 posted:Can anyone recommend a good benchmark tool I can use to see if my graphics card is dying? I'm having trouble running some games and I wanna make sure it's not the card itself. 3Dmark is on Steam and the "demo" includes their main test for free
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credburn posted:Does NieR:Automata have autosave? It's told me five or six times that it doesn't, which seems strange for a game to do, unless it's hiding something. It really does not have autosave. Saves are manual and at dedicated save stations, but they are everywhere. It's addressed in the game lore. A lot of people got really angry at launch when they went into the game on the hardest difficulty, and died at the tutorial boss about 30 minutes in and lost all their progress.
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credburn posted:Does NieR:Automata have autosave? It's told me five or six times that it doesn't, which seems strange for a game to do, unless it's hiding something. The first Nier didn't have autosave and some people complained when they assumed it did and quit without saving, losing progress. So in the sequel they fixed that by telling you that the game does not have autosave and you have to save manually.
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i'm not going to do a mega picture post, just text this time. here's what's coming up in february. ALSO as I mentioned before, Steam Next Fest on Feb 5th! I'll include a couple of January releases I missed last time. Poppy Playtime Chapter 3 (Jan 30) - This is some spooky game for children that is very popular on youtube. A studio I worked for was having to incorporate him into cartoons just to try to game the algorithm. There's a little sliver of my life for ya Eastward: Octopia (Jan 31) - A life-sim spinoff of the 2021 ARPG that everyone agreed looked really pretty but then only 10 people actually played for more than 5 minutes (I will get to it eventually) Jujutsu Kaisen Cursed Clash (Feb 1) - One of those anime fighting games that I assume is in a 3D arena (at least based on the developer's last game about My Hero Academia). This one is based off a very popular ongoing shonen anime. I learned at one point that the JJK fandom and the Demon Slayer fandom hate each other, though I'm not sure how true that actually is. But I have seen angry forum arguments about how one is great and the other is mid Persona 3 Reload (Feb 1) - A remake of everyone's favorite "it's not anime if I like it" JRPG from the late 2000s. Play SMTV instead, yeah it's on Switch and it runs at 20fps, I don't care Suicide Squad (Feb 2) - Whether DC/WB Games likes it or not, this disaster is happening and no one can stop it. Rocksteady apparently spent the last several months removing gear scores from the game. Probably an oversimplification but still. I don't think that was the main reason people didn't like what they saw, it was just a symptom of a greater unfixable problem. An early frontrunner for my newly minted award: "Redfall of the Year". Helldivers 2 (Feb 8) - The sequel to the co-op twin stick shooter with a cult following has switched to a third person shooter, but hopes to keep the same tone as the original. We'll see!!!! Fight Crab 2 (Feb 13) - Calappa Games only makes one type of game: aquatic animal battling. Ace of Seafood, Fight Crab, Neo Aquarium, and now a sequel to Fight Crab which was probably their biggest game. It looks, of course, very silly. Ultros (Feb 13) - Very cool looking Metroidvania with a funky 70s psychadelic look to it, both in aesthetic and color design. Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden (Feb 13) - Don't Nod won me a lot of respect with Jusant, but this is a harder swallow, a highly ambitious narrative action RPG (I assume this is by the Vampyr team?). The setting is interesting, but I don't quite feel the intimate personal touch to what I've seen compared to other projects of theirs. Islands of Insight (Feb 13) - I could best describe this as 'puzzle MMO', sort of a new take on Myst Online/Uru. I'm very interested in this one. Lysfanga: the Dream Warrior (Feb 13) - Quantic Dream's new thing is publishing indie games, because that way no one has to see the word David Cage and have a viscerally unpleasant reaction. This game comes from Sand Door Studio and is a strategy hack-and-slash where you have the ability to clone yourself by rewinding time multiple times and forming an army of.. yourself. Arzette: The Jewel of Fairmore (Feb 13) - Many retro games seek to bring nostalgia for the "better days" of gaming (note my quote marks), but very few-- in fact, I'm willing to say just this one game-- would be willing to remind gamers of the Phillips CD-i. Directly inspired by the Zelda CD-i games, Arzette has intentionally crude hand-drawn pixel animation cutscenes, awkward mixture of spritework and painted BGs, and-- wait, John Linneman from Digital Foundry worked on this? Okay. I can't knock a game for 100% delivering on its intentions. It feels like the real deal. Tomb Raider I-III Remastered (Feb 14) - A remaster of the original PS1 trilogy of Lara Croft games, done in the same style as the Quake 1/2 remasters. Aspyr, you might recall, was originally working on the KOTOR remake before major development problems happened, so this might be a situation where you wait on reviews? Helskate (Feb 15) - As was mentioned not too long ago, Helskate's a kinda cool looking mix of action roguelite and skateboarding. I don't care for roguelites but I do like genre mashups. Goat Simulator 3 (Feb 15) - This month's release from Epic Jail is Coffee Stain returning to their roots. Did you know Coffee Stain published Deep Rock Galactic? Did you know Coffee Stain is owned by Embracer? Did you hear about how Embracer has been shutting down nearly every studio? Not asking these questions for any particular reason. Recolit (Feb 16) - Pixel narrative adventure about an astronaut that crash lands and discovers a literal ghost town. Cute art... the demo was fine. It's probably going to all be a metaphor for something or other. The Thaumaturge (Feb 20) - Narrative turn-based CRPG set in Warsaw by the developer of underrated stealth rpg Seven: The Long Days Gone. Balatro (Feb 20) - A "poker roguelite" that I've heard is pretty decent? I think people have recommended it in here. An updated demo just came out yesterday for the upcoming Next Fest. Slave Zero X (Feb 21) - A "sequel" (ie 'let's just take this old IP for clout') to a Dreamcast mecha action game, this more resembles a straight-line Strider 2 with a lot of DMC comboing. Bandle Tale: A League of Legends Story (Feb 21) - The final Riot Forge game (the initiative is ending) comes from Lazy Bear of Graveyard Keeper fame, and is an isometric craft-heavy RPG. Will it have a thousand tech trees like Graveyard Keeper? I dunno, but it looks cute. Yohane the Parhelion - Numazu in the Mirage (Feb 21) - How did this Love Live spinoff get MULTIPLE licensed games? I don't even think the anime did particularly well!! This is a StS-like, and the UI is... well... uh, it's pretty similar, I'll say that. CorpoNation: The Sorting Process (Feb 22) - One of those dystopian adventure games with a fake OS. I do like the look of it, it reminds me a bit of Cliff Johnson's games for the original Macintosh. Nightingale (Feb 22) - Gaslamp-themed survival crafter (yeah I know, it's kind of a popular genre these days) where you travel through portals to different realms. I'm not sure why all these survival devs chose to release their games this close together, but I guess by the end of February, maybe some of Palworld's crazed attention will die down.. Open Roads (Feb 22) - This slightly cursed narrative game was originally a Fullbright (Gone Home) production until Steve Gaynor was outed as an abusive boss. Since Annapurna loves to shield abusers, the best outcome was that Steve wasn't allowed near the team and the game is now credited to the Open Roads Team rather than Fullbright. Hope it can manage to escape that long dark shadow. Escape Simulator: Magic DLC (Feb 22) - IDK why Red Dead Redemption 2 was nominated for Labor of Love, but Escape Simulator certainly should've been. Pine Studio has gone above and beyond with the game, releasing all sorts of DLC packs with new themes for the community/workshop to use, as well as free rooms for various occasions. I do think this is the best escape room game out there, just because of how much the community has done with it. Dark Forces Remaster (Feb 28) - Aspyr may struggle with remakes/remasters, but Nightdive is no stranger to them, having shepherded those previously mentioned Quake remasters, as well as the excellent Shadow Man remaster, the System Shock 2 remake, and many many others. This should be no different. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake (Feb 28) - I'm not sure that this game needs a remake (unless it doesn't work on Win11? idk) but here it is. I guess if it's been at least 10 years you have to have a remake. The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Jan 27, 2024 |
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Thanks as always, The 7th Guest! (Would just like to add that Solium Infernum's also coming out on Feb. 14th.)
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The 7th Guest posted:gamesgamesgames Cheers for the update as always: looking forward to seeing how Helldivers 2 and The Thaumaturge turn out. Next Fest will be cool as well: I'll have to see if time allows me to cover it.
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credburn posted:If I have Hitman 1 and 2... what do I need to buy?
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Love seeing this preview of upcoming games!
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Helldivers 2 looks like such a lovely generic game after how absolute nonsense the first ended up being in co-op, hope I'm wrong.
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Pleads posted:Helldivers 2 looks like such a lovely generic game after how absolute nonsense the first ended up being in co-op, hope I'm wrong. I think you’re going to be wrong about this! You’re the first to say this too. I’ve seen nothing but excitement and hype for the sequel. It really looks cool to me.
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No one knows unfortunately. You just have to buy everything labeled "Hit Man or Hit Men" on Steam and eventually it will unlock the secret Hitman 3 achievement granting access.
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As has been said many times but remains timeless, the Hitman games since the soft reboot in 2016 have been fantastic but Jesus Christ they make the actual purchase process bizarrely convoluted.
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Jerusalem posted:As has been said many times but remains timeless, the Hitman games since the soft reboot in 2016 have been fantastic but Jesus Christ they make the actual purchase process bizarrely convoluted. I didn't think anyone could do it worse than Techland and Dying Light 1 but IO pulled it off!
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Decided to fire up Farthest Frontier today and it’s the fastest that five hours has disappeared playing a game in a very long time. Good combination of super chill making your city look cool, making tough choices with limited resources and planning for a grander tomorrow.
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The 7th Guest posted:Goat Simulator 3 (Feb 15)[/b] - This month's release from Epic Jail is Coffee Stain returning to their roots. Did you know Coffee Stain published Deep Rock Galactic? Did you know Coffee Stain is owned by Embracer? Did you hear about how Embracer has been shutting down nearly every studio? Not asking these questions for any particular reason.
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By the way, there's a cool little *~FREE~* game out called Intravenous 2: Mercenarism which looks to serve as a little prologue/interlude/demo thingy for the upcoming Intravenous 2 which comes out on Feb 1st, sequel to, you guessed it, Intravenous. It's a pretty decent top-down tactical stealth game where you can sneak around or go guns blazing (or both), like some sort of mash-up of Hotline Miami and Splinter Cell, all with this edgy Soldier of Fortune storyline. I've been meaning to play the first one eventually: was just on my backlog. It's got two levels and about an hour of content, more so if you like to experiment and rerun with different loadouts and approaches.  
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The 7th Guest posted:i'm not going to do a mega picture post, just text this time. here's what's coming up in february. ALSO as I mentioned before, Steam Next Fest on Feb 5th! I'll include a couple of January releases I missed last time. I appreciate these, there's always a game or two Ill wishlist to keep an eye on. That Eastward: Octopia spinoff looks cute.
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FutureCop posted:By the way, there's a cool little *~FREE~* game out called Intravenous 2: Mercenarism which looks to serve as a little prologue/interlude/demo thingy for the upcoming Intravenous 2 which comes out on Feb 1st, sequel to, you guessed it, Intravenous. That looks cool. Honestly I feel like Hotline Miami is one of those games that hasn't been ripped off enough; I know there are a lot of things loosely in the same category but the last game that truly nailed the feeling of demanding extreme precision but providing generous and speedy restarts was like.... Celeste? The flow of that game feels more like Hotline Miami than any top-down shooter aping it's style has ever.
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FutureCop posted:By the way, there's a cool little *~FREE~* game out called Intravenous 2: Mercenarism which looks to serve as a little prologue/interlude/demo thingy for the upcoming Intravenous 2 which comes out on Feb 1st, sequel to, you guessed it, Intravenous. This looks like Hotline Miami combined with the aesthetic sensibilities of Darkwood, drat
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credburn posted:Does NieR:Automata have autosave? It's told me five or six times that it doesn't, which seems strange for a game to do, unless it's hiding something. I only had H1 and H2 too (no DLC). If you're like me, you need to buy World of Assassination Deluxe Edition to get everything including DLC. How do I know? I bought the standard edition and didn't get any of the DLC... So I refunded the game for now and will wait until the next sale. e: obligatory gently caress IO lordfrikk fucked around with this message at 08:11 on Jan 27, 2024 |
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The 7th Guest posted:The Thaumaturge (Feb 20) - Narrative turn-based CRPG set in Warsaw by the developer of underrated stealth rpg Seven: The Long Days Gone. I'll definitely be checking this out, I picked up Seven a few sales back and it's a shame everyone apparently slept on it.
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The default graphics settings in Enshrouded are cursed. Anyone playing should set the resolution scale back to 100%, having scale enabled with DLSS also active means you're upscaling twice and depending on what your native resolution is you'll get something that looks somewhere between slightly blurry and looking through a dirty window. I'm on a 4K TV and it looked wretched. If you were getting close to 60fps with default settings you'll need to adjust other settings to maintain that, but going from 68% render scale w/ graphics on quality mode to 100% w/ graphics on balanced or performance is an upgrade anyway.
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The 7th Guest posted:Suicide Squad (Feb 2) - Whether DC/WB Games likes it or not, this disaster is happening and no one can stop it. Rocksteady apparently spent the last several months removing gear scores from the game. Probably an oversimplification but still. I don't think that was the main reason people didn't like what they saw, it was just a symptom of a greater unfixable problem. An early frontrunner for my newly minted award: "Redfall of the Year". My first thought is "There's no way it can be worse than Redfall" but before Redfall came out I thought "There's no way it can be worse than Anthem" and here we are.
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The Gripper posted:The default graphics settings in Enshrouded are cursed. Anyone playing should set the resolution scale back to 100%, having scale enabled with DLSS also active means you're upscaling twice and depending on what your native resolution is you'll get something that looks somewhere between slightly blurry and looking through a dirty window. I'm on a 4K TV and it looked wretched. That's loving hilarious. For the record, 68% render scare with Quality DLSS on a 1080p is giving you 480p is your real resolution.
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I have my computer in the basement, and want to play Steam and other games in my living room with the best possible specs. Everything would be connected with Ethernet. What's the best way to set this up? I have a Steam Deck, would getting a dock be good enough, or should I look into some other hardware?
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I watched one of the gameplay videos for Suicide Squad and it just looked kinda boring? The city felt empty, a lot of time moving in an uninteresting urban sprawl killing samey-looking goons with repetitive flashy moves of your math gun while a lot of flashy gibberish blew up on screen. It is kinda insane that Rocksteady is behind this given they made one of the all time best game trilogies of all time with some of the best gameplay ever, but well
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Mega64 posted:I have my computer in the basement, and want to play Steam and other games in my living room with the best possible specs. Everything would be connected with Ethernet. What's the best way to set this up? I have a Steam Deck, would getting a dock be good enough, or should I look into some other hardware? Are you thinking you'll stream from your gamng PC up to the Deck that would be docked to the TV?
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