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Jan 27, 2024 12:21
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Convex posted:The System Shock remake is 50% off on Steam! https://youtu.be/f-pgcX9yTGM?si=TrtU-ojH62vY38DO Monty Zander just released a critique of it, good timing on his part. I've not played that far through it myself but I liked what I played.
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Jan 27, 2024 12:36
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A two hour long video critique. Surely you can just play the game on Steam for two hours to make up your own mind? It's not as if it's one of those games that takes 10+ hours before you get to the bottom of it to discover it's poo poo or anything, the back half is very much following what the first bit did. edit: 
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Jan 27, 2024 12:48
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Fil5000 posted:https://youtu.be/f-pgcX9yTGM?si=TrtU-ojH62vY38DO There's a big patch coming in the near future as well. Incredible game and price tbh
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Jan 27, 2024 14:02
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Convex posted:There's a big patch coming in the near future as well. Incredible game and price tbh Any notes about that patch? I'm really tempted on picking it up so I can finally start the series properly (I tried System Shock 2 years ago but got distracted).
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Jan 27, 2024 14:08
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Guillermus posted:Any notes about that patch? I'm really tempted on picking it up so I can finally start the series properly (I tried System Shock 2 years ago but got distracted). https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598858095/system-shock/posts/3891664 quote:ANNOUNCEMENT #2: Where is Patch 1.2?
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Jan 27, 2024 14:34
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Get it while it's on sale and then wait for the new patch to drop. Not that the game is currently broken or not worth your time at this very moment, but those additions are gonna make it better, especially the revamped final confrontation (and lady hacker  )Edit: I would like to clarify that even on launch I thought the game was loving awesome and one of the best remakes ever. Al Cu Ad Solte fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Jan 27, 2024 |
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Jan 27, 2024 15:27
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Yeah the launch version definitely wasn't bad by any stretch. The final boss battle was super anti climactic tho.
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Jan 27, 2024 16:24
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Delta Particles was a pretty good Half-Life mod. Nothing spectacular, but some good ideas, solid gameplay, and the arsenal was pretty fun to use. However, once it hit Xen, the quality took a pretty steep dive (as is the case with anything related to Xen). It pretty much turned into a bad Doom WAD with enemies constantly teleporting in, and heavy use of stuff like the flying brainlets that were a pain to hit. Still, I'd recommend a playthrough. And if I want to play around with Half-Life's arsenal there's always the Lambda mod for Doom.
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Jan 27, 2024 17:28
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Serephina posted:A two hour long video critique. Surely you can just play the game on Steam for two hours to make up your own mind? It's not as if it's one of those games that takes 10+ hours before you get to the bottom of it to discover it's poo poo or anything, the back half is very much following what the first bit did. It's not a review. It goes into things like the themes of the game, tangents on things like transhumanism, its history and development, behind the scenes stuff, etc. It's really not a video you'd watch to see if you want to buy a game, it's one you watch after you play the poo poo out of one. Cream-of-Plenty fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Jan 27, 2024 |
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Jan 27, 2024 17:48
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:It's not a review, it's a critique. It goes into things like the themes of the game, its history and development, etc. It's really not a video you'd watch to see if you want to buy a game, it's one you watch after you play the poo poo out of one. Yeah this. There's a plot summary and opinions of mechanics in there but woven around the central thesis of what the game has to say about transhumanism.
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Jan 27, 2024 17:52
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When I'm in charge, every video essayist will be rounded up and put in jail.
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Jan 27, 2024 18:53
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Here on PRISON EARTH, where everyone is a sicko video essayist or reaction artist,
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Jan 27, 2024 19:06
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Serephina posted:A two hour long video critique. Surely you can just play the game on Steam for two hours to make up your own mind? It's not as if it's one of those games that takes 10+ hours before you get to the bottom of it to discover it's poo poo or anything, the back half is very much following what the first bit did. not all video game videos are about convincing you to buy something or not. Many people love engaging with their chosen hobby on a level beyond consumerism, and talking about the themes a game's presents and how they relate to its mechanics, other games around them and wider human history and culture is part of that. They're the equivalent of a jon bois video about a sporting event.
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Jan 27, 2024 19:43
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Mordja posted:When I'm in charge, every video essayist will be rounded up and put in jail. Inshallah
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Jan 27, 2024 19:45
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If you don't use the Guard Dog character model in Dusk multiplayer you are a fool
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Jan 27, 2024 22:28
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Mordja posted:When I'm in charge, every video essayist will be rounded up and put in jail. That's what happened to civvie verbal enema posted:If you don't use the Guard Dog character model in Dusk multiplayer you are a fool I use the wendigo actually
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Jan 27, 2024 22:50
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The System Shock remake is incredible and I'm jealous of anyone who hasn't played it yet.
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Jan 27, 2024 23:57
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Found out today from Twitter that there's not only a sequel to the Citadel but also a demo for it so I'm looking forward to another round of weird posting about it.
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Jan 28, 2024 00:38
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Groovelord Neato posted:The System Shock remake is incredible and I'm jealous of anyone who hasn't played it yet. The demo runs like a slideshow due to modern Unreal Engine not liking how proton/WINE works on my system. It's upsetting, as if I tank the settings enough (and reboot when the fps goes single-digit) I can experience Medical in a stamp-sized window, and it's so loving good that it's killing me arggh
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Jan 28, 2024 00:54
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Serephina posted:The demo runs like a slideshow due to modern Unreal Engine not liking how proton/WINE works on my system. It's upsetting, as if I tank the settings enough (and reboot when the fps goes single-digit) I can experience Medical in a stamp-sized window, and it's so loving good that it's killing me arggh I'm surprised to hear that honestly, i played 5-6 hours of it on Steam Deck and was staggered by how well it ran.
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Jan 28, 2024 01:08
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Oh man, I ctrl-f the last few pages and saw no one type "Graven". So...has anyone tried it out since it hit 1.0? It's been sitting on my wishlist for years now, but the reviews on Steam seem pretty mixed. Did they just kick it out the door and say "1.0"! because of how long it was taking & all the trouble over at 3D Realms/Slipgate Ironworks?
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Jan 28, 2024 01:11
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Mordja posted:When I'm in charge, every video essayist will be rounded up and put in jail. Thank you, KING chocolateTHUNDER posted:Oh man, I ctrl-f the last few pages and saw no one type "Graven". Sounds like it was just kicked out the door and that'll be it. Steam reviews are awful for it.
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Jan 28, 2024 01:41
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Voodoo Cafe posted:I'm surprised to hear that honestly, i played 5-6 hours of it on Steam Deck and was staggered by how well it ran. It's absolutely a 'me' problem. Well, me and like two other guys on the internet. Something is just not quite right with my hardware/driver/software setup, and/or proton is really niggly and doesn't like installing newer versions of itself without an OS wipe. As a result UE games are a performance mess, while Unity3d is totally unusable - like .3fps in a 640x480 window. Year of Linux Gaming and all that, just some of us got left behind. It's actually kinda funny, as it makes gaming easier in certain regards - a lot of titles simply don't work, so my genre selections can get pretty narrow and purchasing decisions are made for me, lol. --- Edit: Yea Graven is weird. It's been on my wishlist, but I can't really remember how I mentally classified it. It's not 'Deux Ex' - that's Core Decay. It's not 'Thief' - that's GloomWood. Was it 'UltimaUnderworld / Arx Fatalis'? Was it that at some point and it just migrated slightly, or am I thinking of some other title? So I'm looking at it now with a kind of puzzled expression. Serephina fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Jan 28, 2024 |
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Jan 28, 2024 01:46
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Serephina posted:Edit: Yea Graven is weird. It's been on my wishlist, but I can't really remember how I mentally classified it. It's not 'Deux Ex' - that's Core Decay. It's not 'Thief' - that's GloomWood. Was it 'UltimaUnderworld / Arx Fatalis'? Was it that at some point and it just migrated slightly, or am I thinking of some other title? So I'm looking at it now with a kind of puzzled expression. Heretic, plus some Heretic 2 I think. It's a shame to hear about it, I was really hoping it'd be good.
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Jan 28, 2024 02:05
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I've only played an hour or so of Graven since 1.0, but it seems fine. I like the feel and look of it. There's definitely signs that it could have done with longer in the oven; the main thing that stuck out to me was exploding barrels being completely silent.
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Jan 28, 2024 02:40
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I keep getting graven and gloomhaven and gloomwood mixed up
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Jan 28, 2024 02:42
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UnknownMercenary posted:Found out today from Twitter that there's not only a sequel to the Citadel but also a demo for it so I'm looking forward to another round of weird posting about it. Hopefully there's more story in the sequel. I want to know more about that weirdass world.
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Jan 28, 2024 02:56
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Cheers thank you!
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Jan 28, 2024 08:32
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UnknownMercenary posted:Found out today from Twitter that there's not only a sequel to the Citadel but also a demo for it so I'm looking forward to another round of weird posting about it. I liked the Citadel until the dev started posting Shota on their twitter and then I was all the way out
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Jan 28, 2024 13:27
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goddamn turbo overkill fuckin rips  just finished episode 1! glad I played doom eternal first as this game is a fundamental improvement on that gameplay style imo 
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Jan 28, 2024 13:27
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I don't think TO feels like Doom Eternal much at all which isn't a bad thing because you don't want your games to all feel the same so that in 5 years time we're all pining for call of duty 46. That's something I can say for the whole throwback genre, the best games feel pretty different from one another even if they're all gravitating from the same templates
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Jan 28, 2024 13:46
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Milo and POTUS posted:I don't think TO feels like Doom Eternal much at all which isn't a bad thing because you don't want your games to all feel the same so that in 5 years time we're all pining for call of duty 46. That's something I can say for the whole throwback genre, the best games feel pretty different from one another even if they're all gravitating from the same templates Specifically, the moveset (ie having two dodges which recharge, a double jump, the chainsaw as an 'aaaaaahhh gently caress this' option, the ladders and platforming) reminds me of doom eternal, as well as the enormous scale of the level design, which I also felt D:E did well at. I love the aesthetics and sound design of both games. Both love throwing loads of enemies at you, but I don't feel restricted to a particular intended approach in TO which bugged me about D:E with its low ammo limits. Also you don't have to do lots of short cutscenes for chainsaw/melee kills which got excessive and annoying in D:E. Also Turbo Overkill is almost entirely made by one person and that blows my mind
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Jan 28, 2024 14:04
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I completely forgot Half-Life MMod was a thing until I just checked my Steam store page. Honestly, between that, Quake II, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar Redux and classic Doom I'm set for all my FPS needs for a while.
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Jan 28, 2024 14:37
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I keep telling myself this, and then there's a super secret I managed to miss that's like an entire hidden level. Playing Dwell for quake rn and there's a particularly harshly hidden secret level in the first episode that requires you not to have used the gold key on the normal exit door, I had to restart the whole level when I realized.
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Jan 28, 2024 14:40
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Spent money on SS-Remake. Runs terribly for me, but is playable and great fun. -Interesting choice to backport Recycling crap off of the floor. (You apparently woke up naked with a portable recycler smuggled up yer bum, too.) It's added a small bit of tedium to the game, but I think its worth it for the amount of medpatches you can buy - takes a lot of the phobia of using my consumables away. Ammo's not repeatably purchasable, which is interesting. -THERE IS A JOKE CHEMICAL CLOSET, I LOVE IT. Also a few other distinctly SS2 doodads got backported -As per the first point, the consumable balance feels good. -I have no idea why they rearranged bits of Medical away from the classic layout, which they already had in the demo. What's the benefit of the tweaks? -When searching for absolutely anything about the game, the amount of crap that these faux gaming sites (IGN etc) poo poo out is astounding. Like a few years ago all you'd get are very beautifully curated guides and lots of nerd talk of weapon companions. Now the first page of hits are all fake articles parroting the ingame UI back at you. I just wanted to know the energy-shield-implant numbers, gently caress me man.
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Jan 28, 2024 16:50
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Stupid loving AI generated articles makes me want to ignite a Butlerian Jihad.
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Jan 28, 2024 16:55
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Serephina posted:Spent money on SS-Remake. Runs terribly for me, but is playable and great fun. The last one is AI generated articles. Nobody knows poo poo and are all using the same source to make content.
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Everything about Turbo Overkill makes me feel like I should absolutely love it but the awful sound mixing and the big open levels that you can fall off of and have to climb all the way back up just put me off of it real bad. My sense of direction is trash so there being no map to use is a big hindrance! 
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