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Chas McGill
Oct 29, 2010

loves Fat Philippe

Someone finally made the ultimate computer game I dreamt up when I was 12. It's a shame they didn't get Rage Against the Machine to do the soundtrack like I planned though.

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Broken Cog
Dec 29, 2009

We're all friends here

Goddamn, I remember really enjoying that game when it was active. All the characters and art had so much charm, too

But then again, Gearbox...
We'll see how it goes

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007


Lmao this fuckin rules

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Tied with the Jesus simulator for the "how come this took so long" award

And no Darkest of Days doesn't count

GhostDog
Jul 30, 2003

Always see everything.

Kin posted:

That's useful to know and all, but when I pick "modern" controls I expect the game to just jump when I press the button and do so in the direction I'm already pointing the stick.

Fair, though I imagine doing that would have required a major overhaul of the game engine.

Personally, I hope they can patch up the camera a bit, maybe add an option to have modern controls + tank controls on the d-pad. In general I am quite happy with this remaster, it has some rough edges but I also think genuine care went into it (unlike GTA or MGS). But I kinda expected that given that they hired the OpenLara dev to lead it.

sirtommygunn
Mar 7, 2013



Found an easy busted build in Balatro:

Midas Mask on the left so it triggers first, Vampire then sucks the gold out of all your face cards for up to an extra 1.0 multiplier every hand you play. Blueprint is to the left of Vampire, and it copies the full multiplier, so at 10x my score grows to 100x. Getting millions of points off a pair of twos.

sirtommygunn fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Feb 20, 2024

ninjoatse.cx
Apr 9, 2005

Fun Shoe

Bongo Bill posted:

Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters, originally released in 1992 as Star Control Ii, has been freeware for over 20 years, but now it's also on Steam. It is one of the best games ever made.

With or without the 3DO voice overs? The voice overs are great.

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006

ninjoatse.cx posted:

With or without the 3DO voice overs? The voice overs are great.

Can't play it atm, but based on size, I think they did manage to include the voice overs.

Hogama
Sep 3, 2011

ninjoatse.cx posted:

With or without the 3DO voice overs? The voice overs are great.
From a pinned thread by the devs on the Steam forums:

quote:

This release includes a few things which are not default settings in other releases, like voice over, 3DO music, and other minor changes. No source code has been modified. We also wanted to bring the game to Steam to reach the millions of players who use it as their game library of choice.
It doesn't include the HD mod, though.

Lichtenstein
May 31, 2012

It'll make sense, eventually.

Jack Trades posted:

Anyone happen to have read/watched Pacific Drive reviews and can tell me if we know what the approximate run time on that game is?

twenty-something hours, or so I've heard

ninjoatse.cx
Apr 9, 2005

Fun Shoe

Hogama posted:

From a pinned thread by the devs on the Steam forums:

It doesn't include the HD mod, though.

This will be very nice. I may have to start my 9nth playthrough

Ainsley McTree
Feb 19, 2004


err posted:

number go up rear end game

No that’s the inevitable porn game version of it

Ballasstro

Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


Ainsley McTree posted:

No that’s the inevitable porn game version of it

Ballasstro
my brain just conjured the image of a joker pin-up and i wish it hadn't

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

as a gamer, I strongly identify with jokers

Squiggle
Sep 29, 2002

I don't think she likes the special sauce, Rick.


ninjoatse.cx posted:

With or without the 3DO voice overs? The voice overs are great.

Agreed, best part of it tbh - also I am at the moment sick enough to pull off a Ur-Quan voice and it's pretty cool

Broken Cog
Dec 29, 2009

We're all friends here
I've been watching some Balatro, aaaaaand I don't really get the appeal.
Like, the game is definitely Numbers Go Up, but it just doesn't seem that fun to me

Guess this is a similar situation to Vampire Survivors where I'm not in tune with the current zeitgeist.

bobthenameless
Jun 20, 2005


wild, i was just looking through my steam library recently and saw the original and thought what a shame, another dead moba

Mr E
Sep 18, 2007

I've never got around to actually playing Star Control 2 despite having it downloaded before so I'll use the Steam release as an excuse to actually play it this year.

Countblanc
Apr 20, 2005

Help a hero out!

Broken Cog posted:

I've been watching some Balatro, aaaaaand I don't really get the appeal.
Like, the game is definitely Numbers Go Up, but it just doesn't seem that fun to me

Guess this is a similar situation to Vampire Survivors where I'm not in tune with the current zeitgeist.

i enjoyed the demo well enough but i dont really have any desire to play more of it. i think it gets a lot of mileage out of having a very sleek and responsive UI, there's strategy games that cost 4x as much with shittier UIs.

Leal
Oct 2, 2009

Hwurmp posted:

as a gamer, I strongly identify with jokers

Orv
May 4, 2011

Well when your own MOBA-not-MOBA fails why not resurrect someone else's?

Snake Maze
Jul 13, 2016

3.85 Billion years ago
  • Having seen the explosion on the moon, the Devil comes to Venus

Broken Cog posted:

I've been watching some Balatro, aaaaaand I don't really get the appeal.
Like, the game is definitely Numbers Go Up, but it just doesn't seem that fun to me

Guess this is a similar situation to Vampire Survivors where I'm not in tune with the current zeitgeist.

Yeah my (possibly uncharitable) impression is that it’s a Vampire Survivor thing, where the actual gameplay is pretty shallow and the main appeal is from targeting the part of the brain that gets excited by slot machine jackpots.

explosivo
May 23, 2004

Fueled by Satan

Snake Maze posted:

Yeah my (possibly uncharitable) impression is that it’s a Vampire Survivor thing, where the actual gameplay is pretty shallow and the main appeal is from targeting the part of the brain that gets excited by slot machine jackpots.

I feel like people are referring to a completely different game when I read stuff like this. Either that or you know nothing about it and are taking a complete shot in the dark guess at what it is and why it's actually bad.

The 7th Guest
Dec 17, 2003

this needs to be updated

New School: Suicide Squad, Baldur's Gate 3, Dragon's Dogma 2
Old School: Fortnite, Horizon Zero Dawn, Doom Eternal, Kingdom Hearts 3
Ancient Gamers: Undertale, The Last of Us, Breath of the Wild

The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Feb 20, 2024

The 7th Guest
Dec 17, 2003

now look at this cursed poster

FishMcCool
Apr 9, 2021

lolcats are still funny
Fallen Rib
:ughh:

Orv
May 4, 2011

The 7th Guest posted:

now look at this cursed poster



Ah yes from the producer of such fine cinema pieces as Uncharted and Venom, a true mark of quality.

Mr E
Sep 18, 2007

Also that movie has been done since like 2021 and then had 2 years of reshoots so even if you're a Borderlands superfan for some reason I think it will be a very bad movie.

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

The 7th Guest posted:

now look at this cursed poster



very cursed

Snake Maze
Jul 13, 2016

3.85 Billion years ago
  • Having seen the explosion on the moon, the Devil comes to Venus

explosivo posted:

I feel like people are referring to a completely different game when I read stuff like this. Either that or you know nothing about it and are taking a complete shot in the dark guess at what it is and why it's actually bad.

I'm mostly basing it off stuff like this from the first page of the game's thread V:shobon:V

JollyBoyJohn
Feb 13, 2019

For Real!
i will happily go see the borderlands movie at the cinema just like pixels, the mario brothers movie and sonic the hedgehog

not monster hunter tho, i do have some standards

kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!

Fan castings of movies are weird. Thankfully there isn't a real Boderlands movie.

HopperUK
Apr 29, 2007

Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?

The 7th Guest posted:

now look at this cursed poster



Ugh what a terrible fuckin poster

Not you 7th Guest you're okay

Mordja
Apr 26, 2014

Hell Gem

The 7th Guest posted:

now look at this cursed poster



You know it's bad when loving Eli Roth scrubbed his name from that poster.

John Murdoch
May 19, 2009

I can tune a fish.
The core appeal of Balatro is the distilled "combine bullshit to make broken combos" potential (mixed in with some deckbuilding). Instead of Binding of Isaac builds that blot out the screen with giant bullets that explode for 100 damage, it's poker hands and making number go up. Also as was said, the whole thing is insanely polished.

I'm hovering over the buy button on GMG myself because I loving love broken combo bullshit, but the fact that it is, ultimately, "just" poker and making number go up is making me hesitate.

The 7th Guest
Dec 17, 2003

Mordja posted:

You know it's bad when loving Eli Roth scrubbed his name from that poster.
it's there repeatedly at the bottom in the credits

Mordja
Apr 26, 2014

Hell Gem

The 7th Guest posted:

it's there repeatedly at the bottom in the credits

Lol it took me several tries to read that font, I think I automatically figured they were for production studios or something.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Mr E posted:

I've never got around to actually playing Star Control 2 despite having it downloaded before so I'll use the Steam release as an excuse to actually play it this year.

Bongo Bill posted:

It is one of the best games ever made.

Bongo Bill is correct

deep dish peat moss
Jul 27, 2006

The 7th Guest posted:

it's there repeatedly at the bottom in the credits

That's ELIROTH, which is some kind of Sephiroth

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Pigbuster
Sep 12, 2010

Fun Shoe

Snake Maze posted:

I'm mostly basing it off stuff like this from the first page of the game's thread V:shobon:V

He didn't just get that score by pulling the lever of a slot machine, is the thing. He built that combo up himself. The appeal of it is taking a normal 52-card deck and distorting it into an absurd combo machine that practically plays itself

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