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Jack Trades posted:Elden Snore You misspelled Boltaro or whatever that game is called
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I hear a lot of people have been talking about that new game Basura. Dreckbuilders, they call them.
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that looks nice, although I'm somewhat frightened of any rpg that has "grind" in it's name
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So I played Chris Whitehead's (The Sonic Mania guy) new game Penny's Big Breakaway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hAgpRYM2M8 It oozes a ton of that 90s early 3D Sega charm. However it's not clicking with me yet. There's an issue with a lot of the "Sonic-like" games that come out, where they basically pull a half-measure in their tribute and give you a platformer that's half-sonic and half something else, and that "something else" loving suuuuuuuuuuucks. So Penny has SOME mobility skills and the ability to zip around sometimes, but they're basically navigating Super Mario 3D Land style stages and their normal walking speed is slow. The art style is great, but the simple textures and fixed camera leads to situations where you don't have a good grasp on where the character is on the z-axis of your view. The penguin guard mechanic is very annoying and discourages the player from exploring the zones they occupy. Maybe it'll click with me later, I heard some people saying once you master the move set you can zip through the levels very quickly, and it is an interesting move set and that aesthetic is pretty darn nice. Automata 10 Pack fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Feb 22, 2024 |
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13 years of development, goddamn. I commend them for their perseverance, but is the game any good?
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Feb 22, 2024 19:09
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GrandpaPants posted:13 years of development, goddamn. I commend them for their perseverance, but is the game any good? Steam has it at 89% out of roughly 5000 reviews, so probably.
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Automata 10 Pack posted:So I played Chris Whitehead's (The Sonic Mania guy) new game Penny's Big Breakaway This matches my experiences. I love the aesthetic, mostly enjoy the controls and level design, but you pretty much nailed my misgivings with the game. We'll see, gonna give it a few more hours to see if it clicks harder as I've played basically every other 3d platformer in it's class
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Rappaport posted:Hollow Knight did this, though the backer characters don't really have exposition lines or anything There were different levels of backer bugs. The ghosts in the graveyard were the lowest but IIRC the highest was an actual NPC with lines. But it's not the kind of game where anyone talks at length.
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exquisite tea posted:The backer stories are a rare instance where a developer would have been celebrated for reneging on their Kickstarter promises. They were so, so loving bad. This backwater starter town where everything sucks and nobody stays if they can get out, turns out to host like a dozen epic heroes of infinite power in hiding or some poo poo, whatever the excuse is supposed to be about them if there even is one. Even if you were going to include them, put all of them in the big city where there are already a bunch of people with great power or skill hanging around because it's the crossroads of this part of the world. They have a better excuse to be there, even if it's just passing through.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkWUQlC4TkY
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the ol' Pinny B
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What do people use to stop the windows key from stealing focus of the game to open the start menu? Google suggests enabling Gaming Mode on windows but that doesn't do crap.
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if it's Windows 10, do a regedit and search for: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer this should bring up a list of values, one of which is named NoWinkeys; if not, right-click in the list, select New -> DWORD (32-bit) Value, and name the new value NoWinkeys double-click NoWinkeys and change its value data from 0 to 1 to disable your winkey, and back to 0 if winkey is required later down the road
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ninjoatse.cx posted:What do people use to stop the windows key from stealing focus of the game to open the start menu? Google suggests enabling Gaming Mode on windows but that doesn't do crap. you can disable it. I think powertoys has an option, or registry editing probably too https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/ Otherwise my go to solution is not pressing the windows key while playing something
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Automata 10 Pack posted:So I played Chris Whitehead's (The Sonic Mania guy) new game Penny's Big Breakaway that trailer makes it look like you should be using the yoyo 100% of the time. is there some kind of limit that prevents that? cause i dont know why anyone would walk anywhere in that game if you could instead ride your yoyo and slingshot everywhere
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Some keyboards allow you to disable the Windows key with a toggle. In my case it is the SteelSeries key + Win key.
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GrandpaPants posted:13 years of development, goddamn. I commend them for their perseverance, but is the game any good? Seconding that question. The fact that it's been in EA since 2015 means it is ridiculously cheap compared to contemporary games (my currency suffers from third worldism), so it's very much on the might as well camp if the 12 goons who played Alpha Protocol think it's good.
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ZearothK posted:Seconding that question. The fact that it's been in EA since 2015 means it is ridiculously cheap compared to contemporary games (my currency suffers from third worldism), so it's very much on the might as well camp if the 12 goons who played Alpha Protocol think it's good. I haven't played it nor alpha protocol, but my friend who has played both a decade ago says its good
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ZearothK posted:Seconding that question. The fact that it's been in EA since 2015 means it is ridiculously cheap compared to contemporary games (my currency suffers from third worldism), so it's very much on the might as well camp if the 12 goons who played Alpha Protocol think it's good.
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ScootsMcSkirt posted:that trailer makes it look like you should be using the yoyo 100% of the time. is there some kind of limit that prevents that? cause i dont know why anyone would walk anywhere in that game if you could instead ride your yoyo and slingshot everywhere Riding on the yo yo is really hard because you basically fire off in a direction and then can't easily turn. I really wanted to like this game because I've liked some of these new indie 3D platformers (loved pseudoregalia!), but I think I kind of actively hate it. Everything requires a level of precision that is really hard to nail, especially with the fixed camera. The penguins loving suck, I hate how the camera is zoomed out so far that I can barely see any detail in the environments at times, I have a ton of trouble lining anything up, and the first set of levels has very little variety and the same color palette and music through it so it felt repetitive very quickly. I think I'm gonna refund it because I can't really imagine it developing into something I like. Always hate doing an "it's not fun" refund on an indie game but they really should have put up a demo, it is pretty obvious within half an hour of playing if this game is for you or not.
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ninjoatse.cx posted:What do people use to stop the windows key from stealing focus of the game to open the start menu? Google suggests enabling Gaming Mode on windows but that doesn't do crap. I take a butter knife and pop it out lol
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Solium Infernum is out today. It's a tile-based strategy game about demons fighting for Hell's throne after Lucifer goes missing. I remember the game from a long time ago before itch.io was the way to play indie games. Seize power, humiliate your opponents in Hell's Court, and when they're done grovelling stab them in the back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3KIeEt8o6I It got picked up by the developers of Armello, so they know a thing or two about hexes.
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Im sorry but that trailer music lmao
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The demo for It'sTheTalia's (Brutal Orchestra) next game Clown Meat is live. It's a precision platformer in the vein of Super Meat Boy, but instead of holding trigger simply making you run faster it turns you into a ball that rolls down slopes extremely quickly. This gives levels a great puzzle element where you can find creative ways to use slopes to launch across gaps and finish levels in a fraction of the time. It makes the game feel so much more freeing than most precision platformers that confine you to closed hallways with only one linear route to the end. The setting is a post-apocalypse where a gigantic clown creature emerged from Jupiter and settled on Earth, unleashing chaos across humanity. You're an artificial lifeform created from its flesh on a journey to this clown god so you can entertain him. There is a surprising amount of story here, though the vast majority of it is via optional dialogues with the remaining human survivors. It's much more lighthearted than its premise implied, thanks mostly to the protagonist's innocent curiosity about the world. I'm very excited to see where this goes, Talia's earned my trust for life after the tremendous Brutal Orchestra - she knows how to tell a weird-rear end story. https://twitter.com/2_left_thumbs/status/1760750221930242443
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KakerMix posted:DOS2 is just a game I couldn't get into for whatever reason, but it isn't bad. BG3 however I got sucked into right away, so whatever! Brains are dumb as hell! Yeah I've never made it out of fort joy despite multiple attempts but I'd never call it a bad game, I just don't click with it.
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dont sweat it. I loved and still do love DOS2 but BG3 is indeed much much better
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Pigbuster posted:The demo for It'sTheTalia's (Brutal Orchestra) next game Clown Meat is live. It's a precision platformer in the vein of Super Meat Boy, but instead of holding trigger simply making you run faster it turns you into a ball that rolls down slopes extremely quickly. This gives levels a great puzzle element where you can find creative ways to use slopes to launch across gaps and finish levels in a fraction of the time. It makes the game feel so much more freeing than most precision platformers that confine you to closed hallways with only one linear route to the end. Oh gently caress yeah this looks awesome. I'm a huge fan of Worthikids so this seems to be right up my alley https://youtu.be/NUb3ZzNWhC0?si=1aD1Y5fe8D9K_Mqu
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Looks like Dying Light 2 is having a free weekend to celebrate the Reloaded Edition coming out? I haven't played it yet and was wary of doing so because of the negative reception, but I'm planning to check it out while it's free since I was a fan of the first one, despite its rough edges. Hopefully I can just get a buzz from kicking zombies off of rooftops and then leave before it gets too bad. Oh, and Fanatical is having a 'BundleFest' lately, like these: Play On the Go, Bento Bundle 4, RPG Bundle, Killer Bundle, Premiere Bundle FutureCop fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Feb 23, 2024 |
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wizard2 posted:DOS3 will be godly
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Waffle! posted:Solium Infernum is out today. I hope this does OK so that they'll resume the development on Jumplight Odyssey. Their reasons for putting it on hold (running out of money) were fair enough, but it hurt me very, very badly. I'd probably have bought Solium Infernum anyway based on very vague memories of the original, but I don't even care if it's terrible while clinging on that hope.
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wizard2 posted:DOS3 will be godly Beyond divinity
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FutureCop posted:Looks like Dying Light 2 is having a free weekend to celebrate the Reloaded Edition coming out? I haven't played it yet and was wary of doing so because of the negative reception, but I'm planning to check it out while it's free since I was a fan of the first one, despite its rough edges. Hopefully I can just get a buzz from kicking zombies off of rooftops and then leave before it gets too bad. drat they've been supporting the hell out of this game, you do actually have to hand it to them. As someone who beat the game back when it came out, when I come back to try these updates out I end up just running around the city and kicking zombies until I get bored. I feel like the game's better than ever now if you are just starting but idk I haven't had a compelling reason to come back for more than a peek with these updates.
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Jerusalem posted:See I felt much the same, that I loved it but it ate up so much of my time for so long that I didn't need to go back in for more... but then I saw the player react to the big boss smashing him with a big move by forming Angel Wings and rising up into the air to smite it and son of a bitch FROM got me again. Seriously, that was unfair.
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ninjoatse.cx posted:What do people use to stop the windows key from stealing focus of the game to open the start menu? Google suggests enabling Gaming Mode on windows but that doesn't do crap. Create another layer on QMK with it unbound, and then set up a key combination to switch that layer on and off.
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alternatively bind it to a useful key and just use the right windows key when you actually need it it's free real estate
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I've enjoyed my time with Hollow Knight, but I think I'm close to done after 30 hours. Everything left, as far as I can tell, is boss fights that I'm way too poo poo to beat, so I think this game will have to remain unfinished. What I don't like about these sorts of game is that I never know if I can't do something because I don't understand a game mechanic or because I haven't unlocked an ability that's hidden away somewhere. And because I'm an old gently caress, my reflexes are poo poo so I have to assume it's a skill issue whenever things seem tough, rather than a lack of gear/upgrades. Still, a quality metroidvania even if it is too hard for me.
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For HK, if it's a boss fight that's blocked you, it's a skill issue (there is like, one fight that's too hard, but it's near the start of the game and there's a NPC on your walk of shame who'll chat you up and tell you to come back later); but this isn't a problem as the game is stuffed with optional bosses. If it's a platforming issue, it's probably a metroidvania unlock thingie that's blocking you. If it's 'the common mooks are too hard / I keep dying to attrition", then it's back to a skill issue, but that's fine as, y'know, nonlinear game and all that. I hold HK up to the gold standard of the genre, and it's a shame that you've bounced off of it, might I humbly ask that you come back after a while? You'll have forgotten where everything is, but the boss fights will probably be easier with a clean start.
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