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StarkRavingMad posted:Yeah, it's not really a base builder like those. It's more like an extraction shooter, without the shooting. Extraction driver. Go in, get your loot, maybe accomplish a story objective, try to make it out alive. Then you go back to your home garage and upgrade your car and certain workstations in the garage itself. I love the term "Extraction Driver". That's what it is. 10/10 should be added to their store page. queeb posted:I was driving in my shitbox, picked up an arc orb thing, then noticed an abductor floating towards me, it grabbed my car, dragged it into the woods, into the path of a chainsaw blade anomaly thing that loving wrecked my car, and as i limped away i drove into a batch of broken bunnies, which leap and stick to your car and make it do all hosed up things like turn the lights on and off, brake or accelerate, honk the horn and poo poo. it was so intense lol. i hopped out and ripped them off my car and sped off into the extraction point but man my heart was racing. I was trying to get some plasma but didn't notice there was a field of tourists next to it. I looked down to bust open the container, grab the stuff, turn to head back to the car, and I'm surrounded by like 15 of them. No where else to look and a couple are right in my face. I try to walk backwards and jump over the broken container but screw it up and get stuck cause I don't remember what exactly is behind me. I try to turn and bolt then turn back as fast as possible but still get hit a bit, managed to get around them barely, jump in the car but in a panic drive into a Left-Right, end up loving Tokyo Drifting a 180 right back towards the herd of Tourists, plow through them, gently caress up my car and it's still hosed from the L-R so I end up running into the Booster anomaly, over a ramp, and crash into an Arc orb WHICH IT TURNS OUT BREAKS IT AND COUNTS AS TAKING IT SO NOW THE BLOWOUT IS STARTING. My front tires are hosed I have no doors now and I can't really turn left because the whole thing wants to list so hard to the right I'm basically mashing A just to stay going straight. I have one sealing kit and one can of repair putty, fix one front tire (now it only kinda lists to the right instead so it's an improvement), barely fix some structural stuff before I have to mad dash through the woods, undoing all the quick repairs I just made before barely getting into the warp in time. 90% of my runs I'm super cautious and able to strategically avoid everything and get a buttload of mats and energy with no problem. Then sometimes ONE thing goes wrong and it cascades. Loving this game.
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Kefa posted:so what's the verdict on Penny's Big Breakaway? It is a literal skill issue on people's end imo
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Kefa posted:so what's the verdict on Penny's Big Breakaway? Controls seem fine to me. Pretty standard platformer kinda thing with some neat moves
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Night Runners just released its free demo on Steam. Night Runners is a Tokyo Xtreme Racer like game where you build your car and attempt to get away from your debt to the Yakuza. It takes a look at the more slimy, criminal side of the Japanese street racing.
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_____! posted:gently caress I was going to sit this one out since for once I have like 4 games I'm bouncing between but y'all convinced me. One of those games being S.T.A.L.K.E.R. so maybe I just have a thing for exclusion zones Read Roadside Picnic, it's short, awesome and weird.
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The Tarkovsky 1979 Stalker movie is pretty good (100% fresh on RT!) but it is not a typical sci-fi movie at all.
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One thing about Pacific Drive is that it can be a bit slow moving, just collecting enough resources. I'm so low on chemicals which sucks because that's what you use to craft repair putty. Because of that I'll want to go do at least one or two supply runs before I continue on trying to get past the first wall. Then those many slow moments are punctuated by moments of intense panic as you try to somehow drag your badly damaged and misbehaving vehicle to the exit. I think it's pretty fun, although there are parts of it where I kinda feel like it's taking too much time to accomplish certain things.
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Subjunctive posted:The Tarkovsky 1978 Stalker movie is pretty good (100% fresh on RT!) but it is not a typical sci-fi movie at all. Yeah, unlike most sci-fi movies it's good
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Crain posted:Is there a thread for Pacific Drive yet? I'm not sure but the Survival Simulation thread is talking about it a lot.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1426740/Aveliana/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/257000268/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1707570958 quote:Aveliana is an infiltration-action-adventure game in 2.5D with unique and diverse gameplay! Will you stealth your way to victory? Seek a forgotten path on the edge of a cliff? Or stand and fight against your enemies? Follow the trace of a mysterious fox and learn about a surprising story! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1781260/Promenade/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/257000139/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1707497685 quote:Go on an adventure in a world packed with secrets helped by your friend, a poulp with many abilities. Explore, solve puzzles, wander across dungeons, blast through races and much more in this game inspired by the best 3D platformers
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Bootstrap Island just came into EA,.for those looking for VR releases. As far as I can tell it has some sorta 17th century robinson cursor kinda thing going on, I guess. I just do some art for them, haven't played it past very early alpha.
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Just finished the first real mission in Pacific Drive. Enjoying it so far. I'm reminded of Dredge more than anything else - oppressive atmosphere, scavenging, everything centered around your vehicle, tetris inventory. E: I came across a crowd of "tourists" outside a gas station and one of them did the Dr Who statue thing. Creepy fucker. I don't know what happens if they touch you, didn't hang around to find out. bitterandtwisted fucked around with this message at 14:29 on Feb 25, 2024 |
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I would like to check out Pacific Drive, but I hear that it has a lovely checkpoint save system where it sometimes takes more than an hour before you can save. I like to play video games in twenty minute chunks or so, so this is a potential dealbreaker for me. How bad is it?
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SimonChris posted:I would like to check out Pacific Drive, but I hear that it has a lovely checkpoint save system where it sometimes takes more than an hour before you can save. I like to play video games in twenty minute chunks or so, so this is a potential dealbreaker for me. How bad is it? There's an autosave at the start of a map that's it. At home you can save and quit at anytime
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But yeah some missions are long as hell so no quitting during those, 20 mins won't cut it
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Champy the Useless Vampirequote:Join Champy, the useless vampire, in this charming 2D point-and-click adventure with hand-drawn environments and funny puzzles. Embark on an adventure amongst a cult of vampire hunters, a giant octopus and zombie animals. Will Champy find a way to save Dracula before it's too late? 78% out of 14.
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SimonChris posted:I would like to check out Pacific Drive, but I hear that it has a lovely checkpoint save system where it sometimes takes more than an hour before you can save. I like to play video games in twenty minute chunks or so, so this is a potential dealbreaker for me. How bad is it? it's lovely and my biggest complaint w/ the game. if you know it's going to bother you, just wait to see if they figure out how to patch at least a "save & quit" option.
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bitterandtwisted posted:Fwiw you can change the settings so abandoning a run doesn't lose any loot This and it has a mountain of gaming accessibility options to tweak how harsh/friendly/easy it is It's a fantastic game, but I wouldn't recommend it if you can only play in small bites, sinking into it is a good time - I don't think it'd be quite as good in bits and pieces
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You can also just pause the game and play in chunks. I had to step away for half an hour during a mission, no issue. Really digging it so far. Lotta effort in the ambiance. Background sounds are suitably creepy.
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bitterandtwisted posted:Fwiw you can change the settings so abandoning a run doesn't lose any loot Does this option also change so when you die you keep all the loot you had? Lack of ability to quit on saving is one of the main reasons I haven't gotten it either. It is espeially weird when dev is saying autosave on quit is super cheesable and goes against the core design of the game. Despite me not being able to remember a single roguelike that doesn't save on quit, no matter how cheap and lovely it is and you being able to turn off even player damage and death.
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haddedam posted:Does this option also change so when you die you keep all the loot you had? You can change it so that when you fail a run, you lose some, all, or none of your loot.
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A note regarding saving in Pacific Drive. Whenever you travel between sites on a run, you get an auto save. Early game is weird, because your first few runs have you only going to one site, and you tend to spend a bunch of time in them. While it was common for me to spend 30-60 minutes in a site during my first few runs, that has changed significantly as I've progressed a little bit. For me, I found that after a few runs of strip mining earlier zones, I have more than enough of the common resources you can extract from them (arguably too much! I've had to upgrade my storage because I was running out of places to sock all the loot!) Now that I'm in what I feel is the midgame (1 story mission complete in the mid-zone) a typical run for me is 4 or 5 sites, and I'm probably only spending 5-15 minutes in everything but the last one. In the earlier ones, I'm looking to collect some easy to grab arc orbs, maybe some chemicals or easy to snag loot, but primarily just trying to get through the zone while expending as little battery/fuel as possible with minimal damage to my wagon. It's a great game!
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Bann posted:A note regarding saving in Pacific Drive. Whenever you travel between sites on a run, you get an auto save. 
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PowerWash Simulator: Warhammer 40,000 DLC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F-Yq5YXL9c
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Play posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1000410/WRATH_Aeon_of_Ruin/ Just wanted to give context for the low-ish score. It's mostly because it spent a billion years in development hell and blew way past several promised release dates. The game itself is a very well made Quake-like.
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Bann posted:A note regarding saving in Pacific Drive. Whenever you travel between sites on a run, you get an auto save. Yeah, I mentioned this in the Pacific Drive thread, but I've been wondering to what extent people freaking out about the save system are not realizing this.
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Dramicus posted:Just wanted to give context for the low-ish score. It's mostly because it spent a billion years in development hell and blew way past several promised release dates. The game itself is a very well made Quake-like. people just assumed it was abandoned because no one looks at Steam News where the devs were posting updates every other week for the last couple of years until it hit gold
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCW4HkZHP6Y this looks good, I genuinely can't decide if I want to play DD2 or this on release. Why do they have to come out at the same time... I guess one of them will be on sale when I buy it at least.
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I'm waiting on Rise of the Ronin. None of my friends have PS5s, and the Team Ninja games are always more fun in co-op, so the choice is made for me.
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Thoom posted:I'm waiting on Rise of the Ronin. None of my friends have PS5s, and the Team Ninja games are always more fun in co-op, so the choice is made for me. I totally forgot you can play nioh games in coop. Is it good? Can you complete the whole game together? Do you both progress at the same time or just the host?
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Hwurmp posted:PowerWash Simulator: Warhammer 40,000 DLC C'mon, the pic made me laugh, post it: Hwurmp posted:
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Kefa posted:I totally forgot you can play nioh games in coop. Is it good? Can you complete the whole game together? Do you both progress at the same time or just the host? The whole game, except for the tutorial and a few brief solo missions. Generally a single boss, or a story section with no fighting. Everybody progresses together. I'd suggest jumping straight into Nioh 2, personally. The mechanics are much more refined than the first game, and the stories are mostly unrelated. And also complete nonsense unless you went to high school in Japan or have otherwise acquired an encyclopedic knowledge of the Sengoku period. The game doesn't bother to properly introduce or develop any characters or events because it assumes you already know them by heart.
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