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I said come in! posted:Train Sim unfortunately sucks. It's buggy unoptimized trash where a lot of the tracks and trains don't even actually work. Wish another developer would come along with a train sim. Derail Valley is real good!
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Train Sim World 4 is fun and for fifteen bucks those are some pretty good routes, you should feel ripped off if you spend hundreds on it though
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explosivo posted:Derail Valley is real good! Hmmm this even has VR support! My dream sim would be from someone like Microsoft, using the Flight Sim engine, so still unoptimized garbage, but at least it looks nice.
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I said come in! posted:Hmmm this even has VR support! My dream sim would be from someone like Microsoft, using the Flight Sim engine, so still unoptimized garbage, but at least it looks nice. Yeah this is not a SIM sim because it's fake trains based on real trains and the controls are somewhat simplified but the map is big and fun to drive around and the VR support is very good. There's a simple UI mode you can enable that lets you control the train without having to move the actual levers and whatnot which is how I ended up playing most of it. Highly recommended if you want to drive trains around.
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From Glory to Goo came out and it's 20% off under $10. Looks pretty good and has a nice art style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3H_cN9Ix2w
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Owl Inspector posted:Laezel was my favorite, I would listen to laezel audiobooks She's been doing a great let's play of bg 3 she's very funny and slightly insane irl. Tw: she has little truck with optimisation or tactics
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V Rising is getting it's big 1.0 patch next month, so they're ending EA pricing in 2 days (from 20 to 35 USD). It's available for sale on a few storefronts right now with the cheapest being Gamebillet, for anyone who is interested and wants to avoid the price bump. https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1775596597730046408?s=20
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Countblanc posted:V Rising is getting it's big 1.0 patch next month, so they're ending EA pricing in 2 days (from 20 to 35 USD). It's available for sale on a few storefronts right now with the cheapest being Gamebillet, for anyone who is interested and wants to avoid the price bump. I remember hearing about this game like a couple years ago, I think, and then not much about it afterwards. Have you played it and if so, how is it?
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I really wanted to like V Rising but every time I tried getting into it I fell off after an hour or so of chopping down trees and avoiding the sun. I'll probably give it another try once it releases because it was hard to tell how much content was there before but I found it extremely dull solo, though I gather you're really supposed to play the game on a server with other people sorta like Ark/Conan.
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StarkRavingMad posted:I remember hearing about this game like a couple years ago, I think, and then not much about it afterwards. Have you played it and if so, how is it? it's one of my favorite games in recent years. I'm a person who really doesn't enjoy buildpiles (or at least the building aspect of them), and V Rising's building was a lot more like building a premade lego set where you could mix and match some cosmetics along the way compared to just dumping a huge bucket of colored bricks on the ground and saying to go wild - the building/castle element is much more utilitarian than most of its peers. It was also hugely refreshing for me to see a take on the survival genre that made the player character both incredibly strong but also extremely exploitable with the shadow/light mechanic. I think where the game shines most though its just its moment to moment gameplay, the WASD controls in an isometric game just feel so natural and responsive, and Stunlock Studios have really mastered that gameplay over the years. I can't comment on the solo experience, either playing solo on a server or a completely offline playthrough, but playing on servers with a friend or two was great. A friend of mine just bought it on sale to try it single player though and I do know some people massively preferred that part of the game since in a lot of ways it's closer to an action RPG with big boss fights than a survival game. I wrote a pretty indepth OP about it for the thread if you want to see, though many of the image links are broken and some of the info/UI stuff is out of date (I'll be making a new one with updated OP for the 1.0 launch): https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4003177
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explosivo posted:I really wanted to like V Rising but every time I tried getting into it I fell off after an hour or so of chopping down trees and avoiding the sun. I'll probably give it another try once it releases because it was hard to tell how much content was there before but I found it extremely dull solo, though I gather you're really supposed to play the game on a server with other people sorta like Ark/Conan. If you're playing solo you can tweak a lot of settings to make it more manageable as a solo player, including upping a lot of gathering materials to give you more per resource, and changing how long daytime lasts.
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can you just play it like an arpg and ignore the building and crafting
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Countblanc posted:V Rising is getting it's big 1.0 patch next month, so they're ending EA pricing in 2 days (from 20 to 35 USD). It's available for sale on a few storefronts right now with the cheapest being Gamebillet, for anyone who is interested and wants to avoid the price bump. Thank you for the heads up on this, going to finally buy this.
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I usually bounce off tree punchers but really enjoyed the ARPG part of V Rising. You can't turn off the crafting and stuff, but you can reduce requirements enough to make it incidental to the exploration and fighting.
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I'll just wait for it to release, update for a few more years, slowly wind down and eventually come out in a bundle. Should happen before 2030.
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ZearothK posted:I usually bounce off tree punchers but really enjoyed the ARPG part of V Rising. You can't turn off the crafting and stuff, but you can reduce requirements enough to make it incidental to the exploration and fighting. yeah, and even if you're playing on default settings you get access to NPCs who do the treepunching for you overnight. also speaking personally while the actual resources/building aren't super interesting to me (though one of the changes in the 1.0 patch is sort of addressing this), I usually didn't get bored collecting them because I was so infatuated with the day/night stuff. you rarely felt like you were just clicking on trees or rocks since you were at risk to roaming enemies who were more than capable of chunking your health bar, especially during daytime where you also have to play The Floor is Lava while fighting and gathering. e: just to provide some balance here, while I love the shadow-hopping stuff, there was no shortage of people who said it was stressful and annoying and just turned it off completely on their own private servers. Countblanc fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Apr 3, 2024 |
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Stunlock has absolutely nailed down the WASD ARPG combat aspect and the rest of the game was an excellent fit. Like most folks I'd suggest playing it with at least one friend for maximum enjoyment - but you can play solo, or dive into online where the options range from friendly to brutally cut-throat (which at this point is for masochists only, since I doubt very much there are 'new' players in competitive PVP servers)
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Humble Bundle finally has loving games I actually want to play this month, holy poo poo.
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Let us know how Callisto Protocol runs for you. I was under the impression it was a pretty poor port. I have it on PS+ and should probably play it now.
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Anti-Hero posted:Let us know how Callisto Protocol runs for you. I was under the impression it was a pretty poor port. They messed up and accidentally uploaded some kind of test version to Steam at launch which didn't compile shaders and suffered from severe stuttering. It was quickly patched but the mistake undoubtedly contributed to already negative scores from reviewers who had to play through the whole game like that.
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For me, V Rising was really fun for like fifteen hours and then went up in smoke when they made you grind special hearts or whatever from bosses, which meant repeating specific fights for RNG drops needed to build castle upgrades. That and the fact that endgame seemed to be 100% PVP castle raids felt like I was kind of wasting my time playing solo (especially since apparently they reset all worlds periodically? Even solo ones?) I'll probably give it a try for 1.0 but I'm not sure it's a great single player game.
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I played through V Rising on a 3x PVE server at early access launch. Really enjoyed it. Spent most of my time soloing but sometimes other players on the server would call for help with a boss, or I'd run into another player out in the world and have some impromptu co-op. Stumbling into a wandering boss and having the fight take you into day time was harrowing and fun. Looking forward to playing through the PVE content again with 1.0 on a similar server setup. Friendly Fire not being on but still being able to accidentally stun other players or get your skill shots blocked added a bit of finesse to co-op as well.
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V Rising's pvp design origins speak to what kind of audience they were hoping to hit but I genuinely think they'd have more going for them if they leaned more on the PvE content. Granted designing that is a lot more resource and time intensive but that's where the game's strengths lie.
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I dunno, I really feel like the game is best with the threat of PvP. I only play on babymode sane person pvp (where the only penalty is the inconvenience of death and embarrassment of losing to a stronger gamer) and even with no real penalty just knowing that someone could swoop in and take you out made otherwise mundane stuff a lot more exciting in much the same way the shadows do. I don't think I ever instigated pvp once and I still prefer it. E: to be clear it only works as well as it does for me is because piloting your character in Stunlock's combat is fun. getting jumped in most buildpiles usually feels like poo poo to me because the combat isn't fun. even just trying to escape players without fighting can be fun because you're dodging sunlight and using your movement/CC skills in interesting ways. Countblanc fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Apr 4, 2024 |
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Anti-Hero posted:Let us know how Callisto Protocol runs for you. I was under the impression it was a pretty poor port. I can run it on ultra easily but somehow I got a mandatory tutorial while i was facing a wall and had to alt-f4 out of the game because nothing worked to get out of the tutorial and i plugged in a controller and still couldn't. amazing. edit: I found out you had to hold ESC for tutorials to go away. this game really wasn't designed for you to use a keyboard :\ GreenBuckanneer fucked around with this message at 03:11 on Apr 4, 2024 |
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Well, turns out that Noita was on sale, somewhere, so grabbed that based on the thread's recommendation, along with Monster Sanctuary. Gonna wait and see if Shadow of the Depth is affordable when that releases on April 22nd, otherwise I think that's my purchases for the month. V Rising remains interesting, but somehow perennially in the "not quite interesting enough to buy it outside of a bundle" zone.
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hey thread. today I remembered about soma, and how good it was. and how one part of it was when you discovered the AI was attacking people and plugging them into some weird, hallucinatory false reality while it barely kept them alive in the real world. and while you experience it for a disorienting five seconds, I imagine the experience beyond that is like living inside a chatgdp image. anyways, soma is still one of the best games of the 2010s and is probably one of my favorite stories of that era, up there with disco elysium. play it if you can.
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gently caress man, spoilers
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Jossar posted:Well, turns out that Noita was on sale, somewhere, so grabbed that based on the thread's recommendation... Come join us in the Noita thread, we could do with a reason to post there. And by that I mean see you posting all your death GIFs that the game will let you make.
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Jossar posted:Well, turns out that Noita was on sale, somewhere, so grabbed that based on the thread's recommendation, along with Monster Sanctuary. Gonna wait and see if Shadow of the Depth is affordable when that releases on April 22nd, otherwise I think that's my purchases for the month. V Rising remains interesting, but somehow perennially in the "not quite interesting enough to buy it outside of a bundle" zone. Thanks for this, got it with 7 minutes to spare on GoG.
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Automata 10 Pack posted:hey thread. today I remembered about soma, and how good it was. and how one part of it was when you discovered the AI was attacking people and plugging them into some weird, hallucinatory false reality while it barely kept them alive in the real world. and while you experience it for a disorienting five seconds, I imagine the experience beyond that is like living inside a chatgdp image. added spoilers to this, it's a fun game to play blind.
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Gromit posted:Come join us in the Noita thread, we could do with a reason to post there. And by that I mean see you posting all your death GIFs that the game will let you make. I wish I was better at that game so I wouldn't die as much.  hurried whispering You NEVER stop being utterly humbled and dying hilariously!?!
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Runa posted:V Rising's pvp design origins speak to what kind of audience they were hoping to hit but I genuinely think they'd have more going for them if they leaned more on the PvE content. Granted designing that is a lot more resource and time intensive but that's where the game's strengths lie. Big same on that. I only ever played it single player or coop, usually with the server settings adjusted to be less annoying (e.g. being able to teleport with resources). Had a pretty good time with that, and I'm hoping to have some more on release.
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Automata 10 Pack posted:hey thread. today I remembered about soma, and how good it was. and how one part of it was when you discovered the AI was attacking people and plugging them into some weird, hallucinatory false reality while it barely kept them alive in the real world. and while you experience it for a disorienting five seconds, I imagine the experience beyond that is like living inside a chatgdp image. https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
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I loved V Rising by myself but i just wanna play the sims diablo so
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drat, The Sims but all your Sims are villagers and adventurers in a town built on top of Hell would be a great game.
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That too, I really enjoyed it! Real shame EA didn't do another another.
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Reverse Collapse Codename Bakery: as expected, it's very anime. Barefoot white haired girls in the snow with mosin nagants killing dozens of trained soldiers anime. We play as bland mcgeneric dude named Mendo (pronounced Mondo) and we're trying to escort the white-haired girl to safety, but she's better at combat than we are. The gameplay is basically Fire Emblem/Advance Wars turn based tactical combat and I'm only two missions in (i.e. the tutorial) so no real commentary on how good/hard it gets, but so far I am pleased. Solid translation, solid tutorial, and I'm very curious about the story. ps the setting is weird/interesting because it's a future where thanks to nuclear radiation plagues humanity has partially moved to Antartica, but then more weirdness happened so it's Antartica VS the United Nations, and there's a Command n' Conquer 3 style red zone / green zone / black zone gradiant to the world based on how radiation/plagued it is.
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