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I said come in! posted:What else is CDPR working on? I really want a sequel to Cyberpunk. Was that Cyberpunk Online game canceled? The Cyberpunk GTA Online thing was an update to Cyberpunk itself and has been murdered. From what we know they're working on Witcher 4, Cyberpunk 2 and two unknown projects.
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Be advised: Company of Heroes 3 is having its first free weekend. It launched in a bit of a rough state (I still liked it, and continue to play multiplayer almost daily) but Relic has stuck by it and the game's in a good place these days. I actually beat the Italian campaign recently and had a blast. It's one of those conquer-the-world type of things that doesn't overstay its welcome and has more variety to its mission types than I expected.
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May 9, 2024 19:01
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I said come in! posted:What else is CDPR working on? I really want a sequel to Cyberpunk. Was that Cyberpunk Online game canceled? The online Cyberpunk thing was supposed to just be a mode in patched into Cyberpunk, but that got cancelled at some point. They're working on The Witcher 4 now, with Cyberpunk 2 after (both being on Unreal 5, apparently. Guess Cyberpunk showed that they stretched making their own engine to it's limits and would rather license something instead). They have another studio making a remake of Witcher 1, too.
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May 9, 2024 19:01
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The "people will be discovering hidden puzzles for years" bit about Animal Well gives me a little pause, since in practice anything hidden well enough to stump an online community for any length of time will be effectively impossible for someone working on their own to solve. If you aren't part of the reddit/discord group solving things, they end up being less of a puzzle and more of a Konami code, where you just do the arbitrary steps you read online to get some reward. But probably that stuff is more on the scale of minor easter eggs and the main game works as a solo experience.
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May 9, 2024 19:06
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Serephina posted:I thought they where talking about EA games at first on that chart, but apparently not: That was introduced when people started releasing "game-like objects" (I think that's what one Valve blog post called them): Just some Unity thing with free assets, made not to be played by anyone. The 'dev' would generate free keys, use those to farm trading cards and sell them on the marketplace, earning 1 cent for each marketplace transaction.
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May 9, 2024 19:07
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Snake Maze posted:The "people will be discovering hidden puzzles for years" bit about Animal Well gives me a little pause, since in practice anything hidden well enough to stump an online community for any length of time will be effectively impossible for someone working on their own to solve. If you aren't part of the reddit/discord group solving things, they end up being less of a puzzle and more of a Konami code, where you just do the arbitrary steps you read online to get some reward. RIP Hades 2 and V Rising, and my 3/4 done ToTK playthrough, and... 
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Snake Maze posted:The "people will be discovering hidden puzzles for years" bit about Animal Well gives me a little pause, since in practice anything hidden well enough to stump an online community for any length of time will be effectively impossible for someone working on their own to solve. If you aren't part of the reddit/discord group solving things, they end up being less of a puzzle and more of a Konami code, where you just do the arbitrary steps you read online to get some reward. yeah that kind of thing is not a selling point to me. remnant 2 had a class which was more or less impossible to unlock without information gained from datamining, which was confirmed by the devs to be the intended way to find it. so for virtually everyone the way you figure out that content isn’t solving an interesting puzzle with reasonable clues within the game, it’s just looking it up. alt tabbing out of a game to look at a wiki page is not good gameplay or a satisfying puzzle to solve.
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May 9, 2024 19:18
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Not just Witcher 4, they announced it as a new trilogy, so Witcher 5 and 6 also confirmed. 
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The 7th Guest posted:oh yea, and Tactical Breach Wizards will have a public demo out for Next Fest next month. what is going on with this one? they had a demo like 5 years ago Jack Trades posted:Also Cryptmaster. A mix between Wizardry and Typing of the Dead. this looks kind of sick and theres a demo! gonna try it
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May 9, 2024 19:29
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Ciaphas posted:I figure the dev is sorely underestimating the speed with which poo poo like this gets Maybe. The eye glyphs in Noita are still unsolved despite significant efforts to decipher them by the community over four years. The Black Monolith in Fez got solved by datamining but the actual logic behind it still isn't understood as far as I know. Whatever similar puzzles might exist in Animal Well I'd expect them to also be entirely disconnected from the main progression of the game.
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Awesome! posted:what is going on with this one? they had a demo like 5 years ago I'd say it's coming out this year.
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Maybe. The eye glyphs in Noita are still unsolved despite significant efforts to decipher them by the community over four years. The Black Monolith in Fez got solved by datamining but the actual logic behind it still isn't understood as far as I know.  but yeah, fair point
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Owl Inspector posted:yeah that kind of thing is not a selling point to me. remnant 2 had a class which was more or less impossible to unlock without information gained from datamining, which was confirmed by the devs to be the intended way to find it. so for virtually everyone the way you figure out that content isn’t solving an interesting puzzle with reasonable clues within the game, it’s just looking it up. alt tabbing out of a game to look at a wiki page is not good gameplay or a satisfying puzzle to solve.
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May 9, 2024 19:37
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The 7th Guest posted:Tom's doing closed beta testing on the final game currently. those who got into the beta have the first 3 acts available to them and then after answering a survey get access to the final act. so it's content complete, just doing feedback and revisions. And so the new demo is taking all of that into account. ah cool. glad it is finally getting finished. probably one of the longest tenured games on my wishlist at this point lol
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Mordja posted:Be advised: Company of Heroes 3 is having its first free weekend. It launched in a bit of a rough state (I still liked it, and continue to play multiplayer almost daily) but Relic has stuck by it and the game's in a good place these days. I actually beat the Italian campaign recently and had a blast. It's one of those conquer-the-world type of things that doesn't overstay its welcome and has more variety to its mission types than I expected. Single player is fun, but if folks are thinking about buying it for multi-player, it is very similar to COH 1. Like similar enough I wondered why I even paid for it.
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humble announced Stray Gods DLC releasing on June 27th everyone staying out of the way of Erdtree on June 20th, except for #BLUD which hits on the 18th basically there's two weeks you can release in June where you won't be completely overshadowed. the first week of june (before Next Fest hits and Summer Game Fest starts) and the last week of june (before Dawntrail hits) there will very likely be several shadowdropped games in Summer Game Fest. nothing on the level of Hi-Fi Rush, more along the lines of Frogun Encore or Demonschool e: i am gonna play Animal Well but i've got a lot of editing work to do right now so i'm gonna be busy until the weekend at the earliest The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 20:04 on May 9, 2024 |
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The 7th Guest posted:humble announced Stray Gods DLC releasing on June 27th game is 30% off right now as well which is a new low price
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May 9, 2024 20:00
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StrixNebulosa posted:King Arthur: Legion IX just released! Can I hear more of your thoughts on the base King Arthur game? It's on sale right now and I've been on a tactical RPG mood lately.
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May 9, 2024 21:02
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Eason the Fifth posted:Single player is fun, but if folks are thinking about buying it for multi-player, it is very similar to COH 1. Like similar enough I wondered why I even paid for it. So the multiplayer is good? The first COH game was probably the best multiplayer RTS game since Starcraft IMO
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Orv posted:The Cyberpunk GTA Online thing was an update to Cyberpunk itself and has been murdered. And nothing of value was lost.
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Veotax posted:The online Cyberpunk thing was supposed to just be a mode in patched into Cyberpunk, but that got cancelled at some point. TBH I expect that the engine switch is more about the tools than the renderer/physics/etc itself. those are what really determine how productive a game team can be, not how good the PBR system or shadow calculation are.
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May 9, 2024 21:22
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Away all Goats posted:So the multiplayer is good? The first COH game was probably the best multiplayer RTS game since Starcraft IMO Mostly I just do comp-stomps with friends, but yeah, it's enjoyable enough. Just more of the same. (That said, I'm not a pro player or anything. I remember reading some of the posts in the old COH 1 thread, and the players there were incredibly invested in the early versions of COH 1 where the early-game micro was extremely dynamic and balanced, and I couldn't tell you if COH 3 lives up to that level or not. I'd guess not since the thread died off a while ago.)
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moot the hopple posted:Can I hear more of your thoughts on the base King Arthur game? It's on sale right now and I've been on a tactical RPG mood lately. Not OP but loved the game. You recruit and manage a roster of knights and witches from Arthurian legends, rebuild Camelot as your HQ which allows you to buff some characters, heal them, equip them, etc, and send 4 of them at a time on quests. The 'base building' is light, but has its purpose, and it's cool to do over time. Characters are all attached to a bunch of classes, but while two knights from the same class will have many things in common, they'll have some significant divergences in stats/skills which will make them play a bit differently in combat, so that's cool. Quests themselves are not repeatable, and while you can also train some non-questing knights in Camelot, that means a general cap on xp, which, while generous, means that you'll want to identify your favourite roster of 6-8 knights over time because they're the ones you're going to pimp with xp, skills and items. The combat is action points based, with movement costing APs too. It isn't terribly complex, but it's engaging enough that I enjoyed the whole campaign and all side missions. There's a pre-combat placement too which plays its part in how you want things to happen. The hits feel crunchy, and it's absolutely glorious to have your Champion in full plate swinging a two handed sword onto a luckless peasant/bandit/whatever. And that's the start. Later in game, skills and magic items become a bit crazy and you can end up with a knight going full invisible leaping ninja, another teleporting behind and one-shotting 3 mobs in a row, and a witch murdering 5 archers with chain lightning. And that was your opening first round.  It's not the best tactical combat game, the base building is pretty light, but it oozes atmosphere and has a set number of quests, so no grinding random maps here, by the time you're done pimping your A-squad, you're not far from the ending. There's also a post-game grind stuff if you're so inclined, but I reached the end after 67h and I was satisfied and called it a day. As for the DLCs, they are standalone battle-only micro-campaigns so don't bother with them unless you're done with the base game and know that this is what you want.
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Really good (I promise, just do more than one or two runs!) 2D orienteering/strand-type game Highland Song just got a major update. New songs, new story and something that'll make navigation easier. https://twitter.com/inkleStudios/status/1788616162718192091
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I open palmed slammed buy on Slay the Princess because I thought it was the game that kept appearing in the GOTY thread, and it literally just a few minutes ago went on sale, but I forgot to check if it is actually the same game. I’m very silly
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May 9, 2024 21:35
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Aipsh posted:I open palmed slammed buy on Slay the Princess because I thought it was the game that kept appearing in the GOTY thread, and it literally just a few minutes ago went on sale, but I forgot to check if it is actually the same game. I’m very silly It is that game.
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Aipsh posted:I open palmed slammed buy on Slay the Princess because I thought it was the game that kept appearing in the GOTY thread, and it literally just a few minutes ago went on sale, but I forgot to check if it is actually the same game. I’m very silly you made a good purchase
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I'm having a blast with Animal Well. If you're into sequence-breaking Metroid games this one's for you.
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fez_machine posted:Really good (I promise, just do more than one or two runs!) 2D orienteering/strand-type game Highland Song just got a major update. New songs, new story and something that'll make navigation easier. I’ve been keeping it an eye on this because I really liked the look of it. Maybe it’s time.
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fez_machine posted:Really good (I promise, just do more than one or two runs!) 2D orienteering/strand-type game Highland Song just got a major update. New songs, new story and something that'll make navigation easier. Oh poo poo! I hadn't heard this yet. I have ~40 hours on my original save. Time to start a fresh game.
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xpostin: Age of Wonders 4 is on sale through the Paradox sale  https://store.steampowered.com/app/1669000/Age_of_Wonders_4/ Turn based fantasy 4x? Yes. Also it's an absolutely fantastic build-your-own-fantasy-race sim. The gameplay is a mix of strategic empire building and tactical combat. The original dev diary does a good job describing the game: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/welcome-to-age-of-wonders-4s-first-dev-diary.1565520/ Or you can influencer, there's a ton of youtube videos on it, and a pretty healthy community posting nerd tier lists and such if that's your thing. Here watch Steve the Taxman, agent of the Magical IRS tax dragons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCYrrUJsXBk I should note it leans far more towards wargame than empire builder, with really good tactical combat that's the highlight of the game for me, but on lower difficulty settings it's a chill experience and you can roam the lands with your stack of super powered heroes exploring ruins and covering the map with your armies if you wish. The world generator is also really cool, you can make anything from an overgrown jungle paradise filled with giant beasts to a desert land of dried oceans to a volcanic demon infested wasteland. On smaller settings, you can finish a full world in a (long) session or a few evenings, and each time you do, you add whatever leader you finished the map with to your Pantheon, allowing you to encounter that leader in the future as an opponent AI on a map, or a hero unit you can recruit. There's also some light metaprogression elements, as earning post-map XP allows you to unlock new map biomes and types, new culture traits, new starting hero gear, and a variety of cosmetics. If you're big on single player story/campaign, you won't find as much to like here, though there are story missions played out on semi-random maps, with a throughline from the base game to all the DLC. If you're unfamiliar with Triumph, the devs behind it, they've had an immaculate record for supporting their games. All of the Age of Wonders series have had years of strong, consistent patch support - responsive to community requests, fixing bugs, and entirely revamping systems where needed. It's also done so well they've confirmed a second season of DLC. Check it out if any of that sounds like your jam, it's a great game. We have an active thread here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4030732
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Total War Three Kingdoms is in my opinion the best Total War game with a few features that eke it out over Warhams (diplomacy actually working and mattering, a lot) but it's not easily milkable the way Warhammer is, at least not in the style CA makes DLCs.
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The problem is CA's going to spend four years working on Total War: Middle Earth or Battletech or whatever and it's going to come out and get played for like two weeks before people go back to the old game with a million factions and unique units and mechanics added over a bunch of time. TW:Warhammer 1 didn't have those huge expectations to live up to so it didn't matter that it launched with five factions and like ten lords.
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Runa posted:Total War Three Kingdoms is in my opinion the best Total War game with a few features that eke it out over Warhams (diplomacy actually working and mattering, a lot) but it's not easily milkable the way Warhammer is, at least not in the style CA makes DLCs. It would've been if they took more inspiration from Dynasty Warriors instead.
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Randallteal posted:The problem is CA's going to spend four years working on Total War: Middle Earth or Battletech or whatever and it's going to come out and get played for like two weeks before people go back to the old game with a million factions and unique units and mechanics added over a bunch of time. TW:Warhammer 1 didn't have those huge expectations to live up to so it didn't matter that it launched with five factions and like ten lords. I don't think it's that bad, but I do agree that CA are going to struggle to make another successful game that looks and feels like 'a TW game'. It can be an RTS, it can have a grand strategy layer, but the time has come to make something we haven't seen before.
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Randallteal posted:The problem is CA's going to spend four years working on Total War: Middle Earth or Battletech or whatever and it's going to come out and get played for like two weeks before people go back to the old game with a million factions and unique units and mechanics added over a bunch of time. TW:Warhammer 1 didn't have those huge expectations to live up to so it didn't matter that it launched with five factions and like ten lords. Nah, they'll keep announcing new material to keep the whales engaged. Like the uruk-hai leader pack, followed by TW: middle earth two, etc etc. The TW:W clientele are slightly segregated from the other TW game purchasers, I suspect; CA certainly knows how to bilk them relentlessly.
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goferchan posted:I'm having a blast with Animal Well. If you're into sequence-breaking Metroid games this one's for you. That's good to hear, it looks cool. The steam reviews are an infinite sea of the same three dunkey jokes with 0.5hrs played so kind of hard to judge from those.
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Make Total War: Crusader Kings you cowards I would also accept Total War: Mount & Blade
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According to the Streamers Union's deep cover whistleblowers, CA is working on TW:40K and lol if you don't think that'd make $Texas
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Jack Trades posted:It would've been if they took more inspiration from Dynasty Warriors instead. Yeah probably Still funny that there's no start date set to the actual, honest to goodness Three Kingdoms era with Wei, Wu, and Shu.
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