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credburn posted:FFXIII has great music and super interesting art direction. The gameplay problems are what they are, but I felt they overshadowed the really cool parts of the experience. Played it by importing the Japanese psp version because I'm an idiot. It was really impressive back in the day for portable game.
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Professor Wayne posted:I'm giving Final Fantasy 13 another shot after bouncing off it over a decade ago. It's a dumb little thing, but I really like how the background pictures in the menu animate a few frames when you select a character. It's a neat effect. The game was very pretty and I remember not hating the job system despite it being a striped down sphere grid.
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credburn posted:Did nobody else play Type-0? That game had wonky gameplay and the English dub is unlistenable but wow what a hosed up and awesome setting/story/ending Played the port on ps...3? 4? It was a mess that definitely felt like a portable game, but yeah the story and setting were really loving out there, the final chapter was wild (even though it's basically a massive diabolus ex machina), the combat was alright, and the music, at least a few of the tracks, was awesome. After beating it the game's like 'hey you can play again and now these random-rear end missions are unlocked for ng+' and I just went lol nah.
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I'm playing it in 4k, and the visuals hold up really well. I liked how this game and FFXII did their battle systems. I would definitely play a new RPG that uses the Gambit system
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Professor Wayne posted:I'm playing it in 4k, and the visuals hold up really well. I liked how this game and FFXII did their battle systems. I would definitely play a new RPG that uses the Gambit system Every single game in which you control one person of a party in a real-time system should be required by law to have a gambit system.
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Call of Duty 4-2: The second mission has an ice climbing mechanic where you have to alternate pressing in the triggers to stick the climbing axes into the ice. Also at the end, you jump across a chasm in a snowmobile.
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ilmucche posted:Which was the one that had the prison shootout from the rock? Modern warfare 2? Yup.
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They were fun but it got a bit much when every MW2 level ends with some cinematic chase scene
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Jagged Alliance 2 had a demo back in the day that was it's own mission that didn't appear in the rest of the game. I must have played that for dozens of hours over at my friend's house.
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Been playing Kenshi lately, and this game keeps surprising me with random goofiness in what is otherwise a serious, grimdark world. Was exploring the wastes and came across a town. I step into the bar to sell some weapons I looted off bandits, and looked through the various bounties available. One caught my eye.   Just so happens, that not far from this town, in a partially sunken tower on a string of small islands, I found the bounty. He attacks as soon as he sees me and gives his battle cry. 
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That's from the Avalon Isles mod but that's still pretty fantastic 
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credburn posted:XXIII-2 was haha wtf terrible in every way though. I mean, except you could put hats on monsters, that was cool. Please tell us more about FFXXIII-2 though, I'm always interested in games from the future. Fortunately, FFXIII-2 is pretty sweet.
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Agents are GO! posted:Please tell us more about FFXXIII-2 though, I'm always interested in games from the future. Fortunately, FFXIII-2 is pretty sweet. So basically after MuskSoft bought Square and Fred Durst took over after Uemastu passed I felt like the overall Cool Kids Club Soda posted:Jagged Alliance 2 had a demo back in the day that was it's own mission that didn't appear in the rest of the game. I must have played that for dozens of hours over at my friend's house. Fallout had a demo that took place in a place called Scrapheap that was kinda similar to Junktown but its own place.
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credburn posted:Fallout demo  edit: credburn posted:So basically after MuskSoft bought Square and Fred Durst took over after Uemastu passed I felt like the overall Is it weird that I skimmed over this and read Robert Durst, then thought, "Huh, that kinda fits" Cool Kids Club Soda has a new favorite as of 08:20 on Aug 24, 2022 |
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I just realized that the merc Shadow in Jagged Alliance 2 gives me real 'Tom Berenger in Sniper " vibes
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Cool Kids Club Soda posted:Jagged Alliance 2 had a demo back in the day that was it's own mission that didn't appear in the rest of the game. I must have played that for dozens of hours over at my friend's house.
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Cool Kids Club Soda posted:Jagged Alliance 2 had a demo back in the day that was it's own mission that didn't appear in the rest of the game. I must have played that for dozens of hours over at my friend's house. Half-Life: Uplink is basically a demo that has the full Hazard Course and the main game is a sequence that doesn't appear in the finished game either.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Half-Life: Uplink is basically a demo that has the full Hazard Course and the main game is a sequence that doesn't appear in the finished game either. I think Jedi Outcast also had a really good demo level. Too good, in fact, because you started with your lightsaber and force powers and fought a dark jedi and do all that cool stuff right off the bat, then in the full game the first few levels are standard FPS fare until you get your lightsaber. I think Half-Life / Uplink would have felt the same if I hadn't played the release version first. Uplink was really good and quick-paced; maybe the tram ride and the walk to the test chamber would have seemed overlong.
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Jedi outcast should have accelerated the new weapon curve so you get every weapon then your light saber i will not be taking questions on this point
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Stanley Parable demo includes a gallery of great demos.
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Croccers posted:Did you ever find the secret door to the mines? Where do you think I'm writing this from? If you find the secret door again, don't let it swing shut behind you! Learned that one the hard way harhar sebmojo posted:Jedi outcast should have accelerated the new weapon curve so you get every weapon then your light saber i will not be taking questions on this point It should have made you out to be like that guy with lightsabers flying out of all his joints. Just one new lightsaber sticking out of you on each level, until you reach a cascade overflow and start fighting talking lightsabers wielding guns made out of lightsabers on bridges made of lightsabers while force choking them with lightsabers. On Tantooine again. Cool Kids Club Soda has a new favorite as of 15:19 on Aug 24, 2022 |
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F.E.A.R. had an awesome demo that was created as it's own thing. I miss demos, it was one of the great things about having all our stuff online all the time and now it's been mostly abandoned
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The common belief is that demos reduce sales, so sadly lots of games don't get them. Though to be fair they are usually also a bit of extra work to do.
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Demos are coming back a little bit it appears, with Steam at least devs are apparently penalized in some way if there are too many refunds so there's some incentive But yeah, miss those demo days. Especially unique demos, something about this little bespoke mini-universe always captured my imagination for reasons I don't really know. Waaaay back in the day PCgamer demo discs had an entire tiny little first person adventure game with a couple puzzles and jokes that was sort of a Hub zone for the actual demos and it ruled
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Hel posted:The common belief is that demos reduce sales, so sadly lots of games don't get them. Though to be fair they are usually also a bit of extra work to do. The "common belief" mostly parroted by the people spending 4 gazillion dollars to produce another generic, uninspired game that still somehow only gets 45% completed by the 2nd or 3rd 'release date' its pushed back to. No idea why they might hate demos.
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I suppose if a demo can't do the full game justice, then that's a good reason not to have them. Cult of the Lamb for example is a good game that I really enjoy playing, but the demo didn't even have mouse controls so you had to use some kind of finger twisting keyboard only layout that was painful to play. On that same note, one of the best demos I ever played was for Torchlight, this one basically put you at the beginning of the game and when the demo ended it kept my and my progress for the full game.
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Cool Kids Club Soda posted:Jagged Alliance 2 had a demo back in the day that was it's own mission that didn't appear in the rest of the game. I must have played that for dozens of hours over at my friend's house.  I played the poo poo out of that demo. They gave you a nice mix of mercs that ranged from really good (Shadow), middle of the pack (Vicki), and "well, not very good, but he's got funny voice lines" (Gasket). I also put a lot of hours into the actual game and never got close to beating it cause I spent all my time meticulously sorting items in towns or goofing off exploring the map.I tried to get 1.13 working on a modern system last weekend and it refused to cooperate 
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The Chad Jihad posted:Demos are coming back a little bit it appears, with Steam at least devs are apparently penalized in some way if there are too many refunds so there's some incentive I remember back in the day of PCGamer demo discs and realizing there were sometimes entire ecosystems of small demos that weren't even alluded to in the magazine hidden away in directories (the demo discs usually also had large repositories of game patches, which was nice back in the days when 56k was considered high end for internet speeds).
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gently caress it was a blast exploring demo discs that came with magazines. There was always text files and images contained on it that were just extra random nonsense.
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Randalor posted:I remember back in the day of PCGamer demo discs and realizing there were sometimes entire ecosystems of small demos that weren't even alluded to in the magazine hidden away in directories (the demo discs usually also had large repositories of game patches, which was nice back in the days when 56k was considered high end for internet speeds). I remember getting the full game of Independence War free with a magazine on their included disk. I think it was a PCGamer issue too.
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credburn posted:gently caress it was a blast exploring demo discs that came with magazines. There was always text files and images contained on it that were just extra random nonsense. Some classmate gave me a demo disc from 1998 that had Klingon Honor Guard and Delta Force on it. I somehow sunk hundreds of hours into just mastering the one level for each. I should check if it's still sitting in my parents' basement.
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Loved those discs so much. My favorite was easily Age of Empires, I spent so much time replaying the demo campaign a million times. It completely sold me on the game, I bought it later on when I was able to scrounge up the money.
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My parents were reluctant to let me play FPSes when I was young, so there were a ton of shooters in the mid-late 90s that I was only ever able to play the demos of, off demo discs from a friend's PC Gamer subscription. Those were the days!
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Captain Hygiene posted:Loved those discs so much. My favorite was easily Age of Empires, I spent so much time replaying the demo campaign a million times. It completely sold me on the game, I bought it later on when I was able to scrounge up the money. The demo campaign for AoE and Rise of Rome whipped rear end hell yeah
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Kitfox88 posted:My first exposure to xcom was the full free game on a pcgamer disk hell yeah I remember that disc that was a good disc
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Castle of the Winds was the biggest let down of my young life when it came to the game not living up to it's demo. I came this close to biting the bullet on Solar Winds instead, but I hear it turned out the same way 😡Zero_Grade posted:Extremely Dr Q has the Martial Arts trait and does a jumping roundhouse when he melees. You bet your booty I ran through that thing trying to re-enact Big Trouble in Little Chinatown while spraying and praying with Shadow like a scene out of Commando I legit forgot Gasket was on the team rip edit: ok this has been killing me lately. PC Gamer US magazine, mid-to-late 90s, they had a staff writer who was a portly balding white dude with a mustache and glasses straight out of the 80s. I feel like he wrote more about strategy games and sci-fi, not the old grognard tabletop dude who did war games. I want to say Dan something? I had a bigger picture of him cut out and in a collage on my wall in high school. Cool Kids Club Soda has a new favorite as of 21:05 on Aug 24, 2022 |
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If you didn't know, there's a bunch of old PC magazine cover disks on Archive.org - the PC GAMER archive is a good start but if you dig around in the search a bit there's a bunch of others https://tinyurl.com/44m89urx (Tinyurl'd as archive.org bless them put square brackets in their URLs that break forums linking, like what the gently caress)
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When I was a kid I had a demo of Dark Reign and it had the tutorial and maybe one "campaign" level with limited units but I somehow figured out that the unit definitions were in human-readable text files and you could mash them up and the game would still work, so I was making custom units with the body of one and the guns off another. Must have had a lot of time on my hands. Also can't remember if it was a demo I had or not but Battlezone was such a cool game, real time strategy but you could also drive around and get out and snipe the drivers out of other units like an fps.
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