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Lurdiak posted:You should've allowed turn-based strategy into the month so you could enjoy X-com and maybe Valkyria Chronicles. I actually played some of Valkyria Chronicles in Japanuary. It was good but the other games took over. And I have played some Xcom this month too, but it's not grabbed me yet. Hopefully it will because SA is nuts for it and I'd like to experience that too 
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I played xcom2 and it was cool but it was really short and all the missions were pretty much the same
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Mar 23, 2017 10:51
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I think X-com 1 might be a more interesting game than 2, overall. It has better enemy design, at least.
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Mar 23, 2017 11:09
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i haven't played 2 but xcom 1 is really easy once you build all the satellites. i think there's a Pro Mode option to change how they work though
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Mar 23, 2017 11:20
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I'm going to follow up finishing Nier by playing God of War 2 HD, a much simpler game about hitting people until they explode, because it was £4 and I haven't played it since 2007.
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Mar 23, 2017 11:35
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oddium posted:i haven't played 2 but xcom 1 is really easy once you build all the satellites. i think there's a Pro Mode option to change how they work though Both games have a weird issue where the early game is much harder than the late game because you have so many things to build up and keep track of.
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Mar 23, 2017 11:36
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I can't stop playing Hitman, help! I was gonna play some Papers Please or Tangledeep or anything else on my backlog and instead I spent today screwing around in Paris and learning Marrakesh and it was a blast, but oh man, there goes all of my gaming time.
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Mar 23, 2017 11:45
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I'm still waiting for Papers Please to release on the Vita
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Mar 23, 2017 11:54
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Sefal posted:I'm still waiting for Papers Please to release on the Vita 
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Mar 23, 2017 11:57
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Sefal posted:I'm still waiting for Papers Please to release on the Vita Why?
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Mar 23, 2017 11:59
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I'm finishing Blood & Wine and man I love the main theme more and more. It's almost like something out of a Disney movie but more serious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU3PeaZZ_tg
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Mar 23, 2017 12:00
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I think a game like that works pretty well on a portable machine.
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Mar 23, 2017 12:22
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Hey, how did that translation of the prequel to E.V.O end up? Is the game good?
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Mar 23, 2017 12:33
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:The Asari are the worst and yet they have to be everywhere. And the new aliens are just more humanoids that have Australian accents for some reason i'm asari you feel that way
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Mar 23, 2017 12:37
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:Hey, how did that translation of the prequel to E.V.O end up? Is the game good? Highwang streamed it, so to answer your questions to the best of my ability based on what I saw: 1) It ended up getting finished and being pretty good for what it is. No shot at the translator, there's only so much you can do with an Enix game from 1990. 2) No. loving no. 3) Seriously the endgame bosses are puzzle fights, except some of the components in the attack sequence are procs and won't reliably work when they need to, breaking the sequence and usually killing you.
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Mar 23, 2017 12:59
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Lurdiak posted:VideoGames your RTS month is turning into a mess! RTS games are bad so Videogames is making good choices instead 
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Mar 23, 2017 13:24
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Despite me really liking RTS games as a concept there are like, maybe 3-4 RTS series that were ever worth playing.
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Mar 23, 2017 14:05
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Lurdiak posted:I think X-com 1 might be a more interesting game than 2, overall. It has better enemy design, at least. It's a weird mix for sure. The Andromedon and the walking mech are really neat and present the player with some cool potential tactics. My favorite if these was hacking a dead Andromedon suit and then "kool-aid man"-ing him around the map wrecking walls and scouting and leaving a trail of hell to give my dudes an edge in battle. On the other hand, the hybrid grunts were boring and the teleport glitchy guys were just obnoxious without being interesting. The mantis guys could also lead to some frustrating sudden deaths that would feel unfair. I'm going to admit that I also enjoyed the timed missions since they forced me forward with a sense of tension and rewarded me for sticking to safe cover locations and not really ever feeling unfair in terms of combat confrontations. It could have used more combat scenarios, but I'd say that's true of most tactical RPG's.
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Mar 23, 2017 14:07
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Oh yeah snake people were gross
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Mar 23, 2017 14:13
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I liked Warcraft 3 and Civilization Revolution. Sim City 3000 was pretty good too. I wish I could find a new RTS game I liked. Playstation Plus gave away one of the Tropico games for free a few months back, but I got bored before I finished the tutorial. RTSs just don't feel right on a console.
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Mar 23, 2017 14:28
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The best RTS is actually Pikmin
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Mar 23, 2017 14:31
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VideoGames posted:I know! It's Total Annihilations fault. If it wasn't so good it wouldn't have ruined all over RTSes for me. The closest one is Planetary Annihilation which I have been enjoying a ton of.
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Mar 23, 2017 14:31
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Help Im Alive posted:The best RTS is actually Pikmin It's the only RTS that I've beaten, I'm really bad at anything that requires active micromanagement and strategy
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Mar 23, 2017 14:37
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The best RTS of all time was Warcraft III because the dumbest, stupidest gimmicky poo poo you could imagine were not only effective but the most preferred pro strategies and this went on unabated for years.
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Mar 23, 2017 14:39
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I wish I liked RTS games. There's such a huge disconnect between what I want to do (take my time, build up a cool base, explore the map, have skirmishes over tactically-important areas, etc.) and what you're supposed to do in order to win (do some of those things very quickly) that I just can't really get into them. Luckily, there's the Civilization series for the thing I actually want to do, so I'm not too sad about it 
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Mar 23, 2017 14:40
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I like RTS games but I'm awful at them and I kind of lost interest when they moved away from base building, that was my favourite bit.
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Mar 23, 2017 14:41
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The only good RTS was Brutal Legend.
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bloodychill posted:Oh yeah snake people were gross Boob Snakes and Energy Babes both seemed like they were some pervy nexus mod that was somehow in the main game.
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Mar 23, 2017 14:42
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Serf posted:The only good RTS was Brutal Legend. As a guy who doesn't like RTS games, I was so disappointed by this. 
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Mar 23, 2017 14:42
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Serf posted:The only good RTS was Brutal Legend. I really really wanted to love this mechanic, but it was mostly a slog. Still a great game.
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XCOM is really the only RTS game I like but even then I barely like it because it is just so unflinchingly mean to the player. I know that's the game's whole design philosophy, fighting juuuust barely possible odds and coming out juuuuust barely on top, but I find that frustrating instead of fun personally.
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company of heroes is the best rts and sometimes i'll just watch old volks volks sniper mg replay analysis because it's 
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CJacobs posted:XCOM is really the only RTS game I like but even then I barely like it because it is just so unflinchingly mean to the player. I know that's the game's whole design philosophy, fighting juuuust barely possible odds and coming out juuuuust barely on top, but I find that frustrating instead of fun personally. I thought the older XCOMs were also TBS RTS = Real-Time Strategy Lakbay fucked around with this message at 15:02 on Mar 23, 2017 |
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Mar 23, 2017 14:59
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XCOM isn't an RTS. Like, I know it's cool to argue 'but where do you draw a line, what does RTS stand for?' but nah, XCOM isn't an RTS. Warcraft, Starcraft, C&C, Homeworld, Grey Goo, Total Annihilation - yes, XCOM - no.
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Mar 23, 2017 15:02
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CJacobs posted:As a guy who doesn't like RTS games, I was so disappointed by this. The moment that I realized I was playing an RTS is the moment I removed the game and put it on the shelf never to be touched again. And I like RTS games.
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Mar 23, 2017 15:03
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Yeah that's like saying Fire Emblem is an RTS
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Mar 23, 2017 15:03
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I always thought of it as an SRPG like Fire Emblem/FFT/Advance Wars (rip)
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Mar 23, 2017 15:04
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xcom is a Tactics, pioneered by the groundbreaking final fantasy tactics advance
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My fave as a kid was Battle for Middle Earth because it was easy and I could be an orc commander with a million minions loving up the lame humans
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oddium posted:xcom is a Tactics, pioneered by the groundbreaking final fantasy tactics advance Tactics Ogre came out first
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