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Baltazar Robotnik posted:Is bringing up games people were literally just talking about a running joke in this thread or something? yes but its unintentional
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GreatGreen posted:So has there been much talk about Lords of the Fallen lately? It's coming out next Tuesday and looks like what would happen if Dark Souls had a baby with Blizzard's artists. I'm looking really forward to it personally.
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Oct 23, 2014 19:59
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Baltazar Robotnik posted:Is bringing up games people were literally just talking about a running joke in this thread or something? The thread tends to move really fast, and it also serves as a catch-all for all PC games. So it's somewhat understandable.
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Oct 23, 2014 20:01
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Have anyone here played the current early access version of War for the Overworld? If so, how's the gameplay? I'd love to have a worthy successor to Overlord, but I'm a bit vary after wasting money on DUNGEONS.
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Oct 23, 2014 20:04
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So is there any way to make Enhanced Steam show you the average worth of your undropped cards again? Seems like they took that feature out.
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Oct 23, 2014 20:05
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Nice write-up. I've been curious about this ever since the Yahtzee drown-out episode, and it definitely seems like a neat concept. Would you say that it's something you should try if you have a high tolerance for lack of polish, or are the problems more fundamental than that? It seems most of the things you cite are caused by a lack of actual user testing — that none of the conventional affordances for player preference have been included, perhaps with a dash of auto-rectal head insertion — than failure of actual gameplay.
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Oct 23, 2014 20:06
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I really like the idea of a roguelike FPS game. I tried Paranautical Activity and it was awful. What's my best bet for something not terrible? I've been looking at these ones mostly Delver http://store.steampowered.com/app/249630/ Tower of Guns http://store.steampowered.com/app/266110 Eldritch http://store.steampowered.com/app/252630/ any decent ones I've missed?
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Oct 23, 2014 20:08
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Tower of Guns is rad.
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Oct 23, 2014 20:09
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Eldritch is basically a dungeon crawler with combat similar to minecraft. Tower of Guns is a roguelike FPS with gameplay more in the quake/UT vein. Both are excellent. I haven't played Delver.
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Oct 23, 2014 20:10
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Rogue Shooter: The FPS Roguelike
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Oct 23, 2014 20:13
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I'll toss in my recommendations for both Eldritch and Tower of Guns as well. They're different enough that I'd recommend them both, but I think Tower of Guns might be more worth it at full price.
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Oct 23, 2014 20:13
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Niggurath posted:There was a stream posted on the previous page that makes the game look dull as dishwater. Granted the guy playing could have just sucked at it, but it appeared to be very lovely environments and particle effects but combat with no real depth and what seemed to be incredibly dull enemy design. At most it might be Dark Souls in an aesthetic sense but the game play itself seemed very simple and dull. Even if it is just good graphics with easy Souls-esque combat, that could be pretty fun. Like Darksiders for example did absolutely nothing novel or even particularly well, but was still decent and a success.
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Oct 23, 2014 20:14
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Rogue Shooter is exactly that. I like it, mainly because it borrows from the early 90's, 2.5D style of play. Edit: How the hell did I miss that 
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Oct 23, 2014 20:17
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Kly posted:I really like the idea of a roguelike FPS game. I tried Paranautical Activity and it was awful. What's my best bet for something not terrible? Ziggurat is a fast paced roguelike FPS that seems to be getting very good and close to release, tho I haven't played it for a few patches http://store.steampowered.com/app/308420/
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Oct 23, 2014 20:23
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Quest For Glory II posted:Tower of Guns is rad. Agreeing with this.
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Oct 23, 2014 20:28
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Heavy Bullets is great, though it doesn't have a ton of variety.
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Oct 23, 2014 20:28
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Morter posted:Rogue Shooter is exactly that. I like it, mainly because it borrows from the early 90's, 2.5D style of play. I've seen this one and kinda wrote it off mostly because of the graphics and trailer but maybe I'll check it out if it ever goes on sale for a couple bucks. This looks really good though and I hadn't heard of it, thanks! Hard to tell how much variety it has but I think I'll check it out.
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Oct 23, 2014 20:33
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This game and Superfrog HD are the only times I've ever felt motion sick while playing a game. The art is too busy and I remember the way the camera scrolls/pans out in combination with the speed you're moving at just made me want to lay down.
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Oct 23, 2014 20:50
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Justin_Brett posted:So is there any way to make Enhanced Steam show you the average worth of your undropped cards again? Seems like they took that feature out.  
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Oct 23, 2014 20:52
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Broken Cog posted:Have anyone here played the current early access version of War for the Overworld? If so, how's the gameplay? I'd love to have a worthy successor to Overlord, but I'm a bit vary after wasting money on DUNGEONS. It's on my wishlist but I haven't played it. It's trying to copy Dungeon Keeper, not Overlord. Very different games. As far as I know it's the best Dungeon Keeper-like coming out.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:05
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Is there a name for the sub-genre of roguelikes that have permanent progression like Rogue Legacy? I mean beyond unlocking classes or more items thrown in the RNG pool.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:08
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Zombie Samurai posted:20. Hell Yeah! I bought this on 360 last year and remember it being alright but not great. I would have liked it more if it didn't start repeating the mini-games so quickly and did more with the sprites than just stretching them.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:11
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:It's on my wishlist but I haven't played it. It's trying to copy Dungeon Keeper, not Overlord. Very different games. As far as I know it's the best Dungeon Keeper-like coming out. It is 100% the only good Dungeon Keeper attempt currently in production. It's 70% carbon copy of DK2, 30% some new stuff and fixes to DK2 that never got the chance to be done. That's said there's absolutely no reason not to wait for it to be finished. An unfinished Dungeon Keeper game is an even worse proposition than most EA titles. As to Lords of the Fallen, the guy playing in that stream I linked just ran around for twenty minutes unable to find a key he'd already found when playing the game previously. Game journos. That said, looking at other streams over the past couple months the game definitely has some difficult content, primarily the bosses which have a ton of stun moves that if you do not dodge/block effectively kill you immediately after.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:13
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FadedReality posted:Is there a name for the sub-genre of roguelikes that have permanent progression like Rogue Legacy? I mean beyond unlocking classes or more items thrown in the RNG pool. Some people call them "roguelites". I'm pretty sure it was the Rogue Legacy guys who I first heard use it as well.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:16
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Rage McDougal posted:Some people call them "roguelites". I'm pretty sure it was the Rogue Legacy guys who I first heard use it as well. that's the "proper" term for the roguelikes that aren't really roguelikes like isaac and risk of rain and rogue legacy. nothing to do with progression.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:18
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Cook, Serve, Delicious is getting a free update  Between that, the Risk of Rain update yesterday and the general chaos going on with Payday 2 at the moment, I'm set for games for a while! Oh god there's a sale coming up isn't there...
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Oct 23, 2014 21:18
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Nettle Soup posted:Cook, Serve, Delicious is getting a free update Risk of Rain updated? Cool! I got all the artifacts but one and now I have an excuse to go back. And it looks like there are new characters too!
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Oct 23, 2014 21:20
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Awesome! posted:that's the "proper" term for the roguelikes that aren't really roguelikes like isaac and risk of rain and rogue legacy. nothing to do with progression. I thought they were "roguelikelikes"? Dammit, now I have to rename all my categories! (e: that is to say that "roguelites" are contained within the class "roguelikelikes" that are related to, but separate from "roguelikes" and oh no I've gone cross-eyed) Rage McDougal fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Oct 23, 2014 |
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Oct 23, 2014 21:21
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:It's on my wishlist but I haven't played it. It's trying to copy Dungeon Keeper, not Overlord. Very different games. As far as I know it's the best Dungeon Keeper-like coming out. Orv posted:It is 100% the only good Dungeon Keeper attempt currently in production. It's 70% carbon copy of DK2, 30% some new stuff and fixes to DK2 that never got the chance to be done. That's said there's absolutely no reason not to wait for it to be finished. An unfinished Dungeon Keeper game is an even worse proposition than most EA titles. Thanks! I think I'll wait it out for now, then.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:24
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Rage McDougal posted:I thought they were "roguelikelikes"? it's all stupid with people getting really spergy about the proper usage as defined by them. just know that if you want a rogue legacy-like advancement system a "roguelite" categorized game might not give it to you quote:If there’s one question I always never get, it’s “how do I turn my love for CSD into a pro eSports career?” The answer was always, “never you crazy person, get away from me.” UNTIL NOW.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:28
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RBA Starblade posted:Risk of Rain updated? Cool! I got all the artifacts but one and now I have an excuse to go back. And it looks like there are new characters too! 2 new classes, new items, new challenges, and a bunch of performance updates. Risk of Rain is such a good game.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:29
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Is pretty loving good. It became my "got time to kill" game for a while.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:29
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Naturally, I shall be cooking as the Nidhogg. Because it's the bloody Nidhogg. In other news, the Football Manager 2015 pre-order beta is underway, so there goes 50% of the UK PC gaming population.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:35
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RBA Starblade posted:Risk of Rain updated? Cool! I got all the artifacts but one and now I have an excuse to go back. And it looks like there are new characters too! My friend and I saw that it had updated yesterday so we excitedly launched the game to play with each other. Our experiences: - Her save data was completely wiped. - We were completely unable to connect to each other to play multiplayer. Attempting to join each other's games would result in a black screen with nothing but the framerate tracker in the bottom right and the "force item sharing" option. Good update. Maybe backup your save data first.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:36
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"Procedural death labyrinth" is fitting for games where you wander around lost until you die, I guess
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Tippis posted:Nice write-up. I've been curious about this ever since the Yahtzee drown-out episode, and it definitely seems like a neat concept. Would you say that it's something you should try if you have a high tolerance for lack of polish, or are the problems more fundamental than that? It seems most of the things you cite are caused by a lack of actual user testing — that none of the conventional affordances for player preference have been included, perhaps with a dash of auto-rectal head insertion — than failure of actual gameplay. I would say yes, if you are curious and can give a game a HUGE benefit of the doubt, then it is worth a try. The concept is solid, the ship is interesting, and the atmosphere is great as long as nothing's bugging out. I didn't play it enough to find out how much of a hassle enemies and ammo management really are, but it seems manageable enough. I couldn't suggest picking it up at full price no matter how curious you are, but if you're curious it might be worth sale price. I can write up Eldritch tonight, it's on my list and I got pretty into it when it came out. If you want immediate impressions it's good but leans more action than horror due to your movespeed and the ease of combat. The randomization gives it a lot of replayability, and the dev has been adding post-release content despite never promising to do so. Some of the enemies are kinda bullshit, though. Sivek posted:This game and Superfrog HD are the only times I've ever felt motion sick while playing a game. The art is too busy and I remember the way the camera scrolls/pans out in combination with the speed you're moving at just made me want to lay down. I didn't mention this but you're spot-on, the camera pans way too fast. It's a very spastic game which is weird, because there's never really that much going on in terms of the action.
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Kly posted:I really like the idea of a roguelike FPS game. I tried Paranautical Activity and it was awful. What's my best bet for something not terrible? I thought that Rogue Shooter was loving awful. I enjoyed Ziggurat for about 10 hours of gameplay, but I sort of suck at it, and hit a brick wall on moving past level 3, especially since the dev has only done things to increase difficulty.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:43
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Kaubocks posted:My friend and I saw that it had updated yesterday so we excitedly launched the game to play with each other. Our experiences: Thanks for the tip, I'll do that. I wonder if once they get past that black screen we can connect in any way but through direct ip yet.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:54
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Alo Steam thread. I'm looking for some game recommendations. I want a few games that play 4 players local and goes well with a party/drinking setting. So far I have Speedrunners and The Expendabros. I'm looking for something more like Speedrunners to hit that Mario Kart/SSB itch.
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So I just received a completely random Steam key for The Road Redemption from the devs, on account that I seem like an influential Steam account holder. Which does make me worry that things aren't going well on their end of development that they have to ask individual users for goodwill and playtime. But then again, I do know I've gotten at least 20 people to play Payday 2, so maybe there is some merit to that. I actually thought the game might have been out of early access, on account that I don't even want to wade through the poo poo that is Steam's front page anymore, but it isn't. Then the rep and I had a nice ranty conversation about the Steam front page. Hope The Road Redemption does turn out well, on account that I did enjoy Road Rash on the Playstation, and I kinda want to shotgun dudes that I can't catch up with like some horrific blue shell. If not, at least the devs seem like nice proactive people.
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