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qnqnx
Nov 14, 2010

I Said No posted:

risk of rain is pretty solid
no story bullshit or anything just shoot the gently caress out of stuff and collect powerups

Also the music is really good.

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Plebian Parasite
Oct 12, 2012

TheLovablePlutonis posted:

Dominique Pamplemousse in "It’s All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings!" is a unique and offbeat stop motion animated detective adventure game about gender and the economy. Also, all the characters frequently burst into song.

Vertiginous Golf is a physics based first person exploratory mini golf game set in a steampunk alternative universe

Awesome!
Oct 17, 2008

Ready for adventure!


I Said No posted:

risk of rain is pretty solid
no story bullshit or anything just shoot the gently caress out of stuff and collect powerups

confirming it is good

koolkal
Oct 21, 2008

this thread maybe doesnt have room for 2 green xbox one avs

Ekster posted:

so what, triple a games are also poo poo

also if you dont like the swapper there is something very wrong with you

woulda been better without having some dumb bitch going crazy while you're stuck in a corridor after every 3 puzzles

Falsum
May 10, 2013

Crazy for the Bros

TheLovablePlutonis posted:

Dominique Pamplemousse in "It’s All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings!" is a unique and offbeat stop motion animated detective adventure game about gender and the economy. Also, all the characters frequently burst into song.

The economy as seen through the eyes of a trust fund 21 years old gender studies undergraduate, who probably owns all the seasons of Veronica Mars, Buffy, Angel, Dollhouse and Firefly on DVD.

Bleu
Jul 19, 2006

i 100%ed risk of rain it's a real wild ride

multiplayer is good but lol at having to manually open ports in tyool 2014

i wonder what garbage is going to go on steam sale this year

ForeverSmug
Oct 9, 2012

Xaris posted:

disagree

i think there was a period around the time of early HIB, Steam Bundles, etc where indie games were pretty good. even up until a year ago be fore the flood gates, the quality:noise ratio was relatively high.

Spelunky
Binding of Isaac
Super Meat Boy (i didnt like this but a lot did)
Guacamelee
Gone Home
Hero Siege
Marlow Briggs
Don't Starve
Monaco
Rogue Legacy
FTL
Staney Parable
Bastion
Transistor
Terraria
Starbound
Outlast
Papers, Please
Nidhogg
Torchlight
Chivalry
Braid (yea despite being pretentious and one of the first indie platformers+twist to come out and it was kinda neat to play at the time)
Expeditions: Conquistadors
La Mulana
Unholy Heights
Super House of Dead Ninjas
Valdis Story
Papo & Yo
Desktop Dungeons
Dungeons of Dredmore
One Way Heroics
Risk of Rain
Path of Exile
Cave Story
Banner Saga
Intake
Banished
Escape Goat 2
Kentucky Route Zero
Sir, You are being Hunted
FEZ
Van Helsing 1+2
Recettear
SpaceChem
The Swapper
Miasmata
Magrunner
Dustforce
Hotline Miami
Gunpoint
Sang Froid

obvious some are better than others and i missed a lot/might have included a few non ones and some of them aren't everyones cup of tea but that's a pretty good list of generally well-done and acceptable fun indie games.

all you listed were the games that had the most marketing though.

the quality of a game is directly proportional to how visible it is in the marketplace

loving retard

Ekster
Jul 18, 2013

triple A game: waste 20+ bucks on DLC that should've been included with the base game before you figure out it's poo poo

indie game: waste less than 5 bucks before you figure out it's poo poo

ForeverSmug
Oct 9, 2012

all games: waste money and the precious hours of your life until you wake up and realize you might as well be dead

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 5 hours!

i'm going to give you time to realize how dumb that was so you can edit it out

seriously you don't really think more advertising automatical equals higher quality do you? because if so, lol

plenty of those had no marketing and got popular by word of mouth only. there are also a lot of indie games also have a lot of "marketing: and are low quality. also AAA games spend shitloads on marketing and doesn't mean they're high quality (thi4f).

BigLeafyTree
Oct 21, 2010


ForeverSmug posted:

all games: waste money and the precious hours of your life until you wake up and realize you might as well be dead

Hi, my name is BigLeafyTree and I have a problem.

But Rocks Hurt Head
Jun 30, 2003

by Hand Knit
Pillbug

BigLeafyTree posted:

Hi, my name is BigLeafyTree and I have a problem.

admitting that dota is poo poo is the first step

stoutfish
Oct 8, 2012

by zen death robot
there are a lot of fun indie games, i don't pay attention to the all art no substance ones though.

ForeverSmug
Oct 9, 2012

Xaris posted:

i'm going to give you time to realize how dumb that was so you can edit it out

seriously you don't really think more advertising automatical equals higher quality do you? because if so, lol

plenty of those had no marketing and got popular by word of mouth only. there are also a lot of indie games also have a lot of "marketing: and are low quality. also AAA games spend shitloads on marketing and doesn't mean they're high quality (thi4f).



lol

Plebian Parasite
Oct 12, 2012

Star Citizen has finally made the leap from amazing imaginary game to lovely actual game, a round of applause is in order.

Falsum
May 10, 2013

Crazy for the Bros
Dota 2 is actually a really cool game but the ARTS sub-genre was tarnished by LoL (and to some extent DotA, because holy poo poo is the original unplayable)

ForeverSmug
Oct 9, 2012

Xaris posted:

i'm going to give you time to realize how dumb that was so you can edit it out

seriously you don't really think more advertising automatical equals higher quality do you? because if so, lol

plenty of those had no marketing and got popular by word of mouth only. there are also a lot of indie games also have a lot of "marketing: and are low quality. also AAA games spend shitloads on marketing and doesn't mean they're high quality (thi4f).

oh for sure man



maybe i should have lead my post with a big unmissable "HMMMMMMM YES"





just for you




the dumbest motherfucker in this forum

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 5 hours!
dude you're really mad about gay video games and quoted something a week later. may be time to take your meds

ps: you don't need to use 6x spacing to make your posts more visible. peace

ForeverSmug
Oct 9, 2012

Xaris posted:

dude you're really mad about gay video games and quoted something a week later. may be time to take your meds

ps: you don't need to use 6x spacing to make your posts more visible. peace

gay

elf help book
Aug 5, 2004

Though the battle might be endless, I will never give up

Xaris posted:

dude you're really mad about gay video games and quoted something a week later. may be time to take your meds

ps: you don't need to use 6x spacing to make your posts more visible. peace

stfu dumbass

lesbian baphomet
Nov 30, 2011

No Such Thing posted:

Star Citizen has finally made the leap from amazing imaginary game to lovely actual game, a round of applause is in order.

that's lovely if true, its ideal form is eternal limbo.

Plebian Parasite
Oct 12, 2012

lesbian baphomet posted:

that's lovely if true, its ideal form is eternal limbo.

I was gonna find some funny whiny nerdy quote in the thread but it's mostly nerds talking about coupling and uncoupling and turn speeds and keybinds. Real boring poo poo.

Awesome!
Oct 17, 2008

Ready for adventure!


wait star citizen is a real game now? wtf?

Jackie D
May 27, 2009

Democracy is like a tambourine - not everyone can be trusted with it.


Awesome! posted:

wait star citizen is a real game now? wtf?

Define game

And real

Mr. Pumroy
May 20, 2001

Jackie D posted:

Define game

And real

is the spaceship i paid 3000 dollars for a physical real object in my garage that will take me to irl space locations such as the moon, uranus and the mass effect planet with the hot blue babes?

Dr.Tree
May 7, 2007

Sure there are goons in local government. But there are goons in national government too

Jackie D posted:

Define game

And real

A distraction to prevent people who pay thousands of dollars for fake spaceships from finally seeking a public death to validate their empty existence.

The pain inside.

Borneo Jimmy
Feb 27, 2007

by Smythe

TheLovablePlutonis posted:

Dominique Pamplemousse in "It’s All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings!" is a unique and offbeat stop motion animated detective adventure game about gender and the economy. Also, all the characters frequently burst into song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XelSGwkWNoY

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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i only play indie games that i see pewdiepie play first

Milkfred E. Moore
Aug 27, 2006

'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'
sir, you are being hunted teehee what a zany ironic name ^_^

Milkfred E. Moore
Aug 27, 2006

'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'
the zany ironic names are the worst part of indie games

stanley parable would've been clever if it had've come out before bioshock and didn't spend its gametime being like LOL GO OUTSIDE NERD

ftl was good

hotline miami was good

papers please was good

Plebian Parasite
Oct 12, 2012

I can appreciate the amount of work and design that went into la mulana, and much of the game I did find challenging and fun, but as the game progressed it went from clever puzzles to obtuse guesswork to 'attack all the walls and hope something happens' And that's just not that great.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Milky Moor posted:

ftl was good
No it wasn't.

Ularg
Mar 2, 2010

Just tell me I'm exotic.
Air Control is an indie game. Checkmate.

Plebian Parasite
Oct 12, 2012


yes it was

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

It was a slot machine with pretty lights and sounds. The game was so random that very few choices you made mattered.

Plebian Parasite
Oct 12, 2012

FactsAreUseless posted:

It was a slot machine with pretty lights and sounds. The game was so random that very few choices you made mattered.

There are definite optimal plays and techniques, familiarity with the events can give you an upper hand, as well as knowing when to cut and run, and how to level farm crewmates can be beneficial. There is also a lot of choice as to how to spend scrap as 2 stores are guaranteed per map and they are usually not too hard to find.

Falsum
May 10, 2013

Crazy for the Bros
Having to adapt to your situation is part of the fun of FTL.

It's possible (but rare) to get a really unlucky run that you can't win, but most of the time, if you make the most of what you got, you can salvage your run.

Milkfred E. Moore
Aug 27, 2006

'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'

FactsAreUseless posted:

It was a slot machine with pretty lights and sounds. The game was so random that very few choices you made mattered.


lmao look at this idiot nerd

discount cathouse
Mar 25, 2009
i was hoping they would balance and refine the existing systems in the new ftl update but instead they added new, broken ones.

it's a diamond in the ruff

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01011001
Dec 26, 2012


this is insufferable

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