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SolidSnakesBandana posted:My favorite mob game is The Godfather. I've actually played through it more than once, I enjoyed it so much. gently caress now I kinda want to play it again. The Godfather 2 sucked, the entire playing area was like 4 city blocks. It had really brutal melee kill animations though, you'd smack someone in the jaw and see it dislocate. I played it years ago for the PS2 but are the Wii and PS3 version additions worth a replay if I could grab either of them cheap?
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It's also worth noting that Diablo 3 now is a very different game than it was 2 years ago. A lot of people including myself turned to Torchlight 2 and Path of Exile because I was so disappointed in Diablo 3 but with the latest updates and the expansion, Diablo 3's the most fun ARPG around I think.
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Jul 21, 2014 00:13
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Open Hand and Closed Fist were awesome ideas implemented really badly. In theory, Closed Fist would be a practical morality system I could somewhat get behind, teach a man to fish over giving him one etc. In practice Closed Fist made you a baby eating rear end in a top hat for the sake of it.
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Jul 21, 2014 18:08
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Are there any good recent city building games? I heard SimCity 2013 was complete garbage but I'm looking for something different from SimCity 4 too.
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Jul 25, 2014 20:31
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Factum est posted:How is the expansion? I played D3 for a bit earlier this year right before it dropped, but was broke and couldn't pick it up. Then I just kind of...forgot about it. Really great. Some of the expansion bosses are actually kind of challenging when I breezed through vanilla D3, the atmosphere is darker and moodier to counter the complaints about vanilla being too colorful (which I always thought was dumb but w/e), the Crusader is a fun class to play especially since they can wield two handed weapons, one handed and Adventure Mode means that you'll probably never play through Story mode again until the inevitable next expansion comes out.
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Jul 26, 2014 16:54
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FruitPunchSamurai posted:I was thinking about just getting plain Diablo 3 from the g2a sale. Am I missing out on mechanical updates to the game if I don't have the DLC or is it just more classes and levels to play? You won't get Adventure Mode, which is what everyone online is playing these days as the story mode sucks rear end and you've got much better loot opportunities from Rifts in Adventure Mode.
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Jul 27, 2014 17:46
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Diablo 3's story is bad in that everything is predictable and some of the characters have great potential but then do precisely fuckall. Tyrael is mortal now? Great, now he can be a follower or something and kick rear end. Oh wait no, he's still just useless as ever standing around in the hub. Leah is less useless but much more grating in how she never shuts up about her mother or how she's a skeptic that demons exist and of Deckard Cain's history, in a world where demons are overunning the world and she's right with you killing them sometimes. Having said that, it's not so bad that it makes the game not worth playing but it did used to be really obtrusive; later patches that allowed you to skip any and all story sequences automatically and Reaper of Souls Adventure Mode fixed this.
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Jul 28, 2014 01:35
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The Room would have been amazing if the entire game was in first person and not just the apartment, and there wasn't a crappy escort mission for the second half of the game. It's got the must surreal, dreamlike atmosphere and I dug that. Way more than traditional blood and rust anyway.
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Jul 31, 2014 13:35
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Drifter posted:One of the draws(?) for Trails is to be able to go and talk to the npcs multiple times and they seem pretty reationary to where you are in teh story. Their comments get updated and stuff, so you don't end up having all these people only ever saying one thing over and over and over forever. It kind of reminds me of the Grandia games in that sense. It's worth playing because it takes you back to a time where JRPGs were about fun exploration with the environment and NPCs and not grimdark anime nonsense or little girls who are really 4000 years old etc that a lot of modern JRPGs have fallen victim to.
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Aug 3, 2014 01:10
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MooCowlian posted:Has Trails in the Sky got through the crashing problems yet? The crashing problems were fixed for quite a few days now so yes.
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Aug 8, 2014 01:36
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Mr E posted:Plus, who knows if the engines besides MGS2 (already on PC) are easy enough to be worth the port. Still, glad I have no reason to get a PS4 again. MGS 3 is just an updated MGS 2 engine isn't it? Should be doable. It's MGS 4 that will be the problem since the only reason it's not on 360 is because the engine used is a piece of poo poo held together by duct tape and bubblegum and it barely works on the PS3 as it is. So they'd need to remake MGS 4 for it to be on any other console besides PS3.
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Aug 13, 2014 22:42
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Bioshock 2 is a game that was criticized by everyone on release but after Bioshock Infinite and it's terrible DLCs that try to ruin the first game, everyone looked back on a bit more fondly and realized that while it was an unnecessary game, it was still a really good game and way better than what Ken Levine did with his "proper" Bioshock followup.
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Aug 30, 2014 14:52
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kirbysuperstar posted:Here's something unexpected: http://blog.ghostlight.uk.com/post/way-of-the-samurai-4-is-coming-to-pc-on-steam Sweet. I wonder what else will get random PC ports?
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Sep 4, 2014 17:28
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Nice. For RE 5, throw in the console exclusive DLC while you're at it Capcom. You never released it for PC.
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Sep 8, 2014 18:46
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Basically if you're the OCD type who has to 100% every game in one playthrough, you're going to hate Dead Rising because even though it's possible, it's just not very fun. You're supposed to dick around, learn the layout of the maps and what items are in which locations, maybe level up a bit and then go for a 100% run when you're ready.
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Sep 13, 2014 19:22
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Darkhold posted:Great. FF4 was my absolute favorite game as a kid. I'd love to see an updated version. It's been updated like 5 different times now. I'd much rather have Dragon Quest VIII or something on PC than a trilogy of games I hated and a game I've played way too many times already because Japan has a FF7 level of fascination with it.
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Sep 17, 2014 09:20
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Lance Streetman posted:Unlikely. DQ8 was a PS2 exclusive while the rest of the games being ported to PC were in some way designed to be run on PC. A PC port of DQ8 would be much harder to do. Dragon Quest 8 got ported to mobile recently though and the Final Fantasy 3 port on PC is a port of the mobile version.
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Sep 17, 2014 09:29
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Kanfy posted:Legend of Grimrock 2 has a release date, October 15th. Price is going to be $23.99, 15% off for preorders. Neat, so rather than a pure dungeon crawler like the first game was, this game is more akin to the Might & Magic games with an overworld connecting the dungeons?
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Sep 17, 2014 13:05
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This manga gimmick is done using that manga maker software sold on Steam, right?
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Sep 20, 2014 11:42
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Eruonen posted:No! If you want to play DMS in the updated engine, sure. Like Lemon said, that folder just has a few assets that are a holdover from the original game. But you can't play DMS without copying everything over.
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Sep 21, 2014 21:47
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Eruonen posted:Doesn't it mess with the existing files? Not really. You're just copying and overwriting the exact same files + a little bit more as well as making the game register DMS as a playable campaign.
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Sep 21, 2014 22:04
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Pac-Man Championship Edition DX has no right to be as fun as it is. I actually ended up buying it because the free trial going on was a lot of fun and really intense.
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Sep 23, 2014 01:26
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Shindragon posted:It is probably one of the best pac man games ever made. Seriously anyone who hasn't tried DX is missing out. Yeah, it's got a free trial for 6 days so, anyone who hasn't played it should check it out. Should be in everyone's game library.
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Sep 23, 2014 01:39
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So the new Gauntlet is surprisingly good? It did catch my eye before but the relatively cheap price and complete lack of coverage gave me the impression it was going to be a stinker.
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Sep 23, 2014 20:15
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Kin posted:It's quite tedious to be honest. Linear isn't really the problem as almost all Final Fantasies are very linear. It's more that the first 20 or so hours are like a tutorial, and are as tedious as a tutorial. Not just a tutorial but there's no exploration until very late game and at that point it's just constant battles in a large but ultimately extremely boring field until you go back to linear hallways for the rest of the game. I really couldn't ever see myself playing it again.
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Sep 23, 2014 20:22
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K. Flaps posted:FF 13 has one of the best battle systems that has ever been in an RPG. It also looks beautiful and has wonderful music, as well as challenging optional hunts, if you like to grind around and do 100% in an RPG. The battle system is pretty good until you realize that it's 1) all there actually is to the game and 2) limits your full potential until 20+ hours into the game and by that time you probably just want the game to end already.
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Sep 23, 2014 20:29
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How are the Van Helsing games anyway? I picked up the first one as part of a bundle and got a coupon for the second one but haven't started either yet. How do they compare to say, Diablo 3, Path of Exile or Torchlight 2?
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Sep 24, 2014 23:04
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Well, it sounds like I'd enjoy it to play through at least once. I'll pick up 2 maybe next week after playing through the first game, the voucher doesn't expire until something like October 10th anyway.
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Sep 25, 2014 01:25
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These Loving Eyes posted:Counter-point: I'm not especially infatuated with the Resident Evil series, but I've played Leon's campaign in RE 6 for about 7 hours now with a friend, and we've been having a blast. Shoot zombies in the face and then proceed to suplex them into the ground. Good times. Mercenaries mode is also as fun as ever. Don't bother with the DLC multiplayer stuff though. I'm pretty sure most of the people who hated RE 6 have either played it on console at launch which was supposedly nearly unplayable until it got patched but the PC version had those patches bundled in, tried to play it like Resident Evil 4/5 and got frustrated when it's more of a brawler at heart and guns are just for softening enemies up now while you get into melee range, or play it solo. Or possibly all three. There are some badly designed parts like some of Jake's segments but overall I thought it was a blast.
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Sep 26, 2014 22:50
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Wikipedia has said it's getting a remake, but only for iOS and Android. But, Wikipedia and all.
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Sep 26, 2014 23:45
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:So, Mr. bible... can I call you corn? I was thinking. You said Resident Evil 6 was trash but you recently played through ObsCure 2 didn't you? There are worse things to spend GMGbux on than RE 6. Much worse. Just make sure you read the controls, bump up the FOV, play with a friend who knows what he's doing and don't try to play it like RE 4/5 and you'll be fine.
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Sep 27, 2014 15:18
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RBX posted:They added fov options and other quality of life stuff. Nothing major. One of the QTEs was really bugged and almost impossible to complete on console too, which pissed everyone off until they got patched to make them easier. Then it got patched again so you can toggle the ability to auto complete QTEs in the options menu. All of that was in the PC version at launch though. I can't hate RE 6 though, because of the ridiculousness of Jake's last boss fight where he suplexes Ustanak.
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Sep 28, 2014 16:16
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Luisfe posted:RE6 is really the best brawler since God Hand. The sad thing is, I don't think Capcom will try that style of gameplay again because the reaction to the game was so overwhelmingly negative. That's why we're getting Revelations 2 instead of RE 7 I guess.
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It's not a brawler like God Hand or anything, but the game is definitely far more melee focused than gun focused like the other RE games. One of the playable characters even has a completely different moveset dedicated to melee.
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Sep 29, 2014 02:25
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...but Dead Rising 2 and OTR are substancial improvements on the first Dead Rising and even 3 for it's faults is still a fun game that's better than the first game in a lot of ways. You talk about having to babysit idiot AI in Resident Evil 6 (but the AI partner is invincible and has infinite ammo anyway in RE 6, unlike RE 5) but Dead Rising 1 was a game about doing entirely that, it's not until 2 that the AI stops having a lobotomy and the gameplay is much more fun as a result.
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So what is it about Shadow of Mordor that makes it GOTY material to lots of Goons? From the pre-release it just looked like a half assed Assassins Creed meets Batman clone, with a gimmicky respawning enemy system and I had no interest in it. What is it that makes it so great because I don't want to spend the money on it only to find out it is just a half assed ACxBatman clone.
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Rookersh posted:I have an Orc named Uguu the Singer who shows up every once and awhile and just sings to me about how he wants to kill me. Welp. This convinced me to get the game now. Thanks.
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Oct 1, 2014 19:16
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YOURFRIEND posted:Okay, so I just bought Diablo 3 on a whim because someone said earlier that the expansion pack makes it good. So I picked a wizard guy and got my first level and it like MADE me point a point in frost thing. Is that how the skills are in that game, really? No choice, you just gotta allot them linearly as the game wants? What if I don't want to be a loving frostoman, what if I wanna be a lightning guy? You unlock new skills and runes as you level up and you can try out various builds on the fly with no penalty. It's not like Diablo 2 where until the latest patch which added a way to respec, if you specced in something and then realized you hated it you were up poo poo creek and had to start the character over.
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I'm finding Shadow of Mordor quite annoying actually. I heard you don't unlock the really cool things that let the Nemesis system shine until a couple of story missions in so I've been prioritizing on that but get greeted with crappy forced stealth sections and other annoying mechanics in it's place. It's one potentially cool idea I've barely seen anything of wrapped up in mediocrity so far. But maybe I'm being unfair and need to give the game some time?
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Personally, I blame Jay Wilson and Chris Metzen for the failure of Diablo 3. Ddraig's being kinda bone-headed about it, but I agree with him. I was burned at launch by Diablo 3 and nothing is going to get me to come back. Now that Marvel Heroes exists, and is free, I don't think I'll need another ARPG for the foreseeable future. Diablo 3 is very much the best ARPG out there now. The only reason alternatives like Path of Exile, Torchlight and Marvel Heroes even got any particular notice was because of how botched Diablo 3 was at launch, but now Diablo 3 completely trumps them and it has the satisfying combat that games that Path of Exile simply didn't have. Should Diablo 3 nowadays have been what it was at launch? Sure, but at least with Jay Wilson getting the boot Blizzard did learn from their mistakes and have more or less overhauled the game entirely from the past. Even the way difficulty levels work is completely different now.
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