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Turin Turambar posted:So... what if I'm the type of player who doesn't really care for customization of cosmetic elements? I don't really care for the drapes of my 2d pixellated house, or even my trousers. good news, starbound basically ignored all that poo poo when compared to terraria, now you can play a bad game without worrying about one of its worst systems!
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Starbound: And you may find yourself enabling spergs since 2013
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grimcreaper posted:Also, anyone who likes starbound should be forced to watch Voyager. Hey I liked Voyager, it wasn't great and it wasted potential, bu-- grimcreaper posted:I'm not talking about the whole show, just all the clips of 'there's a legend among my people' parts. In neelix' voice. On repeat. Nevermind.
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Patware posted:good news, starbound basically ignored all that poo poo when compared to terraria, now you can play a bad game without worrying about one of its worst systems!
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Jul 22, 2016 12:21
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I do like the starbound-voyager comparison. Starbound:as voyager is to star trek
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Jul 22, 2016 12:33
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Ahundredbux posted:what the, its not even out ? Updates will be fast and thick
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Apparently Rock, Paper, Shotgun likes version 1.0 quite a bit. https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/07/21/starbound-pc-review/ Perhaps Starbound actually got good?
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JerikTelorian posted:Apparently Rock, Paper, Shotgun likes version 1.0 quite a bit. It's not perfect, but I've played through the unstable and I certainly enjoyed myself. There are a couple of wrinkles in the pacing - getting your ship operational still takes perhaps a little longer than it reasonably should, and the Hylotl part of the sandboxy main quest elements takes loving eons unless you look for an underwater city, which still takes goddamn ages because exploring underwater is a chore - but overall, I had fun. The storyline is kind of short and not very detailed, but it mostly serves as an excuse to unlock more crazy dungeons and bosses anyway (I think maybe... five have been added?). The main improvements are in the sandbox gameplay, which was the right thing to focus on imo. Building colonies and collecting gifts from your tenants is kind of satisfying in a Stardew Valley sort of way, sidequests are pretty simple but can be an interesting diversion (just don't bother with the <adjective> Guard ones unless you're carrying around a poo poo ton of crafting materials), and recruiting crew is honestly a lot more satisfying than I anticipated (I have a medic and chemist who heal me to full and hit me with a jump stimpack every time I return to my ship, and I recently recruited a randomized sidequest boss who became a bandit after attempting to steal an entire ocean). You can completely bypass the pixel cost of upgrading your ship by maxing out its crew capacity, which instantly qualifies you for the next upgrade licence. Biomes are a bit more varied, there's more music variety, and the combat balance seems to be a lot better; if you're good and have a decent weapon, you can go pretty far without upgrading your armour much, and even then you can almost always buy current-tier armour from merchants that you come across. I'm pretty sure I only personally crafted maybe two pieces of armour and zero weapons before I reached the final boss, because I liked wearing a mismatched brigandine of pieces from various different species. tl;dr: it got better than it was. If you wholeheartedly despised it then you probably won't like it now. If you thought it was a fun, chill experience but got stale, you'll greatly enjoy the added variety when you come back and see what's changed. e: the addition of shops that offer weird and wonderful equipment and items in exchange for rare ingredients is nice, too. Instead of reaching the top tier of equipment and saying "okay, now what," you can explore around for vanity items and interesting crew members, and accrue the various rare monster bits and other doohickeys you need to turn your gauntlet into a sick-nasty bladed gauntlet or buy a crazy transforming crossbow from the shady trader who shows up near the Ark. It's a small difference, but it does really help to blunt the "you did everything, now wander in existential hell" feeling of passing the through last progression gateway and then kind of looking around helplessly. Angry Diplomat fucked around with this message at 13:48 on Jul 22, 2016 |
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JerikTelorian posted:Apparently Rock, Paper, Shotgun likes version 1.0 quite a bit. is starbind good or is rps bad??
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Ahundredbux posted:is starbind good or is rps bad?? I think they meet in the middle. So, is the new thread not happening until 1.0 drops? Or is it until we find a suitable title for it? Starbound: ....
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I'm cautiously optimistic that I'll have a good time with this, but lord knows it won't be perfect. If they kept the slow backwards walk, I wonder if it's easy to mod that out. Likewise I wonder if they kept the bug where you lose loving everything if the game crashes. 
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I will enjoy this release because I like tedious games that are no fun while I watch a movie
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RPS has Very Bad Opinions about board games so they are allowed to occasionally have bad opinions about indie sandbox games too.
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Ahundredbux posted:I will enjoy this release because I like tedious games that are no fun while I watch a movie I just wanted to take a second here in the Starbound thread to let you know, SA goon Ahundredbux, that every time I see your username, I hear the voice of RK Maroon (Alan Tilvern) telling Eddie, "Alright, Valiant... ya got yer hundred bucks." And I'm glad for it.  
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Fewd posted:well that's not really a good comparison since terraria is good Starbound: Where we're going, we don't need fun content to play
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I just wanted to take a second here in the Starbound thread to let you know, SA goon Ahundredbux, that every time I see your username, I hear the voice of RK Maroon (Alan Tilvern) telling Eddie, "Alright, Valiant... ya got yer hundred bucks." thats funny whenever i see ur name i think "big dum idiot"
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Cheen posted:thats funny whenever i see ur name i think "big dum idiot"  But... but I also don't really like Starbound that much.
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LordZoric posted:RPS has Very Bad Opinions about board games so they are allowed to occasionally have bad opinions about indie sandbox games too. What are these bad opinions. I care more about Board Games than I do video even though I get to play them less
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I just wanted to take a second here in the Starbound thread to let you know, SA goon Ahundredbux, that every time I see your username, I hear the voice of RK Maroon (Alan Tilvern) telling Eddie, "Alright, Valiant... ya got yer hundred bucks." I am also glad of being able to make another person glad
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Acne Rain posted:What are these bad opinions. Sup fellow board game lover who never gets to play them. RPS had several pieces gushing about Talisman, I game that I still occasionally have gaming PTSD over. The board game thread in tradgames discusses their board gaming articles quite often. Edit: Said PTSD revolves around a two-hour long endgame involving two players slapfighting by moving back and forth to the same location while everyone else had to watch.
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my friends bought me the steam version of talisman and i would minimise it between turns and eventually during a game i forgot i was playing and went to sleep and they finished the game waiting for my turn to time out every round
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Is this loving piece of poo poo at 1.0 yet? I want to be disappointed again.
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here are fun boardgames to play with friends: cosmic encounter with some bans / betrayal at house on the hill (getting an expansion finally) / munchkin with as few licensed expansions as possible / galaxy trucker (space trucker ??) / taro the path or something / not a boardgame but drawful
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LordZoric posted:Sup fellow board game lover who never gets to play them. Argh, yes, liking Talisman is a very bad opinion for what's supposed to be articles that are supposed to be critical of mechanics over the flash of presentation.
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LordZoric posted:RPS has Very Bad Opinions about board games so they are allowed to occasionally have bad opinions about indie sandbox games too. RPS wrote a short, gushing article about a lovely tamogotchi game I made in 2 weeks were you secretly have manic depression, and also barely works. Their metric is WEIRD.
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oddium posted:here are fun boardgames to play with friends: cosmic encounter with some bans / betrayal at house on the hill (getting an expansion finally) / munchkin with as few licensed expansions as possible / galaxy trucker (space trucker ??) / taro the path or something / not a boardgame but drawful *makes disdainful noise with mouth and nose*
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Shoehead posted:RPS wrote a short, gushing article about a lovely tamogotchi game I made in 2 weeks were you secretly have manic depression, and also barely works. Their metric is WEIRD. video games are arts that make me feel feelings
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if a board game has victory points it's bad. oh except Carcassonne
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oddium posted:if a board game has victory points it's bad. oh except Carcassonne look at this weirdo who doesn't like dominion and 7 wonders
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oddium posted:if a board game has victory points it's bad. oh except Carcassonne there's plenty of good board games with victory points. like haven't you at least played dominion. starbound does not have victory points and it's still bad.
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I was worried I wouldn't be able to get the thread up in time because I'm still away from my computer but apparently 1.0 isn't out yet so what to heck
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Angry Diplomat posted:turn your gauntlet into a sick-nasty bladed gauntlet Did they ever manage to make the fist weapons not poo poo? I thought the concept was kinda neat but they were crippled by the reintroduction of touch damage making it impossible to use short-range weapons against monsters while NPC enemies just run away all the time so you couldn't do any fancy combos.
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Babe Magnet posted:I was worried I wouldn't be able to get the thread up in time because I'm still away from my computer but apparently 1.0 isn't out yet so what to heck I think its out at 6pm BST? That's when the store updates
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Babe Magnet posted:I was worried I wouldn't be able to get the thread up in time because I'm still away from my computer but apparently 1.0 isn't out yet so what to heck It comes out at 1pm EST, y'know... like most steam releases.
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1.0 is out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O6PUh3reG0
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https://vine.co/v/5ZrHL5MAVU1 please put this in the new threadSupernorn posted:1.0 is out! lol
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As someone who got this a long time ago and then watched it get poo poo on for like a year, or two now maybe I cant keep track anymore, is it worth checking out again or are we just celebrating that a turd causing blockage has moved along?
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