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~Coxy posted:You can also get Bravelands and The Ship from visiting the site at least 5 times in 7 days. Where is this listed?
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doctorfrog posted:I think I can one up this guy. I use an old launcher designed for flash drives to organize my video games, give them little custom icons and launch them, as well as any helper programs, manuals, or wikis. I mostly have GOG titles but it’ll launch Steam games too. It’s probably a manifestation of a significant mental illness but it makes me a jolly gamer. Pssh, real pros launch into command line and run the batch file they created that goes to the directory with cd\ commands and then runs the exe. Sometimes this may include a boot disc to give yourself more EMS ram.
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Axiom Verge is some dude's really specific and loving weird self-insert fantasy that reads like a completely stupid fanfiction. I mean, it had some novel traversal mechanics and guns, but a lot of it feels like, "hey, this is cool, let's just shove it in there!" Without much other thought or actual design. I mean, the glitch area mechanic alone is such dogshit that I don't even know how people could bother. "Hey, there are glitch areas scattered completely at random around the world and you may have to do one of 3 different things against a completely nondescript section of wall/ceiling/floor and you can get an item to find these areas but it only clues you in by adding really faint scanlines to your health bar, like only that part of the screen is an old CRT. Also you have no idea how many of these areas happened to be in this iteration of the world. YEAH!" Then there's the often really lovely area design, plus the guns which ranged from "holy poo poo this is brokenly good" to "Why the gently caress would I ever use this for any reason." I mean, it's a mediocre Metroidvania at best. For free? Yeah, can't hurt and it has some cool bosses. But it's not actually a good game. Fuzz fucked around with this message at 06:07 on Feb 9, 2019 |
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Hollow Knight was patched into a bad game with 2 ridiculous loving bosses now, too.  The aesthetic and gameplay are great in it, but holy poo poo it falls apart in long not fights where there's no window to use the really slow heal, especially with the boss that does two health pips with every hit.
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Feb 9, 2019 15:14
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:I've spent a lot of time reading reviews and descriptions of Metroidvanias in an attempt to find the "good" ones. Too much time. What I have learned is that nobody can agree on this. I was going to say maybe Hollow Knight is an exception, but the post above me saw to that. To this day, I still don't know what the good ones are. The recent Strider remake is loving fantastic. Shadow Complex was also really good. Very different vibe but amazing art - Aquaria is technically a Metroidvania and utterly beautiful and great. Fuzz fucked around with this message at 16:21 on Feb 9, 2019 |
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Feb 9, 2019 16:19
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Yeah I couldn't get the claim to work. Oh well.
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Apr 26, 2019 16:11
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They're only free with Nitro on my end.
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May 27, 2019 04:00
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Now you too can play through the creepily possessive and unhealthily obsessive tale of a guy creeping on a girl!
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Jul 18, 2019 20:06
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RBA Starblade posted:You're thinking of Braid but Limbo's kind of crap anyway goferchan posted:Again, that's Braid, but doesn't the whole ending kind of villify him for it anyway? I don't think the story's very well-done but I remember the takeaway being "she's not into you, get over it" Yeah, good call, dunno why I mixed those up. Ugh, Braid. The core gameplay was clever, but fuuuuuck that story.
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Jul 21, 2019 23:08
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Yoku's is amazing, everyone should play it.
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Some hot takes on Origins in here. It's not that bad a game overall and honestly I enjoyed its story far more than Knight. It channels several classic Batman storylines and coalesces it into a good early take. Doesn't break much new ground other than the tether gun, gameplay wise, but overall it's well done and the villains who are there are utilized well, for the most part. Better final boss than Asylum, too.
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aba posted:I think that Origins has the best take on the Batman as the world's greatest detective. In all the others he's just another protagonist punching his way through. Agreed. RBA Starblade posted:Arkham Origins was one of the most broken games I'd ever played at launch and that's saying a lot RBA Starblade posted:Which is the one about Batman starting out and fighting Bane, that one I played it maybe 3 or 4 months after launch and never had any technical issues other than sometimes the Executioner gloves would continue to electrocute guys after you knocked them out so their bodies would just flail around on the ground repeatedly. As far as I'm concerned, that actually made the game better. Also the Deathstroke fight was great.
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Sep 20, 2019 18:00
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dogstile posted:I still maintain the next batman needs to rip off the nemesis system This but with Mad Max. It would be perfect, have them start modding their vehicles specifically in response to how you kicked their rear end, as well as the scars and phobias and whatnot. Just endless wasteland nemesis vehicle combat with lots of explosions and dudes in weird bondage poo poo. It would be glorious. 
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Sep 23, 2019 16:04
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The only puzzles worth doing are the photo riddles.
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Sep 24, 2019 21:45
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If you like FS2, definitely check out Blue Planet and War in Heaven.
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Sep 25, 2019 16:29
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Freespace hands down it's the best space flight game series made thus far. It's really sad that 20 years later nothing has even come close, but then again it's a mostly dead genre, unfortunately. But hey, STAR CITIZEN will correct all that and also be the second coming of christ, right?!?! 
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Sep 26, 2019 13:57
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njsykora posted:Yeah they've probably been grabbed by scraper bots who grab Steam keys, it's why people always leave a character out when posting them on Twitter. Aegis Defenders is also gone. Yep.
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Griefor posted:I have activated 80-90% of the free EGS games, and have yet to install the game launcher. I'm not sure if I ever will. Same, although I stupidly missed Jotun last week and am annoyed at myself over it since that is one of the games that actually interested me.
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flatluigi posted:If you started the qubic switch games giveaway chain the other day, today's the first day of getting the rest: https://qubicgames.com/15years/ Didn't know about this, too late now since I would have qualified. Whelp. That sucks.
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Dec 16, 2019 17:10
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Mierenneuker posted:Ape Out. And it's an awesome game.
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Dec 23, 2019 13:04
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Stop crying about EGS exclusives. You literally NEED to have competition for Steam otherwise as time goes on and their monopoly continues to just do the bare minimum while carving out a chunk and then gouging prices in sales, publishers WILL stop bothering with PC gaming. Competition drives improvement, which overall will lead to more aggressive marketing and lower commission fees over time. It's not the ONLY reason EGS exists, but it's a reason why having one store that does everything is actually bad for the pastime, in the long run.
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It 100% is lighting a fire under Valve's rear end and requiring them to put in more effort, especially as this trend continues and more and more impatient gamers get their fix for new releases on EGS instead of Steam. EGS has barely been out for a year, it'd take at least 3-4 years to start denting the monopoly. I'm not a gung ho capitalist by any stretch, but allowing monopolies with unfettered capitalism is terrible and bad for its own reasons... It's one of the only cases where the free market can actually solve the problem. That said, gently caress China and gently caress the identity surveillance stuff, that really is sketchy.
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zer0spunk posted:The main comment everyone throws out is that it's motion sickness-inducing but not why...Also that they abandoned updating it and that it's missing features the 2d version has at this point. Still on the fence about playing the port over the normal version. You get loading hitches regardless of your rig because the engine is so lovely. They're small, but over time the framerate fluctuations when you have no other point of references to focus on can cause severe vertigo in a lot of people.
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Barry Convex posted:had them both on Steam for a while, but Darksiders I and II for free is a pretty great giveaway. Darksiders 3 goes back to a style closer to 1, but with methodical Dark Souls style combat where you can only dodge, not block, and you die really quickly if you get hit. It's actually quite good and has some cool bits in it.
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Mierenneuker posted:Spoiler-tagged since I just remembered this is actually the Free Games thread. https://imgur.com/gallery/mbRrjK0 Only click if you're okay with spoilers.
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You should be playing it in VR. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEd1TaGd-xA
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Lutha Mahtin posted:Oh gross, Offworld Trading Company is published by Brad Wardell, noted creep. Please consider not clicking the buy button, as it might reduce the take he's gonna rake in from the promo What's the story here?
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We have a freeware game thread now already, it's done, holy poo poo stop telling about why we need one and pay about free game deals.
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Geemer posted:Welp, after an hour SE finally finished processing my key and now Steam says 'product already owned' so I'm SOL for the DLC. Oh well. I'll take the key, since I didn't claim it on steam yet anyway.
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Mar 21, 2020 02:38
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Dunno what the fuss is, I just added both games just fine without 2FA on.
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Apr 30, 2020 21:01
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I love how everyone is butthurt about 2FA on EGS but 90% of you assholes use SteamGuard and have no issue with it.
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Liberty and Vice City Stories were free at some point too.
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May 14, 2020 10:35
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My money is on either of the first two Tomb Raider games or some other ubi thing.
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May 14, 2020 23:28
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Handsome collection refers to all games featuring Handsome Jack. To be fair, nothing of value is lost by skipping to Borderlands 2. The only thing that you'll miss is that the playable characters from the first game come back as NPCs in the second game. Those characters have literally no personalities in the first game so the only thing you need to know is that they exist. Um, gently caress you, you'll also miss Tanis' logs which are basically the only funny thing in any of the main Borderlands games.
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May 22, 2020 13:06
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People complaining about Absolution clearly never played Silent Assassin, which was exactly the same way. It was a weird choice to try to go back to the roots of the series when the roots were kinda not great and not nearly as good as what the series had already evolved into.
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Discendo Vox posted:I'll not continue the derail beyond saying that Absolution is Much Much Worse than anything that came before it in the series. I mean, no one was arguing that?
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:I too bought it three years ago but I've kept myself purer than yourself by not even installing it since I bought it! pleasesendhelp I got you both beat, it came for free with my video card, I redeemed it via email, and have subsequently never touched it. TAKE THAT, UBISOFT. 
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Jul 8, 2020 11:32
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El_Elegante posted:Wishing for kart racer Warhammer 40K rites of way Would unironically totally grab this day one, regardless of the gameplay. Also a version like Rocket League.
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Social Animal posted:I remember seeing the option for mouse back then and thinking “someone out there plays these games with only a mouse??” I had a friend that played Duke 3D with a mouse and I thought he was a lunatic. Jedi Knight was the first game to make me see the light, and consequently since it had invert mouse on by default, I'm now permanently an invert mouse person.
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:I always forget about track balls. Buddy of mine in middle school's dad was a track ball user and was insane at CS. No idea how but it worked for him. Clearly he was just really skilled at handling balls. Couldn't resist, dammit!
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