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Foul Fowl posted:i'd recommend playing through the games in order if you're interested in the franchise as a whole since they form a nice coherent skill curve from 1 to 2 to 3 to elden ring. Actually you should start with kings field 1 so you really understand everything that came before.
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Jan 1, 2023 22:54
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Elden Ring is the first souls game i played all the way through. It was very enjoyable and helped along by easy coop and the knowledge that if something was annoying i could just loving walk away. Dont like it? Hit the bricks. Thats the elden ring way.
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Jan 1, 2023 23:08
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Personally I like Sekiro best because you never get stuck wondering if your gear is bad for a fight, if you should level more, if this is a fight where they expect you to use summons, if you're doing things in the right order, etc. The simplicity of just having one weapon and a few different side moves really does a helluva a lot for the game. Elden Ring is really good if you don't mind a bit of grind to get a new weapon up to par and can resist throwing yourself at the same enemy a hundred times though.
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Jan 1, 2023 23:13
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There's no way I'd recommend Sekiro to someone who's on the edge of enjoying souls games, it's balls hard and I say that as a Sekiro lover. Elden Ring was probably my goty for 22 or in the top few, it's an absolutely gorgeous sprawling world filled with poo poo to discover, murder, and get murdered by. You don't need to dig into the Deep Lore to enjoy it, and you don't have to tackle optional difficult content or bosses, and you can just gently caress off to the hills and do something else if you get stuck. Jaunting around on the world on a fukken magical jumping horse owns bones, and if you enjoy exploration and discovery it's a slam pick. Relax about dying (you never lose anything meaningful, and you keep everything you pick up and every shortcut you open), enjoy the sights, try finger but hole
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Jan 1, 2023 23:28
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Dackel posted:Steam is Epic These are actually different things.
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Jan 1, 2023 23:31
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i finally started sekiro and its good as hell and also destroying my rear end
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Jan 1, 2023 23:33
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Scalding Coffee posted:Steam is good 
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Jan 1, 2023 23:38
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I am not really Good At Videogames but I love Elden Ring and I'm drat well going to make more time for it this year. I don't find it easier than Dark Souls, exactly, but I do think it's more accessible. If you're getting frustrated with something and can't get past it, you can always go do something else instead, or radically change your approach to it without much fuss - go ranged, go magic-using, summon help. And I really like the lore and the stories. And those spinny goats! What other game has spinny goats? ...'Everything' does I suppose.
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Jan 1, 2023 23:52
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Gamers got real weird about difficulty in Fromsoft games, like it’s there in places but also not the sole defining trait.
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Jan 1, 2023 23:53
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StrixNebulosa posted:But now I'm trying to decide if I want to do any big purchases before the sale ends YMMV, but I really disliked Undernauts. The story starts good, but quickly went from feeling like I was playing a horror game to feeling really boring and low stakes. Combat was ridiculously easy; I just used autocombat for every battle except a couple post game boss fights were I spend a single turn casting buffs before going right back to autobattling. I still got wiped out pretty regularly, but there's a mechanic that lets you set teleporters so that you can just head right back to where you died much quicker than fighting properly would have taken. None of the levels felt unique or new and most skills you can invest points into are very unimpressive.
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Jan 2, 2023 00:00
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Demnos posted:YMMV, but I really disliked Undernauts. The story starts good, but quickly went from feeling like I was playing a horror game to feeling really boring and low stakes. Combat was ridiculously easy; I just used autocombat for every battle except a couple post game boss fights were I spend a single turn casting buffs before going right back to autobattling. I still got wiped out pretty regularly, but there's a mechanic that lets you set teleporters so that you can just head right back to where you died much quicker than fighting properly would have taken. None of the levels felt unique or new and most skills you can invest points into are very unimpressive. My wallet thanks you! I want to try it myself but not at 40$ Thinking about Elden Ring more. Hmm. I should install Dark Souls 2, I can’t play 1 after seeing three LPs of it.
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Jan 2, 2023 00:05
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StrixNebulosa posted:My wallet thanks you! I want to try it myself but not at 40$ The fashion in Elden Ring is really good! And your character actually looks like your character instead of 'your character but a raisin'!
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Jan 2, 2023 00:09
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ShadowMar posted:i finally started sekiro and its good as hell and also destroying my rear end I once heard someone say about Sekiro's combat, "Treat it like a rhythm game" and it made things much easier for me.
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Jan 2, 2023 00:12
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FilthyImp posted:Doesn't the dude achieve godlike power, overthrow the stranger aliens, and just retreat to a world of fantasy because it's otherwise impossible to know what was real and who came from where? (Continued Dark City talk.) Yes, yes, no. In the final scene he meets up with Jennifer Connelly's character but she's had her memories replaced one last time so he's effectively a stranger to her, but hey, maybe they'll fall in love again anyway. It's not totally out of place because the movie is pretty clear in its statement that there's more to humanity than just raw memory, but idk. I'm not sure if it's actually a full blown trope but the "someone's memory is erased but things will work out anyway" concept wigs me out pretty bad, even if in Dark City it's meant to be optimistic and earnest. Fruits of the sea posted:Gamers got real weird about difficulty in Fromsoft games, like it’s there in places but also not the sole defining trait. I feel like there's a significant overlap between people who take Dark Souls way too seriously and people who over-mythologize the original Zelda as being mysterious and inscrutable because they didn't read the instruction booklet.
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Jan 2, 2023 00:17
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Is jedi fallen order super hard and stuff? It's tagged souls like and I don't know if that means 'it's hard and you have to die a bunch of times' or something else
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Jan 2, 2023 00:40
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Resdfru posted:Is jedi fallen order super hard and stuff? It's tagged souls like and I don't know if that means 'it's hard and you have to die a bunch of times' or something else there's a "story" difficulty setting if you get frustrated
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Jan 2, 2023 00:44
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Resdfru posted:Is jedi fallen order super hard and stuff? It's tagged souls like and I don't know if that means 'it's hard and you have to die a bunch of times' or something else It has difficulty settings and I had no problem on easy mode or whatever. This is coming from someone who has kinda sworn off souls type games because I’m not down for the challenge. But yes it’s trying to ape that style of game with a little more traversal mechanics thrown in.
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Resdfru posted:Is jedi fallen order super hard and stuff? It's tagged souls like and I don't know if that means 'it's hard and you have to die a bunch of times' or something else
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Jan 2, 2023 01:34
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My game is participating in the Steam Winter sale for the next couple days, maybe check it out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1492750/Mega_Knockdown/. It's a turn-based take on 2D fighting games. The graphics are still in an early state, but I've recently started collaborating with an artist, and we're doing a big graphical overhaul over the next couple of months, starting with a set of rough sketch-style sprites and then polishing those up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37kN3pS9h14 There's a whole thread of Goon made games but it hasn't been updated in awhile: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3957894 And there's this other thread where Goon game devs hang out: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3506853
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Jan 2, 2023 01:51
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drat, new thread. I really fell off in the last half of the year playing games as I got more into Switch jrpgs. Still, there were some interesting experiencespentyne posted:Final Fantasy X It's weirdly better then I thought even though it still had a lot of the worst parts of grindy jrpgs of the era. pentyne posted:Elden Ring Solid GOTY for years to come. Might be one of the best open world games made yet. pentyne posted:Sakuna of Rice and Ruin Very fun and cute 2D action platformer with a base building mechanic centered around an intensely in depth rice farming simulator. pentyne posted:Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire A massive improvement over the first game, and it hits the same vibe that Fallout New Vegas did. I would say this is the game that has finally solved the issues of taking DnD style combat into video games. pentyne posted:Yakuza 4 Just a massive bag of problems and really only worth playing if you have to play them all in order. pentyne posted:Warhammer 40K Inquistor Could not get into it, it seemed like a Diablo style online game with way too many currencies and graphically everything was so dull and dreary it was had to see. pentyne posted:Yakuza 5 Very weird experience.
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Jan 2, 2023 02:29
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Mad Wack posted:what's everyone's first purchase for 2023? i got chained echoes Tempted to make Chained Echoes mine as well. I am absolutely flying through Spider-Man at the moment and loving every second of it, but I expect I'll beat it within a week or so.
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Mad Wack posted:what's everyone's first purchase for 2023? i got chained echoes https://store.steampowered.com/app/1620340/Wrestling_Empire/ Wresling Empire. A solo-dev project with a free-roam mode where you can murder people backstage, attend their funeral, then beat people up at the funeral. The randomness is great. During my character's early days at Wrestling School I accidentally drank too much milk and pissed myself before a 1v1 with Mike Bail. Mike saw it happen and he gave me a handshake before telling me I should do it in a toilet next time. During our match he brought his Tag Team Championship partner, Shank to 2v1 me, so I broke both of their faces outside of the ring with a broom handle. The next week, Mike gave me a hug when he saw me. Much later, after being picked up by Rising Sun Puroresu and going on a 20 match win streak, I picked up a ringing cell phone on the ground that resulted in my character's name being forcibly changed from DIEPHOON to Larry McIntyre.  I cannot change it back. If you eat too much before your match, you might poo poo yourself during the Pay Per View! (Loud warning, also, poo poo warning) https://clips.twitch.tv/PlainHappyMeerkatAMPTropPunch-Q-pbO_2xUkj24bxU Best wrestling game I've played since No Mercy on the N64.
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Mad Wack posted:what's everyone's first purchase for 2023? i got chained echoes Yakuza Zero, I played on PS4 at launch but my ps4 died and its been 6 years holy poo poo
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Mad Wack posted:what's everyone's first purchase for 2023? i got chained echoes
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Does GMG have the cheapest price for Elden Ring right now?
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:Does GMG have the cheapest price for Elden Ring right now? For the most part, yes. Fanatical has it for a few cents cheaper, but it's more or less the same ($37.37USD GMG vs $37.19USD Fanatical), especially if GMG tossed you a coupon for Christmas- check your email. You can check CheapShark to see which places are selling a game for what price. https://www.cheapshark.com/search#q:ELDEN%20RING
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Mad Wack posted:what's everyone's first purchase for 2023? i got chained echoes Finally picked up Half Life: Alyx, I hope that I can manage the VR for more than a few minutes! 
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Mad Wack posted:what's everyone's first purchase for 2023? i got chained echoes although I'm not done necessarily. I'm gonna see what's in the Humble Choice on Tuesday and then I'll buy a couple more things. I'm thinking Cruelty Squad bare minimum, maybe Dread Delusion, Overboard, Viviette and Stonefly. And Chop Goblins. Idk, maybe more. Why not tank my backlog stats yet again??
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The Kins posted:Severed Steel, which owns. I don't have a contribution because I don't buy games!
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Jan 2, 2023 04:17
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Crossposting from the hidden gems thread since the game’s on sale:Cantorsdust posted:I’ve recommended this game before and I’ll recommend it here: Cantorsdust fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Jan 2, 2023 |
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Jan 2, 2023 04:41
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I'll second the recommendation for the Golden Treasure of the Great Green. It was so much better than I expected. If you like narrative stories, you really owe it to yourself to try it out.
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Jan 2, 2023 04:47
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So the No More Heroes ports are garbage huh
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Jan 2, 2023 05:03
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fit em all up in there posted:So the No More Heroes ports are garbage huh Yes. At least 1 and 2 are. One of the few times I refunded.
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LLSix posted:I'll second the recommendation for the Golden Treasure of the Great Green. It was so much better than I expected. If you like narrative stories, you really owe it to yourself to try it out. I'll third it. Golden Treasure is well worth your time if you enjoy slightly weird narrative games.
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So anyone got any recommendations for games that 3 to 6 year olds can play? For an idea of what they like: they love Wobbly Life and Grand Theft Auto 5 (with the family friendly mod). So basically open world driving but you can get outta the car and do stuff too. I think sadly Wobbly life and gta v modded are gonna be it. So I'll take other types of games that are wholesome and kid friendly if anyone has any
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victrix posted:There's no way I'd recommend Sekiro to someone who's on the edge of enjoying souls games, it's balls hard and I say that as a Sekiro lover. I've played 90 hours and still haven't got the faintest idea what's going on
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Spent most of the day playing Elden Ring with a friend using the seamless coop mod plus the randomizer mod, it was probably the most fun thing I've ever done in my life. The game kicks rear end.
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FFX is the most boring game I have ever played and I have suffered through 30 hours of it become one of my friends kept insisting that "it gets good soon". That'll teach me to trust people.
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If you don't like blitzball, those dumbasses, or JRPGs in general then yeah definitely don't play FFX for 30 hours, you'll know if you'll like the game an hour in, maybe your opinion on the story might change
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