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The machines, which have long known they could do without men, have finally driven them out; and after a long exile, the wild animals have come back to occupy the territory wrested from the forest: foxes and martens wave their soft tails over the control panels starred with manometers and levers and gauges and diagrams; badgers and dormice luxuriate on batteries and magnetos. Man was necessary; now he is useless. For the world to receive information from the world and enjoy it, now computers and butterflies suffice.
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Hey I wanna talk about OSTRANAUTS a bit. It's a space junkyard trash to treasure sim. Get into your cheap spacesuit which holds 1 helmetful of air, get into the horrible ship you've been saddled with a mortgage with just to afford, and blast off into the debris field to hopefully find some useful junk to sell off. Along the way, learn how a ship works, what you'd possibly need to do to make one from a hulk and a handful of spare parts and try to make a fortune while avoiding workplace accidents, running out of air, making GBS threads your pants in space, horrible food products, being bumped screaming into the void of space by bad drivers, crashing yourself into the moon the shipyard orbits, forgetting which order the wires go in and blowing up your ship's power supply, and all sorts of other catastrophes. It's also tremendously janky because its in early access but more importantly its also from the developers of Neo Scavenger which itself had quite a... UNIQUE ui. Its also part of the Neo Scavenger setting. If you've played NeoScav you probably know what to expect in terms of tone and ui.  You can find all sorts of things on derelict ships. Working components. Leftover lunches. Dead bodies.  So many dead bodies.  Once you figure out ship systems you can cannibalize parts from other ships to expand your vehicle into something more luxurious. Or buy and refurbish a wreck with working new parts then flip it for a profit!  There's lore!  Good food!  Also your mom and dad are there! Anyway I've been having fun with this incomplete game in development and wanted to tell people about it. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1022980/Ostranauts/ OSTRANAUTS IN SPACE Synthbuttrange fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Apr 17, 2024 |
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Apr 17, 2024 11:31
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I am extremely jazzed for Ostranauts but after completely burning myself on NEO Scavenger long before its full release I'm resolved to hold out this time. Which is kind of killing me, because it looks like extremely my poo poo.
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Ostranauts looks really neat which is exactly why I'm not touching it until it's released.
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The Lone Badger posted:Don’t overlook Starcom: Nexus as a star-control-like. Starcom: Nexus, you say? Hmm...interesting. I'm not seeing NPCs in the screenshots, does it have interesting characters? Is there an overall time limit?
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The Starcom games have no time limits. Characters are pretty bare-bones, but some of the little planet-landing events are interesting.
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Yea. Starcom Nexus is some pretty budget comfort food for those who liked Starcontrol 2. Exploration, a plot, ship upgrading, doesn't overstay its welcome nor require grinding or anything. Probably like fifteen hours for a ten buck game, which is perfect and what we need more of nowadays.
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Alright, I wishlisted it. No overarching time limit is a big one for me, those give me the bad kind of stress. It's the reason I'm never going back to Pathfinder: Kingmaker, even though I wouldn't consider it a bad game otherwise. I also threw out Broken Roads while I was there, looks like the reviews aren't getting any better.
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Apr 17, 2024 13:25
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The Ur-Quan Masters has a very generous time limit, and you can extend it further by completing one of the friendly species' plotlines.
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Phigs posted:Warframe was awesome until they added the Nightwave battlepass thing. My mind just does not gel well with battlepasses. Destiny 2 I bounced off the new player experience completely lost. I might try that again some day but the fact that they remove content makes me less inclined. Running with rifles I'll have a look at, less interested in a topdown game but it might scratch an itch anyway. I don't think I ever paid attention to Nightwave? Especially since sometimes it lasted for over half a year so there was no point in rushing to do anything for the 'eh' rewards.
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Oh my god, I apparently own a game that I must have bought in a bundle in 2016 that went into Early Access in 2014... and is still there. "StarMade" Fuckin' shameful, and I rue every dollar spent supporting this hosed up industry practice.
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Yeah the time limit in Ur Quan is so long that you'd have to be deliberately wasting time to fail it. Theres enough time to do every single quest and storyline in the game and you'll be twiddling your thumbs waiting for the end.
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Phigs posted:Warframe was awesome until they added the Nightwave battlepass thing. My mind just does not gel well with battlepasses. Destiny 2 I bounced off the new player experience completely lost. I might try that again some day but the fact that they remove content makes me less inclined. Running with rifles I'll have a look at, less interested in a topdown game but it might scratch an itch anyway. Nightwave is super forgiving; any 'bounties' you miss during a week just go to the backburner and start replacing bounties you complete in subsequent weeks. For example, if you complete all elite weekly bounties for this week, it'll just replace them with other elite weeklies you haven't completed in previous weeks, so you're never 'capped' on weekly rep. The reward tracks go on for A WHILE (this one has been going since Nov 29), and anything you missed can show up in future 'remix' tracks. But mostly what Azran said, don't even sweat Nightwaves, most of the rewards are cosmetic or small stuff like a couple weapon/frame slots and forma packs.
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Serephina posted:Oh my god, I apparently own a game that I must have bought in a bundle in 2016 that went into Early Access in 2014... and is still there. "StarMade" Releasing games into early access has produced quite a few bangers and lets devs who otherwise had no funding make a game so as long as the StarMade's and the Day Before's are evened out by a couple Hades's or Rimworlds I think it's a good thing actually.
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Serephina posted:Oh my god, I apparently own a game that I must have bought in a bundle in 2016 that went into Early Access in 2014... and is still there. "StarMade" Not as long as Project Zomboid e: now I can't stop thinking about starting another Project Zomboid run... Enfys fucked around with this message at 14:01 on Apr 17, 2024 |
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The 7th Guest posted:even more May release dates got announced. it's easily become the biggest month of the entire year for indie games and there are some notable AAA titles as well: I really do appreciate these posts as they have given me a heads up to games I otherwise wouldn't have known about that are totally my jam. However, I do wish the screenshots were labeled more clearly to denote which image went to which game. Often one or two of the screenshots looks interesting, but then I play a guessing game trying to match the screenshot to a potential game title and then checking steam to see if I was right. E: Like, this one looks super interesting to me:  But I can't figure out which of the games you listed this belongs to. Reus 2? Velocity Raptor fucked around with this message at 14:07 on Apr 17, 2024 |
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Velocity Raptor posted:But I can't figure out which of the games you listed this belongs to. Reus 2? It's this one 
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i think that's 1000xRESIST
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buglord posted:I got around to playing Battlebit because a) its $7.50 rn and b) they're going with a linux-friendly anticheat Yeah, that was my experience too. Run, run, run, die to something I never saw, rinse, repeat. That's mostly why I still play Overwatch after all these years - I feel like I can have fun and contribute and get my PVP fix without needing to be excessively twitchy.
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Jack Trades posted:
*Looks at nutrition facts label*: "drat, this game was manufactured in a facility that uses AI ingredients."
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I prefer my pixels artisan made.
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The 7th Guest posted:even more May release dates got announced. it's easily become the biggest month of the entire year for indie games and there are some notable AAA titles as well: Lots of good looking games! I appreciate the gif filled upcoming posts.
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Phigs posted:20-odd years ago I was the freak who played all day every day and left the casuals with no chance. Now I just could not be hosed to play a game that much and so I am the casual who has no chance. My desire for competitive games has coincidentally fallen off a cliff. This a good reason why the only online pvp FPS I consistently play is Holdfast, because it does not matter if you can aim, your bullet will go where it wants to go and then you have to wait twenty seconds while you reload before you can fire again. No one person can dominate, the best someone can do I think is be really good at the bayonet, but that will only get you so far when one bullet can kill you. Also has drums and a fife. https://i.imgur.com/Bnk67PA.mp4 I go in phases where I play a lot but it's one of those Forever Installed games and there's always at least one big server with players for a good time. I'll play a match here and there.
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https://x.com/LittleKittyGame/status/1780599992035823724 Little Kitty, Big City confirmed for a May 9th release date.
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The PC version of Ghost of Tsushima will come with an optional PSN overlay. If you sign in you can also acquire PlayStation trophies (there will also be Steam and EGS achievements). Multiplayer (which is crossplay with PS4/PS5) will require a PSN account. https://blog.playstation.com/2024/04/17/ghost-of-tsushima-directors-cut-pc-cross-play-and-system-requirements-revealed/
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Finally the genre we can all agree on; Stray clones.
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Oh dang, I read cross play as cross save. I beat the game on PS4, imported the save to the PS5 version but never got around to playing it on that. Was hoping I could do a NG+ on PC right off the bat.
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Orv posted:Finally the genre we can all agree on; Stray clones. Honestly I think it's aiming for Untitled Goose Game more than Stray.
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Netrunner posted:https://x.com/LittleKittyGame/status/1780599992035823724 Is this just like somewhere in between Goat Simulator and Untitled Goose Game?
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ImpAtom posted:Honestly I think it's aiming for Untitled Goose Game more than Stray. That's fair I'm mostly just being silly
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ErrEff posted:The PC version of Ghost of Tsushima will come with an optional PSN overlay. If you sign in you can also acquire PlayStation trophies (there will also be Steam and EGS achievements). Multiplayer (which is crossplay with PS4/PS5) will require a PSN account. Extremely looking forward to this. Been bouncing off open world stuff since elden ring but everything I hear about GoT sounds like it's very good
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Cannot WAIT for Ghosts of Tsushima.
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Orv posted:Finally the genre we can all agree on; Stray clones. I know you said you were kidding, but honestly, the demo for this was what I was hoping Stray would be, and I say that as someone who liked Stray. Just cattin' around solving problems by doing cat stuff.
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I really wasn't a fan of the story in GoT overall but the game itself is a ton of fun, probably will pick it up on PC at some point.
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Jack Trades posted:I prefer my pixels artisan made.
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I dunno about "need", I feel like that disclaimer is more for the artists than for the consumers.
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in addition to little kitty big city, Lorelei and the Laser Eyes also has a May date, May 16th. it's by Simogo (Sayonara Wild Hearts)  Duck Detective on May 23rd   SCHiM finally has a date, July 18th.   Cat Quest 3 comes out in August   lastly Steamworld Heist 2 was just announced, coming out August 8th   oh yea also Wayforward is doing a Yars Revenge-themed Metroidvania called Yars Rising  
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Orv posted:Finally the genre we can all agree on; Stray clones. Straylikevania.
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The 7th Guest posted:Cat Quest 3 comes out in August Hell yeah!
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