Phlegmish posted:

I heard the DLC for WOTR isn't that great.

The 7th Guest posted:

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wizard2 posted:

I don't really get Owlcat games, I think. They do neat things narratively, and, yes, I can simply turn down the difficulty to nothing if I just want to see the story, but I'm not sure what the appeal is for building a squad around tackling 45 AC trashmobs in Pathfinder 1e. It just really never clicked with me, I guess. To me, that DOESN'T seem like a challenge: smacking down silly overtuned garbage fights requires specific solutions.

Maybe they get better as they go on? I bounced off Kingmaker and Wrath foreverrrr and did not attempt Rogue Trader.

wizard2 posted:

I don't really get Owlcat games, I think. They do neat things narratively, and, yes, I can simply turn down the difficulty to nothing if I just want to see the story, but I'm not sure what the appeal is for building a squad around tackling 45 AC trashmobs in Pathfinder 1e. It just really never clicked with me, I guess. To me, that DOESN'T seem like a challenge: smacking down silly overtuned garbage fights requires specific solutions.

Maybe they get better as they go on? I bounced off Kingmaker and Wrath foreverrrr and did not attempt Rogue Trader.

explosivo posted:

I picked up "Minishoot Adventures" because they were talking about it on Giant Bomb yesterday and it's pretty neat, like a bullet hell shmup style link to the past adventure game where you level up the ship's weapons and abilities as you progress through it. Doesn't seem like it'll be a very long game but it's a pretty fun thing for $15 and I imagine it plays well on a deck if you were so inclined.

Phlegmish posted:

Three hours in, and I don't think I'm feeling Fallen Order. The story seems cool, and while Kal or whatever his name is doesn't have much personality so far, that's preferable to the grating and annoying characters you get in most games these days. The combat is alright, I'm often getting my rear end kicked by basic enemies, but it's clearly a skill issue. Just have to let that muscle memory develop over time. However, what annoys me about the game, and I don't think this will ever change, is that I don't know where the gently caress to go. I'm just running around aimlessly, occasionally plummeting to my death. I know there's a holomap, but it's close to being useless. I just want to watch cutscenes and fight stormtroopers, not endlessly navigate mazes. I am a filthy babby casual. Please hold my hand. Give me a giant floating arrow pointing me to the next place to go. Anything.

If you enjoy that emphasis on exploration, I can see this being a good game, but it's not for me. Unfortunately I am past the refund window. Live and learn.

explosivo posted:

I picked up "Minishoot Adventures" because they were talking about it on Giant Bomb yesterday and it's pretty neat, like a bullet hell shmup style link to the past adventure game where you level up the ship's weapons and abilities as you progress through it. Doesn't seem like it'll be a very long game but it's a pretty fun thing for $15 and I imagine it plays well on a deck if you were so inclined.

StrixNebulosa posted:

Assassin's Creed Valhalla: I decided to do something I've wondered about but never committed to, and turned as much of the HUD off as possible. This has changed the map design to something really cool to explore... but also now I'm struggling with figuring out what aspects of the HUD to put _back_ because like, did I pick up the loot? Did I miss something?

It's weird and cool and it's turned a very simple early-game mission (go visit the lady in the mountains) into a nightmare of "she's in the north mountains. which way is north. _which_ mountains. gently caress" and it's neat

what is not neat is that the game decided at one point to send me flying into the air at 99999 miles per hour and after we soared over the sea we fell and died to fall damage and uh

ScootsMcSkirt posted:

not trying to call you specifically, but ive seen a lot of ppl say that 3d maps like the one used in Fallen Order barely work and I dont get it. I found those kind of maps really helpful for the kind of levels found in these games. Its a bit weird to use it at first, but once i adjusted, it was great for backtracking to areas where I left something behind or scouting around to see if I can access new areas with new powers

Orv posted:

You can tell who the scrubs that never played Descent are

Jack Trades posted:

They should finally release the Citadel DLC for Wrath of the Righteous soon because I'm itching to play through that game for the third time.

kazil posted:

New Humble Bundle is automation games:

The Colonists
Astro Colony
Cardboard Town
Mob Factory
Factory Town
Buggos
Recipe for Disaster

Haven't heard of any of these, are they any good?

Upsidads posted:

Total War:Fraggle Rock
gonna donk some Dozers

Oxxidation posted:

another crab's treasure is surprisingly difficult for something that can be described as "spongebob souls"

FutureCop posted:

Just recently beat Jusant and it twas a very beautiful and captivating climbing game set in this Mad Max-esque desert world, minus the crazy paint-huffing bandits and all that. As a rock climber myself I loved a lot of what this game did, and overall the gameplay was very reminiscent of something like Journey, so for fans of games like that, it's a big recommend from me.

Apart from the obvious gorgeous presentation and vibes the game gives off, I think the best part of the game to me was how deep and interesting the climbing mechanics got and how it kept introducing new elements at a steady pace to keep things interesting. Typically with these types of, shall we say, 'art' games, I get worried as the game practically plays itself from me just holding forward and feels like all style over substance, and I'm glad to see that this thrashed that expectation. No, it isn't Celeste or Getting Over It levels of challenge, but it did enough to hit that sweet spot of being an engaging experience with some moments that make me ponder or work out a solution while still technically being a smooth trip without many actual failures or trial-and-error.

I feel a bit bad because I played this on GamePass, and if I were to be honest, that's probably the only way I would've played this game in the first place. Yes, I do think this game is lovely and worth the money, and I'm trying to be more open nowadays to purchasing games like this, but very short and artistic games like this can be a hard sell when stupid brain worms make you think you can comparatively get more bang for your buck by getting an infinitely replayable action roguelike or huge RPG. Just something to think about in this new world of subscriptions and such: I suppose it's a blessing that games like this have more of a chance to get played through GamePass, but I also wish they could be loved more directly without GamePass.

drat Dirty Ape posted:

Rogue Trader is not only more interesting to me but I hope it does away with all of that insane class building stuff.

Zereth posted:

It's effectively an original system and works a lot better but there's still a bunch of choosing feat-type-objects. It seems harder to gently caress up though.