kater posted:

i decided to burn $25 on stuff that's been on my wishlist for years. also consortium snuck on there somehow.

GreatGreen posted:

Do you also think there's something wrong with people who take their off-the-rack suits to a tailor? Do you think everybody who buys a suit off the rack that doesn't immediately fit just say "ah, not for me" and move on?

beats for junkies posted:

(though not unlimited)

The 7th Guest posted:

so is Aliens but that doesn't mean I'm gonna play Colonial Marines

Rinkles posted:

How was Freelancer in that regard?

John Murdoch posted:

Something full 3D with action and open world elements (or really just any kind of tangible exploration, doesn't have to be a full blown Ubisoft iconfest), but without relying on the same repeated sandbox formula where you toil away space trucking between generic space stations so you can afford to make numbers go up a tiny bit and exploration takes the form of "sometimes you see a pretty skybox". Like I want to zip my little ship inbetween the wreckage of some huge gently caress-off dreadnought to retrieve some cool bespoke weapon, then when pirates inevitably ambush me I can use the terrain to my advantage. It's probably going to sound dumb as hell, but basically the same kind of well-rounded experience as something like the Arkham games or Tomb Raider or something but you just happen to be in a spaceship. Explore/sneak/fight, find collectibles or upgrades, mild RPG elements instead of insanely meticulous and granular ship customization.

Or to say it in a different, snarky way the absolute complete opposite of Elite Dangerous.

John Murdoch posted:

John Murdoch posted:

This game seems to use a very loose definition of "exploration" best I can tell.

John Murdoch posted:

Except the "where" in "anywhere" seems to be pretty space backgrounds and isolated space stations and nothing else.

I mean, I said upfront that there's a dearth of games out there that fit my criteria. I don't think I've overlooked very many, I think they just flatout do not exist and that's my whole complaint.

Cactus posted:

On the subject of space games: I've always wanted to play a single-player AAA-quality game set on a huge capital ship, about as big as the Enterprise, the ship in Stargate SG1, or a star destroyer (although maybe that would be too big) where the entire interior is modelled and accessible, like the Normandy but with an indoor map-size comparable to that of a full game.

The ship itself moves through space and visits different systems and such (like a star trek or battlestar galactica ship would) and if you happen to be in a section of the ship where you can see out this is reflected there. Maybe you even get to have a say in where the ship goes if you play as the captain or someone that the captain listens to, and that affects what story events happen and in what order, which in turn have an effect on the ship itself, how it looks, which areas are accesible or closed off, which members of the crew end up dying/changing, that kind of thing.

I'd also be down with playing a more Lower-Decks type of character that just lives and works on the ship but gets caught up in whatever story ends up happening...whatever, who you or the other characters are and what the story is isn't really what I'm focussing on here (although I'd love it if those were as compelling as a Naughty Dog or CDPR game as well, obviously) just the setting itself.

There might be off-ship locations to add some variety, but these would be smaller, more linear areas where story or side missions can have an excuse to take place in a completely different environment just to keep things switched up if needed, like the Mass Effect 2 character missions, but the main star of the show would be the ship itself.

Jack Trades posted:

Speaking of Wizardry inspired games.

Has there been a single dungeon crawler that even attempted the Wizardry 8's best feature where the characters you created actually had...character, by having a lot of unique voice lines for practically every situation?
I feel like I've seen a lot of Wizardry-like dungeon crawlers and none of them bothered putting any effort into your party members the way Wizardry 8 did.

redreader posted:

I played Elden ring almost to the end on a 3080 card, 16gb of ram, and a 3600 CPU. I got frequent hitches. Tried many different settings and never fixed it. Haven't opened it in like 8+ months... Are the hitches fixed? I tried all kinds of fixes etc.

ShadowMar posted:

severed steel devs announced a new game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuxH0p1G4gM

Awesome! posted:

huh, i got a card drop after 28 minutes of game time. i thought the rule was if you have refunded a game before cards only drop after 2 hours.

StarkRavingMad posted:

Yeah, I'm remembering when a Windows install was 25 floppies and you had to pray the whole time that like disc 22 didn't somehow go bad since the last time you used it

GhostDog posted:

The Door on the Edge of Forever

Mr.Acula posted:

Haven't played since I was a kid myself, but Toonstruck is on steam and i remember liking it

The Kins posted:

The big client overhaul that's been in beta for a bit just released for everyone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8jv24NjOWQ

Orv posted:

Ah okay, yeah I could see that not being wanted so that’s fair. I also don’t see it being a meaningful problem unless you’re very bad, the bots should all be dead by the time of real fights anyway.

Jossar posted:

Went kind of nuts for this Steam Sale, but I've been such a minimalist IRL spender recently that I figured I could afford some Unrestrained Summer Fun: Skul/Dead Cells/Sayonara Wild Hearts from reciprocity gifts as a result of riding the Steam Train (which is always fun and should be checked out if you want to enable your buying addiction by proxy instead of directly), Conquests of Elysium 5/Warhammer 40,000: Darktide... and Legion TD 2 which you guys sold me on at least giving a whirl. I'll certainly be busy for a while!

(Don't worry, I already have the thread's other recent darling, Satellite Reign, from when they were giving it out for free.)

WarEternal posted:

I like how there are a bunch of weirdos on Steam that buy a game, play 40 mins, refund it and give it a negative review on day one. Very cool people with healthy brains.

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

Most gamers are smart enough to not spend any money on skin microtransactions, whether they're $20 or $5. They are just never going to pay real money for any ingame item, no matter how much you reduce it. That's why the concept of "microtransactions" failed and they're all macrotransactions now. Companies are adjusting the pricing to milk as much as possible out of the tiny minority who actually do pay.

e: oh Schwarzwald already said the same thing

I said come in! posted:

Yeah! I'm really excited for this. I don't like to put too much into rumors, but this one feels really *strogg and will for sure happen this week.

Ghostlight posted:

personally it's because i used it to play fortnite with a coworker for a few months and then like half a year later i started getting "someone is trying to log into your account" emails like four times a day and their support was like "don't worry about it it's just an fyi" when i asked if i should be concerned that someone is trying to break into my account multiple times a day for weeks in a row. the emails only stopped when i deleted my account.

FuzzySlippers posted:

I think I'm done with SCO then. Any fun indie SC2/Starflight/Escape Velocity style games I've missed that released in the last say decade? (I've played all the classics) Talking real time overhead inertia flight space exploration/combat games not just Asteroids style like Nova Drift.

I've played Starsector, Endless Sky, SC: O, Star Traders, Starcom Nexus, Transcendence, Heat Signature, Ring Runner, SPAZ, Captain Starshot, Long Journey Home.

Star Valor is on my radar waiting for the next sale.

Miss anything?

ClonedPickle posted:

tango alpha delta posted:

lol, I still have my boxed copy, published by Sierra Studios, around here somewhere. It's in mint condition!

StrixNebulosa posted:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/431520/Age_of_Fear_Total/

hmmm

30$ to own the entire series and all future stuff, hmmmmm

e: oh my god this trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqY20WKrOCA

Galaga Galaxian posted:

RE: Skull and Bones talk. I really wish someone would just make the perfect successor to Sid Meier's Pirates that exists in my head. Give me a game that has SM's Pirates! Sandbox, Naval Action's... naval action (), some kind of sensible first-and/or-third person on-foot stuff that actually lets me walk around my ship (the whole ship, not just the deck) as well as on land, a cool sword-fighting system, good character customization, pronouns (if only to piss jerks off), and hell, I wouldn't complain about a half-decently written swashbuckling story. Also, single ship focus. Its likely opposite to the typical power fantasy probably, but I don't want to eventually command a whole fleet of pirate ships. I just want work my way up from a a shitbox sloop to one really awesome, customizable pirate frigate or whatever. Captain Harlock but actually in the ocean. Freaky Magic poo poo optional.

Like Sea Dogs, but a heck of a lot better and without most of the East European Jank.


And don't make it a loving online-only PvPvE GAAS boondoggle that'll die in less than a year. Just give me a cool singleplayer game!

There is a group of Goons who generally love hearing opinions from people just getting into the books. If you're interested in discussing it while/after you read it.

Leal posted:

So is Hitler now an anime girl?

LuckyCat posted:

Will we ever improve on the lovely Skyrim faces and animations? 15 years go by and it's like, no progress has been made in this whatsoever.

Mordja posted:

I never played the original Outcast, but the demo for the sequel was kind of fun, albeit time limited. Jetpacking around was a lark and you could make some pretty dumb weapons.

StrixNebulosa posted:

Dark Souls: wow Black Knights suck

ShadowMar posted:

the "developers" released a shitton bunch of dogshit assetflip games back on the same day november for $50 each, got a bunch of fake blatantly AI generated reviews in december in order to bypass steam's "we're still learning about this game" filter, and then suddenly flipped the switch on all these games into looking like other more successful games all at once.

this was pre-meditated as gently caress lol.

Idiootti posted:

Honestly as long as it's all cosmetics and I get to midair people I don't care. I feel like the mistake that Ascend made was that you had to grind for a century to get weapons that were op at launch or paid you paid out the rear end for them. If morons buying shiny skins keeps the gamiäe getting updated I'm all for it.