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Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.


Stoom, aangedreven door Klep Zachte Waren.

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Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

Metal Slug 3 is a quartermuncher compared to the previous games. It feels balanced around you having a special weapon most of the time, so if you die and respawn with your default pistol you really have to be a crack shot. Otherwise you keep dying until you have to use a continue, because that respawns you with a special weapon.

3 is a better game, but if I wanted a quick half hour game of Metal Slug I would reinstall X instead. I prefer being able to survive even without a rocket lawnchair.

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

Obra Dinn let me know I had a hint to identify a character really early, but I used a different kind of logic later on (or I just guessed it lmao).

It involved seeing a ring on a lady's finger.

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

Rinkles posted:

What? That’s lovely.

I think it happened at the end of 2021, it was not a recent thing.

Serephina posted:

The online features of SoW where the part of the product you tried to interact with the least, they added nothing but grind for most players trying to enjoy the "game proper". There's probably one guy who enjoyed crafting misery captains to annoy other players in multi, and yes for him this is a great loss. Otherwise meh.

edit: I think I transferred one captain who was a plot character to a place that had significance to him before he got lobotomized, but there was no special dialogue/cheevo, so it was all wasted effort *shakes fist*

Yeah, you could transfer one buddy and one nemesis from the first game, but they were cases where because of changed models you'd wouldn't even notice them.

The leaderboards were for a couple DLC challenges. Meh, only a noteworthy loss for the handful of people at the very top, I guess?

The whole "avenge a friend" and "let your friends avenge" thing might have been relevant when the game was popular, but when I played the game in 2021 I got an avenge mission only a single time in 30+ hours of play.

It will be a far bigger deal if sequel Shadow of War ever loses its online funtionality. To think my outpost filled with orc captains with poison weapons and immunity to Last Stand would be gone :'(

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

The Kins posted:

Just announced: Yggdra Union, a remaster of a GBA/PSP tactical RPG. This technically came out on mobile four years ago, but it's in English now. New features include rewinding, autosave, multiple voice tracks and PC-centric control improvements.



It'll hit Early Access on Feb 7 with all the content and features included, and spend a few months there making tweaks and fixing bug reports before declaring it done.

That looks so clean. The GBA version not only had a dozen things going on at the same time, it also was just mess of pixels. It was almost admirable how much they were trying to cram into 240 × 160.

Edit: Apparently it also received a Switch port that wasn't localized. I'm guessing this version is based on that.

Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 14:28 on Jan 24, 2023

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

Weedle posted:

it's crazy how pretty much everything square enix does anymore is half-baked dogshit, except final fantasy 14 which inexplicably continues to get even better

Clearly their business model from now on should just be to fill a dumpster, set it on fire and then build a superior second version from the ashes!

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

credburn posted:

I want to play Tyranny but it's annoying me the same way Path of Exile did and I suspect PoE2 will; why does my character have like a dozen abilities/skills that are so extremely specific and detailed in what they do? It's overwhelming. I want something more complex than click-on-bad-guy-to-whack-with-club but I get really stressed out with leveling up badly or not utilizing class abilities correctly or underutilizing skills the developers are expecting me to use...

Mage/wizard/whatever it is called is great with the whole customize your spells feature. That might bring some more anxiety at first (even more choices to make!) but just using your creations gives you great feedback on what works, what is okay and what just plain sucks.

At the end of Act 1 you gain access to your first Spire and you'll be able to recruit people for it. The most expensive of them is Fatebinder Cesper* who allows you to respec infinitely at no additional cost whatsoever. This can be time consuming because of all the stats it resets for a character, but you'll be able to funnel all the experience you've earned in the things you like instead of them sitting there.

One of the companions initially appeared great to me with focus on unarmed combat. At a sudden point I switched her to solely attacking with melee weapons. It was way better and I'm glad the game gave me the opportunity to radically change her talents like that.

*apparently he was added in a patch, for those who played Tyranny at launch

Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Feb 2, 2023

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

pentyne posted:

I thought Fallout 3 didn't even work on anything past windows XP?

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/22370/view/2993196769824312887

They removed the GFWL dependancy, so you probably no longer need a guide to get it running.

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

I watched someone stream it yesterday that noted you DON'T need to finish a level before you can publish it. So you put those hooks behind corrosive cubes that aren't seethrough all you want.

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

exquisite tea posted:

Horizon was rough for like a month and then was fixed to be above average. Every other Sony port has had a good track record.

Yeah, Sony hired Nixxes to patch HZD and then acquired them a year later. That doesn't mean their PlayStation ports are going to be flawless, but at least they're by a studio that knows what it is doing.


I've been watching a streamer play this and he describes it as "jank, but the good kind of jank". I can't imagine most people would want to pay more than 20 bucka for it tho, it really is wonky. The sound balancing is downright awful.

Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 09:36 on Feb 14, 2023

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

PowerBeard posted:

Is every level a swastika?

No, you are thinking of Wolfenstein 3D.

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

GreenBuckanneer posted:



As an American this feels a little tone deaf

The deadliest train crash in Greek history occured not even two weeks ago. It involved a head-on collision between a freight train and a passenger train. 57 people died.

What I am saying is, they had a way better train crash to be upset about. The Ohio one has only killed animals thus far? Pfft.

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

NoEyedSquareGuy posted:



The Steam store really wants me to buy this game.

:-D

https://twitter.com/JoeMashups/status/1636223538553126912/

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

ScootsMcSkirt posted:

why would you want to transfer orcs? Theres more than enough in each territory

If you to shove all the ranged assassin orc captains with "No Chance" you've recruited in one stronghold to piss off people doing an online raids.

Yeah, for that one specific scenario it is mildly annoying.

Edit: I posted this on the toilet. It is rather obvious in hindsight.

Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Mar 20, 2023

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

HopperUK posted:

Who's the best Shadows orc? I like the one who rhymes all the time. And the one who's creepily in love with you. It's just so unexpected.

I like One-Word.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ1Xbj3zu_g

I also like the look of the Olog who is called "Dwarfhater" or something. He has a necklace of dwarven skulls... with their beards still attached to them.

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

kazil posted:

Bad port

People are saying it was done by Iron Galaxy.

Not the company that specializes in PC ports that Sony acquired two years ago.

???

Edit: Nixxes has a limited amount of employees, they can't do everything. But still...

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

2023 BAFTA awards winner for British Game, Rollerdrome.

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

1upmuffin posted:

Boneraiser Minions: Extremely fun Survivor type game, every level up you get to choose from a list of 3-4 minions to summon, some can be levelled up, and some can be combined to created stronger minions. Lots of upgrades, characters, and stages. It's part of the Humble Bundle survivor bundle, but I don't know anything about the other games in that bundle so I can't say if it's worth it or not.

Rogue: Genesia is well liked by fans of the genre. Nomad Survival is one of the earliest VS style games that is fine, it just doesn't keep your attention for that long. The biggest complaint about Scarlet Tower is that it is too much like Vampire Survivors instead of a game in the genre, but that might not be a bad thing to same.

Only played the demos for Just King and Rependitium. They feel too different for me to be bundled in with the others, but hey, plenty of quality stuff in the bundle regardless.

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

The 7th Guest posted:


Etrian Odyssey Collection - May 31 - Three very pricey ($40 each) HD remasters that somehow manage to find a way to preserve the all-important map drawing of the series by halving the screen. For some reason the enemy sprites are not 3D like the 3DS remakes had but high res 2D art. And the english font looks bad. But, they're rescued from a dead platform and that's all that matters I guess. Will we see 4, 5 and Nexus as a separate trilogy? Probably. Not anytime soon I would imagine.

They are remasters of the DS games, not of remakes Untold 1 and Untold 2 for the 3DS. Hence the beasts and monsters are all 2D and they still use the old skillsets.

Since I still have a 3DS I only care about the third game (which didn't get a 3DS remake), but I'll just wait for the first 50% off sale before I even consider buying it. You all should definitely buy it tho so they know there might be interest in new EO games!

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

zoux posted:

Well they need a better word, a word for a place where you mix chemicals. Alas there is none in our pathetic tongue.

Meth Lab Ryza: The Alchemist of Albuquerque

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

Parallelwoody posted:

How's Beyond Good and Evil 2 coming along? I'm sure it's about to release any day now right?

https://twitter.com/EdmondTran/status/1668322778548965376

Maybe they've started making Shirley Temples from that warehouse of lemons.

Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 10:49 on Jun 13, 2023

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

The HD remaster of Ghost Trick has a demo now:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1967430/Ghost_Trick_Phantom_Detective/

Haven't played it yet, but I assume the demo portion is the first chapters of the game.

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

Imagine the Firewatch devs thinking they could actually continue working on their second game when they joined Valve. What arrogance!

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

It's definitely a case with a lot of Vampire Survivors clones that they release a free Prologue or Prelude before they go into early access. A really early demo in the hopes of getting enough people invested in your product, because you're not going to stand out in this space without word of mouth.

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

socialsecurity posted:

I love Transistor, for whatever reason it will always be my favorite game, it just clicked with me so much I played it through a second time immediately when I never replay anything ever.

Same. I wasn't constantly experimenting with the abilities, but even just the handful of new combinations I created with two copies of an ability was great. The second time round I was able to beat the final battle without getting hit once, which felt amazing.

Just a constant rotation of debuff, insane DoT ability and dash, dash, dash far away! By the time he came close I was recharged and did it all over again.

Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 11:30 on Jun 25, 2023

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

If you are going through a series of games it might help to reduce your daily intake. Don't make it your main game that you marathon whenever you've got nothing better to do.

I'm on my fourth Etrian Odyssey game of this year right now and I think the main reason I'm not sick of it yet I because I play less than an hour of it, right before I go to bed. I sometimes don't even bother with it if I'm feeling tired.

That's the benefit of turn-based games that don't rely on your reaction speed and/or quick inputs tho.

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

Also, this from a couple days ago:
https://www.pcgamer.com/making-call-of-duty-a-battlenet-exclusive-was-a-resounding-failure-argues-microsoft/

"Activision's attempt to take PC digital sales of Call of Duty exclusive to its Battle.net platform was a resounding failure," reads part of the document. "Before 2018, Activision sold digital versions of PC Call of Duty titles on Valve's successful Steam platform. In 2018, Activision decided to take the game off of Steam and make it exclusively available on Battle.net—largely in an effort to attract users to, and grow, Activision's own platform. Battle.net's monthly active users ('MAUs') remained relatively flat during the period when it had exclusive access to digital sales of Call of Duty on PC, from 2018 through 2022."

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

Leal posted:

Now that Blizzard and EA came crawling back to steam, when is Ubisoft going to follow suit?

They added a bunch of newer titles last year. Might not be a guaranteed thing going forward tho, I think the upcoming Assassin's Creed will just be on Ubisoft's store and Epic Games.

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

MonkeyforaHead posted:

I got Legends on Steam, Black Flag I must have gotten on Uplay directly because I remember they were running a Uplay-exclusive ridiculous discount or outright "just grab the game for free" promo of some sort. I was actually just logging in on the ubisoftconnect.com website instead of either client, but I guess I'll shoot a line to support and see where that gets me.

The site merely seems to show you games you've played. The client shows you everything attached to your account.

I see several games that had a free weekend on the site, because while I don't own those titles that's stuff I actually installed and played for a bit. The client shows your entire backlog, like (in my case) the AC discovery tours, the first 2 Watch_Dogs games, Rayman games, AC Black Flag and Unity.

Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 11:34 on Jul 25, 2023

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

Orv posted:

Aerie is a problem but the romance mods for BG get much, much worse than that.

In the main game your romance can lead to Aerie getting pregnant and I'm pretty sure you still can kick her out of your party before AND after she's given birth (off-screen). Obviously she is quite upset about it, but she vanishes afterwards instead of dropping death on the spot. I think none of the other party NPCs acknowledge it too (then again, I didn't have Haer'Dalis in my party, and he fancies Aerie).

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

Edmond Dantes posted:

Man, this is the coolest poo poo. Blind SF6 player at EVO.



Videogames... good?

From a couple years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6IjmmFcoWw

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

Jack Trades posted:

Also wow, I didn't expect Steam to actively promote the porn game category.


I thought they were a little bit more hush hush about it with AO games being hidden by default.

Only shows up if you have your account is set to view that kind of content.

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

Also from that THQ event, the upcoming reboot of Alone In The Dark featuring David Harbour and Jodie Comer has a downloadable "prologue" (in which apparently you are a different character from those two).

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1310410/Alone_in_the_Dark/

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

Lunsku posted:

Is the TQ2 coming from Grim Dawn devs or from the TQ later expansions developers (or similar)? That's honestly my biggest question.

It's a different studio making TQ2, not even one that was credited with the Titan Quest expansions made in more recent years.

Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Aug 11, 2023

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

It's a free-to-play game so I can imagine a lot of people with gripes about Overwatch in the past years have come out of the woodwork to do a quick drive-by review.

I understand it.

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

Orv posted:

There was that DOA Robin Hood asymmetric PvP game from a year or two ago but until this new one I can’t think of any others.

Hood: Outlaws & Legends

I had a heck of a time with finding out what it was called until I remembered that the lady who voices Diana Burnwood in the Hitman trilogy narrated the trailer(s?) for that one. What a ridiculous detail to discover that.

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

Be sure to visit the points shop to claim a free tunak tunak tun profile background and feel extremely old.

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

That wasn't possible in the game originally, it was one of the additions in the big update in the year after the game released.

https://kotaku.com/ubisoft-is-massively-reworking-ghost-recon-breakpoint-1842127799

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

Logiart Grimoire launched in early access yesterday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2492390/Logiart_Grimoire/

It's a new picross/nonogram game by the studio that has been making them for Nintendo devices for more than 2 decades. You unlock new puzzles by ranking up (= completing X amount of puzzles) and by "fusion". That basically involves combining the pictures of earlier puzzles to create new ones. The hints for these fusion puzzles have been pretty easy thus far. There are also a handful of puzzles that are created if you happen to mess up a fusion (they look like simple doodles).


Monkee + brain = human, me smart!

Right now it just has mouse controls and so it's not ready for the Steam Deck yet. They are working on it though, alongside interface improvements (first patch added a quit to desktop button, progress!). I don't know how I feel about them asking the community to point out spelling mistakes and such. There is the occasional bit of grammar that makes me think they are better off just hiring an editor to review all the descriptions and rewrite them where needed.

Outside of a single 20x15 puzzle, I haven't unlocked anything bigger than 15x15 yet, but I imagine I've seen 1/5 of its puzzles at best. If you're not that familiar with picross there are 2 tutorials and 3 assist options: one that auto-corrects boxes you filled incorrectly, a "roulette" that reveals a single row and column of boxes at the beginning, and the blue highlight that shows you which rows and columns have boxes you could figure out. The game keeps track of which ones you used to solve a puzzle or if there was no assist.


The latter assist is nice if you want to knock out a puzzle in a couple of minutes without getting those situations where you're kinda stuck for a while.

Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 14:19 on Sep 13, 2023

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Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

You won't be able to make sense of E.Y.E.'s story/world so its easier to not even try. If you're going to stick with it I would definitely make sure you can use 444 Bear Killer pistol, since it has Armor Piercing. There are (later) enemies that are almost unkillable without it. The TRK A.D and Hunting Machine rifles also have Armor Piercing, but they're less flexible in usage.

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