pentyne posted:

Final Fantasy X

pentyne posted:

Elden Ring

pentyne posted:

Sakuna of Rice and Ruin

pentyne posted:

Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire

pentyne posted:

Yakuza 4

pentyne posted:

Warhammer 40K Inquistor

pentyne posted:

Yakuza 5
Okay, there's no polite way to say this, but this game is dumb, like terminally dumb, in a way I have never seen in the Yakuza series up to this point.

8/10.

Kin posted:

I've never understood this about FFX. It's always been full of bland characters, a generally boring story, super linear paths and an asinine way to level up.

It has some nice visuals but it's just meh as a game.

I often wonder if it has the same hype behind it as FF7 does because it might have been the first FF for some people after they got a PS2 as their first console.

The 7th Guest posted:

*yelling loudly at the cashier* excuse me does this cereal have any GMOs in it??? i'm not allergic, i just need to know if it has a lot of GMOs or if its GMO free

A Cup of Ramen posted:

Has anyone played https://store.steampowered.com/app/1874490/Potionomics/ ?

If they have could they say if it's in any way similar to Recettear? I've been looking for another game to scratch that itch for awhile now and this looks like the closest yet but still would like some goon opinions if possible.

Otherwise I might just pick up the Spark The Electric Jester pack or somethin for this winter sale.

Lord Lambeth posted:

Horizon Zero Dawn does this. I think it's a pretty game and worth gawping at the scenery.

DerekSmartymans posted:

The short answer is the game was very popular in online communities, and the Retsuprae guy(s?) were doing a Let’s Play that was dramatically popular with fans of the game, until Lowtax dropped it behind the paywall suddenly. Cue dozens of new accounts and new accounts getting banned and reregged and getting banned again because the fandom wasn’t a good fit for Lowtax’s goonforum of the day.

I just remember it as a reverse forum invasion of weebs and tumblrites and who are a part of anything online, and the goon response to that reverse forum invasion-that-you-had-to-pay--just-to-get-trolled-then-banned 🤔.

E: f;b

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Gromit posted:

About to install Outer Wilds. I bought it during the sale because everyone raved about it and I think the genre sounded appealing? But I don't remember a single thing about the game so I don't think I've ever gone into a game as blind as this. I hope it stands up to your hype!

tithin posted:

whatever happened to Derek Smart

JollyBoyJohn posted:

if they didnt want that to happen they should have made a good game and not diablo x anime + overwhelming currency system

NoEyedSquareGuy posted:

Obra Dinn confirmed that I would make a terrible detective. The guy who gave me the book was so disappointed in my work that he straight up died.

Cowcaster posted:

for all the negative press blowing up about it, it looks like forspoken's sitting at #2 on steam's "top sellers" list.

right behind the harry potter game at #1.

i don't appreciate that.

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Narratively, Forspoken is interesting; mechanically and technically, not so much. The game feels unfinished, like there’s a level of technical polish missing.

I also didn’t appreciate how Forspoken encouraged exploration in the open world but then either enclosed part of that world in weird box canyons I couldn’t escape or neglected to fill the world with anything to discover. Athia is beautiful, with mountains and meadows and ominous-looking ruins; Athia is also drat-near completely empty. But Frey’s magical parkour abilities make endless running in an empty world enthralling.

I had so many spells at my disposal — fire, water, earth, electricity — and so many ways to hurt my opponents with those spells, like lances, arrows, swords, magical plants that spit rocks, a water prison, and a cool flechette type attack that hits the enemy all over its body. But most of my combat encounters were just swarms of enemies whose only technical complexity was their sheer number. Bosses were little more than really big monsters with two attacks and a lot of health.

Combat was one-note and — even worse — kinda useless. Frey powers up her magic with mana that she earns either through traditionally leveling up by fighting monsters or completing quests or by picking it up in the open world. Leveling up earns maybe 12-14 mana per level. Meanwhile, I can collect all the mana I want just by walking around.

But there’s a twist. I won’t reveal it here, but it felt like all of the action leading up to the final battle was cut, swapped out for an extended, partially playable cutscene. The final battle itself was also not great, a longer extension of the game’s “fight big guy with lots of health” standard. But the ending I chose (there is more than one) was fantastic and totally in line with me as a person and Frey as a character. By that ending, what had been a totally ho-hum back half transformed into something that’s probably gonna make my game of the year list.

Jack Trades posted:

That makes me wonder.
Are there any good games where the player character is an explicit target of racism or other kind of discrimination?
Preferably in the way that actually affects gameplay, because I'll be honest, nobody NPCs in Skyrim occasionally yelling weak-sauce made-up slurs at you doesn't make me feel anything.

I know Arcanum is one of the games that actually exposes you to reasonably realistic racism if you play as a Gnome or an Orc.
Merchants and Innkeepers will often rip you off and occasional quests will be more annoying to do because you won't be given as much leniency in the high society.

Tiny Timbs posted:

I’m going to go out on a limb here with the suggestion that very few minorities that see themselves represented in a fantasy video game want that to carry the baggage of IRL racism. It may just be that ticking the box is what people have been asking for for decades, and re-exposing people to serious real world issues can be left for another game.

It just seems like a completely synthetic remark by the twitter journalist class

The 7th Guest posted:

i only watched the first hour of forspoken but the protagonist is depicted as a troubled youth in gang trouble with multiple felony charges to their name, squatting in an abandoned apartment building

it's like a hodgepodge of hollywood movie tropes

the discussion of "can't it just be a black character and that's it" is funny to me because, if you look at the average isekai story, it's a power fantasy where someone overworks themselves or just happens to get hit by a truck, and otherwise their life is pretty average if not completely unexceptional. this is not that. the character's blackness does factor in, and i would say, in not a great way from this writing team. the only person frea knows outside of the gang is a judge who apparently ALSO was a troubled youth according to her lore info?? i'm not calling it racist and i'm not a kotaku writer, I just think it's kinda eye-rolly especially when you factor in that "hip hoppy walk" comment. were there any black writers on the team? any consultants? i have no idea

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You can also adjust how frequently Cuff speaks up. The ambient dialogue in Forspoken doesn’t vary much, and repetitive quips in combat can quickly get tiring. In the accessibility settings menu, you can turn Cuff chat frequency from high (Frey and Cuff more or less run a podcast) to low (Frey and Cuff engage in a standard amount of video game banter) to minimal (Frey and Cuff are limited to story-essential chatter).

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In the accessibility settings menu, under world settings, you can turn on automatic item gathering. This will make it so any crafting materials you’re near will instantly go into your inventory.

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gameplay balance menu, you’ll see options that can reduce how much damage you receive, increase your stamina recovery speed, or extend how long toppled enemies remain immobile. (You can essentially unlock of these perks throughout normal gameplay.) But the setting to tweak is spell-switching slowdown.

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If you also agree with the constituents of the 192 countries who primarily use the metric system, you can make this swap in the accessibility settings menu — it’s listed, for some reason, under the subtitle settings section.

exquisite tea posted:

It looks like you can fly from some later-game shots but you seem to be more limited in the beginning.

Anno posted:

This was the second most wishlisted game on Steam. Was it truly a scam, as many thought? Taken down because of some Epic shenanigans (I'm sure they needed the money)?

exquisite tea posted:

Well, Forspoken has definitely got some optimization issues on PC. Attempting to run the demo at 1440p Ultra with a Ryzen 5600x + RTX3080 and Quality DLSS can hit about 60fps in the open world, but it's real shaky. I did the first bridge fight and FPS tanked down into the 20s, which very frequent dips all over the place. Whatever's happening appears to be tied to VRAM usage, my poor GPU was constantly tapped out. Even my RAM usage was at about 21GB, never seen that before. Visually it's a whole lot poppier than PS5, but this game does not look anywhere good enough to justify that kind of performance.

Away all Goats posted:

Oh believe me, as someone who literally skips every cutscene the first time I play game, the required friendship building is easily the worst part of the game for me.

Away all Goats posted:

If developers want me to pay attention to their storyline they should make a good game first IMO

The 7th Guest posted:

the dialog in the trailer has some of that 90s cringe to it as cowcaster said, although i'd say it felt like a different flavor of bad than the other types of AAA bad writing. more just, jokes that don't work and stale humor. the "well at least things can't get worse" *things get worse* kind of humor. rather than lampshading "THIS trope again!" humor

but the art team put a lot of love into the game. i wish writing teams were in love with the material as much as the design/art team was for these AAA games. because the art direction is actually pretty good, the animation almost Orange-level for what is in-game engine character animation. and that was kind of my feeling on Evil Within 2 as well, where the art/design team had a ball and the writing team was dragging behind not having the same amount of fun (except for a couple of notable scenes)

i'll have to see how it reviews

this trailer also made me realize i should at some point give sunset overdrive a fair chance

Trick Question posted:

Not really. Forsaken feels like it's apologizing for being a fantasy world, while this feels stupid but at least sincere. Now if at some point in the game someone says "you fight with a guitar? that's stupid" then that would be terrible

Resdfru posted:

Maybe I'm weird but it doesn't seem out of character for a teenager to react like that to something like that. Not everyone would react that way but likewise not everyone is gonna react all amazed or whatever.

This game doesn't look great but it really doesn't look as bad like the worst game of all time as the internet wants me to think. But to be fair I'm basing this on clips as I haven't played it

Private Speech posted:

Should I get Forspoken if I'm a huge sucker for janky action-RPGs and have a decent PC, but could never get more than 5 minutes into a Marvel film (I tried a couple times).

I also loved FF15 and Prototype and like games with only female protagonists.

Private Speech posted:

Oh I didn't know there was a demo, I'll see what it's like, though not sure if I can see the content density of it given the demo limitations.

In terms of sparseness I'm somewhat tolerant of it but also not really? I played AC: Valhalla which I thought was really sparse and bland, but I'm currently playing Outward about which half the reviews seem to claim that it is underpopulated but I'm loving it. I thought Horizon: Zero Dawn was a bit too busy of a game, for comparison.

e: I quite like Mars: War Logs, Feary: Legend of Avalon and The Technomancer, haven't really played the other spiders ones.

Perestroika posted:

Yeah, it's such an incredibly basic mistake. You could literally throw together a better, non-repeating procedural sky texture in Blender in like 10 minutes. Hell, including the clouds, too. For a multimillion ostensibly AAA game it's just

Serephina posted:

Syndicate fps will be remembered mostly for how it thoroughly abused Bloom, as one of the worst offenders when that fad briefly blew through.

victrix posted:

removing access to games is never good

gently caress you epic