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ultrafilter posted:If you're interested in hidden gems there's a thread for that. this is cheating, you should have to find that thread on your own
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Sprenk posted:I was thinking of getting back into Stellaris. I played about a hundred hours when it came out, the only DLC I have is Leviathans. There's a bundle for literally over a hundred bucks for all the DLC (with the sale) - is there a list somewhere on which DLC are most relevant? It's a bit overwhelming. Covered in the OP of the Stellaris thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3850079
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OzFactor posted:So here's a question that is likely to rile everybody up: I didn't ever play Doom 2016 but I always wanted to. But now because I can't ever remember to cancel Humble, I have Doom Eternal. Obviously I'm not asking about the story of a Doom game, but is there any particular reason I shouldn't play Eternal first? You're going to be completely lost and not know whether to shoot a demon or hug it.
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on the computer posted:crossposting from the sagas thread: did you really join on your reg date? lol tell the sagas thread to gently caress off forever, thank you
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LLSix posted:Anyone think we'll ever get a Fallout 5? We skipped right past 5-75, sorry.
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John Murdoch posted:Of the modern Bethesda games, the biggest issues for me were: I got poo poo to do, I absolutely do not want to be taking 5-10+ minutes to get to the same places over and over again you psycho.
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John Murdoch posted:I think you misread something. I do not actually think you're a psycho and I understand what you wrote just fine, the weirdly hostile part was a joke. I don't like when games don't respect my time and IMO it's not fun to walk/run/drive the same path 50 times instead of being able to fast travel once I've travelled there already. Though for an RPG I like a chance at random encounters when fast travelling.
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Apparently fast travel since that's all I've mentioned. I'm fine with unlockable fast travel, which is how almost every game handles it, being able to go everywhere immediately sounds bad but I've never played a game that does that, that I can recall. As mentioned in Skyrim you pay for someone to take you between cities but I wouldn't call that immediately available fast travel. You have to go to one of the hubs first, go the wagon master or whatever and pay to get to the other city. RandomBlue fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Jan 7, 2023 |
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Talk about games respecting my time then I play like 90% survival crafting games. Don't @ me.
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Anno posted:I just think "don't respect your time" is a weird way of looking at something. Nothing inherently does or doesn't respect your time - things are made a certain way for a certain reason, and if you don't like that decision it's fine and maybe the game isn't for you, but it doesn't mean it doesn't respect you. Just say you don't like X game dev decision and move on. Unskippable cutscenes are the epitome of a game not respecting my time, especially the second time around (after a death, etc..).
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StrixNebulosa posted:If I could use a memory-deleting gun on any video games so I could play it brand new for the first time again, it would be Obra Dinn. For me it would be Firewatch.
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HopperUK posted:Stop right now, thread. We're not doing this again today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1F7vaNP9w0
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:Of the games I finished from August to now, I liked: Here is my gaming resume goonsirs, I believe this proves my opinions are beyond reproach!
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Cowcaster posted:did everspace 2 end up being any good? i liked everspace 1 well enough but i didn't think the genres of space flight sim and roguelike meshed together very well which sounds like was the major thing everspace 2 changed I like Everspace 2, it's a more traditional game, I'd compare it to Freelancer.
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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. Everspace 2 is a lot like this IMO.
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hogwarts drinking a polyjuice potion and sneaking into the thread hi posters wouldn't this kind of game be cool?
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SirSamVimes posted:Editting a post out when posted in the wrong thread is cowardice imo. Just add a wrong thread note to the end it's about bravery in video game posting
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Rinkles posted:I'm getting real mad cause bad at NFS Heat. I suck at driving, so I knew what I was signing up for, but my lizard brain still can't help but get frustrated. You can also initiate it by tapping the e-brake while turning and accelerating, which is my preferred method. Best way to escape cops are jumps, you can pause and go to the map and route to the nearest jump and hit that and lose them pretty easily. Croccers posted:You can change that in the options. I like Unbound a little more than Heat but I think I'm in the minority. IMO the music in Unbound is a lot better than previous games and the day/night cycle stuff is handled more interestingly. Heat does have a pretty map though, especially the view when racing down the mountain toward the city, that was breathtaking the first time I saw it the morning with the sun coming up after some rain. Whatever you do, avoid Need For Speed 2016 like the plague though. The other NFS games up through Hot Pursuit (2010) still hold up and look pretty good except Rivals, which is locked at 30fps and feels like poo poo. There's a 60fps workaround but if you ever drop below 60fps the physics go to poo poo because they're affected by framerate. Always invest in the highest tier of radar jammer you can afford for your main vehicle, it increases detection time and lets you just blow past cops 90% of the time. Though if you are coming up on cops and have heat it's just as easy to ram them at full speed and one shot them if they're solo. Helicopters I don't hide from once detected, I just get on a freeway and drive until they run out of gas, then ditch whatever cops are still tailing me if any, they don't last that long. Got into a racing kick recently and played through Unbound, Heat and Payback recently with a little bit of Hot Pursuit and Most Wanted. They fill a niche for me that Forza Horizons and Motorsports don't. Thank you for reading my NFS dissertation. RandomBlue fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Jan 21, 2023 |
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Wiltsghost posted:I've played so much Forza I just can't wrap my head around how cars handle in this game. I've tried to get into it so many times but I just get frustrated. It's like I have to unlearn everything. I like NFS's drifting tracks way better than equivalent in Forza. Forza just feels like I'm trying to randomly spin and slide around everywhere with no real goal except not breaking the "skill chain" whereas NFS actually has actual drifting tracks with a guided path and poo poo setup for you to drift through and it feels like you have some guidance and actual goals other than just "do poo poo randomly until you hit something or the skill chain timer expires then do that again". Though I generally don't like drifting in racing games, NFS Unbound and Heat are probably the first two racing games where I've enjoyed it once I got used to it.
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Jack Trades posted:I tried it on the free trial and while the gameplay seemed...okay, the performance was god awful. I couldn't not get stable 60fps no matter what. Weird, it performed better than NFS Heat for me. (PC AMD CPU, nVidia GPU)
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kazil posted:that game is going to be 50% off in the summer sale too optimistic
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I said come in! posted:I really don't get the point the author of this review is trying to make here, or why any of this matters? You can't just put black people in games willy nilly!!!!
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:trailer owns you sure you don't mean roguelike?
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Inept posted:my account is over 18 years old please stop asking if i'm over 18 no also stop asking if you want to show this prompt every time, this never loving works
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AfricanBootyShine posted:What are the most graphically demanding games with stylized/unique art direction? Grounded Need For Speed Unbound
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Tiny Timbs posted:Probably for the best. The demo I played a while ago didn’t do much at all to distinguish it from the first game, so I hope they’ve put a bunch of work into it since then. I don't know what was in that demo but it is very different from the first game.
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Rebel Blob posted:What has supplanted Hogwarts Legacy atop the New & Trending tab of Steam? Why only the newest release from the Sex with Hitler series developer. Tower Tactics is at the top of my list because I have all the rest of that poo poo filtered or ignored. Tower Tactics is really good.
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Teriyaki Koinku posted:Could anyone give some recommendations for good deck building games on Steam? I've really enjoyed Slay the Spire, but I'm hoping to branch out a bit to other games that still involve a deck building element. Tower Tactics is real good IMO, though a bit on the easy side. It's a deck based rogue-like tower defense game, three things I'm sick of in general but they really work together in this game.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:who the gently caress ends the weekend free play on sunday evening, I spent this time downloading it after hemming and hawing and can't even try it. gently caress you 2k lol, owned
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Oldstench posted:How does Returnal run on lower-specced machines? I'm rocking an i5-6600K and a 1660 Ti; not exactly a powerhouse. I'm on a 5950x , 3090, 64GB of RAM nVME SSD @ 4K (under Win11) and I get frequent stuttering from poo poo loading in, mostly when changing rooms though I'm usually at 60fps. Others have reported stuttering issues as well. The explode after dashing skill seem to cause a slight stutter at the end every time, it's weird. It's playable but it's definitely not smooth on my system. repiv posted:the worst of the stuttering is related to having raytracing enabled, if you turn off every RT setting it's much better behaved RT all off on my machine, I always leave that poo poo off, it's never worth it. RandomBlue fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Feb 21, 2023 |
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Exodee posted:What the gently caress, I can count the amount of hitches I've had in Returnal and Elden Ring on one hand and I'm on an almost three year old mid-range Radeon. Pretty easy to find people reporting the same poo poo about Returnal on the PS5, it might just be that some people are more sensitive to it than others. For example: https://www.reddit.com/r/Returnal/comments/ndptcr/is_anyone_experiencing_this_kind_of_stutter/
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Maybe it's because my specs are similar to the consoles they originated from?
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Exodee posted:That video doesn't load for me, but I did find this one: Yeah, that second video is what I experience. It's annoying as gently caress but still playable.
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I updated my BIOS and made sure resizable bar support was enabled just to see if it'd fix Returnal stutters. Psycho poo poo. I think it might have but I haven't played long yet, not through a full room even. pcgaming.txt 
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Hwurmp posted:Nemesis System but also with romance Romenses
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Sininu posted:I really want to learn more about the new netcode because it's something completely new to games and I don't understand it. MMF Freeway posted:yeah I need someone to explain how this works to me like a baby I believe the change is that your input is sent to the server as it happens and is processed immediately (event driven) instead of only processing those changes every Xms. The updates from the server to clients are likely still per tick (or every Xms) but they know exactly when you fired, jumped, turned, etc.. to more accurately calculate hits and misses and rely less on prediction. But that's just how I interpret what they've said in the video.
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Don't know if I missed discussion about this or not but: https://twitter.com/ASUS_ROG/status/1642882143193010176  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drLZxyv79Oo Windows 11 based.
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Meant to post that in the Steam Deck thread, whoops. Someone else already did though so it all worked out. Another posting success story!
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Cross-Section posted:and it will only cost 999 dollars Yeah, concerned about the price but the guy in the preview video says ASUS is very aware that the $400 price point was critical to Steam Deck's success and thinks they'll hit a $600 price point for base model and I agree. Performance and being Windows based are two big pluses for me if battery life doesn't suck poo poo since I'd rather be able to run XBox gamepass games locally versus streaming them under Linux. Ergonomics don't look great though compared to the steam deck, those edges look uncomfortable. If base model is ~$600 and you can get about the same amount of play time as the deck then it'll be a strong competitor IMO.
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Orv posted:Extreme nerd nitpick time; if a lightsaber blade is weightless and the Force is what lets you use one without slicing your own face off (which I assume has been contradicted in various EU stuff like eighty thousand times) why aren't the streets out back of the Jedi Temple filled with the bodies of poo poo padawans? look at this poster who skipped episode 2 I envy you
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