Steam Thread:It's easier to believe in myself with a +5 gargoyle tail axe in my hands

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anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

StrixNebulosa posted:

- Is Elden Ring any easier than Dark Souls? I like the idea of exploring a huge open world, but I kinda suck at the genre.

I'd say yes since the open world fixes the whole issue of being stuck on a boss - basically until the very end, you can always go explore somewhere else and grab levels and equipment.
And the open world is straight-up amazing.

# ¿ Jan 1, 2023 21:21

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 21:04

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Jack Trades posted:

My favorite thing about Dark Souls 2 is how you can start with one of the best weapon for beating the hordes of generic armored dudes, the mace, and then if you have pre-ordered you get to start with an upgraded version of that weapon, the homunculus mace.

I found there to be little to no reason to switch from it unless you were fighting two or three enemy types that weren't armored dudes.

I honestly find the game a lot more fun without abusing strike damage. Discovering the mace early on just discourages experimenting with all the weird weapons Dark Souls 2 has.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2023 16:11

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StrixNebulosa posted:

You should really go visit the friend napping in front of that drawbridge to the left.

Speaking of things this thread was missing:

# ¿ Jan 4, 2023 22:33

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

How about Yoku's Island Express?

# ¿ Jan 11, 2023 13:34

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Rinkles posted:

Anyone play Disciples: Liberation?

First impressions were decent but now I�m beginning to think everything is too slow. And the map is pointlessly littered with high level enemies. There was some of that in the originals, but usually you�d have to go out of your way to find them.

I'm currently playing it and liking it a lot, although it is necessary to speed up combat animations before you die of old age. The units' abilities have interesting combinations and the story is a lot more responsive to your choices than you'd expect from a strategy game.

That being said I don't think it's gonna change much from what you've already seen. The enemy levels, however, are only really relevant on the first map or two - if you do sidequests, you'll end up overleveling 90% of random encounters (giving you a handy auto-win-battle option) and only having to do the trickier fights.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2023 00:13

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ymgve posted:

What about the cliff racers?

The annoyance factor is really overstated. The big ones in Skyrim are far worse.

anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Jan 15, 2023

# ¿ Jan 15, 2023 18:57

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Black Griffon posted:

You have plenty of time to explore once you adapt to the conceit and learn how to quickly and effectively get to places. Some things are gated behind events to be sure, but the process of change is something to discover and admire on its own.

Yeah, I never really felt pressed for time once I had a clear set of goals.

The DLC is another matter entirely, though.

# ¿ Jan 15, 2023 22:23

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Triarii posted:

Some people tried to paint it as "the entire game is you just building a fence and then poking zombies through it with a pole" but that's something you do in, like, your first fight before you get better weapons.

The problem is in the complete lack of equipment variety. There's what, three guns? In Metal Gear where the gameplay is all about the toys and messing with enemies?

And yes, you unlock more stuff in postgame. The only trouble is that the postgame consists exclusively of lovely base defense missions.

e: And it reuses maps from MGS5. Can't have a decent craft'em'up without satisfying exploration. Ugh. I really wanted to like that game and it managed to disappoint in every regard.

anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Jan 16, 2023

# ¿ Jan 16, 2023 23:09

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Lunsku posted:

Should just go silly with the achievements, Civilization 6 comes to mind.

IIRC Civ V has one where you have to nuke someone in 2012 as the Mayans.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2023 21:08

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Disposable Scud posted:

Syphon Filter 2 and N64 Winback. I love the Syphon Filter series and wish it was still around.

Is that the game with the taser that sets people on fire?

# ¿ Jan 17, 2023 23:18

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Jelly posted:

One thing that bothered me about the Division 2 is they didn't really clarify any ideals behind any of the sides. Not hang-up worthy, though. One of the few good games Ubisoft has made.

It's Tom Clancy, the only ideal you ever need is "shoot the undeserving poor".

# ¿ Jan 24, 2023 18:36

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Triarii posted:

Because it way overused Blum

Now you're thinking Quake 4.

Also, Bulletstorm is awesome.

# ¿ Jan 29, 2023 23:42

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Mordja posted:

That said, since I've never been a secret hunter*, I'm not a huge fan of the way missable character upgrades are hidden behind some of them, although I think the biggest ones are in clearly marked side areas at least. I haven't played them yet, but I think Cultic and Prodeus are like this too? I definitely prefer it when secrets just hold ammo, health and powerups, or early access to something you'll get later on anyways.

Prodeus sometimes hides upgrade currency in secrets, but there's way more than you'll need to buy every weapon and upgrade. Cultic has a collectible that gives you 5 extra max health, but there's only one per level. In neither of them, the secrets are necessary to hunt down.

Cultic is the way better game, though.

# ¿ Jan 31, 2023 23:18

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

Skyrim sold a gorrillion copies because it let plebs think they can play a western RPG, that most noble and sophisticated of genres. Furthermore,

# ¿ Feb 9, 2023 17:30

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Jimbot posted:

Cultic might be more your speed - I played the demo a while back and it felt a lot like Half-Life.

Cultic is great for this because while it lets you go really fast, you never have to. Also, if Half-life (2) is what you want, try ADACA.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2023 17:47

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

I think there are challenges for going through the missions non-lethally, but I'm fairly sure you unlock them after you beat the missions. Anyhow, the crew eventually grows on you and there will be some plot twists but if you're not enjoying it, there's probably not much reason to continue.

# ¿ Feb 14, 2023 00:46

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ScootsMcSkirt posted:

Dishonored 1 is great. Dont worry about getting the "bad" ending and go nuts summoning rats everywhere

Seriously. The high chaos version of the final level is a lot more fun.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2023 21:33

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

I'm starting to suspect my old Xbone controller may be on the fritz (i.e. some button presses don't register, across multiple games), any tips on what would be a good replacement? My requirements basically are 1)Xbox layout (X is supposed to be on the left as God intended, don't really care about the asymmetrical stick positions though), 2)Not Bluetooth, ideally wired.

# ¿ Feb 18, 2023 12:29

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repiv posted:

alternatively take the fromsoft approach of having a japanese developer craft your english offensive terms list, because it's funny

https://mod.gib.me/darksouls2/ngword/english.txt

...enema?

# ¿ Feb 24, 2023 20:14

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

Isn't that because they literally copyrighted it?

# ¿ Feb 28, 2023 16:31

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Cool Dad posted:

Is there anything out there that is like Crimson Skies, gameplay-wise?

If you don't mind it being in space, I found Chorus pretty similar. Same emphasis on dogfights and pulling crazy stunts like flying inside enemy capital ships. Story's tune is very different, sadly.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2023 09:35

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

No, that sounds about right. Tyranny's second half was incredibly rushed.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2023 20:21

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

fit em all up in there posted:

HumbleBundle Choice March 2023:

$11.99 for:

https://www.humblebundle.com/membership/home?hmb_source=navbar

Is there anything, y'know, good in there?

# ¿ Mar 7, 2023 20:36

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Mordja posted:

So what was the last good, big budget linear FPS? Doom Eternal? Not including COD in this btw.

Resident Evil: Village.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2023 21:03

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Mordja posted:

I mean funnily enough my query did come from playing the (very short) RE4make demo and thinking, "there are still a lot of big, linear third-person games coming out, what happened to the first-person ones?" These days I guess you're pretty much just stuck playing indie retro-shooters in between the next id title...

I feel you there. It really looks like FPS games are delegated to either multiplayer or the indie scene today. And while I do love the renaissance of the retro shooter, I kinda wish we'd see more effort from the big names in the industry.

Also immsims. We always need more immsims.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2023 21:40

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Jack Trades posted:

Hell yeah.

# ¿ Mar 13, 2023 20:13

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

Yeah, the best thing in that bundle is probably Nightmare Reaper and that's really divisive. I'm a huge boomer shooter fan and couldn't get into it, it's just so cluttered and chaotic.

# ¿ Mar 29, 2023 23:11

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I said come in! posted:

Finished Greedfall finally. Because I am not feeling good tonight, and really just wanted to finish this game, I ended up getting petty and vindictive against the key NPCs in the story, went the route of war crimes against everyone. Lots of murder, backstabbing, and betrayal was had, but it made no difference in the ending anyways.

Slightly related, but I'm some 20 hours into Steelrising now and I think this might finally be the good Spiders game. Surprisingly solid combat, lots of stuff to explore (even if all the areas look the same), all in all a very fun soulslike.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2023 12:26

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

The second DLC is both easier and more fun, in my opinion.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2023 20:05

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Cantide posted:

whatever is "Zone 22"

I'm not sure but there's a lot of swastikas on the screenshots.

# ¿ Apr 14, 2023 18:03

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

loving hell. Could you please put something like that in spoiler tags?

# ¿ Apr 16, 2023 14:52

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

A bit late to the party, but what's y'all's preferred method of controlling Everspace 2? I find the gamepad turning really sluggish and the mouse doesn't really turn when I want it to.

Didn't have to put up with either of those in CHORVS, I tell you.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2023 17:41

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

To gently steer the conversation into more pleasant waters... Wasn't there supposed to be a DLC for The Case of the Golden Idol out today?

# ¿ Apr 27, 2023 17:42

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Unlucky7 posted:

Unfortunately no, but the good news is that it is actually next week.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/excellent-detective-game-the-case-of-the-golden-idol-is-getting-three-prequel-dlc-cases-next-week

Ah, thanks for the info. I played the vanilla game about a month ago and ended up plowing through it in an evening.

Something to look forward to, then.

# ¿ Apr 27, 2023 18:15

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Orv posted:

Deathloop was GOTY

Deathloop was fun but there's deinitely a downward progression in Arkane games (and I'm saying that as someone who 100% Deathloop and played through Prey four times). I wish someone just reset the genre at the Deus Ex level. Bigger, wonkier immsims.

# ¿ May 1, 2023 17:43

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I said come in! posted:

The gollum game from how I understand it, is basically Thief but you play as Gollum.

Don't get my hopes up. How long has it been since a proper high-profile stealth'em'up?

# ¿ May 1, 2023 17:57

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Jack Trades posted:

Isn't that copypasted from the EA one? Apart from the bit about id, obviously.

# ¿ May 2, 2023 14:30

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

Yeah, the concept reminds me of the Styx games and I'm definitely down for more of that.

# ¿ May 4, 2023 00:42

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

The Golden Idol DLC's out, y'all. It's very good but also very short (beat it in less than two hours) - but hey, it's more Golden idol.

# ¿ May 4, 2023 20:11

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 21:04

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Autisanal Cheese posted:

I know what you mean with that second one. I solved it and I still don't really know how.

Was it the cipher key? That had me stumped for a bit.

# ¿ May 7, 2023 10:38

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