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Hired Gun is real good, yeah, and I also felt very bad about upgrading the dog. Not going to do that if I replay the game, even though it leaves the dog very weak. But you get ridiculously good mobility and some real fun powers, it just becomes this absurdly frantic thing that feels wonderful to play. Or very overwhelming.
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The Ascent is very very pretty, and good enough that I don't regret my time with it, though I'm not likely to replay it. And I did get through the game, except not the DLC campaign because that started crashing on me regularly. It has some difficulty spikes, and weapons can end up feeling largely static once you find something that works because it doesn't have Diablo-style randomized loot. You're still going to move up to better weapons as it goes along, but if someone drops the Model X Shotgun, it'll always be the Model X Shotgun. You also get to spend upgrade components to permanently improve the stats of a type of weapon, so even if you sell a gun it'll still have the upgraded stats if you find or buy another one (every Model X Shotgun is now a +1 weapon in your hands). And you get a ton of upgrade components to spend pretty freely. Powers are also swappable gear. Once you find a gear and power setup that works for you, you'll probably hang on to it for a long time.
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I would unironically be there for Dwarf Stranding. Reconnecting the dwarf holds and the cities of men after the War of the Ring, trying to navigate across a beautiful but occasionally hostile terrain while avoiding where orcs and wraiths still linger.
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May 26, 2023 22:22
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Im_Special posted:I like how they even misspell their own game in that apology. AI has just a little bit more to go it seems. Truly, Gollum is the Lord of Ring.
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"Immersive sim" got invented as a term (or at least significantly popularized) after the Bioshocks. It's... not a great term, but I imagine it might be more useful to the genre (such as it is) eventually when it's taken hold better instead of trying to explain a game as "like this other game, maybe you've played it - no? oh uh..."
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Jun 1, 2023 16:34
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deep dish peat moss posted:This doesn't seem to be the case, the phrase "Immersive Sim" was most popular from (pre-)2004 to 2006, Bioshock released in 2007 and then the phrase died off entirely. So essentially, Bioshock is what killed the immersive sim, not popularized it. Legit news to me, because I don't think I'd ever heard the term until relatively recently. Then suddenly a couple years ago people are just throwing it around constantly, while previously always talking about these games in terms of earlier titles - so System Shock 2 referring to Deus Ex referring to Bioshock referring to, etc. I felt reasonably enough into that style of game to have kept track of that, but obviously not. Oh well.
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Jun 1, 2023 16:46
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My metabolism is augmented. I say as a spheroid of flesh that might generously still be called a "man," horfing down burgers, but I have a robot arm or maybe a magic tattoo so it's cool.
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That's the secret, health potions are just protein shakes and smoothies. Pure blended goodness.
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I had a lot of fun with it. The characters had actual character (even if it was internet brain-poisoned in many ways, or safely-written "wacky" in others), a lot of the collectibles had neat environmental puzzles around them that often used the RC car and drone, and the writers at least understood on a surface level that tech-bros are not your friends and that the internet of things is stupid and dangerous.
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ymgve posted:I still think it's funny that the all-knowing predictive AI flags the watch dogs 2 protagonist as a potential criminal, and you then go to prove the AI absolutely right by becoming a criminal master hacker It's an actual problem with profiling in the real world. Pretty much any basis for pre-emptively treating someone as a criminal, especially if it has legal power behind it, tends to close off legitimate avenues in life and drive people toward criminality in a self-fulfilling prophecy. Offloading it to an algorithm wouldn't make it any better, since those just end up reflecting the biases of the programmers or whoever else got to define the criteria by which it profiles a person.
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Aiden appears in a single mission in WD2 as well. As I recall, he's gotten captured and Marcus has to help him get out. He's also perfectly fine with killing which, combined with his (unearned) reputation versus how he actually is, makes the crew both slightly in awe and uncomfortable with him. A little relieved when he's gone.
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It's closer to jamming someone else's art into that how-to-draw book and then selling the book without telling the original artist, really. It's an attempt to turn some other publishing apparatus into digesting and making GBS threads out other people's work for your own profit.
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Jun 7, 2023 20:51
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No Wave posted:But if you did this by hand, it would be fine. Plagiarism for profit can get you in trouble even if it's done by hand, this isn't some gotcha. And building a machine to automate it is still going to be worse.
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Jun 7, 2023 21:07
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The 7th Guest posted:Metaphor Re Fantazio (2024) is a new RPG from Atlus, and the game that the former director of Persona has been working on this whole time. He's the dipshit that put all the gay panic/transphobic jokes in the Persona games, so, I'm sure the theming/story of this game will just go down real smooth. It is, of course, pretty and stylistic like Persona games, but with a traditional fantasy RPG setting that just happens to have demons in it. Katsura Hashino, the former director in question, at least had major roles on other Atlus games that range from fine to pretty good and skip over sex, sexuality, and gender. Like SMT3, Digital Devil Saga, or Soul Hackers 1. I'm sure he won't be able to resist going back to poison that well again, but if he is kept away from it, well, that'd be nice.
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raven77 posted:If you're like me, and have had Death Stranding on your wishlist for years, the Director's Cut version is 50% off today! For US, that makes it $19.99. It's currently running great for me. There's a some chug in some places and circumstances, but my PC is also getting old (about 7 years-ish? and it was pretty mid-range when I got it) and it's trying to keep track of a lot of stuff, so... fair. I've got over a hundred hours of obsessive apocalypse meandering and don't think it's crashed once yet.
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Sam has his reasons for going along with it, though he does object to it a lot early on because he also has his reasons for hating going along with it. He kind of hates most of these people but he's also settled into, "A job's a job." And it gives him an excuse to keep the baby.
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Jack Trades posted:I was joking about Dorfromantik-likes being a thing before but it seems like my joke was more prophetic than I thought. I get phone game ads regularly that are for blatant clones for Dorfromantik. I didn't even realize you were joking, it's just a thing.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:is mgs a porno game now? Might want to check your content visibility settings. They seem to have made the content selections a bit more fine-grained, to five categories, and when they did that they shut me out of not just the AO one I had blocked before but also that category, which includes stuff like Cyberpunk and Witcher.
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ZearothK posted:Also I've owned Seven on GoG for a very long while and been meaning to play it, so if anyone has takes on it I am all ears. I loving loved Seven. Fully 3D but with that up-in-the-air third-person perspective of an older isometric RPG, open world stealth game, with some powers like Literally Just Dishonored's Blink. Far-future post-apocalypse that's rebuilt itself up to cyberpunk levels, but people have a bit of a 40k-esque pseudo-religious understanding of technology so they consider the high-tech superpowers to be magic. (For example, there are daemons but they are AIs named such originally in the computing sense, but people speak of them as, well, demons.) The stealth is mostly pretty easy because of the third-person view, and no particular system ever gets particularly deep. I've likened it to a best-of highlight reel of stealth mechanics in games. You can also climb, jump, and blink all over the drat place - the headquarters of the different major factions can often be traversed by getting up into the rafters. Once you get good weapons, combat becomes much more viable than it was at the start, too. The writing's decent but not amazing, but it has some genuinely good moments, and I came to really enjoy the VA work. The PC, Teriel, goes for "less-jaded Garrett from Thief" and I think hits it pretty well.
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Hwurmp posted:PowerWash SpongeBob makes your character a cartoony fish man with a cartoon-textured Deep Cleaner 4000 washer, so I can't loving wait to see what they do for the Warhammer DLC Finally, I can play as the Departmento Janitorum, come to hose off the remains of the latest Chaos infestation with a Purgatus Bleachthrower. CLEANSE, MOP, SQUEEGEE!
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The 7th Guest posted:Parasite Eve To my knowledge, legally they don't have access to the name anymore so it'll have to be The Third Birthday DLC, hosing the real Aya Brea off the wall she gets shot in front of.
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Trucker Hat posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1971650/OCTOPATH_TRAVELER_II/ Same deal here in the States. The latter game has apparently bombed viciously, and a lot of recent Steam reviews are even people saying, "Yeah, I got it because it made Octopath 2 cheaper and I still feel I got overcharged."
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Infinity Gaia posted:Speaking strictly in how they interact with worrying about the political status of videogames, they ARE. Both sides are constantly worried about the political messaging of everything and it's exhausting. The difference being that I don't actually sit here obsessing that a game might not be ideologically pure. I can parse fiction from reality, and also just roll my eyes and carry on at stuff that's not Perfect And Good as long as it's not trying to bludgeon me. It's pretty normal to go over Warhammer 40k's issues but it's still drat popular here, and GW is at least offering mealy-mouthed centrism at worst instead of actively enjoying people being hurt, and so a lot of us clearly just fuckin' deal. The balking is at an IP whose owner is happily hostile and wouldn't mind seeing people hurt, plus the game itself has issues from its plot dovetailing right into anti-Semitic poo poo Rowling put in the setting. Neither of those is "insufficiently ideologically pure," those are "wow this is pretty awful." Meanwhile a lot of us also exist with "what about straight pride month?" month from the right-wing, who spent the whole time losing their minds at rainbow marketing and wanting to punish the acknowledgement that gay and trans people exist. So, y'know... Infinity Gaia posted:Eh, you know what, nevermind, having this conversation is pointless, I should've known better. Just call me a chud or an idiot and carry on, easier that way. Fuuuuuuuuck off at your self-imposed martyrdom.
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Monster Prom series (Prom, Camp, and Roadtrip) does remote play and multiplayer. Wildermyth. Tales of Symphonia, Vesperia, Zestiria, and Berseria (but not Tales of Arise) do remote play, though I think player 1 is entirely in charge when outside of combat. God Eater 1 and 2 (buy GE2, get 1 packed with it on Steam) for co-op budget sci-fi Monster Hunter that doesn't have ridiculous requirements. No remote play.
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claw game handjob posted:That bundle seems like it's designed to gently caress with OCD individuals who feel like they can't "jump to" BG3 without "catching up". I AM the type. But also these have gone so aggressively on sale so often that it's hard to imagine anyone being both interested and not already having them. Wild.
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Yeah, having his quills stolen and getting locked in the pantry more often by his fellows wouldn't have done anything to make John Milton less himself.
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Plus you can just click through custom creation quickly if you've got an idea in mind and aren't going to spend forever on tweaking your appearance and little choices, and still get to trying it out pretty promptly.
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CharlestheHammer posted:It’s honestly weird how many gamers are going to bat for game studios after spending so much time making GBS threads on them. Guess the criticisms got a little to real I'm not interested in making GBS threads on devs who are usually under unreasonable demands from higher up. I'm plenty interested in making GBS threads on the higher-ups doing the unreasonable demanding. It turns out companies are made of lots of people, not all of which are in control of every Bad Thing going on that you want to blame them for.
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Besides, why expect grinding when you can just have an encounter rate high enough to act as a de facto grind no matter what you do?
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Perfection is singular.
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Look, nobody actually likes anything for any of the reasons they think they do if I, the only person who matters, do not personally also enjoy it.
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John Murdoch posted:Agents of Mayhem seemed a hell of a lot like a service game with all the service parts ripped out. Yeah, I actually liked what I played of AoM but something felt just missing. Mostly I think it desperately needed multiplayer, because having a buddy around would have made the constant escalation of the street fights go from borderline unmanageable to lots of happy chaos. I know there's always the "of course it's better with a friend, everything is" argument, but there are some things that are deliberately made to be played with others and going solo just feels bad, and I think AoM was somehow one of them despite being single-player.
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John Murdoch posted:Bloodlines aged like milk anyway. Redemption wins by default. Yeah, Redemption was already spoiled yogurt and moldy cheese when it came out, so it can't get worse! 
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And yet it still looks a good size or two too big on him.
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Saoshyant posted:Not that many will care, but heads up that Crystal Dynamics' Marvel Avengers game will be delisted at the end of this month and they have a 90% sale of the final build (where they removed all microtransactions and live service bullshit and packaged all the existing DLC into the main game). It's not what you'd call a great game, but it appears they got it to a good enough level with a decent story to go along with it, and for the price you may want to check it out. I've only ever had the vaguest possible interest in it. Is there really anything to recommend it for my time instead of just being cheap in dollars?
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Resdfru posted:Is online multiplayer peer to peer/gonna keep working after it's shut down? Seems like it will be. From their announcement on Steam: quote:To be specific on what is and isn’t changing on Sept. 30, 2023:
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MarcusSA posted:I feel attacked RN. Orv posted:Get out of my head Norms are defined by group behaviors so this is perfectly normal behavior, it's fine.
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Islands of the Caliph just dropped on Steam, but I tried the demo and was very unimpressed. Unless there's something extremely obvious I was missing, money was incredibly tight and required a very dull grind of running around the first island so stuff would respawn while it was offscreen so I could bash barrels and spiders for a small chance at a coin to eventually buy better gear. Or maybe to afford a trip to the second island where scorpions will hit you with a poison DOT that also penalizes your max health, forcing you to wipe out any earnings there on antivenom. There's hard and then there's boring, and the demo screams extremely boring. Unfortunate, because the visual style is good and for its whole "extremely retro" thing the actual gameplay was buttery smooth.
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Plus, consigning them to bookmark hell means you forget even faster about the procrastination guilt around not getting to them!
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skeletronics posted:I tried to skip humble choice last month, but apparently missed a checkbox or something somewhere, because I got charged anyway. I swear this happened to me last month too, and one time before that. Didn't raise a fuss because a family member wanted a couple of last month's games anyway, but I took screenshots of my cancellation and the email confirmation just to be sure this time.
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