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yeah well, this is the steam thread, and the fuckin thing is locked up on epic (I bought it and played up through We Sing, but only after tons of moaning and deliberation and tbh I regret that my epic games account is actually now worth money)
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All hail satan. His prophet, me, demands it.McKracken posted:What's the deal with Humankind? I enjoy Civ VI but I am somewhat bored with it at this point because I've fallen into the rut of having an optimized play style and I've been playing the series for almost 2 decades so it's getting a bit samey. The best Amplitude game is Endless Legend, if you missed that, play that. Every faction has a completely assymetric twist that makes them unique to play and they all have a storyline that makes at least one playthrough per faction worthwhile. Most of the DLC are also extremely good, particularly the ones that add new factions - they're all done as well as the base game ones. Chadzok fucked around with this message at 07:03 on Dec 30, 2023 |
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 Can you tell that I just got a Steam Deck? I think I've got one final round of games to buy tonight, I really want Rain World so I may as well spend another 100 bucks
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Chadzok posted:
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Turbo Overkill was one of my GOTYs. the steam deck has made whole new categories of genres extremely exciting for me to buy and play. I am super hype for many of the games I bought Serephina posted:Ooh! Fez is really, really good, but you gotta power through the first 5 minute introduction which is kinda slow. Takes off like a rocket after that, very hard to put down. Go play it now!! I'll play it shortly and report back
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I played through Elden Ring on release with a hacked character that basically killed everything in one hit. Never completed another soulsish game, that particular kind of difficulty (repeatedly doing the same combat encounters over to mastery) just doesn't gel with me. I knew it was going to be the big game of the year and I like to read game stuff/listen to pods and I wanted to understand the conversation. It was great! I got to see all the pretty sights and was able to appreciate the masterful world building and it easily made my GOTY list. Dunno why they gatekeep their own excellent products.
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Fruits of the sea posted:I mean, I'm kinda with you on this. You're not engaging with the "remove cards from deck" mechanic until you only have one hand to draw 
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exquisite tea posted:The internet has shown me that there are many people, probably millions of people, who are just cum cum gently caress yankin' it all the time, and everything in their lives also has to be cumming and yankin' it, and will act in total disbelief that anyone else could not want to be constantly cumming and yanking. yeah man yeah, that's exquisite, exquisite tea tell me please tell me how many millions are cummin and yankin please tell me
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Chadzok posted:Blastoise idiot crashed the train already
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Fuckin way to make me feel old, I'm clearly a fuckin Prehistoric Archaeologically Uncovered Gamer  - Doom, Quake, Unreal Tournament, 90s RTS - Sega home consoles only - Lvl 100 Charizard in Pokemon Red on transparent shell Gameboy
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kazil posted:Can you even call your self a real true elite pro gamer if you haven't beaten Darn Souls? never could get those games finished, they just too darn long.and too darn hard!
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Runa posted:Alpha Centauri owns because when you research new technologies, you're not getting a little fluff blurb about history, you're getting snippets of a number of different narratives illustrating the advancement of humankind into a new stage of existence and some of it is so unsettling it makes the insane christian fundie lady look reasonable. And the faction leaders are all characters with their own personality and perspectives, and the tech blurbs are all narrated by them. It's genuinely speculative fiction in your sci-fi videogame and I have yet to find another 4x game that even tries to come close. sorry I have to kool aid through the wall every time this discussion comes up and say that endless legend is the only true and good spiritual successor to alpha centauri
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credburn posted:How? I've played Endless Legend and bounced off it for some reason. I never thought to compare it to Alpha Centauri. It's a very vibes-bases thing, but the asymmetry, distinctiveness and personality of the factions gives you echoes of SMAC's factions and leaders (I feel like it's a natural evolution from SMAC to make the factions play so radically different). They both emphasise the plotline in gameplay ways that make them satisfying once-off single player experiences as well as being repeatable (the factions in Endless Legend almost demand at least one playthrough each). They both share that sense of a growing, seemingly inevitable ecological catastrophe. Auriga is totes drawing on Planet as well, both games are well in front of any other 4X I've played in having the environment almost (I mean literally in SMAC) be a character in the game/plot. Research/technologies also felt like they were taking the example that SMAC laid out, using them as a place to inject lore, personality, drama into the game. Both really capture an epochal, evolving science fiction, new insights laying the grounds for insane later technologies that seem internally coherent and logically consistent, and fuckin cool. They also share poo poo redundant unit customisation and combat systems that really need to be rethought. I'll take other thoughts but I think it's pretty clear to people who played and loved both that there is a strong link there. Chadzok fucked around with this message at 09:33 on Mar 10, 2024 |
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 hopefully the street cred gets even more subscribers to my newsletter. I also played every DLC thoroughly and all the ones that add factions, if you're playing for primarily that one playthrough for lore reasons and not multiplayer or whatever, are at least as good quality as the base game and a few are better. An extremely, extremely creative team that has taken two dramatic missteps into Endless Space 2 and Humankind but I'll forgive them knowing that the practice will help make the eventual Endless Legend 2 loving top notch. But please, someone tell them to add a simplified, abstracted combat system or something cool. like a quick Into the Breach-esque or chess type matchup. be creative. bring something new to civ-style 4x, make combat a compelling mini game in its own right. but keep it brief, like a HoMaM battle length. Now don't get me started on Dungeon of the Endless - not the new one. Not the new one, with the infuriating country versions of the OG's incredible chiptune ambient horror masterpiece soundtrack. The pixel art, stripped down, viciously hard and mechanically fascinating original. Chadzok fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Mar 10, 2024 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEU04KxQpuw I mean, put this on headphones when you lay down to sleep and see where it takes you. The composer of all the Endless Games is an amazing talent. He mains harp I believe. I think the Dungeon songs were all played on real instruments and then chiptunified or something. I could be making that up. Listen to all the soundtracks.
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Jack Trades posted:Also, I loving love the concept behind Umbral Choir from Endless Space 2 and I have never seen another game that has a "parasite" race that plays like that. I'll subtract my harsh statement about endless space 2. for the lore playthroughs it was great, just the game itself was not as strong as Endless Legend. Humankind can get in the bin. Civilization 6 took lessons and inspiration from Endless Legend and made them mainstream and then Amplitude score the own goal of making a game more like Civilisation, a loreless mess about real boring people. Lean into your strengths, get back to Auriga and get weird.
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ninjoatse.cx posted:There is a ton of DLC for this thing. Any that come highly recommended for someone who rarely multi plays So the good ones for additional lore-expanding playthroughs are the ones that add new factions. Basically they will add a new faction/race that generally have quite unique sci-fi aesthetic and their own storyline that explain the whole deal and usually some core internal struggle that is the basis of a choose-your-own adventure plot, plus layering on some additional significant world mechanic that all the other existing factions also interact with. In general the new faction is a specialist in this mechanic and is what gives them their asymmetry and a lot of their flavour). Shifters is probably the best of these, adding moth-people who are the only true natives of Auriga and significantly enhances the winter mechanic, adding a collectable resource as well as making winter feel more like doom for everyone except the mighty moths. Tempest is also pretty essential, turning the essentially static oceans from the base game into an entire field of play with weather systems, broken up into territories like the land and given key loci of control. A sea-based "escaped from the lab" mutant sea monsters faction provide all the lore accompanying and are super unique to play as. Inferno and Symbiosis were made by an external team that extremely grokked what made the game and the DLC great and are modelled on the two above DLC, Inferno adding terraforming cute little lava dudes (paired with randomly occuring worldwide Dust Conflux events that are a pretty interesting addition and work well in the existing lore) and Symbiosis adding mushroom people that have a special relationship with new wandering titan creatures that all the factions have to deal with. They are both Cool In My Opinion. Shadows adds Fremenish shadow people and an extremely in-depth espionage system to all factions that the Forgotten are specialists in. This is my least favourite just because I thought the Forgoteen were a bit less well realised/unique aesthetic. Lost Tales and Echoes of Auriga are both cheap and add more little questy lorey plotlines and more music respectively and I reckon are a good shout if you're going to try immersing yourself absorbing all the great sci-fi the game has to offer. Monstrous Tales is by the aforementioned external team but is modeled on Lost Tales, it looks like, and is the only one I don't have much experience with because I'd finished all my lore playthroughs by then, but I feel like it's probably going to be a good addition. Adding all these DLC and turning them all on at once is pretty dramatic in how it expands the base game, there's a million different directions to go in with every faction and there is always interesting poo poo happening. Probably just layer them on one by one otherwise you'll be way too loving confused about what paths of the game you should be pushing your particular faction down.
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cannot buy red alert 2 as a gift because a) in bundle b) cannot add bundle to cart because I own it halp
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Chalk another up for Islands of Insight looked extremely my poo poo on the one hand (puzzles) but the online co-op thing muddled it enough that I got confused and left it untouched. Also the family sharing thing comes at a good time for me rear end I bought 2 PCs for my kids and was staring down the barrel of buying multiple copies of everything. Would still be nice to spread a one purchase across multiple PCs for co-op/Deathmatch whatever
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Substandard posted:Not the combat! Real time with pause is an awful system. I thought we had all agreed on that years ago when we switched over Pathfinder, Pillars of Eternity 2 and Baldur's Gate 3. ancient enemies, we dwell in the shadows, you and I. they think they live their lives, these billionaires, these politicians, these gamers, these children - but really they bleed and die for us. your star is in ascendancy right now, my old foe, but RTwP never sleeps. one of these days you'll grow weary. and I'll be there under the bed. waiting.
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Mischievous Mink posted:He doesn't believe statutory rape is a thing, he's definitely a brain damaged psychopath detached from reality. ok so I looked into this because, hell, what else I got to do. and what it seemed like to me from the stupid two year old reddit chain is that he'd actually never heard the term before and reacted, perhaps caught offguard by his ignorance, perhaps just because he holds some silly opinions, with the dumb but not truly cursed position of 'sometimes it's consensual and sometimes it's very wrong'. So I would say ignorant and probably posts too much but "brain damaged psychopath detached from reality" doesn't seem like the most rational conclusion. let's go even further in this year of our lord 2024 and say that plenty of psychopaths are just fairly normal people in the umbrella of neurodiversity and let's stop giving them shade. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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The 'truly cursed' would be the blanket 'it doesn't exist' that it was claimed that he said, and which as far as I can tell he didn't. I would say that saying there are grey areas or whatever is ignorant, probably said by a non-parent and the person needs some re-neducation but I wouldn't line them up against the wall
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I don't understand why I have to take someone's word for it that a game dev is a chud or a psycho or whatever without looking into what they actually said. yes this entire conversation is loving stupid but so is absolutely all of the internet. can we not rake my gentle inquisitive soul over the coals please
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yes and I ask again what is wrong with that? is it just that it's not forceful enough? I mean what you want to do is leave the door open for that person to change their opinion yeah? rather than instantly putting them on the defensive?
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I mean he's obviously wrong. We just differ in the degree to which we're choosing to condemn a person for a Reddit post. Let's just leave it at that, this is making GBS threads up an already terrible thread
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:anyone who calls something an "SJW term" is probably a chud yeah this is probably true and more damning tbh. most likely, chud. ignore my posts, I'm open to changing my findings based on rational arguments like this Chadzok fucked around with this message at 05:27 on Apr 2, 2024 |
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mystes posted:Nah I'm going to go out on a limb and say the other parts are worse The investigation was into whether he was a 'chud'. I think certain opinions are necessary, but not sufficient, in making this judgement. Using in-group terminology, however, I would say is both necessary and sufficient. Thank you for your contribution to the case, which is now closed. boots factorio
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