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Mad Wack posted:what's everyone's first purchase for 2023? i got chained echoes https://store.steampowered.com/app/1620340/Wrestling_Empire/ Wresling Empire. A solo-dev project with a free-roam mode where you can murder people backstage, attend their funeral, then beat people up at the funeral. The randomness is great. During my character's early days at Wrestling School I accidentally drank too much milk and pissed myself before a 1v1 with Mike Bail. Mike saw it happen and he gave me a handshake before telling me I should do it in a toilet next time. During our match he brought his Tag Team Championship partner, Shank to 2v1 me, so I broke both of their faces outside of the ring with a broom handle. The next week, Mike gave me a hug when he saw me. Much later, after being picked up by Rising Sun Puroresu and going on a 20 match win streak, I picked up a ringing cell phone on the ground that resulted in my character's name being forcibly changed from DIEPHOON to Larry McIntyre.  I cannot change it back. If you eat too much before your match, you might poo poo yourself during the Pay Per View! (Loud warning, also, poo poo warning) https://clips.twitch.tv/PlainHappyMeerkatAMPTropPunch-Q-pbO_2xUkj24bxU Best wrestling game I've played since No Mercy on the N64.
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Kibayasu posted:Coyotes missions can definitely do that on vanilla missions due to random events like a VTOL swarm or House assassins or pirate mechs (those will at least hopefully shoot at everyone). Some of the events are helpful at least, like a friendly VTOL swarm. I think it at least in part depends on your standing with the House which controls the space you’re in. Last time I played MW5 Artillery missions felt really bad since they force you to walk to all the corners of the map to destroy them or spend the entire mission dancing around damage indicators on the ground, neither of which is fun. Made me wish you could call in airstrikes using the map instead of having to paint the mark yourself. Probably better off just installing the mod that removes artillery entirely for the sake of fun. I never tried Coyotes missions, sounds awesome.
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Black Griffon posted:Anyone have opinions on the Sororitas DLC for Warhammer Inquisitor? I got it and it didn't really shake up the game enough to keep me interested. I didn't play with the magical girl tranformation mechanic much at all though so maybe it's more fun that way.
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Thanks, picked this up for Streets of Rogue. I tried the demo a long time ago and wasn't feeling it but it has since gone on to be Overwhemlingly Positively reviewed on Steam, so I'll give it another shot. If I can be patient enough to learn Dwarf Fortress I can learn any game now. https://store.steampowered.com/app/512900/Streets_of_Rogue/ The rest of the games in the bundle are all decent to well reviewed so maybe I'll even play them at some point! Or maybe they will rot in my unplayed list.
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Oxxidation posted:isame-mario https://hellofangaming.itch.io/isekai-mario
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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. I like the superhero friendship simulator part of Midnight Suns, but if you don't they made it all skippable and they clearly labeled which dialog option makes which number go up for maximum gaming efficiency. If you think the gameplay might be your jam I urge you to try it, especially since they have already started selling it at a discount.
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LLSix posted:All of the upgrades are so small, they don't really feel consequential either, and the demo just keeps going on for what felt like forever. This wasn't my experience at all. I had a bunch of runs where either I or someone I was teamed up with was completely overpowered by the end of the run. For me though the main appeal is that it's a turn based co-operative tactical game, but the players can all move simultaneously so turns don't take forever. Grouping with other players lets you take advantage of their status effects, like the Mosscloak having easy access to guaranteed criticals with their Marking abilities. Lots of fights were about trying to maximize my ability value while avoiding damage. If I remember this run correctly, my build was based on stacking up dread via dealing magic damage, to then inflict huge damage with jinx. The Weaver also gets a bonus ability point and bonus ability power for having all enemies on the screen threaded, so I was trying to maintain that as well. https://twitch.tv/videos/1714236316 In this run I was playing Mosscloak and I was able to stack ridiculous amounts of poison. (It's actually only 583 stacks of poison and 1/10 stun, I misread because of the display error). https://i.imgur.com/OHddI7G.mp4 I had another run where I got an item that gave me +1 ability power on kill, so by the end of the run I had an extra 650% damage, it was nuts. I'm interested in seeing what the game has to offer at higher ranked difficulties. The ranked mode gets harder as you rank up, which is also novel for a co-op PVE game. I'm also looking forward to the Dual Shields class because I wish more games let me dual wield shields. 
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Mierenneuker posted:Yeah, Sony hired Nixxes to patch HZD and then acquired them a year later. That doesn't mean their PlayStation ports are going to be flawless, but at least they're by a studio that knows what it is doing. I watched Elajjaz play a little and he enjoyed it but personally I cannot get past literally every NPC screaming AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA when you kill them.
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I approached Gotham Knights as a co-op beat em up and greatly enjoyed most of it at a sale price. I'm sure I can do the same for Suicide Squad as a co-op shooter/numbers go up game.
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Mordja posted:The first class for Remnant 2 got shown off and it just so happens to be the one I'll be Stoked for Remnant 2, not really interested in being a Gunslinger but DOES ONE OF THE CLASSES GET A DOG 
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goferchan posted:Mr. Sun's Hatbox came out of nowhere for me but I'm very charmed by the demo and definitely will pick the game up when it comes out in 2 days. It's a sidescrolling heist game (almost like a less-simmy Heat Signature?) but you have base-building that's sort of a basic riff on X-COM and there are a bunch of hats you collect that give you different abilities and also you can just literally straight up Fulton enemies and items like in MGSV to send them back to your base and add them to your roster of playable characters or equippable gear. Very cute and weird. This is out now, wondering why all the first reviews are in Chinese, but I enjoyed the demo enouigh to throw $13.49 at it. Checked out the dev's website (http://kennysun.com/) quote:I initially came up with the idea for the game in 2015 after playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. I really enjoyed the Fulton recovery system where you attach balloons to stunned enemies to lift them into the air and kidnap them. So, I stole that idea and combined it with elements from another favorite game of mine, Spelunky I am absoutely feeling the Spelunky influence when wacky poo poo like this happens https://i.imgur.com/zINP8Z2.mp4
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SavageMessiah posted:I was gonna pass on this because it's a roguelike action game which I usually hate but this looks like my kind of stupid https://i.imgur.com/fOLOzuf.mp4
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Fruits of the sea posted:That Vampire Survivors article is ridiculous but a 90's saturday morning cartoon based on it would probably be a good time. I'm hoping VS goes full circle and makes a definitely-not-Castlevaina game.
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Ork vehicle combat game is what I'm interested in. There's a playtest you can sign up for, got in after a couple hours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGojclTI8vQ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2078450/Warhammer_40000_Speed_Freeks/ Surprised this isn't a bigger genre tbh
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I got in trouble as a kid for playing the Jagged Alliance 2 demo because there was a porno mag item. That's all I remember about the game besides one of the npcs shouting "S.O.B.!!!" while shooting someone to death. They weren't bothered by that at all.
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Sab669 posted:That's a shame because the tutorial seemed at least potentially fun. Have my stupid work zoom meeting in 10 minutes though so I can't keep playing I tried one of the betas and I did not like Exoprimal. I thought it was going to be "Earth Defense Force but with dinosaurs and a higher budget because Capcom." Instead what you get is "You have a mission to shoot dinosaurs and you're racing another team for some reason, oh and now you're directly fighting the other team instead of the dinosaur threat because ???  "I bitched about this heavily during the post beta survey. They added a "PVE" mode in response to beta feedback, but based on the reviews it's just switching out the final mission segment with a PVE encounter instead of directly fighting the other team. You're still racing another team during the initial mission phases and the enemy can control a dinosaur and fight you during the match, which is still PVP. I understand the game isn't what I want it to be, but I also have a hard time getting over thinking that if they just made EDF but with dinosaurs they would have a cool and fun game.
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On the flip side of PvPvE games, I finally decided to check out Hunt: Showdown during the recent sale after seeing it get brought up here and watching some streams. It's pretty cool. The setting is unique, the PvE isn't great on its own, but as a layer of hazards to contend with during tense PvP action it's good. I'm not a great shooter but I'm pretty sound sensitive and a large part of the game is about detecting other players through sound. I'm still in my rookie levels with locked MMR but I was able to sneak my way around the outside of a firefight at a boss, ambush the duo that survived the fight, then use their guns to take down the boss and extract, it felt great. The slower speed of firefights thanks to many weapons having long reloads or shot cycles makes the game feel different from every other shooter I've played, especially after coming off of a crazy game like Battlebit Remastered.
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Mordja posted:I''ve been playing Diablo IV and have come to the realization that it's just not gory enough. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of flayed corpses and blood rivers, which is all well and good, but when you're actually carving through enemies they usually just flop on the ground, sometimes accompanied by a small blood decal. I'm rolling as a Sorceress so maybe having all my damage be elemental exacerbates the issue but still, I want to gib people, dammit! Try a barb. I am constantly decapitaing goatmen and cutting demons in half with double swing.
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Mr.Acula posted:What happens if im a sicko and buy Battlefront 2 on Steam even if I already have it on Origin? I bought it for like $5 on Epic and it installs through Epic but opens up Origin on launch. I wager Steam will do the same.
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Orv posted:MDickie has such sights to show you. Wrestling Empire is unironically good. If you like wrestling you will get a kick out of all of the legally distinct replacements for popular wrestlers. The graphics are rear end but there's enough customization to have fun making your own dude and watching their story dynamically unfold depending on the random poo poo that happens during their career. You will naturally make friends and enemies, other wrestlers will cheat the system against you and in your favor resulting in drama. Sometimes management will gently caress with you and force changes to your character's gimmick or moves unless you negotiate a contract saying that they can't. It's the only wrestling game with an "open world" that allows you to injure someone in the ring, then find them in the "hospital" and beat them more. People can get so injured that they die then you can start a fight at the funeral or just show up to pay respects. You can manually do your own stat training in the gym and recover your stamina with food, but if you over do it you risk pissing or making GBS threads yourself in the ring. It's goofy as hell and it's a lot of fun. There's also a booking game mode if you prefer setting up matches and watching the AI go at it. I haven't tried it so I can't elaborate but I assume it gives you some objectives to fulfill to please different audiences.
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sebmojo posted:Cryptark is extremely good. FYI if this is all you're interested in it's the $1 for 1 game option. I have barely played Cryptark since I got it for free a little while ago but it's defintiely worth at least $1.
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN which may or may not be a dumb meme of a game. It looks like it's maybe good even though you play as anime Fred Durst? It is good specifically because you play as anime Fred Durst.
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RBA Starblade posted:I just got gifted Grim Dawn; in Titan Quest I loved going for a maximum pet build. Is that still viable in GD? Can I have six critters of dubious value running around me at all times while I do almost nothing? Yeah dude. You'll probably want to start with Necro because it's the army of skeletons class. After that you can look at all the other trees and think about what their pets offer you that Necro doesn't cover.
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goferchan posted:Posted about this in the roguelike thread but the more I play I see that it's honestly pretty marginally a roguelite -- stumbled across Withering Rooms tonight and sunk a few hours into it and I'm extremely charmed. It's almost like Clock Tower meets a Metroidvania with some RL elements (lots of stuff gets carried between runs and you can get back to where you were pretty quickly with permanent fast travel unlocks, but the layout of rooms and enemies and loot resets when you die). Gonna check this out thanks to your post and the good reviews. I'm not typically into survival horror style games but the random floor generation and the overall aesthetic visible from the trailer has me intrigued.
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The 7th Guest posted:Suicide Squad (Feb 2) - Whether DC/WB Games likes it or not, this disaster is happening and no one can stop it. Rocksteady apparently spent the last several months removing gear scores from the game. Probably an oversimplification but still. I don't think that was the main reason people didn't like what they saw, it was just a symptom of a greater unfixable problem. An early frontrunner for my newly minted award: "Redfall of the Year". My first thought is "There's no way it can be worse than Redfall" but before Redfall came out I thought "There's no way it can be worse than Anthem" and here we are.
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I somehow wasn't able to find a screwdriver to complete my workbench after the tutorial so I logged out and left feedback about that. Was it somewhere super obvious? Because I ran around everywhere that was accessible to me at least 3 times.
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explosivo posted:It's right under the whiteboard that says "grab a screwdriver" Yeah I did the tutorial part, after I went down the lift I no longer had items. After that I could not find a screwdriver.
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explosivo posted:Ah yeah you're right, I didn't realize the tutorial was separate from the actual game you start. There's some vents right by where you start that I found a screwdriver in. That would make sense, I walked around everywhere I could walk several times but I didn't want to crawl through the vents again.
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Been replaying Dying Light 2. There should be more games that let you push dudes into conveniently placed walls of spikes. https://i.imgur.com/s7sNwsL.mp4
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Phlegmish posted:Might I interest you in Dark Messiah of Might and Magic Played it wayyyy back in the day. The multiplayer was surprisingly fun. I would play Priestess with Stoneskin and the spell that puts a bramble patch on the ground. People would come at me thinking I was a free kill until they were stuck in the brambles and my defense was super high. Then I would bonk them to death with a staff.
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I played through V Rising on a 3x PVE server at early access launch. Really enjoyed it. Spent most of my time soloing but sometimes other players on the server would call for help with a boss, or I'd run into another player out in the world and have some impromptu co-op. Stumbling into a wandering boss and having the fight take you into day time was harrowing and fun. Looking forward to playing through the PVE content again with 1.0 on a similar server setup. Friendly Fire not being on but still being able to accidentally stun other players or get your skill shots blocked added a bit of finesse to co-op as well.
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FutureCop posted:Fanatical has a new Supreme Collection: a tad bit more pricey than their typical bundle, but this has some quality goods within, such as Doom Eternal, Streets of Rage 4, Astral Ascent, Hardspace Shipbreaker, High on Life, Astrea Six Sided Oracles, Gloomhaven, Evil West, ShowGunners, Deathloop, and, uh...Redfall? Seems like a really good bundle, thanks for bringing it to my attention. Noticed this game called Showgunners in there: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1155330/Showgunners/ 94% overall positive reviews is not bad at all for a tactical RPG I haven't heard of. Will be sure to try the demo.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Hitman Freelancer ... Just wanna say that I have 237 hours in Hitman and they are almost exclusively in Freelancer. You can learn the maps while you play so long as you are prepared to eat a lot of stupid deaths as you discover how the game's systems work.  I have zero interest in the game's story, but I still get the urge to spin up Freelancer every couple of months. Not playing under the restrictions of Silent Assassin is liberating. Figuring out the perfect angle to take out your target(s) and get away with it is extremely satisfying. Here's some clips that I posted in the Hitman thread. https://i.imgur.com/hjCcYUZ.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/6kfPCIj.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/YCTZDIg.mp4 Diephoon fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Apr 29, 2024 |
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