|
They need to start making these NextFests longer. There is seriously too many demos. Ciaphas posted:WitchHand is out today - looks like Stacklands meets cute witches and familiars n stuff, and I am all for that They had a demo in one of the previous NextFests. It was, indeed, very Stacklands. Megazver fucked around with this message at 01:32 on Feb 8, 2024 |
#
¿
Feb 8, 2024 00:49
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 13, 2024 10:25 |
|
|
   https://store.steampowered.com/app/2277090/DAEMON_MASQUERADE/ An anime-inspired supernatural detective game. Uncover the identities and powers of your adversaries using a conspiracy board full of evidence. This is supposed to be a Golden Idol-like, I think, made in RenPy. The demo has a cool surreal vibe with you being a test subject in some strange experiment, but it ends rather abruptly before it shows off any real gameplay. Still, it was neat and the screenshots look promising so I'll wishlist and hope the creator delivers.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 8, 2024 11:54
|
|
|
Radiation Cow posted:Does anyone have any recommendations for digital jigsaw puzzle games? I've tried Pixel Puzzles Ultimate, but holy hell, the fact that I can't stick pieces together is very annoying. I'd also love something that has larger puzzles and the ability to control puzzle shapes (don't like weird jagged edges and poo poo). It's not quite the same, but I just saw this game in NextFest which might scratch an itch? https://store.steampowered.com/app/2654860/Mizi_NO/ In this free 2D puzzle game, you must reassemble broken objects that your cat has knocked over. 
|
|
#
¿
Feb 12, 2024 10:59
|
|
|
FishMcCool posted:It's too real.  EDIT: Oh, here's another curious one: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2619860/Animated_Jigsaw_Puzzles/ Megazver fucked around with this message at 11:35 on Feb 12, 2024 |
|
#
¿
Feb 12, 2024 11:19
|
|
|
The 7th Guest posted:
Can you even play the story stuff in these expansions? I've heard they pulled the plug on some of them.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 13, 2024 22:06
|
|
|
Jusupov posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1013140/Outcast__A_New_Beginning/ The demo was a slideshow on my mediocre PC. Hopefully it'll get optimized... eventually.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 15, 2024 16:20
|
|
|
Tiny Timbs posted:How on earth does this illegitimate studio apparently have 47 games in simultaneous development Disco Elysium sold a lot for an indie textgame. And now most of that is probably gone, lol.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 16, 2024 17:00
|
|
|
Azran posted:Is either of the Odyssey DLC good? There's one where you go to Atlantis, one where you got to Elysium (heaven) and one where you go to Hades (hell). They're all... alright, but by the time you get to them you've been playing for like 100 hours and the DLCs add another uh 40 maybe. I didn't hate them and I didn't regret playing through them, but I was really going through the motions playing them.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 17, 2024 18:06
|
|
|
Hot take: Black Flag's ship gameplay was fine, but I was more or less over it about 80% into my playthrough. Then they rehashed it in Rogue; I played about an hour of that and decided that I didn't want to sail around anymore. Then they added it again with galleys to Origins and Odyssey and I was like siiiiiiiiiiiiiigh.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 17, 2024 19:40
|
|
|
IMO Far Cry 6 is actually better than Far Cry 5 in most aspects on its own merits, it's just that the Far Cry Fatigue peaked by the time it came out. I hope they keep the voiced MC and showing them in cutscenes, for example.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 17, 2024 23:01
|
|
|
Dunno; I beat it in SP, worked fine for me for the most part.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 17, 2024 23:14
|
|
|
Kly posted:theyre all fun but if you care about story theyre not good. people complain about how 5 forces you into story missions "unexpectedly" but after the first time its extremely obvious when it will happen and you have control over triggering it. you get kidnapped and torture-monologued at nine times in a row; sometimes you're midair in a helicopter and somehow you get tranqed and captured there are no redeeming qualities to the way Far Cry 5's story is set up
|
|
#
¿
Feb 18, 2024 00:37
|
|
|
Artelier posted:High contender for GOTY coming out within the next day! It's not a big budget combat + narrative game, it'll be on the lists but no nominations for GOTY.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 20, 2024 00:17
|
|
|
ninjoatse.cx posted:With or without the 3DO voice overs? The voice overs are great. Can't play it atm, but based on size, I think they did manage to include the voice overs.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 20, 2024 22:02
|
|
|
Jack Trades posted:I would've liked Dying Light 1 a lot more if they stopped relentlessly shoving their nothingburger of a story into my throat and let me loving play the god drat game. DL1's story is amusing in how obvious it is that they went "wow people really like Vaas in Far Cry 3, our bad guy should also give really lovely monologues about his dumbass philosophy". The writing in the expansion was decent, though, IMO.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 25, 2024 16:24
|
|
|
Volte posted:Don't you also kill him in a dream sequence but then he's just dead IRL somehow It's a hallucinogenic drug trip, not a dream sequence. You're still doing poo poo, but you're just seeing wild poo poo while you do it.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 25, 2024 16:35
|
|
|
Resdfru posted:If this were true is there anyone that sees this and thinks yes that sounds like what I need in my life. https://twitter.com/DyingLightGame/status/1480633241937891328
|
|
#
¿
Feb 26, 2024 20:06
|
|
|
It's a Civ game so it'll finally get good/playable by the time the second expansion comes out.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 29, 2024 01:45
|
|
|
I said come in! posted:is there is a good game that plays like Civilization, but is focused more on modern day time period, and you can play any real world existing country? 4X doesn't really mix with modern day. If you want grand strategy, there is the Supreme Ruler series and Realpolitiks series and both are mid at best.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 29, 2024 11:43
|
|
|
Yeah, it's not hard. Most of the good, but niche point-and-clicks in my library have 0 players atm. (You play them for a few hours and you're done.)
|
|
#
¿
Mar 1, 2024 12:18
|
|
|
Phlegmish posted:Yeah I have to say I don't actually know what a vtuber is https://www.reddit.com/r/Hololive/comments/pcqu7i/hi_im_momosuzu_nene_am_i_using_it_correctly/ weebs jerk off to this
|
|
#
¿
Mar 1, 2024 14:43
|
|
|
You might get better answers from the dedicated VS-likes thread. But yeah, it's pretty good. Random guns is more fun than upgrading abilities, the different items change things up quite a bit and the different character play quite differently. Or, as Jeff Vogel put in a blog post I read the other day: quote:Brotato is simple. There's 20 levels where you shoot monsters. Killing monsters give money, and you spend it on upgrades between levels. There are a ton of statistics (speed, attack speed, armor, life drain, etc.) you can improve on the way. The final level is 90 seconds, two big bosses. Kill or outlast them to win. (I'm describing the highest difficulty level, the only difficulty level of note.)
|
|
#
¿
Mar 2, 2024 01:18
|
|
|
Dramicus posted:No, they did a non-battletech game because they weren't allowed. They chose to make Lamplighters. There is nothing inherently wrong with Lamplighters on paper. It's XCOM meets Pulp Call of Cthulhu, which is a perfectly fine mix of genres. I was cautiously optimistic about it before it came out and the reviews said it was released in a severely undercooked state. I suspect it'll turn out a lot of the blame lies on Paradox loving them and forcing them to release before it was really done.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 4, 2024 14:56
|
|
|
Dramicus posted:The problem is they were making scuffed XCOM in a pretty saturated genre where most people are still playing XCOM1&2. At least battletech had the whole universe and mech system to differentiate it from XCOM. Lamplighters never had a shot at being successful, even if it had released in a perfect state. I mean, there's a lot of XCOMlikes and a lot of them did alright. WH Mechanicus, WH Daemonhunters, Gears Tactics, Troubleshooter, Hard West 1&2, Othercide, Phantom Doctrine, JA3, etc, none of these killed their studio AFAIK. It's a busy genre, but most genres are busy. I don't think LL being an xcomlike was inherently a positive or a negative here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
|
|
#
¿
Mar 4, 2024 15:11
|
|
|
Dramicus posted:Look at your list though, half of them have famous licenses like Warhammer or Gears that can do a lot of heavy lifting in terms of sales and marketability and the other half sold very little comparatively. Phantom Doctrine didn't kill the studio, but people were forced to resign over it. Othercide wasn't a blockbuster either. Most of these either barely tread water or did poorly in terms of sales. Hell even the studio behind xcom isn't interested in making a new xcom. They are leaning into their marvel license. Jake Solomon, the lead designer on XCOM 1&2, was not interested in making XCOM 3, because he was personally done with it and he felt the franchise needed to breathe a little. So he made the Marvel game (famous license!) and it bombed hard enough that he left the company. And it was still a tactical RPG where you send out heroes on missions to fight in turn-based combat, so pretty xcom-ish in that regard. Now they probably are making another XCOM. StrixNebulosa posted:As I understand it, Firaxis was not forced to use their marvel license, that was literally a passion project (which is why you can date the superheroes) Oh, if only. Apparently Marvel explicitly forbid romance, which might have saved that game.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 4, 2024 16:53
|
|
|
I imagine Mercer is no slouch, but I thought the female VA was pretty good in MS. Most of them were, even if some of them don't make a good first impression.ScootsMcSkirt posted:wait, you cant even bang Blade? what the hell is the point then lol You can set up Blade with Captain Marvel, which is also fun. But yes, Baldur's Gate 3 clearly demonstrated their folly. Megazver fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Mar 4, 2024 |
|
#
¿
Mar 4, 2024 17:53
|
|
|
lordfrikk posted:The announcement on their Discord reads like written by a lawyer lol "We would also like to grovel in the dirt a bit to fully express our regret and sorrow at having perpetrated piracy, and eat some of the dirt as well."
|
|
#
¿
Mar 4, 2024 22:05
|
|
|
Dramicus posted:Maybe I'm super out of the loop, but what is the questionable language there? I'm pretty sure there isn't any, being American just broke them.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 5, 2024 19:34
|
|
|
FutureCop posted:Wow, just when I felt like Humble Choice was getting really forgettable, this next batch delivers quite a lotta nice things: This one is a definite skip for me, heh. I am a little bored of soulslikes and I've played Nioh 1 for an hour and got bored of it, so that's two games out. I've given up on platformers - metroidvania, puzzle, precision, story-heavy, I don't care - so Afterimage is out. I'm not an RTS fan but I've tried Age of Sigmar's demo during the NextFest and I thought it was lumbering and tedious. Citizen Sleeper is okay, but I've already played it. (And I think it's a bit over-rated, tbh.) Saints Row is actually the game I like the most here; I've beaten it and while it's extremely mid, it's nowhere near as bad as everybody seems to think it is. I'd go so far as to give it a strong 7/10. The LARP missions were great. Black Skylands is the only game here I maybe would like to get eventually, since I enjoyed the NF demo, but I won't get the bundle just for one game. Megazver fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Mar 5, 2024 |
|
#
¿
Mar 5, 2024 20:01
|
|
|
Serephina posted:That's wild, RA3 and it's standalone expo are not dated at all, I still hold them up as top quality RTSs that everyone should play. C&C3, despite being only a year older, hasn't aged as gracefully. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_U59u69tys
|
|
#
¿
Mar 6, 2024 11:19
|
|
|
I feel Suicide Squad as an IP could have worked as well; Harley Quinn is in top three of the most popular DC characters, apparently. Unfortunately, the actual game ended up being not great.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 6, 2024 18:03
|
|
|
Mordja posted:I've started playing The Hong Kong Massacre, an OK Hotline Miamilike. It's got the John Woo look down pat, and you can slide and dive and gun down gangsters in slow motion, but it's definitely not as polished or well thought out as HM and the fact that it's entirely ranged combat makes it closer to HM2. It also has a dumb system wherein you earn upgrade points by NOT using its bullet time system and by only hitting enemies with your shots, which misses the whole point of being a wannabe Hard Boiled. The whole weapon upgrade thing also means that there are only four guns in the entire game, and if you're dumping points into just one or two of them, you're less likely to pick up and improvise with what you get from killing mooks. This is in a bundle atm btw: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-spring-bundle
|
|
#
¿
Mar 6, 2024 22:14
|
|
|
CharlestheHammer posted:The Harry Potter game made money specifically because it was a Harry Potter game so not making it a live service is just leaving money on the table I'm sure they can gently caress up and make unplayable even a Harry Potter open world game where you go to Hogwarts.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 6, 2024 23:08
|
|
|
Jerusalem posted:I wish they were making Red Dead Redemption 3 instead Bully 2 or gtfo
|
|
#
¿
Mar 7, 2024 12:06
|
|
|
They elaborated on it in the tabletop RPG sourcebook for Alpha Centauri: https://alphacentauri.fandom.com/wiki/Nerve_stapling
|
|
#
¿
Mar 8, 2024 23:47
|
|
|
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. The contrast with Beyond Earth in this regard is especially stark.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 9, 2024 12:30
|
|
|
I can see it, I suppose.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 10, 2024 10:04
|
|
|
I'd like an Endless Legend 2, but it's gonna be a little difficult, lore-wise. It also seems that not a lot of people are playing it these days, unfortunately.   But I do agree it would be very nice to get another quirky inventive asymmetrical fantasy 4X game like Endless Legend.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 10, 2024 14:56
|
|
|
Chadzok posted: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). This is a solid write-up; I agree with all of it. I personally feel all of the DLCs are decent enough to keep turned on (cough unlike Endless Space 2 cough).
|
|
#
¿
Mar 10, 2024 22:51
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 13, 2024 10:25 |
|
|
This is the first time I hear of these people tbh (this is the Steam thread, not the handheld weebs thread). Are their games actually worth emulating?
|
|
#
¿
Mar 11, 2024 13:00
|
|