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Bieeardo posted:Qube is neat up to a certain point, at which it forgets its core competencies and turns into a frustrating shitfest. For me it was a 'puzzle' that was basically an escort mission for a ball, hoping that I shot increasingly tiny hotspots in time. I don't play these games to challenge my lovely hand-eye. Yeah, they don't seem to have a shortage of neat ideas, but they just went with some bad ones. The ball escorting is fine, but it would be a lot better if it didn't have sequences that required precise hand-eye. What Portal's great at is that most of the puzzles are in the vein of "How do I set up this Rube Goldberg machine?" The first half of Qube rocks because it's that kind of stuff, but then it loses the plot real bad. Those magnets are an instant turn-off; just grinds the game right to a halt.
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Playing Soul Suspect and it's pretty cool. People weren't lying when they said the stealth poo poo is terrible, it absolutely is, although the first time I encountered it, it lasted just a couple of minutes. I like games with little collectable story trinkets and people you can eavesdrop on and so far Soul Suspect is scratching both those itches. I'm enjoying walking through walls into people's apartments and listening to their lil slice of life, even if it amounts to just two lines of dialogue. If this game had hackable computer terminals with emails to read or diaries, it would probably be my ideal game. The stealth poo poo though. This game would've been better off going the no-combat Gone Home route.
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Aug 1, 2014 20:57
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It's time for another batch of Greenlight games! In other news, if the best reviews you've got are from Polygon, Kill Screen and fuckin' Indie Game Magazine, and that's what you're promoting your game with, I conclude that your game is rubbish.
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Aug 1, 2014 21:24
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Karthe posted:Oh, Torchlight is a standard ARPG? Yes. Other than that, you can categorize RPGS between Western RPGS and Japanese RPGS. Amalur would probably be considered your standard WRPG. In fact, my biggest complaint about it is that it's TOO standard. I can see why you would want to specify third person, but almost no RPGs are in first person.
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Aug 1, 2014 21:31
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There's still no concrete genre title for diablo clones other than diablo clone and that's kind of weird. They're definitely action RPGs, while Amalur is also an action RPG, but in a completely different way.
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Aug 1, 2014 21:37
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:There's still no concrete genre title for diablo clones other than diablo clone and that's kind of weird. They're definitely action RPGs, while Amalur is also an action RPG, but in a completely different way. The again, Diablo is just a roguelike…
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It's one of those weird divides between western RPGs and JRPGs. Among western RPGs, an Action RPG is usually a Diablo clone. Among JRPGs, an Action RPG is usually something like Ys or Kingdom Hearts. Amalur seems to be more of the latter, from what I've seen.
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Xaris posted:I actually just recently got really into it, and then sort of fizzled out after ~2 weeks. I still play it even though and then. It's not terribly grinding and there's a ton of heroes that all do different things which is awesome... But there just isn't really that much variety in the levels and the Daily Quests are always the same poo poo. Yeah, everything you said is pretty accurate, I think I use the term grind for anything that's unfun, and that game did the same for me for about two weeks, then I realized I have a backlog I need to crack on with. I notice that they tagged it recently with '2015'...any changes come from that? NeoSeeker posted:Both metro games were released broken. My question, in a much less convoluted sense is: Are the metro games not broken as gently caress anymore, especially 2033. Oh and is ranger mode free for Last light now? Couple of things in those paragraphs, Last Light and Metro have different difficulty scaling, so don't assume that there's equivalence there. I'll also admit to not running into bugs in either of them after launch, and I've been an inertia-driven AMD user since before PhysX arrived. I'd suggest for the price that you can't go wrong, but you _should_ wait for them to go on sale. Yodzilla posted:Is it the same as the tower defense portion of the first Van Helsing? That was boring as hell. I'll admit to completely missing that. poo poo comes out of portals along some paths, and you have square trap spaces and towers that can be placed and upgraded? If that was in the first, I completely blanked it out. Edit: Tippis posted:The again, Diablo is just a roguelike… As is Borderlands.... j/k, put down the torches.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:There's still no concrete genre title for diablo clones other than diablo clone and that's kind of weird. They're definitely action RPGs, while Amalur is also an action RPG, but in a completely different way.
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Orv posted:Stop recommending Bound By Flame to people you goddamn animals! It has the best rear end in a top hat protagonist though! Also I absolutely adore the look of the female Vulcan, even if her voice actress is absolutely atrocious.
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Hav posted:As is Borderlands....
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Hav posted:I'll admit to completely missing that. poo poo comes out of portals along some paths, and you have square trap spaces and towers that can be placed and upgraded? If that was in the first, I completely blanked it out. Yeah it was. It was easily the low point of the game.
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Tippis posted:The again, Diablo is just a roguelike… Should I feel bad I've never played Diablo 1/2/3?
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Jonathan Yeah! posted:Should I feel bad I've never played Diablo 1/2/3? Nah. Just to annoy someone, I'd even say that they get worse for every new version and the first one was… ok:ish.
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Delusibeta posted:It's time for another batch of Greenlight games! A list of high up games that got skipped. Interestingly, most were vote-for-keys games. Valve getting a little tetchy with games trying to get past GL? e: Talking of game clones, how is Ninty not jumping all over this? tight aspirations fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Aug 1, 2014 |
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Diablo 3 is my first and I'm really enjoying it. Though I did get it recently with RoS.
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Azran posted:Played both Metro games, never encountered a single glitch. Ranger mode is paid DLC still, but it goes for sale for really low so eh. The new Redux versions should make the gameplay of 2033 way better.
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I saw people were talking about Kingdoms of Amalur the past couple pages. If I'm playing this for the first time, what are some good things to know? I'm not too far in yet. My plan is to go with daggers and just stealth kill everything, use alchemy, and speechcraft. Will that get me through the game, or am I going to hit a huge difficulty wall and be good and truly hosed?
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americanzero4128 posted:I saw people were talking about Kingdoms of Amalur the past couple pages. If I'm playing this for the first time, what are some good things to know? I'm not too far in yet. My plan is to go with daggers and just stealth kill everything, use alchemy, and speechcraft. Will that get me through the game, or am I going to hit a huge difficulty wall and be good and truly hosed? Amalur is by no means a difficult game, you'll be perfectly fine.
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americanzero4128 posted:I saw people were talking about Kingdoms of Amalur the past couple pages. If I'm playing this for the first time, what are some good things to know? I'm not too far in yet. My plan is to go with daggers and just stealth kill everything, use alchemy, and speechcraft. Will that get me through the game, or am I going to hit a huge difficulty wall and be good and truly hosed? You'll be fine but you're able to respec fairly cheaply so mix it up every now and then. I was a big fan of two handed weapons and bow skills.
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Jonathan Yeah! posted:Should I feel bad I've never played Diablo 1/2/3? At this point you'd probably played some variant of it so its not a huge loss. But back in the day, these were the best dungeon crawlers on the market.
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Jonathan Yeah! posted:Should I feel bad I've never played Diablo 1/2/3? Diablo 1 has a pretty cool singleplayer game with excellent atmosphere thanks to the amazing sound/music and decent story. I still get a nostalgic feeling when I hear the overworld music, and there are a few quests that are very rewarding if you've really dug into the on-screen texts. It's a very immersive experience, worth putting on some headphones and really dedicating some time to enjoying (especially thanks to some amazing use of stereo effects- yes use headphones if you can). The final battle kind of sucks as (non-spoiler) Diablo has one attack that just spams the screen for massive damage so you're either properly leveled or... not. But the vast majority of the game rocks. IMHO, Diablo 2/3 are very bland and MMO and riding on coattails. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvvXsreyo30 
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Scalding Coffee posted:I heard the Ranger DLC is in the game and turned off by default. It might be a simple 0 changed to 1 in some file. Yes, that is right. I forgot.
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Jonathan Yeah! posted:A list of high up games that got skipped. Interestingly, most were vote-for-keys games. Valve getting a little tetchy with games trying to get past GL? Kind of surprised that Valve is still doing any kind of gatekeeping, considering the new releases list has been 90% dross lately. Seems like just greenlighting the top 100 games every month would be more in character with their laissez faire attitude.
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Honestly after Diablo 3, if a Diablo clone still uses the old style skill tree of "level 1 spell does 6-18 damage" all the way to "level 20 spell deals 114-148 damage" I give up. Scaling the spell according to gear like they did in WoW and Diablo is such a smarter way to do it rather than copying and pasting spell ranks. Do people still do that? Last I checked this was still the case in Torchlight 2.
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Diablo 3 did basically everything better than all the other ARPGs around other than the force-fed story and itemization. PoE and Torchlight 2 (even modded) are incredibly dull experiences compared to D3, even Pre-RoS.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:There's still no concrete genre title for diablo clones other than diablo clone and that's kind of weird. They're definitely action RPGs, while Amalur is also an action RPG, but in a completely different way. I nominate TARP, the Third-person Action Role Player.
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Anonymous Robot posted:I nominate TARP, the Third-person Action Role Player. They're isometric though. 
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Huh, looking at that Sacred 3 stuff it appears some of the devs behind the first 2 games are making a spiritual sequel that was called Unsacred but now has the fairly ridiculous name Unbended. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sweyq22HhXs
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Orv posted:They're isometric though. Isometric is third person, though? Fine, have it your way. I TAR-PIG, the Isometric Third-person Action Role-Playing Interactive Game.
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can you remove the dumb you are now leaving steam warning
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Davincie posted:can you remove the dumb you are now leaving steam warning
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I'm pretty close to buying Crypt of the Necrodancer because it looks fun as hell and I'm a sucker for not-roguelike-but-roguelike games like Spelunky and Dredmor, but I'm wondering if the game is really worth $15 or if I could maybe hold off on it. I've gotten more than $15 out of Spelunky and Dredmor, but Necrodancer just looks really fast-paced to the point where it might be too short to justify $15.
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Davincie posted:can you remove the dumb you are now leaving steam warning Best answer I've found is to use a Greasemonkey script to bypass the page. It sure would be nice to have a "I have barely enough impulse control to read a URL before pawing at it with my monkey fists" checkbox.
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Geokinesis posted:Huh, looking at that Sacred 3 stuff it appears some of the devs behind the first 2 games are making a spiritual sequel that was called Unsacred but now has the fairly ridiculous name Unbended. Not as bad as Ridge Racer Unbounded but holy hell that's a bad name.
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King Vidiot posted:I'm pretty close to buying Crypt of the Necrodancer because it looks fun as hell and I'm a sucker for not-roguelike-but-roguelike games like Spelunky and Dredmor, but I'm wondering if the game is really worth $15 or if I could maybe hold off on it. The game is really hard, so it will take some time to master it. Spelunky is also really short with people able to beat it in minutes (the world record is less than 2 minutes). It will probably take a long time for you to be able to beat it, and there are a lot of unlockables along the way, with plenty of unlockable characters and poo poo adding to the replayability. Also, it's just really goddamn fun. Dr. Video Games 0031 fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Aug 2, 2014 |
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It helps that Crypt has most of its levels/zones done already. It's only missing Zone 4 and endboss, according to the EA FAQ.
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Male Man posted:Best answer I've found is to use a Greasemonkey script to bypass the page. It sure would be nice to have a "I have barely enough impulse control to read a URL before pawing at it with my monkey fists" checkbox. I never see that page. Is it a feature in Enhanced Steam?
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Speaking of the Metro games, I've noticed that both Metro 2033 & Metro: Last Light have Redux versions coming out in August. The page description says that 2033 will be updated into the same engine as Last Light, but does anyone know if Last Last Redux will have any changes, other than the inclusion of all the DLC?
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Karthe posted:Check, check, and check. Maybe I need to give up my "only play games once for the story" policy and go replay some of these. did you say you already had finished Divinity 2? because if you asked me for Amalur but better that comes instantly to mind.
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