Steam Thread: you're not a kid any more and you want what you had when you were a kid

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Lance Streetman: Feb 20, 2011; A parfait is a dessert, but it is also the French word for perfect.

I Am Just a Box posted:

Do you like repetitive grinding and incremental advances in grind efficiency and mobility through the game world, in the classic formula designed to create an illusory sense of achievement and change?

I do, so I like it well enough. Kind of glad I didn't spend more than a buck on it, though.

Yeah, it's basically a really well made Skinner Box. I'm enjoying it, but it's very repetitive.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 06:00

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# ? May 23, 2024 16:22

Orv: May 4, 2011

Drifter posted:

I'm not racist, but what the gently caress is wrong with you?

Be a little more discriminating, sir. Play the race segments of Sleepy Dogs, play Burnout Paradise, play Sega/Sonic All-Star Racing, play Next Car Game, play Trackmania. Those are all great.

Sleeping Dogs racing was loving awful, I don't know what you're on.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 06:12

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

PostNouveau posted:

The ship combat stuff was the best part of AC3, and I assume the makers saw how awesome that was and decided to go pirate with AC4 purely because of it.

I haven't played AC4 yet, gonna wait till it's cheap. Somebody tell me it's got pretty much the same ship combat stuff as AC3. Honestly, that stuff demands its own game. I'm surprised there's not already a game where you captain a ship for the Queen's Navy and fight bucanneers.

Actually the AC4 ship combat is a greatly expanded upon version of AC3's ship combat. It's way better.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 06:16

markgreyam: Mar 10, 2008; Talk to the mittens.

Orv posted:

Sleeping Dogs racing was loving awful, I don't know what you're on.

Says the guy with 20 hours in The Crew.

_{I love that game and the fact that it's basically TDU3 in all but name, I'm just hoping to turn people against you}

# ? Sep 10, 2014 06:17

Orv: May 4, 2011

Having beat Sleeping Dogs + DLC just yesterday I can confirm the driving in that is the worst with the exception of two cars.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 06:20

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

I Am Just a Box posted:

Do you like repetitive grinding and incremental advances in grind efficiency and mobility through the game world, in the classic formula designed to create an illusory sense of achievement and change?

I do, so I like it well enough. Kind of glad I didn't spend more than a buck on it, though.

Have none of you people played Motherload, Dig Dug, Digger etc.? You're describing this game as some strange digging metroidvania while it's just another title in an old genre. There's even been another similar game released on Steam some time ago: Super Motherload. Kids these days.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 06:24

The Saddest Rhino: Apr 29, 2009; Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.

Orv posted:

Having beat Sleeping Dogs + DLC just yesterday I can confirm the driving in that is the worst with the exception of two cars.

Still nowhere as bad as GTAIV's racing.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 06:26

Manatee Cannon: Aug 26, 2010

The driving in Sleeping Dogs is amazing for an open world game. The racing is great by those same standards because (from what I remember) they're all very short.

gently caress all new racing games though, just give me Burnout 3 thanks.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 06:36

Fur20: Nov 14, 2007; すご▞い！
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね！

Manatee Cannon posted:

There weren't any bonus objectives involving powder kegs in Black Flag. I dunno what he means by accidentally upgrading the ram.

I was talking about AC3, where the most reliable way to breach a hull was by ramming the enemy ship. Unfortunately, if you upgraded the ram, you would do so much damage with a collision that you would instantly destroy anything but a Man-O-War at full sail. Approaching at half sail would expose the kegs without destroying the ship, but on missions with stormy conditions, you might be moving too slowly on approach and not breach the hull, but do too much damage for the enemy ship to survive a second attempt.

It honestly would've been okay if you the missions didn't require you to defeat every single enemy ship available in the stage with the powder keg method since you could realistically crack at least one open, but forcing the player to kill 100% of the enemy units with a technique that has maybe a 50-50 chance of success on rough seas is a little mean.

Fur20 fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Sep 10, 2014

# ? Sep 10, 2014 06:36

Manatee Cannon: Aug 26, 2010

I know you were, but the guy that replied to you and I was replying to wasn't.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 06:38

Lord Lambeth: Dec 7, 2011

Doctor Spaceman posted:

AC3 has a boring protagonist and an even more boring setting. Ezio is flamboyant and base-jumps off the Colosseum and Hagia Sophia, Connor speaks in a monotone and parkours through a set of drab, interchangeable colonial towns.

I just finished AC3 a little while ago and ugh I kind of regretted spending so much time on it. Didn't bother to finish the King George DLC either.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 06:43

The 7th Guest: Dec 17, 2003

I dunno if turning 30 is distorting my brain but my opinion is growing weirder about games. Like I'm really enjoying RAGE a lot, for example.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 06:51

Drifter: Oct 22, 2000; Belated Bear Witness; Soiled Meat

^^^ what a terrible pre-midlife crisis to have.

If you guys didn't enjoy the driving of Sleeping Dogs you can all go to hell.

RIGHT to hell, I say.

The race portions were just extensions of the normal open world driving and it was pretty darn decent for a game of its type.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 06:52

gandlethorpe: Aug 16, 2008

How have I never heard about Hack N Slash before? Is the game as good as the concept sounds?

# ? Sep 10, 2014 06:58

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

Quest For Glory II posted:

I dunno if turning 30 is distorting my brain but my opinion is growing weirder about games. Like I'm really enjoying RAGE a lot, for example.

Depends what part of it you're enjoying. The shooting is dang fun, like using the pistol with the magnum rounds. The car racing/combat is Meh at best.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 06:59

Drifter: Oct 22, 2000; Belated Bear Witness; Soiled Meat

gandlethorpe posted:

How have I never heard about Hack N Slash before? Is the game as good as the concept sounds?

Not overly, no. I wish there was more to say about it, but no.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 07:04

Orv: May 4, 2011

gandlethorpe posted:

How have I never heard about Hack N Slash before? Is the game as good as the concept sounds?

It's not as good as the concept sounds but it is an okay game. Not great, but okay.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 07:08

Orv: May 4, 2011

E: Goddamn you Chrome, you whore.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 07:08

A Bystander: Oct 10, 2012

The only ways you can possibly gently caress up racing in Sleeping Dogs is if you were either not paying any attention to the map at all or doing the motorbike races, and even then, playing aggressively by pushing your rivals into other cars puts them out for a few seconds if it doesn't total them outright.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 07:09

The 7th Guest: Dec 17, 2003

Croccers posted:

Depends what part of it you're enjoying. The shooting is dang fun, like using the pistol with the magnum rounds. The car racing/combat is Meh at best.

The car is whatever, I do like bursting around. But man the shooting is fun and the levels are really tightly designed. The best thing is all the missions have some sort of shortcut at the end to get you back to your vehicle so you don't have to go backwards the entire way through the level. Wish I could say that about some of Borderlands' quests.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 07:22

Technetium: Oct 26, 2006; TRILOBITE TECHNICIAN
QUITE POSSIBLY GAY

Quest For Glory II posted:

I dunno if turning 30 is distorting my brain but my opinion is growing weirder about games. Like I'm really enjoying RAGE a lot, for example.

That makes sense because RAGE is a fun game with fun guns to shoot guys with and also I played that card game. And the insane circus + insane circus multiplayer parts were fun. It's too bad about the story and non openworldness of it and the ending and it being pretty short.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 07:27

markgreyam: Mar 10, 2008; Talk to the mittens.

Orv posted:

It's not as good as the concept sounds but it is an okay game. Not great, but okay.

Have you played it since it hit Version 1.0?

E: I really liked the shooting bits in RAGE, just not the other stuff. Oh wait I'm late 30s OH GOD IT'S TRUE

markgreyam fucked around with this message at 07:37 on Sep 10, 2014

# ? Sep 10, 2014 07:33

Lance Streetman: Feb 20, 2011; A parfait is a dessert, but it is also the French word for perfect.

Palpek posted:

Have none of you people played Motherload, Dig Dug, Digger etc.?

Nope. Sorry old man.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 08:06

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

Lance Streetman posted:

Nope. Sorry old man.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 08:45

tight aspirations: Jul 13, 2009

Minecraft, now with GFWL^TM.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 09:06

The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

Not even Microsoft uses GFWL anymore.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 09:07

Orv: May 4, 2011

markgreyam posted:

Have you played it since it hit Version 1.0?

E: I really liked the shooting bits in RAGE, just not the other stuff. Oh wait I'm late 30s OH GOD IT'S TRUE

I have not but I played everything but the final act, which supposedly doubles down on the value changing nonsense, but eh.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 09:09

Saoshyant: Oct 26, 2010

Jonathan Yeah! posted:

Minecraft, now with GFWL^TM.

The funny bit is that's just a waste of money since Minecraft is on every platform now -- and Mojang knows their time is up. They won't ever do anything of worth so might as well get bought by a high price.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 09:12

Testekill: Nov 1, 2012; I demand to be taken seriously

Saoshyant posted:

The funny bit is that's just a waste of money since Minecraft is on every platform now -- and Mojang knows their time is up. They won't ever do anything of worth so might as well get bought by a high price.

Honestly, it's pretty smart of them to do this. I don't think it's on a Nintendo platform but honestly, it's on so many platforms that it really doesn't matter if it's not on one of them.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 09:16

Orv: May 4, 2011

Hell if I was Notch I'd take any chance I could to wash my hands of the internet.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 09:19

Manatee Cannon: Aug 26, 2010

Saoshyant posted:

I like that this implies that Microsoft actually thinks about the Vita at all. Someone has to, I guess.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 09:22

Cable: Dec 20, 2005; it'll come like a wind.

So is Prison Architect anything like Theme Hospital? If so, I'm in

# ? Sep 10, 2014 10:23

lordfrikk: Mar 11, 2010; Oh, say it ain't fuckin' so,
you stupid fuck!

People keep making jokes, but Microsoft might actually and finally finish the game :smugdog:

# ? Sep 10, 2014 10:25

The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

The SteamDB folks have reason to think that the Steam Store Redesign will drop on or around the 16th, since there were backend changes made in preparation during maintenance this week. Should be interesting...

# ? Sep 10, 2014 10:35

Away all Goats: Jul 5, 2005; Goose's rebellion

Cable posted:

So is Prison Architect anything like Theme Hospital? If so, I'm in

Less random wacky hijinks and babysitting of your staff, but the management themes are there.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 11:10

Major Isoor: Mar 23, 2011

Palpek posted:

Oh hell yes, now that was a classic game, along with Elevator Action, the original Frogger and many others.

...Dammit, now you're making me wish that an official emulator pack - like with the Sega Genesis, I think? - comes out on Steam for all those arcade games, but I'm certain it'll never happen :smithicide:

EDIT: vvv Bubble Bobble! I'd forgotten about that one. And yeah, I did that bike-pump torture on the last guy as well. We turned out alright in the end, right? ...right?

Major Isoor fucked around with this message at 11:53 on Sep 10, 2014

# ? Sep 10, 2014 11:19

markgreyam: Mar 10, 2008; Talk to the mittens.

Palpek posted:

This, Bubble Bobble, Impossible Mission, Cops & Robbers, Paradroid, Lords of Chaos, and so on.

I hope that it was a common thing to pump the last guy up and then let him deflate a bit, then pump him up some more, then let him deflate a bit, and so on and that I wasn't simply a budding psychopath from a young age.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 11:45

juggalo baby coffin: Dec 2, 2007; How would the dog wear goggles and even more than that, who makes the goggles?

I'm having some trouble with dawn of war retribution just not tracking any of my stats or achievements, which is really irritating as that poo poo unlocks equipment.

# ? Sep 10, 2014 14:55