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Max Wilco posted:Mercenary Kings is on sale for $9.99. I've heard conflicting opinions about it. Is it worth picking up? Ive found it loving boring. Like aggresively boring. A shame because it looks rad and isnt a bad idea for a video game.
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Baltazar Robotnik posted:E8ME?-X5X?P-3ZH3P Nabbed it, thanks!
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Max Wilco posted:Mercenary Kings is on sale for $9.99. I've heard conflicting opinions about it. Is it worth picking up? I understand that it's not like the Metal Slug games. I enjoyed it but it depends entirely on your tolerance for repetition. It triggered all my "get fat loot" boxes and I enjoyed actually playing it, especially co-op (played it on PS4), but a lot of people find it super boring. If you like Monster Hunter or Diablo and Metal Slug then just imagine a slower Metal Slug with big stages and crafting. Hell, it's Metal Slug Advance with open ended stages and crafting. e: Better analogy, it's Metal Slug for Neo Geo Pocket with crafting since that actually had some open ended levels. al-azad fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Nov 3, 2014 |
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Nov 3, 2014 22:03
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I have no idea how to find archived threads, but if I could, I'd link to the Slammed! CYOA on the wrestling forum to settle all questions about the quality of Choice of Games games.
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Nov 3, 2014 22:04
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al-azad posted:I enjoyed it but it depends entirely on your tolerance for repetition. It triggered all my "get fat loot" boxes and I enjoyed actually playing it, especially co-op (played it on PS4), but a lot of people find it super boring. If you like Monster Hunter or Diablo and Metal Slug then just imagine a slower Metal Slug with big stages and crafting. Hell, it's Metal Slug Advance with open ended stages and crafting. I'd say the game plays much more like Mega Man, while the graphics are very Metal Slugish. It absolutely does depend on your tolerance for repetition to be enjoyable (same warning I give for Darksiders 2). Given the number of people who don't like Mercenary Kings, I'd say $10 for it is a bit risky when there's plenty of other games you can spend your money on.
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Max Wilco posted:Mercenary Kings is on sale for $9.99. I've heard conflicting opinions about it. Is it worth picking up? I understand that it's not like the Metal Slug games. Baltazar Robotnik posted:Ive found it loving boring. Like aggresively boring. A shame because it looks rad and isnt a bad idea for a video game.  . I liked it. I also only ever played it co-op with my friends. Your buddies being there can change your opinion of a game entirely, even if the gameplay is still the same, or even lovely.It's basically Monster Hunter in a Contra interface. There's a lot of running the same stages a bunch of times so you can grind for materials, so due to the random nature of the game, you might be there for a very long time. Great animations, fun to run around in, but in terms of why you run the stages, gets stale quickly.
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Nov 3, 2014 22:40
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Isn't there a similar game to it that's all about bros? How different is it?
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Nov 3, 2014 22:54
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That would be   BROFORCE Its pretty good.
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Nov 3, 2014 23:00
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Tae posted:Isn't there a similar game to it that's all about bros? How different is it? Broforce is more like just blowshitup and blow more poo poo up. Doesn't really have a grind effect at all.
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Nov 3, 2014 23:01
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I've never played it, but the majority opinion I've seen so far is that Broforce is more entertaining than Mercenary Kings. Also, if you really do want to play MK (but why), rope in a friend so that poo poo sucks less.
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Nov 3, 2014 23:01
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Tae posted:Isn't there a similar game to it that's all about bros? How different is it?
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Nov 3, 2014 23:02
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Hey, Steam Enhanced now lists Playfire rewards on the game's store page.
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Nov 3, 2014 23:07
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Depth is seriously fun been playing it about a week now. They do balance differently than other games. Humans start at a disadvantage how ever they can gather gold to buy upgrades shark can upgrade too however human upgrades are stronger. It works sharks are strong at start of map but humans are strong at end of map so it really comes down to how much of a qwik lead sharks can get versus how fast humans can close the gap. Games a lot of fun controls well plays well and I dont think i've seen a bug yet if you like arcadey multiplayer shootem up eat em up its solid.
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Nov 3, 2014 23:09
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Skip Merc Kings. Especially not worth it for $10 which can buy much better games. Get it for $5 or less if you're interested unless you REALLY have people to play co-op with. It's pretty mediocre and that's the most positive thing I can say about it. Broforce; however, put your $10 toward this and have a blaaaaaaaaast
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Nov 3, 2014 23:11
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"It's fun with friends" is one of the biggest red flags a game can have. Driver's Ed was fun with friends.
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Nov 3, 2014 23:20
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Picked up Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi in the Halloween sale and really enjoyed what I've seen of it so far. But is it just me, or does the guy narrating the intro sound weirdly like one of those text-to-speech voices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko3FW4MbAic
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Nov 3, 2014 23:22
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Anonymous Robot posted:"It's fun with friends" is one of the biggest red flags a game can have. Driver's Ed was fun with friends. How about "it's funner with friends?" Some games are heavily designed around co-op and that's not a bad thing. For example I love Monaco but I wouldn't recommend anyone buy that if they're going to play alone.
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Nov 3, 2014 23:28
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al-azad posted:Some games are heavily designed around co-op and that's not a bad thing. For example I love Monaco but I wouldn't recommend anyone buy that if they're going to play alone. Is Mercenary Kings actually designed around co-op? Do you and your friends have different skills/builds/whatever that complement and support each other? Are the stages made in such a way that it would be infinitely better to have more human players doing stuff that a single player wouldn't be able to do (or would be greatly impeded otherwise)?
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Nov 3, 2014 23:48
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GrandpaPants posted:Is Mercenary Kings actually designed around co-op? Do you and your friends have different skills/builds/whatever that complement and support each other? Are the stages made in such a way that it would be infinitely better to have more human players doing stuff that a single player wouldn't be able to do (or would be greatly impeded otherwise)? iirc the boss on each level spawns randomly in one of a few locations so having more people lets you find them faster. otherwise i dunno
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GrandpaPants posted:Is Mercenary Kings actually designed around co-op? Do you and your friends have different skills/builds/whatever that complement and support each other? Are the stages made in such a way that it would be infinitely better to have more human players doing stuff that a single player wouldn't be able to do (or would be greatly impeded otherwise)? You get up to two bionic mods (which adds weight for as long as you have them equipped), a knife (same deal), a gun (the weight goes away when the gun's holstered), and up to two item slots for poo poo like first aid (which are so light, it's not worth mentioning). More poo poo = slower moving and less distance on jumps. There's also proficiencies that are a free bonus depending on what things you have unlocked. Mobility is good, which is why the roll isn't garbage or else no one would ever willingly go for heavy loadouts. You could attack poo poo with the bare basics and live, if you're good enough. What's hard is caring enough to get to that point. Edit: also, there's spots with bonus goods where if you're not light enough or don't have a gun to carry you, you'll never make it.
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Nov 4, 2014 00:01
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Hatoful Boyfriend is on sale for $4.99. I kind of want to buy it because I can then say I own a pigeon dating simulator and then I'll play it for 15 hours because I actually really like it.
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Nov 4, 2014 00:03
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Mercenary Kings is like Metal Slug, if it was paced slow enough for you to see all the art has to offer Which, sadly, makes it slow and kind of boring instead of fun and exciting Broforce is much faster paced and is a total blast
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Nov 4, 2014 00:15
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al-azad posted:The game is not only a parody it's also pretty dark so yeah, all 3. Could you elaborate on this in spoiler tags? I thought it would just be a dumb joke worth maybe $2.50 but I'd be willing to pick it up if it's more interesting than that.
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Pirate Jet posted:Could you elaborate on this in spoiler tags? I thought it would just be a dumb joke worth maybe $2.50 but I'd be willing to pick it up if it's more interesting than that. It's a post-apocalyptic dystopia where humans are now ruled by birds who want to destroy them once and for all. If your character doesn't find a birdy boyfriend, it's game over. For every human.
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Nov 4, 2014 01:00
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That's really stupid. I don't care enough about it to determine whether it is funny stupid or bad stupid though.
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Pirate Jet posted:Could you elaborate on this in spoiler tags? I thought it would just be a dumb joke worth maybe $2.50 but I'd be willing to pick it up if it's more interesting than that. It's kinda reminiscent of Adventure Time, where there's this not so subtle messed up quality about the world that gets more and more explicit.
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CJacobs posted:That's really stupid. I don't care enough about it to determine whether it is funny stupid or bad stupid though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatoful_Boyfriend#Bad_Boys_Love One of the most bizarre things I've read recently
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Also.. this is probably the thing I found most messed up. *spoilers* do not enlarge if you don't want to see one of the endings, since spoiler tags don't seem to work on timgs..  
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Yeah it seems pretty bad stupid but I guess it's just because I don't think the whole joke is funny. Oh well.
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Lovely Planet is making my brain hurt.
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CJacobs posted:Yeah it seems pretty bad stupid but I guess it's just because I don't think the whole joke is funny. Oh well. Eh, the idea is the no stupider than being trapped in a numbers based death game, playing a murder mystery game with a homicidal teddy bear, or being a lawyer in an absurd future with magic artifacts and lie detecting wristbands and all the other ridiculous setups of popular VN games. If you liked Princess Torture Simulator Long Live the Queen you'll probably like Hatoful Boyfriend.
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Deakul posted:Dude, you might think this is a god damned joke but early access destroyed my family and made my wife kill herself. Uh, no that was me actually.
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Nov 4, 2014 02:50
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Whatever happened to Kentucky Route Zero and Broken Age?
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Heran Bago posted:Whatever happened to Kentucky Route Zero and Broken Age? KRZ devs just released a free and bizarre phone game. A game you can play by calling numbers and poo poo
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Acquire Currency! posted:KRZ devs just released a free and bizarre phone game. A game you can play by calling numbers and poo poo wtf is this? a cursory look through the developer site and related twitter accounts and stuff didn't bring anything up about a mobile game. you sure it's them? (I'd be curious to know what this is in any case)
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Acquire Currency! posted:KRZ devs just released a free and bizarre phone game. A game you can play by calling numbers and poo poo Nokia is doing some weird poo poo these days.
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flesh dance posted:wtf is this? a cursory look through the developer site and related twitter accounts and stuff didn't bring anything up about a mobile game. you sure it's them? (I'd be curious to know what this is in any case) I mean previously they did a CG walk through a museum with characters that are dream like apparitions from the game. The developers are weird like that.
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Nov 4, 2014 05:47
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Haha, thanks. I scrolled right past that without even seeing it, much less realizing it was a link 
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The phone that inspired the game is on auction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mITlhHRe0n4&t=312s KZ0 is like David Lynch: The Game. Just like everyone references Twin Peaks and Earthbound, I guarantee you 10 years from now people will be like "Oh yeah, Kentucky Route Zero that was a huge influence." Granted, in 10 years the last chapter will probably be released. As for Broken Age, Schafer finished the script last month and called in all the voice actors again. It'll probably be finished Q1 2015 but Schafer said he took to heart all the commentary about the original e.g. better puzzles and longer. al-azad fucked around with this message at 06:24 on Nov 4, 2014 |
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flesh dance posted:wtf is this? a cursory look through the developer site and related twitter accounts and stuff didn't bring anything up about a mobile game. you sure it's them? (I'd be curious to know what this is in any case) See your mistake was you saw "phone" game and thought "mobile."
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