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

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duckfarts: Jul 2, 2010; ~ shameful ~; Soiled Meat

sliderule posted:

So my wife and I set down Huniepop to play Gems of War, and right off the bat we had enemies not matching skulls. So I look for the "hard mode" option like Puzzle Quest had, and I have to grind 50 levels before I can do that? WTF?

I'm level 20 and I still see enemies not matching skulls regularly, except in one boss fight where the number 1 unit had 0 attack. Of course, then the AI can't stop matching skulls, allowing me to leave skulls on the board and deny mana for his devastating spells.

Also, the RNG is super gently caress you. I unlocked 2 good blues and 1 awesome purple (Tau) in the first hour of gameplay, but my wife got thrown nothing but whites and greens. My game was super easy, and hers was tedious.

At least we can get sort of the same experience in the drafted Arena mode, which is okay for loot if you get a decent draft.

The eff two penis of the game doesn't really grate on me that much, with the exception of not knowing where the best place to spend gold is.

Gems of War is fun, it gets more interesting when you start putting teams together that sync up well. The game thread is pretty helpful for starting out and your "what do I spend gold on first" questions, and you should join one of the goon guilds for free everything given to you constantly. I dig the game because it's a fun enough puzzle quest with decent variety and despite being F2P, you really don't have to spend anything on it to do well and enjoy the game. It helps that you can play it on mobile too with the same account.

Palpek posted:

I'm eagerly waiting for somebody to declare they're going to play Greed: Black Border or Sacred 3 for the arpg month .

I already beat Greed: Black Border, and could write it up probably. It's amazingly not that terrible actually.

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QuarkJets: Sep 8, 2008

Awesome! posted:

and other times...?

other times its the Dark Souls of cigar cutters

# ? Mar 15, 2016 05:05

The Colonel: Jun 8, 2013; I commute by bike!

Quest For Glory II posted:

i recently played the first serious sam and its not very fun either

i like serious sam: the second encounter, serious sam 3 is just lame. there's a period right in the middle where the game actually is fun to play but then the enemy design takes a massive poo poo

# ? Mar 15, 2016 05:06

kirbysuperstar: Nov 11, 2012; Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

Quest For Glory II posted:

i recently played the first serious sam and its not very fun either

I'd agree, personally, but it's still a loooot better than SS3.

# ? Mar 15, 2016 05:18

The Colonel: Jun 8, 2013; I commute by bike!

serious sam: the first encounter is alright but it suffers a bit from all the environments looking the same

second encounter is cool because it actually has color and variety

# ? Mar 15, 2016 05:23

ShadowMar: Mar 2, 2010; HERE IS A
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OF YOU!

serious sam is at it's best when you have a stupid amount of friends playing with you with maximum enemy spawns enabled

# ? Mar 15, 2016 05:30

Kibayasu: Mar 28, 2010

Serious Sam 2, outside of its vehicle sections, is better than Serious Sam 3. Which is really saying something. Serious Sam 2 is dumb wacky idiocy but the game outside of its visual aesthetics and dialogue works fine. I had fun with some of SS3 as well but it really suffers from some bad design in weapon and enemy design.

# ? Mar 15, 2016 05:34

Scaramouche: Mar 26, 2001; SPACE FACE! SPACE FACE!

It might just be the era it came out in (2001) but the first Serious Sam was just such a breath of fresh air. Huge, open (boring) environments, and tonnes of noisy kill crazy monsters and ridiculous weapons for enormous megadeath scenarios. It wasn't deep or compelling by any means, but hearing a chorus of kamikaze screams after a door opened or something definitely got the blood pumping.

The gameplay didn't really change as time went on, but gamers tastes kind of did. In my mind Painkiller took over the Eastern European interesting non-ID shooter crown a couple years later.

# ? Mar 15, 2016 05:49

The 7th Guest: Dec 17, 2003

the level design in SS1 is really boring, and the weapons feel like total poo poo. that's the worst thing, it's a game about shooting millions of enemies and it feels terrible to play

# ? Mar 15, 2016 05:57

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

The Devil Tesla posted:

get ready for a whole game of this poo poo when Quantum Break comes to a windows pc near you

So no-one will see any of it until about 3+ years after it's come out?

# ? Mar 15, 2016 06:28

C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

As I've said before, in Serious Sam 3 they start out doing a joke about modern shooters (ala the Duty Calls parody that Bulletstorm did), but instead of limiting it to a couple levels of generic hitscan soldier enemies in a generic ruined cityscape, the "joke" never ends.

# ? Mar 15, 2016 06:31

WarpedNaba: Feb 8, 2012; Being social makes me swell!

Palpek posted:

It's a thick piece of plastic with rounded edges, not a penis guillotine.

That's what they said about the "Whoa Nelly" Brand of condoms, buddy. There's a reason they discontinued the line.

# ? Mar 15, 2016 07:10

The Colonel: Jun 8, 2013; I commute by bike!

C.M. Kruger posted:

As I've said before, in Serious Sam 3 they start out doing a joke about modern shooters (ala the Duty Calls parody that Bulletstorm did), but instead of limiting it to a couple levels of generic hitscan soldier enemies in a generic ruined cityscape, the "joke" never ends.

the joke does end, and what they replace it with is fun, until it's not

# ? Mar 15, 2016 07:33

Hypha: Sep 13, 2008

I confess, I laughed when they dropped one kleer on you in the first level like some kind of boss. Goddamn loving piece of poo poo kleers....

# ? Mar 15, 2016 07:53

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

Croccers posted:

So no-one will see any of it until about 3+ years after it's come out?

It's actually getting a simultaneous release with the Bone version, but its Windows 10 Store exclusive. So yeah...

# ? Mar 15, 2016 08:16

extra stout: Feb 24, 2005; ISILDUR's ERR

Xaris posted:

I mentioned before it was my first refund because it loving sucks and is a terrible game. It's also a terrible iOS port if that helps make sense of why it's such a clunky bad game.

I hope people didn't buy HB just for it

Thanks for this post, I was literally at check out and only gave a poo poo about Oceanhorn. The trailer really does make it look like a Zelda game with a pretty good soundtrack.

Ok so my other options are a ton of Star Wars games on the other bundle, are any of these fun? Controller supported? I only really gave a poo poo about the Gamecube games when it comes to any of them.

# ? Mar 15, 2016 08:17

jetz0r: May 10, 2003; Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. This is not a figment of the imagination, but a fact. Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing.

The Colonel posted:

the joke does end, and what they replace it with is fun, until it's not

When does the joke end?

Seriously, I've been playing it in short bursts and don't know if I'm past it or not.

# ? Mar 15, 2016 08:30

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# ? Mar 15, 2016 08:42

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

Quest For Glory II posted:

the level design in SS1 is really boring, and the weapons feel like total poo poo. that's the worst thing, it's a game about shooting millions of enemies and it feels terrible to play

The only thing it's got going for is co-op. While that's pretty fun, if you want to play a good arena shooter, just go with Painkiller.

# ? Mar 15, 2016 08:58

Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

extra stout posted:

Thanks for this post, I was literally at check out and only gave a poo poo about Oceanhorn. The trailer really does make it look like a Zelda game with a pretty good soundtrack.

Ok so my other options are a ton of Star Wars games on the other bundle, are any of these fun? Controller supported? I only really gave a poo poo about the Gamecube games when it comes to any of them.

Can you still use the Humble Bundle slider to give all the money to charity (I haven't bought a bundle in awhile there). If so, do that, charity is always good. But I wouldn't even bother installing it personally.

It also might be worth getting for Shadowrun: Dragonfall if you've never played it because that's an excellent game.

SW: Knights of the Old Republic 2 is pretty good (and theres a mod that fixes a lot of things). LEGO Star Wars were pretty fun but a little dated compared to new LEGO games which have improved a lot.

Xaris fucked around with this message at 09:06 on Mar 15, 2016

# ? Mar 15, 2016 09:01

The Colonel: Jun 8, 2013; I commute by bike!

jetz0r posted:

When does the joke end?

Seriously, I've been playing it in short bursts and don't know if I'm past it or not.

around, like, the fifth level

there's a middle period of the game where it actually throws fun enemies at you, but it's very brief and ends when they introduce the witch bride

# ? Mar 15, 2016 09:06

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

Far Cry 4 is $12 :australia:

on Aus uPlay at the moment.

# ? Mar 15, 2016 09:21

HGH: Dec 20, 2011

The Colonel posted:

i like serious sam: the second encounter, serious sam 3 is just lame. there's a period right in the middle where the game actually is fun to play but then the enemy design takes a massive poo poo

Is it those stupid loving space monkeys
What the hell were they thinking with those?!
Oh you answered above. Yeah that counts too.

# ? Mar 15, 2016 09:59

Fart of Presto: Feb 9, 2001; Clapping Larry

Am I really the only one who thought Serious Sam 3 was a fun shooter all the way from the beginning to the final boss fight?

# ? Mar 15, 2016 10:22

Mokinokaro: Sep 11, 2001; At the end of everything, hold onto anything; Fun Shoe

Accordion Man posted:

It's actually getting a simultaneous release with the Bone version, but its Windows 10 Store exclusive. So yeah...

And the cutscenes on the PC version stream from the internet because they're 4k and Microsoft doesn't think people would stomach a 170 GB download.

# ? Mar 15, 2016 10:30

duckfarts: Jul 2, 2010; ~ shameful ~; Soiled Meat

Fart of Presto posted:

Am I really the only one who thought Serious Sam 3 was a fun shooter all the way from the beginning to the final boss fight?

yes

# ? Mar 15, 2016 10:32

Broken Cog: Dec 29, 2009; We're all friends here

Fart of Presto posted:

Am I really the only one who thought Serious Sam 3 was a fun shooter all the way from the beginning to the final boss fight?

Nah, I had a lot of fun with it.

Then again, I played it with 15 others from start to finish.

# ? Mar 15, 2016 10:35

HGH: Dec 20, 2011

Fart of Presto posted:

Am I really the only one who thought Serious Sam 3 was a fun shooter all the way from the beginning to the final boss fight?

I also enjoyed it all the way but it had some real pain in the rear end enemies.
And the early sections just made me feel so underpowered compared to the rest of the game.

# ? Mar 15, 2016 10:36

Sleeveless: Dec 25, 2014; by Pragmatica

Scaramouche posted:

It might just be the era it came out in (2001) but the first Serious Sam was just such a breath of fresh air. Huge, open (boring) environments, and tonnes of noisy kill crazy monsters and ridiculous weapons for enormous megadeath scenarios. It wasn't deep or compelling by any means, but hearing a chorus of kamikaze screams after a door opened or something definitely got the blood pumping.

The gameplay didn't really change as time went on, but gamers tastes kind of did. In my mind Painkiller took over the Eastern European interesting non-ID shooter crown a couple years later.

Serious Sam has a very special place in my heart because my dad, who almost never plays videogames, loved it so much that for years he would bring the CD with him on business trips so he could play it on his laptop :3:

C.M. Kruger posted:

As I've said before, in Serious Sam 3 they start out doing a joke about modern shooters (ala the Duty Calls parody that Bulletstorm did), but instead of limiting it to a couple levels of generic hitscan soldier enemies in a generic ruined cityscape, the "joke" never ends.

Croteam was working on an unnamed military shooter set in the middle east that they cancelled because investors pulled out, SS3's setting isn't so much a joke as it is them recycling a ton of content from a dead project. I'm pretty sure at once point TCRF had documented a bunch of leftovers from that game still in SS3's files but it's not on the page now for whatever reason.

Hypha posted:

I confess, I laughed when they dropped one kleer on you in the first level like some kind of boss. Goddamn loving piece of poo poo kleers....

In The Talos Principle there's one fakeout where you leave a puzzle and you hear the "AAAAAAAA" kamikaze yell from SS in the distance and a hologram is running at you before being smited by Elohim, it's amazing.

Xaris posted:

Can you still use the Humble Bundle slider to give all the money to charity (I haven't bought a bundle in awhile there). If so, do that, charity is always good. But I wouldn't even bother installing it personally.

Yes, and now you can actually choose your own charity from a list of hundreds instead of just having it all going to whatever dumb charity they've partnered with.

# ? Mar 15, 2016 11:44

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

extra stout posted:

Ok so my other options are a ton of Star Wars games on the other bundle, are any of these fun? Controller supported? I only really gave a poo poo about the Gamecube games when it comes to any of them.

None of them are bad. Some of them are fantastic.

Rebellion, XvT and Galactic Battlegrounds are a bit derivative, but okay. Unless you have infinite free time you could probably skip them. X-Wing and TIE Fighter are classic space sims, but the Steam versions aren't the best ones around (GOG has them). Even allowing for that they're still good, as is X-Wing Alliance. KOTOR and KOTOR 2 are classic western RPGs. Dark Forces, Jedi Knight and Battlefront are all good shooters from their respective eras (10, 15, and 20 years old; my god has it been that long?). Empire at War is like a Total War game in space, and is pretty decent. Star Wars LEGO is great if you want fun, non-serious local co-op. Other LEGO games have been better, but it's still good fun.

Not sure which ones have controller support outside of LEGO.

# ? Mar 15, 2016 11:52

Aristophanes: Aug 11, 2012; Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever!

Anybody else had the problem where Steam keeps stopping and starting downloads randomly and not actually writing anything to disk? I just want to play Hotline Miami

I've tried restarting, and changing download location to no avail.

# ? Mar 15, 2016 12:06

Aphex-: Jan 29, 2006; Dinosaur Gum

Yep I get that occasionally too and it's loving annoying. Nothing I've found fixed it, just depends on the day and whether steam wants to behave really. On the plus side I switched my download location from London to Amsterdam and I'm getting significantly higher speeds now, even though I live in the west of England!

# ? Mar 15, 2016 12:25

duckfarts: Jul 2, 2010; ~ shameful ~; Soiled Meat

Sleeveless posted:

Serious Sam has a very special place in my heart because

I played it co-op with my brother on the same screen and same keyboard. It's also great for ridiculous numbers of enemies, like it's you vs a riot

# ? Mar 15, 2016 12:42

RBA Starblade: Apr 28, 2008; Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

Serious Sam 3 may be underwhelming but Serious Sam Double D is fun as hell.

# ? Mar 15, 2016 13:52

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

RBA Starblade posted:

Serious Sam 3 may be underwhelming but Serious Sam Double D is fun as hell.

This, Double D is a fun game with a neat art style.

# ? Mar 15, 2016 13:54

Sleeveless: Dec 25, 2014; by Pragmatica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne2IGHLE7xY

I don't know who does Croteam's videos but they're consistently entertaining to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLf-0KhTyxU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6vaSJpx0D4

# ? Mar 15, 2016 13:56

Tippis: Mar 21, 2008; It's yet another day in the wasteland.

Sleeveless posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne2IGHLE7xY

I don't know who does Croteam's videos but they're consistently entertaining to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLf-0KhTyxU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6vaSJpx0D4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeN94Maj2gY

Such a good commercial I had to name my EVE corp after it.

# ? Mar 15, 2016 14:58

I Love Annie May: Oct 10, 2012

So, what's the deal with Mind Zero? I'm kinda interested but I'm hearing lots of horror stories about the UI, like to use the mouse to navigate the menu you have to keep the left button down. Is it true? Can someone who has played it tell me if this game is worth the price?

# ? Mar 15, 2016 15:56

Sakurazuka: Jan 24, 2004; NANI?

It's a dungeon crawler that really loving wants to be Persona 3 or 4, has no personality of its own and ends on a cliffhanger and is never getting a sequel. I haven't played the Steam version but I can't imagine it improves it any.

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# ? Apr 27, 2024 20:12

Harlock: Jan 15, 2006; Tap "A" to drink!!!

I've been waffling on the dumb Star Wars bundle and it's almost over. I've always wanted to play Tie Fighter and X Wing, but how playable are they without a joystick? That's the only thing holding me back, since I probably won't buy one.

# ? Mar 15, 2016 16:47

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