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That looks like a bog standard boring VN, though I guess the name is particularly stupid.
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Mar 18, 2017 03:13
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On the topic of horrible anime games, here, thread, have my wishlist. Like 10 of these are games I actually want; the rest are the dregs of the dregs of steam gaming, especially from a  or free RPGMaker assets perspective.
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Mar 18, 2017 04:06
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Discendo Vox posted:On the topic of horrible anime games, here, thread, have my wishlist. Like 10 of these are games I actually want; the rest are the dregs of the dregs of steam gaming, especially from a Visual novels aside, the worst game on that list by a considerable margin may actually be Izeriya. I got it as part of a bundle a while ago and it is astonishingly frustrating. Magic is extremely limited and does almost no damage while your melee attack is small enough to make the one in Lagoon look generous. This is on top of enemies taking a ton of hits to kill and level grinding being tedious and barely worth the effort. The whole thing feels like the developer actually did want to make a good game, but they had no idea how to go about it and couldn't be bothered to playtest it. On the other side of things, Helen's Mysterious Castle makes use of a ton of default RPG Maker assets, but it has a really neat semi-active combat system based on making use of different weapons and shields with varying 'wait' times.
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Mar 18, 2017 17:07
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Hey dudes. Looking to see if there are top-notch single-player games I've missed. Context: -I thought The Witness was unbelievably clever. -Loved Talos principle and its expansion -Loved Witcher 2 and 3. -Well-made choose-your-own-approach games like Deus Ex, System Shock 2, Dishonored/2 are great. -Games with meaningful choices like Alpha Protocol are always welcome.
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Mar 19, 2017 01:42
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Dominoes posted:Hey dudes. Looking to see if there are top-notch single-player games I've missed. http://store.steampowered.com/app/336610/ Gothic 1 & 2 are also amazing but stats/skills play a much larger role (while still retaining an importance on player skill & observation).
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Mar 19, 2017 02:05
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Dominoes posted:Hey dudes. Looking to see if there are top-notch single-player games I've missed. The Turing Test is an excellent First Person Puzzler, even if it pales a little in comparison to Witness/Talos. Also, I think you posted this in the wrong thread.
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Mar 19, 2017 04:03
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Why do so many of these lovely games list how many hours of gameplay they provide?
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Mar 19, 2017 04:35
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Palpek posted:Wait, you mean you don't see one irl? you did the swap for the eyes, didn't you? Zetsubou-san fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Mar 19, 2017 |
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Mar 19, 2017 04:48
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Yodzilla posted:Why do so many of these lovely games list how many hours of gameplay they provide? Some people have more time than money or sense. It's basically idiot bait.
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Mar 19, 2017 04:51
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Dominoes posted:Hey dudes. Looking to see if there are top-notch single-player games I've missed.
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Mar 19, 2017 05:05
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Irony Be My Shield posted:Do you like poorly drawn basically pornographic visual novels? Or are you more of a UnitZ with flipped assets kind of guy? Yes.
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Mar 19, 2017 06:27
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Yodzilla posted:Why do so many of these lovely games list how many hours of gameplay they provide? Because it's an easy "value" for crappy devs to inflate. Making poo poo take more time isn't too terribly hard compared to a lot of other things.
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Mar 19, 2017 07:27
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Yodzilla posted:Why do so many of these lovely games list how many hours of gameplay they provide? Game X is $5 and provides a compact, focussed experience in 6-8 hours. Game Y is $5 and provides hundreds of hours of "gameplay" through fetchquests, grinding and slow movement speed. Game Y is clearly the better purchase! 
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Mar 19, 2017 12:28
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e: whoops my bad didn't know there were dual Steam megathreads. I thought the Awful prefix meant "The Something Awful"
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Mar 20, 2017 00:19
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theDOWmustflow posted:I bought Blackwake this weekend on a whim and I've been having a blast. So much so that I made a thread about it: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3814021&pagenumber=1&perpage=40#post470492409 Are... people somehow getting confused about what thread this is? Maybe the title should be changed to the "terrible steam games megathread" so that people don't assume that this is the normal Steam thread as opposed to the thread where we dump on lovely Steam games?
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Mar 20, 2017 01:15
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but that game seems kinda good though edit: well okay then
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Mar 20, 2017 01:24
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theDOWmustflow posted:e: whoops my bad didn't know there were dual Steam megathreads. I thought the Awful prefix meant "The Something Awful" So what appealed to you more, "throw bloody tampons" or "shoot by poo poo and dildo"
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Mar 20, 2017 02:57
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Awful (as in bad, not SomethingAwful) Steam Games Megathread
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Mar 20, 2017 03:16
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Both from 'Upcoming Games' http://store.steampowered.com/app/589320/ quote:Catch a Lover - a multiplayer game for 2-4 players in which one plays the role of the husband, who needs to catch wife's lover. Lover at the same time, should do everything to find a way out of the house. Another two playable characters - wife and dog. http://store.steampowered.com/app/510420/  quote:In a creaky old tavern, in a forgotten corner of the video game universe, a storm is raging. The barkeep gets a patchy phone call. It's hard to tell what the caller is saying, but this much is clear: someone in this tavern is planning a murder.
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Mar 20, 2017 04:15
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This actually makes me imagine an adventure game where a murder is commited and you're stuck in one room with a variety of characters and the plot thickens every time the next person dies. It was probably done before though.
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Mar 20, 2017 10:39
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Palpek posted:This actually makes me imagine an adventure game where a murder is commited and you're stuck in one room with a variety of characters and the plot thickens every time the next person dies. It was probably done before though. Virtue's Last Reward, sort of
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Mar 20, 2017 11:49
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Also the second Lara Bow game.
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Mar 20, 2017 12:04
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Mokinokaro posted:Also the second Lara Bow game.
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Mar 20, 2017 12:30
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Also kinda The Last Express.
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Mar 20, 2017 12:34
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"Oh, so that's one of those depressing kill yourself games you like" -- my spouse, watching me play A Night in the Woods.
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Mar 20, 2017 12:38
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Palpek posted:This actually makes me imagine an adventure game where a murder is commited and you're stuck in one room with a variety of characters and the plot thickens every time the next person dies. It was probably done before though. that's more or less the Dangan Ronpa series or Zero Escape series
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Mar 20, 2017 12:53
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I'm going to do something slightly different for this post, in that this is a game that 1) I've actually played, and 2) inexplicably has positive reviews. There are two things to keep in mind about satire as a concept. First, satire works best if your work isn't just straightforwardly embodying all of the flaws of the genre you're parodying with unsubtle "boy this sure is bad huh!!!  " winks and nudges scattered throughout. Second, satire also works best when you're not just repeating the same joke over and over and over again.  Obviously, DLC Quest fails on both of these fronts. An ugly, low-effort indie platformer making fun of DLC as a concept, it feels mostly like someone took a trash-tier flash game and threw it at Greenlight for people to throw money at. DLC Quest, as I mentioned above, has exactly one joke, which is "boy DLC sure is ridiculous and crazy huh?" It's maybe kind of amusing at the very beginning when you're forced to "buy" (via in-game currency, at least) things such as animations, music, and the ability to move your character to the left, but after that's worn out its welcome you still have about a half hour's worth of game to go with no change in comedic direction or writing quality as the game starts to rely increasingly on memes and references instead.  That maybe wouldn't be too bad if the game were at all good as an actual platformer, but the game quality is as low rent as its jokes. The platforming never really feels right, feeling, again, like a cruddy flash game with floaty physics and sluggish controls. The game at least never puts you through any difficult platforming, but it still never feels fun or satisfying to play.  There's also the fact that, as you can see from these screenshots, the graphics are the worst sort of faux-retro pixel garbage you can imagine. When they're not simply generic, as with a lot of the ground tiles and such, they're actively hideous. Maybe it's supposed to be part of the "joke," but again, making fun of lovely graphics by having lovely graphics isn't much of a joke. The game tries to give itself replay value by having two episodes (the second of which, Live Freemium or Die, has slightly better gameplay but infinitely worse writing) and also playing up its speedrun leaderboards, but a game has to actually be fun to play in the first place in order to be fun to speedrun. Really if you play both episodes, you'll just end up with a wasted hour's worth of time and a desire to never want to play or speak of the game ever again. Just don't make the mistake I made some years ago (before the refund system was in place) and don't get this.
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Mar 21, 2017 01:11
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That game made a lot more sense at release probably. It was originally for Xbox Live Indie/Community Games or whatever if I recall. I mean, the jokes weren't GOOD then but they also weren't literally years stale old either at the time. There were a lot of games on XBLIG that were essentially "wow sure is a lot of garbage on XBLIG huh?" in game form. I'm surprised we don't see more of that on Steam now, honestly.
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Light Gun Man posted:That game made a lot more sense at release probably. It was originally for Xbox Live Indie/Community Games or whatever if I recall. I mean, the jokes weren't GOOD then but they also weren't literally years stale old either at the time. Honestly it originally being an XBLIG title makes a lot of sense. Still, making fun of lovely games by making a lovely game that's self-aware about how lovely it is doesn't make for a compelling gameplay experience to put it mildly.
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Mar 21, 2017 01:19
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If that game were made today it would probably be about buying in game loot boxes or something.
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Mar 21, 2017 01:37
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exquisite tea posted:"Oh, so that's one of those depressing kill yourself games you like" -- my spouse, watching me play A Night in the Woods. Night in the Woods made me feel a lot of things, but "depressed" wasn't one of them.
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Mar 21, 2017 02:52
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Lucinice posted:If that game were made today it would probably be about buying in game loot boxes or something. That exists. This game really is a modern version of DLC Quest, down to being made of repetitive Unity assets and ripping on f2p titles in a fashion that's not really clever or explanatory so much as incredibly repetitive and irritating. It's a testament to the mistake a lot of people make where they think "parody" in gaming means "doing the lovely thing you want to make fun of over and over".
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Mar 21, 2017 09:03
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And there is a new game coming later this year, that fits into the same category: The Quest for Achievements. quote:The Quest for Achievements Q: What do you want to do tonight? A: I don't know. Maybe catch up on some leveling.
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Mar 21, 2017 10:01
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atholbrose posted:Night in the Woods made me feel a lot of things, but "depressed" wasn't one of them. Suburban decay and small town stagnation are pretty depressing topics for me given my own upbringing, so it definitely hit me.
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Mar 21, 2017 11:46
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END ME SCOOB posted:That exists. This game really is a modern version of DLC Quest, down to being made of repetitive Unity assets and ripping on f2p titles in a fashion that's not really clever or explanatory so much as incredibly repetitive and irritating. It's a testament to the mistake a lot of people make where they think "parody" in gaming means "doing the lovely thing you want to make fun of over and over". Fart of Presto posted:And there is a new game coming later this year, that fits into the same category: The Quest for Achievements. The fact that Idle games exist and are free and apparently pretty successful thanks to IAP money means that satire like this is not only surpassed but obsolete.
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Mar 21, 2017 21:10
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*raises cheeto-dust caked index finger* "i prefer to equate one dollar to one hour of gameplay"
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Mar 25, 2017 02:47
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so I recorded a play-through of the game posted in the OP. This game is pretty amazing guys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP9xo3LzRMA
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d0grent posted:so I recorded a play-through of the game posted in the OP. This game is pretty amazing guys. That's the theme to Gilligan's Island.
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