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Nechronic posted:I was watching a streamer play and his chat was saying vsync is really bad for Hollow Knight. Do you have that on? Doesn't help. I think the issue is with how the game loads data. I've increased the heap allocation size to max and this reduced the frequency, but it still happens. EDIT: This really helped. I kept dying after killing an enemy because the game hanged for a split-second while I was in mid-air over a pit of spikes. Now I've cleared the trial and can move on with the game. Blattdorf fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Aug 4, 2017 |
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Is steam broken for anyone else? I tried to open Grimoire's store page, but now I am only getting things like this Access Denied You don't have permission to access "http://store.steampowered.com/" on this server. Reference #18.533700cc.1501855344.376c3
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Luisfe posted:Is steam broken for anyone else? I tried to open Grimoire's store page, but now I am only getting things like this Loads fine for me, not sure what's up on your end.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Loads fine for me, not sure what's up on your end. it is working now on my side as well
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Luisfe posted:Is steam broken for anyone else? I tried to open Grimoire's store page, but now I am only getting things like this I got this error for a short amount of time yesterday
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Anyone have opinions on Grimoire yet? Does the game made by the insane racist manbaby live up to the $40 price tag? Did Grimoire completely revolutionize gaming?? How much racist poo poo made it into the final game?
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Luisfe posted:Is steam broken for anyone else? I tried to open Grimoire's store page, but now I am only getting things like this Grimoire was so terrible that it actually broke Steam
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So, I've been playing Yonder. On Bartle's taxonomy of player types, I am way waaaaaay over on the Explorer/Achiever axis. I like fully exploring areas, finding hidden spots, collecting stuff, doing quests and crafting. Yonder is bascially built for people like me. It's an open-world RPG without combat or conflict. Follow the story quests, or hit out on your own. Choose a goal and work towards it. If you get distracted along the way, that's fine; everything will wait for you. You hired someone to be your farm hand -- let them take care of watering and replanting your stuff and picking up poop. Instead, go and find cute animals to befriend and bring back to your farm. Or ignore the farm and decide to become a master tailor. Two days ago I decided to finish off this quest I had to build a stone bridge across a river. I needed stone arches and pillars, and to make those, I needed to finish learning about construction, so I went and did that. Then I needed a lot of raw materials so I ran around the world collecting them and crafting base ingredients to craft the bridge parts. I found a couple of sidequests along the way, took sidetrips to do them, and then returned to bridge-building. I found the whole loop very satisfying. In a couple of days, I'll do it all again for another bridge; until then, well, there's lots more stuff to do. I also bought the game because I thought C-- would enjoy playing it. She has played RPGs in the past, but rarely does these days; she puts that gaming time into Animal Crossing. She likes the idea of Harvest Moon but hates the time pressure. She's really enjoying it too, for different reasons. I had to spend the first day just saying "no, really, nothing bad is going to happen" and "yes, you really can leave the starting area" over and over again. So, if a relaxing feedback-loop RPG sounds like it might be your jam, Yonder is for you.
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Charles Get-Out posted:Anyone have opinions on Grimoire yet? It's a game that would have been seen as a shoddy wizardry ripoff in the 90s. I think I might do a proper video review of it later
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atholbrose posted:Yonder info Is there a story? That sounds a bit like Fantasy Life/Rune Factory 4, but without the combat.
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corn in the bible posted:It's a game that would have been seen as a shoddy wizardry ripoff in the 90s. I think I might do a proper video review of it later you bought it?!
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Jordan7hm posted:you bought it?! Refunds baby
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Azran posted:Ironically, I think my gf is going to go with The Sims 2. What are the best "build a town/city" games on Steam? You might have seen this already but I wrote about a whole bunch of builder (and management and trading) games last year. You can find them all here. Blattdorf posted:Doesn't help. I think the issue is with how the game loads data. I've increased the heap allocation size to max and this reduced the frequency, but it still happens. I would get stuttering in Hollow Knight sometimes if I loaded up and played another game before playing it, but restarting my PC and loading Hollow Knight immediately made it run perfectly. Not sure if that'll help you at all but that made it a complete non-issue for me.
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Yonder seems like a really interesting game, but glancing at the reviews it seems like it's also really short? Or are the reviewers being unfair and giving the wrong impression here?
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I can see how that grimoire game has been in the guy's head for 20 years, it looks like he never updated the look of his idea. Also, did that one goon get Portal 2? Apparently I had it in my inventory the whole time.
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Cojawfee posted:I can see how that grimoire game has been in the guy's head for 20 years, it looks like he never updated the look of his idea. Oh don't worry, his ideas are high octane modernized crazy. His game is just bad.
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Mods please rename thread to Steam Thread 2017: ?LYRE?
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Burning Rain posted:what is the best wizardry-like on steam now? Wizardry 8. That's a pretty cheating answer, but the only one of the newer knock offs I really like is Might and Magic X: Legacy. I still think I like Might and Magic IV-V better but apparently they aren't on steam. I've heard decent things about a couple of other newer knock offs (Lords of Xulima has some positive buzz, but it's a weird hybrid 3/4 iso and first person thing), but none of them have really grabbed me. Substandard fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Aug 4, 2017 |
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StrixNebulosa posted:
I know steam's curation is poo poo but I hope there isn't straight up kiddy porn on there.
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Burning Rain posted:what is the best wizardry-like on steam now? Wizardry 6-8 are probably the best Wizardry-like games on Steam  If you can stand older interfaces go with 6, if you can't so much start with 7.Branching out a little more, Stranger of Sword City is very like Wizardry, but can be polarizing. I'm personally not a huge fan, but many many people like it. If your not so wedded to the Wizardry mechanics of class-changing and combat, etc., Might & Magic X is a very good modernization of a similar formula. Kings of modernizing the formula though are Grimrock 1 and Grimrock 2 There's also that futuristic FPP dungeon crawler that people were pretty keen on in the old thread, but I can't recall the name of it right now Many other Wizardry-likes exist, but just aren't very good. The Operation Abyss games aren't super great, Grimoire is looking to be a bit of a dud, Sakura Dungeon is Sakura Dungeon, Grimrock clones are boring etc.
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August 2017 Humble Monthly NBA 2K17 (early unlock) Pillars of Eternity (early unlock) One Piece Burning Blood Offworld Trading Company War for the Overworld Overcooked Wuppo! Nongunz Quiet City (humble original) Next bundle early unlock: Killing Floor 2
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not an amazing month but okay. everyone should play Wuppo, it was one of the top indie games of 2016 Quiet City is by the Stephens Sausage Roll developer
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Charles Get-Out posted:Kings of modernizing the formula though are Grimrock 1 and Grimrock 2 Grimrock is not Wizardry, it's Dungeon Master. Difference being that it's real time combat, not turn based. Both games are good though. Star Crawlers is the Sci-Fi one. I haven't played it but there's a thread here on SA, the reception has mostly been very positive.
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Substandard posted:
Charles Get-Out posted:Wizardry 6-8 are probably the best Wizardry-like games on Steam cheers, I'll have a better idea now what keep an eye out for. I'm not wedded to the particular mechanics, I just like good turn based rpg fighting with some plot to tie it together. I didn't really like Lords of Xulima because of the grind or Grimrock because of thet combat. but I haven't played Wizardries for rmore than half an hour, so I guess I'll try those, since there's a bundle of 6&7 for 3 euros: https://www.bundlestars.com/en/bundle/retro-heroes-bundle
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Charles Get-Out posted:Many other Wizardry-likes exist, but just aren't very good. The Operation Abyss games aren't super great, Grimoire is looking to be a bit of a dud, Sakura Dungeon is Sakura Dungeon, Grimrock clones are boring etc. Objection, Operation Abyss is perfectly serviceable if you want relaxing dungeon crawling. It feels very similar to SMT1+2 (except with a set party) and is just pleasant to play. I mean, I've been using it as a wind-down game recently, and dig it a lot. I hear Stranger in Sword City is better, though!
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Bruteman posted:August 2017 Humble Monthly Cool bundle I like and activated these for myself: Offworld Trading Company War for the Overworld Overcooked Wuppo! (because it was praised here so much :o) Ask for: One Piece Burning Blood Nongunz
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SinineSiil posted:Ask for: I thirst for more DW, please.
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Burning Rain posted:cheers, I'll have a better idea now what keep an eye out for. I'm not wedded to the particular mechanics, I just like good turn based rpg fighting with some plot to tie it together. I didn't really like Lords of Xulima because of the grind or Grimrock because of thet combat. but I haven't played Wizardries for rmore than half an hour, so I guess I'll try those, since there's a bundle of 6&7 for 3 euros: https://www.bundlestars.com/en/bundle/retro-heroes-bundle Wizardry 6 and 7 are loving ooooooooold, like they don't even have auto-mapping kind of old. Good luck if you give those a go! If you don't have the tolerance for quite that level of oldness, I would jump right to Wizardry 8. Might and Magic 7 or X would be my next choice, 7 is ugly as sin but it's really fun and silly and moves at a decent pace. M&MX is more modern and less ugly but it's also slower and has some unfortunate jank to it StrixNebulosa posted:I hear Stranger in Sword City is better, though! I feel bad because I loving love the "remake" of this game but it's only available on Vita, so I can't recommend the Steam version one way or another.
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And because I'm sure someone will ask; War for the Overworld is a very capable Dungeon Keeper 2 successor with a fairly lengthy, enjoyable campaign that you should try if those games ever at all interested you. They did a major overhaul of the game late last year that solved many of its initial problems and it's in a very good place now.
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Man I'm glad I skipped the humble monthly this time lol. Kinda want Wuppo and already have Overcooked, but the rest uhh
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Orv posted:And because I'm sure someone will ask; And they have been supporting it constantly even though it wasn't that successful sales wise. Orv posted:I thirst for more DW, please.
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Orv posted:I thirst for more DW, please. If you mean Dynasty Warrior by DW, this is not a dynasty warrior/musou game. Burning Blood is a one piece fighting game and its actually pretty good but if you are not into fighting genre avoid it. August bundle was alright no big games but Pillars + some of the indie games is definitely worth. S September looks meh because Killing Floor 2 goes for around $10 in sales so I hope whatever they reveal next is good.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Objection, Operation Abyss is perfectly serviceable if you want relaxing dungeon crawling. It feels very similar to SMT1+2 (except with a set party) and is just pleasant to play. I mean, I've been using it as a wind-down game recently, and dig it a lot. Don't forget Elminage, which is literally just Wizardry 5 again also i wrote a very good and detialed grmoire reviw pls enjoi http://steamcommunity.com/id/crowfeathers/recommended/650670
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