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Blattdorf posted:They should've put this out on release, but hey, props to them for sticking to their guns. I mean, let's put a Sony middle-manager directly inside your rear end and see how many times you can delay your indie game  No Man's Sky's release was pathetic, but it's mostly because Sony decided they wanted it to be an E3 flagship for the PS4 and forced Hello Games to operate at a pace that they weren't frankly ready for. Obviously Sean Murray shouldn't have talked up features that wouldn't exist for a year on talk shows and stuff like he did, but I wouldn't be surprised if that was an order from Sony, too.
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Nomanski should be good to buy in another year at this rate, if they ever knock the base price down. Also, holy gently caress if wc1-3 ever got properly HD rereleases I'd jump on that poo poo instantly, my favorite games ever.
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deadly_pudding posted:I mean, let's put a Sony middle-manager directly inside your rear end and see how many times you can delay your indie game Sony had to know what they were releasing, so the launch disaster is just as much their fault. If No Man's Sky becomes a great game, I'll definitely check it out because star travelling is totally my jam.
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Everything I read about the production of NMS indicates that Sony was super hands off with its development, and Hello Games just had no idea how to scale production with the influx of cash money they got to promote it.
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Blattdorf posted:They should've put this out on release, but hey, props to them for sticking to their guns. Yeah, it's worth mentioning a good number of the new features were things they said it would have at launch, like the portals. It's good to see them still working on it for the sake of the people who bought into the hype, literally speaking, but I can't imagine it'll ever live up to the promises they made.
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kxZyle posted:No Man's Sky... good? Having not followed the development of this game at all (so no disappointment that it lacked whatever was apparently promised at release), this looks pretty fun! I am not even a huge fan of spaceship games. Kragger99 posted:It's on sale for 60% off on the Humble Store for the next 3 days as well. $24 doesn't seem like a bad price for some space exploration.
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The Lone Badger posted:I feel like playing a shootmans game. Has anything with decent singleplayer come out in the last year or two, or is it all multiplayer these days? By all accounts Titanfall 2 is really good. If you haven't played TNO Wolfenstein then play that asap. Doom'16 is a solid shooter as well. I preferred WolfTNO because of the amazing characters and good story, but Doom probably has better shootmans. It's not a shootmans per se, but you could still go pretty buck wild in Dishonored 2. Also, the Borderlands people rereleased one of the best shootmans to exist, Bulletstork, but don't buy the "remastered" one, just torrent the original one, since they've pulled it from sale. Drifter fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Aug 11, 2017 |
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Ragequit posted:
Yeah, that's tempting. Can anyone comment on if it runs any better than it did at release?
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Drifter posted:Also, the Borderlands people rereleased one of the best shootmans to exist, Bulletstork, but don't buy the "remastered" one, just torrent the original one, since they've pulled it from sale. It'll drop in price really quickly; You can pick it up on the PS4 for reduced price. I think I picked up the original for $8 at one point. Bulletstorm is actually a really entertaining shooter that got overshadowed by 'Rage', which is not a recommendation unless you pick it up for pennies. The re-release smacked of attempting to ride the coat-tails of a solid cult status.
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Deakul posted:Yeah, that's tempting. Much better. There was some weird glitch in the initial release that meant that when certain objects came on screen (including some common buildings) you'd get these huge FPS hitches, but that's all fixed now.
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No Man's Sky: Seems like they're trying to improve multiplayer by including location tags and whatnot, but how is the single player experience? Is it still samey planet hopping with no real story or quests with a half baked NPC ecosystem?
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Fun Times! posted:No Man's Sky: Seems like they're trying to improve multiplayer by including location tags and whatnot, but how is the single player experience? Better. I played through a bunch of the last patch and there's a ton more content now. You can pick a planet and build a home base on it, which functions like a sort of quest chain, where you collect rare resources to get new blueprints, and things. This gives the whole game a bit more direction than just aimlessly wandering the galaxy looking for atlas stuff. The new ground vehicles are fun to use too (if a bit pointless, given that you still have a spaceship). Planet generation seemed to work better, with more variety and interesting aliens and things. My main issue with it is the Sentinel robots are just boring and never really evolve as the game goes on. So at the start of the game you're fighting the same drones as at the end of the game, with the same capabilities and models and everything, only now you're stronger, so they're just an annoying speed bump rather than a threat. You have all these shield upgrades and cool weapons and things, but the sentinels completely fail as enemies worth fighting against, so it all falls a bit flat. Not sure if the 1.3 patch addresses that at all, though the new dogfighting stuff they showed in the video is at least promising. In the end, if you want a chill exploration game, then it's worth playing. If you want a space action game, then it probably isn't.
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Fun Times! posted:Is it still samey planet hopping with no real story or quests with a half baked NPC ecosystem? New post to answer the edit: There's more story, but it's still minimal. There are now quests, which I quite enjoyed. The NPC system still felt half baked to me in 1.2, with random alien standing around not doing anything or really achieving anything (except you can now hire them to work in your home base). 1.3 does seem be adding a lot to each of these 3 areas though.
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The Lone Badger posted:I feel like playing a shootmans game. Has anything with decent singleplayer come out in the last year or two, or is it all multiplayer these days? titanfall 2 has a really fantastic singleplayer mode. it's in ORIGIN ACCESS, so you can drop five bucks on that and play through it and have a blast. game is rad as hell and a real surprise! DOOM is also real good, of course.
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Started up Hellblade last night and played for about an hour. So far, it seems pretty interesting. I like how they represent schizophrenia in that there are voices that are encouraging, questioning, doubting. Sometimes they all speak up at once, sometimes it's just one or two at a time, and when Senua actually has thoughts of her own it cuts through everything else. There are a few other presentation things that are really unique and cool but I won't spoil them. The gameplay itself is fine. Combat is flashy but extremely easy. The parry window is gigantic and attacks are massively telegraphed. The puzzles don't do much for me but they seem to just be excuses to get you to explore environments a little more, since the solutions are almost given to you. Worth checking out I think. If nothing else, they're doing things with their sound design, mocap and...other elements that nobody else is doing right now.
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kxZyle posted:No Man's Sky... good? That does look like its turning into something possibly maybe potentially resembling a decent enough game. Seriously though that is something I actually want to try out now.
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What was the name of the tool to bulk sell your cards? Bulksteamseller?
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kxZyle posted:No Man's Sky... good? Their original trailer was pretty convincing too, what with flowing rivers and lush vegetation and a game that looked like not poo poo
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After hating launch No Man's Sky, thinking 1.1 was a bad update, and being unable to play 1.2 due to constant crashing I'm happy to say that 1.3 actually feels like a cool and good new game. No idea how long it'll last but at least they've kept up on their promises to expand and polish the game. Kinda miffed that my home planet changed from a cool purple dino zone to a frozen hellscape though.
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Yodzilla posted:Kinda miffed that my home planet changed from a cool purple dino zone to a frozen hellscape though. That's just the Ice Age, bro.
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Gerblyn posted:New post to answer the edit: Thanks for the replies. Man the game actually looks good now. Really gonna think about it.
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Doorknob Slobber posted:Their original trailer was pretty convincing too, what with flowing rivers and lush vegetation and a game that looked like not poo poo I was gonna say, just lol that people are taking a No Man's Sky trailer at face value again.
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Is Project Zomboid any good? I'm kinda bored with Cataclysm right now and I'm not interested in multiplayer.
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I loved early versions of Zomboid. It's good clean zombie fun, and I think it is well worth the price.
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 Trip ReportI purchased FOXHOLE and joined the GOON Thread. The game has a slight learning curv but it makes for a casual game to pick up. You don't have to spend hours playing to make a difference You can either play logistics or go to the front lines. With logistics you can build or run materials back into our base. I chose to partake in some great combat last night. In the goon discord we had 10 or so members in Road gently caress Squad ( another 6 in a logistics channel) We set up fox holes and walls on the enemy teams supply roads. At one point they had 20 people rush our fox holes. I died but I was told there was a carpet of bodies left. You also have in game VOIP. So when you are bleeding out you can cry to the other team or enemy. "just tell my wife I love her Arrggggg". This added feature makes for a fun and yet creepy environment. You should pick this up if you want debauchery and some good ol' goon fun.
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Playing as a Snake Oil Salesman in West of Loathing is very much like being the Jew in The Stick of Truth. Enemies regularly barf themselves to death.
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Good on Hello Games. Seems like they'll be salvaging their name and game if they stay on this path. I'm okay with waiting more myself because backlog.
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Hollenhammer posted:Partially. He thinks the game can ONLY be fun if you play stealthily, taser ONLY and NO GUNS EVER!!!!! The general consensus with W_D2 is that its a really good game, with a light hearted and fun atmosphere (I agree 100%) but the actual gun combat feels toneally off. Its the same "ludo-narrative" dissonance that people complain about with GTA4, where Niko talks about wanting "out of the game" but then the player takes him on a rocket murder-spree 5 seconds later. What I'm saying is, I totally agree that W_D2 would have been better if there was no gun-violence options (through hacking is fine), and I get the impression that's a very common opinion.
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People were discussing Stranger of Sword City when talking about Wizardly-alikes a few pages ago so I gave it a shot and this game is really good. It was a little frustrating at first before I got into the swing of things and there are some features it's sorely lacking (like the ability to inspect a monster or look it up in your bestiary while in combat with it) but once I had the basics figured out it felt like exactly what I was hoping for; a big party with pretty involved character development, tons of weird loot, dungeons with unique gimmicks. Someone mentioned that the exp curve is frustrating but it hasn't been an issue for me yet (level 13 and just class changed everyone in my third dungeon) because the game throws a ton of enemies at you and provides enough incentive for grinding in ambush areas to get loot. Anyway if you want an esoteric first person party-based dungeon crawler, you can't really go wrong here. Just be prepared for some really long text segments that don't have a "skip all" button. PantsBandit posted:Started up Hellblade last night and played for about an hour. So far, it seems pretty interesting. I like how they represent schizophrenia in that there are voices that are encouraging, questioning, doubting. Sometimes they all speak up at once, sometimes it's just one or two at a time, and when Senua actually has thoughts of her own it cuts through everything else. There are a few other presentation things that are really unique and cool but I won't spoil them. I played this game and I can't really say anything bad about it, except it really is a walking simulator with extremely little going on. Their take on schizophrenia is fantastic and was almost too much to handle at certain points but don't go in to this game expecting any kind of difficulty or interesting/rewarding combat. It's about walking around looking at the scenery of Hell while voices whisper at you and that's about it, but it's excellent if that's your cup of tea. deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Aug 11, 2017 |
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Drifter posted:Also, the Borderlands people rereleased one of the best shootmans to exist, Bulletstork, but don't buy the "remastered" one, just torrent the original one, since they've pulled it from sale. I know you meant bullet storm but I would play a game called bullet stork. Nthing titanfall2 and doom 16 as great single player games
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FastestGunAlive posted:I know you meant bullet storm but I would play a game called bullet stork. So basically something like John Wick, but with a stork.
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VodeAndreas posted:His dad was poor and could only play the demo/spawn version. I asked him about it a year ago when I got the inclination to play Diablo 1, and I remember him saying he wasn't really sold on the demo when he played it back then. exquisite tea posted:The original Butcher was pretty scary when I was 11, the extremely loud AAHHHH FRESH MEAT and the fact that you could very well be unequipped to handle him depending on how quickly you got down to the 3rd floor. Believe it or not he wasn't a 100% spawn in the first Diablo, depending on RNG you could never get the quest outside the cathedral. There was actually supposed to be a cutscene for when you encounter The Butcher, but it either wasn't implemented properly or it was cut for some reason. The Butcher is pretty scary as it is, but imagine this popping up on the screen before he charges at you.
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Snuffman posted:The general consensus with W_D2 is that its a really good game, with a light hearted and fun atmosphere (I agree 100%) but the actual gun combat feels toneally off. The Super Bunnyhop review said that stealth is a viable option in Watch Dogs 2 and going that route makes for a much better game overall.
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Mill Village posted:The Super Bunnyhop review said that stealth is a viable option in Watch Dogs 2 and going that route makes for a much better game overall. It totally is, and going the hacker-drone-stealth route is infinitely more satisfying.
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Free DLC for Total Warhammer if you sign in to their website. https://dashboard.totalwar.com/auth/login Just sign in to Total War Access, hit the Regiments of Renown button and they'll be delivered to your Steam account. If you don't own the game, you get a 33% coupon for the game instead.
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The puzzles in West of Loathing are obnoxious. There's a puzzle in the pickle factory where you have to raise the temperature of the vinegar processor to 190 degrees. There's a catch, the amount each shovelful of coal raises it changes based on the current temperature of the processor. I'm supposed to randomly click things until it works?
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Looking for solutions to steam problem: I have a ton of categories, and thousands of games categorized, but yet now I cannot change any of them. When I change a category, it will be reverted when I next restart Steam. Anything I can do about this?
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yegods posted:Looking for solutions to steam problem: Maybe switch to a new therapist? alternately: Steam\userdata\ (your Steam id number)\7 backup and then delete that "7" folder. Restart steam and see what happens. This worked for me when my categories disappeared like 3 years ago. Delete the backup if things work as normal. Drifter fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Aug 11, 2017 |
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Hellblade is really reminding me of Ryse*, but done right. It's a pretty unashamed graphical/tech demo, but with pretty great writing and excellent art design. Senua is probably the best performance I've ever seen in a videogame character. It's next level mocap and facial capture. It's pretty goddamn spooky. I guess the game can really crank the graphics as it's on rails though. *I kinda liked Ryse as far as pretty but mindless games go Necrothatcher fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Aug 12, 2017 |
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