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I don't think it's supposed to be bad. Repetitive, maybe. Then again I don't think it's THAT bad, hell, there's some decent depth in there - it's just that you don't ever need it. Also it's definitely not unresponsive unless you're getting 20fps with v-sync on.
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Absolver is really good but like the devs said multiple times, it's a PvP focused game with a small chunk of PvE content. do not get it if you're uninterested in PvP. the deck building aspect is cool and making your own combos to try out is a lot of fun. i don't know what the population of the game is gonna be like in a month or two however. it is a little light on content for 30 bucks but hopefully the population is still decent enough by the time they start releasing the free content updates they promised. note: i got a free key from devolver in a giveaway
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Aug 30, 2017 18:42
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Didn't arma have anti piracy where it would curve your bullets? That was pretty great.
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Aug 30, 2017 18:45
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Harminoff posted:Didn't arma have anti piracy where it would curve your bullets? That was pretty great. it also had a wavy screen effect and if you kept playing anyway you would turn into a bird
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Aug 30, 2017 18:52
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iirc Crysis would make you shoot chickens if you were pirating the game.
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Aug 30, 2017 18:55
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John Murdoch posted:Another classic piracy-outer was when pirated copies of Garry's Mod would crash with a particular error message followed by a seemingly random string. Except that string was actually their SteamID, so when they complained on the forums they set themselves up for a laser targeted ban. Why would a pirated game have access to your steam account? Does it scan your system or something? That's a bit dicey. Maybe he could find your cc credentials as well, and auto-purchase a copy.
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Aug 30, 2017 19:24
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tight aspirations posted:Why would a pirated game have access to your steam account? Does it scan your system or something? That's a bit dicey. Maybe he could find your cc credentials as well, and auto-purchase a copy. I think (but am not 100% sure on this) that pirated Steam stuff basically spoofs Steam authorization, so you're still running stuff with your (now faked) Steam credentials which means when it errors with that code, he just goes and checks your actual account ID against the list of buyers and bans discrepancies. That was years ago that the GMod stuff happened so Steam piracy has probably gotten more sophisticated than just catching authorization and lying about it.
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Aug 30, 2017 19:27
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anilEhilated posted:Is it just me or is Hellblade just... not that good? The story is compelling and it's very pretty but the sluggish controls and unresponsive combat really make it more of an exercise in frustration. I didn't think the combat was very sluggish at all, a little simplistic maybe. Senua has combos that can 100% the weaker mooks and melee is your main chain extender, so as one example you can do light light melee heavy heavy heavy as one continuous chain. You also get different attacks that chain into different combos depending on whether or not you hit the run button while attacking. I think the highest chain I've seen was 12 hits. Perfect parries look/sound awesome and build your focus meter thing faster. None of this is spelled out for you and the game isn't that difficult to begin with so it can seem button mashy, but there are some neat little tricks you can do. Combat definitely isn't the focus though, just set it to easy if you want to kill the bad guys quicker.
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Orv posted:I think (but am not 100% sure on this) that pirated Steam stuff basically spoofs Steam authorization, so you're still running stuff with your (now faked) Steam credentials which means when it errors with that code, he just goes and checks your actual account ID against the list of buyers and bans discrepancies. That was years ago that the GMod stuff happened so Steam piracy has probably gotten more sophisticated than just catching authorization and lying about it.
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Aug 30, 2017 19:37
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Another funny one was some porn game that took a screenshot of the player's desktop then posted that online - the installer for it actually told you it will do this but who reads those.
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Aug 30, 2017 20:19
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Anti piracy is required otherwise something, like gosh can you imagine if a store sold nothing but games without anti piracy means in place? It's impossible I tell you! Chaos!
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Aug 30, 2017 20:19
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Hellblade combat is good.
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Wildtortilla posted:Speaking of Dragonfall, I spent a bit of time with it yesterday after finishing BG and wanting a short deviation before diving into SOD, and I am having trouble enjoying it. I am crippled by character creation because I don't know what any skills really do. I'm also not sure how companions work - do I have to outfit them with gear and distribute skill points or does the game handle that between missions? So far the first mission felt like a boring version of XCOM. Any advice or suggestions about builds? I am thinking about making a Decker/Rigger combo so hack computers and use drones. Companions automatically re-stock their consumables every mission, buy themselves new gear, and allocate their skill points. You can put items in their spare slots, but you can't change their base equipment. 5 (or 6?) times during the game, you can choose a bonus that gives them a new ability, piece of gear, or weapon. Be warned that the inventory system has a very stupid and arbitrary limitation: you can't make your companions pick up items or swap items with them during missions. One of the possible companions in the game is a decker/rigger, but he sucks, so by all means be one yourself and tell him to gently caress off. As for builds, you get enough skill points to be good at 2 things, and 1 of them had better be combat-related. You don't have to min-max, but don't put more than a few points in your non-focus skills. I'd also recommend putting some points in charisma for the extra conversation options.
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Wildtortilla posted:Speaking of Dragonfall, I spent a bit of time with it yesterday after finishing BG and wanting a short deviation before diving into SOD, and I am having trouble enjoying it. I am crippled by character creation because I don't know what any skills really do. I'm also not sure how companions work - do I have to outfit them with gear and distribute skill points or does the game handle that between missions? So far the first mission felt like a boring version of XCOM. Any advice or suggestions about builds? I am thinking about making a Decker/Rigger combo so hack computers and use drones. I haven't played Dragonfall but I'm wrapping up Hong Kong and your other characters basically manage themselves. Every so often you'll get to pick one of two skills but that's about it as far as your control over their build. The game is basically a visual novel with some amazing artwork/music and some xcom-lite combat so it's definitely not for everyone. HK has a TON of reading.
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While Hong Kong definitely has a lot of dialogue to read, that alone doesn't make it anything even remotely like a visual novel.
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KakerMix posted:Anti piracy is required otherwise something, like gosh can you imagine if a store sold nothing but games without anti piracy means in place? It's impossible I tell you! Chaos! There's a reason GoG is 90% older and indie games you know.
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Aug 30, 2017 21:50
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I've played some Absolver since release. Mostly the PvE part, which took me about 7 hours to run through once. It wasn't very challenging except for one or two random NPCs (which you can always run past) and a few minor difficulty spikes when you're getting mobbed by 3-4 enemies at once. The world is very pretty and labyrinthine, with lots of hidden nooks where equipment is stashed, so exploring is always fun. It's not all that big though. After you've run through the PvE content, you can farm it for new combat moves and items, which can get a little grindy, or you can dive into PvP with what you have, and get your rear end kicked if you're as bad as me. I enjoyed my time so far, and I'll probably try and learn some more moves and get into the PvP aspect of it tomorrow. If you're the kind of person that liked the PvP in souls games or for honor, but wished it felt more like a fighting game (without the grappling), this game might be for you.
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:The combat is supposed to be bad and uninteresting. Yahtzee totally missed this incredibly obvious point in his review, too. In one of the paper Mario games he reviewed, he loving went ballistic on a section of the game where Mario has to run in a hamster wheel, to earn coins, to pay off a debt, stating that it took hours to earn the amount needed to progress. He missed that you stop running after like 2 minutes, and you're pointed to an obvious npc who helps you find a treasure cache that clears your debt immediately. Yahtzee is not good at video games.
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Aug 30, 2017 22:44
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Yahtzee's whole gimmick is being overly negative about games, except when the game is question is good the schtick kind of has to fall back on not grasping basic mechanics in order to deliver.
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Aug 30, 2017 22:48
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Lyrai posted:Yahtzee is not good at video games.
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Sadly, ever since he admitted to listening to and following Milo Y, as well as hitting every other mark on the bad opinions checklist following "wears fedora" and "talks a lot about problems with women" I find it very, very hard to support him.
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Okay, there's hardly ever a new and good TD, but this caught my eye: http://store.steampowered.com/app/408410/XMorph_Defense/. Not enough to make me buy it though (dat voice acting), just considering.
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Lyrai posted:In one of the paper Mario games he reviewed, he loving went ballistic on a section of the game where Mario has to run in a hamster wheel, to earn coins, to pay off a debt, stating that it took hours to earn the amount needed to progress. Wait so he literally loving sat there and ran on the wheel for hours?! Thats something I'd expect from DSP
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Lyrai posted:Sadly, ever since he admitted to listening to and following Milo Y, as well as hitting every other mark on the bad opinions checklist following "wears fedora" and "talks a lot about problems with women" I find it very, very hard to support him. Yikes.
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exquisite tea posted:Yahtzee's whole gimmick is being overly negative about games, except when the game is question is good the schtick kind of has to fall back on not grasping basic mechanics in order to deliver. One of the first videos he ever made was him trashing The Darkness because he couldn't figure out how to finish the tutorial. Lyrai posted:Sadly, ever since he admitted to listening to and following Milo Y, as well as hitting every other mark on the bad opinions checklist following "wears fedora" and "talks a lot about problems with women" I find it very, very hard to support him. Yeah you can't drop a bombshell like that without a link, dude.
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ShadowMar posted:Absolver is really good but like the devs said multiple times, it's a PvP focused game with a small chunk of PvE content. do not get it if you're uninterested in PvP. the deck building aspect is cool and making your own combos to try out is a lot of fun. i don't know what the population of the game is gonna be like in a month or two however. it is a little light on content for 30 bucks but hopefully the population is still decent enough by the time they start releasing the free content updates they promised. It looks interesting and I'll probably check it out since I can probably wring at least $30 worth of entertainment from it. Seems a shame it doesn't have at least a mite bit more PvE content though.
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Leal posted:Wait so he literally loving sat there and ran on the wheel for hours?!
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Guy Mann posted:Yeah you can't drop a bombshell like that without a link, dude. One of his short-lived LPs had him answering questions from readers and it's where he dropped it when asked where he got his news from. All I remember at this point was it had some "funny name" instead of just "Let's Play." Scalding Coffee posted:The game itself has many bad design decisions that exist to mercilessly troll the player to the point it stops being funny. Hitting a series of blocks in a certain order several times. Get a piece of paper. A world that got destroyed by the plot now has you go through about 100 boss fights, which you already wasted time fighting 20 of them for no reward. A bonus optional super hard dungeon that makes you go through it twice if you want to get the reward for it after a boss fight. It being a partner that lets you run a little faster. Super Paper Mario (the game in question) had many weird design choices that detracted from it harshly. It seems after Paper Mario TTYD got done mocking the general idea of RPGs, Super Paper Mario moved to mocking the player for playing it? I enjoyed what I played of it but I wouldn't recommend it nowadays beyond "If you really, really want more Paper Mario TTYD and can stand several steps back." Actual content: http://store.steampowered.com/app/434460/Rock_of_Ages_2_Bigger__Boulder/ Is Rock of Ages 2 any fun for someone who played Rock of Ages 1 for a few hours, kind of liked it, but didn't feel like there was any reason to stick around?
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throw to first drat IT posted:I'm always paranoid about those 'funny' anti-piracy measures because I'm worried that it will randomly trigger on legit copy and then only help I will get is people telling me to buy the game. This actually happened to a goon here who posted about it when he ran into one of these things in serious sam 3, got probated by an idiot mod for "talking about piracy" or whatever the rule is, and then came back and posted proof on his steam profile that he really did own the game the whole time
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As are his others. I really like the [X] days a [thing] series. Plus these are all free!
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Sigourney Cheevos posted:As are his others. I really like the [X] days a [thing] series. Plus these are all free! Trilby's Notes is legitimately really good and one of the best text parser based adventure games out there. That and 5 Days are really good.
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I thought John McCain was cool, thought he made good points and it all went to poo poo when he ditched it all when he ran for president. Will this comment serve as evidence whenever I get off my rear end and make some content that might be good or bad? I mean look, I watched Yahtzee's stuff when he started out, but lately i haven't watched his stuff. Just because this seemingly jaded prick said he listens to Milo Y, this is when he's bad now?
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I think that a friend of mine might have downloaded a pirated version of Steam. It constantly shows him bad anime games and sometimes his credit card gets charged but he doesn't get anything in return except a new entry in his Games list that looked interesting at the time but he will definitely never play it. Sometimes playing games gives him trading cards, which is what really tipped me off that his copy probably isn't legit. Have any of you noticed similar problems?
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Yeah, you never get trading cards in regular Steam because no one ever plays their games there.
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Fargin Icehole posted:I thought John McCain was cool, thought he made good points and it all went to poo poo when he ditched it all when he ran for president. Will this comment serve as evidence whenever I get off my rear end and make some content that might be good or bad? If you're aware of what a shitstain Milo is, that can be good enough for someone to abandon an entertainer who listens to and agrees with Milo. John McCain is just a regular-rear end conservative QuarkJets fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Aug 31, 2017 |
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Fargin Icehole posted:I thought John McCain was cool, thought he made good points and it all went to poo poo when he ditched it all when he ran for president. Will this comment serve as evidence whenever I get off my rear end and make some content that might be good or bad? "Behind every racist joke is a scientific fact" ~Milo Y.
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Shima Honnou posted:"Behind every racist joke is a scientific fact" ~Milo Y. I've heard of him before, and yeah he sounds like a real poo poo-stirrer. He does have the right to say it, even if it's dumb as poo poo. Still, going from that to "And that's why i don't follow a video game reviewer on the internet." Is kinda weird. That is also your right though, just as it's my right to say hey maybe that's wierd. We're going in circles, i'm going to stop now. SO HEY! Is Absolver any good? I'm in the mood for dark souls but with punching and drunken fist fighting. Also with working servers maybe?
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