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Kragger99 posted:I see The Division has another free weekend/sale. Are the DLC's worth it at all? The Survival seems to have a very positive review, but the other 2 look very negative. Survival is by far the best, the added game mode could practically be a standalone product. Not sure how the population is for it since it's multiplayer but you can still play with lower player counts, it just makes it easier. I like Underground a lot, it's randomized dungeons and missions where you can up the payouts by taking on additional challenges. A lot of it has to be unlocked though so you'll only get the most out of it if you play it a lot. It can get a little repetitive once you see most of the room and enemy permutations, but no more so than the rest of the game if you ask me. Last Stand is garbage and becomes even more so whenever there's a PvP exploit. If you're going to get Underground and Survival anyway you might as well get the season pass for the skins too (they're purchase only), otherwise just get the one that sounds good to you.
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Kennel posted:RIVE Beat Cop I don't remember if I've heard anything about one way or another.
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Hollow Knight is really fun!
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Professor Latency posted:Hollow Knight is really fun! It's great stuff, even if the Trial of the Fool is kicking my rear end 
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Sep 14, 2017 20:06
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I really expected to love Hollow Knight but just found it kind of boring instead. 
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Kragger99 posted:Just a friendly reminder to blow out your case/power supply/GPU, to help prevent overheating/meltdown, and run TIKIone Steamcleaner to free up some space. Oh hey, I didn't know about this Steam cleaner thing! Thanks! 
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Kragger99 posted:and run TIKIone Steamcleaner to free up some space. Whats this? Never heard of it
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Harry Potter on Ice posted:Whats this? Never heard of it It's in the OP under Useful Websites & Apps (including a link for download). It's a great little tool that saved me another 2.5 GB today: TikiOne Steam Cleaner gets rid of all the redistributable packages that Steam likes to download. Save a few gigabytes, the quick and easy way. Now works with Origin and GOG's Galaxy client. Kragger99 fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Sep 14, 2017 |
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exquisite tea posted:I thought SpecOps kind of stumbled in that regard too, in that you're lambasted about how you could have stopped anytime mannnn except you weren't actually given the option to stop in the story, except by turning off the game which you can do to 100% of all other games so what point are you trying to make. At least Far Cry 4 gave you a proper out if you just waited 15 minutes, which I thought was pretty cool. My favorite thing about this is that they actually had a bunch of different endings and there was a button in the pause screen that was basically "exit site and report to CO" and people would pick that after about 15 minutes consistently in playtesting and then bitch about how short the game was.
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Kragger99 posted:It's in the OP under Useful Websites & Apps (including a link for download). It's a great little tool that saved me another 2.5 GB today: Looks cool but apparently requires java, which I refuse to install.
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Kragger99 posted:It's in the OP under Useful Websites & Apps (including a link for download). It's a great little tool that saved me another 2.5 GB today: Hot drat cleared up 1.5 gb for me today, thanks! Cojawfee posted:Looks cool but apparently requires java, which I refuse to install. There was a java free download I saw. Also, why?
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Sininu posted:I think I'll go with this suggestion. You guys are joking about lights and sleeping, but I want to remind everyone to https://justgetflux.com because it really does help you sleep better.
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alternatively you know what else helps you sleep better http://getweed.com
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Cojawfee posted:Looks cool but apparently requires java, which I refuse to install. Is this a joke or do you legitimately run literally nothing but what, .net programs
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The White Dragon posted:alternatively you know what else helps you sleep better http://getweed.com Pls don't flaunt your weed privilege, some of us live in countries that still consider Reefer Madness a documentary.
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Why doesn't Dark Souls 1 go on sale anymore? Dark Souls 2 & 3 are on sale right now.
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Digirat posted:Is this a joke or do you legitimately run literally nothing but what, .net programs It's not a joke. I got sick of java security problems and it popping up every single day saying I needed to install a new version.I uninstalled it and have not needed it for absolutely anything until this steam cleaner thing.
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OhFunny posted:Why doesn't Dark Souls 1 go on sale anymore? Because it's gone on sale for $5 nine trillion times and everyone on Earth owns it by now. Except you, somehow.
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OhFunny posted:Why doesn't Dark Souls 1 go on sale anymore? I was wondering about the same thing during Steam Summer sale, no place had it on discounted for whatever reason. Turns out last time it had any kind of discount was in February:  Weird.
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Orv posted:Because it's gone on sale for $5 nine trillion times and everyone on Earth owns it by now. Except you, somehow.  Sininu posted:I was wondering about the same thing during Steam Summer sale, no place had it on discounted for whatever reason. Turns out last time it had any kind of discount was in February: It's very strange. The entire Bandai Namco catalog is on sale right. Except for Dark Souls 1.
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Honestly that is pretty weird. Maybe some kind of weird thing with the switch over from GFWL and them not wanting to officially support it anymore?
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Orv posted:Honestly that is pretty weird. Maybe some kind of weird thing with the switch over from GFWL and them not wanting to officially support it anymore? They switched from GFWL to Steamworks in December 2014, I highly doubt it has anything to do with that.
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Maybe they're planning some kind of remaster or something? I could see them not wanting people to buy the original version cheap if that's the case.
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Digirat posted:Is this a joke or do you legitimately run literally nothing but what, .net programs There's really not a whole lot of reason for home users to have Java installed and if you have it installed you should probably uninstall it because it is garbage.
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Minecraft though
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just the first few hours of divinity original sin 2 are blowing me away - if they can keep up this level of reactivity to your race/traits; this game'll have an absolutely insane amount of replay value the writing is also a whole lot better than the first game. i actually care about these characters and what's going on! voice acting is v. competent as well
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I can't believe .hack//GU is coming to steam, much less a remaster with some new content. It's kind of quaint remembering the era of MMORPGs this is going to call back to.
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Crabtree posted:I can't believe .hack//GU is coming to steam, much less a remaster with some new content. It's kind of quaint remembering the era of MMORPGs this is going to call back to.
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Quest For Glory II posted:I wonder if they'll do the original series at some point too. Maybe if .GU sells well, but they'd probably have to really rework the first tetralogy as .GU is a big improvement from both technical and gameplay standpoints. I just hope that this lets CyberConnect2 make something other than that anime they're thinking about and more Ninja Storm as those people really know how to make good combat. Crabtree fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Sep 14, 2017 |
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Kragger99 posted:It's in the OP under Useful Websites & Apps (including a link for download). It's a great little tool that saved me another 2.5 GB today: Keep in mind that if you download a game but don't run it for the first time, SteamCleaner will likely delete all the installation files and you'll have to download it all again. I won't make that mistake a second time!
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Crabtree posted:I can't believe .hack//GU is coming to steam, much less a remaster with some new content. It's kind of quaint remembering the era of MMORPGs this is going to call back to. On the one hand, I can finally get it and finish the trilogy. I played the first two and half of the third and walked away for some reason despite having fun. On the other hand, I get to play through Haseo being an idiot again.
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Cook Serve Delicious 2 is unfortunately quite disappointing... the actual cooking is a little more complex now since you have holding stations where you can prep side dishes for bonus points and/or meat for burgers and stuff, but everything else about the experience seems diminished. You're mostly bouncing between a variety of different restaurants now, completing missions using preset menus, instead of focusing on your own restaurant where you set the menu every day. You unlock a ton of decorations to use in your restaurant every time you finish a mission, but with no real sense of progression (no restaurant upgrades, no unlocking recipe variants), there's just not really a reason to play using your own restaurant. No more funny emails either. A lot of the interactive feel of the chores/recipes has been removed too, since you don't use the arrow keys for anything anymore. No more tapping left/right to scrub a dish, no more chopping ingredients for soup with the down arrow. Everything is now based on single-letter presses, and you're now required to press space to swap ingredient pages before you select the correct one. It just feels a lot more sterile... the core gameplay loop of frantic keyboard mashing is still fun, but I just don't feel invested in it anymore.
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Grapplejack posted:My favorite thing about this is that they actually had a bunch of different endings and there was a button in the pause screen that was basically "exit site and report to CO" and people would pick that after about 15 minutes consistently in playtesting and then bitch about how short the game was. I think it could have had more of a dramatic impact if they allowed the player to back out of the white phosphorous mission. That's a good ~3.5 hours into the game and kind of the point of no return as far as Walker's character arc goes. Even if it was an option there I don't think most people would take it, which would make a later revelation that you could have stood down more impactful. It's kind of the same way Lee doesn't have to kill the stranger at the end of TWD season 1, but the player is so amped up in the emotion of the scene that they don't bother to let go.
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StrixNebulosa posted:On the one hand, I can finally get it and finish the trilogy. I played the first two and half of the third and walked away for some reason despite having fun. Its a Tetrology too now, GU Last Recode is getting a host of new features, including xp buffs, cheat modes, parody videos ala subsistence's extensive theater gallery, re-balanced and improved combat and avatar battles and a new fourth volume post story after the original ending of the game where Haseo tries to find Ovan before The World 2.0 is permanently shut down. This also includes a new fifth form.
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dmboogie posted:just the first few hours of divinity original sin 2 are blowing me away - if they can keep up this level of reactivity to your race/traits; this game'll have an absolutely insane amount of replay value oh you think that's crazy. if you go elf, you can eat the bodies of the dead and gain access to their memories. which can get you new quests, learn you new skills, and help you through current quests. I NEVER KNEW THAT UNTIL I FOUND THE ELF NPC. no wonder elves aren't trusted.
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Ragequit posted:Thanks for the heads up - I was hoping to finally give this game a shot. I've heard in the past that playing solo is easily doable. Are there any fun/ideal builds that will get me the most out of the free weekend? You can pretty much do whatever and have a fun time going through the story missions and side content. I enjoyed hanging back with a glass cannon build and picking guys off with a marksman rifle while my turret ran interference, but I know plenty of folks are big into tough, close-range shotgun builds. You can change up your skills and loadout pretty much whenever, and the core stats are incredibly straightforward (gun damage, HP, ability damage), so you might as well experiment. Orv posted:If the microtransactions in the game aren't prohibitively balanced or intrusive it's an easy GOTY contender from what they've shown. The game literally runs on a F2P-style two currency system. Of course I also just plain don't trust WB in the slightest to not run poo poo into the ground.
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Kragger99 posted:I see The Division has another free weekend/sale. Are the DLC's worth it at all? The Survival seems to have a very positive review, but the other 2 look very negative. Survival is easily the best of the DLC's if you think you'd enjoy a 1-1.5 hour long survival loop with only a little bit of randomness. What I mean by that is while what's loot boxes/bags will change you'll always find those loot boxes/bags in the same place on the map so it can be easy to fall into a specific route depending on where you start on the outer edge of the map. The point there is that since you're in the game with up to 24 other people someone else might get there before you but these days you'll likely only get at most 7 other people so most of the map is empty and untouched. But I'm someone who loves that first few hours of an RPG where everything is still a challenge and even slightly better gear is like a gift from god so even with basically an encyclopedic knowledge of certain routes and an empty game I enjoy Survival a lot. Underground is PVE as well and is basically what you play if you don't have time for a full mission. They are 5-20 minute long quasi random dungeons built from pre-existing rooms with a few unique hazards or optional modifiers to make things harder than "above ground." Last Stand is entirely PVP focused and PVP in The Division is... divisive  There are a few painfully broken builds that can run through large groups of un-optimized players or keep groups of players alive a ridiculously long time despite constant damage. PC also has to deal with players being able to jig back and forth way too quickly due to keyboard controls so if you're shooting someone really good at that it can be literally impossible to kill them before you have to reload and they can heal everything you did. But I'm saying this as someone who never PVP's in RPG games so maybe you'd like it?Ragequit posted:Thanks for the heads up - I was hoping to finally give this game a shot. I've heard in the past that playing solo is easily doable. Are there any fun/ideal builds that will get me the most out of the free weekend? Everything until the very hardest of the end-game content is indeed soloable (there are incursions, the equivalent of raids, that are scripted to require more than 1 person to complete). However unless you go really hard you're probably not going to get to a point where character builds actually matter unless you want to try the lower levels of the PVP Dark Zone (which is pointless because you go into the DZ to get better loot for your level or slightly above but you go back to the story missions and out level all that good loot in a matter of a few missions). One of Division's weaknesses can be that everything below the "end game" character is basically just there to entertain you until reach the end game. You can purposefully stop leveling a character and take that into the PVP DZ (experience outside and inside the DZ is separate) but if you're looking to play everything you have to level up. Until you're maxed out nothing lasts long enough to worry about. That end game is full of a good variety of builds though so if you reach that or buy the game pop into the Division thread and you'll get some builds. exquisite tea posted:I thought SpecOps kind of stumbled in that regard too, in that you're lambasted about how you could have stopped anytime mannnn except you weren't actually given the option to stop in the story, except by turning off the game which you can do to 100% of all other games so what point are you trying to make. At least Far Cry 4 gave you a proper out if you just waited 15 minutes, which I thought was pretty cool. Saying Spec Ops "lambasts" you with that is kind of exaggerating because that line of thought only comes from an interview with the writer that happened well after the release of the game about a possible ending they were thinking of adding to the game at one point. Spec Ops wasn't really talking too much about player agency in the end but using aspects of it to ask you to think about what the entertainment you're consuming is saying and how it is saying it. It does utilize fairly heavy handed pokes at the player to emphasize this but there is nothing in the game that actually wants to player to stop playing.
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If you decline a gift does the sender get notified? I got gifted a game that I already had. Yes, I could ask him, but I won't bother with that until tomorrow.
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Sininu posted:If you decline a gift does the sender get notified? I got gifted a game that I already had. Yep, and they get refunded automatically.
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