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Black Griffon posted:God, I was just thinking about playing Stalker again. I've got the first one and Clear Sky, but which one holds up best? And what about essential mods and such? Call of pripyat is the generally agreed upon one If you don't want a kitchen sink ukrainian madness mod like misery or redux, just grab one of the big weapon packs like arsenal overhaul or CoPWP.
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I have it on PS4 and honestly it's not a good game but that's just me, its generally considered a very divisive game and either you love it or hate it. Probably didn't help I came off playing BB but I just couldn't get into it. I disliked the busy-work mechanics like hit the chi recovery timing button and there were only like 5 different types of dudes you fight.
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Also look into atmosfear and autumn aurora for graphics/weather improvements.
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Xaris posted:I have it on PS4 and honestly it's not a good game but that's just me, its generally considered a very divisive game and either you love it or hate it. It's not a very good game no. It's not bad but man it feels like a rip off of DS with some mechanics grafted on that throw all balance and challenge out the window if you use them.
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Xaris posted:I have it on PS4 and honestly it's not a good game but that's just me, its generally considered a very divisive game and either you love it or hate it. Probably didn't help I came off playing BB but I just couldn't get into it. I disliked the busy-work mechanics like hit the chi recovery timing button and there were only like 5 different types of dudes you fight. Your theory checks out since its very good imo
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I really enjoyed Nioh but i found it a good bit easier than any of the Soulsbourne stuff i played (everything other than DS 2 + 3).
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I hope that port is good so I can finally see what all the hubbub was about. I want to be samurai Geralt.
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spudsbuckley posted:I really enjoyed Nioh but i found it a good bit easier than any of the Soulsbourne stuff i played (every other than DS 2 + 3). It generally is easier yeah, because the enemies don't cheat. They have a (visible) stamina bar to manage and can't just infinite-chain attacks. The initial hump is way worse than any Souls game though (except maybe Bloodborne?) because they frontload the 2 hardest bosses to the first two missions, a point at which you don't have access to most of your skills no matter how much you grind (because they're story locked). By Act 3 you've got options coming out your rear end and things feel a lot easier. Black Griffon posted:God, I was just thinking about playing Stalker again. I've got the first one and Clear Sky, but which one holds up best? And what about essential mods and such? The third one (Call of Pripyat?) is considered good enough to playable out of the box without any mods. It has some great ones though - there's one that adds the maps of all 3 games together into one giant Zone sandbox that's really good. DatonKallandor fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Oct 2, 2017 |
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Mordja posted:Have you not played COP yet? It's definitely the best one from a gameplay/sandbox perspective (SOC still wins in terms of overall atmosphere, I think) and doesn't really need any mod for a first run through, outside of ones that'll pretty it up. Digirat posted:Call of pripyat is the generally agreed upon one DatonKallandor posted:The third one (Call of Pripyat?) is considered good enough to playable out of the box without any mods. It has some great ones though - there's one that adds the maps of all 3 games together into one giant Zone sandbox that's really good. Alright, seems like people are pretty unanimous about CoP, and it'll be fun to play a Stalker game I haven't played before, seeing as I've put hundreds of hours into SoC and Blue Sky. Black Griffon fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Oct 2, 2017 |
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Guys if you like Legend of Grimrock you might want to check out Vaporum. I'm about 5 hours in and it's basically Steampunk LoG without party members. You get two weapon slots (bound to your mouse buttons) and can equip "gadgets" to your exoskeleton/suit which are like spells you can swap out at any time (but there's no casting system like LoG just hotkeys).
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DatonKallandor posted:It generally is easier yeah, because the enemies don't cheat. They have a (visible) stamina bar to manage and can't just infinite-chain attacks. The initial hump is way worse than any Souls game though (except maybe Bloodborne?) because they frontload the 2 hardest bosses to the first two missions, a point at which you don't have access to most of your skills no matter how much you grind (because they're story locked). By Act 3 you've got options coming out your rear end and things feel a lot easier. I have seen enemies attack with no stamina multiple times, as well as tons of other things that seemed like they broke the rules based on how I understood them (and the game does fuckall to actually explain the intricacies of these things if they are more complicated than what it tells you in its very limited tutorial). Crap like that made me distrustful of any mechanics I thought I understood and left me without any idea how to actually get better at the game. I've never played another game like nioh where I felt like I understood it less and less the more I played it. By the time I put it down, 5 minutes couldn't go by without something happening that made no sense to me, like blocking an attack and losing a chip of stamina when I previously blocked that exact same attack and lost all my stamina. I found it a lot harder than the souls series and bloodborne after awhile since I can actually understand what the hell is happening in those games, poise notwithstanding.
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Black Griffon posted:Alright, seems like people are pretty unanimous about CoP, and it'll be fun to play a Stalker game I haven't played before, seeing as I've put hundreds of hours into SoC and Blue Sky. you know how everyone was just gushing about F.E.A.R. back a few pages? Stalker (the first and third, first holds a special place in my heart) is the same way, timeless classics.
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Nioh is great, until the complete lack of enemy and encounter variety gets to you. It doesn't help that once you unlock the cool powers you've already finished most of the difficult stuff in the game. I've heard it gets more interesting in the ng+ modes, but I couldn't push myself through those last few levels. If you do pick it up, absolutely do not bother with the side-missions, you'll burn yourself out.
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nioh is not even in the same ballpark as bloodborne lol
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Since I obviously haven't made enough work for myself lately, I rounded up the Weeklong Deals again. It's another high-quality week, a good chance to pick up King's Bounty, the Dream Machine, Refunct, and some other solid stuff. There are also three games in the Weeklongs that are on my Spooktober schedule so I'll go ahead and review them this week, though they're probably not going to be pro picks for anyone.
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Trick Question posted:Nioh is great, until the complete lack of enemy and encounter variety gets to you. It doesn't help that once you unlock the cool powers you've already finished most of the difficult stuff in the game. I did every quest in Kingdoms of Amalur. I 100%ed Mad Max. Bring it on punk.
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While I agree enemy variety is low in Nioh, I am struggling to think of a niche new enemy types could fill - they'd just end up reskinned versions of other mobs, and even Dark Souls fell into that trap a fair bit. Either way it's definitely worth going into with a different mindset. Nioh is more about murdering things for loot than exploring a more richly detailed world.
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Too Shy Guy posted:Since I obviously haven't made enough work for myself lately, I rounded up the Weeklong Deals again. It's another high-quality week, a good chance to pick up King's Bounty, the Dream Machine, Refunct, and some other solid stuff. There are also three games in the Weeklongs that are on my Spooktober schedule so I'll go ahead and review them this week, though they're probably not going to be pro picks for anyone. I just wanna say Refunct is an awesome little chill game and the ending brought a smile to my face 
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Wamdoodle posted:I just wanna say Refunct is an awesome little chill game and the ending brought a smile to my face It's so chill and fun to play that I couldn't bring myself to refund it, despite it being over in less than an hour. A good game. 
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StrixNebulosa posted:It's so chill and fun to play that I couldn't bring myself to refund it, despite it being over in less than an hour. A good game.  
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cuphead is great y'allKing Vidiot posted:I think a good player could probably beat Cuphead in a few hours, but it'll probably take me all next month to beat it.  wish it had a hard mode because it's a bit short and I won't get that much time out of running bosses back for higher rank. game looks incredible though and has good boss variety LazyMaybe fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Oct 3, 2017 |
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Demicol posted:Guys if you like Legend of Grimrock you might want to check out Vaporum. How's the puzzles though? The draw of Grimrock for me was the cool puzzles and traps, does this game have at least decent ones? I'm not expecting something on the level of Grimrock 2 but I really like this genre so having even an ok extra addition to it would be cool.
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IronicDongz posted:cuphead is great y'all But you DO unlock an Expert Mode for the boss levels when you beat the game once???
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Ikari Worrier posted:But you DO unlock an Expert Mode for the boss levels when you beat the game once??? either I missed it or there wasn't a message about that
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IronicDongz posted:poo poo you're right Yeah I don't think the game explicitly tells you, it just appears as an option when you load your save you beat the game with. Also having tried out a couple of the bosses at random on Expert, boy do I have my work cut out for me if I want to give them a go since they're utterly ruthless at that difficulty.
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Disney restored online play and implemented crossplay between Steam and GOG for classic Battlefront 2. Gonna pawn some noobs like it's 2004. 
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IronicDongz posted:cuphead is great y'all You must be insanely good because how the hell do you beat it in 5 hrs? some of the bosses easily have taken me 30 minutes each. I'm probably estimating to finish it in about 8 hrs (on W3 right now, bosses feel a lot easier now so maybe it'll go quicker)
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Doorknob Slobber posted:is wingamestore a legit retailer? I've bought from them (specifically Europa Universalis 4 DLC) without issue, and they're listed on Is There Any Deal, so they should be okay.
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OhFunny posted:Disney restored online play and implemented crossplay between Steam and GOG for classic Battlefront 2. Game keeps freezing every time I launch the multiplayer, but at least this'll probably get fixed soon 
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Demicol posted:Guys if you like Legend of Grimrock you might want to check out Vaporum. Thank you for the recommendation, I was itching for more first person dungeon crawlers after Grimrock I & II and replaying Arx Fatalis and I was getting desperate. Downloading it right now!
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YellerBill posted:Game keeps freezing every time I launch the multiplayer, but at least this'll probably get fixed soon Yeah blows. People on Steam are posting that the new servers are crashing under the load of people trying to play. Which kinda blows my mind if true.
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OhFunny posted:Disney restored online play and implemented crossplay between Steam and GOG for classic Battlefront 2. Oh poo poo, that's awesome! It's the first FPS I played, even if for about an hour.
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Senjuro posted:How's Tecmo's track record with PC ports? It probably won't have Xbox controller button prompts, because they port like it's 2001
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Xaris posted:You must be insanely good because how the hell do you beat it in 5 hrs? some of the bosses easily have taken me 30 minutes each. I'm probably estimating to finish it in about 8 hrs (on W3 right now, bosses feel a lot easier now so maybe it'll go quicker) for what it's worth: charge shot is definitely far and away the best weapon in the game in terms of how quickly it kills things. plus I think it's easier to use charge weapons in games like this, because you only have to line up a shot every couple of seconds instead of trying to maximize how often you're hitting all the time so the rest of the time as you're charging you can be fully in 'dodge mode' mentally LazyMaybe fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Oct 3, 2017 |
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Finally playing through the last Witcher 3 DLC and holy moly, the tourney and vineyard reclaiming were secondary quests? They were fantastic. Would have been pretty sad if I missed those. Are there any others I need to go out of my way to find?
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Substandard posted:It probably won't have Xbox controller button prompts, because they port like it's 2001 I've rarely had much of a need for those button prompts on PC. Its lazy, yes, but not that hard to figure out.
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Ragequit posted:Finally playing through the last Witcher 3 DLC and holy moly, the tourney and vineyard reclaiming were secondary quests? They were fantastic. Would have been pretty sad if I missed those. Are there any others I need to go out of my way to find? The one where you solve a ghost mystery with your talking horse.
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Huh. OneShot has some really interesting puzzles. Always nice to experience something new. Also, another game down. I'm gonna beat down this backlog (assuming some sick bundles don't appear).
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poptart_fairy posted:While I agree enemy variety is low in Nioh, I am struggling to think of a niche new enemy types could fill - they'd just end up reskinned versions of other mobs, and even Dark Souls fell into that trap a fair bit. That's a good way of putting it; Nioh is set up differently than Dark Souls. I've heard it described as being 'a distant cousin of Dark Sous, twice removed' or something along those lines. It's got a weapon loot setup like Diablo, and rather than an inter-connected world, you choose missions from a map screen. Personally, I don't think the enemy variety is an issue. I actually take more issue with how areas are reused with only the lighting change. The one thing that I think Nioh does far better than Dark Souls does is how it handles weapons. One of the problems I had with Dark Souls 1 is that the weapon system is so cumbersome and uninviting. You can find a weapon, but not have the stats to wield it properly, which means you have to start investing points into whatever stat you need to wield it. You also need to gather materials to upgrade it so it can do more damage. By the end, though, you might find that the weapon doesn't even work that well. Nioh, on the other hand, has five weapon types (seven if you include the weapons the DLC adds), all of which you find and can use within the first actual mission. It lets you get a feel for which weapon you like the most, and you can start putting points into that stat. Also, all of the weapons block 100% of damage (whereas in DS1, only certain shields blocked 100% of damage.) Disclaimer: I really like Nioh, despite not having finished it yet or played any of the DLC for it yet.
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