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Luisfe posted:Ok drat, the new Humble Monthly early unlocks are Long Dark, Quantum Break and Dawn of War 3. Nice, that's one I will actually get. Edit: Not unhappy about skipping December bundle. Only game I'm interested in from it is Sexy Brutale and I have it already. Sininu fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Dec 1, 2017 |
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The December bundle is kind of poopy but it does have Sexy Brutale and Nex Machina e: I should clarify I don't give a poo poo about fighting games The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Dec 1, 2017 |
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Quest For Glory II posted:boot hill heroes part 2 is coming out after all, with a new name, and not the greatest looking character art I am happy to learn of this!
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Kibayasu posted:Speaking of QUBE has anyone played it since that Director's Cut that apparently added more plot came out a while ago? I've always been mildly curious if its worth going back to now that I've probably forgotten how to solve all of the puzzles. If I remember correctly, the story stuff was your standard "weird stuff happens and a voice inside my head tells me to do stuff but can I trust it?" Nothing special but it's like three hours long and the puzzles are pretty decent so maybe worth revisiting. Kennel fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Dec 1, 2017 |
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Luisfe posted:Ok drat, the new Humble Monthly early unlocks are Long Dark, Quantum Break and Dawn of War 3. God dammit, if they had headlined with Nex or Sexy Brutale instead of loving H1Z1 I would have gotten it. Who the hell thought it was a good idea? I'll probably get this month's though.
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al-azad posted:Alpha Protocol certainly isn't overrated unless the definition of overrated changed in the last 7 years. Alpha Protocol doesn't seem overrated. It's perception is really what that game is actually is. Rough unpolished gem. The gameplay, production is weak but story/characterization/dialogue is pretty good. Which seems to be true for almost every Obsidian game except maybe New Vegas but that was also a buggy mess for a long time.
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AP actually has really fun combat once you figure it out, Martial Arts is especially fun, even more so when combined with shotguns.
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Accordion Man posted:AP actually has really fun combat once you figure it out, Martial Arts is especially fun, especially combined with shotguns. I already said this another post but I feel like the combat is really slow. The cooldowns of abilities are too long to play like a straight up rpg and shooting is too bad to play like a shooter. Maybe in lower difficulty you can play more aggressive but on hard if you get hit by 1-2 stray bullets you pretty much lost all your hp.
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Edmond Dantes posted:God dammit, if they had headlined with Nex or Sexy Brutale instead of loving H1Z1 I would have gotten it. Who the hell thought it was a good idea? That feels like how it’s been lately. Questionable header but good games afterwards.
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Luisfe posted:Ok drat, the new Humble Monthly early unlocks are Long Dark, Quantum Break and Dawn of War 3. Mother fucker. I regret not getting it. Which is why i assume they put a poo poo game as the front runner. I almost got strafe on sale. And i did get the long dark. But for the other games the new one is worth it. Ill gently caress aroubd in dow3 even though it got panned.
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Ulio posted:I already said this another post but I feel like the combat is really slow. The cooldowns of abilities are too long to play like a straight up rpg and shooting is too bad to play like a shooter. Maybe in lower difficulty you can play more aggressive but on hard if you get hit by 1-2 stray bullets you pretty much lost all your hp.
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Luisfe posted:Ok drat, the new Humble Monthly early unlocks are Long Dark, Quantum Break and Dawn of War 3. Daaaayum, that's a pretty solid early unlock line up... save for maybe DoW3 which I've heard nothing but bad things about. I think I'll bite! Deakul fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Dec 1, 2017 |
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Deakul posted:Daaaayum, that's a pretty solid early unlock line up... save for maybe DoW3 which I've heard nothing but bad things about. What are some of the bad things you hear? I dislike RTS games in general because I'm bad at the gameplay, and micro/macro stuff just isn't fun, but I find WarHammer lore cool as heck, and I'm thinking of getting this bundles for WarHammers "story" .
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corn in the bible posted:sorry but i need it to help defend the cat town whoa they made a Warriors game in rpgmaker? 
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Im_Special posted:What are some of the bad things you hear? I dislike RTS games in general because I'm bad at the gameplay, and micro/macro stuff just isn't fun, but I find WarHammer lore cool as heck, and I'm thinking of getting this bundles for WarHammers "story" . Plays more like a MOBA, very multiplayer centric, the campaign is one giant tutorial with no real story, and only 3 races with no apparent indication of expansion at all in the near future.
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This is an incredibly early unlock! I mean, none of those games are stellar, but getting all three, plus more at the beginning of the month for 12 bucks? I'm definitely getting it.
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Im_Special posted:What are some of the bad things you hear? I dislike RTS games in general because I'm bad at the gameplay, and micro/macro stuff just isn't fun, but I find WarHammer lore cool as heck, and I'm thinking of getting this bundles for WarHammers "story" . If you want a good Warhammer game seeped in lore, get Battlefleet Gothic instead or dig in to Dawn of War 2. DoW 2 does a good job with a more personal story with the space marines, but it's not my personal cup of tea. Battlefleet Gothic is the highest point a Warhammer game has reached with the strength of character. Honestly though, if you just dig Warhammer lore, I suggest grabbing Audible and listening to some of the audiobooks. Some of them are really drat good, especially Carrion Throne and the Eisenhorn trilogy. The games don't really dig into the more interesting elements of the lore and instead just like to see dudes fight.
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The Long Dark is very solid IMO.
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Long Dark's a good game, I haven't tried the story stuff yet, is it any good?
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Dow 3 is perfectly fine. Lots of the complains are straight up bullshit and others easily explained by both the game's scale and the fact that most units are seen as expendable (with the increase in resource gain to make up for it). Stuff like the lack of a cover system for example: the reality is that it was already loving fiddly in 2 (and COH) and there was no way that the increased squad sizes of 3 would have been able to work with it.
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Det_no posted:Dow 3 is perfectly fine. Lots of the complains are straight up bullshit and others easily explained by both the game's scale and the fact that most units are seen as expendable (with the increase in resource gain to make up for it). Stuff like the lack of a cover system for example: the reality is that it was already loving fiddly in 2 (and COH) and there was no way that the increased squad sizes of 3 would have been able to work with it. The story is awful, they sped up the game's pace so it's less fun to watch, threw in way more active abilities for the e-sports crowd and the cover system they do have is loving ridiculous and bad, and if you are interested in multiplayer the hero system is a complete gamebreaker.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:The story is awful, they sped up the game's pace so it's less fun to watch, threw in way more active abilities for the e-sports crowd and the cover system they do have is loving ridiculous and bad, and if you are interested in multiplayer the hero system is a complete gamebreaker. Oh yeah, they got rid of sync kills didn't they? That's pretty much a deal breaker as it is.
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Det_no posted:Dow 3 is perfectly fine. Lots of the complains are straight up bullshit and others easily explained by both the game's scale and the fact that most units are seen as expendable (with the increase in resource gain to make up for it). Stuff like the lack of a cover system for example: the reality is that it was already loving fiddly in 2 (and COH) and there was no way that the increased squad sizes of 3 would have been able to work with it. It's poo poo, m8.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:The story is awful, they sped up the game's pace so it's less fun to watch, threw in way more active abilities for the e-sports crowd and the cover system they do have is loving ridiculous and bad, and if you are interested in multiplayer the hero system is a complete gamebreaker. Story is literally the same as we've seen in the other games in the series, how is it worse all of a sudden? Units have less abilities than in DoW 2, the cover system is the cover system from DoW 1 and I'm not sure how heroes ruin anything because that's just an empty statement. The pace I could see bothering some people but the game literally plays like how 1 used to play with the heroes of 2. This is basically what I'm talking about : Huge amount of complaints are "This is worse than X" except it's always been like or was like that. People can't eve agree on what's bad.
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Det_no posted:Story is literally the same as we've seen in the other games in the series, how is it worse all of a sudden? Units have less abilities than in DoW 2, the cover system is the cover system from DoW 1 and I'm not sure how heroes ruin anything because that's just an empty statement. 2 isn't a traditional RTS though, it's a squad based tactics game. There are more abilities per unit there because you have exactly 4 units at any given time. Dawn of War 3 applies the idea of "give every unit an ability" to "let's have big armies like Dawn of War 1", and that is self explanatory with why it is bad. The story is constantly jumping between three perspectives, and it's another boring world which has boring poo poo happening and oh whoops the eldar, space marines and orks are fighting for it. 1 didn't have a great story either, at least it played well and was focussed. Most people praise Dark Crusade, since that got rid of any bullshit plot and just let the army dudes hit eachother and everyone had a grand old time. 2 however blew it out of the park with the story of the Blood Ravens, actually expanding on them as characters instead of "AND THEN THE MIGHTY IMPERIUM SMOTE THE XENOS", it introduced us to the Bloody Magpies. Want to know exactly how heroes ruin things? They're like respawning experimentals in Supreme Commander, but you can only ever have one per side and if you don't have one, a conventional force can't take it out because there is no need for combined arms warfare in the Dawn of War games, unlike Supreme Commanders where land experimentals could easily be bombed to smithereens. I hope this has explained why Dawn of War 3 is a worse game and exactly why it is a worse game than the previous titles in the series. It tries to please everyone but in the end pleases... just you I guess. Oh, and the cover system isn't the same as in Dawn of War 1. DoW 1 uses the same system as Company of Heroes, where all sorts of terrain has its own cover bonuses. DoW 3 has convenient shapes in key positions that your men can sit in for some reason? They aren't buildable defences like bunkers in Starcraft, they're like pentagons or squares or some sort of geometric shape (it's been a while) just there on the ground. Deakul posted:Oh yeah, they got rid of sync kills didn't they? That's pretty much a deal breaker as it is. Yup, they got rid of the really fun kill animations that made battles fun to watch for muh esports brah. Let's not even get into the aesthetic discussion, because that's way more subjective than anything else, but I think it just looks plain as heck. HerpicleOmnicron5 fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Dec 1, 2017 |
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So is Quantum Break essentially unplayable unless I have 20mb/s internet? 
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Thoren posted:So is Quantum Break essentially unplayable unless I have 20mb/s internet? What's this about?
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The game streams 4k video during certain portions.
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MMF Freeway posted:The game streams 4k video during certain portions. WTF, that is some next level DRM right there.
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Re System ShockDyz posted:Try playing it with the original controls. My brother and I played it, loved it, and completed it playing the whole thing as a 2-player game, despite it being single player really. One of us did the keyboard controls and one did the mouse controls. We did the same with Tie Fighter, one on keyboard one on mouse.
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Im_Special posted:WTF, that is some next level DRM right there. It's more of a stupid gimmick than intentional DRM. The thing is that this is a TV series with game in between, since Microsoft really wanted to drive home the "XBONE is a living room device" angle.
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Det_no posted:Story is literally the same as we've seen in the other games in the series, how is it worse all of a sudden? Units have less abilities than in DoW 2, the cover system is the cover system from DoW 1 and I'm not sure how heroes ruin anything because that's just an empty statement. The cover system is not like DoW 1. For one thing, the cover system in DoW 3 isn't actually a cover system - it's a garrison system. It's also got a much worse UI than DoW 1, less dynamic units, less unit types, worse animations, and less mechanics. Not only does it not have a cover system like the post CoH games, it doesn't even have a morale system like DoW 1. DoW 3 is a bad DoW 1 clone made by a cargo cult that doesn't understand why DoW 1 worked, who's only RTS reference point is Starcraft and who made a game where every single part of it is actively hostile to the majority of their customers. DatonKallandor fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Dec 1, 2017 |
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Seventh Arrow posted:The composer of DOOM's soundtrack has some really interesting stories about how it all came about : Not Emptyquoting. If you've ever once plugged a guitar into a pedal or messed with a DAW, do watch all of this. He does some nifty things.
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corn in the bible posted:I quoted the wrong person, leading to confusion. Now I must fall upon my sword Okay you're wrong like 30% of the time don't leak too much blood
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You reaaally ought to play stuff again cause you are remembering everything wrong. From how many units you have in Dow 2 and the craters in 1 to how many heroes you have in 3. Deakul posted:Oh yeah, they got rid of sync kills didn't they? That's pretty much a deal breaker as it is. Everything is based on gibblets and psychics now. Big abilities can kill a bunch of squads so it looks pretty sweet. DatonKallandor posted:The cover system is not like DoW 1. For one thing, the cover system in DoW 3 isn't actually a cover system - it's a garrison system. It's also got a much worse UI than DoW 1, less dynamic units, less unit types, worse animations, and less mechanics. Not only does it not have a cover system like the post CoH games, it doesn't even have a morale system like DoW 1. DoW 3 is a bad DoW 1 clone made by a cargo cult that doesn't understand why DoW 1 worked, who's only RTS reference point is Starcraft and who made a game where every single part of it is actively hostile to the majority of their customers. Oh boy. What's the practical difference between a crater and a shield? What about mechanics like the Space Marine's drop pods and standard? The ork's waagh? Space Marines in DoW 1 have 17 units compared to DoW's 21 (and that's without doctrines). It's really kind of embarrassing seeing all this misinformation. That's all I'm going to say about this else I'll end up quoting a billion posts telling me the sky is green or that Relic somehow changed during the last decade despite still having more or less the same staff like how certain groups tried to do and blamed it on nu-males and other stupid poo poo.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Another Humble Bundle XMAS bundle This bundle is still going to be purchasable after every mystery game has been revealed. So uh. You can pay 35$ for a gaming themed advent calendar or wait until the end of December to see if it's actually a good purchase.
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TheBlandName posted:This bundle is still going to be purchasable after every mystery game has been revealed. So uh. You can pay 35$ for a gaming themed advent calendar or wait until the end of December to see if it's actually a good purchase. They usually run out of keys on anything good they put in like halfway through the month.
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Det_no posted:Oh boy. What's the practical difference between a crater and a shield? What about mechanics like the Space Marine's drop pods and standard? The ork's waagh? Space Marines in DoW 1 have 17 units compared to DoW's 21 (and that's without doctrines). It's really kind of embarrassing seeing all this misinformation. That's all I'm going to say about this else I'll end up quoting a billion posts telling me the sky is green or that Relic somehow changed during the last decade despite still having more or less the same staff like how certain groups tried to do and blamed it on nu-males and other stupid poo poo. One of the big differences between a crater and a shield is that you can make more craters, meaning the battlefield can actually change as the game goes on. And the only reason Space Marines in DoW3 have more units is because it counts stuff like "Scout with sniper" and "Scout without sniper" as distinct entities since the game is almost completely lacking the on-the-fly customization that its predecessors feature. Looking at the wiki, fully half of the SM roster is made up of hero/super units.
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Det_no posted:Oh boy. What's the practical difference between a crater and a shield? What about mechanics like the Space Marine's drop pods and standard? The ork's waagh? Space Marines in DoW 1 have 17 units compared to DoW's 21 (and that's without doctrines). It's really kind of embarrassing seeing all this misinformation. That's all I'm going to say about this else I'll end up quoting a billion posts telling me the sky is green or that Relic somehow changed during the last decade despite still having more or less the same staff like how certain groups tried to do and blamed it on nu-males and other stupid poo poo. The difference is that cover (the DoW 1 craters) is variable, a percentage damage reduction and doesn't magically block bullets and units from entering (DoW 3 "cover" literally stops tactical marines from walking inside, because they have guns in their hands, while assault marines are allowed to run inside, because they have swords in their hands. What?). DoW 3 only has "more units" because they count unit variants as separate. Things like different kinds of predators and devastators are just weapon swaps - and have been weapon swaps in previous DoW games - while in DoW 3 they're used to pad out the unit numbers. By space marine drop pods you mean the drop pods that existed in DoW 1, just in a different implementation? I'll give you the ork waagh - that's a unique mechanic. Probably because the Orks are the only thing they did well in DoW 3. They're the best part about it, by a mile (also the only faction where the weird animation and art style actually works). But hey, keep playing DoW 3 if you like it. You do you.
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