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Cao Ni Ma posted:Playing it right now and from a technical standpoint the port is flawless so far. Runs really well, game looks great, sounds great too.
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Worst case scenario: procedural golf.
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Mar 24, 2018 19:44
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Any news about the last episode of Kentucky Route Zero?
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Mar 24, 2018 19:55
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Sininu posted:Any news about the last episode of Kentucky Route Zero?
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Scalding Coffee posted:Dark Cloud elements like crafting your gear with all sorts of strange buffs or roguelike stuff? Im thinking its the nation building aspect
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SelenicMartian posted:Best case scenario: procedural golf. Spheda was great.
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Speaking of Golf, someone needs to either put Sid Meier's Sim Golf on GoG/Steam or make a spiritual successor. Golf Tycoon game where you can golf on your own course(s) is awesome.
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anilEhilated posted:How bad is the UPlay? I just wish they gave up on that poo poo and started integrating their games into Steam instead. It's a very lightweight Chromium browser that downloads games  just like GOG and Twitch.I've never had a problem with it being used on its own, ie not linked with a Steam purchase which is just a bad idea don't do that poo poo. uPlay keys also get incredibly cheap after a few years.
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anilEhilated posted:How bad is the UPlay? I just wish they gave up on that poo poo and started integrating their games into Steam instead.
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Accordion Man posted:Watch_Dogs 2 could easily have been the cringiest poo poo but the cast is genuinely likable and the game has a real earnest, goofy sincerity to it. The game handles its topics fairly well and is far more open in calling out bullshit in modern American society where most AAA games would chicken out and shy away from. (i.e. Like Ubi's own Far Cry 5.)
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I was leery of Watch Dogs 2 because of Ubi's track record but I got it on sale a while back and I decided to finally play it instead of giving in to the Far Cry 5 hype and it's actually really good! Also, you get to pet dogs! I feel like this can't be said enough.
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Palpek posted:More people should buy W_D2. It has a decent story, great dialogue, likable characters, it's genuinely funny and you can play it either causing total mayhem or going stealth (with full equipment going along with those). The multiplayer stuff with co-op missions, chases, invasions and pvp on the go when you feel like are also fun as hell. It's the best GTA-like in recent years imo. I wanted to like WD2's gameplay, but nonlethal stealth clashes with the majority of the encounter design something fierce. Either you can trivialize encounters with the RC car so badly that it becomes rote and boring OR they turn into grueling clusterfucks because the AI cheats and even if it didn't, nonlethal means only knock out guards temporarily and generally create more problems than they solve. Not a big deal if you need to sneak into a tiny area to grab one thing and leave, totally incompatible if you're on one of the larger missions. The driving side of things varies between acceptable and obnoxious as well, with missions randomly having infinitely respawning pursuers, removing the whole point of hacking poo poo to escape them. Though I think what really killed the momentum of my playthrough was one particular unnecessary plot beat that really sours the tone and is pretty much completely mishandled.
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That mission is absurd and really soured my experience with the game but it's still worth playing.
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corn in the bible posted:Arno is a blank slate who never accomplishes anything. He doesn't even get to do revolutionary stuff because Both Sides Are Bad in that game so he's just kind of around, doing nothing much, while other people have exciting adventures. Unity really isn’t bad, especially since all the jank and stupid mobile app stuff got patched out. I revisited it recently and enjoyed it pretty well. It’s not top tier AC but anyone not fatigued on the series would likely enjoy it well enough.
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The thing about Unity is that there are better Asscreeds to play, and if you already got through those, there are better games from other series to play. There's no reason to settle for mediocrity.
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DatonKallandor posted:The Desmond story was the only thing keeping the AC series interesting lol yeah being able to climb around and explore ancient, beautifully-rendered places isn't interesting at all i want to hear more about this pasty white dude and his mentally handicapped friends-
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Samuringa posted:There's no reason to settle for mediocrity. Unless it’s on sale, obviously.
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Cao Ni Ma posted:Playing it right now and from a technical standpoint the port is flawless so far. Runs really well, game looks great, sounds great too. You have me solld on Dark cloud. I forgot about those games.
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John Murdoch posted:Someday I will play every single Assassins' Creed game. Play Black Flag and then ride off into the sunset flipping double birds back, pirate4life!
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Deakul posted:I feel like Unity would be really good if the person playing it never played an AC before or they had a really long break between entries. I also thought this and played Unity after a couple years of no AC (or other similar Ubi games). It was... alright, but not engaging. I played it on PC, and there were no game-breaking glitches, but plenty of screwed-up lighting and ugly pop-in. After about ten hours I got AC: Origins, and shortly after that I uninstalled Unity. It's just not worth it. Sometimes I think about what would happen if a game like Unity had (somehow) been released in like 2004.
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Terminally Bored posted:Nah, gotta monetize that user data. mm, thank god valve is innocent of shoving their drm into their games,
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Wish they'd just data mine my birthday so I can stop entering it. (its 1-1-1900)
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man nurse posted:Unity really isn’t bad, especially since all the jank and stupid mobile app stuff got patched out. I'm so glad this stopped being a "thing". I think the only one I ever used was the one for AC4 so I could do the boat missions while at work.
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man nurse posted:Unity really isn’t bad, especially since all the jank and stupid mobile app stuff got patched out. I revisited it recently and enjoyed it pretty well. It’s not top tier AC but anyone not fatigued on the series would likely enjoy it well enough. The big thing Unity really does well is Paris itself. That game just absolutely oozes atmosphere even if the plot has a lot of issues.
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Is anyone in here playing Cabals? I'm finding it to be a fascinating mixture of card-game and small-scale tactical game. Matchmaking takes a bit, but it feels really satisfying to play.
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Didn't spot an Anno thread so asking here: I played and enjoyed Anno 1404 a few years back and noticed Anno 2205 and Anno 2070 are on sale this weekend for more or less the same price. Are there any reasons not to just get the newest one?
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Synthbuttrange posted:Wish they'd just data mine my birthday so I can stop entering it.
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Ripper Swarm posted:Didn't spot an Anno thread so asking here: Yes. 2205 does not have freeplay, it's all scenarios in pre-set areas. it also runs terribly, for some reason. on the other hand 2070 has Always Online Drm which is a problem -- it disables some features if you're offline.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Is anyone in here playing Cabals? I'm finding it to be a fascinating mixture of card-game and small-scale tactical game. Matchmaking takes a bit, but it feels really satisfying to play. Pretty sure this is an old-rear end mobile game despite the early access tag.
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Zanzibar Ham posted:I looked into it to see if it also had that thing where no matter what the turn order is always a friendly unit followed by a hostile unit. Didn't find any concrete mechanics, but they keep mentioning that smaller teams have some kind of turn-order advantage which doesn't really fill me with confidence. But hey, maybe I'm reading it wrong, I'll wait and see what people say. Yes, the turn system works similar to Banner Saga with a few difference. There is no pillage mode, so the last enemy unit will get to move every turn. At least attack damage is now separate from health so it's not going to be hitting you with 20+ strength hits every turn. Also you can decide which unit to move within your turn, there's no initiative system, however, the character you moved will not be available until you cycle through all your character first. I guess that's what the dev meant by turn-order advantage.
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Grand Theft Auto V is on sale this week. I've got fond memories of GTA: San Andreas and think it might be neat to see a modern version of that world. How is it - the single-player game, not GTA Online? Is it poorly optimized? Does it control well with mouse/keyboard? Most importantly, is it fun?
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Ripper Swarm posted:Didn't spot an Anno thread so asking here: I've written long reviews of both Anno 2070 and Anno 2205 (and Anno 1404 if you need a point of reference) if you want extensive breakdowns. Personally I think 2070 is best of all of them, with a lot of polish and neat features that 1404 was lacking. 2205 is very different from previous Annos in that there are no scenarios, just one giant global map of zones you develop and connect. I still enjoy it but it's overly-streamlined compared to previous ones and probably won't suit you unless you're specifically looking for that sort of long-term development over tighter scenarios.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:Grand Theft Auto V is on sale this week. I've got fond memories of GTA: San Andreas and think it might be neat to see a modern version of that world. I think it's pretty well optimized. Max settings work fine on my 3 year old machine. I think it's fun, the characters are good. Idk about mouse and keyboard, I always use an Xbox controller.
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All this AC talk, I just finished Brotherhood. The assassin's guild aka your personal hit squad is pretty cool. The thing that makes 0 sense is how the gently caress do they hear your whistles from across the whole of Rome or are they tailing you through everything you do, a lot of it which is falling off roofs. Also the hud in these games is atrocious. I just removed everything other than the controls/map because there was too much stuff on the screen.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:Grand Theft Auto V is on sale this week. I've got fond memories of GTA: San Andreas and think it might be neat to see a modern version of that world. I played the PS3 version so dunno about performance but right around the time the game has a mission where you spend literally 20 minutes working in a shipyard was about the time I started to sour on the game. I started noticing that the missions weren't actually rewarding me with anything, most of the missions were just driving to various parts of the map while listening to characters talk and then driving back while listening to characters talk, the characters were the epitome of Rockstar's self-indulgent unfunny satire, and it wasn't even fun to just run around and shoot poo poo because you only regenerate half your health and even the street cops are super accurate. The big missions the game does have are fine but the "heists" with various outcomes depending on what happens and who you hire that they talked so much about actually only happen twice, and I'd argue only one of those lived up to the hype. The online really is the only fun part to me.
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Steven Ogg is all you need in life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsaLDnl_fEs
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The campaign from Northgard is leaving mixed impressions. I did the first mission which is basically 'Send a scout to find the shoreline and build a dock' which like typical tutorial fodder except it somehow ended up taking like an hour because of the two dozen intermediary steps to get there and all the different little timers you need to wait for.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:Grand Theft Auto V is on sale this week. I've got fond memories of GTA: San Andreas and think it might be neat to see a modern version of that world. It's... okay. I mean the game-world is stunning as an achievement and there are some really good character moments, but the writing suffers from feeling like the writer wants to be doing stylized crime drama dialogue but can't quite get it to come across as naturalistic. Everything feels just a little forced for the most part, like the characters are trying a little too hard to be capital c Characters. I certainly enjoyed playing it though, but it didn't quite have that same feeling that San Andreas did where you could just wander about on foot or in a car listening to the radio or people-watching.
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It was the first GTA game I bothered to complete. I dug it. Just found out the new premium skin for Injustice 2 is just Bruce Wayne in a suit. That's either gonna be amazing or just flat out weird. My friend has already decided if they end up modding him to throw credit cards instead of batarangs, he's buying him, and I can't really disagree.
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