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Happiness: for the first time in my entire life I just played a multiplayer pvp FPS thing and not just had fun, I did well in it. I scored the second most kills, I was helpful in us winning, and I'm - I'm so proud of myself? Typically I have all the reflexes of a dead horse and wind up near to last in these things, but this time everything flowed, I was able to keep on target and it was a good time.  (playing control mode in destiny 2, and for once none of the opponents had overpowered gear too so my bullets actually hurt them! but in a fair way so they could sometimes kill me back before I could kill them)
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Which would you pick out of these 3 games Stoneshard, Rise to Ruins, Cryofall? I'm kind of leaning Stoneshard I think
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Feb 8, 2020 18:21
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Cryofall is in Humble Choice this month, if that helps.
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Feb 8, 2020 18:28
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All snide comments about MMOs aside, is it any good? I still have some picks left over after getting everything I wanted and I don't know what to use them on.
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Feb 8, 2020 18:29
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Rise to Ruins is released and has decent reviews whereas Stoneshard sounds like a fun idea that is nowhere near an actual fun playable state yet.
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Feb 8, 2020 18:31
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Hub Cat posted:Rise to Ruins is released and has decent reviews whereas Stoneshard sounds like a fun idea that is nowhere near an actual fun playable state yet. It's fun and very good presentation, both casrs
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Feb 8, 2020 18:50
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Yeah I'm probably going to buy it tbh, I'm a huge sucker for roguelikes but if I had to pick between the two Rise to Ruins is mature right now and who knows whats going to happen in two years with a fresh early access game. That said they aren't really the same genre so 1 to 1 comparison isn't great. Looks like you can try out the prologue/tutorial section of Stoneshard for free here
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I was asked to take a look at Runner3, and recalling the fun I had with the original BIT.TRIP.RUNNER before it got too hard for me made it seem like a good idea. It wasn't.  Platformebruary 2020: Ultimate Collector's Edition 1. Blasphemous 2. Duck Souls 3. Dune Sea 4. A Robot Named Fight 5. Sonic Mania 6. Izeriya 7. MagiCat 8. Runner3    Let’s say you wanted to make a rhythm game. What’s the most important part? The music, obviously. If your gameplay is going to integrate with the music, expecting players to bop along with the beat to succeed, you need those tunes to slap. So I’ll make this one easy for you: the soundtrack in Runner3 does not slap. It does not bump. It sucks. I feel like that alone should be enough to condemn a rhythm game, but it’s not even the first thing that turned me off to this one. I even had to revisit the original BIT.TRIP RUNNER to confirm I wasn’t losing my mind, but nope, this third installment of the series is but a pale shadow of its former glory. Commander Video and CommandGirl Video have decided to chill for a bit, and nipped off to Foodland to take in the giant tubers, I guess. But the Timbletot is returning to foul up everything good and cool about the world, so the hero’s journey continues for our rhythmic friends. Across Foodland and beyond, you’ll guide the pair in running, jumping, sliding, kicking, bouncing, and more as they traverse courses full of foes, traps, gaps, walls, and worse. All the while you’ll have the music urging you on, with every bounce on a spring and gold bar grabbed adding its own beat to the rhythm. And there’s plenty more to find in each level than just gold, with all sorts of gems and collectibles on the line. That’s as flowery as I’m willing to get in describing this game, because there’s a lot wrong with what I just said. For starters, I want to reiterate how bad the soundtrack is. Yes, it has a strong beat to help guide you, but the tunes sound like something belted out of a bad flash cartoon. Gone are the bangin’ electric beats of the first game, replaced with cartoon percussion, farts, and slide whistles. It’s genuinely bewildering how bad the music is, and each world only gets like three tracks to share across its many, many levels. Worse than that, though, is how little impact you have on the music with your actions. I’ve never felt like the rhythm was all that important to the Runner series, since the beats fall on things you touch and obstacles you pass, not on the button presses themselves. But in Runner3 there’s less feedback than ever, with really only gold and gems adding anything to the deficient music. There are problems across the presentation, and not just audio. I really, truly do not understand the art style of this game, or why it’s moved so incredibly far away from the clean pixels and polygons of the original. The clean look of the first Runner helped players plan and time their moves. In Runner3, everything is beset with this grotesque, waxen look of hideous faces and meat. It’s hard to put my finger on exactly what the aesthetic is, but it reminds me too much of cheap parody games cobbled together in the oily, high-contrast forges of Unreal 4. Everything is simply unpleasant to look at, and the scenery often gets in your way either because it’s over-designed or because the camera likes to swoop around at dramatic and painfully unhelpful angles. Even drilling down to the core gameplay, you’re going to hit rough patches. Levels have confusing alternate routes that don’t unlock until you beat the main route, leaving your trail covered in ugly barriers. There are new flying sections that really add nothing to the game, aside from reminding you that you could be playing a better side-scroller. And a shocking number of hazards come out of nowhere, like meatballs streaking at you from off-screen and a giant octopus randomly deciding to smash holes in your route. I could go on about the lame jokes, the annoying unlock conditions, the brutally unfun secret levels, or how terribly wasted Charles Martinet is, but I don’t want to distract too much from the real takeaway. Runner3 barely resembles the game that put this series on the map, and fails to live up to any of those expectations. Too Shy Guy fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Feb 8, 2020 |
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Too Shy Guy posted:I was asked to take a look at Runner3, and recalling the fun I had with the original BIT.TRIP.RUNNER before it got too hard for me made it seem like a good idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmF2HA04THc oh my god why
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Hub Cat posted:Yeah I'm probably going to buy it tbh, I'm a huge sucker for roguelikes but if I had to pick between the two Rise to Ruins is mature right now and who knows whats going to happen in two years with a fresh early access game. That said they aren't really the same genre so 1 to 1 comparison isn't great. Looks like you can try out the prologue/tutorial section of Stoneshard for free here Wow thank you
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it was bad until 27 seconds in and now i am eating my own face AUGH 52 SECONDS IN, CHRIST
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it's actually worse than YIIK music, holy poo poo
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I thought this was just goons being melodramatic again, but drat, the music actually is that bad. In fact, it's barely even music. How is anyone supposed to play a rhythm game to that?
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Feb 8, 2020 19:40
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Hwurmp posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmF2HA04THc This is my jam
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Hwurmp posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmF2HA04THc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5nHjCWl_Xg&t=88s
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Hwurmp posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmF2HA04THc
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Any goon clans for Warhammer 40k: Inquisitor - Martyr?
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That music sounds like Oingo Boingo played entirely straight and lacking all self-awareness.
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Oxxidation posted:it was bad until 27 seconds in and now i am eating my own face I go on sometimes about how important good music is to a good game. The best case is when the music and the moment-to-moment gameplay are intertwined. A lot of games just use music as a traditional background for different areas; which can be fine, don't get me wrong. Other games, those that use music as part of - or closely integrated with - the gameplay sticks in my memory far more. Things like Metal Gear Revengeance's lyrics being timed, or the much more literal case of Crypt of the Necrodancer. (Hell, even some pinball tables are good at this; but anyway.) That game up there is the exact polar opposite; I have very rarely been so thoroughly repulsed by a video game. It's impressive, in a way. Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Feb 8, 2020 |
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Feb 8, 2020 20:33
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Hwurmp posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmF2HA04THc Now this is a song I could crawl through some ventilation shafts to.
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Hwurmp posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmF2HA04THc Perfectly good music for a game. Just not a rhythm game.
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it actually does remind me of the OST for a certain other cult hit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-LU15VeqBY
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Speaking of stuff that's grating to the senses, I tried out Okami for the first time, it's one of the most gorgeous games I've ever played. Quick question though: does that green bug thing talk at you through the entire game? I got to the part in the beginning where it says "I THINK I'M GOING TO STICK AROUND FOR THE RIDE, YOU CAN'T GET RID OF ME!!" and I was like ohhhhh noooooo
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He does but Okami is still good
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Has anyone played Crying Suns? I played through the demo and I have no idea why after a few shots enemy battleships become immune to my weapons and have to be finished off with smaller ships.
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flesh dance posted:Speaking of stuff that's grating to the senses, I tried out Okami for the first time, it's one of the most gorgeous games I've ever played. Quick question though: does that green bug thing talk at you through the entire game? I got to the part in the beginning where it says "I THINK I'M GOING TO STICK AROUND FOR THE RIDE, YOU CAN'T GET RID OF ME!!" and I was like ohhhhh noooooo You hear that, Ammy? He's asking if that green bug thing is going to talk at him through the entire game!
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flesh dance posted:Speaking of stuff that's grating to the senses, I tried out Okami for the first time, it's one of the most gorgeous games I've ever played. Quick question though: does that green bug thing talk at you through the entire game? I got to the part in the beginning where it says "I THINK I'M GOING TO STICK AROUND FOR THE RIDE, YOU CAN'T GET RID OF ME!!" and I was like ohhhhh noooooo
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That Foodland Runner3 song was stressful to listen to. Surely the others are more normal.
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Hwurmp posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmF2HA04THc This is the soundtrack to a Gex level. It has to be.
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aas Bandit posted:I might have missed it previously in the thread, but a new gameplay teaser for Atomic Heart came out a couple of days ago. I've been looking forward to this for quite a while...kinda makes me think "Stalker on acid". Thanks for the update news - this game is so my jam that it hurts. It ticks just about all my gameplay boxes, what with the Soviet-era scifi aesthetic and off-the-wall surrealism, as well as that slower-paced methodical exploration. Having the character mutter "blyat" under his breath is just icing on the cake. There's obviously a lot of content, but I wish they'd post update news a bit more regularly so we can be a bit more confident that it will actually release beyond a tech demo. I also loved the look and feel of that "Routine" game from a few years ago and it just disappeared into nothing. Gromit fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Feb 8, 2020 |
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Anyone got any experience with Dark Devotion? It's the daily deal and I usually enjoy these games; hell, I even like Salt and Sanctuary.
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Hwurmp posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmF2HA04THc new earthworm jim music sounds great imo
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anilEhilated posted:Anyone got any experience with Dark Devotion? It's the daily deal and I usually enjoy these games; hell, I even like Salt and Sanctuary. It's okay. It feels more like a proto Blasphemous than a 2d DS clone, but didn't really hold my attention long.
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Hwurmp posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmF2HA04THc
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Too Shy Guy posted:Runner 3 The continuation of the Runner series was so unnecessary.
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Is this Terminator game ...good? https://store.steampowered.com/app/954740/Terminator_Resistance/ 93% positive reviews but the trailer, screenshots, and even the description on the store page are so  that it seems like it should be awful. But it's so well reviewed! Anyone tried it? They even have a featured Youtube review that gives it a 4/10 Bad review. Why would they put that there? E: oh that might be an Augmented steam thing.
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Feb 9, 2020 00:33
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Darkrenown posted:Is this Terminator game ...good? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzgejaMt7X4&t=468s
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"im saying, in 2009 B game tier, this is fine" it looks like a bog standard boring shooting game youve played 100 times but with terminators
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Has anyone played either of these guys? Equilinox (https://store.steampowered.com/app/853550/Equilinox/ ): Looks neat, but I can't tell if it's a crunchy base/city builder, or a mechanics-lite "Chill out and watch plants and animals screw each other" thing. Lonely Mountains: Downhill (https://store.steampowered.com/app/711540/Lonely_Mountains_Downhill/ ): Visual style is freaking rad as hell, looks fun, but I can't tell if it's a Trials-style high skill ceiling jobbie, or a 2-3 hour casual game that's fun once, then never touched again.
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