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StrixNebulosa posted:Don't worry about me finishing Odyssey, I have problems sticking with AAA games even when I love them. I've just now uninstalled Shadow of Mordor because I can't find the will to play it some more, I abandoned Far Cry 3 and 4 roughly 10-20 hours into each one, and 25+ hours in AssCreed Origins wore me out. I keep thinking I'll reinstall and go back to them, but who knows. This might be a fault with me, but whatever, I enjoyed my time with them. Let the thread know what you think about the game (good or bad). It's in my top 10 ever games list, but it is obnoxiously filled with content/length. On another note, just a friendly reminder to blow out your PC's - especially the Power Supply and GPU. With many of us at home more, chances are they are filling up with dead skin faster than normal.
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Volte posted:I long ago decided that playing a game until I don't want to play it anymore instead of forcing myself to complete it for completions sake is actually the correct way to do it. My main problem is that when I do go back to games, I am compelled to start over instead of just taking the few minutes to re-orient myself with my old save, meaning I've played the first half of a lot of games five times without finishing them. I tried to do the Steam Anonymous thread and actually finish things, and in some cases it paid off (Gunpoint is only two hours and I'm glad I beat it) but in most cases it leads to me playing things I'm just not interested in, even if I like them in general. So at this point I don't finish things despite trying to and it's okay. In the meantime I get as much fun playtime out of a game as I can. Then there are the edge cases where I've beaten State of Decay 2 three times, and got every achievement in Hitman 2016 (working on Hitman 2 it's so massive), and I will never be tired of playing Cook Serve Delicious 3 or Brigador or X-COM or.... But those are special games, and they deserve to be in a hall of fame.
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Sinteres posted:It's hilarious that in their enormous game that's filled with too much stuff they felt the need to add radiant quests and user created quests just in case some psychopath actually did everything there was to do. What insane person, what madman could possibly do everything in th--  ...oh 
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Sinteres posted:It's admittedly a hardware intensive game but I don't remember having problems like that at all on my deece PC. Hell, I played Odyssey for a while on a 1050 Max Q and, while I played it on Low, I didn’t have any technical problems.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Turn on your monitor, it's one of the prettiest and best realized environments I've ever seen in a video game. God, their depiction of Egypt was so good. But really, it's great. It's like taking a guided tour from the comfort of your own couch.
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exquisite tea posted:What insane person, what madman could possibly do everything in th-- I really do think it's an incredible game, so at least you picked a great one to lose your mind over.
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I enjoyed Origins, but after finishing it I feel like I can't play an ubisoft-style open world game game for a good five years. It's just... a lot of game, of a very specific formula.
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Hello here are some games from the Humble COVID bundle that I already had or don't want: Into the *reach: 8MLCG-A*90Q-Z5JHZ Supe*hot: 8982*-ED3QV-5J75F Killing *loor 2: 7QN6P-B508X-9*3RC Fahrenheit: *ndigo Prophecy: 7D7TV-E**5G-XK8VV B*othe*s: A Tale of Two Sons: 7F693-3A8*V-7F9GM Broken *ge: 7GFQ4-JTPMN-3*N4H A Morticia*s Tale : 7FVXK-K4*0E-JL9H3 A Good Snow*an is Hard to Build: 7QPJC-Y9GN9-*A2EI Ducati 90th A**iversary: 82J44-G*DR3-JFP2F Pa*-Man *hampionship 2: 7AT20-*8WG0-7A8WD Wo*ld of Goo: 73A3Y-B7*XT-68YFA Alie* Spidy: 70WAC-F8*ZA-KKZXD Lostwinds: 70CK*-QCJXA-AY24C (*=3) Super Hex*gon: 6W3*D-I96TH-QZ3Z2 Sp**d Brawl: 7B36J-9YTLC-RK*8J 800peepee51doodoo fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Apr 4, 2020 |
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800peepee51doodoo posted:The W*tness: 895HE-*H4R4-07X8M Thank you very much!
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800peepee51doodoo posted:Hollow *night: 8*AL8-YG9NC-0TQEG Took this one, thanks.
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800peepee51doodoo posted:Rebuild 3: *angs of Deadsville: 7BFJ7-WLCFE-9B*0Z
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AssCreed Odyssey: should I turn on story creator mode or not? It isn't explaining what it is.
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StrixNebulosa posted:AssCreed Odyssey: should I turn on story creator mode or not? It isn't explaining what it is.
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StrixNebulosa posted:AssCreed Odyssey: should I turn on story creator mode or not? It isn't explaining what it is. I think that's the "make your own quests and share them" mode
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StrixNebulosa posted:AssCreed Odyssey: should I turn on story creator mode or not? It isn't explaining what it is. It lets you discover and take on user-made quests. If it's your first time through the game then I would just ignore it.
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Thanks. I'll turn it off as soon as the cutscenes stop. God it's weird to see the modern day stuff. It means almost nothing. e: this game might be prettier than Witcher 3 StrixNebulosa fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Apr 4, 2020 |
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StrixNebulosa posted:Thanks. I'll turn it off as soon as the cutscenes stop. Please take a screenshot of Best Protagonist Kassandra hanging from the big balls.
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HopperUK posted:Please take a screenshot of Best Protagonist Kassandra hanging from the big balls. NSFW, enjoy  
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StrixNebulosa posted:Don't worry about me finishing Odyssey, I have problems sticking with AAA games even when I love them. I've just now uninstalled Shadow of Mordor because I can't find the will to play it some more, I abandoned Far Cry 3 and 4 roughly 10-20 hours into each one, and 25+ hours in AssCreed Origins wore me out. I keep thinking I'll reinstall and go back to them, but who knows. This might be a fault with me, but whatever, I enjoyed my time with them. Surprised that you didn't finish Mordor given how short that one is, but the others are pretty valid.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Surprised that you didn't finish Mordor given how short that one is, but the others are pretty valid.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Surprised that you didn't finish Mordor given how short that one is, but the others are pretty valid. In my defense, Mordor made me start reading the Silmarillion and instead of playing it I wanted to read about elves. So that's part of why it's shelved - I'm still reading this book.
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Life is Strange 2 is giving me post-world of warcraft flashbacks to having to walk around with a slow loving NPC that keeps getting stuck on things and having to start all over because the drat thing sequence breaks. This would be mitigated if "Call Daniel" just loving like....made him teleport to you because "reasons". It doesn't help that they changed how the movement is done to be less clunky rotational movement of your PC, but then made the character too floaty instead.
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I never played either game but it seems like LiS1 was a real flash in the pan for them. I feel like nooooobody cared or talked about the second game.
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Those are some huge balls. I approve.
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It probably didn't hurt that the entire thing was being given away more than once, as I remember it.
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StrixNebulosa posted:NSFW, enjoy Thank you chum!
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Cool game Regions of Ruins is free https://store.steampowered.com/app/680360/Regions_Of_Ruin/
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Life is Strange 2 is giving me post-world of warcraft flashbacks to having to walk around with a slow loving NPC that keeps getting stuck on things and having to start all over because the drat thing sequence breaks. The speed with which people completely forgot about LiS 2 is the most impressive thing about it
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Oxxidation posted:i've never seen such dismal pop-in, it was like the world ceased to exist ten meters away from the PC. characters hoisting boxes that weren't there, shadows that only materialized at point-blank range I remember this! It wasn't an issue at launch but a few patches in it suddenly started happening. I tried for hours to fix it or figure out what was going on, but the most I could get was random posts on random forums saying "is there more pop in now?" It bugged the hell out of me and I couldn't unsee it
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Yeah coming from someone who liked Life Is Strange a lot, I didn't really want more of it, but I played Before The Storm anyways because I liked the first game so much. And then Before The Storm was ok, but not as good as LiS1, so at that point I REALLY didn't want any more of it, and by the time the sequel came out I couldn't really care anymore.
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I'm getting pissed off at this game suddenly deciding something isn't working and I have to replay the entire last checkpoint.
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- playing games to avoid thinking about covid - one of the first sidequests is about finding a village decimated by plague, and you have to choose whether to let the priest kill the infected survivors (who are only a little sick!) or rescue them. two of the survivors are children  also on a mechanical note, how far am I going to overlevel the main quest if I do all the sidequests?
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StrixNebulosa posted:also on a mechanical note, how far am I going to overlevel the main quest if I do all the sidequests?
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Fallom posted:The speed with which people completely forgot about LiS 2 is the most impressive thing about it I think the episodic nature really worked against it, since if it were a complete product, people can talk about it and discuss the story, but I don't think anyone was speculating on what was coming next and whatnot. I'm not even sure if anyone even cared about LIS1 in that way.
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GrandpaPants posted:I think the episodic nature really worked against it, since if it were a complete product, people can talk about it and discuss the story, but I don't think anyone was speculating on what was coming next and whatnot. I'm not even sure if anyone even cared about LIS1 in that way. There was a decent amount of speculation and commenting on here each time an episode of LiS came out. I remember people freaking out over the Kate on the ledge segment, that was easily the most memorable part of the game. It really didn't help that LiS2 only dropped an episode every four months, where the first one managed to get each part out in two.
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StrixNebulosa posted:also on a mechanical note, how far am I going to overlevel the main quest if I do all the sidequests? anilEhilated posted:Never, the game scales up with your level. You can also turn on level scaling in the options which brings all low level sidequest up to your current level so they keep giving decent gear
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Cardiovorax posted:From what I've been told, the problem lies primarily in the audio, which is incredibly expansive and keeps getting only more so as players expect every little thing in a game to be voiced in every language available, which is then compounded by the fact that console manufacturers insist on audio being shipped uncompressed for some reason that is not known to me. Since games keep getting long and incidental dialogue and chatter start becoming something that is just expected for a game to feel complete to players, this is likely to only increase. goferchan posted:At least that's with the Battle Royale mode too and it lets you install just that or the regular game independently of one another, but yeah, still loving huge lol. Unless I'm misremembering it does not let you install just campaign or MP separately, right? I know some previous CoD games did and I wish they kept that up.
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Re: file sizes. Back when Steam started I remember noises about users eventually choosing what texture sizes they'd download as well as audio languages, but I guess broadband and later fiber became more common and studios decided not to bother?
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ZearothK posted:Re: file sizes. Back when Steam started I remember noises about users eventually choosing what texture sizes they'd download as well as audio languages, but I guess broadband and later fiber became more common and studios decided not to bother? I do see some games offer HD texture packs as free DLC - Far Cry 5 offered it if I wanted to drop an extra 20 gigs on the game (I did not) I wish more games did it, honestly.
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