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poverty goat posted:Stellaris is the current best civ game Did they ever fix the mid game being a slog? I really liked a lot of it but it hit a point where there wasn’t too much going on.
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:While I know Civ6 isn’t a great game, it’s free on Epic Games. Not free to play, free forever. Looks like they previously offered GTA5 for free. did you know the game has a bug that spawns you next to a rival, in the tundra/snow, because it's unable to effectively assess a starting position's value (or artificially populate it with resources to offset a deficit once the map has been generated)? this has been in the game since a "bugfix patch" they released in 2017 did you know the game has a math weighting error for calculating miltary aggressiveness that makes the AI incapable of capturing cities that have built Walls? a goon in the civ thread actually identified the source of this bug: it's a spelling error, and the AI can't attack these cities because it's trying to compare its should-i-attack-this-target score to a value that doesn't exist. he fixed it with a simple mod that corrects the spelling. this has been in the game since launch tldr civ 6 is a multi-million-dollar AAA title and the devs can't even be bothered to get off their asses to fix two god drat things that take all of a minute to set right also the AI has this weird rule where it MUST move every unit every turn. this leads to problems like the game starting to take two minutes to process turns. this isn't because the AI is building huge armies; it's because the neutral city state civs are compelled to expend all the move points on every last one of their dozen units, and it often has a hard time figuring out which tile to meaninglessly waste its mp on super late e: that said food court bailiff posted:he’s right though, it’s pretty hard to just “be better” for a storefront app (and yet somehow both the epic games launcher and GOG galaxy are far better than steam anyway) please bear in mind that tencent owns, what, a 40% stake in epic games? if you're all right with uncle xi rootkitting your computer then by all means epic games EPIC GAMES EPIC GAMES!!!!! Fur20 fucked around with this message at 19:21 on May 23, 2020 |
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May 23, 2020 18:11
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The White Dragon posted:did you know the game has a math weighting error for calculating miltary aggressiveness that makes the AI incapable of capturing cities that have built Walls? a goon in the civ thread actually identified the source of this bug: it's a spelling error, and the AI can't attack these cities because it's trying to compare its should-i-attack-this-target score to a value that doesn't exist. So what I'm hearing here is: build walls?
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May 23, 2020 18:21
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The White Dragon posted:did you know the game has a bug that spawns you next to a rival, in the tundra/snow, because it's unable to effectively assess a starting position's value (or artificially populate it with resources to offset a deficit once the map has been generated)? this has been in the game since a "bugfix patch" they released in 2017
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May 23, 2020 18:40
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Did they ever fix the mid game being a slog? I really liked a lot of it but it hit a point where there wasn’t too much going on. It's still pretty much the same. I uninstalled it recently for the first time since release and probably won't go back to it. I realized that I spent the majority of my time in Stellaris waiting for patches and expansions to make Stellaris to get better, and it never really does.
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May 23, 2020 18:47
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Dewgy posted:If the Rare collection port is based off the XBLA version it’s pretty much the best official way to play the game. Enjoy! It’s a great game. I installed Perfect Dark and it is indeed the XBLA version running in 360 mode. I was looking forward to completing the game based on your recommendation. I played until the Carrington Villa level and then something very strange happened. I had to stop playing and lie down because I felt like I was going to throw up. Now, I've played first person shooters for over twenty years; good ones, bad ones, mediocre ones. But Perfect Dark was a unique experience for me and one I won't be revisiting. tldr: Perfect Dark is an excellent nausea stimulator. tango alpha delta fucked around with this message at 18:50 on May 23, 2020 |
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:It's still pretty much the same. I uninstalled it recently for the first time since release and probably won't go back to it. I realized that I spent the majority of my time in Stellaris waiting for patches and expansions to make Stellaris to get better, and it never really does. I'm not trying to wrongfun you here but there are a couple of mods which add a lot of content, including a fair amount of mid-game stuff (Dynamic Political Events and Potent Rebellions in particular but also More Events and Expanded Events). The first two additionally make the internal politics feel a little better IMO? The 2.7.2 beta patch also seems to be improving performance as well. E: Whoops, thought this was the Stellaris thread.
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May 23, 2020 18:56
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With Beyond Earth and Civ6 I get the feeling they're building the games more around steamrolling the AI while having quests and fluff to string you along rather than making sure the gameplay's solid.
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May 23, 2020 19:00
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One of my greatest game regrets is Civilization: Beyond Earth. It should have been so loving good, and I think the fluff legit shows a lot of cool poo poo. But goddamn was the actual game a loving letdown.
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May 23, 2020 19:06
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Did they ever fix the mid game being a slog? I really liked a lot of it but it hit a point where there wasn’t too much going on. If you're bored in the mid game it's because you aren't expanding aggressively enough
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May 23, 2020 19:13
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Ghost Leviathan posted:With Beyond Earth and Civ6 I get the feeling they're building the games more around steamrolling the AI while having quests and fluff to string you along rather than making sure the gameplay's solid. Absolutely. I pirated civ 6 recently (after pirating it at launch to test it out) to see if it became fun with all the dlc, and no. They just clutter the game up with so much poo poo going on that you're so occupied with busy work that you don't notice that the game is actually a hollow shell.
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May 23, 2020 19:21
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tango alpha delta posted:I installed Perfect Dark and it is indeed the XBLA version running in 360 mode. I was looking forward to completing the game based on your recommendation. Ouch. Just curious, did you use the default floaty aiming or enable the option to lock it to the center? Might help to try that out. Goldeneye and PD on the N64 had an odd control scheme compared to a lot of others where the targeting reticle would move a bit before you start turning, and you’d hold R to lock in place for precise aim. The XBLA port added in an option to lock to center all the time, like how most FPSes work.
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Schadenboner posted:So what I'm hearing here is: build walls? it gets better there's a tech in the medieval era that gives all cities free walls lol
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May 23, 2020 19:22
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Most of your time playing is deciding whether you want a +0.0002% bonus to your Wonder Construction Speed or a +0.0002% bonus to Combat vs Enemy Horses When on Hills
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May 23, 2020 19:23
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Is there an upgrade to do bonus damage to horse testicles?
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May 23, 2020 19:25
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I think that's the next $20 dlc
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May 23, 2020 19:33
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Schadenboner posted:One of my greatest game regrets is Civilization: Beyond Earth. It should have been so loving good, and I think the fluff legit shows a lot of cool poo poo. But goddamn was the actual game a loving letdown. why didnt they just reskin Alpha Centuari 
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May 23, 2020 19:35
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Unpopular opinion: Final Fantasy X hold up pretty drat well, and has a really tightly-presented, although simple, story. Even the cringe laugh scene is good. I'm not saying all RPGs should be streamlined corridor-style, but it's completely valid to have options like it where I don't have to wander around talking to 500 different stupid NPCs at every lull in the story. Even the super simple equipment system feels nice. Some of the sidequest stuff is definitely stupid, but Blitzball is the only part that is actually terrible.
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May 23, 2020 19:40
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Martman posted:Unpopular opinion: Final Fantasy X hold up pretty drat well, and has a really tightly-presented, although simple, story. Even the cringe laugh scene is good. I'm not saying all RPGs should be streamlined corridor-style, but it's completely valid to have options like it where I don't have to wander around talking to 500 different stupid NPCs at every lull in the story. Even the super simple equipment system feels nice. FFX sphere grid is brilliant. the best evolution of the FF job system
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You want to borrow a book from a library? Weeeell seeing how we don't even have the right district built yet it's not going to happen this year. But we'll get started right away and you can get your book in, say, six hundred years. That's Civ6.
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You're set to build a wonder you need but surprise! You failed to forsee the ideal layout for adjacency bonuses 1000 years in advance and now it's not worth it.
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poverty goat posted:Stellaris Ugly In The Morning posted:Did they ever fix the No.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Did they ever fix the mid game being a slog? I really liked a lot of it but it hit a point where there wasn’t too much going on. Its been pretty significantly improved. Argheology stretches out the early game a bit more, the Khan and L-Gates are mid-game crises that are pretty fun to deal with, and federations + the galactic community are largely about forming alliances and dicking people over in the mid-game. There are also a lot of space creatures now that are meant to be fought in the mid-game. Wormholes open up in the mid-game so that you suddenly have new neighbors to fight and/or befriend. If you crank up Wormhole spawning rates when you spawn the map then you're basically guaranteed to have a bunch of new poo poo to do in the midgame once you get wormhole tech AI Rebellions are technically near the end of the mid-game but that's not really something that you want to happen unless you're roleplaying or something. QuarkJets fucked around with this message at 21:57 on May 23, 2020 |
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May 23, 2020 21:55
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lots of people rightfully drag fire emblem three houses for the half baked anime school stuff but nobody really mentions how bad and dumb the giant monsters are
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food court bailiff posted:lots of people rightfully drag fire emblem three houses for the half baked anime school stuff but nobody really mentions how bad and dumb the giant monsters are Look it's been what, 14 games now? They'll figure out how to make a good boss mob eventually*. *like say at the heat death of the universe.
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Someone mentioned No One Lives Forever earlier and both games are still up on that site. https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/07/05/no-one-will-sell-no-one-lives-forever-so-lets-download-it/ The games are stuck in a John Constantine paradox. Several publishers claim to own them, but going after whoever is giving them away would lead to everyone else joining in and it'd lead to a huge and costly lawsuit. It's just not worth it for such an obscure IP. Kinda reminds me of when the Terminator license was stuck in lawsuit hell. Bethesda said gently caress it and made Future Shock and Skynet and somehow got away with it.
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Dewgy posted:Ouch. Just curious, did you use the default floaty aiming or enable the option to lock it to the center? Might help to try that out. I used the default floaty aiming. Going to give Perfect Dark another try with 'Lock Sight' under Advanced Control Options. e: looks like that worked! No more nausea. e: playing the Chicago mission now and actually enjoying solving the old school 'figuring out where I'm supposed to go' instead of being treated like a tiny dumb baby with way points or some goddamn floating arrow. tango alpha delta fucked around with this message at 05:40 on May 24, 2020 |
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tango alpha delta posted:I used the default floaty aiming. Going to give Perfect Dark another try with 'Lock Sight' under Advanced Control Options. tango alpha delta posted:I used the default floaty aiming. Going to give Perfect Dark another try with 'Lock Sight' under Advanced Control Options.  As used to the original and as impervious to motion sickness as I am, that option is still the best part of the PD 360 port. Like, that old scheme worked on the N64 controller and with a frame rate in the low 20s at best, but on a modern console the lock to center option makes it control so much better.
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mario odyssey is still an absolute joy to play
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food court bailiff posted:mario odyssey is still an absolute joy to play That's not an unpopular opinion i should think, its a well loved game and not that old. Now, Mario Sunshine being a joy to play, that's more like it
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JollyBoyJohn posted:That's not an unpopular opinion i should think, its a well loved game and not that old. This isn't an unpopular or an opinion, but I never really "got" Super Mario Sunshine. It pretty much felt to me like Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts felt, only with worse controls and less fun.
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Its definitely not the most loved Mario game but it seems to attract an unfair amount of criticism Unlike Paper Mario which is continually not attracting enough criticism
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So is Alan Wakes writing bad, or supposed to be bad on purpose because the person who made Alan real was too good at emulating bad authors?JollyBoyJohn posted:Its definitely not the most loved Mario game but it seems to attract an unfair amount of criticism Paper Mario gets tons of cover because Sticker Star and Color Splash are some of the worst Nintendo games ever made.
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Barudak posted:So is Alan Wakes writing bad, or supposed to be bad on purpose because the person who made Alan real was too good at emulating bad authors? IDK if it's bad for a Doom-clone, but it's not good.
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Barudak posted:So is Alan Wakes writing bad, or supposed to be bad on purpose because the person who made Alan real was too good at emulating bad authors? It's not good enough at emulating good badness. Alan Wake is filled with Twin Peaks references.
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Mario Sunshine has been called a bit of a hot mess and that seems about right. It's got some interesting and cool design elements and probably the most consistent and fleshed-out setting of a Mario game, but some bad design decisions and seems a bit rushed.signalnoise posted:It's not good enough at emulating good badness. Alan Wake is filled with Twin Peaks references. Sounds like Deadly Premonition is probably the better janky Twin Peaks riff.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:X-Com Apocalypse is by far the best game in the UFO series of computer video games. I have a soft spot for Terror from the Deep. Unpatched, warts and all. Just failing and failing to rescue any semblance of civilians and often most of my squad to death or insanity. No internet to tell me what I was doing wrong just hour after hour in cruise ships and island hell. 
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Sounds like Deadly Premonition is probably the better janky Twin Peaks riff. Deadly Premonition is a fantastic game. Just batshit crazy enough, and never unplayable even with all of its problem. Alan Wake is just boring with terrible combat.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:I have a soft spot for Terror from the Deep. Unpatched, warts and all. Just failing and failing to rescue any semblance of civilians and often most of my squad to death or insanity. No internet to tell me what I was doing wrong just hour after hour in cruise ships and island hell. The boat missions were simply way too long.
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