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explosivo posted:I'm not going to hate you for doing it but I never really understood the obsessive categorization of your game library, I just sort by most recent and work from the top I kind of see the sorting as a game itself mostly, but it also makes me look at bundle mysteries and things collected over the years to see if it might interest me. Think I've actually used the categories to find something I was in the mood for maybe once. Usually searching what I want to play by name as well.
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Black Griffon posted:Alright I did a Zachtronics thread. Feel free to hop in and correct me or post cool poo poo or something. To this day I have no Idea how I ever beat Spacechem on my own.
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someone (bunch of people itt) once said my sorting method was good Zedd posted:To this day I have no Idea how I ever beat Spacechem on my own. I really ought to play more Spacechem. Since I started with Infinifactory, it's always been sort of in the backlog.
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Heran Bago posted:I kind of see the sorting as a game itself mostly, but it also makes me look at bundle mysteries and things collected over the years to see if it might interest me. That's totally fair. I guess I am not usually perusing my library to see what to play next most of the time due to the eternal backlog of games 
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Verlet Swing: nausea simulator. first person swinging speed-run thing and holy moly that was a bad idea. uninstalled
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OzFactor posted:So in the end, what was the final verdict on Bloodstained? I consider Symphony of the Night one of my favorite games of all time, but I'm also one of those people who think Hollow Knight is the absolute pinnacle of the genre it created* and I'm not sure I could really enjoy playing something as floaty as SotN again. I took out my DS not that long ago and started Aria of Sorrow and after an hour thought "wow, was it always this boring?" So, addressing my fellow HK cultists: did you end up liking Bloodstained? Bloodstained is literally a Castlevania game in all but name. It's at least as good as the DS titles. For reference I did not like Hollow Knight.
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Black Griffon posted:someone (bunch of people itt) once said my sorting method was good
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punk rebel ecks posted:Bloodstained is literally a Castlevania game in all but name. It's at least as good as the DS titles. Hmm I don't know about all that, Bloodstained lacks the polish of the older games but its still a really great effort for a Kickstarted game. For reference I really liked Hollow Knight
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John Lee posted:Yeah, the first level is IMO the worst by quite a margin. I was ready to give up, but every level past that has been rad, so It wasn't even bad, at all! At least to me - it was just a little dull to play the game in, even as I luxuriated in the aesthetics. The camera seems to give me a lot more guff there than at the hub, too. I haven't finished the second level yet, not by a long shot, but it's already more engaging even if there's not much actual platforming, for some reason. Maybe it's the level gimmick. Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 00:09 on Jul 11, 2020 |
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Sininu posted:Strange energy.... What's hidden in there? I see MSC, that's pretty strange energy for sure.  I've got way more strange energy games due to the fact that I've yet to sort the majority of my stuff, but you get the idea.
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Black Griffon posted:
You should put all of Ice Pick Lodge's stuff in there. If you don't have their stuff, go get it.
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Ice Pick Lodge and ACE Team should team up and make a video game that enables us to transcend to the next level of existence
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I'm liking A Hat in Time area 2 a hell of a lot more than the first but I need a break from that forced accent. Off to area 3, Subcon Forest [Brothers Grimm mood intensifies]
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SirSamVimes posted:Hollow Knight is basically perfect and imo everyone who hasn't played it should play it. I hated the knockback when you attack something, and hated even more that there was a trinket you could equip that negates it. Which means they knew people would hate it.
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OzFactor posted:So in the end, what was the final verdict on Bloodstained? I consider Symphony of the Night one of my favorite games of all time, but I'm also one of those people who think Hollow Knight is the absolute pinnacle of the genre it created* and I'm not sure I could really enjoy playing something as floaty as SotN again. I took out my DS not that long ago and started Aria of Sorrow and after an hour thought "wow, was it always this boring?" So, addressing my fellow HK cultists: did you end up liking Bloodstained?
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StrixNebulosa posted:having starscream's mug on my steam profile gives me great joy, so no Not only have I never thought to do this, I’m also considering buying whatever transformers game to steal your idea
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FastestGunAlive posted:Not only have I never thought to do this, I’m also considering buying whatever transformers game to steal your idea If it’s one of the Cybertron games you’re SOL, Activision lost the rights so they’re no longer for sale. A shame, they were phenomenal.
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Bloodstained was great and it really scratched that Metroidvania itch. It was good enough that I beat it despite early Switch release jank. And for reference, I have never played and barely know anything about Hollow Knight.
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The trick with A Hat in Time is to realize that it's a Psychonauts game that, a bit confusingly, starts with a Mario 64 level. As I remember the game was originally sold on the premise of "let's bring back 90s 3D platformer collectathons  " alongside Yooka-Laylee but apparently they pivoted almost immediately for whatever reason.OzFactor posted:That reminds me that they did a remake of Metroid 2, which I loved when I was a kid. It was lonely and weird and scary. Sadly neither Metroid 2 remake really captures the atmosphere of the original. AM2R is a pretty fantastic game otherwise, though.
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Battleborn in 2020 (servers close 2021): progress doesn't save properly, item grind is bugged, no one plays online. On the plus side, the game is still wicked fun in bot mode. The average graphics technology finally caught up with the game and it's a dream to play on 60 fps/maxed out graphics. Honestly, I hope the game will get a proper re-release for the new console gen.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Yeah, if you don't have pressure, you have no reason to make mistakes, and gently caress up failure spirals are what make Shipbreaker's campaign fun imho. Sandbox is better for chill podcast poo poo. Some of us have mental issues that make 'gently caress up failure spirals' cause psychological damage and decreased sense of self worth. I should know.. this is me sometimes.
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StrixNebulosa posted:You should put all of Ice Pick Lodge's stuff in there. If you don't have their stuff, go get it. To my great shame I still don't own P2 or any other IPL games.
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Ciaphas posted:it appears hat kid is now contractually obligated to murder in the name of satan She also has a ridiculously cute signature.
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I don't get Mindustry. Giving a tower defense game Factorio elements sounds like a grand idea, particularly when Factorio itself sort-of has elements of tower defense, but in practice it just immediately turns into "every single grunt enemy is going to ruin a piece of your conveyor network somewhere, ruining your entire setup", and if you survive to extraction everything is of course erased. This is excruciatingly unfun.
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OzFactor posted:So in the end, what was the final verdict on Bloodstained? I consider Symphony of the Night one of my favorite games of all time, but I'm also one of those people who think Hollow Knight is the absolute pinnacle of the genre it created* and I'm not sure I could really enjoy playing something as floaty as SotN again. I took out my DS not that long ago and started Aria of Sorrow and after an hour thought "wow, was it always this boring?" So, addressing my fellow HK cultists: did you end up liking Bloodstained? Bloodstained is significantly worse than Hollow Knight, it's nowhere near as tightly designed and the combat and platforming are consistently clunky no matter which of the million options you use. it's pretty linear as far as metroidvanias go so it didn't really come close to the more open exploration of HK. i haven't played any of Iga's Castlevanias other than SotN and it's not even as good as SotN. it's not terrible or anything but i have a hard time recommending it if
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MonkeyforaHead posted:I don't get Mindustry. Giving a tower defense game Factorio elements sounds like a grand idea, particularly when Factorio itself sort-of has elements of tower defense, but in practice it just immediately turns into "every single grunt enemy is going to ruin a piece of your conveyor network somewhere, ruining your entire setup", and if you survive to extraction everything is of course erased. This is excruciatingly unfun. Yeah I felt exactly the same. I might try it again whenever they do that big update but I just couldn't get into it at all. I don't want to have to re-do the factory setup stuff from scratch over and over again instead of building one up over time to add complexity to it.
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lih posted:but i have a hard time recommending it if Oh no the critic police got him  Bloodstained has an undeniable small-studio jank to it but for me that was mostly in the visuals. I thought it played perfectly fine for the most part, although you can tell they ran out of budget towards the end when designing the map. Perhaps the most damning thing about it to me is just that it's trying too hard to be Legally Distinct Castlevania in its plot and setting. None of the characters stuck with me at all (besides maybe O.G.), nor the story. Hollow Knight on the other hand I had kind of the opposite experience with: I adore the atmosphere and the oddball characters and the story is fascinating when you dig into it, you can tell the devs really loved making their world, but I bounced off it the first few times I tried to get into it. The exploration is open ended enough that you can end up missing multiple save points on your way to your death, and in my case I lost a couple thousand geo while trying desperately to get the hell back onto the known path to go buy the lantern which I needed to progress. That was a loving kick in the teeth. I like HK's design and aesthetic a hell of a lot more and the boss fights are (with a couple exceptions) phenomenally designed, but the actual process of exploring felt a lot smoother in Bloodstained. I ended up finishing both games and liking them for different reasons, but it's the story and characters from Hollow Knight that have really stuck with me. Silksong and Deltarune are the only games I'm actively looking forward to now, whereas I couldn't really care less if another Bloodstained happens.
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Hollow Knight and Bloodstained are really on two opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to metroidvanias. Like, literally HK is a great Metroid-style game whereas Bloodstained is the successor to all the open-world RPG Castlevanias. They're both great games and achieve what they're aiming for perfectly.
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Edmond Dantes posted:I really liked Exodus, but not as a Metro game. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great game, it just didn't feel... well, Metroy. And I don't mean the jump to open world in itself (although that may have contributed), just the overall mood of the game; the last level is the closest it gets to that 2033/LL feeling. Definitely agree. Appreciate them for doing something different with the formula, but I think they went too much in the other direction by trying to make each open world level different from each other. You see this most in the Caspian level which might as well just be renamed Mad Max.
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Bloodstained has a good map, which helps a ton with exploration. Hollow Knight makes you waste a badge slot to make the map usable at all, which you only get a very limited amount of. Bloodstained has some jank, and the setting/story is a bit lackluster, but I didn't regret the time I spent with it. I'd be interested in what they do with a sequel (with hopefully a little bit larger of a budget).
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Maybe my expectations were too high (the DS games are some of my fav of all time) but I was super burned by Bloodstained. I felt like most of the weapons and souls were worthless on a level that wasn't the case in the DS metroidvanias and I just didn't enjoy the boss fights or how the game looked visually much at all.
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Spoke Lee posted:Any good games come out aping Slay The Spire? Also how and Stellar Tactics and I Am Not A Monster? Griftlands! 
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Det_no posted:Bastard Bonds is good stuff, least a couple hours in. I was pleasantly surprised to see that it has some sort of HQ management system and that you can create custom characters that then might be found as recruitables within the game. I'm a little worried about lovely builds and accidentally gimping (heh) myself but so far, I'm really digging it. I only wish the character creator had a few more colors to choose from. https://twitter.com/GrisserBernard/status/1275232998913224705 https://twitter.com/Captaingerbear/status/639176795825283073
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Unlike Hollow Knight, Bloodstained is good. Both games are kinda ugly though Mr. Fortitude posted:I think Exodus is the weakest of the trilogy. It's a real good game but... eh. It's trying to be more like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. but isn't willing to give up some of the more distinctly Metro elements either and the two don't mix quite as well as you think. The initial longass load times and open world really killed my interest in Exodus after a fee hours, and I love the series. RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 07:11 on Jul 11, 2020 |
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