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Honestly I put the game down around level 30, maybe 35 or so and I was mostly playing in the Stealth spec. You're right though that there were some fantastical abilities, although the teleport assassinate felt more like "low budget animation" than "actual teleportation"  None of that is as fun as full-fledged mind control and slow-field thingy and foos roh dah sign, though.
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Artelier posted:Prodeus is out in Early Access on Steam My impression so far is that its really solid overall, with a decent amount of content for EA and a very slick system for playing user made maps. I have some small gripes with it, mostly UI and usability feature stuff but nothing that can't be fixed with some time in EA. Its probably the most Doom-like retro shooter I've played, almost to a fault. Between the enemy/weapon/environment design it feels a bit like a de-make of Doom 2016. MMF Freeway fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Nov 10, 2020 |
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Funky Valentine posted:I was reading an overview of the modern day AC segments and wow they totally junked whatever they were building up to in Black Flag and Unity, didn't they?
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Black Flag is a must to play if you loves pirates. It's pretty much the only good pirate action game out there. The gameplay is alright and entertaining enough but the ambiance is excellent.
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Prodeus looks nice as well. Goodness.
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tripwood posted:Black Flag is a must to play if you loves pirates. It's pretty much the only good pirate action game out there. The gameplay is alright and entertaining enough but the ambiance is excellent. Can confirm. It was also the first Assassins Creed title that managed to keep me engaged all the way through.
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tripwood posted:Black Flag is a must to play if you loves pirates. It's pretty much the only good pirate action game out there. The gameplay is alright and entertaining enough but the ambiance is excellent. Rogue is also very good.
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The Joe Man posted:I highly recommend anything from Das and whichever model you choose will last you a lifetime assuming you don't spill anything or damage it. I type all day for work and use the 4 Pro for what it's worth. Get the much quieter Brown switches, not the Blue: Cheap Trick posted:Can also vouch for Das keyboards, I have a 4 Ultimate and it's been rock solid. Cool, these look pretty nice. There's a fair number of negative reviews for some of these on Amazon but that's always got to be taken with a grain of salt, of course. Clockwerk posted:If you don’t like clicking noises or lots of resistance on the key press, then linear switches may be for you. I use steel series apex pro and couldn’t be happier. I ended up watching a youtube review that did a comparison of a bunch of different boards and this one looked like a good option and wasn't too "gamer" compared to some of the others Artelier posted:There's a Keyboard Megathread to direct your queries to! But for now, I'll also say that the answer is "It really depends." Generally, if it's a known brand (Ducky, Tecware) it should be safe enough to get, though it might not be to your preference depending on the form factor. Rad, I didn't know about that thread. I'll check it out. Thanks!
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Artelier posted:Prodeus is out in Early Access on Steam It's extremely fuckin' good. Fun, engaging combat. The pixelated graphics are stylish as gently caress. Early Access campaign is 4-5 hours long, but there is already a lot of custom content if you want more. Andrew Hulshult did the music and it kicks rear end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhBc6ndD-u4
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Artelier posted:Prodeus is out in Early Access on Steam This reminded me that I kickstarted this and sure enough, turns out I've had access to the alpha since July, I just never saw the email. Whoops! But yeah it's basically Doom/2 with an impressive spit-polish and includes a fully featured level editor out of the box. Only caveat I'd say is the included campaign so far is about the length of the original shareware episode, and the user level portal uses an online account entirely managed within the game. It does mean you get full access to it even with the GOG release, but brings into question the matter of long-term preservation. Perhaps the single most unique thing about it to me is whatever they did with the enemy AI for leading projectiles. They not only lead their shots when you're moving, they somehow lead their shots even when you stop moving. No more of the ages-old juking by stopping for a split second before the projectile is launched. It makes it SO much more satisfying to reliably pull it off by other means, and I'd even say more fun to still get blindsided by a shot now and then. I swear they can even tell when you're zig-zagging and will sometimes pop off a shot at the opposite angle you'd expect. Seriously, this should be a new gold standard.
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anyone play the sojourn? popped up in my discovery queue, looks pretty nice https://store.steampowered.com/app/794960/The_Sojourn/
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OzFactor posted:Time for semi-annual Tomb Raider discussion So I am a big fan of the three new tomb raider games. The second game, Rise of the Tomb Raider is just a better vision of the first game. It has much larger areas to explore, combat and crafting are a lot more fun, and the tombs are a lot more than just physics puzzles most of the time. The story is a lot goofier than the first game but you still get to visit a lot of interesting set pieces so I didn't mind. The Baba Yaga dlc is also a lot of fun and a good story. Also, outside of maybe one or two occasions they removed all of the gore porn deaths that Lara suffers in the first game. The third game, shadow of the tomb raider, is also good depending on what you enjoyed from tomb raider. It almost completely ditches combat outside of a handful of instances and puts a lot more focus on exploring. One of the hub cities is the size of an entire area from the first game. I thought the puzzles were a lot better in this game and they really went all out designing the tombs. You'll get to visit Mayan basketball courts, a pirate ship right out of the goonies, a death gauntlet right out of a super villain lair, and a tomb in croft manor. The story is, once again, pretty goofy, but is at least a little introspective in why Lara does what she does.
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tripwood posted:Black Flag is a must to play if you loves pirates. It's pretty much the only good pirate action game out there. The gameplay is alright and entertaining enough but the ambiance is excellent. Black flag still has all the terrible hold overs from the old AC games. So when you're not in your pirate ship you're doing a lot of walk stealthily behind this guy for a while and don't get caught, and the mash the counter button as the enemies run up to you one at a time. Both Origins and and Odyssey have ship combat as well and have a better game built around them.
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the greek sea shanties are incredibly catchy and I found myself humming along with them after a while
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municipal shrimp posted:Black flag still has all the terrible hold overs from the old AC games. So when you're not in your pirate ship you're doing a lot of walk stealthily behind this guy for a while even being in the pirate ship won't save you. love to stealthily sail my pirate ship behind a different ship for a while (i still really enjoyed it, it's the first asscreed i've ever beaten, but wow the mission design loves to play against the game's strengths)
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I feel like a lot of people didn't realize, or already forgot. Seems like Legion fell off a cliff instantly. Welcome to the problem of not launching on Steam. Most people use the Steam front page to know poo poo launches these days, laff.
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Rookersh posted:Welcome to the problem of not launching on Steam. Most people use the Steam front page to know poo poo launches these days, laff. Case in point: it took me until this post to realize that it's even out on PC. I thought it was a console exclusive to start with for some reason.
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Rookersh posted:Welcome to the problem of not launching on Steam. Most people use the Steam front page to know poo poo launches these days, laff. I know I'm the minority but I so rarely even look at the Steam Store page itself unless there's a seasonal sale going on. I only hear about new games if my Steam Friends are playing it. I just launch games from the system tray icon and unless I'm actively going to buy something, I don't really interact with it otherwise.
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I'm a sucker for Harmonix and rhythm games in general so I took the plunge and decided to try Fuser, and it's actually a lot of fun! The $60 pricetag ($100 if you want all the launch DLC... which you probably do because there's some good stuff in there :-\) is a lot to ask for, but music licensing ain't cheap. The tools they give you are surprisingly deep, a lot of the stuff I've seen so far of it are from beginners who just put one of every track down and switch them out, which is fine, but there's a lot more control to do some advanced techniques like using muting/solo buttons to your advantage, adding fx to the audio, and even a sequencer that lets you make loops manually in the middle of a set which rules. Doing co-op shows with random people online is so much fun, basically each person gets a minute or two of time to lay out some tracks, and when your time is up it passes it onto the next person who can do whatever they want with it. I had a pretty great set going with 3 other people and a couple other spectators and it feels real good once you figure out all the controls and stuff and can make an awesome sounding mix. My biggest concern is that unlike Rock Band, there's not much game here. The mixing tools and the tracklist are both great, and the magic they work to make anything mesh relatively well together is seriously sorcery. There's a campaign that is basically a glorified tutorial, you get star ratings and stuff but it's based on fulfilling requests from the crowd so you can kind of game it by adding the thing they ask for and whether or not it's good you'll get the points for it. I think the real meat of this might actually be just going online and doing sets with people or messing around in the freestyle mode which, again, is a lot of fun, but starts to feel more like sequencer/mixer software than a game with that built into it. I also have no idea how anyone plans on streaming this game, it feels like with how strict Twitch has been with streams playing licensed music this seems like it might be a nightmare to stream, which would definitely suck because I think watching someone who is good at this play the game can easily sell a bunch of people on it.
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you can stream music if its in the game you are playing cant you? i think the twitch dmca drama is just for people playing music while chatting or whatever.
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Awesome! posted:you can stream music if its in the game you are playing cant you? i think the twitch dmca drama is just for people playing music while chatting or whatever. Oh maybe, I thought it was just all music automatically getting flagged. That'd be alright then
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Since there was so much discussion about it lately, is it a good time to get into destiny 2 or should I wait for the next expansion/sequel? I just got a new rig (first time having a desktop pc in ~10 years) and am looking for a good online game to get into. I played destiny 1 a bunch on ps4 but eventually gave up edit: never mind I'm dumb apparently a new expansion just came out which is why people are talking about it 
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Starks posted:Since there was so much discussion about it lately, is it a good time to get into destiny 2 or should I wait for the next expansion/sequel? I just got a new rig (first time having a desktop pc in ~10 years) and am looking for a good online game to get into. I played destiny 1 a bunch on ps4 but eventually gave up Good news! There has been a lot of discussion because the next expansion just came out today. The game's fun if you aren't planning on taking it too seriously and want to run around shooting stuff to get better gear. It's free to try so might as well install it and see if you dig it. 
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explosivo posted:I'm a sucker for Harmonix and rhythm games in general so I took the plunge and decided to try Fuser, and it's actually a lot of fun! The $60 pricetag ($100 if you want all the launch DLC... which you probably do because there's some good stuff in there :-\) is a lot to ask for, but music licensing ain't cheap. The tools they give you are surprisingly deep, a lot of the stuff I've seen so far of it are from beginners who just put one of every track down and switch them out, which is fine, but there's a lot more control to do some advanced techniques like using muting/solo buttons to your advantage, adding fx to the audio, and even a sequencer that lets you make loops manually in the middle of a set which rules. Doing co-op shows with random people online is so much fun, basically each person gets a minute or two of time to lay out some tracks, and when your time is up it passes it onto the next person who can do whatever they want with it. I had a pretty great set going with 3 other people and a couple other spectators and it feels real good once you figure out all the controls and stuff and can make an awesome sounding mix. Dang, I guess licensing fees will really pump the price up as time goes on. Cool to see it’s getting press though, it’s like a gateway drug to making music. Just FYI, Traktor Pro is about the same price plus then you can use your entire music library. It’ll even sync your library for you. The software for matching tempos and pitches is seriously sorcery. It’s a lot of fun, although there isn’t a multiplayer aspect because well, it’s dj mixing software.
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Awesome! posted:you can stream music if its in the game you are playing cant you? i think the twitch dmca drama is just for people playing music while chatting or whatever. People have gotten DMCA takedowns for music literally composed for the game. These systems sadly do not always do what actually makes sense.
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So I know it’s early release but Prodeus is seriously verging on my personal GOTY right now. It hits all the right marks perfectly. I hope they keep this up through to the finish because it’s awesome
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Pigbuster posted:People have gotten DMCA takedowns for music literally composed for the game. These systems sadly do not always do what actually makes sense. People on Youtube have had videos demonitized and taken down for playing their own original music lmao. Its a huge issue in online music communities.
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I just beat Control!  God drat, what a great game. 3D metroidvania with a great SCP plot and one of the best/worst music videos I've ever seen in my life (Dynamite) There's DLC and postgame content to do but right now I'm just happy I saw big game like that all the way to the end and it was GREAT 
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Is there a release date known for the remastered Mass Effect games? As it happens, I was just planning on replaying the trilogy (actually never played 3).
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Phlegmish posted:Is there a release date known for the remastered Mass Effect games? As it happens, I was just planning on replaying the trilogy (actually never played 3). "next year"
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StrixNebulosa posted:I just beat Control! You forgot to mention the most important thing about the game The reveal of Doctor Darling shirtless
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Walked posted:So I know it’s early release but Prodeus is seriously verging on my personal GOTY right now. It hits all the right marks perfectly. I just peeped some gameplay on Twitch and it looks baller. The level design, music, fast paced gameplay, and guns look and sound great.
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GreenNight posted:"next year" Alright, I can wait that long. I wonder if the Mako is still going to be a piece of poo poo
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SirSamVimes posted:You forgot to mention the most important thing about the game Talk about an Altered World Event!
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Phlegmish posted:Alright, I can wait that long. Driving the Mako is the only part of ME1 that can be fun.
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Phlegmish posted:Alright, I can wait that long. It better be. Future generations need to experience the janky nature of that beast.
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explosivo posted:My biggest concern is that unlike Rock Band, there's not much game here. The mixing tools and the tracklist are both great, and the magic they work to make anything mesh relatively well together is seriously sorcery. There's a campaign that is basically a glorified tutorial, you get star ratings and stuff but it's based on fulfilling requests from the crowd so you can kind of game it by adding the thing they ask for and whether or not it's good you'll get the points for it. I think the real meat of this might actually be just going online and doing sets with people or messing around in the freestyle mode which, again, is a lot of fun, but starts to feel more like sequencer/mixer software than a game with that built into it. That's been my concern looking at the modes available. Like, aside from the campaign it seems like there should be an endless mode or "play a set mode" that is scored, in the same way you can just do scored sets in Rock Band. But it looks like it's just the campaign, versus, and totally unscored freestyle? I'm kind of hoping some additional mode gets patched in because I liked Dropmix and I like the idea of this game but the modes seem incomplete to me.
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