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C.M. Kruger posted:Yeah IRL hunting is also way more expensive than buying a game. Hunting license, rifle, scope, ammunition to get it zeroed in (and learn how to shoot if needed), outdoor clothing, good pair of boots, tools to disassemble the animal, deer calls, optional portable blind/tree stand, land access if you're not in a area with public land, travel costs, hiring a guide if needed, cabin rental and food if it's a multi-day trip, etc. Can easily run into the multiple thousands of dollars. (Certainly you can do it for cheaper and some of the stuff is a one-time purchase, but well, you've gotta know what you're doing) Now this is a game I would play.
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Ghostlight posted:sega please. i have a family. Yes, the children of Sunshine Orphanage! 
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Dec 11, 2020 10:58
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Xbox Game Pass is the best gaming investment I've ever made, holy poo poo. Why even buy games anymore.
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Dec 11, 2020 11:15
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On one hand I’m glad that Dungeon of the Endless is getting a follow up, on the other hand it looks like it plays differently from the original, and it didn’t stand out from all the horde shooters at the Game Awards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER3dOPx0ZH0
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Mierenneuker posted:On one hand I’m glad that Dungeon of the Endless is getting a follow up, on the other hand it looks like it plays differently from the original, and it didn’t stand out from all the horde shooters at the Game Awards. I will never understand why studios think what people want as a follow up to an inventive, well received game is a sequel/spinoff that jumps into the most overrepresented of genres instead, only keeping the previous game as a theme.
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Dec 11, 2020 13:20
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Serephina posted:I never understood the appeal of those games. Well, I have an eye condition that means I see very badly in dim light, and at this time of year it gets dark where I live very early. I don't drive and I live in the UK. So I don't have access to these kinds of landscapes or wildlife. I don't shoot animals in these games, in general, I just like to explore the environments in ways I could not possibly do in real life. Not everyone can travel, especially not during these loving plague times. What an unpleasant attitude.
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Dec 11, 2020 13:33
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I just stumbled upon this game https://store.steampowered.com/app/1447570/Monkey_King_vs_Transformers/ It apparently released yesterday yet it has no price and it's not free either. How did that happen?
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Serephina posted:I never understood the appeal of those games. It's just chill to wander around virtual nature and score some kills to make numbers go up. Pretty pictures, a mostly stress free atmosphere, and gunplay that isn't too shabby. Don't knock it til you try it, man.  For that matter, everyone really does need to play RDR2 at some point in their lives.
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HopperUK posted:Well, I have an eye condition that means I see very badly in dim light, and at this time of year it gets dark where I live very early. I don't drive and I live in the UK. So I don't have access to these kinds of landscapes or wildlife. I don't shoot animals in these games, in general, I just like to explore the environments in ways I could not possibly do in real life. Not everyone can travel, especially not during these loving plague times. What an unpleasant attitude.
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drat, I just gave in and got Yakuza 3-5 on PS4 less than a month ago. I'll be done with 3 and 4 by the time they come out on PC, but it's going to be tempting to switch back for 5. Either way, I'm glad I can play 6 on PC at least.
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Sinteres posted:drat, I just gave in and got Yakuza 3-5 on PS4 less than a month ago. I'll be done with 3 and 4 by the time they come out on PC, but it's going to be tempting to switch back for 5. Either way, I'm glad I can play 6 on PC at least. i'm in the same boat, though i bought my PS4 copies ages ago - partway through 5 right now and it's absolutely the longest so it'll probably be worth it on pc for the slightly nicer graphics across the 40-hour runtime; absolutely gonna play 6 on PC since the PS4 version is pretty low res and 30fps 😬
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Sininu posted:I just stumbled upon this game https://store.steampowered.com/app/1447570/Monkey_King_vs_Transformers/ speaking of which, devolver had EITR unlisted from the Steam store
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Deakul posted:It's just chill to wander around virtual nature and score some kills to make numbers go up. Wandering through a super pretty environment and having emergent adventures while doing a bunch of mundane cowboy simulator things sounds extremely my poo poo. Doing a bunch of Rockstar style missions where you have to follow the script exactly or you insta-fail sounds extremely not. Is is fair to describe RDR2 as having those two components? And if so, how much does the latter get in the way of enjoying the former?
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Cardiovorax posted:Night blindness sucks. A relative of mine has the same problem and it makes the winters difficult on him. Yeah during the winter I have to literally carry a white cane to clue other people in to my hilariously bad eyesight. It does get people out of my way on the train though!
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Rage McDougal posted:Wandering through a super pretty environment and having emergent adventures while doing a bunch of mundane cowboy simulator things sounds extremely my poo poo. Doing a bunch of Rockstar style missions where you have to follow the script exactly or you insta-fail sounds extremely not. the vast majority of rdr2 is the nature-trail simulator, though that's a blessing and a curse so many hours of just letting my horse clip-clop down the road or waiting for boars to shoot and there are classical bits of rockstar immersion-breaking there too, like the omnipresent and all-knowing police force that will materialize from between the trees if you so much as bump into a random homesteader fifty miles from civilization
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Four new Yakuza games on PC? I gotta sit down
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The first person to quote this post will get a FREE Steam key for THE BEAST INSIDE via PM. https://store.steampowered.com/app/792300/The_Beast_Inside/ Happy Friday! Already claimed, sorry. D1E fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Dec 12, 2020 |
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Rage McDougal posted:Wandering through a super pretty environment and having emergent adventures while doing a bunch of mundane cowboy simulator things sounds extremely my poo poo. Doing a bunch of Rockstar style missions where you have to follow the script exactly or you insta-fail sounds extremely not. if the Online thing is still five bucks just drop the five bucks and dick around on the map, if you're not doing missions it's a solid "dick around on the map" experience
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I played a good handful of RDR1 and that was plenty for me. I'm not buying a console or a new SSD to be able to download 2 and fight with its proprietary launcher. External launchers by way of Steam have never gone smoothly for me.
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Didn't Cyberpunk come out yesterday? Some people who left reviews already have over 24 hours in the game jfc
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Trickyblackjack posted:Didn't Cyberpunk come out yesterday? Some people who left reviews already have over 24 hours in the game jfc It unlocked Wednesday night but yeah some people have been going hard
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Trickyblackjack posted:Didn't Cyberpunk come out yesterday? Some people who left reviews already have over 24 hours in the game jfc Depends on your location, but lotsa people were playing in Wednesday. Like you could play 7PM EST on Wednesday on PC. But yea wtf, game is good but go outside [assuming you don't live in like NYC or some super dense area] holy poo poo. I don't care if there is a pandemic, do something else lol.
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Sab669 posted:Depends on your location, but lotsa people were playing in Wednesday. Like you could play 7PM EST on Wednesday on PC. You can't make me.
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Blattdorf posted:None of you posted the most GAMER trailer of the event. I like how they're starting to riff on the "Mario Dies!" trope in these trailers.
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Has anyone here played Helium Rain? It's a sci-fi economy sim with realistic physics, and the idea of a smaller, focused X3-esque game intrigues me.
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Palpek posted:Xbox Game Pass is the best gaming investment I've ever made, holy poo poo. Why even buy games anymore. At least once a page someone asks about buying a game on Steam that's included in Game Pass. It's truly heartbreaking.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Has anyone here played Helium Rain? It's a sci-fi economy sim with realistic physics, and the idea of a smaller, focused X3-esque game intrigues me. It was in that itch bundle but I never got around to trying it
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RBA Starblade posted:It was in that itch bundle but I never got around to trying it Yes, I'm going through that bundle now and that's how I found it. But I want to know how it plays! I'm shy about starting bigger/complex games unless I know they're cool.
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I got about 10 minutes into Helium rain (docked with first station in tutorial) before my eyes glazed over and had the thought that maybe... this isn't a 'game' in the traditional sense. I played a bit of X3, so it both hardened me to the experience and also caused bit of PSTD.
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Pleads posted:At least once a page someone asks about buying a game on Steam that's included in Game Pass. It's truly heartbreaking. Buying a game and having Game Pass are two very different things. Game Pass is fine for some genres, but terrible for others.
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If the nintendo thread is anything to go by, goons =hate gamepass by default cause they don't get to own the game they pay a sub for. And this is for snes games that are like 5 hours in length on average.
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It's always a nonsense argument because you could just... buy the game if you're really worried about it disappearing, meanwhile all the other games you would have spent money to play remain on Gamepass.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Has anyone here played Helium Rain? It's a sci-fi economy sim with realistic physics, and the idea of a smaller, focused X3-esque game intrigues me. I hadn't heard of it until you mentioned it, and it sounded interesting, but the deadlocked shipyard stuff mentioned in this review seems particularly problematic for an X-style game to me: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197963404506/recommended/681330/
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StrixNebulosa posted:Has anyone here played Helium Rain? It's a sci-fi economy sim with realistic physics, and the idea of a smaller, focused X3-esque game intrigues me. I found it extremely shallow. It's kind of nice for a bit, but in the end you spend most of the time in a (pretty shiny) GUI for ordering your ships around. There is very little actual flying in space, and a realistic approach is, well…a bit boring. It intrigued me for a few hours and then I never played it again. It also doesn't help that X4 exists, which fixed a lot of design issues X3 had. You can get to the fun stuff much faster now and it's completely fine if you don't deal with most of the empire management stuff. (The out of control terraforming robots may overwhelm large chunks of the galaxy if you don't intervene eventually, though)
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Game pass costs more than I spend on games when parsed annually. Not everyone uses Windows. Not every title is available, so you'll find yourself losing on both fronts. Steam's refund policy takes the risk out of purchasing. And most of all, I still listen to my Thriller cd. I can't imagine how much it would have cost me to still be paying for music decades later, especially with the risk that a service goes tits-up, and you end up with nothing. This isn't hypothetical; GameSpy died and any title that used it is unplayable nowadays unlike their contemporaries. So sure, enjoy the service if rentals are your jam, just don't act like it's the only logical choice.
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Pleads posted:At least once a page someone asks about buying a game on Steam that's included in Game Pass. It's truly heartbreaking. I like to own games, instead of rent them. I have no desire to see the Blockbuster model for video games return to my household.
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Antigravitas posted:I found it extremely shallow. It's kind of nice for a bit, but in the end you spend most of the time in a (pretty shiny) GUI for ordering your ships around. There is very little actual flying in space, and a realistic approach is, well…a bit boring. wait wait wait X4 is good now? As in, actually good?
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I did gamepass for like a year and never played anything on it but I tend to just play a couple games at a time and just buy them so I can play at my leisure. Even at a dollar I didn't feel like I got my money's worth, so certainly not paying $10 or whatever it is now. I also just hate the xbox app, I would rather play all the free games I get off epic than use that thing.
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