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Wamdoodle posted:Shy Guys curator name is is Gold Plated Games also has a website: https://goldplatedgames.com/ I can't find "Gold Plated Games" when I search for curator names; when I search for just "Gold" there are only two curators listed. Halp?
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It's Gold-Plated games with a hyphen. Steam's search is terrible.
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Dec 31, 2020 03:32
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:I'm in the mood for some good point-and click adventures. If you like classic LucasArts games then you absolutely have to play Thimbleweed Park. It's Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick from all the late-80s and early-90s LucasArts adventure games going back and creating a love letter to those games using the old Maniac Mansion verbs, kind of like what Shovel Night was to 8-bit platformers in that it's freed from the technical limitations of the time and has decades of advancement in game design to draw upon so it feels like your fond memories of playing those games without all the frustrating parts of actually playing them. Also it's really dense with jokes, like the type of silly humor where if you're playing it with a friend who is on the same wavelength you'll be cracking up out loud every few minutes when you get a particularly good response option or encounter a character that will let you cycle through a bunch of terrible dad jokes about postal workers or when everyone in the game makes fun of a character's annoying speech affectation. It's also set in 1987 and it takes advantage of that for a lot of anachronistic humor, like the owner of a store dedicated entirely to selling vaccum tubes asking you for ideas on what to name their store and one of the choices being "You Tube" or a character citing a large amount of money and then clarifying how much that would be worth in 2017 money.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eIBtJBzkOo One thing I adore about it is that it has an option to choose whether or not you want "annoying in-jokes" in the game, so if you're someone with no nostalgia for that era or the kind of person who rolls their eyes at Maniac Mansion references you can just do away with them. Also it has a really robust in-game hint system where you can use any phone in the game to dial an in-universe tip line and get a series of progressively more specific and instructive hints for any puzzle or obstacle in the game until they finally just tell you exactly what verbs to use where and in what order, it makes dealing with those classic leaps of logic a lot more forgivable when you can decide exactly how much you want to engage with them.
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Dec 31, 2020 03:37
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Deakul posted:It's been a while though, maybe I'll give it another shot using cheat engine to mass collect everything. Absolutely do this. EDF loving owns and I will make apologies for all sorts of poo poo in it but the armor grind and no auto pickup on mission end loving sucks. Just cheat engine yourself a decent chunk of armor and then set armor limits in the lobby when you start so whatever difficulty you're playing on remains fun.
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Dec 31, 2020 03:48
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Hub Cat posted:It's Gold-Plated games with a hyphen. Steam's search is terrible. I can't believe the hyphen threw the search engine off  Also, I didn't realize that was part of it!
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Dec 31, 2020 03:52
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Deakul posted:How is it these days population-wise? I hope there's a more balanced amount of newish players and vets. Definitely a lot of vets but there’s a regular small trickle of newbies whenever the game goes on sale. I regularly get stomped by g100s but I also have matches where I hold my own or do well. I’d say it’s an even split between being on the winning or losing team for me.
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Scalding Coffee posted:If you mean having to see everyone slowly move around and activate their special moves all at once, which feels like minutes for each turn, I am pretty sure the first game now can skip that and go straight to the damage numbers. The first game is still incredibly slow and clunky and I recommend watching the story cutscenes instead. Disgaea 2 is a huge improvement and the Item World music is kicking. Phantom Brave is worth it and it is so cheap. Even has an alternate storyline. Disgaea 5 has the best QOL changes and is a great game. Dunno why anyone would play the older titles at this point honestly, unless they already know they like it and will put up with some of the weird / clunky poo poo.
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Dec 31, 2020 04:11
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Deakul posted:Battlefield as a franchise isn't even really worth checking out anymore since the latest entries are hacker havens, all of the Day of Defeat-esque games are dead, Medal of Honor has been dead, the historical Call of Duties are mostly dead or loaded with servers that have dumb rules, and that probably covers it? The latest Call of Duty is set during the 80s which is pretty historical unless you specifically mean set during WW2. It's also on sale until Jan 4th or something.
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Palpek posted:There are so many good modern point and click adventure games it's insane. The Game Forum Game Club's theme for November-December was point-and-click adventure games...
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Sab669 posted:Disgaea 5 has the best QOL changes and is a great game. I have a buddy that refuses to play any game series without playing every game in order, it's the wildest poo poo.
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Dec 31, 2020 04:17
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The Void Rains Upon Her Heart is making me crave good SHMUPs - anyone got any recs? What's missing from this list? note: The easier the better, I suck at these!  
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Dec 31, 2020 04:23
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Doctor Nutt posted:I have a buddy that refuses to play any game series without playing every game in order, it's the wildest poo poo. Hope he never gets into Final Fantasy.
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Dec 31, 2020 04:24
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StrixNebulosa posted:The Void Rains Upon Her Heart is making me crave good SHMUPs - anyone got any recs? What's missing from this list? You are missing the top of the top: Ikaruga, Mushihimesama, and ZeroRanger. Other than those, you have the awesome Crimzon Clover which you should play. It's a class act.
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Dec 31, 2020 04:26
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Saoshyant posted:You are missing the top of the top: Ikaruga, Mushihimesama, and ZeroRanger. I'd heard that Ikaruga is SUPER hard! Should I still try it? Mushihimesama is on the ol' wishlist, and...I don't think I know of ZeroRanger! Gonna go look it up. As for Crimzon Clover:  It's been a while since I last played it, but drat is it good!
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Dec 31, 2020 04:30
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GreenNight posted:Hope he never gets into Final Fantasy. Haha, he's a greybeard who's always been current on Final Fantasy, luckily for him.
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Dec 31, 2020 04:31
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StrixNebulosa posted:I'd heard that Ikaruga is SUPER hard! Should I still try it? Well, yeah, it gets hard. But you improve by playing, so if you don't get frustrated easily you should eventually beat it. It's a short game.
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Dec 31, 2020 04:35
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Ikaruga is hard, but it's a lot of fun still. The version I played would eventually unlock a mode with unlimited continues too. So you still get to see the whole thing.
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My wishlist is now stocked with that and some of the OG Touhous, thanks! Let me know if I'm missing anything else, I love hoarding genres!
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Deakul posted:How is it these days population-wise? I hope there's a more balanced amount of newish players and vets. Last time I played Titanfall 2 a couple months ago it was an exercise in misery, being repeatedly torn to bits by max rank people but that may depend on your individual skill.
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Doctor Nutt posted:I have a buddy that refuses to play any game series without playing every game in order, it's the wildest poo poo. sounds like they would fit right in with the steam thread
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StrixNebulosa posted:My wishlist is now stocked with that and some of the OG Touhous, thanks! Ah shoot, I forgot Straimium Immortaly! It is a roguelike, shmup, dungeoncrawler (dev's description). The imagery and presentation is bizarro LSD brain-melting in a good way. It's less than $5 right now. The dev does all kinds of really cool and quirky small games. All are very inexpensive and he continues updating them for years and years after release. NObodyNOWHERE fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Dec 31, 2020 |
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StrixNebulosa posted:The Void Rains Upon Her Heart is making me crave good SHMUPs - anyone got any recs? What's missing from this list? Boiling Bolt In Extremis Velocity Ultra WITCH-BOT MEGLILO
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Dec 31, 2020 04:55
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It's been a few years since release, but did Square Enix ever make Chrono Trigger on Steam good? I remember it getting panned pretty hard. It's on sale for cheap and it's one of the seminal JRPGs I've never played.
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Dec 31, 2020 05:09
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Steam recommended a neat new deckbuilder called Fights in Tight Spaces. There's a free demo and the game comes out in 2021. It's basically Slay the Spire meets Into the Breach. You build your deck to move your guy around the room and fight. You can see what the enemies are going to do so you can position them to hit each other. It's as much puzzle game as it is a deckbuilder. There are branching paths, events, upgrades, all the usual stuff. The minimal graphics work well.
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OhFunny posted:It's been a few years since release, but did Square Enix ever make Chrono Trigger on Steam good? I remember it getting panned pretty hard. Yeah, it took a few patches but they fixed it.
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StrixNebulosa posted:The Void Rains Upon Her Heart is making me crave good SHMUPs - anyone got any recs? What's missing from this list? Assault Android Cactus!
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StrixNebulosa posted:The Void Rains Upon Her Heart is making me crave good SHMUPs - anyone got any recs? What's missing from this list? Jamestown's progression/unlock system is probably the closest to Void Rains, it's not quite as compelling or as central a part of the game but starting on easy and then unlocking new stages and bonus levels by making your way through the harder versions of levels and getting coins you can use to unlock more ships and costumes and goofy farcical redone cutscenes is probably the closest any other shmup I've ever tried has gotten. Also one thing it has that Void Rains doesn't is mouse controls and I kind of hope that's something that it adds eventually because it feels more comfy to get to play a game like this one-handed.
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Drizvolta posted:The latest Call of Duty is set during the 80s which is pretty historical unless you specifically mean set during WW2. It's also on sale until Jan 4th or something. Black Ops Cold War is about as "historical" as the world's worst Tom Clancy novel, not one actually written by him, but one of those terrible post-death ghost-written schlockfests. Then again maybe the one where the super cool Tier-1 agents in training pull Glocks out of their fanny picks in the middle of a mall when terrorists suddenly attack and go wild'n'out is probably about the level of "historical" you'd expect from BOCWar.
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Since I am a fan of Voidspire Tactics and Alvora Tactics, I decided to give Horizon's Gate a shot. Battles are pretty similar to the previous games, but this time you also manage ships and cargo for trading and surviving. The story has been light so far which I appreciate. In the first hour I was able to buy a new ship, hire a crew of five, and be on my way. The goal is to build exploration, trade, and combat fame through discovering ports, helping locals, and moving cargo. If you are a fan of tile/grid battle systems with jobs like FFT, this game may be for you. There are 35 classes with 5 abilities and 3 passives each. You can have a primary and sub class to mix and match skills.  I am impressed a solo dev made this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0So11Ag-Vo
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Cardiovorax posted:It's honestly not even that the narratives of his games are that nonsensical when you summarize them
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MMF Freeway posted:Yeah, it took a few patches but they fixed it. Cool! Good to know.
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Taintrunner posted:Black Ops Cold War is about as "historical" as the world's worst Tom Clancy novel, not one actually written by him, but one of those terrible post-death ghost-written schlockfests.  they said they wanted arcady shooting and didn't want to touch hardcore stuff, I figured the historical bit of the question was more aesthetics than actual concrete history
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Drizvolta posted:
to be fair, its not your fault. scrolling back to the OP, they're simply loving hopeless and nothing will satisfy them.
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StrixNebulosa posted:The Void Rains Upon Her Heart is making me crave good SHMUPs - anyone got any recs? What's missing from this list? Jets 'n' Guns Tyrian 2000 Bio-Hazard Battle Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 12:33 on Dec 31, 2020 |
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Ragequit posted:Since I am a fan of Voidspire Tactics and Alvora Tactics, I decided to give Horizon's Gate a shot. Battles are pretty similar to the previous games, but this time you also manage ships and cargo for trading and surviving. What's the balance of tactical fights to sailing? I could totally go for a big ol' sailing and trading game, but this looks more like mebe 20-30% sailing, 70% brawling? Omi no Kami fucked around with this message at 12:23 on Dec 31, 2020 |
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Has anyone here used IndieGala, GameBillet or GamersGate? I'm cross-referencing games I'm thinking about buying on IsThereAnyDeal to see if I can get some games for cheaper and without having to pay sales tax. GamersGate I've heard of before, but GameBillet is new to me. GameBillet has a high rating on TrustPilot, but I wanted to ask if anybody had issues with purchasing anything from it before. Recently, I've had trouble making purchases from GOG and Fanatical since (at least with the former) the transaction is outside of the US. I think I've bought something from IndieGala before, but I can't remember for sure.
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Orv posted:Last time I played Titanfall 2 a couple months ago it was an exercise in misery, being repeatedly torn to bits by max rank people but that may depend on your individual skill. I recently played a bunch of both games in multiplayer, though that was on Xbox. My impression is that TF2 has more of the serious high rank players that dedicate themselves to it, whereas TF1 has a much more mixed skill gap - even though both games have tiny player counts at this point. TF1 has the smart pistol which is great for less skilled or agile players and allows them to contribute to the team by focusing on the grunts or going for objectives without engaging too much in player combat. It's such a great idea that no other game decided to pick up on.
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Max Wilco posted:Has anyone here used IndieGala, GameBillet or GamersGate? I'm cross-referencing games I'm thinking about buying on IsThereAnyDeal to see if I can get some games for cheaper and without having to pay sales tax. Yes to all three, and they're legit. Any site you see linked on IsThereAnyDeal is going to be legit, AFAIK. If your bank or credit card company is touchy about foreign transactions just use the PayPal option. Imagined fucked around with this message at 12:54 on Dec 31, 2020 |
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Imagined posted:Yes to all three, and they're legit. Any site you see linked on IsThereAnyDeal is going to be legit, AFAIK. If your bank or credit card company is touchy about foreign transactions just use the PayPal option. I've actually have been using PayPal as a buffer of sorts for purchases for a long time now, but just recently, my bank flags and blocks foreign transactions, even through PayPal. Maybe something's changed on PayPal's end? The purchases still went through eventually, but it made me worry that it was going to cause issues. Saoshyant posted:GameBillet and GamersGate are European stores, AFAIK. If that's an issue for your bank, then you aren't going to have better luck with these two either. My plan was to try and make purchases from those sites and any others (GOG, Fanatical, GMG) through my other card (credit), with the assumption that the purchases (hopefully) will go through without any hitches. Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 13:11 on Dec 31, 2020 |
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Max Wilco posted:Recently, I've had trouble making purchases from GOG and Fanatical since (at least with the former) the transaction is outside of the US. GameBillet and GamersGate are European stores, AFAIK. If that's an issue for your bank, then you aren't going to have better luck with these two either.
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