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Megasabin posted:Question about humble bundle. I bought in to grab Pathologic 2. I don't want a monthly subscription. I was going to just cancel now but I notice my next bill date is actually the end of February. Will I get to choose games in February as well and cancel before the pay date comes up? I only paid 12 bucks so I thought I would only get one months worth of games? The way the subscription works is kinda funky, when next month's games roll around you'll see the lineup but won't actually be billed for them automatically until that month expires, presumably so you can make an educated decision up front about whether you want to actually pay for that month or not. You can at any point before the month expires, choose to pay early and unlock that month of stuff. Also, the instant you cancel your subscription you lose access to the Humble Trove and the store discount, so if there was anything you wanted to grab from either of those, do that first. Megasabin posted:Also any advice on things I should know about before starting Pathologic 2? I did not play the first one. If it's anything like the first one (which iirc it's mostly a retelling of), the way the game makes you experience the misery of the character is by making things miserable for you, the player. So... just be ready for that.
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Megasabin posted:Also any advice on things I should know about before starting Pathologic 2? I did not play the first one. Money is convenient, but the real economy is the barter economy with the town's residents, specially the children. You can adjust any elements of the difficult to your liking (a lot of people don't like the hunger's pace, my personal pet peeve is equipment deterioration) without any real loss. Speaking of loss, no one's death in the game is a fail state, but do prioritize saving the lives of characters you consider important. Don't sleep on the upgrades to inventory space (you will have access to them early, but not at the start of the game). Don't take the deal.
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Jan 2, 2021 18:05
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Palpek posted:Driver: San Francisco is like that but all the keys are extremely expensive, last I checked it was like 80€. Too bad because that's one good racing game I missed the opportunity to play. If you really want to play it, there's physical PC copies (albeit with Uplay codes inside) floating around for like a quarter of that price
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Jan 2, 2021 18:31
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Cross-Section posted:If you really want to play it, there's physical PC copies (albeit with Uplay codes inside) floating around for like a quarter of that price
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Palpek posted:Driver: San Francisco is like that but all the keys are extremely expensive, last I checked it was like 80€. Too bad because that's one good racing game I missed the opportunity to play. Driver sf is great. Is it just not on steam? I assume its on uplay. Ruse is another that got killed off. Luckily i own that.
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Jamfrost posted:Yeah, we have the major ones, and then some smaller scale stuff. I barely remember something with Skullgirls and then the person in question issued an apology afterwards. Some of these issues are hard to summarize without the person having prior knowledge. We have a thread. OP needs updating.
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So how does the latest Tomb Raider game measure up as a pure stealth game? This looks like a Metal Gear Solid type game where you sneak around big areas of patrolling enemies using tons of gadgets and tools to help you along the way. Is that about right?
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Jan 2, 2021 19:24
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strategery posted:Driver sf is great. Is it just not on steam? I assume its on uplay. Nope: quote:Driver San Francisco was delisted between July 11th and August 11th, 2016 on Xbox 360. The PlayStation 3 version was presumably delisted around the same time. The Steam version was then delisted on December 9th, 2016 and the Uplay version presumably delisted that same month. No explanation or advanced notice was given but the reason for the delisting is likely due to the game’s impressive playlist of licensed songs. Palpek fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Jan 2, 2021 |
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Jan 2, 2021 19:29
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GreatGreen posted:So how does the latest Tomb Raider game measure up as a pure stealth game? That’s Rise of the Tomb Raider but stealth mostly takes place in missions which occasionally do have some semi-open areas but those are small arenas at their biggest. Aren’t really “gadgets” either just different arrows and guns. Same goes for Shadow of the Tomb Raider, which is the newest one.
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I see monster hunter is on sale, but is any of the DLC worth it? there's a disgusting amount of DLC.
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Jan 2, 2021 19:32
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I see monster hunter is on sale, but is any of the DLC worth it? there's a disgusting amount of DLC. The only DLC is Iceborne. The rest is irrelevant cosmetic crap.
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Picked up Dysmantle during the sale (made by 10Tons ltd, who made games like Jydge and Tesla vs Lovecraft) and am really enjoying it. https://store.steampowered.com/app/846770/DYSMANTLE/ The trailer is trash, so watch this review instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xss-eVFSE1g The gameplay is a really good survival game. You can smash everything, tons of unlocks to work towards, crafting, however, what you craft is permanent unlocks. So find a recipe for tomato soup, make soup and get permanent +5 hp. Has quests to complete, and a souls like mechanic in that resting at a fire respawns enemies, if you die you can pick up your loot again. It is in early access, so might be worth a wishlist for now, but it is really looking nice and playable.
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Yami Fenrir posted:The only DLC is Iceborne. Do you need iceborne or can you just do the base game? $25 is still too high to instant buy I was also thinking of fallout 74 but was on the fence... 
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Do you need iceborne or can you just do the base game? $25 is still too high to instant buy You can just do the base game, but Iceborne adds a few cool features, most notably the clutch claw which is the coolest thing ever.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Do you need iceborne or can you just do the base game? $25 is still too high to instant buy If your choices are between Monster Hunter, a game constantly revered and praised almost universally, or Fallout 76, Shitler’s attempt to stretch the definitions of both “functional” and “video game,” I think I can guess which will be more recommended to you in this thread.
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Harminoff posted:Picked up Dysmantle during the sale (made by 10Tons ltd, who made games like Jydge and Tesla vs Lovecraft) and am really enjoying it. Oh neat hadn't heard about this. Gonna keep an eye on it. Arsenic Lupin posted:We have a thread. OP needs updating. That was more about sex pests in the industry and also it attracted some....interesting posts/posters
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Harminoff posted:The gameplay is a really good survival game. Dysmantle also has 100% skill based combat. Once one figures out attack patterns and such, it's possible to avoid all damage regardless of enemy type (dodge roll is OP). There's no 'hope you kill it before it kills you' here. Certain enemies do require different strategies than others. I've got about 15 hours in it and unlocked almost the entire skill tree, but I still have quite a bit of the available map to explore. I'm hoping that the next update will add the sledgehammer so I can just bash a town to pieces instead of having to leave the walls standing. The baseball bat and fire axe only allow so much.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Do you need iceborne or can you just do the base game? $25 is still too high to instant buy Just get the base game and see if you like it, IB’s content is all after the credits of the main game other than a few weapon moveset additions and a terrible mechanic that the main game wasn’t designed around so you don’t need it until IB anyway.
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Jan 2, 2021 20:12
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I was also thinking of fallout 74 but was on the fence... If you don't play it, you're probably going to keep thinking people exaggerate just how bad it is. If you play it for yourself, you'll discover people have been going easy on it. I recommend talking a friend into playing it with you. It's actually less fun that way because it's designed to be worse to play when progressing through the story in co-op (because only the party leader gets progress) but at least you're not the only one suffering.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Do you need iceborne or can you just do the base game? $25 is still too high to instant buy If you have any difficulty choosing between F74 and MHW you should absolutely get the former, you deserve it.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Do you need iceborne or can you just do the base game? $25 is still too high to instant buy
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Threep posted:I recommend Fallout 76 I tried Fallout 76 on gamepass for basically this exact reason and the login screen was so busted that I couldn't even play it, absolutely amazing, lived up to all the hype
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Palpek posted:Nope: Wow thats...surprising. i do own it on uplay. Ive always wanted a sequel. I really liked it. Shame.
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I was considering it because it seemed interesting, regardless of reception, and it costs about the same amount of money I have in my steam wallet Not going to sub to gamepass so I guess I just want some scifi thing where I can build my own house but idk what's good
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I was considering it because it seemed interesting, regardless of reception, and it costs about the same amount of money I have in my steam wallet Tried No Man's Sky? The base building in that is pretty fun and if you don't want to do the grind for materials (which I enjoy but some don't) you can just play in creative mode.
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HopperUK posted:Tried No Man's Sky? The base building in that is pretty fun and if you don't want to do the grind for materials (which I enjoy but some don't) you can just play in creative mode. Yeah, kind of bored of it again, usually come back once or twice a year when there's content updates.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I guess I just want some scifi thing where I can build my own house but idk what's good Try Rimworld.
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Terminally Bored posted:Try Rimworld. I've been eyeing that but it never goes on enough of a discount. Pretty much has to be <$10 for impulse buys, $20 tops.
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Is Phantom Doctrine worth $8? The XCOMs are some of my favorite games. I can accept a game not as deep or engaging as XCOM 2 as long as there aren't bugs or brain-dead AI.
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It's neat but falls apart at the high end. I'd say 8 bucks is more than fair though, you'll get your money's worth of enjoyment out of the early parts of the game.
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Phantom Doctrine is more like Frozen Synapse than X-Com IIRC FWIW. I know the distinction may not mean much to some but it bugs me. I would 100% rather have the traditional grid movement, turn-based strategy than the pause-and-execute mechanic. There's a mech game in early access (by the Phantom Doctrine people I think) that turns me off for the same reason. I don't like having to guess how and when my AI squad are going to react. I'd rather know the exact odds of something happening.
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Disillusionist posted:Is Phantom Doctrine worth $8? The XCOMs are some of my favorite games. I would highly suggest giving Age of Wonders Planetfall a try. Unless you hated everything about the strategic layer of X-Com.
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Psycho Landlord posted:It's neat but falls apart at the high end. I'd say 8 bucks is more than fair though, you'll get your money's worth of enjoyment out of the early parts of the game. Agreed but I'll add that you shouldn't expect to get much X-Com from the game. It's so easy to have your guys walk around undercover and go completely unnoticed that it was super duper rare to have a real fight. By the time a fight starts you've usually won already. The rest of the game makes it worth the 8 bucks though. Though I remember that you should probably read a guide to the chemical upgrade system because it's easy to screw up the order of upgrading. Nephthys fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Jan 2, 2021 |
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Imagined posted:There's a mech game in early access (by the Phantom Doctrine people I think) that turns me off for the same reason. oh it makes sense that Phantom Doctrine and Phantom Brigade are from the same people, I kept on getting those titles confused Edit: oh wait it's not... Phantom Doctrine is from Polish developer Creative Forge Phantom Brigade is from Canadian developer Brace Yourself CharlieFoxtrot fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Jan 2, 2021 |
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I have 200 hours in Age of Wonders 3 and still play it to this day. Possibly my favorite game of all time. I was hyped for Planetfall because I thought it would be that but sci-fi, but various things make it not click for me. For one, the UI feels really clunky, like a weird jumble of different ideas that don't fit well together and it's really hard at a glance to know what's going on. Secondly, since it is sci-fi with original races instead of relying on the old D&D fantasy tropes, you don't have the engrained knowledge of "oh, I'm fighting undead, bet they're vulnerable to holy magic", etc, ideas. I don't know what cybernetic amazonians are vulnerable too, so it requires relearning all that stuff from the ground up. I'd have rather they kept the AOW fantasy races and just given them laser guns.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I've been eyeing that but it never goes on enough of a discount. Pretty much has to be <$10 for impulse buys, $20 tops. Rimworld's dev doesn't do sales. You may get a bit of a drop from key sites like Humble or Fanatical but you'll (probably) never see it for $20.
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Am I the first person these guys message or something? This is getting silly:
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:oh it makes sense that Phantom Doctrine and Phantom Brigade are from the same people, I kept on getting those titles confused And I looked it up, and looks like I was wrong on the pause-and-execute thing with Phantom Doctrine. I was thinking of a different game there that I can't remember the name of for the life of me now.
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