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Insert name here posted:Thinking of picking up Final Fantasy 15 for 50% off but I heard the PC version had some pretty bad technical issues? Can anyone confirm if it ever got fixed? The worst technical problems it has is stuttering on some machines due to the Steam workshop integration. This is fixed by buying it on another storefront. I have no idea why they never rolled back the workshop stuff or made it opt in but  2 out of 3 computers I played it on had no issues though.
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Hey, how's Curious Expedition 2? I liked the original, but didn't end up playing that much. Not sure why, really
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Xaris posted:Yeah. It's actually incredible it's been 8 years and 7 Days To Die is still an alpha. They are still making improvements, and did an engine update a little awhile back (that was both good/bad), I picked it up when it first hit and have played it with a friend a couple of times in the intervening years, one as recently a 2019. It's sad because there is A LOT of good in there, there's a lot of base building setting up shooting gallery and turrets and traps and funneling zombie hordes through gauntlets while you and your friends deplete your ammo. Underground bunkers, giant penis skyscrapers, shooting outposts, you name it. Resources go farther in the game than they do in Valheim so you get to build a lot more. There's a lot of scavenging Cities and getting creative making scalfolding on the outside to get in from the top or busting in a wall kool-aid man style. It's tense as gently caress trying to raid bookstores to unlock that one recipe before night sets. PvP is also there and adds another layer of fun and tense-ness to it htat you can't find elsewhere that option but it's an buggy engine that's easily hacked and most requires you poopsock with friends so you'll probably be playing PvE servers or hybrid servers with hostile cities and safe outlands. I watch the Neebs Gaming vids on 7 Days and they make it super fun looking, but its probably lots of fun when playing with a bunch of friends and trying to make a fun youtube series out of it. Even though its got a lot of jank that only games made in Unity can have. I've tried loading it but it always crashes or is so slow to run the second i get into it i never get very far solo. I loaded up BFV just to check if my account was the same on Gamepass/EAPlay it was on origin and yea, it is. Which is great because I hate loading Origin because it always logs me out and i have to put my password in every time i load it. This is the same reason I stopped playing Simpsons Tapped Out on my phone because i hate entering passwords constantly. Anyways, my poo poo was all there, and bonus, a lot of people were playing. When i was playing over a year ago, even the offical servers were fairly low pops, only maybe one or two were full, and most were around 75% capacity, while at the same time BF1 servers were still full at the time. Either people started playing or there has been an influx of people playing since it was added to gamepass? Though i don't have the HD space for it, if i've bought Sims4 expansions, would they show up if i install it through the EAplay? I figure if it knows i have unlocked the Bren Gun in BFV it should know i bought Sims4 seasons.
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Mar 22, 2021 07:54
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I feel like I could really chill out with The Hunter, but I don't really like the idea of hunting animals as my end goal. But then without that, the game just becomes a hiking simulator? Wait, is that what I want???
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Mar 22, 2021 08:09
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I want The Hunter except you can invade other people's games Dark Souls style to murder players trying to kill these majestic innocent animals.
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Mar 22, 2021 08:12
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GrandpaPants posted:I feel like I could really chill out with The Hunter, but I don't really like the idea of hunting animals as my end goal. But then without that, the game just becomes a hiking simulator? Morels: The Hunt. And you don't even kill the fungi by picking their fruiting bodies! E: Gold-plated Games Review Stickman fucked around with this message at 08:31 on Mar 22, 2021 |
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Mar 22, 2021 08:25
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Ugly In The Morning posted:The worst technical problems it has is stuttering on some machines due to the Steam workshop integration. This is fixed by buying it on another storefront. I have no idea why they never rolled back the workshop stuff or made it opt in but They did finally fix the Steam version something like 18 months after the avatara update that busted it was released. They fixed it right as I finished the game and DLC, of course.
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GrandpaPants posted:I feel like I could really chill out with The Hunter, but I don't really like the idea of hunting animals as my end goal. But then without that, the game just becomes a hiking simulator? The game gives you a camera, so you could always just walk around pretty forests and pretend to be a nature photographer.
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Vastakaiun posted:The game gives you a camera, so you could always just walk around pretty forests and pretend to be a nature photographer.
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Mar 22, 2021 08:59
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One thing I've always struggled with in The Hunter- with stalking, how quickly are you supposed to move when you don't know if any animals are around? I tend to walk or run until I hear a call, stop for 30-60 seconds, then start slow-crawling in an arc towards somewhere downwind of the call where I can get a good look, and that mostly kinda-sorta works. But the few times I've just, like, put my guy on slow crawl auto-forward and spent 20 minutes creeping 300m while watching netflix in the other window, my animal density goes way up.
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Mar 22, 2021 09:01
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Cardiovorax posted:Kinda legitimately can't - unlocking further locations costs money, which you have to hunt at least some game for. Hunting stands, sure, but outposts and changing maps were free last time I played.
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Mar 22, 2021 09:07
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Vastakaiun posted:Hunting stands, sure, but outposts and changing maps were free last time I played.
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GrandpaPants posted:I feel like I could really chill out with The Hunter, but I don't really like the idea of hunting animals as my end goal. But then without that, the game just becomes a hiking simulator? This is pretty much exactly how I play the game. I've sunk a good 15+ hours into it and haven't hunted a single animal yet. It is an exceptionally beautiful game to just walk around in - I put on a few podcasts and use it to unwind and take screenshots.
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Mar 22, 2021 10:05
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Zesty posted:How's My Summer Car treating you...?
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Mar 22, 2021 10:41
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GrandpaPants posted:I feel like I could really chill out with The Hunter, but I don't really like the idea of hunting animals as my end goal. But then without that, the game just becomes a hiking simulator? Death Stranding is the ultimate hiking simulator.
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Mar 22, 2021 10:43
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Omi no Kami posted:One thing I've always struggled with in The Hunter- with stalking, how quickly are you supposed to move when you don't know if any animals are around? I tend to walk or run until I hear a call, stop for 30-60 seconds, then start slow-crawling in an arc towards somewhere downwind of the call where I can get a good look, and that mostly kinda-sorta works. But the few times I've just, like, put my guy on slow crawl auto-forward and spent 20 minutes creeping 300m while watching netflix in the other window, my animal density goes way up. If you're walking or running you have like a 200 yard bubble around you where animals get spooked (in your player statistics it shows the number of animals you have scared btw). Hunting on the run is not well suited to maps without long sightlines. For the best results go to drinking spots at drinking times. The overall amount of animals is pretty fixed I think (savegame viewer shows 2000 to 3000 depending on the map), a new animal will spawn if you kill one.
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Mar 22, 2021 11:39
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GrandpaPants posted:I feel like I could really chill out with The Hunter, but I don't really like the idea of hunting animals as my end goal. You'd love a little gem called monster hunter
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Mar 22, 2021 12:55
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Is there a version of this game where you makes friends with all the pretty animals?
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Mar 22, 2021 13:43
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Xander77 posted:Like I said before, there's zero reason not to have a photo-hunting mode. Except that would go over more poorly with the target audience that a female \ gay protagonist. To be fair the characters you spend a lot of time listening to in the game - tend to be one per reserve who walk you through quests - are fairly diverse. Several women, different races. And you can make your character a woman or any skin colour you like too. I wish there was an official photo-hunting mode but nothing in the game is locked off behind killing animals except buying more equipment to kill animals. The reserves are real-money transactions, nothing to do with what you do in the game.
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Xander77 posted:Like I said before, there's zero reason not to have a photo-hunting mode. Except that would go over more poorly with the target audience that a female \ gay protagonist. There are missions where you have to take photos, the reasom that's not a full fledged mode seems to have more to do with them seemingly barely being able to keep the thing not breaking all the time as it is.
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Mar 22, 2021 14:33
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lunar detritus posted:Death Stranding is the ultimate hiking simulator. ...Until you're fighting for your drat life against a giant inky whale.
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JollyBoyJohn posted:You'd love a little gem called monster hunter After smashing a peaceful animal that was just chillin in the face with a body part of another animal, I'm pretty convinced the title of that series doesn't refer to "hunter of monsters" but "hunter that is a monster".
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Mar 22, 2021 16:42
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Hunter Which Is More Monst Than Usual
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Tell Me Why Good but sort of a let down compared to Dontnod's previous titles. There's no special charm to it like the Life is Strange games aside from making the main character trans and having that come up from time to time during the game. The story and memory mechanics stand out the most as the investigation leads the twins to have to agree which version of past events is true. It sort of changes how the twins see their past in light of constantly re-evaluating what kind of person their abusive mother was. The Rashoman effect is pretty cool to see how it ends up influencing the narrative depending on you who side with. Each episode takes about 3 hours to play through if exploring the locations and digging up every piece of information you can, which is kind of the point of these games. The side cast are there to give the twins other people to talk to during their investigation, either as people to question about what happened in the past, or just have casual conversations about life and the future. The graphics are decent, but most floating objects like hair or clothing will often clip or get stuck, and the lip movement frequently doesn't match the audio. Any close up animations for things like hands is also pretty stiff, and occasionally the characters' faces look frozen while they are trying to express emotions leading to some pretty awkward expressions. The music was kind of unmemorable. Each episode had 1 song that played over the start and nothing else that I can remember. The audio cues for using your memory power were more distinctive then anything else I heard in the game. Overall it really gives off the feeling like its a Lite version of their previous adventure games, with everything kind of cut down to make a budget title that wraps up in 3 episodes instead of 5. It does have pretty good pacing and you go from place to place solving the mystery without distraction or hassle so maybe a shorter episode order means they cut their typical game filler and focus on the core plot. Worth it for fans of adventure games or mysteries, as it manages to be just creative enough to avoid being too obvious or underwhelming.
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I can't decide what to play, someone pick exactly one of these and I'll play it for at least twenty minutes
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Mar 22, 2021 19:25
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Ratropolis. The rats look cute.
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Mar 22, 2021 19:29
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Katreus posted:Ratropolis. The rats look cute. Thanks!
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Deakul posted:...Until you're fighting for your drat life against a giant inky whale. I mean, you haven't had to do that every so often on your hikes? Must be nice where you live.
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Mar 22, 2021 19:37
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Okay, this is really cute:   Ever play Kingdom: Two Crowns? This is that, but by way of deckbuilding and mice and an emphasis on tower defense. I like it! Thanks for picking it!
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Mar 22, 2021 19:42
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I see a new NieR is coming out in a few weeks. Everyone keeps telling me to play NieR: Automata, so I guess it's time. From what I can tell, the Xbox Game Pass version is superior to the Steam version because it has a bunch of updates that somehow didn't make it to Steam? If so, I guess I'll pay the $10 a month to play it there.
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The NieR coming soon is a remake of the original NieR, which was previously stuck on the PS3/360 Automata is mostly standalone but does call back to the original NieR so given the choice it might be better to play the remake first
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Mar 22, 2021 20:28
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My life has been taken over by the deck builder Chrono Ark. It’s still in early access, but the mechanics are so good and I’ve never felt so quickly sucked into a game like it.
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Trickyblackjack posted:After smashing a peaceful animal that was just chillin in the face with a body part of another animal, I'm pretty convinced the title of that series doesn't refer to "hunter of monsters" but "hunter that is a monster". I hurt a benign animal so badly it tried to flee to its den for safety. My mission was still to hunt it down like the Terminator and exterminate it at any cost
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jimmydalad posted:My life has been taken over by the deck builder Chrono Ark. It’s still in early access, but the mechanics are so good and I’ve never felt so quickly sucked into a game like it. Have you managed to beat the final boss yet? I've had this game for a while, and while I managed to beat it regularly before, the new boss they released late last year is... pretty rough.
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Increasingly unclear on why classes that aren’t the necromancer exist in loop hero
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Gay Rat Wedding posted:Increasingly unclear on why classes that aren’t the necromancer exist in loop hero Broken Cog posted:Because he's insanely slow
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Chrono Ark is real good and feels like it can be a real sleeper hit. The balance isn't quite there yet, but the way it does the party-based roguelike deckbuilder thing is really great and is probably my favorite of this type after StS. I especially like fixing a skill so that it's always in your hand, with a number of caveats attached, but it really does give a lot of consistency knowing that I'll have a party heal at the ready or this one defining skill for a character is always available. Definitely give it a go if you're a fan of the genre.
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i dont think i want to buy this game but the soundtrack is real good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueiCaPWf3yA
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With Chrono Ark, I enjoy the opportunity cost it presents with choosing party members, whether to invest in getting more levels/cards for your party, more mana or more card draw/special abilities. I’ve managed to complete normal mode with every character that’s been released so far, but I needed to cheat for a certain unlock due to their ridiculous requirements. The bosses also all have unique mechanics and approaches to gameplay that your party needs to be ready to deal with should the need arise. Though I hate the time boss with a passion, the witch has a fantastic theme and more of the bosses are hits versus misses. I can’t recommend this game enough for deck builder/rogue like lovers. EDIT: Broken Cog posted:Have you managed to beat the final boss yet? I've had this game for a while, and while I managed to beat it regularly before, the new boss they released late last year is... pretty rough. I’ve beaten the boss with every character on Normal mode. Expert I’ve only reached once and I got absolutely destroyed when I got there. The final boss is hard as hell and I did need a few runs to really work out the stages and what they expect out of you. Most successful battles end with just 1 or 2 people clinging onto dear life as they get the last bit of damage. Charon is OP though. jimmydalad fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Mar 22, 2021 |
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