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Play unbeatable [white label] It's in the Palestine bundle but it's also free on Steam CharlieFoxtrot posted:I had been following this game for a while but h/t to Stux for pointing out that Unbeatable [white label] actually came out today and they finished their Kickstarter. CharlieFoxtrot fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Jun 9, 2021 |
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https://twitter.com/Nifflas/status/1402384130978062340 whoa this is cool!!
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://twitter.com/Nifflas/status/1402384130978062340 Cheating isn't cool, you should know this by now
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steam? more like isn't working right now so its just lukewarm water
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Gonna add a recommend from the Palestine Bundle since nobody's mentioned it: Robot Wants It All Did you play these games on Flash back in the day? Now you can play them again, along with a bunch of extra bonus maps, challenges, and information! It's as good as I remember it.
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Jun 9, 2021 02:04
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Karma Tornado posted:Days Gone drops a series of flashbacks at one point well after you've started playing that had to have been cutscenes for what was originally the tutorials at the beginning of the game, like they jump over things that would definitely be PRESS WHATEVER TO STEALTH, and it rules. they for sure rewrote that game after they finished it and decided to just let the incredibly weird lead VA work carry it and they were right to I forgot to respond to this earlier - what do you mean by the weird lead VA work? What's weird about his voice?
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I ended up buying days gone even though I have the free version on the PS5, but I ended up never playing it and I sold my PS5 since I only use a PC anyway. Game is pretty good and I am glad it's on PC. Also pretty neat that it is in Oregon with real landmarks I recognize.
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StrixNebulosa posted:I forgot to respond to this earlier - what do you mean by the weird lead VA work? What's weird about his voice? the guy reads a bunch of what are on paper very straight lines with a delivery that makes Deacon sound like a dude who has borderline lost his mind. there's a lot of his chatter that would be nothing if the delivery wasn't what it is, and it's most of what makes the game kind of charming
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Karma Tornado posted:the guy reads a bunch of what are on paper very straight lines with a delivery that makes Deacon sound like a dude who has borderline lost his mind. there's a lot of his chatter that would be nothing if the delivery wasn't what it is, and it's most of what makes the game kind of charming Ahhh! So what you mean is great VA work, not weird work, that makes more sense. Thanks!
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Black Griffon posted:Elephantasy Hey, thank you for this! This game is great -- it's less a platformer and more a metroidvania with zero combat, and it's very well-done. It honestly reminds me of Puzzle Kingdom more than anything else, although it's not nearly as mind-bending, but the same basic deal where the goal is traversal. The first hour or two of the game involves juggling the four mobility items: all four are unlocked immediately, but you can only carry one at a time (and you need to go back to the item shop in the center of the map whenever you want to switch). As you explore and find gems you gain the ability to carry more items at once, which in turn opens up more of the map, and so on. That's fun enough, but the real meat of the game comes when you've unlocked the ability to carry all four items at once and realize you've seen less than 50% of the map, at which point it turns into a secret hunt that reminded me of Environmental Station Alpha more than anything else. Again, much easier (and much less obtuse than ESA's puzzles), but really fun to try and 100% the collectibles. There are a few "boss fights" that all basically revolve around evading their attacks for long enough, three of which are entirely optional/secret. My only real issue with the game is that the final boss, that you have to deal with to see the credits, is incredibly obnoxious and un-fun, since you're literally just walking side to side on a small platform dodging bullets until he gets tired and gives up, and you can only take one hit before needing to start from the beginning, as a result of which I turned it off at 100% completion but without actually "finishing" properly because gently caress that. Still, if you like puzzley explore-y pseudo-metroidvanias, this is a really solid little game!
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StrixNebulosa posted:Ahhh! So what you mean is great VA work, not weird work, that makes more sense. Thanks! Nooooo, not really? The VA for Deacon is phoned in is as hell, it just has this weird vocal quality to the phoning in that makes it unintentionally bizarre.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Ahhh! So what you mean is great VA work, not weird work, that makes more sense. Thanks! It's weirdly great, yes. That's pretty much how I would describe the entire game. Also there is a Days Gone thread, which I mention not to dissuade anyone from discussing it here but because I think a lot of people are not aware of its existence.
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Rusty posted:I ended up buying days gone even though I have the free version on the PS5, but I ended up never playing it and I sold my PS5 since I only use a PC anyway. Game is pretty good and I am glad it's on PC. Also pretty neat that it is in Oregon with real landmarks I recognize. What city?
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Occultatio posted:Hey, thank you for this! This game is great -- it's less a platformer and more a metroidvania with zero combat, and it's very well-done.
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Mescal posted:What city?
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I've barely had time to dig into the bundle(s) so I appreciate everyone leaving recommendations! It has been listed already, but I just want to say that A Good Snowman is Hard to Build is an excellent puzzle game. It's a simple-to-learn, levels-are-hard puzzle game about rolling snowballs in the snow to collect the snow to make snowmen. You need a Large snowball as the base, a Medium snowball as the middle, and a Small snowball for the head, which means order of how you push around the snowballs matter a lot. What makes it great is every snowman has their own sprite and name and you can hug every snowman. Which is optional but actually compulsory  I streamed it with friends and we were all just so ecstatic when we finished any snowman. "Lydia! HUG LYDIA YESSSSS LYDIAAAAAAAA" And you can find telescopes to see how many snowmen you've made 
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A Bakers Cousin posted:Yo mods get to work its not hard I spent most of the day in airports and on planes so I'm just seeing this now and there is apparently a lot to catch up on!
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Harrow posted:I spent most of the day in airports and on planes so I'm just seeing this now and there is apparently a lot to catch up on! Lol a day probe.
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A Bakers Cousin posted:Lol a day probe. Longer than that requires an admin's approval IIRC, so there may be more coming.
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if the pissy little rear end in a top hat wants to be banned and hates everyone here so much it's easy enough for him to post a loving autoban thread, if he ever posts here again it'll just be a double whammy of proving his own cowardice plus lack of conviction and letting him take all the rope he wants for his forum noose
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Karma Tornado posted:the guy reads a bunch of what are on paper very straight lines with a delivery that makes Deacon sound like a dude who has borderline lost his mind. there's a lot of his chatter that would be nothing if the delivery wasn't what it is, and it's most of what makes the game kind of charming Deacon is not a well man.
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Mischievous Mink posted:Longer than that requires an admin's approval IIRC, so there may be more coming. Correct, mods can only do up to a 24 hour probation without admin approval. That’s why you see “placeholder” on probations sometimes. Anyway this is off topic so please continue to discuss Steam everyone, don’t mind me
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StrixNebulosa posted:I forgot to respond to this earlier - what do you mean by the weird lead VA work? What's weird about his voice? I beat the game but I'm not that person but if I'd have to speculate I'd assume they mean his completely unhinged rants that just kinda happen in the middle of nowhere. Like you'll be sneaking around and he'll snarl like "I'm gonna fuckin kill you!" Edit ayy my phone didn't update the thread but also ayy I was right Orv posted:Nooooo, not really? The VA for Deacon is phoned in is as hell, it just has this weird vocal quality to the phoning in that makes it unintentionally bizarre. This though I don't agree with like -at all-. I think there's a lot of things you could say about his voice work on the game but phoned in is just not in the conversation. Prokhor fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Jun 9, 2021 |
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StrixNebulosa posted:I probably just nuked my reddit account over this, but I responded to the dev there and asked them to do something, ANYTHING to show that Brigador isn't made by transphobes. If they can do that then I'll try giving them the benefit of the doubt. Otherwise it'll have to stay in the bin of shame with Battle Brothers. I made a response about this and I got a response from an account that was seven minutes old parroting neonazi poo poo that I have a strong feeling was Gauss. gently caress em.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I made a response about this and I got a response from an account that was seven minutes old parroting neonazi poo poo that I have a strong feeling was Gauss. gently caress em. Jesus. It's all just 100% garbage parade now, I guess. RIP to the good times that were Brigador.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Play unbeatable [white label] so it's muse dash crossed with one finger death punch with an art style inspired by Studio Trigger and an UI style that cribs from Persona 5 and why am I still typing instead of downloading this already
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Deacon's VA definitely wasn't phoning it in, he's very protective of the game and has pissed off lots of reviewers by criticizing their negative reviews. And on the same note, it's not that is voice is 'weird', it's that his delivery and cadence is not what you'd expect and it works, for some odd reason
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Zetsubou-san posted:so it's muse dash crossed with one finger death punch with an art style inspired by Studio Trigger and an UI style that cribs from Persona 5 and why am I still typing instead of downloading this already I don't know Muse Dash but the rest sounds excellent download faster maynnnn
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I liked Deacon's VA a lot.
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Sleve McDichael posted:Deacon's VA definitely wasn't phoning it in, he's very protective of the game and has pissed off lots of reviewers by criticizing their negative reviews. And on the same note, it's not that is voice is 'weird', it's that his delivery and cadence is not what you'd expect and it works, for some odd reason yeah I don't think he was phoning it in, either. I went with weird because it's a non standard take on a character that on paper could have just been a quippy guy in a Marvel movie and that's the direction you kind of expect for a zombie game starring a white guy with a beard
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The interesting thing is that there was actually an uptick in people talking to themselves like that with the pandemic and isolation/masks, so it’s something that got crapped on for being weird and “unrealistic” that was actually bang on. He did a great job, too. Days Gone is a great game and I’m glad to see people coming around on it over the last year or so. I know I didn’t like it at launch on the PS4 until I had played a few hours, and then it turned into something where I was constantly f5ing waiting for the PC launch date.
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i'm having a lot of fun w/ Days Gone and agree that Deacon's VA made me like the character a lot more than i was expecting. he sounds like he had a lot of fun recording the lines, even the quieter weirder ones, and that kind of energy always quickly endears characters to me also it's not perfect but i really like how the motorcycle is handled. i've been riding for about a decade and this is the closest a (non-racing) game i've played has gotten to the feel of driving through trails and backroads - it's certainly not perfect but the sound design/feedback/controls of little things like letting off the throttle and coasting down a hill are really well done. (i just wish there was a manual transmission option) for anyone else playing on PC w/ a decent rig i'd rec checking out this mod, which ups the size of the hordes and makes them genuinely scary to encounter https://www.nexusmods.com/daysgone/mods/97
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bideojames posted:i'm having a lot of fun w/ Days Gone and agree that Deacon's VA made me like the character a lot more than i was expecting. he sounds like he had a lot of fun recording the lines, even the quieter weirder ones, and that kind of energy always quickly endears characters to me As someone who has yet to kill even a tiny horde, and who is terrified of them: oh god oh no, I love that this mod exists and wish to never install it
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Is there a good write-up or not-too-long video on why Dawn of War 3 was a disappointment? Thanks to the skull event I got back into Dawn of War 2 Retribution and am enjoying it a ton. I dislike the AI a lot (suffers the CoH 2 problem of they enjoy going around capping poo poo more than doing anything else) but even that hasn't diminished my enjoyment of just playing skirmish matches against them. Tried out the Elite mod that's fun too but it made the super units (especially the Baneblade) a bit too powerful but it at least made the AI actually engage your armies more often than not. But yeah, an honest-to-goodness sequel to 2 would be really great.
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My son really enjoys playing the old Command & Conquer style RTS games with me because his favorite part is telling me not to attack until he can build up a huge base and army and max out the tech tree, and it's honestly really sad how almost every game in that category is either 20 years old or a remaster of a game that's 20+ years old. Starcraft 2 is the most chronologically recent game in the genre as far as I can tell, and that's 11 years old. All modern attempts mix up that formula somehow, either by forcing you to be aggressive (Company of Heroes/Dawn of War 2) or keep constant time / environmental pressure on you (e.g. Northgard) or do something else entirely (e.g. Tooth and Tail). I realize that what I want is essentially Warcraft 2 with modern graphics, but it's weird how seemingly no one has done that. I guess they just figure 'Warcraft 2 already exists, why make it again'. Here lately we've been keeping it fresh by playing some of the more modern Company of Heroes-style RTSs but as allies against the computer, where I keep the CPU off his back while he gets his basebuilding fix until he's ready to attack. But it is fun to play games like Homeworld, Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds, Starcraft 2, Dawn of War 1, Stronghold Crusader, etc, with my kid. 
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Imagined posted:My son really enjoys playing the old Command & Conquer style RTS games with me because his favorite part is telling me not to attack until he can build up a huge base and army and max out the tech tree, and it's honestly really sad how almost every game in that category is either 20 years old or a remaster of a game that's 20+ years old. Starcraft 2 is the most chronologically recent game in the genre as far as I can tell, and that's 11 years old. All modern attempts mix up that formula somehow, either by forcing you to be aggressive (Company of Heroes/Dawn of War 2) or keep constant time / environmental pressure on you (e.g. Northgard) or do something else entirely (e.g. Tooth and Tail). I realize that what I want is essentially Warcraft 2 with modern graphics, but it's weird how seemingly no one has done that. I guess they just figure 'Warcraft 2 already exists, why make it again'. Here lately we've been keeping it fresh by playing some of the more modern Company of Heroes-style RTSs but as allies against the computer, where I keep the CPU off his back while he gets his basebuilding fix until he's ready to attack. Tried Grey Goo by any chance? It's pretty unspectacular but was made by former Westwood devs who worked on C&C IIRC. It does capture that same sort of old school RTS feel but it doesn't really do much out of the ordinary. Might be something the kiddo would enjoy.
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Imagined posted:My son really enjoys playing the old Command & Conquer style RTS games with me because his favorite part is telling me not to attack until he can build up a huge base and army and max out the tech tree, and it's honestly really sad how almost every game in that category is either 20 years old or a remaster of a game that's 20+ years old. Starcraft 2 is the most chronologically recent game in the genre as far as I can tell, and that's 11 years old. All modern attempts mix up that formula somehow, either by forcing you to be aggressive (Company of Heroes/Dawn of War 2) or keep constant time / environmental pressure on you (e.g. Northgard) or do something else entirely (e.g. Tooth and Tail). I realize that what I want is essentially Warcraft 2 with modern graphics, but it's weird how seemingly no one has done that. I guess they just figure 'Warcraft 2 already exists, why make it again'. Here lately we've been keeping it fresh by playing some of the more modern Company of Heroes-style RTSs but as allies against the computer, where I keep the CPU off his back while he gets his basebuilding fix until he's ready to attack.
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Imagined posted:My son really enjoys playing the old Command & Conquer style RTS games with me because his favorite part is telling me not to attack until he can build up a huge base and army and max out the tech tree, and it's honestly really sad how almost every game in that category is either 20 years old or a remaster of a game that's 20+ years old. Starcraft 2 is the most chronologically recent game in the genre as far as I can tell, and that's 11 years old. All modern attempts mix up that formula somehow, either by forcing you to be aggressive (Company of Heroes/Dawn of War 2) or keep constant time / environmental pressure on you (e.g. Northgard) or do something else entirely (e.g. Tooth and Tail). I realize that what I want is essentially Warcraft 2 with modern graphics, but it's weird how seemingly no one has done that. I guess they just figure 'Warcraft 2 already exists, why make it again'. Here lately we've been keeping it fresh by playing some of the more modern Company of Heroes-style RTSs but as allies against the computer, where I keep the CPU off his back while he gets his basebuilding fix until he's ready to attack. explosivo posted:Tried Grey Goo by any chance? It's pretty unspectacular but was made by former Westwood devs who worked on C&C IIRC. It does capture that same sort of old school RTS feel but it doesn't really do much out of the ordinary. Might be something the kiddo would enjoy. Grey Goo is quite restrictive in it's base building, but has a hefty budget. For real C&C revivalism, you could try 8 Bit Armies, which just boils everything down into pixel graphics and chaos. They basically remade WarCraft and StarCraft as well. In the same vein, you could try Forge Battalion, which was Petroglyph Games attempt to recreate customizable C&C, where you can design your own Tech Trees and units. It's kind of bonkers.
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Im just about finished with Days Gone, and I will echo that it is a really fantastic game that is a lot better than you might assume it's parts would make it. I've enjoyed the story quite a lot, it has a good three act arc with some good performances. Not game of the year or anything, but really solid.
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