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psiox: Oct 15, 2001; Babylon 5 Street Team

the prey dlc, mooncrash, is basically a whole different game that turns prey into a roguelike. i liked it

me swoopin' in to snipe a fresh page

psiox fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Aug 14, 2021

# ? Aug 14, 2021 16:40

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# ? Apr 26, 2024 11:40

psiox: Oct 15, 2001; Babylon 5 Street Team

it sounds like there's gonna be some quake news this week at quakecon?!

make the timbler canon

# ? Aug 14, 2021 17:49

gooby pls: May 18, 2012

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

i had a roommate in college "escort" me through secret of mana, i really liked it and i still like the music a lot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHhm_sCBRzY

still love this theme

https://youtu.be/UA8zGbw4gLc

# ? Aug 14, 2021 17:50

TontoCorazon: Aug 18, 2007

Clark Nova posted:

are the prey or dishonored 2 DLC worth it? steam has a bundle with both games, sans-DLC for twelve bucks

Prey for sure, Dishonored 2 DLC was, in my opinion, kind of lacking that certain je ne sais quoi

# ? Aug 14, 2021 17:53

Ciaphas: Nov 20, 2005; > BEWARE, COWARD

Clark Nova posted:

are the prey or dishonored 2 DLC worth it? steam has a bundle with both games, sans-DLC for twelve bucks

prey's dlc, mooncrash, is great, but not "required"; IIRC it doesn't add anything to the base game campaign at all, just the new mode

never played dishonored 2; dishonored i keep replaying, getting two or three missions in, and losing interest :shrug:

# ? Aug 14, 2021 17:53

Ciaphas: Nov 20, 2005; > BEWARE, COWARD

c truckfucker s: wisconsin's pretty

# ? Aug 14, 2021 17:56

PokeJoe: Aug 24, 2004; hail cgatan

i liked the first dishonored but keep abandoning the 2nd one

# ? Aug 14, 2021 18:02

psiox: Oct 15, 2001; Babylon 5 Street Team

Ciaphas posted:

c truckfucker s: wisconsin's pretty

that's some good truckfuckling

i love world of winchcraft

# ? Aug 14, 2021 18:03

Doom Mathematic: Sep 2, 2008

Clark Nova posted:

are the prey or dishonored 2 DLC worth it? steam has a bundle with both games, sans-DLC for twelve bucks

Previously:

Doom Mathematic posted:

Dishonored: Death of the Outsider is basically Dishonored 2.5. Bit too heavy to be DLC, much too short and similar to 2 to qualify as a full-scale sequel. It's set in the same place as 2 and is just as gorgeous and finely-tuned, but it's quite a bit shorter, reuses one map from 2, and it throws in a lot of new game mechanics which you really don't get much of a chance to explore before the game is over.

I liked it. If it's cheap to get, get it.

In this case I say get the bundle and if you like Dishonored 2 then wait for a year or whatever, and eventually DOTO will go on sale and you can pick it up cheaply.

# ? Aug 14, 2021 18:22

Clark Nova: Jul 18, 2004

thanks all. I got prey with the DLC for $12 because I like the idea of the roguelike thing and dishonored 2 on its own for $4.50 :coolfish:

# ? Aug 14, 2021 18:32

Ornamental Dingbat: Feb 26, 2007

Void Bastards will be free on Epic next week- I've been meaning to try that one.

# ? Aug 14, 2021 18:35

psiox: Oct 15, 2001; Babylon 5 Street Team

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

Void Bastards will be free on Epic next week- I've been meaning to try that one.

it's fun op but becomes a little repetitive after awhile

i super enjoyed a few hours of it though

# ? Aug 14, 2021 18:48

Kenny Logins: Jan 11, 2011; EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A WHITE WHALE INTO THE PEQUOD. IT'S HELL'S HEART AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I STRIKE AT THEE ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, ISHMAEL.

PokeJoe posted:

i liked the first dishonored but keep abandoning the 2nd one

did you pick corvo or the daughter for the first playthrough? i found it easier to get into with him. but either way try picking the other choice

# ? Aug 14, 2021 19:02

PokeJoe: Aug 24, 2004; hail cgatan

i tried both, used the daughter the first time. i did get further with corvo, i should pick it up again. it's like a better bioshock in a lot of ways.

# ? Aug 14, 2021 19:07

PokeJoe: Aug 24, 2004; hail cgatan

i played this plague tale game on gamepass and it was pretty fun

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/OfficialFatherlyAmoeba-mobile.mp4

# ? Aug 14, 2021 19:10

Ciaphas: Nov 20, 2005; > BEWARE, COWARD

... well, at least I don't have to do any steering???

# ? Aug 14, 2021 19:39

Pythagoras a trois: Feb 19, 2004; I have a lot of points to make and I will make them later.

This is probably the best review I've ever read:
https://steamcommunity.com/id/nawtsucks/recommended/1388770/

quote:

Cyberpunk as a modern genre has an identity problem. The genre was originally meant to embody what technological advancement could look like if we don't pump the brakes, to show what rampant consumerism and capitalist grind culture could do to our human identity. For all intents and purposes, the "punk" side of cyberpunk was meant to imbue a sense that cyberpunk media is protest art. It's a bleak, but paradoxically beautiful mirror to hold up to our own society; unfortunately, that beauty often undermines its own message.

This is where that aforementioned problem begins. I've recently been consuming a lot of cyberpunk media: the titular Cyberpunk 2077, Neon Giant's The Ascent, and Star Wars Bad Batch, which dabbles in some cyberpunk ideas from time to time. These works transport you to detailed, lived-in, ridiculously beautiful tech wastelands. The lights, the spaceships, the seas of people, and the constant sense of dynamic adventure are all there in many cyberpunk works.

However, that feeling the sci-fi gloss often imparts can contradict with the real problems that the cyberpunk genre seeks to reveal. All the grit doesn't keep you from thinking, "I want to live there, or at least see it." A lot of cyberpunk fiction falls flat as a cautionary tale for this reason.

Booting up Cruelty Squad for the first time took courage. I mean, look at this thing. The menus, the border around the screen, the massive blob of a health bar, and the brown note soundscape do everything in their power to grate on your senses. Dialogue sounds like something out of an Animal Crossing creepypasta, everyone is obsessed with Chunkopops and Gorbino's Quest, I could go on and on. Cruelty Squad is a deeply, profoundly ugly game; that's a strength, not a weakness.

The world of Cruelty Squad is so far down the corporate hypercapitalist rabbit hole that it doesn't even matter anymore. The rich have figured out how to come back from death itself, so the value of human life has dropped far below 0. Everyone in Cruelty Squad's world is either obsessed with some product lifestyle, corporate fad, or doing enough drugs to be able to keep up with both. The player character is a member of the Cruelty Squad, a privately owned contract killer organization that does the bidding of larger conglomerates obsessed with their bottom line. This game's world is just oozing with venom for the corporate future we could be heading towards, and you can see that in every frame.

Cruelty Squad's transgressive design doesn't keep it from being a drat good immersive sim. Each level tasks you with killing a target or two and escaping, which is simple enough on paper. In practice, your preferred playstyle could send you on a unique route through the level due to the game's open-ended design. Shoot open doors, break vents in the ceiling, grapple hook through windows, or barge through the front door if you'd like; Cruelty Squad's commitment to player freedom is strong, so strong that you can completely glitch out of the map to beat levels if you want to.

There are heaps upon heaps of secret weapons, augments, and missions to find throughout the world, lending replay value to the game's campaign. Although the AI is ArmA 3 jank tier at all times, the enemies are dangerous and the time to kill is low. The secrets, the open level design, and the dangerous enemies all force you to really look at what you're playing, which is a great way to pull you into Cruelty Squad's twisted world.

Where other cyberpunk fiction is bleak, Cruelty Squad is rotten. The game imbues its ideas and messages about corporate greed and consumer culture into its world so deftly that you could be mistaken for thinking the mess of textures and assaulting soundscape of its world were thrown together haphazardly; make no mistake, the hideousness, the true grit of Cruelty Squad's world is absolutely intentional. This is a cyberpunk (although some might call it biopunk but that's splitting hairs) work that actually has something to say, and expects you to agree; I don't want to go to Cruelty Squad's world, and the game nods along with my assessment.

In its final hours, Cruelty Squad gets very abstract and existential. A huge portion of the community's discourse around this game involves Cruelty Squad's endings and what they imply about the game world and our own. This is one of those games I'd expect forums to light up about for years to come, debating its true meaning and finding value in the nonsense. Don't ask me to make sense of it because I barely could, but what I got instead was an experience both unique and truly cyberpunk.

Cruelty Squad's critique of our world is laser focused and wrapped in a package brimming with secrets, and that makes me a happy little flesh ape. It's absolutely worth the price tag, and it's worth pushing through the grime to see the message just underneath.

I played through Cruelty Squad and the review has a bunch of good points (it really does look like it's somehow more cyberpunk than cyberpunk 2077), but calling it "a drat good immersive sim" is way too much.

Trailer for reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHm2d3wf8EU

# ? Aug 14, 2021 20:09

bob dobbs is dead: Oct 8, 2017; I love peeps; Nap Ghost

replay of disco elysium now that its fully voiced:

what a wonderful game it remains lol

# ? Aug 14, 2021 20:23

shoeberto: Jun 13, 2020; which way to the MACHINES?

RokosCockatrice posted:

This is probably the best review I've ever read:
https://steamcommunity.com/id/nawtsucks/recommended/1388770/

I played through Cruelty Squad and the review has a bunch of good points (it really does look like it's somehow more cyberpunk than cyberpunk 2077), but calling it "a drat good immersive sim" is way too much.

Trailer for reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHm2d3wf8EU

I've only done the first two missions, but imsim is sort of a weird label for it, yeah. Level design and customization seem imsim-ish but the actual beat-by-beat combat feels almost like Rainbow 6 or a slowed down single player Counter-Strike.

# ? Aug 14, 2021 20:38

TontoCorazon: Aug 18, 2007

BF 2042 is kinda loving dope, combat and mobility is top notch, don't know what the problem with BFV was but it didn't feel right

# ? Aug 14, 2021 21:07

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

psiox posted:

world of winchcraft

lol

# ? Aug 14, 2021 21:14

Pythagoras a trois: Feb 19, 2004; I have a lot of points to make and I will make them later.

shoeberto posted:

I've only done the first two missions, but imsim is sort of a weird label for it, yeah. Level design and customization seem imsim-ish but the actual beat-by-beat combat feels almost like Rainbow 6 or a slowed down single player Counter-Strike.

I forgot to mention- I really liked it. The sense of humor and consistency of vision was really impressive, and the gameplay was like an enjoyable return to 90's era shooters.

# ? Aug 14, 2021 21:41

Silver Alicorn: Mar 30, 2008; 𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

turns out I still sorta like warframe

# ? Aug 14, 2021 22:32

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.; Buglord

Silver Alicorn posted:

turns out I still sorta like warframe

i wish my regular internet was better because warframe scratches a specific itch that i enjoy scratching

# ? Aug 15, 2021 04:56

Silver Alicorn: Mar 30, 2008; 𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

the actual shooting part is very good.

# ? Aug 15, 2021 04:58

PIZZA.BAT: Nov 12, 2016

bob dobbs is dead posted:

replay of disco elysium now that its fully voiced:

what a wonderful game it remains lol

i�m waiting a year before i play it again. thinking about how i�ll run it

# ? Aug 15, 2021 06:23

bob dobbs is dead: Oct 8, 2017; I love peeps; Nap Ghost

i hosed around w the save game so every skill would try to demand poo poo from me, that was a laugh riot. just an insane discussion erupting from random poo poo

# ? Aug 15, 2021 07:06

SmokaDustbowl: Feb 12, 2001; by vyelkin; Fun Shoe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNTbJ6fWV2I

# ? Aug 15, 2021 07:43

Ciaphas: Nov 20, 2005; > BEWARE, COWARD

PIZZA.BAT posted:

i�m waiting a year before i play it again. thinking about how i�ll run it

i always bog down fast when i try to play it, because making decisions is scary

# ? Aug 15, 2021 12:07

Ciaphas: Nov 20, 2005; > BEWARE, COWARD

i wish that post was more of a joke lol

# ? Aug 15, 2021 12:07

Lysidas: Jul 26, 2002; John Diefenbaker is a madman who thinks he's John Diefenbaker.; Pillbug

i figured id give doom eternal another try since its 75% off, it didnt work under the current proton release last time i bought it and i refunded it, it actually starts now

to get me to a "bethesda.net" account screen where i have to log in ... to the game? what the gently caress is this

~60% chance im going to refund it again

# ? Aug 15, 2021 15:41

bump_fn: Apr 12, 2004; _{two of them}

just play original doom and doom ii hth

# ? Aug 15, 2021 15:46

PIZZA.BAT: Nov 12, 2016

Ciaphas posted:

i always bog down fast when i try to play it, because making decisions is scary

oh man you really just gotta embrace chaos and yolo through it. so much funnier stuff happens when you stop taking it seriously

# ? Aug 15, 2021 15:50

shoeberto: Jun 13, 2020; which way to the MACHINES?

Mannn. Cruelty Squad is so cool. It's really growing on me a lot.

Totally dumping my MGS5 playthrough for this.

# ? Aug 15, 2021 16:38

Kenny Logins: Jan 11, 2011; EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A WHITE WHALE INTO THE PEQUOD. IT'S HELL'S HEART AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I STRIKE AT THEE ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, ISHMAEL.

bump_fn posted:

just play original doom and doom ii hth

# ? Aug 15, 2021 17:02

bob dobbs is dead: Oct 8, 2017; I love peeps; Nap Ghost

PIZZA.BAT posted:

oh man you really just gotta embrace chaos and yolo through it. so much funnier stuff happens when you stop taking it seriously

you should also embrace self destruction more in there too, the main character certainly has

# ? Aug 15, 2021 17:04

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

TontoCorazon posted:

BF 2042 is kinda loving dope, combat and mobility is top notch, don't know what the problem with BFV was but it didn't feel right

Is there a place I can play it for free to see if I like it

# ? Aug 15, 2021 17:08

bump_fn: Apr 12, 2004; _{two of them}

Sagebrush posted:

Is there a place I can play it for free to see if I like it

thepirate bay dot fbi dot gov

# ? Aug 15, 2021 18:18

TontoCorazon: Aug 18, 2007

Sagebrush posted:

Is there a place I can play it for free to see if I like it

For now no, its a closed technical test, I think there is an open beta happening soon.

# ? Aug 15, 2021 18:29

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# ? Apr 26, 2024 11:40

pseudorandom name: May 6, 2007

Lysidas posted:

to get me to a "bethesda.net" account screen where i have to log in ... to the game? what the gently caress is this

capitalism sows the seeds of its own destruction

# ? Aug 15, 2021 19:04

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