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ikanreed posted:I don't know if this is unpopular or an opinion per se, but it seems on topic. I will put a hundred hours into a game I think is mediocre and leave games I think are good unbeaten because I feel like I can't commit to actually enjoying something. I do this with games, books, and multi season tv series.
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ikanreed posted:I don't know if this is unpopular or an opinion per se, but it seems on topic. I will put a hundred hours into a game I think is mediocre and leave games I think are good unbeaten because I feel like I can't commit to actually enjoying something. You should try doing the opposite
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Sep 15, 2021 01:27
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Cracker King posted:I still think video games are different from computer games. woah woah woah wait a minute what are you talking about
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Sep 15, 2021 02:18
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Believe me buddy, I’m confused as hell at the Steam Deck with my old ‘Nintendo’ brain.
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Sep 15, 2021 02:27
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but you do the same things in both of them press buttons and make a guy on the screen kill things and/or make money
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Sep 15, 2021 03:13
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I get it. Video games and computer games just used to feel different. Now they're pretty much the same thing though
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Sep 15, 2021 03:30
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That is true, they did used to be pretty different. There were some RTS console ports that were unplayable. Consoles didn't have FPSes until PS1/N64 except for a Doom port and a Wolfenstein port to SNES. But platformers were a console thing, and really bad on PC. But the RPG, The King of Genres, was on both, but they were really different things. PC was dungeon crawler, grid based stuff where you had a party of 4 or 6 guys where you'd move around a labyrinth and encounter visible monsters that you can approach or evade. Console was Phantasy Star/Final Fantasy/Dragon Quest JRPG type overworld/town map/dungeon map with randomly appearing monsters stuff. Yea you make a good point. But nowadays they're the same thing with a few notable exceptions I guess, like most strategy and city builder games.
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Sep 15, 2021 03:44
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Like, Warcraft 2 has a PS1 port. Can you even loving imagine?
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:That is true, they did used to be pretty different. There were some RTS console ports that were unplayable. Consoles didn't have FPSes until PS1/N64 except for a Doom port and a Wolfenstein port to SNES. But platformers were a console thing, and really bad on PC. But the RPG, The King of Genres, was on both, but they were really different things. PC was dungeon crawler, grid based stuff where you had a party of 4 or 6 guys where you'd move around a labyrinth and encounter visible monsters that you can approach or evade. Console was Phantasy Star/Final Fantasy/Dragon Quest JRPG type overworld/town map/dungeon map with randomly appearing monsters stuff. That's because consoles are just computers now.
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Sep 15, 2021 03:48
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People aren't making RTS games because their market are just going to ignore them and keep mindlessly clicking on Starcraft 2 anyway increasing their APM and keep obsessively playing DOTA 2, continuing their 10 year journey of laning, whatever that is.
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Sep 15, 2021 03:50
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:That is true, they did used to be pretty different. There were some RTS console ports that were unplayable. Consoles didn't have FPSes until PS1/N64 except for a Doom port and a Wolfenstein port to SNES. But platformers were a console thing, and really bad on PC. But the RPG, The King of Genres, was on both, but they were really different things. PC was dungeon crawler, grid based stuff where you had a party of 4 or 6 guys where you'd move around a labyrinth and encounter visible monsters that you can approach or evade. Console was Phantasy Star/Final Fantasy/Dragon Quest JRPG type overworld/town map/dungeon map with randomly appearing monsters stuff. Probably worth noting that Wizardry got huge in Japan. There's a port of the first three for SNES, and the series and copycats maintained a respectable level of popularity up until PS2 era. Even today most of those older style dungeon crawlers are coming from Japan
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:Like, Warcraft 2 has a PS1 port. Can you even loving imagine? the PS1 port of Diablo is really good
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Rutibex posted:the PS1 port of Diablo is really good I can imagine that. But any RTS on a D-Pad sounds like a nightmare. It was always weird to me that Wizardry blew up in Japan. Maybe because its hard? That it pretty much the only RPG series I can't really gently caress with because it's just too hard for me. That and Age of Decadence was too hard for me. I think the toughest RPG I've ever beaten was Etrian Odyssey 4 on the 3DS. It took over a year of casually playing to beat it. I had to be really strategic and think 2 or 3 moves ahead in some fights.
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Sep 15, 2021 04:23
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Frostpunk is indeed a lovely title but the game is fun, it's bleak as hell if you like that sort of thing I also got "cloudpunk" which is also a completely nonsensical name for it, but my laptop couldn't run it 
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Sep 15, 2021 04:25
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:Like, Warcraft 2 has a PS1 port. Can you even loving imagine?
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Sep 15, 2021 04:25
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command and conquer 64 was good tho
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Sep 15, 2021 04:45
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Who here is the punk? Why punk? As far as I can tell, Frostpunk is a game where I have to build a tall city after the worlds end. This sounds cool. But the punk. Who is it? Is it me?
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Sep 15, 2021 04:50
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"punk" is to game aesthetics/settings as "core" is to musical genres. Cybercore Frostcore Cloudcore Steamcore it's just a suffix that means this, this first word? that's what it's all about, STEAM
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Sep 15, 2021 04:53
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Cumpunk 2069
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Sep 15, 2021 04:54
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:Like, Warcraft 2 has a PS1 port. Can you even loving imagine? I can not only imagine it, I've played it! It could have been worse, I think. It has an autobuild/queue thing (with rally points? i dont remember) that really cuts down on screen scrolling. The UI was also rebuilt from the ground up so it only popped up when you needed it, and you could navigate using the d-pad.
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Sep 15, 2021 04:57
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kntfkr posted:"punk" is to game aesthetics/settings as "core" is to musical genres. goonpunk
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Sep 15, 2021 05:01
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:Like, Warcraft 2 has a PS1 port. Can you even loving imagine? Seeing the N64 Starcraft cart at Blockbuster (  ) always made me wonder.Also the difference between console and computer used to be load times and crashes and now the field is a little more level.
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Sep 15, 2021 05:03
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Sally posted:goonpunk ew
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Sep 15, 2021 05:04
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Corepunk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKnS3zel9T8
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Sep 15, 2021 05:04
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in that instead of "never" and "constantly" they are both at "often"?
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:Who here is the punk? Why punk? As far as I can tell, Frostpunk is a game where I have to build a tall city after the worlds end. This sounds cool. But the punk. Who is it? Is it me? It's a literary thing, basically "punk" describes any fictional genre that focuses on a specific type of fantastical technology that shapes a setting, where that setting is often used to describe the struggle of working class heroes against an oligarchy.
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Sep 15, 2021 05:34
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steampunk is just an excuse for cosplayers to glue a bunch of cogs to a tophat and put on welding goggles
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Sep 15, 2021 05:36
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Can we just give in to the inevitable and have a punkpunk game?
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QuarkJets posted:It's a literary thing, basically "punk" describes any fictional genre that focuses on a specific type of fantastical technology that shapes a setting, where that setting is often used to describe the struggle of working class heroes against an oligarchy. no only cyberpunk means that steampunk is all about posh colonisers who own giant robots and glue brass cogs to their hats and everything else named "-punk" just went "well it's in steampunk so i guess it's a meaningless term that just means 'this is a genre' "
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Sep 15, 2021 06:25
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At least it's not gooncore
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Armitag3 posted:Lol at cheating yourself from playing a great game because the title annoys your nerd neurons Reading the title, "Bravely Default" makes me feel like I'm gonna have a stroke. It was clearly named through a machine learning script, right?
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Sep 15, 2021 07:38
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Bravely Default follows in the long and proud tradition of jrpg developers basically doing the English-language equivalent of "getting a tattoo of some random Chinese characters that the shady tattooist swears mean 'strength' even though you can't read Chinese'
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Sep 15, 2021 07:43
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frankly there are so many good games to play and only so much to enjoy them. it is truly a golden age of games and we are spoilt  i am okay with shelving games for silly or trivial reasons. maybe i will come back around maybe not. i skipped over dishonoured at launch because i thought the title sounded dull and the protagonist"s helmet looked silly. but i recently bought both Dishonoreds after playing the hell out of Prey... so i am gonna play them soon to get myself more pumped for Deathloop
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chainchompz posted:Reading the title, "Bravely Default" makes me feel like I'm gonna have a stroke. It was clearly named through a machine learning script, right? bravely default gives me quantum of solace vibes as far as names go
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site posted:command and conquer 64 was good tho played the C&C remaster and wondered why it was so different from what i remembered it didn't occur to me till i looked it up that i was stupid enough as a kid to play an rts on a console
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Sally posted:frankly there are so many good games to play and only so much to enjoy them. it is truly a golden age of games and we are spoilt Don't skip on The Knife of Dunwall / Brigmore Witches. They're good. Death of the Outsider is meh.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:no only cyberpunk means that Yeah, it's totally this. Steampunk was very much opposite cyberpunk in terms of name, it kind of makes sense in that regard, it's kind of tongue in cheek about it. Everything else misses the subtlety and just puts 'punk' after the setting headline. The worst of this for me is now (certainly in the UK I dunno about elsewhere, though I imagine the US?) Whenever there's a scandal it gets called "Scandal-gate" after Watergate. But like, that doesn't make any loving sense at all. Any time I hear it, it just makes my think of newspaper execs going, "yeah but the loving dumb dumbs need a sound byte" and then a smash cut to a horde of dumb dumbs in the pub going "Did you hear about horse-gate?" And nodding sagely !Klams fucked around with this message at 09:16 on Sep 15, 2021 |
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Floodixor posted:I also got "cloudpunk" which is also a completely nonsensical name for it, but my laptop couldn't run it It's a perfectly good name. It's a cyberpunk story where you drive around in the sky (where the clouds are). And it's the name of the courier service you work for, which also fits because it's exactly the kind of name that kind of business would have. Also it's a very good game. If you do get to play it, be prepared to play a half hour or so before it gets good though because it starts a bit slow.
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Tiggum posted:It's a perfectly good name. It's a cyberpunk story where you drive around in the sky (where the clouds are). And it's the name of the courier service you work for, which also fits because it's exactly the kind of name that kind of business would have. would you say that FedEx is Vanpunk?
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Caesar Saladin posted:would you say that FedEx is Vanpunk? No? What? 
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