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madfury posted:The Riddick game of olden days was loving excellent. All the other ones...not so much so I get where the feeling comes from. GotG looks just average to me and I dont like the visual style so a pass from me. Doesnt mean its a bad game though. That Riddick game is the gold standard for movie games. I can't even imagine how many hours I spent on that bad boy.
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Unpacking is out now. It's very chill and does a nice job of telling a story with no text, other than a one sentence thing that doesn't infer much at the end of each 'memory'. Also play Witchbeam's other game while you're at it, Assault Android Cactus rules.
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kirbysuperstar posted:Unpacking is out now. It's very chill and does a nice job of telling a story with no text, other than a one sentence thing that doesn't infer much at the end of each 'memory'. Also play Witchbeam's other game while you're at it, Assault Android Cactus rules. Nice! I just saw that Unpacking is free on Game Pass, too.
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Time Loaderquote:Time Loader is a story-driven puzzle-platformer with tiny robots, alternate realities, nostalgic music, and primitive tech from the 90s!  He had an accident as a child so he studied physics and engineering all his life and built a time machine to send a little rover back to fix his accident. I really loved the demo for this one.
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Rusty posted:Time Loader If there isn't a point at which you type LARA as a password in this game I'm going to be disappointed.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1325900/Demon_Turf/quote:The 3D platformer with attitude! Join Beebz in her ambitious goal of taking over the Demon Turfs and becoming the Demon Queen herself! Jump, spin and punch your way across the turfs with unique mechanics like momentum-driven combat and self-placed checkpoints. Time to face the Demon King head on! quote:☼ 101% ACCURATE GAME REVIEW ☼
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Where Cards Fallquote:Spread decks of cards to solve challenging spatial puzzles and progress through dream-like landscapes in this award-winning title. Traverse beautifully crafted, isometric puzzles that give way to a wordless coming-of-age story, that invites you to reflect on the formative moments of your own life.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1570510/Undernauts_Labyrinth_of_Yomi/ A 60$ title from Aksys Games! quote:Escape from “Yomi” – a dungeon filled with riches – and danger.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1547890/Lets_Build_a_Zoo/quote:It's time to Build a Zoo! Construct and decorate enclosures, buy and breed animals, hire zookeepers and vets... then try your hand at DNA splicing, and stitch together over 300,000 different types of animal. This can only go smoothly... quote:Build your own zoo with over 500 different animals at your disposal, then splice together over 300,000 different animal combinations
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https://twitter.com/moonglowbay/status/1455958677840662531 posting it here since i brought up moonglow bay. includes an autosave feature and apparently improved keyboard controls that i haven't tried out.
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Johnny Joestar posted:https://twitter.com/moonglowbay/status/1455958677840662531 I got this game and even with the update it still is... finicky. Cute though.
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I played it on Gamepass and it's pretty buggy and the gameplay interaction is not good. Like you can only change your rod setup in areas you can cast, just really not good feeling game. I also broke the tutorial at one point by mashing through dialog too fast. It's cute and I want to have fun with it but they've made it hard.
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It also has some weird performance issues, at least for me. drat voxels. It sucks because the concept for the game is brilliant, but it's just too unpolished.
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Thief Simulator is having a crossover event with just released Prison Sim: https://store.steampowered.com/app/842180/Prison_Simulator/ quote:Get a taste of prison life! Become a prison guard and deal with dangerous convicts. Prison management, lots of daily activities. Will you become the best guard in history? Or maybe you'll turn into the worst scumbag this Prison has ever seen? quote:- Experience life in prison in the comfort of your own home. Without any real-life consequences!
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1491510/Recon_Control/quote:Recon Control is a turn-based strategy and 2D platformer hybrid focused on combat. You play as a commander of the small special operations unit. Choose the right fighters for specific tasks, train them, buy equipment, and lead your unit through a set of missions to the final. It looks like steamworld heist, but now without robots
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1524530/Fantasy_Town_Regional_Manager/quote:It is up to you, the regional middle manager of the adventurers guild to grow this small hamlet into a bustling city. Will you stand the test of time, or will your works return to dust as many have before?
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Every time I see a simulation game that isn't the most AAA-polished experience, I always wonder what Let's Game It Out could do to absolutely obliterate the game and its systems.
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Does anyone here have any experience with this games series? The graphics look like poo poo, but the store description does sound a little interesting. I wouldn't mind an ugly but mechanically sound action RPG with VR support. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1593280/8089_The_Next_Action_RPG/
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1736300/LIBLADE/ This just came out, it's only $7 and I'm having a lot of fun with it. It requires a dual analog controller because you use the right stick to swing your sword and if you're thinking "that sounds awkward" I get it, but just a few minutes with the game blew those doubts away for me because it works really well. It's stage based with checkpoints you buy new moves and upgrades at, seems linear but you can jump back to earlier checkpoints/stages if you'd like. https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256854442/movie480_vp9.webm
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1491510/Recon_Control/ A side view turn based game, no personal aiming system. 3 campaigns with no squad carryover. Playing the second campaign now and not totally sure the developer kept that in mind. Enemy body armor on the first mission, ugh. But the maps are generally built with stealth as at least a possibility.
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the developers (developer?) for outstanding demo Star Fetchers apparently made a kickstarter for the game's first proper episode and it was a resounding success. anyone who has an afternoon free should check out the demo on steam, there's nothing quite like it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDwvIDzJnAY
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I bought it and played it Last night. I was laughing the whole time. Its like a sim theme Park on steroids. When i got to ser the capybaras jumping on a trampoline i knew this gane país itself
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1406850/The_Legend_of_Tianding/quote:The Legend of Tianding is a sidescrolling action game about Liao Tianding, the legendary Taiwanese Folk Hero. Explore the dazzling streets of Colonial Japanese Taiwan in the early 20th century. Has a review that takes a hard turn in the final sentence: quote:I fell in love with this game when I played the demo some months ago, and it's as good as I remember! The graphics are beautiful, the story is very interesting and the combat system is one of the most fun I've experienced in a long time! I usually don't care about martial arts or games ambiented in this setting and era, but the game is so good I just swallowed my prejudices and Im having a blast.
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That seems fine to me? It's okay to be up front that you don't like martial arts or colonial settings
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Thirsty Dog posted:That seems fine to me? It's okay to be up front that you don't like martial arts or colonial settings Probably the word 'prejudice' was a little odd that's all. There's a different implication between prejudice and dislike. However the writer may be an international writer and not have English as their first language and those nuances may not be apparent to them.
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Mayveena posted:Probably the word 'prejudice' was a little odd that's all. There's a different implication between prejudice and dislike. However the writer may be an international writer and not have English as their first language and those nuances may not be apparent to them. I speak the Queen's English, and I can tell you that's a perfectly cromulant use of the word.
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Bug Squash posted:I speak the Queen's English, and I can tell you that's a perfectly cromulant use of the word. You mean cromulent??  And I would disagree regarding American English. I dislike spinach but have no prejudice against it.
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Mayveena posted:You mean cromulent?? I think there's a usage difference there though. Prejudice works best on "types" of things rather than individual things. You wouldn't be "prejudiced" about spinach but you might describe a dislike of ALL leafy green foodstuffs as a prejudice. In the above review they say that they're prejudiced against games that occur in a given narrative space because it's a broad brushstroke and theyre not taking individual differences into account. Regardless, most times your say prejudice you could probably sub in dislike, but I don't think the opposite is true. (Plus, given the cultural weight of the word its pretty strange for it to show up in a video game review)
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I think prejudice can apply pretty well to the food example. I am also not a big fan of spinach. So if you slapped down a bowl of saag paneer in front of me and told me it's mostly spinach (and assuming I hadn't already had saag paneer), my default expectation would be "I'm not going to like this". That's a prejudice. I have made a judgement about the dish before trying it. But I'd still try it, because I try not to be ruled by my prejudices and regularly try things I don't think I'll like to see if I was wrong. Turns out I actually like saag paneer a lot! And it's not a matter of "turns out I actually like spinach" or "my tastes have changed", because I still don't like it in most other dishes. If you showed me a different spinach dish, I would still expect I wouldn't like it. It would take a few more examples of spinach dishes I like to convince me otherwise. Bringing it back to games, I would say I have a prejudice against modern action roguelikes (caused by bad experiences with Binding of Isaac, Rogue Legacy, and Enter the Gungeon), but still dutifully tried (and loved) Hades and Returnal.
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I had To The Rescue on my wishlist since one of the steam demo events. It looks like it released as a buggy mess, but the devs seem to be patching the heck out of it, so it maybe be a neat management(?) sim eventually? https://store.steampowered.com/app/946720/To_The_Rescue/
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Mayveena posted:Probably the word 'prejudice' was a little odd that's all. There's a different implication between prejudice and dislike. However the writer may be an international writer and not have English as their first language and those nuances may not be apparent to them. I don't think so, English is my first language and that is a completely fine usage of it there. I'm prejudiced against shooters with Call of Duty in the title because I think they look dumb, I can't say I dislike them as I haven't played them yet. Usage tends to suggest an acknowledgement that it's a judgement based on pre-defined notions, rather than experience of the actual thing. edit: this could also be one of those things where a word has a certain weight in America and not anywhere else in the English speaking world
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Alctel posted:edit: this could also be one of those things where a word has a certain weight in America and not anywhere else in the English speaking world I understand it the same way up here in Canada.
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I mainlined this thread over like four days and wishlisted 30+ games that I hadn't heard of prior. To everyone posting games, descriptions, and pictures/gifs, I salute you.  Morpheus posted:This is a plus for me. Not sure why RPGs need to always be 30+-hour endeavours. I think there are two reasons for that- the first one is that in early RPGs there was a lot of grinding to level up to be able to move on to the next area so games would actually take a lot of time to progress so a lot of people are used to that; and secondly that a common, unspoken rule of thumb is to get at least 1 hour (ideally more) of play for every dollar spent on a game so shorter games get a lot of flak for being too short if they're not priced accordingly so there is pressure for devs to deliver longer games. IE- shorter from normal baseline length is unconsciously viewed as unfinished or abandoned.
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I come out of hibernation to post something absolutely useless https://store.steampowered.com/app/1127180/Robot_Vacuum_Simulator_X/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256757648/movie480.webm?t=1564607180 Robot Vacuum Simulator X. For anyone who has ever wanted to roleplay as a piece of computerized cleaning equipment, well.... this one's for you.
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1570510/Undernauts_Labyrinth_of_Yomi/ Anyone tried this? I like the sound of it, and reviews are mostly positive, but for $80AUD I'm gonna need a seriously addictive game with lots of replay value, and I can't say I'm getting that from the store page.
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