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AfricanBootyShine posted:Mission wise, I'd say Cyberpunk 2077 is better because the dialogue is actually well written and the character animation is actually competent. I disagree super hard (except about the annoying phone calls) . If Cyberpunk felt like an Ubisoft game I'd have dumped it in under 8 hours like I have with every Ubi game. The city has a ton of personality and interesting poo poo to see, that I have never seen even a fraction of in an Ubisoft game.
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Yeah, it may not be a Bethesda open world (really not much is), but it’s significantly better than an Ubisoft one. In the same way W3 is - there isn’t a ton of systemic stuff going on or necessarily tons of stuff to explore and discover, but it’s well crafted and a believable space imo
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Speaking of open-world, I have to agree with whoever said the ludonarrative dissonance in Watch Dogs 2 is too much. Having GTAlike gameplay (whatever this genre is called?) in a story about dorky hacktivists is just weird. At least it feels right to do missions in a stealth/non-lethal missions manner, but also I am biologically incapable of not driving like a monster in the open world segments in these kind of games. I liked Saints Row 2 and 3 leaning hard on "yeah, these characters are exactly as psychotic as how you play this game" and I also felt Sleeping Dogs made the story and gameplay fit together nicely, which is probably why those are my favourite titles in this genre. Not sure I will be sticking with WD2.
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ZearothK posted:Speaking of open-world, I have to agree with whoever said the ludonarrative dissonance in Watch Dogs 2 is too much. Having GTAlike gameplay (whatever this genre is called?) in a story about dorky hacktivists is just weird. At least it feels right to do missions in a stealth/non-lethal missions manner, but also I am biologically incapable of not driving like a monster in the open world segments in these kind of games. The game works A LOT better, both narratively and mechanically if you ignore lethal weapons. I'm pretty sure those have been forced in after the fact to not alienate the core Ubisoft audience.
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Sleeping Dogs is great because you would think a cop would only be half as violent as a normal GTA protagonist but Wei Shen is just an absolute psychopath so its all completely natural.
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My most memorable scene in Sleeping Dogs are triads driving towards a heist and commenting on how cops cannot kill people, so asking new members to kill is a good way to find undercover cops. Wei Shen manages to save the main criminal of the mission because he’s a good cop, and then proceeds to throw half of the criminal element in Hong Kong into a wood chipper.
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I'd like to call out my most memorable scene in Sleeping Dogs, but I just can't decide which one it is. The story just never stops throwing them at you. What a game.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLu0obvPao0
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i'm partial to the combined end of the dating missions, where wei is called out for being a 5(?) timing prick, dumped, and then acts like he's the victim.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:i'm partial to the combined end of the dating missions, where wei is called out for being a 5(?) timing prick, dumped, and then acts like he's the victim. The entire mechanic was like a one and done thing that unlocks a map feature for each girl. Either they cut the planned content by a lot or the idea you could date characters like in GTA4 was so important to open world games they just shoehorned in the bare minimum.
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Fat Samurai posted:My most memorable scene in Sleeping Dogs are triads driving towards a heist and commenting on how cops cannot kill people, so asking new members to kill is a good way to find undercover cops. But god loving help you if you dent a car while undercover.
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Pwnstar posted:Sleeping Dogs is great because you would think a cop would only be half as violent as a normal GTA protagonist but Wei Shen is just an absolute psychopath so its all completely natural.
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Zedd posted:Assuming you mean the FPS from a few years ago: This and the others: Thanks for the heads up…most of my backlog and wishlist is because of this thread…any reason to drop a game or three is usually a good thing!
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pentyne posted:The entire mechanic was like a one and done thing that unlocks a map feature for each girl. Either they cut the planned content by a lot or the idea you could date characters like in GTA4 was so important to open world games they just shoehorned in the bare minimum. There was a lot of cut stuff including that. Activision cancelled the game (originally a new True Crime game) and it was bought by Square Enix who of course didn’t want to spend any more money than they already had. That Sleeping Dogs was as good as it was is amazing. Then Square went through a period where apparently one or more higher ups were convinced that consoles would be dead within a few years and everything should be an online game and you Sleeping Dogs make an online game and woops, series dead.
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Kibayasu posted:Then Square went through a period where apparently one or more higher ups were convinced that consoles would be dead within a few years and everything should be an online game and you Sleeping Dogs make an online game and woops, series dead. There was an article years ago examining a design document written up for Sleeping Dogs 2. It would have had two protagonists with different approaches to each mission - Wei Shen would beat up and shoot up everything as usual, while the other guy would be more adventure game-y, framing people and such. There was also a bunch of second-screen tablet intergration ala Smartglass, which should definitely date where this was coming from. Lemme find it... Here we go. Vice: Inside the Ambitious 'Sleeping Dogs' Sequel We'll Never Get to Play
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There was no "much of the team behind Sleeping Dogs went off and formed their own studio" kind of a thing, was there?
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Pwnstar posted:Sleeping Dogs is great because you would think a cop would only be half as violent as a normal GTA protagonist but Wei Shen is just an absolute psychopath so its all completely natural. Yeah that's probably because he is an american cop. 
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Tomorrow's October Humble Choice bundle allegedly includes Deathloop, Monster Train, and Disciples: Liberation, according to a leaker who's gotten these right for the past few months. Deathloop would be a pretty good headliner, relative to some of the recent bundles.
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Monster Train is one of the most addictive card battlers I've ever played and more people should check it out if they liked Slay the Spire.
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Monster Train and Deathloop is both on Game Pass.
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more demos launching for Next Fest this week. bolded are ones i'm interested in, italics mean you may have seen them at E3/various events: Desktop Dungeons Rewind (a 3D remake/sidequel) Jackbox Party Pack 9 Potionomics Hell is Others Stuntfest - World Tour (THQ Nordic) Flat Eye Tails: The Backbone Preludes (didn't even know this existed, interesting! i'm the one person who liked the twist/story shift in backbone) Friends vs Friends JETT: The Far Shore (Superbrothers) Forever Skies Cassette Beasts Tiny Troopers: Global Ops Bravery & Greed Pixeljunk Scrappers Birth Meg's Monster Decarnation The Time I Have Left From Space VICE NDRCVR (Skybound) As I should've expected, a lot of devs kept their demos hidden until just now. Still I wish that they hadn't because it'd have made it easier for me to keep it all together and give people the heads up! Already mentioned before: WH40K: Warpforge Beloved Rapture Capes (superhero xcom?) Dewdrop Dynasty Trouble Juice (dev of Toodee & Topdee) Murder is Game Over Azure Striker Gunvolt 3 Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider - by the dev of Blazing Chrome and Odallus: The Dark Call Psychroma Knuckle Sandwich Arkanoid: Eternal Battle SKALD Stick It to the Stickman (by the dev of Broforce, Gorn, Genital Jousting, and Anger Foot) Ship of Fools Slam & Roll Foolish Mortals Winter Falling: Battle Tactics Gunbrella Sorry We're Open (also in the Haunted PS1 Demo Disc 2022) Stories from Sol Pt 1 (i enjoy a retro anime/pc98 graphic adventure look) ZeroRanger Dungeons of the Amber Griffin Retro Gadgets Miniland The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Oct 3, 2022 |
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No idea if this is 100% true but still https://twitter.com/gamingonlinux/s...ingawful.com%2F
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Excited to try the demos for Potionomics and SKALD first. I think SKALD has had several demos at this point but this is apparently a new one.
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hundreds of demos and most of these aren't worth the effort the developers put into it. There's a few standouts but it's mostly point and click vampire survivors clone some ambitious chinese thing booba game yet another platformer something that tries to do something quirky but probably is too ambitious There's just so much to look at https://store.steampowered.com/app/1612000/One_Day_More/ seems interesting https://store.steampowered.com/app/1760580/Anton/ is interesting but it's basically less polished Republique which is also similar to https://store.steampowered.com/app/324770/eXperience_112/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1562430/DREDGE/ might be good?
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more demos goin' up Clash: Artifacts of Chaos - new game in the Zeno Clash universe by Ace Team Block n Load 2 Floodland - by Vile Monarch (Growing Up, Weedcraft, Oh Sir) Mushrooms: Forest Walker Loud - a music game by HyperStrange (Postal: Brain Damaged, Blood West, Elderborn) Rhythm Sprout Gun Jam The Knight Witch e: note that i've just been looking at the new and upcoming lists on the regular steam catalog rather than the steam next fest landing page, just because a lot of demos that will be in the next fest are demos that have been around and live for months, so i just want to make sure to catch the new ones that will very likely be time-limited. i can do a later post that goes over the notable demos from the landing page itself in terms of stuff that's been around just in case people want to check out some cool stuff they maybe were unaware of. although i think my posts on this page have already laid out a pretty extensive list of stuff to try The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Oct 3, 2022 |
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a list of upcoming sony releases leaked, and you're not gonna believe this but returnal is coming to PC and some other stuff too like horizon forbidden west
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Zedd posted:Yeah that's probably because he is an american cop. Related to this, one of my favorite lines in the game is near the start where Jackie yells, "Holy poo poo, Wei! What did they do to you in America?!" as you are dropping a shutter onto someone's torso.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1283410/Tails_of_Iron/ Buy the rat game. It's good.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2135150/Elin/ Sequel to Elona from back in the day which I dumped a lot of hours into
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repiv posted:a list of upcoming sony releases leaked, and you're not gonna believe this but returnal is coming to PC Are they legit remastering the first Horizon?
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Sininu posted:Are they legit remastering the first Horizon? Yes. A game you can already play on the ps5 with a 60fps patch.
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Tiny Timbs posted:What the hell do you do to remaster a game like that in a way that looks appreciably different? They just did Last of Us 1, a game that already had a remaster on PS4 and ran on PS5. Looks like Sony is just planning to pump out remasters/remakes for one generation ago now.
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Without remasters and ps4 games the ps5 has no games.
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OK, some more demos from gleaning the actual landing page. Bolded my interests, italics for previously seen at E3/Gamescom/Realms Deep/etc: 9 Years of Shadows Asterigos (TinyBuild) Scars Above (a third person action game by the dev of, of all things, Adam Wolfe??!!!) Katana Rama Vernal Edge Mile High Taxi The Eternal Cylinder (Ace Team) Dros Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum Fowl Scourge Enchain 77p egg: eggwife (look, it was in Realms Deep ok) Chasm: The Rift ProtoCorgi SuperFuse Inkulinati Mask of the Rose (Failbetter Games, aka Sunless Skies/Sea) Thirsty Suitors Infinite Mana Simulacra 3 Storyteller The Case of the Golden Idol Unusual Findings Slender Threads The Entropy Centre Dream Tactics Eden's Last Sunrise Zoria: The Awakening (a CRPG by Tiny Trinket, dev of Gamedec) Slay the Princess (VN by Abby Howard, cartoonist and designer of Scarlet Hollow) Rosewater (point and click adventure by Grundislav Games, dev of Lamplight City and A Golden Wake) Somnipathy The Abandoned Planet DoubleShake (Mischief Makers tribute. note that if this is the old build, it was pretty janky) As always, I'm trying to highlight the games that are legit, or at least look interesting, I'm not just rattling off every demo I see. I'm ignoring the stock asset stuff, the 'my first gamemaker/Unity game' stuff. there should be plenty from what i've posted for you to find something you'll dig, I think
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Case of the Golden Idol demo is fantastic, that game is gonna be tons of fun
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