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So if I never played an X game and I wanted to buy one, which would be the one to get?
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Albion Prelude
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Mar 14, 2015 20:38
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anilEhilated posted:So if I never played an X game and I wanted to buy one, which would be the one to get? Albion Prelude (you might need Terran Conflict to play it though.) Avoid Rebirth.
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Mar 14, 2015 20:38
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Anyone who doesn't have it should pick up Red Faction: Guerilla. It's $4. Every building can be taken apart piece by piece. You're a Space rear end in a top hat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcUBI-YVRY8
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Mar 14, 2015 20:40
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Rookersh posted:Hey remember LEGO the Hobbit? Regardless of what people think of the source material, this is really loving lovely of them. Respect for Traveller's Tales has dropped considerably, doesn't help either that their support of past games has never been stellar, all of the DLC for LEGO Batman 3 is loving garbage. I'm probably done buying LEGO games now, took me long enough to learn from my mistakes I suppose. Deakul fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Mar 14, 2015 |
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Mar 14, 2015 20:41
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Mokinokaro posted:Albion Prelude (you might need Terran Conflict to play it though.)
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Mar 14, 2015 20:42
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anilEhilated posted:So where does Reunion fit in? Sorry if I'm being annoying, but I've got this Freelancer itch I'd like to scratch and somehow managed to miss the existence of these games before. Reunion was the first iteration of X3 and was bad bad not good.
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Mar 14, 2015 20:45
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anilEhilated posted:So where does Reunion fit in? Sorry if I'm being annoying, but I've got this Freelancer itch I'd like to scratch and somehow managed to miss the existence of these games before. It fits in as “the first game in generation 3”.  Every game since then (well… not including Rebirth) has taken the basic engine and improved on it in more or less massive ways. If you mean story-wise, then it's a direct continuation from X², with a new alien threat entering the system and wreaking havoc. The main problem is that story isn't really the point to any of the X series after the first one. If you want a (semi)coherent narrative like the one in Freelancer, X³ might not scratch that particular itch — it is more all the bits inbetween (and after) the FL storyline, but blown up to immense size and scope.
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Mar 14, 2015 20:49
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Orv posted:You can start as a trader, and then buy another freighter and automate it. It'll go around making money for you with no or rare input from you. Then you can buy more freighters. And more. Eventually you can build your own station to produce a resource or product that that part of the galaxy is low on. Then you can hook a bunch of stations up to each other to create a megacomplex that produces so many useful and needed things that NPCs start buying from you. If you're running a vanilla game then you can purchase and equip a giant fleet to kill all your competitors. If you're running mods you can just buy out entire star systems with your space billions. Sounds really good. I'll pick it up, thanks guys!
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Mar 14, 2015 20:50
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WickedHate posted:Man, I'm disappointed in Deep Silver. Homefront is full of jingoistic racism. It's almost like Deep Silver was never a good publisher.
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Mar 14, 2015 20:56
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Wait, Co-Op only, no Multiplayer. No way I'm picking it up now. 
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Mar 14, 2015 20:57
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Anyone who buys X3 head by the thread if you find yourself lost. It's one of those super complex games that goons are really cool about helping newbies with.
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Mar 14, 2015 20:58
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That Homefront sequel isn't coming out until 2016, not sure why it already has a Steam page.
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Mar 14, 2015 21:00
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Deakul posted:Regardless of what people think of the source material, this is really loving lovely of them. Yeah, it's less "a bloo bloo, how does an age old book series end." and more "The game has 5-15 levels less then any other LEGO game, and a much smaller world then any of the other open world LEGO games ( to the point it's barely the size of the Shire > Lothlorien in LEGO LOTR! ). According to WB/TT they would release the rest as free DLC when the third movie came out. They constantly talked about how the game they were releasing was incomplete, but they'd be finishing it up by the third movie for free, so don't mind paying the same price as a full fledged LEGO game. Whoops, never mind, this is all you get, it ends halfway through the book/movies because whatever gently caress you, we got our money." Had they released this as The Hobbit Films 1/2, and never talked about Film 3 being added for free, it would be odd but not egregious. As is it's super lovely of them.
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Mar 14, 2015 21:02
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PowerBeard posted:Wait, Co-Op only, no Multiplayer. No way I'm picking it up now. What's more it's made by ex-Star Citizen devs. Avoid.
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Mar 14, 2015 21:36
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Rirse posted:I been able to play it on the couch just fine, but for some reason it has a launcher that even through it has a option to hide when you next play...it will appear each time regardless. And you have to use the mouse to get pass it. Thanks for the answer, I can deal with that!
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Mar 14, 2015 21:44
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Terminally Bored posted:What's more it's made by ex-Star Citizen devs. Avoid. Wait, how do you become ex-devs to a game that hasn't released?
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Mar 14, 2015 21:52
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PowerBeard posted:Wait, how do you become ex-devs to a game that hasn't released? It won't be released they will just keep taking money from suckers for as long as possible and never deliver.
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Mar 14, 2015 21:53
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Liquid Penguins posted:It won't be released they will just keep taking money from suckers for as long as possible and never deliver. Aren't people playing it right now? Or is that the other game that's exactly like it?
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Mar 14, 2015 21:55
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It's criminal that of all IPs Homefront keeps getting saved by publishers instead of something like Timesplitters. Hell I'd be fine with Future Perfect just getting a PC port, but I think that project to do so fell through.
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Mar 14, 2015 21:56
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lol @ goons getting mad over a red dawn game. I played the original Homefront. It was a terrible game with a horrendous story, but not because it was racist or (haha) 'jingoist'.
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Mar 14, 2015 21:57
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Hold X to hide in Mass Grave.
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Mar 14, 2015 21:57
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mr. nobody posted:Thanks for the answer, I can deal with that! Oh the only other issue it has is the boneheaded lack of a exit game in-game, you have to alt tab and close it out.
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Mar 14, 2015 21:58
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Liquid Penguins posted:Hold X to hide in Mass Grave. Honestly though, that's no worse than literally any other thing in videogame warshooters.
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Mar 14, 2015 21:59
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I will always love that Glorious Goonleader Kim Jong Un peacefully convinced South Korea to relinquish their independence to him due to his shining charisma. Homefront is hilariously bad.
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Mar 14, 2015 22:00
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Drifter posted:Honestly though, that's no worse than literally any other thing in videogame warshooters. No, it's the worst.
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Mar 14, 2015 22:03
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Accordion Man posted:I will always love that Glorious Goonleader Kim Jong Un peacefully convinced South Korea to relinquish their independence to him due to his shining charisma. South Korea nothing, he apparently managed to convince China.
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Mar 14, 2015 22:04
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Darkhold posted:I asked about S7 earlier and two posters came forward to say it was boring trash regardless of the DRM. That's a bummer, I was hoping it would be good. I can't seem to find a non early access broken "village building" game that isn't overtly complicated or confusing. I like building things and keeping people happy. Banished is shaping up, but a lot of the mechanics are kind of like "I don't know if this is broken or I'm just not using it right".
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Mar 14, 2015 22:05
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AxeManiac posted:That's a bummer, I was hoping it would be good. I can't seem to find a non early access broken "village building" game that isn't overtly complicated or confusing. I like building things and keeping people happy. Banished is shaping up, but a lot of the mechanics are kind of like "I don't know if this is broken or I'm just not using it right". Cities Skylines man. You set up your utilities, zone your RCI and then just tweak until you have to do that again. Alternatively just hit up Impressions games again. Orv fucked around with this message at 22:14 on Mar 14, 2015 |
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Mar 14, 2015 22:12
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The Iron Rose posted:lol @ goons getting mad over a red dawn game.
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Mar 14, 2015 22:12
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AxeManiac posted:That's a bummer, I was hoping it would be good. I can't seem to find a non early access broken "village building" game that isn't overtly complicated or confusing. I like building things and keeping people happy. Banished is shaping up, but a lot of the mechanics are kind of like "I don't know if this is broken or I'm just not using it right". Anno? That's basically how I played it, just set it to easy, turned off a bunch of annoying mechanics, built production chains and what eventually became a huge city.
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Mar 14, 2015 22:14
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Accordion Man posted:I will always love that Glorious Goonleader Kim Jong Un peacefully convinced South Korea to relinquish their independence to him due to his shining charisma. Seriously, watch this story trailer, it's beyond even Tom Clancy levels of insanity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQeQWWKKvq4
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Mar 14, 2015 22:17
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Drifter posted:Honestly though, that's no worse than literally any other thing in videogame warshooters. Press F to pay respects. 
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Mar 14, 2015 22:21
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Slate Action posted:Seriously, watch this story trailer, it's beyond even Tom Clancy levels of insanity: The explanation for this is apparently the game was going to have China conquer the US (slightly more plausible), but the publisher decided they didn't want to offend a superpower, so they had them awkwardly rewrite it to be North Korea at the 11th hour. Talking about Tom Clancy, the Infinity all-in-one basics packs the surprisingly good Ghost Recon: Phantoms are half off right now. Basically you get 8x XP gain, and levelling automatically gives you all the basic weapons, armor and modules for every class rather than requiring you to buy anything. It's roughly comparable to the 'unlock all basic characters' thing for Strife. You still need to use in-game money to buy mods and upgrades for your gear, but you'll also have more of that all round because you won't be spending anything on actually buying weapons and armor.
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Mar 14, 2015 22:22
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Homefront's multiplayer was pretty fun atleast. Basically a sequel to Frontlines: Fuel of War.(which owned at the time)
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Mar 14, 2015 22:23
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AxeManiac posted:That's a bummer, I was hoping it would be good. I can't seem to find a non early access broken "village building" game that isn't overtly complicated or confusing. I like building things and keeping people happy. Banished is shaping up, but a lot of the mechanics are kind of like "I don't know if this is broken or I'm just not using it right". That is the best way I've ever heard someone explain Banished. It may be early access but something about it just seems off. I do think it'll be worked out down the line, but right now there is something about the mechanics that just doesn't seem to work correctly. Great game other than that though. I've been playing Skylines a bit and it really does feel like a great game too, though it seems just a bit more complicated than Sim City, and it sometimes throws me off a bit.
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Mar 14, 2015 22:23
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Deakul posted:Homefront's multiplayer was pretty fun atleast. Frontlines was incredibly awful you crazy person.
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Mar 14, 2015 22:24
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Orv posted:Frontlines was incredibly awful you crazy person. Man, what. I remembered having a ton of fun with a couple of buddies calling air strikes and artillery on dudes and using those little robots and wrecking poo poo.
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Mar 14, 2015 22:27
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Deakul posted:Man, what. The battle call-ins were awesome, nothing else about it was. Kind of exactly like Homefront.
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AxeManiac posted:That's a bummer, I was hoping it would be good. I can't seem to find a non early access broken "village building" game that isn't overtly complicated or confusing. I like building things and keeping people happy. Banished is shaping up, but a lot of the mechanics are kind of like "I don't know if this is broken or I'm just not using it right". *if you don't constantly build houses kids won't move out and have kids of their own so when the old folks finally start dying your next generation will be too old to have kids of their own. Also when you get to an entire generation starting to die of old age you can lose a huge part of your workforce in only a couple of years before the next generation gets old enough to work. It's a terrible mechanic but easy to work around once you understand what is going on. Also as others have said Cities Skylines is a pretty solid Simcity type game if anyone is wanting a proper city builder. I got mine pretty cheap from Nuuvem though I had to use Hola or it wouldn't sell it to me in the UK. Code worked fine though in steam.
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