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The story is the absolute worst part of the game and if there was a way to skip all of the cutscenes rather than just some of them, it would be a fantastic game to mess around in.
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I got my fifth party members and average level 20, prepare to change how you approach battle because Sion's squishness comes into play as enemies hit harder, and skills start to exist that prevent one-shots no matter how strong you are.
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May 14, 2020 21:38
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StrixNebulosa posted:(note that I am extremely thin-skinned when it comes to this, for D&D/C-SPAM reasons that I won't go into)
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May 14, 2020 21:39
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Cardiovorax posted:Well, that certainly pre-empts any possible response I could've had to that, but I can respect that you draw a line for subjects you don't want to talk about. I should've edited it - you can PM me, but I don't want to talk about it here. Wrong place for that. (play far cry primal it's good)
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May 14, 2020 21:46
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I'm still having fun with Ace Combat 7 but whoever thought up that bomb-guiding mission needs to be tied to the barrel of Stonehenge when it fires. I swear it's the most finicky aiming mechanism I've ever seen.
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May 14, 2020 21:52
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Tae posted:I got my fifth party members and average level 20, prepare to change how you approach battle because Sion's squishness comes into play as enemies hit harder, and skills start to exist that prevent one-shots no matter how strong you are. I believe it. I cranked up the difficulty to Hard from Normal as there are apparently Epic bosses and what-not that only spawn on Hard or Cruel and I'm a sucker for extra content and Hard seems to be a sweet-spot. I'm fine with Sion needing to be aware of his glass cannon status. But man, what a cannon he is. Not sure if how I want to build my little Hero though. Both her Martial Artist and Battle Mage builds seem kind of hybrid with her abilities, but I'm sure I'll figure something out. Starting out Martial Artist as I don't want her to feel like a poor man's, single-target Sion.
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May 14, 2020 22:11
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Tae posted:I got my fifth party members and average level 20, prepare to change how you approach battle because Sion's squishness comes into play as enemies hit harder, and skills start to exist that prevent one-shots no matter how strong you are. God, enemies with Impulse Field are the worst. The worst!
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May 14, 2020 22:12
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Debating whether I want to dip outside of Troubleshooter for something else during the big Epic sale. Sinking City is still priced too high for everything I've read about it, but is Rebel Galaxy: Outlaw worth it for a tenner?
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May 14, 2020 22:24
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Didn’t that infuriate a bunch of devs the last time they did that? There was talk about how even if they still get paid the same, it devalues the game in the eyes of consumers. Yeah that was the first time they did it, and I think the issue was more like Epic did it without informing the devs or asking for permission ahead of time. On the last sale with a similar coupon there were one or two games that were excluded and I didn't hear any of the same concerns, so I'm guessing people can opt out now.
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May 14, 2020 22:53
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Does anyone know why King's Bounty: The Legend still looks so good for its age? I keep thinking they put in HD textures at some point, but I can't find anything.
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May 14, 2020 23:03
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goferchan posted:Yeah that was the first time they did it, and I think the issue was more like Epic did it without informing the devs or asking for permission ahead of time. On the last sale with a similar coupon there were one or two games that were excluded and I didn't hear any of the same concerns, so I'm guessing people can opt out now. It was that plus the first time they did it they just knocked down everybody's prices instead of giving people a coupon. All the big publishers followed up by de-listing their games to avoid the price going down.
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May 14, 2020 23:11
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Jamfrost posted:Does anyone know why King's Bounty: The Legend still looks so good for its age? I keep thinking they put in HD textures at some point, but I can't find anything. A cartoony art style done well will always age better than trying to push the envelope of "realistic" style graphics.
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May 14, 2020 23:13
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Yeah, I'd also put it down to the art style. It's not quite as cartoony as Warcraft 3 or cell-shaded in the style of games like Okami, but it's visibly not aiming for realism as far as the technology of the time allowed it, so it ages better in comparison to games that do.
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May 14, 2020 23:17
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What? Crusader Kings III is coming out? Holy poo poo I don't even have that many hours in it, but they were glorious hours
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May 14, 2020 23:31
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why didn't they call it Crusader KiiingsMemnaelar posted:Debating whether I want to dip outside of Troubleshooter for something else during the big Epic sale. Sinking City is still priced too high for everything I've read about it, but is Rebel Galaxy: Outlaw worth it for a tenner? It's good as long as you don't mind how open world space games always get repetitive.
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May 14, 2020 23:37
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Forager's on sale at humble for around 10$ - someone remind me why it's cool again?
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May 14, 2020 23:43
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It's a game about numbers going up.
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May 14, 2020 23:44
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i dunno the fact that it describes itself as an idle game immediately turns me off
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May 14, 2020 23:45
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It's basically exactly what its Steam page bills it as being: an idle clicker game where occasionally, things actually happen. It's pretty fun for something you keep running in the background all day while you work and check in on a few times an hour to take a breather, but there's not much depth to it aside from that.
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May 14, 2020 23:47
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Cardiovorax posted:Man, I don't regret having just spent 50 bucks on Red Dead Redemption 2, but I kinda wish I was able to afford Troubleshooter as well. This sounds like everything I love in a game. I actually do regret getting RDR2. It feels like it should have been a fun game, it's a gorgeous technical marvel and all that, but the story is so absolutely, penetratingly depressing that I ended up really not liking any of it. It's just one long trip of poo poo starting off bad and only getting worse. That's it, that's the whole game. Literally every time you do anything, the quality of your life and world gets worse than it just was. Without fail, right up until the end where Arthur is unceremoniously killed in a fist fight in front of his surrogate father who doesn't give a poo poo about him anymore. For north of 70 hours. It's a long, slow slog that even has a lovely ending, and I grew to hate it. I'd get a refund I could. The bit at the end where you build John's house where the game knows what it just was and tries to make you feel better doesn't even begin to make up for it. By the last few hours of Arthur's arch, I dreaded even launching the goddamn app. Oh and also, all the little decisions they made pushing the game towards realism by making poo poo more tedious and annoying and requiring unnecessarily extra travel time, unskippable animations, and button presses for every little thing you do made the experience of actually playing the game suck along with the depressing plot. Yay. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 00:00 on May 15, 2020 |
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May 14, 2020 23:49
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Anime aside, they really needed to have hired a better artist. That's guys proportions are waaaay off, head size, torso, legs/crotch not matching torso. Nevermind the the guns thing, I can't draw but it's apparent to even me that things are wrong there.
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May 14, 2020 23:52
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GreatGreen posted:Literally every time you do anything, the quality of your life and world gets worse. Without fail. For north of 70 hours. It's a long, slow slog that even has a lovely ending, and I grew to hate it.
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May 14, 2020 23:55
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Serephina posted:Anime aside, they really needed to have hired a better artist. That's guys proportions are waaaay off, head size, torso, legs/crotch not matching torso. Nevermind the the guns thing, I can't draw but it's apparent to even me that things are wrong there. Wow, I didn't even notice that but yeah he's like 10 head-lengths tall That really only makes sense if he's like... 11 feet tall
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Sooo if I've never played a Halo game and I like narrative driven FPS, is it worth picking up the Master Chief collection on Steam?
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the story in halo is extremely dumb
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GreatGreen posted:Oh and also, all the little decisions they made pushing the game towards realism by making poo poo more tedious and annoying and requiring unnecessarily extra travel time, unskippable animations, and button presses for every little thing you do made the experience of actually playing the game suck along with the depressing plot. Yay. There's the venn diagram of realism vs fun to play and way too often devs think focusing heavily on realism is enough to overcome lovely game design and unfun levels/sections all because of a "deep" narrative. You can tell a deep and meaningful story, but also make a fun game; they aren't mutually exclusive and forcing the PC into monotonous game play for story purpose is either going to work really well in small doses or just make everyone talk about how much they hated that part. Also, not every deep and serious game has to compete for the title of that years best misery porn. Things happen bad and good and if you don't balance them properly its just angst for the sake of angst. Last of Us 2 I'm really expecting to have some divisive reactions if the leaks are at all accurate.
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Ugh. Kenshi is on sale again and I have to keep resisting buying the game because I feel like I will ultimately get bored of it rather quickly.
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GreatGreen posted:I actually do regret getting RDR2. It feels like it should have been a fun game, it's a gorgeous technical marvel and all that, but the story is so absolutely, penetratingly depressing that I ended up really not liking any of it. It's just one long trip of poo poo starting off bad and only getting worse. That's it, that's the whole game. Literally every time you do anything, the quality of your life and world gets worse than it just was. Without fail, right up until the end where Arthur is unceremoniously killed in a fist fight in front of his surrogate father who doesn't give a poo poo about him anymore. For north of 70 hours. It's a long, slow slog that even has a lovely ending, and I grew to hate it. I'd get a refund I could. The bit at the end where you build John's house where the game knows what it just was and tries to make you feel better doesn't even begin to make up for it. By the last few hours of Arthur's arch, I dreaded even launching the goddamn app. I enjoyed the heck out of the story for the exact same reasons so ymmv.
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TMMadman posted:Ugh. Kenshi is on sale again and I have to keep resisting buying the game because I feel like I will ultimately get bored of it rather quickly. You could buy it, play it, and refund it. Or play the demo.
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May 15, 2020 00:23
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Kenshi's demo is pretty expansive and contains all the game content with no time limit, the only restriction is that your characters can't go above 20 out of 100 in any of their stats or skills.
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As an example of how Rockstar sacrificed fun in RDR2; there's certainly an argument to be made that the 'weightyness' of the controls connect you to the world more (compared to AC Odyssey's 'floatiness' for example), but not having analogue walk/run controls in this day and age? When they DO exist in first person mode? For a game with such an insane level of detail, that decision must have been considered in depth, and they decided 'repeatedly press A to run' was the option to go with. It was bad enough that they stuck with it in GTAV but by now it's just baffling.
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Looks like the Epic store is finally up again. Journey to the Savage Planet for $8 after coupon caught my eye. Looks like a fun explore and unlock the planet type game with some weird humor. Anyone here give it a shot and can comment?
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May 15, 2020 00:33
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https://twitter.com/MangaGamer/status/1261069879932665856 I don't even know if I like this visual novel (it badly needs an editor) but I'm still happy to see that it's finally fully officially translated.
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Ragequit posted:Looks like the Epic store is finally up again. Journey to the Savage Planet for $8 after coupon caught my eye. Looks like a fun explore and unlock the planet type game with some weird humor. Anyone here give it a shot and can comment?
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Junkenstein posted:As an example of how Rockstar sacrificed fun in RDR2; there's certainly an argument to be made that the 'weightyness' of the controls connect you to the world more (compared to AC Odyssey's 'floatiness' for example), but not having analogue walk/run controls in this day and age? When they DO exist in first person mode? For a game with such an insane level of detail, that decision must have been considered in depth, and they decided 'repeatedly press A to run' was the option to go with. It was bad enough that they stuck with it in GTAV but by now it's just baffling. I found the "weightyness" actually disconnected me from the game world. I had to put an extra layer of thought into when to stop pushing the stick to stop moving where I wanted to stop. Yes, in real life you have momentum but your brain is really good at taking care of the act of stopping without you having to consciously think about it. It's why I've never really liked weighty controls, they add some kind of superficial realism but sacrifice actually being immersed in the game.
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Haven't played a Far Cry game since 4 but for $5 on the EGS I think I'll bite. Do I go for New Dawn or 5?
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I found the "weightyness" actually disconnected me from the game world. I had to put an extra layer of thought into when to stop pushing the stick to stop moving where I wanted to stop. Yes, in real life you have momentum but your brain is really good at taking care of the act of stopping without you having to consciously think about it. It's why I've never really liked weighty controls, they add some kind of superficial realism but sacrifice actually being immersed in the game. I feel this way about drops of blood or water or whatever on the 'camera lens'. Stop it, that's meant to be my eyeballs, augh.
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goferchan posted:Haven't played a Far Cry game since 4 but for $5 on the EGS I think I'll bite. Do I go for New Dawn or 5?
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Didn’t that infuriate a bunch of devs the last time they did that? There was talk about how even if they still get paid the same, it devalues the game in the eyes of consumers. The devs were pissed because Epic took a flat dollar amount off all games over a certain pricepoint without asking, which dropped their Lowest Sale Price on deal sites(effectively the "do not buy above this" amount for a lot of people), and a number of the games this happened to were newly released or still in Early Access like Hades. The 10$ coupon is a compromise because it doesn't affect their numbers. So basically you're right about the devaluation but it was a flat discount and the coupon was the fix. Edit:I just looked through at the old thread and they even applied it to some preorders so no wonder the devs were furious. Hub Cat fucked around with this message at 01:04 on May 15, 2020 |
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Cardiovorax posted:Kenshi's demo is pretty expansive and contains all the game content with no time limit, the only restriction is that your characters can't go above 20 out of 100 in any of their stats or skills. Hmmm, maybe I should give this a try then since I'm almost sure I would play more than 2 hours and be unable for a refund.
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