Noper Q posted:

Weird how the only game that exists is Dark Souls. I have vague memories of a past where there were games other than Dark Souls, but maybe that's just my imagination. Good thing Dark Souls has a perfect design that can just be blindly copy and pasted into literally any game with no negative repercussions!

Sorry, I'm just so tired of this crap. Checkpoints that are way too far apart, extremely limited healing, and you better believe you're losing your upgrade currency if you die. Everyone loooooves corpse runs! I was really enjoying the game at first. The movement conceit is fun, original, and fast, and they did a good job making it intuitive and responsive. But the needlessly punishing difficulty makes me feel like I have to move at a crawl because I never know when something dangerous is going to appear just offscreen, and there goes one of the three hits I can take for the next twenty minutes of gameplay. And, sure, you can turn off a lot of this crap, but despite it having no influence on your ability to get achievements, they still go out of their way to say that it will permanently mark your save file, like some kind of mark of shame.

Also, I didn't know it was possible to make a 2D game with a bad camera, but they found a way. It will random decide to be zoomed in so far that you can't even see the walls, and when your only mode of movement is bouncing between walls, that seems questionable. And sometimes the screen rotates 90 degrees, and you have no control over when this happens. That would be disorienting enough on its own in a game that's all about navigation, but when it does this, the map doesn't rotate, so suddenly moving to the right in-game is going up on the map.

I maybe shouldn't be feeling this strongly about a game I got for free, but it's just so disappointing. I really was having fun; the movement is smooth as butter, and the setting and art style were intriguing. But for some reason they decided to have these terrible design decisions.

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

The mechanics Dandara specifically copied from DS:
When you die, you drop all your cash in a pile on top of your corpse and respawn at the last checkpoint. To get it back you have to make it back to the place you died. If you die again it disappears forever.
You have a limited number of healing potions that refill for free at checkpoints.

The dropping-your-souls thing is pretty dumb but the potions/estus flasks is a pretty clever design which more games should copy. It's like just having a 10x bigger health bar with no healing between checkpoints except it makes individual low-damage hits scarier and more meaningful because they can still kill you if you get hit with a few in a row without time to drink a potion in between.

treat posted:

God I'm so sick of these loving dark souls clones where you have to restart from a save point whenever you die

JustJeff88 posted:

I take the free ones, but I've made a sort of unofficial promise to myself to not ever actually pay money for anything on the Epic store. I'm not sure exactly why, but in large part it is due to the fact that anything there I can get either on GOG, which is my preference, or Steam if I must. I suppose that Epic just doesn't give me a reason to buy from them over other online storefronts.

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

Is it really free if you have to give out your email?

repiv posted:

amogus

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/among-us

The Kins posted:

New set of Twitch Prime poo poo:

Battlefield 4 (Origin key)
BFF or Die
Newfound Courage
Lost in Harmony
Batman: The Telltale Series
Spitkiss

repiv posted:

my uncle at epic who's name rhymes with sim tweeney says its bloodborne

Cojawfee posted:

My original Gmail is absolutely useless now with the spam it gets. So anything I don't trust goes there.

JustJeff88 posted:

JustJeff88 posted:

More limes, be gray

dogstile posted:

Part of my job in real life is to get inside PC's and fix them/build them.

I'll still spend the extra cash to have the PC delivered to me completely built. gently caress doing it in my own time, tbh.

THE BAR posted:

Can't help but think you'll be missing a certain tactile feel. But yeah, as I said, every real life action can be translated to a fun video game.

You just need the right people to make it happen.

THE BAR posted:

E:

Eh, I haven't played Death Stranding, I just heard it's not very good.

Hwurmp posted:

all USB connections must be made twice, because it's upside down the first time

Play posted:

Agreed. Although the alternative, me not being able to find one at all and either continue going without or paying some insane scalper price, is even worse. So I'm grateful enough, Which I guess is even more cyberpunk

timp posted:

FWIW that was one of the rare free games posted in this thread that I actually fully beat. It's pretty fun! I also beat Control, really enjoyed that one too.

And now I'm actually having a pretty tough time recalling any other free games from this thread that I beat. Hell, even installing and playing them is unusual, so seeing one through to the end is really something special

timp posted:

Oh yeah, I did beat Hitman as well. I even bought the DLC for Control and Hitman because I enjoyed them both so much. But you must be talking about the first Hitman (2016), which was definitely free on the EGS at one point. I'd be really surprised if you got Hitman 3 free because it just came out this year and AFAIK it's still like 50-60 bucks.

Also I did beat GTAV but I don't really count that cause I'd already beaten it once back in 2013

chglcu posted:

Pretty sure that works out to working for less than minimum wage to get that “free” game pass. I suppose if you don’t have the money otherwise, that’s fine, but for most people it seems like it wouldn’t be worth it.

OgNar posted:

I dont understand why the Amazon games program doesnt show outside stuff like the Journey to the Savage Planet and Frostpunk keys.
I have to go to https://gaming.amazon.com/home to claim it instead.

elf help book posted:

You're just supposed to claim them all, not ask questions

The Kins posted:

Another game got added to the Amazon Twitch Gaming Prime Gaming thing:

Football Manager 2021 (Epic Games Store key)

Tunicate posted:

direct link
https://www.gog.com/game/shadow_tactics_blades_of_the_shogun

cage-free egghead posted:

I'll mention that it may not be a good thing to use one app for both passwords and token authentication in the event that it's compromised. Using separate ones will lower your risk.

Its a bit outside this thread's scope but I think it's always good to have a discussion about privacy and security when it comes up.

StoryTime posted:

Yep, I've been using a bunch of PaySafe cards as well. It's a bit of a hassle, but getting your CC shut because a megacorp didn't give a gently caress about security is a bigger hassle. And why would they? It's not like there's been any real consequences about the above.

Escape Goat posted:

Is it time for the free games thread store debate derail again already? It’s like poetry, it rhymes.

Large Testicles posted:

I only buy games from ethically sourced capitalist companies. None of this filthy communism gets in the way of my gaming.