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Just finished Ori 2 and really enjoyed it all the way through. The first one surprised me as being really good for a $5 Steam sale, and this one built on top of that. Thumbs up, would recommend if you want a good platformer. The setting/story was incongruously wholesome compared to my usual fare though.
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My Spirit Otter posted:anyone else pick up mount and blade 2? I did! So far feels like a more polished Warband, which I am entirely okay with given the hours I put into that while on deployment. Just the ticket for the current work from home thing.
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Mar 31, 2020 14:55
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My Spirit Otter posted:Oh man, it's great. Theres no better feeling than storming through the enemy lines poking people in the face with a spear I've gotten to that nice point where my army is around 70 dudes, got a mercenary contract with the empire and running around smashing out smaller enemy lords for loot and prisoners. Really hitting the spot.
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Apr 4, 2020 01:51
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Bannerlord continues to entertain. Being on the assaulting side of a siege is loving great. I charged my horse up a siege tower and onto the battlements and started hacking at dudes. Then I got cut down with arrows. Loving this poo poo.
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Apr 4, 2020 15:32
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The quarantine and work from home has had me gaming a lot more and playing catch-up on games. So far: Ori and the Blind Forest: got it on sale for 5 bucks, got an Xbox controller to play it with and really enjoyed it. Gorgeous animation, music, etc. First platform type game I've played since SOTN on the original Playstation. Ori and the Will of the Wisps: even better than the first one, really enjoyed it. Bloodstained: was sold to me as SOTN with the serial numbers filed off. It was! Really fun, had fun with all the exploration and such. Ended up with the most powerful greatsword in the game, all optional bosses beaten, and map completion at 99.5%. Hollow Knight: Kept seeing this one mentioned as one of the big newer platform games to play. Have played about 5 hours and it hasn't really clicked with me. Too many gameplay elements feel like challenge being thrown in just for the sake of making things harder. I guess some people like that, but it's not really my jam. M&B 2 Bannerlord: Early access and has a lot of rough edges that I can see would be off putting to many, but it scratches that very specific itch that the original Warband did on many many days on deployment. Entirely thatsmyfetish.gif, hopefully this will last me for several weeks. Would much rather be hiking in Utah right now but welp them's the breaks.
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Apr 5, 2020 22:26
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Despite being a huge improvement over Warband, Bannerlord occasionally still has moments of delightful jank shine through. Last night, I was riding the top of a siege tower as my troops pushed it up against the enemy battlements, wanting to be the first into the slaughter to please the blood god. So, the tower gets into position, the ramp drops, and I jump out and start hacking and slaying everywhere. Killed off the initial batch of archers on the walls there, and then saw another mob of enemies coming from further up the walls. Turned around to make sure that my troops were flowing off the tower behind me, and THEY WERE ALL GONE THE FUCKERS MUST HAVE HEARD THE GATE WAS OPEN AND RAN OFF THAT WAY INSTEAD OF GOING UP THE SIEGE TOWER Managed a few more kills in the oncoming enemy mob, and quickly got overwhelmed. Felt like a scene out of a movie. What a bunch of blue falcons.
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Apr 8, 2020 23:04
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Well I think my current Bannerlord game is glitch locked. I was about to have a battle and managed to turn an enemy lord via charm dialogue, but now every time I leave the dialogue screen and go back to the world map, he just talks to me again. Happens every time whether I try to hold in place or move somewhere else. Dude just keeps talking to me and I can't get anywhere else.  I was doing so well this game too, 60 palatine guards and everything.
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Apr 19, 2020 21:09
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Someone in the Games Bannerlord thread suggested using the teleport cheat to get away, and that worked. Game salvaged!
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Apr 19, 2020 23:01
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Yeah I'm a huge 40k goon but I tried DOW 3 for a couple hours on a free weekend and uninstalled it in disgust. Couldn't put a solid reason for it other than it felt like some other game with a 40k skin on top of it. Didn't feel right at all. Did really enjoy 1 and 2 though. It's a shame all the latest 40k games have come from smaller studios and generally been pretty terrible.
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Apr 22, 2020 22:16
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GD_American posted:Anybody play Battletech (the turn-based one)? I put it on the Steam watchlist with Stellaris. Yeah I've played through it 4 or 5 times and it's loving amazing, everything my 13-year old self wanted. The campaign mode is a little ho-hum, but the career mode is great and that's what most of my games have been on. It goes on sale on Greenmangaming sometimes too, so keep an eye out there in addition to Steam.
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Apr 27, 2020 14:44
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GD_American posted:ok I finished the campaign that Battletech game loving rocks, gonna spend my weekend on all the expansion packs. Now it's time for you to do a bunch of career mode runs and build truly ridiculous mechs with the DLC stuff 
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May 6, 2020 06:26
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May 6, 2020 15:07
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I love Mortal Kombat because it's like a bunch of 10 year olds mashing their action figures together and making up stories to go along with it, regardless of how little sense it makes, and it's all done in earnest. AND NOW THE NINJA IS GONNA FIGHT THE ROBOT AND THEN THE COWBOY IS GONNA JUMP IN AND BE FIGHTING A MOVIE STAR AND ALSO HOT CHICKS
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May 6, 2020 15:35
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I love the XCOM games. At least, the reboots. I never played the originals. That said. This is absolute gold right here. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=849487943
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May 6, 2020 23:12
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Have you been rolling in career mode, or the campaign? Cause man I could replay career mode so much. That final mission in the Heavy Metal DLC is so great.
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May 16, 2020 04:56
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Time Crisis Actor posted:I started playing Ori and the Will Of the Wisps yesterday. Easily the most beautiful game I’ve ever seen. It’s reminiscent of the old Kolibri games for the 32X, with all the trappings of progression from the Metroid games. I’m having such a good time and my eyeballs are absolutely feasting on these lovely visuals. Great game, I played the first one a couple of months before this one came out and loved that as well.
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May 24, 2020 23:32
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I just finished playing through Prey for the first time and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm5KI8zSeVs
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Jul 29, 2020 02:55
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Ashmole posted:Prey was a game that I thought was "ok" at first but I keep thinking about playing it again because it's so open. The game itself was competently made, and if I was 10-15 years younger I probably would have enjoyed it a lot more. My problem was with how I experienced/digested it. Instead of it feeling tense because I didn't know what was around the corner with hidden mimics and being low on ammo, I was taken out of it, thinking "oh I see, this is meant to feel tense as a gameplay decision." The tasks and quests ended up feeling like a slog, and having things thrown in like the flood of military robots at one point felt more frustrating than anything. Overall the fun: frustration ratio was very skewed to the latter. It's definitely a trend with my brain, cause I didn't enjoy the actual gameplay in Witcher 3 either. Story, dialogue, music, atmosphere, all fantastic, I just disliked having to go from place to place and kill x amount of monsters and do x quests and having to do things in a certain order, etc. My brain is just broke on first/third person RPGs I guess.
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Jul 29, 2020 20:03
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Internet Wizard posted:Honestly this is a huge part of why I am about to start my fifth attempt at finishing the game over the last however many years. I'm probably going to reduce the difficulty as much as possible just to be able to hurry through the more boring quest objectives I used a couple mods that had me starting at level 78 AND having all equipment with no weight limit and it still felt like a slog to me. I'm not really sure where this brain change came about, because I'd have been all over it 10 years ago.
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Jul 29, 2020 20:29
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Ah yeah that's a good point. poo poo like crafting 300 iron daggers in Skyrim to buff up my smithing skill, or the hacking mini game in Prey really take you out of it.
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Jul 29, 2020 20:47
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When putting together my current computer last fall, my troubleshooting was bonkers. Went all the way up to swapping out the CPU itself, and it turns out that the CPU was the bad component. Been running fine since then.
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Aug 1, 2020 23:12
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TCD posted:After - jesus 25+ years of PC building, modding, and tech support, CPUs are last on my trouble shooting list (well aside from re-seating it). Yeah it was the last thing I suspected, but I had tried swapping out literally everything else first - RAM, motherboard, power supply, hard drives. Basically the issue was that it could boot into BIOS just fine and stay stable there, but if I got to the Windows login/installation screen, it would just die and reboot. Even did when I tried with Linux. This was with a Ryzen 3700X, so a fairly new processor too.
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Aug 2, 2020 03:25
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I have a used 1080 Ti currently and I'm probably going to end up with a 3080, preferably EVGA but also considering FE if I can't get the EVGA.
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Sep 2, 2020 00:48
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TCD posted:If I was still on pascal, and I didn't VR, 100% the 3080 looks like the winner of this gen. It get's a little tighter for those on 2080s and particularly 2080Tis. Good to know! I'll just be F5ing EVGA come the 17th then.
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Sep 2, 2020 00:56
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:i feel the same way about The Witcher It's the gameplay that's the problem for me with the Witcher games. But I think I've gone on about it before in this thread, I just can't do the epic sprawling 100+ hour RPGs anymore.
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Sep 15, 2020 03:43
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Well RIP the 3080 launch, that was a mess.
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Sep 17, 2020 15:22
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Fallom posted:Yeah I thought I had one at the Nvidia site but I guess that was fake news because after an hour of clicking the “check out” button it just got removed from my cart. Yeah this morning I had them in cart multiple times at Best Buy and Newegg and every single time there would be some error and it wouldn't go through. Oh well, it's not a dire need, I'll pick one up in a few months whenever they're more readily available.
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Sep 17, 2020 23:51
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not caring here posted:There was some reddit dude floating around a while back who is supposedly a beta tester for the mass effect trilogy remaster and apparently it is extensive. For real, I'd get it for that alone. The combat in 1 was ok at the time, but massively clunky compared to the revamped system in 2 and 3.
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Sep 22, 2020 14:51
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I managed to get an order in on a 3080 FE last night somehow. Here's to hoping it actually went through and everything. 
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Sep 24, 2020 14:22
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A buddy gave me a heads up last night at 11pm right as I was coming out of a StarCraft game and nvidia's site had enough in stock that it stayed for whole minutes, long enough for me to input my info with my puny human fingers.
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Sep 24, 2020 15:26
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I like Vanguard cause it's like playing pinball, but you're the ball. And you have a shotgun. Plays like no other shooter experience I've done before. Though admittedly I don't play a lot of shooters.
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Two of my brothers and I have been playing SC1 on the re-release for the last several months. It's been pretty fun, though since there's only three of us, we just beat on CPU opponents. We did one FFA and it ended up being a total Mexican standoff. But against CPUs we've done pretty well, we've gotten up to being able to take 3v5 most of the time. Fun little family activity I guess!
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Oct 19, 2020 20:08
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Is Horizon Zero Dawn on the PC worthwhile? I've been generally burned out on bigass open world games a la Witcher 3/Skyrim, but I recently played Control and enjoyed it a bunch. Have heard a lot of good things about HZD in general, but one of the reviews I read also mentioned there's a lot of crafting, and I don't want to go through the whole 'make 200 iron daggers' a la Skyrim ever again.
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Riot Carol Danvers posted:It's rough on PC without a good system, I'll say that much. I loved it on PS4, though. I have a 3700X/RTX 3080 so I should be good there, I hope. Was able to run Control maxed out without complaint, at least.
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9 hours into Horizon Zero Dawn and enjoying it so far. Thanks for the recommendations earlier!
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All achievements completed in Horizon Zero Dawn  I went in pretty blind knowing nothing other than "uhh some kind of post apocalypse with robot animals." Loved the story, loved the gameplay, and absolutely loved the landscape. Several landmarks I've actually hiked to were modeled in game, so I really liked that. It does kind of help that the game is geographically set where I do probably 90% of my hiking, Colorado and Utah  At this point I'm wandering around taking landscape shots in the photo mode.
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Internet Wizard posted:Yeah one of the office documents you can find is a report of an agent that investigated the mess that Alan Wake made Agree, I actually enjoyed reading them. Having them presented and formatted as govt memos really helped sell it. Much better than hard to read text files in other games with lazy lore presentation. Control and Horizon Zero Dawn are my two favorite new games played in the last year. (Yes I know they were out well before that, but I didn't get to them then.)
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