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It's more like a MLM scheme. Huge amounts of player-owned assets bought during the early access phase with the expectation of being able to on-sell them on release to the expected incoming players who would then need them, except of course the only people ever interested were those sinking hundreds if not thousands of dollars into cyber-squatting.
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SirSamVimes posted:so are dragons just the top fuckers in Pillars of Eternity? My party is level 12 and I've had my poo poo kicked in by both the Adra Dragon and the Alpine Dragon There's maybe one other fight accessed through WM1 that's comparable to fighting one of those. The cheese trick to defeating dragons is that they're still vulnerable to Charm/Dominate, which means they can handle killing all the other adds for you, after which you can just use Mental Binding to keep the dragon on lockdown while you plink away through its super high armor (use 2H weapons!). The other key is being able to live through the initial burst, especially the breath attack. Have a backliner (Mage/Ranger/Cipher) keep scrolls of healing and resurrection. You also haven't even mentioned the most difficult dragon fight in the game  .
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Terminally Bored posted:Is it a full priced tech demo like Star Citizen? Ghostlight posted:It's more like a MLM scheme. Huge amounts of player-owned assets bought during the early access phase with the expectation of being able to on-sell them on release to the expected incoming players who would then need them, except of course the only people ever interested were those sinking hundreds if not thousands of dollars into cyber-squatting. This is part of it. Some other notable parts;
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Terminally Bored posted:So, uh, Shroud of the Avatar is out of EA apparently: https://store.steampowered.com/app/326160/Shroud_of_the_Avatar_Forsaken_Virtues/ Ghostlight posted:It's more like a MLM scheme. Huge amounts of player-owned assets bought during the early access phase with the expectation of being able to on-sell them on release to the expected incoming players who would then need them, except of course the only people ever interested were those sinking hundreds if not thousands of dollars into cyber-squatting. "Lord British, thou hast lost an eighth!"
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May 21, 2018 09:52
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I actually backed Shroud of Avatar for something like 10bux when it first came to Kickstarter. Did it on the off-chance they might make a cool Ultima Online clone... Oh well. Albion Online might be closer to success on that front but haven't actually looked into it. Has anyone tried it out? It also just came out and at least has a "Mostly Positive" rating so maybe it's not a garbage fire.
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May 21, 2018 10:01
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Oh Richard, this is pretty shameful.
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General Emergency posted:I actually backed Shroud of Avatar for something like 10bux when it first came to Kickstarter. Did it on the off-chance they might make a cool Ultima Online clone... Oh well. Surprise! Also a garbage fire. Extremely P2W (to the extent which all of the stuff you buy with real money can be lost is P2W), lovely devs with absurd ideas about balance, PvP and community handling, and a really abysmal sense of time investment with regards to effort:fun ratio. It's a UO successor in that it's top down, a gankbox and is basically already dead. It's been launched for months off Steam, this is basically a last ditch save attempt.
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quote:Pros: lmao there's a lot more reviews where they're trying to oppose censorship by buying Mutiny, only to be horrified that they're getting a ton of dick. 
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May 21, 2018 10:44
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Anyone play Yonder recently? Is it better now than the year-old reviews make it out to be? Or is it still pretty empty?
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May 21, 2018 11:06
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Love 2 buy trash porn games from Steam to own... Steam.
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Orv posted:That doesn't even begin to cover the travesty that is Shroud of the Avatar. Is there a write-up somewhere? I love reading about things like that.
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exquisite tea posted:Love 2 buy trash porn games from Steam to own... Steam. this is The Decade of Cutting Off Your Nose to Spite Their Face
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I just started using one of those Xbox Windows Controllers (basically Xbox One without the One branding) which is a good controller but for some reason Steam keeps popping up this weird keyboard overlay randomly and minimizing whatever game I'm playing. But I'm not in Big Picture mode and I've never once configured a controller specifically inside of Steam and this doesn't happen with any other controllers. What the hell is Steam doing? I can stop it from happening by adding the -NoKeyboardUI launch option for every game I play but is that really the only way to prevent this bizarre and loving useless thing from appearing?
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Yodzilla posted:I just started using one of those Xbox Windows Controllers (basically Xbox One without the One branding) which is a good controller but for some reason Steam keeps popping up this weird keyboard overlay randomly and minimizing whatever game I'm playing. But I'm not in Big Picture mode and I've never once configured a controller specifically inside of Steam and this doesn't happen with any other controllers. What the hell is Steam doing?
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Fun Times! posted:Anyone play Yonder recently? Is it better now than the year-old reviews make it out to be? Or is it still pretty empty? Yonder is a great open-world RPG with no direct conflict -- it's all about exploring, gathering, crafting, trading, questing, and finding secrets, with a dash of farming. I liked it a lot, and C-- loves it; she is now on her third play-through, with two at 99.6% completion or so, and excitedly bought it for the Switch so that she could play if I was playing a different game on the TV. It's a relaxing, engaging game -- unless you're expecting more from it than it is, I guess. If that sounds like your jam, then it most likely is.
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humble's run out of keys on just cause 3 xl but says they'll add it to my downloads page when they get more if i buy it how long does that normally take? i don't like the idea of giving them money and not getting anything until they get around to it
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Never happened to me but all reputable key sites that had this issue - GMG, BundleStars/Fanatic, Humble - provided the buyers with what they bought eventually, so it's a sure bet; Now when, I don't know. But it's probably going to be soon.
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Synthbuttrange posted:lmao there's a lot more reviews where they're trying to oppose censorship by buying Mutiny, only to be horrified that they're getting a ton of dick.
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All these people who bought Mutiny!! to fight the power and here I am feeling like a sucker for buying it to laugh at it
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I'm not so sure that's what people bought it for, but it was certainly a convenient excuse.
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can't believe Ironic Dog Futas is the genre that will dethrone MOBAs & battle royales
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Heads up for anyone still throwing money at Kickstarter, there's this Black Geyser project I'm keeping my eye on. Looks like a knockoff indie Baldur's Gate (including RTWP), but in a good way. I'm curious to see what they'll do with the greed mechanic, seems kind of binary from the description.
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Really Pants posted:can't believe Ironic Dog Futas is the genre that will dethrone MOBAs & battle royales The Mutiny!! Battle Royale DLC is gonna be a real monster
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FirstAidKite posted:The Mutiny!! Battle Royale DLC is gonna be a real monster Red Rocket League
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Spend 4.99 to expand your already massive backlogs: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/killer-bundle-xi Includes Technomancer, Signal From Tölva, The Swindle, Zenith, a narrative-driven post-apocalyptic survival RPG set in a new Ice Age, and lots of platformers.
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I don't really know anything about any of those, how good are they?
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il_cornuto posted:I don't really know anything about any of those, how good are they? For me, it's a handful of games that look interesting but fell through the cracks for whatever reason. Stuff you wouldn't buy on its own even during sales, but for a dollar a piece ok why not. Technomancer is a Eurojank RPG and the followup to Mars: War Logs Signal From Tölva is exploring an open world with robots and I'm looking forward to it The Swindle looks like Mark of the Ninja, but about thieves and heists ICY looks like Banner Saga but with guns and more frost Zenith is a humorous action RPG I never heard about, but the pictures make it look interesting enough Dumping the stuff you don't want on steamgifts is also weirdly satisfying 
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Forward to the Sky is really bad. also the daily deal is VR Kanojo and I can't think of a more apropos title being the daily after all the waifu blowback from the past few days. At least one human at Valve gets humor. Sivek fucked around with this message at 20:34 on May 21, 2018 |
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Oh my god, I thought this game was abandoned - quote:Why Am I Dead At Sea has just been updated with a newer version aiming to solve some of the more prominent issues in the game, and smooth out some of the gameplay with quality of life changes!
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In my opinion, The Swindle is good enough to get that bundle for. It has an interesting mechanic of having to rob enough places on 100 days to do the one big heist at the end. Everything is randomly generated but it does feel very well fleshed out. I loved every second of it, well worth 5 bucks.
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Hey if we're talking about ballooning out your backlog, I've got another Weeklong Deal roundup for ya! It's a super long list this time, lots of good stuff like Caves of Qud and Dark Scavenger, and lots of crap to laugh at and hopefully learn some life lessons from as usual.
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Talking about heist games, someone needs to make a modern version of The Clue / They Stole A Million. I thougt Masterplan would be it, but it wasn't.
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Too Shy Guy posted:Hey if we're talking about ballooning out your backlog, I've got another Weeklong Deal roundup for ya! It's a super long list this time, lots of good stuff like Caves of Qud and Dark Scavenger, and lots of crap to laugh at and hopefully learn some life lessons from as usual. I clicked through to The Little Slime's store page and this is the most recent dev update: quote:I lowered the price because I want my game to be loved by more people. Man. 
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sauer kraut posted:Spend 4.99 to expand your already massive backlogs: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/killer-bundle-xi If anyone wants anything from this bundle that isn't Signal from Tölva or Hive Jump lemme know I can post the keys in here.
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Seventh Arrow's Stealth Roundup: 1. Assassin's Creed Chronicles (China, India, Russia) 2. Shadwen 3. Clandestine 4. Serial Cleaner 5. Volume 6. Seven: The Days Long Gone 7. Crookz: The Big Heist 8. Ghost of a Tale 9. Velvet Assassin 10. Party Hard          I once lived in an apartment building with a downstairs neighbour who would play loud music despite visits from the cops and landlord. Although it was a pretty frustrating experience, I'm fairly certain that at no time did I: stab him, poison his food, set off explosives in his vicinity, frighten a horse into fatally kicking him, lure him into a gigantic bear trap, or put him in the path of an oncoming vehicle. Had I been the protagonist of Party Hard, however, all of those options would have been on the table. Party Hard is a top-down game in a genre I've heard being called "stealth action." It's less about skulking in shadows waiting half an hour for a guard to patrol by and more about bobbing and weaving around your enemies without getting caught. You control Darius, a man driven to the edge by noisy neighbours and has chosen to solve this problem in the stabbiest, explodiest manner possible. The objectives are often nuanced and varied. For example, in the first mission your objective is KILL THEM ALL. However, later on at a frathouse you're given the objective KILL THEM ALL. In a neat twist though, when you and your knife arrive at a beach party your objective is to KILL THEM ALL. Okay, so the story doesn't have a lot of depth but the gameplay does provide a lot of interest. When you arrive, you have your trusty knife of course, but there are also a couple of accidents-waiting-to-happen that you can use to discretely get rid of partygoers: some levels will have a horse hanging around, who you can startle into fatally kicking whoever is behind them. You can throw people off of roofs, shove them into fans, poison the punch bowl, set off a motorized cart, and one level even lets you lure people into a deadly lumber processing device. You also have the option of using the phone, although this seems to have a different effect depending on the level you're in. In some levels, it will just spawn more partgoers, increasing the amount of people you need to kill by a dozen or so. However, in a different level it brought in a helpful chainsaw lunatic who eviscerated numerous guests before being hauled in by the cops. In other levels there were zombies and partygoer-abducting aliens and so on. You will also occasionally get help from a mysterious man in black who will sell you items like stun bombs or poison. The rest of the folks you'll need to whittle off one by one with your knife. In doing this, you need to be a good judge of people's line of sight and distance. If someone sees you commit a murder - or standing in the vicinity of a stabbing victim - they will call the police. You can outrun the police but if they catch you, it's time to start over. You can kill police but it's generally unwise as a stronger cop will simply be sent out in his place. Bouncers are prevalent and will murder you if you get too close. In some levels, federal agents will also scour the level for you and they can only be killed with traps. I guess the government gives them knife-proof suits or something. That's about all there is to say about Party Hard - it's not complex and if the idea of a stealth game with an inventive twist appeals to you then you should certainly give it a try. Also if you've been looking for an excuse to let your inner slasher out. It's already pretty cheap but you can wait for a sale if you're unsure...there's also DLC with additional levels. Finally, it's worth mentioning that the soundtrack is great and although the game doesn't wear out its welcome, it does have a lot of replay value in the way of additional playable characters.
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DatonKallandor posted:If anyone wants anything from this bundle that isn't Signal from Tölva or Hive Jump lemme know I can post the keys in here. Could I have Swindle? e: Thanks! StrixNebulosa fucked around with this message at 21:25 on May 21, 2018 |
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DatonKallandor posted:If anyone wants anything from this bundle that isn't Signal from Tölva or Hive Jump lemme know I can post the keys in here. I'd be down for some Unloving. - E: Didn't realize Party Hard was such a colorful game.
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DatonKallandor posted:If anyone wants anything from this bundle that isn't Signal from Tölva or Hive Jump lemme know I can post the keys in here. UNLOVED looks pretty, um, something. Thanks! e: Damnit.
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