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Corin Tucker's Stalker posted:the replenishing $10 coupon is such an easy concept to grasp, and a perfect motivator to splurge on additional games as the sale goes on. This mechanism is probably just because it's functionally equivalent to "every $15+ game is $10 off!" but it sidesteps the problem of offering a new $15 game for $5 which had some developers up in arms last year as it devalues their game (and Epic had not discussed this with them). Should the Epic Games Store be named the Epic Game Store instead? You can only buy 1 game at a time on it.
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Should be called the Epic Lame Store since it has only one leg to stand on and that's Fortnite money.
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Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is the latest free game... drat, that's pretty good!
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PowerBeard posted:Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is the latest free game... drat, that's pretty good! The freebies alone really built out my library. Ended up grabbing Outer Worlds with the discount plus the coupon for a really good price and it recharged that coupon immediately... Haven't even bothered with Steam's sales yet.
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That's the Banjo Kazooie clone, right? Is it good? I grabbed it on principle, but I don't really know anything about it.
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Dec 31, 2019 19:02
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From what I gathered when it came out it's competently made, but really lacks the charm of the old games. It got a bit overshadowed by A Hat in Time on that front when it came out. Also, you know that quiz part of Banjo Kazooie that everyone just loved? It's back with a vengeance. Edit: Oh, it's the DLC, haven't tried that, nvm then! Broken Cog fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Dec 31, 2019 |
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Cardiovorax posted:That's the Banjo Kazooie clone, right? Is it good? I grabbed it on principle, but I don't really know anything about it. This one is a 2d spinoff that I've heard is better than the main game. I've been wanting to play it and now I'm excited I can without paying money for it 
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That's the original, this is the new one that is more like the newer donkey kong games, and apparently much better.
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Oh, that does sound good. I do love me a good 2D platformer and Donkey Kong was a hell of a fun series in that regard.
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Cardiovorax posted:Oh, that does sound good. I do love me a good 2D platformer and Donkey Kong was a hell of a fun series in that regard. It’s main gimmick (right in the title) is the Impossible Lair, a 15-20 minute long checkpoint-less final dungeon (with several boss fights) you can technically complete right at the start of the game but can try to do at any time afterwards as well. The rest of the game is unlocking areas in the overworld and doing the regular DK-like levels to unlock bees for a bee shield for use only in the Impossible Lair - each bee acts as 1 hit point. There’s also secrets and optional level modifiers of all varieties. It’s pretty good!
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Sounds a bit like the level structure of Order of Ecclesia, which is certainly not a bad thing at all.
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MMF Freeway posted:That's the original, this is the new one that is more like the newer donkey kong games, and apparently much better. Donkey Kong Tropical Freeeze quality or one of the earlier ones?
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BexGu posted:Donkey Kong Tropical Freeeze quality or one of the earlier ones? A lower budget Tropical Freeze. Edit: The devs themselves tried to get in front of those comparisons but there’s no escaping it once you see/play it. It just doesn’t have the ridiculous level of polish that a Tropical Freeze or a Rayman Legends got.
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Heavy Rain was...interesting. I like what it tried to do enough that I also picked up Beyond Two Souls in the sale, but what a crappy endgame.
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zer0spunk posted:Heavy Rain was...interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t0uCWjQ6Og PRESS X TO SHAUUUUUN
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XysJjXMzM4c "by the way I paid to have this experience"
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been playing a bit of yooka-laylee oh my god so many bee puns Runs great on my notebook, though, so that's a plus. It's definitely Donkey Kong as hell. It's honestly kind of charming, if a bit heavy on the self-aware humor maybee.
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I appreciate yooka laylee's skip section feature a lot, there are some bizzare difficulty spikes. The base condition of chapter 5 I had to skip almost the entire level, I found it insanely hard.
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Darksiders 1: Warmastered Edition, Darksiders 2: Deathinitive Edition and STEEP are the free games on the EGS. Kind of surprised at the Darksiders games, STEEP meanwhile was made free on UPlay this week, so that comes as less of a shock.
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Darksiders 2 was recently free for Twitch Prime subscribers, so I guess that lowered the bar for the rest maybe.
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Darksiders 1 and 2 have been on humble bundle multiple times, and 2 and 3 were free PS+ games. Honestly THQ's stratigy with those games seems to be "give them away and hope people buy the next one at full price."
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They're also pretty old games and 2 just sucks. 1 is fine.
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PowerBeard posted:Darksiders 1: Warmastered Edition, Darksiders 2: Deathinitive Edition and STEEP are the free games on the EGS. Kind of surprised at the Darksiders games, STEEP meanwhile was made free on UPlay this week, so that comes as less of a shock. happy 10 year release day anniversary for darksiders 1
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10 years... Where does the time go, but also boy the original looked rough out!
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Anora posted:Darksiders 1 and 2 have been on humble bundle multiple times, and 2 and 3 were free PS+ games. Honestly THQ's stratigy with those games seems to be "give them away and hope people buy the next one at full price." They were also part of the giant THQ sale on Steam when THQ went bankrupt and sold all their properties. The entire (at the time) THQ library on Steam for about $30.
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One the BRAND NEW exclusive are apparently going to be: AUTO CHESS! Which is a car-themed chess game, wow.
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i thought autochess was that insanely popular mahjong mod for dota2? is there another game called auto chess? lmao
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Some people also really enjoy watching chess computers play chess against each other, for some reason.
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Autochess is nothing like chess (or mahjong?) it just got the name because it takes place on a grid and you don't directly control your units.
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it's heavily inspired by mahjong, which at some point got confirmed by the devs too afaik, but plays on a chess board 
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I guess I don't know much about mahjong. I'd be interested to know in what ways they're similar
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Mahjon proper is basically like if you played high-speed simultaneous poker with wooden bricks heavy enough to double as a toddler's construction toy and there were about a million times more possible hands than in any variety of poker in existence, all with distinct values and often unique and flowery names. It's a game that is played by exactly four people sitting around a square table and you can't really play it with any less than that. The mahjong you find on cheap shovelware CDs is basically just a weirdly layered match-2 game kind of like Memory but using the same pieces as in real mahjong. Kind of a lot like the relationship of Solitaire to poker decks, really.
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Cardiovorax posted:Mahjon proper is basically like if you played high-speed simultaneous poker with wooden bricks heavy enough to double as a toddler's construction toy and there were about a million times more possible hands than in any variety of poker in existence, all with distinct values and often unique and flowery names. It's a game that is played by exactly four people sitting around a square table and you can't really play it with any less than that. it's like playing rummy with tiles instead of cards OJ MIST 2 THE DICK fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Jan 15, 2020 |
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OJ MIST 2 THE DICK posted:it's like playing rummy with tiles instead of cards
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Cardiovorax posted:I've never played Rummy, but looking at it, that's probably the better comparison. Rummy and Mahjong share roots from the same Chinese game iirc albeit one was a title variant and the other card though also as years have gone by the mahjong tile pool expanded and more weirdass hands were rewarded
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That's interesting to know, thanks. I can see the shared origin in a game when it's as obvious as that between chess and shogi, but there are so many "match the thing" games that I never would've guessed there's this much history to it.
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EGS has now implemented OpenCritic reviews to be shown on store pages of games that opt in, so it's a good step forward.
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I'd call that more symbolic than anything. If it's not open used reviews with no way to opt out it's pretty much meaningless. Not that used reviews on their own are all that helpful but when you get a ton of them together and read the top wordy negative reviews you usually get a pretty good idea what's wrong with a game even if it's very positive.
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MMF Freeway posted:Autochess is nothing like chess (or mahjong?) it just got the name because it takes place on a grid and you don't directly control your units. That’s terrible
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Wishlist functionality has been added, shame they haven't added the feature where it notifies you of a sale on wishlisted items.
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