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repiv posted:I can't vouch for them but they're featured on IsThereAnyDeal which only aggregates legit resellers. Oh right, I was trying to think of that site and why I moved on. I been using https://gg.deals/ since it has a way more readable format.
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Space Engineers on sale for $14 and free for next 3 days. https://store.steampowered.com/app/244850/Space_Engineers/
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Oct 20, 2020 19:08
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StrixNebulosa posted:My Fallout experience: blew up the starting town in Fallout 3. Didn't click with New Vegas because ??? will try again later. Fallout 4: starting it now and holy jesus this 1950s vibe is SUPER creepy sounds like a lovely experience. Try Fallout 1 and die by rats in the first cave!
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Oct 20, 2020 19:32
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haldolium posted:sounds like a lovely experience. Try Fallout 1 and die by rats in the first cave! Alternatively, try Fallout 2 and die to scorpions in the tutorial!
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Oct 20, 2020 20:06
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Speaking of FO4, NV, and that mod I mentioned, it seems to be coming along well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JanHMbRjNJ8
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Oct 20, 2020 20:10
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Here's a bundle that's way better than the monthly: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/...tent=cta_button Worth it for Detention and Dusk (I assume) alone. Dunno if anything else is a pleasant surprise.
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Oct 20, 2020 20:12
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I really want New Vegas 2 in the Outer Worlds engine (the only good thing about it).
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lordfrikk posted:I really want New Vegas 2 in the Outer Worlds engine (the only good thing about it). I need to see what Avowed looks like first because man TOW was an anemic, forgettable game. First Obsidian thing I’ve been truly disappointed in.
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Oct 20, 2020 20:21
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GrandpaPants posted:Here's a bundle that's way better than the monthly: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/...tent=cta_button Blood is one of the best FPS games out there and a major influence on Dusk. You're getting a remastered version rather than the original but from what I've heard it's pretty much the same game.
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Oct 20, 2020 20:22
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lordfrikk posted:I really want New Vegas 2 in the Outer Worlds engine (the only good thing about it). Meh it was just UE4. Outer Worlds still felt exactly like a lovely open world Gamebryo game and I'm continously baffled as to why they thought that was a good thing to replicate?!
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Oct 20, 2020 20:44
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It felt like a lovely Gamebryo open world game despite having no physics and all the items were just soda cans
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Oct 20, 2020 20:46
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Mordja posted:Speaking of FO4, NV, and that mod I mentioned, it seems to be coming along well. Not gonna lie, that looks exactly like Fallout New Vegas does in my memory and now I am afraid of opening the game and realizing it has N64 graphics.
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Oct 20, 2020 20:49
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I just started playing Outer Worlds on Game Pass and does the writing ever pick up or is "hello stranger, I am [capitalist running dog], even though we just met, please turn off the power at the bad deserter town for me, you will need to flip these switches three" about what I'm in for I presume I'm going to find out that diverting the power in either direction is bad for different reasons because there's no ethical choice under et cetera and so forth
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Oct 20, 2020 20:51
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Deakul posted:Meh it was just UE4. Outer Worlds still felt exactly like a lovely open world Gamebryo game and I'm continously baffled as to why they thought that was a good thing to replicate?! because Obsidian can't make good games and people never realized (still most don't). ALL their games are technical desasters at least, excused by some sort of lovely deadlines (Kotor2 or so) or some sort of not getting whatever (crappy Bethesda addons). They're simply a gloryrfied myth from ppl. who played D&D or whatever in their cellar and thought that was the pinnacly of good writing. (It's not) Obsidian and Double Fine are the worst, most overrated game companies outside of todays cults.
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Oct 20, 2020 20:55
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That dastardly Obsidian.
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haldolium posted:because Obsidian can't make good games and people never realized (still most don't). ALL their games are technical desasters at least, excused by some sort of lovely deadlines (Kotor2 or so) or some sort of not getting whatever (crappy Bethesda addons). They're simply a gloryrfied myth from ppl. who played D&D or whatever in their cellar and thought that was the pinnacly of good writing. (It's not) Show us on the doll where the bad dungeon master touched you
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Oct 20, 2020 20:58
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looks like all of the zachtronics games are 50% off on the humble store right now. also the messenger is $4. steam reviews for this are very positive but i think i remember people here saying its bad?
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Oct 20, 2020 21:00
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Awesome! posted:looks like all of the zachtronics games are 50% off on the humble store right now. It turns into a really low effort Metroidvania after the first half and I did not like that at all.
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drat horror queefs posted:Show us on the doll where the bad dungeon master touched you not ready yet :'(
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Karma Tornado posted:I just started playing Outer Worlds on Game Pass and does the writing ever pick up or is "hello stranger, I am [capitalist running dog], even though we just met, please turn off the power at the bad deserter town for me, you will need to flip these switches three" about what I'm in for No, in fact you are currently going through the by far most interesting and well written part of the game, it's all downhill from there, lol And yes on the second paragraph, except the reason with which they came for making one of the factions "bad" is so monumentally idiotic it feels like a parody, but it's delivered with all the earnestness the writers could muster.
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Oct 20, 2020 21:09
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haldolium posted:because Obsidian can't make good games and people never realized (still most don't). ALL their games are technical desasters at least, excused by some sort of lovely deadlines (Kotor2 or so) or some sort of not getting whatever (crappy Bethesda addons). They're simply a gloryrfied myth from ppl. who played D&D or whatever in their cellar and thought that was the pinnacly of good writing. (It's not) Counterpoint: Alpha Protocol, as broken as it is brilliant.
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Oct 20, 2020 21:12
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steinrokkan posted:No, in fact you are currently going through the by far most interesting and well written part of the game, it's all downhill from there, lol Gross. Ew. I did one of those Charlie Brown "auuugh" noises quietly to myself when it asked me to flip three switches before flipping the important no take backsies switch I shot some kind of parrot wolf at range using the not-VATS and that boy did sail up into the sky very slowly like it had been raptured by a god who wasn't really sure what it was doing, though, that was pretty good
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Oct 20, 2020 21:13
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I was gonna say New Vegas was good, but now I realize that was over 10 years ago and Obsidian has had more misses than hits during that time. This is like realizing Weezer has sucked for way longer than they were ever good.
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exquisite tea posted:I was gonna say New Vegas was good, but now I realize that was over 10 years ago and Obsidian has had more misses than hits during that time. This is like realizing Weezer has sucked for way longer than they were ever good. What were the misses? Tyranny was good. Pillars was good. Deadfire was amazing. Haven't played that Southpark game. Outer Worlds is their one miss so far imo.
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Oct 20, 2020 21:17
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New Vegas and Alpha Protocol are the only Obsidian games I've played and enjoyed
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Karma Tornado posted:I just started playing Outer Worlds on Game Pass and does the writing ever pick up or is "hello stranger, I am [capitalist running dog], even though we just met, please turn off the power at the bad deserter town for me, you will need to flip these switches three" about what I'm in for Unfortunately no, it doesn't get better. The main quest has some interesting twists and turns but the whole game has a "Gee jolly, capitalism sure is wacky!" toothless aesthetic that endlessly throws binary lesser-of-two-evils choices at you. At first it's a little refreshing because the choices are not false or fabricated, you can rarely hit a dialogue check and make both parties happy. The issue is that they're tortured and terribly contrived, like they absolutely had to make both sides equally evil. I, apparently, got a bad outcome in a mid-game quest chain because the leader I was working for was actually a zealot and his 2nd in command thought I was irresponsible for supporting him, but the dialogue leading up to that point barely supported that outcome. Some of the beat-by-beat dialogue is fun - Spacer's Choice! and the Parvati companion line as two examples that come to mind. Then you get to Byzantium and the bottom falls out. Also the whole combat system straight up sucks. It just sucks. The game has the most bloated and worthless inventory system I've experienced in an RPG.
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Awesome! posted:looks like all of the zachtronics games are 50% off on the humble store right now. It looks pretty good but the platforming is dull and there’s just no gameplay “hook.” It’s all extremely rote and the humor doesn’t land either.
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I felt like Outer Worlds combat was perfectly fine for the genre. My problems with it were the boring Perks each level, and the entirely uninspired "Gun", "Gun Mk2" and "Gun Mk3" for gear. Can't comment on the writing because, as with every game, I skim subtitles and press Skip half way through the voice acting 
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Oct 20, 2020 21:31
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Awesome! posted:also the messenger is $4. steam reviews for this are very positive but i think i remember people here saying its bad? It's not gameplay related, but The Messenger quotes/paraphrases Jordan Peterson and refers to him as Jordan the Wise. I don't know if the rest of the game has any chud messaging, but that's a yikes from me.
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Oct 20, 2020 21:34
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steinrokkan posted:What were the misses? If you watched the first 10 years of South Park then The Stick of Truth was a fun as hell rpg style game that drew from all the irreverent dumb humor that made the show good. The Fractured But Whole was just them jamming their throbbing "THE TRUTH IS IN THE MIDDLE LOL" agenda into a game making fun of superhero franchises and what racial humor they did try fell completely flat or was gross as hell. I'd even go so far as to say it was cop apologia for the following the cops target and harass black people because there is a demon in the basement of the precinct that only eats black people, not you know because cops are largely fascist racist tools of the state
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Awesome! posted:looks like all of the zachtronics games are 50% off on the humble store right now. No Wave fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Oct 20, 2020 |
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the messenger is fine and blew a lot of minds with its mid-game twist, but the gameplay changes after said twist really don't work for it and the writing is very bad not even about the petersen quotes, the characters basically speak in fourth-wall breaking shitposts and most of them are about as funny as a root canal
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pentyne posted:If you watched the first 10 years of South Park then The Stick of Truth was a fun as hell rpg style game that drew from all the irreverent dumb humor that made the show good. Obsidian didn't make The Fractured But Whole?
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The Messenger main game feels like it went through a lot of revision. There are a lot of things stapled together that don't really belong. The DLC doesn't feel that way at all, the sense of humor works and it's hard in all the right places. Ok, the final fight is a giant meme but everything up until then is exactly what it should be.
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pentyne posted:The Fractured But Whole was just them jamming their throbbing "THE TRUTH IS IN THE MIDDLE LOL" agenda into a game making fun of superhero franchises and what racial humor they did try fell completely flat or was gross as hell. I'd even go so far as to say it was cop apologia for the following the cops target and harass black people because there is a demon in the basement of the precinct that only eats black people, not you know because cops are largely fascist racist tools of the state I had to look this up because I've never heard about this game - it's made y Ubisoft.
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steinrokkan posted:What were the misses? Agree with this, but Outer Worlds was a AA game that came out of nowhere, and sold and reviewed much better than it had any right to. I think some of the initial reviews and FNV comparisons set people’s expectations way too high, but calling it a miss seems like a stretch. It was a neat small budget game and it already has a sequel in development.
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Iverron posted:Obsidian didn't make The Fractured But Whole? I didn't mean to imply Obsidian made it, I thought they did but my main point was the first game was great, and the second was Matt and Trey jerking off over how enlightened their lolbertarian ideas were. Probably didn't have too much to do with the developers making story/character choices.
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pentyne posted:If you watched the first 10 years of South Park then The Stick of Truth was a fun as hell rpg style game that drew from all the irreverent dumb humor that made the show good. You may want to double check who made which game. Edit pentyne posted:I didn't mean to imply Obsidian made it, I thought they did but my main point was the first game was great, and the second was Matt and Trey jerking off over how enlightened their lolbertarian ideas were. Probably didn't have too much to do with the developers making story/character choices. The main point was about Obsidian though, not South Park. Kibayasu fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Oct 20, 2020 |
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How well does Star Wars Squadrons run on 5 yr old hardware? My GPU is below recommended.
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Has any of the Obsidian games actually been a "technical disaster" since AP/New Vegas? (10 years ago)
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