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GrandpaPants posted:I take it the latest Humble Monthly isn't selling very well since I just got an e-mail notifying that I can get the bundle for $6. It just makes me regret my purchase of Fae Tactics even more, though. Wish I had refunded it when I had the chance! I bit the bullet and cancelled my classic account a couple months ago and it seems to have been a wise decision.
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Fallom posted:I bit the bullet and cancelled my classic account a couple months ago and it seems to have been a wise decision. It’s definitely been having more misses than hits lately.
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So Control was great. Remedy to the core, albeit with fewer Twin Peaks references than usual, but I'll forgive it that one weakness. The DLC was also solid. The Foundation was a nice break from the game's regular aesthetic but the caves themselves grew rather samey. Cool Astral sections tho and I liked the emphasis on verticality. Meanwhile, AWE was more of the same shifting brutalism of the base-game, but it showcased the engine's lighting more, and it actually added a new weapon and some much-needed unique mods. Strangely enough, it felt like each expansion paved the way for completely different sequels: the first where you rebel against The Board, the second where you're going after Paracriminals and figuring out what's going on with Alan Wake. Anyways, Langston for President.
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Mordja posted:So Control was great. Remedy to the core, albeit with fewer Twin Peaks references than usual, but I'll forgive it that one weakness. The DLC was also solid. The Foundation was a nice break from the game's regular aesthetic but the caves themselves grew rather samey. Cool Astral sections tho and I liked the emphasis on verticality. Meanwhile, AWE was more of the same shifting brutalism of the base-game, but it showcased the engine's lighting more, and it actually added a new weapon and some much-needed unique mods. Strangely enough, it felt like each expansion paved the way for completely different sequels: the first where you rebel against The Board, the second where you're going after Paracriminals and figuring out what's going on with Alan Wake. Agreed completely on the DLCs. I thought they were a little weaker than the main game but both left me wanting two different sequels that haven't actually been announced yet. I love Alan Wake so I'm always yearning for more of that series in general.
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Oct 19, 2020 22:35
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Mr E posted:Agreed completely on the DLCs. I thought they were a little weaker than the main game but both left me wanting two different sequels that haven't actually been announced yet. I love Alan Wake so I'm always yearning for more of that series in general. They haven't specifically announced Alan Wake 2 but they have said their next game will be set in the Control/Wake shared universe.
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the AWE IN PROGRESS notification at the end of AWE strongly implies their next game is going to be Alan Wake 2. It may also be Control 2. I'm excited. Also oh shot, new Amnesia tomorrow, I am so ready to get spooked. Frictional has never done me wrong.
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I'll take anything from Remedy that isn't Quantum Break, I love all their other games so much.
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Remedy is one of those studios (Spiders, From, Trese Brothers, probably some others I'm forgetting in a brief thought) that I'm gonna play whatever they put out because even Quantum Break, flawed as it desperately was, was a bunch of cool ideas. Granted I will not be replaying Quantum Break, the others I have and will.
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Orv posted:Remedy is one of those studios (Spiders, From, Trese Brothers, probably some others I'm forgetting in a brief thought) that I'm gonna play whatever they put out I'm kinda surprised to see spiders in a list like this. What's their best game? Studios that are pretty much insta-buy for me: Mimimi, Klei, Larian, Paradox (PDS, the studio, not the publisher), Subset games, and Amplitude.
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Walh Hara posted:I'm kinda surprised to see spiders in a list like this. What's their best game? Typically their latest one. (Greedfall.)  Spiders is a studio that is clearly making games they're putting their whole heart into as a studio and they're nothing incredible and I don't even finish most of them but they're always unique and fun.
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remedy is strange to me because I’ve never had an iota of interest in any of their games before control, while control is now one of my all time favorites and I very much hope thrse DLCs I’m about to do are going to set up a control 2
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housemarque was the studio i would buy anything from when they were making stylish arcade games. returnal might be cool i guess this reminds me i still need to buy nex machina on pc
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RBA Starblade posted:I thought Housemarque died? Last year (year before?) I think they put their BR game on hold and anything else they were working on and then this was announced this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4BIQmyOxS8
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Sorry to bother you all with a bit of an off-topic post, but since most Games users just check their bookmarks and nowhere else I'm advertising our new subforum feedback thread in some of our more active threads. If you have anything to say about how Games is being managed, hope on in! If you don't, just ignore this post and I apologize for interrupting your regularly scheduled posting.
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I seem to remember a lot of yelling about Fallout 4. If I enjoyed both F3 and New Vegas, will this be more of the same?
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Gromit posted:I seem to remember a lot of yelling about Fallout 4. If I enjoyed both F3 and New Vegas, will this be more of the same? The good news is the shooting is better and it doesn't look too bad visually. Everything else, though, aaaahh...well.
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Gromit posted:I seem to remember a lot of yelling about Fallout 4. If I enjoyed both F3 and New Vegas, will this be more of the same? It's still not "good" but you can squeeze a lot of hours out of it before you get bored and some of the initial exploration is fun before it eventually turns into a chore. I paid $12ish for the complete edition and I'm not annoyed at the decision for what it's worth.
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FO4's story is sincere rear end. Also its dialogue system is completely gimped since the protagonist needs to be voiced, and its a token gesture as most of the dialogue trees are "Yes" or "No (yes)". But the gunplay is significantly better, also I like the companion system since they chip in during dialogue and will chip in every now and then. Also it has a better upgrade system for weapons/armor which makes it worthwhile to collect all that crap laying around. Basically, better shooty gameplay, worse RPG gameplay.
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kirbysuperstar posted:The good news is the shooting is better and it doesn't look too bad visually. Everything else, though, aaaahh...well. I remember when I way playing seeing a man and a little girl in the wasteland, clearly a riff on Joel and Ellie from TLOU, but whatever. So I go up to them for a conversation and...nothing. Can't do anything with them. Except maybe shoot them but I am not a dick. From everything else I read since that seems to be the experience in a microcosm.
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Oh, there was one other thing FO4 did better than the other 3D Bethsoft games (except NV) - companions were a lot better. Also the credit card scam guy was kinda funny I guess.
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Gromit posted:I seem to remember a lot of yelling about Fallout 4. If I enjoyed both F3 and New Vegas, will this be more of the same? Better than 3, worse than New Vegas. If you liked 3, I think you'll like 4. Don't feel compelled to get sucked into the settlement building if you aren't enjoying it, it's optional.
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FO4 is kinda cool for just exploration, the city has a good amount of verticality
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Ainsley McTree posted:Better than 3, worse than New Vegas. If you liked 3, I think you'll like 4. Don't feel compelled to get sucked into the settlement building if you aren't enjoying it, it's optional. You probably won't enjoy it unless you take the perks that benefit settlement building. You either need to go all in on settlements or just do the bare minimum. The DLC apparently adds a lot, but I've never played past the base game.
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GrandpaPants posted:I take it the latest Humble Monthly isn't selling very well since I just got an e-mail notifying that I can get the bundle for $6. It just makes me regret my purchase of Fae Tactics even more, though. Wish I had refunded it when I had the chance!  IGN, owners of the Humble Bundle: "why isn't anyone subscribing to our bundle?" Fallom posted:I bit the bullet and cancelled my classic account a couple months ago and it seems to have been a wise decision. Ugly In The Morning posted:It’s definitely been having more misses than hits lately. 
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RBA Starblade posted:I thought Housemarque died? Orv posted:Last year (year before?) I think they put their BR game on hold and anything else they were working on and then this was announced this year. Yeah a few years ago they were attributed with saying that "arcade is dead" (a somewhat sensationalist summary of a more complex statement that they actually made) and jumped into...making a Battle Royale game. I actually had no idea that they had once again pivoted to something like Returnal, which at least has the opportunity to sell copies and not die in the womb after it fails to reach a critical mass of players like most BR and multiplayer games.
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theres a fo4 mod that makes settlement building the main focus of the game and its pretty darn good. i spent over 100 hours playing fallout sim city and had a ton of fun. https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/21872
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Fallom posted:I bit the bullet and cancelled my classic account a couple months ago and it seems to have been a wise decision. I dunno why they even bothered doing higher value subscriptions for more games. In order for that that to work, they have more than 2 or 3 games you want to play (if that) and just not pad it out with garbage.
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pentyne posted:You probably won't enjoy it unless you take the perks that benefit settlement building. You either need to go all in on settlements or just do the bare minimum. Far Harbor and Automaton are the really worthwhile ones. FH is some of the best stuff Bethesda has done. Certainly since Morrowwind. Automaton adds some fun stuff but only if making custom robot companions appeals. A Sometimes Food fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Oct 20, 2020 |
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Captain Invictus posted:okey well disregard that then! It's been a while, maybe I should hop back in again. How many "tiers" of content(like, first 3 bosses are tier 1, hardmode is tier 2, etc) have they added past the moon lord? that's the last boss I killed. Moon Lord is still the final boss but there's been a bunch more mobs and events added since then. There's also Expert Mode which you enable at world creation (you can transfer chars over from normal) where everything has roughly 2x HP but there are better drops. I forget what got added when but final version is real good and has some nice quality of life features (like a much less terrible crafting interface).
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Fallout 4 sets up a bunch of neat ideas and never does anything with them. There's a bar that's set up as a fighting arena, and when you arrive, a fight is going on/has just concluded. However, as soon as anyone notices you're there, it turns into a shooting gallery. There's a track with robots racing and raiders supposedly placing bets (and one of them is calling the race over a loudspeaker). However, as soon as anyone notices you're there, it turns into a shooting gallery. Along a road, there's a raider sitting quietly in front of a grave, mourning a dead friend. However... you get the idea. As someone else mentioned, your options in dialogue generally consist of "Yes, I will do that thing," "Yes, but I have a question about something inane," "Yes, but I have a snarky comment," or "No, but I'll be back later to say yes." There is a small bit of reactivity with the various raider bosses and their computer terminals - when you find the raiders and kill them (the only option you have), there will be messages on other terminals talking about what you did to <other named raider and their crew>. It's such a minor thing that I don't think very many people even noticed it. The whole game is like that - just full of stuff that seems like it could go somewhere interesting, and then never follows through. Far Harbor, one of the expansions, is probably the high point of the game, imo. It's kinda creepy and atmospheric, and the story is significantly less stupid than the main game. You have to be a certain level, and also have to rescue Nick Valentine first (who you should definitely bring along with you), but it's worth doing that to get to Far Harbor. It's the Point Lookout of Fallout 4, which isn't exactly high praise, but I can't compare it to Dead Money because I'm pretty sure a bunch of people wouldn't take that as a compliment (it's even got the death fog, but not nearly as severe as it was in DM).
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beats for junkies posted:Fallout 4 sets up a bunch of neat ideas and never does anything with them. There's a bar that's set up as a fighting arena, and when you arrive, a fight is going on/has just concluded.
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Thanks for all the F4 comments, people. One thing I liked about F3 was the password hacking on the terminals, and exploring these weird points of interest. Do they still have that sort of thing? The Joe Man posted:Yes, with the tradeoff of better gunplay feel but dumbed down RPG mechanics. Less buggy/crash-prone too just by nature of it being on the Skyrim engine. I like shooting, so that's ok by me. I forgot all about there being DLC. I see I can get the GOTY package all up for USD$11.29. Might be time to make that huge investment.
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Man I always bounce off CRPGs after a couple dozen hours but Baldur's Gate 3 hype got me to pick up Original Sin 2 again after stalling out on it a year ago and now I'm well into Act II and it's taken over my brain completely. Does it stay this strong throughout? I've got a few issues here and there but the sense of exploration and the density of the world is so cool, and the cool combat system and lack of "trash encounters" makes almost every fight feel like a reward rather than something I have to endure so I can keep playing the game. It's my understanding there's a lot of game left but they'd have to really blow it in the second half to lose my attention at this point
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it pretty much stays that way, be sure to stay on top of ways you can break the game! the game will try to break it back at you.
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Gromit posted:Thanks for all the F4 comments, people. Getting all the dlc in a pack is probably a good idea for mod support if nothing else. The dlc may not all be great but they introduced mechanics the modders have run with.
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Leal posted:FO4's story is sincere rear end. Also its dialogue system is completely gimped since the protagonist needs to be voiced, and its a token gesture as most of the dialogue trees are "Yes" or "No (yes)". But the gunplay is significantly better, also I like the companion system since they chip in during dialogue and will chip in every now and then. Also it has a better upgrade system for weapons/armor which makes it worthwhile to collect all that crap laying around. Also the story makes some aggressively stupid and nonsensical moves in order to hide the Big Twist longer. Ainsley McTree posted:Better than 3, worse than New Vegas. If you liked 3, I think you'll like 4. Don't feel compelled to get sucked into the settlement building if you aren't enjoying it, it's optional. No, more than that.
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idk if i'd endorse fallout 3 leading to liking fallout 4. 3 at least feels like an rpg with stories and things happening. fallout 4 is a husk of a game carved out to make room for endless procedural 'fun'.
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Kly posted:theres a fo4 mod that makes settlement building the main focus of the game and its pretty darn good. i spent over 100 hours playing fallout sim city and had a ton of fun. You beautiful bastard. This looks extremely my poo poo, thanks for the link!
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Gromit posted:I seem to remember a lot of yelling about Fallout 4. If I enjoyed both F3 and New Vegas, will this be more of the same? I am the biggest defender of fallout 3 on these forums and 4 bored me to tears
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