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Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition is on sale. Is it good? Is the story good? I've heard the main story isn't worth playing but that the Shadows of Undrentide module is really cool. Is actually playing it an exercise in frustration where you spend more time fighting the UI than the monsters? GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Apr 22, 2020 |
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Has anybody played Hunter: Call of the Wild lately? I played it last year and got pissed when some deer's AI glitched and it got stuck running in front of a rock. I shot it something like 8 times point blank, aiming as close to both the head and heart as I could and... nothing. When it finally unglitched, it just ran off, bleeding *a little bit* and nothing else. At that point I decided I wasn't going to bother with a hunting game where "realism" was expressed by making it entirely unrealistically difficult to kill anything. Was this just a really weird one-off thing? Do animals actually die when you shoot them now?
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And not a single shot of the UI, game modes, or what playing the game might actually look like.
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Cowcaster posted:it's chess Samuringa posted:It's chess Mordja posted:It's chess. Oh right, kinda like how Tetris is just Tetris and there's only ever been one single version of that game too. Good point. Peaceful Anarchy posted:You might think that, and yet the most helpful steam review: Thank you. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 18:46 on May 1, 2020 |
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Metal Gear Solid 5 could have been the best stealth game of all time, head and shoulders above everything else... if not for a few really bad design decisions that totally destroy the late game. The game is, however, absolutely excellent for the first 15 or 20 hours... then goes straight to poo poo after that. You realize both maps are boring and awful, getting new items takes a Korean MMO grind, and you have to pay for every single thing, every single time you get out of your helicopter, with money that isn't easy to come by. Also, and this is pretty telling, the base in Ground Zeroes is BY FAR the best stealth area in both games. Nothing in MGS5 touches it. Actually I think the perfect Stealth game would probably look a lot like Ground Zeroes but you can use all of MGS5's gadgets and tricks. MGS5 would have been way better if it was just a series of individual levels/areas/bases like in Ground Zeroes you could just play forever, actually. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 03:31 on May 2, 2020 |
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Another thing about MGS5. The story is completely bonkers in a bad way. It's just monkey cheese random and completely stupid. For example there are multiple hours of an old guy doing a monologue about stuff like the made-up scientific process of how Kojima's idiotic rust bacteria works... and how to make the perfect hamburger. It's seriously a gigantic waste of time. The actual plot itself makes less than zero sense in an effort to be cool and mysterious, but it's just stupid and pointless. Everything exists for the Rule of Cool. If you have to play it, just ignore it all and concentrate on getting more toys for your GIJoe main character. Also your base seems like it will be cool at first but it also just sucks and is a giant waste of time that serves zero practical benefit. Everything it gives you might as well just exist in a menu. Oh and if you want to visit more than the empty main hub, get ready for an unskippable multi-minute cutscene every time you travel from one part of your base to another. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 03:55 on May 2, 2020 |
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Orv posted:Reminder that GreatGreen was the guy who spent kind of a while in the Dark Souls thread complaining about the way Dark Souls checkpoints worked and how they were unforgivably bad game design. I what? I don't remember that but I'd be entertained if you can find where I said that. I'd like to see how far I've come since then if it exists, along with the context in which I might have said something like that. I'm flattered you've remembered me for this long in the sea of posters on this site though. 
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A Sometimes Food posted:...And Kiefer just being a markedly worse voice actor than Hayter... I think you're right about a lot in your post but I have to stop you here... English speaking anime voice actors aside, David Hayter is the single cringiest voice actor in the business. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 22:13 on May 2, 2020 |
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Look Sir Droids posted:He’s really not. I’ll take Hayter’s worst over Sutherland’s apathetic check cashing. I agree that all 4 of Sutherland's lines in the game were totally phoned in, but I'd rather listen to the voice acting in Just Cause 2 than Hayter. I'd rather laugh than be embarrassed on behalf of someone.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:
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Was Pillars of Eternity II really good or underwhelming?
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Thanks for all the Pillars replies, guys. I think I'll pick it up!
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Triarii posted:The entire shopkeeping side of the game boils down to "what if, when selling your vendor trash to NPCs, you had to guess what the right price is and it takes a while to see how good your guess was?" Do they at least give you like an "average market price" hint per item or anything?
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Antigravitas posted:The weirdest thing about PoE2 is that it is unquestionably a better game than the first. Absolutely everything is better executed. I have to say, for me the most offputting thing, not having played it yet, is the swashbuckling seas setting. It's kind of my least-favorite high fantasy setting. I've always found that the elements I like most about "swords and spells over medieval Europe technology" settings are magic and mystery/intrigue, and I think those are much better suited to more... temperate zones, with maybe tangents in snowy mountains, sandy deserts, and then the balls out crazy otherworldly places. Sorry if anybody thinks that's too cliche or unimaginative, but what can I say? I like what I like, and they wouldn't be cliches if they weren't so popular because they worked so well. Either way, I'm still confident the game will be good. I'm downloading it now. All I'm saying is that I can see why the game might not scratch the "platonic ideal CRPG" itch. Then again I think Morrowind is one of the best and most interesting fantasy games of all time and its setting is anything but cliche so who knows. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 23:04 on May 12, 2020 |
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Having an absurd number of tabs open kills the purpose of having tabs at all. Browser tabs are for keeping track of multiple pages intended to be viewed in a single session, but when you have so many open that you can no longer keep mental track of which is which, they're no longer useful as they no longer serve their purpose. Having too many open is, practically speaking, the same as having none open at all. Might as well close them. Having too many tabs open is basically the new "desktop filled with so many icons they extend past the screen." Figure out Reading Lists or how to use Bookmarks instead you bunch of hoarders. Hell, you can even make a bookmark folder called "Tabs" and just add/delete pages in it as you move through stuff. At least that way you can read the names of pages you've saved all in a big list instead of having to mouseover tiny icon-sized tabs and wait for the popup to tell you what it is. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 18:10 on May 13, 2020 |
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Cardiovorax posted:Man, I don't regret having just spent 50 bucks on Red Dead Redemption 2, but I kinda wish I was able to afford Troubleshooter as well. This sounds like everything I love in a game. I actually do regret getting RDR2. It feels like it should have been a fun game, it's a gorgeous technical marvel and all that, but the story is so absolutely, penetratingly depressing that I ended up really not liking any of it. It's just one long trip of poo poo starting off bad and only getting worse. That's it, that's the whole game. Literally every time you do anything, the quality of your life and world gets worse than it just was. Without fail, right up until the end where Arthur is unceremoniously killed in a fist fight in front of his surrogate father who doesn't give a poo poo about him anymore. For north of 70 hours. It's a long, slow slog that even has a lovely ending, and I grew to hate it. I'd get a refund I could. The bit at the end where you build John's house where the game knows what it just was and tries to make you feel better doesn't even begin to make up for it. By the last few hours of Arthur's arch, I dreaded even launching the goddamn app. Oh and also, all the little decisions they made pushing the game towards realism by making poo poo more tedious and annoying and requiring unnecessarily extra travel time, unskippable animations, and button presses for every little thing you do made the experience of actually playing the game suck along with the depressing plot. Yay. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 00:00 on May 15, 2020 |
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So youtube videos of Beyond Blue are coming out and it looks like they took a chillout ocean life exploration game and decided the main character shouldn't be simply an avatar by which you can explore a neat world, but instead should be a be a sarcastic livestreamer all about ME ME ME and likes. I'm watching a let's play now and the main character's biggest accomplishments so far are "berating the sidekick radio tech guy for not giving her the exact answers she wants" and "taunting her audience about betting they wish they could do what she's doing right now but they can't haha." Another weird thing is that she seems to have absolutely zero sense of awe or wonder about where she is or what she's doing. The opening is a tiny bit expressive with stuff like "my grandma and I used to dive and I was entranced" but in the actual game it's different. One of the first things you see is the gigantic whale floating by and the un-hesitant first thing out of the character's mouth is something impatient like "how long does it take for the scanner to work" followed by the tech saying "well it depends on several factors" to which she replies "Oh, so you don't know. Got it." gently caress off. Beyond Blue: Karen Goes Deep GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Jun 11, 2020 |
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If you buy Mass Effect 3 on Steam, does it integrate with your Origin account or is it native to Steam?
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:I think its literally insane to buy something twice, especially knowing that most of you aren't even going to play it. Well, that's my hot take on it, seeya "Collecting" is a helluva drug.
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DrNutt posted:*sheepishly raises hand* I mean, I'm not saying I don't suffer from it as well. Collecting is fuckin great. Typing in the name of a good series in a DD client and seeing all the titles lined up there in your library is good stuff man. I'm also right there with you on your reasoning to double dip, too. ShootaBoy posted:I buy games I really love multiple times. Sometimes to have them playable elsewhere, like on the go, and sometimes just because I love them and want to support the creators. I own KoDP about 5 times. I don't like thinking about how many times I've bought stuff like Morrowind (physical original, physical GOTY, Steam, GoG, etc) or the many different Infinity Engine iterations of their games and enhanced editions. Yes I know I'm a terrible person for falling into this specific temptation of capitalism. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Jun 11, 2020 |
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Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is 85% off, on sale for $6 down from $40. It's got a Steam review of 95% from 12,000+ people. Is there something I'm missing or is this just a really good discount? I guess it is 4 years old now.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Amazing game, well worth full price. A steal at the discount price. Probably a nice discount to celebrate the devs release of Desperados 3 (which is amazing too). Thanks! Black Griffon posted:I don't feel like leaving either, I'm more worried about the forums existing a week from now. Same here. SA is my favorite place on the internet by a wide margin. I joined in 2007 (fuckin christ that was a while back) and I've never before or since found anywhere that even comes close to a community as entertaining, intelligent, useful, interesting, and most importantly... funny. I'm not going to cancel SA because of the actions of a single rear end in a top hat, even if that rear end in a top hat is a primary component of the community. To me this site and its community is a lot bigger and better than any single rear end in a top hat who does rear end in a top hat things. I'm also worried about what everybody else is going to do too. I hope the rest of the site doesn't allow one rear end in a top hat to ruin everything. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 15:01 on Jun 24, 2020 |
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The dumb sale mini games never kept me engaged, but I loved the flash sales in the middle of season sales. It made the whole sale fun and gave you a reason to check back in each day. They could make something like this compatible with the new way they do new sales. If the sale lasts a week, just take every title that will be on sale and randomize them so that each title is only actively on sale for one day in that week so you have to keep checking in, but then put all titles back on sale during the last day so you'd be able to grab what you missed just like how old sales used to work.
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Here's a question for you fine folks. Rise of the Tomb Raider for $7.49 if I get this, should I also get: Rise of the Tomb Raider - Season Pass for $4.99?
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anilEhilated posted:I'd say yes if it isn't too much of a burden financially. The Baba Yaga DLC is pretty good, if short. Orv posted:The DLCs for Rise are pretty what they say on the tin. It's got some really good tombs, a neat experimental survival mode, some more story stuff. A lot of it was pretty positively received, people tend to be pretty polarized on the survival mode but that's just kinda how that goes. The rest of it is cosmetics with some minor gameplay stuff that isn't remotely necessary. Thanks! So, final Tomb Raider question. Which one of these is the better experience? I haven't played any of the modern Tomb Raider games. Rise of the Tomb Raider + DLC pack for $12.50 https://store.steampowered.com/app/391220/Rise_of_the_Tomb_Raider/ Shadow of the Tomb Raider - Deluxe Edition for $19.50 https://store.steampowered.com/app/750920/Shadow_of_the_Tomb_Raider_Definitive_Edition/ GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Jun 26, 2020 |
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Veib posted:In that case IMO you should get Tomb Raider (2013), it's the best and cheapest of the three Cartoon Man posted:Start with the first of the modern games, it’s just called Tomb Raider (2013). I recently played all the way through and enjoyed the experience though the Lara Croft torture porn was a bit excessive. It’s about 13-15 hours of gameplay. Looks like that game has a bunch of DLC also. Any of those worth getting? https://store.steampowered.com/app/203160/Tomb_Raider/
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Orv posted:Don't get any of the TR13 DLC, no. Not even the single player stuff like pistol silencer, etc?
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Orv posted:No they're just in-game upgrades bought early with real money. They calmed down with that poo poo with Rise or Shadow thankfully. Mierenneuker posted:Those type of DLC are all basically cheats, because they are things you would unlock in the course of the game otherwise. The exception is the downed plane, but I remember reviews telling me that it was really short. It was something that was originally a pre-order bonus. Ok cool so you can freely replay levels in any order once you beat them with a more upgraded character then?
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StrixNebulosa posted:Difficulty chat, but for more general games: I like to start almost all games on normal or easy and then if I like it enough/am good at it I'll crank it up until I feel challenged. Testify! I agree with every one of these points. Single player games should be enjoyed according to the way the player wants to enjoy them. If that means cheating sometimes, great. If that means cheating all the time, great. Or never cheating, great too as long as the player is having the most fun this way. I've always found that games are best when thought of as sandboxes for the player's creative expression. Rigid experiences that absolutely must stay true to the ~*~developer's artistic vision~*~ the whole time always risk players bouncing off of them. Every single game that's ever had a cheat menu or that actively encourages modding it to make it your own, is better for it.
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I'm trying to find a game that my team at work can play to unwind on those dark and stormy quarantine nights. We're all males between 20-40 and interested in tech and used to games if that helps. Fall Guys crossed my radar and I want to ask you folks about it. It's just a bit expensive at  for a work game but besides that, is it easy to host private games of like 15 people to play in? Is there a better, cheaper option for work games? We've done Counter Strike and Quake Champions to death and I'm looking for something that's kinda light but also can make for some hilarious chaos when possible. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Aug 14, 2020 |
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explosivo posted:I don't think there's any way to do private matches in Fall Guys. Jackbox is always a great option for a bunch of people though! Got it, thanks.
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I'm one of those weird people who thought Amalur was almost really good back when it came out but I also thought it was severely hamstrung by a bunch of small issues. The biggest of those issues for me was the camera. Most RPGs or MMOs in this kind of style direct the camera's focus right at the character's head at the lowest and right above it at the highest. Amalur focuses the camera right at your character's waist or lower back so that it always feels like your character is blocking your view of the world around you. When you run forward the camera actually lags behind you and can aim at your shins. You actually see more of the ground behind your character than the world in front of you and this game's gigantic world feels cramped and awful the entire time because of it. From youtube videos, it looks like the camera is still just as low-slung and claustrophobic feeling as ever. Apparently you can widen the FoV but you're still forced to stare at your character's lower half all the time. Lame. I would have bought the remaster, all the other warts and all, if they'd just have fixed what is arguably one of the worst cameras in modern 3rd person games. EDIT: Amalur Re-Recking, turns out, has fixed the camera issues. The camera is great now. I've bought the new version and I'm having a great time with it. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Sep 10, 2020 |
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Deakul posted:Jesus, I'm not alone. It's really frustrating yeah. It would have been an almost effortless thing to fix too, and would have done so much for the game. Increase camera Z by a few units and done. The other thing I would have liked to see is that while you can equip any two weapons at a time, you can only ever see one of them at a time. Having both weapons sheathed on you, and when you fight with any one of them, you'd show the other sheathed on your character would have been really great for the tone of the game. But mostly I'm just frustrated about the camera. EDIT: Looks like I was wrong. Amalur Re-Recking, turns out, has fixed the camera issues. The camera is great now. I've bought the new version and I'm having a great time with it. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Sep 10, 2020 |
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Mehrunes posted:There's options to change camera height and distance in the remaster. Can you show a screenshot? The Amalur Re-Reckoning videos I saw showed FoV but no camera height setting that increases the height of the camera’s focal point. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Sep 9, 2020 |
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Morter posted:Sorry for double post: Wow, the videos I've watched didn't show that. Last question. Does that Camera Height slider control the position of the camera itself or does it control the point where the camera focuses? In other words does it raise the camera higher in the air while still pointing at the character's back, or does it actually raise the focal point of the camera above the character and out into the world?
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Ugly In The Morning posted:They really need some more throttling options on the upper end of things on the downloads menu. It jumps straight from 10MB/s to 25. I don’t want to clog bandwidth on this network but like, 15MB/S would be perfect, but it’s straight up not there. I don’t know why it’s not just a field where you enter a number. Wow I think the exact same thing. I'm always flip flopping between those two values too. 15 MB/s would be perfect.
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In a perfect world (not counting "all games free, no DRM ever"), all digital distribution would work like it does on GOG. You need a license to download a game installer that comes with no DRM. From there you can run an agent if you want that lets you set updates per game to either automatic, update notification with user approval prompt, or never. In an almost-perfect world, all digital distribution would work like it does on Steam until X days or years after release, after which you're given the option to download an installer without DRM. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Sep 9, 2020 |
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Holy poo poo. I was wrong about Kingdoms of Amalur Re-Reckoning. Literally every problem I had with the camera has been fixed in the remake. You can raise bring the camera's focal point higher than default so you can finally set its focal point above your character and out into the world, and you can increase its distance from your character too. You can also increase the FoV and turn off the awful rubberbanding thing it does by default. I can finally play this gigantic, generic-rear end game without my main character taking up 40% of the screen at all times! I'm genuinely excited to revisit this now. 
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Black Griffon posted:ugh, I'm gonna have to give it a spin since the upgrade is apparently free if you own the original. It's $15 if you own the original. The new camera is great.
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So I've been having a great time with the Amalur Re-Reckoning. The new camera fixes exactly what I hated about the game when it was first released. I can now focus the camera out into the world from above my character's head and actually see what's going on. Amalur is actually a really great game for scratching the big western RPG loop of: 1. Go to Village and gather up a ton of quests 2. Circle the zone and getting quests done, checking off items in your big To Do list one after the other 3. Returning to town with a great big green list of checkmarks and trading them all in for a shower of loot and rewards. This game is basically crack for people who like that style of RPG. Yes it's kinda generic but most of the parts it's comprised of are done pretty well, and the combat is fun and solid which is rare for an RPG. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Sep 10, 2020 |
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