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Kin posted:Well, that's a loving bugger. My 2TB external WD mypassport HDD just died out of nowhere. It was plugged into my machine and i just heard the familiar "bing bong" usb disconnected sound. It's possible that it's the HDD controller that's bad; remove the drive and plug it into a computer, or put it in a different enclosure. This won't work on encrypted models. If that doesn't work you can try the freezer trick (google it) but your data is probably lost Steam games are thankfully easy to recover from Steam. For important documents and other smaller stuff, see if you have backups anywhere. Everyone should be using cloud storage, basically anyone can easily get a bunch of free always online storage for that kind of stuff
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Yikes. Consider it a lesson learned then, keep backups of important stuff, ideally in the cloud if it's small enough for that
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Kin posted:Yup, it's that exact one. Remember that it's only a backup if it's a second (or more) copy on separate hardware. If losing 1 hard drive wipes out your only copy of that data then that data wasn't backed up.
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Don't worry the fourth character is the friends and experiences that you can make now that you are no longer playing slay the spire. Don't bother confirming this, just go ahead and live your life
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*while skydiving with friends for the first time* wow slay the spire is so great!
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Cross-posting from the Stellaris thread: Right now there's a crazy Paradox build-a-bundle over at Humble; huge discounts on the entire Paradox catalog plus in the bundle you get an additional 80-85% off on top of those. Good time to buy some Paradox-published games if you're interested in trying EU4, Battletech, any of the Shadowrun games, etc. The bundle includes Stellaris but none of the DLCs, but those are still heavily-discounted regardless https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/paradox-build-your-own-bundle/?hmb_source=store_home  Free games for bigger discounts alert: there are numerous games available for the bundle that are like $2-3, so in classic good build-a-bundle style these can activate a larger bundle discount and effectively reduce the the total cost of your cart when you add them. So even if you only want 1-2 things, you can actually get an even bigger discount + some free games by just adding cheap things to your cart.For example: I've added Battletech Mercenary Edition (e.g. base game + season pass), Tyranny, and Surviving Mars. MSRP $185, after bundling discounts: $35. Then I add Shadowrun: Dragonfall, and the cart total becomes $33.50. Then I add Hearts of Iron 3, and the cart total becomes $31.12. I'm getting a $4 discount while getting a free copy of HOI3 and Shadowrun Dragonfall. Or say that I only wanted Battletech Mercenary Edition, on its own it's $30. Then I add some cheap games, like Majesty 2, HOI3, Age of Wonders, and Crusader Kings Complete. Now the cart costs $19.
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Griefor posted:Fell Seal is excellent. It's Final Fantasy Tactics, basically. Definitely worth getting if you're getting this monthly. So it's FFT but the characters are modded to look like seals? You've sold me
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You're making the classic rookie mistake of playing Borderlands 1
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More seriously though are you upgrading your equipment and skill tree? Weapons tend to go obsolete pretty fast, you might be passing by purely better upgrades on the basis of rarity, which is a common mistake.
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Not sure if it's been posted already, but Humble is doing another insane Paradox bundle, this time just for DLCs. So if you've been thinking of getting back into EU4, Stellaris, CK2, Battletech, etc. but wanted to wait for a bunch of DLC to be heavily discounted, well here's your chance: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/paradox-strategy-dlc-build-your-own-bundle/ Basically every DLC that wasn't released in the last 6 months starts off at 53% off, and if you bundle together 3+ items then the additional discount on the cart total ranges from 60-65%. So you're looking at up to an 84% discount overall QuarkJets fucked around with this message at 11:21 on Apr 25, 2020 |
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Witcher 3 horse controls were actually pretty good when you weren't getting stuck on invisible obstacles
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Huskalator posted:So I downloaded the DayZ game for the free weekend and it's a real garbage heap of a bad game but the premise is great and I'd definitely be down for something similar. Hollow Knight is the only zombie game I need right now
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:It's probably the very heavy handed "We reject policies of social dominance, Neo-liberalism, patriarchy, the gender binary, white supremacy, and other social ills espoused by capitalism." which, ok, while I agree with most of that (though isn't neo-liberalism just libertarianism?) it's a bit much for a first impression? Like it's trying a bit hard. Rejecting libertarianism is cool and good, it's a philosophy that draws people in with promises of weed legalization and then the masks come off to reveal that every single one of their idealogues is an abhorrent monster overly concerned with the age of consent and racial purity
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Excelzior posted:meh this has nothing on that one crazy japanese horse racing game MGS5 is the best crazy Japanese horse game
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I used to really like playing Payload maps, the objective is one team tries to push a big bomb in a minecart into the other team's base in some limited time, so there's less focus on getting sick kill streaks and more focus on setting up defensible positions and sieging said positions. And since the objective moves from one side of the map to the other it changes the primary conflict location TF2 also has a pretty goofy aesthetic which scares off many of the tryhards and edgy kids who want to use real guns. It's not a for sure thing that you'll like it, but I could never get into Counterstrike yet sank a bunch of time into TF2 back in the day
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Evoland Legendary Edition: Replace $ with W QuarkJets fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Sep 25, 2020 |
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:When I first activated 2FA on Steam a few years back, the window that popped up with the recovery code was blank where the alphanumeric code should have been. Customer support fixed it after a couple of days but my butthole sure was puckered while I sorted it out, lemme tell you. The universe sent you a sign, a clear message that you should do something else with your life
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Fargin Icehole posted:It is my opinion that Fallout New Vegas is an astronomically better game than Fallout 3 and especially 4. If someone reads this and is like "yeah NV was fine but Fallout 3 is better because it had Megaton" or whatever then you immediately know they're some kind of idiot or maybe a child
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Spelunky 2: Is it good?
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Since there's a sale right now I thought I'd recommend some stuff Frostpunk is maybe my favorite strategy game of the last decade, it wasn't a smash success or anything but I really liked it. The devs released a ton of free additional content for it and have just finished releasing some DLC campaigns that add cool new scenarios. I sank way too much time into this "survival city builder" Slay the Spire had a huge cult following when it was in early access and is just an overall excellent game, it wasn't the first of its kind or anything but I feel like it really popularized the niche genre of card-based action games. It's just a really fun game and well-polished. Monster Train feels like a spiritual descendent of Slay the Spire and has inherited a lot of that enthusiasm, but Slay the Spire is still a great game if you haven't tried it.
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Evil Genius 2 lets you use giant fans to push investigators into shark tanks and shoot a giant laser that turns people into gold. Instant GOTY, doesn't matter that mid-game research drags cause I'm having fun
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drat Dirty Ape posted:I so want this game to be good but everything I'm reading is telling me it's not. Evil Genius 2 is basically EG1 with a bunch of polish and some streamlining. Like there's no forced early-game transition to a second island - the island you start with is the one you have for the entire game. A lot of the useful stuff is unlocked from the start of the game, you start with a casino area, and there is a lot more space you can build in By today's standards, it's clunky in a lot of the ways that EG1 is clunky, like the interface could use a lot of improvement and some of the really useful hotkeys simply aren't bound to anything when you install the game. But if you still like EG1 then it's pretty fantastic
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I was definitely being facetious when I said Evil Genius 2 is GOTY but I really am liking it a lot and probably will sink dozens of more hours into it at least. I also really like the first game
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Darkrenown posted:I was excited for Evil Genius 2, but I think I am done with it until they patch it or something. I can't say I've been having fun for the past few hours, I am just playing in the hope that I unlock something which makes it fun. It's so slow, and I say that as someone who likes slow map games. But what made me quit is either a bug or terrible design. I was sure I had started a plot mission several times, but I hadn't sat and watched it go through, so perhaps I was misremembering. I'm not saying that you should keep playing a game that is boring you, but it doesn't sound like you encountered a bug. Regions gain heat on their own while you have a network there, and heat can also be created by investigators leaving your base with incriminating evidence, or when any kind of agent fails to return from your base because you killed or detained them. I think this is probably covered in the tutorial
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TheOneAndOnlyT posted:I don't really get the love or hate for Bioshock 1. It's Fine. Overall it's a generic shooter with light RPG mechanics which are executed decently well. It gets points for an original setting and--I think even the haters can agree on this--a pretty goddamned good plot twist. It loses points for having no idea what to do plot-wise after said twist, and the last third of the game dragging as a result. I didn't think it was the best game ever at the time, and I remember getting annoyed with the cackling villain that gets introduced near the end, but I finished it because it was OK overall. Call it overrated if you want, but it wasn't pure garbage. It's fine, absolutely The hate some people feel I think was over reviewers and fans claiming that it was a spiritual successor to System Shock 2. Because it really wasn't that at all. Most people who played Bioshock hadn't played SS2, so they didn't have any point of reference to take issue with those statements. "Well Bioshock is a pretty competent FPS game with cool environments, I guess SS2 must have been like that too." People who had actually played SS2 and were looking forward to this spiritual successor were set up to be massively let down, and I think that bred resentment (for the record, I did not play SS2 until much later; I had fun playing Bioshock, it was a nifty FPS, but then playing SS2 later I can totally get why so many people felt let down and betrayed by game journalism) Bioshock 3, on the other hand, is actually just a competently-made bad game. In fact "competent" is being generous QuarkJets fucked around with this message at 10:09 on Apr 6, 2021 |
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fatherboxx posted:How is Evil Genius 2? It's fine but kind of obtuse in some of the ways that you'd expect a game made in the early 2000s to be obtuse despite actually being just a week old. I'm having fun playing it despite the flaws cause I enjoy the core gameplay loop. It'll probably be better after some balance patches and DLC, there's a season pass so there's at least a promise of further development. It's definitely better than a Civilization game on launch week but has room for improvement
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Nuramor posted:Wouldn't a "no neuromods at all" run be even more miserable? I wouldn't call it miserable. I did the no neuromods run and it felt like playing a proper survival horror game rather than whatever vanilla Prey actually is (it kind of starts out as survival horror but rapidly stops being that) QuarkJets fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Apr 8, 2021 |
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Propaganda Hour posted:Presumably yes. Warcraft III: Remastered was outsourced to Malaysian Lemon Sky Studios, which is a 300-350 person art and animation studio known for extreme crunch so they can take on contracts for dozens of projects. Diablo II is being tackled by the 200-person NY-based Vicarious Visions which has been subsidiary to Activision since 2005 and recently folded into Blizzard proper to work just on Blizzard projects. Lots more staff on one project and much closer to Blizzard. Oh, so it's the real-deal Blizzard making it? Well in that case I'm looking forward to an even larger garbage fire than the WC3 Remaster
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Dungeon of the Endless is $3.23 right now over at Humble Store, go buy it I don't know how to describe Dungeon of the Endless, it's a mix of turn-based and real-time strategy games, action RPG, and base defense. There's nothing else like it.
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Can all of the armchair quarterbacks please take this discussion somewhere else
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I know there are some fans of Alien games itt Nemesis Lockdown just opened up to Early Access after a long beta test period; this is a turn-based game that is based on the Nemesis Board Game, which was basically an attempt to make a really excellent unlicensed Alien board game. Having played the board game a lot, it's good. Really good. It's currently in the top 20 on Board Game Geek and is both fun to play and thematically faithful to the Alien franchise, of which it is technically not a part but come on It's also 25% off right now until June 7. I'm in for a copy because hell, the board game is great. It's ostensibly a co-op game but everyone has secret objectives that may not align with your own. e: Be aware that this is a turn-based board game through and through. The game has an internal wiki that explains all of the basics. Nothing is going to happen while you run around inside of a room, but interacting with stuff, shooting, moving between rooms etc. takes action points. QuarkJets fucked around with this message at 23:34 on May 31, 2022 |
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OzFactor posted:Nemesis is extremely good. Is this only the actual Lockdown version or can you play the original game too? We have been playing the standard game on TTS for a long time but have only played Lockdown once on the real board. I like it, but I feel like it's a little bit harder. It's just Lockdown atm
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I think I want a first person builder/survival game but I've tried Subnautica
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or idk just go wander into the woods irl like a normal person
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Leal posted:Just a heads up, last 2 times I tried this I was arrested. keep trying i'm sure you'll get better at it with practice
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