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exquisite tea posted:Has anyone tried The Suicide of Rachel Foster? Seems like one of those walky sim murder mystery games but it's the first time I've seen it come up in my recommended queue. It just came out a few days ago. https://twitter.com/DaftLimmy/status/1232594375345131520 https://www.pcgamer.com/the-suicide-of-rachel-foster-review/ "But where thoughtful storytelling elevated the walking sims that influenced it so heavily, The Suicide of Rachel Foster falls short. What begins as a compelling ghost story turns quickly into a melodramatic soap opera that churns sensitive topics like suicide, child grooming, and teenage pregnancy into baseless drama to the point where it's just plain gross. ... The relationship is even more worrying because it's seen as romantic. An attic with fairy lights hangs above a bed where sketches of the teenager posing naked lie scattered on top. There's a line where Rachel is described as 'mature for her age' as if it's some sort of excuse to her father's relationship with the teenager. It made me cringe, especially as the game's marketing focuses on Rachel's retainer, an object that emphasises how young she is. The most damaging aspect of how the game frames this relationship is that Rachel has no voice throughout the entire game. For a character whose name is in the title of the game, I know very little about her. No letters, no flashbacks, no pages from a diary, nothing that attempts at giving her any voice. I barely know anything about this character apart from the fact that she was groomed starting when she was young, got pregnant by a man three times her age, and then took her own life. Rachel's story is not melancholic or poetic as the game represents it, it's just irresponsible."
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Apparently, I fell for a phishing scam w/ steam (someone was sending stuff for "ezarena") and it did a login for like, you know, sign in with steam. iGestalt posted:I had someone try to do this to me earlier today; iGestalt posted:
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Croccers posted:EA Desktop App EA Store as well I think it's gone through more name changes than any other store/client
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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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Im_Special posted:BTW, What the hell are people voting for? I haven't been gaming much let alone new stuff this year, I can't even nominate Bad Rats, I'm literally out of ideas here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh5im0rRX6U I assume for GOTY everyone is just going to nominate H A D E S as it counts for releasing on Steam this year. Or is there some goon game we should nominate instead? Assepoester fucked around with this message at 12:25 on Nov 28, 2020 |
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I stand by ChoRenSha 68k as the best SHUMP ever made and no others have ever come close in pure gamefeel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36ATKyKrRMk Fallom posted:What's the preferred control method for Overload? I have a KB+M, gamepad, and HOTAS.
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Oh no another one got phished, this time it's Dr. Arbitrary Whichever scammer is posing as Dr. Arbitrary in order to phish steam users seems salty today
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Fallom posted:I know it must've been hard to come up with new ideas in Shadow of the Tomb Raider but having stealth sections against loving fish is just embarrassing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny7iZrvLwgM
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exquisite tea posted:The Witcher 1 is maybe one of the worst games I've ever played in my life. Every single thing about it... was awful. It's remarkable that CDPR made TW3 only eight years after that.
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steinrokkan posted:It's also why text adventures were so popular all the way to the 90s. Because it was hard and expensive to get proper games, but it was easy for interested parties to learn how to make text based games on their ZX Spectrums or Amigas or whatever other platforms were accessible at their school, workplace, etc. So the whole Eastern Bloc gaming industry was until relatively recently dominated by these self taught people who spent their formative years writing Indiana Jones adventures in Pascal or some such.
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Mr. Locke posted:It's an easy idea get if your main exposure to the game is internet ads. By far the two most common banner/box ads I've seen about are the ones featuring Lisa and, more recently, Beidou, who are the two most prominent titty babes in the game. I haven't stuck with Genshin, and the game itself is very light on that kind of fanservice from what I've played outside Lisa's personal quest (which does start to really lean into it at parts cause Lisa basically is built around sexy oneesan tropes) but you'd never know it from the outside they choose to present.
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Bruceski posted:XInput. "Oh, your DirectInput controller's going to SEEM to work fine for a while but then glitch out in a way that's so unusual you're going to dig through forums for help in the hopes that you'll be so mad you just buy a Microsoft controller instead of downloading a fix." I remember using X360ce back in the day but I think it worked increasingly less and less over time with subsequent Windows versions and revisions. Party Boat posted:xinput is far from perfect but I'd take the last decade+ of standardised controller support on PC over the total mishmash we had before in a loving heartbeat Keep in mind Dinput is still needed to support advanced flight and racing setups because they use more inputs than the xbox gamepad can provide and Xinput was created only to support the xbox gamepad and nothing further. Assepoester fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Mar 2, 2021 |
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Palpek posted:Guys, guys, an important announcement. Strategic Tea posted:What is actually in CoD that requires all that space? Is it just microtransaction skins? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvdTtl27TpM
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They made like forty thousand first person or overhead anime dungeon crawlers for PSVita and they all have names like Consecration: Root Labyrinth: Dusk OverNight 2 and a bunch of them have been ported to Switch/PS4/PC but since they're from the PSVita they have pandering anime bullshit like "your character's breasts grow as they gain levels" or some poo poo
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repiv posted:Crash 4 is coming to PC Mescal posted:If I liked Resident Evil IV but I'm not particularly into the genre, will I like Resident Evil V? victrix posted:River City Girls y/n? RCU just dumps you into it's open world after a short intro and you will have barely any idea where to go and no idea how to get there, how to navigate the map, how to trigger events/bosses/etc. Which is a bit more in tune with the original NES game.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Another month, another humble choice I'm going to pause on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3UJcQGzmcY
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Trying to do a guerilla war game without an open world sounds like it would be pretty lovely.  
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ErrEff posted:Humble Bundle is owned by J2 Global, notorious patent trolls and vampires. EDIT: Ah newscorp sold them off https://thenextweb.com/news/j2-global-acquires-ign-entertainment-from-news-corporation-doubling-its-digital-media-empire/ Assepoester fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Apr 23, 2021 |
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Saoshyant posted:That's who owns IGN: J2 Global. Yeah I was still under the impression that Newscorp owned IGN, didn't realize they were sold off to a smaller fish when Murdoch when all in on selling off everything that wasn't conducive to being a white nationalist propaganda outlet https://thenextweb.com/news/j2-global-acquires-ign-entertainment-from-news-corporation-doubling-its-digital-media-empire/
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Acerbatus posted:stalker?
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Mescal posted:Can somebody tell me Steam is transphobic so I can pretend to have principles but no choice https://store.steampowered.com/app/930460/BOLSOMITO/
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Mordja posted:Didn't Payday 2 get ridiculous? Where is there left to go? This was five movies ago in a series that has featured the theft of bank vaults, exotic sports cars, prototype military tanks, experimental EMP devices, nuclear launch codes, entire nuclear submarines, and in the latest one they're going to space, so I'd say there's plenty left to go. Assepoester fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Jun 11, 2021 |
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Orv posted:It's very, very good. More focused on fun man smashing and giant fights than hyper serious dueling and highly technical mechanics - though they did steal basically all of Mordhau's good ideas for the fighting - but if that's your jam (basically did you like Chiv 1?) it's a ton of fun. HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Mordhau's 14 words
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CharlestheHammer posted:I never thought people would pine for Nolan’s kind of lovely Batman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfUc_tQ482M
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The Joe Man posted:Link please
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Donnerberg posted:Are there any recent Metroidvanias with more Metroid than vania? Guns instead of swords. ymgve posted:Environment Station Alpha, Axiom Verge, Gato Roboto, Ghost 1.0, Shadow Complex, A Robot Named Fight Flavahbeast posted:cave story is still recent right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0rh4RcGXo8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6hPZ_5cSbc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKxesrCU3kg The upcoming Gestalt Steam and Cinder has a gun and a whip, but the gun is used to strip armor and then you have to close in with the whip to do real damage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMU4Lp02lP8 Assepoester fucked around with this message at 10:04 on Jun 28, 2021 |
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Speaking of Metroidvanias with Guns, there was an indie metroidvania a decade ago when called Project Black Sun, back then they weren't a dime a dozen and it was pretty much this and Shadow Complex and that's it. The game went up on Desura (lol) and Gamersgate in a mostly completed state and it got greenlighted on Steam but something happened and now it's not available for purchase anywhere anymore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaTkNYKVsB0 Now that the original Momodoras are on itch.io, it seems Project Black Sun is truly the last, lost Metroidvania
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Karma Tornado posted:I got Tekken 7 and played it for a couple hours and all it made me want to do was reinstall Injustice 2 so I did and just lit up Darkseid with Black Canary, a true upset 
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MarcusSA posted:Is Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege worth $15? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iO7Z12zYS8 And just like any other Counterstrike you're going to have a bad time until you get used to the guns and develop map knowledge. A lot of map knowledge. But when you do pull stuff off it's very satisfying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PRX8Kll8_I&t=95s The first thing I ever did in the game was accidentally teamkill with a brick of C4 just like that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6g9iwICQ9k&t=96s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTP3Iadjw38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss1yGZSQlok Assepoester fucked around with this message at 08:58 on Jul 1, 2021 |
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"We have RE7 at home" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qviC8l4glVI Sexual Aluminum posted:Any recommendations for chill games to play between zoom meetings?
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StrixNebulosa posted:What does this mean? I've never played a SWAT game.
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Oh boy I hope we finally get a sequel to Netflix's Company of Heroes Mordja posted:If the multiplayer is as good as COH2's became, I'm probably down. Never touched that game's campaigns, tho I hear the US one is actually good.
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Wamdoodle posted:Reminds me of a mechanic from Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume. You can enhance the abilities of a unit for a few turns but they die permanently afterwards.
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This confirms they were just waiting for Nintendo to announce the price for their new switch model and then just added $50 to it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FXgDAF6QpM
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MarcusSA posted:From this video they are expecting to sell millions of these things and tried to price it as such https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/06/its-time-to-declare-valves-steam-machines-doa/
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