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Hot diggety! I've not been able to use the latest version of proton for ages as it vaporized on init, and just noticed a few days ago that suddenly 4-11 works great - Almost good enough to get few a difficult titles working again. There's a lot of blather on about stuff like Epic games launcher and whatnot, but idgaf, Steam's efforts in linux puts it way ahead of the competition
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Darkhold posted:Key Dump. Thank you!
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Feb 10, 2020 10:35
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Griefor posted:I've recently been getting back into Total War: Warhammer, the Moon Moon of Total War games. I played it a while ago, but it had all sorts of insane balance/AI/gameplay issues for the overworld. Vampire raise dead being broken, Dwarf tech tree being a dozen pages of +5% crap, AI cheating at anything above rookie, getting drowned by a hundred hero saboteurs, actually reaching a victory condition with half the races being a miserable grind, etc. And then most of the races, whose assets you own since you're fighting against them, are locked behind insanely priced DLC. Also the "sequel", which in any other universe would have been called an expansion pack. It's really disgusting how so many titles have literally hundreds of dollars of DLC, what is this world we live in and what fools are propping this business model up?
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Feb 10, 2020 13:12
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I played RAGE blind, about the same time I played Borderlands 2 blind, both single and co-op. After I realized what a goddawful waste of time Borderlands was, with poor shooting ontop of awful everything else, RAGE was positively delightful! A strange insistence on using the car a lot, but no biggie the gunplay was great. And then the game suddenly ended as they ran out of funding, with a blurry cutscene playing at the end of a corridor hidden in the arse end of an unpopulated second half of the map. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes shooting things who can find it for $10, doesn't mind silent protagonists, and has no desire to see an ending.
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Feb 11, 2020 12:29
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But... why? Isn't that exactly what Vogel's been doing for the past 25 years already?
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Feb 12, 2020 14:38
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Trickyblackjack posted:Hello I'm very glad demos are becoming slightly more common again. It really helps me crystallize whether I would like the game or not. Doom2016? By the end of the second stage, hell yes. Plague Tale? Good hook in the first few minutes, then they got to the stealth+escort segments and I'm laughing on my way out the door. Just not for me. Likewise, I just got Dishonored, and knew I would love it within five minutes of the first 'real' stage - but said stage took a half hour of intro beforehand. A demo would've sold me that game years ago.
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Feb 12, 2020 20:30
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Took a long time to figure out what the point of that gif was. Was just assuming it was showcasing how terribly boring the game is: Instead of some huge badass with big skills, you're some farmer taking swings at bats. Who, naturally, are designed to be as uninteresting and non-threatening as possible, as showcased by the player dancing around them and staying at fullhp? Oh wait, something about hitboxes it seems. Yea, that's the problem there.
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Feb 14, 2020 16:33
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Just get gamepad and console-gamer it up for a bit. Some stuff that you wouldn't think works fine with a gamepad, I've seen people play space 4x games from the couch.
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Feb 14, 2020 20:10
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So, Priority Missions can, in fact, be safely ignored until your convenience?
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Feb 15, 2020 08:44
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Xander77 posted:Not if you're playing on the hardest difficulty. Elaborate? Its been years and I can barely remember anything from Metro
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Feb 16, 2020 15:41
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Shipbreaker sounds like a neat little concept for a simple game, kinda like Papers Please. That its seeming to sell itself as a high-budget neat-gfx game gives me a bit of a chuckle. Either that trailer is comically overselling things, or the devs are underselling their hook for a bigger game.
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Feb 19, 2020 17:50
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I thought the appeal of JetFigher games was their plausible realism? Right?
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Feb 20, 2020 19:12
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Arcsquad12 posted:Been playing some Homeworld Remastered again. I love how utterly blunt the Kushan/Higaaran advisor is. Did they ever un-gently caress support frigates and harvesters in Remastered, and put back in fuel? The HW1 remaster was an abomination last time I played it
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Feb 22, 2020 18:12
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Yea, I'd probably just recommend that people play the 'Classic' version instead and use remastered for HW2. I spent a few good minutes looking at my ships flailing about, wondering wtf they where doing, before clicking that they'd wedged one game into another's engine, as you put it so well. Trading all that just for a few higher res textures isn't worth it at all imo.
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Feb 22, 2020 18:34
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John Murdoch posted:The fan patch nerfed the flamethrower is the long and short of it. Yea, no boss ever showed any resilience from what I recall. The chinese evil lady was more notable for having that dungeon prior to her than her fight itself, where she probably just got gunned down like everybody else. Also if your flamethrower isn't automauling everything you might wanna check your files, cuz that's just not right.
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Feb 24, 2020 18:15
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The way he's holding that is really bothering me.
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Feb 25, 2020 21:22
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Steam is based on purchase date also. A whole month to play a game then refund is... quite generous, I hope it works out for them.
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Feb 27, 2020 09:26
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"I found and fixed a dumb-rear end bug where if you turn off sound, hostile/annoyed/suspicious characters wouldn't turn to look at your footstep sounds." I'm dying over here! There oughta be some sort of compilation lists of worlds greatest gaming bugfixes somwehere
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Feb 29, 2020 23:29
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HopperUK posted:If you happen to be good at games, be sure to die sometimes, lots of things happen when you die and it's okay. Actually good advice, we're not kidding.
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Booze? I don't recall assassinating drunkards to be a thing in that game, jog my memory? edit:vvv Ah there we go, that's right. Never did it myself but knew it was a thing. Serephina fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Mar 2, 2020 |
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Mar 2, 2020 04:16
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Uh, there was a friendly orc who was too scrawny to rise up in the ranks the normal way, so he befriended the player and they did some stuff. Don't feel bad for him, he got everything he asked for.
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Mar 2, 2020 13:01
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If you can accept hobbits as wholesome, dwarves as greedy, and high elves as wise, then you can accept that orcs are evil. It's not very subtle, but they're all there to push a narrative.
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Mar 2, 2020 13:07
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dmboogie posted:and also for apparently being better than the actual game lmao Basically everything GW related is that. I wonder how cheap they pawn off their IP for, since it's everywhere and they're almost all trash. edit: I should clarify, I mean in the context of video games, and the gameplay/mechanics/end product is trash, the assets themselves are usually quite well done.
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Mar 4, 2020 01:38
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Oh gently caress those guys, they made that spacehulk game that I bought and still rue to this day.
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Mar 4, 2020 02:01
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ShootaBoy posted:So uh, thoughts on the Battletech game? I don't give a poo poo about whatever story they did, but there's a mode that's just running your mercs, right? Cause I need some big, stompy mech action in my life, and when I can drop the game to costing $10, its tempting. Be aware that it is PLAGUED by technical issues, moreso at launch but still has many to this day. As in literally unplayable, can't-launch-a-mission type of bugs. If you buy it, don't get it on humble like I did as you have no chance of a refund when it goes futz.
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Mar 6, 2020 05:45
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err posted:Which two games should I remove from Humble Choice? They all look decent. ?! Also, as a non-subscriber, am I blind or do they try their very hardest to hide what the names of the games actually are? There might be a blurry tiny pic somewhere, or a snippet from a poster, but to find an actual list you need to google it and find the names off-site. Insane.
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Mar 8, 2020 07:05
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Yea, that loot grind in Borderlands is tedious as poo poo. You find an awesome gun that does everything you want, beat the boss and go to the next area, and the first trash pistol that drops has 50% higher dps. Sigh.
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Mar 9, 2020 03:45
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StrixNebulosa posted:Niffelheim complaint: started a new game and my class choices are boy, girl, boy, boy. I'm not a huge fan of gender being tied to class here. :\ I'm ok with that, as a lot of games don't have the budget to double every PC asset. As long as they're reasonably evenly represented, like Darkest Dungeon or somesuch.
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Mar 9, 2020 07:29
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VodeAndreas posted:STAR WARS Dark Forces IV: Jedi Knight III: Jedi Outcast II: Jedi Academy I thought you where joking, but looking at the wikipedia page that's almost exactly correct. Like, you can't even make fun of it
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drat, that... actually looks like a good remaster? hotkey to toggle pixelation ingame, GUI and controls, multiplayer matchmaking (we'll see if there's enough people for that however). It's pretty low hanging fruit, but I'm all onboard for that.
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Mar 10, 2020 15:47
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Is Ori 1 worth getting if I'm more concerned with a solid metroidvania than I am pretty gfx and setting? Its why I never got it, didn't quite trust the videos to be selling me more form than function.
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Mar 13, 2020 04:47
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Nah they got paid a ton. I own one Borderlands title that I reviewed with a thumbs down, yet still I got splayed with a huge fullpage email advert for its launch. Not about the hundred other titles launching daily related to things I've bought, just this one. $$$
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Mar 14, 2020 12:15
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I really feel the need to know, how is my favorite game dev studio handling the toilet paper crisis? I'm honestly not sure I can go about my day not knowing this.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:dungeons 3: good or bad If you liked DK2? Bad.
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Walked posted:So I'm old as gently caress now and anything requiring good reflexes/twitch gaming is just a non-starter. Pyre? It's basically a visual novel with a simplistic soccer game every now and then.
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Det_no posted:I wonder if we need a quarantine gaming thread just with info about good games to play and how to play them/somewhere to organize people for it. Probably not. SA is kinda small these days. You realize that's basically all games on Steam, right? Single player, multiplayer, casual or hardcore the whole loving works. So yea, that's this thread here.
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Xander77 posted:I know that. ...? You answered your own question then, it's a reference to monster infighting. The entire game is stuffed with camp callouts. There is no lore, it's Doom ffs
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I'm over a decade late to the party, but I finally started playing Crysis. Entirely apart from some poor controls, I'm not sure I "get" it. Cloak can be used to reposition in fights (or just sneak in), armour is self-explanatory, speed I've not found a use for other than just walking faster, but the strength puzzles me. Am I supposed to be chucking physics objects at people, maybe after sneaking behind them? Its so clumsy and ineffective compared to just shooting them. I finally got a "Yes, *this* will be the moment I do a cool thing" and jumped on the back of a tank with cloak/strength, and it turns out that there's no way to punch your way into the tank (or try to rip the tank in half, Ghost In The Shell style). So no cigar; turns out I'm just supposed to be boring and shoot it with the conveniently placed rocket launcher. Am I missing something here? I think it just might be an older game from an era of bad shooters and I'm expecting too much from it.
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I absolutely loathed Starcrawlers and would strongly recommend against it. Gfx wise it was pretty, and I enjoyed being able to poke around the real-3d environments with their details - it really sold the immersion a lot. A lot of the game is procgen grinding for levels (!!), and when fights happen you get the cutaway to final-fantasy style combat. The combat and the way you level was filled with a lot of minor tropes that I personally classify as red flags (but the details escape me, it's been a while sorry). I finally put it down after a storyline dungeon that had infinitely spawning enemies (fine) that constantly sucked you into a fight against total fodder-which-summons-more-fodder that posed zero threat, but took 2+ minutes each fight but could only take a step or two after the fight before repeating. It's a game with good assets that seemed reasonable on paper, but the basic gameplay that everything's built up upon was lacking in *fun*.
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SelenicMartian posted:Meanwhile, a freeware Sinking Simulator is drowning in workshop spam I don't understand... what? why?
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