Phlegmish posted:

I like Dishonored 2, but I'm not very good at it.

- gently caress Clockwork Soldiers
- C-Spam mom never has anything useful to say, I kind of want to put her out of her misery in advance
- For about two whole missions I got sleep darts confused with stinging bolts and was getting angry that they weren't working

luxury handset posted:

when porn as we know it came out of the shadows and started being a public thing in the 1970s the idea was that pornography would be a film genre which was basically like art films with loving scenes and it just turns out that horniness and narrative don't mix that well. if people want to see loving they want to see that without cutscenes, and if people want to see a movie they usually don't want it to be interrupted by extended scenes of full penetration

when people want to play horny games to get off that is a niche genre inherently that just doesn't really conform with tons of effort being put into the non-horny parts of the game. like nobody really makes pornography with a production staff of hundreds and millions of dollars invested in scripting, sets, location, and costumes

SolidSnakesBandana posted:

I see the Dead Rising series is on sale. Which one is the best one?

sebmojo posted:

It's an adventure game but the only puzzle is use gun on demon

Zereth posted:

A steam review claims there's exactly one weapon you can get besides the one you get handed for equipping the job, for each of them.

The Chad Jihad posted:

I'm a sick so hopefully this comes together; TLDR The newest Romance of the Three Kingdoms is Okay but Way Overpriced, and has DLC for things that shouldn't be DLC, basically.

The game is WEGO style where you set up your orders and then hit 'Go' and things play out over an amount of time. This is actually pretty interesting and if you can anticipate what you opponent is going to do you can beat them in a really satisfying way, but it can feel unfair when you're on the wrong foot. Like, if you've got an army securing territory near another faction, and they send an army to attack it, your army will still stick to doing the last things you ordered it to do with an army closing in until the next turn. Which makes sense but is frustrating.

You set formations, troop amounts and which tactics to use for your armies in addition to certain broad automatic settings (Attack nearby enemies automatically, Retreat when in trouble, etc) . And then various orders for taking areas and attacking cities and armies. And then your dudes go out and try to execute those orders. You can also construct buildings on the map, which the AI is at least somewhat competent in since Dong Zhuo gave me a lot of trouble in a recent match by building walls around an arrow tower and seriously blunting one of my campaigns against him.

Territory control is somewhat interesting. The big cities are where you recruit and train armies and the smaller towns around them supply gold food and manpower. The map is composed of hexes that dictate how much of a town or cities income you actually get, they can be claimed by an army or passively by assigning an administrator to the location. So you can claim a city and it's surrounding towns, but without sufficient officers to claim the land around them you won't be able to extract much worth from it for a long time. You can also send raiding armies to chip away at an enemies holdings. It's an interesting way of simulating consolidating territory, and giving a sense of repairing the damage from a successful defense or a mop-up from a victorious attack. Aside from this though territory management is actually pretty simplistic: gain control of the whole territory, assign someone to manage it for some boosts based off their stats, and also to eventually level up the gold/food/manpower rates

The editing tools you can go pretty hog wild with, there's lots of options for making your own officers and you can sprinkle them into the game or set them up as their own factions, move factions around, etc. You can also edit cgs and triggered events as well. At any point in an actual game you can switch to edit mode and gently caress around with the settings

The DLC is where things get really lovely, these dudes would make a groggamer blush. If you want to be able to edit an existing officers stats (Guan Yu for example) you need to pay 4.50. Another 4.50 if you want to edit the BGM, and by edit BGM I mean edit what music plays when not some music creator. And on and on

(There is free Legend of the Galactic Heroes and Cute Girls I Don't Recognize DLC at least)

Light Gun Man posted:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/898750/Super_Robot_Wars_30/

SRW 30 appears to be getting an actual worldwide release, holy poo poo!

Fat Samurai posted:

Romanging SaGa 2 is 60% off, but it's sitting at Mixed reviews. The recent ones seem to be better, though. What's does the goonmind think?

Mordja posted:

I thought Sekiro was fairer and less annoying than DS2.

victrix posted:

It's this

Frankly I think Steam is an amazing storefront, and given the potentially horrendous timeline alternatives (microsoft store, amazon, etc), we're wildly lucky the ecosystem ended up like this

That isn't to say I think competition is bad - EGS and others are welcome to dig in, people who shun other storefronts are weirdos, none of these corporations are your friend - but Steam has remained top of the pack for years for a reason

Ciaphas posted:

ichiban > kiryu, not taking questions at this time

secretly best girl posted:

Worth pointing out that "Telltale Games" is a corpse propped up by folks who took the rights in the bankruptcy and I'm unsure if we have a list of any returning staff. I would not recommend pre-ordering this under any circumstance because it's all black box with a probably fresh staff.

Ghostlight posted:

My Time At Sandrock is out next month.

Ulio posted:

This is what I don't understand. I thought you got license to likeness if you had the rights to the movie. Atleast it seemed that way in the PS2, even ps3 era.

Anno posted:

For me Outer Worlds was just on the wrong side of the ambition/polish equation. Normally Obsidian games aspire to things they don’t have near the budget to reach, but they’re at least interesting and eventually clean up pretty well. OW was decently polished from the start but relatively unambitious (knowing full well that literally any video game is ambitious compared to many things and super hard to make).

I think that polish worked for a lot of people - it sold well and reviewed well and was on GotY lists - but didn’t do much for me as someone who likes Obsidian games that soar too close to the sun.

Hopefully now they have the resources to do both!

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

what's the deal with only jedi using lightsabers anyway?
just duct tape one to a roomba and you have a weapon of mass destruction, you literally can't lose a war

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credburn posted:

I finally beat the opening to Resident Evil 5. I remember why I never got past this... first, the combat is janky and terrible, and two, what the goal is is very unclear. Actually, it's sort of funny because... well, it's not unclear, actually. The dude on the radio specifically tells you to hold out as long as you can until help arrives. But because this is a video game, there are tons of other things happening that lead me to a couple other possible goals, like murdering every single villager or maybe just staying in the house as long as possible but then that big executioner guy shows up so I think the goal must be to keep shooting him until he finally dies. But it still takes like five minutes and during that time I'm running around looking for Whatever The Goal Is, some glowing button or something. Finally rescue comes by an explosive that also kills the entire village including the executioner dude. I'm so used to... timers or waypoints or things that used to annoy me so much, that I just don't trust it when a game tells me the goal diegetically.

It felt like a really bad attempt to recreate the really impressive opening to Resident Evil 4.

GreenBuckanneer posted:

Seems like harvestella is a lazy port too. Deffo not worth $60