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polyester concept posted:re: disco elysium. the trailer says its a huge open world, but the honest trailer says its just a few blocks of a city. which is true? it's a few blocks of a city but there's a *lot* to do in those few blocks
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Achmed Jones posted:i want to play disco elysium but it's still like $30 on switch. i'd probably get sidetracked and stop before beating it so i dont wanna pay that much for it that’s how much i paid for skyrim on switch
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Truman Peyote posted:the political aspect of disco elysium is absolutely one of the best things about it. how many other games are there that have the courage to discuss political ideas explicitly without compressing everything into a bland mush that couldn't possibly offend anyone? Cybernetic Vermin's point is also really true - rather than a fantasy about being communist, it's more about mourning the collapse of the real-world socialist project and how we're supposed to proceed after it's happened. DE handles its political themes so much better than any other games ive played. concerning communism, i particular like how the game highlights the contradiction that no matter now much of a pro communist comrade you try to be, you are still a cop; a reactionary, class-traitor whos job it is to keep the status quo. the game is outstanding at switching from comedy to drama seamlessly and has so many "holy poo poo" moments that its really impossible to talk about without heading into deep spoiler town. i really have a hard time choosing my favorite moment in that game but it might be revelation you have with Volition that your thoughts could be lying to you during Klaasje's conversation . the way that check was handled just blew me away and made me reflect on how i was playing 20 hours into the game
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polyester concept posted:I haven't really played an immersive single player rpg since skyrim, but i always liked how they at least tried to make npc's seem like they have lives. they wake up and have a daily schedule and then go back home at night. and they follow you around if you try doing suspicious poo poo. it was obviously far from perfect but it really made an improvement over the typical "this merchant stands at his fruit cart 24/7 day and night" thing. doesn't seem like anyone's trying to do that anymore, but i also haven't played anything modern because every ambitious game seems to launch as a pile of poo poo these days. i like "living" worlds that are well thought out but i also can't think of any recent examples
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Lysidas posted:i am slightly ashamed to admit that i lost momentum with disco elysium, i very much enjoyed what i played and i think i got reasonably far (found a free place to sleep in the village) but dont feel an overwhelming compulsion to see how it ends like i expected This is where I am too. A friend of mine loves DE so much that he played and beat two playthroughs in the course of two days just because he needed to know where the story led and how the game handled his decisions. Though I suspect that if he had put it down about as long as I have he would have lost steam too - while you're playing it, it's a game that grips you.
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:kingsway just released a huge update. it's a fun roguelike and the interface gimmick is both cute and incredibly functional. this is a neato game. i should play it again
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i've been playing the poo poo out of Insurgency: Sandstorm and it is so much goddamn fun, even if a little frustrating sometimes (mostly because when you gently caress up its your fault and you knew you shouldnt have done that but decided to risk it because you're a greedy gently caress looking for more kills)
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why yes, it is helping me deal with the fact that i was overly excited for BF2042 why do u ask
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Kuvo posted:DE handles its political themes so much better than any other games ive played. concerning communism, i particular like how the game highlights the contradiction that no matter now much of a pro communist comrade you try to be, you are still a cop; a reactionary, class-traitor whos job it is to keep the status quo. the part that punched me the hardest was loving with that lady outside the bookstore about her husband being missing just because you were a dick. then you find a dead body at the docks and track down the widow to deliver the bad news. then she opens the door and you realize it’s the lady you were loving with earlier. absolutely heart wrenching punch in the gut
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so far disco elysium reminds me a lot of the old blade runner point and click made by westwood.
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everyone get disco elysium during christmas sale lol it's in my top 5 games of all time and I've never finished it because it makes me too sad last try harry and kim dragged the rotten body down and put it in a freezer in the basement of an occult bookstore SmokaDustbowl fucked around with this message at 06:45 on Dec 2, 2021 |
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dioxazine posted:someone purchased Control for me during this steam sale and i am a little baby scared of every shadow heck yeah, start charging in and you'll feel more comfortable (only suddenly jumping occasionally) there's a bell curve where you start to get powers and feel confident until the post ending content where, especially with the dlcs, enemy types can be really varied all at once. it (to me) felt like i had more of a challenge and i was less ad hoc with my strategies for entering a room shield and launch are my gotos and i mostly use spin and grip to hold things off while i recharge. at leas it did when i last played it but it's been a while, and it can accommodate a whole bunch of styles
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control owns brutalist architecture is GOOD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eXiu26Etvw
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polyester concept posted:re: disco elysium. the trailer says its a huge open world, but the honest trailer says its just a few blocks of a city. which is true? It's a huge open world in that it takes a loving long time to walk across it
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you ever really really enjoy a game but then for whatever reason you don't play it for a week or two and then it seems like too long to pick up from where you left off, but also you can't really be bothered starting over, so you just don't play it again even though you'd probably continue to really really enjoy it if you did? because that's me and disco elysium
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haveblue posted:almost as good as when they were unable to stop wing commander from crashing on exit, so they just rewrote the "memory error process terminated" string to read "thank you for playing wing commander" there was an old infogrames game, don't remember which, that crashed about every 2 hours and instead of fixing it they'd display a message after 2h of playing telling you to take a break and exiting the game
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I think I'm near the end of Control, I just got through the ashtray maze and I'm still loving it. It feels difficult in spots but not unfair, and once I unlock the right combo of mods to clear a room/challenge/mini-boss I feel like I can wipe the floor in a way that's fun rather than boring. Also I'm still totally smitten with the setting and lore and weirdly fascinated by the Threshold Kids videos.
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I'm gonna give Control another shot once my 3060 comes in. I fell off real hard because of the dialogue. It just sounds so stilted, so badly paced and written that I couldn't stand it.
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Achmed Jones posted:i want to play disco elysium but it's still like $30 on switch. crpgs don't seem like they'd be very fun to play on a console
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Armitag3 posted:I'm gonna give Control another shot once my 3060 comes in. I fell off real hard because of the dialogue. It just sounds so stilted, so badly paced and written that I couldn't stand it. At this point in the story I'm still not sure if that's deliberate or not. All the 'regular' people dialogue is pretty bad, and the most charismatic characters are probably Dr Darling, Ahti and fuckin Mr Bones lol
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SmokaDustbowl posted:everyone get disco elysium during christmas sale lol the ending i got was fairly heartwarming but i also decided to play as the 'god damnit it's time to get my poo poo together' cop on my first playthrough i highly recommend picking it back up because like i said- once you get to the final act it starts topping itself over and over again
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jesus WEP posted:you ever really really enjoy a game but then for whatever reason you don't play it for a week or two and then it seems like too long to pick up from where you left off, but also you can't really be bothered starting over, so you just don't play it again even though you'd probably continue to really really enjoy it if you did? a friend of mine has the incredibly annoying habit of getting to the end game of everything he plays and putting it down. the dude didn't even finish up titainfall 2. absolutely insane
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jesus WEP posted:because that's me and disco elysium that's me with like 80% of games. 95% for rpgs
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PIZZA.BAT posted:a friend of mine has the incredibly annoying habit of getting to the end game of everything he plays and putting it down. the dude didn't even finish up titainfall 2. absolutely insane titanfall 2 singleplayer owns so hard
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I got to the end of Final Fantasy 1 as a child and didn't go back and finish it for like 10 years or something
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TOOT BOOT posted:I got to the end of Final Fantasy 1 as a child and didn't go back and finish it for like 10 years or something I did this with FFX. I unlocked everything in that game (the monster arena, the celestial weapons, blitzball, the al bhed language books, etc), got to the final boss, and said nah and never beat the game. I only beat it after I picked up the remaster a while back.
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PIZZA.BAT posted:a friend of mine has the incredibly annoying habit of getting to the end game of everything he plays and putting it down. the dude didn't even finish up titainfall 2. absolutely insane 
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PIZZA.BAT posted:a friend of mine has the incredibly annoying habit of getting to the end game of everything he plays and putting it down. the dude didn't even finish up titainfall 2. absolutely insane jesus WEP posted:L that’s nice of you to call me your friend
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jammyozzy posted:At this point in the story I'm still not sure if that's deliberate or not. All the 'regular' people dialogue is pretty bad, and the most charismatic characters are probably Dr Darling, Ahti and fuckin Mr Bones lol i really don't get this, the script was fine for a video game and the actors are actually pretty good? i mean, maybe my expectations for acting in games are "anything better than shenmue" but i found it passable given remedy is a pretty small studio
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Achmed Jones posted:that's me with like 80% of games. 95% for rpgs steam stats hypershamed me by pointing out i used to finish 12% of games. i still stall on them, but i stopped my collection habit and that increased my enjoyment and completion considerably carry on then posted:i really don't get this, the script was fine for a video game and the actors are actually pretty good? i mean, maybe my expectations for acting in games are "anything better than shenmue" but i found it passable given remedy is a pretty small studio i didn't find that effected the pacing or performance, to me. it seems about in line with max payne and alan wake. it could be the studio is finnish, so there's some quirks coming through in stylistic choices it could also be my bar is low, since many many studios are terrible at acting performance and direction, regardless of language or origin
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Agile Vector posted:steam stats hypershamed me by pointing out i used to finish 12% of games. i still stall on them, but i stopped my collection habit and that increased my enjoyment and completion considerably yeah i finally got over my thing of "it's on sale, gotta buy it for when i want to play it eventually!" i "save" a lot of money by just buying what i want when i want to play it (even if it's at full price). of course sometimes sales are just too good - i got new super mario bros u, astral chain, and link's awakening all digital on switch for $80 in the gamestop sale cause little jones loves watching me play zelda and mario and astral chain just looked cool. i know that the nintendo games will get played, but it's possible astral chain was a waste. well see. the tub in the new place has a vertical back that you can't really lean against to play video games laying down, so maybe a tub pillow or something will help with my tub gaming of course sometimes i see a sale and it's like "ok yeah i'll pay $3 to play that right now" so im still a mark. but at least im a mark who almost always buys poo poo to play immediately, instead of for "later" that will never come i also learned not to pre-order this way - i got really pumped about finally playing ni no kuni cause its supposed to look like a ghibli movie, and i had a ton of down time to play a fat jrpg. i pre-ordered it but by the time it came out i didn't have time any more. it's been on crazy sales since and i still haven't played it. i got octopath traveler on sale one time cause i wanted to play it but by the time i got the code, redeemed it, etc the same thing happened. i was _really_ bad about this with steam sales back in the day (i think we all were) but
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game pass has fully and 100% fixed buying poo poo on sales for me, as there's a ton of games on there that make it very high on my list of things i'd want to play, so as long as i am not i certainly can't defend buying anything other than something i want to instantly install and start up.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:game pass has fully and 100% fixed buying poo poo on sales for me, as there's a ton of games on there that make it very high on my list of things i'd want to play, so as long as i am not i certainly can't defend buying anything other than something i want to instantly install and start up. oh word, i got psnow a couple weeks ago and suspect it'll serve much the same purpose. it isnt near as good as gamepass is, but there'll always be something interesting to play so there oughtn't be much, uh, impetus to buy generated from sales. havent had much time to mess with ps5 since the move though
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:game pass has fully and 100% fixed buying poo poo on sales for me, as there's a ton of games on there that make it very high on my list of things i'd want to play, so as long as i am not i certainly can't defend buying anything other than something i want to instantly install and start up. this but also, game pass has done nothing but enable the “switch to another game before finishing the last one” behavior
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The strategy is to wait for remastered copies of games to go on sale so you can play early 2000s games instead of playing new games.
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