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Corla Plankun posted:lmao ive been ignoring this thread for months because i thought it was for people named james and it just occured to me today it could be about gaming Same Been playing Vagrant Story on my phone and Prey on PC. Both are hella good games.
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Divinity Original Sin 2 first blind play in coop with friends: holy poo poo this game is probs the best coop I have ever played.
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Fatal Error posted:these posts got me feeling nostalgic, might have to play through fallout 1 and 2 again. Feel this way about every 6 months. They're a bit janky these days but they're also like ultimate comfort food.
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Apr 11, 2021 19:53
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hobbesmaster posted:https://youtube.com/c/AlexMoukalaMusic drat, seems like his channel really took off since I last checked. I mostly was poking around after his FF7 OWA funk version made the rounds a while back. His FF7 trailer video was heartwarming too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsxxnSOg554 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wp_VGM7lAg
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toiletbrush posted:i just started playing through Dishonored 2 no-powers but as an utter poo poo who murders everyone and the game *immediately* picks up on your assholish behaviour. I thought it just affected the ending story and how randos respond to you, but even just on the first proper mission, the docks and Addamire Institute are even more hosed up. Man I wish these guys did the Deus Ex remakes. Have you played Prey yet? It's been everything I dreamed it would be.
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Apr 13, 2021 15:25
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toiletbrush posted:yeah, i liked a lot of it but found the enemies really unfun and irritating to fight. I know it's a great game, it just didn't click with me at all for some reason. That's fair, the enemies are really annoying. I think they tried to make the combat dynamic with the whole combo thing but weapon switching is too sluggish so it always feels like a chore. I love everything else though.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:https://twitter.com/bigquigley/status/1380782186744446977 Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I ate a really big breakfast, so instead of lunch I took a nap. I dreamt there was a new Hideo Kojima game and one character was called Penisman poo poo. [codec ring] P.: Snake, it's Penisman poo poo here. I'll be your equipment specialist for this mission. S.: Penisman poo poo, huh? That's quite a codename. P.: I earned it. S.: Earned it? P.: Yeah, earned it. I'm an evangelist. I spread the good word to everyone. S.: Sorry, I'm not interested in religion. I've seen too much to put my faith in any god. P.: No, not religion. I leave that to the chaplains. I spread a different kind of good word. Snake, have you ever used a bidet?
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Apr 29, 2021 15:06
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It wasn't as well done as HR but I liked it well enough. Some of the new augs were cool. I did think they at least made a proper final boss, but yeah, the story just kinda ends after him.
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Apr 30, 2021 03:07
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I wish I could play any tes game with my high school brain. They're just way too loving shallow and boring now.
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May 8, 2021 14:47
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friend sent me this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_wfi9LKmQE
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May 18, 2021 17:25
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bee-day-oh hai-mays [in peggy hill's voice]
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May 24, 2021 20:56
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abigserve posted:Peggy, you can't be on the computer PC gaming all day, the neighbours will think you've gone nuts it's perfect
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May 25, 2021 14:15
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Starfield just gonna be a F2p battle royale with all the Microsoft owned properties a la smash bros. Dragonborn v Master Chief v Viva Pinata. There will be a Microsoft Excel themed level with interactive Clippy as DLC.
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May 26, 2021 20:54
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I think every big studio past a certain level of maturity just wants to make their hit game-as-a-service. No crunch? Steady paycheck? Just need some artists to keep making GBS threads out skins? I'd be sold.
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May 26, 2021 20:59
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Corla Plankun posted:anyone got a good rec for a game i can play while listening to podcasts? Civ, Cities Skylines, any chill sim game really. Or FTL/Isaac/any roguelite from the past decade.
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May 26, 2021 21:01
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Bad Company 2 is the only Battlefield I played and I have good memories of that one. Never tried any of the ones after that, but it does have a particular design ethos that scratches an itch. Shame the new ones suck apparently.
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May 28, 2021 14:40
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dioxazine posted:sat around today listening to a chud coworker from another team complain about RE: Village and in particular how the giant vampire lady was unrealistic. apparently lorewise the game is terrible and awful and has nothing to do with previous games. two hours of this Yeah, Resident Evil lore, the last shining paragon of realism and consistency in digital narratives. Really pissed they made a giant vampire ~~~WOMAN~~~. I want big man to punch boulders.
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Jun 3, 2021 22:11
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SH1 has a fairly dumb story about cults and reviving an old god etc etc and SH2 manages to take all that dread and horror from that and turn it into one of the best personal-scale stories ever told in a video game. It'll forever be a highwater mark in video game storytelling and atmosphere for me because of how it pulled that off at a time when most video game stories were still "man shoot alien with scantily clad big tiddy woman sidekick" But yeah, it's clunky as gently caress.
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Jun 6, 2021 13:26
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jesus WEP posted:never tried a souls game, might give one a shot. what’s the best one to play first? i have a ps4 but would prefer to play on pc, so maybe not bloodborne even if it’s the best one Dark Souls 1 has the best world. DS3 plays smooth as butter but the first one is the whole package. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts, it's pretty magical. I never played 2 but everyone seems to say it's good but weird?
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Sweevo posted:i went into SH1 blind. my friend just handed me a copy of this game i'd never heard of and said "play this, it's good". the WTF moment as you go through the clock tower and the visceral sense of building dread throughout is one of my favourite gaming experiences. And SH2 somehow managed to be even better. I even liked 3. Yeah I can't really fault the gameplay or ambience of SH1. I was always a bit disappointed that the story was kinda silly. But the tech and direction are unreal. The PS1 jank actually enhances it. Really bummed there hasn't been any sort of successor. Plenty of horror games but nothing comes to mind that uses that same sort of otherworldly dread.
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Jun 6, 2021 19:32
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Props to Dice for just going full dumb video game with Battlefield and dropping any "salute our troops!!!! The greatest sacrifice!!!!" veneer of respectability. I know stuff like Bad Company was already there but still.
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Jun 10, 2021 14:02
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I played the first Pillars for a few hours and enjoyed it well enough. Thematically and mechanically it's not that far off from classic Baldur's Gate games.
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The Fool posted:deadfire is objectively better than its predecessor, and I enjoyed the ship mechanics I never played DOS1 but can confirm DOS2 is great. Probs the best coop game I've ever played.
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Jun 11, 2021 21:04
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Does Steamplay not work on Macs?
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Jun 12, 2021 05:37
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PoE is a game I totally want to go back to but also I have a hard time investing time into isometric games. I guess they feel more passive? The thing D:OS2 has going for it is that the coop is just fuckin incredible.
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Jun 18, 2021 15:17
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I remember thinking 'this would actually be a really good game' but the power pills were actual irl drugs so it would probably get banned Who remembers Narc on ps2? lol
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Jun 20, 2021 16:51
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dioxazine posted:larian, the divinity series studio, is making baldur's gate 3.. but since it's in early access i don't really feel like touching it at the moment. looks somewhat neat though A friend of mine bought in and seemed to really enjoy the content that was there. 
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Jun 21, 2021 03:07
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I'm almost done with Prey and I'm not willing to finish it, knowing that Arkane games are the main things that bring me joy in this world and that there are only so many of them.
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Jun 21, 2021 15:42
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:mooncrash is v. Good haveblue posted:start trying to get a ps5 now and you might have one by the time deathloop comes out Both good suggestions. I also still have Dishonored 2 to play so there's that.
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Prey 17 is kind of a meat grinder and frustrating until you hit a point when, after getting enough upgrades, it all just clicks. Just absolutely expert game design. Well-done story without shoehorning in a Ken Levine plot twist. Great cast of characters for being on a derelict space station and primarily hearing about them through audio logs. It's just peak game design all around.
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Jun 22, 2021 15:02
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Shaggar posted:i liked that you actually had to think about encounters early on or just outright avoid them. made the enemy feel like more of a threat and the game more interesting That's what makes the power fantasy so rewarding towards the end, I think. There was totally a moment for me where I became really conscious about how I was just blowing through encounters that took multiple tries earlier in the game when I still had to stealth around. I've only really had that level of satisfaction from Souls games.
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Jun 22, 2021 15:18
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SmokaDustbowl posted:I've been playing Elder Scrolls Oblivion again lately and it's good. the graphics are nice and colourful, tons of flowers and nice green trees. the magic is better than skyrim, even a puny fireball sends an enemy ragdoll flying which is really satisfying Man, a couple years back I tried to revisit it in earnest, and just couldn't stick with it. I love the world so much but the quests and gameplay are so boring. Sorta wish there was a TES3MP type deal for Oblivion, that would be a blast. Last I checked there was a project for it but it was super hacky and clearly abandoned.
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Jun 22, 2021 20:23
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Schadenboner posted:Isn't GOG like transphobic and lovely? Source?
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Jun 25, 2021 21:04
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I've never heard any accusations like that, fwiw.
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I bounced off Returns pretty quick and had a hard time getting into Dragonfall. Will I enjoy HK or should I just pass?
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Jun 25, 2021 23:04
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:as already noted it'd free so why not give it a go. to sweeten the deal iirc the first hour keeps a good pace and is representative of the game, so you can drop it pretty quick if you don't like where it is going. Game is free, time is not. Having a well paced first hour is intriguing though.
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Finished Prey. What a wonderful game. I thought the ending was a bit weak and then they threw in that spectacular post-credits sequence. We don't deserve Arkane. Downloading mgs5 now with expectations calibrated appropriately for gameplay (high) and story (I am ignoring the story) Oh and Re: shadowrun HK, apparently I already owned it on steam? And that's the one I played before? Clearly I didn't make it far. I'm giving it another shot at any rate.
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:Alex Yu's voice actor (Benedict Wong) does a lot to deliver the weight of the story, especially in the post credits. its not just the ridiculous timbre of his voice, he totally commits to it without going melodramatic. The game did have some pretty wonderful VA all around (to go with really well written characters), but yeah, Alex is a particular high point.
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