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[CheesecakeRecipe]

Has anyone here played Mirrormoon EP? When you can name a planet, you've completed it right? It's confusing because the first planet was an actual puzzle you had to solve, but now on most I can just find the tower, name the star and exit out. And basically the idea is that all players are working together to finish a 'season'? Very weird and unique game, but I like it. Only downside is that all planets basically look the same, can't see myself playing this for days.

Correct, once you've named a planet, you've completed the puzzle. It used to be much more hectic around launch, where you had quite a few players scraping the edges of a 'season' to name every planet they could. Not all seasons have the same easter egg planets too, so to see everything, you'd need to hop seasons using posts by the community to help you find the unique planets.

The randomized nature of the planets makes it difficult to have a compelling puzzle on each surface, but there are some that approach a degree of complexity far above a majority of the others. None quite as involved as the starting planet, though.

 

[Sr Kitsune]

Well... it's my birthday(Yei?).

I'm thinking about self-gifting another game for me, what game would you recommend me from my wishlist. Not in any particular order.

What is the general opinion of Velocibox?

 

[Arthea]

The thing I don't get about that comic is that Undertale plays on old 16 bit game tropes. Like it's art style and most of the music and the basis for the battle system are all classic 16bit RPG shit that is retro and old and the childhood of people like them.

Like, the better "Am I out of touch? No, it's the kids who are wrong." type thing would be Minecraft or Skylanders or whatever.

I do agree that all the positivity around the game did turn me off for the longest time, not because it's popular and I'm edgy and don't conform. But because it was so well liked that if I played it and didn't like it then I'd feel like I didn't do it right, or I was wrong for not liking it. Like the game seemed like something I should like, and everyone saying I should like it that there was this anxiety that I might not like it and some how be wrong for my opinion.

exactly! every time it happens I begin to think that maybe there is something wrong with me after all! But then I remember that people can hate Trails of all things and decide that I'm more than fine!

on more serious note, the same is true about To the Moon, not that it is offensively bad or something, it's is mildly interesting, but I don't get how anybody can get any feels of it or whatever. Even worse is with Gone Home, that one is truly boring and horrible as a game and as a story.

anyway, not saying Undertale is bad, it's just something I'm would have been fine without playing, considering how many great games I have to play or finish still., or replay, as remastered KotOR II and FF5 for example.

It just doesn't compute.

 

[Creamium]

Not all seasons have the same easter egg planets too, so to see everything, you'd need to hop seasons using posts by the community to help you find the unique planets.

Thanks for the help. So how do you 'hop' between seasons? And how does the community help, it's not like I can search for planet names... The community aspect is confusing, I don't get it. Plus, I'd wager it's harder to achieve anything now, since there's probably no one playing it this long after launch.

 

[fuzaco]

Well... it's my birthday(Yei?).

I'm thinking about self-gifting another game for me, what game would you recommend me from my wishlist. Not in any particular order.

What is the general opinion of Velocibox?

Ori is the best game on your list.

 

[Nillansan]

My favourite part of the Tsunderplane battle is that you can regain health by brushing up against its attacks.

What's with the image size, was it only intended to be viewable by spiders or something?

 

[Xyber]

I think this only happens when you get hit and is deliberate. I saw a dev explaining that somewhere in the game's steam forums. Not sure if that is what you mean. I'm on an i5 4460, r9 280 and have noticed no slowdown other than that.

If the framerate goes down when I take a hit and it's deliberate, then that's even worse than just weird performance problems.

I didn't pay much attention to if it happen when I got hit, but it makes sense because I got hit when there was a lot of shit on the screen.

 

[Arthea]

Correct, once you've named a planet, you've completed the puzzle. It used to be much more hectic around launch, where you had quite a few players scraping the edges of a 'season' to name every planet they could. Not all seasons have the same easter egg planets too, so to see everything, you'd need to hop seasons using posts by the community to help you find the unique planets.

The randomized nature of the planets makes it difficult to have a compelling puzzle on each surface, but there are some that approach a degree of complexity far above a majority of the others. None quite as involved as the starting planet, though.

That sounds kinda interesting... I dismissed this game before as it had bad reviews.
You mean it is more involved game, not really a walking sim?

 

[MMBosstones86]

Complete is $14.99 now... Still cheaper than the vanilla version @ $19.99

Annnnnnd Bought.

Sorry Turfster.

 

[CheesecakeRecipe]

Thanks for the help. So how do you 'hop' between seasons? And how does the community help, it's not like I can search for planet names... The community aspect is confusing, I don't get it.

You have to start a 'new game' to switch seasons, I believe. The screen will give you options for which season you wish to jump to.

It takes some time to grasp, but the game does have a coordinates system that you can use to identify where a planet is in any given season. I forget the exact set of numbers you need to use, but most will provide the coordinates needed and the name of the planet so you know you've found the right one. This was one I discovered in one of the early seasons:

Which led to a visual easter egg planet.

Not all of them are properly documented, they're scattered around the forums and some ancient twitter posts, so you likely won't be seeing all of them. I know there's a few I saw screenshots for but never got the coordinates or season numbers of.

That sounds kinda interesting... I dismissed this game before as it had bad reviews.
You mean it is more involved game, not really a walking sim?

I'd say it still fits within the generally accepted rules of a 'walking sim', with some light puzzle elements to give the player something to chew on as they explore the vast star maps. It's like an arthouse take on the space genre of games. Very contemplative and interesting for some, but not substantial enough that I think it'll work for everyone. The pioneer/exploration aspect has died down quite a bit since the game is a few years old now, so any new players will miss out on the experience that came with picking the game up early.

 

[Will M]

Well... it's my birthday(Yei?).

I'm thinking about self-gifting another game for me, what game would you recommend me from my wishlist. Not in any particular order.

What is the general opinion of Velocibox?

In the higher price range: MGSV. Ton of hours worth of solid game. PUN INTENDED.

On the lower side: Crysis. The first half of that game will deliver the emergent gameplay of MGSV only it came out 8 years ago. The only question is: can you run it?

Wildcard pick: Alan Wake. Fantastic game you can play in small, bite-sized pieces. Interesting story, a bit of horror, a bit survival and also fuck birds. The worst part of that game is that Alan Wake 2 hasn't been announced.

 

[Lain]

Watch Dogs Complete has a pricing error and is 5.44USD.

I missed on a chance to get a copy because I wasn't at the PC. Hopefully I'll get another chance before they fix the price!

 

[Creamium]

That sounds kinda interesting... I dismissed this game before as it had bad reviews.
You mean it is more involved game, not really a walking sim?

You should just check it out, because it costs close to nothing now with the sale (1,5 €/$). The beginning alone is unique, there's an involved puzzle, and actually figuring out how the spaceship works is a puzzle in itself.

 

[def sim]

I found my fun with W_atch d0gz by playing with a grenade launcher most of the way through. It was surprisingly satisfying.

 

[Arthea]

You should just check it out, because it costs close to nothing now with the sale (1,5 €/$). The beginning alone is unique, there's an involved puzzle, and actually figuring out how the spaceship works is a puzzle in itself.

oh I have it for the longest time, it's just sits in my NOPE category.
Maybe I'll take it out of there after all.

 

[Creamium]

Not all of them are properly documented, they're scattered around the forums and some ancient twitter posts, so you likely won't be seeing all of them. I know there's a few I saw screenshots for but never got the coordinates or season numbers of.

Oh ok, I'll dig around a bit in the Steam forum for this.

oh I have it for the longest time, it's just sits in my NOPE category.
Maybe I'll take it out of there after all.

Yeah, because it only takes like 1 or 2 hours to experience what this game is about. After that you can linger and keep exploring, but you'll get something unique for a few hours of your time. It's not a game you can really complete, so just get a taste and move on.
Pretty much everyone in my list has dropped this after 1,5 hour of play.

 

[Nyteshade517]

Complete is $14.99 now... Still cheaper than the vanilla version @ $19.99

the $5.44 US price is because there's a price glitch/error on the Aussie Steam Store...not the US Store

 

[Rhaknar]

It's an amazing game for people who have never heard of Yume Nikki or Mother 3, I imagine.

replace Undertale with Life is Strange for me

I played a bit of the first episode and it did NOTHING for me >_> Ill get back to it, but damn

Spoiler

actually Undertale does nothing for me either, but I dont own it so I cant speak from experience

 

[someguyinahat]

I do agree that all the positivity around the game did turn me off for the longest time, not because it's popular and I'm edgy and don't conform. But because it was so well liked that if I played it and didn't like it then I'd feel like I didn't do it right, or I was wrong for not liking it. Like the game seemed like something I should like, and everyone saying I should like it that there was this anxiety that I might not like it and some how be wrong for my opinion.

Oh hey, are we talking about the Souls series?

 

[bobnowhere]

I missed on a chance to get a copy because I wasn't at the PC. Hopefully I'll get another chance before they fix the price!

It's still going, hit me up if you want one.

 

[Sr Kitsune]

Ori is the best game on your list.

One of my friends has the game and I can play it thanks to the shared family thing.

In the higher price range: MGSV. Ton of hours worth of solid game. PUN INTENDED.

On the lower side: Crysis. The first half of that game will deliver the emergent gameplay of MGSV only it came out 8 years ago. The only question is: can you run it?

Wildcard pick: Alan Wake. Fantastic game you can play in small, bite-sized pieces. Interesting story, a bit of horror, a bit survival and also fuck birds. The worst part of that game is that Alan Wake 2 hasn't been announced.

Not sure about Crysis, since I got a new hardware recently I'm more interested in just knowing how it runs than playing it.

I might get MGSV. I do have a friend who is very insistent about me getting mgs... but I'm not sure I have never really bought a game over $15.

Do I need to play get ground zeroes first?

 

[Arthea]

planets


I'd say it still fits within the generally accepted rules of a 'walking sim', with some light puzzle elements to give the player something to chew on as they explore the vast star maps. It's like an arthouse take on the space genre of games. Very contemplative and interesting for some, but not substantial enough that I think it'll work for everyone. The pioneer/exploration aspect has died down quite a bit since the game is a few years old now, so any new players will miss out on the experience that came with picking the game up early.

Thanks for this, I'm kinda still undecided, then again not all waking sims are made equal, I liked Kairo quite a bit, mostly because of how cryptic and weird it was. Only maybe it could have had less backtracing involved.

actually people, as I remembered it, buy Kairo if you haven't yet.

 

[L00P]

Holy crap I am really loving asscreed rogue right now. I shoulda bought Black Flag while it was still on sale T__T

 

[Turfster]

Annnnnnd Bought.

Sorry Turfster.

You will suffer for this.

 

[uncredited male]

I just found a DLC pack for a Hanafuda game on Steam.

I will never be able to see or play Hanafuda without thinking about this now.

EDIT - Anyone know how the Dying Light EE upgrade will work? There is the base game and the SP available now. If I have both do I get EE for free? Do I just need the base?

 

[titch]

but that's an oxymoron, titch pls

yeah but we could make it cliche

 

[Creamium]

actually people, as I remembered it, buy Kairo if you haven't yet.

Hah, €1. Done. Probably doesn't take too long to beat.

 

[Nillansan]

So gameplay-wise is Contradiction closer to the recent Telltale games or traditional point and click adventure games?

 

[Messiah]

I just found a DLC pack for a Hanafuda game on Steam.

I will never be able to see or play Hanafuda without thinking about this now.

EDIT - Anyone know how the Dying Light EE upgrade will work? There is the base game and the SP available now. If I have both do I get EE for free? Do I just need the base?

I hate hanafuda. I lost so much money to the yakuza because of that game.

Spoiler

in WotS4

 

[Corpekata]

Helldivers seems to be doing fairly well. It's gone up 40 thousand owners over the course of the sale despite no discount / promotion.

 

[Corpekata]

So gameplay-wise is Contradiction closer to the recent Telltale games or traditional point and click adventure games?

It's more traditional, including a few bits of moon logic.

It's more akin to something like Ace Attorney though really, not a whole lot of puzzles as much as knowing what items to present and what statements to focus on.

 

[Elija2]

What's with the image size, was it only intended to be viewable by spiders or something?

The original image was really big so I put it in quotes to make it smaller, but now it's too small. Oh well.

 

[Arthea]

Hah, €1. Done. Probably doesn't take too long to beat.

well... it kinda is long, it probably depends on how you go about it a little, but if you go for the secret ending, it's not short, it's also one of the weirdest games I've played in a good sense.
Don't be discouraged by the lack of any guidance, we all get lost in that game at least once or twice.

So gameplay-wise is Contradiction closer to the recent Telltale games or traditional point and click adventure games?

neither, it's just find contradictions the game, seriously.

 

[def sim]

Undertale

my dating power is off the charts

So gameplay-wise is Contradiction closer to the recent Telltale games or traditional point and click adventure games?

It's closer to FMV from the 90s mixed with Phoenix Wright.

 

[vakarian32]

Sold some cards, got Watch Dogs complete for $3

Also bought Grey Goo, looks like my kind of RTS.

 

[JaseC]

I just found a DLC pack for a Hanafuda game on Steam.

I will never be able to see or play Hanafuda without thinking about this now.

EDIT - Anyone know how the Dying Light EE upgrade will work? There is the base game and the SP available now. If I have both do I get EE for free? Do I just need the base?

The Enhanced Edition is the patched base game and Season Pass bundled together as one SKU that will launch alongside the release of The Following, which is why Techland quietly pulled the Ultimate Edition -- the very same thing, in essence -- a few weeks ago. It's not a new game in and of itself a la, say, DE:HR Director's Cut.

 

[Enter the Dragon Punch]

You can now refund and remove games from your Steam account from mass transactions

 

[uncredited male]

Thank you for for the reply JaseC.

It looks like the EE is not available for purchase on Steam yet. I guess I could get the base and SP however.

To kill zombies or steal cars. Hmmm.

 

[rainking187]

So the Enhanced edition will probably just be a package of the game and the season pass, and not a separate entry in your library?

 

[Dream_Journey]

The Enhanced Edition is the patched base game and Season Pass bundled together as one SKU that will launch alongside the release of The Following, which is why Techland quietly pulled the Ultimate Edition -- the very same thing, in essence -- a few weeks ago. It's not a new game in and of itself a la, say, DE:HR Director's Cut.

I didn't understand that. If i have base game will get Enhanced Edition but not DLCs? Someone said somethings like that but Enhanced Edition is not already with all DLC?

 

[Spirited]

I should pick up bf4 permium edition

Is it still as cheap when using vpn (which country?) ?
I want it for that 10€ or something.

 

[Nyteshade517]

I didn't understand that. If i have base game will get Enhanced Edition but not DLCs? Someone said somethings like that but Enhanced Edition is not already with all DLC?

if you already have the base game you'll get patched with the EE upgrades but you won't get any DLC you haven't already paid for

 

[Nillansan]

It's more traditional, including a few bits of moon logic. It's more akin to something like Ace Attorney though really, not a whole lot of puzzles as much as knowing what items to present and what statements to focus on.

neither, it's just find contradictions the game, seriously.

It's closer to FMV from the 90s mixed with Phoenix Wright.

Thank you all, based on your replies and the praise that the game is receiving on GAF, I'll make sure to pick it up.

 

[Will M]

One of my friends has the game and I can play it thanks to the shared family thing.



Not sure about Crysis, since I got a new hardware recently I'm more interested in just knowing how it runs than playing it.

I might get MGSV. I do have a friend who is very insistent about me getting mgs... but I'm not sure I have never really bought a game over $15.

Do I need to play get ground zeroes first?

You may want to check out Ground Zeroes for now. It's a good intro for what TPP has to offer minus the base building aspect.

 

[Nillansan]

The original image was really big so I put it in quotes to make it smaller, but now it's too small. Oh well.

It's all good, I was basically just trying to sneak in a cheeky, badly thought out Undertale reference.

 

[Dream_Journey]

if you already have the base game you'll get patched with the EE upgrades but you won't get any DLC you haven't already paid for

Hmm, thanks.

 

[JaseC]

So the Enhanced edition will probably just be a package of the game and the season pass, and not a separate entry in your library?

It's a replacement for the Ultimate Edition, yes.

I didn't understand that. If i have base game will get Enhanced Edition but not DLCs? Someone said somethings like that but Enhanced Edition is not already with all DLC?

Dying Light is going to be patched in February with a variety of gameplay changes/improvements -- that's what you'll get for free. The Enhanced Edition is just that version of the game and the Season Pass bundled together.

 

[Ozium]

Ground Zeroes is better than The Phantom Pain.

 

[Chance Hale]

It's an amazing game for people who have never heard of Yume Nikki or Mother 3, I imagine.

This weird Undertale backlash is really silly given that even before it became popular with tumblr and so forth it got incredible reviews from critics, all of whom had not heard of it previously, which is a huge part of why it took off like it has. And all of those critics are adults, bringing up the youth is a really lazy thing.

Ground Zeroes is better than The Phantom Pain.

Camp Omega is a far more interesting environment than anything in the Phantom Pain. It's also much bigger than any of the tiny camps in the latter, outside of the mother base invasions.

 

[bbd23]

guys I have 9 dollars on steam! what do I buy!

Spoiler

I already own undertale