Basileus777
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Buying anything from CDkeys feels one step from just torrenting a game.
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Buying anything from CDkeys feels one step from just torrenting a game.
Think about this for a moment:
You could pay $80 for Shadow of Mordorwar, and you can take that Warner Brothers slider all the way down to zero...
You could pay $80 for Shadow of Mordorwar, and you can take that Warner Brothers slider all the way down to zero...
kambaybolongo
Member
are you saying I should save my money and torrent it
they must have backup deals in place for that eventuality surely
sadly no, thanks though! I think I'm just gonna sit and wait for reviews, maybe pick it up during a winter sale or something
$30 for MVC:I though.
yeah that and the new AC are gonna be games I'll check out next year sometime me thinks
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Could you still steam refund cdkeys keys?
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Ah alright. makes sense.
it's the best time to be buying video games you won't play because it's the best time to be playing other video games
I bought and played Kamiko because I wanted something quick to play on my Switch that I recently got.
Hottest take: I think the game costing $5 and coming out near the Switch's launch blinded people from how incredibly mediocre it is. It doesn't control very well, the combat and gameplay loop is repetitive and shallow, and I think the replay value comes from it merely being really short rather than actually being a game so good you want to replay it. The final boss is neat and fairly well designed, music and art is fine, but everything else...yeah.
I played through it twice just so I could feel like I could recoup the cost and see what a new character would offer (which is basically nothing), and I still feel kinda burned.
Hottest take: I think the game costing $5 and coming out near the Switch's launch blinded people from how incredibly mediocre it is. It doesn't control very well, the combat and gameplay loop is repetitive and shallow, and I think the replay value comes from it merely being really short rather than actually being a game so good you want to replay it. The final boss is neat and fairly well designed, music and art is fine, but everything else...yeah.
I played through it twice just so I could feel like I could recoup the cost and see what a new character would offer (which is basically nothing), and I still feel kinda burned.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
largely agree.
i was also a bit annoyed the game art looks not much like the other pixelart which I like a lot better.
Thanks, now I don't feel like a crazy person after looking at the near-unanimously positive OT.
I bought it, just need to find time to play it. Liked Dig 1, loved Heist.
Young Liar
Member
Talking to and just being around my female friends who're into games and other geek interests over the years, all the playful fantasizing and shipping of male characters is just part of the fandom. Fan art, fan fiction, etc., girls are just more vocal about that stuff from my admittedly very limited experience.
Now that more game sites have young, female and LGBTQ voices on staff, there's just more discussion (serious or otherwise) of that stuff getting out.
There's a dismissiveness (and sometimes outright disdain) for that fan expression coming from more established figures as well as your typical older straight dude gamer, much like how it is for young adult fiction, which also has been gendered as something young women and teenagers enjoy more than their male counterparts. I have to admit that I was the same for a long time, even when I was just a know-it-all asshole in high school and college.
So yeah, established gaming sites with their mostly late 20's to mid 30's straight white guy teams would just not talk about that stuff for years and years. In the extremely rare cases it got brought up, it would be as a punchline.
Not saying that any discussion about that sorta thing has been elevated to high discourse recently! A lot of it is still done jokingly. There's just more of it now coming from MILLENIALS, and it doesn't seem to come from a place of snobbery or male chauvinism.
i know super long and serious answer to a throwaway jokey question but i have time to kill okay
This sounds terrible.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I'd like to think that it's just mostly a pushback from the dominant white, straight male perspective that is seen as the default even in this day and age. When you have to think more about your sexual identity because it doesn't conform to the male hetoronormative views of society you naturally think more about, well, sex.
MassiveNights
Banned
I can't stop playing Cook, Serve, Delicious 2.
I'll add that a lot of this stuff is like... stuff that would be joked about in private, or as mentioned above kept to fan communities, and now is just in the forefront more as younger and/or marginalized people gain a bigger voice.
Which can be weird if you're not used to it, admittedly, and I do think there are certain lines you need to think about when joking about this stuff because there are valid reasons people might not be comfortable with it. But I'm largely amused by it, so...
anyway it's 2:30 and I'm still awake because of my extra long nap earlier and I'm just gonna sleep eventually and hope whatever amount I get is fine I guess
Which can be weird if you're not used to it, admittedly, and I do think there are certain lines you need to think about when joking about this stuff because there are valid reasons people might not be comfortable with it. But I'm largely amused by it, so...
anyway it's 2:30 and I'm still awake because of my extra long nap earlier and I'm just gonna sleep eventually and hope whatever amount I get is fine I guess
I'm trying to read between the lines in your posts and I'm sensing a Hyper Light Drifter comparison, which Kamiko isn't even worthy of imo.
In other good games news, Heat Signature is a really good game. I'm kinda burnt out on playing it having beaten it but I still can't stop thinking about it.
i don't know how you divined that from my posts
you were right though
i was in a gamedev phase a month back, i've dropped out of it for the moment but i was definitely looking at top-down action games and kamiko came up more than once. It's definitely more akin to classic japanese action rpgs than the more pure action games i'm thinking about
I never learned to type with 10 fingers so playing with keyboard isn't really my thing. I'm also a lefty and use the mouse with my left hand.
iirc Kamiko straight rips patterns and visual motifs from Hyper Light to a distressingly close (but inferior) degree in spots. Kind of surprised it wasn't a bigger thing.
Also steamworld 2 is good. Just finished tonight after 9ish hours and 60% secrets found. I appreciate games knowing when to keep it brief but for the price I kind of wish there was more to it. It's not mind blowing or terrible, just a solid game that builds on its predecessor in mostly the right ways.
I will say though,
Also steamworld 2 is good. Just finished tonight after 9ish hours and 60% secrets found. I appreciate games knowing when to keep it brief but for the price I kind of wish there was more to it. It's not mind blowing or terrible, just a solid game that builds on its predecessor in mostly the right ways.
I will say though,
the map felt like a bit of a bait and switch. It allows you to scroll across a lot of 'fog of war' in all directions when, having finished the game, the playable area you uncover ends up being maybe 25% of that space at most.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
CSD 1 was released on iPads.
Ah but the minimum wage in Aus is higher!
This is a silly thing Jeff once said on the Bombcast.
Sounds like it's a very solid game. But without huge surprises in the gameplay there's not that much to talk about, I guess. The first game was pretty straight-forward too. I decided to skip it for now and focus on PS4 now after finishing Mario + Rabbids.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Anyone here played Divinity 2? Is it a must get?
Yes, expecially if you like more freeform RPG's.
They improved writing, especially characters, a lot and you have even more options than you did in Divinity 1. The best description of it's strenght i've read is that it's the furthest a game has come to emulate P&P games in terms of freedoms you have (including doing a lot of stupid shit that somehow still works).
The combat is also a highlight, especially if you like fewer but high quality encounters rather than endlessly fighting trash mobs.
At least for me it's the best RPG since the Witcher 3. And in many ways it's better than it.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
That sounds fantastic. The only experience I have with Divinity is Dragon Commander, and the thing I loved the most was the political/conversation system in that game. I heard that this game is fully voice acted, and that there are choices to make, so I think I'ma dive in blind to it.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Holy shit Ruiner is out tomorrow
So far it's probably my game of the year.
The beginning is rough tho. Once you hit level 4 things get much more manageable but the jump from 3 to 4 is hard as hell.
So far it's probably my game of the year.
The beginning is rough tho. Once you hit level 4 things get much more manageable but the jump from 3 to 4 is hard as hell.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
For the longest time I thought absolver and ruiner were the same games.
Me too, until PAX East this year.
I don't know if this trailer will do anything for you but it does a whole lot for me
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
That's the thing, I got kinda interested due to that trailer, kinda forgot about it, and then when absolver came out I thought "wait, is that the same game?"