CecilRousso
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I keep forgetting that I own GTAV, because I didn't buy it on Steam. :\
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Steam | 02.2016 - Orangeade
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paperspace
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Honestly, it sounds like you don't have the patience or interest if you just want to alt-tab or do something else. The game is not gonna get better if you're going in with this mentality; play something else would be my advice.
What's not vastly overrated are the 'Escape the Room' puzzles, which are missing from the IOS release.
Half of character interactions and some important plot points are discussed there. I can't imagine playing the game without them...
Wozzer
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Completely forgot that this was coming, namely because it's still not on Steam. Any idea when, and if, it's coming to Steam for the launch that's only a few days out?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gMRlKeciBI
It's looking fantastic.
They've said it's coming to steam. I think it's just gonna show up on the 25th.
it's not really a matter of the wrong mentality, i gave this game 13 hours of my time and it's not given me anything at all in return
that's like 20 league games i could've played instead
i've tried a whole lot to find something in it to cling to, something that'll inspire anything in me but so far i've come up empty
and i think blaming the player about alt tabbing or whatever when the game is so deliberately annoying and boring with its invisible walls, how impossibly slow boats are to stop, cramping my pinky just holding the shift key to run and how random the island's layout is (cos it sure isn't guiding you towards the tutorials)
add in motion sickness and i'm a freaking saint for making it this long
so yeah, not a problem with my attitude, i've given it all i got, i've fought motion sickness and very questionable design decisions and i don't think the game's met me half way
and that's kinda what the witness is, it's all or nothing, it's not gonna pretend to care about you or extend a helping hand to you, it just is what it is and it expects you to put in all the effort while it lectures you from the heavens about science or whatever
i'm not quitting because i respect the hell out of jonathan blow but so far i think this is a poorly designed, soulless and shallow game
maybe it'll suprise me, who knows
The Red Wizard
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Add it as a non-Steam shortcut.
Ha! I've had that experience a few times. Generally they last for ages but lose their comfort factor by 10 after the first month of use.
Finally ponied up for a decent chair and it has been so much better so far *touches wood*.
Starwolf_UK
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How has my Steam weekend been? I finished the main campaign of Kingdom Rush. Pros wise are it has some level of difficulty which is nice to see in these sorts of games (I don't think it is poor strategy either but starts of levels can be rough) and the heroes are fun to use. The con would be the speed of the game is atrocious and there is no speedup option (which makes things frustrating if you make mistakes on late waves) and also the two harder challenges on each stage are done without heroes. Probably wasn't the best tower defence to play coming off Gemcraft (you can be very calculated and methodical there in terms of knowing when you are safe though the fun there is pushing the limits until you reach the point where the game engine croaks from having thousands of enemies on screen).
I also played a couple of hours of Cities Skylines. These city builder games sure are roguelike in a way. I had to restart my first city within 20 minutes due to building the wrong things and being desperately out of cash (turns out you can't spend while in debt unlike say, Tropico). It also took me 2 cities to realise I didn't need to construct additional pylons like I was the Protoss (reading descriptions helps). My second city is dying from traffic problems and generally being a knifes edge of trying to balance out expansion, services and having enough power to run everything. I'll probably play Tropico 4 sometime as I think I prefer a stage based structure to an endless mode.
I also played a couple of hours of Cities Skylines. These city builder games sure are roguelike in a way. I had to restart my first city within 20 minutes due to building the wrong things and being desperately out of cash (turns out you can't spend while in debt unlike say, Tropico). It also took me 2 cities to realise I didn't need to construct additional pylons like I was the Protoss (reading descriptions helps). My second city is dying from traffic problems and generally being a knifes edge of trying to balance out expansion, services and having enough power to run everything. I'll probably play Tropico 4 sometime as I think I prefer a stage based structure to an endless mode.
Outside of SRPGs I think these days things like Adventure capitalist and Clicker heroes sadly have it beaten out (those tend to get well over 1E100).
CecilRousso
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Yeah, I should but they so often end up dissapearing, so I haven't bothered with it for a while.
Large Professor
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First time playing the series? If so, you're in for a treat. I played them for the first time last year and BG2 is now definitely one of my top 10 favorite games ever.
I still need to get the EE's though. I will probably buy them the next time they are discounted, as the new BG1 EE expansion is coming out in a couple of months.
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Deleted member 125677
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I was also suffering from motion sickness at first, but that went away when I adjusted the FOV to ~70
Have you tried tinkering with the settings? (You need to edit a config file)
AHA-Lambda
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I broke two in a period of like two weeks.
That's when I decided to shed the extra pounds and get a recliner which I still use as my PC chair to this day. It looks really stupid.
roadrunn3r
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I'm in a mood for a good point and click adventure game, loved both Book of Unwritten Tales games and wondering if there is something similar out there. Deponia didn't click with me unfortunately as those two did.
I've tried to play them every few years and never really been able to get in to them.
CecilRousso
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Broken Age: http://store.steampowered.com/app/232790/
Or something from Wadjet Eye Games: http://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=Wadjet Eye Games
AHA-Lambda
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Danganronpa, why would you give me 2 options and then actually prevent me from using one when I choose it? >_>
"Do you want A or B?"
"A"
"Well you can't do A, pick again"
Wut.
"Do you want A or B?"
"A"
"Well you can't do A, pick again"
Wut.
roadrunn3r
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Already played Broken Age, checked the Wadjet Eye games and already found two or three which might interest me thanks!
Tizoc
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Wadiet eye's blackwell series is superb
There are 2 pnc games releasing this march worth keeping an eye on too!
Blackwell series. Or if you prefer a one and done game, Gemini Rue.
Primordia is amazing as well.
spindoctor
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You can edit the FOV from the ini files.
Those of us who have played the game are dancing around the issue so that nothing gets spoiled for you, because that would just be cruel. But if the game has reached the stage where you are annoyed by it then perhaps it's just not for you. That can happen and it's no big deal.
I understand the game is opaque and your reaction is somewhat justified. But if you're sprinting from puzzle to puzzle and alt tabbing out of the game then you are missing out on the experience.
Have you ever wondered why the boat has a speed selection option?
roadrunn3r
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No, not at all. But that wasn't the topic. (It's no problem to do those on one screen)
Barely three days after purchase, I finished Danganronpa last night at around 3am. Really enjoyed the story and characters, and it turns out that spotting contradictions in testimony and evidence and presenting them in a trial feels really damn good. It was fairly easy to determine what happened in most of the cases though.
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I loved a lot of things about the game when I played it on Vita, but the trials are pretty bad imo.
Here's what I wrote about it in my goty ballot last year:
I'm open to the possibility that maybe I just wanted a different kind of game
So that's why I found a message from 7 this morning about playing a game together yesterday!!!!
Sorry 7, I went to dinner while playing Diablo 3, so even after coming back I couldn't see your message~
Se7enSword
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Haha it's fine~
Chairmanchuck
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I would agree with you.
A part I found kind of troubling during the trials is, that sometimes more than one evidence could be used to counter an argument or detect a lie, but the game only accepts one evidence for each "keyword".
Spoiler for the second case:
In the second case you could either use the moved rag or the stained rag to counter an argument, but the game only allows you to use one of them.
What game was it by the way?
Speaking of games, I got around to starting and completing the final mission on Hitman BETA, since I spent time messing with the tutorial setting yesterday.
I find the game to be pretty damn good. It has performance issues and the layout (and number) of keys used in the game is definitely not optimal, but I don't think I'd call the controls bad. Mouse and KB works perfectly, the controls are responsive and everything is re-bindable. That's enough to make me call the controls good while the layout problematic.
Anyways, excited for the game to come out.
Yeah, I'm just curious why people get hung up on the Sudoku, when there's the stuff I mentioned missing. :\
Se7enSword
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I was trying to get a 100% OJ party started. Been a while since I played it.
I loved a lot of things about the game when I played it on Vita, but the trials are pretty bad imo.
Here's what I wrote about it in my goty ballot last year:
I'm open to the possibility that maybe I just wanted a different kind of game
I don't disagree. It's so linear that there's not really a problem to solve, you just have to show others how the only solution is the right solution. But I still found that fun, pointing out the contradictions and holes in people's statements. Would it have been better if you had actual problems to resolve? For sure.
I also ran into ChairmanChuck's problem a few times, which was frustrating.
Wozzer
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God, it looks so good
I love how your slow-mo stepped progressed is played back in real-time at the end, and sharable too; https://fat.gfycat.com/ValidIllegalIrrawaddydolphin.webm
Jawmuncher
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While it's not the fanciest thing, here I have a set up of main computer with a second screen being a tv. Using the steam controller and putting steam on the other screen along with some headphones works pretty well for multiple people needing the PC. So long as your wife will never need the sound.
Jawmuncher
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I thought overall Danganronpa 2 paled in comparison to 1. Especially with how some of it felt like a retread. Still a good game, just not as impressive.
Oh shit. That's good.
As promised, I finally played Army of Tentacles for a few hours (thanks for the game again), so here are my impressions. Army of Tentacles is an light RPG in which you click to go to one place to another, to meet crazy characters. In the end, the give you quests you have to completed in mostly mundane ways (the game make fun of the whole filler quests concept). It's probably the only mundane thing here. I mean the game uses several different (ugly) text fonts and combines totally different art styles, including real life photographies as backgrounds. All over the place. It's nuts.
Battles are actually a matter of choosing the right answer or reply among four choices. These battles often uses popular culture themes, so your success will depend on your knowledge. The game basically invites you to consult Google when you're in the dark (like I was with Narnia). So far, I had arguments (er... battles) about topics like Nintendo, LucasArts/Double Fine/Tim Schafer and Hamlet/Shakespeare. That last one was pretty long, and became frustrating after 4-5 tries. So far, there is one time where I had no idea what to do and where to go, so I had to visit each place to advance. Turned out I needed a password from a place I already visited previously.
I'm not sure if I'm actually having fun, but there is something weirdly compelling about Army of Tentacles that will make me play it again today. For how long ? Who knows.
I'll try to post a review on Steam when I'm done.
Oh, right, I forgot to buy your game earlier. I'll do so when the Weeklies are updated.
Stallion Free
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What gave you the impression it would be anything like FEAR?
Large Professor
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The beginning can be a bit rough, but it's largely doable. Use pause a lot and if you are in a fight against some difficult enemies don't hesitate to leave the map to rest.
(edit) Maybe I'm misreading your screenshot, but it seems your main character is a mage? That's really not the best choice here. A fighter is much easier for a first playthrough.
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