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Isn't it a decent game except for the community?
PixyJunket
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Good morning, CoffeeGAF.
I still have half of a bag of Starbucks Anniversary but Thanksgiving Blend (probably my favorite of their seasonal beans, maybe) just came out, so I may have to make an emergency switch (or just brew more coffee this weekend to get through this bag quicker).
What are your gaming plans today?
After the pool guy comes to change out our filter, I'm going to marathon attempt a strange combination of achievements in Valdis Story (spend all points in intelligence, beat the game without saving and beat the game without changing starting equipment). The first one may conflict with the third one, but eh, it's worth a shot.
I'll probably spend an hour with Wii Fit U, I'm VERY close to getting under that 25 BMI level, yay.
After that I may dive into sixth stratum of Etrian Odyssey Untold and decide if I want to be punished with that or move on to a different 3DS game.
I still have half of a bag of Starbucks Anniversary but Thanksgiving Blend (probably my favorite of their seasonal beans, maybe) just came out, so I may have to make an emergency switch (or just brew more coffee this weekend to get through this bag quicker).
What are your gaming plans today?
After the pool guy comes to change out our filter, I'm going to marathon attempt a strange combination of achievements in Valdis Story (spend all points in intelligence, beat the game without saving and beat the game without changing starting equipment). The first one may conflict with the third one, but eh, it's worth a shot.
I'll probably spend an hour with Wii Fit U, I'm VERY close to getting under that 25 BMI level, yay.
After that I may dive into sixth stratum of Etrian Odyssey Untold and decide if I want to be punished with that or move on to a different 3DS game.
Oh no, I don't want it back
Honey Bunny
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I'm going to check the store page four or five times even though nothing will have changed, and stare at my library at various points throughout the day before going back to browsing gaf.
Sanic
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That about sums it up, yeah.
MMBosstones86
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Morning my good fellow GAFfers, just woke up to a nice and kind PM from ModBot, was not expecting to be honest since it was one of the few games I decided to enter.
I also see that Anteater finally got Dear Esther and Resident Evil Revelations went to MMBosstones86. I loveee when those games go to a good home, so happy for both of you, enjoy!
just saw it as well. Thanks Dusk Golem!!
I'm going to try and go through my unused humble keys and see what great stuff is left over to giveaway.
SteamGAF is the best GAF
I have no idea. I never played a moba nor watched someone playing it.
Yes!
Yes. Yes, it is.
Time played: 1 hour, 14 minutes (got to second level on my 20th try)
Wow, it's been a while, eh? Considering that the last game I reviewed like this was Binary Domain last year, I really have been slacking off on the impressions department. However, I won Risk Of Rain in a Twitch stream's giveaway raffle yesterday, and the game is pretty much brand new, so I felt that I had to play it and give you guys some first impressions of the title. So, well, here goes.
Risk Of Rain is one of a growing number of retro-styled, action-led "Roguealikelikes" in the same vein as Rogue Legacy and Teleglitch (oh boy, do I have some impressions of THAT game for you!), with seemingly randomized levels teeming with randomly-spawning hyper-aggressive enemies and randomized loot. Oh, and permadeath, because what kind of Rogue clone would it be without that? Where RoR differs is that it was definitely built to be played in co-op, and can be played online by up to 4 players at any time, according to the stream I was watching that awarded me the game. Stupid cool. Add to that the 12 or so classes you must unlock to be able to play as, each with different weapons and abilities, and you'll be at this for some time if you want to play to completion.
Now, I said that there were 12 classes, but you only start out with one unlocked - the Commando, armed with a shotgun, SMG and rifle, and a forward roll that both gets you clear of enemies for a second and grants temporary invulnerability. I soon find out that I'm going to need to make use of all of those weapons and abilities, because the enemies, even early on, come at me thick and fast. Well, some of them come at me just thick, while others come fast, small, flying, and electrocuting. Those goddamned jellyfish. AAAaaaaarrgh. Especially the boss one, he's a cunt. It doesn't help that all your abilities have short cooldown periods (your main weapon doesn't, which is the smallest of mercies), and must be used accordingly. It certainly makes for more intense, thoughtful and tactical combat mechanics than you usually see in a Roguelikealike these days, and gives the game a unique flavour.
At the beginning of any given stage, the game tells you what you must do - "Find the Teleporter". it quickly becomes imperative that you do so quickly, for the longer you take, the harder and more ferocious the game's enemies will become, usually resulting in a quick permadeath and premature Game Over. However, it's only once you find the teleporter and activate it that the fun really begins, since that both gives you a 90-second "survive" timer and summons the stage boss, as well as increasing enemy spawns! And even after the 90 seconds runs out, you still have to defeat the boss and all of the remaining enemies to clear the level and be able to teleport the hell outta there. No, nothing about this game is easy. Nothing at all.
It's a good thing that you can buy - not find or loot, buy - extra weapons and items from various randomized dumps with gold you get from either small canisters strewn across the map, or, more lucratively, killing enemies. How strangely capitalistic for a game where the whole premise is that monsters are falling from space, and you're humanity's last hope - you'd think they'd just give them to him as a freebie. The bigger the enemy, the more moolah you get - and that goes for experience points as well, which are collected in much the same way, and serve to level up your character, giving them more HP, endurance, attack power, and so on.The interplay between these elements and the relentless enemy onslaught becomes more important the longer a level takes, since there's a dramatic tension between levelling enough to defeat the largest enemies and getting that teleporter online so that the level eventually stops getting harder and harder, until at some point even your over-levelled self can't keep up and you die. Again. That said, if you beat a level, you take everything you've earned/bought with you, but if you die, you lose everything, so that's a great incentive to play smarter, rather than harder.
I should say at this point that i only played the game solo; I haven't tried the online mode yet. The Twitch stream had a four-player co-op game going on, though, and what I watched seemed to play smoothly and without any disconnects or lag. I might try some online play later, if I can convince some friends to buy the game. The game's not exactly a looker, though, so they might take some convincing, but I'll try.
I hope I've done some convincing here, too. RoR is boss, and comes highly recommended.
Play again?: Yes, undoubtedly.
Yes! I said that! A few pages back! Great minds and all that!
Now...to buy it, or wait for Build A Doujin Bundle 3?
King Arthur's Gold looks like so much fun.
Wish it had more players online to convince em to buy it. Maybe in a week or two I'll check back.
Wish it had more players online to convince em to buy it. Maybe in a week or two I'll check back.
Da DreadLord
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Probably already said, but in case not. Steam keys for survivor squad if you bought the groupees bundle of the damned 2
Uiki
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I took down the jellyfish boss after 2 hours trying the first level... feels damn good.
I noticed that i always die at 20 min.. Can't understand if it's better to rush the first level or go for all the items before teleporting.
Humble changed their text, but it still gave me a steam key, so...
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The game specifically tells you to go for the teleporter first, so I think there's a good chance that enemies actually level up with you. Therefore, it might be worth rushing for the teleporter first, so as to beat the level quickly and at a lower level to make the next level easier - if the enemies let you, that is, the crafty monkies.
TouchMyBox
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Don't like people with good taste?
Dusk Golem. thanks for the Legend of Dawn.
Jawmuncher
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I think I botched my current run of Agarest War pretty bad.
Im still in the first generation (Whatever that means), but I apparently have missed a shit ton of events because I didn't follow the "perfect route" didn't even know there was a perfect route. Hopefully I can maneuver it back in GEN 2 if not I might throw this back in the backlog.
Im still in the first generation (Whatever that means), but I apparently have missed a shit ton of events because I didn't follow the "perfect route" didn't even know there was a perfect route. Hopefully I can maneuver it back in GEN 2 if not I might throw this back in the backlog.
I'm going to wait for a bundle or a sale.
It seems interesting. The trailer for it is pretty ace. One of my favorite trailers of the year.
Thanks Turfster!
Baron von Loathsome
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Local co-op and versus.
Only local? That's a bummer
Blue Ninja
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Kingdoms of Amalur is fun, but I'm starting to get a bit burned out. I'll probably just try and burn through the rest of the main quest, see if I make it to the end.
This is the part where you stop playing games and collect them instead.
Uiki
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Grabbed Evil Genius and Marlow Briggs for 3.80 off GMG and started playing some Marlow because hey, action game.
Game is so ridiculous. One moment you're throwing some energy knives to some insects, then you get some weird cutscene with choppers and you find yourself murdering dudes up in the sky.
Let's not talk about the notes your girl leaves behind. At least the game is, albeit easy, fun to play.
Game is so ridiculous. One moment you're throwing some energy knives to some insects, then you get some weird cutscene with choppers and you find yourself murdering dudes up in the sky.
Let's not talk about the notes your girl leaves behind. At least the game is, albeit easy, fun to play.
You know, I almost wrote "in before Derrick says I dodged a bullet"
I consider it my lifelong duty to warn everyone about how awful that game is.
It's an extremely repetitive game with really bad, MMO-ish quests and the game's way too easy because of the simple action game combat. I've been replaying it on PS+ to get the last 2 trophies I need, which unfortunately require a 2nd full playthrough, and it's brutal.
Oi, you. Don't start him down our path of sin!
Agarest is shit anyway - take it from a former beta tester who got it for free (hell, NDA's gotta be over by now, right?). If you want animu jRPG goodness, play the Ys games. All of them.
Lord British
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Yes. Yes, it is.
Great writeup! Actually made a thread just a while ago to discuss the game, maybe you could post it there, too?
Madrugador
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Not just yet. Does Origin allow controllers? They also have to fix their controller support, BF3/4's is kinda bad.
BF on PC with a controller?
Overdoziz wants it. Crazy I know.
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Well, basically finished A Walk in the Dark sans one achievement (which I don't think I'll ever attempt).
The game isn't some crazy hard platformer in the sense of Super Meat Boy and such, but some levels have some tricks to get used to. Every level has special objectives (ie get a shiny object in each level, and then other types have ones like beat a certain time, do the level in one run, etc.) Game has about
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The music wasn't really varied, but I enjoyed how in each area as you progressed through the levels, the music stayed consistent to where it was (it didn't restart the music track each time you entered a level, it only did that if you went back out to the map). Pretty calming tracks, and I really enjoyed the music from the last set of levels along with the challenge levels.
I did run into some performance issues in late game where you have a type of level which involves auto running. It made it near impossible to even tell when to dodge obstacles, so I had to lower the resolution from my standard one to even get past those levels. Other than that I've had no crashes or anything.
Story is pretty much explained through pretty low budget looking cutscenes and is pretty simplistic and doesn't interfere much with the game during actual play, so didn't really care about it.
The only achievement I won't get is completing the game in a unique speed run without dying. I died more than enough times, especially trying to get the later levels down pat. The challenge levels had their own tricks but overall weren't too difficult once you got a handle on how the game controls.
While the standard price is $6.99 and I feel I got my money's worth, some people probably wouldn't feel the same considering the short time it took me. But I recommend checking it out if it's on sale at least, if you're into a platforming game which doesn't get too crazy in the end (though you may disagree if you go for 100% completion
)SonicXtreme
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i can't imagine steambox/OS stealing the console COD boys until games regularly have dedicated matchmaking for controller players to play separate from the kb/m players if they want. those people flat out don't want to play FPS's with kb/m. and a huge portion of the playerbase will never come to PC unless that is implemented.
Sure thing! (Your link is wrong, btw.)
That's kinda where the Steam controller is supposed to step in.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Looks interesting but man, that was a terrible attempt at "mimicking" an 80's/90's ad.
Guild Wars 2 still captures it the best with their Super Adventure Box commercial.
PixyJunket
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The pool guy ate up two hours, now I'm starving and my coffee is old.
Oh well, my plans will not change, for now.
ON TO STRANGE VALDIS STORY ACHIEVEMENT GET.
Oh well, my plans will not change, for now.
ON TO STRANGE VALDIS STORY ACHIEVEMENT GET.
Does nobody else think ModBot and giveaways should be a seperate thread? Or rather, actual Steam news and discussion has it's own thread seeing as this thread is pretty much a Modbot/thanks thread anyway?
I end up skipping so many pages because I see a giveaway and I know there's just going to be tons of posts saying thanks but actual discussion going on?
I end up skipping so many pages because I see a giveaway and I know there's just going to be tons of posts saying thanks but actual discussion going on?
PixyJunket
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Thanks for the impressions.
Well, basically finished A Walk in the Dark sans one achievement (which I don't think I'll ever attempt).
The game isn't some crazy hard platformer in the sense of Super Meat Boy and such, but some levels have some tricks to get used to. Every level has special objectives (ie get a shiny object in each level, and then other types have ones like beat a certain time, do the level in one run, etc.) Game has abouttotal levels including the challenge levels, so getting all those may be an issue for some. I appreciated how it acted like SMB did in where if you die it just restarts you at the beginning of the level.110
The music wasn't really varied, but I enjoyed how in each area as you progressed through the levels, the music stayed consistent to where it was (it didn't restart the music track each time you entered a level, it only did that if you went back out to the map). Pretty calming tracks, and I really enjoyed the music from the last set of levels along with the challenge levels.
I did run into some performance issues in late game where you have a type of level which involves auto running. It made it near impossible to even tell when to dodge obstacles, so I had to lower the resolution from my standard one to even get past those levels. Other than that I've had no crashes or anything.
Story is pretty much explained through pretty low budget looking cutscenes and is pretty simplistic and doesn't interfere much with the game during actual play, so didn't really care about it.
The only achievement I won't get is completing the game in a unique speed run without dying. I died more than enough times, especially trying to get the later levels down pat. The challenge levels had their own tricks but overall weren't too difficult once you got a handle on how the game controls.
While the standard price is $6.99 and I feel I got my money's worth, some people probably wouldn't feel the same considering the short time it took me. But I recommend checking it out if it's on sale at least, if you're into a platforming game which doesn't get too crazy in the end (though you may disagree if you go for 100% completion
Yes. Yes, it is.
Time played: 1 hour, 14 minutes (got to second level on my 20th try)
Wow, it's been a while, eh? Considering that the last game I reviewed like this was Binary Domain last year, I really have been slacking off on the impressions department. However, I won Risk Of Rain in a Twitch stream's giveaway raffle yesterday, and the game is pretty much brand new, so I felt that I had to play it and give you guys some first impressions of the title. So, well, here goes.
Risk Of Rain is one of a growing number of retro-styled, action-led "Roguealikelikes" in the same vein as Rogue Legacy and Teleglitch (oh boy, do I have some impressions of THAT game for you!), with seemingly randomized levels teeming with randomly-spawning hyper-aggressive enemies and randomized loot. Oh, and permadeath, because what kind of Rogue clone would it be without that? Where RoR differs is that it was definitely built to be played in co-op, and can be played online by up to 4 players at any time, according to the stream I was watching that awarded me the game. Stupid cool. Add to that the 12 or so classes you must unlock to be able to play as, each with different weapons and abilities, and you'll be at this for some time if you want to play to completion.
Now, I said that there were 12 classes, but you only start out with one unlocked - the Commando, armed with a shotgun, SMG and rifle, and a forward roll that both gets you clear of enemies for a second and grants temporary invulnerability. I soon find out that I'm going to need to make use of all of those weapons and abilities, because the enemies, even early on, come at me thick and fast. Well, some of them come at me just thick, while others come fast, small, flying, and electrocuting. Those goddamned jellyfish. AAAaaaaarrgh. Especially the boss one, he's a cunt. It doesn't help that all your abilities have short cooldown periods (your main weapon doesn't, which is the smallest of mercies), and must be used accordingly. It certainly makes for more intense, thoughtful and tactical combat mechanics than you usually see in a Roguelikealike these days, and gives the game a unique flavour.
At the beginning of any given stage, the game tells you what you must do - "Find the Teleporter". it quickly becomes imperative that you do so quickly, for the longer you take, the harder and more ferocious the game's enemies will become, usually resulting in a quick permadeath and premature Game Over. However, it's only once you find the teleporter and activate it that the fun really begins, since that both gives you a 90-second "survive" timer and summons the stage boss, as well as increasing enemy spawns! And even after the 90 seconds runs out, you still have to defeat the boss and all of the remaining enemies to clear the level and be able to teleport the hell outta there. No, nothing about this game is easy. Nothing at all.
It's a good thing that you can buy - not find or loot, buy - extra weapons and items from various randomized dumps with gold you get from either small canisters strewn across the map, or, more lucratively, killing enemies. How strangely capitalistic for a game where the whole premise is that monsters are falling from space, and you're humanity's last hope - you'd think they'd just give them to him as a freebie. The bigger the enemy, the more moolah you get - and that goes for experience points as well, which are collected in much the same way, and serve to level up your character, giving them more HP, endurance, attack power, and so on.The interplay between these elements and the relentless enemy onslaught becomes more important the longer a level takes, since there's a dramatic tension between levelling enough to defeat the largest enemies and getting that teleporter online so that the level eventually stops getting harder and harder, until at some point even your over-levelled self can't keep up and you die. Again. That said, if you beat a level, you take everything you've earned/bought with you, but if you die, you lose everything, so that's a great incentive to play smarter, rather than harder.
I should say at this point that i only played the game solo; I haven't tried the online mode yet. The Twitch stream had a four-player co-op game going on, though, and what I watched seemed to play smoothly and without any disconnects or lag. I might try some online play later, if I can convince some friends to buy the game. The game's not exactly a looker, though, so they might take some convincing, but I'll try.
I hope I've done some convincing here, too. RoR is boss, and comes highly recommended.
Play again?: Yes, undoubtedly.
Yes! I said that! A few pages back! Great minds and all that!
Now...to buy it, or wait for Build A Doujin Bundle 3?
Screw it. I'm paying full price for this. I've heard nothing but good things about this game.
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