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Halloween Avatars are overrated!

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Xater

Member
Finished The Evil Within 2. Really enjoyed it. Took my like 16 hours doing everything but finding all the keys. Overall a big improvement over the first one. It played better, looked way better and the more personal story was also a good choice. It even avoided the RE7 problem of completely turning into a shooter in the back half. Only real problem is that they still left story threads from the first one hanging, which kinda sucks if this is all the Evil Within we will ever get.
 
So, how is The Witcher 3 similar to a VN? I'm assuming it's mainly because of the tags but idk.

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Story-rich tag or something.

Steam's recommendation engine is awful, to the point that I question why it's there at all.


For example, top game in the strategy tag right now? Ghost Recon: Wildlands. Recommended because of my time with Total War: Warhammer 2.
So why do games become "average" at 74 but TV shows, albums and movies are "generally favorable" at 62?

Average review score is in that range, I would guess.

The 1-10 and 1-100 review scale for games sort of works like this:
  • 1x. Broken (objectively)
  • 2x. Broken (subjectively)
  • 3x. Broken (arbitrarily)
  • 4x.Awful
  • 5x. Bad
  • 6x. Average (bad)
  • 7x. Average (good)
  • 8x. AAA marketing goal / Good
  • 9x. Very Good / Best Mathematical Determination
  • 100. Perfection by all arbitrary definitions

The 1-5 scale makes more sense:
  • 1. Awful
  • 2. Bad
  • 3. Mediocre
  • 4. Good
  • 5. Very Good

And the thumbs scale makes the most sense:
  • Thumbs Down: Not recommended
  • Thumbs Up: Recommended
 
I was in the middle of creating new shadow in Killer Instinct when game suddenly gave me "can't upload data to Ultratech server" error and refused to react in any way. At first i thought that Microsoft fucked up, but now i can't upload screenshot to Steam Cloud either, so i guess something is going on with Steam. Steamstat.us insisting that everything is fine, but i see angry messages in activity feed from my friends, so i guess it's not just me.
 

M.D

Member
Started The Evil Within a few days ago, not like I'm gonna have time to finish any game before starting school again ;p

I like it so far but it's not really scary. I guess only first person horror games like Amnesia and SOMA manage to scare the shit out of me
 

Xater

Member
Looking through the reviews I knew I should have stayed away from Elex, but too late now. Hopefully I can look past the jank, because story and quests do sound promising.
 

Mivey

Member
Looking through the reviews I knew I should have stayed away from Elex, but too late now. Hopefully I can look past the jank, because story and quests do sound promising.
Seems like pretty much a typical PB game, bit more open ended and bigger in scope. I would wait at least a few months for patches, but otherwise you pretty much get what you expect.
 
What's the deal with Quake Champions and Elder Scrolls Online in this month's bundle again? I'll probably keep my subscription but it seems like Quake is pretty stingy... At least ESO is a gigantic mmo.
 
What's the deal with Quake Champions and Elder Scrolls Online in this month's bundle again? I'll probably keep my subscription but it seems like Quake is pretty stingy... At least ESO is a gigantic mmo.

IGN of course!
Just kidding...I think.

I just put my monthly on hold for this month
 

Parsnip

Member
Okay, guys, Dream_Journey is the winner, enjoy your game!
Also, anyone who participated (zkylon, Ascheroth, Dream_Journey, Tonton, Parsnip, Mivey, pantsattack, Platy, Jawmuncher, dot, bobnowhere) can also get one of the below keys:

(First come first serve)
(I can't guarantee all of them are still valid)
(I will send the keys out after I get back from work, ETA 10 hours)

Very generous, if no one has picked up The Flame in the Flood by the time you'll see this then I will. If it's not available anymore, then I'm good. :D
 

Parsnip

Member
Finished the story portion of Assassin's Creed Rogue. Kind of a bummer that the ending had been spoiled for me, but having
Shay be the Templar who kills Arno's dad is actually a really neat story beat
. Other than that, this has to be the most creatively bankrupt AC game in the series. I still enjoy it, but man.

66% completion at the moment, bunch of forts, some hunting/crafting and lots of collectables left.
 
Counter-Strike is now the top strategy tag game.

Steam, you're killing me.
Something's not right here

This has reminded me... At a certain point, giving epic names and descriptions to everything Talion finds kind of undermines the whole concept of epic items. Total Warhammer has the same problem where every item is some ancient artifact of untold power that gives like, +5 damage or something and is easily replaced by a dozen other, more "ancient" items.

ARPG loot should not be in every game. Because even in the best of them, you'll see stuff like this:
(Grim Dawn, for anyone wondering.)
 

Uzzy

Member
This has reminded me... At a certain point, giving epic names and descriptions to everything Talion finds kind of undermines the whole concept of epic items. Total Warhammer has the same problem where every item is some ancient artifact of untold power that gives like, +5 damage or something and is easily replaced by a dozen other, more "ancient" items.

At least Total Warhammer has quests for the unique magical items, which are generally multistage and usually lead to fun set piece battles. That makes the important magical items feel actually important and special.
 
Counter-Strike is now the top strategy tag game.

Steam, you're killing me.


This has reminded me... At a certain point, giving epic names and descriptions to everything Talion finds kind of undermines the whole concept of epic items. Total Warhammer has the same problem where every item is some ancient artifact of untold power that gives like, +5 damage or something and is easily replaced by a dozen other, more "ancient" items.

ARPG loot should not be in every game. Because even in the best of them, you'll see stuff like this:

(Grim Dawn, for anyone wondering.)

Which combination of classes gives a Death Knight?
 

Aaron D.

Member
BTW, Slayaway Camp is a really, really good puzzle game. Better suited to mobile given the very short levels and touch-friendly mechanics, but it plays fine with a controller on a big screen, and it really does have that addictive one-more-level quality despite being a glorified sliding-blocks puzzler.

Slayaway Camp iOS ($1.99) is 100% landing on my GOTY list.

It's made by former PopCap vets and has the clean, slick presentation, personality & polish to prove it. Controls like a dream on my iPhone Plus. And the dev keeps adding new free content post launch.

What a great game.
 

Vlad

Member
Ucchedavāda;252200276 said:
So Zachtronics is apparently releasing a new game on Early Access in a couple of days. Came out of nowhere it seems:

http://www.zachtronics.com/opus-magnum/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/558990/Opus_Magnum/


ETA: It looks reminiscent of The Sequence:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/454320/the_Sequence/

Hm, looks like a fleshed-out version of The Codex of Alchemical Engineering, a browser-based game he made a while ago. Looks like more great stuff from him, though.
 
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