You didn't like Hard Reset, either? Oof. Looks like we've got some very different tastes in games, you and I.
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STEAM | September 2014 - Nice thread. Btw, Bayonetta 2 is out next month.
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You didn't like Hard Reset, either? Oof. Looks like we've got some very different tastes in games, you and I.
Dark Souls has a combat system that's worth learning, because it genuinely feels fun. That's one of the main draw for the series, isn't it? The Witcher's combat wasn't fun to me at all, but I've always been impatient. It took me awhile just to grasp the combat in a CRPG like Divinity OS, being new to the genre. I wanted to go Diablo ham on everything.
The weapons were the equivalent of cork popguns, the levels boiled down to kinda meh corridors and it just wasn't any fun.
Sorry.
someguyinahat
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As thanks once again for your gift, here are some impressions for Deponia:
The story: You play a jobless jerk named Rufus on a junk planet named Deponia (although how it became such is not made clear.) You live with your ex-girlfriend, who despite being passive-aggressive and acid-tongued, allows you to stay with her. Your objective is to leave the planet, but things get complicated when you find a beautiful alien along the way.
The story is mostly good: the main character wrestles between his self-interests and doing the right thing. Unfortunately, most of the time he loses this battle and acts like an ass. He's always quick to betray, manipulate, or drug his friends, enemies and animals for his own ends. Had his character actually followed an arc and gone from loser jerk-ass to jerk with a heart of gold, I think this game might have been better received than it did. As it stands, it's a story about a jerk, but it's well-executed. The writing in the game itself isn't too bad, but it contains enough turns of phrase that shout out, "Here I am! Translated from German!" (example: when you get someone's key, it doesn't say Someone's Key, but rather Key of Someone.)
The graphics: It's got good style. The environments aren't as beautiful as its Daedalic counterpart the Whispered World, but it's up there. The characters have a nice cartoony style. Everything has the look of a junk planet, but it would have been nice if we saw more of Rufus' desired destination to give it some contrast, even if he just has a book about it. Something more than a dim view of some floating spires would have been better.
The music and voices: The incidental music is good. It's never annoying. However, there's this "rhyming" ditty framing the different acts. It's sung by a guy who can't hide his German accent (I think he's one of the lead developers) and the song sounds like it was badly cobbled together to match a meter. This is where the "translated from German" is most apparent. I'm guessing the song worked a lot better in its original language. Apart from this singer, however, the voices are by and large very well done. I was pleasantly surprised by them, having suffered through inferior voices from The Whispered World.
The puzzles and length: The puzzles are by and large item combination based. Some are tricky, but none are Guide Dang It bad. The mini-game puzzles are skippable if you don't like to fuddle your way through buttons and switches, but it will cost you achievements. One of the mini-games is pretty cute as you try to brute force a solution when you don't have all the requisites to solve it. My Steam profile says it took me 9 hours but I did leave it on when I went to do other stuff, so it'll be more like 7 1/2 to 8. Still, it's a good healthy length for a point-and-click.
The verdict: Better than I was expecting. Hit the Escape button to skip the musical interludes, remember not to bother identifying with the protagonist, and you're golden. Give it a go.
The story: You play a jobless jerk named Rufus on a junk planet named Deponia (although how it became such is not made clear.) You live with your ex-girlfriend, who despite being passive-aggressive and acid-tongued, allows you to stay with her. Your objective is to leave the planet, but things get complicated when you find a beautiful alien along the way.
The story is mostly good: the main character wrestles between his self-interests and doing the right thing. Unfortunately, most of the time he loses this battle and acts like an ass. He's always quick to betray, manipulate, or drug his friends, enemies and animals for his own ends. Had his character actually followed an arc and gone from loser jerk-ass to jerk with a heart of gold, I think this game might have been better received than it did. As it stands, it's a story about a jerk, but it's well-executed. The writing in the game itself isn't too bad, but it contains enough turns of phrase that shout out, "Here I am! Translated from German!" (example: when you get someone's key, it doesn't say Someone's Key, but rather Key of Someone.)
The graphics: It's got good style. The environments aren't as beautiful as its Daedalic counterpart the Whispered World, but it's up there. The characters have a nice cartoony style. Everything has the look of a junk planet, but it would have been nice if we saw more of Rufus' desired destination to give it some contrast, even if he just has a book about it. Something more than a dim view of some floating spires would have been better.
The music and voices: The incidental music is good. It's never annoying. However, there's this "rhyming" ditty framing the different acts. It's sung by a guy who can't hide his German accent (I think he's one of the lead developers) and the song sounds like it was badly cobbled together to match a meter. This is where the "translated from German" is most apparent. I'm guessing the song worked a lot better in its original language. Apart from this singer, however, the voices are by and large very well done. I was pleasantly surprised by them, having suffered through inferior voices from The Whispered World.
The puzzles and length: The puzzles are by and large item combination based. Some are tricky, but none are Guide Dang It bad. The mini-game puzzles are skippable if you don't like to fuddle your way through buttons and switches, but it will cost you achievements. One of the mini-games is pretty cute as you try to brute force a solution when you don't have all the requisites to solve it. My Steam profile says it took me 9 hours but I did leave it on when I went to do other stuff, so it'll be more like 7 1/2 to 8. Still, it's a good healthy length for a point-and-click.
The verdict: Better than I was expecting. Hit the Escape button to skip the musical interludes, remember not to bother identifying with the protagonist, and you're golden. Give it a go.
It's not so much that I care. It's more that I don't see the point. Even if some stranger posting rude comments on my screenshots is rare (not sure how often that happens on Steam, but Youtube comments sections tell me it's common practice on the internet at large), there is no benefit to me to merit posting them publicly.
Maybe I'm just an old man who doesn't get social media, but I have no interest in sharing anything with the whole world. It's not that I'm afraid people will see my screenshots, I just literally don't care what they think.
cicero
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The criticism I have seen over the years has been quite exaggerated. It is so cheap now during sales, people should just ignore the usual stream of complaints and check it out for themselves.
someguyinahat
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Here in his twitter account, he feels safest of all, he can lock all his doors, it's the only way to live, in his twitter account?
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Cozmogramma
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I don't know if this was mentioned but Volgarr the Viking is 75% off - $2.99-(the cheapest it has been). So if someone didn't get it from the bundle the other day now is your chance. Highly recommended.
Oh, cool. Couldn't get the bundle but I have some money on Steam. Thanks for the heads up.
-MD-
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The lack of difficulty holds it back from being GOTY imo, the fights rarely last longer than 10-20 seconds. Wish they would've patched it.
Though I wouldn't be mad if it did take GOTY at this point from the games I've played in 2014.
As far as I'm concerned, Hard Reset wasn't as good as Shadow Warrior (which is fantastic), but it's a damn good game in its own right. I agree that the weapons seemed a little lightweight initially, but I thought they felt gratifyingly substantial once you powered them up some. The environments weren't as visually diverse as they could've been (a lot of cyberpunk city and industrial-themed levels), but since I liked that theme (and it fit the story), that didn't bother me. Layout-wise, I thought there was a good bit of variation between levels. The story wasn't anything amazing, but it was good enough to keep the action moving.
Guess it's just a matter of personal taste. Sorry you didn't have fun with it! : /
AsfaeksBR
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Couldn't agree more. It's my favorite game of the year so far (with Wolfenstein as a close second), and this just reminded me that I still have 8 achievements to get.
I need to perfect that game!
Fantastapotamus
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Anybody here playing Nidhogg?
I can never find anybody playing online and the one time I did it was AWEFUL cause everything was super delayed for me which made playing impossible. Is this a common problem or on me?
I can never find anybody playing online and the one time I did it was AWEFUL cause everything was super delayed for me which made playing impossible. Is this a common problem or on me?
Their netcode is made of cheese, so it's common.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
So it's basically a local multiplayer game only? Oh well, I'm actually having some fun with the SP. Got it for 3$, can't complain.
Yup.
I'm really cross at them for going to VITA and PS4 before fixing their fucking netcode, too =p
It's some sort of magic, I had my wishlist reduced to ~40 during summer sale, now it's +70, meaning even longer than it was before summer sale! How can that be? I add almost nothing these days, and it's growing faster than ever
edited: oh wow, just noticed playfire rewards of Fable, kinda wish I bought it
edited: oh wow, just noticed playfire rewards of Fable, kinda wish I bought it
not really, but those rewards! Odin almighty
Fantastapotamus
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Wait, hold on. Hack'n'Slash is out? When did that happen?
Is that the Early Access curse? That your game releases and nobody notices? Is there even a trailer? Or a review? Game looks super interesting imho
Is that the Early Access curse? That your game releases and nobody notices? Is there even a trailer? Or a review? Game looks super interesting imho
RPS did a review:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/09/11/hack-n-slash-review/
I think we've seen some games come out of early access and get PR bump (Lichdom did recently) whereas others do seem to make the transition somewhat unnoticed. Hack'n'Slash looks cool to me but there's just too much on my plate right now for the price they are asking, even if it is a big release discount. Seems likely we'll see 50% off by Christmas and probably bundled by next summer, especially since it seems to not be a very big hit.
Sounds about right.lol
I actually went back to Hatoful and did another route playthrough.
Basically.
Recommendations too. Only share stuff with people you know.This is why you only share screenshots with friends and not set them public
This is why you only share screenshots with friends and not set them public
i once got a git gud on a Rogue Legacy screenshot
corrosivefrost
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Of course it is, it's ggpo.
Capt.Haddock
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Finally got hold of a cheap copy of payday2.Right in time for hotline dlc.
Boom!lol
coo...
Capt.Haddock
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shut up, yes they are
thesaucetastic
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I finished Eets Munchies like a week ago. It was pretty good. I liked how the levels were easy to finish (except the mystery ones), but required a lot more thought to collect all the candies. Some puzzles were a pain in the ass mechanically, like this level where you had to puff up an elephant to get the eets to the cake. I messed that up so much. All in all, it's a pretty relaxing game with a few brain teasing puzzles.
AHA-Lambda
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Guys think this would work?
Buy Evil Within from Steam.
Get Evil Within Season Pass from seller and add to my account.
Cancel and refund Evil Within preorder from Steam.
Redeem Steam CD Key for Evil Within from retail copy.
Would this work? =/
Buy Evil Within from Steam.
Get Evil Within Season Pass from seller and add to my account.
Cancel and refund Evil Within preorder from Steam.
Redeem Steam CD Key for Evil Within from retail copy.
Would this work? =/
Revelaitons is great.
Should have got 4. Revalations dlc is just stuff for Raid mode I think.
I've been read that people either like this or like RE6. I heard RER has a more Resident Evil atmosphere than 6 but 6 has great gameplay mechanics.
RER was a 3DS port too so it's understandable it's a little limited. I heard the coop is better in 6 too.
MrTeachwell
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Wow, so dark souls will eventually transform from the name of a game to an adjective that means something along the lines of 'enemies that can kill you'. An example sentence would be 'Man those chainsaw dudes in resident evil are so dark souls'.
Sarcasm aside I really don't know how I feel about games being used to define other games. While I understand that games share commonalities, seeing a reference to The Witcher 2 as dark souls lite really confounds me. Aside from enemies being able to one shot you I really can't see much similarity there.
For anyone wondering about playing the wither 1 or 2, they are games with rich worlds where you will benefit yourself by paying attention to the world and reading things (such as learning enemy weaknesses or tactics). You'll be picking herbs to craft potions because you know that to get past the lake at night you'll be facing drowned dead. You'll also be making difficult choices that have reasonable big impact over the events of the game world.
They are thoroughly enjoyable games that I would encourage people play and mod to their liking. If you find that the combat isn't enjoyable, try the combat rebalance mods, or mod in some upgraded weapons so that you can focus more on the story.
Sarcasm aside I really don't know how I feel about games being used to define other games. While I understand that games share commonalities, seeing a reference to The Witcher 2 as dark souls lite really confounds me. Aside from enemies being able to one shot you I really can't see much similarity there.
For anyone wondering about playing the wither 1 or 2, they are games with rich worlds where you will benefit yourself by paying attention to the world and reading things (such as learning enemy weaknesses or tactics). You'll be picking herbs to craft potions because you know that to get past the lake at night you'll be facing drowned dead. You'll also be making difficult choices that have reasonable big impact over the events of the game world.
They are thoroughly enjoyable games that I would encourage people play and mod to their liking. If you find that the combat isn't enjoyable, try the combat rebalance mods, or mod in some upgraded weapons so that you can focus more on the story.
MrTeachwell
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From the looks of it you could just buy the DLC that's included in the complete pack as they are all like 24cents each, or get the 'all resident DLC pack which seems cheaper. Also I think you'll enjoy the game, I believe that people say it's more like 'resident evil' because there are door cutscenes, but to me they are all resident evil because of the absurd plot twists you generally see coming a mile away.
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The opinions are so split :/ It was a tied between Resident Evil 4 and Revelations. I went with the newer one.
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