I bought Kane & Lynch back in the day because the command control scheme was similar.
And all I ended up with was a longing for Freedom Fighters 2 that would never be satisfied.
Now I'm sad all over again that we never got Freedom Fighters 2.
God damn it.
Edit: Shit, TOTP, uhh, uhh. Stellaris? Stellaris.
The Necroids content pack will come out on the 29th of October, together with the 2.8 'Butler' patch. The content pack will add a 'necrophage' trait to a species, a parasitic lifeform which requires the deaths of other species to add to their number.
After I rapidly got bored of Borderlands 3, I'm curious how Outer Worlds builds upon the FPS/WRPG formula, so I picked it up.
I also got quickly bored with Borderlands 3. Thought it was just me.
Outer Worlds is FANTASTIC though.
There's a lot of very vocal Outer Worlds haters out there, but I've never really understood them. I guess they were expecting Fallout: New Vegas 2 in Space and are now eternally mad they didn't get it. At least the Steam reviews are very positive so it's clear they are in the minority.
As someone who bought OW because of its 50% off sale and is going into it almost completely blind... it sure as heck feels a lot like Fallout in Space.
Last time I posted about @Orivon it was gifts from several days. This whole thing below was just from today. Hahahaha. Oh god.
Thank you Orivon.
@Zavian and @Big Classy also gifted things. The oh so innocent Zavian gave me the smuttiest game. Thank you.
And Isy gifted the Panzer Dragoon remake. I had some good fun with the original game. Thanks Isy.
The Cook, Serve, Delicious bug has bitten me again and I'm spending my chill out, wind down time after work furiously typing nonsense out on a keyboard while popping a vein in my forehead with concentration.
After I rapidly got bored of Borderlands 3, I'm curious how Outer Worlds builds upon the FPS/WRPG formula, so I picked it up.
I also got quickly bored with Borderlands 3. Thought it was just me.
Outer Worlds is FANTASTIC though.
There's a lot of very vocal Outer Worlds haters out there, but I've never really understood them. I guess they were expecting Fallout: New Vegas 2 in Space and are now eternally mad they didn't get it. At least the Steam reviews are very positive so it's clear they are in the minority.
As someone who bought OW because of its 50% off sale and is going into it almost completely blind... it sure as heck feels a lot like Fallout in Space.
It's nowhere as big or open as FO:NV. You do your main quest and some side quests and at the end of that you've pretty much cleared the whole area and been everywhere, there's not much exploration.
After I rapidly got bored of Borderlands 3, I'm curious how Outer Worlds builds upon the FPS/WRPG formula, so I picked it up.
I also got quickly bored with Borderlands 3. Thought it was just me.
Outer Worlds is FANTASTIC though.
There's a lot of very vocal Outer Worlds haters out there, but I've never really understood them. I guess they were expecting Fallout: New Vegas 2 in Space and are now eternally mad they didn't get it. At least the Steam reviews are very positive so it's clear they are in the minority.
As someone who bought OW because of its 50% off sale and is going into it almost completely blind... it sure as heck feels a lot like Fallout in Space.
It's nowhere as big or open as FO:NV. You do your main quest and some side quests and at the end of that you've pretty much cleared the whole area and been everywhere, there's not much exploration.
Yeah, the world's definitely smaller. I'm not sure whether it feels like "Fallout" or just "Obsidian", but I'm definitely getting familiar vibes when I'm running around the settlement talking to NPCs (and then stealing all their valuables).
Last night, I finished Vampyr, and by choice, I made the game harder on myself by my game choices. It's a great game, and I loved my time with it. Being under leveled made some of the boss fights frustrating, but I understood I could've made them easier at any point by making other choices in game. It's very surreal, that the game world deals with a pandemic, and some rich leader was building walls. There were posters all over the city warning people about coughing, etc. There's also some immigrant hate, particularly against Romanian immigrants, it was all just so surreal. The game is very story rich, while combat is very similar to Witcher. I got the game from Humble Choice, and thought I should play it coz of Halloween.
Today, I finished Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night. It's pretty much a new Symphony Of The Night game, and that is alright with me. There's lots of things to do in Bloodstained, on top of being a metroidvania game. Most notably, there's a lot of crafting in game, and there's a lot shards to collect and upgrade. I did have to look up some clues when I got stuck on progression. I did spend quite more time than I'd like trying to farm stuff to use in crafting. I loved the art style, controls are tight and responsive, and the animations are very smooth. I may just end up playing some NG+. Thanks again to @Orivon for Bloodstained, I really enjoyed it!
This may be the first time I've actually been on theme for Halloween. I'll start a couple more Halloween appropriate games now!
Many thanks to @Questor for Sentinels of the Multiverse! There's nothing like a really, really good superhero game, and this one looks like a lot of fun!
Decided to put down My Time at Portia after about 45 hours in it. It was enjoyable but it did start feeling repetitive after a bit.
The best way to describe the game is if you took a 3D Harvest Moon and replaced farming with civil engineering. You play a newly arrived "builder" to a town your dad used to live near in a post-apocalyptic world that's rebuilt into a colorful and whimsical setting. Instead of selling produce, you make most of your money fulfilling posted commissions for crafted items. The basic loop consists of collecting ores and plant material, refining those using crafting stations, sometimes further refining those on other crafting stations, and then using the refined resources to build more crafting stations and commissioned items. It's enjoyable enough but you end up juggling a lot as time goes on as major items you need to build will take multiple kinds of refined resources and your refining stations process things over time so crafting 10 iron bars might take an entire day to finish the whole batch. After a while it felt like I was always barely finishing main quest related commissions barely on time and just treading water on the daily, more minor commissions that are your daily income source. There is also some RNG involved as some items you need are found randomly while mining in ruins. The presence of deadlines takes a lot of the chill pace out of this kind of light sim.
The game as a whole feels kind of unpolished. There are a lot of ideas in there but they lack refinement and there are some glitches like some characters constantly appearing on and off a horse. The writing is also kind of lacking. There are a lot of villagers to befriend but none of them have the kind of depth you saw in Stardew Valley characters and boosting your friendship with them felt more exhausting with a lot more gift bombardment involved (there is no 2 gift a week limit here and many more villagers). While there are some quests that try and flesh out villagers they don't provide anywhere near the character insight that Stardew Valley's character scenes did and none of the character in Portia really felt like they grew any. We're also getting a translation of a script from a Chinese indie dev team so some word choices feel pretty off and some of the voice acting is a bit unfortunate.
It does seem like the dev is still updating the game with additional content such as character side quests so some of this could improve down the line but at the moment it felt like it had lost its charm after 3/4 of the first year. A shame too as there are some neat ideas in there. The holiday festivals especially are often amusing. The Halloween analogue involved a scavenger hunt involving the majority of villagers running around town and stunning each other to steal badges every now and then. The summer martial arts tournament lets you watch a lot of the people you do business with try and beat the snot out of each other and then get stomped by the major's butler. And seeing all the villagers you've become buddies with stop by and leave you gifts with messages on your in game birthday was a surprisingly touching scene.
I probably could have overlooked a lot of the game's rough spots had the pacing been more relaxed but it just felt a little too frantic after a while. If you liked Stardew Valley but wish you had more to actively do though, My Time at Portia could be up your alley.
I have bought three of my local board gaming weeb friends Heart of Crown, a waifu riddled but deceptively good deckbuilding game. They won't receive it until Christmas.
I have never understood the appeal of buying just a tabletop. Are ya'll secretly a buch of carpenters? Does everyone else just have spare legs lying around?
After I rapidly got bored of Borderlands 3, I'm curious how Outer Worlds builds upon the FPS/WRPG formula, so I picked it up.
I also got quickly bored with Borderlands 3. Thought it was just me.
Outer Worlds is FANTASTIC though.
There's a lot of very vocal Outer Worlds haters out there, but I've never really understood them. I guess they were expecting Fallout: New Vegas 2 in Space and are now eternally mad they didn't get it. At least the Steam reviews are very positive so it's clear they are in the minority.
As someone who bought OW because of its 50% off sale and is going into it almost completely blind... it sure as heck feels a lot like Fallout in Space.
It is absolutely just Fallout in Space. I didn't enjoy the game much and left by the second big area because I'm just not much into Fallout, I think. Like the writing is funny, but the gameplay is so boring.
Thanks @JaysonFour for Occupational Hazards: Episode 1! It looks like it's some sort of furry smut, and as a fan of furry smut, I can't wait to check it out! Thanks!
Yeah, came out last month. Have seen like 0 advertising for it, though. If I didn't see it added to Steam as an upcoming game like a year ago and added it to my wishlist, I wouldn't have known it was even a thing, much less out. I guess it is kind of a niche thing, though. Probably not many people lining up to pay $25 for a remake of a fairly short and kind of dated game unless they had some sort of nostalgia for it.
Continuing with the "Dad's favorite RTS of old" theme, go the kids playing Rise of Nations. I forgot you can pick the same army colors and share sides. So we had me and the 6 year old on a team with the 9 year old, versus a couple computer opponents. All the younger kid wants is tanks. Tanks. Tanks. Tanks. And of course Stealth Bombers when he saw me make our first Stealth Bomber. On Moderate difficulties, I can out boom the computers, and essentially keep up with resources and the kid can just do the other typing of booming that involves crumbling cities and explosions.
My nine-year old opts for the "no nukes" script. However, after seeing how much fun the younger one had rolling tanks and artillery across the map, I'm wondering what sort of mayhem putting an arsenal of thermonuclear weapons at the tips of a child would cause? Of course, that also hits too close to home these days.
I'll have to keep my eye out for any more super-sales on classic RTS games.
Quick question for the group. I was always more RTS than 4X, but I do think the older kid would enjoy the hell out of some Civ. Any recommendations on "the best version". Current research points to V over VI, so I have that on the wish list to watch for a sale, but I'm open to opinions.
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I was fooled, fooled I say! @HiT BiT sent me a message asking me to help with something and was then mercilessly keyed!
Thank you for Karateka, Kick Beat and Golden Axe 2!
Then as I was writing this, @JaysonFour did a thing:
Thank you - I loved Cthulhu saves Christmas so this should be fun!
Monsters, the lot of you!
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So, something happened today and @Mugsley sent me a gift in celebration.
Choice of Robots is a pretty solid CYOA game, too.
I can has cheezburger, yes?
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@HiT BiT and @Isorn both don't want to let me rest and sent me more gifts!
HiT BiT knows that I like puzzle games (I've put 66 hours into Tametsi(which Isorn sent me a few months ago)) and sent me a code for Spirits. Thanks!
Isorn was looking through my wishlist and sent me 9 games off of it. Thank you for Heat Signature, Worshippers, Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, Gordian Quest, Later Alligator, Ancient Enemy, Crown Trick, Dreamscaper, and 10mg: Slasher, Interrupted!
Continuing with the "Dad's favorite RTS of old" theme, go the kids playing Rise of Nations. I forgot you can pick the same army colors and share sides. So we had me and the 6 year old on a team with the 9 year old, versus a couple computer opponents. All the younger kid wants is tanks. Tanks. Tanks. Tanks. And of course Stealth Bombers when he saw me make our first Stealth Bomber. On Moderate difficulties, I can out boom the computers, and essentially keep up with resources and the kid can just do the other typing of booming that involves crumbling cities and explosions.
My nine-year old opts for the "no nukes" script. However, after seeing how much fun the younger one had rolling tanks and artillery across the map, I'm wondering what sort of mayhem putting an arsenal of thermonuclear weapons at the tips of a child would cause? Of course, that also hits too close to home these days.
I'll have to keep my eye out for any more super-sales on classic RTS games.
Quick question for the group. I was always more RTS than 4X, but I do think the older kid would enjoy the hell out of some Civ. Any recommendations on "the best version". Current research points to V over VI, so I have that on the wish list to watch for a sale, but I'm open to opinions.
In 2020, assuming you buy Gathering storm as well (the rest of the dlc is optional and mainly just extra civs and some wonders at this point, Gathering storm is pretty much a hard requirement), Civ 6 is pretty far ahead. Civ 4 also has a lot to offer.
The problem with civ 5 isn’t necessarily that it is bad, it is that it is basically a formula game. Once you learn what to do with your research, build, and tech orders, you have pretty much mastered the game.
Civ 6 makes you be a lot more reactive, even if it isn’t particularly “balanced” as well per se, which I feel like makes it a more fun game.
Hey @Isorn, what's it like waking up knowing that you're going to have 10+ green envelopes and pop-up windows awaiting for you every day? Like some sort of deranged gaming Groundhog's Day you can't escape from.
Need a voice actor? Hire me at bengrayVO.com
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Hey @Isorn, what's it like waking up knowing that you're going to have 10+ green envelopes and pop-up windows awaiting for you every day? Like some sort of deranged gaming Groundhog's Day you can't escape from.
I can think of one way for you to experience this...
I am trying to be better about my budget from now on. Stick with just gifting the people I want during winter/summer sales. Because the last few months have been bad in that regard. I am just happy Orivon is done because it really was way too much. I felt kinda bad about it throughout parts of it.
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there I was as usual, being super innocent and harmless, when suddenly...
I WAS GIFTED THE LEWDS!
much thanks @Pixelated Pixie for the lewds, seems a good warm up before Cyberpunk!
(of course I can neither confirm nor deny liking the lewds....)
<.<
>.>
(okay, I like the lewds, sue me!)
Hey @Isorn, what's it like waking up knowing that you're going to have 10+ green envelopes and pop-up windows awaiting for you every day? Like some sort of deranged gaming Groundhog's Day you can't escape from.
I can think of one way for you to experience this...
Hmmm....you're right. I could "Orivon" you to 3k. Sounds like a challenge....
Need a voice actor? Hire me at bengrayVO.com
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Civ 6 makes you be a lot more reactive, even if it isn’t particularly “balanced” as well per se, which I feel like makes it a more fun game.
Cool. Purchased for myself and the eldest boy. What about the expansion makes it feel essential? I read about it, but didn't pull the trigger yet...maybe I'll see how into Civ he gets first.
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Now I'm sad all over again that we never got Freedom Fighters 2.
God damn it.
Edit: Shit, TOTP, uhh, uhh. Stellaris? Stellaris.
The Necroids content pack will come out on the 29th of October, together with the 2.8 'Butler' patch. The content pack will add a 'necrophage' trait to a species, a parasitic lifeform which requires the deaths of other species to add to their number.
Patch details here.
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Thanks @Zavian and @Thawmus for the gifts!
As someone who bought OW because of its 50% off sale and is going into it almost completely blind... it sure as heck feels a lot like Fallout in Space.
Thank you Orivon.
@Zavian and @Big Classy also gifted things. The oh so innocent Zavian gave me the smuttiest game. Thank you.
And Isy gifted the Panzer Dragoon remake. I had some good fun with the original game. Thanks Isy.
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Its fun tho
It's nowhere as big or open as FO:NV. You do your main quest and some side quests and at the end of that you've pretty much cleared the whole area and been everywhere, there's not much exploration.
Thanks!
I may give it a shot just to see how good it is.
Edit: https://steambats.itch.io/type-tetris
Yeah, the world's definitely smaller. I'm not sure whether it feels like "Fallout" or just "Obsidian", but I'm definitely getting familiar vibes when I'm running around the settlement talking to NPCs (and then stealing all their valuables).
Last night, I finished Vampyr, and by choice, I made the game harder on myself by my game choices. It's a great game, and I loved my time with it. Being under leveled made some of the boss fights frustrating, but I understood I could've made them easier at any point by making other choices in game. It's very surreal, that the game world deals with a pandemic, and some rich leader was building walls. There were posters all over the city warning people about coughing, etc. There's also some immigrant hate, particularly against Romanian immigrants, it was all just so surreal. The game is very story rich, while combat is very similar to Witcher. I got the game from Humble Choice, and thought I should play it coz of Halloween.
Today, I finished Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night. It's pretty much a new Symphony Of The Night game, and that is alright with me. There's lots of things to do in Bloodstained, on top of being a metroidvania game. Most notably, there's a lot of crafting in game, and there's a lot shards to collect and upgrade. I did have to look up some clues when I got stuck on progression. I did spend quite more time than I'd like trying to farm stuff to use in crafting. I loved the art style, controls are tight and responsive, and the animations are very smooth. I may just end up playing some NG+. Thanks again to @Orivon for Bloodstained, I really enjoyed it!
This may be the first time I've actually been on theme for Halloween. I'll start a couple more Halloween appropriate games now!
Having a bad day already.
Many thanks to @Questor for Sentinels of the Multiverse! There's nothing like a really, really good superhero game, and this one looks like a lot of fun!
Thanks again!
I can has cheezburger, yes?
@cardboard delusions did a thing. I'm not sure it was the right thing to do. I think he's just confused.
Thanks!
The best way to describe the game is if you took a 3D Harvest Moon and replaced farming with civil engineering. You play a newly arrived "builder" to a town your dad used to live near in a post-apocalyptic world that's rebuilt into a colorful and whimsical setting. Instead of selling produce, you make most of your money fulfilling posted commissions for crafted items. The basic loop consists of collecting ores and plant material, refining those using crafting stations, sometimes further refining those on other crafting stations, and then using the refined resources to build more crafting stations and commissioned items. It's enjoyable enough but you end up juggling a lot as time goes on as major items you need to build will take multiple kinds of refined resources and your refining stations process things over time so crafting 10 iron bars might take an entire day to finish the whole batch. After a while it felt like I was always barely finishing main quest related commissions barely on time and just treading water on the daily, more minor commissions that are your daily income source. There is also some RNG involved as some items you need are found randomly while mining in ruins. The presence of deadlines takes a lot of the chill pace out of this kind of light sim.
The game as a whole feels kind of unpolished. There are a lot of ideas in there but they lack refinement and there are some glitches like some characters constantly appearing on and off a horse. The writing is also kind of lacking. There are a lot of villagers to befriend but none of them have the kind of depth you saw in Stardew Valley characters and boosting your friendship with them felt more exhausting with a lot more gift bombardment involved (there is no 2 gift a week limit here and many more villagers). While there are some quests that try and flesh out villagers they don't provide anywhere near the character insight that Stardew Valley's character scenes did and none of the character in Portia really felt like they grew any. We're also getting a translation of a script from a Chinese indie dev team so some word choices feel pretty off and some of the voice acting is a bit unfortunate.
It does seem like the dev is still updating the game with additional content such as character side quests so some of this could improve down the line but at the moment it felt like it had lost its charm after 3/4 of the first year. A shame too as there are some neat ideas in there. The holiday festivals especially are often amusing. The Halloween analogue involved a scavenger hunt involving the majority of villagers running around town and stunning each other to steal badges every now and then. The summer martial arts tournament lets you watch a lot of the people you do business with try and beat the snot out of each other and then get stomped by the major's butler. And seeing all the villagers you've become buddies with stop by and leave you gifts with messages on your in game birthday was a surprisingly touching scene.
I probably could have overlooked a lot of the game's rough spots had the pacing been more relaxed but it just felt a little too frantic after a while. If you liked Stardew Valley but wish you had more to actively do though, My Time at Portia could be up your alley.
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I have never understood the appeal of buying just a tabletop. Are ya'll secretly a buch of carpenters? Does everyone else just have spare legs lying around?
It is absolutely just Fallout in Space. I didn't enjoy the game much and left by the second big area because I'm just not much into Fallout, I think. Like the writing is funny, but the gameplay is so boring.
Thanks again
The file isn't working for me, and it seems pretty janky.
edit: I updated Java for this
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There;s a Panzer Dragoon remake??!
I played the shit out of that game as a kid!
Ocean, tears and heartbreak soup
Half alive in a whitecap foam
Half in love with a white half moon
Yeah, came out last month. Have seen like 0 advertising for it, though. If I didn't see it added to Steam as an upcoming game like a year ago and added it to my wishlist, I wouldn't have known it was even a thing, much less out. I guess it is kind of a niche thing, though. Probably not many people lining up to pay $25 for a remake of a fairly short and kind of dated game unless they had some sort of nostalgia for it.
My nine-year old opts for the "no nukes" script. However, after seeing how much fun the younger one had rolling tanks and artillery across the map, I'm wondering what sort of mayhem putting an arsenal of thermonuclear weapons at the tips of a child would cause? Of course, that also hits too close to home these days.
I'll have to keep my eye out for any more super-sales on classic RTS games.
Quick question for the group. I was always more RTS than 4X, but I do think the older kid would enjoy the hell out of some Civ. Any recommendations on "the best version". Current research points to V over VI, so I have that on the wish list to watch for a sale, but I'm open to opinions.
@HiT BiT sent me a message asking me to help with something and was then mercilessly keyed!
Thank you for Karateka, Kick Beat and Golden Axe 2!
Then as I was writing this, @JaysonFour did a thing:
Thank you - I loved Cthulhu saves Christmas so this should be fun!
Monsters, the lot of you!
@Orivon is genuinely the craziest person. I have no good words to express these feelings but thank you very much.
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Also Manifold Garden is pretty good. I've been playing it little by little on Switch. Some definite mind-bending stuff happening.
I can has cheezburger, yes?
HiT BiT knows that I like puzzle games (I've put 66 hours into Tametsi(which Isorn sent me a few months ago)) and sent me a code for Spirits. Thanks!
Isorn was looking through my wishlist and sent me 9 games off of it. Thank you for Heat Signature, Worshippers, Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, Gordian Quest, Later Alligator, Ancient Enemy, Crown Trick, Dreamscaper, and 10mg: Slasher, Interrupted!
Thanks for the gifts you two!
In 2020, assuming you buy Gathering storm as well (the rest of the dlc is optional and mainly just extra civs and some wonders at this point, Gathering storm is pretty much a hard requirement), Civ 6 is pretty far ahead. Civ 4 also has a lot to offer.
The problem with civ 5 isn’t necessarily that it is bad, it is that it is basically a formula game. Once you learn what to do with your research, build, and tech orders, you have pretty much mastered the game.
Civ 6 makes you be a lot more reactive, even if it isn’t particularly “balanced” as well per se, which I feel like makes it a more fun game.
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I can think of one way for you to experience this...
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I WAS GIFTED THE LEWDS!
much thanks @Pixelated Pixie for the lewds, seems a good warm up before Cyberpunk!
(of course I can neither confirm nor deny liking the lewds....)
<.<
>.>
(okay, I like the lewds, sue me!)
@Pixelated Pixie could not let me go without cyberpunk lewds. This does look properly, unironically awesome. Thank you so much Pix!
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Hmmm....you're right. I could "Orivon" you to 3k. Sounds like a challenge....
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Cool. Purchased for myself and the eldest boy. What about the expansion makes it feel essential? I read about it, but didn't pull the trigger yet...maybe I'll see how into Civ he gets first.