Ah dangit. Salt and Sacrifice is kind of a lot worse than Sanctuary. What a bummer
Need to craft healing and ammo. Can only level up at the hub which means teleporting back and losing all your level progress because you can't fast travel within a zone, but also you need to run about a minute to get from the teleporter to the levelup altar. Fighting mages, they constantly run away monster-hunter style and you need to catch up with them and it's incredibly tedious. Basically no exploration because it's a demon souls style hub and level area world. Monsters all super aggressive with lunge attacks and stunlocks, with few openings to do anything. No parrying anymore. Weapons and shields are one item slot, so you can't mix and match or go between one and two handing.
Basically a step back. Like this is the first game they made then fixed everything with the sequel, Salt and Sanctuary.
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BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
sounds like the miserable and tedious gameplay that our market research indicates fans want from the genre
Burnham would definitely be Mass Effect because suddenly the fate of the galaxy is involved (I say this as a Discovery fan).
However, she's still incredibly pissed off at the end of Mass Effect 3, and it's advisable to never mention that in her presence. (I say this also as a Disco fan)
Burnham would definitely be Mass Effect because suddenly the fate of the galaxy is involved (I say this as a Discovery fan).
However, she's still incredibly pissed off at the end of Mass Effect 3, and it's advisable to never mention that in her presence. (I say this also as a Disco fan)
Burnham would definitely be Mass Effect because suddenly the fate of the galaxy is involved (I say this as a Discovery fan).
However, she's still incredibly pissed off at the end of Mass Effect 3, and it's advisable to never mention that in her presence. (I say this also as a Disco fan)
Wait. Am I Burnham?
We're all a bit Burnham about ME3.
Honestly, the ending (and the way the devs acted about it) was so bad as to retroactively sour my opinion on the series quite heavily. Once you see the way it just throws out so much of the good stuff like the Legion/Geth storyline for... whatever the hell that drek was, it gets a lot, lot harder to ignore or gloss over a lot of the other crap in the setting.
I'd actually go so far as to say it's one of the main reasons i've stopped giving a shit about Bioware as a company, honestly. Which is impressive for a piece of media! (But also anyone who knows me knows i'm a very critical penguin =P)
Was thinking about getting sinking city on my series x but remembered there was some hoopla with like the publishers stealing the devs version and putting it up for sale on steam or something? Basically I only want to buy it if the money from the Xbox sale goes to the actual devs
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Was thinking about getting sinking city on my series x but remembered there was some hoopla with like the publishers stealing the devs version and putting it up for sale on steam or something? Basically I only want to buy it if the money from the Xbox sale goes to the actual devs
From what I can find, you need to check who is listed as the publisher. Frogwares is the devs so if they are listed as the publisher you are good. Nacon/Big Ben were the shitty publishers.
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During today's Nintendo direct, a game caught my eye called Soundfall. It gave me massive Crypt of the Necromancer vibes, but suggested to be a dual stick shooter / looter shooter game.
Naturally I had to give it a shot. So I bought it on Steam, though it felt a bit expensive for what you get. I guess it's been in the works for a while?
The devs were asking for reviews to spread the word, so I figured I'd do that. Here's what I posted, after around an hour and a half:
I saw this during a Direct today, and had no clue it existed. But the second I saw it, I knew I had to play it.
And so far (1 1/2 hours in) I'm NOT disappointed.
It is essentially a mashup of a dual-stick shooter and Crypt of the Necrodancer (or more precisely, Cadence of Hyrule). A bit more freeform than Crypt, but also a bit more punishing if you are off-beat. I don't know if it is my computer or what, but tuning the delay is a bit tough so I am having to rely very heavily on my ears.
I can easily see how this game could get overwhelming, as they throw more and more enemies at you. Juggling dashing between attacks is tougher on faster songs, and so far I've not been able to do a perfect run - but that is perhaps to be expected. There really isn't much to guide you towards a couple things - like using the face buttons instead of the triggers for more precise input (at the cost of only being able to do one thing at a time). They also don't explain the overworld map very well, which is needed to start unlocking things. I also think the biome chunks can easily be picked out and start to get repetitive... hopefully there can be more variety in those in the future. And finally, the game really does encourage you to speed through things. Which.. well, is fine, except I want to listen to this music!
All in all, I would very much recommend it. It's been a while since I've done a blind buy like this. I'm glad I did.
I'm kind of curious how multiplayer goes, given the songs are in the 2-4 minute range.
Yeah, that's one I'm going to check out. There's a lot of names from the VGM community involved in it. Super Guitar Bros, EyeQ, Mason Lieberman, etc.
Humorously, I didn't recognize very many of the artists. But hey, I can always import my own songs!
You know, if I had them anymore and didn't just use Spotify for everything.
... Oh god, what would a Pluffaduff mashup sound like in there? Let alone Neil Cicirega...
Edit: The trailer song is from a group called Flux Vortex, called "Spin for Me." It is used very appropriately in the game. Seems to be hosted on YouTube by a company called Epidemic Sound.
Does anyone have recommendations for fantasy turn-based tactics games? Someone asked me and I realized that actually I have a ton of sci-fi ones that I like but not that many fantasy-ish ones. I guess Battle Brothers? But thats very low fantady compared to like Final Fantasy Tactics.
I may just insist on them giving Into the Breach a go because it's good enough to transcend theme.
Does anyone have recommendations for fantasy turn-based tactics games? Someome asked me and I realized that actually I have a ton of sci-fi ones that I like but not that many fantasy-ish ones. I guess Battle Brothers? But thats very low fantady compared to like Final Fantasy Tactics.
I may just insist on them giving Into the Breach a go because it's good enough to transcend theme.
Does anyone have recommendations for fantasy turn-based tactics games? Someome asked me and I realized that actually I have a ton of sci-fi ones that I like but not that many fantasy-ish ones. I guess Battle Brothers? But thats very low fantady compared to like Final Fantasy Tactics.
I may just insist on them giving Into the Breach a go because it's good enough to transcend theme.
Wildermyth is a great one, I highly recommend it. Simple but deep tactics and very strong writing with some unique fantasy worldbuilding.
The Banner Saga games are also quite good, although I know some people bounce off the combat because it's doing a couple of weird things. Strong writing as well, overall, although occasionally a bit oblique about it.
The Divinity Original Sin games are solid tactics games with mixed quality RPGs attached to them.
I've been playing Trials of Fire which largely fits that, but it's got some very card/board game elements to it.
Tenderfoot Tactics is a really weird game that does a lot of very interesting things and can also be quite unapproachable and arcane. Really neat ideas though, I have to recommend giving it a try.
Pendragon is a strange sort of adjacent thing, doing Arthurian mythology through a very board game territory control aesthetic. Not a true match probably, but worth mentioning.
Druidstone is a decent little one, from what I remember. Story's pretty awful but it's got fun tactics.
Does anyone have recommendations for fantasy turn-based tactics games? Someome asked me and I realized that actually I have a ton of sci-fi ones that I like but not that many fantasy-ish ones. I guess Battle Brothers? But thats very low fantady compared to like Final Fantasy Tactics.
I may just insist on them giving Into the Breach a go because it's good enough to transcend theme.
Wargroove and Banner Saga come to mind.
Disgaea, Fire Emblem, and King's Bounty were what I came up with. I think there's been one or more King Arthur ones as well. And that alternate history French Revolution one, Banner of the Maid. I guess some of these depend on how you wish to interpret fantasy-ish, but I think they fit.
Does anyone have recommendations for fantasy turn-based tactics games? Someone asked me and I realized that actually I have a ton of sci-fi ones that I like but not that many fantasy-ish ones. I guess Battle Brothers? But thats very low fantady compared to like Final Fantasy Tactics.
I may just insist on them giving Into the Breach a go because it's good enough to transcend theme.
minor incidentexpert in a dying fieldnjRegistered Userregular
God bless games that let you change the difficulty mid-game and don’t make you reload a save or worse, lock you in from the start. Even better are the games that let you tweak all kinds of granular settings (player damage, enemy damage, health regen speed, cooldown times, etc). A buddy of mine has been going through Guardians of the Galaxy and went from not really enjoying it to totally in love with it thanks to a few tweaks in the difficulty menu.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
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I've spent all night playing Citizen Sleeper. I accidentally stumbled into one of the endings, although it let me go back and keep playing afterwards, so that's good.
What a delightful, strangely optimistic little game.
God bless games that let you change the difficulty mid-game and don’t make you reload a save or worse, lock you in from the start. Even better are the games that let you tweak all kinds of granular settings (player damage, enemy damage, health regen speed, cooldown times, etc). A buddy of mine has been going through Guardians of the Galaxy and went from not really enjoying it to totally in love with it thanks to a few tweaks in the difficulty menu.
I turned off QTEs and made the power select menu fully pause the game, it was great.
Seconding Wildermyth. It's got a really strong and clever blend of procedural content and pre-written content that makes for some very stirring play.
It's also hugely queer friendly, a big plus.
It's tactics game is real strong too and implements characters aging really well. It also lets you save characters after campaigns are over then bring them back as legacy heros which is fantastic and occasionally very funny (like the time I made one of my characters parents... An immortal skeleton. The daughter was pretty chill that her dad just turned up 8+ years after she last saw him and he was a skeleton now. These things happen!)
Pentagon was super, super disappointing IMO. It felt like it was doing overtly brutal gameplay + required high difficulty + tedium in exchange for a much less inspired narrative than their other efforts; it felt almost completely random generator fever dream rather than at all structured.
Took a look at Eye of Ra, one of the itch bundle games
The government(s) are concerned about asteroids impacting the various inhabited worlds of the solar system, and so they create the titular space station, and arm it with a laser cannon. You play as the lone technician assigned to the station.
The interface is meant to mimic an OS, including a unix-like terminal window. One of the commands lets you pause / unpause the game and change the speed at which time passes. The only initial evidence that time is passing is a date in the upper-right. When you open up the laser control panel, it'll display an error while the game is paused. An odd touch.
The first assignment is to destroy a particular asteroid. I located it with the commands, or tried to. I fired at it, but received no feedback.
I panned the camera and found the sun. I fired at the sun, but received no feedback.
I panned the camera and found Earth. I fired at the Earth; my credentials were revoked, and a shuttle was dispatched to remove me from this position. I cannot really argue with that decision.
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Need to craft healing and ammo. Can only level up at the hub which means teleporting back and losing all your level progress because you can't fast travel within a zone, but also you need to run about a minute to get from the teleporter to the levelup altar. Fighting mages, they constantly run away monster-hunter style and you need to catch up with them and it's incredibly tedious. Basically no exploration because it's a demon souls style hub and level area world. Monsters all super aggressive with lunge attacks and stunlocks, with few openings to do anything. No parrying anymore. Weapons and shields are one item slot, so you can't mix and match or go between one and two handing.
Basically a step back. Like this is the first game they made then fixed everything with the sequel, Salt and Sanctuary.
In canon the way Janeway relaxes is by role-playing through a story reminiscent of Rebecca (by Daphne du Maurier) within the Holodeck.
So... What video game is closest to Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca?
However, she's still incredibly pissed off at the end of Mass Effect 3, and it's advisable to never mention that in her presence. (I say this also as a Disco fan)
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Wait. Am I Burnham?
This was it, thank y'all!!
edit: I'd post the other knife fight from that film, but it's pretty graphic, even for me. Still hella impressive though
Doom II
Portland logistics are on complete acid in that film.
This includes demonstrating that the Hawthorne Bridge is a distant cousin of the runway in F6.
We're all a bit Burnham about ME3.
Honestly, the ending (and the way the devs acted about it) was so bad as to retroactively sour my opinion on the series quite heavily. Once you see the way it just throws out so much of the good stuff like the Legion/Geth storyline for... whatever the hell that drek was, it gets a lot, lot harder to ignore or gloss over a lot of the other crap in the setting.
I'd actually go so far as to say it's one of the main reasons i've stopped giving a shit about Bioware as a company, honestly. Which is impressive for a piece of media! (But also anyone who knows me knows i'm a very critical penguin =P)
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F.E.A.R, there is at least a haunting in that game.
Also Katamari Damacy for the Borg Queen
But what is Damar....?
Drunk, usually?
From what I can find, you need to check who is listed as the publisher. Frogwares is the devs so if they are listed as the publisher you are good. Nacon/Big Ben were the shitty publishers.
Naturally I had to give it a shot. So I bought it on Steam, though it felt a bit expensive for what you get. I guess it's been in the works for a while?
The devs were asking for reviews to spread the word, so I figured I'd do that. Here's what I posted, after around an hour and a half:
And so far (1 1/2 hours in) I'm NOT disappointed.
It is essentially a mashup of a dual-stick shooter and Crypt of the Necrodancer (or more precisely, Cadence of Hyrule). A bit more freeform than Crypt, but also a bit more punishing if you are off-beat. I don't know if it is my computer or what, but tuning the delay is a bit tough so I am having to rely very heavily on my ears.
I can easily see how this game could get overwhelming, as they throw more and more enemies at you. Juggling dashing between attacks is tougher on faster songs, and so far I've not been able to do a perfect run - but that is perhaps to be expected. There really isn't much to guide you towards a couple things - like using the face buttons instead of the triggers for more precise input (at the cost of only being able to do one thing at a time). They also don't explain the overworld map very well, which is needed to start unlocking things. I also think the biome chunks can easily be picked out and start to get repetitive... hopefully there can be more variety in those in the future. And finally, the game really does encourage you to speed through things. Which.. well, is fine, except I want to listen to this music!
All in all, I would very much recommend it. It's been a while since I've done a blind buy like this. I'm glad I did.
I'm kind of curious how multiplayer goes, given the songs are in the 2-4 minute range.
Humorously, I didn't recognize very many of the artists. But hey, I can always import my own songs!
You know, if I had them anymore and didn't just use Spotify for everything.
... Oh god, what would a Pluffaduff mashup sound like in there? Let alone Neil Cicirega...
Edit: The trailer song is from a group called Flux Vortex, called "Spin for Me." It is used very appropriately in the game. Seems to be hosted on YouTube by a company called Epidemic Sound.
https://open.spotify.com/track/0CTCJRUphk4GvmIYgeD0bz?si=ee19ed8125204f1c
I may just insist on them giving Into the Breach a go because it's good enough to transcend theme.
Wargroove and Banner Saga come to mind.
Another early access title that might interest you is The Iron Oath, which is a mercenary company management and tactical combat game.
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Wildermyth is a great one, I highly recommend it. Simple but deep tactics and very strong writing with some unique fantasy worldbuilding.
The Banner Saga games are also quite good, although I know some people bounce off the combat because it's doing a couple of weird things. Strong writing as well, overall, although occasionally a bit oblique about it.
The Divinity Original Sin games are solid tactics games with mixed quality RPGs attached to them.
I've been playing Trials of Fire which largely fits that, but it's got some very card/board game elements to it.
Tenderfoot Tactics is a really weird game that does a lot of very interesting things and can also be quite unapproachable and arcane. Really neat ideas though, I have to recommend giving it a try.
Pendragon is a strange sort of adjacent thing, doing Arthurian mythology through a very board game territory control aesthetic. Not a true match probably, but worth mentioning.
Druidstone is a decent little one, from what I remember. Story's pretty awful but it's got fun tactics.
Disgaea, Fire Emblem, and King's Bounty were what I came up with. I think there's been one or more King Arthur ones as well. And that alternate history French Revolution one, Banner of the Maid. I guess some of these depend on how you wish to interpret fantasy-ish, but I think they fit.
Oh I've got a friend who loves those, one sec.
- Fell Seal: The Arbiter's Mark -- https://store.steampowered.com/app/699170/Fell_Seal_Arbiters_Mark/
- Utawarerumono: Prelude to the Fallen -- https://store.steampowered.com/app/1151450/Utawarerumono_Prelude_to_the_Fallen/
- Eiyu*Senki Gold - A New Conquest -- https://store.steampowered.com/app/1518430/EiyuSenki_Gold__A_New_Conquest/
What a delightful, strangely optimistic little game.
It's also hugely queer friendly, a big plus.
It's tactics game is real strong too and implements characters aging really well. It also lets you save characters after campaigns are over then bring them back as legacy heros which is fantastic and occasionally very funny (like the time I made one of my characters parents... An immortal skeleton. The daughter was pretty chill that her dad just turned up 8+ years after she last saw him and he was a skeleton now. These things happen!)
Also you can kiss a turtle.
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The government(s) are concerned about asteroids impacting the various inhabited worlds of the solar system, and so they create the titular space station, and arm it with a laser cannon. You play as the lone technician assigned to the station.
The interface is meant to mimic an OS, including a unix-like terminal window. One of the commands lets you pause / unpause the game and change the speed at which time passes. The only initial evidence that time is passing is a date in the upper-right. When you open up the laser control panel, it'll display an error while the game is paused. An odd touch.
The first assignment is to destroy a particular asteroid. I located it with the commands, or tried to. I fired at it, but received no feedback.
I panned the camera and found the sun. I fired at the sun, but received no feedback.
I panned the camera and found Earth. I fired at the Earth; my credentials were revoked, and a shuttle was dispatched to remove me from this position. I cannot really argue with that decision.