@Mugsley hasn't learned his lesson in Daemonhunters and gifted me Mainframe Defenders, asking if characters can be renamed that he be in the first batch. He describes the game as a hybrid of Battletech, FTL, and Mechanicus, and that's two games I'm bad at and one that's on the backlog for after Daemonhunters, so RIP and thank you Mugsley.
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38thDoelets never be stupid againwait lets always be stupid foreverRegistered Userregular
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So with Steamworld Heist, if you suck, they take half of your money, which makes the game harder, which makes you lose more which means you can never buy anything? Or should I just delete my save and start over if I lose a mission?
I know that's not really a question but wow this is brutal.
So with Steamworld Heist, if you suck, they take half of your money, which makes the game harder, which makes you lose more which means you can never buy anything? Or should I just delete my save and start over if I lose a mission?
I know that's not really a question but wow this is brutal.
I think generally that sort of negative/positive feedback loops are problematic especially if there's no way to grind. The better you are the better rewards you get which means it's easier to be good which means more rewards etc and the reverse at the other end. It's one of the reasons Into the Breach never really clicked for me, one difficulty cascades into super-easy runs of awesomeness and the next harder difficulty trips and falls on its face into a negative swirlpool of misfortune and crap as missing rewards makes me worse, leading to more missed rewards and eventually complete failure.
Wanted to thank @Jragghen for SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated. I gave thanks in the Steam message but it took me a while to remember about the thread. Hope everyone is doing well.
Yeah, Golf Course Destruction Simulator 2022 would be my top vote for greatest game ever made.
The humans known as Cletus and Jibadaya have an argument they wish for you to settle. After discovering the hidden yacht of the mansion, both have competing designs for the vessel.
Jeb wants to convert it into a enjoy fishing trawler and oceanographic research vessel. To catch a buttload of shrimp and explore the ocean for scrap. Securing food and increasing our fresh water score
Cleatus wants you to secure several sets of of robot legs so we can turn it into our new macro tractor and seeder for the county. This would allow our reforestation efforts to double and offer a long term passive bonus as the effort spread to nearby counties
What is your decision?
Oof, that's a tough choice. I'd probably lean towards Cleatus' plan. Reforestation solves a lot of problems in the macro game, although we will need to address water reserves shortly after that choice is made.
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So with Steamworld Heist, if you suck, they take half of your money, which makes the game harder, which makes you lose more which means you can never buy anything? Or should I just delete my save and start over if I lose a mission?
I know that's not really a question but wow this is brutal.
I think generally that sort of negative/positive feedback loops are problematic especially if there's no way to grind. The better you are the better rewards you get which means it's easier to be good which means more rewards etc and the reverse at the other end. It's one of the reasons Into the Breach never really clicked for me, one difficulty cascades into super-easy runs of awesomeness and the next harder difficulty trips and falls on its face into a negative swirlpool of misfortune and crap as missing rewards makes me worse, leading to more missed rewards and eventually complete failure.
It's one of my bigger issues with XCOM EU. The game gets harder and if you lose soldiers, you have to replace them with much weaker soldiers as the game remains hard.
I know part of the strat is rotating in newbies with the vets so even your backups are good, but it just seems mean.
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I thought I had escaped the sale unscathed (excluding my own purchase of 3 different survival-adjacent games), but as I was trying to force my vision of life on a medieval valley, @Orivon hit me with Unpacking.
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Protesting in here usually doesn't work all that well, but my backlog remains strong, I won't run out any time soon.
Been keeping an eye on Scarlet Hollow since I've liked a good amount of Abby Howard's art. My old dino avatar was an Abby Howard creation.
Gave the deck a bit of a spin, Super Robot Wars seems like a good fit.
Also grabbed Expeditions Rome for it as well, which seems promising as I get used to the control scheme mix. But the small print is gonna do my eyes in. Should maybe steer away from heavy readers. I should probably turn down the brightness a smidge to not kill the battery so fast.
Looks nice though.
Oh dang, just got dunked on by @Blackhawk1313 with Deep Rock Galactic! Thanks! I've been playing the gamepass/windows 10/xbox version of it, but it seems like most of the PA community plays on the steam version (which is a separate silo of players for some dumb reason), so I had been waffling about picking it up for steam and now I don't have to waffle anymore! Thanks!
Thanks @mildlymorbid for Drink More Glurp! I don't know what Glurp is, but apparently I need to drink more of it! Sounds like a party game type thing? Should be fun
They hit me as well. Very uncalled for, how dare they give me something i could play with my partner. Thanks!
@Betsuni - I hope you enjoy Wildermyth. It's such a great game. Remember: Always kiss the turtle.
Also @initiatefailure gave me Citizen Sleeper, apperntly in revnege for me getting them to play Destiny 2 again? Look, it's a good fps, but i dont go around telling people they should play it. That terrible, awful no good mistake is on your own heads, that game will hollow you out and pilot you around as an immortal meatsuit.
(For the unfamiliar, O2Jam is a now-defunct rhythm game MMO that had an incredible OST.)
There was a rhythm game MMO?!?!? I have missed so much ;_;
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Thank you @Spoit for the cat ears. I really did want to know and now I shall know first hand :0
Update: Looks like it's a layered armor! But the ears wiggle sometimes??? Other 2-legged cat for comparison:
My friend and I were fighting the monster known as...
Magnamalo. As the HR3 Urgent Quest???? On the Volcano map?! Very early than I remember on the Switch and in a different location no less. We finally wiped again (it had been since our first night when we were still reacclimating to the game). 0_0
Oh wow, thanks @Blackhawk1313 for Trails of Cold Steel 4! I absolutely adore the Trails games! Still got a couple to play before getting to 4 (Zero/Azure and Cold Steel 3), but it is a game I am 1000% going to play once I get to it! Can't wait!
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BTW, Medieval Dynasty is solid fun. One of the best elements, in my opinion, is the ability to customize the experience on the fly; change the amount of tax you're charged, how much XP you get from things, even how long your seasons are (base time is 3 in game days for one season, 4 seasons in a year. I have not held with that, thus far 12 feels pretty good) and more various options. Basically, if the game doesn't feel fun, or right, or there's something just irking you at the moment, it's probable that you can alter the game to be more enjoyable.
Past that, it's part survival game, part RPG (with leveling mechanics and also with some quests though they're mostly just repeatables), part management game (recruit folks to come live in your startup town and work for you, and sometimes they give you requests), and part crafting & farming sim.
It's been a lot of fun. As evidenced by the . . . almost 60 hours I've put into it in the past weekish. It's not exactly what I was looking for (I was really hoping for the kind of game where you build via basic walls and floors and such and make your own places up from scratch, among other things), but it's still been plenty of fun.
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BTW, Medieval Dynasty is solid fun. One of the best elements, in my opinion, is the ability to customize the experience on the fly; change the amount of tax you're charged, how much XP you get from things, even how long your seasons are (base time is 3 in game days for one season, 4 seasons in a year. I have not held with that, thus far 12 feels pretty good) and more various options. Basically, if the game doesn't feel fun, or right, or there's something just irking you at the moment, it's probable that you can alter the game to be more enjoyable.
Past that, it's part survival game, part RPG (with leveling mechanics and also with some quests though they're mostly just repeatables), part management game (recruit folks to come live in your startup town and work for you, and sometimes they give you requests), and part crafting & farming sim.
It's been a lot of fun. As evidenced by the . . . almost 60 hours I've put into it in the past weekish. It's not exactly what I was looking for (I was really hoping for the kind of game where you build via basic walls and floors and such and make your own places up from scratch, among other things), but it's still been plenty of fun.
So, last Tuesday a new expansion was released for Gwent - Curse of the Black Sun. They'd been working up to it for a bit. About a month ago, a few new eclipse-themed cosmetics were released, and all last week there were card reveals, ending in an official Gwent tournament last weekend. Not exactly a huge marketing campaign, but acceptable for a small expansion for a very niche card game.
So, the expansion was released on Tuesday. Obviously, people tried out the new cards, put together unoptimised piles and slammed them into one another, tried to revive long-neglected archetypes, and complained about Nilfgaard.
Gwent players always complain about Nilfgaard.
Then yesterday, CDPR... 'announced'... through a single tweet that, oh, by the way, a single-player Gwent game would be releasing tomorrow, on Thursday. No marketing, no hype-building, not even a trailer. Just... here's a new single-player Gwent game.
Gwent: Rogue Mage is out now. It's a rogue-like deckbuilder. Or, put differently, it's Slay the Spire, except you play Gwent. I'm sure it'll be as successful as Thronebreaker was.
BTW, Medieval Dynasty is solid fun. One of the best elements, in my opinion, is the ability to customize the experience on the fly; change the amount of tax you're charged, how much XP you get from things, even how long your seasons are (base time is 3 in game days for one season, 4 seasons in a year. I have not held with that, thus far 12 feels pretty good) and more various options. Basically, if the game doesn't feel fun, or right, or there's something just irking you at the moment, it's probable that you can alter the game to be more enjoyable.
Past that, it's part survival game, part RPG (with leveling mechanics and also with some quests though they're mostly just repeatables), part management game (recruit folks to come live in your startup town and work for you, and sometimes they give you requests), and part crafting & farming sim.
It's been a lot of fun. As evidenced by the . . . almost 60 hours I've put into it in the past weekish. It's not exactly what I was looking for (I was really hoping for the kind of game where you build via basic walls and floors and such and make your own places up from scratch, among other things), but it's still been plenty of fun.
I played the heck out of this when it launched. I should go back, as I know they've added a ton of content in the last few months.
One thing to note on the days. My best piece of advice is to embrace time passing.
You want time to pass. Seasons come and go. Crops grow. Villages get married and have kids. Kids grow up and turn into productive villagers, which is one of the best ways to expand your village. You can get married, and your heir grows up.
Resist the urge to feel like you have to build Rome in a day.
One of the reasons I ended up putting it down was because after about 20 years or so (using 3 day seasons), it became a bit of an AFK simulator as my villagers did all the work, and I had nothing to do but pass the years while I waited for my heir to come of age.
While your character will eventually die of old age, assuming you're married and with an heir, you have all the time in the world. That's the dynasty part.
EDIT: Almost 200 hours played. The last 100 or so of those hours were just waiting for time to pass.
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KoopahTroopahThe koopas, the troopas.Philadelphia, PARegistered Userregular
There I was thinking I'd gotten through the sale mostly unscathed, my attention elsewhere lately for various reasons, and @Pixelated Pixie decides there are neither spectators nor bystanders in class war:
Aw, thanks for Outer Wilds! Yeah, I've heard uniformly good things about this, will set aside an evening to give it a whirl. Most appreciated, and glad to see all continues as it ever has hereabouts. Keep on being classy, folks
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I have been having trouble gifting a certain someone - they don't appear in my list of friends to gift. This is strange, and I mentioned it in chat.... then I was mercilessly gifted by said person... allegedly as a 'test'. Thank you @Karoz for TMNT Shredders Revenge. Turtle Power! I still dunno why you're not appearing on my list though.....
On waking up this morning I also had 2 more gifts, so thank you @Orivon for There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension. I shall look forward to not playing this, because there is no game to play.
Also thank you to @Betsuni for Raji. It does indeed look lovely.
Gwent: Rogue Mage is out now. It's a rogue-like deckbuilder. Or, put differently, it's Slay the Spire, except you play Gwent. I'm sure it'll be as successful as Thronebreaker was.
I'll have to see how story heavy Rogue Mage is because I absolutely adored Thronebreaker.
@Mugsley hasn't learned his lesson in Daemonhunters and gifted me Mainframe Defenders, asking if characters can be renamed that he be in the first batch. He describes the game as a hybrid of Battletech, FTL, and Mechanicus, and that's two games I'm bad at and one that's on the backlog for after Daemonhunters, so RIP and thank you Mugsley.
@Mugsley hasn't learned his lesson in Daemonhunters and gifted me Mainframe Defenders, asking if characters can be renamed that he be in the first batch. He describes the game as a hybrid of Battletech, FTL, and Mechanicus, and that's two games I'm bad at and one that's on the backlog for after Daemonhunters, so RIP and thank you Mugsley.
That sounds amazing, nabbed.
At worst, you're out 2 bucks. I haven't had a chance to play yet.
Sea of Stars announced they will release in 2023. If you backed the Kickstarter, they mentioned today that they will be releasing on PS the same day as PC. All good things.
Thanks @Drake for Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash! I unfortunately had to decline because I already beat it on PS4, but it's a surprisingly fun game! You run around with your squad shooting the enemy team with a wide array of water guns and shoot their clothes off. It's great.
Thanks Drake for Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash! I unfortunately had to decline because I already beat it on PS4, but it's a surprisingly fun game! You run around with your squad shooting the enemy team with a wide array of water guns and shoot their clothes off. It's great.
UT-with-super-soakers-and-cheesecake does seem like a winning combination.
Thanks Drake for Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash! I unfortunately had to decline because I already beat it on PS4, but it's a surprisingly fun game! You run around with your squad shooting the enemy team with a wide array of water guns and shoot their clothes off. It's great.
UT-with-super-soakers-and-cheesecake does seem like a winning combination.
The third person nature + the different gun types kinda reminded me of Splatoon (as someone who has never played Splatoon and have just seen footage of it).
But yeah, super soakers + cheesecake is a fantastic combination
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(For the unfamiliar, O2Jam is a now-defunct rhythm game MMO that had an incredible OST.)
I know that's not really a question but wow this is brutal.
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I think generally that sort of negative/positive feedback loops are problematic especially if there's no way to grind. The better you are the better rewards you get which means it's easier to be good which means more rewards etc and the reverse at the other end. It's one of the reasons Into the Breach never really clicked for me, one difficulty cascades into super-easy runs of awesomeness and the next harder difficulty trips and falls on its face into a negative swirlpool of misfortune and crap as missing rewards makes me worse, leading to more missed rewards and eventually complete failure.
Oof, that's a tough choice. I'd probably lean towards Cleatus' plan. Reforestation solves a lot of problems in the macro game, although we will need to address water reserves shortly after that choice is made.
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It's one of my bigger issues with XCOM EU. The game gets harder and if you lose soldiers, you have to replace them with much weaker soldiers as the game remains hard.
I know part of the strat is rotating in newbies with the vets so even your backups are good, but it just seems mean.
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Been keeping an eye on Scarlet Hollow since I've liked a good amount of Abby Howard's art. My old dino avatar was an Abby Howard creation.
Gave the deck a bit of a spin, Super Robot Wars seems like a good fit.
Also grabbed Expeditions Rome for it as well, which seems promising as I get used to the control scheme mix. But the small print is gonna do my eyes in. Should maybe steer away from heavy readers. I should probably turn down the brightness a smidge to not kill the battery so fast.
Looks nice though.
Thank you for Deep Rock Galactic! I've heard plenty of good things, and looking forward to playing it!
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They hit me as well. Very uncalled for, how dare they give me something i could play with my partner. Thanks!
@Betsuni - I hope you enjoy Wildermyth. It's such a great game. Remember: Always kiss the turtle.
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There was a rhythm game MMO?!?!? I have missed so much ;_;
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Thank you @Spoit for the cat ears. I really did want to know and now I shall know first hand :0
Update: Looks like it's a layered armor! But the ears wiggle sometimes??? Other 2-legged cat for comparison:
My friend and I were fighting the monster known as...
@Blackhawk1313 Ker Blammed my wishlist
Thanks for stanley
Past that, it's part survival game, part RPG (with leveling mechanics and also with some quests though they're mostly just repeatables), part management game (recruit folks to come live in your startup town and work for you, and sometimes they give you requests), and part crafting & farming sim.
It's been a lot of fun. As evidenced by the . . . almost 60 hours I've put into it in the past weekish. It's not exactly what I was looking for (I was really hoping for the kind of game where you build via basic walls and floors and such and make your own places up from scratch, among other things), but it's still been plenty of fun.
Also on Game Pass if you've got that
So, the expansion was released on Tuesday. Obviously, people tried out the new cards, put together unoptimised piles and slammed them into one another, tried to revive long-neglected archetypes, and complained about Nilfgaard.
Then yesterday, CDPR... 'announced'... through a single tweet that, oh, by the way, a single-player Gwent game would be releasing tomorrow, on Thursday. No marketing, no hype-building, not even a trailer. Just... here's a new single-player Gwent game.
Gwent: Rogue Mage is out now. It's a rogue-like deckbuilder. Or, put differently, it's Slay the Spire, except you play Gwent. I'm sure it'll be as successful as Thronebreaker was.
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Punctuation is the difference between "Gift, Blackhawk" and "Gift Blackhawk."
I played the heck out of this when it launched. I should go back, as I know they've added a ton of content in the last few months.
One thing to note on the days. My best piece of advice is to embrace time passing.
You want time to pass. Seasons come and go. Crops grow. Villages get married and have kids. Kids grow up and turn into productive villagers, which is one of the best ways to expand your village. You can get married, and your heir grows up.
Resist the urge to feel like you have to build Rome in a day.
One of the reasons I ended up putting it down was because after about 20 years or so (using 3 day seasons), it became a bit of an AFK simulator as my villagers did all the work, and I had nothing to do but pass the years while I waited for my heir to come of age.
While your character will eventually die of old age, assuming you're married and with an heir, you have all the time in the world. That's the dynasty part.
EDIT: Almost 200 hours played. The last 100 or so of those hours were just waiting for time to pass.
Aw, thanks for Outer Wilds! Yeah, I've heard uniformly good things about this, will set aside an evening to give it a whirl. Most appreciated, and glad to see all continues as it ever has hereabouts. Keep on being classy, folks
On waking up this morning I also had 2 more gifts, so thank you @Orivon for There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension. I shall look forward to not playing this, because there is no game to play.
Also thank you to @Betsuni for Raji. It does indeed look lovely.
I'll have to see how story heavy Rogue Mage is because I absolutely adored Thronebreaker.
That sounds amazing, nabbed.
At worst, you're out 2 bucks. I haven't had a chance to play yet.
Thanks so much for BallisticNG! I've heard great things about this one, seems like a cracking Wipeout clone. Cheers!
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UT-with-super-soakers-and-cheesecake does seem like a winning combination.
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The third person nature + the different gun types kinda reminded me of Splatoon (as someone who has never played Splatoon and have just seen footage of it).
But yeah, super soakers + cheesecake is a fantastic combination