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Ok NOW i will go and play Valkyria Chronicles. geeez
The thousands of pounds worth of improvements?
It was going to be a Duke Nukem game when 3D Realms discovered, to their displeasure, that they sold the rights to Duke Nukem the character, and not just Duke Nukem Forever, to Gearbox. So they retooled it using a Duke sidekick that was in earlier versions of DNF.
They're apparently going to make a prequel to Bombshell using the Build engine (the same engine Duke Nukem 3D used) so that's kind of neat. I'm not hearing great things about the game though.
EDIT: I should read the thread before posting. I figured nobody else would mention the batshit history behind the game.
She's a former bomb disposal technician named Shelly.
She did look worse in the announcement trailer. Isn't helped by the trailer being terrible too.
Yeah, I have this already. Because it's a Hanako game and those are pretty much surefire good games. All well-written, all with lots of meat to them. Most people probably discount them right away because of the names ("Magical Diary"? "Date Warp"? Etc) and the cutesy anime art. Those people are missing out. I have adored every one of their games that I've played so far. And people here who have given in to my poking and prodding and played one or another of them have enjoyed them as well, to the best of my knowledge. Like, I don't think I recall anyone coming back from "Long Live the Queen" and saying they didn't like it.
The Hanako games on Steam:
Magical Diary - I played this through at least 3 times so far. It's probably my favorite. The complexity of the branching paths is impressive and you could probably play it 10 times and still find new things. Bonus: it just recently (a week or so ago) got a major update and is now back on my short list to replay again.
Date Warp - Holy cow, this game took me by surprise. It leans more VN than most Hanako games, but it's fantastic. There's a heap of possible endings and at least one of them left me sitting there slackjawed and mindblown. Worth a look to anyone who likes good stories and mysteries.
Long Live the Queen - Princess Murder Simulator. This one has seen a lot of traction in this thread, largely due to some bunny streaming. It's not only a great game, it features a pink-haired protagonist. Incredible depth and branching. Surprisingly brutal, too.
The last two, unfortunately, I have not yet gotten to but are both on my to-be-played-soon list.
The Royal Trap - looks more VN along the lines of Date Warp. Some great art. Apparently a ton of replay value (like every Hanako game).
Black Closet - already covered above.
Hanako games are not cheap, and I don't know that they often get deep discounts. But I believe they're worth the asking price. With the 3 that I have played so far, they have demonstrated their ability to put out quality games with tons of possibilities and lots of replay value. And they get well supported: Magical Diary is 4 years old and still got a major update recently. LLTQ was released in 2013 and just got an update in November. Etc.
I uhh... I might be a fan. I would love to see more people take a look at these gems.
~~~ Pixie on Steam ~~~
@Pixelated Pixie, now your post makes me want to buy and play the rest of them, too. Black Closet has already jumped on and off my wishlist several times. (I'm trying to want fewer games and posts like yours make it difficult!)
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Magical Diary, on the other hand, was charming and well designed. Puzzle solutions emerge based on the spells you pick up through course selection, and the VN portions have a hefty chunk of branching content you won't find on a first playthrough. Solid writing too, it toed with some weighty subject matter without going too far from legally-distinct-from-Hogwarts shenanigans (piss off, Demon Morrissey, I'm going shopping).
Haven't played the others, so no strong opinions there: Royal Trap looks like LLTQ the VN (maybe), Black Closet looks like Evil Student Council Simulator 2015 (nah), Date Warp looks like that one Dark Brotherhood quest from Oblivion but with science fiction... the VN (go on). But Hanako as a whole seem to love what they do and put a lot of effort into making quirky, clever titles. I can respect the craft even if an individual title doesn't do it for me. Can definitely recommend Magical Diary at the very least.
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I'm hoping they do (technically another) update to Cute Knight at some point. Similar kind of skill system as LLTQ, but much more freedom to do what you want instead of having to meet stat thresholds for certain events. It would be more ambitious than other things they've done since given the scope if they wanted to keep the current standards they've developed for social interactions and overall writing.
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Alas, nobody breaks out in song and there's no Tim Curry. Still, a fantastic story/game.
~~~ Pixie on Steam ~~~
Thanks again to @ReverseCreations and @UseR2006 for lobbing these at me this week.
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Someone said something that pissed her off a little bit ago and it held on her expression which said "I will murder your family with a climbing hook." A new boss for the Saints?
Try changing download server maybe?
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Tried that and switching out of beta.
Steam's on the fritz again?
Half the profit goes to projects that benefit the environment and game related projects.
Have they considered how that might inconvenience me?
Clearly not. but you should call them up and give them a piece of your mind.
Better to email support. They can probably get that fixed right up.
~~~ Pixie on Steam ~~~
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The puzzles consist of using your special goggles to freeze time while confronting an enemy, then carefully observing the scene in front of you to come up with a way to defeat your opponent. When you unfreeze time, the opponent will knock you out in a hurry, so you have to click on the correct sequence of objects to foil them. Pretty simplistic, but not bad.
The world is the really neat part. Lots of Capitalized Words (Thoughtforms, Pilgrim Hikers, Empathy). Wild, high fantasy concepts all over the place. One of the Thoughtforms is a being composed purely of "Honest Thoughts" that somehow gained sentience.
Only took me about 45 minutes to work my way through, so it's a good candidate for a lazy afternoon or single evening playthrough. I'm finding these short games to be more and more appealing to me these days.
Well now I'm definitely replaying Saints Row 3 with the likeness of Lara with a British accent. I imagine she created the 3rd Street Saints after realising that her true calling wasn't raiding tombs for ancient relics, it was RKO'ing gymbros
One more reminder before it ends tomorrow at noon PST. Adventure Team restricted.
Thank you to whoever used the Anonymous Nobody Gifting Service.
Seriously though, this is far too many games. I only played about a dozen of them and the rest never even got installed. It appears as though there is no way to trade/sell them either.
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I've toyed with the idea of making boxed copies of all my DRM-free GOG games, but even that comparatively minute collection would get quickly out of hand in terms of shelf storage space. Digital fo' life, yo
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Heh. 43 games, eh.
Well, uh. I see you've only played half an hour of FTL.
You should play more FTL. That is a good game.
Yeah, I got caught up in the FTL hype train. Played it and lost immediately to random space pirates or something. Like, I never got more than 3 or so jumps before dying. Seemed to be all RNG and I said screw it and uninstalled it. Would totally gift that away if I could. :/
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"Seemed to be all RNG" says the guy who makes literally every hearthstone thread
excuse me while I laugh just hard enough to make my sore throat hurt
There is no RNG in my thread making ability sir! They appear every 100 pages!
I get where you're going with that, but I don't think HS has near the RNG craziness as FTL. Maybe I just didn't "get" FTL.
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Yeah, once you figure out how combat works the first 3 or so sectors should be very easy on Easy. On Normal you might get awful rolls that screw you, but you can carve your strategy out to minimize risk, or try riskier ventures with the intent of getting greater rewards.
And Hard is just bullshit, don't play Hard.
Multiply this by ten or twenty and you'll see how some people in the thread feel about their libraries. Which forumer was it that was talking about how as a kid they wished that one day they would have more games to play than they had time to play them, and that their childhood dream had become their adult nightmare?
Steam sales and dirt cheap bundles will add games to your account so fast it'll feel like a blur. It is nuts sometimes.
edit: Further on steam libraries, I think a lot of the regulars here have been active in the big Steam sales for years, back when they really were crazy (80% off publisher catalogs, $2 games on the front page down from $15, bundle-packs of ordinarily singularly sold games etc.). With the bi-annual sales finally coming to its senses in its race to the bottom, I don't think new-comers to this thread will experience the same backlog explosions we had 3-4 years ago.
Unless its their birthday. Then they're fucked.
~~~ Pixie on Steam ~~~