I think getting your hopes up/down about the Steam Deck taking off to such an extent that developers specifically target it for performance is pretty premature.
I was mildly surprised how much Control reminded me of Quantum Break, but replacing Remedy's soap-opera humor with "OOOH SPOOKY INTERNET COPY PASTAAAA", which didn't strike me as doing any favors. I remember even less of Control's "story" than I do of QB, and all of it is exclusively "Close up of character's face." It's entirely possible she imagined the whole thing, which I guess is the point.
Remedy's games since Alan Wake rely pretty heavily on enjoying the setting to get the most out of them. I loved the SCP-esque setting of Control (plus the dumb Force Unleashed fun of just throwing random stuff at enemies, even if that was 80% of the game's combat in most situations) to the point I wasn't even disappointed about what past as the final "boss" of the base game; I was so invested in the story that the narrative climax from
the fake credits and dream bits afterwards
was enough for me to wall away from it satisfied.
The faux-Star Wars powers are definitely a highlight of the game, though in my own (probably very unique) experience part of that came from the fact that the "Service Weapon"--feels kind of underpowered (short of lucking out on upgrades, which is either a neat venue for loot mechanics or kind of tedious boring, depending on how you come at it) compared to big, punchy guns that you get in Remedy's other fare. You need to have good powers--well, mostly "launch shit at people"--because the gun's forms are all kind of limited.
(Of course, if you think the service weapon is amazingly awesome, all of this is moot.)
It's probably because I don't follow the whole "SCP" thing that the plot is completely unforgettable (versus the soap-opera-betrayal-time-travel of Quantum Break), since each article of internet creepy pasta lore, taken by itself is...just dumb (to the uninformed like me). And then we get to spend a minute zoomed in on Jessie's face as she ponders said dumb thing, then shares some of her ponderances out loud. It's all much more forgettable versus the gameplay, even by Remedy's standards, but I completely understand that only being my take (as someone who played the game on console and got so bored that they quit before the "final boss" encounter, and is now replaying it on Game Pass on PC).
I'm also not a fan of the death-penalty system, since it's never not annoying to be traveling down a corridor, have three guys with grenade launchers spawn behind you, kill you, then you just respawn with a chunk of your money gone. But I'm a not really a huge fan of the currency and loot-collection arc as applied here (it's kind of a weaker implementation of a loot shooter), to which it's an intrinsic quality. I'd prefer just to respawn at a checkpoint, but I understand why you don't.
All of this is completely subjective, like any other opinion. Taken that, it's not surprising I finished QB and replayed certain levels to get the other plot paths and collectibles, but couldn't be bothered for Control (though I am replaying it now, or at least I was).
I mean, part of the point of the setting is that this stuff is very, very dumb, but it's also very, very deadly.
But I super liked Control, so...
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edited July 2021
Stop making me want to play Control.
I still have it in my EGS library still in the shrink wrap and everything.
Control is disappointing. It does have its moments, usually after you acquire a new power or see one of the FMV sequences that mix the banal with the weird, which is why it's disappointing instead of just bad. As great as the in-game lore is, the writing for the actual plot and characters is lacking. The combat becomes really repetitive against uninteresting enemies and I can't really put my finger on when it happened.
You have it in your library so you might as well try and feel free to drop it when you stop having fun with it. The first parts of the game are pretty enjoyable, it just isn't able to sustain that.
Control was not fun (the combat was god-awful) but it was interesting.
To be fair I played with the gameplay settings that recharged my superpowers energy and gun energy back to full in 0.5 seconds so I got to spend all of combat being a flying Jedi whipping furniture and laser blasts around at will.
Control was only disappointing in the degree that it had been hyped up so much before I played it. It's solid. I love the world and the action was decent. The enemy was got boring but some of the characters and a lot of the ideas were fantastic.
Control was only disappointing in the degree that it had been hyped up so much before I played it. It's solid. I love the world and the action was decent. The enemy was got boring but some of the characters and a lot of the ideas were fantastic.
I was straight up so bad at the combat that I never made it out of the first encounter.
I really want to like it, but that did not help.
Control was not fun (the combat was god-awful) but it was interesting.
To be fair I played with the gameplay settings that recharged my superpowers energy and gun energy back to full in 0.5 seconds so I got to spend all of combat being a flying Jedi whipping furniture and laser blasts around at will.
Same here-ish I played on hard difficulty iirc and didn’t customize anything but; I think that’s a source of conflicting opinions; if you maxed throw and
levitate first which I did as well the entire game was just olol floating around insta killing everyone in hilarious ways; if you decided to concentrate on defensive skills and use guns for offence… you poor bastard
I generally liked Control, but the protagonist has a striking resemblance to Cal Kestis which once I noticed that it was really distracting particularly since it's ostensibly a game about being as Jedi as possible.
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Well, didn't take me long to go full pirate in Deadfire.
I've already killed the local jailer, freed a criminal I don't even know and made him part of my crew.
If the steam deck is a big enough success we may see it as a de facto standard for games hardware requirements.
If you know there are a few million people out there that have exactly spec X+Y+Z, it makes sense to target that in your optimization. Which could in turn lead to people making midtier prebuilds/laptops to make sure they clear the steam deck limit, reinforcing the cycle.
I do wonder how proton is going to work with many DRMd games though, unless they are testing everything on custom windows installs. Which is a hidden cost, a windows license is not free, and more expensive for a consumer than for a device manufacturer, but I doubt that Gabe is ever going to make a deal with MS on that....
At the very least, Valve's propensity to crowdsource everything could lead to having performance profiles you select from a menu, much like the steam controls you'd probably be fiddling with anyway
I stopped playing Nier after Ending A and Youtubed the other endings. The gameplay has not aged well and the "here's several documents and POV swaps on why you should be sad" storytelling is unimpressive.
I have a load of stuff on my backlog I haven’t touched in years, and I suppose I ought to at least give everything I own at least a good solid look to decide if it still deserves a place on my hard drive and my time.
But at the same time, there’s a lot of other things I ought to give a solid look at that I’ve been meaning to get back to, so… I figure why not let pure chance take the wheel- literally?
So I went ahead and made a list of everything:
Backlog:
1) 100% Orange Juice
2) AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAA!!
3) Abyss Odyssey
4) Agarest Zero
5) Agatha Christie – The ABC Murders
6) AI: Rampage
7) American Truck Simulator
8) Amnesia: Memories
9) Analogue: A Hate Story
10) Angelica Weaver: Catch Me When You Can
11) AR-K
12) Arma: Cold War Assault
13) Asphyxia
14) Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
15) Atonement series
16) BAD END
17) Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition
18) Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition
19) Bastard Bonds
20) Bastion
21) Battle Chef Brigade
22) BATTLETECH
23) BEEP
24) Ben There, Dan That!
25) Besiege
26) Beyond Divinity
27) Beyond Reality
28) Bioshock Remastered series
29) A Bird Story
30) Black Home
31) The Black Watchmen
32) Blackguards
33) Blade Kitten
34) Blue Rose
35) BlueberryNOVA
36) The Book of Legends
37) Borderlands: GOTY Enhanced
38) Borderlands 2 DLC
39) Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
40) A Boy and His Blob
41) Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box
42) Capsized
43) Cardinal Cross
44) Castlevania Anniversary Collection
45) The Cat and the Coup
46) Cat Burglar: A Tail of Purrsuit
47) The Cat! Porfrio's Adventure
48) Cats are Liquid – A Light in the Shadows
49) Cats Epic Puzzles
50) Chantelise
51) Cheerleader: reverse side of life
52) Cherry Tree High Comedy Club
53) Cherry Tree High I! My! Girls!
54) Child of Light
55) Choice of the Deathless
56) Chroma Squad
57) CLANNAD
58) Contra Anniversary Collection
59) Contraption Maker
60) Cook, Serve, Delicious!
61) Cosmic Star Heroine
62) Crash Bandicoot – N. Sane Trilogy
63) Crimson Memories
64) Crouching Pony Hidden Dragon
65) Crusader Kings II
66) Crypt of the Necrodancer
67) Crystalline
68) Cthulu Saves Christmas
69) Cultist Simulator
70) The Curse of Monkey Island series
71) Cyberdimension Neptunia: 4 Goddesses Online
72) Dark Scavenger
73) Date Warp
74) Day of the Tentacle Remastered
75) Dead Island: Epidemic
76) Dead6hot
77) Deadly Animal Duel
78) Deadly Sin 2
79) Defense Grid: The Awakening
80) Desolate Wastes: Vendor Chronicles
81) The Detail
82) A Detective's Novel
83) Devil Daggers
84) Dishonored
85) Disney Princess: My Fairytale Adventure
86) DISSIDIA FINAL FANTASY NT Free Edition
87) Divine Slice of Life
88) Doom and Destiny Advanced
89) Dragon Fantasy: The Black Tome of Ice
90) Dragonia
91) Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
92) The Dreamlord
93) Drift (Over) Drive
94) Ducktales Remastered
95) Dungeon Hearts
96) Dustforce
97) Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos
98) Endica VII The Dream King
99) Epic Quest of the 4 Crystals
100) Equivoque
101) Evoland
102) Existential Kitty Cat RPG
103) Explottens
104) Fall of Civilization
105) Fallen Times
106) Fated Souls series
107) Fatehaven
108) fault – milestone one
109) Final Fantasy III
110) Final Fantasy IV
111) Final Fantasy V
112) Final Fantasy XIII
113) Final Fantasy XIII-2
114) Final Fantasy XV
115) FORCED
116) Fort Meow
117) Fortix series
118) Fortune Summoners: Secret of the Elemental Stones
119) Fox Hime
120) Frozen Synapse
121) FTL: Faster Than Light
122) Full Throttle Remastered
123) Galcon Fusion
124) Game Dev Tycoon
125) Gato Roboto
126) GAUGE
127) Gemini Rue
128) Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
129) The Girl on the Train
130) Glowfish
131) Gone Home
132) Grail to the Thief
133) Guardians of Middle-Earth
134) Gun-Running War Dogs
135) Hacknet
136) Hate Plus
137) Heileen series
138) Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
139) Hero Quest: Tower Conflict
140) Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok
141) Hikari! Clover Rescue
142) Hitogata Happa
143) Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?!
144) htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary
145) Hyperdimention Neptunia Re;Birth series
146) Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition
147) If My Heart Had Wings
148) Incitement 3
149) Insurgency
150) Ion Assault
151) Jalopy
152) Joe Dever's Lone Wolf HD Remastered
153) J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars
154) KARAKARA
155) Kathy Rain
156) Kerbal Space Program
157) King of Dragon Pass
158) King's Bounty: Armored Princess
159) Kitty Cat Jigsaw Puzzles
160) Knight Bewitched
161) KNIGHTS
162) Kunoichi Tsubaki
163) Kyoto Colorful Days
164) Ladykiller in a Bind
165) Last Dream
166) The Last Tinker: City of Colors
167) Late Shift
168) Learn Japanese to Survive – Hiraga
169) Learn Japanese to Survive – Katakana
170) Left 4 Dead 2
171) The Legend of Heroes – Trails in the Sky
172) Legend of Mysteria
173) Leviathan: The Last Day of the Decade
174) LiEat
175) Life is Feudal: Your Own
176) Life is Strange
177) Lily's Day Off
178) Little Farm
179) The logic of the miniature garden
180) Long Live The Queen
181) Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-
182) Magicians and Looters
183) Mahjong Destiny
184) Mari and the Black Tower
185) Mariko: Hot Nightlife
186) Meadow
187) Megadimension Neptunia VII
188) Merchants of Kaidan
189) Midnight Mysteries series
190) Midnight's Blessing
191) Millennium Series
192) Mistake Souls
193) Mutiny!!
194) The Mysterious Cities of Gold – Secret Paths
195) Narcissu 10th Anniversary Anthology
196) NEKOKORO
197) NEKOPARA series
198) NEON STRUCT
199) Never Alone
200) Never give up!
201) Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition
202) Nicole
203) Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals
204) Nimble Quest
205) Ninja Cats vs. Samurai Dogs
206) Nirvana Pilot Yume
207) One Gun: Cat
208) Orcs Must Die! 2
209) Orion: A Sci-Fi Visual Novel
210) Osmos
211) Otaku's Fantasy series
212) Out There Somewhere
213) Outland
214) Outrage
215) Painted Legend
216) PANIC at Multiverse High
217) Panzermadels: Tank Dating Simulator
218) Party Hard
219) Pathfinder Adventures
220) Pathfinder: Kingmaker
221) Pickers
222) Pink Rage Otome
223) Planescape: Torment Enhanced Edition
224) Planet Stronghold
225) planetarian ~the reverie of a little planet~
226) Poker Night 2
227) POLYWAR
228) Portal 2
229) Pretty Girls Panic!
230) A Princess' Tale
231) The Princess, the Stray Cat, and Matters of the Heart
232) Project RPG Remastered
233) PROTEST
234) Puddle
235) PulseCharge
236) Purgatory series
237) PUSS!
238) Puzzle Agent
239) Quest of Dungeons
240) Rabiez: Epidemic
241) Rakuen
242) Rebel Galaxy
243) Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
244) The Reject Demon: Toko Chapter 0 – Prelude
245) Renowned Explorers: International Society
246) River City Ransom: Underground
247) Rock of Ages 2
248) Roommates
249) Ryse: Son of Rome
250) Sakura Dungeon
251) Sakura Sakura
252) Samurai of Hyuga series
253) Save Your Mother
254) Science Girls
255) Seduce Me 2: The Demon War
256) SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics
257) SENRAN KAGURA Peach Beach Splash
258) Shadowrun: Dragonfall – Director's Cut
259) Shadowrun Returns
260) Shadows 2: Perfidia
261) She Wants Me Dead
262) Shining Plume series
263) Shuyan Saga
264) Sid Meier's Pirates!
265) Sins of the Demon RPG
266) Skulls of the Shogun
267) Skyborn
268) Slap City
269) Snares of Ruin
270) So Many Cubes
271) SOLASTA: Crown of the Magister
272) Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
273) Sonic Mania
274) Soul Gambler
275) SOULCALIBUR VI
276) South Park: The Stick of Truth
277) Spandex Force
278) Spicy Deck
279) Stacking
280) Star Sky
281) Stardew Valley
282) Stealth Bastard Deluxe
283) Storm of Spears
284) Strike Vector
285) Subnautica
286) Sunless Sea
287) Sunrider series
288) Super Meat Boy
289) Sweet fantasy
290) Sweet Lily Dreams
291) Syberia series
292) Tales of Maj'Eyal
293) Talisman series
294) The Talos Principle
295) Tavernier
296) Time Gentlemen, Please!
297) To Be or Not To Be
298) To the Moon
299) Toki Tori series
300) Tomb Raider
301) Transistor
302) TransOcean: The Shipping Company
303) Transparent Black
304) Tricolor Lovestory
305) Trillion
306) Tropico 4
307) Tsukumogami
308) The Vagrant
309) Vagrant Hearts series
310) Valiant: Resurrection
311) Valkyria Chronicles series
312) The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux
313) Venture Seas
314) VVVVVV
315) The Walking Dead series
316) War for the Overworld
317) Warlock – Master of the Arcane
318) Watch_Dogs 2
319) The Way We ALL GO
320) Wind Child
321) The Witcher: Enhanced Edition
322) Without Within 2
323) WORLD END ECONOMICA episode.01
324) WORLD OF FINAL FANTASY
325) World of Goo
326) X-Blades
327) XCOM: Enemy Unknown
328) Yakuza series
329) Ys series
330) Zen Bound 2
331) Zeno Clash
332) Love in School
333) Floral Aroma in the Shrine
334) 100 hidden cats
335) 1bitHeart
336) 2064: Read Only Memories
337) Alien Cat
338) Animals Memory: Cats
339) ANIME STANDING
340) Arcade Spirits
341) Assassin's Creed III Remastered
342) The Bard's Tale series
343) Battle Brothers
344) The Big Journey
345) BlazBlue: Chronophantasma Extend
346) Box Cats Puzzle
347) Bright Paw
348) Calico
349) Cat Lady – The Card Game
350) Cat President – A More Purrfect Union
351) Cat Quest II
352) CATch the Stars
353) Catlandia: Crisis at Fort Pawprint
354) Cats Organized Neatly
355) Cattails
356) Choice of the Cat
357) Colorado Cocoa Club
358) Court of Ashes
359) Crazy Critters – Combat Cats
360) Devil in the Details
361) The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
362) Eschalon series
363) Fading Hearts
364) F******* Quest
365) Gender Bender DNA Twister Extreme
366) Getaway Island
367) Gibbous – A Cthulu Adventure
368) Golf With Your Friends
369) GRIS
370) Heaven's Vault
371) Hidden Paws Mystery
372) Hikari! Love Potion
373) Hollow Knight
374) Hustle Cat
375) I wanna be The Cat
376) Inspector Waffles
377) Instinct
378) Interplanetary series
379) Ittle Dew 2
380) Kidnapped! A Royal Birthday
381) Killing Time at Lightspeed: Enhanced Edition
382) Kind Words
383) Kitty Tactics
384) Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk
385) Legends of Talia: Arcadia
386) Mad Max
387) Magical Battle Festa
388) Magical Diary: Wolf Hall
389) Melancholy Love
390) Memories of a Vagabond
391) The Miskatonic
392) Moon Hunters
393) Moonlighter
394) National Park Girls
395) The Orchard of Stray Sheep
396) Passpartout: The Starving Artist
397) Persona 4 Golden
398) Pinball FX3
399) Praey for the Gods
400) Quarantine
401) Quiplash
402) Record of Lodoss War – Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth
403) Rock of Ages 3 – Make & Break
404) Seek Hearts
405) Sentinels of the Multiverse
406) Shining Resonance Refrain
407) Shuffle!
408) Sonic Adventure series
409) Sonic Generations
410) Sonic Lost World
411) Sonic the Hedgehog 4
412) Sorcery! Part 4
413) Sticky Paws
414) StrikeForce Kitty
415) Summer Paws
416) Tales of Berseria
417) Tametsi
418) This War of Mine
419) Timelie
420) V:tM – Night Road
421) V:tM – Redemption
422) Wanderlust series
423) Wandersong
424) Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
425) Wildermyth
426) Wolf Tails
427) World's Dawn
Stuff I’ve been meaning to get back to and do and replay:
428) AC: Odyssey – Find All The Things
429) D&D: Chronicles of Mystara – Beat With Every Class
430) Loren the Amazon Princess – Replay
431) Magical Diary: Horse Hall – Replay
432) Untitled Goose Game – Replay
433) VA-11 Hall-A – Perfect Ending
MMOs I’ve been meaning to not let sit on my HD:
434) Black Desert Online – New Character
435) Champions Online – New Character
436) D&D Online – Max Favor Run
437) EverQuest – Reach Endgame
438) EverQuest II – Reach Endgame
439) Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis – Reach Endgame
440) Secret World Legends – New Character
441) Star Wars: The Old Republic – Finish Current Class
442) TERA – Finish Current Class
…and I’m heading over to wheelofnames.com to slap them all into a wheel format to help me figure out what to play next. I figure if I get anything else, I’ll just tack it on to the end of the list.
So, with no further ado, well… let’s see where we’re starting this journey off from:
375) I wanna be The Cat
…apparently we start with a cat game- and a re-skin of another popular indie game, “I Wanna Be The Guy”- real twitch-based pixel-perfect gameplay. I’ve actually played IWBTG, and I’m just absolutely no good at it, and I haven’t been all that good at stuff like that. So I figure I’ll just kick it over and maybe leave it uninstalled for now- not that I don’t want to try it, but that it just doesn’t feel like something I’d have a great time playing.
So… let’s take a look and see what else comes up…
97) Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos
I just use WheelHaus instead of manually putting in the names
Also Control was okay. I wanted to like it more than I did, and if I ever go back to play the DLC, I'll probably turn on all the assists that make the game more fun
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edited July 2021
Control lore spoilers
The Oldest House is living in my head rent free. It's just carved out a niche and become it's own object of power, nestled in there, ready to connect to literally anything.
I sucked up that games world like a sponge.
It also let me throw people at people, gave me a shotgun that vaporises anything that gets close, let me fly, and gave me a rocket launcher i can spam while flying, turning me into a demented apache.
I'm not sure it's possible for someone with my personality, my likes and interests, to have ever disliked Control.
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I have a load of stuff on my backlog I haven’t touched in years, and I suppose I ought to at least give everything I own at least a good solid look to decide if it still deserves a place on my hard drive and my time.
I have a load of stuff on my backlog I haven’t touched in years, and I suppose I ought to at least give everything I own at least a good solid look to decide if it still deserves a place on my hard drive and my time.
Control was not fun (the combat was god-awful) but it was interesting.
Curious why you think the combat was bad? It doesn't seem like anything super special, but I'm enjoying it. And using telekinesis to throw random objects is fun.
Control was not fun (the combat was god-awful) but it was interesting.
Curious why you think the combat was bad? It doesn't seem like anything super special, but I'm enjoying it. And using telekinesis to throw random objects is fun.
Because I did not enjoy it even a little bit. Box throwing simulator that just wasn't fun.
Man Icewind dale has such a jump in quality once you get to severed hand. Its like the opposite of most Black Isle/Obsidian games that put the unfinished/bad stuff at the end. Shitty boring undead dungeon, shitty boring kitchen sink lizardman/yuan ti dungeon, snake boob lady boss… Great now that you are done with that have 2 of the best dungeons in any infinity engine game.
What was the name of that one online storefront that tried letting customers sell their digital games/licenses back to the store after they finished them at a reduced price?
What was the name of that one online storefront that tried letting customers sell their digital games/licenses back to the store after they finished them at a reduced price?
Blimey, now you're asking. I vaguely remember that from the mists of time but I can't recall the name.
Royce, sometimes I think your posts aren't even about games or by present you, but are distorted transmissions from a future or parallel timeline in which the cosmic endwars have begun.
Royce, sometimes I think your posts aren't even about games or by present you, but are distorted transmissions from a future or parallel timeline in which the cosmic endwars have begun.
I have a load of stuff on my backlog I haven’t touched in years, and I suppose I ought to at least give everything I own at least a good solid look to decide if it still deserves a place on my hard drive and my time.
Hey! HEY!
You! YOU!
Should play Burnout Paradise
You say that to everyone!
You post a list, I'll post a rec
You post a list, I'll post a rec
Play Bastion if you haven't yet
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Royce, sometimes I think your posts aren't even about games or by present you, but are distorted transmissions from a future or parallel timeline in which the cosmic endwars have begun.
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I don't know how people stand this. Five hours in and I haven't eaten a single baby.
I'm going through withdrawal.
I mean, part of the point of the setting is that this stuff is very, very dumb, but it's also very, very deadly.
But I super liked Control, so...
I still have it in my EGS library still in the shrink wrap and everything.
Control is very good. The combat is very glass cannony, you have to have a good sense of when to press hard, get a kill, and then run for cover.
It's a very creepy game, unsettling, if not openly scary. The ambiance is great throughout.
I may have mentioned, but it also has the best "final exam" levels, the maze, I've played in years, with one of the best soundtracks.
You have it in your library so you might as well try and feel free to drop it when you stop having fun with it. The first parts of the game are pretty enjoyable, it just isn't able to sustain that.
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To be fair I played with the gameplay settings that recharged my superpowers energy and gun energy back to full in 0.5 seconds so I got to spend all of combat being a flying Jedi whipping furniture and laser blasts around at will.
I was straight up so bad at the combat that I never made it out of the first encounter.
I really want to like it, but that did not help.
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Same here-ish I played on hard difficulty iirc and didn’t customize anything but; I think that’s a source of conflicting opinions; if you maxed throw and
levitate first which I did as well the entire game was just olol floating around insta killing everyone in hilarious ways; if you decided to concentrate on defensive skills and use guns for offence… you poor bastard
I've already killed the local jailer, freed a criminal I don't even know and made him part of my crew.
At the very least, Valve's propensity to crowdsource everything could lead to having performance profiles you select from a menu, much like the steam controls you'd probably be fiddling with anyway
Shit! That was the spawner
Shit!
Shitshitshit!
Recall!
Okay, I'm safe....
BzzzBzzzNzzz (Omae wa Shinderu)
What?(nani?)
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Computer's still dead.
Oh hey, a relationship though.
And a job that pays considerably well.
There will be a reckoning here.
Eventually.
Stay classy, frens.
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I have a load of stuff on my backlog I haven’t touched in years, and I suppose I ought to at least give everything I own at least a good solid look to decide if it still deserves a place on my hard drive and my time.
But at the same time, there’s a lot of other things I ought to give a solid look at that I’ve been meaning to get back to, so… I figure why not let pure chance take the wheel- literally?
So I went ahead and made a list of everything:
Backlog:
1) 100% Orange Juice
2) AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAA!!
3) Abyss Odyssey
4) Agarest Zero
5) Agatha Christie – The ABC Murders
6) AI: Rampage
7) American Truck Simulator
8) Amnesia: Memories
9) Analogue: A Hate Story
10) Angelica Weaver: Catch Me When You Can
11) AR-K
12) Arma: Cold War Assault
13) Asphyxia
14) Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
15) Atonement series
16) BAD END
17) Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition
18) Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition
19) Bastard Bonds
20) Bastion
21) Battle Chef Brigade
22) BATTLETECH
23) BEEP
24) Ben There, Dan That!
25) Besiege
26) Beyond Divinity
27) Beyond Reality
28) Bioshock Remastered series
29) A Bird Story
30) Black Home
31) The Black Watchmen
32) Blackguards
33) Blade Kitten
34) Blue Rose
35) BlueberryNOVA
36) The Book of Legends
37) Borderlands: GOTY Enhanced
38) Borderlands 2 DLC
39) Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
40) A Boy and His Blob
41) Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box
42) Capsized
43) Cardinal Cross
44) Castlevania Anniversary Collection
45) The Cat and the Coup
46) Cat Burglar: A Tail of Purrsuit
47) The Cat! Porfrio's Adventure
48) Cats are Liquid – A Light in the Shadows
49) Cats Epic Puzzles
50) Chantelise
51) Cheerleader: reverse side of life
52) Cherry Tree High Comedy Club
53) Cherry Tree High I! My! Girls!
54) Child of Light
55) Choice of the Deathless
56) Chroma Squad
57) CLANNAD
58) Contra Anniversary Collection
59) Contraption Maker
60) Cook, Serve, Delicious!
61) Cosmic Star Heroine
62) Crash Bandicoot – N. Sane Trilogy
63) Crimson Memories
64) Crouching Pony Hidden Dragon
65) Crusader Kings II
66) Crypt of the Necrodancer
67) Crystalline
68) Cthulu Saves Christmas
69) Cultist Simulator
70) The Curse of Monkey Island series
71) Cyberdimension Neptunia: 4 Goddesses Online
72) Dark Scavenger
73) Date Warp
74) Day of the Tentacle Remastered
75) Dead Island: Epidemic
76) Dead6hot
77) Deadly Animal Duel
78) Deadly Sin 2
79) Defense Grid: The Awakening
80) Desolate Wastes: Vendor Chronicles
81) The Detail
82) A Detective's Novel
83) Devil Daggers
84) Dishonored
85) Disney Princess: My Fairytale Adventure
86) DISSIDIA FINAL FANTASY NT Free Edition
87) Divine Slice of Life
88) Doom and Destiny Advanced
89) Dragon Fantasy: The Black Tome of Ice
90) Dragonia
91) Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
92) The Dreamlord
93) Drift (Over) Drive
94) Ducktales Remastered
95) Dungeon Hearts
96) Dustforce
97) Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos
98) Endica VII The Dream King
99) Epic Quest of the 4 Crystals
100) Equivoque
101) Evoland
102) Existential Kitty Cat RPG
103) Explottens
104) Fall of Civilization
105) Fallen Times
106) Fated Souls series
107) Fatehaven
108) fault – milestone one
109) Final Fantasy III
110) Final Fantasy IV
111) Final Fantasy V
112) Final Fantasy XIII
113) Final Fantasy XIII-2
114) Final Fantasy XV
115) FORCED
116) Fort Meow
117) Fortix series
118) Fortune Summoners: Secret of the Elemental Stones
119) Fox Hime
120) Frozen Synapse
121) FTL: Faster Than Light
122) Full Throttle Remastered
123) Galcon Fusion
124) Game Dev Tycoon
125) Gato Roboto
126) GAUGE
127) Gemini Rue
128) Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
129) The Girl on the Train
130) Glowfish
131) Gone Home
132) Grail to the Thief
133) Guardians of Middle-Earth
134) Gun-Running War Dogs
135) Hacknet
136) Hate Plus
137) Heileen series
138) Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
139) Hero Quest: Tower Conflict
140) Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok
141) Hikari! Clover Rescue
142) Hitogata Happa
143) Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?!
144) htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary
145) Hyperdimention Neptunia Re;Birth series
146) Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition
147) If My Heart Had Wings
148) Incitement 3
149) Insurgency
150) Ion Assault
151) Jalopy
152) Joe Dever's Lone Wolf HD Remastered
153) J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars
154) KARAKARA
155) Kathy Rain
156) Kerbal Space Program
157) King of Dragon Pass
158) King's Bounty: Armored Princess
159) Kitty Cat Jigsaw Puzzles
160) Knight Bewitched
161) KNIGHTS
162) Kunoichi Tsubaki
163) Kyoto Colorful Days
164) Ladykiller in a Bind
165) Last Dream
166) The Last Tinker: City of Colors
167) Late Shift
168) Learn Japanese to Survive – Hiraga
169) Learn Japanese to Survive – Katakana
170) Left 4 Dead 2
171) The Legend of Heroes – Trails in the Sky
172) Legend of Mysteria
173) Leviathan: The Last Day of the Decade
174) LiEat
175) Life is Feudal: Your Own
176) Life is Strange
177) Lily's Day Off
178) Little Farm
179) The logic of the miniature garden
180) Long Live The Queen
181) Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-
182) Magicians and Looters
183) Mahjong Destiny
184) Mari and the Black Tower
185) Mariko: Hot Nightlife
186) Meadow
187) Megadimension Neptunia VII
188) Merchants of Kaidan
189) Midnight Mysteries series
190) Midnight's Blessing
191) Millennium Series
192) Mistake Souls
193) Mutiny!!
194) The Mysterious Cities of Gold – Secret Paths
195) Narcissu 10th Anniversary Anthology
196) NEKOKORO
197) NEKOPARA series
198) NEON STRUCT
199) Never Alone
200) Never give up!
201) Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition
202) Nicole
203) Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals
204) Nimble Quest
205) Ninja Cats vs. Samurai Dogs
206) Nirvana Pilot Yume
207) One Gun: Cat
208) Orcs Must Die! 2
209) Orion: A Sci-Fi Visual Novel
210) Osmos
211) Otaku's Fantasy series
212) Out There Somewhere
213) Outland
214) Outrage
215) Painted Legend
216) PANIC at Multiverse High
217) Panzermadels: Tank Dating Simulator
218) Party Hard
219) Pathfinder Adventures
220) Pathfinder: Kingmaker
221) Pickers
222) Pink Rage Otome
223) Planescape: Torment Enhanced Edition
224) Planet Stronghold
225) planetarian ~the reverie of a little planet~
226) Poker Night 2
227) POLYWAR
228) Portal 2
229) Pretty Girls Panic!
230) A Princess' Tale
231) The Princess, the Stray Cat, and Matters of the Heart
232) Project RPG Remastered
233) PROTEST
234) Puddle
235) PulseCharge
236) Purgatory series
237) PUSS!
238) Puzzle Agent
239) Quest of Dungeons
240) Rabiez: Epidemic
241) Rakuen
242) Rebel Galaxy
243) Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
244) The Reject Demon: Toko Chapter 0 – Prelude
245) Renowned Explorers: International Society
246) River City Ransom: Underground
247) Rock of Ages 2
248) Roommates
249) Ryse: Son of Rome
250) Sakura Dungeon
251) Sakura Sakura
252) Samurai of Hyuga series
253) Save Your Mother
254) Science Girls
255) Seduce Me 2: The Demon War
256) SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics
257) SENRAN KAGURA Peach Beach Splash
258) Shadowrun: Dragonfall – Director's Cut
259) Shadowrun Returns
260) Shadows 2: Perfidia
261) She Wants Me Dead
262) Shining Plume series
263) Shuyan Saga
264) Sid Meier's Pirates!
265) Sins of the Demon RPG
266) Skulls of the Shogun
267) Skyborn
268) Slap City
269) Snares of Ruin
270) So Many Cubes
271) SOLASTA: Crown of the Magister
272) Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
273) Sonic Mania
274) Soul Gambler
275) SOULCALIBUR VI
276) South Park: The Stick of Truth
277) Spandex Force
278) Spicy Deck
279) Stacking
280) Star Sky
281) Stardew Valley
282) Stealth Bastard Deluxe
283) Storm of Spears
284) Strike Vector
285) Subnautica
286) Sunless Sea
287) Sunrider series
288) Super Meat Boy
289) Sweet fantasy
290) Sweet Lily Dreams
291) Syberia series
292) Tales of Maj'Eyal
293) Talisman series
294) The Talos Principle
295) Tavernier
296) Time Gentlemen, Please!
297) To Be or Not To Be
298) To the Moon
299) Toki Tori series
300) Tomb Raider
301) Transistor
302) TransOcean: The Shipping Company
303) Transparent Black
304) Tricolor Lovestory
305) Trillion
306) Tropico 4
307) Tsukumogami
308) The Vagrant
309) Vagrant Hearts series
310) Valiant: Resurrection
311) Valkyria Chronicles series
312) The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux
313) Venture Seas
314) VVVVVV
315) The Walking Dead series
316) War for the Overworld
317) Warlock – Master of the Arcane
318) Watch_Dogs 2
319) The Way We ALL GO
320) Wind Child
321) The Witcher: Enhanced Edition
322) Without Within 2
323) WORLD END ECONOMICA episode.01
324) WORLD OF FINAL FANTASY
325) World of Goo
326) X-Blades
327) XCOM: Enemy Unknown
328) Yakuza series
329) Ys series
330) Zen Bound 2
331) Zeno Clash
332) Love in School
333) Floral Aroma in the Shrine
334) 100 hidden cats
335) 1bitHeart
336) 2064: Read Only Memories
337) Alien Cat
338) Animals Memory: Cats
339) ANIME STANDING
340) Arcade Spirits
341) Assassin's Creed III Remastered
342) The Bard's Tale series
343) Battle Brothers
344) The Big Journey
345) BlazBlue: Chronophantasma Extend
346) Box Cats Puzzle
347) Bright Paw
348) Calico
349) Cat Lady – The Card Game
350) Cat President – A More Purrfect Union
351) Cat Quest II
352) CATch the Stars
353) Catlandia: Crisis at Fort Pawprint
354) Cats Organized Neatly
355) Cattails
356) Choice of the Cat
357) Colorado Cocoa Club
358) Court of Ashes
359) Crazy Critters – Combat Cats
360) Devil in the Details
361) The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
362) Eschalon series
363) Fading Hearts
364) F******* Quest
365) Gender Bender DNA Twister Extreme
366) Getaway Island
367) Gibbous – A Cthulu Adventure
368) Golf With Your Friends
369) GRIS
370) Heaven's Vault
371) Hidden Paws Mystery
372) Hikari! Love Potion
373) Hollow Knight
374) Hustle Cat
375) I wanna be The Cat
376) Inspector Waffles
377) Instinct
378) Interplanetary series
379) Ittle Dew 2
380) Kidnapped! A Royal Birthday
381) Killing Time at Lightspeed: Enhanced Edition
382) Kind Words
383) Kitty Tactics
384) Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk
385) Legends of Talia: Arcadia
386) Mad Max
387) Magical Battle Festa
388) Magical Diary: Wolf Hall
389) Melancholy Love
390) Memories of a Vagabond
391) The Miskatonic
392) Moon Hunters
393) Moonlighter
394) National Park Girls
395) The Orchard of Stray Sheep
396) Passpartout: The Starving Artist
397) Persona 4 Golden
398) Pinball FX3
399) Praey for the Gods
400) Quarantine
401) Quiplash
402) Record of Lodoss War – Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth
403) Rock of Ages 3 – Make & Break
404) Seek Hearts
405) Sentinels of the Multiverse
406) Shining Resonance Refrain
407) Shuffle!
408) Sonic Adventure series
409) Sonic Generations
410) Sonic Lost World
411) Sonic the Hedgehog 4
412) Sorcery! Part 4
413) Sticky Paws
414) StrikeForce Kitty
415) Summer Paws
416) Tales of Berseria
417) Tametsi
418) This War of Mine
419) Timelie
420) V:tM – Night Road
421) V:tM – Redemption
422) Wanderlust series
423) Wandersong
424) Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
425) Wildermyth
426) Wolf Tails
427) World's Dawn
Stuff I’ve been meaning to get back to and do and replay:
428) AC: Odyssey – Find All The Things
429) D&D: Chronicles of Mystara – Beat With Every Class
430) Loren the Amazon Princess – Replay
431) Magical Diary: Horse Hall – Replay
432) Untitled Goose Game – Replay
433) VA-11 Hall-A – Perfect Ending
MMOs I’ve been meaning to not let sit on my HD:
434) Black Desert Online – New Character
435) Champions Online – New Character
436) D&D Online – Max Favor Run
437) EverQuest – Reach Endgame
438) EverQuest II – Reach Endgame
439) Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis – Reach Endgame
440) Secret World Legends – New Character
441) Star Wars: The Old Republic – Finish Current Class
442) TERA – Finish Current Class
…and I’m heading over to wheelofnames.com to slap them all into a wheel format to help me figure out what to play next. I figure if I get anything else, I’ll just tack it on to the end of the list.
So, with no further ado, well… let’s see where we’re starting this journey off from:
375) I wanna be The Cat
…apparently we start with a cat game- and a re-skin of another popular indie game, “I Wanna Be The Guy”- real twitch-based pixel-perfect gameplay. I’ve actually played IWBTG, and I’m just absolutely no good at it, and I haven’t been all that good at stuff like that. So I figure I’ll just kick it over and maybe leave it uninstalled for now- not that I don’t want to try it, but that it just doesn’t feel like something I’d have a great time playing.
So… let’s take a look and see what else comes up…
97) Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos
Huh, a VN? Always up for one of those!
I can has cheezburger, yes?
Also Control was okay. I wanted to like it more than I did, and if I ever go back to play the DLC, I'll probably turn on all the assists that make the game more fun
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I sucked up that games world like a sponge.
It also let me throw people at people, gave me a shotgun that vaporises anything that gets close, let me fly, and gave me a rocket launcher i can spam while flying, turning me into a demented apache.
I'm not sure it's possible for someone with my personality, my likes and interests, to have ever disliked Control.
Hey!
HEY!
You!
YOU!
Should play Burnout Paradise
You say that to everyone!
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Curious why you think the combat was bad? It doesn't seem like anything super special, but I'm enjoying it. And using telekinesis to throw random objects is fun.
Consensus reached: "Control is polarizing"
Because I did not enjoy it even a little bit. Box throwing simulator that just wasn't fun.
I *loved* this one. Alas, it was (last I knew) abandoned and the story never finished.
So have you managed the chaos?
Blimey, now you're asking. I vaguely remember that from the mists of time but I can't recall the name.
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Royce, sometimes I think your posts aren't even about games or by present you, but are distorted transmissions from a future or parallel timeline in which the cosmic endwars have begun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSyCu3rNIuE
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
You post a list, I'll post a rec
You post a list, I'll post a rec
Play Bastion if you haven't yet
Hark! A prophecy from the End of All!
Lots of good info in this.
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