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That first lego batman game is my favourite lego game still, some of the others like hobbit and harry potter were infuriating though.
And this is exactly why I hate closed ecosystems. I am not interested in two or more corporations dick waving to show how important they are. I want software, and I want there to be zero barriers or any kind.
Sad to see how MS is doing their best to destroy this kind of thing on Windows. Would just leave Linux, at the end of the day.
Boring news:
Apparently still a "long time" until new Geforce-cards: PC Gamer.
Also, early Freesync 2-screens does not seem to impress: Sweclockers (Swedish).
:(
Apparently still a "long time" until new Geforce-cards: PC Gamer.
Also, early Freesync 2-screens does not seem to impress: Sweclockers (Swedish).
:(
Prime Mover is very good, but it IMO is also quite a difficult entry in this genre, so maybe not the best place to start.
Opus Magnum is probably the most beginner friendly and polished of the current selection.
SpaceChem is also a very good entry point or alternatively Infinifactory if you prefer something less abstract, and both can be had for little money during sales. And you might already own SpaceChem, since it has been bundled a number of times. If you have a background or experience with programming, then I would strongly recommend TIS-100.
People are misinterpreting the Nvidia news there. That's about the new 7mm architecture, and there was never any solid news it was coming out fast, just far-fetched rumors. That doesn't mean Nvidia can't produce a new chip on existing scales, even something totally new, and then later scale it down to 7mm.
What a terrible company. Let's hope they'll support Vulkan instead if game devs refuse to use Metal.
Especially with regard to the 720p requirement. Numerous high-profile titles were approved for release despite not meeting it, including some from Microsoft's own stable (most infamously Halo 3), and it wasn't removed from the TCR checklist until ~September 2009.
I hope that doesn't mean my copy of Black & White 2 I got from the app store stops working. I was so happy when I found that since the game isn't sold anywhere for PC that I know of.
Awaiting port report (still not bought their Onechanbara or something)
I just really can't get over Code Vein's 2Kool4Skool art style.
Looks like a 16 year old anime fan with emo hair drew a tokyo ghoul OC
Looks like a 16 year old anime fan with emo hair drew a tokyo ghoul OC
It's true. But I managed to enjoy Berseria so I am certain I can enjoy this.
Thanks. I think InfiniFactory seems like it would be the one for me. The boxes and conveyors looks like something I can wrap my head around better.
I agree with you but I actually think I'm leaning towards a "so bad its good" where it does a 180 and goes back to being cool.
But I'm a sucker for mouth guards / masks and that game is full of those :3
Eila now owns:
Micro Thong White
Micro Thong Red
Micro Thong Yellow
The fact that Onechanbara got a spinoff shouldn't surprise me as much as it does.hint:
Hey if I can get to make my chara with Immortan Joe's face mask, count me in.
I finished the Life is Strange: Before the Storm bonus episode last night. Even though I had been spoiled and knew what was coming, it was still pretty heartbreaking, especially knowing that this is probably farewell to Max and Chloe. Been one hella great journey though, and I'll be keenly interested in what DONTNOD and Deck Nine do next.
Those graphics don't look remastered. I only played this game last year and it looked the same. Weird.
You were expecting remastered graphics? Seems you were mars-taken.
On the PC, not so much but its a huge upgrade for the consoles. On the ps3 it had horrible frame rates and low resolution.
What do ya'll think about Devil's Third Online aka "Rockshot"?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/653120/RockShot/
I want to like it, it has everything I want from a "TPS" but it's also confusing af, especially using the half assed mapped controller and also has a feature or two I totally despise:
Region locking and P2W (possibly).
https://store.steampowered.com/app/653120/RockShot/
I want to like it, it has everything I want from a "TPS" but it's also confusing af, especially using the half assed mapped controller and also has a feature or two I totally despise:
Region locking and P2W (possibly).
Thank you for the confirmation.
Already bought my copy. ;)
As a side note, please consider porting/releasing any older Experience Inc. game, or any of Akira Ueda's games, such as the wonderful Contact (originally for the Nintendo DS), or Sakura Note, which was never available in English. :)
Regards
Heh, I use only use MacOS for gaming.XD I'm not completely sure what this means, does everything need to be updated and everything new need to conform? Yeah that can't bode well for indie games on Steam, which thus far have been those that mostly supported MacOS.
User Warned - “Lazy Dev” rhetoric
It means developers needs to stop being lazy and learn to use metal if they want their games on MacOS.
Crossposting from 52 games per year thread, my thoughts about Overclocked: A History of Violence. Another game that was looking interesting at first glance but turned out to be a clunky mess. The idea and premise are great, you're playing as psychiatrist who needs to talk with 5 patients who were found went crazy in different parts of New York under similar circumstances. Soon after your investigation starts, it becomes obvious that all those people went from the same place, and you discovering truth piece by piece in reverse order, from the moment they've escaped and to the day when all starts. To add more drama, the protagonist also has some uncontrollable rage issues and problems with his wife who live in different town and want to divorce.
This could have been a great noir-style thriller, but unfortunately, design flaws and numerous plot holes ruined whole experience to me. This game is such a mixed bag, it did some things right, like showing points of interest by pressing spacebar or almost instant loads between locations - but at the same time there's no journal or at least task list, and sometimes it's really hard to understand what exactly game wants from you. The main part of Overclocked gameplay is an interrogation of patients by playing audio clips from your talks with other patients, but the problem is the whole process is very linear and you always need to remember who was interrogated already and which audiolog, from specific cell, date and part of the day you need to play - and you'll have dozens of those clips just after the first day of investigation, hence all 5 days. With lack of hints, it's getting really frustrating to come back to the game and try to remember where exactly you stopped during your previous session, especially if you haven't played it for few days. Unless you'll use a walkthrough, Overclocked quickly turns to the boring guessing game.
It's not just that, there's plenty of weird design choices outside interrogations. Overclocked has a very weird logic, at the first day protagonist said he needs to call detective, but refuses to do it in the hospital because he wanted "privacy". So, I went to the last point where he was fine with making private calls - to his room in the hotel. But when I called detective, he didn't respond and I stuck, having no idea what I should do next. Turned out I should have called him not from my room, but at the hospital entrance - which is dumb because there was a guard nearby - and only then detective suddenly decided to answer on my calls. Also, protagonist LOVES to refuse to sleep at the end of the day, motivating this simply because "Not yet".
A good story could have saved this game even despite all problems and design flaws, but it has some major problems as well. My main gripe is about the whole personal drama that happens in the life of the protagonist, he looks and acts perfectly sane most of the time, but everyone around always yelling at him and proposing medical treatment, which obviously driving him nuts. When a drunk guy suddenly put the gun to his head, it's perfectly fine, but once protagonist disarmed him and aimed gun at that guy, everyone starts to yell at him and say that "he losing it". Characters (including the protagonist) sometimes doing really dumb shit for no reason, I mean what will you do when your bank account suddenly become frozen and you won't have a cash to pay for your room in the hotel? Of course, you would act like any sane person - you'll come to work like nothing happened and ignore the issue for few days... Wait, what? Seriously? Maybe that's how devs tried to show that protagonist is really "losing it", but it's not insanity, it's just lack of brains!
Well, to be fair there are some nice plot twists - but that's not enough to make a competent story. Once you starting to put all pieces of the puzzle together, the whole plot is falling apart. Overclocked didn't bother to explain a lot of important parts of the story, for example, why all patients went crazy after escape from the facility and forgot everything - during the first day of the investigation it was clear that all patients escaped in pretty much sane condition. Well, apparently evil dudes somehow found them, brainwashed them, and for some reasons let them out - and by doing that, they've brought attention to their work, which was supposed to be secret. Whatever...
After all, Overclocked is not COMPLETELY terrible. If you're hardcore adventure games fan, then I can see you having some fun with it, but everyone else? Nah, just forget about it
...Welp, another post with impressions that I didn't expect to be that huge. At this pace, I'll need a 3rd part for my 52 games list soon. Hope my English becomes as better as I feel it is, because surprisingly writing this piece was even easier than on one of my native languages.
This could have been a great noir-style thriller, but unfortunately, design flaws and numerous plot holes ruined whole experience to me. This game is such a mixed bag, it did some things right, like showing points of interest by pressing spacebar or almost instant loads between locations - but at the same time there's no journal or at least task list, and sometimes it's really hard to understand what exactly game wants from you. The main part of Overclocked gameplay is an interrogation of patients by playing audio clips from your talks with other patients, but the problem is the whole process is very linear and you always need to remember who was interrogated already and which audiolog, from specific cell, date and part of the day you need to play - and you'll have dozens of those clips just after the first day of investigation, hence all 5 days. With lack of hints, it's getting really frustrating to come back to the game and try to remember where exactly you stopped during your previous session, especially if you haven't played it for few days. Unless you'll use a walkthrough, Overclocked quickly turns to the boring guessing game.
It's not just that, there's plenty of weird design choices outside interrogations. Overclocked has a very weird logic, at the first day protagonist said he needs to call detective, but refuses to do it in the hospital because he wanted "privacy". So, I went to the last point where he was fine with making private calls - to his room in the hotel. But when I called detective, he didn't respond and I stuck, having no idea what I should do next. Turned out I should have called him not from my room, but at the hospital entrance - which is dumb because there was a guard nearby - and only then detective suddenly decided to answer on my calls. Also, protagonist LOVES to refuse to sleep at the end of the day, motivating this simply because "Not yet".
A good story could have saved this game even despite all problems and design flaws, but it has some major problems as well. My main gripe is about the whole personal drama that happens in the life of the protagonist, he looks and acts perfectly sane most of the time, but everyone around always yelling at him and proposing medical treatment, which obviously driving him nuts. When a drunk guy suddenly put the gun to his head, it's perfectly fine, but once protagonist disarmed him and aimed gun at that guy, everyone starts to yell at him and say that "he losing it". Characters (including the protagonist) sometimes doing really dumb shit for no reason, I mean what will you do when your bank account suddenly become frozen and you won't have a cash to pay for your room in the hotel? Of course, you would act like any sane person - you'll come to work like nothing happened and ignore the issue for few days... Wait, what? Seriously? Maybe that's how devs tried to show that protagonist is really "losing it", but it's not insanity, it's just lack of brains!
Well, to be fair there are some nice plot twists - but that's not enough to make a competent story. Once you starting to put all pieces of the puzzle together, the whole plot is falling apart. Overclocked didn't bother to explain a lot of important parts of the story, for example, why all patients went crazy after escape from the facility and forgot everything - during the first day of the investigation it was clear that all patients escaped in pretty much sane condition. Well, apparently evil dudes somehow found them, brainwashed them, and for some reasons let them out - and by doing that, they've brought attention to their work, which was supposed to be secret. Whatever...
After all, Overclocked is not COMPLETELY terrible. If you're hardcore adventure games fan, then I can see you having some fun with it, but everyone else? Nah, just forget about it
...Welp, another post with impressions that I didn't expect to be that huge. At this pace, I'll need a 3rd part for my 52 games list soon. Hope my English becomes as better as I feel it is, because surprisingly writing this piece was even easier than on one of my native languages.
He's right though. OpenGL and Vulkan are meant for lazy, unskilled developpers who can't code to the Metal™. :'')
Nope. There are games that I would love to play on my MacBook Pro but they won't port them over. Railway Empire is one example. It seems that game developers don't care about MacOS, which is unfortunate.
Was SG/ZH ever announced for PC or is that a surprise?
My thoughts on the PS4 Ver: It's very Okay. The harder difficulties are really hard, co-op isn't required for achievements, there is tons of grinding if you want to unlock everything. Shooting mechanics are exceptionally subpar. Time waster game and nothing more.
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I think Code Vein looks fine. It's very, distinct ...sortaish. Glowy eyes and ushanka, lots of plot, what's not to love?
My thoughts on the PS4 Ver: It's very Okay. The harder difficulties are really hard, co-op isn't required for achievements, there is tons of grinding if you want to unlock everything. Shooting mechanics are exceptionally subpar. Time waster game and nothing more.
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I think Code Vein looks fine. It's very, distinct ...sortaish. Glowy eyes and ushanka, lots of plot, what's not to love?
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