I'm all in on this, solo ATM. Hoping they bring it to Xbox so I can get the kid in.
The graphics seem horrid at first but like Sea of Theives, the technical art is world class and the whole style grows on you and gels so quickly, for me it's one of the most beuitiful things I think I've ever played. The way lighting, fog, shadows all interact is better than anything I've seen before. Those stroms are wild! Nighttime in the forest? Goosebumps! The fog over the depressions, the eyes of the tree zombies in the dark, the 30 meter high troll getting pissed at the racket you are making at that coal deposit? Frightening! The dungeons are simple but channel that classic Morrowind vibe in a way I've missed since 2002. I think it does mood and ambiance better than SoT and RDR2. But the expeditions are actually scary, fun and profitable on land unlike SoT.

Really good stuff. Might be the first actual minecraft killer for me. Only took over a decade!

Rain wrote on Feb 15, 2021, 15:10:
Maybe I am getting old, but I always felt it was too hard to actually see the components.

I had some trouble with this. Especially on switch with it's low resolution. OC2 on Xbox at 65" seems fine, though keeping up with the noise on screen/leanring the kitchens is part of the fun!

I think I enjoyed Moving Out even more, same publisher and heavily inspired by OC, even more. It's got all the slapstick and a lot less of the fiddlyness except when it's kind of intended. Works for younger children as well.

eRe4s3r wrote on Feb 14, 2021, 23:02:

Dacron wrote on Feb 14, 2021, 19:26:
Dyson Sphere program is Factorio on crack (and factorio itself was crack... so dyson sphere would be speed balls?) . Like an expanded 3d version of it requiring planetary involvement as opposed to railways. LOVE the liquid extraction (it puts them in packaged bars in conveyor, back to liquid when it hits a tank) it was a cute way of doing it, hope it isn't replaced by pipes in the future.

Though with a TON of similarities (resources, mining, storage, recipes, terrain manipulation, research, research items [even the colors are the same to start for research items] automation / transport... basically the whole game is a copy of Factorio that's been expanded) it'll be interesting to sere if it spawns any legal issues.

The joke is, if DSP adds more features they will EASILY overtake Factorio in terms of gameplay thanks to the insanely low feature density in Factorio. It's really mind-blowing that a game that was nearly a decade in development has not actually changed much in those years.... even removing gameplay features instead of adding new ones near the end (campaign.. and enemy science drops making enemies completely pointless to ever fight) instead revising visuals.. as if ANYONE played Factorio for the visuals. Could have been pixel art and it'd probably even have ended up a better game.. oh well I got my money out of Factorio and then some.. and same for DSP.. which is criminally underpriced in this Early Access.. way too cheap for what it already does.

Playing DSP now. It's certainly pretty and has some cool features but I enjoy the trains and belt logic in Factorio, and nothing else has come close. And Satisfactory has DSP beat in terms of verticality. But most developers will tell you the last 10% of a game is the hardest, and Factorio devs were lucky they got 3 years to spend on that. I'm not that gutted about the campaign, it's not like any of the competitors have thought it was a good idea or had enough pent up demand to try and do it themselves. Again, cutting features is normal in gamedev. If something still isn't fun after a few years maybe it's not worth shipping. Blizzard in the old days would kill entire games because of this principal instead of shipping junk.

Whatever problems Destiny has, and there are multitudes, there is nowhere else that feels as fun to shoot heads for dozens of hours and nothing that competes with a good raid on the odd occasion you can get a decent group together.

It would be nice if it had Path of Exile or Warframe levels of content but for some reason I don’t enjoy being in those spaces killing those enemies. Got the kid on the old Xbox, got the exapansion with gamepass, it feels like 2014 in the cosmodrome again. Nothing feels as good to pull a trigger in. Loving it.

Fuck yes. I'm a whitey straighty boring dude and the industry is run by more talented versions of me. It's great that every product seems aimed right at me but this website's comments are a living testament to how bad we are at this. Get some different perspectives in!

Double FIIIIIIIINE!

These remasters are fantastic. The pinacle of the genre in many ways.

Would love mouse support on XBOX for it though... booted up tentacle and it looks great on the 65". Monkey Island 1/2 and Sam and Max added to the collection would be nice as well but Timmy wasn't lead on those so probably no chance.

jdreyer wrote on Oct 22, 2020, 20:10:

RedEye9 wrote on Oct 21, 2020, 21:51:

NKD wrote on Oct 21, 2020, 21:45:
New Zealand seems to be the go-to for billionaires looking to leave the sinking ship that is the United States.

What country wouldn’t accept a billionaire?
You go up to the local government and you say that you’ll give them $1 million a year , you’ll buy a house , you’ll pay property taxes , you’ll pay income taxes , you’ll hire x number of locals for your staff , you’ll donate to local charities and you’ll tip well when you eat out and you won’t be a crazy McAfee person.

Well, true, but which countries would billionaires want to go to? New Zealand is literally the end of the Earth from which you can escape the zombie hoards.

Wrong. We learned from Myth:The Fallen Lords that zombies, being dead, find walking under water not an issue. Though the subduction zones around New Zealand might cause some issues for them.

It's so good. Will get it on PC for the crossplay unless the port is broken. It's fantastic on PS4 other than the optimisations needed for online. Dozens of hours in already. Hundreds to go.

Everyone buy and play Hades. Much nicer on PC but still amazing enough on switch if you want it on the big telle. Feels like the ultimate action RPG distilled into short experimental runs with a really good meta narrative that takes it all into account. 6 fantastic feeling, diverse weapons with 4 variants each plus what feels like an infinite number of ways to add to and modify and combo your builds, I spent dozens of hours in EA on PC and I'm liable to play this sucker for the hundreds it takes to max out. Really phenomenal.

HorrorScope wrote on Sep 25, 2020, 10:31:
"Just don't really see the need for any of the 30xx cards for most of us. A 3080 is just major overkill for almost any sort of gaming right now"

Words like that are people that still need to understand we are a free people who all think different.

Even if it were that (it isn't), headroom is a thing to and if offered in time devs will eat it up someway, that's what they do.

Yep, and some poeple are on on 9 and 10 series cards and overdue for an upgrade and have the cash to support this or the 3070 isn't good enough for whatever they need it to do. Some people like my dad are into monsters like DCS or FS2020 and cannot get enough frames 1440 or in VR on even 20 series cards. I'm not getting one, can probably afford to wait a refresh or two unless something really good comes out that demands it but why would I question anyone else. We are all in different situations.

Dev wrote on Sep 24, 2020, 11:37:
So I'm trying this free on gamepass.
Really enjoyed the first attempt. HOWEVER it took so long! Is there any way to speed this up? Speed up animations or use keyboard shortcuts or anything?
That's something I love about monster train, can do a run in a reasonable time.

I don't know. I thought this game was amazing but the pacing in Hades and Spelunky 2 have me hooked so havn't touched it in weeks.

It might be a case of a brilliant combat system with an overrought meta game, even though it's very pretty and interesting enough. The nemesis style system is cool but also possibly unecessary? Or maybe when you are good you can play faster than I? I'm probably at 3 hours a run at least which dosn't really work for me.

There is a reason Into the Breach canned their strategy layer in favour of their chill, command and conquer style mission selection screen. Or maybe the long runs are ok and we are just thinking about it wrong. I guess original xcom runs could go for 40 hours and still end in failure and we thought that was cool.

RedEye9 wrote on Sep 18, 2020, 20:51:

Bill Borre wrote on Sep 18, 2020, 20:34:
I bet Trump is asking his advisors just how fast he can nominate a supreme court justice.

Mitch McConnell blocked President Barack Obama's Supreme Court pick, Merrick Garland, for 293 days.

If that worthless piece of excrement approves a nominee before the election there will be hell to pay.

It was a dick/anti democratic move, but one they were able to pull off with a lame duck president. Because the USA is populated by a huge number of insane people, Trump does not have the same conditions that would allow the Democrats to cockblock him.

And the GOP will go with it. Even the ones that hate Trump know they will get more of their judges and legislation through with him and his cult in charge, as opposed to under Biden in the unlikely event that he wins where they still get most of their legislation or at least comparable laws but not the judges.

On of the two establishment parties knows how to seize, hold and use power and wield propaganda and capital to maintain it. The other is made of mostly career politicians who seem way too comfortable in opposition.

Undocumented Alien wrote on Sep 6, 2020, 12:29:
Enjoying CKIII so far, doing better than I did with CKII, not sure why. I was able to unite Ireland with the tutorial for the first time which gave me some much needed confidence. I also found this YouTube-r helpful for how a person that's good at the game (not me!) plays it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlGqM9HCWJk

Another good CK3 YouTube'r that is helpful (shows how to conquer Ireland): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCc43BtQeYU

Thanks for these man! I'm a 300 hour CK2 vet but never been great at it. The few times i've managed to unite a decent kingdom I havn't had the skills to hold it together or protect it from forgein wolves. I'm not much of a people person, I think you need the kind of trumpish vinidictiveness to follow/remember people and their crimes against you to really keep up.

So I can keep the petty kingdom of munster together and hold 25-75% of ireland at any time but there is always a succession, invasion, evil faction ready to hold me back. If these videos get me past that hump I'll be happy.

Not that I'm complaining. I'm pretty sure real medieval dukes struggled to expand their holdings as well and history only really highlights the few that did. Such a good game. Much easier than CK2 to keep up with, but still difficult. My Dunbar number is much lower than most people. But I'm a shitty drunk Irishman it all works. The tutorial is perfect that is exactly where I went to learn CK2. Now excuse me I have to murder a cousin I really should have thought twice about marrying off to a sneak scottsman.

So. Damn. Good.

Best on Switch, they nailed the console UI so hard it's unbelievable. One of those games I can load up any time for a run an have a good time. Very different to FTL, maybe less ambitious in some ways, but a much better game.

VaranDragon wrote on Sep 2, 2020, 09:12:
Never played this series but heard pretty good things about it. Is it kind of like Civilization?

Nope! More like the sims combined with a visual novel interacting with a strategy layer but 100 times better than that sounds. You play successive heirs, not always connected to their original geographical powerbase. It's medieval times titles to places where you don't speak the language is fine fucking peasants just need to cough up them taxes and levys! It's super awesome. Lots of RNG or bullshit from parts of the planet you were not even thinking about brewing to ruin your day, though "painting the map" can be a goal of yours, it's more of a "Stay alive and try and keep at least my favorite kids also alive".

You might spend a night or two securing ireland but good luck if you took your eyes off england and the monstrous continental force of Normans that are eyeing you off with a snack! It's not always fair but it wouldn't be historical if it was. That said things get ahistorical very quickly depending on who wins wars or dies of syphylis at certain times. Does islam conquer all of europe instead of getting reqonquisted? Do the russians somehow survive the mongols and do the same? Do the vikings create colonies in africa and give it the new world treatment 400 years earlier? All part of the fun!

CK2 was getting creaky after 8 years and a million DLC. This sounds like a good refresh but I better go find out... sleep is for the weak right?

Yes! I needed this, cannot afford all the beer required to be drunk enough to handle the wait for Spelunky 2 but this should do in a pinch.

I gate to say asset rip but if you edited that Blazing Sails trailer with the logo from Sea of Theives most people wouldn't know the difference. Kinda gross.

But aslo, we need more games like Sea of Theives. Was just hoping for ones with a little originality and less asset-rip off lookalikes.

theglaze wrote on Aug 28, 2020, 08:37:

Reactor wrote on Aug 28, 2020, 05:32:

VaranDragon wrote on Aug 28, 2020, 03:43:

Numinar wrote on Aug 28, 2020, 00:15:
Into the Breach is worthy of being a repeat given it’s a lock in top 10 game of all time easily that has all but ruined TBS for me outside of boardgames. I bet they wish they had made some DLC for it to flog, though it’s greatest strength is the lack of bloat and tight editing/pacing that makes every second spent with the thing meaningful and interesting.

Well I gotta remember to check Epic's store next thursday. FTL was awesome, though I've heard Into the Breach is not on the same level of greatness its quite good.

Into the Breach is amazing. I constantly got beaten down by it, but I always enjoyed playing it. It’s right up there with FTL in my eyes, but obviously very different.

It's the writing that lets down Into the Breach, it comes across as sterile without personality or humor. I think they were trying to capture Starship Troopers humour, but failed. That said, the gameplay is great!

It's one of my favorite parts of it, even though it's probably not cool to spruik famous sex pest Chris Avalone these days. The brief snippets from the CEO's, characters and even the random NPC pilots all feed into the world building without overstaying their welcome. The dynamic chats from the surviving civilian structures after you have saved them or gotten most of them killed are amazing and add so much to the feeling of you actions having consequences in a way most AAA games never even get close to.

Not trying to yum your yuck though I'm a big idiot and am often wrong but ITB is 100% an all time and forever 10/10, every aspect of what it's going for perfected like Spelunky HD or Factorio (or Kerbal if it didn't have performance/UI issues).

Burrito of Peace wrote on Aug 27, 2020, 23:05:
This needs to exceed Children of the Nile which set the bar for Ancient Egyptian building games. Tried the Builders of Egypt prologue and it felt clunky. Unfortunately, the developer's only two games on Steam have a "mixed" review. Likewise unfortunately, Tilted Mill seems to have quietly cratered in to nonexistence. Shame, really, as they were the reformation of Impressions which created Pharoah, Cleopatra, Caesar and the other classic city building games.

Yeah not going to get too excited about this yet... Impressions style wlaker games peaked with Emperor in terms of mechanics and Zeus in terms of full package entertainment. None of them work well, even with GOG. Unless I dig the old pentium 66 out of the garage. Children of the Nile on the other hand was something different and far superior, such an amazing game and still works well today and yet ended up being an evolutionary dead end, with maybe only Banished getting close to that feeling of ruling over people as a leader instead of ruling over idiots as a god.

Into the Breach is worthy of being a repeat given it’s a lock in top 10 game of all time easily that has all but ruined TBS for me outside of boardgames. I bet they wish they had made some DLC for it to flog, though it’s greatest strength is the lack of bloat and tight editing/pacing that makes every second spent with the thing meaningful and interesting.