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[Dream_Journey]

I'm enjoying with Cosmic Star Heronie since 1,5 hours, so beautiful game so far! Always smile on my face while playing. (until

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abandoned lab. :S)

Deep battle system; OST, atmosphere and characters are so good so far.

Thanks again Knurek!

Look man you don't gotta play that tune with me.
I know what I'm going in for.

Lol.

 

[Baron von Loathsome]

Will grab Elex down the line, too many games for me to play atm @o@
Anyways TIME FOR DOKI DOKI!

Next year's GOTY Pillars of Eternity II is doing pirates.

 

[Mivey]

Next year's GOTY Pillars of Eternity II is doing pirates.

Everybody knows you never go full pirate. Sure, some elements of it in the game, but enough world building to make it just one small part. Not a pirate game. But Risen went full pirate.

 

[Baron von Loathsome]

Everybody knows you never go full pirate.

Unless you're a PC gamer. :V

 

[arts&crafts]

Everybody knows you never go full pirate. Sure, some elements of it in the game, but enough world building to make it just one small part. Not a pirate game. But Risen went full pirate.

What about space pirate?

 

[Thorgal]

so i don't know if any Developer or people with knowledge of game design post in this thread ( and if not ill post a thread to get more exposure for it ) but i am curious how this is done i in The evil within : https://youtu.be/IXIiDB4k4pA?list=PL57hJfweW_2ufMjvwvln-SHOISPR42uw_&t=1264


how are the developers able to change the game world area you are in so fast from one to the next ?
i know in this instance it can be argued that that little black and white segment is hiding the world loading in but on other occasions the change is almost instantaneous .

whats the secret ?

 

[Dinjoralo]

I'm really glad licensed movie games are branching out, with stuff like this and the Mummy Demastered. Much better than the 5th/6th generation days where near-all movie tie-ins were samey, generic beat'em up platformers.

 

[Tizoc]

Seems someone hadn't played Wolverine Origins ;P
To be fair though, games based on movies are 50-50; you just never know when one will be good, or at least decent.

 

[Aaron D.]

Cogmind drops later today. Pretty freakin' stoked.

It's a turn-based ASCII rougelike that looks to marry traditional genre design philosophies with modern conveniences and sensibilities.

Games appears to have a impressive amount of depth attached to it...all made by one guy.

 

[Javier23]

Cogmind drops later today. Pretty freakin' stoked.

It's a turn-based ASCII rougelike that looks to marry traditional genre design philosophies with modern conveniences and sensibilities.

Games appears to have a impressive amount of depth attached to it...all made by one guy.

Oh my, this looks right up my alley. Wishlisting!

 

[Arthea]

Elex looks pretty cool, if you wanna know my opinion, unfortunate year for releasing though, so many games....

 

[Annubis]

Everybody knows you never go full pirate. Sure, some elements of it in the game, but enough world building to make it just one small part. Not a pirate game. But Risen went full pirate.

What happened to that REAL pirate game anyway?
Bombed?

What about space pirate?

 

[Boss Doggie]

is Orion: Prelude the new Ark

EDIT: Also what's up with Grey Goo reviews?

 

[Purkake4]

Cogmind drops later today. Pretty freakin' stoked.

It's a turn-based ASCII rougelike that looks to marry traditional genre design philosophies with modern conveniences and sensibilities.

Games appears to have a impressive amount of depth attached to it...all made by one guy.

Just found out about it last week. The super in-depth developer diaries and the whole design process is great to read. Also the visual design and the sound effects are amazing and not something I'd expect from a roguelike.

I also like the self-sustaining robot ecosystem with neutral robots dynamically searching for scrap to turn into matter recycles that actual recycle it (or return it if you hack them), rebuilding walls, digging new tunnels. The "global" AI is also maintaining an alert level that goes up if you mess with things or destroy stuff, eventually sending squads after you and making stealth a valid option. There's guns that shoot through walls and enemies that use scanners to see and shoot at you through walls, side levels (Unexplored style) with unique stuff like trash compactors caches of prototype weapons.

This let's play gives a pretty good overview of the gameplay.

Also, this is the non-ascii mode:

 

[Mivey]

What happened to that REAL pirate game anyway?
Bombed?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lofR-R_rFJ0
As I said, you never go full pirate.

 

[Thorgal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lofR-R_rFJ0
As I said, you never go full pirate.

" BE BRAVE ,MOTHERFUCKERS ! "
"BE BRAVE .PILE OF SHITS !
"BE BRAVE ?FUCKERS !"
"BE BRAVE , HORSES ASSES !

 

[Knurek]

So, are we getting Persona Steam port next week?

 

[GhostTrick]

So, are we getting Persona Steam port next week?

Hahahahaha. Guys, for real, can we please forget about Persona/Atlus getting on Steam for the next decade ?

 

[Mikurden]

I'm really glad licensed movie games are branching out, with stuff like this and the Mummy Demastered. Much better than the 5th/6th generation days where near-all movie tie-ins were samey, generic beat'em up platformers.

I guess the games don't have to be samey and generic just because the movies are!

 

[Tizoc]

Hahahahaha. Guys, for real, can we please forget about Persona/Atlus getting on Steam for the next decade ?

Schwächling pls.
Ya know you want it tomrrow.
It's gonna happen, ya just gotta wait it out.

 

[Durante]

so i don't know if any Developer or people with knowledge of game design post in this thread ( and if not ill post a thread to get more exposure for it ) but i am curious how this is done i in The evil within : https://youtu.be/IXIiDB4k4pA?list=PL57hJfweW_2ufMjvwvln-SHOISPR42uw_&t=1264


how are the developers able to change the game world area you are in so fast from one to the next ?
i know in this instance it can be argued that that little black and white segment is hiding the world loading in but on other occasions the change is almost instantaneous .

whats the secret ?

I'd assume that it basically simply boils down to keeping both of the areas you are switching between loaded in memory. That reduces your total memory budget, but on the current consoles (and PC of course) it's not insurmountable.

 

[Hektor]

Tizoc if you want your German to be on point it should read "Schlampe, bitte"

 

[Uzzy]

So, are we getting Persona Steam port next week?

I sure hope so. I've stockpiled lots of ammo for the inevitable best girl wars.

 

[Rizzi]

Always a good sign when the main menu for a game run at 8 frames a second.
Evil Within 2 is going great so far.

 

[Tizoc]

Tizoc if you want your German to be on point it should read "Schlampe, bitte"

I'll keep that in mind in the future :3

 

[FoneBone]

This is a mobile port, but it might not be terrible.

 

[Snakethesniper]

Price of Nioh is good but with no info about the port it's hard to buy it blind

 

[Jawmuncher]

Always a good sign when the main menu for a game run at 8 frames a second.
Evil Within 2 is going great so far.

What is your rig?
You always seem to have trouble.

 

[Rizzi]

What is your rig?
You always seem to have trouble.

i5 6600K
16 GB ram
R9 390x

The only games that have actually run like crap on this PC have been Dishonored 2, Agents of Mayhem and The Evil Within 2. Most things run decently once I turn things down a bit.
Dunno if there's a setting that's fucking with The Evil Within 2 though.

 

[Father_Brain]

If a game has online-only achievements and you end up playing through it without an Internet connection, is there any way to force your progress to sync with Steam retroactively and get the achievements? Guessing not, but figured folks here would know.

 

[Knurek]

Holy KRACK.
That's worse than Heartbleed, right?

 

[Father_Brain]

BTW, Slayaway Camp is a really, really good puzzle game. Better suited to mobile given the very short levels and touch-friendly mechanics, but it plays fine with a controller on a big screen, and it really does have that addictive one-more-level quality despite being a glorified sliding-blocks puzzler.

 

[Ganado]

If a game has online-only achievements and you end up playing through it without an Internet connection, is there any way to force your progress to sync with Steam retroactively and get the achievements? Guessing not, but figured folks here would know.

Its up to the devs to implement a check on savefile for achievements and such. If there is none, either Steam Achievement Manager will help you, or you'll have to restart.

 

[JaseC]

If a game has online-only achievements and you end up playing through it without an Internet connection, is there any way to force your progress to sync with Steam retroactively and get the achievements? Guessing not, but figured folks here would know.

If the achievements are truly online-only (i.e. your progress isn't synced after going back online), you can use SAM to unlock them provided they're not designed to be unlocked server-side.

 

[GhostTrick]

Schwächling pls.
Ya know you want it tomrrow.
It's gonna happen, ya just gotta wait it out.

You know, I'm French, not german. :")

 

[Erheller]

Everyone with small SSD drives and too many games installed should read this. Heck, everyone should read this
https://github.com/ImminentFate/CompactGUI

It's a tool that uses a built-in Windows 10 tool too compress games and programs, but still be able to run them without performance drop.

See this chart to see how much each game got compressed and how much disk space was saved
https://github.com/ImminentFate/CompactGUI/wiki/Game-and-Program-Compression-Tests

One great example is Space Hulk: Deathwing. Uncompressed it uses 32 GB, after compression it's 4.1 GB!

The compress tool can be used without the tool
Here is an article about the Win10 tool

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/compact-os

Hey, this is cool. I'll try it out later.

 

[Mivey]

Holy KRACK.
That's worse than Heartbleed, right?

It seems pretty bad, but there should be patches for most systems until the first actual exploits turn up. The attack focuses on clients, after all.
Except on Android, since pretty much nobody patches old stuff, there you should probably get Lineage OS if you can, or buy a new one, with the exploit patched out. Or at the very least, don't do anything "important" on your phone, logging into important services, whatever.

 

[Tizoc]

Played a little bit of Doki Doki, didn't get very far into it but I have already set up my first 'route'.

You know, I'm French, not german. :")

 

[MUnited83]

Everyone with small SSD drives and too many games installed should read this. Heck, everyone should read this
https://github.com/ImminentFate/CompactGUI

It's a tool that uses a built-in Windows 10 tool too compress games and programs, but still be able to run them without performance drop.

See this chart to see how much each game got compressed and how much disk space was saved
https://github.com/ImminentFate/CompactGUI/wiki/Game-and-Program-Compression-Tests

One great example is Space Hulk: Deathwing. Uncompressed it uses 32 GB, after compression it's 4.1 GB!

The compress tool can be used without the tool
Here is an article about the Win10 tool

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/compact-os

sounds like this would screw up the loading times quite a bit

 

[FoneBone]

Doki Doki only has two "real" endings (ie, with the credits rolling), right?

 

[Uzzy]

Doki Doki only has two "real" endings (ie, with the credits rolling), right?

Yes.

 

[Knurek]

Hey, this is cool. I'll try it out later.

Compresses really, really well on Unity games.
(Or basically, anything that doesn't have its data compressed)

sounds like this would screw up the loading times quite a bit

Doesn't seem to have any noticeable impact, it's the same tool you use when you select 'compress folder' in explorer.

 

[Ladekabel]

Chances of the GOG discounts on The Witcher franchise also being on Steam in half an hour?

If they come I‘ll finally might get the Expansion Pass. If not I’ll probably be torn between Cuphead and NioH even if Destiny 2 and Mario are right around the corner.

 

[purseowner]

So, are we getting Persona Steam port next week?

Only if by 'next week' you mean 'next week in gaming magazines'.

 

[arts&crafts]

Reviews don't look great for Elex...but it is a PB game so I don't know what I was expecting. I think I will still enjoy it, I guess I will find out tomorrow.

 

[Tomasety]

Holy KRACK.
That's worse than Heartbleed, right?

It's really bad, indeed, although I must admit that a working exploit has not been published yet if I'm not mistaken. Probably most companies will issue a fix in the following hours/days.

A small list of vendors and their current status https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/228519

 

[Crimsonclaw111]

i5 6600K
16 GB ram
R9 390x

The only games that have actually run like crap on this PC have been Dishonored 2, Agents of Mayhem and The Evil Within 2. Most things run decently once I turn things down a bit.
Dunno if there's a setting that's fucking with The Evil Within 2 though.

Have you tried Wolfenstein, Rage? Idtech 5 seems to hate amd.

 

[Lashley]

Preload isn't up for WWE 2k18 yet 😫

 

[Grief.exe]

I downloaded Clive Barker's Undying from GOG.

Time to get scared.

 

[Tizoc]

I should switch to a Halloween avatar by next week.
Doki Doki ought to be enough of a Halloween game for me this year :V