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[Parsely]

Whoops, mixed up with this one. For some reason, it goes first in google for me.

Oh god, that's horrible. I didn't even know this came out. Yeah that game is not representative of the series IMO

[Akura]

Receiver, the game that's less of a game and more of a manual reloading/instant death simulator, just got an update... after what, six years?

Just tried it, runs a lot smoother. Had a problem with fine aiming, which has been reported by others as well, but I was able to remedy it with some adjustments to mouse sensitivity.

[Mephisto]

I have a soft spot for this one old-as-shit MMO, RPG World Online. Turns out the guy has not been idle over the past decade. His new game is Guild Vale.

Can't vouch for its quality but I'll assume it's as grindy and addictive and fugly as his first several games.

[Aoi]

Destiny or Fate... a deck builder that combines a mishmash of features, and pulls it off in an intriguing fashion. Seen better, seen a lot worse. Has potential.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

For simplicity, I'm using StS as a baseline.

Lots of different mechanics that interact here, so:
1. Deck building is about the same as usual. Power cards get permanently removed, but give a passive for the entire battle. Upgradable/removable in shops. Nothing too special.
2. Map is visually StS-esque, but it's non-linear, in the sense that you can loop back across finished rooms and do other stuff. So basically, you're just clearing the map before moving on.
3. Combat is pretty much the same as StS, but with a very different art style.
4. Here's where things start getting a tad different: Your party consists of you, the hero, and up to three active monsters that can be recruited after battles. You can have a roster to switch in and out as they get injured. You, and your monsters, have unique skills that can be activated in battle.
5. And said unique skills get activated by using certain amounts of attack/defense cards. For example, you may end up with AADDAD, so if you use three attack cards in a row, you'll only get skill activation credit for the first two.
6. Shops also enhance your monsters. And cards. And you. And allow purchases of future run content (new heroes, etc.). With four different currencies.

Balance seems to be a touch off though-- regardless of the strategy, I'm getting flattened in the same place... and that included a monstrously strong setup where I finished the previous ~10 combats in the first turn, before they got a move off.

[Frumple]

A. Seems neat.

B. Watching people play it is apparently mildly infuriating. It took like one or two fights of observation to realize play order is like super important and six or seven more the folks I scoped were still basically friggin' ignoring it. *vaguely insulting muttering noises*

[Aoi]

Watching people play it is apparently mildly infuriating. It took like one or two fights of observation to realize play order is like super important and six or seven more the folks I scoped were still basically friggin' ignoring it. *vaguely insulting muttering noises*

It is... the tutorial is basically UI and combo, because that's really the only thing that matters. Particularly if they play with the girl who has a wolf: One of her specials allows you to Chain(stun) an enemy, so triggering her as much as possible is a good way to succeed.

My team that was stomping everything was composed of stage 1 elites-- when upgraded, they give the combined passive of +4 cards on your first turn, -1 cost to all cards on the first turn (or maybe just initial draw). Combo that with cards that draw additional cards, cards that have a chance of drawing free cards, the ability to inflict Chain, one that does 7 damage per card in your hand to the entire enemy party, and pretty much everything falls to pieces.

Except that one battle that consistently does me in and killed me in two turns.

[Aoi]

Eh, not sure if I should necro the Pet Peeves thread or toss it here, but whatever:

Why oh why is it so rare to find a console->PC port (or, worse yet, cross-release) that has controls that actually make sense for KB/M?

Take you, Mistover. (Or anything by NIS.)

It's like Darkest Dungeon (down to the art style, albeit it a cute anime version) meets Mystery Dungeon (or roguelikes in general, if you're unfamiliar with the franchise), with 3x3 grid combat encounters. Sure, sounds good to me.

But why on earth do your controls have to be just that plain annoying?

Spoiler: "Begin rant. (Note: Based on Demo)" (click to show/hide)

Take your start screen-- "Press any button." *space* ... *enter* ... *c* Oh no. It's one of those.

Okay, lets try the arrow keys. Good. Those work, at least. How about the mouse? *wagglewaggle* It shows up. That's promising. *clicks Start* ...I'm in the options. Where I left the cursor after testing the arrow keys. Well, might as well check for control settings... of which there's single key rebinds. Lets just keep everything default and cancel out. *escape* Aaaaand, of course, that doesn't work. *x*

How about enter? *enter* And no, that doesn't work to select anything on this menu either.

...Never mind, I'm getting dinner before going through with this. ...How am I supposed to exi--- oh come on. *Task Manager, End Task*

(I did actually go back and play the ten minutes that the demo allots. I think it's actually okayish, but the controls just irritated me so much I couldn't really judge it fairly.)

[Iduno]

Has anyone tried Untitled Goose Game yet?

You're a goose, and your goal is to annoy people until they put up a "No geese" sign. IT looks potentially entertaining, and also potentially gets old quickly. If it doesn't do that second thing, I'm in.

Eh, not sure if I should necro the Pet Peeves thread or toss it here, but whatever:

Why oh why is it so rare to find a console->PC port (or, worse yet, cross-release) that has controls that actually make sense for KB/M?

If it was made for console first, it was made and optimized to fit specific hardware, and put no effort into any other hardware. At the point where they're porting it, they probably aren't putting as much time and effort in (the main devs may have moved on). So they don't put in the effort and code (with associated prior-optimized code removal and bug-fixing) to do the port properly. It's easy to comment out some code so it never gets used, creating code whole cloth is not the same.

[Ulfarr]

At this point it might be easier to get a gamepad for your pc.

[auzewasright]

Rails Across America is a good and underrated game from about 2000. It's like Railroad Tycoon, but for me somehow more fun to play. You can play a complete game from 1829 to 2020-30 if one so desires. As always, the main issue is running it on a new system.

[Stench Guzman]

Has anyone tried Untitled Goose Game yet?

You're a goose, and your goal is to annoy people until they put up a "No geese" sign. IT looks potentially entertaining, and also potentially gets old quickly. If it doesn't do that second thing, I'm in.

I've seen a couple of playthroughs of it.  It's on the short side, at about 2-3 hours for the main quest and then maybe a couple more for the optional stuff.  There isn't much replay value after that.

It's the kind of game made for streamers to show off goofy stuff to their audience.  You could suffice with watching one or two youtube videos on it if you don't want to spend the money.

[Aoi]

Has anyone tried Untitled Goose Game yet?

You're a goose, and your goal is to annoy people until they put up a "No geese" sign. IT looks potentially entertaining, and also potentially gets old quickly. If it doesn't do that second thing, I'm in.

I've seen a couple of playthroughs of it.  It's on the short side, at about 2-3 hours for the main quest and then maybe a couple more for the optional stuff.  There isn't much replay value after that.

It's the kind of game made for streamers to show off goofy stuff to their audience.  You could suffice with watching one or two youtube videos on it if you don't want to spend the money.

Uhm... Could you fix the quote tag suggesting that the review/comment on that goose game is from me?

[Aoi]

Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones -- it's like an indie Fallout in Lovecraft-land.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Lets start with the generals-- Art is respectable enough, though I'm not a particular fan of the style. Audio checks out okay. UI works out well enough, though I had some responsiveness issues... might be just me. Thankfully, there's a button to highlight objects you can click on so you won't be pixel hunting for containers. (Not everything-- I noticed that people and flavor text-only items didn't get highlighted.) Combat is hex-grid AP-style, so... Fallout.

And some of the flaws. It's entirely autosave, so you I don't think you can have two concurrent games with different characters going. I'm not sure if it's a bug or not, but you can get an evidently unremovable debuff that makes everything blue, fuzzy, lets you see imaginary (or are they? Hard to tell in Arkham.) monsters, and superficially screws with your dialogues (no mechanical change as far as I can tell, just some RP fun). Because making everything fuzzy is fun.  Sanity seems to mostly act as an alternative life bar... low sanity can also cause some problems in combat, though I couldn't tell exactly what the effect I got did. It also feels really slow... even when your character is running, it feels like they're ambling about. Combat feels pretty clompy as well.

There's an interesting touch in dialogue-- during character creation, you have to pick a motivation... and dialogue options that support your motivation will restore your sanity. For instance, I picked Materialism, so asking for extra rewards when finishing a quest helps me out. I haven't found a way to change it in-game yet, so good luck with RP that shows your character changing over time.

Despite all this, I still feel kind of detached. In Darkest Dungeon, I found myself quite attached to my characters, even if they were quite literally Random Paladin G. Over here, they're unique characters and I find I'm just not that interested in their plight. Or anybody's really.

Why oh why is it so rare to find a console->PC port (or, worse yet, cross-release) that has controls that actually make sense for KB/M?

...And elsewhere, there's the commonly used combo of x+esc... and it can't REALLY be rebound, since you're still tied to controller inputs, so changing v or esc changes everything else tied to them. 

[Mephansteras]

Goose game is good for what it is. Short if you're just interested in solving the assigned tasks as quickly as possible, but if you are more interested in running around and interacting with the world it has a bit more to offer.

I found it fairly fun, my wife absolutely loves it. I'd say actually interacting with the game is the most important part. You really have to kind of make your own RP fun in the game. We liked yelling at the stupid humans as we did stuff and doing silly things like dragging a favorite item around with us to new areas.

I'd say it is definitely one of those games that will be lots of fun for some people and mediocre for others. Good one to watch a little bit of someone else playing first to see if it is your cup of tea. If it is, I'd say it's worth the money.

[Iduno]

Goose game is good for what it is. Short if you're just interested in solving the assigned tasks as quickly as possible, but if you are more interested in running around and interacting with the world it has a bit more to offer.

I found it fairly fun, my wife absolutely loves it. I'd say actually interacting with the game is the most important part. You really have to kind of make your own RP fun in the game. We liked yelling at the stupid humans as we did stuff and doing silly things like dragging a favorite item around with us to new areas.

I'd say it is definitely one of those games that will be lots of fun for some people and mediocre for others. Good one to watch a little bit of someone else playing first to see if it is your cup of tea. If it is, I'd say it's worth the money.

Agreed. And don't hit tab (at least until you need to do the boring "collect a list of things in one spot" task). It takes all of the exploration out of the level.

I've only gotten one thing off the also to-do list (??), but I have found 3-4 things that make my honk sound different, so I'm feeling good about my exploration.