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[Kagus]

I hadn't played Pyre, so this special offer was extra nice for including the free copy (it's just the one, far as I can tell, but it can either be gifted or added to your account). Transistor was ace though, definitely play that.

[Aoi]

I hadn't played Pyre, so this special offer was extra nice for including the free copy (it's just the one, far as I can tell, but it can either be gifted or added to your account). Transistor was ace though, definitely play that.

Double checked-- according to other sources, it was allowing the double dip only for a few hours, and the devs admitted that it was an error in how they set it up. If you bought it early and got two copies of Pyre, you got lucky.

[Robsoie]

A low point of Wastelands 2 to me is the lack of stealth play in my opinion, when crossing a location you are forced into several firefights on specific places of said location (that you can even guess in advance as they're the one where convenientely there are rocks and ruined things that are going to be used as covers), even old Fallout 1/2 had some stealth elements but nothing like that in W2 sadly.

I guess it's not helping that the locations you get into are rather linear, so you can't avoid running into the scripted enemy that is waiting on those specific places.
It's also very annoying that the soldiers can't move while in crouching position, so you have to crouch again everytime you finish moving a guy.

Jagged Alliance 2 is still the undefeated king of tactical combat.

[Iduno]

Weird puzzle game called Superliminal.

https://youtu.be/IGpB8aULB_g

[Mephisto]

The most resource-intensive text adventure you'll never play, AI Dungeon 2.

Last I've heard, you need 12 gigs of RAM and a CUDA GPU. If my server had a GPU, I'd probably consider throwing a copy on there to fuck around with. But it doesn't so I'll continue dreaming.

[Iduno]

Temporarily free games? You got a few hours left for demos: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/thesteamgamefestival

[scriver]

Anyone remember Gothic?

[Ulfarr]

Wasteland 2 shenanigans:

-okay folks, here’s the plan. There are about ten mutant bugs in the next room and only one way to get there. So we are going to set up an ambush in this here room. Everyone spread out, find some cover, and be ready to blast anything that comes out of that damn door. When everyone is in position, our big boy Uri is going to draw their attention and then run back to us. Ready? Go!

*encounter begins*
*angie deth goes rogue*
*rose goes rogue*
*A scream echoes in the hallway*

“LEEEROY JENKINS”

[Robsoie]

I got something like that at some point, vulture's cry (super obnoxious with her various remarks during the adventure, but at least she's a great sniper) and angela deth (she came from the 1st game, she's my door kicker ) decided to go on their own after i had carefully placed them in good cover position.

It was then i decided i should get one of the character invest points in leadership.

Anyways, you something find great informations when exploring

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[Robsoie]

Still on Wastelands 2, solved the Topekan vs Atchinson problems in Rail Nomads Camp.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

After saving a guy from drowning (good that Angela Deth had some good Brute Force level) he joined my party because of some good rolls.
Then exploring around and understanding how crazy the situation was there, as the good desert ranger i decided to try to bring both murderous insane idiotic egomaniac leaders of each tribe to make peace.

It wasn't easy to refrain from just killing them all, because on one side the main guy put bombs around to kill defenseless people and on the other side the main guy was hanging defenseless people around.

Met an old woman of the Atchinson  that asked me to put an end to all of this, either by doing the peace stuff or killing everyone involved to death

After working with quests toward my supposedly noble goal and trying to get the Romeo and Juliet-like story moving forward positively to help the case, i missed some rolls unfortunately on some important dialogues, that unfortunately led to something else...

the Topekan boss+gang managed to kill the Atchinson boss+gang during failed (damned bad roll ) negociations that ended with rifles and bullets.
Then to prevent the Tokepan gang to murder the Atchinson civilians in the few next days after their victory, i had to go out of my way and kill the Topekan boss and his gang in a warehouse firefight.
Not sure it's the desert ranger way but at least it prevented a future killing of civilians.

Unfortunately the bullets flying and corpses falling led the guy that joined us previously to refuse to follow us "you're not my friend anymore" because apparently some of the topekans gang were his pals, oh well at least he didn't shoot us in the back during the battle and decided to just sit out the whole thing.

Went to report how i finally solved the problem to the old woman that acknowledged that i did what i had to do.

Then once she was finished talking she proceeded to cut her own head just because.
Man that place was really insane.

Could also talk about the Mad Monks canyons that i just completed (good i had put my hand on the improved rad suits) but it's so hilariousy insane that it's best experienced by oneself instead of being read in spoiler

[Aoi]

Octopath Traveler, by (or published by?) Square...

Absolutely gorgeous pixel art, with some interesting graphical effects that I think are trying to modernize with some varying degree of success.. One you'll see a lot of bloom and distance blur. Both of which I personally think detract from the art, since it kind of turns everything into an impossible to see mess.

It kind of uses the SaGa formula, where you pick one of an assortment of characters that you get to recruit later, and each have their own primary storyline. Also plenty of skills. There's a bit of Bravely Default feel in there how you can bank Boost points and expend them to attack harder/multiple times, and enemies have specific weaknesses where, if you hit them with it enough, they get stunned for a turn and take extra damage.

Each character has a personal special: The merchant can buy 'personal' items from NPCs (and while most are just vendor goods, some are rare items, and others are things you wouldn't be able to get until way later), another lets you see their history, which is mostly for flavor, but also can be the main thing in resolving sidequests, etc. You can also 'tame' monsters... or NPCs.

PC controls are obviously for controller, but they're among the best I've seen. Keys make sense (generally speaking, escape drops a menu as far as reasonable, backspace is a one-step cancel, enter accpets, etc.), and functions that are not inherently obvious tend to be marked (Boost, for example). There's a healthy amount of voicing, in both English and Japanese.

The big problem? I can't help but find it crushingly boring. It is just plain not interesting. To the point that I actually stopped and decided to start making colorful patterns on my plate with my M&Ms.

[Iduno]

SquareEnix...
I can't help but find it crushingly boring. It is just plain not interesting.[/b]

Yeah. 2 great companies who shat the bed joining up. At least they aren't EA, but...

[JWNoctis]

The most resource-intensive text adventure you'll never play, AI Dungeon 2.

Last I've heard, you need 12 gigs of RAM and a CUDA GPU. If my server had a GPU, I'd probably consider throwing a copy on there to fuck around with. But it doesn't so I'll continue dreaming.

That's actually 8GB of RAM and a fast CPU /or/ GPU with 12GB of VRAM. It's actually simple to run local if you already know how to set up a server and it's good fun.


Otherwise...I've just got Freedom Planet off a sale. Now I feel like quoting one of the more recent TPS strip out there.

it's excellent, but nothing makes you feel exhausted and old quite like ultra-fast-pace action platformers, and that one's not even supposed to be particularly hard.

[Robsoie]

Still in Wastelands 2
I'm now at the point in which the game enemies are moving from various variants of raiders to mad robots of various kind and ability.
I was starting to wonder if it was going to basically forces the player to invest precious skill points in energy weapon only (as those weapons are supposed to double damage against materials like the ones from robots, but less damage to other materials) or in heavy weapons like the various explosives and launchers.

Fortunately i found out that energy weapons aren't really better against robots (i guess because at that point of the game your characters are probably very nicely leveled in their main weaponry) as their base damage is lower than regular weapon and their damage bonus somehow makes them dealing roughly similar damage as the best "normal" weapons you have and have chacaters with good level in.

Good as it still allow various weapon styles instead of forcing everyone to invest skill points in energy weaponry.

But what surprised me was that i have a guy that seriously invested in computer science amongst other skills ... and computer science can actually be used in combat against robots !

Meaning you can neutralize / convert to your side nearly every enemy robots ! (though they also self destruct once the remaining enemy robots are dead) if you have some good computer scientist, unfortunately does not work on those nasty resilient huge spider-like robots (it's a very good idea to focus fire on those threats as they're capable of dealing serious damage)
That's truly fantastic use of this skill as some of the robots can be a real pain (like the ones that generate fields that halve your character accuracy, or the ones that auto-shoot laser) and getting that pain be unleashed on the other robots that are still enemy is a great way to transform a defeat in the making into a fun victory.

[ZeroGravitas]

thinking about getting Blasphemous because of the steam sale; anyone know if it's better or worse on switch? i doubt there's a switch sale but i wouldn't have dig my steam controller out if switch is better.