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[King Zultan]

Does the game yell at you if you run over animals with a truck like other hunting games do?

[delphonso]

Like all those loser hunting games that don't classify trucks as hunting weapons?!

[King Zultan]

The maps aren't even that big so I can't think of any other reason to have a truck other than kill things with it.

[Robsoie]

Does the game yell at you if you run over animals with a truck like other hunting games do?

Running over animals ?
No ...  In theHunter : Call of the Wild, it's animals that are running over you :
https://old.reddit.com/r/theHunter/comments/r521ij/picked_this_game_up_last_week_1010_on_the_realism/


edit : from what i read there's a patch coming for all platforms this tuesday, the most important thing is that it is supposed to "boost performance" .
I really hope it's true so i can finally increase a bit my game resolution without the game slowing down noticably.

[Robsoie]

Noticed that you can start voting for your favorites mods for the ModDB mod the year awards
https://www.moddb.com/groups/2021-mod-of-the-year-awards/news/mod-of-the-year-2021-kickoff

can't believe it's already nearly 20 years that moddb do those awards.

[JimboM12]

was moving though my steam queue and i found a potential gold nugget: Wartales

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1527950/Wartales/

it promises to be a 3D version of battle brothers with some hints of mount&blade. i haven't bought it yet but it immediately caught my attention and a spot on my wishlist

[scriver]

I played it during a "all the demos" week on steam. I'm not sure what, but despite looking very interesting it was just something offputting about it when I tried it.

[AzyWng]

I played it during a "all the demos" week on steam. I'm not sure what, but despite looking very interesting it was just something offputting about it when I tried it.

Can you elaborate on that? It certainly looks interesting to me, but I haven't given it a try yet.

[MCreeper]

Pocket Mirror. A mixed bag of great and bad.
Art is really impressive for this kind of games. Might be the best of all there is on RPGMaker for all I know, but I’m not knowledgeable in that regard. It even has proper cutscenes.
Soundtrack is one of my all-time favorites, along with, but not similar to, Higurashi (Matsuri), Sunless Sea and The House In Fata Morgana. If you are not going to play the game, check out the OST. If you are going to, don’t, music will have that much more effect.
Horror – mostly not. There is only one creepy area in the game, containing one jumpscare (and oh I have seen it coming). If the horror part is a bother for you (like me, eh), then it’s okay.
Story – it’s there? I feel it got rather bland towards the end, perhaps because of grizzliness overdose (amount, not severity). Endings are fine, though.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Best one gave me a chuckle from a sarcastic joke. Worst one gave me a hearty five minute laugh from sheer mockery and scorn put upon main character.

And underlying story is supposed to be pieced together Dark Souls-wise, with some pieces missing, I’m sure. 
And the bad is, often to proceed further you need to do stuff like click one of absolutely identical walls, or unassuming piece of scenery, or at very least check around which door has randomly unlocked this time. Sometimes to infuriating degree. I would probably sooner dropped the game than found one of those in chapter 3 without walktrough.

So yeah. If you like playing games about anime girls getting trapped in a murder maze, it’s worth a try. With perusing walktrough if need be.

[Robsoie]

On a nostalgia drive, i've been replaying Giant Citizen Kabuto, mostly pushed into it by the fact i noticed there's a community patch 1.5 that solves every problem and bugs left behind and make the game fully compatible with modern system :
https://www.giantswd.org/?file=60
(very latest version of this 1.5 patch is there : https://hipstercat.fr/GPatch )

So far worked greatly on my gog version.

Unfortunately the Meccaryns campaign really aged badly : most missions are going between boring and very boring, enemies are completely bullet sponges (even when focused fire from your 3 troopers) sometime ridiculously more than a building, until you finally get more advanced weaponry that slightly increase your damage output (sniper rifle by example so you can at least try to headshot) and make the enemies ... bullet sponges, but slightly less while your character can die very easily (make sure to always have a healing item in your inventory, always go back to a shop to get another one once you used it as you never know what stupid missile will land on you from a blind spot)

Kept at it because i remembered having fun in one of the last Meccaryn mission that felt like a 1st person RTS with base building and wanted to at least reach it again. And what came after, the Delphi campaign was also better in my memories (looks like none managed to make an AI for the skirmish in that game would have been fun in multiplayer :/ ) so hopefully i can complete the Meccaryn part quickly enough before getting too bored..

[Kagus]

Holy crap, there's a community patch? That's awesome!

I've put loads of hours into Citizen Kabuto... Janky, hideous, lovable mess that it is. That game really played like an alpha, at the best of times. And yeah, the bullet-sponginess of things is kinda ridiculous. I don't think I ever really used the sniper rifle much though, I mostly went for heavy ordnance and as many explosives as I could carry.

The Meccs don't really have the best equipment as far as I remember, but then you open up Delphi and get her stupid time stop and fire spells and everything just melts. Plus the bullshit bows.

...and then you get to Kabuto's campaign, which I remember as just being pain.


Last I checked, I think Planet Moon was doing mobile games or something. A real shame, their writing was fantastic. The cutscenes were always the best parts of their games.

[Folly]

A game called Noble Fates just caught my attention. It's a colony sim, coming to Steam EA December 14th.

All the usual colony sim stuff seems to be here. Gather resources, build housing and storage and tradeskill places, keep people happy and defend your home from invaders.
There does seem to be fairly deep unit personality, with individuals having various preferences and remembering things that have happened to them.

The major gimmick here is that you can leave the eagle-eye view, or take a third person view over your leader, manually controlling them to gather resources or fight off invaders.

Looks like it could be fun! Going to keep an eye on this one as it launches.
Announcement Trailer

[Akura]

EDIT2: Completely unrelated to the rant above, but I just saw that the Star Trek Armada games are coming to GOG. I remember ST:A2 being fun enough. I had heard that there were some messy licensing issues involved with the Armada games that would have made it all but nearly impossible to get the games on GOG, but it looks like those were cleared up?

GOG now has both Star Trek Armadas. Haven't bought either of them, but I'm seeing a few posts for the first game saying there's some fiddling to get it working. No idea how the second game might work out of the virtual box.

[Robsoie]

Was pleasantly surprised to see that gog current freebie Shadow Tactics : Shogun's Blade run nicely on my system when lowering visual options.
Good to see for once a game running well on the unity engine

Played the 1st mission (that was the mission that came with the demo of the game) and despite a few mistakes (my Commando skills are rusty ) managed to complete it, thanks a lot to Mugen's amazing murder blades that overkill things and Hayato's shuriken of stealth doom. I found myself not having to use Takuma's sniper rifle of total killing, but in the last part i attracted a bit too much attention that sniping would have probably solved better.
But those murder blades !
Took my time and nearly got the mission done in a hour, apparently one of the challenge badge is hinting that 11mn should be enough in the highest difficulty (i cowardly played on the lower one )

If you liked Commandos and Desperados, this one is really a worthy game in that tactical stealth genre, heavily recommended.

[scriver]

I was just about to ask, the look of the game and the sales blurb basically makes me think this is Desperados in Japan, is this basically Desperados in Japan?