Game Deals Thread
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@blakeyrat said in Game Deals Thread:
But at least the hologram chick has a really tight-fitting jumpsuit.
Here:
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@zecc I mean to be fair I kind of liked Elder Scrolls: Legends too, until I hit the point where you can't do any more singleplayer without paying $$$ and multiplayer was rigged so you lose every battle if you don't spend $$$. So it was maybe 6-8 hours of legit gameplay before the collection plate was passed around.
But once you hit the $$$ point, it became shit real fast.
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@blakeyrat said in Game Deals Thread:
So it was maybe 6-8 hours of legit gameplay before the collection plate was passed around.
Pretty good for a modern video game.
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@gąska said in Game Deals Thread:
Pretty good for a modern video game.
Hm maybe.
I should delete my bethesda account and start over in that game.
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@gąska said in Game Deals Thread:
@blakeyrat said in Game Deals Thread:
So it was maybe 6-8 hours of legit gameplay before the collection plate was passed around.
Pretty good for a modern video game.
https://i.imgur.com/QmLDkzF.png
and I still haven't gotten to the fifth level ONCE.
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@pie_flavor I'm pretty sure I have several hundred hours in Ace Combat 2. My average 100% run is about 2 hours.
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@pie_flavor said in Game Deals Thread:
@gąska said in Game Deals Thread:
@blakeyrat said in Game Deals Thread:
So it was maybe 6-8 hours of legit gameplay before the collection plate was passed around.
Pretty good for a modern video game.
https://i.imgur.com/QmLDkzF.png
and I still haven't gotten to the fifth level ONCE.Depends on the genre.
(Currently too lazy to pull my GW1 statistics.)
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@ben_lubar Steam says I have something like 1600 hours on Elder Scrolls Online and I don't even have the ESO version of "world completion" on any character yet. Although in 27 days, my main will have finally maxed-out her crafting. (Stupid real-world research timers.)
(That said, it's REALLY easy to leave ESO's launcher running for days on end and rack up hours.)
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Free at the moment
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@blakeyrat said in Game Deals Thread:
Steam says I have something like 1600 hours on Elder Scrolls Online and I don't even have the ESO version of "world completion" on any character yet.
So summerset adds like another 30 items to the "world completion" checklist, PLUS:
@blakeyrat said in Game Deals Thread:
Although in 27 days, my main will have finally maxed-out her crafting. (Stupid real-world research timers.)
The new Gem Crafting stuff is implemented as an entirely new crafting skill, which requires 17 skillpoints to train up and also I have to research something like 18 traits ALL OVER AGAIN. (Fortunately the timer on it's reset, so the research is going fast at first.)
So anyway, long story short: I've made negative progress.
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@blakeyrat said in Game Deals Thread:
So anyway, long story short: I've made negative progress.
Jeez...
I know you get a ton of skillpoints, but I wonder if they'll stop making that a limited thing at some point.
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@xaade said in Game Deals Thread:
Jeez...
I know you get a ton of skillpoints, but I wonder if they'll stop making that a limited thing at some point.I think the policy has been each new DLC/Chapter adds enough skillpoints to pay for the new skills in that DLC/Chapter. But don't quote me on that.
The bigger issue is that the 50 PVP skillpoints, to get all 50 you have to spend months or years on it. Getting the rest isn't too challenging. I'm sure Weetamoo has some skills I can respec to free up skill points, but it's a huge pain. (If nothing else, she's technically a werewolf and has those skillpoints spent but I never use her werewolf ult except as a lark sometimes.)
IIRC from the few minutes I glanced at it last night, there's 18 new skillpoints to spend and Weet has 11 available.
Also: nothing's worse than a game having new content that you can't play because it comes out on a fucking monday and you have shit to do during the week dammit.
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I'm a couple days late, but it probably doesn't matter: Cyberdimension Neptunia: 4 Goddesses Online (along with the rest of the franchise) was on sale. So I got it.
It's an okay action game. They actually put a lot of effort into the dialog and such, too. But it's Neptunia. If you don't know what that is, you probably don't want it. If you do, you either like it or hate it, with the latter being more likely. The main character seriously commented on how cool the opening video was.
There might be people here who'd consider it next sale. Which, considering it's spring, ought to happen within a month or two anyway.
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@magus You could just say "it's an anime porn game". I mean own it, man. Own it.
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@blakeyrat You aren't entirely wrong. It does have its moments like that, but mostly it leaves things like that to the imagination even then. I've barely played the games, because I didn't like the first one's combat. This random offshoot one actually plays fairly well, and apparently has online co-op. Which is apparently laggy and bad.
I took a chance on this one, and while I wouldn't say it's a definite buy for anyone who isn't obsessed with the series, its surprisingly good. But I have poor taste.
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@blakeyrat Is it? I haven't played it, but I've heard a few things about the franchise, and as I understand it they're SFW games about anthropomorphic personifications of the console gaming industry.
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@masonwheeler said in Game Deals Thread:
SFW
I mean, I don't know that that is true, since it's anime after all. But most of the imagery would get you weird looks.
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@masonwheeler said in Game Deals Thread:
I understand it they're SFW games
Its ad campaign certainly isn't SFW.
I guess it could be like one of those awful ripoff games where the ads are all stolen nekked womens artwork from DeviantArt but the actual game is some boring 1995-esque RTS.
But I'm guessing it's anime porn.
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@blakeyrat It's a pretty well-put-together RPG franchise that has no fourth wall. I think it goes too far with the silliness, and yeah, the art style (and the way some of the characters act) can certainly lean rather far in that direction.
Besides, the main character is the embodiment of Sega, in an imaginary world where they are just as powerful as their competitors. You just know it's gonna be dumb.
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@magus What does it mean for a half-naked anime girl version of Sega to be "just as powerful" as their competitors anyway. Like I have no context here. What makes one half-naked anime girl version of a gaming company more or less powerful than another? Is it based on, like sales? Or reviews? Or when the company was founded?
Or... I can't even imagine.
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@blakeyrat The core concept of the main franchise is that the console wars have extended to absurdity until they become four rival countries vying for popularity. While not really being enemies. They talk about selling their latest consoles all the time, even. And their kingdoms are being attacked by the evil "Arfoire" even. Also, the main character almost always wears a parka.
Mostly, though, they just treat their own plot like a thing to hang more awful jokes on. The first game's gameplay wasn't very fun, so I didn't get very far.
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That doesn't even slightly answer my question but whatever, it sounds ghastly.
@magus said in Game Deals Thread:
Also, the main character almost always wears a parka.
... sure why not.
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Xenonauts is available for free until June 6th @ 1PM GMT:
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Homefront at 83% discount
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Ziggurat is available for free until June 13th @ 1PM GMT:
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@chaostheeternal It's an ok game until you realize your main character is maybe 3 feet tall, then you spend the rest of the game thinking "wait why am I 3 feet tall?" and it's so distracting you don't feel like playing anymore.
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For Honor is free on Uplay for the next few days. You need to get Ubisoft on you, though
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Free for almost two days
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@coldandtired said in Game Deals Thread:
Free for almost two days
Fun game! I'd take this but I already have it...
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@ben_lubar Beware, that game has ... "jokes".
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PSN added CoD: Black Ops 3 to the PS+ subscription this month (EU, not sure about the others).
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@coldandtired They should have added a good game. (Well it was better than Ghosts-- that one was a stinker.)
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@blakeyrat Like with the Assassin's Creed games I long ago lost track of which game I had played and whether it was any good.
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I'm trying to summon the energy to care about the Steam Summer Sale, but it's so difficult to do so when it's so... blah.
Yes, it's got the insane discounts of SSSs gone by, which I appreciate, but there are no flash sales, no new discounts, just "here's a bunch of percentages off the whole two weeks, oh and this newgrounds game, enjoy, you fucks." And yes, I'm calling Saliens a newgrounds game. It's got all the appeal of Bloons TD locked to a single level, like some barely-souped-up punch the monkey ad from the '90s. Not that that's a bad thing, but, this is Valve. Even disregarding their AAA's, they still had far more interesting games previously, like the robot rockem sockem or the scratch-off thing. This is not anywhere near their usual level of evolution.
That and most of the games I would want to buy I already have, so there's not even much value to the sale part of the sale.
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@twelvebaud The ability to refund has killed all the fun, time-limited sales they used to have.
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Mixed reviews, but free. So add to your collection and forget.
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Free until tomorrow sometime
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@coldandtired said in Game Deals Thread:
Free until tomorrow sometime
When I was a student, I dreamed of a game like this. Even started making it (in fucking Delphi, of all things).
But now, every time I try a computer programming or hacking game, I can't help but feel like I'm wasting my time. Why should I chase a score, when I could be doing fundamentally the same work AND get paid or learn something or produce something of value in the end?
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@cartman82 in other words, you're getting old. I've experienced the same thing. It sucks.
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@cartman82 said in Game Deals Thread:
When I was a student, I dreamed of a game like this.
You probably wish you've known about Uplink back then (assuming you've graduated within the last decade):
It's quite fun, even though UI glitches are pretty annoying sometimes. Also, you rarely ever go to terminal - there's a GUI app for almost everything. Which I consider a plus, actually.
@cartman82 said in Game Deals Thread:
But now, every time I try a computer programming or hacking game, I can't help but feel like I'm wasting my time. Why should I chase a score, when I could be doing fundamentally the same work AND get paid or learn something or produce something of value in the end?
Playing hacking game is legal, actual hacking isn't. Though it does indeed pay a lot.
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@gąska said in Game Deals Thread:
Playing hacking game is legal, actual hacking isn't.
It depends if you're doing it for the CIA or not.
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@doctorjones said in Game Deals Thread:
@cartman82 in other words, you're getting old. I've experienced the same thing. It sucks.
I am getting it a bit with RPG-s or complex simulation / strategy games, but it really only hits full force with computer sims.
People talk about "work simulation" games, but these are for me REALLY work simulations.
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@doctorjones there's always some country whose laws you've broken. Even if just unwritten laws.
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@doctorjones said in Game Deals Thread:
It depends if you're doing it for the CIA or not.
Hacking for the CIA is probably not illegal in the US. Most of the time. Other jurisdictions may disagree.
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- Free right now. (less than a day left to grab it)
- Really good.
- Typing text into a text box and pushing enter gave me more of an adrenaline rush than Counter-Strike ever did. (this is not a joke)
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@ben_lubar there's a command for automatically cracking SSH server security, but there's no
mkdir
. They really didn't think this through, it seems.Also, I hate that typing in terminal messes with GUI browser and vice versa.
Also, opening mail switches connection to mail server, causing me to leave logs of dozens of attempts to use priviledged commands, and also wonder where all my files went to.
Also, you can't use * to replace part of filename - it's all files or nothing.
Also, repeatedly hitting tab doesn't browse me through available files. And that's just first 30 minutes.
This is my biggest problem with all "hacking" games - they try to make their terminal look like Bash of the Future, but the functionality is lower than Windows CMD with just builtin commands.
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@gąska After my failed attempt at making a hacking game in Delphi, my next idea was to package a linux VM with a bunch of custom proxies, chroots, webservers and hacks that create a gaming overlay over an actual internet-connected linux computer.
Eg. my game starts by sending you an email into your local Thunderbird client. The email leads you to a google search, where my proxy inserts fake results, and to a fake website, served by the local webserver behind a hosts file. Then you have to ssh into a fake server and nmap against another fake server, etc... And since all that is happening in a real linux environment, you can install and use all the tools you're used to.
The only problem is, people who'd actually be able to play a "game" like that have better things to do then playing games like that.
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@cartman82 in Hacknet, the game is considered a VM in the plot. That comes up in the DLC when someone manages to jailbreak your VM and put a DLL on your system.
(The DLL happens to be a renamed EXE file that contains a markov fan fic generator.)