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[Deleted member 113]

It's still possible to come across a cool looking game in a genre you like, that you have never noticed before on Steam (probably because users tagged it with Top-Down Shooter, instead of Shoot 'Em Up):







Like that tweet mentions, the game received an English patch last month.
Also, since the developer's website has been taken down (and a planned port cancelled), this is one of those games I wouldn't be surprised to see gone from the store page one of these days, so if you are interested in it, do consider buying it soon.

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And, here's another cool looking game I found on itch.io, that features dungeons generated from one's files:

A:\dventure by nhydock

A file crawling RPG

nhydock.itch.io

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The developer of the above game has another title with a similar concept (content generated from one's files) already available on Steam (and itch.io):

C:\raft by nhydock

Explore the dungeons hidden in your hard drive and craft countless items

nhydock.itch.io

 

[nofuckinidea]

Most wanted #1

 

[Le Pertti]

It's Sunday morning, and NOBODY is posting

I've fallen down the Fallout 4 well again. Up 243 hours played in it now!

 

[texhnolyze]

It's Sunday morning, and NOBODY is posting

Too busy playing vidya games (Fallout 76 and Battletech).

 

[MJunioR]

It's Sunday morning, and NOBODY is posting

Hi!

 

[lashman]

I don't think it has that feature currently. Would be nice to have though (and probably not hard to implement).

It's not very efficient use of bandwidth, but if you don't want to miss official art uploads (though I'd argue for game that still didn't get any those are getting more and more scarce anyway) you could just delete all the downloaded art and rerun the program from time to time.

yeah, i suppose that would work as well

but still - would be nice to have as an actual feature

Hi!

omg, you're alive!

 

[MJunioR]

omg, you're alive!

 

[Tizoc]

Giana Sisters TD looks nice with SSGSS AA, but the way it is 'zoomed out' makes some hazards hard to navigate around during platforming but it's otherwise a decent platformer so far.

It's Sunday morning, and NOBODY is posting

I'ma go get me a chocolate milkshake.

 

[Deleted member 113]

I'm a bit behind on playing the "Tales of" series.

For those familiar with the series, may I ask:
-the 4 games available on Steam (Symphonia, Vesperia, Zesteria, Berseria) are unrelated, I mean none is a sequel of the other, right?
-should I start with Symphonia, the oldest entry, or Vesperia (I'm familiar with it, since I played the Xbox 360 demo)?

Additionally, a DLC question, so I can buy the DLCs I'm missing in the next Steam sale:

Regarding Tales of Zesteria:

-at the time I pre-ordered the game (it was one of those tiered pre-orders, that granted several bonuses, like a free copy of Symphonia); I see on the store that there's a "pre-order items" DLC, that I'm listed as not owning (despite pre-ordering the game), but that's the same thing as the 3 DLCs I do own (Tales of Characters Costume Set (Female), Tales of Characters Costume Set (Male), and Tales of Weapons), right? There's nothing extra on that DLC, that I don't own already, right? I hate when publishers make things unnecessarily confusing. If it's the same content, why not do it in a way it shows up by owners of this content?

-what about the "Adventure Items" DLC, is it all "cheats" and early unlocks, or is there any content that is otherwise unavailable in the game?


Regarding Tales of Berseria:

-I only own the free DLCs, and the Tales of Legacy Bundle DLC; of the others, do I "need" all of them (as in, do all provide content unavailable otherwise), or is any of the DLCs just early unlocks or "cheats"?


thank you

 

[TheLetdown]

Too busy playing vidya games (Fallout 76 and Battletech).

I'm still pretty early but I"ve been enjoying F76. The trick is to not think about it as Fallout 5 but as a slice of a full modern Fallout, with survival mechanics. The thirst/hunger definitely has me looting everything. I'm usually not great at laying out a camp, but I'm stocking so much junk that I think I'm going to try when I find a cool spot.

For now, it's a convenient fast travel with useful stash, workbenches, and a place to sleep (in the open air.)

 

[Gevin]

I'm a bit behind on playing the "Tales of" series.

For those familiar with the series, may I ask:
-the 4 games available on Steam (Symphonia, Vesperia, Zesteria, Berseria) are unrelated, I mean none is a sequel of the other, right?
-should I start with Symphonia, the oldest entry, or Vesperia (I'm familiar with it, since I played the Xbox 360 demo)?

Generally all games are unrelated save for minor nods and such, as far as I remember sequels actually have the same name and a number so they are easy to recognize.

I always like to go with release order so I would start with Symphonia

 

[Ascheroth]

I'm a bit behind on playing the "Tales of" series.

For those familiar with the series, may I ask:
-the 4 games available on Steam (Symphonia, Vesperia, Zesteria, Berseria) are unrelated, I mean none is a sequel of the other, right?
-should I start with Symphonia, the oldest entry, or Vesperia (I'm familiar with it, since I played the Xbox 360 demo)?

Additionally, a DLC question, so I can buy the DLCs I'm missing in the next Steam sale:

Regarding Tales of Zesteria:

-at the time I pre-ordered the game (it was one of those tiered pre-orders, that granted several bonuses, like a free copy of Symphonia); I see on the store that there's a "pre-order items" DLC, that I'm listed as not owning (despite pre-ordering the game), but that's the same thing as the 3 DLCs I do own (Tales of Characters Costume Set (Female), Tales of Characters Costume Set (Male), and Tales of Weapons), right? There's nothing extra on that DLC, that I don't own already, right? I hate when publishers make things unnecessarily confusing. If it's the same content, why not do it in a way it shows up by owners of this content?

-what about the "Adventure Items" DLC, is it all "cheats" and early unlocks, or is there any content that is otherwise unavailable in the game?


Regarding Tales of Berseria:

-I only own the free DLCs, and the Tales of Legacy Bundle DLC; of the others, do I "need" all of them (as in, do all provide content unavailable otherwise), or is any of the DLCs just early unlocks or "cheats"?


thank you

Berseria is technically a prequel of Zestiria (but it came out after Zestiria).
The Adventure Items stuff is just cheats yeah.
The costume/accessory DLCs are all new ones that are not in the game itself as far as I know.

 

[Panda Pedinte]

I can't wait for Supraland's first DLC

Supraland - 10 things DLC 1 does better than the first game. You won't believe what's on #4 - Steam News

Clickbait ftw! I just wanted to write a bit about how in the first DLC (which is basically a 2nd Supraland game) you will see what I (now we) learned since the first game and where we increased the production value. You cannot compare both games directly, because their general structure is...

store.steampowered.com

Here are the biggest changes:

- The world is much denser in DLC1. It is smaller, but there is much more stuff everywhere. In the first game the world is bigger but also much emptier. Red Town was the only very dense place. I find a high density much more appealing and in general better game design.

- The dialogue writing is much more interesting.
There are stories playing out in the world now, while in the first game there was pretty much nothing.
Narration for Supraland is tricky, because you don't want to interfer too much with the player's freedom and agency, which is the core of the game.

- The NPC characters are more fleshed out and interesting, compared to the random throwaway hint-givers from the maingame.

- The production value is higher when it comes to animations. You will see some cool animations here and there that we made just for an easter egg for example. Same for some elaborate assets that were built just for one little joke.

- It's pretty much all new assets. You will barely see assets repeating from the first game.

- There are more cutscenes, but we are honestly not quite sure yet how much we like it. During development you completely lose your senses for this kind of stuff. Some of these cutscenes take the control away from you for a moment, which is something I prefer to avoid, but sometimes there is just no other way because you must see certain things and we can't allow you to look the other way or run away. But these scenes are like 1% of the full playtime.

- A big difference is that the world design is now much more clearly a miniature world. When the first game was started, it was not supposed to be a small world. I got that idea when I was halfway through, so a lot of the game is not really built with big things. This time around it's pretty obvious.

- Combat is very minimal and barely noticeable. I know combat is the most controversial thing in the first game. But everyone saying "get rid of combat alltogether" is wrong. It has big effects on exploration rewards, on the entire atmosphere and other things. So what we're doing in this DLC is basically an experiment, but I have other combat plans for future games. But you can be sure, no monster is gonna bother you while you try to solve a puzzle.

- There are tons of little improvements that also made their way into the first game, like better speech bubbles, a reactive crosshair and much more. The next update will include a lot more of these.

- Last but not least, the music in the first game was all bought in the asset store. It fit very well, but it's awkward if you hear the same tune in another game. Now almost all music is made by us.
The songs also feature different moods, and we created a system that can seamlessly blend back and forth between them depending on the situation. The background music will become more energetic in an action scene and it becomes muffled when you're entering a house.

David

 

[lashman]

I can't wait for Supraland's first DLC

HYPE!

 

[Trisolarian]

Cats know stuff.
Cats know the secret windows keys that fuck up each of your activities.
Cats are also assholes that love to use this knowledge [UWSL][/UWSL]


I also finally understood the reason for all those insanely annoying in-game confirmation boxes.

Example -
Lobotomy Corporation
Cat
Pause game
Cat push my finger on the mouse
Mouse was on exit game
Sorrow

Cats are teh suck.

Made eggs. Was about to clean pan after it cooled down, mittens saunters in and licks pan.

 

[Deleted member 113]

In my second "I'm behind playing "x" series" post of the day ( ), I'm way behind playing the latest Frontier Developments games.
Despite pre-ordering both Jurassic World Evolution, and Planet Zoo, I'm... yet to even start them.

I know, I know, why buy the newest game, if I haven't started the previous one?
Every time I want to start playing one, a new DLC/expansion is out, and I'm like "I'll wait until I buy it during a sale, and I'll start then".
Yeah, that has worked great so far.

Which of the two is the more "relaxing" and accessible title?
My patience has been a bit low for tackling games where I have to think a lot, so I'm wondering which of the two would be a more accessible start?

Based on the theme, I would prefer to play Planet Zoo.

thanks

 

[Routa]

|OT| - Tabletop Simulator

Developer: Berserk Games Publisher: Berserk Games Platforms: Steam Price: $19.99/€19.99/£14.99 About: Tabletop Simulator is exactly what you expect, the ability to play tabletop games online with your friends and strangers. With thousands of mods in the workshop, and official DLC for the...

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Feel free to come talk board games in our new thread.

 

[Le Pertti]

And that's last bit of Fallout 4 DLC finished, time to move onto Fallout 76!

 

[Deleted member 113]

Steam has been down a lot today.

 

[texhnolyze]

I'm still pretty early but I"ve been enjoying F76. The trick is to not think about it as Fallout 5 but as a slice of a full modern Fallout, with survival mechanics. The thirst/hunger definitely has me looting everything. I'm usually not great at laying out a camp, but I'm stocking so much junk that I think I'm going to try when I find a cool spot.

For now, it's a convenient fast travel with useful stash, workbenches, and a place to sleep (in the open air.)

My camp is still stationed near the Wayward, by the river (it's important for the purified water pump). It's a nice & peaceful spot with all the trees, while I can also regularly check out Duchees' stores for outfits and stuff easily from the camp.

Edit: After 40+ hours, I just posted a review (more like positive rambling, tbh).

Steam Community :: texhnolyze :: Review for Fallout 76

So, Fallout 76.. It's clear that this is not a Fallout game that fans expected and wanted. With how badly received the game was at launch, it's only reasonable if people would rather stay away from this game. But hear me out. I never played the vanilla game, but it seems that the game is finally...

steamcommunity.com

 

[Deleted member 113]

This week is yet another crazy week of releases.

I mean, here's a small sample of the games releasing in the next few days:



Plus, expansions or DLCs for, among others:

 

[Wok]

An impressive use of VR for multiplayer:

 

[PC-tan]

Yeah I don't know why Helltaker is free. It could easily be a $5 game and I don't think anyone would have grounds to complain.

people will always find reasons to complain. You know that there would be some that say that it's not worth $5USD for a 2 hours long game or what ever

I guess this might be a spoiler (I haven't played the game myself yet but this was cool)


Welp I can't find it now but it was a tweet where the chibis from the game were dancing to this song

lewd album cover

Oh and It took a while but the Japanese site that I go to finally has an article about the game and it is an interview with the person that did the fan translation, it would seem that they are a pro translator but that they ended up doing this game for free since the dev was not charging people money and because they liked the game as well and wanted others in Japan to try the game as well. I think it took them like 6 hours in order to translate the game.

So shortly after the game released they contacted the dev about possibly doing a fan translation for the game and then on May 15/16 is when the dev updated the game so it would be easier for people to do fan translations since it seemed that there were multiple people that wanted to do that. It also happened to be around that time that the game got a big boost in popularity

話題作『Helltaker』の魅力に迫る！陽炎01型氏インタビュー「困ったら風呂入って飯食って寝ましょう」【有志日本語化の現場から】 | Game*Spark - 国内・海外ゲーム情報サイト

海外のPCゲームをプレイする際にお世話になる方も多い有志日本語化。今回は特別企画として、有志日本語化Modの登場により国内で注目を浴びる話題のフリーゲーム『Helltaker』の魅力をご紹介し、同作の有志日本語化を手掛ける陽炎01型氏のインタビューをお届けします。

www.gamespark.jp

Helltakerほんやく後記｜陽炎01型

↓ここから下はHelltaker未プレイの方もあんしんしてお読みいただけます。 Helltaker、地獄より悪魔娘どもを連れし者。 石やアンデッド、針山をかいくぐりながら最高のハーレムをつくろう。 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1289310/Helltaker/ パズルが解けなくてもEscキーでスキップできるから脳筋もあんしんだ。 買い。無料。アートブックを買ったり、Patreonで支援しよう。 https://www.patreon.com/vanripper ↓ここから下はHelltaker既プレイの方向けのあれこれです。ネタバレ

note.com

 

[Deleted member 113]

Having recently realized that several games I played, or that I'm looking forward to, where developed in my home country, Portugal (Those Who Remain, out next week, is another example), and also after searching, and failing to find much information on the games currently being made here (since sadly, it seems there's not much interest by the local press in the development efforts of these teams, so even living here, it's very hard to find any information about them), I started a thread to "catalogue", and hopefully also to showcase, some of the games being made in Portugal:

Community - Games made in Portugal

Recently, as a result of discovering that an upcoming game that I'm looking forward to was developed in my home country, Portugal, I realized that there's a lot more games currently being made here, and being released on Steam, than I ever imagined. Some, I bought and played, without ever...

metacouncil.com

If anyone knows any games missing from that list, please let me know, so I can add them.

For example, Tizoc, I seem to remember a game I bought (and I believe you did too) a few months, or a year ago, that was a small, and cheap, point and click game, directed to a younger audience, that kind of had a post-apocalyptic theme, and that was based around the concept of saving water.
I remember realizing the game was made in Portugal, and having some EU financing, but I'm not remembering the game.
Do you remember the name of the game?

 

[Jav]

Does anyone have a link to a page or something that keeps track of the online events for the summer?

 

[manchego obfuscator]

Giana Sisters TD looks nice with SSGSS AA, but the way it is 'zoomed out' makes some hazards hard to navigate around during platforming but it's otherwise a decent platformer so far.

I'ma go get me a chocolate milkshake.

It's mechanically competent and the visuals are pretty nice for a last-gen 2.5D game (especially the real-time world morphing effect, which is still impressive), but the gameplay is quite bland, like a generic 16-bit platformer. Didn't get very far.

 

[Theswweet]

Well, Helltaker was a fun little distraction. Easy, basically free game for my 52 games list this year!

 

[MJunioR]

Does anyone have a link to a page or something that keeps track of the online events for the summer?

Events - Gematsu

www.gematsu.com

 

[fantomena]

Finished Chimera Squad. Pretty good for such a cheap game.

 

[Snakethesniper]

THE WALL

 

[Dragon1893]

You guys remember "there came an echo"?
The dev gave away thousands of copies on gaf when the game launched.
Sometimes I remember that and wonder how that worked out for him. I've never seen anyone mention that game again.
I dropped the game after about 30 minutes, not because it was bad but because I had too much on my plate.
I'd like to say that I'll give it another go but who am I kidding, I don't have time.

 

[prudis]

Which of the two is the more "relaxing" and accessible title?
My patience has been a bit low for tackling games where I have to think a lot, so I'm wondering which of the two would be a more accessible start?
Based on the theme, I would prefer to play Planet Zoo.

i would say for "relax" and accessibility you are absolutely fine with either of them , there is barely any challeneg in them .
But it you want soemthing more creative go for Zoo,, if soemething simpler fo Jurassic

 

[crimsonheadGCN]

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

You guys remember "there came an echo"?
The dev gave away thousands of copies on gaf when the game launched.
Sometimes I remember that and wonder how that worked out for him. I've never seen anyone mention that game again.
I dropped the game after about 30 minutes, not because it was bad but because I had too much on my plate.
I'd like to say that I'll give it another go but who am I kidding, I don't have time.

According to their twitter they are still active and looking for artists etc.

https://twitter.com/IridiumStudios

... and yeah, i need to check but i think i actually bought There Came An Echo... dunno what it's like. Yet.

 

[Knurek]

You guys remember "there came an echo"?
The dev gave away thousands of copies on gaf when the game launched.
Sometimes I remember that and wonder how that worked out for him.

Well, he was on Wipeout and voiced the best character of Dangan Ronpa 1/2, so there's that.

 

[Mivey]

You guys remember "there came an echo"?
The dev gave away thousands of copies on gaf when the game launched.
Sometimes I remember that and wonder how that worked out for him. I've never seen anyone mention that game again.
I dropped the game after about 30 minutes, not because it was bad but because I had too much on my plate.
I'd like to say that I'll give it another go but who am I kidding, I don't have time.

I remember never getting the game to work well with the audio commands. Lost my interest quite quickly after that. Game itself didn't feel very fun outside of that gimmick.

 

[Tizoc]

Having recently realized that several games I played, or that I'm looking forward to, where developed in my home country, Portugal (Those Who Remain, out next week, is another example), and also after searching, and failing to find much information on the games currently being made here (since sadly, it seems there's not much interest by the local press in the development efforts of these teams, so even living here, it's very hard to find any information about them), I started a thread to "catalogue", and hopefully also to showcase, some of the games being made in Portugal:

Community - Games made in Portugal

Recently, as a result of discovering that an upcoming game that I'm looking forward to was developed in my home country, Portugal, I realized that there's a lot more games currently being made here, and being released on Steam, than I ever imagined. Some, I bought and played, without ever...

metacouncil.com

If anyone knows any games missing from that list, please let me know, so I can add them.

For example, Tizoc, I seem to remember a game I bought (and I believe you did too) a few months, or a year ago, that was a small, and cheap, point and click game, directed to a younger audience, that kind of had a post-apocalyptic theme, and that was based around the concept of saving water.
I remember realizing the game was made in Portugal, and having some EU financing, but I'm not remembering the game.
Do you remember the name of the game?

Ah

 

[Ascheroth]

You guys remember "there came an echo"?
The dev gave away thousands of copies on gaf when the game launched.
Sometimes I remember that and wonder how that worked out for him. I've never seen anyone mention that game again.
I dropped the game after about 30 minutes, not because it was bad but because I had too much on my plate.
I'd like to say that I'll give it another go but who am I kidding, I don't have time.

I have it from god knows where, but not played it.
I did really like Before the Echo though.

 

[Tizoc]

It's mechanically competent and the visuals are pretty nice for a last-gen 2.5D game (especially the real-time world morphing effect, which is still impressive), but the gameplay is quite bland, like a generic 16-bit platformer. Didn't get very far.

That's fair criticism and I would agree about the last part. I made it to the final world but it's a bit lengthy so I'll do 2 sessions to finish it.

 

[prudis]

New Blood ftw:

 

[Tizoc]

https://twitter.com/owzki

 

[Wok]

One dev of Slay the Spire was on a 1-hour stream for the launch of Monster Train.

 

[Deleted member 113]

Ah

That's the one!

Thanks, Tizoc.

 

[Mivey]

Have started DMC4 Special Edition recently, and I gotta vent a bit.

Now, I really liked the first two missions of this game. It feels like someone brought DMC3 over to 7th gen consoles, with the same cut scenes, the text telling you what to do, etc. and it's just great. The animations look a lot better, with things like proper high quality motion blur and the first boss fight (the real one, not the sparring with Dante) was superb. Then I start Mission 3, and there's a silly platforming section, which literally blocks mission progress. You need to use Nero's grapple to get around this church, and if you fail, you get to fight the same trash mob, again and again, and again. I have no idea what I actually need to do, but moreover, why the hell is this even a showblocker in a DMC game? DMC1 had things like this, where you could save time by managing the platforming stuff, or simply fight your way through once if you couldn't . The game didn't force my to do some annoying platforming.
This is literally the dumbest thing I've experience so far in this franchise.

 

[low-G]

https://twitter.com/owzki

Reminds me of this

 

[Dragon1893]

Well, he was on Wipeout and voiced the best character of Dangan Ronpa 1/2, so there's that.

I wonder if he ended up regretting doing that insane giveaway.
At the time he said that he was hoping to generate awareness through word of mouth.

 

[BoosterDuck]

Learning to let go of framerate anxiety made me love PC gaming again

How to stop fretting over frames (and enjoy games!) without the obsessive number-crunching.

www.pcgamer.com

 

[Kvik]

Learning to let go of framerate anxiety made me love PC gaming again

How to stop fretting over frames (and enjoy games!) without the obsessive number-crunching.

www.pcgamer.com

Hello. My name is Dave Meikleham, and I’m an addict. It has been three weeks since I last opened the Fraps counter on my PC.

Who the fuck still uses Fraps in 2020 A.D. ?

 

[YourFriendMaynard]

 

[BoosterDuck]

Who the fuck still uses Fraps in 2020 A.D. ?

article is actually from 2017 but I didn't realize it when it was featured on my Google News feed