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Koumei
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Post by Koumei » Fri Aug 21, 2015 2:10 pm

In the last few years there have been like five or six 40k games that were quick, shitty cash-ins. There was a shitty Lane Defence game (like... not even a Tower Defence or a solid MOBA) for mobile platforms. A MOBA (which caused zero splashes). There's that Space Marine Ork MMO shooter thing. Soon there's going to be a tablet game about an Imperial Knight where you tap to shoot... I suppose there's the turn based strategy Apocalypse thing that apparently "plays decently, but is literally a reskin of an existing game".
They have been whoring that license out like crazy.

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Post by Maxus » Fri Aug 21, 2015 4:34 pm

And still no sign of a Warhammer 40k: Chaos Marine or Sister of Battle or Eversor games set up like unto Space Marine.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
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Post by Stahlseele » Sat Aug 22, 2015 12:58 am

Eternal Crusade is still in the makings.
Dark Millenium is dead in both online and offline i think.
There's WH40K Regicide . . a kinda sorta Chess-Game?
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> > TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
> > Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.

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Post by maglag » Sat Aug 22, 2015 8:18 am

I had hope for Eternal Crusade once, but it's been years in "developing" and all we've seen from the actual game is basically recycled Space Marine engine. No orks nor eldars at all, and we only see Chaos dudes because they're reskins of the SM.
More despairing, they've already set up a shop for in-game content some months ago, where you can burn your real-life money in stuff that you have no idea what it'll do, which makes me more and more suspicious the whole thing is an elaborate cash-in.
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Post by Stahlseele » Sat Aug 22, 2015 12:25 pm

sadly, i predict a 50% probability of you being right.
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> Shrapnel wrote:

> > TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
> > Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.

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Post by RelentlessImp » Sat Aug 22, 2015 3:46 pm

Having communicated with Steven Lumpkin, the lead level designer for Eternal Crusade, it's on the level. But they're not doing much with the license, they just want to make a fun third-person shooter.
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Post by Maxus » Sat Aug 22, 2015 6:50 pm

So my Xbox died and I had a little extra money and a hankering for Dark Souls. So I got the first game again.
Back on the Xbox, I was disgustingly lucky with loot. Two masks of Avarice, boar helm from the first boar, a Black Knight Sword from my first Knight, all kinds of stupid-lucky drops.
This time, I not only got the BK Sword, I got a Titanite Chunk from him at the same time.
I just wish I'd been quicker on the draw getting to the screenshot key.
Also good to know I still got it.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Post by Longes » Sat Aug 22, 2015 7:22 pm

So, Shadowrun Hong Kong is out. So far it's third verse same as the first.
Your PC is a nameless bum who spent the last [undefined but many] years in the corporate prison after his first [undefined] criminal deed. Your first companion is a Lone Star orc who hates shadowrunners and other criminal scum. You both have SINs. Also both of you are from Seattle, because playing a chineese person would just be insane, right?
Also it's not clear right now, but I think the plot is going to involve an evil magic cult.
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Post by K » Sun Aug 23, 2015 9:15 pm

Been playing the crap out of SR: HK.
New Matrix mini-games, new skill for Body that increases cybering, new spells, same old Shadowrun Returns. Some great characters.
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Post by name_here » Sun Aug 23, 2015 9:29 pm

I really liked the payoff in the showbiz run.
Basically, someone got injured in a freak drone crash that to all avaliable evidence was actually a freak coincidence, and a rival tried to take advantage of his incapacitation, but then he reemerged from the hospital in perfect health almost immediately, and the Johnson wishes for you to figure out what the fuck.
So you discover that he went to a perfectly normal hospital, spent very little money, and met a new girlfriend. Then the new girlfriend confronts you, reveals she is a vampire, and challenges you to battle. Then you win, and she begins begging you for mercy and reveals that she's an accountant who's sort of been winging this whole "Queen of the Night" thing ever since she got infected.

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Post by Leress » Mon Aug 24, 2015 4:31 pm

Grandia II Anniversary edition has come out today on Steam and GOG for $15 for a limited time then it goes to $20.

> Koumei wrote:I'm just glad that Jill Stein stayed true to her homeopathic principles by trying to win with .2% of the vote. She just hasn't diluted it enough!

> Koumei wrote:I am disappointed in Santorum: he should carry his dead election campaign to term!

> Just a heads up... Your post is pregnant... When you miss that many periods it's just a given.

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Post by Archmage Joda » Mon Aug 24, 2015 7:57 pm

I find myself having a hankering for action rpgs like zelda. What good ones are there on pc for me to look into, and please don't say dark souls, as I've tried it, and am really really bad at it?
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Post by K » Mon Aug 24, 2015 8:37 pm

I had a lot of fun with the first The Witcher, and I'm not a fan of the genre.
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Post by maglag » Mon Aug 24, 2015 9:54 pm

> RelentlessImp wrote:Having communicated with Steven Lumpkin, the lead level designer for Eternal Crusade, it's on the level. But they're not doing much with the license, they just want to make a fun third-person shooter.

Well, their definition of "fun" seems to be quite interesting:
-"You can play for free, but in that case your only option is to be an ork basic boy who'll be cannon fodder for the paying players. Hopefully that'll also prevent 90% of the players being Speich Meirines and just roflstomping everybody else by sheer numbers".
-"If your faction is winning, we'll drop a bunch of NPC nids in your ass to ruin your day, kekeke".
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Post by Stahlseele » Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:26 pm

well, at least they try to stay true to the universe i guess . .
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> > TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
> > Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.

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Post by Blade » Tue Aug 25, 2015 10:34 am

> Archmage Joda wrote:I find myself having a hankering for action rpgs like zelda. What good ones are there on pc for me to look into, and please don't say dark souls, as I've tried it, and am really really bad at it?

Darksiders doesn't look much like a 3D zelda game, but it plays like one.
If you like the puzzles in zelda, ittleDew is a 2D action RPG that is mostly about puzzles
If you haven't played it, Dink Smallwood is, if I remember correctly, a fun action RPG. And it's free.
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Post by Koumei » Tue Aug 25, 2015 4:08 pm

Dink Smallwood is hilarious.
Sort of tempted to get Shadowrun: Hong Kong. It's one of the games actually compatible with Linux.

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Post by Meikle641 » Tue Aug 25, 2015 4:45 pm

> Leress wrote:Grandia II Anniversary edition has come out today on Steam and GOG for $15 for a limited time then it goes to $20.

How does Grandia II compare to the original? Tried buying it for PC over a decade ago, but my PC wouldn't run it.
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Post by Leress » Tue Aug 25, 2015 6:25 pm

> Meikle641 wrote:

> > Leress wrote:Grandia II Anniversary edition has come out today on Steam and GOG for $15 for a limited time then it goes to $20.

> How does Grandia II compare to the original? Tried buying it for PC over a decade ago, but my PC wouldn't run it.

I've never played the original, but from what I've seen there is of course the graphical change from sprites to polygons. The battle system looks improved not sure on the details. The dialogue seems a bit better then the first one. The anniversry edition has a further graphical upgrade and is based off of the Dreamcast version unlike the last Port. It also has an additional hard mode.
One minor thing you get get to hear Cam Clarke talk to himself.
Also here is the link to Dink Smallwood HD
http://www.rtsoft.com/pages/dink.php
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X Com 2: Meet the mobile base, Avenger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VTGL4nWiJM
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> Koumei wrote:I'm just glad that Jill Stein stayed true to her homeopathic principles by trying to win with .2% of the vote. She just hasn't diluted it enough!

> Koumei wrote:I am disappointed in Santorum: he should carry his dead election campaign to term!

> Just a heads up... Your post is pregnant... When you miss that many periods it's just a given.

> I want him to tongue-punch my box.

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Post by K » Wed Aug 26, 2015 3:36 am

The Avenger video made me a lot more excited for X-Com 2. It really seems like a new game instead of a slightly-improved version of the old game.
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Post by Koumei » Wed Aug 26, 2015 1:16 pm

Grandia 2's system is very similar to that of the first. There's a lot of the attack-type juggling to chain attacks together and cancel/delay enemy actions and so on, along with moving about on your turn to avoid incoming attacks. That is pretty good.
The PC version had a terrible bug, but I assume the new enhanced version removed that. Basically, if you viewed the tutorial, then about an hour later, one of the fights would go from "you're supposed to lose" to "game over".

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Post by Leress » Wed Aug 26, 2015 4:21 pm

The final fantasy portal recently opened in the US and for a limited time people can download final fantasy one for free.

> Koumei wrote:I'm just glad that Jill Stein stayed true to her homeopathic principles by trying to win with .2% of the vote. She just hasn't diluted it enough!

> Koumei wrote:I am disappointed in Santorum: he should carry his dead election campaign to term!

> Just a heads up... Your post is pregnant... When you miss that many periods it's just a given.

> I want him to tongue-punch my box.

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Post by Lago PARANOIA » Wed Aug 26, 2015 4:28 pm

Grandia II is definitely worth a play, though it kind of loses something at the 4/5th mark of the game -- especially if you liked Ryudo's snark and saltiness pre-character development.
The combat system is really good, but it suffers from the problem of getting progressively easier and easier, especially if you do a 100% run. That game is from an era in which the game developers didn't really have a counter to the 'stock up on MP restoratives, spam your more damaging moves for all of the random encounters' strategy, as you can see with Skies of Arcadia.
If you can get over the fact that the awesome character dynamics kind of take a backseat in the plot in the final act and that the game starts to steadily go down in challenge, especially if you know how to game the system, it's well worth a play. The graphic design is really charming for a 6th-generation game, the character dynamics are really good and there's some genuine character development, the NPCs have really good dialogue if you take the time to talk to them (and Grandia II is one of those games in which the entire town changes their dialogue at the slightest change in story; you will seriously miss around 96%, no exaggeration, of the NPC conversations if you just blaze through the game), the combat system never feels like a chore even when things are at their easiest, and the music is quite kicking with the exception of two unfortunate dungeon themes.
EDIT: I know I harped on the negative, but I hate spoiling the positives of videogames by talking about what I liked in more than vague terms. And I feel that if I am to be negative, I should be explicit. Grandia II is much better than I made it sound, trust me.
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> In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.

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Post by Leress » Wed Aug 26, 2015 10:25 pm

Apparently Nippion Ichi has preorders up for Deadly Premonition: Director's Cut - Classified Edition.
http://store.nisamerica.com/preorders/d ... ed-edition

> Koumei wrote:I'm just glad that Jill Stein stayed true to her homeopathic principles by trying to win with .2% of the vote. She just hasn't diluted it enough!

> Koumei wrote:I am disappointed in Santorum: he should carry his dead election campaign to term!

> Just a heads up... Your post is pregnant... When you miss that many periods it's just a given.

> I want him to tongue-punch my box.

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Post by icyshadowlord » Thu Aug 27, 2015 9:38 am

Some of my friends are hyped for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
I myself have little to look forward to, aside from maybe Disgaea 5 and Dark Souls 3.
And I still have a huge collection of games needing to be completed, from Planescape and Baldur's Gate to the Oddworld series.
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