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Are videogames for children?

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I enjoy Slayers X as a game, but man the whole thing is just painfully unfunny. Not quite to High on Life levels, but the "lol we're so bad because we're intentionally bad" humour annoys the hell out of me, and it has the most aggravating enemy sound design I've heard in years.
 
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Wow, I was impressed by Prodeus' level design anyway, but those final few levels go absolutely mental.

A shame it didn't seem to pick up much momentum on consoles. Good user maps seem very rare.
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I really, really like the game but seemed to run out of steam in one aspect around 30% through. Going back and getting shinies was really fun with new abilities and weapons that let you sequence break the game and go for what you were looking for. I wish they could have kept that type of gameplay up, it made old levels new again.
 
Just found out that Vanpool is dead and I'm upset. They made two really good DS games that were essentially the Zelda equivalent of Paper Mario

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I enjoy Slayers X as a game, but man the whole thing is just painfully unfunny. Not quite to High on Life levels, but the "lol we're so bad because we're intentionally bad" humour annoys the hell out of me, and it has the most aggravating enemy sound design I've heard in years.
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Did you play hypnospace first? It would've given you a good idea of what to expect. I get what you're saying but it never felt obnoxious. It helps that I know that Jay and the team aren't massive fart-huffers who believe that they're so above everything.
Anyway, my main problem is that they're making a game about an edgy teen in possibly the worst era to attempt to do that. It's extremely sanitized for all the the big babies out there because in 2023 if your game has even a hint of off colour humour it's going to be hounded by every press outlet and loser with a twitter account until the cows come home. I'm almost certain that they're going to have to patch something out despite all the caution.
I've not finished it yet but my best guess would either be all the one liners Zane has about other people's moms or the charging guys in spiked armour who make tribesmen like gibberish chanting.
Maybe even all the needles, idk.

Alternately:
STFU syko hater *shoot's killshotte in your face and then stabs the koolblade into your neck and drinks your blood*

Anyway, I'm really liking it so far. The main draw is the soundtrack which Jay Tholen has always co-ordinated amazingly.
Level 3's track blew me away. I didn't know that "Danny Phantom Soundtrack" was a genre in the alternate earth.
The lack of secret guides is nice. It reminds me of when I got stuck in UNDERTALE on Mettaton when it had just come out.

Also, Jobel's in this game:
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So today I was watching that best worst movie troll 2 documentary and.....apparently some fan of the movie made an actual game about it that involves one of the characters walking around nilbog killing goblins by throwing double decker baloney sandwiches at them. I shit you not, there were shots of people playing it

I'm disappointed as fuck it doesn't seem to be available anywhere online
 
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This is every single physical/retail copy of PC games I own. I think STALKER SOC will work. From what I read the DRM was disabled in later patches. I don't think Call of Pripyat will work. The DRM used on these old games is what keeps them from working on 64 bit OS's like Windows 10. The DRM will not work on anything newer than Windows 7 or Vista. So even if you had an optical drive and a the physical disc it still wouldn't work. So if you collect them they are just something you can look at and collect dust. They can't actually be used. From what I have read VtM:Bloodlines will work. There are still people installing it from the 3 CD's and playing with the unofficial patch. Also using the something called the Clan Quest mod. The exe used in the unofficial patch and the Clan Quest mod allows you to play it with no DRM issues. Of course Duke3D Atomic Edition works. The disc looks completely spotless and there is no DRM since it's from the late 90's.

I won't be collecting retail/physical PC games. I really don't need a bunch of boxes sitting around collecting dust and stuff that can't really be used. If the game doesn't have DRM it would be worth it. But otherwise it's not to me.

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Any recommendations for 4x games? I think I've played my maximum safe dosage of Civilization 6 for the year.
 
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This is every single physical/retail copy of PC games I own. I think STALKER SOC will work. From what I read the DRM was disabled in later patches. I don't think Call of Pripyat will work. The DRM used on these old games is what keeps them from working on 64 bit OS's like Windows 10. The DRM will not work on anything newer than Windows 7 or Vista. So even if you had an optical drive and a the physical disc it still wouldn't work. So if you collect them they are just something you can look at and collect dust. They can't actually be used. From what I have read VtM:Bloodlines will work. There are still people installing it from the 3 CD's and playing with the unofficial patch. Also using the something called the Clan Quest mod. The exe used in the unofficial patch and the Clan Quest mod allows you to play it with no DRM issues. Of course Duke3D Atomic Edition works. The disc looks completely spotless and there is no DRM since it's from the late 90's.

I won't be collecting retail/physical PC games. I really don't need a bunch of boxes sitting around collecting dust and stuff that can't really be used. If the game doesn't have DRM it would be worth it. But otherwise it's not to me.

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Why does duke 3d look like a bootleg copy compared to everything else
 
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Why does duke 3d look like a bootleg copy compared to everything else
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It's a real copy of Duke3D. It's the atomic edition and the CD says special edition on the front of it. I don't know what that means. That's the manual that comes with the game. Like some older CD based games the manual is also the cover art for the game. It's a complete real copy of Duke3D. I put it in my external optical drive and it read it just fine.
 
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It's a real copy of Duke3D. It's the atomic edition and the CD says special edition on the front of it. I don't know what that means. That's the manual that comes with the game. Like some older CD based games the manual is also the cover art for the game. It's a complete real copy of Duke3D. I put it in my external optical drive and it read it just fine.
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Some old titles got all kinds of weird re-releases but that does indeed look a bit weird.

Is this the one you have?
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I can't help but think this is much more epic quote before the youtube AI dick riders completely killed the Dagoth Ur meme. Now he reads Jeff the Killer creepypastas on Youtube.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbDgHDwfkrM Okay none of them I could find have actually done Jeff the Killer, but you get the idea.
 
Started Amnesia: The Bunker. Heard some friends say some great things about it that made me really interested, WW1 aesthetic was a factor too, and so far it's mostly living up to my hopes. The section at the start is a bit cheesy and stock, but it's mostly an intro to the mechanics and the tone changes completely afterwards. It does a good job at making you feel helpless, I've found about four bullets in the entire game and half of them were needed to open doors. Does a good job making you feel helpless. So far I'd recommend it.
 
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