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Are videogames for children?

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WE'RE ALL GONNA said:
Then why did you play it?
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A friend on Steam bugged me. It’s like why I played Planescale torment and got pissy at how terrible it is as a game and think that the narrative can’t save it despit how they gushed about it.

Narrative heavy games without good gameplay and adventure games are the bane of my existence.
 
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HodgePodgeRogerDodger said:
A friend on Steam bugged me. It’s like why I played Planescale torment and got pissy at how terrible it is as a game and think that the narrative can’t save it despit how they gushed about it.

Narrative heavy games without good gameplay and adventure games are the bane of my existence.
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Okay, then why are you accepting recommendations for them? Are you brain damaged?
 
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GhastlyGhost said:
Okay, then why are you accepting recommendations for them? Are you brain damaged?
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Hes probably desperate for a new fun game so hes asking his pals for something to new to play. Or maybe its just as he said, his friends keep telling to him play a certain game. Its not too much of a risk to play something you never played before. I remember 5 or 6 years ago in high school, my homie wouldnt shut up about Yakuza. So I took his advice and started Yakuza 0. Amazing video game 10/10. And all that took was just a risk for something new to play.

That same friend later told me to play Death Stranding. And well, you can guess how that went.
 
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Tis' a sad day to be a 3DS owner.
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So I bought Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War on Steam during the spring sale for $2 or $3. I installed it and found out there is no widescreen support. I mean none at all. You can get files that someone used a hex editor to edit to allow you to play in 1920x1080. But this isn't 100% either. It causes UI issues in game. The same goes for Winter Assault. You can't play that in 1920x1080 either or I would have bought it as well. But Soulstorm and Dark Crusade can be played in any resolution you want. I think all the way to 4K. But I found this mod that allows you to play the Dawn of War and Winter Assault campaign in Soul Storm in 1920x1080 with no issues. You even get all the in game cutscenes. But you don't get the CGI cut scenes from what I can see. You can watch them on YouTube. You don't need Dawn of War or Winter Assault for the mod.

I was playing that a few days ago. I have Space Marine and Battlefleet Gothic Armada 1 and 2. It's not my first Games Workshop game. I might even try Dawn of War II and even III when they go on sale. I know they aren't considered to be as good as the first game. But I don't know anything about Warhammer lore so it won't bother me that much. To me they will just be new interesting games I can get for a cheap price.
HodgePodgeRogerDodger said:
A friend on Steam bugged me. It’s like why I played Planescale torment and got pissy at how terrible it is as a game and think that the narrative can’t save it despit how they gushed about it.

Narrative heavy games without good gameplay and adventure games are the bane of my existence.
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Planescape Tormet is one of the best CRPG's ever created it. It's right up there with the first two Baldur's Gate games the Icewind Dale games and the first two Fallout games. It's like the holy trinity of PC RPG's just there is more than 3. If you don't like it then that's just the way it is. But it's seen by many as an excellent RPG.
 
CuzinEd said:
I installed it and found out there is no widescreen support. I mean none at all. You can get files that someone used a hex editor to edit to allow you to play in 1920x1080.
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Meanwhile, Rally Masters came out in early 2000 and has no problem with widescreen. Or Xbox controllers with analog sticks and triggers.
 
CuzinEd said:
Really? That's pretty old to have widescreen support. Did it get a remaster?

Dawn of War needs a remaster or a remake.
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No, I was running the old pirated release. It seemed to poll windows on what resolutions it supported and just let you choose from that.
Here's a video of the game
It moves the UI element to the right places and it doesn't stretch anything.
The most impressive thing was that I could easily map the xbox controller, the game was from the time when controller support was a fucking shit show.

Motorhead is also a racing game(same developer, DICE) from 1998 and it also lets you run in whatever resolution/aspect ratio you want.
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole 2 said:
No, I was running the old pirated release. It seemed to poll windows on what resolutions it supported and just let you choose from that.
Here's a video of the game
It moves the UI element to the right places and it doesn't stretch anything.
The most impressive thing was that I could easily map the xbox controller, the game was from the time when controller support was a fucking shit show.

Motorhead is also a racing game(same developer, DICE) from 1998 and it also lets you run in whatever resolution/aspect ratio you want.
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That is really odd for such an old game. Being able to map an Xbox controller as well. The only thing I have had to map to a game is my Logitech Extreme 3D pro joystick. I use an Xbox controller for the Xinput so I don't have to screw with it when I use it for a game.
 
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That is really odd for such an old game. Being able to map an Xbox controller as well. The only thing I have had to map to a game is my Logitech Extreme 3D pro joystick. I use an Xbox controller for the Xinput so I don't have to screw with it when I use it for a game.
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It was surprising, but it uses the full extent of old DirectInput it seems, so mapping acceleration registers as a "yoke" or whatever it was and so on. It meant that the controls could be easily configured but looking at the configuration makes no sense since it's mapped towards flight-sim functions and not the Xbox controller.
 
Has anyone done a review on F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch yet? I thought about picking it up myself, but I genuinely haven't heard much about the game; any suggestions?
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole 2 said:
It was surprising, but it uses the full extent of old DirectInput it seems, so mapping acceleration registers as a "yoke" or whatever it was and so on. It meant that the controls could be easily configured but looking at the configuration makes no sense since it's mapped towards flight-sim functions and not the Xbox controller.
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That is pretty strange. But an analog stick is kind of like a smaller joystick. Instead of your hand you use your thumb.
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Has anyone done a review on F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch yet? I thought about picking it up myself, but I genuinely haven't heard much about the game; any suggestions?
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It's rated very positive on Steam,
 
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Big Boss Nigger said:
As much as I like Doom 2016, I found Eternal to be a letdown. Game had way too many platforming and not enough of rip and tearing. And I didnt like the Earth setting or the new weapons. The mechanics were to kinda complex for no reason. Using the flamethower for armor HP, using the Chainsaw for rocket ammo, etc. Also the online is even worse in Eternal than Doom 2016. Not that anyone buys Doom for online.
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Played through about 4 missions so far and I see what you mean. Doom 2016 was more enjoyable but Doom Eternal is okay I guess.

I also find it weird that Doom Eternal has a lot more players than Doom 2016 by looking at steamcharts. Even at its peak Doom 2016 didn't have as many people playing. I wonder if they upped the marketing for Doom Eternal
 
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I've been going back to my roots and building a city in SC3K Unlimited. I'm convinced the university reward is cursed because it has been destroyed four times in the period 1945-1990. Two toxic clouds, one hit from space junk and a tornado. Thankfully none hit the colossal nuclear power plant complex near the airport.

Maybe Maxis was telling us something.
 
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SandyCat said:
Played through about 4 missions so far and I see what you mean. Doom 2016 was more enjoyable but Doom Eternal is okay I guess.

I also find it weird that Doom Eternal has a lot more players than Doom 2016 by looking at steamcharts. Even at its peak Doom 2016 didn't have as many people playing. I wonder if they upped the marketing for Doom Eternal
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Because the hype for Eternal was much bigger than DOOM 2016. No one really expected Doom 2016 to be good but then it turned out to be great. Mick Gordons killer ost combined with the demon slaughtering made the game great for sequels being planned. So when Eternal got revealed along with the "mortally challenegd" meme, a delay from late 2019 to early 2020, A Switch port of Doom 2016 in 2017 and Mick Gordon coming back for the sequel. The hype for Eternal was real.
 
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So I bought Warhammer 40k Dawn of War about a week ago. I then went and got Soulstorm and Dark Crusade. I started watching videos about the games. YouTube recommended me a video about Total War Warhammer 1. I watched it and said that sounds pretty interesting I might get it during a Steam sale. But I forgot I already have the game and I have had it since 2016. I got it for free when I built my first gaming PC in 2016. I was deciding if I should go with a GTX 970 Ti or R9 390. I went with the R9 390 and got Warhammer for free. It was actually a code I put into Steam. Remember when you used to get free games with your GPU? The good old days. I installed it the other day. I will eventually give it a try. I remember playing it when I first got it and not having the time or patience for it. I have been trying to get back into those kind of games. I used to have tons of patience when I was younger. I would play strategy games and things like that all the time. I installed it on my new 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD.
 
Did y’all know that Wuppo (the definitive edition) is like a buck fifty right now!?

It’s great, and I’m upset no one told me about it until I accidentally bought it, almost didn’t play it but it looked good for the SteamDeck and let me tell you.

I was a boy, now I am a man…. $1.50 did that.
Most games I don’t play, but fuck man, couldn’t recommend it more, first game in years that I just wanted to see more of.
 
I've seen a mentioning of Unpacking in some random comfy game list and I've gotta say I've never seen a game astroturfed so hard. At least Celeste seems like a decent platformer, this is basically a smartphone game being passed as ground breaking for MAN BAD and MUH LESBIANS.
 
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