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Are videogames for children?

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Who is the Steamcube even for? It's too complicated for normie plug n play consolefags and at $800 it's more expensive and has less features than a cheaper prebuilt gaming PC.

It's a neat piece of tech but I'm not sure who the audience is.
 
Rabo 2: Electric Boogaloo said:
It's a sort of time capsule of 90s computing mixed with a creepy pasta.
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That's what it claims to be, but fails on many levels. I don't know how you could remake it because the initial version was dumb, and the premise of retro gaming related horror has been done better. I also don't see a way how you could take that concept and stretch it out to a payed game. The original felt padded for it's 10 minute run time.

There was one I forget the name of where you play an Atari 2600 style horror game, only to realize the game is happening in real life. Another is Duck Season, which was a VR game where you play Duck Hunt and the dog is sneaking around outside your house trying to kill you. (The devs of that one went on to make Boneworks)

Even though these are "game within a game" type games, They pull the concept off way better.
 
After multiple rounds of uninstalling and reinstalling Hellpoint, I finally beat it. Great concept, but sticks the landing like those videos of gymnasts finding a new range of motion past their kneecaps. So many bugs, the most irritating of which being 1) Fall at just the right angle during an action causes your controls to lock up until you get hit again [This happened to me mid-exploration, so I had to reboot the game because of it. The second time, getting hit fixed it.] and 2) The geometry is fucked. In Union Park, there's an obelisk that transports you to the underworld version of the map. In there, there's an Archon boss in a small cave, but the geometry of the floor still includes the stairs and floor that is tall enough for you to get stuck on mid-combat, despite the floor being flat.
I really wanted to like it, because transhumanism and alien daemons on a derelict space station is a neat concept, but the labyrinthine map and confusing progression really put a damper on the experience. The bosses look cool but suck to fight.
tl;dr play it then uninstall it. Spend your first few levels on health, though. It makes it so much easier.
 
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Does anybody know what happened to NIGORO, the team behind the La-Mulana series? I was interested in knowing if they've made any progress on their new project Ahamkara that they announced in 2022, but I can't seem to find anything about the game outside of different sites covering the '22 announcement.

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I swore there was also early pixel art for the game, but I either imagined it or just can't find it anymore. Hell, I tried NIGORO's website, and the latest announcement on it's news section is just about the La-Mulana games getting console releases.

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Kinda wondered if the group died or something. Thought the same thing a couple of years ago as well, but then they suddenly released the La-Mulana 2 Tower of Oannes DLC for consoles around that same time and I was like damn, I guess they're still around. Maybe they just like being quiet until they have something to put out. I sure hope it's not a monetary issue: I'd have been more than happy to throw money at a Ahamkara Kickstarter.
 
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Does anybody know what happened to NIGORO, the team behind the La-Mulana series? I was interested in knowing if they've made any progress on their new project Ahamkara that they announced in 2022, but I can't seem to find anything about the game outside of different sites covering the '22 announcement.

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I swore there was also early pixel art for the game, but I either imagined it or just can't find it anymore. Hell, I tried NIGORO's website, and the latest announcement on it's news section is just about the La-Mulana games getting console releases.

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Kinda wondered if the group died or something. Thought the same thing a couple of years ago as well, but then they suddenly released the La-Mulana 2 Tower of Oannes DLC for consoles around that same time and I was like damn, I guess they're still around. Maybe they just like being quiet until they have something to put out. I sure hope it's not a monetary issue: I'd have been more than happy to throw money at a Ahamkara Kickstarter.
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I believe they're making a Maze Of The Galious remake in addition to Ahamkara. Though the only gameplay to that is here(in the event the timestamp doesn't go through, it's 1 hour 6 minutes in
As for the lack of updates, I'm coping myself but I do remember La Mulana 2 taking a ridiculous while to release any updates. It's possible this is the case here too.

Speaking of Maze of the Galious, there's a very similar 2014 game by the name of Pampas and Selene, by the developers of Unepic/Ghost 1.0/Unmetal.
 
So steam is doing a black friday sale, is there any reason to purchase anything right now rather than just waiting for the usual winter sale?
 
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A magazine ad for NBA 2K2 advertised for PS2, Xbox and Dreamcast. Fun fact, this is one of the few games released simultaneously for the aforementioned systems and GameCube.
 
BingBongDingDong said:
So steam is doing a black friday sale, is there any reason to purchase anything right now rather than just waiting for the usual winter sale?
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Steam sales have become so mundane that it's hard to say. Beyond cross referencing prices of whatever you were looking to purchase against historical sale prices, it's a crapshoot.
 
PanLake007 said:
Yeah it's totally worth giving money to the people who hate you, it's a woke slop remake.
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Lol yeah the blink-and-miss-'em 3-gender bathroom signs really ruined my enjoyment of a horror game in a darkened ship with flickering lights (or none) where you instantly risk your ass merely stopping to read the wall graffiti or glancing at the X-ray pictures of the aliens.

Holy fuck you have to be a retarded grognard to whine about bullshit this minor in motherfucking 2025 for a game currently on sale for cheaper than a Whopper combo. Not paying for it isn't an option, either, the Denuvo cracking scene is DOA since Empress vanished after her last spergout.

edit: And unlike the System Shock 2 "remaster" , it's actually an improvement.
 
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What's the consensus on Tainted Grail? It seems like most dudes are saying it's $20 good but not $50 good.
 
Jace on ice said:
What's the consensus on Tainted Grail? It seems like most dudes are saying it's $20 good but not $50 good.
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I picked it up in early access but haven't played anything after Act 1 and most of my playtime was before the 1.0 release so take this with a grain of salt. From what I've played I would say the game is fun but rough around the edges; it's not a "skyrim killer" by any means but it scratches the itch. In my opinion it's worth it for 20 bucks but I wouldn't pay more than 30 for it.
 
Jace on ice said:
What's the consensus on Tainted Grail? It seems like most dudes are saying it's $20 good but not $50 good.
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It's good but not great. The writing and world are intriguing in act 1 but falls off in act 2 and 3, which is a shame because I think the act 2 map is really cool. It kind of pulls itself together by the very end but that's not enough to excuse just how lame the lead up to it is. The actual gameplay is quite good. They did something between release and the most recent patch that really put some weight on the melee. There's a lot of content. Easily worth $20 or $30. I think the thread did a good job of picking it apart. It did a better job of stepping up to its inspiration than TOW2 did by a fucking mile.
 
GOG sent me an email inviting me to become a "GOG Patron" for $5/month, to accelerate their Preservation Program:

https://www.gog.com/en/patrons (archive) (ghost) (wayback)

They get funds to do more of the preservation work, you get:
Exclusive Discord community
Credit on games you help preserve
Vote on restoration priorities
Patron badge on profile and forum
Exclusive behind-the-scenes content
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Only superfans are going to bother with this, but I'd say both GOG and Valve are doing good work. Valve most obviously with Proton, but they also funded FEX development to prepare for the Steam Frame.
 
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