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I gotta invite to the half-life 3 beta the other day. Full disclosure, it's not the full game, but a small chunk of it. Regardless, I can already tell this is going to be a monumental pivot in how games like this are made. you've never played or experienced anything like it. The years of hype don't even come close to how fantastic of an experience just this short demo was. It's a messianic gaming event.
 
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Lipitor said:
I gotta invite to the half-life 3 beta the other day. Full disclosure, it's not the full game, but a small chunk of it. Regardless, I can already tell this is going to be a monumental pivot in how games like this are made. you've never played or experienced anything like it. The years of hype don't even come close to how fantastic of an experience just this short demo was. It's a messianic gaming event.
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It's not April, dude.
 
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That's how you know I'm telling the truth.
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No way I'm true and honest! You'll probably get your invite sometime soon, but they are handing them out in order of most important video gamer, so don't be jealous and be patient please.
 
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. We do need more Star Wars hack and slash games.
 
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Lipitor said:
I gotta invite to the half-life 3 beta the other day. Full disclosure, it's not the full game, but a small chunk of it. Regardless, I can already tell this is going to be a monumental pivot in how games like this are made. you've never played or experienced anything like it. The years of hype don't even come close to how fantastic of an experience just this short demo was. It's a messianic gaming event.
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Surely, you must have stumbled over the Rev60 beta and mistook it for HL3 due to its high production values :story:
 
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lol i thought everyone had alredy torrented and played the full game. Nice job on your beta invite!
 
I've been playing Stardew Valley, Dragon Age Origins (Awakening expac) and This Is The Police.

SV is kind of like Harvest Moon, with some simple dungeon crawler mechanics when you're not tending your crops or socializing with locals.
DAO is a little favorite of mine and I just got my hands on its expac. Story is interesting.
TITP is a strategy game with mild RPG elements. Love the music and the artwork. Has some grammatical errors due to translation.

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Papers Please, and I'm getting really goddamn angry at it. I end up in jail due to debt and my family get's sick and hungry from lack of food/medicine because apparently I'm not a good border patrol agent. I miss shit on people's passports constantly.
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I've played the game myself, and there's some tips I could give you. If you're confusing issuing cities, write them down on a sticky note and don't be afraid to use your manual if you're not sure of something, such as diplomat seals and forged stamps.
 
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My dad and I decided to play Mass Effect 2 with my new monitor, and the game keeps minimizing to desktop at random times. Does anyone know how to fix it?
 
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My dad and I decided to play Mass Effect 2 with my new monitor, and the game keeps minimizing to desktop at random times. Does anyone know how to fix it?
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Have you tried alt + tab? To fix it?

On topic, I've been giving Enderal a try. For those that don't know what that game is, it's a total conversion of Skyrim and a sequel to Nehrim, a total conversion of Oblivion.
 
Been playing MMATycoon, one of those online fantasy management games that aren't crap by virtue of being run by a single crazy guy in a shed instead of by a soulless company. Got my max of 4 fighters for the free account, and am training them for some fights later this month. It's slow paced, 1 year = 4 years of aging essentially, so it's not something that needs you to constantly check in on it like other fantasy management games.

All of my guys are in fight orgs now (Think UFC, Bellator, that sorta thing), although they haven't been booked for any events yet so they're just training. Unfortunatly, two of my guys are in an org run by what I later found out was their version of @autisticdragonkin, but the pay is good for my fighters (and thus my cut as well) so they can stay in the Lolcow Fighting League. Plus one of my fighters did win a fight there, so maybe it's ramshackle enough to get him fed so he can go to a real league.

They've got a mentor program too which I always appreciate in games like this, as some of the stuff is a black box unless you want to dive directly in wikis. Biggest thing I learned was how to optimize my gym sessions, so that my fighters are getting the best they can at the low rent gyms that don't have coaches. Got them doing Sparring in the AM, and exercise in the PM sessions, paired off in groups to buff themselves up.
 
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I've played the game myself, and there's some tips I could give you. If you're confusing issuing cities, write them down on a sticky note and don't be afraid to use your manual if you're not sure of something, such as diplomat seals and forged stamps.
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That is the first thing I did lol, write down the issuing cities. Thanks for the advice, I got a little bit better since I posted that. The thing that was really messing me up was not knowing how to look at the written transcript of what the immigrants told you. I was denying people and getting citations because I didn't know how to correct them, or I would accept them and get a citation for their reason for visiting not matching up with what it said on their entrance papers.
 
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That is the first thing I did lol, write down the issuing cities. Thanks for the advice, I got a little bit better since I posted that. The thing that was really messing me up was not knowing how to look at the written transcript of what the immigrants told you. I was denying people and getting citations because I didn't know how to correct them, or I would accept them and get a citation for their reason for visiting not matching up with what it said on their entrance papers.
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If people have conflicting information between their document(s) and what they said, the audio transcript is your best friend to look for discrepancies (seriously, you can use the discrepancy tool on almost anything that's interact-able). Most of the time they'll correct themselves, which will save you a citation or more in the future going by that alone. The game is very anal on everything, including matching stories/genders/heights/etc.

However, I'm glad to help!
 
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charmaide said:
If people have conflicting information between their document(s) and what they said, the audio transcript is your best friend to look for discrepancies (seriously, you can use the discrepancy tool on almost anything that's interact-able). Most of the time they'll correct themselves, which will save you a citation or more in the future going by that alone. The game is very anal on everything, including matching stories/genders/heights/etc.

However, I'm glad to help!
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Thanks. Yeah that was my biggest hang up, not knowing about the audio transcript. Since I figured that out I've had much more success.

How are you enjoying Stardew Vally? A friend of mine showed me that, he was a big Harvest Moon for the SNES fan. It looked really cool, I like that style of graphics.
 
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How are you enjoying Stardew Vally? A friend of mine showed me that, he was a big Harvest Moon for the SNES fan. It looked really cool, I like that style of graphics.
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Oh, it's fun and I swear it can go on forever in terms of game length (I'm on Year 6; I've seen people be at Year 9+).
All the characters are different, yet likable, and you can work yourself to upgrades through two routes--either your gold or through item bundles. (These upgrades include a restored greenhouse which can grow plants all year long in-game, repaired bus and minecarts for a new location and fast travel respectively, etc.) You can level up on various skills, which unlocks various crafting recipes on each subsequent level you achieve and choose passive perks midway (level 5) or max (level 10).

The dungeon crawler aspect is simple and personally my go-to for increasing profits (since there's gem veins and various geodes that can be sold--a protip though; save your omnigeodes for the blacksmith. Every other geode can be sold through your shipping crate). Other crops can be unlocked as time progresses (Year 2 would have more seeds for sale than Year 1), through unlocking the bus (which goes to a desert area, including a shop with 3 rare seeds), artifact hunting (where the "Ancient Seed" can be found, cultivated and harvested multiple times--these have the most value as a crop) or through the traveling merchant who appears on certain in-game days (which are Friday and Sunday and she sells the "Rare Seed" which produces Sweet Gem Fruit, which is a requirement to opinionally increase your energy meter).

I could ramble on about SV, but I don't want to clog up the thread, haha.
 
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AdvertCity, a quite strange management game. It was apparently heavily inspired by Introversion's cancelled Subversion game - it has the same bluish colour scheme, procedurally generated cities, very minimalist 3D graphics and similar cyberpunk themes:
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You are a newly-founded advertisement company in a cyberpunk world. There are numerous rivaling megacorps on the market, and they all need ads. You place advertisements in real life and in cyberspace and buy buildings and employees living there, taking into account rivalries between the corporations, the location, etc. The main goal of the game is to take over every single megacorp in the city.
Very interesting and intriguing concept, but the interface is a bit confusing. It's still a good game, though.

It also has a nice vaporwave-esque soundtrack.
 
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Guardian G.I. said:
AdvertCity, a quite strange management game. It was apparently heavily inspired by Introversion's cancelled Subversion game - it has the same bluish colour scheme, procedurally generated cities, very minimalist 3D graphics and similar cyberpunk themes:
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You are a newly-founded advertisement company in a cyberpunk world. There are numerous rivaling megacorps on the market, and they all need ads. You place advertisements in real life and in cyberspace and buy buildings and employees living there, taking into account rivalries between the corporations, the location, etc. The main goal of the game is to take over every single megacorp in the city.
Very interesting and intriguing concept, but the interface is a bit confusing. It's still a good game, though.

It also has a nice vaporwave-esque soundtrack.
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Sounds interesting and fun. I'll have to look into it sometime, haha.
 
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