With the state of free to play games, looking at you, the finals, I can't justify buying games I'll never even have time to play
...which is fine. The finals is great!
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Fellow rhythm gamers, the DJ Max Portable 3 DLC is 80% off, get it for the best version of Supersonic.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1568680/DJMAX_RESPECT_V__Portable_3_PACK/
Just bought and played through Pony Island. $.75 and 2.5 hours later, a nice little experience.
Great game!
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Finally gonna play the first 3 games of The Longest journey and Dreamfall. I am convinced Funcom are great story tellers but awful mmo creators. See Anarchy Online, The Secret World, Conan Exiles. Great story telling. Terrible mmos.
Ohh I played those so long ago during a really difficult time of my life, they were definitely a fun escape and the story felt well suited to a point and click.
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Grabbed a bunch of yakuza games, been meaning to play those for a while.
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I bought a cat game where you need to find and click 100 of them! They had cute noises and every single cat was named!
What's the name of the game?
https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/100CozyGames
makes me think of this, but these are “free”?
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Goodbye, money.
cries in steam is no longer a viable store where I live
Why is that? What happened?
I'm not in an affected country, but from what I can gather from what happened most recently:
Steam changed their pricing policy in relatively poor countries from localized affordable prices to strictly usd equivalent because people in other countries were using vpns to make accounts in those poor countries to get games for what would be pennies for them.
I don't remember which countries were involved in the first place, but in those countries now where they don't make as much money on average, but everything is much cheaper, some steam games can cost the equivalent of a month's salary.
That's why the store isn't viable in those countries anymore.
Edit: Here's a source
That sucks. Never occured to me I could do that, now that I know the consequences I'm glad I didn't!
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Indeed f, indeed
snagged some chill games, Sim City 4, Unpacking, and Lego Builders
Bought BG3 at a discount! 💪
Dear Ubisoft.
This is what a AAAA game looks like.
It's honestly the only modern game worth $70 imo. One campaign run is like 126+ hours. Additional playthroughs are possible from other characters, which tells the story from different perspectives. Can go to areas you missed in the first playthrough, too :)
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Enjoy. One of the best games ever made.
Not to be a contrarian, the game is good, but I seriously don't understand how it's one of the best games ever made. Just my opinion no one asked for, but I know I can't be alone. Only other game I can think that's more overhyped is breath of the wild.
I completely agree, I really enjoyed D:OS II but I just haven't been able to get into BG3 so far. I can't say anything was bad or poorly accomplished but it's just not clicking for me yet.
Facts sister/brother, spit your shit indeed!
Everyone knows the best games ever made belong to the King's Quest series by Sierra.
/j...mostly...
Ah, Sierra. The game company almost singlehandedly responsible for creating a generation of masochists.
You're still right.
Lmao 🤣
BG3 is annoying as fuck. There's far too much sequential quest nesting that blocks you out of content for no reason. Not to mention the bugs. Save scumming shouldn't be part of normal gameplay.
There's far too much sequential quest nesting that blocks you out of content for no reason.
The reason is for replayability and having a fresh experience each time. You get blocked out of content because there are about 60 unique paths you can take through the game with different content for each.
Not to mention the bugs
The few I experienced personally were fixed within a couple months of release. I haven't seen a bug of any sort, actually, since January.
Save scumming shouldn't be a part of normal gameplay
Then... Don't do that. Save scumming also isn't a part of tabletop gameplay. You fail a roll or fuck up your plan, you deal with the outcome. Saves are only for emergencies if some bug does come up.
You're allowed to not enjoy the game, and that's fine, it's not for everyone. But your reasons why are poor reasons.
I absolutely love the game. Single player runs great, but multiplayer is bug city. Dialogue lines cut abruptly in the middle, characters listening in to dialogue turn invisible when it stops, actions in combat are sometimes inexplicably unavailable unless you can switch to someone else and switch back, etc. Nothing game breaking so far, but my husband and I experience a few bugs every time we game together.
I do think BG3 is a very impressive game and deserves a lot of the praise it gets.
That said, it sucks how finicky it is to run away from a fight. There's way too many fights that just sort of happen with very little explanation as to why they're attacking you. It's also waaay too easy to accidentally steal things and trigger fights, especially on controller.
You basically do have to save scum a little, because one accident can lead to an entire town being pissed at you. If the game had better ways to de escalate combat and some better signposting of consequences, it'd be a 10/10 game
Plus you have to save scum because of all the fucking crashing it did.
Hold A on a controller and it gives you a much easier way to search for interactables.
This pretty much solved the stealing issue for me.
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blocks you out of content for no reason
Example? Most of the sequential questing is necessary for the complex narrative of a tabletop campaign.
Rescuing hostages from the Moonrise Towers. It warns you against entering before you find the bad guy's immortality, which sends you to save the Nightsong. If you do that, all the hostages die/disappear and you fail the rescue missions for no reason. The Iron Hand dwarves then won't show up in Act 3, locking you out of that content.
That doesn't sound right to me. My first playthrough was blind. Me and a buddy ran straight to Nightsong in chapter 2 and got a flag that warned us to check the rest. We managed to save the prisoners and then go do the nightsong.
same here, did entire playthrough with no guides and never ran into something like this. Was just very thorough on each map, like any rpg I play.
Only complaint I have is the underwater prison in act 3, that one I save scummed. The game makes it seem like Gortash is gonna blow it up in a instant, but you have enough time to dock and do your thing. That is not clear at all, and if you try to go back a second time, then it is instant.
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I’m 100 hours in and just about to wrap up the story (I think). And I’m gonna go back and replay because I skipped a TON in acts 1 and 2. It’s such a good game
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It's "Escape From Robotropolis"?
Agreed. Also a good time to buy it. Act 3 was so buggy on release but they've been shooting out patches non stop for the last year almost
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