>What the heck is this/indie/ is the general for all indie games, such as Age of Decadence, A Hat in Time, Axiom Verge, Baba Is You, Battle Brothers, Battlerite, Card City Nights 2, Cave Story, CrossCode, Cultist Simulator, Darkwood, DashBored, Dead Cells, The Desolate Hope, Disco Elysium, Environmental Station Alpha, FTL, Guacamelee!, Hollow Knight, Knytt, LISA, Lobotomy Corp, Machinarium, Middens, Monolith, Monster Train, Noita, OFF, OneShot, Rimworld, Rain World, Slap City, Slay the Spire, Starsector, Subnautica, Sunless Skies, Tooth and Tail, Underrail, VA-11 HALL-A, Yume Nikki, etc., as well as other games that just don't fit in any other general such as Atelier, Pillars of Eternity, Rayman, and Valkyria Chronicles. /jrpg/ is welcome. Idle games are cool too.Mobile or consoles, Flash or Unity, freeware or early access. This place is a home for the indie game community and indie and obscure games that don't have a home. So be free to talk and share all your hidden gems, forgotten games and starving devs here.>Can I talk about games that already have a general?We mostly discuss games that are not popular enough for their own threads, however, all indie games are allowed. So talk about them if you want, but don't overdo it since you already have other generals for that.>Recommendationshttps://pastebin.com/ZbG0JPSn>Booruhttps://indiegame.booru.org/>Steam Grouphttps://steamcommunity.com/groups/indiegamesgeneral>OP's pastebin:https://pastebin.com/JqqcnEHCPrevious Thread:>>570001334
>>570528968don't eat those
>>570548979Too late.
>>570548979Vintage Story is the real Don't Starve. "Not eating" is not an option.
>>570548041I definitely need to upgrade my detector quality one of these days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbIhawL7DIErage inducing video if you like puzzle games
>>570554026I don't like puzzle games and this is still infuriating to watch. Internet really rewarded mediocrity.
>>570547796>Age of DecadenceBut that's also /crpgg/?
>>570555605>I consider myself pretty good at puzzle games>I finished Pedestrian, Return of the Obra Dinn, all the portal games, (...) Eldritchvania>Let's look at 3 puzzle games that are generally considered "hard": Return of the Obra Dinn, The Talos Principle, and The WitnessMaybe the worst part of all of this is that his grand conclusion at the end of the video is that he actually isn't too dumb for Sokoban because he's now half way done with Paquerette (he still hasn't finished a single Sokoban game).
>>570556026What's the best Sokoban game? I've only played a version I found on F-Droid years ago.
>>570557210
>>570557210There isn't a single best one but Baba is You is brilliant.Void Stranger is my favourite but it can be unforgiving...
>>570557312Whats the penalty for engaging in horseplay?>>570557378Thanks. Heard of both but never tried them. I do enjoy puzzle games although I haven't played many lately aside from Chants of Sennaar.
>>570557748>Whats the penalty for engaging in horseplay?Ranges from fork impalement to crushing by falling cargo.
>>570558414Woke managers will just settle for trapping in a corner.
>>570554026only nerds like puzzle gamesbut I was pretty much too "dumb" to really enjoy baba is you, the later levels felt more of a chore than anything
>>570558856I liked Portal 1/2, Portal Stories Mel, etc. I couldn't really do Baba is You. Maybe my completionist approach was wrong, and I shouldn't have attempted challenge levels as soon as they appear...
>>570561357>Maybe my completionist approach was wrong, and I shouldn't have attempted challenge levels as soon as they appear...You probably just have to accept that you will be stuck on levels for a much longer time than in the Portal games.
>>570556026>SokobanIt's not 80s anymore, do people still play Sokoban games? I thought the only time you play Sokoban game is when you have to develop it as CompSci homework.
>>570561558nethack has it.
Counter Strike is a roguelite
>>570562571we take turns on your mom, which makes her turn based, which makes her a roguelike
>>570563693What is it with sandniggers desiring the elderly?
>The game warns you with scary "controller recommended for best experience" on Steam page and on a splash screen during launching>Game is actually made with mouse in mind, it completely revolves around mouse pointer mechanicsWell, it's a good surprise, at least, but I dunno why they make opposite claims.
>>570564089I find half the "warnings" on Steam don't mean shit. So many games say "Unsupported" on Steam Deck yet work fine with zero configuration. I haven't played with KBM in a long time but I have definitely seen that splash screen you're referring to.
Recently unlocked hobgobos and transfer stations. Going to try and set up my second floor to be fully automated with tentacle cleaner>breed>breed>birthing>transfer>milking>breed>breed>and repeat. Once I get a sizeable setup going that is self-sufficient, I'll probably tear down the first floor and make it mainly pleasure cells with some drink cells to increase gold production. Maybe some tentacle breeding pits too, but the only tentacle unit I care for is the that knights birth.Kinda seems like after getting hobgobos theres not much of a point to letting regular gobos breed since the hobgobo troops are just better AP. You could argue that shield bearers are nice for the boost to AP, or that healers are nice due to reduced death chance... but both those are not a problem if youve just got really high AP which the hobgobos give. Might just disallow gobo breeding entirely so all the new units are hobgobos, and plus, hobgobos also have bigger dicks.
>>570564089Real yakuza use a controller
I'm always up to protect lolis.Also I still can't wrap around my head around how much space cargo uses. It says 2/3 cargo spaces or something like that, but they use 200 units of cargo space according to the top info box.
oxenfree. i finished it, the first run through, at least. excellent premise, decent execution but plateaud near the end. still worth a play. apparently there's a new game+ too.
>>570569202Perhaps the 2/3 refer to the literal size of an individual cargo unit, (as in, 1 cargo=0.666... cargo space) while the ~200 value is the total amount of cargo space taken by the actual cargo, which total of physical units is likely higher than 200.
is of the devil any good?https://store.steampowered.com/app/2739630/of_the_Devil/the lead artist is a weird ass dude.
>>570571749>VNnope
>>570571913it's as much of a VN as valhalla or whatever you spell itor that new game about getting the anime chick drunk
>>570571980>it's as much of a VN as (insert VN here)
>>570570837Given that I have 5 slots of cargo for a total of 555 individual units. It may be. But I don't know why I have a spare 55 individual cargo units when I only have 5 slots.
>>570573360From what I recall it's a bit fucky.The ultimate ceiling of how much stuff you can take is 555 units. But in addition to that you have a limit of cargo slots that you can divide those 555 units between. Every 100 units of cargo capacity unlocks a new slot, plus I think there are some items or skills(?) that can increase it.Think of it as the weight vs the dimensions of stuff you can carry.
>>570573360>>570574558>555is that a debug placeholder number, lol?
>>570574919Np, it's derived from the stats of anon's caravan
Ah, Earth Dancer! Your dance has brought me joy and happiness. In gratitude, allow me to bestow upon you this recipe.
>>570547796>This is what /indie/ consider peak sexiness>A little girl wearing a ton of clothes and showing no skinAre you sure you guys aren't muslims? She's basically wearing a burqa at this point...
>>570574558>>570574919>>570575775Help me math the maths.I have: 2 outriders on horses giving 40(20each) cargo in total.1 beast of burden of type mammal giving 385(385 each) units of cargo.An extra storage item giving 35 cargo units.8 slaves giving 72(9 each) total units of cargo.5 scouts giving 6(2 each) total units of cargo.8 fighters giving 16(2 each) total units of cargo.5 workers giving 30(6 each) total units of cargo.For a grand total of 549 units of cargo. And if each 100 units of cargo gives 1 cargo slot(or stack I think it is called? Maybe?). I still have 6 units of cargo uncounted for. Unless each of my 2 companions give 3 cargo units each.>>570580191>>A little girl wearing a ton of clothes and showing no skinLittle girls are sexy with any amount of clothing.
>>570580559Is there anything more embarrassing than being a pedo?
>>570580969>Is there anything more embarrassing than being a pedo?Being a jew.
100%'d the fucking banquet bullshit. Fun map but damn, frustrating too.>>570580969Being a pedo's father.
>>570557210Play Leaf's Odyssey.
>>570547796Did you guys know there was a mobile game back in 2008 called Ape Escape: Sayaka's Big Adventure? It's lost media as far as I'm aware but there are a few screenshots going around.
>the dark lord mains Sp*ce M*rinesFucking casual.Tyranid master race here.
>>570571749Ya. Its the best Ace Attorney game out there. Also if you're implying those stickers are by the lead artist then you're wrong. The lead artist is Evillittlebug. Those stickers are by some fag on bsky named Bran.
>>570583429I got filtered by DROD so I think Leaf's Odyssey will filter me even more
>>570583842Its much easier. (No diagonal movement or sword shenanigans)
>>570583976maybe I'll check it out after 100%ing Order of the Sinking Star
>>570584098That doesn't even have a date yet. Or does it?
>can overcharge torches and rekindle fire slime on them
>>570584216I've got other puzzle games lined up but I was mostly just joking because it's supposedly going to take ~1000h to complete everything in OotSS
>>570583837I thought bran was the lead artist, he shills the game constantly
>>570584910he just latched on to the characters/game.
°W°kumo
Any good adventure/puzzle games? With combat or without, doesn't matter. Something similar to Myst maybe.
>your HUD's skull's eyes glor red when a collectible is on this screen, and blue when it is on the next screenThen wtf does flashing red-yellow mean? i never saw this on any other screen. Fucking undocumented features, at least fish was self explaining. someone give me a vague hint because getting the last collectible in sandfalls is driving me insane.
>>570583429I think your boxxle has autism
>>570585235>maybeyou will become The Witness
>>570585009man that's sad
>>570585235Alida
Just beat Minishoot. Don't know if I feel like doing the challenge levels or not.
Damn. This game really punishes you for doing any good deeds.
>>570585360nevermind, i guess the hint was in one of the newspapers.Or just trying every single route from there and checking the entire train
>>570587928no good deed goes unpunished
Finally found the damm bees. Barely heard anything, just saw the flying yellows dots near the tree.
>>570557210There's an upcoming one called Outpour that I REALLY enjoyed the demo of. There's not enough Sokobans where you interact with a 3D space.
>>570572226Not that guy but basically a VN has no gameplay at all, if a VN-like game has any gameplay/puzzles it's actually categorized as an ADV.
>>570588750The hint actually only shows up in the newspapers on SOME playthroughs which is bullshit. It's part of a random selection of headlines you can get.
>>570589953are you confusing adv and nvl text presentations
>>570589049Hi Tharmund.
>>570590149Those are named after the genres, essentially. Phoenix Wright, Danganronpa, Paranormasight, etc are not considered VNs. This distinction is mostly needed because a lot of VN fans are annoying shitheads who will cry and piss their pants if they have to solve a puzzle.
>>570589049Finding bees is somehow even more bs than prospecting.
I played the new Alruna game. It's fine. Not super worth playing unless you're hard-up for more Metroidvania. The constant faggy song lyric dropping instead of actual dialogue/lore pisses me off and it does not intelligibly follow from the cliffhanger of the first game.
>>570591448>Phoenix Wright, Danganronpa, Paranormasight, etc are not considered VNsby who
>>570592195Read the rest of the post and you should be able to figure it out if you're not retarded
>>570592524>if you're not retardedBig if here BEATRIIIIIIIIIIICE.
>>570592524nahif i pick a set and demonstrate they don't think that, you'll just say that's not who you meant
>>570590096that's fucked up lol.i did have it, but it was in newspaper 4 so by the time cleared all towers and decided to clean up the map i forgot about it.almost done now. only 3 treasures left in the last area.
Man that forge level is fucking cancer.>don't move the lava level more than 8 timesFuck you.
>>570585235Play RHEM
>>570587928I think this is one of my main complaints, that it's kinda hard to assemble a full party of people, who are chill with you not being a pragmatic asshole to everyone
alright, mina done. good game.kinda depressing ending though still more hope on the horizon than any fromsoft souls game.
>>570585235Have you played Blue Prince yet?
>>570605290Not yet. It's got roguelike elements, no? I remember lots of buzz about the game.
>>570613379Yeah, it has some meta-progression (aside from knowledge gain), but I wish there was more.On one hand the fact that it has a lot of randomness makes it very unique and it's really fun, how each player, because of the randomness, will experience each mystery from a slightly different angle and how they are crafted in a way that they are all solvable, no matter which order you find the clues in.But I think my main complaint is something which I think in part could have been addressed with more meta-progression and in part is probably an unavoidable sacrifice this kind of design just has to live with: There were moments, at least in my playthrough, where I was stuck on a very specific puzzle or mystery and was basically just redoing runs until I rolled the specific room or combination of rooms I needed to figure it out.If you have multiple things going on, it's not a problem, because the more things you're looking for, the more likely it is to encounter one of them, but if you're at a point where you've solved all but one thing, before finding new mysteries, it's an absolute slog.But regardless I'd absolutely recommend it. It's definitely a game I'd recommend keeping a physical notebook for. There's lots of information you find bit by bit or stuff that's obviously an answer to a question you haven't found yet and keeping it all in your head is borderline impossible.
>>570616916Great reply, thank you. I'll get it.
>>570617353Welcome, I love talking about games I enjoy. Feel free to post about your experience.And remember, make sure to keep playing for a bit after you reach the end credits, I've had some loose ends left untied when I reached the ending and would have missed some of my favorite puzzles if I hadn't kept pursuing them.
>>570618019I'll keep that in mind. What are you playing lately?
I just finished with my replay of King of Cards and I still admire how committed the devs were to making this guy into an absolutely irredeemable nigger.He goes through a full hero's journey, gains a home base, a huge cast of devoted friends and family, becomes the fucking chosen one to an alien race and gains vast wealth but he throws it all away and basically becomes a low level pawn for the sorceress just for a meaningless title because he is just that dumb and self-centered. Then he loses it almost immediately when Shovel of Hope stars. Good stuff.Shame we never got DLC for the other knights since what we did get was stellar. Would have been interesting to see what they could have done with them.
>>570622309Also King Knight's mom is hot as fuck and the in game sprites did her dirty.
I think this is the first time I've 'crewkilled' the Dreadnaught. Upgraded spiders are fucking cracked, man.
>>570556026Haven't watched the video and I'm not going to, but I think that's the first time I've ever seen Talos Principle labelled as a "hard" puzzle game. It's the kind of puzzle game where you'll get stuck on a puzzle for 15-30 minutes once in a while but otherwise walk through most of the game. Road to Gehenna is pretty tough, but that's a separate campaign intended for postgame.Not that Talos Principle isn't fun. It's one of my favourite games of all time.
Fucking hell, spiders are downright nasty. Can mulch a room full of MFKs in 10 seconds.
Going to put a windmill up here.
>>570630132Windmills are cringe.
>>570632616The water source is already tapped and I want more mechanical power.It also seems to be very windy in the area a lot of the time.
Tired of grinding wins in FTL. Time for Metroid Prime 2. Only ever got far enough to talk to the alien dude before my GC stopped reading my memory card.
MP1 had the whole planetary genocide-via-poisonous-meteor thing, but that was background info. This is a bit more...visceral.
I mean, shit bruh.
Poor bastards. Fatal case of skill issue.
Alright reached the end of voidling bound's actual content. Felt like it ended just as it was getting good, much shorter than I expected at 15 hours on the 2nd highest difficulty. The endgame is just an infinite scaling mode that adds random modifiers for the run every now and again, and death making you lose all resources you gained in that run. No level skip and 100% the codex requires reaching level 50 of the infinite mission on all nine creature types. Also yes one run did afford me only enough to max out 1 creatures passive tree and yes I did have to watch the egg gacha go 23 times because the hatchery can only do 5 eggs at a time. As for creating a maxed out monster, super piss easy since the caps are so low at 20 base stats. My one mistake was not doing more eugenics for a +5 in a stat instead of the +1 that was passed down this dude's bloodline. Regardless I'm proud of my immortal fat son and his edgelord parasite
Firing hundreds of bricks in my new beehive kiln to improve my cementation furnace and build a couple more.
And my flax just grew in and gave me enough linen to make the sails for my windmill.
>>570622309>Shame we never got DLC for the other knights since what we did get was stellar. Would have been interesting to see what they could have done with them.they'll add that stretch goal to Shovel Knight 2's Kickstarter
I'm straining right now to think of a game to play. I love being picky and jaded.
Well my water source inexplicably despawned while I was doing something else and I have no way of recreating it so I guess I need this windmill either way.
It's like some horrible soviet grain elevator turned into a windmill.
>>570657175Girthy
>>570557210If you want something with a bit of story to it, I can throw a bone at Puzzle Depot.
It's a lot faster than the old water mill when the wind is blowing.But the wind isn't always blowing.
>>570659473if you set up water electrolysis you can buffer during high wind periods then later on produce steam for power during low-wind periods
>>570660237If you could get to the point of electrolysis in this game I'd just use a coal boiler man.
I might have enough torque to run three of these.
I'm surprised you can only find gold and silver in this game by sifting through mountains of lead or quartz. I've found two chunks of gold in this entire pile with gold bits on the surface.This rabbit was also struck by lightning.
>>570672050Yeah, I feel you.At least it shows up prospecting pig node search, but it's still such a hassle. I'm missing like one or two ore of silver to finish silver plating for my lantern and just can't find it anywhere.In general I wonder, why the hell there is so god damn much quarz around. Is it necessary for something later in the game, or is that just a realistic representation of it?
>>570622082>What are you playing lately?Nothing specific honestly. Bouncing between Voices of the Void, Disco Elysium and Path of Exile 2.I'm tempted to start Cyberpunk 2077 again, but that updated and broke my mods and I can't be fucked to figure that out.Gonna check out some demos this week, or just read a book maybe
>>570672720Quartz is the second most common mineral. And I guess you do need a lot of it for refractory bricks.
>>570672938>refractory bricksMakes sense, I've never got that far in the game
>>570554026>open video>"you play a game called void stranger">close videonah, fuck that. that game is way too dear to my heart to watch some retard be bad at it for 20 minutes.
>>570673869it's what made me interested in the first place but luckily he barely talks about it (because he can't beat it)
>>570673869Feel you, there is this one eceleb I watch play on and off, and he's entertaining and has some insightful takes sometimes. But he's just as often a massive retard and I have to d deliberately stay away from watching his videos of games that I have an emotional attachment to
So, any demos you guys are looking forward to? I'm curious about IRON NEST the turret simulator game that isn't Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant
>>570673869I was looking for people that were playing a game I'm playing and one was a psycho and the next started advocating for real life terrorism while playing it.
My lantern is immaculate.
>>570674449Ever since they introduced the small lantern I'm kinda undecided on which one to get. The new one just looks a lot better to me, even if it has a smaller light radius
>>570672916We are spoiled for choice, that's for sure. My problem is I buy too many games. Been trying to get into shmups lately and have discovered I fucking SUCK. Too old, reaction time too slow? Who knows. Been playing a lot of Hades 2. That one is slowly climbing my list of favorite games. Couldn't find Voices of the Void initially, figured it was on Steam. Looks weird and interesting.
>fresh for 40 days just sitting in my inventoryThat's crazy.
>>570678789>80 satSatiety?
>>570680613Yes.
>>570678789>Apple is that vanilla?
>>570681764Yes, there's a bunch of different species of fruit trees you can find and get cuttings from to grow your own.
>>570682021Holy hell i never actually found a fruit tree. When was it added?
>>570682079Four years ago as far as I know.
>>570682586Oh so its not the case of me being on previous patch still.its amazing how full of surprises this game is.
>>570657175oh yeah definitely what that looks like
>>570672720Strip mine quartz veins, like one corridor every 3 block of width, and try to cover the whole area, you're bound to find more silver.
>4hrs in and still doing tutorial shit>can farm almost immediately>2hrs before you can buy more seeds>3hrs before you can sell crops and have a reason to farm>4hrs in and Im still doing random stuff like a schizo to try and proc progression triggers and sleep spammingGood fuck. Pray for me, Im trying to hang in there until the game lets me play it for real.
>>570684515Silver and gold tend to spawn as individual blocks, it is unwise to separate shafts by more than two blocks.
>>570547796
>>570683356I hope your penis isn't grey, has three balls and a bladed propeller.
>>570677590For sure, I miss when the limiting factor for playing games was money, not time.I feel especially overwhelmed with replaying long games, or playing games with no "ending" in general. Sometimes it almost feels like a waste of time.>Couldn't find Voices of the Void initially, figured it was on Steam. Looks weird and interestingYeah I think they might put it on Steam for 1.0.I'm too much of a pussy for horror games, but this one is just too fascinating to not play. It's a very slow burn kind of horror, where the horror isn't overt. You just arrive at this place some from the second you're there, something feels "off". So it's a fun chore simulator, with lots of weird mysteries hidden below the surface, that I am yet to discover
>>570686151...yours doesn't?
assholes
>>570625878>>570629747If only I could stomach the writing long enough to keep playing this thing.
>>570585235Into The Breach is technically a turn-based strategy but it feels like a puzzle.
>>570690083Technically murder in real life is also a puzzle.
Poco was great, thanks whoever recommended it
That came and went, huh.
>>570690159Only if you're white.
>>570691723Calm down, /pol/tard.
>>570691894>Calm down, /pol/tard.
>>570691894
>>570691894You struck a nerve, the MAGA crowd is seething.
>>570692967damn I need her to ride my face
>>570693254>You struck a nerve, the MAGA crowd is seething.
>570693254>t.
>>570693254You won, they're losing their nerves in a weak, feminine fashion.
>>570696641>You won, they're losing their nerves in a weak, feminine fashion.
>>570691723what does that even mean?
>>570688293>RestantI should have guessed you were French...
>>570698794That's Italian though.
>>570698884Nice try but "remains" in Italian is "restaurant".
>>570699185Oh shit, someone actually speaks Italian. I thought everyone on 4chan was American, and therefore uncultured, illiterate, fat and slow!
oooh i miss old Carol...
>>570699535More seriously, the actual word used in Italian is "Rimaste".
>>570699729whyshe's hotter here>>570699535trv.....
>accidentally deleted my Onirism save because I'm a retardWelp. I guess will be starting a new save.
>>570672050>leadYou can?IIRC galena has no silver in VS. Has that been changed recently?
>>570699535/indie/ is europilled
>>570672938The primary use for quartz is glass for greenhouses and large decorative builds.
>>570699535We are more western Evropean bulls than jewish mutts or panchitos.
>>570667986Refreshing to see a noob who does that instead of immediately making a silly 4hammer1anvil setup.
>>570701034>several hammers for a single anvilYou're a genius.
>>570699535Judging by how dead this thread is during Euro nights, when I stay up late, I have my doubts there are many people from across the pond here
>>570702203Ameribros really drop the ball when we are sleeping.
>>570701740Figures.I gave it a 50/50 chance. You could have been too smart to stoop that low, but no, turns out you were too dumb to even think of it. Sigh.VSdevs need to add collision to the hammer already.
>>570700659silver ore can generate inside galena veins, like gold and silver in quartz
>>570698561>White man wants to murder someone>Has to premeditate it, pick a murder implement, pick an environment, devise a way of getting rid of the evidence, etc>Black man wants to murder someone>Murders someone>He dindunuffinYou may laugh now.
>>570703136>VSdevs need to add collision to the hammer already.NTA, but. What do you mean they don't have collision?I wasted a ton of ore to make hammering rooms.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>570699729Nu Carol is cuter but old Carol had better delinquent brat vibes.
>>570703275I sometimes genuinely forget that I share this thread with underage retards
>>570703287Too obvious bait, but you're still retarded.
You guys are still talking about ape escape 3? Did you know that the song Sayaka sings in the intro is actually a complete song and was translated in every languages the game was translated in? What's funny about that? Well, in the intro you can only hear the chorus. Which was kept untranslated in all versions except the American English version.The song is called "Happy Sensation". What is truly fascinating about that part of the translation is that for once, the American translation is the accurate one. As I said previously, the American translation took a lot of liberties in other places but for that specific instance, it's the European version (all are based on the same script from what I can tell) that changed the lyrics.The original song is a classic lovey song with a bunny theme (which ties nicely with Sayaka's backpack). The European version is about monkey business. What is weird is that since they didn't change the chorus, it's still about rabbit... In Japanese. But the rest is about monkeys...To be fair, ape escape's translation is full of weird oddities like that and 3 in particular must have been a pain in the ass to translate. Sometimes you just have to make decisions you're not happy with.
>>570703807Pls no buliI'm retardo
>>570703538>I sometimes genuinely forget that I share this thread with underage retards
>>570704008Meanwhile, the average american translation:
>>570702203some of us have jobs you know
>>570703538>t. faggot living under a rock
>>570704727Yeah but we're talking about off hours of global timezones. Do you not have any workers righ-- oh, nevermind lol
>drop a 3 units of marble to pick up the dragonsteel the dragongirl gave me>turns out it is contraband and the dragongirl didn't say anything about itNow to look for a fencer. 70 bross are too many bross.
There is just randomly a ghost here and she doesn't freak out.Ghosts confirmed and it's not even a plot point or anything. You don't even interact with it and move on.I am so confused.
>>570705743Well it's not threatening
>>570704372well... at least unfaithful translations aren't just a modern issue i guess.Hate it when they don't bother to translate random NPCs and just use them as an outlet for dumb jokes and shit.
>>570704008>>570704372>average>pick a curated examplecan you gook fetishist go back to nipnong town? oh wait no you can't because ywnbj
>>570706183Remember when NISA decided to change a character's name from Estie Erhard to Esty Dee?
>>570260334Took a few days to read a manhua that's been on my backlog a while and to try and figure out why this quest wasn't getting offered to me. turns out I was hanging around at the wrong time for day.The local shipwright presented me with an interesting offer, I go attack a Spanish trade convoy, loot all the resin they're carrying, and he'll buy it from me for 15 Doubloons a barrel. Sweet.
>>570706784total "localizer" genocide. it is the only option.
>>570706406>>pick a curated exampleNot that retard. But I sperged out here about the Yunyun localization when the game came out.At this point I just accepted that I have to play with my dictionary on my other screen, and just use the original version.
>>570707127After a quick 'fleet' battle that was really just me bullying a few rate 5 and 6 ships with a fully upgraded unique rate 2 and 3 Frigate + Galleon I'm massively over-levelled and prepared, I came back to get the Shipwright his Resin, only we've been rumbled - the feds are onto us. The shipwright accepts the full blame and the naval officer confiscates all the contraband Resin.
>>570707602Down and with no Resin or Doubloons to show for it, I spill my guts to the tutorial guy over in the local tavern.
>Just finished my Black Sails rewatch>Piratefag is at it againI might fall for it...
>>570707852He informs me that the two are friends, this was all a ploy. A few days from now the shipwright will somehow be out of prison, they have all my Resin without having to pay me, and there's not a god damn thing I can do about it because this shit's contraband.Motherfucker.>>570708024I'll get you yet.
>>570708127Bestie did some digging and called in his connections for me, found out for me how they're smuggling away my shit. I can sneak down to the cove where they're taking it to and steal it all back.
>>570708127I will breed you.
>>570708334The smugglers weren't terribly co-operative in giving me my shit back. On the one hand they have no fucking idea who I am, I'm just some guy who showed up on their beach demanding the Resin and shit they just got with no clue who the fuck I am.On the other hand I'm one of the most famous captains in these waters and there's a thousand of the hardest sailors in the entire Caribbean flanked by my sides ready to fuck them up.Not the wisest choice by them.
>>570708741The naval officer in question felt that there was something and turned around to find that I'd just eviscerated his smugglers.Facing down me, my officers and a crew of a thousand with just him and four guys, he says he'll graciously let me go and not bring it up in the future if I kindly fuck off now.I did not "fuck off now".Simply imagine a large mosaic for the finale picture of this quest, you don't really need me to post one it went exactly as you think.>>570708738Counter: I'll turn you into a cute girl and breed you instead.
>mouse has started misbehaving on wooden table surface>get a mousepad>it doesnt budge at all on the pad>wat>notice the mouse sensor doesn't even track fingertips>doesnt track on paperNever seen a mouse failure mode like this. How is this even possible?
Her description said she was a "young girl". Not "young woman".I wonder if she is legal.
>>570709330Did you try boiling an egg and swapping the yolk out for a fresh one?
Sinking Star demo is up.
>>570706406There is a huge difference between trying to adapt something to a different audience who doesn't have the codes to understand it and just rewriting the entire thing. Ape escape is not poorly translated, it just has a few interesting decisions and 2 English translations which allows us to see how the same problem can be solved in different ways.I can give you an example in the other direction if you want. In cross code, Lukas often uses "Holerö!" as a greeting, it's a rare way to say hello in German and a reference to old nintendo translations. The Japanese translation of cross code opted to replace "holerö" by "guten tag", why is that? Because it's a very obscure German word no Japanese would reasonably associate with Germans, his in-game name "Schneider" would be reasonable enough for most western audiences but likely not enough for the average Japanese player. So a decision had to be taken, you either keep his obscure "holerö" greetings or you change it to something that would mark him clearly as German in the same way Emilie's "bonjour" instantly flags her as French.
>>570710187This failure is so weird that might help, as might sacificing a goat, but I think this mouse is a goner. Can't even open it because the screws are something weird to prevent servicing.
I finished Goblin Cleanup.I skipped 5 levels though.That goblin fat ass makes me act up though.
>>570710190lol
>>570710190I don't want to imagine Jonathan Blow smirking because he's smarter than me...
>>570710791Elf Cleanup*
Yes. I want to see everything of this white, hairless little girl.
Three Changers to beat up unarmed people? sign me up boss.
>>570712415cringe
>>570712675>hating on tvtropesok boomer
>>570709330>>570710781RIP Mina.
Man, this game really likes for you to be a bastard. If you give the 3 changers to the little girl, she leads you to a conman trying to pass as official Imperial functionaries. If you don't let your guards kill the poor trying to loot you, and just order to beat them, you loose some cargo.And now, for just staying around to look at what is happening you have to do something.At least the game doesn't seem to punish you as harshly as Owlcat's games for being a "bad" guy.
>>570710092>This is how young girls speakThat dialog has laugh lines.
That's right, on your knees.She sounds like the Grognards.
>>570712784>not hating on tvtropesok faggot
Demo's out
>>570712784Nothing to do with tvtropes.You don't have to be a boomer to have quality standards.
>>570714925The hardest part of ape escape 3 is trying not to get horny while playing sayaka.
>>570715676ok boomer
>>570715505>IRON NESTFuck yes. Downloaded.>Nothing for PVKKAh well, comfy bunker game can wait. Tactical artillery game will cover for it.
>>570715505I want engine of sin.
>>570716595PVKK's been pushed to 2027 afaik.>>570716849Steam's found it for you. Here you go.
>>570717027>no demoSadge!
>>570717173>Grimdark version of the game i've been working onhahaha fuck me
>>570717027kino
>>570717398The world's full of grimderp, don't be saddened by it. Keep on trucking.
>>570717027How in the hell did steam recs become THIS bad?Are they using AI slop for it?
>>570718243It makes sense if you've played house party.
>25GB demo>Scroll down>50GB demoKILL MODERN DEVS. BEHEAD MODERN DEVS-
>>570720083Calm down Noire.
>>570717398How's your game different from this one? No demonic position? More complex aiming?
>>570720083Been complaining about the same thing for a while.But then again, I guess most of the filesize comes from assets and shit
>>570721853When it's that pointlessly big it's usually from videos
>>570715505>We have PVKK at home
>>570721853>>570722073Downloadin everybody's shaders up in this bitch
Go buy Chinese Frontiers. It is 15€ now. Support small indie Polish game studio.https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1640820/view/695389579400710358?l=english
>>570723410I got it. Still struggling to figure out how to build the watchtower.
>>570720083All games should be rated with EPB.Entertainment per byte.If your 20 minute demo weighs 25 gigabytes, you might as well kill yourself. You'll never make it as a dev.Ditto if your shareware episode doesn't fit on a floppy.
>>570723410>Chinese Frontiers>PolishWut
>>570723810>demo>25 gigabytes>shareware episode>floppyHow far have standards fallen...
Cringe
>>570723410Is it a shitpost game where when the labor dyes you just berry them in the wall?
>>570724286>episodic demoHow Jonathan Blow of him
>>570724286Blow just remade the game Promesst and stuck it in his game.
>>570725112You turn the beams on by dropping gems on these spots, and standing in the different color beams gives you different abilities. https://thinkygames.com/news/the-great-free-puzzle-games-that-inspired-and-turned-into-order-of-the-sinking-starOh, ok.
>>570720083you wanna know how much the casualties unknown demo weighs?500 mbcome home scavman
>>570723136Shaders are tiny, on the order of kilobytes
>>570725434Wanna know how much Cave Story full game weighs?5 MBStop marketing your garbage
cmon, this is how Promesst ends too.
>>570725434I don't like that I can't make my own character in that game, so I don't wanna play it. I almost exclusively play games with premade protags only if they are extremely story heavy with the protag's premade features being exceptionally relevant to the plot. I'll play something like Nine Sols as a result, but avoid games like CU or Telltale's Walking Dead where Lee is just a puppet for you and you can make him do things that are literally out of character.
>>570725587>garbagefuck :male_sign: you :male_sign:but yeah, older games were smaller
>>570726630I don't mind games being more bloated when they have something to show for it.Nothing's worse than a game that looks like it was made for the 486 era but weighs gigabytes and doesn't even run perfectly on modern hardware. Jeetcoded retroslop is worse than, forgive me for cursing in /indie/, modern AAA games.
>>570690431>free to playwhoa! i will grab it.i've been meaning to ask for a new story game after finishing one.
>>570726630>older games were smallerBruh cavestory is not that old, typical games were already in the gigabytes when it came out, it was thousand times smaller than the median of its time.
>>570729307>Bruh cavestory is not that oldCave story came out 22 years ago
>>570729464Yeah, so not that old. Games in 2004 were already measured in gigabytes as already mentioned.Dumb kid.
Whats the verdict on Dredge? I like fishing games that aren't just fishing or product advertisements.
>>570729837diablo 2 wasn't measured in gigabytesyou plinko
>>570729906>6 CDs>not measured in gigabytesBait
>>570729837games in 2004 were measured in how many discs they had for the install
Dunno what to think about this one to be honest. I was really looking forward to it, but actually playing it, it feels a bit to repetitive. Maybe the missions will be a bit more diverse in 1.0 but somehow it just doesn't really grab me.Plus I don't care too much for the setting, if I'm being honest. Doesn't help that, unlike PVKK, the artillery really looks like it should be operated by more than one person.
>>570729868Dunno man, I wanted to like it, but never finished it, it felt a bit to samey after a while. Maybe I shot myself in the foot by wanting to 100% every area before moving to the next and the novelty would have lasted for the whole game if I just played through at a consistent pace
>>570729868It's nice but it lacks depthThe structure is way too simplistic, you get to a new area, you go talk to the one NPC that lives there, you follow their questline, you avoid the big fish roaming, rince and repeat I haven't played the DLCs thought, i think the Iron Rig one adds a bit more meat
>open Next Fest tab>pages and pages of AI slopLET ME FILTER THE GARBAGE, GABE
>>570730285https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-OQFslDKiI
>>570731412No. Doing his part to keep the AI bubble from bursting is in gaben's best interests.
>>570731412I'm thankful that at least devs have to disclose if they use AI and what for. I wonder how rigorously that is enforced because there were some games that looked suspiciously like they had some AI art but no disclaimer.And I know of at least one game that did use some AI art (though it came out in like 2023, so it's the very early, incredibly shitty one) and doesn't use the disclaimer, probably because it came out before it was introduced.
>>570731412buy the goyslop chud
>>570729868Eh. There really isn't much depth to the fishing or the horror. I finished it but it was just okay. Not sure about the DLC.>>570733003>There is a living doll lewd game>It looks badThis offends me on a deep personal level.
>>570733003>dollfucker gameAyo?>Shady Cornerfuck
Oh my god why? I see the solution but holy shit will it take 20 minutes of looking at the same slow animation and walking back and forth to do it. Unironically give me a skip button for this timewasting end puzzle.
>suddenly credits play a white reggae song singing 'happiness is an inside job'???The remastered functions were very nice but it feels less focused unlike the first was big on paris architecture and history. Also some big time wasters in there.STILL not a single multi character puzzle despite 2 protagonists but fun enough.
kinda mean
>>570703136It would take a stupid person to assume they didn't have collision without someone telling first.
I think that's everything for now.
>>570738712>12 fps
>>570735097>playing a game so bad you have to whine about the prospect of having to play it for 20 minsHow does a smart rational thinking being end up in this situation out of his own free will
>>570739108It's not bad. It's annoying because the way you interact with the puzzle is slow despite it just being copypaste what you see.
>>570738591i bumped into a rock and a mutated fish i caught earlier got flung overboarddamn i hate the sea
>>570738591You don't have to take it personally.
>>570738969I'm hitting around 20. blame John totally-need-a-language-for-this Blow
>>570738969I mainly play on console. PC is just for indies mostly, and shit I don't want to pay for.
PoV: you visited Ireland and said that immigrants have rights too.
How did we get a billion Kingdom Rushes and Gemcrafts but no Sonny 3
Ah, I was wondering why there was ominous chanting coming from my ac vent.
>>570751051Damn, this is like one of those pictures where you concentrate long enough to find the hidden animal or whatever.
I cannot read latin and the translators I put this into generate very broken output.
>>570758462IT SAYS YOU'RE A FAGGOT
Need a game with cool spaceships where you can visit other planets that ISN'T open world. Would like some cool horror elements. Don't know if it's a shmup or not or whether it has roguelike/lite elements. Also would love to feel isolation. Impossible ask?
>>570760301I don't know how strict your criteria for open world is.Kind of sounds like you're asking for mass effect.
>>570756986You probably shouldn't stare into the otherworldly eyes emerging from the golden void for too long
>>570751051Some new bullshit in FTL Multiverse?
>>570763240From the Darkest Desires submod.It's pretty gud. I like its gear and crew, has some pretty challenging bosses, and has enough mechanical variety within its theming to not be a one-trick-pony. Doesn't really fit the aesthetic and vibes of base MV and has a damn novel worth of text, but meh.
>>570763857>and has a damn novel worth of textHave ya seen some of the fucking endings in Multiverse? They can blab on just fine. This isn't a super new issue, lol.
This fight felt horrible.Some of the attacks have deceptive and extreme tracking, sometimes parrying him doesn't stun long enough to land an attack without being hit, one attack has a windup of like a fifth of a second, his attacks can chain together with next to no telegraphing.
/indie/ is dead. Long live /indie/!
>>570720083Jesus fuck i thought you were joking
>>570720083>>570720424This is why you don't have any friends.
>>570547796I love A Hat inTime
>boot pc>6 long beeps from bios>apparently gpu failure>wait it out>boots normally anywaysFinally. Soon I will have a reason to to end it all and be free.
tried nextfest demo for "world inverted"kind of a VN with tactical grid combat where anime girls explore a sort post-post-apocalyse landscape via a sequence of randomized events with some set pieces sprinkled in to create a coherent narrative. Aesthetics are very rough but I kind of like it. Pretty charming and innocent until after defeating a named enemy the choices presented were>Talk>Kill>"CENSORED"
>>570775159>to toHere's another one for free.
Okay Iron Nest is pretty good
>>570547796Niko...
Post JRPG Aren't Fire Emblem, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Persona, Falcom and Compile Heart>Maybe Other JRPGs like Tales of and Star Ocean
Okay, I might be coming around on Iron Nest. Now that some of the missions are becoming a bit more complex it's not as boring as I was worrying it would be.Not sure it's something I'd play for more than 1h at a time, but could be a fun little time killer if it's not too expensive. Also the warcrimeness of it all does leave a bit of a bitter aftertaste, but it is what it is
>>570773335
>>570773335dumb animeposters have lots of friendsthey're just low quality
Also fun fact, but some stuff is randomized when replaying a mission. Not sure if the actual location of enemies changes, but the spotter reports definitely do.
How often do you you use image editor when playing indie games?Alternatively, do you write on a notepad on your desk?
>>570792503never except for in void stranger
>>570792503I started using the notes feature from the steam overlay. or just have a notepad open on a second screen if i need to scribble down some thoughts.the most autistic(and also fun) thing i did was a google sheet for void stranger were i documented screenshots of every single screen and what everyone and everything on that floor said. good times.also pretty much the only reason i found it was skipping floor 223
>>570792503Had to do it for OFF.
>>570792503I almost never use outside programs, because tabbing back an forth between the game and whatever is on my second screen takes me out of the experience a little.But I do have a notebook and a very nice fountain pen on my desk that I use for all sorts of things, but also notes for games.I think the very first game I had a notebook for was Darkwood, to keep my own little questlog since the game doesn't do that for you which is a good thingMore recently I've been keeping notes on Book of Hours, would have loved to do it in Obsidian, but just didn't enjoy the process of it. Also took A LOT of notes on Blue Prince, gotta get back into that one of these days and really hope I can still parse whatever the fuck I wrote down.And sometimes there's just some "disposable" short term info I need to scribble down, like coordinates for triangulating ore in Vintage Story.So all in all I'd say I'm not doing it too often, but then again that might relate to the types of games I'm playing
>>570772927ZeroSpace (left on your hard drive)
>>570793564ZeroSpace (you reached your download limit)
God I'm so fucking bored out of my mind. Guess I'll go read a book or something
>>570764879Oh god thanks for reminding me of this piece of shit, was playing on hard and as a magic build it was pure bullshit, basically had to perfect dodge the entire time and find them to cast spell else id get instant killed, and its fucking surprise jump attack is bollocks.
>>570764879>>570796905Skill issue.
>>570792121>just beat iron nest 4th mission (artillery one)>go to next fest thread>how is anon making different colored lines>see the different colored pencil in pic>realize i could have used a fucking compass rather than the mess i made with red pencil whenever i was only given 2 distancesim gonna kms
>>570793404bro really did that
>>570800373>realize i could have used a fucking compass rather than the mess i made with red pencil whenever i was only given 2 distancesMay as well pull out trigonometry and the good old ruler.
>three day management seminar out of town for work>hotel and meals compedGood nights for some indie games, bros.
>>570797487Nha he is truly janky, and the space you fight it in just suck and its a pain to track where he is going to come up from. Its like fighting a rabid bear who can teleport around in a room the size of a garage with clutter here and there. And some of its attacks are barely telegraphed, so by the time you realize its going to strike you dont have the time to dodge, or dodge into one of the aforementioned clutter.
>>570801020I fought a lot of Bugganes and frankly, I don't remember them being particularily troublesome.Now, the knights, like Lancelot or the flying bitch with the two swords? Yeah, tough, but that mole? No issues.
>>570797487>win>skill issue
>wake up>see indie game>looks really neat>download>play>its boring as fuck or just otherwise bad and unfun>repeat x 100>go to sleepI want off this ride...
>>570803365have you played e33
>>570804518Yeah, I wasnt a fan of the combat. I dont mind parryslop for action games, but turn based.... it just wasnt that fun. Had some neat looking levels, though. Ended up dropping it at the dad fight because him having 10 turns for each one of yours just wasnt fun to try and beat and so he filtered me. I wouldn't recommend the game to anyone, but didnt dislike it enough to sperg out if someone else said its good.
>>570804981>I dont mind ...slopthink I found the issuepebcak
>>570795837Go read a rulebook. A paper one.
>arthurian legend no longer worksWelp. Please recommend me a fun first-person slashing game. If possible, a shooter, NOT a RPG.
>>570805795>slashing>if possible, a shooterWat
>>570805989Never played a FPS? God, play games sometimes instead of fucking around on the 4chan.
>>570805795The choice is obvious.
>>570806461>coomer gameI was hoping for something bloody, but I guess that one will do.
>>570806461where are her nipples
>>570800373lelthey have different functions too. Yellow has bearing and range, red has bearing range and adds them to your clipboard and white is just an arrow
>>570807492
Is the Arena Shooter General dead?Also is it just me or are weapons in UT99 a lot deadlier than they are in 2004?
>>570803365>see indie game>looks really neat>add to wishlist>it gets gifted to me months later>play for 5 minutes>"i'll continue later">game sits idle in my steam library for 3 years>come back>finish the game
>>570810929Deader than the genre
>570813026>see indie game>looks really neat>add to wishlist>takes years to come out>my tastes have changed when it finally does and I don't play it
Somehow I struggle getting immersed into demos of management and building games. Something about the fact that I know my playthrough won't last longer than a session or two makes it hard to engage with the game.
oh sweet QOL unknown update for 7.0
>>570715505>what's the noise?>mute game>4060 running at 99% on high settingsIt's rendering a single room for crying out loud
>>570813926That's why you should regularly review your wishlist, Anon.>>570814559Did you enable fps limit?
>>570814629It claims to be on.Game has had 2+ updates pushed since yesterday though.
Does Herdling have anything going for it or is it just death stranding with goats?
>>570814920>death stranding with goats?Wait, that actually sounds like exactly my kind of game. I dismissed it, because it looked like one of those linear movie games
Should I decide to stop hating on indie metroidvanias and play one? Which one?(as someone who likes super metroid and the castlevania games it inspired)
>>570818506after 30mins Im on ch3 and its super linear. A few puzzles but thats it. Mainly just running your goats down the road while being shown landscapes
>>570818816Shame, that's what I was worried about.If it was an actual survival type game with resource management and route planing I think I'd be down for that.
Burn-9 demo is pretty good, i really like the "you're not Snake, you're the one giving him orders" take on Metal Gear
>>570818535>(as someone who likes super metroid and the castlevania games it inspired)Blasphemous would be a good start
>>570810929>Also is it just me or are weapons in UT99 a lot deadlier than they are in 2004?They are>shock rifle does 60 instead of 45 damage>bio rifle does 60 instead of 35 >pulse gun's primary is the same, but the secondary does 105/s instead of 82/s>minigun's primary and secondary modes got swapped, but the slow firing mode went from 15-21 damage at 8.5 rounds per second down to 14-16 at 5.5/s, and the fast firing mode went from 15-21 at 13.75/s to 7-8 at 16.5/s>Flak Cannon went from 24x8 damage on its primary to 13x9 at a slower fire rate>rocket launcher went from 112 damage to 90
>>570801528Maybe it has to do with it being a mini boss and me going there way later than expected because I was looking for new spells.
What are some relatively easy ways to score over 1million in Balatro? I just started winning so I'm still missing the Plasma Deck.
>>570823318 (me)I fucked up my tenses while editing before posting. UT99's damage numbers are all the bigger ones.
>>570810929Its an utterly dead genre, which suck because its a fun genre.T. Tribe fag who wish its own subniche wasnt utterly cursed by tryhards who turn every new game into a meta abusing mess by 20 years veterans within the span of months
[chuckle]I'm in danger.And I can't paste screenshots.
>>570823325>Maybe it has to do with it being a mini bossHaaa, yeah. I think I only fought bugganes as mobs, so a miniboss would have to be tougher.
>>570810929It's a pretty dead genre, but it isn't totally buried.This came out a few months ago and had like a hundred people playing it. Not sure about today. Judging by the fact the last comment was 140 days ago, I suspect not.https://drpyspy.itch.io/tomb-fetusAnd if you're willing to shell out for a bigger game that has a bunch of games in it, there are matches for Slaughterday Night Live in Tower Unite all throughout the day when people are in the mood to arena shooter each other to death.
>The Guild DemoDunno man. Game kinda looks like shit and feels a bit clunky, but I'm very much open to the possibility that it just takes a bit more time to get a grasp of these kinds of management type games.Reviews are mixed, mostly from people saying you should just play the older games instead. Maybe I'll just go do that
>>570823937the boob was big HOLY SHIT A PANTHER big boobs
>>570823876I never actually played Tribes. Except with bots. I kinda wish I did, the bots were completely stupid and made transport ships useless and it always annoyed me.
How's Skul: The Hero Slayer?
When does the alchemy get good in this series? Do I need to wait for the stories after Arland?
>>570827229>atelier ryona
>>570827229Banned in australia for sexual violence!
>>570824928What the demo for the new one already? Neat.
>>570823318UT2k4 numbers lead to much better gameplay, especially regarding flak. Less overkill, health/armor actually matters.
>>570823937jerking off soon, whats the name of this
>>570831035Yep. And I'm surprised how open it is for a demo. You can choose between three starting professions (innkeeper, smith, alchemist) and all mechanics seem to be unlocked with the only limit being time (top right corner)But as I said, I really don't like how it looks, I don't like this weird muddy wannabe realism and can't be fucked to spend the time to make it look right, if it's just a demo.A lot of the menuing feels clunky, but I hope that's something that you get used to with more experience.I'd definitely would like to enjoy this game, once it's out.
>>570831923elfheim
>>570832145danke
>>570823318>>570823876>>570824523I'm so glad I didn't dream it. Bots in 2003 and 2004 just feel so insanely tanky compared to the UT99 bots who die very quickly.
>March 31st Q&A>Before we dive into your questions and our answers, we also want to address the elephant in the room. We know you’ve been waiting for the release date announcement and rest assured, it’s coming. We’ll have some big news to share in April! We’ll go into more detail later on, but we hope you’ll stick with us until then. >Radio silence on the steam page until May 2026>Once we are ready to share a release date, you won't miss it.You can't blueball me like that Nivalis devs. I'm not even mad, I know this shit is hard, but don't promise a release date announcement if you constantly keep missing and postponing it.>inb4 what's NivalisCyberpunk Restaurant management game set in the world of Cloudpunk. Looks very promising from what they've shown so far. Even though I think the decision to mix a voxel based world with smooth 3D assets is kinda weird.
>>570832094I'mma download it now that I fixed dinner.>eating at your PCIt's called being alone.
>>570832094>>570833117In fact I'm going to play The Guild 2. I never played them but I have the 2 in my backlong since forever.
>>570818535Blasphemous and Blasphemous 2, Ender Magnolia, Ender Lillies (This one is a bit janky so it might not be the best first choice but outside of a few irritating sections it is a fantastic game), Silksong (Give it a whirl even if you aren't a fan of Hollow Knight. I didn't care much for the first game and still loved Silksong), Infernax (More of a classic Castlevania with a few Metroidvania elements but still fun), Bloodstained, Axiom Verge.
>>570709307Gregorie invited me for a score, apparently the Dutch and the English are having a bust up with the English attacking a crown caravan, one of the ships in the caravan went astray and crashed on a remote beach where the redskins are looting it. We can go kill them all, steal the goods, and make like bandits.
>>570839346A few redskins later, he wants to push in deeper and attack their village to recover everything.
>>570839549Turns out Prosper is here too, I saved his daughter from redskin cannibals during the tutorial missions.
>>570839775Keeping this dumbass alive during the brawl with the entire Indian tribe was pretty tricky, he keeps running head first into the melee and I have to somehow keep him from popping his clogs. Took more than a few attempts.
>pick between letting the jailbait go alone or with one of your companions as a bodyguard>pick the orc>jailbait almost gets assasinated>while GTFO a group of mercs show up proposing a deal, they will give me coin if I let them kill the jailbait>tell them no>gain loyalty from the jailbait and the orc>queue in fightSo glad I picked the orc. The other two assholes I hired would have lost loyalty.
>>570839994The English weren't happy about all of this, they see the goods from this ship as theirs too. Tough shit.
I think I'm going to decide either how to make a party with "good" or "bad" aligned companions.That or keep buying gifts and invest in Authority stat for them to not fuck off at the worst time.
>>570840224We go back to port, Gregorie's found a buyer for the stolen goods. I just have to come to a secluded cove. At midnight. Without my officers backing me up.Yeah.*Suits up harder than fucking Iron man*
>>570840492The smuggler's offering 277k pesos for the goods. Score.This would be a lot, but I putzed around for so long doing sidequests and skill grinding etc that it's only 0.X% of my total net worth, and less than a month's wages for my crew.
>>570840978Suddenly, the smuggler explodes in the thunderous boom of a grenade launcher going off.
I like it.https://streamable.com/g02rad
>>570841224Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal, Greg.
>>570841457You may have me outnumbered, but I have 63% flat damage reduction before you factor in all my other bonuses and I'm all hopped up on Russian vodka. What you gonna do - kill me?
>>570841450Same
>>570841659>Kills meDamn okay, grenade launchers hurt more than I gave them credit.
>>570841880The end of Greg, at least his mangled corpse gave me a nice set of armour.Almost certainly the hardest fight I've had. Greg, two goons and an ape with a grenade launcher makes life very hard when getting hit flinches you. If I killed the artillery guy first I'd get overwhelmed in melee, but if I took out a goon then the ape would either kill me in one shot or I'd be left in chip damage range. Eventually figured out I should kill a goon, hide behind a rock and pistol down the other goon. Once it was a 1vs1 I could win that and then snipe the Indian with my rifle when I peek out from behind the rock.Man, can't have shit in the Caribbean. Especially friends.
>>570792503>>570793259I am once again shilling Obsidian as an excellent note taking app which also provides a canvas functionality that allows you to look as autistic AND schizophrenic as you want while actually being really helpful
>>570844119If only Obsidian wasn't FOSS slop where you have to assemble a functional UI yourself from random unvetted plugins
>>570840434I think the biggest problem is that there barely are enough "good" characters for a full party. Or at least in 50h of playing across tow saves I wasn't able to do it.So far I've just opted for being a pragmatist with a heart of gold and paying off the characters that have a problem with that. Some of them are relatively easy to keep happy.
>>570841450too easy for my tastestriangulating the convoy route using partial intercepted transmissions, knowledge of trade routes, a ruler and an angle meter in highfleet is much more engaging
>>570833117>>eating at your PCNah dw dude, I do the same. I don't even have a designated eating area in my apartment, if friends come over, we usually sit down on the floor to eat on my medium sized coffee table.I could in theory make room for a proper dinner table (or clear the small one I already have in the corner of the books and plants I store on it) but it just doesn't seem quite worth it, considering how rarely I need it>>570835012Been thinking the same. Though going off of the few I've read reviews, Guild 2 is more of a medieval sims with some economic simulation tacked one, while the new one did away with most of the life sim elements to focus more on the management side of things. And I think I'm personally more interested in the latter.I want Crusader Kings 2 Republic gameplay but on a micro scale
>>570844883What do you want plugins for in this context? You can throw images, text, and make relations between themDunno I never even used plugins except the one I made myself for music notation but that's an other story
>>570845294I think you're helping me understand what rubbed me the wrong way about it.I think the most fun I had was the counter battery mission, where a timer starts as soon as you fire the first shot so it was nice to come up with a double check a plan and execute it as quickly as possible and improvising when I fucked up and missed one of the enemy arty positions.But overall I'm not quite sure what else they can add beyond what was already in the demo to make it more engaging.I think it's a fun time-waster to play one mission in the evening
>>570845576>Nah dw dude, I do the same.You're both alone and it's unhealthy
>>570846376Not by choice, manalso according to most people I've had over, I have a very well designed living space, that I'm quite proud of
>>570846376I threw out my couch and TV because I never use them.
>>570845294I wouldn't expect the tutorials and first two missions to be difficult.
>>570847398>Beans may be useful
>>570845294I imagine this game would benefit immensity if it was multiplayer I know multiplayer games are harder to makeMaybe it would need a tiny bit more complexity or difficulty to accommodate that but if the guy calculating fire solutions and fire missions, the guy aiming the gun and the guy loading and shooting would be three different people I imagine that could be quite a good time.
Vagrus anon, and whoever else can help my retarded ass.I don't understand the trading prices. On top is the "difference" mode, in which the prices are compared with the left most settlement. And neither the red rectangles or the plus or minus signs, as sometimes they are in both, or a plus sign on a red rectangle.For example:Coal is bought at Velaris for 186 coins, and sold at Arken for 174. That would be a price difference at Arken of 186-174= 21 coins, but in the game it says, is sell price of a green rectangle +23 coins.Ivory is sold at Velaris for 44 coins, and bought at Arken for 38. But the difference says is a red rectangle -6 coins. When the difference of price is 54-38 = 16 coins. I'm loving the worldbuilding and I'm reading every single codex entry about the world. But the commerce thing doesn't seem right, and the game is unforgiving to the pointt that if I do more than 2 negative profit trades, I will gameover.Please, explain this for my retarded self. Don't make me go to discord or reddit for help.
>>570832823comfy but the clash between smooth 3d people and minecraft-esque environment is jarring
>>570851113You could just increase the amount of targets in a given time or decrease time until counter battery fire reaches the players.As it is, a single player spends probably most of his time running between stations unless the beginning of the mission calls for lengthy map plotting. Multiple players could be working their specific stations pretty much constantly because the three major steps rely on each one being prepared to accomplish anything, The most unavoidable downtime is waiting for the guns to elevate.Singleplayer is one guy meticulously checking math and completing steps one after another, multyplayer would be high speed cooperative artillery gunnery.
Is Blasphemous 2 better than the first?>>570826689Also wondering this, popped up on my Steam "for you" page.
>>570826689Concept-wise it was ok, but it felt very grindy to me. I couldn't get into it, never finished it (I played it a couple times, gave it a good 3 hours total). I'd recommend Enter the Gungeon - it's cheaper than Skul is right now too (1/3 as much).
>>570853652Also I imagine staying synchronized under stress would be a fun challenge. If the person loading the shells and the person aiming are two different people, and there are multiple active fire missions, you'd have to make sure everyone is looking at the same thing and so on.But also adding more things that can go wrong with the gun might be a cool angle. I remember when the lads and I played the Jumpship (now called Jumpspace for some reason) demo, I had a lot of fun doing damage control around the ship, while everyone else was relying on me doing my job so they had the systems active to do theirs.
Average profit margin doing low level Trading House hauling, is around 15-30% after subtracting wages and food supplies. Then there's the price of healing supplies and replacing personnel after combat, if I get ambushed.
>>570851448Yeah this part is a bit fucky, I struggled with it aswell and truth be told I think this whole interface is kinda ass.It's been a while since I've played but from what I remember I think what you're seeing in the difference mode is the difference between sell prices and buy prices, so the use case isn't "where can I make a profit with this" and more "can I get this for cheaper in another place". So I don't know if there is a better way to do it, but I usually go to Display Price: Full and also select the checkbox for showing the price for full stacks (since that's what I'll be transporting, if I can afford it). And then just scan Buy prices in the current settlement vs Sell prices at my destination.Some more general advice, if you're interested take it with a grain of salt, this is just shit I found out by myself and may or may not be 100% true:It feels like hauling contracts for the various factions pay better then just trading yourself, I usually take as many contracts as I can and then just fill up the rest of my empty slots with profitable cargoWhat the factions want to ship from where to where can often be an indication of which goods are profitable to trade between two placesMany places have resources marked as "in demand" that will show up as such in the market tab, but only if you actually have them in your inventoryMany settlements have some good that's very plentiful (for example Marble in Arken if I recall correctly), chances are it's gonna be very cheap to buyRumors obviously also help you to find which places have a high supply/or demand for a given good. I'm pretty sure you can find out about the Arken marble supply through a rumor that also suggests where you could ship it toBe careful with contraband. I got fucked once, thinking I'd make a killing, because the price tab said a good would sell for a lot at a given city, but it was actually illegal there, so nobody on the open market would but it
>>570853435Yup, I'm hoping that's something that'll be easy to get used to once you play for a while.I think what appeals to me most about the game is that I really enjoy rags to riches type games and starting out flipping burgers in some seedy diner and working up to owning a luxury restaurant sounds pretty cool
>>570855573i like the first way, way morethe second 'improves' on it in terms of some gameplay and qol, but it loses way too much in presentation and flavor
>>570869247I feel like this is oddly common for games. The first one has more "soul" and flavour, the second one has QoL.
>>570869247Fully agreed. Same with Ender Lillies/Magnolia.The sequel is easily the better game in terms of pure gameplay but not nearly as interesting in every other aspect.>>570869438It is odd how that keeps happening.
>>570869247>>570870034Thanks, anons. Heard anything about Skul? I like Games with skull stuff in them (lol) so I might just get it.
>>570879917Try Skull Hordes.
>>570870034I feel like that's because the first is made with passion, while the second is made with experience.
>dust front demo is part of next fest
>>570887797I played a bit a while ago and the autotranslation was borderline incomprehensible. I liked what I managed to bumblefuck through though.
boy I wonder what new mods got uploaded today
Damn, with all the Vagrus posting I'm tempted to boot the game up myself. No idea if I'd rather start new or try to get back into my existing save
damn, ilmenite at a tradergonna carry this heavy piece of shit for a whilehelmet's great tooI think I saw a vid of a guy actually grinding int so hard he managed to make a damaged titanium pick from a slab but why would you want that when you can just make a laser instead
New stratyou can sell drinkable water to a traderit's just campfire+groundwaterand you can now sell temp bottles directlyand they stack to 1Lwhich means you can stand around on a geyser, fill a canteen, make a campfire, make like three liters of water and sell it to max the trader's repfollow me for more insider trading tips
>qol unknown restored the option to jump around the bottom of the worldc'mon now there's no need for that kinda shit
A good sale? On steam? It has been so many years. Ends when the summer "sale" starts but I will bite.
>>570869438same with endless sea/skies desu
You guys have any websites or youtubers that cover new/ newish indie releases? Especially if they focus on more weird or experimental stuff but I'll take any genres Its a pain in the ass to filter the dogshit from interesting stuff
>>5709120371 fiddy for cruel is pretty good
>>570914056just /indie/...
>>570914056yeah I watch this pretty underground guy videogame horsely
>>570914056Nah, mostly just /indie/Sometimes I get an interesting trailer washed up on my YouTube front page or see a friend put something cool in their wishlist.I do watch some youtubers whose opinion I hold in high regards like Dosh, but they rarely make videos on games I'd consider new
>>570914056I check out Alex Diener's Youtube channel occasionally to see what puzzle games he's playing but I never actually watch the videos because his autism makes him really cringey
getting personal there
>>570914876Robert Frost reference?
yo nerdsis votv any good
>>570861339Thanks the explanation. Now to see if I don't go broke.
>>570914056Used to be a bunch, before they all hard veered into gay communism.
>>570915392>>569431462 okay this seems good
>>570915392Depends on what you're looking for.It's a chore simulator first and foremost, but I personally enjoy it for that.It's a very slow burn kind of horror, where the spookiest thing is the ever present feeling that something is deeply off about the facility you've been assigned to, but it's hard to place your finger on what exactly questions like "why is it abandoned?" "why am I alone in a facility that's clearly designed for a team of people?" "what's behind the locked door?" came to my mind when I first playedAlso, at least in my experience so far, you miss quite a bit of the spooky shit unless you go and seek it out. And this tension between your curiosity and desire for security is really fun.On top of that I just really enjoy the chores like cleaning/restoring the base, growing crops, processing signals, upgrading and maintaining the ATV and so on. It's like on of those cleaning games, except the cleaning feels meaningful, because it is contextualized by the fact that you're cleaning the place where you most of the game in.I could go on, but I think you're getting the picture.Also someone in here recommended me to set the day speed to around 0.7-0.8 in the settings of your save. I personally enjoy playing this way a lot more, because otherwise I spend the whole day grinding the daily task with no time left to explore or do other stuff, because my autistic ass won't let me not do the tasks. So keep that in mind in case that's something that will end up annoying you too
>>570916189> Also someone in here recommended me to set the day speed to around 0.7-0.8 in the settings of your saveI consider to set it to 0.9 or back to 1, because at week 6 days feel lasting too long: there is plenty of free time and nothing is happening. I send 5 signals every day, but there are 30 more in a crate ready and that number only grows.
>>570916189>It's a chore simulator first and foremost,whatwhy would anyone do thatlike I get it's a free game but stillwhy would you want to clean your virtual roomI have enough of a bitch ass lazy bastard girlfriend that doesn't clean up after herself not to want to clean up shit when I'm supposed to relax
>>570918715then dont play it, retard.
>>570919034>hey do you wanna check out this weird indie horror game everyone is talking about with aliens>yeah bro you gotta pick up the litter first and foremost that's the main part of the game what are you DUMB or something lmao
>>570918195I'm still tweaking the setting myself. Maybe the intended balance is that you're not supposed to complete the whole tasks at first and focus on upgrading your equipment to meet quota. And exploring, base maintenance and daily tasks are supposed to be an either or trade off, who knows.>>570918715why would anyone want to do anything?As I said, it's like one of those cleaning up/home renovation games that are dime a dozen on steam, except here it serves the purposes of streamlining a lot of the other gameplay.You move into an abandoned base and making it less abandoned gives me the same satisfaction the base building part does in a base building game.Then again, I can understand where you're coming from, I feel very similarly about any game that features photography for example>>570919130>that's the main part of the gameWho said that? There's an anon in this very thread or last one I think who talked about how he just ignores that part because it doesn't appeal to him.
>>570920192Asmongold doesn't count, he lives in squalor by default.
>>570920192>Who said that?The first part of the post I replied to just thre me a curveball
>>570919130>>570920192Ohh, or it about me calling it a chore simulator in >>570916189?My bad, maybe I was a little unclear with that. I included maintaining the equipment, processing the signals filling your daily quota etc as part of the "chores" when I said that.You need to record base telemetry and go out collect some data from the various satellite dishes. Dishes and radars can break down and you need to go out and fix them. The three substations that power your base degrade over time and so on and so forth.But yeah that's the basic appeal of it, you're there to do a "boring" job, while something feels deeply wrong about the place and occasionally paranormal shit happens.A little like No one lives under the lighthouse but not linearly scripted.
>>570920840Hmmmaybe I misjudged it thenI saw a review of that one and it seemed interestingwell, it's free, and other than that it seems solidI'll give it a whirl
>>570920931It was recommended to me as My Summer Car but you're a SETI researcher, so a game with a "main goal" and a huge sandbox around it to fuck around with and find your own fun. I think having a game like that in the horror genre is what makes it so unique to people, but I have way too little experience with these kinds of games to judge.Also your experience may vary, as I said some of the paranormal stuff needs to be sought out and I'm too much of a pussy to do that (plus I've never made it more than a few in game weeks into the game on a single save, so maybe it picks up more later)
>>570921291nopony care
>>570921346don't be meen
>>570921537
>>570921743exactly thatDon't do thatyou had one job
Loving the art in Blasphemous. Sound design is damn good too. Thanks to whomever recommended it. I don't like that pits are instant death.
>>570927578I wasn't the guy but it's hard for me to put into words how it feels that I can't ever get someone overseas to understand what it's like to play that thing while actually being Spanish.The second one had me pausing the game at times, sort of moved to tears? Not happy or sad, just emotion somehow.
>>570927578You're welcome anon>I don't like that pits are instant death.It's an acquired taste
>>570927578the pit instant deaths aren't that bad unless you're around one of the few enemies that likes to knock you back and is hard to dodgethe spikes though? fuck spikes. especially in the art gallery.remember to set the audio language to spanish
Does the ATF mod for Onirism add new outfits?I legit want to play dress up doll with Carol. Same reason why I have gigas of clothes mods for Sims 2 and 3. Also because I'm a lolicon
>>570929208>Does the ATF mod for Onirism add new outfits?Technically, yes.
>>570928236>>570929116Didn't occur to me to switch language. Spanish dub is that much better, huh?
Finally tried Aneurysm IV.The community is full of griefers, sadly.
>>570914056/Indie/My For (You) tab on twitterGamesparkSometime i just check the new releases on Steam
>>570929208Yes, that's the whole point of the mod
>>570930423I thought the whole point of the mod was getting raped
>>570930776Wrong game.
>>570931171there's multiple onirism made by atf?
>>570930106I mean the Spanish voice acting industry does have renown, but I was talking more about seeing my culture represented in such ways.
>>570930106>Didn't occur to me to switch language. Spanish dub is that much better, huh?It has different nuance. Specially for words and names regarding very specific Spanish catholic stuff.>>570933554>I mean the Spanish voice acting industry does have renownTell that to panchitos lol
>have 21 Bross of total benefits with 3 slots filled with supplies>think that doing more Denven-Arken-Shelter hauling contracts is just a noob trap and I should explore more>no contracts anywhere to go to unknown far-way settlements>risk getting a contract to Ash and from there hoof it to Avernum>Reach Avernum>only 7 Bross left out of 21>sold hides for 1 Changer higher than what they cost me>no contracts I can do due to low standing with the factionsWhoever said that this game is a lot of savescumming wasn't joking. Being punished for exploring is BS.
>>570930776The main point is outfit modding but it also has bugfixes, new QoL features, useful debug cheats and an optional sex mode that's so seamlessly integrated that you wouldn't know it's a mod if it didn't have better animations than the vanilla game or fun but unprofessional touches like using certain meme emoji as an icon.Honestly the game is just unplayable without the mod, sometimes literally. Stuck? Noclip. Softlocked because a script to move you to the next map after a boss fight didn't fire? Mapchanger.
>>570937638so the whole thing about being gangbanged by enemies is just qol, got it
>>570937823No, that's obviously the bugfix part.wtf man read the whole post
>>570937980aw jeez sorry
I wonder if Choco regrets not giving Carol short hair from the start
What makes a game "lolicon coded"? Afaik onirism doesn't have anything even remotely sexual or suggestive. Yet you guys keep saying there are "signs". What does that even mean? Dogwhistle for lolicons?
>>570938336you know how it has little girls looking cute and shit
>>570938336>Yet you guys keep saying there are "signs". What does that even mean? Dogwhistle for lolicons?Pic-related was posted by the very own dev of Onirism.If you know you know.
>>570938487>If you know you know.They're too dressed to look like those 80s mags
>>570933554I've always been curious, how does it feel that your language is mostly associated with retarded thirdies on the internet? Heavy negative connotations surround it without any fault of spain. You really drew the short straw when conquering the new world. At least english is mostly associated for retarded firsties and nobody cares about frogs/canada.
>>570938885>You really drew the short straw when conquering the new world.brazil and the protoguese hold that crown sorry
>>570938487LO?
>>570938487I don't "know". It just looks like a generic teen magazine cover to me.
>>570938336Every game with a little girl mc is "lolicon coded" to lolicons
>>570938885We are too separated from that context to make the relation. The average Spaniard has no idea about the racial concerns of the US (my parents, to this day, can't believe the whole N-word business is an actual thing, why, they've seen it in movies) and in our environment we enjoy our own landscape of regional racism, as well as racism towards Spanish-speaking South American countries.Do note, when we learn English, it's generally British English, not American, and for us it's not about communicating with the US, but about lingua franca through the EU and overseas. The perception of each other's context is really distorted I think. Also I'm sorry but we used to think that electing Bush fucking TWICE already meant you guys were a bunch of inbred monkeys, Trump has somehow made that worse.That being said, I personally am pretty glad the language extended in the way it did. Means that now the bulk of immigration comes from those countries, rather than filling the place with Muslims. If you ask me Hernán Cortés deserves a huge statue in the center of Madrid right about now.
>>570938265Depends on who you ask.Character designers? Nah probably not.Character animators who actually have to deal with the consequences of long hair? Hell yeah.
>>570939436Which issue?
Hitman 2 fucking sucks**On PS2It's weird, you'd think a game like that would play well on controller. It doesn't and the AI is buggy. Took me 2 hours to beat the first level, that longer than it took me to speedrun the entire game on pc.
>>570940819>you guysI'm not burgeristani. The perspective I spoke of is a global one, from internet forums, and also very 4chan-adjacent due to the relative prevalence of native spanish speakers damaging japanese fan translation communities by spewing out jp-en mtl garbage with zero understanding of the source language and lacking understanding of the target language.
>>570940819I will forever find funny how still there are, honest to god, african-american nigs seething because we have pic-related.
>>570943143Cultural appropriation is a hell of a thing. As funny as that is, it's also a sad testament to the power of american anti-intellectualism and pop culture machine.
>>570935715Huh, despite people saying this was a hard game I don't think I've ever had to savescum and after the first few ingame months money rarely was a problem.Maybe I just stuck with some of the safe grinds for a really long time?Though I absolutely agree on exploration being a bit weird. What I disliked is how there isn't a lot of in-universe reason to go explore too far from your home turf. Sure I as a player want to go check out the other cities and the DLC area, but what reason would my caravan leader have to give up a well known and profitable route?I wonder if maybe your operation can eventually grow big enough that doing the same route to often can actually exhaust the supply and demand for a long enough time that you need to leave and let it recover
>>570945132>Maybe I just stuck with some of the safe grinds for a really long time?I lost like 5-6 times at the tutorial. And then several other times by random encounters, bad plot decisions. And specially because despite the the dragon girl mission saying I had 22 days left to complete it, the girl got mad and left because "you don't seem to want to go to the outpost".Now I'm grinding the Deven-Arken-Shelter route because Ashkul's knows I need the coin.
how are you guys liking the Order of the Sinking Star demo? The controls lack a bit of polish but the puzzles themselves are fantastic. I'm having a great time.
>>570949940I hope we get to play some original puzzles in the demo. so far we're pretty much just replaying the indie games he licensed to make this. The meat of the game is supposed to be when the different game rules are mixed together.
>>570948865Huh, maybe I'm just forgetting how tough the game is in the beginning, when you're still getting used to everything. Also I guess the room for error grows a little once you are later in the game.
>>570781271a...
>>570781271>>570954327SHIT
>>570954879No, no, you were supposed to do the GTA joke...
>>570927578>>570929116I don't remember them being too bad in Blasphemous outside of a couple of sections but I am currently playing the last stage of Plague Knight's campaign in Shovel Knight so I feel your pain about instant pit and spike deaths.>>570914056Adam Millard is a pretty decent Youtuber who puts out monthly lists of his favorite lesser discussed new indies every month. Outside of here that is basically the only place I get info on new indies since my Steam discovery basically only recommends me triple-AAA games and hentai now.
fence windowsI am a fucking genius
>>570955734You missed the "fence gates as door" tech level?Anyways, fences don't seal the room so it's an outdoor space for all gameplay purposes like temperature and food spoilage.
>>570956456I just used crude doors
>>570958528I use your mom.
>>570940819>Bush used to be considered a bad presidentI miss those innocent times
>>570958528Yeah I figured you would have done that if you just had an epiphany about fence windows.Now remind yourself, was there anything bad about the crude doors?Something that doesn't happen with fence gates?
>>570940819/indie/ games?
>>570956456I actually enjoyed having to seal up my doors and windows with straw for the winter
What's that game?
The ending to Plague of Shadows makes me feel warm and fuzzy every time I get to it. I guess that is why I always save it for last when I play through Shovel Knight since it is a nice note to close on.Anyway guess it is time to give Mina another shot. I couldn't get over how weird and awkward it felt the first time around and didn't get too far.
>>570962437obviously
>>570965609I can hear the last panel and I haven't even touched Noita in years
>Oh hey that trailer looks promi...and you lost me
Why is it always rogue like but never rogue love
>>570966650commitment issues. They know they cant stick with it.
>>570967446Lies and slander!My relationship with cata is longer than most marriages these days
>>570966650If you really think about it, interpersonal relationships are just like a rouge-lite with meta progression
>>570968342yeah you die to weird shit all the time but at lesat you unlock meta shitdude what
>>570966650Because Rogue is a furry.
>>570951589>Also I guess the room for error grows a little once you are later in the game.I skillisue a lot because I'm a retard. But now I finally have more than 2 Bross from bankruptcy. And specially, I have unlocked tier 1 contracts.From the prices I have written down, trading on your own is kinda shitty, as with 4-5 cargo slots, you are only left with 1 cargo slot for goods, and the rest are supplies. So contracts have much, much more profitable. The margins go from 9-10% to minimum 15%(as far as my shitty maths and notes says).There are also some very BS encounters that makes you either loose all the cargo(making you pay the trading houses a shitton because of missing cargo), all the supplies or both. Without taking into account how many soldiers/beasts/workers/slaves you loose and companions getting wounded.When the game first came out, I read the warning that devs put about the game being hard. I also read that there was a in-game timer, and if you spent all the time trading, you would be locked out of practically all the main story missions. But it was removed because it forced new players either ragequit, or have to read a bazillion guides, about how to min-max and rush all the meta strategies, not be locked out of the game's stories. Which given how much this game touts itself us plot-heavy, seems a retarded thing to do.
>>570959778I did figure that fences are superior on my own, but I liked to have a "proper" door, so kept the crude doors and I added the fences outside, like this.Its redundant, but I got used to it. I like to open my door, take a breath, then look around for monsters, with the fence still closed. I want to properly illuminate my farm outside, before removing it.
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Finally climbed back from -6 amnamensis.
>>570969389SIRSIR DO NOT
>>570971286
>>570971454the joke.........your head
>>570951589Doing some maths for 2 contracts(now that I have an extra beast of burden) to Shelter that is 3-4 days away. Calculating the predicted maximum days of 4.A single cargo slot/stack of supplies of 250 units are 500 coins.Daily wages are 59 coins.168 units of supplies are needed for a 4 day trek(I have some passengers).236 coins for crew wages for 4 days.So in total I need 572 worth of coins for the whole trip. And each contract I have(2 slot contracts, 1 slot contracts pay less) gives 1000 and 1001 coins. My total benefits would be 1428 coins. If I had only a single 2 slot contract, I would only have 429 coins of benefit.Now the actual results. I had a whistling dust storm event, which I failed. Loosing 1 worker and 3 morale. Which made me go from 10 movement points to 8. Prolonging the trip by 2 whole days, which costed me 133 coins. For a total of 705 in just travel expenses plus the worker I lost.So the total of my real trip were 723 coins of benefit. Which is 32% of benefit.Note that my maths are shit, and that supplies seems to cost less if bought by the stack(I think, I'm not sure why it says "this has an average valuer of X").
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>>570968512yeah, you're dead on the money, faction contracts are much more profitable and trading feels more like a side hustle you do when you have slots to spare or want to go to a city that has no contracts at the moment. Not sure how I feel about that personally, but at least it gives you some sense of where to go.>There are also some very BS encounters that makes you either loose all the cargo(making you pay the trading houses a shitton because of missing cargo), all the supplies or bothBtw you are aware that you can try to avoid many of the fights you run into, right? Asking just in case. Also the roads are safer at the expense of the tax collectors fucking you over.>When the game first came out, I read the warning that devs put about the game being hard. I also read that there was a in-game timer, and if you spent all the time trading, you would be locked out of practically all the main story missionsOh that's interesting. pretty sure I've started playing when that was already gone. In fact I vaguely remember finding a blogpost by the devs where they go into detail about game design philosophies and stuff. But I never got to read it and then lost it.Also speaking of the stories. I felt like the RPG side of the game was by far the weakest. Many quests have one, maximum two outcomes and it feels like your input matters little, you're just going through a linear story. I'm fine with that, branching paths are hard to make. But still I can remember at least a few moments, where I wish there'd be more than one options to solve a quest.Infiltrating that one bandit camp comes to mind, not sure if you've done that yet.
>>570971887>supplies seems to cost less if bought by the stackReally? I don't think they did when I played. I remember them being cheaper in major cities though and twice or even thrice the price in remote settlements.Also no idea how it compares to hauling cargo in terms of profits and risk/reward, but on my latest run I've made my starting capital by mining precious metals. It's dangerous, but metal sells well and it's kinda fun thematically
>>570973464>Btw you are aware that you can try to avoid many of the fights you run into, right? Had to bribe 2 encounters, fight one and use beast lures and a slave for another one. Overall it let me flee 3 others.>Asking just in case. Also the roads are safer at the expense of the tax collectors fucking you over.I got told ingame that the roads are save but the tax collector patrol them. So I keep to them as I don't want to fuck around and find out.>>570974052>>570974052>Really? I don't think they did when I played. I remember them being cheaper in major cities though and twice or even thrice the price in remote settlements.Now that I look at it. It seems the average price is like a price history of how much the total supplies you bought from different settlements adds up, by the unit, not the stack. Which threw me off because some other places buy by the stack, like Fort Vitrium or whatever it is called.>>570974052>but on my latest run I've made my starting capital by mining precious metals. It's dangerous, but metal sells well and it's kinda fun thematicallyI saw that you can mine crystals and salt too. But the loading screen tooltips says that most activities that give money are not able to sustain you long term.
>>570966301RL hatred feels so fucking forced. Why do you even play games? I personally enjoy gameplay, a bit of difficulty, player choices mattering, and replayability, which basically forms the pinnacle of this hobby. Are you craving more movie games or some shit? lmao.
>>570968342>interpersonal relationships are just like a rouge-lite with meta progressionAre there rogue-lites where you can get permanent debuffs from fucking up a run badly enough?
>>570981617That's part of the meta progression. It's like unlocking harder areas and bosses.
Just tried the Valor Mortis demo, great art direction but I'm tired of everything being an obligatory soulslike. And the storytelling already feels repetitive with these glorified audio logs sprinkled throughout the level
damn, Aneurysm IV is annoying.>go to mine>make some galvanized iron>it's stolen right away
>>570984524Ain't that one of those games that was spun off from a GMod server?
>>570985257That would explain so much. Like why everyone is a dick.
>>570985363I watched a video on it a while ago and I could smell the DarkRP.
>>570985659It's just frustrating: when you're prole, everyone steals from you. When you're not prole, everyone wants to kill you, sometimes at their own detriment.Makes me almost miss Space Station 14.
>>570985821You mean 13 of course.
>>570985990No, I never played 13.
>>570986291go play ss13 kekypow
>>570989862Nah. BEYND doesn't work on my PC.
I'm considering re-installing touhou episode 6: the scarlet devil strikes back cuz /v/ sissy hypno'd me with all their shmup propaganda threads
>>570992583Are you retarded or just American?
>>570992878Wow, those are extremely rude accusations to just casually throw at someone.
Quasimorph full release when
>>570992878>>570994152>random seethe at americansso are you jews or muslims? idk whose more mad over our recent peacedeal
>>570994152A pedophile playing "touhou episode 6" deserves no chill.
>>570994359>peacedeallol i had to look it up>lose to random sandniggers>pay them 300 billionBest deal!
>>570995056Jewish then?
>>570992878>are you retardedYes>or just AmericanYesAlso I will never be good at melee because I hate grab tech chasing and/ or chain grabbing.
I'm trying this indie game when it arrives in the mail in a few days.
>>570997218David the Jew versus the American Goliath?
Remember when games were made in ~4 years?Nowadays we have some indies fast approaching their third decade of active development with no end in sight.What went wrong?
>>570997925Notch programmed minicraft in 48 hours for a competition. The problem isn't that programming a game is hard it's that the entire planet is facing brain drain right now because every government in the world that is supposed to represent it's own peoples interests and nothing else is compromised and acting against it's own peoples interests. The reasons for which can only lay in the land of the conspiratorial or the esoteric.How is anyone supposed to be creative when one has to spend that creativity coming up with multi step coping mechanisms to find a reason to go to the grocery store? It's simply easier to call a grocery delivery service operated by foreigners for pennies and to just eat top ramen with an egg in it. If you want the answer for why anything online is bad just look out the window.
>>570998496But how long did the actual dev take to make the game that Notch stole?
Fuck I forget where I go to get toe hoes. Maybe Nyaa? Don't worry guys, I have AI pals who will spoonfeed me when all else fails. Then I gotta download a bunch of stupid nonsense directX github links to make it not glitch the fuck out on windows 10 or whatever.
>>570998496>If you want the answer for why anything online is bad just look out the window.I see a well-maintained yard with beautiful flowerbeds basking in the sunny morning dew. Beyond that, other houses. Natural forest. A lake. A bridge.Did not gain any insight into why software nowadays sucks. Nor why many people on the internet seem completely insane.
>>570999908>reddit spacing and a disingenuous postpottery
>>570998496>offtopicSee you in three days, /pol/tard.
>>571001737>errr the development of minicraft is offtopic>errr elaborating into a different topic in the same post as you talked about an indie game isn't allowed>errr announcing a report isn't against the rules!!!Pick one and only one brown retard
>>571001737damn, you really got under the /pol/tard's skin, it got even more racist.
>>570998496Minicraft didn't need designing, was buggy and basically completely empty. You can see all the content in about 15 minutes.
>>571005435>didn't need designingI strongly disagree given how it was a top down version of a different game, alot of thought would have had to have gone into changing the perspective of a block based game. >was buggyNot that I remember, however, you might be right given that I haven't played it in 15 or so years.>You can see all the content in about 15 minutesand that's also true of half the games promoted on steam now that take indie teams composed of dozens of people years to make, which is my point. minicraft was MINI by design and it's a very small game but if you look at the steam recent releases page it somehow stands head and shoulders above the releases we have now despite only having a 48 hour development time, which further speaks to the brain drain in software development, imo.
>571005763>opinion>"can't remember">whataboutismOk. Just a low-effort shitter, got it.We're done here.
>>571005886You won, it lost its composure like an emotive woman.
>>571006014>REPLYING TO YOURSELFholy shit, its a total brownout
>>571006182wow anon you are so great for saying that and you sure got him
>>571006373>>571006182yeah what he said!lmfao
>>571006014You struck a major nerve, he's having an embarrassing meltdown. A true fatherless moment.
Crash bandicoot 3 or paper mario or elin? I can't decide.
>>571007165Crash Bandicoot 3. If you're getting it on Steam, it comes with the two earlier games and the secret cut levels as well.
>>571007165>two non indie games or one indie gameIronically, Elin probably has the highest amount of work hours put in out of the three. If you haven't tried it I recommend crash twinsanity if you're a crash bandicoot fan.
>>571007248I already did the remakes, I'm playing the originals.
>>571007363Then the two others.
>>571007363Since you have the fresh perspective of replaying the originals, are the remakes any good? I know 99% of remakes you're better off just emulating because of new bugs, art that's not true to the original game, removed content, performance issues, change dialogue, and so on that entirely compromises the original vision but I've never played more than a few hours of the original crash games.
>>571007351> /indie/ - Indie & Misc. Games General >Ape escape 3 OPRead the OP...
>>571007597>hey i heard 99% of that stuff is shit, dare to prove me wrong?????Fuck off already. You clearly already made up your mind that new bad, old good.
The newfag is really fucking annoying holy fuck.
>>571007857Yeah. Acting like this is /v/, he's just annoying. I hope mods remove him quickly, he's not even trying to fit in.
I wish I could have faith and believe Iron Nest is gonna have the improvements it needs on launch.IIRC its a 2 man ESL dev team aiming for an august release.Elevation doesn't do anything except act as a distance slider, an elevation of 0 will have the shell land directly under the nest.Somehow its coded poorly enough that changing the max elevation would be a massive undertaking according to the devs.The steam page description is AI written, which is forgivable because the devs are very ESL but I don't trust devs who can't cobble together enough english to write a steam description.As others have pointed out here and in the /v/ nextfest threads the missions are very simple and don't require much more than baby's first triangulation followed by burning time rotating/elevating. You're only required to work quickly once and its trivial if you just plan it all out before firing your first shot.God I hope PVKK fulfills all my autistic wishes. Every delay makes me think its trapped in development hell, but I'll pretend that it just needs that long to be good. They really would have benefited from shipping a demo though, we know they already have one because they did that physical setup demo at some show.
>>571007659Hmm
>>571007713True and redpilled.
>>571007989Yeah, I dunno either. That tourist has been raging and shouting at everyone for a while now. He probably thought telling you to check the OP would be a clever gotcha, but sadly he's not clever.
>>571008075You really, really hurt xer. Xe's malding like curaaaayyyyzee now, like the weak woman unable to control her emotions that xe wishes xe was.
>>571007837>>571008313How embarassing!
>>570547796Slugcat...
>>571007983>the missions are very simple and don't require much more than baby's first triangulation followed by burning time rotating/elevatingIt's two tutorials and the first two missions in the game.
>>571009890And I'd expect more from the demo
>>571010003>wtf why doesn't that cooking course teach me how to make meringue in the first hour when we just learned to boil eggs????
>>571010092Yes
>>571010137>wtf why doesn't the cooking course teach me how to marinade chicken filets in white wine when I just learned how to boil pasta????Fuck me, I'm hungry now.
Turns out anyone could have pulled the sword from the stone if they chugged 10 health potions while doing it.Maybe that's what king arthur did.
>>571010347WHAT YOU CHEATING CUNT
>>571010003I would expect nothing more from a demo that just has the tutorial and first couple missions.That's like being disappointed with the shareware CD of starcraft because it only has a couple low difficulty missions of TvZ.
>>571010347theres an achievement for doing it too iirc
>>571008327Reread the post again. I was telling him to read the OP because he complained about non-indie in /indie/.
>>571010490I would expect at least one more mechanicwe're shown "aim and fire" and "now do it on a clock"the endless challenges at the end are both also "aim and fire" and "now do it on a clock"They can't change max elevation from 60 to 48, why would I believe they can make a target move?More time has been spent on placing clipboards around the level promising to display supporter names
>ftl crashes right at the end of the Multiverse's True End>run wipedWelp, time to learn the console cause I ain't redoing all that.
>>571010841There's like 7 other shell types that do different things and aren't available for use in the demo.
>>5710114023 are different types of gas1 is incendiary which is just gas that hurts trees too1 is just a nuke aka an even biggererer HE shell1 is a leaflet bomb which sounds like it only has uses for specific missionsThe mine laying one is the only one that gives me hope for enemy troop movement.
>>571012000A lot of these are warcrimes by modern standards. You're going to jail, kiddo.
>>571014892Warcrimes only exist if you are a problem for the winning side
I hope FoM will add the option to move your house because that patch of land on the right side of the farm is screaming to me
>>571014892The league of nations is still around at this time, they're even more toothless than the UN without US backing.
>>571016000its also somewhat hard to tell the nation with the giant robot artillery piece to stop shelling you with mustard gas
>>571016058To be fair, it's more or less just an unusually mobile pair of railway guns with a basic ballistic computer.
my precious boy
>>571016553wtf?How much stuff have I missed in this game?
Couldn't find a drawthread on /v/ or an Atelier thread so I'll post this wip here.
shit anatomy but you got better at least
>>571016553bruh that is one fucked up pokemon
>>571016553he's got the face only a mother could love
>>571014892I think this game takes place in 1920, which is 5 years before the Geneva protocol made chemical and biological weapons warcrimes I believe. Also WW1 didn't happen in this timeline.And it's not like you need any help on the crime part. In the very first mission you're tasked to flatten an entire city block in your own city, because there are some subversive elements gathering there.Also still have no clue what that was about, but in the tutorial, where you learn how to fire the gun with the in-game justification that it's for calibration purposes, you're just lobbing a shell in the middle of a city too.
>>571018325>which is 5 years before the Geneva protocol made chemical and biological weapons warcrimes I believe.let people enjoy things
>>571018325>friendly hospital destroyed>tutorialMy god...
>>571007983>Somehow its coded poorly enough that changing the max elevation would be a massive undertaking according to the devsThe way I read the screencap you posted below as the main problem being, that they'd have to remodel the the turret interior, but I could be wrong.But I'm with you, the game is awfully simple. I somehow still managed to spend over 3h on the demo. I think it's a nice turn of your brain and get some reward chemicals kind of game to kill 30-60mins in the evening. Probably my favorite part is, as you said, planning out all your fire missions and then executing them while on the clock.Reminded me of carefully planning an attack run in UBOAT somehow.>PVKKat the very least that game's canon looks like it was actually designed to be operated by one person. I can suspend my disbelief for Iron Nest, but every now and then it still does feel off, operating this kind of artillery piece all by yourself.>>571018447I genuinely don't know if this is intentional or not. Since units are somewhat randomly placed maybe it just messed up and put the hospital too close to the practice target by chance, but either way that was a very strange first impression, especially with reading this and getting a "mission accomplished, you did great" from high command at the same time.
>>571018325>>571018806the tutorials aredestroying an allied hospital as a false flagand bombing your own people as a false flag before firing a flare above the general and the king's meeting while the king gives the general an award for his efforts to make peace with the enemywe are not the goodies.
>>571018882israel simulator looks fire
>>5710183251927
>>571018882>false flagohh, yeah that makes a lot of sense. Look like I was a bit too dense to read into that>we are not the goodiesyeah, I got that much from blowing up anti-monarchists together with everything in their zip code
this game is very pretty.
>>570980214It's not really hate. I appreciate it in games like Hades, StS and RoR2. But often enough I also see games where I would much prefer if they had a more persistent progression.The one I posted looked like some sort of cool post apocalyptic fishing game where you upgrade your boat and explore different regions and I don't like if those kinds of games are built around losing all your shit at the end of a run.>Are you craving more movie games or some shit? lmaoweird of you to think that's the only alternative
>another heatwave cominggod, I love living through this shit in infrastructure that was clearly not designed for it. Thank you big oil and all the brave internet warriors assuring us that the climate has always changed, it's gonna be fine, there's nothing we can do about it and that it's always been warm in summer.
>>571021662Things could always be worse. At least you're not burning.
>>571022395didn't ask but okay
>>571022395I've actually been there during heavy forest fires in summer 2010. That was a great time. Imagine 30+ degrees heat, but you can't even open the windows, because the city is covered in smog
>>571022395snowniggers burning is based thoughbeit
>>570985821is ss14 good?t. former spessman
Hold the fuck up, Crimson Desert is a singleplayer game? For some reason I kept assuming it's another MMO.Is it any good? It looks kinda generic, but that might be just what I'm in the mood in right now. Or maybe I should just finish Witcher 3 already, or get back to Dragon's Dogma
>>570999908I see a red brick apartment building surrounded by a rather dull looking lawn, with birch trees behind it, and more apartment blocks rising above the treetops. A few cars driving in the front of the nearest building, and more behind. The sunlight's glare is uncomfortably intense, but I appreciate the warmth. 7/10 could be worse.I think the reason people now spend decades tinkering with a single video game is that it became financially possible. There are better tools for game development and crowdfunding than there were before. I don't think there's anything wrong with it. A lot of old games would probably have benefited from a few extra decades of tinkering.
>>571023189you might have conflated it with black desert (like me)
>>571021662>Thank you big oil and all the brave internet warriors assuring us that the climate has always changedIt has always changed, it was noticeably colder during the little ice age a few hundred years ago, the global average was around 20-30F hotter for some extended periods while the planet supported life.And pretty much every western government, including the united states, has been investing vast amounts of resources into reducing CO2 emissions. Nearly half of the energy in the united states is from sources besides fossil fuels at this point and that portion has only been increasing the last couple years, it's never been higher.If you think someone's to blame for your sweating, take it up with the chinese.
>>571024281Yeah, since it's by the same devs I just assumed Black Desert died and they made a new one or something.Which is extra funny, because I remember when Black Desert came out I was very impressed by the character creator and thought it's a shame it isn't a singleplayer RPG
>>571024731least schizo poster award
>>571024895
the mutants in dust front give me BETA vibes
>>571018882>destroying an allied hospital as a false flagIf you recon the area first you can place the shell do it only hits the infantry unit in the blast radius.
>>571019595>this game is very pretty.except the fat Din'du woman
Keep hearing about Inscryption. Some people say it's a roguelite, some say it isn't. What's the deal? Is it worth it for $7.50? Does it have any replay value?
>>571031659>Keep hearing about Inscryption.It's a good game, I've enjoyed it a lot. I would say that unfortunately the pacing is a bit weird and it felt very front loaded to me. I get what they were going for conceptually, but my favorite part was in the first half of the game, but that could be highly subjective.>Some people say it's a roguelite, some say it isn't. What's the deal?I guess the closest comparison I'd draw is something like Hades? Most of the moment to moment gameplay is roguelike, but it's part of a bigger story that has a clear ending and it's a game that you can actually finish>Is it worth it for $7.50?Definitely. It has some neat twists on the genre that I won't spoil that, while I didn't enjoy all of them at least made me go "wow that's a cool idea". And the card game itself was also fun. If 20ish hours of fun are worth it for you, I'd say go for it.>Does it have any replay value?I've only played the story mode once so far, can't say how much replay value you get from that. But once you reach end credits you do unlock an endless mode that, from what I recall, has some unique items, cards and challenge modifiers that are only available during that. So if you're craving more after that you can definitely keep playing
>>571022395It's a historic moment.
>>571023665>A lot of old games would probably have benefited from a few extra decades of tinkering.Hard no.That would only have turned them into aimless feature creep slop akin to what we have now and robbed us of other great works their developers would have otherwise created in that time.
>>571023189Oh wait, there is one thing I forgot to consider
>A lot of old games would probably have benefited from a few extra decades of tinkering.This is just such a completely retarded argument I don't even.Imagine if Interplay/BIS devs spent a few decades polishing Bard's Tale instead of growing up as individuals to make countless RPG classics. kek
>>570997925Are you talking about the era where they shat out a new AssCreed and CoD every year? or is that still the case and I just stopped caring?I guess there is definitely some mismanagement and the like involved but sometimes it's just small teams who are working as fast as they can with what they have
>>570965609Fuck noitaFuck finnsFuck hiisiFuck spellsFuck magic
>>571038691
>>571038691That's a lot of fucking.
>>571033806Thanks for the reply. I'll snag it.
>>571039134everyone knows finns are weird mfs
>>571041369
>>571042037see?
>>571022985Kinda. The UI is a lot better, but the servers are annoying.>oh you wanna play on that touhou server? You need to join the discord, and they have a lot of drama so expect constant @everyone as mods and admins are removed and addedStill, I had a lot of fun playing janitor and spamming midis.
>>571041369Naw. The world is the weird one. Finns are the only normal people.
>>571043995ok weirdo
>>571043995Nah. I played with a Finn in Vermintides 2 once. Dude got pissed off that I looked down at a painting, and took every comment toward him personally.He had a VAC ban lol.Finns are all shitters.
ah, this almost makes being nearly killed by tentacular horrors beyond human comprehension almost worth it. i love whale sharks.
Battle Brother update.
>>571048239
>>571048239>>571048721I'm happy they still update it, though at this point I'm more worried about how much added modding support they do. Like when they increased the max RAM limit without need of third party programs.
Now that I have 350 Bross in my coinpurse, I can allow to spoil my crew.The early game is quite brutal, but once you get enough coin to pay for lost cargo, beast/undead lures and enough beast of burden to increase your profit margins, it is a lot easier.It kinda explains why the game was first designed with a timer. And why people ragequitted or looked at guides to minmax.
>>571007983did you have the same issue i did on the counterbattery mission where the lights didn't come on properly even after you reset the power?i liked what i played but it did seem like an awful lot of waiting and not a lot of variationi did get one target instruction that used distance from spotters instead of angle and that was a little more just because i couldn't figure out any tool to draw a circle on the map>max elevation would be a huge undertaking???also it's been a long-ass time since i studied physics but i thought maximum distance was always achieved at 45. maybe that's only without air resistance
>>571018882the general and king are also both marked as priority targets in that mission but i was out of ammo to try
>>571051132>lights didn't come on properly even after you reset the power?Yeah I ended up restarting the game and that fixed it.>i couldn't figure out any tool to draw a circle on the mapTheres a compass on/beside your clipboard you can select to do circles.>maximum distance was always achieved at 45yeah, going above 45 lowers your range but lets your shells land more squarely from above. In iron nest however you just go further the higher the angle, because its just a go more far slider.
I, too, treat little girls very gently.
>>571028047where?
>>571026776CHOMP
>>571051132>>571052259>going above 45 lowers your range but lets your shells land more squarely from aboveAlso longer flight times. There's some crazy fuckshit that modern ballistics computers can do. Like calculate how to shoot multiple shells and make them all land at the same time, so whoever you're shooting at doesn't have time to take cover after the first shot lands.>because its just a go more far sliderI don't want to be a shitter, since I've never made a game in my life, but I'm honestly a little baffled by this. If you're simplifying the ballistics anyways and just assume elevation doesn't matter, I can't imagine it's that difficult to write a few lines of code that tells how far away a parabola would intersect the ground.
>>570951104There already are some original ones, though. Mostly in the east.
Trying some more demosThere's nothing I hate more than a game looking kinda off and me having no clue which setting causes it.Shit is all muddy and blurry in the distance and I don't know why. Upscaling is disabled and AA can't be turned off.Game is called Rivage, I think it's some sort of puzzle solving walking sim. I don't have high hopes for it beyond the setting being neat
>>571054780I enjoyed the demo
TIL: Settlements can and will run out of supplies.Well, that will make me want to invest in hunting/foraging.
>>571054780Same regarding Rivage.The demo was quite mid.
>>571036890holy crap
My coin purse is hurt.The trading expedition to Avernum has cost me over 30 Bross, and that was with some crystals from Lumen that I kept to sell. And the use of supplies is crazy given that you can only move 3 nodes without force marching.I don't know how it would be with the old story timer, or a bigger comitatus.Anyway, time to see if I can get some metal.
Man, I wish I could milk spiderfag.
>>571059214What?
>>571054780Well dunno. Maybe it's a skill issue, but I really don't like how the game looks. As if it's being upscaled from a lower resolution but according to the settings it isn't.I'm not autistic about games looking hyper-realistic, but this kind of muddy look is something that I just can't stand for some reason.Gonna go play another demo
>>571059214excuse me sir
>>571059214Tab back in, spiderfag.
More misc than indie, but holy fucking shit. This is such a bad first impression it makes me laugh.Game is 1666: Amsterdam, made by the creative director of AssCreed 1 through Brotherhood and by the looks of it, it's AssCreed, but you play a period appropriate witch with magic powers and a spirit animal and shit. Looked vaguely interesting.BUT, after a very short ritual scene that serves as a tutorial for the most basic magic interaction, you're kicked into a modern day section. Who thought this was a good idea, holy shit?And it's unfathomably boring too, you visit some dude in a library to help you decipher a letter and the gameplay so far has been comically bad. You go to the map, find which number the bookshelf he wants you to look in is and go to the bookshelf to interact. What's even funnier is the second time, where it's physically impossible to reach the bookshelf in time before he tells you at least THRICE that you should look for the Rembrandt section.Fuck me, how did THIS is what they want to lead their demo with?
यह देखकर खुशी हुई कि इंडिया गेम्स जनरल है, सभी को नमस्ते।
>>571052259>Theres a compass on/beside your clipboard you can select to do circles.But for some reason it *only* draws dashed circles, which made for a fucking awful guessing game when trying to find the intersection between two spotters on the opposite ends of the map (huge gaps between dashes)
>>571064256This is not the designated shitting street. Move along Swapnil.
Yes, i can't wait to spend $29,99 on the Narcissistic, fat-hating, Bi but slightly homophobic, two-timing and dumb as a rock spy/war criminal"but unironically
>>571065737
>>571063929Okay fuck dude, this was hilariously bad.I'm gonna keep an eye on it, because it has a big name attached to it, but this demo was an anti-advertisement. Imagine playing a demo for AssCreed II, but it's only a Desmond section and the cutscene where Ezio is an infant.
>>571063929Sounds like someone wanted to tell a story, not make a game.
>>571068050Judging by the little teaser cinematic at the end the game does have gameplay with combat and magic powers and shit and I understand if maybe it's not ready to show yet and they wanted to just make a little narrative preview to get you hooked. But it feels like they've chosen the most bland and uninteresting part to show off.I'm assuming the meat and bones of the game will be playing a witch in 17th century Amsterdam, but 80% of the demo is the most bland modern day section imaginable. It's a double flashback of a girl getting a letter from her father who tells her how he got sent back in time to be the spirit animal of the witch you play (or something along those lines) and I'm baffled how they thought THAT would be putting their best foot forward to make people interested in the game.
>>571068892From what you said, it really sounds like they focused on teasing the story. And the problem is that we don't play games for the story first.
>>571069016That and that they picked the most boring part of the story.Going back to my AssCreed II comparison, if you were to tease the story of that, you'd probably want to tease "Ezio wants to become an assassin and avenge his family" not "Desmond, goes back in time to relieve the memories of his ancestor"
>>571069965I haven't played much Assassin's Creed, except maybe Black Flag, but I think I get what you mean. It'd be like advertising playing as a pirate, and then the demo is just you walking around Pentex or whatever it's called, and only getting to play the first introduction of Connor as he stalks the Templar.
Bumping with some demo's I'm about to try
Any puzzle demos worth trying besides Blow's?
>>571072419Let me know about Hawthorn, I have a friend who loves owls.
>>571064920I read wrong I apologise friend
>>571063929Yeah this is such a fucking awful demoThe stiffened animations don't help, that shit looks like some Unity game a random youtuber would play in 2015
>>571072716Iron NestSinking City 2Ascenders: Beyond the Peak
>>571073485I wouldn't call any of those puzzle games, but thanks anyways.
>>571073590I didn't even see the word "puzzle" in your post.
>>571072716https://store.steampowered.com/app/4542460/Czar_Ry/
>>571073704here's a rec for you.
>>571031659It is kind of a roguelite but each section is permanently cleared when you clear it so it is more like multiple roguelites along with a section or two that is more traditional.>>571033806I swear if the endless mode let you play through complete versions of Grimora and Magnificus' stages or had a mode based on the pixelated stage I would probably still be playing it to this day. It is a shame it was just a longer version of the first segment.
>>571072419Vholume is fun.Parkour game in a brutalist hellscape. Controls are super simple: jump, wallrun, slide but chaining them together feels intuitive and fun. The maps are completely open, but to progress you need to run a certain set of checkpoints in a certain time. I imagine there'll be some skill expression involved in route optimization.>>571073043Aye, will do.I'm my friend group's little critter expert. Also I thin you're actually playing the mouse, not the owl
>>571074091>VholumeLooks sick. Love me megastructures.
cool whale
>>571069965Desmond was such a terrible idea. The series would have been so much better if he just wasn't a part of the narrative.
>decide to do an expedition to Avernum as they say there's cheap metal to buy there>bring a few stacks of crystals>spent a week in the turbo desert of death>the price for the crystal is shit, barely 20% more than the purchase cost>get some metals>mysterious mage tells me I can hire a mage in a nearby settlement>spent a week in the turbo desert of death>hire said mage>in the turbo desert of death>find an oasis in which they sell fruit>get options to either buy fruit for the comitatus or buy even more for the slaves too>decide to buy more for the slaves as I've been pushing them to the extreme, so I can get out of turbo desert of hell>purchasing fruits for the slaves too makes everyone but the dragongirl loose loyalty to me>spent another week in the turbo desert of death>when I arrive at the imperial road and set down camp to pass the night, sounds of fights and screams wake me up>it's demons>the mage that is supposedly an adept at summoning demons had an oopsie>had to tardwrangle my comitatus to kill said demons>reach Deven>think I will be able to sell the metal for good coin>barely a 23% profit margin on metal>a month and some later I'm 270~ Bross poorer, have a mage that summons fuck you demons randomly and practically all my companions hate meThis game really really punish you for exploring. Worst of all is that there's barely 1 contract, every week or so, that makes you go outside the imperial road route of Deven-Ash-Arken-Shelter-Lumen-Mines of Plenty. I also really really really don't know how the game expected you to do this shit AND have a global timer to do quests or you are locked of 80% of the game.
Do NOT save this signal!
>>571075262why not
>>571074840I remember actually liking the Desmond parts when the game came out for some reason. The whole secret society controlling the world from the shadows and hiding the fact that all conspiracy theories are actually true plotline really blew my mind back then and I kinda liked his "character arc" but I was also a dumb teenager with my taste for media just starting to developI remember wishing they would make a fully fledged Desmond game.But looking back I understand why people hated it, it really fucks with the pacing. And especially after that they really dropped the ball on the modern day storyline. The one in Assassins Creed 4 was horrendous
>>571075698Just don't. Trust me.
>>571076434but it looks like a free pc
>>571076591This is where those download RAM sites get their stuff. It's bad news.
>>571072419Didn't even finish VtM, just not my cup of tea. I mus have had it confused with one of the dozen vampire games announced in the various game shows recently. This one looks like it's basically a VN with a handful of gameplay systems behind it.But at that point I'd rather just pick up a book, if I'm being honest.
>>571069965Asscreed id say is the definition of wasted potential, it was basically a perfect foundation for further IP expansion as it could have been easy to tinker with the mechanics and add on to it, but lazy execs got their hands on it and decided to milk the original formula as much as possible. It doesnt help that they obviously fired or ousted whoever was originally in control of the narrative aspects, because the story became so ridiculous as time went on. Wasnt it the 3rd game or so where you play as an italian ancestor and it end with you having a fisticuff with the fucking pope, and the vatican being revealed be ancient aliums? That the perfect exemple of jumping the shark. I cant even imagine how it looked in the room when they were pitching their story ideas.
>>571077428That was the second game and it was also the best one. The series was pretty stupid from jump.
>>571072419Deep Dish Dungeon is cozy and I think the main question is, how much content it'll have.It is simple, but does capture the feeling of delving into a dungeon, setting up camp, cooking food and so on. Gonna shelve this one for now and see if I can't play the rest of the demo with some buddies of mine
>>571072419Fuck.Hawthorn needs a lot more time in the oven and I'm not sure if even that can save it.I would want to love this so much, you play a critter (Mouse, Otter or Owl) in a village full of other critters and kinda help manage it? I honesty have no idea what the gameplay even is, you can gather resources and the other villagers will help you if you assign something to be built. But this just has overambitious first project written all over it.I hate to talk shit about something that somebody else clearly put time and effort in, but man, this just ain't it
>>571072419>>571082284That sounds fun. Why wouldn't the devs finish it?
>>571082834Oh I'm sure they will, but somehow this whole thing just feels so aimless and without a tight vision of what the game is supposed to be.I hope I'm wrong. I don't actually know much about gamedev, so maybe it's normal to have something like this as a proof of concept prototype whatever. I remember seeing how the earliest version of Subnautica were just a box-shaped submarine in the ocean.
>>571082284Sounds like CInnabunny, "just" a sandbox without any clear aim. Animal Crossing inspired a lot of people to make mediocre games.
>>571084718Why Animal Crossing in particular
>>571084840Because it started the trend of giving you a very vague, long-term objective, and then gives you an insane optional amount of crap to do to keep yourself busy.
>10bake new
>>571088414>>571088414>>571088414>>571088414
>>571084840It made shitillions of dollars for a game without much game in it
