Video Game Chat Thread - Pre-Alpha Experimental Version

[Judge Dredd]

What are Kiwi's thoughts of Control, Firebreak, and post-Alan Wake Remedy?

I found Alan Wake 1 to be fun but overrated and I could never get into Max Payne despite my best efforts. Then they want all in on culture war shit and I skipped everything after Alan Wake. A task made easier by the general consensus being they all sucked. For other reasons, I was looking into Control and FBC Firebreak and found that people supposedly like them now. How much of this is genuine, and how much is cope from the few remaining Remedy fans is hard to gauge.

 

[EmpGulcasa]

What are Kiwi's thoughts of Control, Firebreak, and post-Alan Wake Remedy?

I found Alan Wake 1 to be fun but overrated and I could never get into Max Payne despite my best efforts. Then they want all in on culture war shit and I skipped everything after Alan Wake. A task made easier by the general consensus being they all sucked. For other reasons, I was looking into Control and FBC Firebreak and found that people supposedly like them now. How much of this is genuine, and how much is cope from the few remaining Remedy fans is hard to gauge.

I liked Control, but then I'll enjoy anything with X-Files-y vibes. I don't really remember there ever being a time that it wasn't well liked though?

FBC Firebreak will be dead sooner rather than later so I don't recommend sinking any time into it.

 

[The Last Stand]

I sent somebody a picture of Rita Hayworth after beating them in Call of Duty: WWII.

Remember when you needed to have an Xbox Vision Camera to send pictures on Xbox Live? I think on PS3, it was the same thing with the Eye camera or even being able to send photos from the browser.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

FBC Firebreak will be dead sooner rather than later so I don't recommend sinking any time into it.

true but they did lower the price and also introduce a friendpass system so you could just play the game with someone who already owns it without having to buy it. so that is an option

 

[HTTP Error 404]

Anyone got recommendations for either dungeon crawlers(for a grimrock fan) or simpler/more laid back CRPGs(for a wasteland 3 fan, found myself bouncing off divinity OS 1 a couple of times but I could give it another try).

Do you mean turn based dungeon crawlers? DPRGs? Or more Eye of the Beholder like games? Gridders?

Experience puts out a ton of the former, it's kind of their genre nowadays (like how NIS America and Disgaea became "the" SRPG company for a while). Good ones from them include Savior of Sapphire Wings (a remake of a remake of a remake of a remake of their first game) which comes with several DLC expansions and stuff integrated (so it has a really beefy postgame) and is bundled with another good one by the same team, Stranger of Sword City (which has it's DLC expansion integrated).

Demon Gaze Extra is also a pretty good one, it's very anime but takes place in the same universe (the "Empty Epic" universe) at a different point in the timeline, and has slightly different mechanics.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1363840/Saviors_of_Sapphire_Wings__Stranger_of_Sword_City_Revisited/

(Price History: Of note, this is a match for the cheapest it's ever been.)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1732340/DEMON_GAZE_EXTRA/

(Price History: Of note, it was 90% off a week ago and I wouldn't pay full price.)

Sapphire Wings is $15 right now and you get 2 games. Definitely a good buy. Sapphire and Stranger both use traditional Wizardry-like mechanics. The former is about the hero Xeth reincarnating after failing to save the world due to his autistic ass not realizing if you're not nice to your subordinates, they might not be willing to die as meat shields for the hero. The latter is (same timeline) a bunch of people from Japan being brought over to a post-apocalyptic fantasy world and left to figure out what the fuck; it's known for having insane difficulty including permadeath.

Demon Gaze is anime as fuck (it was funded by Kadokawa, the EA / Crunchyroll of Japan) but again, it's in the same universe, at a different point in the timeline. The big thing with Demon Gaze is that there are a bunch of demons (all cute girls in (and out of) various types cosplay) with a solar theme -- Mars, Venus, etc. The main character is a mysterious amnesiac who has the ability to stare at them, raise his eyebrows like the rock, and when they swoon from the "rizz" as the kids say now (the kids do not in fact say this now) he can control them, which unlocks things like the ability to open hidden doors or what have you.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Anyone got recommendations for either dungeon crawlers(for a grimrock fan) or simpler/more laid back CRPGs(for a wasteland 3 fan, found myself bouncing off divinity OS 1 a couple of times but I could give it another try).

I got a niche suggestion. Orcs and Elves for Nintendo DS. It's a grid based game with a single character. It has some nice humour too, like using the madusa scroll while drunk that sometimes cause you to hold it the wrong way and turn yourself to stone, or the googly eyes it adds to monsters when they flee.

It was originally a phone game (as in, Java phones, not smart phones) and supposedly had a sequel that never got a DS port. I also heard good things about the Doom phone RPGs which played the same way, but I don't know how you'd play those these days.


If you don't mind some Strategy in your RPG, Mechanicus is pretty chill on low difficulties. There's a game I never finished called Popup Dungeon. It's built on the concept of UGC that never really had the audience for that, but there's a few stock campaigns so you get your monies worth.

I liked Control, but then I'll enjoy anything with X-Files-y vibes. I don't really remember there ever being a time that it wasn't well liked though?

When it was released I remember some criticism that it was just go into concrete cube, throw physics objects at enemies, go into to next concrete cube, throw physics objects at enemies, repeat.

 

[Scarthew]

I am currently trying to sell off most of my Steam cards so I can accumulate a decent amount of funds for my account. But it's a slog since prices a down across the board and people are not buying that much.

cards lost value when the points store was added ironically. The main reason to craft badges now is to increase your friendlist size but otherwise only autisitc weebs invest in profile showcase slots.