Board 8 > transience's video game topic 49: look over the horizon, a lot of games are nier

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Yep, Saturday

http://i.imgur.com/YozU0Wo.jpg
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Also I bought SotFS so lol me
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are you ready to begin Journey 2
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4th time's the charm
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I'm ready to make that Veldstat character I always wanted to do
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I think that's how many times it took for Demon's Souls to click

And yeah I think I might do a gimmick build
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Oh hey Humble Monthly gives you a steam key if their original ends up on Steam it seems.

They did it for Gunmetal Arcadia Zero and Copoka at least.
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oh, Copoka looks cute. thanks for the heads up.
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NON-RHYTHM GAMES WITH INCREDIBLE RHYTHM GAMES SECTIONS RELEASED IN 2017 POWER RANKING

1. A Night In The Woords
2. Yakuza 0
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http://i.imgur.com/UUPJ2qW.jpg

I've made it

digiiiiiiiii posted...

NON-RHYTHM GAMES WITH INCREDIBLE RHYTHM GAMES SECTIONS RELEASED IN 2017 POWER RANKING

1. A Night In The Woords
2. Yakuza 0

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928. Kingdom Hearts 1.5 + 2.5 Remix
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sounds like icon doesn't want to have a lot of finny fun
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I'm six screens into Night in the Woods and I love it already.
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iiicon posted...

I'm six screens into Night in the Woods and I love it already.

is six screens the bulletin board with the yarn

because that's when i fell in love
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also i preordered the master edition of breath of the wild for $130, decided i didn't want to spend that much on it, and just sold it on ebay for $290
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digiiiiiiiii posted...

is six screens the bulletin board with the yarn

because that's when i fell in love

It bounces! but no, Dennis with the shiv
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iiicon posted...

I'm six screens into Night in the Woods and I love it already.

oh it's out already? update these impression when you get a little bit further
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gosh im so good at Demontower
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well I guess I'm getting Horizon because I forgot I ordered it back in 2015 when Amazon deals were much better, and the price at launch is the price I'd consider buying in months later ($50 CAD, so ~$35 USD)

Can we add some days to March please
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iiicon posted...

well I guess I'm getting Horizon because I forgot I ordered it back in 2015 when Amazon deals were much better, and the price at launch is the price I'd consider buying in months later ($50 CAD, so ~$35 USD)

Can we add some days to March please

Only if they fall during my spring break
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https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/why-it-took-subset-games-so-long-to-make-a-game-after-ftl

Interesting article about some of the anxiety Subset Games feel when trying to follow up on FTL and the development process behind Into the Breach. Sounds like they're a couple of guys who know each other very well and have a method that works, and they're not ready to shake that up.
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digiiiiiiiii posted...

gosh im so good at Demontower

this was me until I hit BLOOD MOAT

http://i.imgur.com/TmOfemj.png

I have the boss down, it's just a matter of not losing all my life after getting stunlocked by the fire and blood when I get him down to the last hit. Unfortunately I've only made it to the boss 3 times because the run up to it is so tough. I mean look at this:

http://i.imgur.com/e0AxYko.png

f blood moat
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March Games with Gold is announced.

Xbone: Layers of Fear / Evolve
360: Borderlands 2 / Heavy Weapon
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oh yeah, beat Demontower
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JonThePenguin posted...

March Games with Gold is announced.

Xbone: Layers of Fear / Evolve
360: Borderlands 2 / Heavy Weapon

Another horror adventure game, and a dead multiplayer game.

Neat.
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God, I love Jeremy Parish. This is one of the photos he uploaded in his Nintendo Switch preview:

http://i.imgur.com/mUXpBvg.jpg
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what's the word on the switch hardware? I see a million previews out there
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bunch of reports about one of the joycons randomly desynching a lot
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who needs the left joy-con anyway.

I haven't had the chance to do anything other than a cursory skim of a couple articles. Apparently the Pro Controller is recognized by a PC when you hook it up via USB.
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eh, that's everything. the cooler thing would be if my 360 pad somehow worked on the switch
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So the JP version of Nier Automata is out. It has english text and voice acting, and it is somewhat tempting to get it early....
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Beat Night in the Woods

man what a game
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aaaand squeenix store just got the black box edition for nier automata back in stock for the first time in months and i got one woooooh
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digiiiiiiiii posted...

Beat Night in the Woods

man what a game

who's your favourite character and why isn't it mae's mom
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iiicon posted...

digiiiiiiiii posted...

Beat Night in the Woods

man what a game

who's your favourite character and why isn't it mae's mom

so the thing is

i didn't even know you could go to the church and visit her outside of the morning chats until i was about 90% of the way through the game. like, ever time i go up those stairs i'm using them to get on the lamp post and I didn't even think about it. and I was incredibly, incredibly thorough with the rest of the game and gettign all the secrets which REALLY UPSET ME. thankfully, I plan on replaying so I can see what all this mae's mom stuff is.

my favorite character is Angus because he's a big beautiful boy and dat ass of course.

edit: 11ish hours first playthrough btw, if anybody was wondering
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oh I'm still super early myself. I left off the night after the party
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yeah that's why i didn't get into specifics! i missed out on what has to be at least a dozen conversations with mae's mom because i had a large brain fart!
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I've taken so many screenshots of the game. My folder is up to 800MBs. Night in the Woods oozes charm and the jokes are good
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http://i.imgur.com/oPU4Bda.png

this is my favourite Angus moment so far. this or when he called Gregg his corner, which was disarmingly cute.
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iiicon posted...

this is my favourite Angus moment so far. this or when he called Gregg his corner, which was disarmingly cute.

ahhhhhhhhhh there are so many good angus moments to come i'm excited for you

iiicon posted...

I've taken so many screenshots of the game. My folder is up to 800MBs. Night in the Woods oozes charm and the jokes are good

i've done the thing where you save the last 10 minutes of video like 20 different times all to capture and eventually makes gifs of silly looping animations (gregg's arms and spoilers there may be some very funky dancing in your future)
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hollow knight is out today too. could games just chill for a couple months, that'd be great.
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Pillars of Eternity 2 at $4.4M is the third most successful video game crowdfunding campaign behind Shenmue 3 and Bloodstained.
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Hey its Dark Souls 2 restart day!!
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Why did Bloodstained do so well?

I know Castlevania has its fair share of fans, but did they promote their campaign really well or something?
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from the outside, the campaign seemed to be very well run. Announcement with popular mainstream streamer, regular updates, a weekly podcast, campaign achievements that unlocked updates, etc. it was gamified to the nth degree all in the name of fostering a community and it worked.
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Last night I finished a replay of Shovel Knight in anticipation of the new campaign. what a pure, unadulterated expression of joy. it's about as perfect a 2d platformer can get. I could listen to the music all day.
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Shovel Knight is one of my more disappointing games of the last few years

says more about my expectations than its quality, but I just don't see what others seemingly do
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I just bought Shovel Knight ahead of the upcoming changes. Xbone version, so not part of the sale, but I'm looking forward to playing it.
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- intelligent, modular approach to difficulty that allows the player to tune the game to their liking. destruction of checkpoints offer risk/reward, multiple types of ichor to help you in a variety of ways if you need it, relics are helpful but inessential, health/magic buffs are there if you need it
- each level presents a new set of challenges. new gimmicks are introduced consequence free at first but the difficulty quickly ramps up with a variety of different challenges, like enemy placement, silhouetted segments, or other obstructions.
- that adorable propeller rat
- incredible attention to detail for artwork, music, characters. everything is so charming. the way NPCs dance when they have something to tell you. the merchant is named Chester, and he goes out in the field to find hidden chests before you do to sell them at a marked up price. characters say just enough to impress upon you general traits, but can still surprise you when you revisit them in new campaigns, like Plague Knight's
- level design that encourages player experimentation. you are always rewarded for testing your ability to reach seemingly unreachable places, and that feels great.
- great challenge mode and in-game achievement tracking provide more reasons to explore the world after you beat it once.

the game is so dense and brimming with creativity. it does everything it sets out to do and in the process trumps its influences.
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been a while, but

- game focuses so hard on instant death traps, even more than mega man. it's a cheap and lazy approach to difficulty. you almost never die from actual enemies and I often just tanked the damage because that wasn't ever what I was worried about.
- magic completely nerfs the game's difficulty. every boss goes down with a yawn with the exception of the very end which I thought was very good.
- I just never felt comfortable with the game's movement. this is more personal taste than something I think is just bad design.
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shovel knight is another one of those games that i can see from a detached pov that it's a very well designed game with amazing production value but it just never clicked with me.

it's the weekend so after somehow bungling this week's hitman elusive target so hard for a reason i can't understand, i sunk about another 5 hours into dragon age inquisition. starting to get more party members now after doing most of the "sidequests" in the hinterlands. i like sera and vivienne from what i've seen of them so far, but i have a feeling sera grinds a lot of people's gears. her speech actually makes me pay attention because so far the game has been sorta plain in its dialogue. can't wait to get to iron bull (i can because oh right dark souls 2 restart day)
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