Poll of the Day > Lok's Steam Library extravaganza part 2... the sadness

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Darkest Dungeon victory!!

It's a good game to tink at, but the stress of HAVING to win was a little much

Here's the next games in line:

Darkness Assault

Darksiders 1 and 2: I've opted to play the OG versions of both and far in the future play the remakes; as such Ima try to get 100% achievements as applicable so I don't have to revisit them, but ehhhh, I can skip those if needed

Darkwind: War on Wheels

Darwinia

And finally the Data Hacker trilogy.

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...also, just noticed I have Desert Bus VR; ima hope it's VR only so I can skip it on technical grounds

You know you're allowed to just not play a game right? Ever hear of the sunk cost fallacy? My "backlog" is a fraction of the size of yours but I've long since given up on the thought of playing everything, and it's a nice feeling

God forbid a boy has an arbitrary side quest they dedicate their life and soul to.

Look I'm just fascinated by people who can dedicate that much time to gaming. Lokarin probably plays more games in a week than I do in a year. And I still can't figure out if I'm appalled or jealous

bachewychomp posted...

Look I'm just fascinated by people who can dedicate that much time to gaming. Lokarin probably plays more games in a week than I do in a year. And I still can't figure out if I'm appalled or jealous

My steam profile says I have "403 hours past 2 weeks", but much of that is cuz I'm currently playing an idling game

That's more hours than there are in a week so I don't understand how that's even possible. Is that just wrong or are you playing on multiple devices simultaneously?

bachewychomp posted...

That's more hours than there are in a week so I don't understand how that's even possible. Is that just wrong or are you playing on multiple devices simultaneously?

He said two weeks.

I'm not playing on multiple devices, but because I'm playing an idling game (or two) at the same time as other games it adds up

I meant two weeks but I mistyped it. It's still more than two weeks worth as well (14x24 = 336)

so.. I previously thought I beat Darksiders 1 but the achievements said I didn't, I even got the achievement for beating the Stygian this session

However, I already had the achievement for beating the spider boss... and all the content seemed very familiar... ... I did indeed beat this game before, it just didn't count my achievements for some reason. So I totally coulda skipped it!

Oh wells, the game still fun tho... it's like a very slow Devil May Cry

Darksiders 2 took a sec to setup cuz of compatibility, but luckily I have a save file in progress on the cloud! I started in the assemble the rod mission, which I don't know how far into the game that is but I just got portals which was an end game item in the first Darksiders

Bonus Content Question: Since corporate tax rate is lower than marginal tax rate; can you play the lotto as a business to get more winnings?

Ya, turns out my Darksiders 2 save was pretty much right at the end so that was fast

I get to skip Darkwind: War on Wheels for a few reasons; first is that it's not actually ON steam, it's a third party launcher only since it's a web game technically.. it's also VERY SHITTY; like, it is pay 2 win as well, but it's also shitty on top of that. The second main reason is that... luckily, it has no main campaign, it's only pvp and missions.

So then I played Darwinia. beat it; kinda nice but ehh

oh ya, forgot about Darkness Assault - not THAT good; but if it was some devs first game kinda project then I'd give them a very heartfelt 'you did it!' cuz in that context it's a rather good effort...

...wait, it's the same team that made Botology? OHHHH NOOOOOOOO.. BOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Ok, so it's time for a new block. I have the Data Hacker trilogy so that might take a while cuz they're RPG Maker games and people are REALLY bad with RPG Maker sequels; not escalating things or using the exact same progression in all 3 games.

after that, a good game (probably) Dave the Diver! yay

After that is Day of Defeat: Source, which I think is multiplayer only but not sure yet I gotta booooot it up

Lokarin posted...

BEEP - physical health, the screen flashes and wiggles a lot... I pick at it occasionally, making progress

That's a shame. It's a very well-executed game otherwise.

Data Hacker: Initiation is... actually kinda good. For an RPG Maker game using almost entirely default assets they did a good job putting them together. However, I'm at the final dungeon at level 27 and the recommended level is about 40... why is my level so low? Well, because dungeons are weirdly short and succinct so you can complete them without too much investment, but because they are short you can do them without grind since you can avoid enemies and just assassinate the bosses.

So, I gotta just turn my brain off and grind now

Data Hacker: Corruption is trash. Virtually unplayable. Almost every screen in the game has a script null error that can crash the game, but when it IS working it's one of the most unfair RPGs to start... because you start at about level 30 and the starting enemies are level 60; their default aoe attack can OHKO your entire party!

That can be solved with gratuitious save scumming, tho; and I'm already up to level 41 - gaining a level almost every battle. However, I'm in a situation where I'm saved before a crash so... ya, GG, FO

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I'll give it a couple more GENEROUS pity hours to see if I can work around the bugs, but I might have to shelf this game

Data Hacker Reboot done - much better than Corruption, but I might say Initiation is the best of the 3... Reboot doesn't have as many glitches, but it's just kinda boring in general. All 3 games are short if you exclude grind tho.

Reboot does have a funny glitch with moving platforms... if you get into a random encounter on a moving platform the platform will move out from under you after the battle so you just float in the air until the platform comes back.

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Played a minute of Day of Defeat Source... I'm happy these old games still have about a hundred players still playing, but there's no campaign so it's done already.

skipped over Dave for a sec to beat Dead Bits... pretty lame. Dead Cells WOULD be coming up, but I already beat it years ago... NYAH

So, here's the new docket

Dave the Diver
Dead Pixels

and then... da na na NA - the Dead Rising franchise, which I never played before.... ... but I only have Dead Rising 2 and Off The Record

then Deadbolt, which I remember being fantastic but just not putting in the time... well, that means THIS is the time.

Deadly Profits (no info)
Death Rally (Classic)... I played this back in the day, I guess I can do an equivalent of a 'mushroom cup' and call it a day.

EDIT: Oh ya, forgot about Data Hacker Corruption and its softlock... I was able to walk through walls OUT of the softlock, so I was able to finish that game.

I'm gunna complain about Data Hacker Corruption some more! The game has something like 12 different elements for attacking; only 2 of them work.

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Anyways; just put in 12 hours on Dave the Diver... it's good!

Dave the Diver finished...

this is an exceptional game, easy 10/10 among its contemporaries

I wanna play more Dave... :V

Anyways, Dead Pixels down... I'm glad so many games have easy modes for backlog purposes.

Now for Dead Rising 2; I've never played Dead Rising

yeah dave the diver was pretty exceptional from what I played. it's adjacent to touhou mystia izakaya, one of my favs

I have to skip Dead Rising 2 and Off the Record because they aren't controller compatible with anything except the 360 original. I don't count these as completed, they go on to my deferred list.

currently playing Deadbolt

Lokarin posted...

I have to skip Dead Rising 2 and Off the Record because they aren't controller compatible with anything except the 360 original. I don't count these as completed, they go on to my deferred list.

currently playing Deadbolt

Download DS4 and it should then consider it as an Xbox controller.

steam input itself should generally try to emulate 360 xinput controllers too, might need some fiddling around in the settings

I will say absolutely fucking nothing I've tried for one game (ys 8) has ever made it work properly on the controller I had though. i've spent a while trying to get that thing to work and just gave up

DEADBOLT done, pretty nice... final boss was a little tricky. Once again Chris Chrisdoulou provides an amazing soundtrack

Deadly Profits... I think it broken; I beat the dungeon like 4 times but the game won't progress. I'm waiting on people on the Steam forum to let me know if the game is legit broken or not.

So, the new docket is:

The Deed
The Deed: Dynasty
Deep Rock Galactic (revisiting to see if there's a campaign, but I recall there isn't one)
Deep Space Waifu (I think I beat this, but I'll revisit to check)
The Deer
DEFCON

and finally, Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten. It's a bejewelled clone but I recall there being a campaign.

Lokarin posted...

Deep Rock Galactic (revisiting to see if there's a campaign, but I recall there isn't one)

nop, you gradually unlock new mission types as you progress but it's all procedurally generated. doesn't really fit with this kind of list, but I guess you could try to do one of each of the main mission types? the game leans heavily multiplayer, so you could cut it shorter than that if you're playing solo

The Deed is done... :D

It's a very very short game that you are expected to play multiple times, which I will do for a bit here. The plot is your character has planned to kill his sister during your dad's 50th birthday. You are allowed to loot 2 items from the house, be them weapons or evidence; you then can place evidence somewhere and kill your sister either with your bare hands (default) or with a valid weapon. Afterwards the police come and interview everyone... it's kinda interesting.

Deed Dynasty is more of the same - you pick 2 items (a weapon and an evidence) and partake in an investigation... good short stuff

Above the original this time there are 3 full chapters; so with the original there are 4 unique murders you can partake in, each with about a dozen endings. Short and sweet

Took only a little bit to 100% Space Waifu, even though I had to play the whole thing again for One-Hand mode

The Deer is a story book of about 4 pages, for children, so it's short short short short... you can speedrun the game in about 1 minute

DEFCON is a very interesting strategy game about the moral implications of total annihilation... however, the only winning move is NOT to play since it's multiplayer only now (for the most part)

So, I booted up Defender's Quest, expecting Bejewelled (and I think was made by the AdventureQuest duders), but no... this is a tower defense game, my memory!!! Ahhh!

So I'll be playing Defender's Quest; and I get to announce a new docket since the last few games were so quick

Defense Grid 2 - I'm relatively sure I beat this already, but I don't have the achievement for it. DG1 was really good so this should be good, too

Defiance - it's an MMO that's had a service shutdown, I'll still boot it up to see if it lets to go into an empty world or not

Defy Gravity
Deja Vu: MacVenture Series
Delver

That should do for a bit

Man, we had a lot of fun playing DEFCON at LAN parties back in the day.

josh posted...

Man, we had a lot of fun playing DEFCON at LAN parties back in the day.

this? https://store.steampowered.com/app/1520/DEFCON/

2006 seems late for LAN parties, but meh no biggy~! Playing it now I can see it has tons of potential; you just have SOOOOOOOooo many nukes!, but so does everyone else.

I think America has an unfair advantage tho since they get a completely blocked coastline thanks to south america and all their silos can be put in the center where they can fully launch. Their seemingly only weakness is poor radar coverage due to size, but since they have a double chokepoint the fleets easily cover that.

Lokarin posted...

2006 seems late for LAN parties, but meh no biggy~! Playing it now I can see it has tons of potential; you just have SOOOOOOOooo many nukes!, but so does everyone else.

Oh true? I think we had LAN parties up until 2008 and since then we've only had one nostalgia LAN party

health and safety break... my eyes are soooo puffy~! I blame the forest fires.

Defender's Quest didn't take long, simple tower defense game
Defense Grid 2 look a little bit, it's one of the harder tower defense games due to how heavily it relies on resource Interest

Defiance is a dead mmo and can't be played; but the rights were bought by another company and they're gunna reboot it... but that doesn't count for my backlog as long as I don't RE-get the game. So that's another one off the list.

I booted up Defy Gravity when my eyes started to get bad; so I'ma have a little nappy~poo.

The core gameplay of Defy Gravity is you have a gravity gun that can shoot one attract well and one repel well and you use them to do platforming. so might be good.

The Docket:

Defy Gravity
DejaVu MacVenture Series
Delver
Dementium 2 HD
Demigod

Defy Gravity didn't take long and neither did DejaVu... although I had to check a walkthough cuz of a weirdness with the LGS/LLG? version - I knew the solution but it wasn't working.

Delver is pretty good - a nice fast short roguelike. It's very simple in general, but its highlight is how chill the game is in general.

Dementrium 2 didn't take long, and Demigod is a seemingly defunct arena battler and not only needs 3rd party registration... but doesn't have a campaign so it's gone.

New Docket:

Demonlisher
Demon's Tilt (it's a pinball game, not sure if it has a primary end since it does have stages)
Deponia (didn't know I had Deponia 1 otherwise I woulda played it before Chaos on Deponia)
Depression Quest (ilk)
Desert Bus VR ( I HOPE this is VR only so I can toss it)

Demon's Tilt doesn't end, but it does give you an achievement for a full mini-boss clear so that's good enough for me.

Demonlisher was boring and lame; Deponia done and Depression Quest took like 20 seconds (Hold Enter to beat Depression!)

Desert Bus, sadly, is NOT VR only... futhermore, to get all the achievements you need to get 70 points, which is over 550 hours of driving, which - btw - has to be done in a single session.

I'm not doing that.

I'm going to Vegas, I'm not going back to Tuscon.

Yes I beat Desert Bus...

Not even the worst game I played THIS WEEK (That being Demonlisher)

...Currently on Desktop Dungeons, but I had to do a check cuz I have Desktop Dungeons Rewind in my library... turns out it's a remake, which according to my remake rule I only have to beat one of them.

Aaaaannd, this is a case where the original is the better option! The remake is all weird and Unity3D'y - I don't like it. Also, TECHNICALLY I have beaten Desktop Dungeons in the sense that I beat the web version back when it was only a singular dungeon so you'd beat it a bunch of times; but the Steam release went and added a campaign so now it counts again :<

The Docket:

Desktop Dungeons
Destiny Warriors (an RPG maker game)
DETOUR
Deus Ex: Invisible War
Devils Share

every time I read Destiny Warriors I get excited you're gonna play one of the goated Dynasty Warriors games. stop faking me out like this :(

It's sadly a beat-for-beat copy of the first 3/4s of Naruto... kinda sad actually

Destiny Warriors done... that was hell. How is it every RPG Maker game is worse than the last!?

hey, there's some really really good ones out there! zakuzaku actors, demons roots, and monster girl quest paradox are legitimately better than 99.9% of real games out there

agesboy posted...

hey, there's some really really good ones out there! zakuzaku actors, demons roots, and monster girl quest paradox are legitimately better than 99.9% of real games out there

I don't think he wants to play porn games though.

zakuzaku actors isn't one though

I do have a few good RPG Maker games such as After the End as well as the legendary Fear and Hunger games

It's just funny that since I started this backlog the quality has only gone downwards.

Anyways:

DETOUR is multiplayer only so I beat the single player challenge tutorials

I then single sessioned Deus Ex Invisible War... honestly kinda good, but doesn't hold a candle to the original.

The Docket:

Devils Share
Diehard Dungeon
Dirty Bomb
Disillusions Manga Horror
Distant Space

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Side Topic:

I'm debating getting a new PC. I don't "need" one, this one is rather dapper; it's mostly just to meet Windows 11 compliance since this computer has a custom security board and doesn't support SecureBoot as a result.

What features should I look for in a new PC? Graphically I'm very satisfied with my RTX 3060 Ti. for CPUs I'm rather good with my Ryzen 5 3600. However, I'm finding 16 gigs of RAM (3200Mhz) to be EXTREMELY limiting so that's an easy uppers. I also might need new headphones since mine are 20 years old and ... the plastic is kinda melting from decades of contact with my greasy-ass hair.

Lokarin posted...

I do have a few good RPG Maker games such as After the End as well as the legendary Fear and Hunger games

It's just funny that since I started this backlog the quality has only gone downwards.

Anyways:

DETOUR is multiplayer only so I beat the single player challenge tutorials

I then single sessioned Deus Ex Invisible War... honestly kinda good, but doesn't hold a candle to the original.

The Docket:

Devils Share
Diehard Dungeon
Dirty Bomb
Disillusions Manga Horror
Distant Space

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Side Topic:

I'm debating getting a new PC. I don't "need" one, this one is rather dapper; it's mostly just to meet Windows 11 compliance since this computer has a custom security board and doesn't support SecureBoot as a result.

What features should I look for in a new PC? Graphically I'm very satisfied with my RTX 3060 Ti. for CPUs I'm rather good with my Ryzen 5 3600. However, I'm finding 16 gigs of RAM (3200Mhz) to be EXTREMELY limiting so that's an easy uppers. I also might need new headphones since mine are 20 years old and ... the plastic is kinda melting from decades of contact with my greasy-ass hair.

You need at least 32. Also Turtle Beach headphones are good. I got them for $20 during Black Friday like 3 years ago.

If you're satisfied with the main parts of your PC can't you just buy more RAM?

josh posted...

If you're satisfied with the main parts of your PC can't you just buy more RAM?

the core problem is that my PC isn't windows 11 compatible

which parts of your PC, the motherboard+CPU? just replace that

tbf; i don't throw out my old PCs - I have a pile of them here so I can frankenstein their parts; whole new PCs means more parts for my part horde!

Aside: Just beat Devils Share, turns out the game was removed from Steam... and ya, it was a terrible Unity asset flip with about 6 minutes of gameplay; I think I could speedrun the game in about 1 minute 40 if I routed it well.

Diehard Dungeon was decent, a little baby babu roguelite
Disillusions is a terrible jumpscare simulator that goes no where, and the final chapter is multiplayer only :p
DirtyBomb is multiplayer only... ... i did the tutorial, I guess
Distant Space is a short 25 level shmup.

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So, new docket time! Currently playing DISTRAINT which is the story of a man named Price who has to evict people on behalf of the bank/landlords/whoever and you go through his massive series of grief... rather nice. I think I'm about halfway to 2/3s done

I also wanna shout-out The Ditty of Carmeana ; this is an anti-game parody of Zelda and is just perfectly comedically timed; a good recommend if you like anti-games.

The Docket:

The District
Divine Divinity (original)
Divine Souls
Divine Divinity 2 (director's cut)
Dizzel

...oh noes. I know people say Divine Divinity is good and I'm sure they just mean Original Sin; but when I did my playthrough of Beyond Divinity earlier in the year I hated it. maybe Beyond Divinity is just an outlier?

ya... somehow Divine Divinity is worse than Beyond Divinity. I'm 4 hours in and all I've done is returned some axes to some orks. I beat Invisible War TWICE in that time.

Aside, The District is a nothing game and was removed from steam. Divine Souls is a removed MMO and Dizzel doesn't work anymore either.

So, here's the updated docket:

Divine Divinity
Divine Divinity 2
Doc Clock and the Toasted Sandwich of Time
Dogfighter
Doki Doki Literature Club

Divine Divinity down... oooo I did not like that; it was very very glitchy due to its old age which made for a miserable play experience. However, if I IGNORE that... it was better than Beyond Divinity and I rather liked how it was open world in a small world; everything is basically the castle and surrounding farmlands (except for Varisita and the Dark Woods) which is a very clever idea.

But it's old and janky and I lost 12 hours of progress at one point due to a soft lock, uuuuuu; Also the final 6 bosses are all mostly impossible......... but you can polymorph 4 of them, including the final boss, so that makes those ones very easy

So, on to Divinity 2!