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Eliza review: Startup culture meets sci-fi in a touching, fascinating tale
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This Week In Veloren 28
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Director's Cut Part 1 - Destiny 2's game director on where the game has been over the last few months and where it's heading next
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Ars Technica's list of the hottest new board games from Gen Con 2019
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The door problem of combat design
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Wolfenstein: Youngblood is the second worst game I've played this year
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SNES emulator bsnes now supports a new method of overclocking that removes slowdown without any framerate or pitch distortion
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No Man's Sky - The "three pillars" of the Beyond update make this the perfect point to jump in
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Indivisible | Release date announcement trailer (October 8, 2019)
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Yahtzee Croshaw & Zero Punctuation Documentary
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The Great Escape - The origin, business, and attraction of escape rooms
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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
A few of the other groups have been doing recurring topics like this, and I think we should really do it more regularly in ~games too. So, what have you been playing lately? (Please don't just...
A few of the other groups have been doing recurring topics like this, and I think we should really do it more regularly in ~games too.
So, what have you been playing lately? (Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game as well.)
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No Man's Sky: Beyond update including major multiplayer updates and VR support will release on August 14
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What are your favorite short games?
I don't have nearly as much time to game as I used to, and as such, I tend to prioritize games that are quick to finish over those that want my attention for a long time. Thus, I'm curious to...
I don't have nearly as much time to game as I used to, and as such, I tend to prioritize games that are quick to finish over those that want my attention for a long time. Thus, I'm curious to know: what are the best short games you've played?
I'm going to arbitrarily set "short" at a threshhold of 3 hours or less.
Furthermore, I'm referring to games that have a defined start and end, rather than potentially infinite play sessions. That means a game like The Binding of Isaac wouldn't count despite the average play session being much less than 3 hours, but a game like Gone Home would.
If you're not sure about a game's length, check HowLongToBeat for crowdsourced runtime data.
Here's a table of recommendations mentioned in the thread, and their approximate time to complete from HowLongToBeat (using the "Main Story" category).
Game Length (hours) 140 1 1979 Revolution: Black Friday 2 A Dark Room 3.5 ABZÛ 2 Another World 2.5 The Beginner's Guide 1.5 Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons 3 Cave Story 7 Digital: A Love Story (1) 2 Analogue: A Hate Story (2) 3 Distance 2 Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist 0.5 Firewatch 4 Flower 2 Gone Home 2 Gunpoint 3 Her Story 2.5 Hexcells 2 High Hell 1 INSIDE 3.5 Into the Breach 5 Jazzpunk 2 Journey 2 Kamiko 1 LOVE (1) 0.5 kuso (2) 0.75 Membrane 3.5 Moss 4 My Friend Pedro 4 NaissancE 4 A Normal Lost Phone 1.5 Papers, Please 4.5 Portal 3 Refunct 0.5 Rez 2 The Room 2.5 The Room 2 3 Rumu 3 Sagebrush 2 Samorost 0.25 SEPTEMBER 1999 0.09167 Spirits of Xanadu 3 The Stanley Parable 1.5 Stories Untold 2.5 A Story About My Uncle 3 Subsurface Circular (1) 2 SUPERHOT 2 Quarantine Circular (2) 2 To the Moon 4 The Unfinished Swan 2.5 What Remains of Edith Finch 2 Xeodrifter 3 22 votes -
SteamWorld Quest - free "2.0" update out now with New Game+, a new higher difficulty setting, art gallery, jukebox and more
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Andrew Crawshaw, former lead designer at The Chinese Room, on growing the industry with "evening-size games" and redefining success
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Twitch Studio: “Going Live” Is Getting A Whole Lot Easier
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Monster Mash — Horizon: Zero Dawn vs. Days Gone
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The fall and rise of Hitman
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Ooblets dev received thousands of "hateful, threatening messages" over Epic exclusivity
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Rocket League will remove all paid, randomized Crates later this year, replacing them with a system that shows items in advance
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One year later, Riot leadership, employees, say things are improving
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What old game would you most want to see remastered/remade?
It can be a remaster (like Resident Evil HD), a faithful recreation (like Spyro Reignited Trilogy), or a complete reboot (like the upcoming Final Fantasy VII Remake). Which old game do you choose,...
It can be a remaster (like Resident Evil HD), a faithful recreation (like Spyro Reignited Trilogy), or a complete reboot (like the upcoming Final Fantasy VII Remake).
- Which old game do you choose, and why?
- What should they change to make the game more palatable for modern audiences?
- What shouldn't they change so that they can remain true to the original?
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Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo team up to force loot box odds disclosures
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DuckTales: Remastered is being removed from digital storefronts starting August 8th, last-chance 75% off sale on most platforms
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The creepy corridors of video games
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Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! Reveal Trailer
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Google Stadia Connect on 8/19
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The Dark Side of the Video Game Industry | Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj
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Ooblets announces Epic Store exclusivity and explains some details of the deal, including that it matched their expectation of sales across all stores
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All trading and selling of Team Fortress 2 items has been disabled after a bug in the new patch increased the chance of crates containing an "Unusual" item from 1% to 100%
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Slitherine has acquired the full publishing rights to the Master of Magic franchise from Atari
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Guilty Gear | Teaser trailer at EVO2019
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The world of Wii Sports speedrunners: A duel to become the fastest motion-control golfer
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Activision Blizzard has moved billions of dollars of profit into tax havens and is under investigation by multiple international tax authorities
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TEKKEN 7 | Season Pass 3 reveal trailer - PS4, XB1, PC
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Smash Bros Ultimate has set the record for the highest peak viewership in EVO history for any game, at over 279,000 viewers
@slasher: Smash Bros Ultimate has set the record for the highest peak viewership in EVO history for any game at over 279,000 Smash 4 lyfe #EVO19
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Previously-unknown "easter egg" discovered in the Fairchild Channel F game "Spitfire" from 1977, could be the earliest one ever added
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You can now play the original Diablo in a web browser
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What games have you enjoyed for the "wrong" reasons?
So, I just finished playing Sleeping Dogs. It's a kung fu action game with a heavy emphasis on the hand to hand combat. It feels like it's the Arkham games roided up with some hack and slash...
So, I just finished playing Sleeping Dogs. It's a kung fu action game with a heavy emphasis on the hand to hand combat. It feels like it's the Arkham games roided up with some hack and slash juice. Almost all the upgrades are hand combat based, the vast majority of combat encounters are hand to hand. It's how the game was advertised, it's what all the reviews talk about, it's why I was interested in it, and why it was recommended to me. And you know what? I was way more into the shooting than the hand to hand combat.
The game does not seem all that proud of its gunplay, there's not a place to buy or customize guns, you just have to pick them up when a firefight starts and drop them after, and there's only like 3 guns total in the game. But it's some of the most fun gunplay I've played in years in a third person shooter. It heavily utilizes slow motion when you jump over cover or kick an enemy and leap into the air, incentivizing you to not just stay in cover the whole game. It really reminds me of Vanquish, which is one of my favorites in the third person shooter genre of all time.
So this got me curious, what are some games that others have enjoyed for "wrong" reasons? Wrong is in quotes, because, well, it is still something meant to be enjoyed if it's in the game, but it clearly wasn't the focus of either dev time, or marketing, or general hype around the game, or all of the above. Although if you want to share something that wasn't something meant to be enjoyed at all, like something left in totally unintentionally by the developers, feel free to share that too.21 votes -
The JRPG Startup Cost, Part II - An analysis of how long it takes to reach various gameplay milestones in classic JRPGs
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Should board gamers play the roles of racists, slavers and nazis?
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Steam Play Proton 4.11 released, a pretty huge release pulling in D9VK and a replacement for esync
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Twitch streamer Ninja leaves Twitch and will be streaming on Mixer
@ninja: The next chapter, https://t.co/lvn9KBjEYq https://t.co/tljVgyM3bG
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Destiny 2's switch to free-to-play and new Shadowkeep expansion have been delayed to October 1 (previously September 17)
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Why does Celeste feel so good to play?
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Learn, reset, repeat: The intricacy of time loop games
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Control | Story trailer
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Oxygen Not Included has released from Early Access
7 votes