Quoting: ageres

Quoting: GuestCould you go into some more detail about what parts you found boring?

Lots of backtracking, lack of fast travel stations, slow movement speed. Every enemy can kill you easily, then you'll have to return to your corpse, Dark Souls-style, otherwise after every death you'll be getting less and less currency points, therefore more tiresome grinding. Janky platforming. Upgrades are useless. Most of things you'll find are lore text, uninteresting and hard to read. I'd recommend to play Hollow Knight instead.

You describe Hollow Knight... then recommend Hollow Knight??? Don't forget how useless HK's map is, or that you don't even have a map until you randomly stumble upon the map maker. Sheesh!

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Just bought this. Looking forward to giving it a shot tonight. Looks great!

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I've enjoyed quite a few hours in Delver. Between it and Barony, all my retro-graphics RPG requirements are met!

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I downloaded the torrent, got this:



No idea what to do. Nothing in the wiki either, that I could find. Why is the torrent different from the universal updater? Why are good guy open source game designers so poor at making their games easily accessible? Weird.

I'll try the actual download button. I tend to avoid them if there's a torrent, a I don't like placing load on a free game resource.

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Quoting: Phlebiac"alluring 3D world"? Those are some rather flat looking polygons.

Speak for yourself! I think it looks great. Reminds me of Gunfire. It's stark, but I like it.

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Been looking forward to this one. I still need to buy Carrion, then this is next.

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I think Slay the Spire, Dreamgate and Dicey Dungeons are all weirdly similar in core design. I say "weirdly", because they're all wildly different in aesthetic. I'd also rank them in that order for the amount of RNG that affects gameplay. Some Dicey Dungeons runs can be very "samey" (in a good way) which reduces RNG only to your dice throws.

It's a great game, but full disclosure - I've played 108 hours of StS, and I loved it so much, I ended up dropping another 40 hours into Fate Hunters. Its sequel, Dreamgate has 25 hours. Meanwhile, I only have 15 hours in Dicey Dungeons.

I'm completely sure why, but I think it boils down to this: in the previous titles (especially StS and Dreamgate) there's the potential for truly, exceptionally bizarre builds. Like, almost game-breaking builds. It's INCREDIBLY satisfying. Dicey doesn't have the same scope for this.

Example, in Dreamgate, I had an Elemtalist throwing her fireballs for 6 damage at the start of the game. By the end, she had three overload cards which double all spell damage, a Rampage skill which doubled all card damage, and a Mage skill which added two damage to all spells. So that fireball was now dealing 8x2x2x2x2 damage. Yep, 128 damage a card. The final boss only has 450 health! It was beautiful. I didn't even need my Meteor card which dealt 35 damage... it would have landed 592 damage if I'd been dealt it in my opening hand...!

Dicey can be very, very satisfying, but not quite in the same way.

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Frictional are (for me) the absolute masters of horror. I hate horror games. I love Frictional games. Really looking forward to this! In kind of the same way most of us look forward to doing a bungie jump!

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Quoting: hagabaka

Quoting: Purple Library GuyFunny . . . everyone here seems to hate it, but someone must like it for it to be gaining a bunch of players at this late date. I wonder what's attracting them.

Speaking for my own experience, this game was very good at getting me hooked, but it felt like a bait-and-switch. When I first signed up I got a ton of bonus learning points which makes things not very grindy even though I was f2p. But after the points ran out, I noticed how much p2p made a difference, so paid for a month subscription. But then I got to high enough level in things so that most of the resources I need were only in PvP zones, and that made the game completely uninteresting to me.

This, very much. All the good resources after level... 4? They're all in red or black zones which are all PvP, resulting in this horrible, tedious harvest/ambush/run cycle. It's a PvP game and any pretence it's not is entirely misleading.

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Well, I downloaded the Cinnamon remix of Manjaro via torrent today, checked its SHA1 checksum, burnt it onto a live USB and booted up. However, for some reason, the liveUSB doesn't see my USB ethernet connection. Even weirder, I can browse the internet via Firefox, but I can't ping 8.8.8.8.

Honestly never seen anything like it. When I unplug the USB, the whole networking stack crashes.

If I reboot without the USB Ethernet plugged in, the wireless kicks in fine and the installer appears to work.

It's not filling me with confidence, I have to say. Still, it's my secondary PC, a Dell laptop, so I'm willing to sacrifice it to the distro gods to see what blessings might be bestowed. I'll finish the install tomorrow and report back on first impressions.

Edit1: The installer isn't hiDPI aware, so it looks awful. Resizing it helps a little.
Edit2: The full-disk encryption option doesn't have a GUI, so it dumps me at an hiDPI full screen console screen and (if you have a magnifying glass), you see that it's asking for the key. Pretty terrible experience. Even more bizarre - when you enter the password, it prints (still tiny) "opened slot0", then weirdly appears to reboot - I see the primary Dell logo again, only this time, it boots to my lightdm login! So freaky.
Edit3: No sign of Dropbox in the Add/Remove programs. So I reckon, it's in the AUR. I enable the AUR, refresh the database, sure enough, now I have an AUR tab. I click on that, click on Dropbox, click on "Build" (weird, but it's the only option I can see), after a minute, I have "Failed to build Dropbox". This isn't going too well! :grin:
Edit4: It just keeps failing, an error about "one or more PGP signatures couldn't be verified". Oof. Well, I'm not giving up quite yet, but I'll google it in the morning. I've had enough for one hour of distro-hopping! I have to say though, it's going better than last time I tried Manjaro on my main PC - that just kept rebooting lightdm without letting me login (after three separate attempts to build from two separate USB keys - very consistent!). That was about 2 years ago though, and it was an Nvidia box back then.

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