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Hm, I've never played a soulslike I think.

In that case, this game is not a good start difficulty-wise.

I downloaded the GOG demo and while I don't really have any idea what I'm doing yet, it's very cool and compelling and creepy. and recommended to try. Still getting used to how I have to sacrifice certain cards to play others.

This looks cool! Thank you!

@Shadow the game has a ton of surprises up its sleeve.

Here is my spoiler free steam review:

This is NOT just a regular card game. In its core, Inscryption is a psychological horror adventure game that has you absolutely astonished, everytime it completely reinvents itself. The game is absolutely meta. It breaks the 4th wall hard, creating an immensely spooky atmosphere and so you continue playing until you find all the information to puzzle this all together. However, don't kid yourself: you will not be able to understand EVERYTHING. Not only did the developers build an incredibly deep lore, they also hid an ARG, an RL scavenger hunt of sorts, in the game files, that eventually leads to an alternate ending. And talking about endings: This was the first game in quite some time that had me in that "Wow, I am absolutely gobsmacked"-state when the credits rolled. By far the best indie game in recent years! Do not miss out, if you like something meta along the lines of "There is no Game", or "Hack'n'Slash".

I played it through. It's nice. And, I didn't have any issues with stability either (on an Intel/Nvidia system). Might be related to your hardware.

Nah, that's definitely a bug in the game code. It always crashes with a null-pointer access-violation when it is trying to update some stats in the savegame, I had a look at the dumps. I also tried a new savegame, but I reproducible got the same issue over and over again. Aside from that, I also get a d3d crash every now and then. I am also running Intel and an Nvidia 3060 Ti with latest drivers. The only thing I could think of is that the game doesn't like my undervolting settings, but without undervolting, that shitty gpu overheats, so.

Anyway, I have given up on the game. Such a shame I was already out of the refund period. Paid good money for it...

Maybe you have some luck reporting these issues to the developers. No idea if undervolting could have to do with it. Maybe it does. I can't remember having issues with the game.

Lanzarote looks like a nice place. Hope you all had a great time!

Cuphead is one of the toughest games you can play. The bossfights are absolute insanity. I did finish it, but not without cheating. It was a beautiful game and worth a play tho, if only to put cocky bragging gamers in their place.

I am on the final level now. Gonna try it saturday or so...

Ok, I couldn't wait until saturday!  @AluminumHaste the final boss was pretty bullet-helly though. Still, you might get into it. I hate bullet-hell games normally as well.

Did you remove the child first?

I wonder why Arkane is not using id tech 7 which is running Doom Eternal since is far better optimized.

I wonder why they didn't use Cry-Engine or Unreal-Engine? Both were apparently used in Prey and its Mooncrash DLC respectively.

Arkane are all over the place when it comes to the engines they use for their games. Dishonored, Prey and Dishonored 2 all use completely different engines which seems like a unnecessary challenge for their programmers/designers, but whatever. As for Deathloop, I haven't played it yet since I became less interested in it after hearing that it's not actually an immersive sim, and that's what I like most from them. Apparently it's more of a shooter with a unique puzzle element which sounds cool as is probably the reason why I'll eventually play it, but once I found out how it's not really a sim my enthusiasm dropped.

I was fairly recently in Dortmund btw. visiting the beer museum (the small one).

That's cool. Were you just here on a trip or do you live close by? Where are you from?

I'm from Amsterdam, but used to have a relationship with someone from Hagen. I visited them during the weekend.

Fantastic! You don't know how many ancient maps I've parsed and had to roughly correlate locations.

Still, google is probably taking liberties by changing distances to match the modern understanding of geography. If there were some drastic geological changes between the era of this map and the present day google's interpretive version might hide evidence of these things. That said, maps of this vintage could never be reliable for evidence like that anyway ( a clue or hint at most ).

It's not really a stealth game, or at least the stealth is only there to help you get a better tactical position to take out enemies. There's no reason NOT to kill the Typhon because it's the primary method of getting raw materials for a rather important item. If you don't like the combat, just level up Combat Focus and you'll be completely unstoppable, it's probably the most broken of the powers. Also I feel the gameplay is in some ways superior to Deus Ex if only because of the wide variety of ways you can tackle objectives and explore the station. Someone else explained it here: https://old.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/r5ottl/the_amount_of_ways_you_can_work_your_way_around_a/

Oh boy, you could do things in oh so many ways in Deus Ex 1. Aside from that, you had actual stealth there, you had more melee and ranged weapon options and the levels were very open-world like, with tons of options to achieve your goals. Granted, that's not as much the case with the more recent titles, but I specifically meant Deus Ex 1.

@Epifire the DLC is also excellent, but you should have the mechanics of the main game down before trying it. I'll just quote my Steam-Review:

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The DLC is so different from the main game that it deserves its very own Review. It borrows the gameplay mechanics from Prey and wraps it all in a rogue-lite experience, which somehow works surprisingly well. That is, unless you're looking for a deep story. While each of the 5 playable characters you can unlock has a nice little story quest chain (that you also have to unlock first), there really isn't that much story to tell here. That being said, I still loved the DLC, as the 5 characters with their different skilltrees force you to play the game in other playstyles than what you were used to. The game poses quite a challenge at first, but after some time, you figure out its mechanics and can bend them to your will so that you finally escape with all 5 characters in one run.

I was waiting for that one, @freyk!

RIP stiffy

What could go wrong, huh?

My first time was magical, strangely there where not that many ppl on the beach and we had a cooler with lemonade and sanwiches with cheese, best day ever

It's nice to find a nearly abandoned beach... usually when it's winter.

It is somewhat grotesque and to people who fear spiders actually really disgusting. ^^

Certainly not what I was expecting when I clicked that link xD

Oh many that looks fucking awesome, this is exactly the best time to have lots of beer and mates over...

Too scary for me...tried it once, lasted less than 10 minutes...

I played this evenings in the dark and it was a trip. Great game. Waiting on A Machine for Pigs.

Very nice game! I wish we had similar FMs. Technically, there is no obstruction.

very nice stifu^^

Doomguy is the coolest guy ever.

hah well the feathering isn't the best but i'm sure it will do for now.

there's a rumour that its console only probably switch.

What about other games? I am excited for Dishonored 2 standalone DLC, Wolfenstein: Next Collosus and XCOM 2 datadisk looks so, so sweet

"Dishonored 2 standalone DLC, Wolfenstein: Next Collosus" I like the sound of these two...

I enjoyed it, stealth was ok and the story and "detective" talk was good. Combat too a while to get used to but - in the end - it was far too easy and the massive conversations mean I probably won't be replaying it any time soon. Recommended, but not at full price - 75% off at best. Really nice graphics and ambiance, few scary bits - bit addictive - and somewhere I used to live in on the map. Nice moral choices and AAA mapping errors/zfighting.

I got it because the atmosphere looked awesome... Judging from your comments, my assumption seems to be correct.

It's a great atmosphere - very absorbing and immersive with excellent attention to detail. You will barely notice any repetition in the location design - it's as impressive in that regard as Alice: Madness Return's version of WW1 London. The story is on par with V:TM bRPG level - really good. Learn to fight before you try to sneak though - you'll need it. Luckily you can respec at any time. I never killed an NPC, but farmed enemies. I wish I did a few things different...

Hehe, welcome.

If you haven't played the new missions yet... you should.

After Sekiro and my upcoming holiday trip to Crete, I will probably return to coding. I feel that itch again! :-)

Oh my god, I am trying to down the final boss for two days now and I just got him down to one last hit, when he killed me after all. :-(((

Persevere, you got him

@Diego: Allow me to butt in without reason: No, don't play DX 2. Unless you have a sick curiosity as to how game developers can ruin a great game concept.

If I had this curiosity, Thief 3 would have killed it already

You can definitely skip DX 2 unless you enjoy exploiting physics bugs for weird movement... ^^ You can jump VERY high in certain circumstances.