Lurker > BlackMageJawa

http://store.steampowered.com/app/582500/

A 2-player communication-based puzzle game. Think Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes mixed with an escape room. Or Knightmare.

Two players are trapped in separate rooms in a creepy castle somewhere in the antarctic. All they have is a pair of walkie-talkies for communication. Only by accurately describing the various things around them can they get through the castle and find their freedom.

It's fairly short and genuinely free, so if you can grab someone to go through it with, it's well worth it.
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Isn't it a staple of satire/people moaning about the state of youth today that in ten years or so all kids are going to have stupid pop-culture-based names? The only reason primary school students of 2020 would laugh at someone called Starscream would be because they're the only kid in the school not called Khaleesi or Hodor.
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BowserCuffs posted...

There definitely wasn't a controversial game released that was more of a Gauntlet/Diablo lite game with forced references to internet jargon and such, where the game was more focused on four undead stand-ins for the Overlord that absolutely hated each other and were forced to work together to fight a plague of cuteness that was toxic to their very beings.

There wasn't? I don't even remember not hearing that they weren't making that.

I got the whole series (or at least, the whole series that is on PC and exists) in a bundle or Steam sale yonks ago, but never even finished the first one. It was cool though, I'll probably give it another go at some point.

EDIT: Oh, hey, turns out they're all on sale on Steam right now. And since I already own 1, RH and 2, I can get the remaining zero games in the Ultimate Evil Edition for about £2! That's a good idea, right?
(It's about £6 otherwise. Right now, it's actually way more expensive to get the three-game Classic Pack than the three-and-not-another-one game Ultimate Evil Collection)
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October
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pjbasis posted...

lol yeah I never connected my khux account to anything

I never took it that seriously though so no big loss. I just wanted to experience the story, and that was going nowhere. I'll probably get back into it in like a year and the power creep will make it easy to blow past where I was .

Do you still have access to the data on your old phone? If you can get at the KHUX install folder (which probably requires it to have been rooted), you can retrieve the file it uses to store your ID and copy it onto another device (which also needs to be rooted). That's if you're playing on Android, I have no idea how iOS works.

You can also theoretically contact Support and ask them to restore an account, but according to reports they want a ludicrous amount of information about the account that you probably don't have (not just sensible things like your Player ID, but a complete list of every medal in your collection, the exact amount of munny you had etc).
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iiicon posted...

What about the fan translated PSP games?!

Have they been translated? I know of someone working on the first one, but nothing's been released yet.

And when will Sega give us a remaster compilation of the two historical spinoffs (and localise it, obviously)?
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Possibly. As I said, one of the big differences from Minecraft is that there's a story to follow and NPCs to talk to, so there's a lot of DQ-ness about it. Plus, the world isn't random, so there's fixed structures to find, some of them with their own little stories to uncover or puzzles to solve. If you don't want to build for the sake of it, you can play it like an Action RPG with the odd bit of crafting.
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I stopped playing it a while back to go through Kingdom Hearts 2.8 (which ended up also being a replay of BBS HD to get the secret ending), but have now resumed DQB and fallen in love with it all over again. All the fun of Minecraft, but with a real sense of purpose and achievement. And alliteration. So much alliteration.

I also just found out that it really is the DQ1 world, with the big worldmap broken up into islands and all the different terrain types in the same places, all the ruins you find in Builders are significant places in DQ1... just makes an already great game feel even deeper.

Everyone should play it. GOTY 2016, IMO. Really hope it gets a sequel.

Only two flaws-
1) The camera needs work, especially in indoors/roofed environments
2) It should really be called Dragon Quest Builders: Restoration of the Ruined Realm
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Mira Grant
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JonThePenguin posted...

One of my party members has a max-guilt iKairi2 with the trait that gives you a second use at 40% attack power.

That's, what. 28000 damage? I only got 20% paralysis resist on mine. I hope they eventually give us something like Fantasia Mickey B for rerolling traits.
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Knuckles > Blaze > Shadow > Literally every other bad Sonic character ever, including Marine, Ray and Chip > Silver
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Holy crap- last weekend I thought I'd never get Moogle o' Glory, this weekend I would have cleared the entire mission with all 1 Turn Triumphs if the share medal I picked hadn't turned out to suck. iKairi2 is basically an 'I Win' button. Get one if you can (heck, get two if you can).

Side note, though- it says in the announcement that you get the new Key Arts for Guilting iKairi2- I've done so, but not got the medal. Anyone know how they're distributed? Do I have to wait until the end of the carnival?
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mnkboy907 posted...

I don't think I've even heard of science-based vampires.

Stephenie Meyer thinks she wrote science-based vampires. Obviously she's wrong, and they have even less to do with realistic biology than the average Umbrella product.
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It's weird, but hearing how badly this has flopped kind of makes me want to go see it. I feel sorry for it, if nothing else. Not to mention that you just know this has killed any chance of there being any more adaptations of any anime for a very long time, even if there's still potential for one to be done well.

Anyway- I've seen it said that the plot draws some elements from both series of SAC, which I haven't seen all of yet. Is there anything spoilery in the film, or is it not really that closely related?
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Woohoo, got my second Illustrated KH2 Kairi on pull 7! Saved myself a load of jewels.

Also picked up a few more Illustrated medals, including another Sephiroth and Ansem, Terra, Sora and KH1 Kairi.

And I was planning to wait to fuse the two iKairi2s together until they run another boost event (where the minimum roll is higher), but as I was preparing to type that I remembered that you can get a Key Arts medal by guilting iKairi2 during the promo period, so I'll be doing that later. Might still hold off on Sora & Roxas though.
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I'm very disappointed that there's no subtitle. Lengthy alliterative subtitles are half the appeal of modern Dragon Quest games, and now both Builders and Heroes II have been released without one.
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Well, I've done two pulls so far, and the highlights have been SP Xion, Illustrated Ansem and Illustrated Sephiroth. Loads of 5* duplicates, but the new trait system means even they wound up being pretty good- +800 HP with Daisy (who, being a healer, only really sees use in boss battles anyway) should prove useful.
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I've got about 66K jewels hoarded, so I reckon I'll get myself a Kairi. Maybe two. Although there's no guarantees on what the other medals from these pulls will be, right? So aside from Kairi, I'm going to get complete crap.
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Of the three Android things I own, it won't run on the two portable ones, and the tablet it will work on a) isn't very portable, and b) has a broken camera.

So I'd like to play it, at least to see what all the fuss is about, but can't.
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I can't help but notice the absence of "Got that fucking mouse cursor out of the middle of the damn screen" in that list of patch notes. That's really the only thing that's been bugging me so far.

And I hope there will be (or is already?) a way to give Ryder a makeover once the improved character creator arrives.
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Wonderfalls and The Middleman.
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chrono.gg has a game hole, where you put in Steam keys.
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Anyone know if it's really safe to sell all the Salvage/Scrap items, or if some of them are needed for sidequests?

Also, who the **** brought Plants vs Zombies plushies onto my ship? If I ever find out who they belong to, that person is going straight out the airlock for having terrible taste in games.
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How many story quests are there in the international KHUX at the moment? I know Union Cross (much worse name, IMO) is supposed to be 'season 2' of the story, but I don't know how much further I've got to go in Season 1- I've just cleared 500.
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Yes.
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You're looking for Mega Flare.

Firaga + Aerora = Fission Firaga
Firaga + Slow or Stopra = Crawling Fire
Crawling Fire + Fission FIraga = Mega Flare

Not as much fun as the Graviga/Mine Square combo, though.

EDIT: This app's pretty handy: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=moskvil.johannes.bbs_calculator

As for passives, aim for [Attack/Magic] Haste, [Air] Combo Plus and EXP Walker if you're aiming for maximum power as quickly as possible.
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They made (well, bought Saitek, who made) my PC flighstick, a model which has a reputation for extreme s***tiness and breakability, but has seen me through many a pitched space battle and I can't imagine replacing.

Farewell, you peddlers of crap. You got it right once.
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Can't remember what the topic was actually about, but it got onto whether or not a franchise was successful based on being 'remembered', and someone claimed Dying Light was a flop because nobody talked about it any more, and someone else said it sold well and was great and we should play it.

Well it's on sale on Steam this weekend, so... tell us again why we should buy it, and I'll consider it.
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Viva La Vida is legitimately one of my absolute favourite songs.

Which is odd because everything else by Coldplay is so awful and dull it should be illegal. How those anaesthesia merchants managed to come up with one brilliant track is beyond me.
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Does Barry still have ThawneWells' version of Gideon? Couldn't they just ask her about future stuff?
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Whoever randomly gets Gorilla Titan wins.

http://magiccards.info/od/en/241.html
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Started it last night. Still going through the intro bits, but so far the only really annoying issue I've found is the mouse cursor being stuck in the middle of the screen during some cutscenes. It's kind of distracting.

I'm liking Ryder, though. Found a good face to download on the Archive website, so she looks pretty good, and I like the kind of "Hero in training" vibe I'm getting so far- not quite an awesome badass yet, but with the potential to get there as the crisis develops and she steps up. Commander Shepard may be the galaxy's greatest badass, but we're not in the galaxy any more, so the position is up for grabs.
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Just watch Once Upon a Time. They've already had live-action versions of just about every Disney character, and in the later seasons they're ridiculously good likenesses (Merida and Elsa in particular, but Ariel's good too. And IMO, if they don't have Jamie Chung reprise her role as Mulan in the upcoming film, they're fools.)
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Blackscar posted...

Realms of Arkania Blade of Destiny. You won't find much worse than that.

Apparently it's nowhere near as bad now as it was at launch. Still a bit ropey in places, but the developers put a lot of work into patching it. At least, I hope they did, as I intend to go through all the Dark Eye games at some point, and I want them to be good.
EDIT: Having said that, I do have a spare key you can have if you want to try it.
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The 'not laughing now' line was originally coined decades ago by Bob Monkhouse, about himself.
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While there's some Mana fans here, has anyone played Adventure of Mana, the new SD1 remake for PSV (and mobiles, but **** playing it on something with no real buttons)? Any good?

And on topic... no Legend of Mana? Yeah, it was weird and the progression was confusing as hell, and it wasn't as good as the SNES games, and the series went downhill after it, but that game was still great fun with some amazing artwork and music.
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iiicon posted...

I think the game looks like morally reprehensible garbage. I just think it's weird to say it's a forgotten game when by quantifiable measures it's a success.

I've been paying no attention to Wildlands, so I'm curious what exactly is morally reprehensible about it?
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10, because each of them will no doubt have incredibly specific dietary requirements.
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^ I choose to believe that the whole 'gravity' thing was an in-universe mistake, and actually the Speed Force simply doesn't extend that far beyond Earth's surface.

I'm sure there's hundreds of comics (and probably one or two Arrowverse episodes) that contradict that, but it's still far less stupid than what they wrote in that episode.
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Thank you.
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Is the Hitman Intro Pack episode 1 of the most recent game? That would be pretty cool, although I've still got half of Blood Money and all of Absolution to get through, so I guess you might want to give it to someone who wants it more urgently.
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scarletspeed7 posted...

Flash is simultaneously is good and bad right now. I'm firmly convinced that they need to excise all romance from Arrowverse shows forever.

I like Alex/Maggie in Supergirl, if only because all the people whining about it being 'shoehorned' and 'forced' are basically saying what I feel about every Mandatory Generic Romance Subplot in every show (well, apart from the bit about it being liberal SJW propaganda undermining civilisation).

So yeah, get rid of it all. Or at least just let them be happily in love so they can get on with the actual superhero plots.
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Yay, Fantasia Mickey B!

Sadly, I don't have anything worth using it on at the moment. Hopefully they won't be too hard to get more of.
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Wonderfalls
The Middleman
Leverage
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What are we pre-registering for, exactly? Early access to the new version of the game, or just rewards? Or just spam and everyone gets everything at the same time, because AFAIK there's no way for them to know the KHUX account of people who sign up on their website.
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£4.99 each for SSB Link and SSB Zelda, which are the only two I own.
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The thing I love about the "How dare you complain about X when Y is worse" argument is that the person making it is complaining about an even more minor issue- the fact that you're complaining.

So if complaining about buggy video games means you don't care about starving refugees, then complaining about people complaining must mean you don't give a s*** about anything.
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I was just thinking the other day that, given the series' habit of messing with gaming conventions, it would be entirely in-character to have some completely cosmetic DLC that was only available with pre-orders. Something totally and utterly inconsequential that would nonetheless cause gamers to go apeshit over the realisation that most of them would never be able to get it.

So... maybe I was right?
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Ulp... just reached Mission 425 in KHUX- the infamous boss fight against Foreteller Ava that some people claim is basically a paywall.

As a filthy freeloading peasant I didn't do too badly just using my default green setup- the wonderful combo of Naminé and Belle to copy then wipe the enemy's buffs- although I need to last a lot longer. Luckily, thanks to the current Wonderland event, I have a guilted healing medal in Alice & Cheshire Cat... might just keep me alive.
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