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Anyone following any crowd funded games? Banner Saga comes out next week. I'm also excited for Broken Age and Massive Chalice from DoubleFine.
 
Duck Rodgers said:
Definitely. I loved Valkyria Chronicles too. Okami was kind of billed as Zelda with a wolf, and I kind of bought into that hype a little too much because Zelda is my favorite game series, and then played it and didn't like it because it wasn't Zelda. I should give another run though now that it's been years and my gaming tastes are different.
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Duuuuude. Yeah. You really need to check out Okami again. Especially now, you can just download the HD remake version for I think $15. So great. Definitely on my short list of best games ever.

Only thing that really kills me about it is that long un-skippable intro. Ugh.
 
...but besides the Dark Souls 2 update, I also need to mention another game that I'm already addicted to: Starbound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyMJE9ZHIqQ

It's basically Terraria on drugs, for those who know that game. So addicting, it's unbelievable.

A few technical notes, however. This is a Steam "early access" game, meaning that while you can buy and play it, it's still an incomplete game. That said, it's better than most full-release games already, so don't let that stop you. The game has actually sold over a million copies already, which for a game that isn't even technically "out" yet is pretty impressive. Also, more specifically: there have been character wipes with updates, i.e. major patches have been causing old saved game files to be unusable. However, the development team announced that the next patch, due out in about a week, will be the last patch that wipes out character data. So in about a week, you can play knowing that you'll definitely be keeping all your progress.

https://playstarbound.com/info-about-the-upcoming-patch/

Seriously, pay the $15 for this game and thank me later.
 
AtheistPreacher said:
...but besides the Dark Souls 2 update, I also need to mention another game that I'm already addicted to: Starbound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyMJE9ZHIqQ

It's basically Terraria on drugs, for those who know that game. So addicting, it's unbelievable.

A few technical notes, however. This is a Steam "early access" game, meaning that while you can buy and play it, it's still an incomplete game. That said, it's better than most full-release games already, so don't let that stop you. The game has actually sold over a million copies already, which for a game that isn't even technically "out" yet is pretty impressive. Also, more specifically: there have been character wipes with updates, i.e. major patches have been causing old saved game files to be unusable. However, the development team announced that the next patch, due out in about a week, will be the last patch that wipes out character data. So in about a week, you can play knowing that you'll definitely be keeping all your progress.

https://playstarbound.com/info-about-the-upcoming-patch/

Seriously, pay the $15 for this game and thank me later.
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Looks like 2D minecraft, with fights.
 
I watched the whole thing to see just wtf you were typing about. Well, now I know what you were typing about.
 
Safetydan said:
I watched the whole thing to see just wtf you were typing about. Well, now I know what you were typing about.
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The whole thing? You only needed to watch the previous two minutes or so before the timecode I provided to know the context. But props for watching it.

Ah well. It's my favorite video-game-related podcast. It ran weekly for about a year, but then Gamespot didn't record any new episodes for about three months after their site redesign, and I thought it had been cancelled. But now it's back, and it's been made into a video podcast (not that the video aspect adds much, you can still download audio-only in other places), and it's also broadcast live on Twitch every Friday at 3pm, allowing people in the chat to comment and do things like I did -- guess which game the music was from. For this podcast, I was the first one to name Goldenaxe and Dragon's Dogma when their respective audio tracks came up, and it was fun to see the host mention my username on the former.
 
It definitely wasn't a waste of my time. I enjoyed it. Do you have any recommendations for past episodes? I wouldn't mind listening to a lot of them.
 
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