The Yooka Laylee Toybox demo was pretty fun! Very obviously a demo and very very unfinished, but it was neat to get a taste of the game before it's out fully next year :) Definitely it felt better with a controller than with mouse+keyboard, and I'd recommend people play with that instead. There were some good little platforming and exploring puzzles. Featured cute robots with a desire to exterminate organics.
Just started Trails in the Sky SC. Beautiful game but FUCK it was like a solid half hour of cutscenes from the end of the prologue boss to your first input in Chapter 1.
Really hoping I get Anelace back later. She was awesome. And she either has a huge crush on Estelle, or is adorably oblivious to how many signals she's throwing off, I mean goddamn.
So there's an achievement for (among other things) getting 4 of a kind in poker. The rewards in poker are generous enough that you're never going to be hurting for tokens (it's not competitive in this game, you just need to get something), so it's at least fairly easy to not worry about bankrupting yourself fishing for the hand you want.
Obviously if you get a pair or 3 of a kind to start with, you're best off keeping that and changing the other cards; you'll win regardless and have a shot at what you really want. But if you have no matches, is it most advantageous to dump the entire hand, keep one, or keep two (giving you two ways to get 4 of a kind)? After verifying that the game reshuffles the deck between hands (I saw an identical card come up on successive hands a couple times), I ended up writing a program to simulate it.
Turns out, if you start with a completely bad hand, you have the best rate of getting 4 of a kind by keeping 1 card and changing 4. In fact, you have the best rate of getting ANY number of new matches from a bad hand by keeping exactly 1 card.
It's for collecting all 14 chapters of the books, and "winning big". From what I found online and saw when my count increased, the other two goals are getting a blackjack (easy), and getting 4 of a kind in poker (WHY).
I really wish they did 7-7-7 on slots instead, because that's difficult but deterministic.
On the upside, I got two x9999 multipliers on poker before 4 of a kind showed up, so now I have like 200k tokens and will probably never need to do anything there ever again.
I also wrote another program that simulated the entire process for 1M hands and found that, any given hand has about 0.14% chance of attaining 4 of a kind, either through the initial hand or changing the optimal number of unheld cards.
Thought: Zero Escape and Metal Gear are similar in that they use their world and story to explore a wide sampling of concepts only tangentially related to the experience of actually playing the game
I think to some that'd be a flaw, but I find that style uniquely compelling (and more or less unique to games) and wish more games did it
I dunno, 999 and its like doesn't seem like my cup of tea. More of a personal thing than anything else, but it sounds pretty good and well-crafted, it's just not for me.
I'm loving Trails SC so much. The entire first game really was just setting up a bunch of loose threads to pull at, right down to conversations with random NPCs like the Jenis student council. There is no reason whatsoever Hans should have been able to set up a moment of genuine pathos, but goddamn.
Batman games are 50% off on Steam this weekend. So I'm thinking now might be a good time to buy Arkham Knight. The problems with the Windows version have been dealt with by now, yes?
Batman games are 50% off on Steam this weekend. So I'm thinking now might be a good time to buy Arkham Knight. The problems with the Windows version have been dealt with by now, yes?
No yeah, XY is the easiest of all generations on that front. Or at least one of, but. I wish the main story had the challenge on BW to back up the flair and aesthetics... which I enjoyed a lot, but still.
i feel like they really went... "back to basics", for lack of another way of putting it, in a lot of ways to compensate for all the new stuff they were trying out?
which i can't totally blame them for but still eeehhhh
hopefully sun & moon will incorporate more of the genuinely challenging moments from BW
Pretty sure that was up there next to the whole fashion aspect with me, and maybe even on par with my excitement for seeing new mons, just in a different way.
oh one weird thing i noticed: earlier on in the game it definitely felt comparable to BW, but then it fell off around the grass gym
like, i hit this point where, even though i actively avoided trainer battles, i was consistently about 5 levels higher than my opponents, and due to Super Training all i really had to do was make sure each of my pokes had decent type coverage and switch in well and i could comfortably OHKO or at least 2HKO everything
I forget the specifics... in XY you can get the Exp. Share super early, for even further trivialization of battles, right? Because I turned that off and still felt a lack of difficulty. As for STraining, half the time I did it because the normal EV advancement bothers me in a very particular, "it's not 'correct'!" way, and ignored it for the other half.
New Steam rule removes the ability to buy VAC-secured games for inventory storage and future gifting. Furthermore, if you bought a VAC-secured game for someone who gets VAC-banned, you can't gift that game anymore.
I want to twist the knife on CS:GO players but I have refrained from doing so so far.
That last bit, however, is a little worrying in that it's not stated clearly.
Does that mean gifting a game to a person who is VAC-banned in another game? Or gifting a game to a person who later gets themselves VAC-banned in that game? Or gifting a game to a person who later gets themselves VAC-banned in any game?
Batman games are 50% off on Steam this weekend. So I'm thinking now might be a good time to buy Arkham Knight. The problems with the Windows version have been dealt with by now, yes?
And it's been taken down by order of Nintendo, which isn't surprising in the slightest, since they do have to protect their IP in the end. Considering how long the project was going on for, I wouldn't be surprised if they waited till the very last minute just so they could put up appearances of stopping it whilst still getting it out there.
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New Layton game. Or more accurately, Layton's daughter game.
>Can't finish her Trial 10
>Urien comes out next month.
;w;
Guess I'm gonna spend some time at the casino. Was planning on avoiding it but I gotta get my imaginary points
That's the one thing I hate about Trails in the Sky, the ridiculously small windows for sidequests
I think to some that'd be a flaw, but I find that style uniquely compelling (and more or less unique to games) and wish more games did it
Snake: Locke's socks?
My immediate thought was "this feels Metal Gear as hell"
I want to twist the knife on CS:GO players but I have refrained from doing so so far.
That last bit, however, is a little worrying in that it's not stated clearly.
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1327-WUJX-5722
"Additionally, if an account has directly gifted a game to other players
who have been VAC or permanently Game Banned, then that account will
lose the ability to gift that game."
Does that mean gifting a game to a person who is VAC-banned in another game? Or gifting a game to a person who later gets themselves VAC-banned in that game? Or gifting a game to a person who later gets themselves VAC-banned in any game?
I am quite satisfied with it.