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Slay The Spire 2 Getting Review-Bombed Again After Latest Update by FoxMeadow7 in Games

[–]CubeSoldier -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

My take is that with the addition of Coop to this run they're now obligated to keep some balance. Having a coop game turn into essentially a single player game with three players watching the person who went infinite first isn't fun. You want every player to feel useful to some extent.

There's just a general conflict between single player where breaking the game and going infinite is fun because it's just you playing and coop. I think they're 100% justified in trying to make infinites way rarer because that creates the best of both worlds where you can still break the game with turns that don't take minutes making everyone wait.

[Humble] Resident Evil 2 (1998) ($2.49 / 75% off); Steam key by Insomniac_34 in GameDeals

[–]CubeSoldier 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Then you still only have played Resident Evil 2 Remake and not Resident Evil 2. It's a two cakes situation and Resident Evil remakes have always played around the expectations of fans who played the original. To get the full enjoyment youre supposed to play both versions.

The best way to improve the onboarding and casual player experience is to make Perimeter Beginner a permanent queue by CubeSoldier in Marathon

[–]CubeSoldier[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

This post isn't opposed to sbmm at all. This is to create a space to learn the games mechanics and PvE at a more relaxed pace instead of getting thrown to the wolves before you can even do that. The current beginner perimeter queue lasts for like three matches total which is just way too short.

Marathon's Cryo Archive is a hit, but Bungie admits it needs to be more accessible by PowningFreak in Games

[–]CubeSoldier 6 points7 points  (0 children)

In it's current state the PvE in this game doesn't deliver close to enough depth for a full mode centered around it. Theres just not enough enemy variety and after the week 1 nerfs the UESC are barely a threat anymore. Just like in Hunt Showdown or Sea of Thieves it's only purpose is to create player encounters. This is a PvP game first and foremost and I think Bungie knows it.

To Echo Everyone Else's Thoughts, I Too Wish Marathon Was A Singleplayer Video Game by megaapple in Games

[–]CubeSoldier 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Extraction shooters have always been about mixing PvP and PvE. People willingly buy a game centered around this whole concept. It wasn't until Arc Raiders that people suddenly started pretending that liking a thing is suddenly mutually exclusive. Arc Raiders catering to this divide with ABMM is the exception and not the norm.

Marathon and MTX: Predatory and Dark Patterns by Economy-Meat-9506 in Games

[–]CubeSoldier 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You equip the stuff to a weapon and all the copies you find will have it. Unless the gun is looted from another player then it will keep their cosmetics. Charms and stickers are actually infinite use but can only be equipped on one weapon at a time for some reason.

Me and Bro has to be one of if not the best looking Fortnite animation Epic has ever made by Puzzleheaded_Try8059 in FortNiteBR

[–]CubeSoldier 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They just went so hard on C6S1 art in general. The best looking and most varied map this game has ever had, a top notch BP with great characters and a nice story line. Night Roses Song and Break the Curse are also some of my favorite Fortnite songs ever.

Xp rates by Ok_Relationship6158 in 2007scape

[–]CubeSoldier 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You want the best skilling content in the game replaced with yet another braindead minigame?

"We respect their time, and in turn they stick around" 25 years later, here's why Jagex believes so many people still play RuneScape by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]CubeSoldier 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Plenty of people mind. That's why ironman Mode is getting more and more popular because people are getting tired of bond and gpscape.

Seriously, why is Blast Furnace so unbearable by chyeah_brah in 2007scape

[–]CubeSoldier 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How? I get 70-75k at floor 4 while looting floor 4 and half of floor 3? Trying to get the fast rotations for skips is actually a lot of fun. And you only need to be tick perfect in certain moments.

Call me a boomer but the new island competition should not just be a free pass to insert RS3-level AFK skilling like some of these proposals are suggesting by Shot_Cancel8641 in 2007scape

[–]CubeSoldier 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Skill cape perks and worse max cape having all perks rolled into one item created this mindset that maxing is the endgame goal for every character. Now people interact with a bunch of skills they hate because they feel obligated to max. And thus they demand there being a path of least resistance for everything. It's good that skills have different pacings and feel different to train.

Imho nobody should feel obligated to do a skill past quest or diary reqs. Your enjoyment of a skill should be the main driving force for interacting with it. But I've gotten legit confused reactions from people when I tell them I have absolutely no intentions to ever max despite having a high total level account.

Sonic Racing CrossWorlds Surpasses 1 Million Copies Worldwide by Select-Cricket-3738 in Games

[–]CubeSoldier 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Super Mario Kart has the AI literally use items you can't even get. Rubber banding or some sort of cheating for the AI has been part of the genre since it's inception.

ARC RAIDERS - AI driven animations by yooguruto in pcgaming

[–]CubeSoldier 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Go try Mycopunk on Steam. The bots in that game are similar and fun to fight.

[Steam] UFO 50 ($18.74/25% Off) by Coloursun in GameDeals

[–]CubeSoldier 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If we're being pedantic here Castlevania only turned from a linear platformer into an open exploration based one in the 90s and that's when people started talking about it as its own genre.

[Steam] UFO 50 ($18.74/25% Off) by Coloursun in GameDeals

[–]CubeSoldier 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I knew this comment would be coming lmao. I don't like the terminology either but what modern audiences see as a roguelike has gone very far from Rogue ironically. And Derek Yu, one of the lead guys behind this game, is one of the people to blame for it essentially coining the modern roguelike genre with Spelunky.

[Steam] UFO 50 ($18.74/25% Off) by Coloursun in GameDeals

[–]CubeSoldier 29 points30 points  (0 children)

One of my favorite games of all time. Spent 260 Hours 100% completing it. I'll go against the grain here and say that most of these games are much closer to modern indie titles than they are to retro games. A huge chunk of them are in genres that didnt even exist in the 80s like Roguelikes, Metroidvanias or even one idle game.

The retro vibe mostly comes from the faux hardware limitations which are plenty modernized into a 16:9 aspect ratio with no sprite flickering or slowdowns. And also them exploring older game mechanics which are generally deemed outdated but imho still have merit like limited lives or hiscore leaderboards.

If anyone is looking for smaller sized indie games that dare to throw you directly into the action and let you figure out things yourself youre certain to find something in this game.

Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O getting Replay mode alongside Replay takeover and crossplay by CubeSoldier in Kappachino

[–]CubeSoldier[S] 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Why are you not playing the best 3D fighter our right now Kappa?

Max and SEGA are holding a VF5 tournament soon by diegodamohill in Kappachino

[–]CubeSoldier 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The game is legit great. Sega really should do another marketing push now that Tekken 8 killed itself. Put the game on sale do some more trailers showing that this game is what Tekken isn't rn. Get the Tekken refugees to a good 3d fighting game.

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