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Buhroobee

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In the spirit of all the mini-reviews being posted lately, I'll post a few of my own. I was bored over the weekend, so I used What Should I Steam? to pick some random Steam games from my library for me to try. I just tried a little bit of each, but enough to give some thoughts.

Intralism

CHKN
Wow, you're right, Intralism looks wicked difficult! And I'm glad I'm seeing CHKN when I have a whole day to forget it rather than before bed lmao. Nightmare fuel.
Bummer about Three Twenty One though, looks interesting.
 

WhatNitrous

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Hi WhatNitrous, I'll give you a hint... from the "hot avatar maker". :ROFLMAO:

Greetings.
Dantifa? Its not on my list...I know there was a point during end of my last place and the move I lost track of a few additions...but I honestly don't remember asking for it or getting it :LOL:
Game wouldn't start on my computer. I'd get the initial startup window that asked for settings like resolution and stuff, but when I clicked OK, an icon for the game would appear in the taskbar for couple of seconds, then go away and the game would close. So I gave up. 🤷‍♂️
You likely need an updated AGEIA PhysX

Homepage

Direct Download Page

If thats not it, if you have G-Sync/FreeSync try shutting it off. Its actually the Windows options in Windows 10/11 after enabled those, but thats a simpler test :LOL:

That game led me to a plethora of free games :ROFLMAO:

Unturned

Spiral Knights (Online RPG by ? Sega ?)

Adventure Capitalist

Firestone Online Idle RPG 🙄 (nuff said)

Dark Deception

Clicker Heroes

Monster Girl 2

Monster Girl 2 (Full Edition DLC) 🤷‍♂️

NGU IDLE (I didn't even look) :LOL:

Heroes and Generals (like dupe, but FPS)

Bloons TD Battles

Pixel Worlds MMO Sandbox

Wurm Online

Cube Escape Paradox

Business Tour Board Game

The Pirate Caribbean Hunt

Adventure Escape Mysteries

Shakes And Fidget (Couldn't add this one)

Tap Ninja

Super Animal Royale

No More Money Season 1 (Smut)

Endless

Dirty Room

Powers Of Hex

RPG MO
 

klingki

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Cube Escape Paradox
Super Animal Royale
Have not tried either of these yet, but I've heard they're good. Super Animal Royale is (not surprisingly) a battle royale game though, so that may not be to your taste. It's a top-down game, so at least it's got something a bit unique going for it compared to all the other BR games out there.
 

WhatNitrous

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Have not tried either of these yet, but I've heard they're good. Super Animal Royale is (not surprisingly) a battle royale game though, so that may not be to your taste. It's a top-down game, so at least it's got something a bit unique going for it compared to all the other BR games out there.
Most of those are MP tbh, but steam dropped a never ending list on me, figured I could at least share...I added them for some day after hell freezes over and I play online :ROFLMAO:
 

Pygmy Goat

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Have not tried either of these yet, but I've heard they're good. Super Animal Royale is (not surprisingly) a battle royale game though, so that may not be to your taste. It's a top-down game, so at least it's got something a bit unique going for it compared to all the other BR games out there.
I love the Cube Escape/Rusty Lake series. I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys 2D escape-the-room games with a touch of horror and the surreal (it was inspired by David Lynch). Paradox is very late chronologically in the series, so if the first 30 minutes are to your liking, I recommend picking up the Cube Escape Collection - it costs less than $2 on sale and includes 9 of the previous games.

This is the suggested order to play the games for the story to make the most sense.
Cube Escape: Seasons (Collection)
Cube Escape: The Lake (Collection)
Cube Escape: Arles (Collection)
Cube Escape: Harvey's Box (Collection)
Cube Escape: Case 23 (Collection)
Cube Escape: The Mill (Collection)
Rusty Lake Hotel
Cube Escape: Birthday (Collection)
Cube Escape: Theatre (Collection)
Rusty Lake: Roots
Cube Escape: The Cave (Collection)
Rusty Lake Paradise
Cube Escape: Paradox (FREE)
Paradox - A Rusty Lake Film
The White Door
Samsara Room
 

WhatNitrous

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I love the Cube Escape/Rusty Lake series. I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys 2D escape-the-room games with a touch of horror and the surreal (it was inspired by David Lynch). Paradox is very late chronologically in the series, so if the first 30 minutes are to your liking, I recommend picking up the Cube Escape Collection - it costs less than $2 on sale and includes 9 of the previous games.

This is the suggested order to play the games for the story to make the most sense.
Cube Escape: Seasons (Collection)
Cube Escape: The Lake (Collection)
Cube Escape: Arles (Collection)
Cube Escape: Harvey's Box (Collection)
Cube Escape: Case 23 (Collection)
Cube Escape: The Mill (Collection)
Rusty Lake Hotel
Cube Escape: Birthday (Collection)
Cube Escape: Theatre (Collection)
Rusty Lake: Roots
Cube Escape: The Cave (Collection)
Rusty Lake Paradise
Cube Escape: Paradox (FREE)
Paradox - A Rusty Lake Film
The White Door
Samsara Room
Thats alot of cubes :LOL:
 

BurningPixels

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Christmas has more fondness to me, probably because we did a family christmas back when I was young...before the homeless scenario.

Now all my aunts that hosted it an stuff are passing away...so its at odd places ran by the kids in my generation, and its just not the same.

Honestly was never the same since the homeless scenario, but thats probably because I can't seem to care about the people who sat by and watched like family wasn't important 🤷‍♂️

I guess even as a single male, no intention or want for a family...it was always more important to me than it was to the people who tried to teach me what it meant, my good friends are family, more so than they ever will be.

Anyways, i'm babbling and turning a good subject upside down :LOL:

End Rant.
Yea and Christmas time was more magical when we were kids, it was a great occasion to gather the whole family, then we grow up, our life changed, we are more busy with life things and so it is less magical then before and it is not the same as we were younger.
Thats what happens when you shrink pics to Gala size, I'm not using Imgur for the forums :ROFLMAO:
:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
Those icons were NOT staying, I have a little folder on the Desktop for all my Steam games, rightly using a Steam Icon with a modification, same with one UPlay since I use that more than other launchers, Batch Files (I automate alot with bat files still lol), and one for all my Rig component software,...and although I usually leave those on the desktop on a single side since they clash with each other (and then crash) alot. Every company wants THEIR software to have priority, I've minimized the collateral damage, but theres only so much you can do :LOL:
Me too after my desktop was flooded by games shortcuts I had to move them in a dedicated folder. lol
ah the batch..the old school way :)
I hate when those software wants the priority, first thing I do after install them is disable autorun. I've everything disabled even Steam autostart.
I just use solid Black :ROFLMAO:

Less resources, same concept with the Desktop icons and the Start Menu, they're all killer because they are all redrawn EVERY time anything above them is, at least partially...in the case of the Menus, those are made dynamically each time you click on them and they are actually brutal.

One of the biggest graphics resource hogs in Windows is plain and simply your desktop and start menu if you can believe that :LOL:
yeah wallpapers takes some resorces. I remeber when I had an old destkop pc with linux I used to see the resource comparison between a wallpaper and another one or between different graphic interfaces (xde, xfce, etc).
I hate animated wallpaper, they are really resource intensed, it is a waste of ram, I never used one.

Have you even seen the Witcher? Like once?

I don't recall any character looking that animated in the Witcher :ROFLMAO:


I would have said Dragon Quest on first guess lmao...but I know its not, the Animation is right for it though.
No:ROFLMAO:, I never seen it and haven't played it. I watched some video gameplay and I meant her style looked like some the Witcher character.
Mario Kart had Fruit (Wheres val when we need her...Bananas)
oh I hate those bananas on the road :ROFLMAO:
Its nothing like it though, as your expecting...you fill the juice containers like you would fill up on Nitrous :LOL:


Its fucking hockey dude, get on the bandicoots nuts, always CTR.

Yes we know its a good game, yes we know its not mentioned often. Yes, its still a rip off of Mario Kart (which actually started on SNES, not N64), they are all rip-offs of Mario Kart because the entire CONCEPT came from Mario kart. Get over it :LOL:
Mario Kart yes started on Snes and others are Mario rip-off but F-Zero came out two years before Mario and I think it was an inspiration. Anyway both great games!
ahha I found a Mario Kart Hack with Street Fighter characters
lol Dhalsim near the traffic light starter.
I missed both, I wasn't too young to program, but I was too young too drink...and therefore play pool :LOL:

I did however catch Strip poker and LSL...

I guess that was more tempting than "Virtual Pool" , need a better name...like Nookie Shot :ROFLMAO:
yeah Virtual Pool was too clean to catch public attentions :ROFLMAO:
And its certainly not a real girl, idc what you say...unless she has a blue screen behind her and was manga'd over by an artist :LOL:

Your cosplay thread seems to be more like a cross-play thread at this point.
You meant green screen behind her, or blue screen of death?:ROFLMAO:
Yeah a lot of artifacts there:LOL:, look at first photo it seems a videogame cutscene.
Right after the 17 Virri hit the OS :ROFLMAO:
hehe lot of pirated games are infected. In the past people downloaded more frequently pirated games, now we have a lot of free games from steam, Egs and company
Its even sadder that I had to make that collection title in the first place. That game sure qualified tho. Sadly.

Soooo just putting this out there. Baring my soul so please be kind. Remember how I said I suck at shooters? I mean I really really suck. But I wanna get gud. My brother suggested DOOM Eternal for a good first game to learn to play shooters. OH MY GOD. Five hours later, pretty stoked. I finished the first map of the campaign. (Yay me!) Then I see the achievements. One of them is finish that map in UNDER 11 mins. WOT?
As Nitrus suggested you, I'd suggest to start with Doom 1 and 2. Then you can try other old school games If you haven't played them, Quake and Duke Nukem 3d. I don't think those games supports natively the controllers because they were meant to play the way they were created (keyboard+mouse). I grew up with those games so for me it is more natural playing kb+mouse then with a controller.

i'm in the same situation, but i remember playing Modern Warfare 3 on the Wii and it was a nice time for a few hours (had to abandon gaming for some time cause i was busy shortly after),
forget it, i've just check the steam price and it's insane, even on keyshop price is to high for a so old game
I loved Cod Black Ops for Wii, it was so cool to play with wii remote infrared gun controller! Incredible game for a Wii, I played more the multiplayer then single player.
 

BurningPixels

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In the spirit of all the mini-reviews being posted lately, I'll post a few of my own. I was bored over the weekend, so I used What Should I Steam? to pick some random Steam games from my library for me to try. I just tried a little bit of each, but enough to give some thoughts.

Intralism (Steam Page)
This is a rhythm game. The gimmick of this one is that the "notes" come as four parts of a circle (top, left, right, bottom), and you need to hit the WASD keys for the corresponding circle fragment(s) as they pass through a ring. Sounds simple enough, and at first I liked the idea of only needing to use the WASD keys, but this game was friggin hard. I'm pretty decent at rhythm games, but not at this one. Perhaps with more time and practice I could be, but that probably won't come to pass. I could literally only beat the very first (easiest) song, and that's it. The notes just come too fast, and often times come as multiple circle fragments at the same time, which was hard for me to pull off with just the WASD keys. Especially when you had to hit the top and bottom fragments at the same time. It's just awkward for me to try to simultaneously push the W and S keys (I have much more experience gaming with controllers than with keyboard and mouse). Otherwise though, the game looked the part. The presentation was good, and the songs that I tried/listened to were not bad.

Three Twenty One (Free) (Steam Page)
Game wouldn't start on my computer. I'd get the initial startup window that asked for settings like resolution and stuff, but when I clicked OK, an icon for the game would appear in the taskbar for couple of seconds, then go away and the game would close. So I gave up. 🤷‍♂️

Ninja Kiwi Archive (Free) (Steam Page)
This is basically a launcher containing a compilation of various old Flash games. I was not previously familiar with the Ninja Kiwi site where the games (used to?) reside, but I did recognize a handful of the games in the launcher, such as some of the very old Bloons TD games. In the end, I tried some game with ghosts and zombies (I don't remember the name anymore :cry:). It was a pretty basic turn-based strategy game of trying to have your ghosts defeat the zombies and break their tombstones. It was actually decently fun despite being pretty simple and clearly showing some age. Maybe these games are still available online - I'm not sure - but I'm all for this type of preservation, having these games in a collection on Steam. I even saw somewhere during the startup that if you had an account on their site, you could log in on the Steam version and carry over your account progress. That gets two thumbs up from me! (y)(y)

SYNCH (Free) (Steam Page)
Another turn-based strategy game. A little too rough around the edges for my taste. Admittedly, I probably didn't give it enough time to learn the ins and outs of it, but I found it a tad hard to follow what was going on, and the game didn't really draw me in enough to motivate me to figure it out.

Paintball War (Free) (Steam Page)
Game no longer works. Upon startup, you just get a message to go buy Paintball War 2. That game is not free and I don't own it, so... see ya! 🤷‍♂️

CHKN (Free) (Steam Page)
I think this game just became free fairly recently after previously being a paid game. From my very basic understanding of it, the devs were not confident that they could get it out of early access in a form that lived up to their vision, so they decided to just make it free and probably won't put too much more work into it. I could be wrong though. Anyway, the concept of this game was pretty interesting. It's very much like a Minecraft sort of game, but the extra gimmick is that you can also craft creatures. You can come across various creature body parts, and assemble them into all sorts of weird creations. I didn't get too far into it, so I only ended up crafting the titular chicken (which I of course named CHKN). You can ride your creations around, and they can also help you fight off wild mobs. The game was a bit rough, as you might expect a very indie early access title to be, but I could definitely see some promise in there. Alas, we probably won't get to see it fleshed out a bit more, but I think there could still be some fun to be had exploring this game world and creating some wonderful abominations. But don't expect it to be a totally smooth and intuitive experience.

Overall, I probably would have been better off just playing a more established game from my backlog, but sometimes it's worth a shot to just try some rando games. I'll probably do it again at some point!
Nice to read your reviews Klingki, yes CHKN turned recently from paid to free, it was in my march paid to free list here

Dantifa? Its not on my list...I know there was a point during end of my last place and the move I lost track of a few additions...but I honestly don't remember asking for it or getting it :LOL:

You likely need an updated AGEIA PhysX

Homepage

Direct Download Page

If thats not it, if you have G-Sync/FreeSync try shutting it off. Its actually the Windows options in Windows 10/11 after enabled those, but thats a simpler test :LOL:

That game led me to a plethora of free games :ROFLMAO:

Unturned

Spiral Knights (Online RPG by ? Sega ?)

Adventure Capitalist

Firestone Online Idle RPG 🙄 (nuff said)

Dark Deception

Clicker Heroes

Monster Girl 2

Monster Girl 2 (Full Edition DLC) 🤷‍♂️

NGU IDLE (I didn't even look) :LOL:

Heroes and Generals (like dupe, but FPS)

Bloons TD Battles

Pixel Worlds MMO Sandbox

Wurm Online

Cube Escape Paradox

Business Tour Board Game

The Pirate Caribbean Hunt

Adventure Escape Mysteries

Shakes And Fidget (Couldn't add this one)

Tap Ninja

Super Animal Royale

No More Money Season 1 (Smut)

Endless

Dirty Room

Powers Of Hex

RPG MO
Thanks Nitrous for the free game list! I already have many of those. I played in the past Unturned and enjoyed it, nice survival game low poly graphic, playing with a friend it is even more funny. I played Spiral Knights too in the past, it is cooperative action games, you play with randoms but after a while it is repetitive. I played clicker games but not my kind of games.
I added Power of Hex, it looks like Nes game it's interesting and Dirty Room.(y)
 
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