THE BORE
General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: headwalk on June 25, 2019, 07:06:19 PM
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steam sale's on and i want tightly wound, well edited game that doesn't feel like it's a minute longer than it needs to be and leaves an impression after. preferably something that isn't just indie jank but beggars can't be choosers i suppose.
speak to me.
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The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game. (https://store.steampowered.com/app/963000/) It takes like an hour, and is cool and good.
Last Day of June is also cool and good, I think it's free on epic store right now? Also should be cheap on steam. takes like 3 hours.
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added stipulations:
can have a narrative, but not entirely narrative based and must be a decent challenge from the first moment to the last moment without any grind.
hotline miami is the gold standard.
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In that case, have you tried hyper light drifter? Damn I love that, and feels just perfect length wise, while still being challenging.
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not on sale. shame.
anyone tried titan souls? sounds about right.
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La Mulana? Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom? (that is coming next month)
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MGSV: Ground Zeroes
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Any of the Assasssins Creed Games.
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Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
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Dishonored 2 comes to mind. Tight, chapter-based missions, non open world, great mechanics and world design.
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Sekiro, don't know if it's on sale tho
Dishonored: Death of the Outsider is, and is p.good and better optimized on PC than Dishonored 2 was
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Dishonored: Death of the Outsider is, and is p.good and better optimized on PC than Dishonored 2 was
I found they both performed alright on a 9xx series card. That said I wouldn't recommend DotO, it's the only Dishonored entry I didn't like. It's the most linear in scope, most obviously with the recycled levels which have alternate pathways and areas blocked. The bank mission was excellent though.
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There are plenty of solid B-tier first-person shooters with short campaigns that are perfect for Steam sales. I wouldn't pay $60 for them, but at $5-10 they are great. I enjoyed Singularity, Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason, Clive Barker's Jericho, Spec Ops: The Line, and Binary Domain. I'm sure there are more recent games that fit the same description.
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Singularity was definitely a FPS from that gen that made me want more and not really due to the gameplay so much. Kinda like Syndicate maybe.
obligatory "joke" answers:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/214700/Thirty_Flights_of_Loving/
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/6269/The_Puzzle_RPG_Matching_Bundle/
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Oh yes, Syndicate is a another good example. Also Condemned, The Darkness and its sequel, and the F.E.A.R. series.
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Mark Of The Ninja is a pretty great 2D stealth-em-up, but they recently did an "HD remaster" and tripled the price while removing the perfectly acceptable OG version from sale, but its still relatively cheap at 35% off.
Brothers - A Tale Of Two Sons is exactly as long as it needs to be, at like 2 hours long, and is 80% off and like $3? Its not exactly 'challenging', but its pretty satisfying mechanically.
Also like peeps above are saying, there's a fucking ton of last gen titles that are still perfectly playable at like, 75% discounts on their base $20 pricetag - the F.E.A.R series is pretty fun
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I'm realizing that I may have keys for some of this stuff still.
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i made this thread then bought kingdom come: medieval time wasting simulation fuled by gamergate.
joke's on you losers!
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Did Syndicate ever make it to PC?
Yes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicate_(2012_video_game)).
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Did Syndicate ever make it to PC?
For a long time it was an exclusive on EA's Origin store and I got it for $5 a few years ago. I don't know if that's still the case.
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If you're still looking for something that scratches that Hotline Miami itch. Give Katana Zero a try. It's the same sort of fast paced action gameplay, but as a 2D action sidescroller.
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You obviously can't play Syndicate online because there's nobody but if you wanted to co-op with a friend last I knew all of it still works, just uses your Origin account I think.
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Titanfall 2