every time i try an ARPG because i get overwhelmed by POE

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Mikrotherion wrote:

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

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de99ial wrote:

@Charan

Have You tried Incerdible Adventures of Van Helsing?

I have, long ago. Same devs as WH40KI. I hear they kinda did a dirty when they shut off the servers and didn't give players an offline mode -- something they've already done with 40kI thank goodness.

I'm actually playing Incredible Adventures with two friends. If you have it on Steam, you can still play it, online and ... perhaps not offline, being on Steam, but definitely single player.

It's really well made, IMO, but I don't really know what I'm doing. :o)

By all accounts it's a pretty good game. Not surprised you can still play it -- only echoing some of the wary sentiment I have read among some of the 40kI players on the charmingly anemic reddit.

But please do not mistake my own choice of arpg for anything meaningful -- as with mechwarrior 5, I am in it almost 100% for the dakka dakka and the pew pew and the way the controller rumbles and trembles with both. After all, one of my favourite builds in poor doomed Wolcen was one where you actually held a fast firing turret in your hands like some sort of mad magitek Rambo. I am a simple fellow with simple needs. You put an automatic weapon in your arpg and take advantage of the dualsense vibration function and I'm almost certainly going to give you money.

Added bonus if your sci-fantasy world building takes its silliness very seriously.

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I said I'd play PoE 2 and I will but so far it's not really rocking my world. The unfortunate increase in vocal cues strikes me as cheesy and cliched ("fire in the hole" earned an eyeroll) and since it'll be f2p I know there'll be some sort of monetised QoL. Also, so far I haven't seen a machine gun in any of the videos so that's also a concern. Still, open mind and all. I've been waiting for a proper sequel since 3.0 or so, when it was clear PoE 1 had hit its true limits -- an impressive feat of envelope-pushing wheel-spinning since then.

Pretty sure November 2024 is far too soon to release much at all but if there's one thing f2pers are good at it's accepting content drip feed.

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

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de99ial wrote:

@Charan

Have You tried Incerdible Adventures of Van Helsing?

I have, long ago. Same devs as WH40KI. I hear they kinda did a dirty when they shut off the servers and didn't give players an offline mode -- something they've already done with 40kI thank goodness.

Im not surprised. But game is very fun.

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Mikrotherion wrote:

I'm actually playing Incredible Adventures with two friends. If you have it on Steam, you can still play it, online and ... perhaps not offline, being on Steam, but definitely single player.

It's really well made, IMO, but I don't really know what I'm doing. :o)

Just enjoy it. It is fun game.

Still on gog for very low price:
https://www.gog.com/pl/game/the_incredible_adventures_of_van_helsing_final_cut

And You will have offline intaller for it.

Yeah, get developers' or GoG versions when you can...

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Mikrotherion wrote:

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If you have it on Steam, you can still play it, online and ... perhaps not offline, being on Steam, but definitely single player.
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... but plenty of Steam games can be run offline, with Steam itself offline (but running) :

How to run Steam games offline forever (Tutorial)

(And some of them don't even need Steam to run.)

P.S.: Wow, nice discount, thanks !
(EDIT : Though it's discounted like that nearly half of the time...)
Here's an English link. ;)

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BlueTemplar85 wrote:

P.S.: Wow, nice discount, thanks !
(EDIT : Though it's discounted like that nearly half of the time...)
Here's an English link. ;)

Yes because it is an odl game. Good Old Game and it is worth every penny.

While it's relative, I prefer to reserve the term 'old' to the pre-DirectX 9 games (that turn happened in the oughties), and not one from 2015 2013 ! xD
(P.S.: Hey, so it — the original version, not the «director's cut» — came out roughly at the same time as PoE1 ?)

You know the ones I'm talking about : at best 2D, at worst with often bad-looking and janky 3D that has trouble working properly on anything but the most specific hardware configurations.

Also roughly fits with the time before Steam became more than just an updater and also started accepting non-Valve games.

Im aware. Gog started as just that - service with those kind of games that werent available on newer PCs.

But it got extended and now it is THE BEST model for selling digital games.

Either way IAOVH is a great fun game. Honsetly i preferred previous relesaes but Final Cut does the job.