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[morningbus]

If i had to rank them, The series goes something like this

COD4≥MW2>BLOPS>>BLOPS2>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Everything else.

BLOPS 1 had the best sized MP maps outside of COD4, but MW2's level of absurd chaos made it so that i put over 8 days worth of play time in the MP.

Missed this post.

In a modern context: MW2 is, without hyperbole, the most fucked multiplayer game I've played on the PC. People love to complain about hackers in these games, but the online system of MW2 is such a mess that you will basically never play a fair game.

It is absolutely worthless in a modern context.

It has none of the characteristics of an arena shooter.

Quake and CoD share almost nothing similar outside of it's perspective.

Pretty amazing considering COD is based off the Quake engine.

Regardless, how do you define an arena shooter and how is Quake one but COD isn't?

 

[Gintoki]

Gang Beasts is out btw. I'll be getting it later since they seem to only have added one new map.

 

[Jawmuncher]

Gang Beasts is out btw. I'll be getting it later since they seem to only have added one new map.

Definitley EA people.
Online isn't even in yet.

 

[Panda Rin]

Massive Chalice Quick Look!

 

[donny2112]

Yes, this needs to happen.

No, this.

Steam | September 2014 - Nice thread, btw. pls gimme all the keys.

 

[jshackles]

The stunning use of Gamespy just months before it's closure?

Ah, yep that's it.

 

[Shadownet]

One more for the road!

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Sanic & All-Stars Racing Transformed -- MB-B81A02639B550598 - Taken by Vuze. 9 entrants total.

 

[JaseC]

Odd in that even when it came out the online was dead.
They could have gotten away with never patching it and I doubt there would have been any fuss over it.

Even so, Capcom couldn't have left a relatively new release in a half-broken state.

 

[pahamrick]

:O :O :O

I have a weird place inside my brain that cannot resist a Saints Row game.

I love Saints Row, and Gat has been my favorite since Saints 1 so I'm looking forward to this. Still wish it would have been an announcement of either Saints Row 5 or a new FreeSpace.

 

[Perun]

WANT!!

This actually looks way better than SR4.

"players will be able to fly around the city using demonic wings."

HELL

YEAH

 

[lashman]

:O :O :O

I have a weird place inside my brain that cannot resist a Saints Row game.

same here O_O

This actually looks way better than SR4.

"players will be able to fly around the city using demonic wings."

HELL

YEAH

LITERALLY!!

 

[Shadownet]

:O :O :O

I have a weird place inside my brain that cannot resist a Saints Row game.

I like what they did there.

Gat

Spoiler

e

out of Hell

 

[Ruruja]

I like what they did there.

Gat

Spoiler

e

out of Hell

u wot m8.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

One more for the road!

We should get a GAF race going.

 

[Mono]

We should get a GAF race going.

I am so down for this!

 

[MUnited83]

It has none of the characteristics of an arena shooter.

Quake and CoD share almost nothing similar outside of it's perspective.

With the last Quake Live updates I would argue that they are actually pretty similar.

 

[lashman]

I like what they did there.

Gat

Spoiler

e

out of Hell

nope, try again if anything - I'm pretty sure they meant this

 

[iosefe]

I like what they did there.

Gat

Spoiler

e

out of Hell

Bat. Just saying

*edit: curses, lashman!

 

[MUnited83]

I like what they did there.

Gat

Spoiler

e

out of Hell

Not a Meatloaf fan, I assume?

 

[freshVeggie]

Gang Beasts is out btw. I'll be getting it later since they seem to only have added one new map.

Oh my, this looks so, so much fun! This has to be played at a Gaf game night at some point! It begs to be played. Wishlisted!

 

[Chariot]

I also thinking of "Get", since it sounds like this when you spell it out.
But that would probably too cheap for SR.

 

[lashman]

Bat. Just saying

*edit: curses, lashman!

thank you, thank you ... I'll be here all night

Not a Meatloaf fan, I assume?

precisely haha

 

[Vuze]

I like what they did there.

Gat

Spoiler

e

out of Hell

Not quite
E: Probably also that song lol

 

[jshackles]

I just picked up a GeForce GTX 750 Ti for $95 which felt like a steal. I guess it also comes with $150 of in-game currency for Path of Exile (which I'll use), Heroes of Newearth, and Warface (which I won't).

It's going into a gaming rig (not mine) that currently has a much older card (a low end card from about... 4 years ago) so it should be quite the improvement.

 

[JaseC]

Is this another DLC that becomes a standalone?

If so, I do want! Still need to get SRIV

Well, there's a small difference here in that it's being billed as a standalone expansion rather than a full-price game.

 

[Omega]

Pretty amazing considering COD is based off the Quake engine.

Regardless, how do you define an arena shooter and how is Quake one but COD isn't?

When you mention arena shooter, games like Quake and Unreal instantly come to mind.

Quake has

• Health pickups
• Armor pickups
• Weapon pickups
• times on these pickups
• can hold more than 2 guns

Calladuty has

• Regen health
• Loadouts
• Can only hold 2 guns
• killstreaks
• perks

These games couldn't be any more different. Just because CoD uses a modified Quake engine doesn't mean it's an arena shooter.

 

[Freezard]

Duplicate.

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Legend of Grimrock -- MB-5E0354DB2CBA86E3 - Taken by DJSebolski

 

[someguyinahat]

Some impressions for Heileen 3: New Horizons

Do you want Senpai-rate to notice you? Then this is the game for you! ...Okay, that's actually not fair.

The graphics: Not bad. All the characters have the impossible-standard faces and bodies, except for a handful you can't romance that look average or overweight. Professions are done with the main character in a "chibi" style. Backgrounds look nice...no real complaints here.

The music: A few good tunes. One even has lyrics. Not that the lyrics are that complicated or interesting. The main track gets a bit repetitive but luckily random events with different tracks happen frequently enough to break the monotony.

The gameplay: It's a raising sim, albeit a more simplistic one. For those of you familiar with Long Live the Queen, you'll remember that the princess had two classes a day, then one activity in the evening to change her moods and make education more efficient. In Heileen 3, you choose one activity per day, and maybe you'll get a random event. There are 21 possible activities: 7 build up one basic skill, and 14 secondary skills are only available if you have two basic skills to the requisite levels. In my case, I chose cooking (oddly enough, the least-won achievement.) In order to start it, you need to build up endurance through navigation, and dexterity through lookout duty. Once your secondary skill levels up, you have to go back and level your basic skills. Level your secondary skill enough, and you can unlock the ending for that job...as long as you have the correct virtue or sin. Changing your virtues and sins are through story decisions. Some are more obvious than others: in order to be a cook, I had to follow the sin of gluttony so when given the choice to "eat more cake" or "limit yourself," it becomes a no-brainer. Other decisions are less clear: choosing to try to save your friend in a desperate situation may activate the sin of pride since you believe yourself capable of saving her.

Overall, if you're going for a job ending, it's quite easy. You're given 600 days to reach an ending and I finished in less than half that (four hours of gameplay.) I didn't reach any romance endings - there are four men and even four women you can romantically pursue - but those seem to be more time-intensive to achieve: by the time I got to my job ending, my highest relationship was in the low 60s when it needed to be 90.

My biggest quibble with the gameplay would have to be the invitation system. You're allowed to bring one of the other crew members to assist you in a secondary job, and some will give benefits to your learning, and some will take it away. Only thing is, you're not allowed to invite someone until you've found all your friends. This seems to run counter to one of the screenshots. But that said, once you find everyone, why would you want to invite anyone except the person they explained was an expert at it? Why cook with anyone except the cook? Maybe it sets up other random events, or advances romance, I don't know, but it seems kinda pointless to risk that.

The story: Don't expect the intricacies of LLTQ. Don't expect to plunder or pillage anything either. You're apparently a young woman who was on a voyage with your rich uncle and your friends, shipwrecked, and then saved by pirates. It's not made entirely clear whether the captain kept you on board because he was compassionate towards your plight or just wanted to get his D wet. Anyway, the first part of the game is an "Avengers Assemble" of finding your friends. "I looked everywhere and couldn't find them! Now let's go into this hugely popular tavern and WHAAA? My friend has been dancing here all along?" After you find them all (and that takes a little over 100 days) you're given the 600 day timer as the captain agrees to avoid all other ships to protect you, under the guise of searching for a big diamond.

Knowledge of the previous games only appeared to help in one instance: the captain asks which of your missing companions you miss the most. Then you're given four names, three of which I hadn't seen yet. My rationale: "Oh, this one name I've seen, that was my uncle. I should probably miss my family the most. Blood is thicker than water, and all that." *click* "Oh, I miss my rich uncle because he gives me all sorts of things!" *sin of greed* "Well, shit." If that sounds superficial to you, that's the tone for the rest of the game: everyone seems to live fancy-free. This pirate has agreed to cut off his main source of income for two years, but nobody appears to want for anything. Nobody gets scurvy, nobody dares to scoop up some brackish seawater because they're too thirsty, and when the other white pirates bully your two black friends, you immediately assume it's because the black friends are still wearing their shoddy clothes from the shipwreck, and beg the captain to give them new clothes! And that works! Maybe I should be taking this on its face as "a game for young girls," but seriously, what kind of weak-ass pirate captain wouldn't tie those bullies to the riggings and/or lash them? Or tell the friends to cowboy up and fight back to earn respect? Anyway, the story is a lot of romance and/or jealousy, You might be macking four guys AND four chicks at the same time, but how DARE one of them like another! *sin of envy* Damn it!

The verdict: It might sound like I'm skewering this game, but in all honesty, it's...not bad. It's okay. If it was more pirate-y and more complex, I'd be heartily recommending it. As it stands, it might be alright as a "my first raising sim" or, based on the most popular achievement, a "let's see if I can get the main character to bang the hot first mate chick" sim. Not without its flaws, but I won't tell you to avoid this one.

 

[Shadownet]

Bat. Just saying

*edit: curses, lashman!

Not a Meatloaf fan, I assume?

nope, try again if anything - I'm pretty sure they meant this

Not quite
E: Probably also that song lol

No I am a Meatloaf fan. But not on Tuesday night.

Also, I study mythology. So This

Spoiler

I read Dante's Inferno

 

[Tizoc]

Seriously is LP3 such a shit game that NOBODY has it on their wishlist?

Lost Planet 3? It's not really that bad, it's a decent/serviceable shooter with good characters, voice acting and premise.

 

[SSPssp]

I just picked up a GeForce GTX 750 Ti for $95 which felt like a steal. I guess it also comes with $150 of in-game currency for Path of Exile (which I'll use), Heroes of Newearth, and Warface (which I won't).

It's going into a gaming rig (not mine) that currently has a much older card (a low end card from about... 4 years ago) so it should be quite the improvement.

Awesome! That's a great price for the card. I really like mine. Also, i think the newearth code might still get you at least 5 bucks on ebay. It was getting 10 bucks a couple months back.

 

[Asgaro]

Enjoy my first giveaway.
I have more stuff coming up in the future, but I'll work in batches of 5 games each probably.

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Surgeon Simulator 2013 -- MB-48F355857FB86D3A - Taken by WinterDemons. 7 entrants total.
Magicka with DLC -- MB-004A020029BFCD70 - Taken by CrunchyFrog. 1 entrants total.
Papo & Yo -- MB-FE0CD22338700565 - Taken by Darth Kupi. 1 entrants total.
To the Moon -- MB-2CC9CC6E43B166D0 - Taken by Pop. 3 entrants total.
Sanctum 2 -- MB-16D3934388760D37 - Taken by Ventara. 2 entrants total.

 

[Haunted]

Why do we need a new thread every month? Just let this one fill up.

 

[lashman]

No I am a Meatloaf fan. But not on Tuesday night.

Also, I study mythology. So This

Spoiler

I read Dante's Inferno

that's good, because today is Friday

 

[def sim]

Regardless, how do you define an arena shooter and how is Quake one but COD isn't?

If I understand it correctly, an arena shooter has pre-determined weapon placements/spawns in maps and the play has a focus on controlling the area containing them. Modern COD uses load outs and the kill streaks encourage a more forward approach, making them kind of a different thing. Both are fast paced, twitch shooters though not necessarily the same kind of competitive game.

As an aside, this is generally the reason Halo fans do not like 4.

 

[Chariot]

Why do we need a new thread every month? Just let this one fill up.

We have two days left. 5k posts per day and we should be eating the cake.

 

[jshackles]

Awesome! That's a great price for the card. I really like mine. Also, i think the newearth code might still get you at least 5 bucks on ebay. It was getting 10 bucks a couple months back.

Sweet I'll definitely look into putting the extra codes on eBay and seeing how they do. I'm mostly an AMD guy so hopefully getting everything configured shouldn't be too much of an issue. I've just heard really good things about these cards, and thought the price was great and decided to take the plunge on it.

 

[Shadownet]

Well that's sweet. I was going to give Vuze, Sonic Racing. Because he's one of the few people on my friends list that didn't have it. Decided I should raffle it instead. But he ended up winning it anyway.

Modbot knows.

Congrats Vuze!

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

We have two days left. 5k posts per day and we should be eating the cake.

I want cake.

 

[BinaryPork2737]

Some impressions for Heileen 3: New Horizons

Do you want Senpai-rate to notice you? Then this is the game for you! ...Okay, that's actually not fair...

The verdict: It might sound like I'm skewering this game, but in all honesty, it's...not bad. It's okay. If it was more pirate-y and more complex, I'd be heartily recommending it. As it stands, it might be alright as a "my first raising sim" or, based on the most popular achievement, a "let's see if I can get the main character to bang the hot first mate chick" sim. Not without its flaws, but I won't tell you to avoid this one.

Well, at least that sounds way better than the first one. Thanks for the impressions.

Why do we need a new thread every month? Just let this one fill up.

It's mainly to keep in line with the other monthly threads on Gaf, like the Nintendo downloads and PSN network threads, I think.

 

[JaseC]

I want cake.

The cake is a--ah, forget it.

 

[fantomena]

Once again it happened. I just received an order confirmed from gamersGate for Awesomenauts - Private Mels for 0.31$. What the fuck is happening? I did not buy it.

 

[maty]

New Super Meat Boy announced



Auto Runner

:/

I like auto runner games like Bit Trip Runner, even 100% both of them. But that's not what I expected from SMB.

 

[JaseC]

Once again it happened. I just received an order confirmed from gamersGate for Awesomenauts - Private Mels for 0.31$. What the fuck is happening? I did not buy it.

...did you change your password after it happened the first time?

 

[Tecl0n]

Why do we need a new thread every month? Just let this one fill up.

Weekly, we'll take the fight to the FGC.

 

[X05]

I really have a lot to read in this thread...

Also, about to buy all the F1 games in Gamersgate (save for 2013 that one can wait), someone very likely mentioned it already but for those that like to get removed games, Clive Barker's Jericho is on sale and activates on Steam.

 

[iosefe]

Well that's sweet. I was going to give Vuze, Sonic Racing. Because he's one of the few people on my friends list that didn't have it. Decided I should raffle it instead. But he ended up winning it anyway.

Modbot knows.

Congrats Vuze!

Huzzah

When's the next race night?

 

[Big_Al]

Seriously is LP3 such a shit game that NOBODY has it on their wishlist?


HHAHAHAHA I like this idea

One of the best games of last year and yes I am being serious

 

[Mono]

Well that's sweet. I was going to give Vuze, Sonic Racing. Because he's one of the few people on my friends list that didn't have it. Decided I should raffle it instead. But he ended up winning it anyway.

Modbot knows.

Congrats Vuze!

ModBot is self aware, confirmed!

 

[Lord British]

I got a gift which I have redeemed but it's not appearing on my Steam list. I have tried restarting Steam, signing in and out. Nothing. Weird.