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Steam | 02.2016 - Orangeade
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Mostly old footage but gaaawd that music and audio. Incredible.
Nobody does dark fantasy like FROM. These guys are the kings.
Leafhopper
Banned
lashman
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Urrggghhhh don't have VirtualDub on this machine but give me a while and I'll see what I can do.
TheLetdown
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Remember that awesome looking Tenchu-like game that we were talking about in the Steam thread?
Looks like it's coming in 6-7 months.
Visually, it's shaping up very nicely. If the combat keeps to the original Tenchu, in that avoiding combat frequently was not just viable but advisable, this game can be killer.
Looks like it's coming in 6-7 months.
Visually, it's shaping up very nicely. If the combat keeps to the original Tenchu, in that avoiding combat frequently was not just viable but advisable, this game can be killer.
Tizoc
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Right then on with the review...of a sort.
The best thing about RotTR is the bow and arrow, it's just so satisfying flinging arrows at people's faces, having enemies (and occasional wild life) suffocate on poisonous fumes from your poison arrows, having grenades explode on people's faces with explosive arrows, or seeing them squirm to their death suffering from
Yet the game thinks you need an Assault Rifle, handgun and a shotgun to murder people with for some bizarre reason.
Sadly that is the one good thing I can say about this game.
The devs stated there'd be more tombs, which doesn't amount to much because these extra tombs leave so much to be desired, that completing them ends up feeling like needless padding.
Even the overworld is designed to pad on extra game time because performing the side stuff is superfluous, which doesn't help when the main campaign isn't anything amazing to write about, outside of being a homicidal maniac with a bow and arrow.
Although to be fair there are a few sidequests that give you items that you can use to get items and weapon parts, but really you wouldn't be missing out on anything by skipping these side missions and focusing only on the main game.
The game's upgrades are among the most moronically designed ones I've seen in a game yet; when pressing the Right Stick various crafting items would be highlighted in yellow in case you don't notice them; one of the upgrades you can get HAS THEM LIGHT UP IN YELLOW WHEN YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO THEM, by then said items or components are easy to spot that you wonder why they even bothered with such a thing.
It gets more absurd though; one of the abilities you can learn speeds up climbing walls with the pix axe and another let's you open crates faster, where before it only took around 5 seconds. Why on earth did they think these 2 needed to be unlockable upgrades? Who thought up this crap?
Now I won't say I didn't enjoy myself; murdering people with the bow and arrow was indeed satisfying, but that's just it; nothing else about the game impressed me and the tombs were leaving so much to be desired with their shortness and (slightly entertaining) simplicity.
They should just make a game where you're just run around murdering people with a bow and arrow, something like I dunno Elite Sniper or something?
In fact, make Jonah a playable character; he was my fav. character in the 2 games and has the kind of beard dudebros only dream about.
All in all I give this game.... 2/5. Is it worth playing? I'd say so if you want your Uncharted fix and enjoy murdering enemy mooks with bow and arrows, but if you're looking for something that actually requires proper use of your grey cells, look elsewhere.
TheAutomator
Banned
looks good, now it only needs to play just as good.
Starwolf_UK
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indiegala also has a dead bits Steam key if anyone needs one of those.
For me Idlemaster idles all games that need the 2 hour wait simultaneously so if you have a lot of games to idle that isn't too bad. The real problem is the drop rates for cards falling off a cliff. It used to be I'd get all the card drops within an hour but these days (including the 2 hour wait) I'm looking at at least 3 hours and sometimes nearly 8 hours (something I've not seen since Awesomenauts).That saddest casualty of Steam refunds was card idlingI haven't idled since the 2 hour thing went into effect.
That saddest casualty of Steam refunds was card idling
That was removed for a lot of people, you might want to check and see.
The gameplay was still the most brilliant integration of gameplay with narrative I've ever experienced. No, it wasn't particularly challenging, but it was truly innovative and something I think everyone should experience.
All valid. Especially
the spider bit, there really should have been some choice there, I thought it took a lot away from the game.
That or be part of the 'never refunded' elite club excluded from the 2 hours rule.
I'm quite enjoying my time with psychonauts, didn't like it that much when i first played it years ago, but I guess it clicked this time.
The level/overworld design are pretty decent so far, I'm not a big fan of collecting shit but I sorta enjoy exploring in this game, so even when they forced you to collect a bunch of arrowheads to buy an item, it was sort of enjoyable (it only took me like 10mins), I'm currently at the milkman conspiracy, which I heard good things about.
Game looks good for a ps2 game.
and oh they patched in controller buttons
The level/overworld design are pretty decent so far, I'm not a big fan of collecting shit but I sorta enjoy exploring in this game, so even when they forced you to collect a bunch of arrowheads to buy an item, it was sort of enjoyable (it only took me like 10mins), I'm currently at the milkman conspiracy, which I heard good things about.
Game looks good for a ps2 game.
and oh they patched in controller buttons
MMBosstones86
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as I said before, those two hours isn't even an issue, when most games take hours to get all cards, like a card per hour is now "good" drop rate.
Idling all day - one game done - 5 cards, 200 left to idle, you do that math, get all depressed, I should stop buying games with cards for cards, actually.
I'll do that, just have to break the pattern.
shortsFortallPeople
Banned
All 5 OG Xbox fans are shaking their heads at this
hey I have an xbox too!
I didn't pay much attention to the game back then tho so I just assumed it's one of those games made for ps2
crazyrabbits
Banned
Oh hell yes
Large Professor
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That's probably 0.40$ in cards right there. Thanks for posting. Who said free lunches didn't exist?
You know, I've got to agree they did a piss poor job with faces in XCOM2. It's not just that there aren't many cute female faces, the male faces are pretty terrible too. One guy I got pretty much looks like a neanderthal with a heavy brow and protruding lips. They did a pretty nice job with all the customizations (hats, face coverings, hair, tattoos, armor styles, colorings, etc.) but it's just weird that the faces are so crappy. I'll have to see if people are starting to mod new faces in.
corrosivefrost
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Yeah, that's one of the benefits of idlemaster, having it do a batch idle for new games with <2h playtime.
Some games do have drop rates that seem excessive... however, I'm not the best person to gauge them since I generally leave idlemaster running if there's any card drops remaining at all. When I play games while idlemaster is running, it slows the drop rate, but sometimes it will also cause them to queue several quick drops together.
Either way, the spread/fame of idlemaster and card gathering programs like it was it actually got people to idle games with card drops remaining... so while it made it easier for us, it also increased the supply of cards which caused the market floor to drop like a rock.
Nothing that I've found so far is actually immune, either way, though non-deer exotic type animals definitely are barely phased by any of the special ammo.
They offset the power by limiting capacity and requiring a bunch of resources to get more (until you get the lockpick, which lets you find that type of ammo in lockers, I think.)
The story (note: I haven't 100% finished it, but I'm pretty much at the end) is standard Uncharted/Tomb Raider narrative.
The gameplay is more of TR2013 with a few twists, most of which I didn't think were positive changes overall, I can write up thoughts on that later if anyone is interested.
But I wanted to address something you said (I edited the quote down above):
The open crates faster is probably a bit useless for most people, but it probably has uses if you're trying to sneak through most of the game so you can open things faster and get back to somewhere safe... that said, I'm just speculating, cause it's one of the few abilities I haven't bought the upgrade for yet.
The problem with the "climb rock walls faster" upgrade isn't that it exists. It's that you can't get it until extremely late game. I spend 98% of my time on the climbable rock jumping and grabbing/re-attaching because Lara moves so slow on those walls with her default speed.
Fixed that for you.
There are never 5 dudes huddled around by default, at least not on survivor difficulty... you have to aggro them and then try to get them to group up. I don't think I've seen a spot with more than 3 enemies grouped together, especially before you get the upgrade to increase the cloud size. I've also seen dudes that were on the edge of the cloud that results get out of the cloud, cough, and then come after me.
(The first place I found to set up and get the "kill 5 with a poison arrow" achievement was in mid-game location spoiler
The Acropolis, when you get the cutscene where they're rounding up and shooting the natives.
Starwolf_UK
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I've never been refunded* yet I still have to wait more than 2 hours for anything to drop.
*I attempted to get a refund and Valve was all "computer says no". Was that enough to blacklist me?
With all the talk of card drop rates here I have to say I think this the equivalent of queuing up at the soup kitchen for free food.
shortsFortallPeople
Banned
as bad as they are in what ive seen of Xcom 2, you should go back to Xcom 1 and see how terrible they are in that game
lashman
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woo
I think like 80% of my screenshots were made using gedosato, thanks durante!
I only have 40MB left for screenshots on Steam
Tizoc
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I only have 40MB left for screenshots on Steam
hmm how do you check how much space you have left lol
oh nvm I see it
I have 600mb left...
well shit
Leafhopper
Banned
Oh snap.
Chairmanchuck
Member
So. How is Arslan? Its coming out tomorrow and it looks kinda cool, but its a K-T game that will be broken for sure on PC and could get repetitive.
Jawmuncher
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Tizoc
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Well we are getting RE2 Remaster down the line. I mean it's likely to release by 2017, but Onimusha HD remasters for this year, at least 1 and 3 if not 1+2, would make some decent dough for Capcpom.
There was no deep down game. That was a tech demo.
lashman
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Firewatch in a day? Fucking hell, February is busy.
I think I'll play through that as soon as possible since it's short.
Yes. It install it because you can still migrate your g4wl progress to steamworks from some menu in the game.
I wish they would have had a clean steamworks branch on public, and had that migration stuff on its own beta branch.
I think I'll play through that as soon as possible since it's short.
Yes. It install it because you can still migrate your g4wl progress to steamworks from some menu in the game.
I wish they would have had a clean steamworks branch on public, and had that migration stuff on its own beta branch.
Oh. And this one too. Maybe I'll skip the beta and just play the first location when it launches proper.
Hot hot hot.
Install that Finland nationality mod and put me in.
Looks fantastic. This last week of waiting is going to be terrible.
...meanwhile on Flickr I've got ~2,000 screenshot that aren't compressed to shit and still only scratched 0.3% of my free 1TB allowance. Can't remember how many Steamshots I'm up to (I think 700 with about 1.7GB of space left) but I just use them these days for quick a dirty uploads to show stuff off.
Dragon1893
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Jawmuncher
Member
Doing everything I can to keep it alive.
I would bet that they do a HD collection and from there see what they want to do. I don't really see them jumping straight in for a new game. They didn't even want to do it for Resident Evil 2. Hopefully the ports make their way to PC this time. DMC collection was good.
I use quality 10 jpeg for all my steam screenshots, it isn't so bad
the thing with uploading to steam is that I get to force all the people on my friendlist to look at them if they click into their activity feed, can't do that on flickr!
Closest I'll get to a JoJo game on Steam I guess.
I'll probably take a week off at work for that. SO HYPED
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