*1.6GB after installation. Although probably around 400mb of that are the artbook and soundtrack. That said, the number seems about right for what is basically a improved PSX game.
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*1.6GB after installation. Although probably around 400mb of that are the artbook and soundtrack. That said, the number seems about right for what is basically a improved PSX game.
The art book and OST aren't included in the pre-load as they're still set to prerelease. They'll be downloaded when the game unlocks.
motion sickness?
LurkerPrime
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Agent 47 tries his very best to ape Geralt, while missing everything that makes Geralt work.
I fear for Hitman 2016.
That's a little on the nose, but I'll accept it.
Smooth McGroove or bust.
I fear for Hitman 2016.
That's a little on the nose, but I'll accept it.
Smooth McGroove or bust.
paperspace
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Ucchedavāda;196033691 said:
It's subjective, definitely, and I'm just curious what people think!
Maybe I'm too fastidious when it comes to this. My opinion on a game can be hugely affected by it's mouse movement for example - i.e. if there's any smoothing/acceleration of any kind, or just weird movement in general, it's borderline unplayable to me. No keyboard (WASD) function in menus is also a big no-no.
LurkerPrime
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Good KB&M controls:
Those are the most important things, in my mind.
- mouse & keyboard works in menu, yay
- can type in data entry (i.e. name)
- Keybinds opposite of whatever Dark Souls did
- Hotkeys for everything
Those are the most important things, in my mind.
BoosterDuck
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good KB/M controls for me is not having forced mouse acceleration or that thing fallout 4 did with the decreased Y sensitivity
that's so stupid there's no reason for it to be there
that's so stupid there's no reason for it to be there
ramoisdead
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k, finished the quarry in the witness, so that makes 4 lasers activated
honestly, the game's a lot more tolerable now that i've left the swamp for good, but it's still not doing anything for me. i've been stuck and unstuck in different places, seen some clever new gimmicks and activated lasers and watched videos and listened to audiologs and nothing about it has intrigued me or satisfied me in any way
it's too soulless and between the motion sickness and the unbeareably slow backtracking (anyone else just alt tabs whenever they're riding the boat?) i'm just struggling so hard to not hate it just while i desperately look for a fez moment that i'm like aha! there's something to this game!
but so far tho, i just wish my friends were on so i could play some league instead
honestly, the game's a lot more tolerable now that i've left the swamp for good, but it's still not doing anything for me. i've been stuck and unstuck in different places, seen some clever new gimmicks and activated lasers and watched videos and listened to audiologs and nothing about it has intrigued me or satisfied me in any way
it's too soulless and between the motion sickness and the unbeareably slow backtracking (anyone else just alt tabs whenever they're riding the boat?) i'm just struggling so hard to not hate it just while i desperately look for a fez moment that i'm like aha! there's something to this game!
but so far tho, i just wish my friends were on so i could play some league instead
here i was thinking i was clever
That's about 31$ per GB of game. Quite high in these days of 40GB releases for 60$ games (1.5 $/GB), but still acceptable, I'd say.
ramoisdead
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MrTeachwell
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Call me crazy but after using the boat for some of the puzzles I avoid it and really enjoy backtracking through the beautiful island scenery.
nah i totally get that
i tend to walk most of the time since the boat is boring and also u tend to run into panels by walking that you'd miss if u just boated everywhere
ramoisdead
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I hope I can stay alive long enough.
Also, I hope I can play that game sometime in the future, sitting there in my backlog...mocking me.
holygeesus
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God damn. You know you are getting old when you remember Richard Leadbetter when he looked like this. Legend.
Re: Condemned - I decided to buy Controller Companion on Steam as it is like about £40 cheaper than buying a Steam Controller. There was no profile for Condemned, so I created my own and uploaded it to Workshop if anyone wants it. I mapped the 360 controls from the instruction manual for that version and it works pretty well except you have to use the right trigger to select in menus.
Tizoc
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Uh disgaea 1 is a ps2 game :v
It was one of the few PS2CD games.
And it certainly did look like it had a PS1->PS2 change of target late in the development.
UcchedavÄda
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I've been out for 27 years tho.
The gimmick is vastly overrated in its importance to the overall game experience.
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Broke my Steam controller's dongle tonight 
Hoping Valve will not charge me too much for a replacement, given that it's just a tiny USB dongle thing.
Hoping Valve will not charge me too much for a replacement, given that it's just a tiny USB dongle thing.
Tizoc
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It was a nice twist for its time but i am sure there is a way to alter it so it would work with in the context of anregular monitor
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
Steam controller isn't bluetooth. I keep forgetting that.
How do you break a dongle?
hehehe dongle
How do you break a dongle?
hehehe dongle
Crash Station
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Not you too
I occasionally do. I generally lurk, but Danganronpa is enough to get me to post more.
ramoisdead
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Broke my Steam controller's dongle tonight
Hoping Valve will not charge me too much for a replacement, given that it's just a tiny USB dongle thing.
How did you break it? Granted, I hardly use mine and keep the dongle at arm's length.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
I have it on my case's top USB port since I play games on my TV which doesn't have a line of sight to my PC and the Steam Controller constantly pops up a LOL YOUR SIGNAL ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH message. I didn't break it, my wife did by spinning the computer chair and bumping her knee into the top of the USB case. The dongle's housing is entirely broken and it doesn't show up in Windows anymore.
Nabs
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Broke my Steam controller's dongle tonight
Hoping Valve will not charge me too much for a replacement, given that it's just a tiny USB dongle thing.
This happened to bus a few weeks back. Valve didn't charge him for a replacement, but they did price it at 3 or so bucks.
There are two set styles of VN text. Full-screen box (like Fate Stay) or RPG-like dialogue boxes at the bottom of the screen. There is actually a name for both that I can't be bothered to remember on VNDB. Some games use both, like one for narration and one for dialogue. 999
could use both to separate them in way to hide the twist.
Ban Puncher
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What do you mean sub $100 office chairs are complete bullshit and break after about a year of use???
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ramoisdead
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According to Steam, it has a 90 day limited warranty unless it's a defect then that's a year.
Just tell them it's not spousal friendly and they need to rectify that.
Got my office chair at Staples during clearance. Been pretty reliable ever since.
spindoctor
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The game has 4 different vignettes presented to the player. Only one of them is narrated. The rest are told through environmental storytelling.
My memory is a little hazy but I'll try and remember some of it (Gone Home story spoilers ahead)
There's the story of their father. I think he was a novelist who had one well received book but then was unable to come up with something else. There are indications of writer's block hitting him. And so he was forced to take up a job reviewing stuff and he clearly thought it was beneath him. And then later his fortunes change when a publisher of old books offers to start selling his first novel again and he's inspired to write a new one again. Then there was the story of the mother who was unhappy in her marriage until she got a job in a wildlife park I think it was? And there she met another man and I think it was heavily implied that they had an affair. She then felt guilty about that and decided to try and make her marriage work. From what I remember, both parents were gone from the house because they were doing couples counseling when the game takes place. And then there was the story of the old uncle/grandfather who was the original owner of the house. It's implied that he molested the father in this story. The family discovered this and broke all ties with him and the game shows how much he regretted that for the rest of his life. I believe the reason this house was given to the father in the first place was as a form of penance for that.
I apologize if I've gotten any of the details wrong. It's been a while since I played it. My point is though that there were more things happening in the game than just the main narrated story.
Also, at the risk of repeating myself, I believe that this game will resonate most with people who are in their mid 30s now. The entire atmosphere of the game is presented through the eyes of someone who was a teenager in the mid 90s. Anyone who actually was around that age group in that period of time will see a lot of things that are picked up straight from their younger days. Things like the music, the artwork or even just general things of how life was in the 90s (VHS cassettes!). It's not that younger people can't appreciate these details, it just hits closer to home if you lived through that period in life.
How many puzzles have you solved according to your save file? (You can check by pressing Escape - Load game).
I would recommend not alt tabbing out when you're in the boat. In general, I would not recommend mentally tuning out of the game when you're not solving puzzles. Pay attention to the game world as you play. I don't want to oversell that 'moment' but it comes to everyone eventually. It's not like Braid where your mind is blown by one single moment that changes your entire understanding of the game, but you will think it's pretty cool when it happens.
Keep at it.
Palette Swap
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Hi guys, I figured I'd ask here rather than make a new thread, but has anyone ever found a good Windows native solution to share displays, sound and devices between concurrent users on a single computer ?
I'm asking because my wife has been spending a lot of time on the home PC lately for work reasons, and I'd still like to use the computer on our TV.
Our setting is pretty basic :
- one user needs the computer, the monitor, its speakers, mouse and keyboard.
- the other user needs a secondary display (our TV connected in HDMI), a secondary sound device (HDMI sound which goes through the receiver), and a game controller. Typically, I'd be using Big Picture Mode.
Separately, these setups already work fine, and have for years. Now, the tricky part is using the computer concurrently.
Looking it up, I've found Aster is a program that works with Windows 10. I've installed the trial version and set it up, and so far it works exactly as expected. The caveat is that it can apparently be messy with particular resolution settings in non-windowed full screen. And it's a 70 program, so there's that.
Has anyone a better solution lying around ?
I'm asking because my wife has been spending a lot of time on the home PC lately for work reasons, and I'd still like to use the computer on our TV.
Our setting is pretty basic :
- one user needs the computer, the monitor, its speakers, mouse and keyboard.
- the other user needs a secondary display (our TV connected in HDMI), a secondary sound device (HDMI sound which goes through the receiver), and a game controller. Typically, I'd be using Big Picture Mode.
Separately, these setups already work fine, and have for years. Now, the tricky part is using the computer concurrently.
Looking it up, I've found Aster is a program that works with Windows 10. I've installed the trial version and set it up, and so far it works exactly as expected. The caveat is that it can apparently be messy with particular resolution settings in non-windowed full screen. And it's a 70 program, so there's that.
Has anyone a better solution lying around ?
spindoctor
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My copy of the game finally got delivered today. Shipped out on Wednesday from a city that is an overnight journey away. The cynic within me believes Amazon bounced it around between their warehouses because I didn't pay for faster shipping.
Of course, in the time it took to arrive I've read all kinds of horror stories about how unfinished the game is. So now I'm debating whether to activate the game until it gets more content. Or even if I should just sell off the cd key.
Lol, you quoted my original post before my stealth edit. I have been found out.
With all of the horror stories, it's also worth mentioning the other half of players who have had a good experience. I haven't gotten any disconnects in all the time I have been playing the game since launch, and I have never had trouble entering or creating battle lounges. It also doesn't take long for me to find an opponent in Casual. That said, the game do have some major problems, because not everybody have a smooth experience and you can easily end up with being disconnected, and lure me if I didn't just jinx it, and is now gonna experience a lot of trouble.
The first thing is, how everything is tied to their servers, so if they go down, you'll be kicked out of Survival and Story immediately, losing your progress. Which I can imagine is very frustrating. I wouldn't return the game though but that's just my opinion.
With all of the horror stories, it's also worth mentioning the other half of players who have had a good experience. I haven't gotten any disconnects in all the time I have been playing the game since launch, and I have never had trouble entering or creating battle lounges. It also doesn't take long for me to find an opponent in Casual. That said, the game do have some major problems, because not everybody have a smooth experience and you can easily end up with being disconnected, and lure me if I didn't just jinx it, and is now gonna experience a lot of trouble.
The first thing is, how everything is tied to their servers, so if they go down, you'll be kicked out of Survival and Story immediately, losing your progress. Which I can imagine is very frustrating. I wouldn't return the game though but that's just my opinion.
Damn it.
i'm at almost 300 puzzles :T
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