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You don't think online/multiplayer components are central to buying a fighting game?
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STEAM 2013 Announcements & Updates: 6, GFWL: 0 | Number of hours played bugged
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You don't think online/multiplayer components are central to buying a fighting game?
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Wok
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I'm sorry for the late answer.
I think concave touchpads will be optimal. My main concern with the old patent mockup was the trackball. I've never been comfortable with a trackball at all, but still I thought it would be a good choice for a controller replacement for mouse. But concave touchpads with three "states" (I think) and a prominent edge around to "block" the thumbs... it seems the best way to go.
I'm actually a bit concerned for the buttons (ABXY) placement, mainly for those games that requires to push multiple buttons at once (like platformers to run and jump together), but seeing how they did for Portal 2, I think it isn't really an issue at all.
Zero-Crescent
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Yeah, it'll be interesting to see what can be done with it. Two clickable touchpads backed by haptic feedback, buttons in seemingly ergonomic positions, bumpers and triggers, and a small touchscreen. Seems like it'll be really good for controlling mouse-heavy games, though I'd like to see how it fares with other games.
Oh, and Chris Remo had some hands-on impressions on Twitter:
He was also rude, dismissive of everything and generally a pain.
Isn't it like, the end of July that they're taking it down?
jediyoshi
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Cool, that's not what I said at all. But while we're at it, extrapolate to me how this gets across the actual implications of GFWL going down for this specific game
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If you're prefacing the question with being "someone who isn't too much into fighting games", than the online multiplayer prospects of it a year out I would imagine aren't too high. But then again, that would be up to the individual if they were given information properly, rather than being told the game in its entirety would be unavailable.
Wok
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Is it frowned upon to take two games from a giveaway? I'd like to have the two Serious Sam games from nexen's giveaway. If you don't mind that is, nexen
As long as you don't win three, it is okay.
Oh, there's no pack with both games for cheap(er)? Bummer... I might pass, the Lego Games are way too collect-a-thon for my taste...
Visualante2
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Motorbreath
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Eets Munchies here
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morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Too... many... double... negatives... can't... suss... out... what... you... want... from... me...
Personally, I think I'd've been more excited if they had gone with a mini-trackball. (I'm glad I didn't know about that earlier, or I'd've been really disappointed by this reveal!) The reason I say this is because my "dream" controller pretty much involves taking an analog gamepad and replacing the second analog stick with a mini-trackball. It's something I've been wishing someone would do for years. Ah well, no point in getting bummed about it now, I guess...
I'll eventually give it a shot and see how it feels, I guess. One positive I can think of is that you won't have to worry about the sticks wearing out over time, which means these controllers should have a pretty long operational life.
Sportbilly
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Thanks very much for Eets Munchies, Motorbreath, very kind of you .
.I can't not misunderstand what he avoided not posting.
Wok
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Cross-posting before Nabs.
The game was in the first batch of Steam Greenlight.
The website for Contrast has been updated:
http://www.contrast-thegame.com/
The game will be sold for 20€ on November 15, 2013.
http://www.amazon.fr/dp/B00DPI3BT6/
The game was in the first batch of Steam Greenlight.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Can someone explain to me how the Steam controller is ugly?
I keep seeing people with Nathan Drake avatars saying it like it's a fact.
I keep seeing people with Nathan Drake avatars saying it like it's a fact.
Beauty's in the eye of the beholder, brah.
derExperte
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Fixed for you, bwaaaaahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaa erryday
Whether something looks nice depends on the person.
But if someone says it is unusable because it is ugly, then that person is being ridiculous.
Your post was lost in the shuffle of the controller news, so I just want to say congrats!Deliverance.
Finally managed to complete Super Hexagon. I honestly think its one of the hardest games to beat out of everything Ive played. Hell my 100% Super Meat Boy playthrough seems like a walk in the park compared to this. I thoroughly recommend it to everyone though, it is a great game and the more you play it the more you will get addicted to it.
One tip I will give though is that if you are playing with a controller like I did (and I really dont see how anyone could play this successfully with a keyboard) then use the shoulder buttons as it suggests. I started using a d-pad for the first 4 levels as I was using my DS3. But that died so I had to start using a 360 controller and switched to shoulder buttons as the d-pad on the 360 pad is shit. It is so much more precise and found it much easier to play once I had adapted.
If you find it hard to progress just keep playing. You get better the more you play. The best thing to do is just memorise the gauntlets so you know what to do as soon as they appear on screen as you really don't have time to think about your movement in later levels.
I've played this a bit with the keyboard and was getting ok, but I dropped it for a few months and came back to it last night. I decided to try the controller, and it seems as though using the shoulder buttons gives me slightly more precision (it feels like a tap on the keyboard moves the arrow more than a tap on the button). I think I may try to convert and play with the controller.
I know Rionaa beat the game also. If you (or anyone else who beat this game) read this, what control setup did you use?
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
I mean, I get that. I've been into enough threads in off-topic that devolve into post-pictures-of-hot-women threads to know people are very particular with their fetishes and demand nothing short of 100% uniformity to that fetish.
But, like, how? I at least see people say Kate Upton doesn't have an ass. No one is saying what's wrong with the aesthetics of the controller.
yw, hope you like it. I thought Beep was pretty cool. Physics based puzzle platformer with handdrawn art.
Robert J. Sullivan
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The controller looks weird but as long as it feels good in hand I'm ok, I'll have to test this before buying. And I might end up getting another controller for everything that's platformers/fighting games.
Thanks. Took Dungeonland.
Camel Master
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Groupees Kiss 2 bundle up again, without Train Simulator tho
jediyoshi
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If you're basing your notions on something like how its trackpads will work based on trackpads you've used before, it's a weirder proposition. I have to imagine some people are looking at it and just imagining something with the touch functionality of their smartphone shaped in two circles strapped onto a controller.
It just wants to love.
Joe Molotov
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I think I'm perhaps too early into it then. At the moment I feel like I'm being lead by the nose through a long, linear tutorial. Gamers complained about that with Twilight Princess but this feels like that complaint to the max. I've just followed a cigar smell to a scene with the Joker's girlfriend. Perhaps once it allows me to backtrack and open up previously inaccessible areas I'll enjoy it more. I might just restart it on Normal though. Does Bats still talk to himself telling the player what to do on that difficulty level? It's getting on my nerves on Easy.
Don't get me wrong; I can see why it's so well regarded. It's clearly a very well put together and competent game. It's just not grabbing me though. I find it perversely amusing that a game i.e. FTL that was made with a tiny fraction of the resources could captivate me for so many hours yet this one has not. I'd rather read the message boxes in FTL than watch Bats talk to an NPC for a couple of minutes :/. Oh well. Doesn't help that I think Batman is a bit of a nob I suppose. I hope the Joker gets to kill him at the end of the game
.EDIT - oh and the unlockables in this game is giving me horrible flashbacks to old Rare collectathons
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.If you're basing your notions on something like how its trackpads will work based on trackpads you've used before, it's a weirder proposition. I have to imagine some people are looking at it and just imagining something with the touch functionality of their smartphone shaped in two circles strapped onto a controller.
It just wants to love.
You mock it now, but wait until Audio Surf 2 actually does just that.
Is it frowned upon to take two games from a giveaway? I'd like to have the two Serious Sam games from nexen's giveaway. If you don't mind that is, nexen
Edit: Thanks for Serious Sam The First, nexen
missed this question, sorry.
I don't care. Didn't look like anyone was going to grab it anyways. Hope you enjoy!
Oh, I know, you think Cheddahz was telling him the whole game would be unavailable, but the fact is we don't know exactly what will happen when GFWL goes down, but we can be sure it will result in the removal of functionality (depending on what a game uses GFWL for).
Rather than accusing him of FUD (which is really caused by MS's refusal to clarify exactly what their plans are), why not point out what the potential buyer would be missing out on? I doubt it will change his mind though.
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Which Steam threaders are you gonna toss into the Cheddahz XCOM meat grinder next??
Screenshots of deaths would be optimal.
Camel Master
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I have bought over 20 or 30 games today, I've actually lost count.
I'm not too sure yet :/
This week was really worrisome for me.
I don't know how many bundles I bought, but at least one of them I already had all the games and didn't notice.
Maybe I should do something about it. I believe I'm averaging 2-3 bundles a week.
jediyoshi
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Those two statements don't connect, you're not actually clarifying your own interpretation of what he's saying to be contrary to anything I'm saying.
And that's not a fact. I can disconnect my internet right now and access the game just fine, sans its online features to be expected.
Because people are more interested in interpreting what I'm saying as if I were defending GFWL or something.
XANDER CAGE
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Camel Master
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Yeah, I didn't really even know what games bundlestars indie jam had but after they had the 50% pricedrop (its currently at that discount too) I just bought it, can't be bad value if theres ten games and its like under 3 bucks or something. On the other hand I probably won't be playing them very soon
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MarcoZombieCannon
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Wow, the steam controller looks pretty bad for non-traditional PC games. Like I'm not gonna use it for Dark Souls, DMC, Castlevania, etc. But for shooters and maybe RTSs it looks like it would be fantastic.
I had read this post earlier, but since I didn't reply immediately I totally forgot about it. While reading the last paragraph, I was constantly thinking "Yes. Exactly. That's right".
I switched between mouse and Xbox pad, but my best times were made with mouse. I found it very precise, and much tighter than the keyboard (and more comfortable to play than with the pad, since I used only one hand). If you choose to play that way, be aware that on the game over screen, clicking with both buttons at once restarts the level, so you don't even have to hover your left hand over the spacebar (something that I found out way after beating Hyper Hexagonest, and only because a friend discovered it by chance when playing it on my PC one day).
The best thing to do would be to try every control method, and see which one feels better to you.
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