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STEAM 2013 Announcements & Updates: 6, GFWL: 0 | Number of hours played bugged
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Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Yeah, Sly 4 was pretty bad
It's also $6 on Steam.
Edit: Stop embarrassing me, Stump!
It's not old that I know of, but it's also only $6 on Steam
Amazon likes to price match other sites prices
You ninja edited...
I see. Thanks.
derExperte
Member
It's not old that I know of, but it's also only $6 on Steam
6,49€ (why 6,49, doesn't make any sense??) in Europe so Amazon is much cheaper for us.
Rickenslacker
Banned
You're not missing much either way.
PetriP-TNT
Member
Erm, Steam reseted my time played stats? They are not showing up until I play a game, then it shows the time I played (like 110 minutes of Bioshock just now). :/
edit: beaten on the top. I noticed this as early as thursday though.
edit: beaten on the top. I noticed this as early as thursday though.
Uh?
I always assumed us European couldn't buy downloadable stuff from amazon.com!
Was I wrong all this time??
derExperte
Member
Yes you were. Use any (real, like Google's headquarter) US address as the billing address.
Yeah. Just add a fictitious american address to your amazon account and you can buy all the digital goods you want
EDIT: beaten like a sorry bush.
Use a fake US address, preferably in a State that has no sales tax.
Some banks may charge you for International transactions. My UK COOP business account does. But then, they charge me for anything and everything
Edit: beaten like a disliked third child.
Baron von Loathsome
Member
Yeah, the play time stats are appearing pretty funky. Every game that I have installed and played shows five more hours of playtime than what it actually is.
The only exceptions are the two games I've played today, XCOM and Rayman Origins.
The only exceptions are the two games I've played today, XCOM and Rayman Origins.
Yeah. Just add a fictitious american address to your amazon account and you can buy all the digital goods you want
EDIT: beaten like a sorry bush.
Ah shit then, I'll need to check another store where to spend my hard earned sponduli. :'(
It's not old that I know of, but it's also only $6 on Steam
ahh I see
For us Brits it is a better deal as on Steam in UK game is £4.99, this at amazon is £3.75..
got to love the regional pricing on steam, how they make $6 to £4.99 is beyond me
It's worth noting that you should use an address based in a state which does not charge sales tax on digital items, which is why, to echo derExperte's suggestion, I recommend people just use that of Google's CA-based HQ.
Prices of third-party titles are publisher-set.
if you are in the UK, get yourself a Post Office Credit Card, they do bank rate and no foreign transaction fees
also £20 Quidco
ashecitism
Member
Finished Minerva's Den. Final fight wasn't that bad at all. Maxed out gravity well and bees were handy. This was a fine piece of DLC. I felt it combined the best of both games.
I still maintain that Bio2 should have been a prequel. It would've been great to experience Rapture during its downfall rather than after the fact... again.
Edit: Credit where credit is due, though (end-game spoiler): even after Infinite, the
, is my favourite moment of the series thus far.
Edit: Credit where credit is due, though (end-game spoiler): even after Infinite, the
brief period spent as a Little Sister, seeing Rapture in all its former glory
graywolf323
Member
according to the press release Brave New World is supposed to be 50% off
"Today's Daily Deal is Civilization V at 75% off! In addition, Civilization V: Gods & Kings is 75% off and Civilization V: Brave New World is 50% off."
I slept on it, and Bioshock 2 multiplayer isn't really playable right now.
Can't adjust the sensitivity enough, can't change the FOV, mouse acceleration. The only way to do it is plug in a controller and play from the couch.
Also the unlocks are super overpowered. The grenade launcher that higher levels unlocked is ridiculously overpowered. Not only does it do a ton of damage, but it sets you on fire (damage over time), restricts your view, and causes your aim to jump all over the place.
Can you show me a screenshot in game for the multiplayer?
Can't adjust the sensitivity enough, can't change the FOV, mouse acceleration. The only way to do it is plug in a controller and play from the couch.
Also the unlocks are super overpowered. The grenade launcher that higher levels unlocked is ridiculously overpowered. Not only does it do a ton of damage, but it sets you on fire (damage over time), restricts your view, and causes your aim to jump all over the place.
Can you show me a screenshot in game for the multiplayer?
ashecitism
Member
That would have been great. I was honestly expecting 2K to do that.
Probably would have been too expensive to do that. Bioshock 2 strikes me as something 2K wanted to get done as cheap as possible.
Definitely ditch Bodycount, it's godawful. As in Shellshock 2/Turning Point bad. Much better ways to spend your time.
So Magic 2014 on sale...
What's going on.....
Last night I finished the first Kane & Lynch with a friend. We played it all in splitscreen co-op, I think in 3 or 4 sessions.
While it isn't a terrible game, it has so many flaws and problems that make it seem like one. For example, you never know where you're being shot from, since there's no HUD marker to show that. This may sound realistic at first, but it's infuriating when you're being surrounded by 20 or so enemies and have no idea where to run, because some asshole you can't see is showering you with bullets from who knows where.
Another thing we didn't like is that there's no way (that we know of) of changing the screen division from vertical to horizontal. The game is locked in the former, and it gives you an extremely narrow view of the world. Being able to see upwards and downwards is much less important than having peripheral vision to the left and right, but apparently someone didn't get that memo. The camera also tends to get blocked by everything, be it bushes, teammates or even the other player. There was a particular on-rails sequence near the end where Lynch (I always played as him) was riding shotgun on a jeep, with Kane on a mounted machinegun in the back, standing up. Not only did both characters have the worst aiming angle I've ever seen in any game (basically Lynch was unable to shoot anything that wasn't at dead center from his position, which meant I couldn't do anything at all during that part), but my vision was also obscured by my friend if I tried to look to the right. Pure genius: make the game splitscreen so each player has a separate camera, but also make the other character block you anyway, rendering it useless.
Of course, what would be of an average-at-best game without some frustrating and annoying moments? The on-rails section that I just mentioned was but one of said moments. Escort missions, having to defend another character, being attacked by 100045.3 enemies at the same time, this game has it all. Coupled with some unskippable cutscenes and the worst checkpoint system this side of the galaxy (which are pretty much always located before said cutscenes, meaning you'll get to fulfill your dream of watching every cutscene 35 times when you respawn), it makes for a creamy and delicious shit sandwich that will leave your mouth full of that rotten smell. I can't remember how many times I must have screamed and cursed in frustration and anger (making me the worst neighbor ever, and my neighbors the most tolerant ones), but it was unbelievable that something as simple as placing the checkpoints after the unskippable cutscenes was missed by the devs. Or better yet, don't fucking have unskippable cutscenes!
Let me tell you about the story: there's this guy who was sentenced to death, and he escapes. Then someone sents another man to watch him while they do something, and the guys start killing other people and then the former man's family appears and bad stuff happens and then you die and you die and die again and OH MAN THE UNSKIPPABLE CUTSCENES SO MUCH PAIN SOMEONE PLEASE KILL ME NOW. But yes, I didn't understand any of it. Is it my fault? Could be, but I don't care whose it was. Now I feel forced to read it on Wikipedia if I want to understand what happened.
There was also a strange glitch once where Kane (my friend) was hurt and then we both died. After respawning he was stuck in "hurt mode", which are some 3 or 4 seconds that happen after your partner heals you when you're down, where your character is grabbing his belly in pain and walks slowly, unable to run or act like a proper action game character. It was annoying, because it took him too damn long to traverse the level, and we kept dying and he had to walk all over again. He couldn't heal me either while he was like that, so I was left to die a few times. Eventually he was wounded, and when I revived him he went back to normal, but it was ridiculous that the game would preserve that state in the checkpoint in the first place. That's supposed to be temporal, not permanent.
All in all, a pretty meh game. Only play if you have a friend by your side who's willing to embark on a journey to Crappyland with you. Playing it alone seems to me to be the quickest way to Suicidefield, and I'm sure you don't want to go there. The loading screen progress bar is a line of coke, which was funny the first time and completely ignored all the rest.
It seems I was harsh with this game, and yet I'd say it's objectively better than what little I tried of the sequel (first 20 seconds of the story mode) on the sole basis that this one has local co-op, and that one doesn't. As we were hurting for more mediocrity after beating K&L1, we fired up the sequel, and we couldn't find said option. A quick Google search told us that it isn't available on the PC version, so all the myths about the Master Race have been rendered invalid and now I'm totally gonna buy a Commodore 64 to play it there in great 0.0009 FPS 320x200 16 colors splitscreen co-op.
While it isn't a terrible game, it has so many flaws and problems that make it seem like one. For example, you never know where you're being shot from, since there's no HUD marker to show that. This may sound realistic at first, but it's infuriating when you're being surrounded by 20 or so enemies and have no idea where to run, because some asshole you can't see is showering you with bullets from who knows where.
Another thing we didn't like is that there's no way (that we know of) of changing the screen division from vertical to horizontal. The game is locked in the former, and it gives you an extremely narrow view of the world. Being able to see upwards and downwards is much less important than having peripheral vision to the left and right, but apparently someone didn't get that memo. The camera also tends to get blocked by everything, be it bushes, teammates or even the other player. There was a particular on-rails sequence near the end where Lynch (I always played as him) was riding shotgun on a jeep, with Kane on a mounted machinegun in the back, standing up. Not only did both characters have the worst aiming angle I've ever seen in any game (basically Lynch was unable to shoot anything that wasn't at dead center from his position, which meant I couldn't do anything at all during that part), but my vision was also obscured by my friend if I tried to look to the right. Pure genius: make the game splitscreen so each player has a separate camera, but also make the other character block you anyway, rendering it useless.
Of course, what would be of an average-at-best game without some frustrating and annoying moments? The on-rails section that I just mentioned was but one of said moments. Escort missions, having to defend another character, being attacked by 100045.3 enemies at the same time, this game has it all. Coupled with some unskippable cutscenes and the worst checkpoint system this side of the galaxy (which are pretty much always located before said cutscenes, meaning you'll get to fulfill your dream of watching every cutscene 35 times when you respawn), it makes for a creamy and delicious shit sandwich that will leave your mouth full of that rotten smell. I can't remember how many times I must have screamed and cursed in frustration and anger (making me the worst neighbor ever, and my neighbors the most tolerant ones), but it was unbelievable that something as simple as placing the checkpoints after the unskippable cutscenes was missed by the devs. Or better yet, don't fucking have unskippable cutscenes!
Let me tell you about the story: there's this guy who was sentenced to death, and he escapes. Then someone sents another man to watch him while they do something, and the guys start killing other people and then the former man's family appears and bad stuff happens and then you die and you die and die again and OH MAN THE UNSKIPPABLE CUTSCENES SO MUCH PAIN SOMEONE PLEASE KILL ME NOW. But yes, I didn't understand any of it. Is it my fault? Could be, but I don't care whose it was. Now I feel forced to read it on Wikipedia if I want to understand what happened.
There was also a strange glitch once where Kane (my friend) was hurt and then we both died. After respawning he was stuck in "hurt mode", which are some 3 or 4 seconds that happen after your partner heals you when you're down, where your character is grabbing his belly in pain and walks slowly, unable to run or act like a proper action game character. It was annoying, because it took him too damn long to traverse the level, and we kept dying and he had to walk all over again. He couldn't heal me either while he was like that, so I was left to die a few times. Eventually he was wounded, and when I revived him he went back to normal, but it was ridiculous that the game would preserve that state in the checkpoint in the first place. That's supposed to be temporal, not permanent.
All in all, a pretty meh game. Only play if you have a friend by your side who's willing to embark on a journey to Crappyland with you. Playing it alone seems to me to be the quickest way to Suicidefield, and I'm sure you don't want to go there. The loading screen progress bar is a line of coke, which was funny the first time and completely ignored all the rest.
It seems I was harsh with this game, and yet I'd say it's objectively better than what little I tried of the sequel (first 20 seconds of the story mode) on the sole basis that this one has local co-op, and that one doesn't. As we were hurting for more mediocrity after beating K&L1, we fired up the sequel, and we couldn't find said option. A quick Google search told us that it isn't available on the PC version, so all the myths about the Master Race have been rendered invalid and now I'm totally gonna buy a Commodore 64 to play it there in great 0.0009 FPS 320x200 16 colors splitscreen co-op.
My character is pretty weak, so there's no way I'll take half of the first gargoyle's life bar and kill it before the second one reaches me. But I gotta try anyway.But I am too! You should have seen me on WoW. I was like the worst GM on the entire Crushridge EU server. And by far! Oh the happy days when I dropped out of university to play 10+ hours a day, still remaining one of the worse player around.
Letting alone how to combat (I don't know really, and of course is the main part of the fun of playing DS, so it would be unfair to explain it), after something like 20 tries against the gargoyles I noticed some common patterns.
First and less important: when they spit fire together my framerate take more hits than my character in game. But I assume if you are here you should have a better PC than mine, so it doesn't apply to you.
Second: you just have to kill the first one before the second one reach you. Considering the second appears when you pass half HP of the first, it means that somewhere near 51% of its HP you have to hit hard no matter what (worst case scenario: you die. so basically it's average case scenario
If you have both gargoyles around it may get messy, because I didn't know which was the first one, so I didn't know who to hit first.
The second gargoyle is actually easier, because you just have to get near it and roll around avoiding fire. It's slow and it's super clear when it's starting an attack.
I couldn't agree more.
phantomspiker
Member
I don't agree with that, the Bioshock series is one of their flagship IPs.
Oh, I agree that 2K greenlit the game with dollar signs in its eyes; I'm just lamenting what I consider to be a significant missed opportunity.
One need only compare Bio2's ~two-year development cycle to that of Infinite's ~six to see that 2K wasn't afraid to play favourites.
The English Conquistador
Member
Am I imagining things or was Bioshock just over £11 a little while earlier today? And now it's just over £23. If so, shit!
Am I imagining things or was Bioshock just over £11 a little while earlier today? And now it's just over £23. If so, shit!
It was yesterday's Daily. You snooze, you lose.
phantomspiker
Member
Two years would have been plenty of time to put out a prequel Bioshock though.
You are going to have to make an argument, the proof is in the pudding so to speak.
Am I imagining things or was Bioshock just over £11 a little while earlier today? And now it's just over £23. If so, shit!
2K weekend sale, Bioshock series was a daily yesterday.
No, it really wouldn't have.
2K Marin reused the majority of Bioshock 1's assets and remade very few of their own. They also outsourced the multiplayer to Digital Extremes in order to get it done faster.
I'm not saying that B2 wasn't a good game, but it was obviously rushed out as quickly as possible in order to cash in on the popularity of the first game.
TheSadRanger
Banned
I've pondered that myself, but Rapture circa Bio1 was so decrepit and dilapidated that a prequel set during the twilight moments of its heyday would've necessitated a lot of unique assets, plus the game is longer than your typical modern FPS.
SpongeBob NoPants
Member
Dunno why, but buying a trading card game like Magic 2014 with the money I'd earned from selling steam trading cards just felt so right.
TheSadRanger
Banned
And you earn more trading cards for playing a trading card game!!
It's a Suda game, don't ask.
Is the deck customization for Magic 2014 pretty good?
I know it's Killer is Dead but I still don't know...what....huh?
Well damn. I hope it'll beat the odds and actually get adjusted to the correct price.
phantomspiker
Member
I have been staring at my computer screen for nearly ten minutes trying argue against this, but I got nothing. I will say that while they share plenty of assets, Bioshock 2 has plenty of it's own unique assets. I'm just not convinced that would have been a significant hurdle for a prequel Bioshock.
SpongeBob NoPants
Member
Hadn't realised that when I picked it up & now I'm already a foil Chandra to the good. I'm actually very tempted to make this my first (and probably last) foil badge.
Well that means get your lazy ass off the bonfire and go farm some souls! Increase strenght or dexterity and endurance, then give your favorite weapon some +1 upgrades.
Maybe I'm wrong, but weapon upgrades seems to affect my damage more than stats increases, so maybe try to up just your weapon and your endurance (probably the most important skill, at least at our point in the game, invaluable against those mothereffing bosses and their hard guard-break attacks).
Yoohoo, my first steam trade/buy/shenanigan thing with a Russian seller.
I was a little stressed but the sum was reasonable enough to take the risk. And now I've got Chaos on Deponia for a great price :luv:
But to be sure, isn't there a risk of ban for doing this sort of thing ? Don't see why but hey, better be safe than sorry. Am I being paranoid ?
And btw, it was the seller you mentioned Jase, nice and good prices.
I was a little stressed but the sum was reasonable enough to take the risk. And now I've got Chaos on Deponia for a great price :luv:
But to be sure, isn't there a risk of ban for doing this sort of thing ? Don't see why but hey, better be safe than sorry. Am I being paranoid ?
And btw, it was the seller you mentioned Jase, nice and good prices.
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