It's way too early to panic, I don't see console announcements for new gen to be plentiful so far either.
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STEAM 2013 Announcements & Updates: 6, GFWL: 0 | Number of hours played bugged
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It's way too early to panic, I don't see console announcements for new gen to be plentiful so far either.
A lot of big games don't have store pages yet. Watch Dogs, Ass Creed 4 etc.
toddhunter
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It isn't that strange. Well, not in the sense that Microsoft wanted to sell 360s. Leaving PC gaming and GFWL to die given their position in the market might not be considered the best move.
Tizoc
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There's also Trails in the Sky 1 and 2!
jadedcynic
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There's no GTA V, there's alot to panic over.
intheinbetween
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I just hope Sega buying ATLUS gets us closer to SMT titles to Steam
Cosmic Schwung
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Feels a bit too soon for it to be in a humble bundle despite the fact it's already been in a groupees bundle, but that was before it was on steam. Something like Don't Starve seems like a more likely candidate, or they might throw in one of the previous bundles like they've done in the past. Mulana probably will end up in a bundle at some point so unless you want to play it right now, or just want to give some extra cash to the devs, you may as well hold off.
I can understand the move insofar that Microsoft's library of first-party Xbox IPs -- or rather, those it paid attention to -- was rather small at the time, but it's a pity we didn't get a belated port. Sure, we got Fable 3 in the end, but I would have preferred a fashionably late port of Fable 2 myself.
toddhunter
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A "Belated" series of games would be nice from Microsoft. They could make the boxes purple or something.
exactly, I still don't understand why they never ported it to PC.
At this rate Nintendo will end up buying Sega.
I'd love to see MS sign off on PC ports of current X360 exclusives now that we're in the throws of a generational transition. The PC releases of the Fable, Gears, Halo and Viva Pinata franchises all rather lonely without their X360-exclusive counterparts.
derExperte
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August was one of the craziest months since the invention of Steam, September has been very good too so far plus today we'll get Ironclad Tactics and Foul Play. Grab some of those games if you have nothing left to play.
And what's coming out on consoles in the next few weeks that we're missing? Everyone besides FIFA is afraid of GTA. Then end of October has BF4, AC4 and Deadly Premonition in the span of three days shortly after Batman. Oh and next week Shadow Warrior.That would be nice, especially when no bc is in sight, and 360s don't live long.
So I just tried La-Mulana...
My very first impression is that it seems to be frustrating for no real reason?
The character's stiffness is atrocious; you can't change direction mid-air and the jump speed is super slow, to the extent that I think movement itself might be intended to feel like a puzzle of sorts - you have to anticipate what will happen over the course of your jump since it literally takes 3-4 seconds until you land. The level design seems super annoying too, I've already seen several screens where I wanted to go to one point but while walking towards there I realized there was a wall that, while not invisible, did look similar enough to the background scenery for me not to notice it until I bumped against it, and to actually go to the other side I had to backtrack quite a lot and go up and down ladders which are a pain to use and then walk all the way back to the other side of the wall again, only to realize that nothing's there.
I did like the way it explicitly leaves you with no information (you get a laptop app at the beginning which says "there will be no help, support is forbidden" etc.) and you have to figure out what to do yourself, but the thing is this approach implies a lot of trial-and-error and if each try is such a pain in the ass, I won't play it for long.
My very first impression is that it seems to be frustrating for no real reason?
The character's stiffness is atrocious; you can't change direction mid-air and the jump speed is super slow, to the extent that I think movement itself might be intended to feel like a puzzle of sorts - you have to anticipate what will happen over the course of your jump since it literally takes 3-4 seconds until you land. The level design seems super annoying too, I've already seen several screens where I wanted to go to one point but while walking towards there I realized there was a wall that, while not invisible, did look similar enough to the background scenery for me not to notice it until I bumped against it, and to actually go to the other side I had to backtrack quite a lot and go up and down ladders which are a pain to use and then walk all the way back to the other side of the wall again, only to realize that nothing's there.
I did like the way it explicitly leaves you with no information (you get a laptop app at the beginning which says "there will be no help, support is forbidden" etc.) and you have to figure out what to do yourself, but the thing is this approach implies a lot of trial-and-error and if each try is such a pain in the ass, I won't play it for long.
woo and indeed hoo
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Holy fucking crap!
This is the first of those Massive ModBots Give-aways that you said you would do to hoover up and give away all the unclaimed keys right?
Must be, surely?!
HOLD FUCKING CRAP!!!I first read the huge ModBot post about an hour ago and am still genuflecting internally.
SMH [in a good way]. I hope being so generous is making you feel good as it should be!
What I like is that they have a grand total of eight posts on GAF and all but one of them are in the last Steam thread.
Subtle.
Oh and lol at all the questions that are answered in the ModBot post itself. Come on people! Reading helps you know?
Out_Of_Ammo
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I would like to know this as well.
Chairmanchuck
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Maybe this might interest some of you:
@ghostlightgames I preordered Agarest on Steam. Any more projects for the PC planned? Besides other Agarest Games?
@sharillonxiao We're looking into a few but nothing concrete yet I'm afraid.
Stallion Free
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I played it on 360 and I actually kinda believe the messy code myth excuse. I seriously doubt any amount of patching could make the game a solid PC port.
EuroGamer Expo is on next week, games to play that are coming on Steam:
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
Batman: Arkham Origins
Dark Souls II
Dying Light
Frozen Endzone
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
Infinite Crisis
Lego Marvel Super Heroes
Might & Magic: Duel of Champions
PES 2014
Prison Architect
Stronghold: Crusader 2
The Crew
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Might have missed one or two, no Valve this year.
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
Batman: Arkham Origins
Dark Souls II
Dying Light
Frozen Endzone
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
Infinite Crisis
Lego Marvel Super Heroes
Might & Magic: Duel of Champions
PES 2014
Prison Architect
Stronghold: Crusader 2
The Crew
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Might have missed one or two, no Valve this year.
Seriously freaky, but pretty cool. Weird to look at stuff from an unusual perspective
So it was you! Get off my high horse!
welcome to the club, there are quite a few of us here, we found out today
derExperte
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I blind-bought a 2pack based solely on the trailer and some preview. It's from the SpaceChem dudes, how can it be bad?
I sure am my friend! Along with Foul Play, it will be a glorious day
Nice, please give me some impressions later good sir! I'm curious for some honest opinions on the game.
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On a side note, I wish I could talk to Valve and get all my Physical games on Steam. By providing them proof (DVD, Case) and giving them the Serial Number in the game. I'm saying this because I have Age of Empires III Complete in physical form and I wish I could just have it on Steam to avoid more clutter.
I don't have many physical games and the ones I have are really old but I would like this to be an option. Just to give you guys an example, back in the day I did this in Origin for my old Copies of Dead Space (which I'm playing on Steam now instead, lol) and Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars and they even offered me extra content for C&C. It was very fast and they got my physical copies of games on Origin.
Stallion Free
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I'm so fucking thirsty for Dark Souls II. I wish some of those expos were convenient located for me.
Huh I was hesitant to buy Gunpoint - it was #3 on my wishlist but I'm not gonna play it anytime soon and I thought it would be useless to get it now - but then I realized it was cheaper on the dev's site, due to Humble Store not converting $ to , so I went there...
...and bought the special edition :|
Valve stopped making games years ago dude lol.
woo and indeed hoo
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You need to add these games to your Steam Wishlist! Enhanced Steam tells me that you haven't added AofE III Complete yet so hop to it! I'm sure there are plenty of GAFers who would love to gift things to you to show how much they appreciate their fellow GAFer! Especially since you have horrible dentist bills to pay for your wisdom teeth extractions!
Baron_Calamity
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I'm not going to dig around the internet but in one of the many interviews, they said it came down to a cost issue.The port would cost many times more than they could expect to profit from sales. It was sited as a reason why one of the Rockstar studios was being dedicated ports in order to avoid that issue again.
derExperte
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Btw there now is the option to buy the SE and EE extras through Steam after buying the normal version which wasn't there before.
And if anyone is afraid of Gunpoint being in a bundle soon: https://twitter.com/GunpointGame/status/380047219455311874
Problem of course is that EA can do whatever they want with their own games while Valve can't just give you a Steam version without the consent of the publisher.
I realized what it was a while back and never really batted an eye, but thinking of it as Charon makes that cool as hell. Wow.
Not exactly:
I like how it's mentioned that R* usually greenlights ports when the requisite circumstances align, thereby calling into question the matter of whether or not the PC has fulfilled them.
Oh that's really cool. Really puts it in perspective once you know how to look at it.
Frank Jaeger
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Whenever I see Dark Souls 2 somewhere my heart skips a beat! I never wanted a game so much in my life!
There's no way my Wishlist is going to get bigger fellow GAFfer, it already have a lot of games (I think it's up to 14 Titles) that I'm waiting for either a big price drop or they appear in a Humble Bundle. The only thing I want from this fine Community I already have every time I enter this Thread, you know, that relaxed talk without insults or console wars, that's the good stuff.
Oh, and I hope you are felling better today, sir.
Indeed, I guess that's the main reason. Oh well, doesn't hurt to dream.
Heh, I was hoping for at least a Steambox demonstration, but yeah nothing this year, Chet Faliszek did give a talk in 2012.
Assuming a formal announcement next week (not taking into account Valve Time), I think it's quite likely we'll see Valve's own "SteamBox", and perhaps a few offerings from OEMs, at next year's CES.
Aaaaah, fuck it.
Whenever I see people talking about Dark Souls I start like drooling and totally wanting it right now, even if I never played it, even with GFWL, even if I don't know if my computer can actually run it and moreover if I'm really gonna enjoy it as I'm kinda weird when it comes to hard games.
But then again, since I opened my first Steam thread here, with everybody commending it every day, it has always been on the top positions of my wishlist. Then I don't know why I didn't picked it during last Summer Sale, and now, with the sequel coming on Steam, I fucking want to play the first one even if I have a full backlog.
Hopefully next sale it's going to be massively discounted again, because this time I'm totally gonna dip.
Look what you've done, SteamGAF. I kinda hate you sometimes, you know?
Whenever I see people talking about Dark Souls I start like drooling and totally wanting it right now, even if I never played it, even with GFWL, even if I don't know if my computer can actually run it and moreover if I'm really gonna enjoy it as I'm kinda weird when it comes to hard games.
But then again, since I opened my first Steam thread here, with everybody commending it every day, it has always been on the top positions of my wishlist. Then I don't know why I didn't picked it during last Summer Sale, and now, with the sequel coming on Steam, I fucking want to play the first one even if I have a full backlog.
Hopefully next sale it's going to be massively discounted again, because this time I'm totally gonna dip.
Look what you've done, SteamGAF. I kinda hate you sometimes, you know?
roosters93
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Do not fret. Take a gander at these posts.
Release List Part 1
Release List Part 2
Release List Part 3
Look what you've done, SteamGAF. I kinda hate you sometimes, you know?
I KNOW these words are not coming from your heart, so it's okay fellow GAFfer.
You should really get it next sale. This year it was about 7.5 I believe. I had it on PS3 with 30-40 Hours played and never finished it, now I no longer have PS3 and I'm not sure if I can start over to recover so many hours (which is not that time, actually) so I might just jump to Dark Souls II instead. I wonder if there's a slim chance of them releasing for next-gen consoles too.
woo and indeed hoo
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There's no way my Wishlist is going to get bigger fellow GAFfer, it already have a lot of games (I think it's up to 14 Titles) that I'm waiting for either a big price drop or they appear in a Humble Bundle. The only thing I want from this fine Community I already have every time I enter this Thread, you know, that relaxed talk without insults or console wars, that's the good stuff.
Oh, and I hope you are felling better today, sir.
Indeed, I guess that's the main reason. Oh well, doesn't hurt to dream.
Understood
but don't blame me if someone gifts it to you . The seed has been planted!Much better today thanks
. Still a bit wobbly but at least today I don't feel like I want to throw up and/or fall over anytime I turn my head. Well not as much anyway . Hope the meds are still helping with the pain.Oh and i has a question....
If I like FTL [which I do, if you haven't noticed my
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