OMG I'm so Jelly of you. Isn't that removed from Steam?
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OMG I'm so Jelly of you. Isn't that removed from Steam?
Chance Hale
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Is Blade Symphony any good? Can you slice people to bits?
I was also disappointed. I bought the game after watching a video thinking it seemed incredible. The first two stages were euphoric, and then everything after is kind of meh.
On top of that, it doesn't help that the auto-generated content for your own songs is lousy. Basically it just involves each point shooting random bullets--not even the bullet patterns from the normal game are present. And I can't select any difficulty or anything. In addition, I find it super annoying how every time you get hit, the music warps in a slowdown/fastforward effect. It's fine in easier modes, but in the tougher ones, you're basically never even hearing the song. I asked about adding an option to disable this on the Steam forum, and the developer didn't seem keen on it. Well, I'm not keen on not being able to listen to the music in a music game.
There's a lot of other issues with the game. The biggest one is that it plays in 30fps with choppy mouse movement. A bullet hell music game can't be released like this, it's almost unplayable to me (the developer is looking into it but says there are sound desync issues in 60 fps).
And second after that, another HUGE issue for me, is that because of the FPS and the fact that enemies only have a hit point on the tip (and not their whole body), you can just swipe the mouse across the screen even if there's 100 bullets there and not die. The developer says he has no problem with people "cheating" this way and that people can choose whether to do it or not. That's just ridiculous, imo, and just hints at either lousy design or an inability on his part to code the game properly.
All in all, one of my biggest regrets on Steam so far (that I have played, anyway).
Buttonbasher
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Yeah, for the longest time I thought it would never happen. I also get to play Sega Rally Revo too now. It's something I hadn't even considered about the Family Sharing thing, but it's super cool regardless.
Yes.Excuse me, I have something in my eye...
One day you'll find your Wheelman. If it could happen to me, it could definitely happen to you.
Though how that syncs up with your professional Steam collecting journey, I can't say.
It is. I'm on the other end though. I just got it and my brother wanted to try a few games out like Reus and a few other smaller titles he hasn't played. Seems to work really well although it would be cool if we could disable certain games from being played(just due to vac ban paranoia, i trust my brother with pretty much everything
).It's the closest thing we have to Bushido Blade on steam so yes, it is good. I also had dark souls pvp vibes when playing it, people emote all the time before duels. It took a little time to map the controls to my liking (I picked scroll wheel up and down to change stances, lmb to attack, rmb to block).
It's worth mentioning that the game is kind of bare bones due to the early access nature of its release. Hope that doesn't bother you.
It's fitting that the achievement for completing RE6's tutorial is called The Longest Night.
After spending the better half of the day downloading the game on my shitty connection, I'm greeted with a unskippable intro cutscene, a QTE, then slow walking to teach me how to move and look around in isolation, as if anyone who bought RE6 is playing a video game for the first time. It's funny because the default keybinds were nonsensical (z is forward, s is back?) so I was actually pressing back to move forward on the set path.
I don't understand how anyone thought that was a good intro to the game, much less then force the player to experience that first before anything else in the game. QTEs, no room to experiment and giving tips like hold a button to see where to go when I'm walking down a corridor while never explaining anything about dodging or the stamina meter -- it's one of the worst intros to a game I've seen in a while.
I don't regret my purchase (yet) but the combination of factors on my end and the terrible decisions of that intro is real bad place to start with that game.
After spending the better half of the day downloading the game on my shitty connection, I'm greeted with a unskippable intro cutscene, a QTE, then slow walking to teach me how to move and look around in isolation, as if anyone who bought RE6 is playing a video game for the first time. It's funny because the default keybinds were nonsensical (z is forward, s is back?) so I was actually pressing back to move forward on the set path.
I don't understand how anyone thought that was a good intro to the game, much less then force the player to experience that first before anything else in the game. QTEs, no room to experiment and giving tips like hold a button to see where to go when I'm walking down a corridor while never explaining anything about dodging or the stamina meter -- it's one of the worst intros to a game I've seen in a while.
I don't regret my purchase (yet) but the combination of factors on my end and the terrible decisions of that intro is real bad place to start with that game.
Chance Hale
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As someone who is probably the biggest fan of Resident Evil 6 in this thread the tutorial is beyond awful and I really can't understand their reasoning behind including it. It doesn't explain or even hint at most of the game's mechanics, is a terrible QTE based slog, and so on. And the real kicker is when you actually get to that point in the game later on in Leon's campaign it plays out completely differently.
By far the worst part of the game and I wouldn't worry too much about it reflecting the rest of the game's quality.
Bushido Blade was the magic phrase, bought. And the barebones nature isn't a big deal, seems to be the norm with fighting games these days anyway :/
By far the worst part of the game and I wouldn't worry too much about it reflecting the rest of the game's quality.
Bushido Blade was the magic phrase, bought. And the barebones nature isn't a big deal, seems to be the norm with fighting games these days anyway :/
How is the lag handled? Because for me in PvP Dark Souls I could get stabbed and yet my opponent was never even close to my back :/
derExperte
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He, I read that thread earlier today and it made me remove the game from my wishlist. Will wait for bundles.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Gods, I really want the Steam Hardware badge, but I don't wanna buy a controller. Waaaaaah!!!!
Infinite Justice
Member
Do you have a PS3 controller laying around?
If so you can do it with that and a program like "betterDS3"
wow WOW sounds like I dodged a bullet by resisting a week one buy
the original was still fun so maybe someday, but certainly not right now
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Does that mean your game isn't supporting a controller?
User 85168
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You can do it without a controller. There's a guide on the front page of the Steam Machine community page.
Yep. If the game remains in its current state, I would sincerely not be able to recommend it in anything outside of a bundle.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
That key bind makes sense on French AZERTY keyboards.
Leon Belmont
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If Vin Diesel were truly a gamer, he'd take it upon himself to get Wheelman back on Steam.
Just let me talk with him....
neoism
Member
goddamn it . :/
Chance Hale
Member
Ugh, I had missed this link. Why must you have quoted it ;-;
He did imply there was a real Riddick game coming though? The hype must go on!
This was a kick in the face.
Scott32020
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Got Democracy 3, it released on Steam today. It's interesting (if you like politics/government budgeting), but I keep getting assassinated after about 6 turns. Guess I need to tone down my radical policy shifts and/or try to placate different interest groups when they get upset at my policy shifts (or just be less radical).
Chance Hale
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Can someone remind me of the name of that incredible looking 2 person made game that uses the custom engine? Has a robot in it.
Woah, that does not at all sound like the game I expected it to be. Will have to look into it, sounds like a lot of fun.
Woah, that does not at all sound like the game I expected it to be. Will have to look into it, sounds like a lot of fun.
neoism
Member
ok cool app games are still gimmicks to me still...I want a next gen Riddick game...wish AFBB was on steam still
Just let me talk with him....
There's nothing preventing it from happening, really. Midway is dead, Tigon is Vin's own development studio, and the licence is, uh, Vin himself -- all he needs to do is give WB the green light.
Reset.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
..... woah.
I like how Konami likes to torment me with an MGR tidbit a few days ago and then goes completely cold again. It's so bad that even my wife asks me about the game's release.
Oh well. At least I'm putting a hurtin' on my massive back log.
I've been waiting quite a while for this. I'm amazed their Greenlight page hasn't exploded. Are they not doing any sort of promotion for it?
Oh well. At least I'm putting a hurtin' on my massive back log.
I've been waiting quite a while for this. I'm amazed their Greenlight page hasn't exploded. Are they not doing any sort of promotion for it?
Chance Hale
Member
Thanks love!
For people who have Blade Symphony, how the hell do you get past the block tutorial? Holding the right mouse button seems useless :/
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Yes! I am a candidate!
Thanks, GAF! You're my best friend!
Thanks, GAF! You're my best friend!
He's stated before the iOS app isn't the only new Riddick game coming.ok cool app games are still gimmicks to me still...I want a next gen Riddick game...wish AFBB was on steam still
I might have to get this. Sounds interesting.
batteryLeakage
Neo Member
Speaking of Riddick games, have Atari's assets been auctioned off yet? I'd love to see the rights to Dark Athena+ Butcher Bay get picked up by Diesel. Then he can get it back up on Steam (without Tages hopefully).
Edit: Seems an auction did happen. I didn't see anything on the Riddick games' fate. Would the rights revert to Diesel as he has the Riddick IP?
Edit: Seems an auction did happen. I didn't see anything on the Riddick games' fate. Would the rights revert to Diesel as he has the Riddick IP?
I own the games already, but I would love to see that!
It's believed that Atari will have another auction in the future. It wasn't a liquidation sale so not everything was sold off.
NingenJanai
Member
I don't have them ( played the first one on Xbox ) and would definitely like to get them on Steam without Tages.
It's unlikely you'd see both Butcher Bay and Dark Athena on Steam even if Diesel gets the distribution rights as the former was remade for inclusion with the latter.
Edit: I assume among what's left on Atari's corpse are the Steam distribution rights for Indigo Prophecy and Hasbro's classic D&D titles (Temple of Elemental Evil, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, and so on). It's the only reasonable explanation as to why they're not on Steam despite being on GOG, GamersGate, and wherever else.
Edit: I assume among what's left on Atari's corpse are the Steam distribution rights for Indigo Prophecy and Hasbro's classic D&D titles (Temple of Elemental Evil, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, and so on). It's the only reasonable explanation as to why they're not on Steam despite being on GOG, GamersGate, and wherever else.
NingenJanai
Member
Dream destroyer !!!!!
I don't think it's so unlikely, Dark Athena included Escape on console, it depends how hard it's to port it to pc.
batteryLeakage
Neo Member
Interesting. However it happens, the Riddick games deserve to live on and not be stuck in the purgatory that most licensed games end up in.
Dream destroyer !!!!!
I don't think it's so unlikely, Dark Athena included Escape on console, it depends how hard it's to port it to pc.
I think you misread my post. I'm just saying that Butcher Bay being rendered redundant by Dark Athena means the former in particular is unlikely to resurface.
NingenJanai
Member
I am literally salivating right now.
Someone could pick up a good investment for little initial cost.
The aforementioned Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast titles have never been available for purchase on Steam, however Atari must have made store pages at some point since Valve employees have them. For example:
The aforementioned Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast titles have never been available for purchase on Steam, however Atari must have made store pages at some point since Valve employees have them. For example:
More than store pages, they even have working community hubs.
SneakyStephan
Banned
Muahahahahaahahaaaaaahahahaa.
Must be made by a french of belgian developer, AZERTY keyboard layout!
Now you know how I feel every time a game automatically defaults to QWERTY and Z makes me walk backward while Q does nothing.
*diabolical laughter*
NingenJanai
Member
The aforementioned Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast titles have never been available for purchase on Steam, however Atari must have made store pages at some point since Valve employees have them. For example:
That breaks my heart, hopefully they'll make the games available down the line.
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