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STEAM 2013 Announcements & Updates: 6, GFWL: 0 | Number of hours played bugged
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Awesome. The trailer that was released earlier this year blew me away. Also, it won the Excellence in Audio in IGF 2013. If the trailer music is any indication of how good the music will be through the entirety of the game it seems like a well deserved award.
Click the image below to view the trailer.
I hope that they release a soundtrack edition.
EmergentFocus
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Indie Royale Birthday Bundle:
Cities in Motion 2
for: Steam-PC, Mac
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project
for: Steam- PC Mac
Impire
for: Steam - PC
XenoMiner
for: Windows, Desura, To enter unlock code - click News- click Content-(enter code)
Perfection.
for: Steam - PC, Mac, Linux . Desura PC, Mac, Linux
Paradox really seem to be getting into the bundle business these days...
Cities in Motion 2
for: Steam-PC, Mac
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project
for: Steam- PC Mac
Impire
for: Steam - PC
XenoMiner
for: Windows, Desura, To enter unlock code - click News- click Content-(enter code)
Perfection.
for: Steam - PC, Mac, Linux . Desura PC, Mac, Linux
Paradox really seem to be getting into the bundle business these days...
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
I'll eat my words a bit. I've only played the Duke Nukem game from this, but it's pretty good if somewhat dated.
EmergentFocus
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morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Quoting for posterity.
At the same time, if Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project is the star of your bundle and one of the best games you've offered in a while, you've got problems.
I'll just buy Perfection on Steam itself since it's $2.99, in doing so rolling the dice with the assumption that I already have the bonus game.
EmergentFocus
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Hah! THAT'S more like it! But yeah, I think your first post was pretty accurate regarding some of Indie Royale's recent offerings.
PandaPedinte
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I am really enjoying bouncing between Resident Evil: Revelations (one of my friends already beat it through Family Sharing lol) and Grid 2. Grid 2 is stupidly pretty on my TV and the image quality is stellar. A 1080p 42 in TV doesn't have the greatest pixel density, but the MSAA options go a long way in making everything look incredibly sharp. The career mode is a bit weird in it's happiness to repeat tracks with each Season, but it does make moving to a new season quite exciting due to the promise of a whole new set of locations/tracks. Last night I reached the second full season (3rd race set technically) and it was quite nice seeing Paris and Barcelona tracks. I don't know if I will ever bother buying the game in the future (currently playing a shared copy), but it might give me incentive to go back and finish the first one's career mode.
As for Resident Evil I have been playing it in smaller bites, usually playing no more than 1-2 sub episodes at a time. This has just been the most I have been able to manage with my schedule this week, but even if I did have larger amounts of time to play I still think I would stick with this setup. I think the game looks pretty incredible for coming from a 3DS originally. I'm downsampling from 1440p (the highest res available in the menu even though I can go up to 1620p) and that combined with the highest in-game AA option (FXAA HQ3) and locked 60 fps it still leads to a pretty striking image clarity. A lot of the ship areas hold up really nicely when played on a big screen, easily on par with some 360 and PS3 port assets. The non-ship areas have made the 3DS level limitations a bit more apparent, but they still make for some nice narrative and visual variety. I hated the way the animation looked with the twin stick (standard 3rd person shooter controls) and switched back to the classic RE4 style set up that the movement animation was clearly designed around. I played a shitload of RE4 and 5 this way so it was pretty easy to slip back into. Overall I'd say I'm pretty pleased with the 12.50$ purchase even at a quarter of the way into the campaign.
As for Resident Evil I have been playing it in smaller bites, usually playing no more than 1-2 sub episodes at a time. This has just been the most I have been able to manage with my schedule this week, but even if I did have larger amounts of time to play I still think I would stick with this setup. I think the game looks pretty incredible for coming from a 3DS originally. I'm downsampling from 1440p (the highest res available in the menu even though I can go up to 1620p) and that combined with the highest in-game AA option (FXAA HQ3) and locked 60 fps it still leads to a pretty striking image clarity. A lot of the ship areas hold up really nicely when played on a big screen, easily on par with some 360 and PS3 port assets. The non-ship areas have made the 3DS level limitations a bit more apparent, but they still make for some nice narrative and visual variety. I hated the way the animation looked with the twin stick (standard 3rd person shooter controls) and switched back to the classic RE4 style set up that the movement animation was clearly designed around. I played a shitload of RE4 and 5 this way so it was pretty easy to slip back into. Overall I'd say I'm pretty pleased with the 12.50$ purchase even at a quarter of the way into the campaign.
I'm with him. I'm way too paranoid. The one time I put it up somewhere public, I got a scam attempt not an hour later, so...
woo and indeed hoo
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Glad I am not the only one who found that!
It was amply tricky enough for me as an X-COM noob and pc gaming noob.
I hope you are enjoying it anything like as much as I did as I had an absolute blast
.Are these keys Steam OR or are they Steam AND?
In other words, can I activate the Steam key on my account and double dip by adding them to my Desura account too?
You get a key for each service listed. If Desura isn't mentioned then the key isn't going to work.
woo and indeed hoo
Banned
Woo!
Thanks sir
.Oh and I'm glad you're enjoying Revelaitons SF. Don't forget to play Raid mode; soooo fun
.Brofist ! Well, sad brofist, I don't see me having disposable income for some months and the console generation transition strikes me more as a wait and see period in regard to upgrade. But man, while still very nice, this lovely 560ti is showing its age sometimes.
You should try forcing SGSSAA and AO and disable FXAA (assuming you have an nvidia card, of course) for even greater IQ.
No AA vs 8xSGSSAA and AO
MMBosstones86
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Glad I am not the only one who found that!
It was amply tricky enough for me as an X-COM noob and pc gaming noob.
I hope you are enjoying it anything like as much as I did as I had an absolute blast
use more Snipers
I didn't either at the time, I slowly accumulated parts that went on sale. Took a few months, but was able to save quite a bit of money that way.
woo and indeed hoo
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Indeed
.I used two snipers for quite a bit once I'd got my head round how the game works and realised how useful they were.
When I re-play it on a harder difficulty level I'm sure I will have an easier time of things since I learnt so much on my first playthrough.
Atraveller
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It was my first time playing a XCOM game, and I have no interest in cranking the difficulty up. Even a colonel with titan armor can get one-shot'd, it's hard to imagine what the harder difficulties play like.Glad I am not the only one who found that!
It was amply tricky enough for me as an X-COM noob and pc gaming noob.
I hope you are enjoying it anything like as much as I did as I had an absolute blast
Have you played any of the Mario and Luigi RPGs? They're very similar to that. I liked them, even though there was a little too much combat for my tastes.
2 snipers with the best gear and double tap...do you even need the other 4 guys?
woo and indeed hoo
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Heh, after I finished the game I re-started on a higher difficulty all cocky and got my arse handed to me :/. I decided it was probably best to go back to it at a later date
.In respect of the Indie Royale Birthday Bundle, what does the question mark relate to? Is it the bonus album or does something else get added later?
MMBosstones86
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4 meat shields
dirtywhirlwind
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Mystery game, usually unlocks when the bundle is about to end. Don't expect a Steam game though.
EmergentFocus
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Also, to make and serve the tea.
Yes, an exciting extra game to be revealed later for your fun and delectation.
woo and indeed hoo
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Duke Nukem Manhattan Project --MB-ACC876F2056324FD- Taken by Cyberquake
Get your balls of steel on me!
New BundleStars:
The Bloodbath Bundle 2.20
The Bloodbath Bundle 2.20
- Clutch
- Necrovision
- Necrovision: Lost Company
- The Void
- Zombie Bowl-o-Rama
- 99 Levels to Hell (desura only, will get Steam key when it gets greenlit)
EmergentFocus
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Cyberquake
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Thanks a lot for Duke, Duke!
Yeah well, as mentioned in a previous post, I'm not really sold on the subject of the new XCOM. But as I have played a shitload of the first and second ones in their times, I can't exclude the possibility of warped memories.
But this... I don't know. For starters I tend to think a lot of abilities could use a more detailed description. Then there is the loss of the base construction, that always was a nice customize (or dress your doll if you prefer) feel. And the fact that you can have multiple interceptor but just one base, which on normal difficulty makes me always use the same squad against training some B-teams. And even if I did that, yeah, maybe I'm just bad but the encounters can be pretty punishing and the only time I sent several rookies on site I went that far from a disaster. The original could be really difficult but there was always simple encounters to train your red shirts.
And maybe that's a good thing that you can't manage more team, because if I can totally imagine the first one combats could be long, this one drags on quite heavily. Encounters are longggg, can't see the prospect of doing 2 or 3 times as much a very pleasing thought.
And finally the writing. Yeah maybe the first one was wordy, I have no recollection of that aspect, but man do this one feels like your typical modern game, always babbling, always putting your face in its pretty generic plot and characters. Cinematics, logs, so many logs, I wonder why they didn't include detailed reports of the crew diet while they were at it...
I'm focusing on the bad (for me) here, that's not to say the game overall is bad. I'm just... not sold. X-Com was a mad fun ride to me, XCOM feels a lot more like work.
But this... I don't know. For starters I tend to think a lot of abilities could use a more detailed description. Then there is the loss of the base construction, that always was a nice customize (or dress your doll if you prefer) feel. And the fact that you can have multiple interceptor but just one base, which on normal difficulty makes me always use the same squad against training some B-teams. And even if I did that, yeah, maybe I'm just bad but the encounters can be pretty punishing and the only time I sent several rookies on site I went that far from a disaster. The original could be really difficult but there was always simple encounters to train your red shirts.
And maybe that's a good thing that you can't manage more team, because if I can totally imagine the first one combats could be long, this one drags on quite heavily. Encounters are longggg, can't see the prospect of doing 2 or 3 times as much a very pleasing thought.
And finally the writing. Yeah maybe the first one was wordy, I have no recollection of that aspect, but man do this one feels like your typical modern game, always babbling, always putting your face in its pretty generic plot and characters. Cinematics, logs, so many logs, I wonder why they didn't include detailed reports of the crew diet while they were at it...
I'm focusing on the bad (for me) here, that's not to say the game overall is bad. I'm just... not sold. X-Com was a mad fun ride to me, XCOM feels a lot more like work.
chrominance
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Cities in Motion 2 you guys. I feel like I've stumped for this game before (possibly to Toma-like levels) but I think despite some minor flaws, it's well worth the original $15 purchase price. You don't actually build cities in the game (except in the map editor, and in a limited fashion in the campaign/sandbox modes), so it's not a SimCity killer, but if you like the idea of laying transit lines across cities and setting tram timelines, you'll definitely get more out of this game than SimCity.
Thank you for posting fellow GAFfer, hmm The Void might get me interested since we are getting close to Halloween. Already have Necrovision Lost Company and don't know much about everything else.
EDIT: Oh and it have a 77/100 Metacritic and it's made by Ice-pick Lodge, the guys who just released Knock-Knock.
Haha, awesome. Almost bouth the Necrovision games on Steam for 4,99 on the weeklong last week.
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Have you finished all the other Duke Nukem games?
woo and indeed hoo
Banned
If you're a cat...
My cat has staff who have their own staff. Ha!
This looks fun to me; it was that primarily that got me to buy the bundle.
Have you played the original games recently? I would be curious to see how you would react to them now; whether it would be nostalgia heaven or rose tinted memories clouding you to the reality of the game.
Since I enjoyed XCOM EU so much I am tempted to try the older games but the graphics are putting me off. I am far from a graphics tart too. It just looked like it would be difficult to make out what was going on :/. Are there mods to spruce those up a bit?
Yes. Love the series. I even bought the SP DLC for Duke Nukem Forever (The Doctor who cloned me).
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Perfect, I already have The Baconing and Rain Slick 2.
Oh man, I read this like "Halo 3 comes to PC October 25th
why do people care about playing halo 3 on pc again?
It's fun, entertaining, love the MP, 1080p,60+ FPS, modding etc.
Few people thought this bundle might be today. I don't track SteamDB closely so maybe this is the norm, but these changes seem too last-minute for it to go live in just a few hours.
Yes, Impire and Duke Nukem Manhattan! I always wanted Impire (almost bought it on a sale or on another bundle I didn't want any other game, I forget) and Another game pried from the cold, dead hands of the 360 platformer. Great bundle!
Only game I don't have is Deathspank, but I don't know if I even want to pay 1 dollar for it.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
The next Humble Weekly starts tomorrow, right? But yeah, usually we see this sort of stuff a few weeks before that particular bundle goes live.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
The current weekly is ending tomorrow, so expect it then.
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