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STEAM 2013 Announcements & Updates: 6, GFWL: 0 | Number of hours played bugged
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Chance Hale
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More important question as I had to update the skin which fixed the issue above, does changing your password disrupt all authorizations? Want to give access to a friend who I trust but even still I'm not sure I want to leave the same password in place after authorizing his computer.
Joe Molotov
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Can't wait for Origins GOTY!
jaundicejuice
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I understand it's four or five hours for narratives sake. The problem is the preamble to the main story of AC3 is as long as some games are. It took several hours for the main game to actually begin. Even when Connor finally gets his assassin's robes, you get pulled out of the Animus to play as Desmond in the modern era.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
It's par for the course for Assassin's Creed games. The pacing of the games isn't meant for everyone.
Changing your password won't remove authorised devices vis-a-vis Family Sharing
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Man RE6 is a weird garbled game. I can see how 400 bagillion people worked on it when the game feels less than the sum of its parts.
The Leon/Helena stuff is mishmash of attempts at classic RE with over the top action semi-QTE sequences. The problem is that the game seems to heavily favour meleeing enemies so it's not really scary when the best option is to run into zombies to roundhouse kick them to the ground and then insta-kill them. The constant teasing from Helena refusing to tell you what she knows for reasons was also pretty annoying.
The Chris/Piers stuff feels more in line with the mechanics from the one chapter I played. It was really satisfying to rush into a crowd and power punch enemies across the room, even though it seemed like they wanted you to use cover. They really wanted that CoD audience though, even going as far as to have slowmo breach type moments...except it happened in the middle of a fight when I had to reload so I was left to watch Chris reload in slowmo while the hostage got her throat slit.
I haven't tried the Jake/Sherry levels yet but I hear Jake is even more melee focused so that should be interesting.
The Leon/Helena stuff is mishmash of attempts at classic RE with over the top action semi-QTE sequences. The problem is that the game seems to heavily favour meleeing enemies so it's not really scary when the best option is to run into zombies to roundhouse kick them to the ground and then insta-kill them. The constant teasing from Helena refusing to tell you what she knows for reasons was also pretty annoying.
The Chris/Piers stuff feels more in line with the mechanics from the one chapter I played. It was really satisfying to rush into a crowd and power punch enemies across the room, even though it seemed like they wanted you to use cover. They really wanted that CoD audience though, even going as far as to have slowmo breach type moments...except it happened in the middle of a fight when I had to reload so I was left to watch Chris reload in slowmo while the hostage got her throat slit.
I haven't tried the Jake/Sherry levels yet but I hear Jake is even more melee focused so that should be interesting.
SteveWinwood
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morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
I predict that's when he'll finally snap because he literally cannot have every game on Steam.lol wonder what JaseC will do went he has every game on steam
We're all okay now because he still has a few more knots to climb on the rope. Who knows what kind of man he'll become when he reaches for the celing only to discover the last distance is unknotted and just out of reach.
Atraveller
Banned
He'll buy them again.lol wonder what JaseC will do went he has every game on steam
neoism
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TY <3
Rope climbing is good exercise.
Atraveller
Banned
Time to fill up your alt account.
Chance Hale
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Ah that's right, will just leave it then.
For the person who authorized the gaffer which gave then gave him beta access, did that happen after you logged into the other gaffers steam account to do the same or did he instantly have that option after you authorized his computer?
Atraveller
Banned
So, does the "request access" works?
MMBosstones86
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lol wonder what JaseC will do when he has every game on steam
make a new account
I was wrong on Steam Guard authorisations being removed, but I think it may depend on how long it's been since you've authorised the device. I had to re-authorise Firefox on my laptop following the first password change, however this wasn't the case after I changed it again (and again, just to be sure).
The figure on the Linux landing page, in the "Find more" box, includes all purchasable content, whereas if you click the link you'll see that there are only 209 actual games available. You're seeing 499 because you've not limited the scope of the search, so trailers and mods are showing up, too.
Chance Hale
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The combat system is completely melee focused and all of the game's mechanics revolve around it. One of the things that does make it often not very scary but when the systems are so intricate and involved It doesn't really matter. Leon's campaign actually has quite a few moments where it wants you to use all the mechanics present like rolling and sliding on the floor as you'll see.
And the game never really wants you to use cover, it's just an option. They give you extreme mobility(running, sliding, rolling, crawling, etc) for a reason. Chris's campaign even has enemies that send tentacles at you if you stay in it and pull you out, dragging you into the open. And the campaign in question starts out much more focused on action and squad movement it begins to take that all away as you go along.
Jake's campaign definitely has the most melee actions though. Jake has exclusive hand to hand actions(his fists are a weapon) and sherry has a shock rod. Every weapon in the game can be used for melee though.
TheSadRanger
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Finished up the main campaign in RE:Revelations on normal and I enjoyed it pretty decently. Took me around 6-7 hours to finish the campaign which is divided into episodes Alan Wake style.
The amount of back tracking in the boat got kind of tiresome at some points but there's enough diversification in the environments to keep you interested. There are swimming levels in the game which seems odd but it's neither terrible nor great, while swimming it can be finicky to trigger button prompts.
There's a pretty wide array of enemies with some having some unique attributes and I really liked some of the boss fights. Invisible
can suck it.
Raid mode adds some hilarity as enemies will have different attribute bonuses like extra strength or defense. There's even a speed mod which makes em small so you'll see a tiny little two foot Hunter running around looking like a cute little machine of death.
I plan on doing an Inferno run and what's great is new game+ let's you carry over weapons from different difficulties.
The amount of back tracking in the boat got kind of tiresome at some points but there's enough diversification in the environments to keep you interested. There are swimming levels in the game which seems odd but it's neither terrible nor great, while swimming it can be finicky to trigger button prompts.
There's a pretty wide array of enemies with some having some unique attributes and I really liked some of the boss fights. Invisible
hunters
Raid mode adds some hilarity as enemies will have different attribute bonuses like extra strength or defense. There's even a speed mod which makes em small so you'll see a tiny little two foot Hunter running around looking like a cute little machine of death.
I plan on doing an Inferno run and what's great is new game+ let's you carry over weapons from different difficulties.
Atraveller
Banned
Tempting.
TheSadRanger
Banned
I'm still shocked Noggy did all that by himself with the level of quality in the animations and artwork. I know it took him a while but I bet it took a ton of patience.
I agree that it's pretty awesome, I picked it up last year on 360 but was thinking about double dipping. There's no content exclusive to PC right? Just upgraded visuals with 1080p I'm guessing. Might be worth it for that as the 360 version had some serious dips in frame rate when shit got crazy.
arts&crafts
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I installed Desura today, I feel dirty.
To play a game, I take it? You can redeem keys using the website if you're just after that functionality.
Chance Hale
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You should. Would you jump into a dumpster in the off chance that you might find some jewelry?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
By next month I will have more games on Desura than any non-PC console I've ever owned.
... and I've never used Desura.
Bah, I noticed in the registry that Dungeons & Dragons: Neverwinter had seen some updates a few hours ago and got excited because I thought Hasbro was finally bringing over its D&D stuff, but it's the MMO.
Edit: Regarding Asylum/City vanilla keys activating vanilla Steam copies, it's possible that, since WB is taking this route, it'll return the City DLC to the store for individual purchase. Allowing people to redeem their vanilla City keys only to force them to purchase City GOTY for the DLC seems rather silly (Asylum vanilla never had DLC on Steam, apparently, so maybe that'll be brought over).
Edit: Regarding Asylum/City vanilla keys activating vanilla Steam copies, it's possible that, since WB is taking this route, it'll return the City DLC to the store for individual purchase. Allowing people to redeem their vanilla City keys only to force them to purchase City GOTY for the DLC seems rather silly (Asylum vanilla never had DLC on Steam, apparently, so maybe that'll be brought over).
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TheSadRanger
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It was just on sale less than 2 weeks ago during the 2k publisher sale. I think you"re gonna have to wait a while.
Chance Hale
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The Acid-spitters in Teleglitch are asses. Game is so much fun to play though, digging the recently added controller support. Would be a great vita game.
CrunchyFrog
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OT or not, but did anyone catch that one and done "Bioshock 2 is the Empire Strikes Back of Bioshocks" thread? I can't decide if it was because the entirety of the OP was "agree/disagree, discuss?" or if there could possibly be an opinion more objectively wrong
The former. You can't couple a title like that with an OP three words in length. Put forward an argument.
state_vector_collapse
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Trying to play that game has made me realise I'm completely thick. I just can't seem to grasp it at all. I've been doing the tutorials and can't get a handle on building roads/linking towns. Sorry, bit OT really.
SteveWinwood
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Stay far far far away from crusader kings.
Yeah the civ games are way too simplistic for me. I much prefer the Total War and Paradox grand strategy games. There's a lot more to both of those than the Civs.
Joe Molotov
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uPlay is better than Steam, agree or disagree? Discuss.
Chance Hale
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Is the Stanley Parable going to cost anything when it comes out? Just confused about whether it's a graphical remake or the mod or a complete overhaul. Downloading the demo now in any case as I read that it was unrelated to the whole. Looking forward to it.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
What's the opinion on Knights and Merchants?
Totally worth the price. It has limited replayability though.
Never even looked at Desura out of sheer laziness. But if it's another way to hoard things for my backlog without using it I'll be damned if I don't step up now.
Breaking my balls, man did I nail that timing.
Actually it was from idling for cards that I got into Civ, I was in Europa Universalis III and got me craving for some of dat sweet strategy but that looked complex as fuck (on top of that it kept crashing during the tutorial). Had Civ V installed from idling earlier and since I had the itch it was really easy to transition over. First Civ game I've played despite owning 3 & 4 as well but I'm definitely a fan now.
It's a lovely, charming RTS. Focus is placed on micromanaging your kingdom, including requiring paths between buildings, as you work through the steps in order to manufacture food (your people, and troops, get hungry), armour and weapons for your castle and, later, gold, so you can continue training people: for example, to create a lance, you need to build a schoolhouse (to train folks, though it's usually provided by default), then a woodcutter's cut, next a sawmill, and finally a weapons workshop.
Combat in the game is a little deeper than the likes of Age of Empires, as troops can be set in formations, have their specific strengths and weaknesses (e.g. lancemen are not particularly well-suited for person-to-person combat but can take down horse-riding scouts with ease), not to mention there's friendly fire from ranged troops; however it can be frustrating due to the game's rather poor AI path system.
A group of people took it upon themselves to "remake" the game and fix a lot of niggling issues (such as the making the aforementioned path system less annoying), however at present the installer is not compatible with the Steam version (I imagine the files themselves are, but unfortunately a zip package isn't offered).
Bah, I noticed in the registry that Dungeons & Dragons: Neverwinter had seen some updates a few hours ago and got excited because I thought Hasbro was finally bringing over its D&D stuff, but it's the MMO.
Edit: Regarding Asylum/City vanilla keys activating vanilla Steam copies, it's possible that, since WB is taking this route, it'll return the City DLC to the store for individual purchase. Allowing people to redeem their vanilla City keys only to force them to purchase City GOTY for the DLC seems rather silly (Asylum vanilla never had DLC on Steam, apparently, so maybe that'll be brought over).
So Neverwinter is coming to steam? I think I'm the only person on GAF that still plays and posts in the OT.
If it's like Civ2/SMAC: Make terraformer units (whatever Civ calls them)->flatten the road/remove bloackages if tile has blockage->make road next turn or with another terraforming unit.
I had massive road networks in SMAC in one game.
I haven't gotten around to playing Civ3 (or 5, which I both own) just yet. Since SMAC is Civ2 and I dunno if I want to ruin the replayability of SMAC/SMAX for me.
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