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STEAM 2013 Announcements & Updates VIII - Don't ask when the sales are starting.
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HalfwayOrb
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TAKE THAT BACK
jediyoshi
Member
They integrate twitch spectator count into the CSGO client ingame, it's the wild west right now.
It's my favourite post on this page! (><)
why wouldn't steam team with vga, it's gaming event not some cult ritual
MMBosstones86
Member
Bravo. I thought I was good and didn't leave when I could. Then got executed.
what is this 'VGA's you speak of?
Haha. Today I won a Steam code for Slender: The Arrival form a contest made by publisher Midnight City on their twitter. I got the code a couple of hours ago, but for some reason it activated Blood of the Werewolf (a game they published not long time ago) instead of Slender. But now I got the real Slender Steam code from them.
2 games for free is cool
2 games for free is cool
You should throw in world peace somewhere in there too
MGR will be released in 2014 I think, can't promise, but it seems logical to me. Also you might be disappointed with the game in the end.
I dunno man
military dudebro teabagging phil fish sounds like great entertainment for me
HalfwayOrb
Member
Till durante rescues it.
Haha. Today I won a Steam code for Slender: The Arrival form a contest made by publisher Midnight City on their twitter. I got the code a couple of hours ago, but for some reason it activated Blood of the Werewolf (a game they published not long time ago) instead of Slender. But now I got the real Slender Steam code from them.
2 games for free is cool
Not only that, Blood of the Werewolf looks like a better game.
I don't think he can fix the bad game-play.
pff look at this guy
YianGaruga
Banned
I had a hard time getting into MGR. Played for a few hours and absolutely didn't "get it". The combat didn't feel natural and made no sense to me.
It looks cool and crazy-japanese, but I haven't felt the urge to go back to it.
It looks cool and crazy-japanese, but I haven't felt the urge to go back to it.
It doesn't really looks crazy-japanese, and you CAN'T CUT EVERYTHING, like we were promised
Idea is cool, but I expected a different game, I guess
The high praise Metal Gear games get always reminds me of when the kid with down syndrome was made prom king or when he got a standing ovation during graduation.
MGS4 was bad. Like, terribad. And I finished. Nothing made sense, including the gameplay. Oh a boss fight, I can just buy an RPG using the menu with this absurd amount of money I got for walking over stuff? The fight ends, a bunch of cutscenes regurgitating info I was already told in a prior bunch of cutscenes, and then right to another bossfight?
Sorry if off-topic, didn't want to bump the old Steam Machine thread and I can't make new ones yet - a new Steam Machine has been revealed, the Piixl Jetpack. It's got a resizable chassis that's designed to strap to the back of your TV. Looks pretty cool.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/6/5179830/piixl-jetpack-straps-a-steamos-pc-to-the-back-of-your-tv
EDIT: Oops, never mind, lol.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/6/5179830/piixl-jetpack-straps-a-steamos-pc-to-the-back-of-your-tv
EDIT: Oops, never mind, lol.
Metal Gear Solid 1 and 3 deserve every bit of praise they get.
2 and 4 are incredibly overrated.
MGS was good for the time it came out in. I skipped 2 and 3. MGS4 was pulling down 10/10 reviews all over the map so I jumped back in.. Big mistake.
The gameplay was terrible, the pacing was terrible, the graphics were good, but everything was so static it was hardly impressive, and the story just made me want to gouge my own brain out. It was mescaline induced fan-fiction levels of terrible.
Played the demo of MGR. Yep. Terrible. *shrug* There is like some Andy Kaufman level shit going on behind the scenes with that series, I just know it.
OldAsUrSock
Banned
Sorta like GTAV too!
This looks like a disaster waiting to happen. Also, that fucking HDMI Cable coming sideways from your tv and then going back into the bottom area of your tv is gonna look pretty stupid. And all the power/audio jacks getting into the side of your TV as well.
ashecitism
Member
Oh? Now I'm sad. I was looking forward to it since my 'friends' were assuring me it was way better than IV.. I bought GTAIV the same day I bought MGS4. That was a sad day in gaming history for me.
Intheflorsh
Banned
Interesting idea, although I have to wonder how well that thing manages cooling.
every one of the main metal gear (I hear peace walker is also really good) games are worth playing. 4 is pretty bad but still pretty interesting, and all the rest are varied amounts of godly, tho I can understand mgs2 not being everyone's cup-of-tea (plus it's pretty lame at a lot of things)
but fuck me if it's not a series worth its time in gold
but fuck me if it's not a series worth its time in gold
YianGaruga
Banned
Pretty much my opinion. MGS is a classic, MGS3 is a masterpiece.
2 and 4 are meh, PSP titles might as well not exist.
tylergregg
Neo Member
Thanks Arthea for Rush Bros.
MGS4 is only interesting as a case study in how mainstream game reviews are completely worthless. Christ that game was so incredibly bad I still get angry just thinking about it.
no problem, enjoy
Rickenslacker
Banned
Rising was without a doubt one of my favourite games from this year, and as a big fan of the Solid games I get amused seeing people who expect something like that recoil at the tonal shift in it. The environments were plain, but as a 60(okay, trying to be 60)fps console game it's not a big surprise, just the novelty of chopping enemies up with dynamic cuts never got old -- and using the Gray Fox sword in later playthroughs was like the video game lightsaber I always wanted in a game but never got before then, it was glorious. The boss fights were just pure hype as well. I wasn't a Raiden detractor before either, but seeing him turn into a Platinum character made him all the better.
GAF 2x GOTY
Seeing as so many people like it, it managed to win GOTY on gaf twice!! MGS4 isn't exactly horrible game or anything, just not for everyone.
OTOH most games aren't and some of them are bad. What I mean, some MGS fans really like this game, so it can't be all bad and nothing good. You just one of unlucky ones, it's not for you.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Yeah, they get a bit heavy handed with the story. It could have been just as effective without beating you over the head with it's message.
jaundicejuice
Member
Activision is simply too generous.
reviewers' problem for being shit at their jobs (or really good at it), has nothing to do with the game itself
like I said the game's really not much good, but if you skip half a series and then expect to get much out of it then you're doing it wrong, specially when it's something like metal gear. most of the problems of mgs4 are with the unrestrained kojima script and a lot of could-be-great mechanics going nowhere because it's 2007 and games have to have cover mechanics and shooting and shit. it should've been much better
also mgs1 is amazing to this day, if you were hinting otherwise in your other post, you're just wrong. WRONG
You can give it a Nobel Peace Prize and declare it King of the Moon, you're never going to convince me that it isn't a terrible, awful game. The emperor has no clothes.
When MGS1 came out it was damned fun, even though I really wanted to punch the designer for the weird tonal shifts and obnoxious reams of unnecessary exposition.
It aged a bit poorly but I'm not going to knock anyone for having nostalgia goggles for it. I certainly have them for many games that have aged far worse.
MGR story might have been cheesy as all hell (you could say that all of Kojimas games are cheesy ) but that is the nature of the beast . but if you are arguing that MGR gameplay was bad let me say that i strongly disagree with it .
I will fully admit that I did not give enough time to MGR to really judge its merits. I will say that its presentation outside of combat was very poor and that the difficulty in the demo ramped up way too steeply. That damned robodog was a serious pain in the ass and everything prior to it barely fought back.
Beats all the DMCs and games like it at it's own game. Good luck beating the last boss without getting a hit...on hardest mode.
I'm in!
hardcastlemccormick
Banned
MGS4 was good if only because it let me play Army of Shadows for twenty minutes. That was incredible.
The game's a heaping pile of everything and I have to at least respect it for that, at minimum. I can't even begin to get worked up at blandfest after blandfest these days.
The game's a heaping pile of everything and I have to at least respect it for that, at minimum. I can't even begin to get worked up at blandfest after blandfest these days.
Rickenslacker
Banned
Fighting it was just a trial by fire attempt at hammering in what the demo tells you to do from the very first encounter: parry. Once that settles in the fight takes on a new light.
Blue Ninja
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It's Sinterklaas motherfuckers.
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