If you want to understand the story, then I'd say it matters. Play them in order, they are all awesome.
I still think MP1 is the best of the bunch. That atmosphere is unmatched, and I must be one of the 5 people who liked the dream sequences.
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
STEAM 2013 Announcements & Updates VIII - Don't ask when the sales are starting.
- Thread starter MRORANGE
- Start date
- Status
Intheflorsh
Banned
Max Payne 3 makes only the slightest allusions to past events. All you really need to know is Max's wife was murdered and that made Max grumpy.
Nobody forces them to put their games in bundles. There's no reason to feel bad for them.
Joe Molotov
Member
10,000 bundles at $0.20 each is still more than 100 full price sales at $10.
Madrugador
Member
How does that even work? You get the bundle for less or do you get more keys?
I only want Fuel :/
During the happy hour HIGH TIER gift purchases are discounted ( gifts are purchases made with the "Is it a gift" checkbox selected ) You have to do a NEW gift purchase during HappyHour time to take advantage of this offer ( even if you previously bought the current IG bundle ). Happy Hour is a moment during the bundle in which when you buy a HIGH TIER* gift, you have bonus (read as free) HIGH TIER* gift(s) whose numbers depend on when you ( and if you ) ALREADY purchased the bundle HIGH TIER* . If you purchased the HIGH TIER* bundle during the 1st week, during an Happy Hour you'll be able to purchase 1 gift and receive 1 + 3 gifts. If you purchased the HIGH TIER* bundle after the 1st week, you'd receive 1+2 HIGH TIER* gifts. If you didn't purchase yet the HIGH TIER* bundle, you'd get 1+1 HIGH TIER* gifts. Remember to check the GIFT checkbox to get advantage of HappyHour. * If the sale has 2 Tiers HIGH TIER is Tier 2. If the sale has 3 Tiers HIGH TIER is Tier 3.
average price is about 1.8~1.9$ for full bundle when happyhour is on.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/groupbuys
Happy hour allows you to buy a Gift version of the bundle and, deppending on when you bought the exact same bundle before (and paid above average), you'll get more copies of said gift.
So, if you bought the bundle, above average, on the first week, when happy hour comes, if you buy a gift for it, you'll receive 4 gifts of the bundle.
If you bought it on the second week forward, you'll get 3 copies of the bundle when purchasing a bundle.
If you didn't buy the bundle at all, but when happy hour comes, you buy a Gift version of the bundle, you'll receive 2 gifts of the entire bundle.
They usually increase the price of the bundle to 7 dollars. Still, it's a better price per copy of the gift. Besides that, my cousin doesn't buy any Steam games and I give her all my extra keys, so I have a place for the extra Gift copy.
Besides there's no guarantee that many people would have bought their game if it weren't for the bundle.
Do you still want Fuel?
I don't get the flak the game gets over this issue. The cut scenes are essentially loading screens. w/o the cut scenes, you'd have loading screens. Also, you can usually skip all or parts many cut scenes.
I wouldn't be able to go back to earlier max payne games. The lack of skin/model damage made them barely playable for the time...now they'd just look like a joke.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
So Dust: An Elysian Tail is pretty ace so far. It is not too hard, I normally play games on Normal, but I went Tough with this one. I can't imagine playing this and the saves healing you. Tough makes you be more careful, and manage food better.
I have about 128 kB/s upload, and have synched my 2TB collection of video game music to an outside server. Twice, since it's HDD crashed.
A GB is definitely doable, JaseC.
Doable, sure, but not ideal!
Am I right in thinking the people that have no problem with the (content of the) cut scenes never saw Man on Fire? That's pretty much the only reason I can think of for it. I'd have much rather had static loading screens.
Intheflorsh
Banned
As the owner of an SSD, I could really care less.
derExperte
Member
MoF is one of my favorites and I think I liked MP3 because of that. But I don't know if I'll ever replay the game while this...
...is utter madness. MP2 to this day is extremely replayable and may be the best looking 10 year old game, I love every second.
The only cutscene that masks loading is the first of every chapter. The rest do nothing but you can't skip them unless you are in arcade mode. Explain that one.
Last Baron
Member
How is Typing of the Dead: Overkill? That GMG sale is really testing my impulse to buy it and annoy the family with sweet overtures from my Cherry Blues.
it's super annoying because it kills any sense you could have of driving the game's pace yourself. like every single fucking door has to have a stupid cutscene of max opening, it's awful.
the fact that the script is so condescendingly awful doesn't really help either
the game would've been 10x better with no cutscenes, period. lemme open doors by my own for fucks sake
cj_iwakura
Member
I can't tell you, it doesn't run on XP.
It gets a kernel32.dll error.Does anyone know of a workaround? I tried the one here for XCOM, but it has some kind of proprietary software from Sega which looks for a kernel32, so Sara's zernel32 won't work.
Rickenslacker
Banned
The game is chock-full of unskippable cutscenes well after it's done loading.
cj_iwakura
Member
Because I run a lot of old software.
It doesn't have the charm of the dreamcast typing of the dead that's for sure. The grindhouse aesthetic is novel at first but then you get kind of tired of hearing the word "motherfucker" every .5 seconds.
Since it's the only game of it's kind on steam at the moment I would say that it's worth it.
...and I run a lot of old hardware.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Fable III got yanked from Steam a few days back. No one appears to have talked about that. Goodbye Fable III.
Well, to be fair... It was Fable III.
The only ones that would care, would be JaseC and people like him, and they bought it ages ago I'm sure.
Tesseract
Banned
yeah, rip.
Intheflorsh
Banned
Truly a fart in the wind.
MarcoZombieCannon
Member
Eh, it wasn't Fable II (which I still want on PC *hmph*) so whatever.
Rest in peace, Big Fizzle.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
I would totally replay it if they added Steam achievements and did the Steam overhaul thing.
It'll be back, with Steamworks integration, alongside Viva Pinata, Gears, and ilomilo!
I wonder if this is connected to the fact that they weren't able to provide people with keys for a whole month. Glad I was able to snag it before it got pulled though, I'm still interested in that game for some reason, even after all the negativity it got and with that horrible PC perfomance.
Lostconfused
Member
I'd buy at least three of those games.
Aw man, I should have bought it. I need games that have been removed from the store.
Not nearly cathartic enough of a death for that POS game.
Football Manager 2013 and Pro Cycling Manager Season 2009 also disappeared very recently. The former is Steamworks, though, so if you did miss the boat you can just chase down a retail copy.
Syphon Filter
Member
I wonder why. Maybe they will add another version without the gfwl and other stuff. btw how did you know it got taken out? Did you search for it or is it something specific that lets you know something got taken out?
Syphon Filter
Member
Halo was updated on the registry a few days ago. Early next year announcement i bet.
This SPUF thread is dedicated to keeping track of games that have been removed from Steam. You can also poke about the Steam registry itself using SteamDB -- for instance, here's Fable 3:
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Syphon Filter
Member
Fine by me, 8.1 and ready!
That would suck. Also they were looking for an online server for when gfwl is taken down to keep halo 2 going. As far as i know there is no online pc service from MS. It will be Steam most likely.
Halo Trilogy released on Steam...
...as Win8 exclusives.
Fine with me, superior Win 8.1 here.
Yo I never understood why people liked II more than III. What was better about it? The cripplingly easy difficulty? The amazing final boss?
I think the only thing it did better was the dog, and that part of the game was still always mediocre.
Ingueferroque
Banned
What the hell? The only other game at the time that was doing model damage was Soldier of Fortune. Maybe KingPin.
Intheflorsh
Banned
Halo Trilogy released on Steam...
...as Win8 exclusives.
Xbox Game Store exclusive, right next to Jetpack Joyride.
Surprised by this, considering it was a featured sale less than a month ago IIRC. Oh well, at least it wasn't a good game that was lost.
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked