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STEAM 2013 Announcements & Updates VIII - Don't ask when the sales are starting.

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Burekma

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Ah, my new avatar
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Oh man I remember this, was super hyped after watching those videos.

Me too. Replaying it on my laptop now is amazing. Just a few mods, for the rest it still feels largely the same.

Can't wait for them to announce Fallout 4. Bethesda games are the only ones that still get me unreasonably hyped.
 

JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
The only GoT game-related news that'd get me excited is CDPR announcing that it's making an RPG set in the universe.
 

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.
I'm surprised nobody here has gone all grammar nazi on the latest Steam beta update headline:

Steam Client Beta Update - November 21th
 

rtcn63

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Started Rage. The game crashed when entering the first area for the first mission (bandit hideout). Got a "OpenGL message “lost connection”. The game didn't autosave, so I have to redo the entire opening. Why.
 

JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
Started Rage. The game crashed when entering the first area for the first mission (bandit hideout). Got a "OpenGL message “lost connection”. The game didn't autosave, so I have to redo the entire opening. Why.

The game is trying its best to recreate the Bill Murray classic Groundhog Day.

I'm surprised nobody here has gone all grammar nazi on the latest Steam beta update headline:

I can't wait for Half-Life the 3th.
 

MRORANGE

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I'm apparently through 1/2 way through RAGE, last time I played was maybe a year ago, it has some fantastic combat and gunplay but the story is so mundane it might have well been Borderlands 3.
 
Started Rage. The game crashed when entering the first area for the first mission (bandit hideout). Got a "OpenGL message “lost connection”. The game didn't autosave, so I have to redo the entire opening. Why.

Would you say that this caused you to experience...


...anger?

Also I'd back 'Taco Cat Coalition: The JaceC Incident' on Kickstarter/Greenlight.
 

JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
Being acutely familiar with id's history, here's what I knew heading into Rage:

- The story would be non-existent, and
- The ending, too

The lack of a final boss was surprisingly and, frankly, unforgivable, though.

"Here's the game's BFG equivalent!"
*five more minutes of fighting through regular enemies*
~fin

Would you say that this caused you to experience...


...anger?

Also I'd back 'Taco Cat Coalition: The JaceC Incident' on Kickstarter/Greenlight.

If you remove the "o" from "taco", it spells "cat" backwards.
 
Finished Assassin's Creed

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Assassin's Creed is the quaintessential Ubisoft title - fantastic idea, rushed out before it was finished that leaves you disappointed.

There is a core game here, which could be amazing. The idea behind the gameplay mechanics are great, and the free running features are smooth at times. Yet, there's nothing more to it. It's essentially a tech-demo.
I'm informed that the other Assassin's Creed games are MUCH better, and have a better storyline, and don't have you repeating the game over at the halfway point ala the first Assassin's Creed. If that's the case I look forward to the other Assassin Creed titles.

I originally played this game on the 360 when it was initially released. My hype was high and expectations were perhaps uncontrolable. I remember getting into an argument with the Ubisoft rep who would come into our store about how crap the game was. He wasn't too happy that I wasn't going to shill it hard to people.

However, the first one is stale and undercooked at the same time. The crashes to desktop are beyond frustrating. DX10 version is unstable and unsupported. The DX9 version strangely runs smoother. I get the impression it's the Steam interface which causes the crashes.

Overall, I'd suggest watching the story on youtube and jumping on (hopefully) the much improved Assassin's Creed II or Brotherhood. The first game is everything that is currently wrong with Ubisoft:

Full of Bugs
Repeated pointless gameplay
Collect 100 lots of 100 different items
Promises and hopes that never live up to the expectation

All of this distracts from what COULD be a really great game.

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Next game up on the Backlog Blitz is... Eleusis, which I'll be streaming on: http://www.twitch.tv/mrluchador from tomorrow morning UK time.
 

inm8num2

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I'm genuinely surprised at all the positive reactions to The Last Express. It's a top 5 adventure game of all time, but so few people played it when it came out due to the publisher's marketing division quitting a month before release.

It's been on GOG for a couple years so I guess people didn't know about that or were otherwise waiting for Steam. Either way, buy and play this game!
 

JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
Finished Assassin's Creed

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I'll always have a soft spot for the original game due to it succeeding the most at making the player feel like an actual assassin. I wish Ubi had iterated upon the investigative mechanics instead of simply ditching them in favour of steering the series towards a more streamlined action-adventure experience.
 
I'll always have a soft spot for the original game due to it succeeding the most at making the player feel like an actual assassin. I wish Ubi had iterated upon the investigative mechanics instead of simply ditching them in favour of steering the series towards a more streamlined action-adventure experience.

I haven't played any of the other Assassin Creed titles, so I can't really comment on those, however; I found the Investigation missions in Assassin's Creed to be interesting at first, but quickly boring.

I found myself scouting and looking for the easiest ones straight away, just so I could progress through the game as quickly as I could (as I was getting very bored with the gameplay and pace of the missions/story/etc).
 

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.
My cat (Neelix) is one ruthless bastard, slayer of birdkind and defender of the back yard.


Welcome to the community tab
 

AsylumX

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Arma 2 goes on sale but get the highend graphics for DayZ I'm missing about $.80-$1

WHY.jpg :(

Play Dota 2 Diretide for a few matches and you 'll get that money in no time by selling essences on the market...

Finished Assassin's Creed

header_292x136.jpg


Assassin's Creed is the quaintessential Ubisoft title - fantastic idea, rushed out before it was finished that leaves you disappointed.

There is a core game here, which could be amazing. The idea behind the gameplay mechanics are great, and the free running features are smooth at times. Yet, there's nothing more to it. It's essentially a tech-demo.
I'm informed that the other Assassin's Creed games are MUCH better, and have a better storyline, and don't have you repeating the game over at the halfway point ala the first Assassin's Creed. If that's the case I look forward to the other Assassin Creed titles.

I originally played this game on the 360 when it was initially released. My hype was high and expectations were perhaps uncontrolable. I remember getting into an argument with the Ubisoft rep who would come into our store about how crap the game was. He wasn't too happy that I wasn't going to shill it hard to people.

However, the first one is stale and undercooked at the same time. The crashes to desktop are beyond frustrating. DX10 version is unstable and unsupported. The DX9 version strangely runs smoother. I get the impression it's the Steam interface which causes the crashes.

Overall, I'd suggest watching the story on youtube and jumping on (hopefully) the much improved Assassin's Creed II or Brotherhood. The first game is everything that is currently wrong with Ubisoft:

Full of Bugs
Repeated pointless gameplay
Collect 100 lots of 100 different items
Promises and hopes that never live up to the expectation

All of this distracts from what COULD be a really great game.

---

Next game up on the Backlog Blitz is... Eleusis, which I'll be streaming on: http://www.twitch.tv/mrluchador from tomorrow morning UK time.

I really liked the first 2 or 3 hours of AssCreed 1, after that i couldn't keep playing. On the other hand, I finished 2 and Brotherhood, it's the same ideas but with way better gameplay and more variety.
 

JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
I haven't played any of the other Assassin Creed titles, so I can't really comment on those, however; I found the Investigation missions in Assassin's Creed to be interesting at first, but quickly boring.

I found myself scouting and looking for the easiest ones straight away, just so I could progress through the game as quickly as I could (as I was getting very bored with the gameplay and pace of the missions/story/etc).

Yeah, the types of investigations are few and oft-repeated so I certainly understand why that aspect of the game quickly wore thin for most people. Despite this, though, I love the fundamental concept behind the game that as an assassin you need to use your brawn and intuition to gain information on your key target; information that's entirely optional in terms of implementation but can be used at the player's discretion to alter their approach to the assassination scenario.
 
Yeah, the types of investigations are few and oft-repeated so I certainly understand why that aspect of the game quickly wore thin for most people. Despite this, though, I love the fundamental concept behind the game that as an assassin you need to use your brawn and intuition to gain information on your key target; information that's entirely optional but can be used at the player's discretion to alter their approach to the assassination scenario.

Thats the one thing I wish they would've 'innovated' upon in the later releases, instead of scrapping it all together.
 
Thats the one thing I wish they would've 'innovated' upon in the later releases, instead of scrapping it all together.

I wouldn't mind if they had progressed the idea somehow, but I never felt that the information you gained from the investigations actually mattered. It just felt like hoop jumping to slow the game down/stop you progressing.
 
I'll always have a soft spot for the original game due to it succeeding the most at making the player feel like an actual assassin. I wish Ubi had iterated upon the investigative mechanics instead of simply ditching them in favour of steering the series towards a more streamlined action-adventure experience.
Yeah this is how I've felt about the series since the start too. The first game gave you options (limited, sure, but a sequel could've expanded on it), and investigating showed more of these (guard routes, better infiltration routes, when to wait, etc) so you could plan your assassination accordingly.

The newer games are basically Uncharted: Medieval. Still fun, but I wish they'd stuck to their guns, though everyone had issues with the investigation stuff being repetitive (the actual mechanic was, sure, but the information you gained out of it was useful).
 

Mairu

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I enjoyed the first AC when it was released but no one can deny the repetitiveness of the first game. I don't think I'd ever want to go back and play it, though I enjoyed AC2 enough to play through multiple times on 360/PC
 
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