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STEAM- Announcements & Updates 2011 Edition |OT2|
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PixyJunket
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Bwah, Runespell: Overture is pretty cool. The mechanics are even more robust than I originally imagined.
It sure is talky though.
It sure is talky though.
Wellington
BAAAALLLINNN'
How is Trapped Dead? Looks interesting. The strategy mechanic looks interesting.
Schmattakopf
Member
From earlier:Wellington said:
Twinduct said:
LocoMrPollock said:
Gvaz said:Does anyone have any Butcher Bay saves around? I was like...I think I was at the part a little after you gain your Glowing Eyesight thing...and I seem to have lost my profile or something
I don't want to restart...
Try putting these
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=K0ABQHM1
in this folder
C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Atari\The Chronicles of Riddick - Assault on Dark Athena\SaveGames\[profile name]
I think they're just chapter saves. Not sure.
scitek said:
Yeah it's just chapter saves. That's a little before where I was, thank you!
Also I'm using the beta 11.7 drivers which has some opengl improvements (fixes my issues with You Are Empty mostly, but Riddick doesn't even run properly. Forcing 10.1 drivers makes the graphics wig out D:
Stallion Free
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I'm pretty sure AC2 does cloud saves.Le-mo said:
Possibly here though: C:\Users\User Name\AppData\Local\Ubisoft Game Launcher\savegame_storage\
Interesting review. I've had the game since launch - bought it before it was even available on Steam, but I've still only put a few hours into it. I loved those hours, but for whatever reason I've started the game 3 separate times and it never grabbed me much past the first hour. Still want to give it another shot in the future though.PixyJunket said:Aquaria finished, second ending obtained.
I had to look up the last few recipes fr that, I don't know why (or if, I guess), they're all not just findable in the game.
So yeah, I think Aquaria is deserving of all the awards and such that it won. It's a massive accomplishment for indie games and for such a small team. It's also extremely pretty and a real showcase of hand drawn graphics. But I don't know, I don't think I could really recommend it. Yes, it's got that "Super Metroid" thing going for it. If Super Metroid had the exact same amount of content and secrets, just in a world that was roughly six hundred times the size of Zebes. And Samus was slow. And the combat was not good. And you had to go to a menu and enter a command every time you wanted to be able to fight something.
The game's pacing is its biggest issue. My game clock ran just over twenty hours. I would surmise that sixty to seventy percent of that was just empty wandering. The game world is massive. But it's almost entirely empty. That's just not fun, as a player. And without a direction, when you received a new ability, it could take an hour to comb portions of the map looking for that one new path (although the game does have a degree of non-linearity to it and it seemed lots of things could be done in random order).
I love the concept of the different forms, but it was really obnoxious to have a single form for combat. Especially in The Abyss when you had to go back and forth between forms to light your way and to shoot things. And then there were like, a dozen costumes for your character, but they were only visible when in the default, mostly useless form.
I generally play games without the need for guides and whatnot. If I needed a guide to play it, it's not worth my time. But Aquaria had one thing I had to look up, a music puzzle. Now, maybe it's just me (and it's embarrassing as I'm supposed to be somewhat of a musician) but I can't really tell different musical tones by ear. I mean, I actually knew what the game was asking of me and there were some clues on what to do, but unless you have an ear for tones I can't imagine anybody figuring it out.
I'm usually not this critical of a game. I have been playing video games for almost thirty years, I'm at the point where I can pretty much tell if I'm going to like a game or not by a few small factors. And Aquaria is a game that would typically be right up my alley, so it just hit harder to have a game that was almost incredible be held down by a couple of extremely prominent design decisions.
But it's not a bad game, don't get me wrong. It's incredible in a lot of ways. I don't want to steer anybody away from it too much. Just, don't go in expecting Super Metroid or pretty much any other game of its ilk. It's a very, very, very slow game. And right now, I'm just not really into something with that kind of pacing.
Game Save Manager is a great program for backing up games. Should be able to find the save automatically and back it up. Lots of options, such as not backing up games that use Steam Cloud to save, and you can save to your drop box folder.Le-mo said:
I was curious why Steam had used the steampowered.com domain instead of just steam.com, so I looked it up:
"welcome to steam.com
Steam.com is the former home of Steam Tunnel Operations.
This domain is not for sale."
And... that's it. One page, 3 lines of text. Seems to me it's a company with no information online, that is just sitting on the domain name out of spite? Of course, everyone knows Steam's website is steampowered.com, but I'm sure Valve would like to have steam.com as well.
"welcome to steam.com
Steam.com is the former home of Steam Tunnel Operations.
This domain is not for sale."
And... that's it. One page, 3 lines of text. Seems to me it's a company with no information online, that is just sitting on the domain name out of spite? Of course, everyone knows Steam's website is steampowered.com, but I'm sure Valve would like to have steam.com as well.
PixyJunket
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I had a lot more fun with Other M than I did Aquaria, but Other M is more Fusion than Super.JaseC said:Surely you don't mean to imply that Other M is also a better game.
Snkfanatic
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Snuggler said:So I finally got around to playing my Steam copy of KOTOR. I managed to bump up the rez to 1080p and it's pretty damn nice. This is why I love PC gaming.
Ah nice! I picked it up during the Christmas sale and still have not played it. I will have to do this when I get around to it.
PixyJunket said:
It's still a part of the Metroid ilk, unless by "its ilk" you meant derivatives of the formula particular to Super Metroid.
I never considered for even a moment that I'd see somebody other than Alkaline say they had fun with Other M.
PixyJunket
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Interesting indeed, as the game doesn't really start until after the first hour or two.dLMN8R said:
Yes, that is what I meant.JaseC said:
Diablohead
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Ben playing that war inc. game for a few hours yesterday and today and I have to say it started off cool but now it's all 1 hit wonders due to the overpowered level 10 sniper rifle, normal guns are rather powerful too. Game turns into a sniper camp fest over the entire map without any penalty.
Least I gave it a try.
Least I gave it a try.
Stallion Free
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Yeah they did some nice things that then got ignored because of that other thing they did.MNC said:
dLMN8R said:
I haven't beaten Aquaria yet, but so far, I've got to say that I completely agree with him on almost every one of his points.
When i first started out with the game, the sort of mellow atmosphere and music suggested a sort of peaceful Ico-esque experience. So, after the first couple hours, when the game gets fairly combat-heavy, it's a little jarring. Now, I don't mind a tonal shift, but as PixyJunket said, the combat just isn't that great. You've got all these different forms you can assume, and so far (I've gotten a little bit past the part where you get the
light
I never minded the late-game backtracking in the Metroid games, simply because once you're to that point, most of the minor enemies don't really present much of a threat. You've got a ton of extra energy, missiles, and an upgraded main gun. Aquaria doesn't really have that, from what I've seen. Aside from a few minor things that I don't want to give away, my firepower is more or less the same as it was when it started.
Still, I want to go back and finish it one of these days. It's just hard to get the motivation to do so when I know I'm right in the middle of a super-tedious part requiring a ton of form-switching.
MmmSkyscraper
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PaulLFC said:
I think steam.com used to host some wanky comic, that was a few years ago though.
Coldsnap said:
You, uh, should get the achievements just fine. I don't have Steam Community running in most games and I get the achievements, so your situation is weird. You might not have gotten the popup, but does it show as locked still when you check the stats on the game?
As a side note, you can disable Steam community in-game per game. If you don't know how, read on!
Go to your Library, mark the game you want to disable/enable in, right-click it, and then under the 'General' tab tick or untick "Enable Steam Community In-Game" per your preference. And then it's up and running!
Princess Skittles
Prince's's 'Skittle's
Is the Steam Overlay working? Generally, I've found that if I can't Shift+Tab and bring that up, achievements won't pop.StuBurns said:
Otherwise, check the Steam forum for the game, there might be a topic there on it.
Stallion Free
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Hey, so one of the dudes who got one of my gifted copies of the Cthulhu pack never accepted the gift so first person to respond other than Gvaz (and anyone else who paid 1$ for a humble indie bundle) can have it.
PixyJunket
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I'll take it.Stallion Free said:
Steam ID is the same as my user name here.
Stallion Free
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Sent you an FR.PixyJunket said:
PixyJunket
Member
Thanks. I'm at work so it'll be a few hours before I can accept, etc.Stallion Free said:
I also just finished Aquaria, and while most of the flaws people have talked about here are true, I would still recommend it for anyone who is interested. The games atmosphere is fantastic, and the music and voice acting is also very good. Some of the flaws can also be mitigated, for example, you don't have to stop and sing if you're in the middle in a battle to change forms, you can just use the number keys (1-8 for the various forms, 9 for shield and 0 for bind IIRC). And while it's true that your energy form doesn't get a real upgrade, there are some cooking recipes that upgrade you energy shots, and there are also recipes to upgrade your swimming speed. Unfortunately, these recipes only last 15-45 seconds, so it's not viable to keep up at all times, but it's worth having in mind for those times you want some extra oomph in your damage or speed.
Sgt.Pepper
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Where I can see what games are blocked in my region? This shit is getting really annoying. I was going to gift Civ V to a friend. =/
GhostWriter24
Member
Civ V at $17 is a fucking steal. Amazing game.
Houston3000
Member
God damn, if you like Strategy games at all you're an idiot if you don't hop on that deal.
Hell, I already own the game but I'm just excited for you all that don't have it yet.
Hell, I already own the game but I'm just excited for you all that don't have it yet.
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