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STEAM- Announcements & Updates 2011 Edition |OT2|
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LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
But what does Christian Gamer, CSPAN, and General Motors think?!?!?1Sotha Sil said:
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Man, I am totally sitting on Hydrophobia right now and am not sure to buy based on some opinions. I know it's only 3 dollars and it looks pretty good from a visual standpoint but I don't know if I'd play it a lot.
gravitybear
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LiquidMetal14 said:
same.. anyone played it? is it worth $3.00?
snoopeasystreet
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I paid a fiver for the xbox version and don't think it was worth it.gravitybear said:
balladofwindfishes
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To add to your crazy summer sale conspiracies, Valve added a special summer themed crate to TF2, that isn't openable yet, but will be destroyed after July 11th.
Glass Rebel
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Salazar said:
Hmm, I might buy it after all.
gravitybear
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balladofwindfishes said:
zomg it's like secret christmas is coming
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
And what have you!?!?!?!? Do you think it's better than comparable games like Zelda OoT, Ico, or Madden 11?!?!!?JaseC said:
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Welp, when I come back based Gabe better have news for me. I will go on boycott until the next best sale comes up! Hoarding mode begins now!
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for all of 4 hours until the next sale fml
someguyinahat
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morningbus said:
Buy it at full price anyway, my friend.
Are you sure you didn't walk into fire or something and die (screen goes monochrome)? The elevator is supposed to crash, and that's practically part of the game intro. I haven't skipped any cutscenes on the first time through though, since I'm actually interested in seeing the story and what the character says, so I didn't see any such glitch in the first act. I think I did skip at least one cutscene after I died and respawned at a checkpoint, and it worked fine.Salazar said:
I'm even reading the journals and documents though, so I may be crazy.
IndieJones
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I woke up with Peter Gabriel's Steam stuck in my head this morning and I think it's only going to grow louder until the Summer Sale starts.
Anyone think The Witcher 2 will be on sale again? I'm in Canada so I missed the E3 sale. I would definitely pay full price for the game, but not the digital version; the boxed copy looks so nice with its extras DVD and book, that it seems stupid to pay the same amount for a digital version that can't sit proudly on my shelf. Unfortunately, here in Vancouver, I've only ever seen one copy for sale... at a drugstore.
Fuck, I'm going to end up paying full price for it and loving it anyway.
Anyone think The Witcher 2 will be on sale again? I'm in Canada so I missed the E3 sale. I would definitely pay full price for the game, but not the digital version; the boxed copy looks so nice with its extras DVD and book, that it seems stupid to pay the same amount for a digital version that can't sit proudly on my shelf. Unfortunately, here in Vancouver, I've only ever seen one copy for sale... at a drugstore.
Fuck, I'm going to end up paying full price for it and loving it anyway.
Imp the Dimp
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Snuggler said:
Haha you will.
Goro Majima
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IndieJones said:
It's on sale for 36.99 on amazon.com. So it's not entirely inconceivable that you could see a 25% or 33% off sale at some point soon.
Princess Skittles
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What (or where) is the deal?Traced-Velocity said:To those who posted the heads up at GMG for the Sanctum deal, thanks.
In one co-op sitting:
Cromulent_Word
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no commentepmode said:
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I don't really need a tag, but I figured I'd get one to make people jealous. Is it working?
My verdict on Hydrophobia based on the hour or so I put into it (somewhere in Act 2); I have misspent three dollars are worse things. I think it's graphically impressive, in away. The water physics effects are pretty neat (which is really the only reason I wanted it), everything spews fire and water and steam. Particle effects everywhere. Shame the art direction is so blah. Really reminds me of a...Launch hardware game, I guess? It has that amateur, getting used to the hardware, lets try out all the easy bells and whistles, keep the design as simple as possible, feel to it.
It's also obviously unoptimized, if the way my card fan was working was any indication. Also inexplicably dropped frames whenever I'd stand in a water spray. Too many particle effects coming at the screen, maybe? Nothing game breaking so far.
No bugs, crashes, or glitches yet either.
Combat is the weakest thing so far. Enemy AI is crap, your special ammo is really limited, and despite every environment being littered with dozens of hazards to shoot and set off on enemy dudes, the opportunity to do so never really seems to happen organically. Maybe this changes later on when you get that glowy power they show off in all the promo art. The most frustrating thing is how close it comes to being something fun; knocking dudes into electrified water, flooding a room, setting them on fire, blowing them up, all of these are wholesome sources of entertainment, but the wonkiness of the mechanics gets in the way of these things happening or letting you feel really in control of it when it does. Maybe with some practice I'll get the hang of it.
Exploring and picking up items and documents is fun. Or at least, I'm enjoying doing it. Kate is pretty acrobatic and clambers up pipes and hangs off ledges like a pro. The most satisfying part of the game is probably when an area starts blowing up and flooding and you have to run, jump and swim to safety. For a Poseidon Adventure-esque, disaster game that doesn't actually happen that often. Something of a missed opportunity there, I think.
I'm guessing most of the mechanics in this game are there because they felt obligated to have them, rather than the result of playtesting to see if they were actually fun. A more focused, limited style of gameplay probably would have benefited the game rather than this jack of all trades, master of none style it has.
I don't feel bad about the three bucks I spent, and I think I'll keep playing just to see if it gets better or worse.
It's also obviously unoptimized, if the way my card fan was working was any indication. Also inexplicably dropped frames whenever I'd stand in a water spray. Too many particle effects coming at the screen, maybe? Nothing game breaking so far.
No bugs, crashes, or glitches yet either.
Combat is the weakest thing so far. Enemy AI is crap, your special ammo is really limited, and despite every environment being littered with dozens of hazards to shoot and set off on enemy dudes, the opportunity to do so never really seems to happen organically. Maybe this changes later on when you get that glowy power they show off in all the promo art. The most frustrating thing is how close it comes to being something fun; knocking dudes into electrified water, flooding a room, setting them on fire, blowing them up, all of these are wholesome sources of entertainment, but the wonkiness of the mechanics gets in the way of these things happening or letting you feel really in control of it when it does. Maybe with some practice I'll get the hang of it.
Exploring and picking up items and documents is fun. Or at least, I'm enjoying doing it. Kate is pretty acrobatic and clambers up pipes and hangs off ledges like a pro. The most satisfying part of the game is probably when an area starts blowing up and flooding and you have to run, jump and swim to safety. For a Poseidon Adventure-esque, disaster game that doesn't actually happen that often. Something of a missed opportunity there, I think.
I'm guessing most of the mechanics in this game are there because they felt obligated to have them, rather than the result of playtesting to see if they were actually fun. A more focused, limited style of gameplay probably would have benefited the game rather than this jack of all trades, master of none style it has.
I don't feel bad about the three bucks I spent, and I think I'll keep playing just to see if it gets better or worse.
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Cromulent_Word said:
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ITS COMIN TO PC
Foliorum Viridum
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I'm getting kinda depressed by the number of people buying Hydrophobia when almost everyone has said it's shit, haha.
/proud to have resisted.
/proud to have resisted.
Stallion Free
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3$ is ridiculously cheap so I can understand why it was hard to say no for some people.Foliorum Viridum said:
scorpscarx
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I would have bought it in my pre-Neogaf days, especially for the water physics.
The_Player
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Did you read this crazy shit, guys? http://www.shacknews.com/article/69094/ea-explains-origin-exclusives
Frank Gibeau said:
scorpscarx
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That's really old, he said the exact same thing around the time of the Crysis 2 bullshit.
AngryChinchilla
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I had a brief dream about the summer sale. Well actually I was having a normal dream and during it I sat down at a computer and noticed the sale. It was like the treasure map sale where we had to unlock achievements. In this one, if you unlocked a certain achievement, then you could gift the game to a friend at half price. Weird.
Stallion Free
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50-60 *better* games.shintoki said:
scorpscarx
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Forkball said:
If that's a problem for you, I'd hope you have it backed up somewhere so you don't have to download it again.
Buttonbasher
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You're only counting business days, when you should be factoring in weekends too. If it starts tomorrow (Thursday) and runs to July 11th that will be a 12 day sale. Last years lasted 11 days, so assuming the TF2 crate holds importance, the sale would start on either Thursday or Friday.pilonv1 said:
Alright this is getting crazy. We're going to keep doing this for like every day/week/month until we actually hit the christmas sale.
"Ok..ok... listen, if the sales starts july 25th, and since august 3rd is a derpday we can expect the sale to hit before 8pm PST. "
"Ok, now... november is almost done, and you know what they say about the number 11 right?Right? Huh?! Please talk to me. "
With that said!...
...The sale is gonna start July 4th. Mark it.
"Ok..ok... listen, if the sales starts july 25th, and since august 3rd is a derpday we can expect the sale to hit before 8pm PST. "
"Ok, now... november is almost done, and you know what they say about the number 11 right?Right? Huh?! Please talk to me. "
With that said!...
...The sale is gonna start July 4th. Mark it.
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