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STEAM announcements & updates 2011 Thread 3 | Buy now, play later.
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Huevos de Oro
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Lol. Here we go again.Gravijah said:
Stumpokapow
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Gvaz said:
Iron Brigade (formerly called Trenched) is a game by Double Fine. It was released for XBLA. It's kind of a hybrid third person shooter / mech game / tower defence game, probably most comparable to Gears 3's Horde mode or Orcs Must Die. It's got a cool sort of 1950s War of the Worlds sci-fi theme to it. Very high production values. The XBLA version was $15. DLC is forthcoming next month, the Steam release would probably include the DLC gratis. Microsoft owns the IP and published the XBLA version.
Double Fine, in case you haven't heard of them, have released Psychonauts (PS2, Xbox, PC), Brutal Legend (Xbox 360, PS3), Costume Quest (XBLA, PSN, PC), Stacking (XBLA, PSN), and Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster (Xbox 360 Kinect). The head of the studio is Tim Schafer, who you'll know from being involved with Monkey Island, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, and Day of the Tentacle.
funkystudent said:
Yes, it was (well, sort of, by my recollection, it wasn't that it was in the registry, it was that one of the RPS guys randomly had it show up on his account). There's no technical reason why it "won't happen" now. Microsoft bought Twisted Pixel, yes, but we're discussing Iron Brigade, which is also owned by Microsoft, so insofar as Iron Brigade is a possibility, so is Splosion Man.
funkystudent said:
how come? cause MS now owns twisted pixel? MS still owns Iron Brigade since the start and now it looks like its coming.
MS already published more than one game on Steam. If there's some significant PC port work done on Mr. Explosion Man then they'll probably put it out.
Joe Molotov
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PC master race totally non-racist gentlemen of refined taste
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Brazil said:
They published the game, but do they own the IP? I don't think so. Q-Games ported Pixeljunk Monsters to Facebook, so I'm guessing that "Pixeljunk" is not Sony's property.
Huevos de Oro
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Nah, nothing important. It's just that your post reminded me (probably Grav too) about that thread he just linked to. Not to say I think what you said was in that tone, mind you. Just found Grav's post/reaction funny.Gvaz said:
Edit: At any rate, I won't derail the thread further. Sorry about that.
Kuro Madoushi
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how would orcs being published by ms on consoles have anything to do with their pc rights though?jim-jam bongs said:
i would think ms might want to keep orcs away from psn, but pc? not sure they really care.
jim-jam bongs
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All I know is that if Stacking doesn't show up on Steam, my elitist principles shall demand I boycott Double Fine indefinitely for leaving an advertisement for a PSN/XBLA game in the PC version of Costume Quest.
*adjust monocle sternly*
*adjust monocle sternly*
Stumpokapow
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Kuro Madoushi said:
What's unusual is that typically MS requires an exclusivity window for games they publish on 360. Easing that and allowing developers to either publish on PC simultaneously or actually helping them publish it on PC is a positive step.
Kuro Madoushi
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I understand that there's an exclusivity window; however, I always understood it to be ONLY for consoles.Stumpokapow said:
Guess I was wrong?
Rufus said:
Yeah, I tried it and I got the error message. After googling a bit, I decided to buy the GTA pack as a gift and then e-mailed to an e-mail account I own. I then cut and pasted the url and redeemed it to my Steam account. Episodes from LC and everything else are downloading now.
Apologies if this has been posted as Dungeon Defender is $11.99 on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005VFHOOE/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Game is Steamworks.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005VFHOOE/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Game is Steamworks.
Did you need an American to facilitate a purchase at the lower U.S. price?Dice said:
I hate to cross post but while I'm on the subject are there any Briton's available that could help me get the GTA pack for the lower UK price? I have Paypal. Thanks.
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197967455145
QuantumBro
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fixedconfused said:
The Mana Legend
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I got a bunch of stuff for a new computer, one of which comes with a free Dirt 3 code...
...Is this code still safe to use on Steam after all that happened, or is this going to hurt me in the long run?
...Is this code still safe to use on Steam after all that happened, or is this going to hurt me in the long run?
Angelus Errare
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Am I the only one who read it in Gob's voice from Arrested Development?
OmnipotentO
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Never particularly liked or cared about GTA but I bought 'em anyway... in no rush to play them either (more important stuff on my backlog like: Chrono Cross, Witcher 1, Persona 3 and 4, Arkham City PC, Mass Effects, so on) WTF is wrong with me???
Almost caved in for the Alice deal. God damn does that game look pretty... but I managed to resist that one somehow.
Almost caved in for the Alice deal. God damn does that game look pretty... but I managed to resist that one somehow.
Angelus Errare
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SalsaShark said:
I'm slow =(
jim-jam bongs
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Statue of Liberty > Unicorn.
Salsa closet brony confirmed.
Salsa closet brony confirmed.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
3chopl0x said:
You have a really bad habit of being pretty abrasive in your posts, man.
I don't like to put up with peoples' shit either, but seriously.
So I just finished up the Ballad of Gay Tony. I bought it on Steam, and bunch of you dudes probably just did the same, so this I'll use this thread post my thoughts.
I've owned Episodes for awhile, but I never made much progress with the story. In a GTA game, it's way too easy to get distracted. Anyways, I finally got around to playing through the story and I'm kinda blown away by how good it was.
It retains all of GTAIV's strong points - the awesome euphoria physics, the high production values, the eclectic soundtrack, and of course Liberty City. I loved GTAIV, but I'm struggling to think of anything that was lost in Gay Tony. It takes what worked with GTAIV, while adding a ton of cool toys like riot tanks, parachutes, explosive sniper rifles, gold-plated uzi's and so on. It's pretty clear that Rockstar aimed to please the people who found GTAIV's missions boring. Even in the earliest missions you're exploding yacht's with helicopters and base-jumping off of sky scrapers. The missions were consistently over the top, and overall much more memorable than what GTAIV had to offer.
In regards to story, I won't say much since a lot of you guys probably haven't played it, but it was also an improvement. GTAIV had some fantastic voice work and writing, but I felt that the plot went off the rails in between the opening and closing hours. Too many hit or miss characters were introduced, and it dragged on with no real purpose until the main plot resumed. Gay Tony benefits a lot from it's shorter playtime, there is next to no filler or fat, it's much tighter package.
In particular, I greatly enjoyed Luis's relationship with Tony. It was very genuine (I actually cared!) and it was refreshing to see a gay videogame character who isn't a shallow stereotype (like Bernie in GTAIV). Plus, Yusuf was fucking hilarious.
It's kind of hard to believe that something this good could be DLC in this day and age, but I highly recommend you dudes check it out if you haven't already. I'm not burned out on GTAIV yet so I'll probably move on to Lost and Damned, but it's probably gonna be a bit underwhelming after playing Gay Tony.
/perfectscore
I've owned Episodes for awhile, but I never made much progress with the story. In a GTA game, it's way too easy to get distracted. Anyways, I finally got around to playing through the story and I'm kinda blown away by how good it was.
It retains all of GTAIV's strong points - the awesome euphoria physics, the high production values, the eclectic soundtrack, and of course Liberty City. I loved GTAIV, but I'm struggling to think of anything that was lost in Gay Tony. It takes what worked with GTAIV, while adding a ton of cool toys like riot tanks, parachutes, explosive sniper rifles, gold-plated uzi's and so on. It's pretty clear that Rockstar aimed to please the people who found GTAIV's missions boring. Even in the earliest missions you're exploding yacht's with helicopters and base-jumping off of sky scrapers. The missions were consistently over the top, and overall much more memorable than what GTAIV had to offer.
In regards to story, I won't say much since a lot of you guys probably haven't played it, but it was also an improvement. GTAIV had some fantastic voice work and writing, but I felt that the plot went off the rails in between the opening and closing hours. Too many hit or miss characters were introduced, and it dragged on with no real purpose until the main plot resumed. Gay Tony benefits a lot from it's shorter playtime, there is next to no filler or fat, it's much tighter package.
In particular, I greatly enjoyed Luis's relationship with Tony. It was very genuine (I actually cared!) and it was refreshing to see a gay videogame character who isn't a shallow stereotype (like Bernie in GTAIV). Plus, Yusuf was fucking hilarious.
It's kind of hard to believe that something this good could be DLC in this day and age, but I highly recommend you dudes check it out if you haven't already. I'm not burned out on GTAIV yet so I'll probably move on to Lost and Damned, but it's probably gonna be a bit underwhelming after playing Gay Tony.
/perfectscore
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