SuperLurker
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I just played the demo but holding the button down seemed to do the trick in confined spaces.
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I just played the demo but holding the button down seemed to do the trick in confined spaces.
It's a straight ricochet attack. it can be targeted and it lasts longer if you hold down the button. The range is actually pretty short but connecting with a wall or enemy resets the range. It's possible to bounce through low clearance tunnel areas very quickly by holding the button down. Also, hitting an enemy with the attack launches you straight up as it resets the attack so enemies can be used as platforms.
Seems like a pretty good game so far. I really like the ricochet move.
I NEED SCISSORS
Banned
For every single game that people have said this about, i've found it's never been true lol.
Steam xmas sale is looking great: Chivalry, Retro City Rampage, Borderlands 2, FTL, Mark of The Ninja, Torchlight II
Would be amazing.
Every one of those games, aside from BL2, will be in some indie bundle at some point.
How about all of the Halos!!
Halo 2 on PC is an amazing port.
Wok
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If Mark of The Ninja plays like Shank 2, it is unplayable with a keyboard and a mouse, I could only enjoy the game with a controller.
What the hell is going on here
Hamlet or the Last Game without MMORPG Features, Shaders and Product Placement
Hamlet or the Last Game without MMORPG Features, Shaders and Product Placement
The longest game title ever!
Beat The Darkness II. Enjoyed the combat, both the gunplay and melee stuff, as well as the audiowork - well, maybe less so the music, which I've already forgotten, but the voice acting was top notch and sound effects were nice and punchy. Campaign was solid, but could've used more enemy variety. Boss fights were welcome even if they weren't very good, just because they broke things up a bit. Pretty easy game too, which isn't surprising, but always lame. I was basically cruising through everything with little resistance. Executions seemed very strong. Merely okay all in all, but worth the $6 and whatever hours it took to complete. Played on Don difficulty with a 360 pad, no aim assist, no HUD.
Not sure what to focus on next!
Not sure what to focus on next!
Wok
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I don't know what this is but I bought it.
Angle yourself, then hold the button down and you'll just bounce all the way up the corridor. Later on you'll have to aim yourself at the beginning of pinball-ish sequences and do the same. It's pretty awesome once you get used to it. For general play it's just used to launch yourself in whichever direction you press, break blocks & kill enemies, as well as automatically switching you to the light world every time you use it.
SparkTR said:
Easily one of the best platformers I've played. Difficulty ramps up fairly quickly so you have to get good at launching/ricocheting, spinning/floating and knowing that these will switch you between the light and dark worlds respectively upon use. You can also instantly switch manually to make platforms and deadly environmental objects appear/disappear and you'll find yourself having to think ahead quite a bit, because the game doesn't always let you go at your own pace. Lots of reflexes and timing involved in some spots, but checkpoints are generous on normal difficulty. Like I said before, the way the environment (and even the music) changes instantly but fluidly is so well done.
Well until the next set of indie puzzle platformers enters the market.
Dog Problems
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Wouldn't have it any other way
Speaking of stuff that is selling.. my Steam is telling me that the Bioshock Infinity pre-order is selling really well.. but then it's stupidly overpriced here so I think it's all the us/uk/south america sales that are doing it.. either that or my faith in the au people in 'gettin a good deal' was misplaced.. You haven't bought that have you?
If they're going to have regional stores.. they should really have regional 'top sellers' lists.. or at least a breakdown flash thingie (I'm talking sexy map) of what is selling in what major regions.. I know the us/euro top sellers can be quite different sometimes and it's something I'd like to see more out of steam. Maybe in the 'stats' area or something..
toddhunter
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People paying high Australian prices is a very good thing. If they stopped being stupid, they might crack down on the other places we can still buy them even more.
Would rather save money now and use GMG. It's hurting retail either way.
Looks awesome! The Road - The Game. Looking forward to playing this, wishlisted.
Bought some stuff from the Valve Store with friends and the items are pretty cool. A friend bought the Portal 2 messenger bag, and if anyone has been eyeing it from some time, get it. It looks great.
Woah, this looks amazing too. So jealous.
EDIT: can we get actual pics of the stuff you guys bought in the pick-ups thread?
balladofwindfishes
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TF2 Beta updated with some Linux source engine binaries.
Looks like Steam Linux is getting more open soon, possibly launching with TF2 as its first public game supported.
Looks like Steam Linux is getting more open soon, possibly launching with TF2 as its first public game supported.
Hooray!
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Does steam have an upcoming TF2 event?
Delusibeta
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They did a call for Halloween-themed items to be uploaded on the Workshop a while back, so I imagine that will make a return.
I'm in the USA and its 25$.
Its fun but not really worth more than $10 for this type of game. Or free imho
Although not clear, he's referring to the per-head price of a four-pack.
I've definitely had a rant or two about uplay. Honestly, I have to say I find Origin (as long as the game isn't browser web based like BF3) to be preferable to Ubi. When you're < Origin and GFWL you've failed the litmus test and need to go back to the drawing board. Cause your product is fail.
What's wrong with Origin? It's much less intrusive than Steam, you can even treat it like a download client and not launch any games (except BF3) from it. Uplay is on a whole other level.
Glass Rebel
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c'mon.
uPlay is awful but not this bad. It never deleted my saves and never put me in a continuous update loop.
It's a lot more than BF3. More like every big EA game that has come out within the last year or year and a half. They all require Origin.
The easy answer: It's from EA.
On a more serious note: It's a lot less intrusive than Steamworks, but it's also a lot less functional. It's been months since I've used it, but a couple things that really annoyed me back when: wasn't able to make a backup. When I was having issues with Dead Space 2 crashing (eventually fixed by googling a custom config) at launch, I wanted to test on my XP partition. Instead of being able to create a backup, I had to redownload the entire file instead. Why isn't there a backup feature? Another issue that annoyed me was I paused my BF3 download 80 percent of the way through (and put the computer to sleep). I just assumed I could continue where I left off. Nope. Had to restart from 0 bytes. There's plenty of little annoying things that should have been solved long ago.
Then again, you could just be trolling me
Haven't plenty of people had uPlay load up a save that was 3 hours (gameplay) old?
spindoctor
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Just like Steam then?
Shank 2 had a bug early on with keyboard controls. They patched that pretty quick though.
Mark of the Ninja plays perfectly with keyboard.
It think like with Mark of the Ninja it's more that MS doesn't care about those smaller releases.
Like all the platform holders they most likely want to keep a couple of exclusive franchises to keep people buying their consoles.
Glass Rebel
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First time I'm hearing of this but I have nothing against uPlay getting flak.
Syphon Filter
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origin is terrible.EA cant be trusted and also why wouldnt you want to launch games from the steam client?i want all games in one place...
Syphon Filter
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arjan if they care about bigger titles then how come they dont support gfwl themselves?
Confidence Man
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This is the worst and pretty much the sole reason I won't use Origin.
Yep, it's pretty hard to criticize Uplay because they're pretty much just doing what Steam does, and Steam was waaaaaaaaay shittier back when it first started.
Glass Rebel
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this "argument" again...
why are we comparing Steam from back then with uPlay/Origin today again?
Syphon Filter
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i would hope ubi learned from what valve fixed...
Because Uplay's problems are primarily technical issues which are to be expected in any newly developed system, just like how Steam had similar technical issues when it first started? It's OK to directly compare them on business/sales policies but it doesn't seem fair to compare them on stuff like bugs.
All it takes is for them to get some other third-party games on the system and give some amazing discounts and people will accept it just like Steam.
Glass Rebel
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- games I bought on Steam not properly registering/not showing up in the uPlay client even though they do on the web
- uplay apparently fucking with (cloud saves)
- security leak/rootkit stuff
I think the shit uPlay gets is justified and I seriously doubt any long-time PC gamer will trust Ubisoft over Steam...
Besides it's completely redundant with Steam games. When I launch Driver: SF I want to start playing it immediately, not having to wait for a second client to open and click the "play" button there.
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