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Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
How many of these Dangerous High School girls can I romance?
Hypothetically.
Hypothetically.
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STEAM announcements & updates 2012 Thread - Summer sales usually last week of June
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xenoflux2113
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Wait there is romancing of these dangerous high school girls?
Sounds like the name of a low class porn movie.
Lord British
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Getting Kentucky Fried Movie flashbacks.
You know the part I mean.
You know the part I mean.
RoaringHawk
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Boooo. Age of Empires Online is not available in my region :S
Was really looking forward to playing it.
Was really looking forward to playing it.
You don't need steam to play AOEO. It's a freaking mmo lol
Short review of Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble! for those interested
I bought this a while back and I enjoyed it plenty for what it was. The gameplay is made up of simple minigames that aren't all that much, and the presentation's pretty fugly but the writing gets very funny very often and that more than makes up for it.
The gameplay itself is pretty out there: you recruit a gang of girls (from nerds to drama queens to artsy girls smoking in the bathroom) and go about solving mysteries surrounding some "accidents" that been happening on High School campus. You can do stuff like exposing other girls secrets to get information on the case or fighting bullies or coupling your girls with boyfriends that sacrifice themselves for their girls if you get defetated in one of the minigames.
I gave it a good 3 or 4 hours and was content with what I got for my money.
I bought this a while back and I enjoyed it plenty for what it was. The gameplay is made up of simple minigames that aren't all that much, and the presentation's pretty fugly but the writing gets very funny very often and that more than makes up for it.
The gameplay itself is pretty out there: you recruit a gang of girls (from nerds to drama queens to artsy girls smoking in the bathroom) and go about solving mysteries surrounding some "accidents" that been happening on High School campus. You can do stuff like exposing other girls secrets to get information on the case or fighting bullies or coupling your girls with boyfriends that sacrifice themselves for their girls if you get defetated in one of the minigames.
I gave it a good 3 or 4 hours and was content with what I got for my money.
RoaringHawk
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Give me on Steam or give me nothing...
So it still requires GFWL? I thought I would get rid of that horrible thing once it's on Steam.
28 Posts Later
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It's published by Microsoft; they're not going to drop GFWL from their own products unfortunately. Progress is still ultimately tied to your GFWL account after all - no matter the form of distribution.
Fire Walk With Me
Banned
AOEO #1 on top sellers list. MS has to be pleased. Or sad. I DONT KNOW.
Joe Molotov
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You play as the girls, and romance dudes (then dump them to the curb when they've outlived their usefulness). They act as human shields, basically.
Link: New SimCity will require always-on internet connection.
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Spectacular Dr Dawg
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Just finished Sniper: Ghost Warrior, it was as mediocre as I was expecting it to be. Some brief thoughts, should anyone be interested in them.
The most important part of making any game called 'Sniper' is that the actual sniper part of the game be fun, and I'm happy to say that it is. I really enjoyed playing the lone sniper role, picking off guards one by one. It's very satisfying to do so, particularly when you headshot someone from a good distance and the bullet cam shows the path of your bullet to its target. I also liked how much verticality there was in the level design, made sniping more fun still. Sadly, that's about the only good thing in terms of the level design, because one of the major problems of the game stems from that, the incredible linearity. There is almost no opportunity in the game to deviate from set paths, and sometimes when you think you have a choice, there's an invisible wall where you want to go. Level variety is fairly decent for a game set entirely in a single country.
Where the sniping portion of the game is quite good, the same can't be said of the frequent times when the developers seem to want to imitate Call of Duty. The run & gun sections of the game suffer from a wide variety of problems, not the least of which is the fact that the enemy AI instantly sees you and has near perfect aim. Friendly AIs are remarkably terrible shots for elite soldiers. Frustrating, even on the easy difficulty setting. I'm no fan of most modern FPS games, but certainly these parts of Sniper: Ghost Warrior made me appreciate the work of DICE and Infinity Ward/Treyarch a little bit more.
Another issue is the overall jank associated with the game, I especially had issues when climbing up places and with the workings of the stealth element of the game, which didn't always make a whole lot of sense. I've seen worse in Eastern European games, but it does detract from the experience a bit. What detracts more still is the fact that the sound mixing in the game was quite poor in my experience. It was very hard to gauge distance of enemies based on volume.
Overall, I enjoyed Sniper: Ghost Warrior, helped in part that at about five hours it was just about the right length. However, I think it could have been better in many ways, especially if the developers had had the balls to make it purely about sniping, rather than trying to put in Call of Duty bits.
5/10
Note: I did not play multiplayer, and have no interest in doing so.
The most important part of making any game called 'Sniper' is that the actual sniper part of the game be fun, and I'm happy to say that it is. I really enjoyed playing the lone sniper role, picking off guards one by one. It's very satisfying to do so, particularly when you headshot someone from a good distance and the bullet cam shows the path of your bullet to its target. I also liked how much verticality there was in the level design, made sniping more fun still. Sadly, that's about the only good thing in terms of the level design, because one of the major problems of the game stems from that, the incredible linearity. There is almost no opportunity in the game to deviate from set paths, and sometimes when you think you have a choice, there's an invisible wall where you want to go. Level variety is fairly decent for a game set entirely in a single country.
Where the sniping portion of the game is quite good, the same can't be said of the frequent times when the developers seem to want to imitate Call of Duty. The run & gun sections of the game suffer from a wide variety of problems, not the least of which is the fact that the enemy AI instantly sees you and has near perfect aim. Friendly AIs are remarkably terrible shots for elite soldiers. Frustrating, even on the easy difficulty setting. I'm no fan of most modern FPS games, but certainly these parts of Sniper: Ghost Warrior made me appreciate the work of DICE and Infinity Ward/Treyarch a little bit more.
Another issue is the overall jank associated with the game, I especially had issues when climbing up places and with the workings of the stealth element of the game, which didn't always make a whole lot of sense. I've seen worse in Eastern European games, but it does detract from the experience a bit. What detracts more still is the fact that the sound mixing in the game was quite poor in my experience. It was very hard to gauge distance of enemies based on volume.
Overall, I enjoyed Sniper: Ghost Warrior, helped in part that at about five hours it was just about the right length. However, I think it could have been better in many ways, especially if the developers had had the balls to make it purely about sniping, rather than trying to put in Call of Duty bits.
5/10
Note: I did not play multiplayer, and have no interest in doing so.
It must be said that it was pretty obvious, Maxis is owned by EA or something. I won't buy nor play it, I'm really sorry but I just won't.WHY? I was looking forward to that
Spectacular Dr Dawg
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I was talking about the always-on internet connection requirement. The fact that it uses Origin isn't surprising.
Stallion Free
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I definitely agree about the sniping vs. the COD-esque combat. Fortunately they have only shown sniping in the sequel and hopefully it stays that way.
Dog Problems
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That's how I feel, for the most part. $5 was the right amount. I don't know if this happened to you, but sometimes I'd snipe someone who was next to somebody else and they would both be talking, and after killing the guy the other person would continue to stand there and talk. Situations like that were pretty frequent for me.
Not too often, but it did happen a few times. Game is pretty janky like that. Hopefully, after selling two million copies of this game, they'll have the money for proper QA on the sequel.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Cryengine 3 has some pretty slick AI features built in.
Oh, it's CryEngine 3? That's promising, even if it does mean that I won't play it until 2014.
Forgot to mention by the way, another thing I really did like about the game was the load times, near instant, even on the old ass mechanical HDD in my PC. I wish more games had that, always makes it far more likely for me to keep playing a game.
SteveWinwood
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My thoughts on sniper: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=33062426&postcount=9871
and http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=33063060&postcount=9877
Funny enough stallion and lastwindow were there for that too.
and http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=33063060&postcount=9877
Funny enough stallion and lastwindow were there for that too.
Dog Problems
Banned
Haha, forgot all about that DLC. It'll be mine on the next sale.
Not going to bother with the DLC for now (although I do own it), will probably play at some point down the line though.
It's all single-player unless you choose to do co-op or skirmish.
Stallion Free
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Yeah, I'd definitely recommend taking a break in between. The DLC is essentially more of the same, except sniping only. However, the levels kinda drag on a bit due to how many enemies there are.
The trouble is most of us that post in here think EA are wankers.
b b but it splits my digital library!
SteveWinwood
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They advertised the fact that they take away your games and spy on your shit?
Nope...why would they? Steam has been doing the same thing for years and nobody ever said anything.
Sportbilly
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I'm not bothered about a game being on Origin.
An EA game being on everything but Steam though, that's pure bullshit.
An EA game being on everything but Steam though, that's pure bullshit.
How has Valve been doing the same thing?
Valve doesn't, for instance, ban people's accounts if their Steam forums account gets banned (as far as I know).
Valve does disable people's accounts for credit card fraud triggers (which may be false positives, and be annoying) and then reenables them through support channels.
Valve does have a system that can VAC ban people with false positives (in the Black Ops case at minimum), though in that case, they were widespread enough to be reverted. That does not result in an account ban, however.
My personal biggest concern would probably be that EA is sort of well known as a crappy gaming company from a consumer perspective (note the thread about EA for worst consumerist company), with occasional bright spots. Valve is known as one of the best gaming companies from a consumer perspective, with occasional dark spots. EA is also known for doing stuff like taking down servers for games etc., and I do not have a lot of faith in their service or their servers, whereas Valve (even with occasional server reliability issues) has a huge userbase, is a private company, and I expect it and the Steam service to be around for the foreseeable future.
xenoflux2113
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Kind of the wrong place to pick this fight. But hey if you want to go there...
SteveWinwood
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I don't want my library split among different digital delivery service. It's simple, really. Especially when one of them houses the games of only ONE publisher and I don't have any friends over there (/cue foreveralone memes).
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Not true anymore, Origin has a number of third party games.
I just launch everything through steam including origin since most everyone is on steam. Mainly do that for the overlay and if people need to contact me while I'm playing a Blizzard or EA game they can.
ClovingWestbrook
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I await the response of 'Don't post on their forums, problem solved.'
Sportbilly
Member
I decided to solve the(ir) problem by not posting on their forums and not buying their games. If they ever decide to get sensible, I might reconsider, but it'd take a lot for me to be confident in buying anything from EA.
Yep. Especially in cases like Mass Effect 3, where the first two games were on Steam but the last installment isn't. What crap.
Joe Molotov
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Overlay doesn't work in ME3.
Don't have ME3 but I guess if that's the case I'll just alt tab if the steam msg sound still works lol.
spindoctor
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You can get the Steam overlay to work with ME3 by following the same method used to get the BF3 overlay working - http://i.imgur.com/hmAPs.png
crimsonheadGCN
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It looks like Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery will have a pre-order. The game will be SteamPlay and the soundtrack will be available.
Is that the game that...*googles*
Yay, it is! I kept seeing the picture, and I look forward to being able to play it.
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