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STEAM announcements & updates 2012 Thread - Summer sales usually last week of June
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Glad I'm not the only one who thinks this.
I'm British. It's only £9.99 for Ys over here, while both Trine 2 and GCI are £5.99 each (£11.98 for both).
Still, I see your point. But I'm poor, and even £9.99 is a lot of money for a Steam game to me, so that's why I'm asking - otherwise, I'd have bought them all at once!
So, including your and Miri's votes, the current tally is:
Ys -
GCI - 2 votes
Trine 2 - 1 vote
Any more? Thanks for all the votes so far, btw, much appreciated.
Although, from the above conversation, maybe I should just get Trine 1 to see if I like it (never played it) and wait for another sale down the road?
The only problem I had with Trine was how poor the platforming felt. It was always way too easy to slip off the edge of a platform you thought you were solidly on, and the way the physics of the game worked, you'd fall extremely quickly making you unable to recover easily from such a fall.
CornBurrito
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I enjoyed Trine until the second to last level (or at least close to one of the last levels) where it was an overly long level filled with tons of enemy spawn points.
The Grim Heaper
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Yeah, I'd for sure go with Ys. Not that the other 2 are bad, but I bought Ys on a whim and so far it's fantastic.
Makes sense. I was LTTP and absolutely LOVED the game. No issues with the final level, but I can see how they nerfed it. Because there were some design decisions that struck me as odd (but was thankful for, because I knew it'd be a bitch without).
Plenty of it's grounded. And people have spelled out the issues enough times for anyone interested in what those issues are.
Still, I'll take LIVE over Origin or Ubi Play at this point.
Codemaster games also have a habit of getting the GWFL save file eaten. And the DX 11 bug is almost certainly tied to it since the game has never crashed for me if signed out. Codemasters and GFWL has a whole list of the LIVE bug-a-boos attached to it. Thankfully they seem to be going Steamworks, because they're not very good with making Live work well with their software.
Visualante2
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To clarify it's not just QTEs, but more the interruptions. If you don't consider slowing down the gameplay, and being told to press a button a QTE. Then that's what I'm talking about.
There is fun to be had with the game, certainly $5 worth. It just doesn't value your time in its presentation.
Sure but if you say that about every $5 game that goes on sale which is of middling appeal a lot of people are gonna end up with shit they don't want. I got it, I enjoyed what I played.. but it wasn't a forgotten gem of last year as far as I can tell.
There's a demo I think. Gives a good impression of what you can expect, there's a lot of big set pieces in the finished product.
The gameplay is pretty solid aside from the bullet sponging which can get a bit excessive, it's a good parody of a lot of stuff. But they dole it out in such small bursts. I can't deal with all the "press something to look at this"
There is fun to be had with the game, certainly $5 worth. It just doesn't value your time in its presentation.
I wouldn't call it middling. It's very good for what it does. And it's never going to go lower than 5 dollars (plus there's the whole EA could pull their entire catalog at any point). So if you like shooters, it's a good game to place a bet on. It's possible it'll turn you off, but it's only 5 bucks if you fall into that minority. Hence it's not a bad bet.
The Trine games are excellent, but Ys is one of the best action RPGs of all time. It's simple a classic and a must-play.
Hero_of_the_Day
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Tribe wasn't for me, so can't really give too much opinion. Didn't like it, didn't think it was bad either, though.
Gotham City seems okay. Haven't spent much time with it yet. Fuck GFWL though. I went to put in the code for some of the DLC I bought and the GFW client crashed. Garbage. Not as bad as erasing my arkham city save at least.
Y's is fuck awesome. I'm only through the first dungeon, but it seems pretty damn awesome. I've never played a Y's game before,and hate silent protagonists, but the game is still awesome as shit.
Gotham City seems okay. Haven't spent much time with it yet. Fuck GFWL though. I went to put in the code for some of the DLC I bought and the GFW client crashed. Garbage. Not as bad as erasing my arkham city save at least.
Y's is fuck awesome. I'm only through the first dungeon, but it seems pretty damn awesome. I've never played a Y's game before,and hate silent protagonists, but the game is still awesome as shit.
just watched a 20 minute intro of Bulletstorm and I still can't see the appeal. It still feels way to dudebro-ish for my liking.
The combat is a lot more involved than just shooting everything in sight, the dashing is the closest an FPS will probably get to Vanquish-awesome and the dudebro stuff is just purposely blown out to ridiculous-land. The weapons (I know a lot of people hate the sniper rifle but I loved it) and overall difficulty curve are pretty good, too.
If you don't like its kind of humor then you shouldn't buy it, but that 20 minute walkthrough just covers the very beginning, and it's the less funny and the less interesting part of the game.
Uhh...yeah, and I declare an overwhelming, Obama 2012-style landslide for Ys!
Oh, and out of curiosity
for how it would run on my new Windows 7 setup
though I'd still rate Hard Reset as slightly better, with Crysis at the tippity-top
Hero_of_the_Day
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So, two questions about Ys. One, how do you pronounce it? Two, are games in the series related or is it like final fantasy?
20 minutes... you don't even get your leash or your "skillshot gear" during that I think.
The game goes from "eh... fairly standard FPS" to "OMG what is this I need more of it" if you progress. It's hard to explain, but you can do crazy stuff with the weapons. My favourite was the bouncing ball one.
Dog Problems
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It's either "Eec" like Reece's or "Ease." I've never seen a straight answer as I always read different interpretations but those two seem to be the dominant answers.
BoosterDuck
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SteveWinwood
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jaundicejuice
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Already owned a stand-alone, physical copy of Bulletstorm, 5$ is cheap enough to add it to my Steam collection.
Hero_of_the_Day
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Run, junior, run!
EDIT: That would be great for valve to announce the next half-life on April fools. Not as a joke, but seriously announce it. Maybe next year.
EDIT: That would be great for valve to announce the next half-life on April fools. Not as a joke, but seriously announce it. Maybe next year.
jediyoshi
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You don't find the appeal in shooters to be the things outside of how you can classify the genre it takes?
The dudebro-ness is pretty much all tongue in cheek anyway, it's not like in Gears where it takes itself serious almost all the time.
Stallion Free
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If you can't see the appeal of BulletStorm then you aren't worthy of the game, plain and simple.
I would probaly give Bulletstorm a 3 out of 5, Its pretty mediocre. If you're on the fence then don't by it, there are hundreds of other games out there that deserve your attention more than Bulletstorm.
Thats my opinion feel free to do whatever you want. If you end up not liking it, then 'I told you so'
Thats my opinion feel free to do whatever you want. If you end up not liking it, then 'I told you so'
Dog Problems
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I didn't care for a lot of the dialogue in Bulletstorm but other than that it was pretty enjoyable. A fun, over-the-top shooter. I love the skillshot system.
For how interconnected the series is, they're related but it's episodic. More like Elder Scrolls/Fallout and less like Baldur's Gate or Mass Effect, so most games are safe to jump into without playing prior ones. You just don't want to do II without I or anything, then there's Origin but that's a distant prequel so I believe it works either way if you play it before or after.
I really enjoyed the dialogue with the villain towards the end of bulletstorm. Until that point he had been more crass than anything else; nothing but incessant and grating toilet humour. Then he chews up your character and spits him out, laying the most enormous guilt trip I've come across in a game. A rare moment of zen like clarity and more memorable than redecorating a fat man's anus with molten lead for the umpteenth time.
My fave's the Flailgun or the quad-barrel shotgun. Good times.
Get Bulletstorm, for sure.
But don't have a German gift it to you. At least not from a German IP, because then you'll get the low violence version (unless something's changed in the way things work and I'm unaware of it). You do not want that. Dismemberment is entirely gone, blood effects reduced or cut entirely, etc.
The game is a looker and a lot of fun regardless but there's no denying that the excessive gore adds to its tone.
But don't have a German gift it to you. At least not from a German IP, because then you'll get the low violence version (unless something's changed in the way things work and I'm unaware of it). You do not want that. Dismemberment is entirely gone, blood effects reduced or cut entirely, etc.
The game is a looker and a lot of fun regardless but there's no denying that the excessive gore adds to its tone.
I wasn't as big a fan of Bulletstorm as most people here (the complete lack of challenge really hurt it in my eyes, and I wasn't fond of how often things would stop so the characters could chat either), but it's easily worth the $5. The gunplay is very strong, with a few excellent weapons. I mean you can blow out a dude's butthole with a quad-barreled shotgun. C'mon, now.
Dog Problems
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Oh, I completely forgot about all of that. That was pretty good. I normally have no problems with loads of swearing or whatever but it did nothing for me in Bulletstorm. I guess it felt like they were trying too hard to be funny and it just wasn't working for me.
The gameplay of Bulletstorm has that "oh snap!", visceral presentation. Hell, we'll talking about a game that gives you a sniper rifle that fires rounds you can remote control sort of like the old Redeemer from UT.
The "QTE"s people are referring to are simple button presses that give you bonus sp, which are used to buy extra ammo and weapon upgrades -- they're not taxing and you're never really short of sp even if you perform mediocre in the QTE events, because you get so much sp just by killing enemies in fancy ways and doing combos. The QTEs are minor features that don't hinder your progress in any way even if you don't react to them (except in one case, maybe?).
On the other hand, Bulletstorm also had some of the worst lines, most obnoxious main characters, and most juvenile humor I've ever experienced in a game. I didn't feel any desire to sit through a second playthrough -- I could barely tolerate the voice acting in the first one. There aren't too many games I've played where I actively hated the character I played (to be fair, I haven't played DNF yet).
The "QTE"s people are referring to are simple button presses that give you bonus sp, which are used to buy extra ammo and weapon upgrades -- they're not taxing and you're never really short of sp even if you perform mediocre in the QTE events, because you get so much sp just by killing enemies in fancy ways and doing combos. The QTEs are minor features that don't hinder your progress in any way even if you don't react to them (except in one case, maybe?).
On the other hand, Bulletstorm also had some of the worst lines, most obnoxious main characters, and most juvenile humor I've ever experienced in a game. I didn't feel any desire to sit through a second playthrough -- I could barely tolerate the voice acting in the first one. There aren't too many games I've played where I actively hated the character I played (to be fair, I haven't played DNF yet).
I got it already, why would i be unsure?
chixdiggit
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If you liked Hard Reset chances are you will like Bullet Storm. It's not as good as Hard Reset but for $5 it's worth the time.
rollingstart
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Is there a way to remove the black bars in Bullestorm? it's forced to 16:9 on my 16:10 monitor.
Kuro Madoushi
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5 dollars...I don't want to buy it and get another duke shit'em
SteveWinwood
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I beat DNF and have only played the first 20 mins of Bulletstorm.
Bulletstorm is a bajillion times better.
1 Bajillion. Count that out.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Some of these comments on BulletStorm...
The Broken Ska Record
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I actually just beat Bulletstorm last night, and I had a blast. It's pretty short, about 6-8 hours, but the dialog was great and it looks really nice on PC. For $5, I say pick it up.
Don't get it trust me on this.
The game is linear straight line style like COD/FF13
Characters are shit and unlikeable, Ishi is the worst.
Bloom/lensflare effects everywhere
Game gets worse during the last 3rd of it.
Check point, cutscene, big fight, rise and repeat every 10 minutes with the big boss every now and then. You can actually predict when this will happen.
QTES
GFWL
Basically only get it if you want heaps of different ways to kill people.
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