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STEAM announcements & updates 2012 Thread - Summer sales usually last week of June
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Let's hope I can get my card sorted out to buy this then. Thanks.
The Technomancer
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Hm, I should grab Avernum 4-6 then when they come out. I've only actually played 4 and about three hours of 5.
crimsonheadGCN
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Moon Breakers is heading to Steam:
http://youtu.be/-Njh4emueFo
It's a 3D space combat title that offers multiplayer combat and is F2P.
http://youtu.be/-Njh4emueFo
It's a 3D space combat title that offers multiplayer combat and is F2P.
The Broken Ska Record
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Since Alice Madness Returns kinda fell flat for me, I wanted to pick up an FPS to play a bit before Diablo III. Since it's been years since I've attempted to play FEAR, I figured I'd give that a shot. Holy DAMN was it poorly optimized. At High/Maximum I'm getting 15 fps or so on my system. And I can run Crysis 2 at a decent setting. :/
Try rebooting. Upon reading your post I ran the in-game benchmark and was getting no more than ~50fps (averaging around half that), but after rebooting the game ran as it should:
1680x1050 with max settings (4x FSAA/8x AF); E6420 @ 3.2GHz, 4GB DDR2-800, GTX 570.
There's an infamous bug in fear where you'll get a performance hit unless you disable HID USB devices in device manager.
The Broken Ska Record
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Thanks for that! The benchmark is running about 60fps now instead of the paltry framerate from before. And it gave me a chance to try the game again.
jediyoshi
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fluffydelusions
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Possibly but for $6.79 it won't get much cheaper and it's definitely worth that price no questions.
Refreshment.01
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Characters and projects are referenced throught out the first game (and expansions) as well as the 2nd one as far as i remember.
But leaving the plot aside you should play the first one because is the best in the series. Level design and enemy encounters are in other league. The third game wasn't even developed by the geniuses at Monolith.
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I don't know if Monolith is allowed to be considered genius-tier after FEAR 2. I liked the game, but I'm not in denial about the issues it had.
Also, Day 1 really didn't do *that* bad with FEAR 3. The locations stayed fresh and the shooting felt tighter/better than most FPS games. The only level that dragged was the airport one and we all know that FEAR 1 had a 4+ level segment that dragged so I can't really harp on Day 1 for one level.
I know everyone doesn't read the Dota 2 thread, but Valve is starting to send invites for their next International. They look classy as fuck.
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Swag.
Refreshment.01
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Since they made Blood 1 and 2, Shogo, No one Lives For Ever and FEAR i'll give them 1 or 2 more shit games before i take from them the title of geniuses.
Which will happen since the envelope of FPS isn't being pushed any more.
Yet another game cleared from the backlog, Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood. I have to admit, I never played the original, but on the recommendation of stump, I picked up the sequel last year somewhere in a sale. In general, I don't really like the 'Wild West' as a setting. I think it's one of the most uninteresting places in the Western world at that point in time. As such, it's something I have little experience with. That said, I really did enjoy what Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood did with the setting, and the story it told. The settings you travel to are quite varied, and apart from the rather poor final levels, all well executed. It is however a shame that the levels, despite often seeming large, consist of really narrow and linear paths, which you can never really deviate from. Most levels look quite nice though, Techland did a solid job on the graphics. As regards the story, I found myself interested in the tale of revenge and greed it told. I did think that outside of the two characters, the characters were a bit weak, and your younger brother just annoying despite the fact that his motivations are the only ones I was sympathetic to in the game.
As far as the gameplay goes, I quite liked the basic shooting mechanics. It's a bit different, firing 19th century weapons as opposed to the assault rifles you use in basically every other first person shooter. Aside from the few times you get on a Gatling gun, no spraying and praying here. A welcome change of pace. Though I could have used a little more variety in what you do, given that 95% of the game is shootouts. What's also nice is that you can change it up by playing a different brother in almost every level if you want (yet strangely, there's no co-op functionality). One being more focused on combat (dual wielding pistols) the other being more focused on ability and stealth (despite there being almost no need for it). The mechanics aren't always a success, the rope-climbing with the lasso is not exactly a brilliant mechanic for instance, but some of them work quite well, like the different bullet time abilities the brothers have. There's also the odd duel in the game, but I didn't really care for them. I should also note that the enemy AI is quite poor, and often seems completely absent from friendlies. Oh, and horse riding is ridiculous.
Overall, I thought Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood was a solid title, but it never really blew me away. It used its setting fairly well, and the gunplay is nice, but in the end I could have used a few more surprises, a bit more variety and a lot more freedom. 6/10
As far as the gameplay goes, I quite liked the basic shooting mechanics. It's a bit different, firing 19th century weapons as opposed to the assault rifles you use in basically every other first person shooter. Aside from the few times you get on a Gatling gun, no spraying and praying here. A welcome change of pace. Though I could have used a little more variety in what you do, given that 95% of the game is shootouts. What's also nice is that you can change it up by playing a different brother in almost every level if you want (yet strangely, there's no co-op functionality). One being more focused on combat (dual wielding pistols) the other being more focused on ability and stealth (despite there being almost no need for it). The mechanics aren't always a success, the rope-climbing with the lasso is not exactly a brilliant mechanic for instance, but some of them work quite well, like the different bullet time abilities the brothers have. There's also the odd duel in the game, but I didn't really care for them. I should also note that the enemy AI is quite poor, and often seems completely absent from friendlies. Oh, and horse riding is ridiculous.
Overall, I thought Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood was a solid title, but it never really blew me away. It used its setting fairly well, and the gunplay is nice, but in the end I could have used a few more surprises, a bit more variety and a lot more freedom. 6/10
Since they made Blood 1 and 2, Shogo, No one Lives For Ever and FEAR i'll give them 1 or 2 more shit games before i take from them the title of geniuses.
Which will happen since the envelope of FPS isn't being pushed any more.
I found NOLF1+2 for cheap in a store a couple of weeks ago. I bought them so hard (have only played the second one before).
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Bound in Bloods visuals could have been amazing if there wasn't severe pop-in/lod issues. I loved the use of color-grading or whatever you want to call it to make most areas feel visually distinct.
My favorite segment of the game was when you go to the Indian territory and all that crazy shit goes down.
My favorite segment of the game was when you go to the Indian territory and all that crazy shit goes down.
more like they've planned it on Minecraft
Yeah, that was my favourite part as well. Visually absolutely striking in places.
I would say that if you liked the story, the original game is worth checking out, but it sounds like you aren't very into wild west games.
The preacher man in the original game was the most memorable part from me, along with me (perhaps easily impressed at DX10 graphics) being blown away by the intro part where you wander through a mountainous area.
Shooting and pressing a button to Bible-quote. "And the smoke from their torment goeth up forever...and ever."
*edit* Oh, and I actually have a good bit of respect for Techland in their support for custom singleplayer and multiplayer levels with the editor. I think they even made an official site for it, possibly with tutorials, and you can find custom maps and whatnot: http://www.cojmodding.com/
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The original COJ feels quite rough in comparison to the second one. It had really ghetto stealth segments and the visuals don't hold up very well due to some hideous artistic decisions.
I'll probably skip the original then, I have an extremely low tolerance for bad stealth. Might actually try to finish Red Dead Redemption on my 360 at one point though, I gave up
somewhere in Mexico
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
I liked the original better than Bound in Blood, for what it's worth.
However, it is reknowned for (one or two?) really bad stealth sections that are the worst parts of the game, as far as I know. Kabouter beware! And yeah the visuals are great in some places but probably very dated in others.
What did you like better about it?
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I do think the original had some things going for it such as a sort of wild ambition to some of the level design (one great example is the level where you are playing the kid climbing the mountain on his vision quest) and an eagle that actually attacks you.
I think the original is worth a look. It's got some great open environments that give more freedom then the corridors of the sequel.
It does however have this level where you need to climb this mountain to get an eagle feather. That level is utter garbage.
It does however have this level where you need to climb this mountain to get an eagle feather. That level is utter garbage.
Refreshment.01
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Since we are talking about Monolith Ledsen, i keep forgetting i need to finish Condemned but i haven't found it on Steam. Is it because of my region?
Also i just realized they never ported the second game to the PC. Which is the better Condemned 1 or 2?
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Buttonbasher
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I'm actually fairly bummed out that Vin Diesel Wheelman was taken down. It's been the running joke of previous Steam sales between my circle of friends, but I never actually grabbed it, thinking I'd wait for the next sale. I actually thought the Xbox demo was silly fun.
And now it's gone. Sorry Vin.
And now it's gone. Sorry Vin.
Definitely the first. The second has its moments, but I felt it was very inconsistent.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
I wonder why. It's not like it'd be any real work for Sega to throw up what they're selling on Gamersgate or Amazon.
Refreshment.01
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That's a relief at least. Any DD service with the game available?
Buttonbasher
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I got it through Amazon a while ago. They have it for 14.95 DD: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000EDL12E/?tag=neogaf0e-20
You missed it on sale last week for $6.87 or something like that on gamersgate. I regret not picking it up myself.
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But see you want it so it's not going to happen. Just like how we all want Bayonetta and Vanquish to be ported to PC.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
In the event of a version discrepancy, you're asked which one you'd like to keep/use.
Is it true that sometimes games with Steam cloud saves mess up and delete one or the other? I thought I saw people complaining about the Steam version of Witcher 2 for this reason, and getting the GoG version instead.
Cuban Legend
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I would venture to say that Vanquish might even be a good stealth hit like Binary Domain if it were to come to PC some day.
Ok, good to know
Started to play Sonic Generations again and i noticed that my last save on steam cloud is before the first boss and I forgot to go online before I reformatted my PC. UGH!
Cuban Legend
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Wow, I always wantd to mess with that game if it were ever dirt-cheap on a sale... why's it gone?
I wondewr if there is any strategy or way to tell when a game will be removed from Steam? Are there any known/common sales metrics a game has to have in its statistics to accurately guess whether it will soon be dropped from Steam?
Or is all we have to look for just licensing disagreements at this point?
OmegaDragon
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Some devs confuse me. How can you call your title Orion: DINO Beatdown, where you try to survive the DINO horde with jetpacks, but only have one pic on the page that features an actual Dino, and its hardly visible.
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