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STEAM announcements & updates 2013 II - ITT we buy $1 games and complain about them
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MagicWithEarvin
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Did they also patch in gamepad support? >_>
What, you don't love randomly sized boxes that fail to load half the time?
People wanting reasonable/decade old features, didn't Valve say in the recent Greenlight dev chat that they could not add games any faster because of technical limitations? If they're having trouble even adding extra pages to the game store, who knows what they'll break if they try to make anything else new show up. =P
I played every Max Payne as soon as they came out, am a big fan of the franchise, consider the first one one of my 3 favorite games ever, and I still loved MP3.
But Absolution? Nah, didn't like it. And I'm not a huge fan of the Hitman franchise, mind you: the only game I had played back then was Blood Money (amazing!), with the first 3 missions of Codename 47 (watched a Let's Play of the rest) and a shooting playthrough of Silent Assassin made a few months before Absolution came out, as a kind of preparation for it. If there's a game I wish I hadn't payed $30 bucks for, this is the one. And maybe Dark Souls too, it's too hard for me.
neo noir with a nonsensical story, cringeworthy writing and retconned characters
that you're forced to watch
too bad because combat is awesome
Rickenslacker
Banned
damn those cutscenes, single handedly ruining any replay potential the game would have for me. combat was damn fun.
I managed to beat it a second time by watching tv in between the shitty cutscenes
badgad with g strings has to be the single worst line in videogame history
Come on, that was intentionally cheesy
Refreshment.01
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You'll get what im saying if you play one of the other 2 games. They have aged well so be sure to play any of them. Also Max Payne 3 didn't manage to inject any variety to the encounters, it feels like you are replaying the exact same gunfight in different backgrounds, to me it made me feel the game was a lot longer than it should. The 2 first games handled this a lot better and were colored with some very memorable moments. -"No you bring it!"...-"whistles"
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
I loved all 3 Max Payne games. I don't get why people instantly question if you played the first 2 simply because you like the 3rd. Guess what, it's possible to think all 3 are fucking awesome.
It was so bad it was amazing. The delivery totally sells that shit.
They aren't functional yet.
It was so bad it was amazing. The delivery totally sells that shit.
They aren't functional yet.
there's nothing cheesy about max payne 3
while the first two were sometimes bizarre and weird and didn't take themselves that seriously (max realizing he's in a videogame comes to mind, or lord and ladies, or having a level set in a heavy metal club called ragnarock, etc.), max payne 3 tries to be depressing and gritty and serious and sometimes some GTA character shows up to vomit like two awkard sentences about their activist teenage daughter or something for whatever unknown reason.
Madrugador
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The fuck Capcom, was this really necessary?
Screaming_Gremlin
My QB is a Dick and my coach is a Nutt
If they are bothering to do this, maybe they will feel pity on us and get Minerva's Den on Steam as well.
mp2 also has a pretty shitty story in comparison to mp1
mp1 is godly
mp2 is very good, but often annoying or uninteresting
mp3 is genius trapped in garbage
true, true.
I guess it depends on how invested you are in the remedy brand of storytelling
I found the combat in alan wake to be pretty dodgy but it was still the max payne game I wanted
if you don't care that much about it then max payne 3 has some great combat and a kickass soundtrack. the plot isn't even that bad if you treat the game as the dumb action movie it is.
honestly, no. the game started up pretty cool, I was all stoked up to play a badass max payne game and then all the poetry goes to shit
I'd appreciate the shittiness if I didn't like remedy's style so much as to see it all gone and messed up.
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The achievement list references it.
I heard from someone who keeps close watch on the registry stuff that Digital Extremes is tied to the changes being made (they played a role in creating the games multiplayer originally).
ClovingWestbrook
Banned
First person that quotes me and wants Drakansang will receive the key via PM
I do enjoy scanning things, and word on the street says this has that.
My man. Finally someone who's talking some sense.
Beautiful.
The part you mention was inside a hallucination due to an excess of Valkyr in his bloodstream. And the gothic (not heavy metal) nightclub fitted perfectly with all the Nordic mithology themes that filled the game. It's not the game not taking itself seriously.
ClovingWestbrook
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thanks!
huh? the game can be silly and provide context for its silliness at the same time. the super hyper exaggerated poeticness of max's monologues is the same thing, it's hilarious but at the same time it's well written and fitting for the setting and the character.
and that's exactly the problem with mp3's out of the blue GTA characters. they spawn and say some fun shit and disappear from existence without reason or meaning. and even then it always falls flat because of poor writing.
in max payne 3 max loathes all these people around him (who could blame him, after all, they're written by dan houser...) and he's not amusing in the slightest, the tv shows are boring and obvious and there's no crazy dream sequences or anything like the address unknown funhouse.
also max is an unlikable whiny deadbeat drunk
blegh
Joe Molotov
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Steam is back, in pog form!
jediyoshi
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I thought Max was generally quite humorous in 3 with his observations and how he talked about everyone around him. There's some fun dark humour in there. I also think Maxs character is without a doubt the best in 3 out of all the games by a large margin. He's got a terrific character arc in 3 and I actually liked him more in comparison to 1 and 2. It's not that I hated him in 1 and 2, he was barely a character at all, but I empathised a lot more with him in 3 and despite some of Housers 'goon' characters Maxs dialogue/writing/performance is fantastic. Maybe I just empathise with down and out characters more but I definitely enjoyed his characterisation the most in 3 out of all the games. I must admit I did miss some of the silliness from the first two games but I appreciated that's not what Rockstar were going for in 3.
Why would you want to play a FPS on the PC with gamepad support.
Did they patch in FOV slider? That's the MOST IMPORTANT THING.
Wow, this is... yes. This is my feelings exactly. The plot's bad, Max seems spiteful for no reason, he's constantly holding the idiot ball for no reason at all, the game lacks any kind of subtlety or metatext (Dick Justice and Address Unknown absolutely DESTROY anything Rockstar ever did), and it's mostly just preachy bullshit about how AMERICANS should STOP GOING TO OTHER COUNTRIES and NOT BE DICKS TO PEOPLE and stuff. It's just dumb. Max isn't a rich tourist--I've found more correlation with rich people being dickish rich people than tourists being jerks. Rich people seem to be tourists more often because they can afford it.
Apparently, Film Crit Hulk thinks the same way. The dude hates Max Payne 3.
anyone know if and how i could add aim assist to a source engine game, specifically zeno clash? i got a gamepad working cause of this helpful chap but the shooting a gun is kinda terrible sans aim assist
any advice is welcome except use the kb/m why would you want to use a gamepad kb/m is superior bro just use the kb/m if you want to use a gamepad play it on console
edit: holy shit i typed that without seeing the above post, perfect
any advice is welcome except use the kb/m why would you want to use a gamepad kb/m is superior bro just use the kb/m if you want to use a gamepad play it on console
edit: holy shit i typed that without seeing the above post, perfect
I don't believe you can.
Bit curious why you'd buy Zeno Clash on the PC and not buy it on the 360, which presumably has aim assist.
davonaytor
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What's Proteus like? I'm expecting an aimless 'experience' sort of game (not that there's anything wrong with that). Is it worth $5?
lol
because i play my video games on my personal computer, because the pc version is superior, because the xbox version wasn't 3 dollars, because i assumed zeno clash had native gamepad support like most modern games, because i didn't even know there were guns in this game
i'm not a pc gamer because i'm really into the keyboard and mouse. i don't know if you noticed but the pc has other selling points
SteveWinwood
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oipic
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I think I'm just the sort of achievement whore that Steam is catering to with these apparent profile page changes - I will very happily and willingly replay BioShock 2 (and Arkham Asylum, for that matter) as soon as the achievements are active.
Well a while after they released the PC version they made the XBLA version, the 'Ultimate' edition as it was called, which included some changes such as new moves, controller support etc. They wanted to bring these back into the PC version initially ended up having to leave it That's why they ended up not patching in controller support etc afterwards.
Biggest reason for me to use a gamepad most of the time is because I have my PC hooked up to a TV and I play on a couch. I can still use a wireless KBM but it's not as comfortable, and I rarely feel like using one of those little tables even though I have one around.
this might be a little spoilery so imma spoilertag it... it's basically mp2 ending and random mp3 stuff
his family being dead problem is solved in mp2. rockstar just didn't know what to do with the character so they said "well max is bummed out for some reason!" and made him a pitiful drunk that can't do shit right (except he's still max motherfucking payne and can kill like a billion dudes no sweat) with none of his previous wit or charm and just flat out dislikeable.
and he stops being a drunk at some random point in the game, and for some reason it's remotely hinted that him being a dumb american is also a factor (which could be the single most interesting thing about the game, except at the end the dumb american is still the hero, bruce willis style).
all of this to solve a problem of which max was already over. literally like the last words of mp2 were "my family's dead, but it's alright". in mp2 he attempts to find love again and cope with his dead family in some way that isn't just blind revenge.
and he stops being a drunk at some random point in the game, and for some reason it's remotely hinted that him being a dumb american is also a factor (which could be the single most interesting thing about the game, except at the end the dumb american is still the hero, bruce willis style).
all of this to solve a problem of which max was already over. literally like the last words of mp2 were "my family's dead, but it's alright". in mp2 he attempts to find love again and cope with his dead family in some way that isn't just blind revenge.
also I disagree with anything about the writing in mp3 being fantastic. there's maybe one or two lines but everything else is atrocious.
I'd love for the game to have any higher meaning but if it has it's drowned in the awfulness of its writing, its plot and its characters.
the foreign policy stuff is actually pretty interesting, though, I wish someone could make a good analysis on it. it sure won't be me.
SteveWinwood
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Reading comprehension sajjaja.
you have miscontrued my post, there was no hostility, merely amusement, despite having been driven to near insanity because of years of googling to check if a game has gamepad support and without fail finding threads inquiring about gamepad support filled not with answers but instead the aforementioned 'why don't you just use kb/m it's better'
read the sentence as a whole
thanks yeah i found out as much when browsing the steam forum, too bad but as i mentioned i've got controller support working nicely except shooting a gun, which thankfully is not a terribly common occurrence thus far
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