People got thrown off because it suddenly required timing, something you might not have expected in a straight up classic adventure game.
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People got thrown off because it suddenly required timing, something you might not have expected in a straight up classic adventure game.
I'd say the opposite is true. Classic adventure games I played often featured some half-broken timed sections.
This is where I have a bad King's Quest 3 flashback...
Lord British
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I can probably do this tomorrow, going to sleep ATM. If you find someone else before then NP.
Pops Maellard
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Payday 2 or AC3?
Maxwood
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Paris in the fall...
I'm no saint, but i'm no Rage trader either.
Oh no no no, I didn't post the key ModBot gave a few hours ago. That would have been evil!
I'm no saint, but i'm no Rage trader either.
derExperte
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Payday 2
Wired, the buttons work but the left thumb doesn't.
Payday 2.
CheesecakeRecipe
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Payday goddamn 2.
Payday 2. Wait for AC3 to go on sale.
Maybe. It definitely looks much better than Conviction, but I'm still annoyed about Michael Ironside no longer doing the voice of Sam Fisher.
UGH.
So I've been playing Mark of the Ninja today. I finally reach the final mission, get close to the final boss, and the goddamn electricity goes out and turns off my PC. I restart, go into the game... and all of today's progress is gone. It's like I didn't play today.
So frustrating. I'm not spending the next 5 hours getting back all of my progress, this game can go fuck itself. Steam Cloud must have screwed up or something. At least my achievements are still there. But ugh, I was actually looking forward to the ending.
Day ruined.
So I've been playing Mark of the Ninja today. I finally reach the final mission, get close to the final boss, and the goddamn electricity goes out and turns off my PC. I restart, go into the game... and all of today's progress is gone. It's like I didn't play today.
So frustrating. I'm not spending the next 5 hours getting back all of my progress, this game can go fuck itself. Steam Cloud must have screwed up or something. At least my achievements are still there. But ugh, I was actually looking forward to the ending.
Day ruined.
woo and indeed hoo
Banned
Thanks Stump
.Incidentally, ModBot still isn't PMing me when someone claims one of my games I put up for gifting using him. It's not needed now as all three of the game recipients were well mannered enough to message me to thank me for the game, bless 'em
. I just thought I should mention it in case you thought it was fixed.Also, I have a question about the first Ass Creed which I picked up in the Steam sale. I just started it this evening and it has this annoying quirk of going out of full screen if I alt tab out to check my browser or get a message from someone on Steam. The only way I've found to fix it is to completely quit out of the game and start again which is hardly satisfactory. If I can't fix this I guess I'll have to turn off in game messages and not multi-task but if anyone can help that would be great.
Maybe in a year. Or two.
Pushing that boulder on the droid in Space Quest can go fuck itself
Stumpokapow
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So I've played 8 hours of Rogue Legacy, I'm starting to get pretty near the end, I'm over level 100... and basically I think it's a great game, but one problem is that the game is built for scaling immensely. No realistic level of skill would be enough for a low-level completion, the classes at the beginning of the game suck until they're upgraded, it'd be nigh impossible to get enough coin to buy good weapons without grinding out a while and using the Spelunker, Gold runes, or gold upgrades.
It feels like, for a given area of the castle, you spend a long time getting annihilated, then eventually get your stats as a whole high enough that you can survive, and then one or two levels later the area is a cakewalk. Which is too bad.
Also weird to me is that regular chests largely pay out cash while fairy chests pay out runes, but for the most part you need mutations, end-game unlocks, or runes to be able to get 3/4s of the fairy chests.
It's still an excellent game, it just has a very easy secret that reveals itself to you--just keep ploughing at it and you'll get there. Too bad they couldn't have figured out a better way to balance to reward good play.
It feels like, for a given area of the castle, you spend a long time getting annihilated, then eventually get your stats as a whole high enough that you can survive, and then one or two levels later the area is a cakewalk. Which is too bad.
Also weird to me is that regular chests largely pay out cash while fairy chests pay out runes, but for the most part you need mutations, end-game unlocks, or runes to be able to get 3/4s of the fairy chests.
It's still an excellent game, it just has a very easy secret that reveals itself to you--just keep ploughing at it and you'll get there. Too bad they couldn't have figured out a better way to balance to reward good play.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Incidentally, ModBot still isn't PMing me when someone claims one of my games I put up for gifting using him. It's not needed now as all three of the game recipients were well mannered enough to message me to thank me for the game, bless 'em
Fixed, your receipts should ripple through shortly.
Or sticking a banana in her jetpack afterwards. The most annoying part of Space Quest 5 was piloting that small spaceship though.
YianGaruga
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Yep, that's why I never bothered to touch new game+, it just felt like more grind.
I thought that the bosses were still quite challenging and beating them felt rewarding. I never got too a level in stats/equipment where the bosses could be considered a cakewalk, so they were pretty much the best part of the game for me.
Most of the systems in the game (upgrading/equipment/runes) look fine on the surface, but in the end don't really work all too well. Still a cool game, but one which could've been so much more.
woo and indeed hoo
Banned
Thanks, just got it
. Oh and ModBot is well mannered too, thanking me for giving out games; you must be so proud .
this casually posing before a heist thing is hilarious
How is Payday 2 compared to the first one? I played the free weekend of the first one but it felt very rough to me.
I barely touched the first one. Most noticeable impression, again having not played the first since just a bit when it came out, is that the guns feel waaaay better.
so far it's fun. My main issue with it is that once things gets hectic it just stops being a proper heist game. You get a bazillion cops with questionable AI and you can't really justify that. That number of enemies acting like that make sense in Left 4 Dead cause they're zombies, it's harder to get away with that here.
It's definetly better, tho. More varied too. I'll likely buy it.
I think its massively improved. I've been playing the beta non stop.
Cool. AI issues cause me concern , but sounds like a big of enough step up for me to jump in eventually.
Pops Maellard
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Just picked up the Payday 2 CCE for $24 of real money thanks to cards/key shenanigans. Looking forward to it.
well, I mean, it's not as much bad AI issues as it is regular videogame AI in a setting where you're supposed to hold your suspension of disbelief about 5 cops entering through the front door in the midst of a firefight while crouching. They do take cover and shit but it can get silly, it's just that everything surrounding the package (presentation in general) is really good so you're like "oh man this is some heat shit" and suddenly BOOM VIDEOGAME
Yeah I ended up paying 12 TF2 keys... weird system but I'll take it!
BoosterDuck
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Did you remember to buy the keys from the market for $2 each?
SanguineShark
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Would you say it's as fun as L4D in its own right? I've also played it a little for the beta, but I can't decide quite yet. Completely agree with it becoming a little strange once the action pours. Best part for me is the casing and planning phase. Doing stealth runs(at least trying to) is great. Everything else...don't know
L4D2 is definetly the better game, but I guess that also depends on a bit of personal preference. Payday 2 is basically Payday but better, so if you liked some of the ideas of the first one but thought the exectuion felt a bit short, this, while not perfect, is certainly a noticeable improvement.
Game kinda lives and dies on how cool you find the concept to be, been that way since the first one too. It's just a neat idea and you feel kinda badass.
edit: grabbed Twin Sector cause why not. Thanks chugen
toddhunter
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Yeah I'll agree with that. It is kind of like struggle...struggle... oh you can now on shot enemies in the area? Free!
Of course!
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