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[drizzle]

What about different areas and music though? I know the game already has tons of missions, but many of them are just repeats of the same area.

That's kinda literally what monster hunter is: You have one map, there's tons of missions in said map.

Eventually you get more maps (with different loot and monsters in them), but you still have a bunch of missions on the "repeating" maps.

I don't know how many maps and/or music tracks Mercenary Kings has or how many it'll have when properly released: I didn't play it enough to change Patents and get a different set of missions yet - I'm still unlocking "Private" missions.

Sure, I can see it being a problem. But it's a grind-centered game, so repeating parts is expected, per say.

Dunder has it for $7.50. You will be paying $12.50 more at release.

I'd jump on those prices if people want the game, because I have a feeling there won't be many copies left after this batch...

 

[Grief.exe]

Added to OP

That's kinda literally what monster hunter is: You have one map, there's tons of missions in said map.

Eventually you get more maps (with different loot and monsters in them), but you still have a bunch of missions on the "repeating" maps.

I don't know how many maps and/or music tracks Mercenary Kings has or how many it'll have when properly released: I didn't play it enough to change Patents and get a different set of missions yet - I'm still unlocking "Private" missions.

Sure, I can see it being a problem. But it's a grind-centered game, so repeating parts is expected, per say.

I understand. I watched a video earlier today where the person had unlocked Major missions, it was still the same map, enemies, and difficulty.

Monster Hunter has multiple maps you can unlock over the course of time, this game might not have it yet.

That is not necessarily me knocking the game in any way, it is in Alpha after all. And seems to be in a very solid state for an Alpha build at that.

I'm just saying that it may be best to hold off, especially for someone who finds it hard to come back to games after a period of time.

 

[Tesseract]

does anyone have a coupon for Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition?

desperation is setting in, soon comes begging ...

 

[Card Boy]

does anyone have a coupon for Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition?

desperation is setting in, soon comes begging ...

I would wait for Ultra even then someone would have to pay me to get a GFWL game.

 

[Chance Hale]

I would imagine they could run into some issues.

If you are walking through a town, you will probably here multiple conversations. If a player is moving through quickly, how do you differentiate between conversations for the sub-titles.

It could get really confusing.

Most of the conversations don't start until you walk up to the person in question although there are random conversations that will continue after the completion of the main conversation. Ie after hearing the story of the mother with radiation poison the daughter and dad will continue to talk about fishing endlessly.

One could use different fonts, put the character talking in parentheses, subtitles upon cursor recognition and so on. I really find it hard to believe there doesn't exist a solution. Anything would be better than flat out not subtitling the conversations.

 

[JaseC]

I seem to have received a Zombie Driver HD booster overnight. What a nice surprise.

Edit: No foils, but no dupes, either. A small victory.

 

[Dinosur]

Looking through the achievement list, it seems like Raven has missable stuff which really irks me. Don't care about the actual achievements, just that I'm missing part of the game in a genre that's worthless to replay.

Spoiler for 2-3 hours in:

Spoiler

I stopped playing when you show up outside the cruise ship. However, there's an achievement for finding the Baroness' purse. They beat you over the head that the violinist had it and he was a drunk. I swear I tried clicking everywhere around the bar area, but it never let me pick up any of the bottles until you had to build the fire (same with in the professor's room). Combine that with the pills magically disappearing out of your inventory after the train wreck, and I'm assuming all that must have tied together.

My only solace is the 5% hope that since they're both on the cruise ship (well I know the violinist was heading there, can't remember Baroness plans) that you actually solve that case there instead of on the train.

 

[Grief.exe]

Found an awesome image for a potential Halo PC OT

I think there's a version of that that doesn't have all the photoshop grunge brushes/green over it.

EDIT - yeah, it's the cover from First Strike.

Kind of loses its sex appeal without that green filter though. I suppose I could replicate that fairly easily.

 

[Chance Hale]

Are there actual rumors about a PC trilogy outside of the Halo 3 registry thing from a while back? Would be wonderful.

 

[Grief.exe]

I would wait for Ultra even then someone would have to pay me to get a GFWL game.

A shorter wait for KOFXIII and Skull Girls.

 

[Grief.exe]

Are there actual rumors about a PC trilogy outside of the Halo 3 registry thing from a while back? Would be wonderful.

You have the registry entries, Halo 2 looking for alternate multiplayer options, and Halo 3 AMD driver entry.

Lets see what happens at Gamescom.

 

[Seagoon]

Is there any easy fix for games that want to launch with UAC permissions every time. I'm not keen on disabling UAC outright, but launching Trials Gold is fast becoming a chore.

If I remember correctly there are some .exe files that can be renamed or something?

 

[Seagoon]

You have the registry entries, Halo 2 looking for alternate multiplayer options, and Halo 3 AMD driver entry.

Lets see what happens at Gamescom.

I'd be all over playing through Halo 3 again, ODST would be nice as well.

 

[Grief.exe]

I'd be all over playing through Halo 3 again, ODST would be nice as well.

ODST Single player and Firefight

Would be a perfect fit on PC where horde modes in games like Warframe, L4D2, and Killing Floor attract around 15,000 concurrent players a day. Each.

 

[XANDER CAGE]

I just want to play Firefight on PC. Pls.

 

[Zoned]

If Halo 3, 4 releases on Steam then I would like to see Gears as well. 1080p-60 FPS gears damn

 

[maneil99]

Hm Dunder is sell rome for 35$, can someone pay him in paypal if I buy them a steam game for 35$?

 

[Nabs]

does anyone have a coupon for Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition?

desperation is setting in, soon comes begging ...

With these 48 hour daily deals, I wouldn't be surprised with a SSFIV deal soon.

 

[Deques]

Hey Grief
Any chance you can add to the FAQ in the OP on how to easily categorize the steam library?

Here is a tool that does that
https://code.google.com/p/depressurizer/

 

[Pops Maellard]

ODST Single player and Firefight

Would be a perfect fit on PC where horde modes in games like Warframe, L4D2, and Killing Floor attract around 15,000 concurrent players a day. Each.

ODST was a masterpiece. Easily my favorite Halo game. Certainly not without it's flaws, but wow. First Halo I played through on legendary the first time instead of a heroic run first. Played hours of split screen firefight with friends, wasn't quite the same in Reach.

Remember buying that game a few days after launch at the Radioshack in Aspen; I was $3 short and the guy there covered it for me because he'd had such a great time with it. I'd love to have it on PC, shame it will likely never happen.

 

[Grief.exe]

Just in case you guys may have missed it, some interesting stuff coming out of the registry.

Lot of good news out of the registry the past couple days.

STALKER CoP + SoC get a bundle, and SoC updated to reflect GSC as the publisher now, not THQ. Will probably be seeing a discount in the future.

FFVIII updated a few times today for the first time in months. Square originally added logos, languages, and icons to both FFVII and FFVIII, then started working on FFVII in earnest.

Drinkbox app updated a couple times today. They are the team behind Guacamelee, so they may getting started on that port.

Hey Grief
Any chance you can add to the FAQ in the OP on how to easily categorize the steam library?

Here is a tool that does that
https://code.google.com/p/depressurizer/

I'll check it out tomorrow, I've done so much shit with the OP today that I think I will take a bit of a break.

Gonna play a little bit of NSII then head off to bed.

 

[Addnan]

I would buy The Bureau for £20.25 from GMG, but after seeing how quickly 2k are willingly to basically give their games away I am torn :/

 

[Tesseract]

With these 48 hour daily deals, I wouldn't be surprised with a SSFIV deal soon.

cool, i'll give it another week or so.

 

[Exeunt]

It's nice that the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. bundle is back! No regrets about getting the games from other GAFers though, since I only ended up paying $2-3 more than the sale prices would've been. Unless they slash the bundle price when putting it back up, but ah well. Other members would've received some good deals from me in that case!

Now hurry up and drop Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines to an acceptable price, Activision!

 

[graywolf323]

this isn't real is it? because that just sucks if so

edit: damn it is - http://www.coldbeamgames.com/3/post/2013/07/gold-dragons-steam-trading-cards.html

wtf Beat Hazard

 

[Salsa]

Mercenary Kings is pretty feature complete dudes. I mean it'll be way better down the line but isnt there like 60 playable levels right now? there'll be 100+ in the final release

that's hardly "a very far along proof of concept"

I think the game will be $20 once it releases too

 

[omg_mjd]

Is there any easy fix for games that want to launch with UAC permissions every time. I'm not keen on disabling UAC outright, but launching Trials Gold is fast becoming a chore.

If I remember correctly there are some .exe files that can be renamed or something?

In my case, I stopped UAC from popping up by renaming the .vdf files in the program's main folder (Steam/steamapps/common/NameOfGame/).

 

[catabarez]

Is there any easy fix for games that want to launch with UAC permissions every time. I'm not keen on disabling UAC outright, but launching Trials Gold is fast becoming a chore.

If I remember correctly there are some .exe files that can be renamed or something?

Using SteamCleaner could fix that.

 

[Grief.exe]

Mercenary Kings is pretty feature complete dudes. I mean it'll be way better down the line but isnt there like 60 playable levels right now? there'll be 100+ in the final release

that's hardly "a very far along proof of concept"

I think the game will be $20 once it releases too

60 missions, but don't those missions send you to the same map everytime?

Are there that many maps yet?

 

[FYC]

Blah, the first boss of Serious Sam 2 glitched out on me. Lame.

Game is pretty fun so far besides that.

 

[Syphon Filter]

did square put up FF 8 on their store?

 

[NingenJanai]

did square put up FF 8 on their store?

Can we dream of FF X HD remakes on steam at some point?

 

[Arthea]

Can we dream of FF X HD remakes on steam at some point?

Extremely unlikely. After FF7 and 8 Square gave up on PC it seems. At least we got some of the best.

edited: except MMOs that is

 

[Grief.exe]

did square put up FF 8 on their store?

Nope

http://store.na.square-enix.com/sto...700/categoryID.57606100/size.45/startIndex.0/

 

[need4speed]

Can we dream of FF X HD remakes on steam at some point?

There's no chance in hell, FF VII and VIII had pc ports in the 90's, they just took them and made them playable on modern systems with achievements. FF X had no PC port so no.

 

[Seagoon]

In my case, I stopped UAC from popping up by renaming the .vdf files in the program's main folder (Steam/steamapps/common/NameOfGame/).

Thanks for the tip but deleting just results in them being re-created on the next launch

 

[Deques]

New Gamersgate deals:

Deus Ex Collection - only Deus Ex: HR is Steamworks
Van Helsing
F1 2012

 

[Knurek]

There's no chance in hell, FF VII and VIII had pc ports in the 90's, they just took them and made them playable on modern systems with achievements. FF X had no PC port so no.

If they are porting the games to Vita, why can't they port to PC as well? Provided it sells (and judging by FF7 re-release, it does).

 

[Grief.exe]

There's no chance in hell, FF VII and VIII had pc ports in the 90's, they just took them and made them playable on modern systems with achievements. FF X had no PC port so no.

I think there is a pretty good chance we could see more Final Fantasy titles.

Japanese companies are all starting to wake up to the fact that their is a massive market on the PC platform.

FFXV port is already being considered. Its not too much of a stretch to imagine FFX HD, Kingdom Hearts HD, maybe even FFIX when their respective next-gen versions inevitably arrive.

Square should realize that DRM reduces sales and we do not need the online integration

 

[Arthea]

I think there is a pretty good chance we could see more Final Fantasy titles.

Japanese companies are all starting to wake up to the fact that their is a massive market on the PC platform.

FFXV port is already being considered. Its not too much of a stretch to imagine FFX HD, Kingdom Hearts HD, maybe even FFIX when their respective next-gen versions inevitably arrive.

FFX is a huge game. I think SE would think that porting it is too costly. FFXV is other matter entirely, they are somewhat obsessed with MMOs after FF11 success and if one would ask me, MMOs are PC genre.

I was pretty sure IX also got a PC port.

nope, at least I never heard of such a port.

 

[Boss Doggie]

I am pretty sure IX also got a PC port.

And eh, X is very grindy.

 

[Blue Ninja]

They gearin' the Chief up for Steam release, believe.

Seriously, day 1, and I already replayed the Halo games this year.

 

[Atruvius]

How come you guys are getting all excited about Halo's getting a Steam release? There hasn't been any new news or anything, right?

 

[Mogwai]

Wow, both Trine games on 85% sale. The complete pack for 3,22€... Not bad.

Time for some good platforming fun.

 

[Milamber]

How come you guys are getting all excited about Halo's getting a Steam release? There hasn't been any new news or anything, right?

BELIEVE!!!

 

[omg_mjd]

Thanks for the tip but deleting just results in them being re-created on the next launch

That sucks. The program I "fixed" by doing that was Music Creator Touch. It would just keep attempting to re-install itself every launch, triggering UAC. That's why the .vdf trick worked for me. I wonder what's causing it in your case.

 

[nacimento]

Let me just get you started.

Top two PC games of all time are Skyrim and Mass Effect 2.

They are so wrong, it's obvious that it is Age of Empires II

 

[Jiggaloboy]

So I just started Gunslinger after picking it up during the sale. A couple hours in I gotta say its pretty damn good!

Also, I could use an invite to the GAF group: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198018820962

 

[Da DreadLord]

Nothing beats C&C4 for best sequel.

 

[Seagoon]

That sucks. The program I "fixed" by doing that was Music Creator Touch. It would just keep attempting to re-install itself every launch, triggering UAC. That's why the .vdf trick worked for me. I wonder what's causing it in your case.

It's annoying whatever the problem is. Here is a screen cap, sorry for the quality but print screen doesn't work in UAC