Atraveller
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Yeah, the humble bundle thread is a mess.
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Done! Going for 100% didn't take long, after you have all the forms it's quick to find everything so I went for it. I did beat it before completing it but even then there wasn't a lot I hadn't done already.
I liked the game. Great scenery, awesome soundtrack, interesting bosses and some good world design.
My only gripe was with the mid-game traversal. The overall map could get obtuse when it came to figuring out where to go next by yourself, and more than once I'd swim for a long time to some area where at some point I couldn't advance further and then have to go all the way back. This obviously isn't unheard of in metroidvanias but the problem here is that many sections are boring to traverse and sometimes too long for their own good.
At the start it's rewarding, you're reaching all these new vistas and such, but after a while in this type of game, usually by the midpoint, you just want to get to places and be able to return fast through the segments that you already cleared. It's bothersome when you swim for a while, reach an area just to find out you can't advance because you don't have the needed form, then have to swim all the way back because there aren't shortcuts and no feasible way of quick travel introduced to help the pacing (aside from the few and far between Ancient Turtles that you may miss with a wrong turn while exploring).
Yeah, there are ways to swim slightly faster with the fish form etc, but most of the time it's just boring to swim around. It doesn't help that fighting grunts isn't very interesting either. Aside from the bosses and a few enemies it's not compelling to fight most of the wildlife. After you know which ones drop useful ingredients, there's not much of point in engaging either as enemies are easily avoidable and mostly not fun to kill, as you'll just shoot energy shots for a few seconds before you're back on your way. I love exploration in gaming and losing myself going to areas that won't advance the plot immediately, but I feel like the middle section of Aquaria fails in making it gratifying to do so, with too many roadblocks and a conspicuous lack of shortcuts. The bulbs you can open with the nature form would have been good in mitigating this but they are heavily underused and none of them work as timesavers.
This all may sound harsher than I intend it to be but there was a point where I found the moving around to be a chore. Besides that, the game is very well-crafted and offers a lot of content. There's a lot of care put into it and I can see why it was such a popular indie game at the time.
For sure. No more grabbing bags/picking people up through walls? Buffed the Bulldozer and taser? ECM jammers can open ATMs? Added crime.net filters? Sign me up!
Thank you for RA3! I haven't played a Red Alert game since I think 2.
Atraveller
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Your welcome!
It would be nice if it had cards, there's potential for some gorgeous ones.Derek Yu never did get back to me about Aquaria receiving cards.
Jables Swan
Member
Cheers for the key mate.
yep
and I don't know if it's just me but Mallcrashers was terrible. It never felt like there was much to destroy unless I was just doing it wrong so I'm happy they added more stuff to it.
Syphon Filter
Member
dark theme?
Yeah, it's a shame.
I got a Super Meat Boy booster the other day, which was less a nice surprise and more a slap to the face considering how worthless it is.
You can switch between the dark and light/default GAF themes using the Theme button at the top of the page.
GAF dark theme most likely.
EDIT: Didn't hit refresh, so I didn't see it in the post above.
Yeah, GAF's dark theme as JaseC and DaBoss mentioned.
Nabs
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You guys had a chance to mess with Syphon and dropped it.
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I got a fortix 2 booster about... two days ago I think. Not the best, but hey, free 50 cents!
It's done now. Took me a little over 21 hours, but I finally finished it. I don't care about the extra stuff, nor reading the pages of the codex nor getting all the pieces of Truth.
No more Assassin's Creed for me. Ever.
EDIT: at least I was rewarded with a Really Big Sky booster pack. Which only sells for 70 cents, but it's still better than nothing.
No more Assassin's Creed for me. Ever.
EDIT: at least I was rewarded with a Really Big Sky booster pack. Which only sells for 70 cents, but it's still better than nothing.
You're not missing much. I've never understood the acclaim the series got.
Yes. I'm missing 11 hours of my life I'm never getting back. Why couldn't Ubisoft sell the base game as a 10 hours title, and the rest as DLC so I could skip it? That would have been perfect, and I'd have loved the game then.
Or not, I would probably have complained about them cutting out content to sell it for extra money. That content should have never been developed, period.
Oh, and when the credits started rolling I jokingly thought
"Now would be a great chance for Ubi to top this off with an extra playable scene, just to take this bad joke a bit further." Little did I know they had already thought of that, and I was greeted with -of course- an extra playable scene! (which consisted of a fight that played exactly like any other I had been in countless times before.)
You've played the best already, so if the ""story"" didn't catch you might as well not play the others.
I H8 Memes
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D#D OVerrider. Disable vsync in the game and in your videocards control panel (if it is enabled there(). Then run vsync through d3doverrider with triple buffering enabled. 88% of the time, it works every time.
Dimitri2401
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Brotherhood is really good.
bender
What time is it?
They have such wonderful settings, it's a shame the games are so dull.
On a side note, Don't Starve is tempting but I think I'll stick with Sir, You Are Being Hunted.
toddhunter
Member
AC2 is also good. That is not the issue.
Man, if I had liked the story (that is, if I hadn't been bored at the point where I couldn't even pay attention to it), I'd love to read a book of the sequels if there was one. There's just no way I'd put myself through another of those games.
So yeah, I had already decided I wouldn't play them before reaching the half point of AC2
And the worst of it all, the reason why I'm mad about this, is because it had every element to be a great game. It had an interesting setting, it had real life characters, it had fun gameplay, and it felt varied enough during the first few hours. There was no excuse for stretching it like they did, and in my opinion they completely ruined it, because all I can remember about it now is the huge boredom and tedium, not the fun I had at first. Such a wasted potential.
Exactly. I would have probably hated F.E.A.R. too if it lasted 50 hours.
I'm lying, and I know it. That game could have lasted 8 years and I'd still love it to death.
It's my favourite in the series, but I wouldn't say it was really good.
It's...adequate.
Pops Maellard
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Just got back to school; the internet is shockingly bad. Not really sure what I'm going to do the rest of the year, can't really download any games when I get a max of 90 kbps down and that gets completely shut down every two or three minutes. Even small patches are nearly impossible to download.
Dimitri2401
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If Ubisoft had made a 10 hours long game, people would be complaining that it's too short ^^
I also found that they stretched the AC games a little bit too much, but that doesn't make them horrible. But for sure they could have been better.
Stallion Free
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Most games would be amazing if they were 3-4 hours long.
My main grip with Brotherhood is Ezio's story, it just goes nowhere.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Says the man who just started Witcher 2.
toddhunter
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Padding for reviews and sales is a problem. Hopefully the tastes of the masses change.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
If the credits roll at the end of the prologue who am I to refuse the game a perfect score?
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
MGS1 is the best game of all time and it was only 7 hours the first time, and like 4 hours second time.
P.S. You ever notice on that graph of prices that cards sold for in the past. It always starts out stupid high then drops off super fast. Are those first people who buy cards just the most impatient people in the world or something? It only takes like 2-3 hours for prices to be 1/4 that.
P.S. You ever notice on that graph of prices that cards sold for in the past. It always starts out stupid high then drops off super fast. Are those first people who buy cards just the most impatient people in the world or something? It only takes like 2-3 hours for prices to be 1/4 that.
lol
what's better is the random spike where cards sell for 10x what they were normally going for
That is people trading money between accounts.
Update on adding Indie Bundles to Enhanced Steam:
Bundles will either be marked PWYW or not. Obviously still work to be done but it's looking good!
You are God
I know but it just looks funny.
I think I sold my Mag7 Memento from CS GO which normally goes for like 12 cents, and there were two that sold for $1 or something.
xenoflux2113
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I saw a TF2 crate that did that for 300.00. I then put one up for 100.00 and its staying until its purchased or Valve removes it.
Atraveller
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The movie?
I hope it's the movie, because it would mean Grief has good taste. EDIT: confirmed. My man.
I just finished Spring Breakers. I didn't like it. I thought Gummo and Kids were okay, but this movie just annoyed me from start to finish. It seems like it was deliberately annoying in a lot of scenes, so maybe that's the point. But I still winced all the way through it.
I just finished Spring Breakers. I didn't like it. I thought Gummo and Kids were okay, but this movie just annoyed me from start to finish. It seems like it was deliberately annoying in a lot of scenes, so maybe that's the point. But I still winced all the way through it.
i loved that movie
I never gave it a chance when it came out because it looked like some Transporter wannabe, and I thought Transporter was bad.
Atraveller
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Because the translated name we have here, I thought it was just a regular action flick, until I watched it.
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