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It's awesome, but if you haven't played the first one get that first.
I had a feeling you weren't liking it very much, but now the story has hooked you!
For or against; there is no middle ground.
scorpscarx
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Whoa, who's that girl in JaseC's avatar!?
Outlast, Amnesia, Shadow Warrior... let's do this.
toddhunter
Member
Just moderate yourself quantity wise and I'm sure you'll be fine.
Pretty sure that is Beth from the walking dead
The Wraith
Member
Thanks I pulled the trigger on it, I have the first one in my backlog and was planning to play this after the first one. Whats the length on both of these?
Metro 2033: 8-10 hours
Metro: Last Light: 10-12 hours
They might be the same length, but Last Light felt a bit longer to me.
Atraveller
Banned
Yay, if your PC can handle it.
Anyways dumb question.. with all the next gen talk lately where the hell is the Steam Box?
I keep figuring it has to be shown before the consoles are released but I am starting to get doubtful now.
The Wraith
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Got a Core i7 4770, 8 gigs pc1600 DDR 3 ram, Gtx 670. I think I should be ok. WIll I be able to max both of these games out?
Lasthope106
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Metro Last Light looks amazing. Like holy shit I can' believe my eyes, next gen amazing. O_O
Also, damn Rome passed 100k concurrent on release day. That's really good.
Also, damn Rome passed 100k concurrent on release day. That's really good.
Atraveller
Banned
Can a 670 max out Metro LL? I doubt it.
I stopped playing 2033 as I wasn't satisfied with the performance I was getting with a 570 at max settings, so I told myself I'd wait until I got a 670. That was about a year ago now.
Looking through my library, other games I've begun playing only to put down later for one reason or another are:
- Age 2 HD
- Alice: Madness Returns (need to complete a second playthough I'd begun with a mate)
- Alpha Protocol
- Aquaria
- Bastion
- Batman: Arkham Asylum (although I had earlier played through the game on the PS3)
- Batman: Arkham City
- Binary Domain
- BioShock 2 (although I did later play through the PS3 version)
- Borderlands 2
- Botanicula
- Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
- Company of Heroes
- Costume Quest
- Crysis 2 (although I had earlier played the Origin version)
- Dark Souls
- Divinity: Dragon Commander
- Doom 3
- DuckTales Remastered
- Dungeon Siege 3
- Dust
- Skyrim
- Evoland
- FEAR (although I am working through it at the moment and had completed it back in 2006)
- FEAR 3
- Fallout 3
- Far Cry 2 (although I had earlier played through the PS3 version)
- GTAIV: Episodes from Liberty City
- Grim Dawn alpha
- Hard Reset
- Hitman: Sniper Challenge
- The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing (but only because I figured I ought to finish the Grim Dawn alpha first)
- Kentucky Route Zero (waiting on more content)
- Kingdoms of Amalur (need to play through the DLC but was burnt out after painstakingly completing the main campaign)
- Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
- Lego Indiana Jones
- Majesty: Gold Edition
- Mark of the Ninja
- Mass Effect
- Medal of Honor 2010
- Metro 2033
- Mirror's Edge (although I'd earlier played through the PS3 version)
- Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (although I played through the game way back when)
- Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath
- Psychonauts
- Quake (although I played through the game way back when)
- Quake 2 (as above)
- Quake 3 (as above)
- Rage (need to complete a second playthrough I'd begun with a mate)
- Rise of the Triad 2013
- Risen
- STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl
- Saint's Row 3
- Sin (although I played through the game way back when)
- Sin Episodes: Emergence
- Sleeping Dogs (need to complete the story-expanding DLC)
- Thief Gold
- Titan Quest (although a mate and I played through it, and Immortal Throne, co-operatively several years ago)
- Toki Tori
- Torchlight 2
- Space Marine
- The Witcher 2 (just the Iorveth path + Enhanced Edition content)
- Worms Armageddon
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown
That list is... bigger than I was expecting. (Edit: 64 games. 63 if you discount FEAR.)
I'll get through it. One day.
I was going to say that there's DLC available, but apparently it doesn't include new levels, just pilots/ships.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
I keep doing that. If I realize I've done it. I ask myself "Do I want to play it this week?" and if the answer is no I uninstall it. Other times I run into enough problems that I'll say the game sucks and intentionally stop playing it forever, and when I explain why, people usually don't appreciate my criticisms. I often feel like if games were coffee we have a bunch of Folgers drinkers around here. Oh well.
NingenJanai
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I'm playing Space Marine, I can see why you abandoned it, it's a mediocre game saved by the fantastic 40k lore and settings.
Some of the games listed I've sunk several hours into and intend to complete sooner rather than later (e.g. Dark Souls and Mark of the Ninja), but quite a few others I've played for less than an hour and have little desire to resume. Mass Effect is something of an outlier in that I've played it for about 90 minutes all up, but simply don't find it as enrapturing as many others do.
maneil99
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Reptitve enemies makes it worse not to mention it takes forever for another faction to show up
SneakyStephan
Banned
Lol, I didn't even notice until I got wipeout for free.
SneakyStephan
Banned
I wish more games would let you turn the draw distance/lod settings up to 11, that has a much more meaningful impact than having slightly better AO or slightly better AA (past 4x msaa I don't really care anymore)
Aiming to run every game at max settings is stupid. More often than not the highest setting adds so little, yet is more demanding than you can imagine. Metro 2033 is the prime example of piece of shit to run at max settings. Why do you think it's used to benchmark all GPUs and Titan looks crap when running it at 'max' settings. Stick your games down to the next highest level and try to tell the difference.
One of my favorite games of the past few years. A brilliant shmup.
I don't see the point OF SHUT UP
I'm crying because I can't max anything except Day of Defeat.
I don't intend to play everything at max settings, it's just that when I began playing Metro 2033 I was already planning to purchase a 670 in the near future, so I figured I'd wait and move on to something else.
Darksiders 2 is a perfect example of the bold -- a patch added an option to adjust shadow quality and throughout my (admittedly somewhat brief) testing, there was no discernible difference between the highest and penultimate setting, however the former introduced a significant performance hit.
So I've played a couple hours of Game Dev Tycoon and it is Game Dev Story with a fresh coat of paint, some extra mechanics, and great music. If you are on the fence and enjoy tycoon games I would recommend it. Sat down for what was supposed to be a half hour play session and next time I looked two hours had passed.
I love giving my games the most ridiculous names. So far my greatest success has been a series of games in the Aliens and Action genre, first game was called Anal Probers, first sequel named Rectal Destroyers, and the latest and hottest installment is named Colon Conquerors. For what ever reason, the public is absolutely eating it up, that one sold 4 million units.
I love giving my games the most ridiculous names. So far my greatest success has been a series of games in the Aliens and Action genre, first game was called Anal Probers, first sequel named Rectal Destroyers, and the latest and hottest installment is named Colon Conquerors. For what ever reason, the public is absolutely eating it up, that one sold 4 million units
.Sportbilly
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I love giving my games the most ridiculous names. So far my greatest success has been a series of games in the Aliens and Action genre, first game was called Anal Probers, first sequel named Rectal Destroyers, and the latest and hottest installment is named Colon Conquerors. For what ever reason, the public is absolutely eating it up, that one sold 4 million units
My lawyers will be in touch regarding your blatant copyright transgressions.
I thought it was pretty fun but compared to Cave games it didn't stand a chance.
SapientWolf
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It's a mosou that isn't unplayably bad, which is sort of an achievement, I guess. The multi was underrated but I imagine that it's barren now.
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Oh man please don't tell me games actually exist with these names. I don't know whether I would laugh or cry
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Next on the list of popular games I don't like: Rayman Origins
Don't like the feel of the controls, which I guess is an all-round dealbreaker in a platformer. I don't like its frequent use of momentum, especially when it is forced. I don't like the many timed things in it, be it time trial challenges or things that pop up far out of reach so you have to scramble to get them or just replay the level until you know a route or way of momentum to get them. I don't know, it's weird for me. A lot of things I hate here I love in Sonic Generations. Some elements are also fantastic in Crash Bandicoot and Super Meat Boy. Why it is annoying here is something I can't describe.
The characters are also completely uncompelling to me, and the unlocking system is too ambiguous yet complicated, but even if there was something to properly explain it I wouldn't be interested because it ultimately comes down to a shitty collectathon system. The forced tally animation at the end of every level only makes it more obnoxious. Even if I worked hard to get the best possible on a level, I don't give a shit about watching that thing fill. Thankfully I picked this up for $3.50 or something so no biggie. It was a curiosity that had to be satiated.
Don't like the feel of the controls, which I guess is an all-round dealbreaker in a platformer. I don't like its frequent use of momentum, especially when it is forced. I don't like the many timed things in it, be it time trial challenges or things that pop up far out of reach so you have to scramble to get them or just replay the level until you know a route or way of momentum to get them. I don't know, it's weird for me. A lot of things I hate here I love in Sonic Generations. Some elements are also fantastic in Crash Bandicoot and Super Meat Boy. Why it is annoying here is something I can't describe.
The characters are also completely uncompelling to me, and the unlocking system is too ambiguous yet complicated, but even if there was something to properly explain it I wouldn't be interested because it ultimately comes down to a shitty collectathon system. The forced tally animation at the end of every level only makes it more obnoxious. Even if I worked hard to get the best possible on a level, I don't give a shit about watching that thing fill. Thankfully I picked this up for $3.50 or something so no biggie. It was a curiosity that had to be satiated.
Grim Dawn is pretty neat and I must say that I'm tempted to start Titan Quest again once I'm done with what the alpha offers (from what I can see of the map, it seems I have three more regions to explore in addition to the few I've already hacked and slashed my way through). The game has an Early Access listing in the registry, but considering alpha access costs $50, I assume Crate is waiting for the move to beta before putting it up (although that itself is rather pricey, at $35).
Nordic said several weeks ago that it intends to revisit the hodgepodge of IPs it snatched from the corpse of THQ, so I hope when it's Titan Quest's turn to be in the spotlight, Crate is given a chance to revisit the series, given the studio is chiefly composed of Iron Lore refugees.
Edit: Actually, having read my old impressions post (which I feel still applies -- Grim Dawn is practically a reskinned Titan Quest, but improved in the few areas its predecessor fell short), it seems I have around five or so more areas to complete.
Nordic said several weeks ago that it intends to revisit the hodgepodge of IPs it snatched from the corpse of THQ, so I hope when it's Titan Quest's turn to be in the spotlight, Crate is given a chance to revisit the series, given the studio is chiefly composed of Iron Lore refugees.
Edit: Actually, having read my old impressions post (which I feel still applies -- Grim Dawn is practically a reskinned Titan Quest, but improved in the few areas its predecessor fell short), it seems I have around five or so more areas to complete.
oipic
Member
Don't get too excited. With the way my bans are progressing I'll be gone for giving someone a
Yeah I'm a bit salty.
Derrick, you're back! Please stick around this time, we all suffer when you're MIA - the place is all the better for your presence.
(Salsa, if you're lurking, this applies to you too, you scallywag - oh, and I'm, sorry I missed your birthday, I was majorly ill at the time. I hope you had a good one!)
How does Sine Mora compare (if at all) to Jamestown? the latter was the first shmup I've played in YEARS, and I loved it until I hit a seemingly insurmountable difficulty spike (I suck at games, all the games).
If I remember correctly Grim Dawn is based on the same engine as Titan Quest. So it is pretty much a reskinned Titan Quest
Yeah, surprisingly THQ was more than happy to let Crate have the Titan Quest engine.
At that time THQ was desperate to get as much money as possible
"Pay to the order of THQ. One cent... and no cents."
Edit: I should probably note that my surprise was due to me assuming that the tech was tied to the Titan Quest IP itself. It would have been great had Crate snagged both!
NingenJanai
Member
Isn't the same devs that made Titan Quest though? I mean, it's not like they are giving the engine to unknows, it's the people who made the engine in the first place.
Sure, but THQ was under no obligation to hand it over.
Yeah I don't get the love that Raymond Origins gets. The graphics are pretty nice but I feel the gameplay and platforming is pretty mediocre. I tried it on both 360 and PC and wasn't that impressed either time.
NingenJanai
Member
Yeah, but they could have easily used the code anyway, I'm pretty sure they have a copy of the code, also as far as I know they are updating a lot of the engine.
Even if they had the source code, I don't think they would be allowed to use it
Actually, it seems I misremembered. According to this interview, the engine remained the property of Iron Lore's founders:
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Also, this. If an entity can lay claim to ownership of the tech, then using it without license is asking for a ton of legal trouble. A good example of that is Silicon Knights abandoning its UE3 licence only to continue using the tech to build its "own" engine.
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