Jawmuncher
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Definitely the reason why I gave up on the series.
Play 1 through brotherhood. Though AC3 would be worth jumping into until I heard all the impressions. Which was a shame since I though the time period was pretty cool.
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Definitely the reason why I gave up on the series.
Play 1 through brotherhood. Though AC3 would be worth jumping into until I heard all the impressions. Which was a shame since I though the time period was pretty cool.
SteveWinwood
Member
Since it's been a while since I booted up F.E.A.R. I wanted to make a quick run though again (it's pretty short if you remember what you're doing).
Is there a fix for that goofy bug if you have a logitech mouse?
Edit: Well google showed me something from 3 years ago, and I swear I didn't see that the last time I went looking for a fix.
Is there a fix for that goofy bug if you have a logitech mouse?
Edit: Well google showed me something from 3 years ago, and I swear I didn't see that the last time I went looking for a fix.
toddhunter
Member
I played an hour of AC3 because of PS+. I tried.
The series makes me want to hate gaming.
The series makes me want to hate gaming.
I like #1. #2 was much better. Brotherhood wasn't as good at 2 but it was still better than 1. Revelations was more of the same, nothing stood out, just stale. #3..........
gwynplaine
Banned
3 manages to be worse than 2 when 2 didn't even let you skip cutscenes. horrible pacing.
then again i didn't finish any of the AC games. the furthest i got was 1
Jawmuncher
Member
Since were talking about AC I just want to say i'm amazed that the series is as popular as it is. I never thought it would become the huge seller it currently is. Especially due to the setting. If anything though I definitely say that AC1 coming out during the beginning of the gen is what helped it the most. That is the time most new IPs are made after all.
Hey now, I've cut back! Credit where credit is due.
I like #1. #2 was much better. Brotherhood wasn't as good at 2 but it was still better than 1. Revelations was more of the same, nothing stood out, just stale. #3..........
The series has been getting progressively worse, I feel, with the exception of 2 and Brotherhood, which are more or less on equal footing. 1 > 2 ~ Brotherhood > Revelations > 3.
Stop saying that please
1) It's pretty hard, while making a game as huge as AC, to take a step back and look at the whole experience and see it with 'fresh' eyes
2) QA isn't about saying what part of the game is too long or boring, it's about finding bugs
3) Each game, however, is indeed submitted to a lot of test sessions where the goal is just to see what people enjoy and what needs fixing, and the objective is that no game leaves the studios when there isn't a 90% satisfaction percentage
4) Despite all of that, obviously games make it to the market in a not-perfect state, but it's never due to a lack of trying. Budget/time issues are tough to get rid of.
Beast Legacy
Member
I keep coming back to SS2 every now and then. Just love the atmosphere.
Eh, Revelations is better than most give it credit for. For what it's worth it was a 3DS game before they made it into a PS3/360/PC title and it shows. 3's probably the only one that I consider "bad" and that's because of the glitches. Probably the first one I haven't even bothered to 100% in achievements either. That bad.
I'm hoping Black Flag is a return for form for the series, kinda like Blacklist was after Conviction for Splinter Cell.
But the game was very buggy. It was bad. Numerous times I saw my brother get stuck in place, events not triggering, textures not loading etc etc.
Are these play testers members of Ubisoft staff? I've seen a lot of dissatisfied people when it comes to this game.
And yes, I agree, budget and time constraints are always something difficult to overcome, but there was a lot of unnecessary changes made such as the models and the UI.
There was a lot done that was counter intuitive and a lot of evident mismanagement and lack of direction which made the game turn into a mess.
Revelations felt very half-baked to me. The hookblade was a neat addition, but just about everything else that was either added or changed did a disservice to the foundation Brotherhood and 2 had laid before it, from the revamped Desmond sequences to the utterly asinine decision to remove wanted posters as a means to reduce your wanted level.
Nabs
Member
I usually grab em from the Guru3D forums. They sticky threads with betas and official whql builds.
Atraveller
Banned
It's really a good one, but sometimes the platforming puzzles(hardly count as puzzles) can be a chore to play through.
Yeah, it was buggy and there were design issues as well, but what I'm saying is - there are always a lot of reasons for a game to "get past QA". I don't have a problem with people shitting over a game's quality - heck, I don't like AC at all, I'm not trying to defend it - but saying it like that implies that Ubisoft just released a bad game because they don't actually care about the quality of their game, and that's not true and kinda hurtful; I assume it's the same for 99% of devs.
(and there are tests made by Ubi employees as well as volunteers who don't work there, that's how it's done everywhere)
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Hey now, I've cut back! Credit where credit is due.
The series has been getting progressively worse, I feel, with the exception of 2 and Brotherhood, which are more or less on equal footing. 1 > 2 ~ Brotherhood > Revelations > 3.
AC3? Worse than Revelations?
Actually when I installed FEAR Extraction Point it installed all of the games under the FEAR Ultimate Shooter Edition which takes up 16.6 GB. Kind of annoying but I suppose it will install vanilla only if you select that one, and everything when you select either of the expansions.
By all means, do play it. But keep this in mind: as soon as you start feeling bored with the game, stop playing. Don't do as I did and try to finish it, or you'll end up hating it (yes, not just disliking, but actively hating the monotony, tedium and repetitiveness of the game, and how horribly stretched it is, and wishing with all your might that the game would soon be over). You can go back to it in a year or two, but don't force yourself to keep playing.
If you do that, then you may like it. It's not bad, it's just... I don't know, picture your favorite Pink Floyd album (if it's anything other than The Division Bell, you're a bad person and I don't like you) but with only one song. A good one even, like "Wearing the inside out". OK, now imagine that you make it a triple... no, quad album with that same song over and over. Now, when you think you're about to finish the album, you find out there were 2 more CDs you missed at first, which are also made of that single song, so you gotta listen to them too if you want to hear the whole album. There's another disc of bonus songs, but they are demos or different versions of the same track, so they are optional (fortunately), with the exception of a really long and boring one that's placed at the very end of disc 5.
I think that's a pretty accurate description of Assassin's Creed 2. The material Ubi had to work with was good; stretching it to the point of ridiculousness was not, just like the album I imagined would be.
Chance Hale
Member
I actually enjoyed ACIII, thought it had great atmosphere in places and the setting is one pretty unique in gaming and it was handled well outside of some questionable softening of the impact of slavery. Of course, the Desmond bits had the worst writing in the series and the collectathon nonsense was worse than ever. Plus at launch it was absurdly buggy for a game of its type.
In any case, despite that I enjoyed going through it and thought it was a nice change of pace from the other titles in terms of the missions and it's just an insanely beautiful game in places. Just a shame all the fringe elements are poorly handled.
And the first part of the game really isn't an 8 hour long tutorial. It takes 4 or so hours at most to complete even if you're doing everything and exploring and only a small part of it is tutorializing. It's just an extended introduction so to speak, but while playing it doesn't really feel like it. The switchover to the second part of the game actually comes very suddenly and if the preview footage hadn't shown Connor it would have been a surprise.
In any case, despite that I enjoyed going through it and thought it was a nice change of pace from the other titles in terms of the missions and it's just an insanely beautiful game in places. Just a shame all the fringe elements are poorly handled.
And the first part of the game really isn't an 8 hour long tutorial. It takes 4 or so hours at most to complete even if you're doing everything and exploring and only a small part of it is tutorializing. It's just an extended introduction so to speak, but while playing it doesn't really feel like it. The switchover to the second part of the game actually comes very suddenly and if the preview footage hadn't shown Connor it would have been a surprise.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
I wish Super Amazing Wagon Adventure would be put up already or is SparseVector putting in some achievements for the steam version?
maneil99
Member
Not sure what your saying. And I'm not trading, theres no rule against splitting a bundle, and from the 10+ PMs I have got it seems like alot of people are interested.
Joe Molotov
Member
AssCrud II was the only one I really enjoyed. The first one was pretty cool at first, but it felt like a chore by the end. Bro and Rev just felt too samey, and I never got very far into them. I put a few hours into III a few months back, and the 5 hour intro kinda killed my enthusiasm for going any farther.
Dimitri2401
Member
You should just play until the end of the prologue in AC3 (before you play Connor), because there is a nice twist there.
I'm happy that your shopfront is running well, if you want to talk about the semantics of your post then feel free to hit me a PM, I'm not going to derail this thread anymore.
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In other news:
Valve Handbook has a person wearing a HL3 shirt on page 22: http://newcdn.flamehaus.com/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf
Could be a dupe Valve booklet, unless someone has a link to the original?
Edit: Yeah it's real >_>
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
I feel like people ranking the Assassin's Creed series the way we so commonly see is people just demonstrating their inability to realize that they shouldn't play yearly franchises.
Easily.
Easily.
OldAsUrSock
Banned
I liked Brotherhood more.
Chance Hale
Member
Max Payne 3 PC Hard, Hardcore, and Old School playthoughs complete. Huzzah!
Atraveller
Banned
I think it's the best of the series.
Just finished Medal Of Honor: Airborne. Great shooter, definitely worth checking out when it goes on sale again. Although it only took me 4 hours to play through the campaign, each mission is extremely large and open ended, so you can approach them in any way you want. It's really cool to jump out of a plane, see the entire map, and be able to choose absolutely any place to 'spawn in'.
Just recently, as in a few minutes ago, I discovered the main person behind Spider-Man 2 movie game's swinging mechanics (aka the only thing people ever talk about in that game because the rest is just no fun) is making a new game all about swinging around. Energy Hook.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=145451414
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/551129138/energy-hook-0 (already funded).
http://www.happionlabs.com/energy-hook/
Is anyone here part of the alpha?
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=145451414
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/551129138/energy-hook-0 (already funded).
http://www.happionlabs.com/energy-hook/
Is anyone here part of the alpha?
blackMamba1187
Member
Just finished Papo & Yo. Brilliant.
Syphon Filter
Member
weird i never knew you can change the view.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
that's what I've been busy with. It'll be in the next version of Enhanced Steam.
maneil99
Member
Saw you playing. Debating on a second playthrough. Combat felt oh so good
If you keep going this fast you will run out of features to add.that's what I've been busy with. It'll be in the next version of Enhanced Steam.
This is nice to hear. I may get it on the next sale then.
Tomb Raider is really good, at least so far. I'm liking it a lot, and it runs pretty smooth. Of course, I had to put everything on medium, except a few things that could run on max (texture quality and level of detail). The QTEs aren't as annoying as I thought they would be, though I have only played for less than 3 hours, so that could change. Let's hope the game doesn't take a turn for the worse.
That game is fantastic. You can see yourself getting better at it; it's amazing when you think about your first time playing it, and how far you got since then.
Chance Hale
Member
If you do make sure to play on Old School, GBA Max is a hilarious unlockable you get for completing it on that difficulty.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
I figure that if I continue pumping out new features this fast (probably won't happen) I'll likely run out of stuff to do in about 4-6 months.
It's crazy though - I released the last version of Enhanced Steam on Friday but already have 5 new features that have been implemented since then: wishlist sorting by discount, the ability to hide "Early Access" games from the new releases section, a new tag ("Friends Own"), a "Games" link to the header under your username, and now "Binder View" for the badge pages.
Version 4.7 might come earlier than anticipated.
What? You can unlock GBA Max? That's awesome.
Interesting fact, GBA Max Payne is the exact same game as Max Payne 1 on the PC except from an isometric perspective.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13qAB4qBI7s
Syphon Filter
Member
had no idea gba had max payne.
It's a great game, too. Blew my mind as a kid. I couldn't believe a GBA game could look that nice and be that large.
Chance Hale
Member
Yeah, GBA Max Payne was the version I had as a youngling. Played MP2 when it came out on the PC but didn't play the original version of the first game until just before MP3 came out in preparation.
You can also unlock the Max Payne models from the first two games. Playing as Sam Lake Max is particularly amusing.
You can also unlock the Max Payne models from the first two games. Playing as Sam Lake Max is particularly amusing.
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