STEAM announcements & updates 2013 - Year of the SteamBox
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It demands a precise level of stonedness to show it's true visual brilliance.
my problems with infinite so far:
* the two hours I've played were extremely linear and didn't have enough skyhooking on shit
* no quicksave, fuck that
* it doesn't seem to be anything remotely close to sneaking, which feels weird because it'd be really cool to be able to sneak past some of these parts
* no subtitles on audiologs.
* it chugs like crazy loading stuff on my PC. it's weird because it runs at a perfect 60 FPS but every couple seconds it freezes and then lets me play again. it's very annoying and didn't change as I lowered the settings
also rofl at all the tomb raider dlc
* the two hours I've played were extremely linear and didn't have enough skyhooking on shit
* no quicksave, fuck that
* it doesn't seem to be anything remotely close to sneaking, which feels weird because it'd be really cool to be able to sneak past some of these parts
* no subtitles on audiologs.
* it chugs like crazy loading stuff on my PC. it's weird because it runs at a perfect 60 FPS but every couple seconds it freezes and then lets me play again. it's very annoying and didn't change as I lowered the settings
also rofl at all the tomb raider dlc
scorpscarx
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O wow, this is why I don't buy any games now days man.
SteveWinwood
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woah brah spoilers
Glass Rebel
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I always wanted to play as a fisherman in the Tomb Raider multiplayer.
MMBosstones86
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wow. They literally have 'DLC' for perks. So instead of actually playing the game, you can just 'buy' the higher end skills. Hate when games do that. Why bother playing if you are going to 'cheat'
Nabs
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The THQ Bundle is the Humble Weekly Sale
Pay $1 or more and get Darksiders and Red Faction: Armageddon
Beat the Average (currently $5.92) and get Darksiders II and Red Faction: Guerrilla
Pay $1 or more and get Darksiders and Red Faction: Armageddon
Beat the Average (currently $5.92) and get Darksiders II and Red Faction: Guerrilla
derExperte
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If you haven't gotten around to playing B1 and 2 yet I'll say you aren't that interested in them. So either start 1 right now or just buy Infinite.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Holy shit the BTA went up fast. It's 8.85 now.
Ha.
Nabs
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Midweek Madness #2: The Cave is 50% off ($7.49).
Yeah, some dude put up 600+ and pushed the BTA to $11.
Yeah, some dude put up 600+ and pushed the BTA to $11.
SteveWinwood
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You don't seem to have a very diverse friends list then.
It needs to go to like 5$... only want Darksiders II
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
On a related note: I can't wait to see the bitching about the latest Humble android bundle.
Android only. Featuring a game from EA/Popcap and SNK/Playmore.
Glass Rebel
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What a shame
this sounds like a great idea
Glass Rebel
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Yeah but how did you feel about Skyrim?
rimshot.wav
I really liked Skyrim, I don't know what you illegal-substance-abusive people are talking about.
you all on drugs!
What's up with The Cave? Hardly anyone talks about it, and it seems like it would be one of those high profile sorta-indie releases.
Actually, that just makes Skyrim's 280,000 concurrent player count on 11/11/11 all the more impressive.
Bioshock doing preeeety good.
Its obviously subjective, but Skyrim is actually a pretty poor game when you break it down.
Shallow
Dumbed down or non-existant RPG mechanics
Horrible Combat
Still running on Gamebyro
It gets even worse when you compare it to similar, less popular games in the genre.
And that's what is very sad about the whole thing, Skyrim actually isn't a very good game and yet it is extremely popular. Other games will never see those kind of sales numbers, but they are far more deserving of success.
Sleeping Dogs is another great example. Square came out today during their quarterly report and said that Sleeping Dogs underperformed.
Just really sad that some games get noticed, and the ones that truly deserve to be noticed are sometimes ignored.
Bioshock doing preeeety good.
Bioshock is doing very well though. 60,000 concurrent day one is very healthy.
Borderlands 2 launched with 120,000
http://games.opensteamworks.org/Chart/View/49520
Hitman Absolution with 26,000
http://games.opensteamworks.org/Chart/View/203140
Walking Dead: SI with 400
http://games.opensteamworks.org/Chart/View/220050
I can't believe people still buy it at full price in enough numbers to cause it to remain on the top sellers list. But I suppose it gets a bump now and then due to the expansion pack releases.
This confuses me too. You'd think at some point, those sales numbers constantly for over a year would mean everyone who wants it would have it, but apparently a couple of thousand people every month realise they want Skyrim.
Its most likely console players switching over and grabbing it, or new people to PC in general.
scorpscarx
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I don't think anyone is dissing the mods, just that the base game is basically boring as sin for anything more than 10 hours. I wanted to play and enjoy it, but once the novelty of the environment wore off it was gameover, man.
Does the average person actually use mods? Do we have any numbers on this? Workshop probably increased the numbers by a couple of thousand times, but I still imagine most people who play Skyrim just made the guy in the marketting material and think it's amazing.
Emerson
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Yep and since everyone else agrees with you about it this is indeed a mystery.
dave is ok
aztek is ok
Bioshock Infinite's numbers will go up once people get home from work and kids get home from school.
Of All Trades
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Alternatively it's none of those things except the last.
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I'm completely not shocked in the slightest by this. The episodes are each like 2 hours, they were spaced out in release and there is zero reason to boot up the game otherwise. Oh and it took a while to build up steam in terms of awareness.
I really don't agree with you there. I played mostly vanilla Skyrim for 186 hours and pretty much everybody in my gaming-circle friends also love it. All on PC.
To put this into context, we came from 250+ hours of Oblivion Gameplay and we also loved it.
I've never played the earlier Elder Scrolls, so I don't really know how they are RPG-wise. I know that reading about "hypothermia" mod sounds like the most annoying thing in the world to add to a game, so I'll just say that you're all crazy and that's that.
Yeah I got it earlier, just haven't found the time to play it yet.
Glass Rebel
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Emerson
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Wrong game man.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
The one he's talking about is the recently released, pretty damn terrible licensed game based off the show.
I've watched way more of the Bro Stream of it than I should have: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHzWHxXBEfI
BadAss2961
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SR2 I could see, but SR3 ain't as good as Sleeping Dogs.
Just Cause 2 is trash wrapped around a pretty but lifeless open world. Seriously, its gameplay mechanics are weak, and the story & voice work are beyond awful.
DOBERMAN INC
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I'm usually one of those, played it almost every week since its release.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
A follow-up to this: the $638 donation that spiked the BTA seems to have been withdrawn. My guess is that someone forgot to a decimal point when entering their total.
Sleeping Dogs' mission structure is so, so much better than SR3's. I can only do so many 'follow me in a heli', and escort missions before I ask what the fuck is up.
curlycare
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MMBosstones86
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Excellent voice acting and side characters. Compelling story. Pretty solid melee focused combat. Great, non repetitive mission structures
dates don't count, they were terribad
tl:dr - I disagree about for JC2 and SR3
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