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STEAM announcements & updates 2013 - Year of the SteamBox
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jim-jam bongs
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it's an inoffensive hack and slash with terrible co-op, a forgettable story and some fun combat (if you use a controller). mediocre is probably the word I'd use to describe it but for that price it's worth a look.
Glass Rebel
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If you're not going to play it in co-op, which can save almost every game according to Stallion Freeist theory, I say don't bother. It's a polished game but not nearly as interesting as other Obsidian games.
Reminds me of alien swarm which I've yet to finish. Maybe I'll bite.Primal Fears is out now for $8.99 (the 4-pack is $22.49)
best icon.
It's a 4-player / top-down / co-op game where you kill things with friends. I bet morningbus will like this one.
Edit : never mind. I spent too much on the sale.
I wish I could do this. Instead I play about an hour or two of each new release and get bored.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Primal Fears is out now for $8.99 (the 4-pack is $22.49)
best icon.
It's a 4-player / top-down / co-op game where you kill things with friends. I bet morningbus will like this one.
You know when you come across something, like a good, hard-sci-Fi show, that seems almost perfectly tailored to everything you love and would want out of something like it?
This is the opposite of that.
jim-jam bongs
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I really liked the use of star spangled banner on the title screen too. reminds me of the herd track starship trooper:
I'm a starship trooper this is my letter to dad
transferred from Saigon to Baghdad and now I'm dead
an allied soldier with skin boils from Ebola
I'll bring you back a souvenir of what we stole
I'm a starship trooper this is my letter to dad
transferred from Saigon to Baghdad and now I'm dead
an allied soldier with skin boils from Ebola
I'll bring you back a souvenir of what we stole
If you're going to get Spec Ops, might as well play it immediately while the conversation is still going.
ME3 is even worse. You notice when a shootout is going to happen, as you said, but you also know that once it ends, you'll probably have to deal with a fucking mech or a banshee/brute. The only redeeming factor was the fun of spamming Charge+Nova as a Vanguard, and even that became old after a couple of hours.
Spec Ops' gameplay is no masterpiece, but it gets much more hate than it deserves.
jaundicejuice
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One thing I'm trying to do to tackle collection of unplayed games is when I see a game on sale I own and have not played is install and start to play that game.
Recently installed and started playing Alpha Protocol for the first time.
Recently installed and started playing Alpha Protocol for the first time.
Oh, I believe that was Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock. The flag was upside down too, wasn't it?
PepsimanVsJoe
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Omega_Tom_Hanks
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Drop into the spoiler thread and have a read. You might find it illuminating. Or even better watch this (SPOILERS):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlBrenhzMZI
I wouldn't normally call someone up on something like this but I feel like this game is kind of important and to be so dismissive is probably stopping some folks who are on the fence from giving it a chance.
I'm a sexy beast!
I seem to play a lot of crap... just because I have it and want to finish it. But I normally enjoy just playing one or two games for an extended period of time. I'm not worried about the backlog anymore, just want to make sure what I add to it, I actually want to play.
Stallion Free
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What was wrong with the co-op? I played with one friend exclusively for the entire ride (our standard approach to a game we decide to play co-op in) and we had a lot of fun. The game is not a Diablo-type which seems to be the most common misconception about it.
jim-jam bongs
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yeah it was a nice touch. at first it feels like a pretty lazy way to pay homage to apocalypse now, but as the game progressed and the truth about what had happened in Dubai became apparent I appreciated it a lot more.
oh it's fun and quite playable, but the way characters are stored with the host is a shock for most people coming from similar games.
MMBosstones86
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how do you guys decide what to play next?
i'm currently in the "i just finished something and want to play every game at the same time" mode...so instead of playing, i just debate what to play next.
i'm currently in the "i just finished something and want to play every game at the same time" mode...so instead of playing, i just debate what to play next.
Pretty Cate Archer is back, goodie. I need to play that game, some day.
oh wow I didn't know posts could get this bad
Kudos
I have a look at my backlog on howlongtobeat.com and choose the one I feel like playing the most, also considering its length and the effort and hours of play I'm willing to put into the next game.
CecilRousso
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I divide the games in two categories - those I really really wanted to play when I bought them, and those I just bought to test with, play around with for a bit or bought because of the sale price. And then I pick something from the first category that's different from what I just played.
Or I go back to Football Manager.
Stallion Free
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Hence the common misconception bit I guess. I knew what I was getting into and I played it the same way I play every co-op game and it was an infinitely better experience than solo play.
Well I picked it up off amazon last week with bioshock 1+2. Guess I'll start ASAP.
I should rewatch that. Spec Ops definitely alludes to it and Heart of Darkness but it's most interesting where they differ. I don't get how it gets so many dismissals as just being an adaptation, which is like saying Ted is a remake of Flash Gordon.
Stallion Free
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If it was tru art it wouldn't need to be played ASAP, just sayin'.
Tru art is eternally relevant/good.
If I'm really interested in something, I play it next. Otherwise I pick something from my adventure game category to cut down on the backlog, or finish something I started previously. Depends on my mood, really.
I've been in that phase for about 5 years now. I still haven't decided what I want to play.
Eh, eternally? Most art relies on a context shared by the artist and the audience. Look how heavily Shakespeare's works are annotated these days-- who would truly understand them otherwise?
Not that Spec Ops is Hamlet.
I had that same problem last night, until a smart GAFfer suggested that I play Mark of the Ninja if I had it on my Steam account and hadn't played it yet. I did, and I hadn't played it, so that's what I started doing. Good game so far, I plan on playing more of it tonight.
Reading this made my heart beat fast, thinking there was a new NOLF in the works, or that 1&2 would come to Steam. Please don't do this to me
zerokoolpsx
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Spec Ops for $7.49? Get if cheaper at Amazon with the coupon.
Postal 2 Complete for 50%? 75% or No Deal!
Postal 2 Complete for 50%? 75% or No Deal!
MMBosstones86
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I divide the games in two categories - those I really really wanted to play when I bought them, and those I just bought to test with, play around with for a bit or bought because of the sale price. And then I pick something from the first category that's different from what I just played.
Or I go back to Football Manager.
thanks guys. Dragon Age or New Vegas it is. (with some sort of hi-res texture pack of course)
They phoned it in with Dungeon Siege III. Gotta pay the bills, though.
Oh, and unlike everything else they've done up to this point, Christ Avellone wasn't involved.
Beautiful.
I'm thinking of starting playing DSIII myself, after I'm done with Divinity II or something. The story/dialogue can't be that bad, right? Then again, after playing Divinity, the majority of other games' dialogue will probably seem dull.
Wok
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It is interesting to know. But it is also wrong to consider the game costs $6, it indeed costs $12.
jim-jam bongs
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that's true, but I still think that the way it's implemented is silly. even saints row 3 lets you bring your own character into a friend's game and it's not even an rpg in the traditional sense. that said, calling it "terrible" wasn't really fair. limited would be a better word for it.
it's the trinity we need to see more of; the feargus, the sawyer and the holy chris.
Reading this made my heart beat fast, thinking there was a new NOLF in the works, or that 1&2 would come to Steam. Please don't do this to me
How I wish. Someday,
Probably never :'(
jim-jam bongs
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nolf ain't never coming back. the best we can hope for is that wb decides to allow gog to update and sell the original games, because as it stands nolf2 is almost unplayable on 64bit systems.
Why is NOLF not on GOG already? Is there some copyright issue?
WB owns it? Rest in peace.
O.DOGG
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I replayed Spec Ops just a couple of days ago, and was actually surprised that the gameplay was better than I remembered it to be. Also the graphics are fantastic, and the whole experience is quite unique - especially the second time around. And yes, the best deal would be to get it from Amazon with a coupon for ~$2.50 right now. Hell, I may get another copy just to gift to someone who would appreciate the game.
zerokoolpsx
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Gonna play through The Walking Dead in one sitting. Gonna blaze through it.
oipic
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Reading this made my heart beat fast, thinking there was a new NOLF in the works, or that 1&2 would come to Steam. Please don't do this to me
The sad fate of NOLF (and the System Shock franchise also, for that matter), is one of the great disappointments in gaming. As much as I'm all for innovation and fresh ideas, I would dearly love modern remakes or re-imaginings of both. Sigh.
This is the right way of playing. I'm ashamed to admit that I cut my single session into 2 chunks, one of 3 hours and the other of 9, because I had to eat supper in the middle of them. Still, I'm glad that I managed to squeeze 12 hours of playtime into 13 straight hours of real time.
I never played any of the System Shock games, so it would be nice to see a DD version of them. And I've read that there was a spin-off game set in the NOLF universe, Contract Jack. Anybody played it?
MMBosstones86
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unacceptable excuse
jim-jam bongs
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rionaa:
contract j.a.c.k. is painfully bad. they just reused the assets from the second game to make a lame action shooter with a forgettable lead character who doesn't even have the decency to be funny. it's also like 4 hours long which is insulting when you think of how deep and vast the main games are.
contract j.a.c.k. is painfully bad. they just reused the assets from the second game to make a lame action shooter with a forgettable lead character who doesn't even have the decency to be funny. it's also like 4 hours long which is insulting when you think of how deep and vast the main games are.
xenoflux2113
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I was just going to say we are talking about NOLF and system shock... Jim-Jam must be visiting! And sure enough there he is.
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