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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 II - The Definitive Edition

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Arthea

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FFXII was boring to play because, once you set up your gambits just right, it no longer required any input from you besides just moving your party from fight to fight, right? I thought all the other FFs were boring for the same reason-- just, instead of having gambits, I would just set the cursor to remember my last command and mash the confirm button to get through any fight. FF combat can get boring way too easily (and Blitzball was no different-- even if you don't just spam Jecht Shot, it's easy to recruit players with stats that are like double everyone else's). FFXIII and FFXI are the only numbered FF titles where I couldn't fall asleep during combat and still win.

but you see, that's how all easy battles go, in any game. You might say that there are too many regular battles in FF games, or any old RPGs, but combat is still great, if in any challenging situation or against bosses. I mean, it's fun to play, combat feels fresh and new in every game, if we disregard FF12 problem for a moment, it's true for all FF games.
And Blitzball, yes, you can spam Jecht Shot and it makes you win most if not all your matches for some time, but then you get to really strong teams at some point and if you haven't trained your team, by spamming Jecht Shot all the time, you might not get even possibility to use it anymore. And you say like all good players are available all them time and at any given moment, and you surely remember that's not being the case, and recruiting good ones was a game on itself, with surprises, as some you thought being good, were good only at the start and then got worse as time progressed. It's complex minigame. But that's not what I was talking about. I can't understand all hate, because you can not play it at all if you choose, it's optional.
I do agree that FF13 combat is very enjoyable, only FFX-2 have even more fun combat.
 

Caerith

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but you see, that's how all easy battles go, in any game. You might say that there are too many regular battles in FF games, or any old RPGs, but combat is still great, if in any challenging situation or against bosses. I mean, it's fun to play, combat feels fresh and new in every game, if we disregard FF12 problem for a moment, it's true for all FF games.
And Blitzball, yes, you can spam Jecht Shot and it makes you win most if not all your matches for some time, but then you get to really strong teams at some point and if you haven't trained your team, by spamming Jecht Shot all the time, you might not get even possibility to use it anymore. And you say like all good players are available all them time and at any given moment, and you surely remember that's not being the case, and recruiting good ones was a game on itself, with surprises, as some you thought being good, were good only at the start and then got worse as time progressed. It's complex minigame. But that's not what I was talking about. I can't understand all hate, because you can not play it at all if you choose, it's optional.
I do agree that FF13 combat is very enjoyable, only FFX-2 have even more fun combat.
See, I thought the boss fights in most FFs were really easy, too. I mean, most weren't FFX-level easy (bosses dying in two hits, final boss casting re-raise on you just in case you died, and then re-casting it to make sure you never saw a game over), but I don't recall ever feeling challenged to do anything other than mash my strongest attacks and occasionally heal.

I think the hate for Blitzball is that it wasn't optional if you were trying to 100%. I dodged lightning 200 times, chased butterflies, and did that
god-fucking-awful
chocobo racing, but playing hour upon hour of Blitzball was where I drew the line.
 

KenOD

a kinder, gentler sort of Scrooge
I liked playing Blitzball outside of the forced tournament for story. I wished for a full game of that because I liked building the team and the mechanics were enjoyable enough for me. I say as I am playing Inazuma Eleven on my 3DS.

I didn't like dodging lighting or any of that other stuff, so I skipped it. If I don't get enjoyment out of it, I don't force myself to do it even if I don't get 100% in something. It's never satisfying for me.

What do you guys think of Mickey Mouse Castle of Illusion? It's cheap at Gamefly.

I quite enjoyed the game as a nice, relaxing, enjoyable platformer that never really goes out of it's way to be anything other than a charming Mickey game. No real surprises, nothing to make it stand out amongst many other platformers you can get, but good all the way through.I bought it for $10 for PS3 and easily felt it was worth it, but mind you I had nostalgia from the Mega Drive original it's a remake of.

Does have some things that turn some people off however, but I feel they are all minor flaws.
Controls can be a bit loose for the jumps, never bothered me personally, but it's not the "pixel perfect" some want. You start with three hearts (life) and can collect two more for a total of five at any given point, but if you die you restart with only the base three because anything more than that is extra. It's also rather short, again a Mega Drive remake.
There is also the other aspect that it's never really challenging as a platformer, simply being slightly annoying with some of it's more challenging platforming sections and the rest is simply on you not to make a mistake rather than being skilled enough to get it all done.

Personally I do recommend it to people if they want a good platformer and can be entertained by a Mickey Mouse adventure, but it should be of low priority if you have anything else you really want to get currently.
 

Arthea

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See, I thought the boss fights in most FFs were really easy, too. I mean, most weren't FFX-level easy (bosses dying in two hits, final boss casting re-raise on you just in case you died, and then re-casting it to make sure you never saw a game over), but I don't recall ever feeling challenged to do anything other than mash my strongest attacks and occasionally heal.

I think the hate for Blitzball is that it wasn't optional if you were trying to 100%. I dodged lightning 200 times, chased butterflies, and did that
god-fucking-awful
chocobo racing, but playing hour upon hour of Blitzball was where I drew the line.

It's my last post on this topic, as I feel like we plunged into off topic heavily now. You do understand why FF is so popular? well, partly because these are good games, partly though, because they are easy, that's true, but in all games were those little secrets for daring, that were not easy, and I give devs credit for that. You really can't call FFX Darkies easy, even if you want, it's just not true.

Well, that I can understand, especially
god-fucking-awful chocobo racing
part (><)
 

Levyne

Banned
Part of the reason that I am actually interested in the re-release of X, more challenging "end game" content. It's not my favorite FF game, but it's one I like.
 
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I think the hate for Blitzball is that it wasn't optional if you were trying to 100%. I dodged lightning 200 times, chased butterflies, and did that
god-fucking-awful
chocobo racing, but playing hour upon hour of Blitzball was where I drew the line.
I even liked Blitzball but couldn't bother to play enough of it for Wakka's weapon. I did the rest of the stuff mentioned, but Blitzball was the breaking point. Not even because there was anything challenging about it, Brother alone makes Blitzball cake, but because of the item being a random tournament reward. Couldn't do it.
 

Jive Turkey

Unconfirmed Member
yeah desura only gives u 1 key, so if multiple bundles had the game, and say "go to desura to get it" youre fucked

I'm sure you could just make a throwaway Desura account, redeem the Desura key, and get another Steam key if you really wanted to have multiple copies.
 

r3n4ud

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Extra! Extra!
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Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
Blink bundle 2? Too many bundles!!!

First blink bundle was amazing tho
 

Boss Doggie

all my loli wolf companions are so moe
I'm surprised no one has heard of it.

It's a port of the light gun arcade game and it's very fast paced. You even have an adrenaline mode once you fill up a bar to go all out and invincible.

Arcade gameplay

Granted, it's probably one of those games enjoyable only in the arcades
 
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Strider is okay so far, but I'm not in love with it. I also find it unbelievably annoying that I've already killed 2 bosses and gotten several upgrades but yet I cannot reflect bullets yet, so I have no way to block anything. That's getting old quickly.
 

Sajjaja

Member
Okay, the pop in in The Witcher 2 is really annoying. Any ideas how to fix it? I'm using the Combat Rebalance mod and the Infinite Flora mod with the compatibility fix and I'm still getting things rendered next to me. Any ideas?
 

GuardsmanGreg

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Okay after a bajillion tries I got mod bot to work for me.

Here's an extra Guacamelee! key. I got it thanks to this thread and now i'm returning the favor. Keep being Steam-GAF, Steam-GAF. You guys are pretty cool.

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Also, i've been playing quite a bit of Banished. I'll probably write up a decent sized post on my thoughts of it later, but the TL;DR is it's an amazing game.
 
Okay, the pop in in The Witcher 2 is really annoying. Any ideas how to fix it? I'm using the Combat Rebalance mod and the Infinite Flora mod with the compatibility fix and I'm still getting things rendered next to me. Any ideas?

That's not a bug sadly. Turn LOD up to max if your PC can handle it.
 
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Deleted member 59090

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I'm surprised no one has heard of it.

It's a port of the light gun arcade game and it's very fast paced. You even have an adrenaline mode once you fill up a bar to go all out and invincible.

Arcade gameplay

Granted, it's probably one of those games enjoyable only in the arcades

It's not a port. It's a new game.
 

Sub Zero

his body's cold as ice, but he's got a heart of gold
So a friend of mine who owns Civ V (only the main game, not any DLC or expansions) recently ordered the Gold Edition which is the main game+1st exp+all DLC. When he activates the Gold Edition on steam will Civ V be counted as a duplicate game and go to his inventory? Anybody know?
 

r3n4ud

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So a friend of mine who owns Civ V (only the main game, not any DLC or expansions) recently ordered the Gold Edition which is the main game+1st exp+all DLC. When he activates the Gold Edition on steam will Civ V be counted as a duplicate game and go to his inventory? Anybody know?

That's a negative :/

Okay, seriously, did the latest client update break Prey?
Anyone else with Prey that can still run it?

No issues here man.
 
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So any impressions of Drunken Robot Pornography?
(Although how could I not love a game that looks like it took Cloudberry Kingdom's hazard-filled insanity and turned it into an even more insane bullet hell FPS)

Also how is Drop That Beat Like an Ugly Baby?
 
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