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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 II - The Definitive Edition
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ashecitism
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To be honest I had no idea GI was even publishing an article on Black Mesa.
yeah
Just checked, it's the March issueThis looks pretty interesting, must be a rogue-like adventure hybrid, I hope it turns out to be good.
yeah
Interesting. I suppose the feature will be the closest thing we'll get to The Final Hours of Half-Life 3 for a while.
Edit: I'm dumb.
Edit edit: On the subject of Black Mesa, I still believe that, at some level, the mod was conceived as a way for its members to secure jobs at Valve, but when it became clear this wouldn't happen, it entered development hell as people pursued greener pastures.
That's ok. I'm always watching .... ಠ_ಠ
nature boy
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Damn these old Ghost Recons are hardcore as fuck.
Atraveller
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I have SC: Blacklist deluxe edition on Uplay, if I buy the standard edition on steam, can I still use the bonus stuff?
The Steam versions of Uplay titles are considered separate games and use individualised instances of the Uplay launcher.
PandaPedinte
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I'm moving to Australia.
Just to be sure to watch out for the dropbears.
Jawmuncher
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Whoa HOLD UP Ghost Recon 2 isn't on PC?
What kind of bullshit is this? That was probably the best one back when I played it on Xbox.
What kind of bullshit is this? That was probably the best one back when I played it on Xbox.
So I saw that Go Go Nippon had the Kawaii (cute) tag and clicked to see what else was considered kawaii.
Didn't expect Rambo in that list
That game is... weird.
First time I had ever heard of it.
They cancelled it a few months before release to focus on 'Ghost Recon 3' (which I assume turned into the PC version of Advanced Warfighter).
Likely they didn't think a third person, more action focused Ghost Recon game would fit well with the PC crowd, so they ditched an attempt to refit it for PC (turn it first person) and went forward with the next game.
Da DreadLord
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If memory serves me right Obscure was pretty good. Never played the second so.. guess I'll buy them.. /sighThe survival horror games, ObsCure and Obscure 2: The Aftermath have been announced to be coming to Steam on March 7th with updated version (which include performance fixes, and finally things like 16:9 mode and controller support):
Trailer here.
I been needing to play these games, so I don't have an opinion. I hoped this would happen though after Final Exam (a spin-off of ObsCure) got on Steam, and ObsCure being pulled off of digital marketplaces late last year. To explain the games in basic, imagine Resident Evil (the older ones) with a school setting and multiple, super stereotypical teenagers, and situations that come with that (super nerd, exploitation slut who gets murdered, crazed murderer killing kids one by one, etc).
Also notable the game's have pretty good soundtracks, provided by that one guy who did the music also for Alone in the Dark 5 and Remember Me.
$25 on their website. Not sure where else.
Jawmuncher
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Tsk Tsk, Ghost Recon I thought was a great blend of original and new action oriented gameplay. Was never a fan of the Advanced Warfighter games or the newest one as well.
Still I wonder how the Advanced Warfighter version on Xbox was since that was the only one that was FPS. I think it was another case where they had another team basically make a whole new game just like when Double Agent came out.
It's roughly the same price in Eastern Europe so you're out of luck I'm afraid.
Thanks, ill wait for a sale.
The survival horror games, ObsCure and Obscure 2: The Aftermath have been announced to be coming to Steam on March 7th with updated version (which include performance fixes, and finally things like 16:9 mode and controller support):
Trailer here.
I been needing to play these games, so I don't have an opinion. I hoped this would happen though after Final Exam (a spin-off of ObsCure) got on Steam, and ObsCure being pulled off of digital marketplaces late last year. To explain the games in basic, imagine Resident Evil (the older ones) with a school setting and multiple, super stereotypical teenagers, and situations that come with that (super nerd, exploitation slut who gets murdered, crazed murderer killing kids one by one, etc).
Also notable the game's have pretty good soundtracks, provided by that one guy who did the music also for Alone in the Dark 5 and Remember Me.
I like this news. I recently dug out my physical PC copies of both, but I'm more than happy to double dip if they price them accordingly and make them more compatible with modern Windows. Though they both do kind of seem to work, but xinput controller support would be nice. Obscure 2 holds up visually surprisingly well too. And yeah, great soundtracks.
Obscure did the Alan Wake flashlight gimmick before flashlights were cool.
The PC version was also an FPS (both Advanced Warfighter games), I'm not sure if it's different from the Xbox version though.
I'm glad Ubisoft left that phase at least, it's like they were afraid of contaminating their PC audience with their console audience, and eventually their last gen and next gen audiences (Rainbow Six 3 Xbox 'series', GR2 PC cancellation, Warfighter version differences, Splinter Cell two versions).
Now they just make one game and slap it on everything, for better or for worse.
Jawmuncher
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Bought basically what I wanted from the Ubi Sales (Was only interested in TC games). But man if Ubi can manage to lower Cold Fear to 75% off i'm in. For some reason it has never been lower than 50% from recollection.
The_Super_Inframan
"the journey to a thousand games ends with bad rats. ~Lao Tzu" ~Gabe Newell
I played Wooden Sensai for maybe 15 minutes... didn't like it much, boring game imo
Jawmuncher
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Just looked at the steam page for GRAW. That's the same game as the Xbox title I was talking about. So that means the 360 version was the one by a different dev team...I'm quite curious to play that one since I never have. Also it was interesting of ubi to handle the platforms differently like that back in the day for the most part. Would be interesting if a company took that line of thinking again.
Was there ever a time when having the words "sum" and "41" on your game cover was a good marketing point?
Never.
Jawmuncher
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Now I checked the Double Agent page since I was curious and yep that is the Xbox version as well. Interesting so GRAW and SCA are the Xbox versions which from my recollection aside from graphics were better than the 360 versions.
A are the Xbox versions which from my recollection aside from graphics were better than the 360 versions.dirtywhirlwind
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Have anyone got any rewards from Playfire recently? From Strider specifically.
ashecitism
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You know I really like how Valve have been handling the streaming beta. Slouken is very communicative, they're posting announcements almost every week and roll out beta updates frequently. Contrats that to say the Universe or Music groups and their radio silence for a longer period of time, it feels refreshing.
Now I checked the Double Agent page since I was curious and yep that is the Xbox version as well. Interesting so GRAW and SC
Actually it's the awful 360 version, they use Xbox 1 screenshots on the store page for some reason.
mcfishstick
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I just finished playing Alpha Protocol. I highly recommend the game, especially at the current sale price.
It has some great twists and the amount of choices and consequences are impressive, so much so that the final mission can have 3 different bosses.
It has some great twists and the amount of choices and consequences are impressive, so much so that the final mission can have 3 different bosses.
Jawmuncher
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EWWW all interest lost.
Atraveller
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What's the difference between 360 and the Xbox version of Double Agent?
Jawmuncher
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The Xbox version was developed by the Chaos Theory team and plays very differently from the 360 version. From impressions the Xbox version is a better Splinter Cell expierence all around. The 360 version was developed by Ubisoft Shanghai who did Pandorra Tomorrow. Needless to say that game just isn't very fun but was a graphical showcase at the time of release.
Atraveller
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Shit I blind-bought that, oh well it's only 2.49.
Wait for a sale. I put a few hours into it, and it's pretty bare bones right now. There's only three available tracks for racing and one arena for demolition derby. Also, only three available cars to choose from.
The racing is quite fun, but shit, if you fall behind in the race it's a real bitch to catch up to the leaders. As for the demolition derby, it's all out fun. 24 cars smashing into each other in a large arena makes quite a mess! Overall the game has promise, but is lacking right now.
ashecitism
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I thought CE for Linux has been confirmed already?
http://gamingonlinux.com/articles/l...y-actually-come-to-linux.3094/page=2#comments
http://steamdb.info/app/220980/
well, it's defo getting close
http://gamingonlinux.com/articles/l...y-actually-come-to-linux.3094/page=2#comments
http://steamdb.info/app/220980/
well, it's defo getting close
I wish I had a gazillion dollars.
MMBosstones86
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Probably sometime around the early 2000's for a few days. Other than that...nope.
And I still don't get the appeal.
Atraveller
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You could buy Valve itself.
The appeal is that you can create just about anything you want.
I'd rather buy WB and re-release Wheelman.
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