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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 II - The Definitive Edition

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Intheflorsh

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The opening of Kingdoms of Amalur is very, very exposition heavy. I don't know why so many fantasy games have to get creative with the names of the races, it gets tedious. If it looks like a dwarf, call it a dwarf.
 
corrosivefrost

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I'm so close to 100% on MGR:R.

11 DLC VR missions left to gold and then that accursed Amrstrong fight with no damage. If I can do those two things, it will unlock the last 4 achievements.

The only catch is getting the AI for Armstrong on my copy to act like it does in some of the guide videos up on YT. :lol

I'm probably boned. ^_^
 
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Intheflorsh said:
The opening of Kingdoms of Amalur is very, very exposition heavy. I don't know why so many fantasy games have to get creative with the names of the races, it gets tedious. If it looks like a dwarf, call it a dwarf.
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Oh lord why did I buy this game.

Dread of playing increased by a million
 
masterkajo

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woo and indeed hoo said:
Only the demo and I barely played it. I didn't even encounter any enemies I played it and dismissed it so quickly. If there was a good port of MGS3 that was a gameplay only version I'd give it a go but after the previous two games I have no desire to suffer any more of Kojima's bollox. If anything I would be more tempted to track down a copy of the GameBoy game and just play the VR missions :p.



Out of the hundreds, if not thousands of games I have played in my life I could probably count them on the fingers of one hand. Most of them make me want to scream frankly.

I thoroughly enjoyed The 39 Steps and Dear Esther but then I don't consider them games but stories with faux gameplay elements :p.

Right, back to XCOM! Got a planet to save! [Don't care!]
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I can understand that MGS games can take a toll on you when it comes to story and cutscene
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s. But in my humble opinion, Metal Gear Solid 3 is the best of the games. It has better gameplay and by far the best story.
 
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Grief.exe said:
I just played Chaos Theory for the first time in 2013 and I was blown away. Not only does it hold up extremely well, but it is one of the best games of all time in a dying genre.
Excited to give it away and let others experience the game for themselves.
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It's a shame about your stance on UPlay, Blacklist is a fantastic and arguably the best gen7 stealth game that actually lets you play it pretty much 99% stealth. In some respects it's Conviction but much more refined but it has and rewards players who go the Chaos Theory route of not touching anyone. I know you would definitely enjoy it if you loved CT.
 
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Turfster

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Sober said:
It's a shame about your stance on UPlay, Blacklist is a fantastic and arguably the best gen7 stealth game that actually lets you play it pretty much 99% stealth. In some respects it's Conviction but much more refined but it has and rewards players who go the Chaos Theory route of not touching anyone. I know you would definitely enjoy it if you loved CT.
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I'd love to play Blacklist... but since uPlay hates my guts, that's never going to happen (unless it's a ps+ freebie that I can play by pulling the network cable out of the ps3 I guess)
 
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trailmix16 said:
has anyone broken 100 games won through modbot? a few are close :eek:
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Get about half my current library count in less than one year? That would be quite the accomplishment.

Sober said:
It's a shame about your stance on UPlay, Blacklist is a fantastic and arguably the best gen7 stealth game that actually lets you play it pretty much 99% stealth. In some respects it's Conviction but much more refined but it has and rewards players who go the Chaos Theory route of not touching anyone. I know you would definitely enjoy it if you loved CT.
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I can buy Uplay games, it just comes down to when. Layering in DRM drastically reduces the value.
Maybe I would be interested at the $2-$5 mark, but there are other games at that price range that I am interested in that are not anti-consumer in that respect.
 
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gwynplaine

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Razorskin said:
Steam wasn't ever all that stable.
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They've been really good for the past six years or so. Pretty sure they have the industry standard 99.9% uptime. 99.99 is what everyone is looking for though.

Offline mode is always handy.

trailmix16 said:
has anyone broken 100 games won through modbot? a few are close :eek:
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I'd like to see the big list of winners like that big list of givers a while ago... hopefully no blacklists as a result... i'm at 40 according to loot stash plus counting up the latest pm's.
 
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nexen

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masterkajo said:
I can understand that MGS games can take a toll on you when it comes to story and cutscene
length
s. But in my humble opinion, Metal Gear Solid 3 is the best of the games. It has better gameplay and by far the best story.
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This is the pattern that always seems to happen whenever I try an MGS game.

Me: I hate MGS. I'm not going to try this one no matter what.
Game reviews: New MGS gets 10/10! Game of the forever!
Internet: The new MGS is super awesome. Kojima is an artist!
Me: Fine. I'll fucking try it.
New MGS: Can love bloom on a battlefield? You are the clone of Big Boss's left testicle! Nanomachines. *shits pants*

So far MGR is breaking that cycle, but ... I remain worried.
You aren't going to get me to try MGS3.
 
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Razorskin said:
Steam wasn't ever all that stable.
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I don't remember it being this bad this often though. The last time it went down for about an hour, and that was just a couple days ago. It used to go down during the massive sales and mostly when people checked for new deals en masse. Outside of that it's been pretty stable.
 
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Tellaerin

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Intheflorsh said:
The opening of Kingdoms of Amalur is very, very exposition heavy. I don't know why so many fantasy games have to get creative with the names of the races, it gets tedious. If it looks like a dwarf, call it a dwarf.
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Eh, that's not a big deal to me. A little creativity helps give a stock fantasy world some flavor. Though I'm still waiting for the RPG that will give us a race of short, burly folk who are eloquent and refined and live in harmony with nature, and a tall, slender race of miners and engineers with practical temperaments who live underground. >.>
 
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Tenrius said:
I don't remember it being this bad this often though. The last time it went down for about an hour, and that was just a couple days ago. It used to go down during the massive sales and mostly when people checked for new deals en masse. Outside of that it's been pretty stable.
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Steam did just grow about 10 million active user accounts in a couple months. Comparatively, both next-gen consoles combined haven't even seen that kind of growth.

2014 is going to be an interesting year.
 
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Intheflorsh

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Tellaerin said:
Eh, that's not a big deal to me. A little creativity helps give a stock fantasy world some flavor. Though I'm still waiting for the RPG that will give us a race of short, burly folk who are eloquent and refined and live in harmony with nature, and a tall, slender race of miners and engineers with practical temperaments who live underground. >.>
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Or maybe a game where dwarves don't have Scottish accents. Now THAT would be innovation!
 
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Nabs said:
The Black Mesa lead got a chance to try out ValveVR and wrote a blog post about his experience: http://cmonteroart.blogspot.com/2014/01/i-was-lucky-enough-to-not-only-attend.html

I probably late on this, but I had to post it. It's probably the best set of impressions I've seen yet.
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I'd probably pay good money just experiencing this for 30 minutes to an hour. I'd do the same riding in a Google car. My fear is, mostly with the Valve VR thing, is that once I try it I'm going to need another taste soon after. Then I'll adopt a nasty drug habit and die a day before the thing hits the market.
 
Eanan

Eanan

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When can we realistically expect Day Z to go on sale do you guys think?

Id imagine the max sale discount would be like -20% anyway.
 
Dr. Zoidberg

Dr. Zoidberg

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What annoys me most about when Steam is down is that the website is up with no indication there is a problem, and when you try to login it tells you your password is incorrect which is 100% bullshit. Then I always spend a few minutes futzing with the thing to try to login properly thinking it's my fault somehow.
 
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Netrunner2k2 said:
I'd probably pay good money just experiencing this for 30 minutes to an hour. I'd do the same riding in a Google car. My fear is, mostly with the Valve VR thing, is that once I try it I'm going to need another taste soon after. Then I'll adopt a nasty drug habit and die a day before the thing hits the market.
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Same here. Reading that article makes me want to experience this so bad!
 
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Grief.exe

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LogoCycle's updates on the Steam Registry would imply that a release is imminent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWbSKKepVMc

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Intheflorsh said:
Or maybe a game where dwarves don't have Scottish accents. Now THAT would be innovation!
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I found it surprisingly jarring when I heard Sigrun, from DA:O-A, for the first time, and she sounded nothing like the stereotypical dwarf, whereas Oghren was about as close to the dwarf stereotype as you can get.
 
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Random question: What are some of the best HL2 mods? I've seen a few come through Greenlight but which ones are actually worth playing?
 
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