PandaPedinte
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Gabe stop messing with the servers.
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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 III - Don't Believe The Tags
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obviously you aren't connected to internet, like we all
oh and in case you are wondering, neogaf is in our heads (><)
yup, daily, every evening at busy hours
thanks guys. everytime its down (and its a lot lately) I guess I was already signed in. Oh well. anyway just woke up, lost of new bundles i see. I assume that disciples 3 in th bundlestars is NOT the remake?
just woke up and got this, never happened before
is this what happens when you start steam and its down? if so I cant believe its the first time its happened to me
You never forget your first time. >.>
I used to think that too, but the password's still stored. Cancel out of the login screen and try to reconnect to Steam again by clicking on the icon and you'll be able to do it without manually entering your password, once the service is back up.
PandaPedinte
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Hm. Looks like the good karma paid off. Someone just reached out to me for a job interview. Might be able to change jobs!
Good luck!
Ah. Still, makes it harder to spam retry, which is perhaps the point.
it did mine
hold your horses, it's other way around, you are part of my imagination, Sega president Panda! It even sounds like my imagination, not yours!
NingenJanai
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No, we are just part of Gaben's imagination.
Ricochet 2 GOTY?
MarcoZombieCannon
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Everyone gets a free 33% off coupon for The Orange Box.
Gentle Rodriguez
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Great, first time in a month I want something NOW and it won't let me.
You NEED to play these games.
It's boring. Interesting, but boring.
publicly apologize and announce hl3 or you can kiss your business goodbye gabe
*looks around at thread* You must have a pretty colorful
and raunchy
Shalashaska
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A game with potential that doesn't live up to it.
It gets to be repetitive, while some of the cases are interesting the interview mechanic can be really frustrating at times. The setting is interesting and the acting is pretty cool. It's not a bad buy for $7.50.
Pretty perfect way of putting it. I really liked the idea of it. If you were on homicide the entire game, I think it would be way more fun to play.
imagine if you will, an ace attorney style choose your own adventure but with a completely broken, boring and just plain offensively bad world map you have to slog through to get to the interesting bits.
I survived 2 hours before I called it quits.
ussjtrunks
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Steam Down Everywhere Want to put in some steam credit
Want to put in some steam creditDictator93
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Steam Down Everywhere
Maybe Techies launched.
Yes, Tropico 4 is unexpectedly quite good. I never thought I would like it because of the humorous nature of it, but it is actually a decent simulator.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
Yup. It's long, the story is unfocused and the main character becomes an incredibly unsympathetic figure about halfway through. It's really not worth playing past the initial handful of hours.
Mavromatis
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Nearly an hour long of Steam interruption and nobody said HL3 is coming?
People are starting to forget that game. Keep that hype alive!
People are starting to forget that game. Keep that hype alive!
The Grim Heaper
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Germany actually gets Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed instead of Typing of the Dead.
I would actually find it amusing if they did release Ricochet 2 one day. Source engine 2, Tron meets James Bond where everyone hops around a big neon arena throwing their razor edged hats at one another like Oddjob. It could be glorious...or not, only one way to find out, make it happen Valve and we'll forget all about these connection troubles.
It's a good game with some major flaws. It has great graphics, a fantastic and authentic world and the presentation is top notch
What I didn't like about the game was that instead of giving you the "freedom" to solve cases, it feels like you just rearranging evidence and just move from point A to point B.
Also the game becomes incredibly dull towards the end and most of the characters (including the protagonist) are forgettable and generic
You're going to like it if you treat it as a linear adventure game with a few open world elements. It's definitely not what R* advertised
Not if you're/they're in the UK. It doesn't come out till 4hours and 20mins.
If you ask me Sonic Racing is much better game than Typing of the Dead...
Hey, we all think you're pretty glorious. ; )
Yeah, Germany definitely got the better end of the deal this time, IMO. It doesn't begin to make up for all the times they've gotten the shaft with regard to censorship, but at least it's something.
I hear that. Binary Domain and Alpha Protocol for me. I picked them up on sale over the holidays figuring that those were the best prices I'd see them at, because no way would they end up in a Humble Bundle anytime soon. More fool I, I guess.
oh!
steam being down benefits basically any service provider. It's their united attack!
Sonic Racing Transformed is a damn great game, it's not fair to compare other games with it, as with DooM or Civ2 or FF7 or HoMM3, well, you get a jist.
The Grim Heaper
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I'm in the same boat! Not that Typing of the Dead is bad, per se, but Sonic Racing is just that good.
Tizoc
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They're both great games. Typing Overkill is just...gross.
When taken from a certain perspective, I found it to be quite the worthwhile game.
I thought of it not as an open world game despite it's setting, not as an action game despite it's chase sequences, but as a linear adventure game with some moments where it goes into the above. The action sequences are just small parts of the overall experience, and while it's open world, it's best to let the partner A.I. drive everywhere in the game as he gives exposition and/or clues to the story. It's never worth to try and navigate on your own when your partner can simply just take you where you need to go.
Not to say driving around on one's own isn't worth it just to see the rather well done mostly period correct Los Angeles of the time period, but I say do that when you just feel like "taking a drive" to help go over the case in your head or to rewind after a particular difficult part of a case and sight see. I personally only did it as interest in art design, construction, and historical aspect. Beyond that the open world is just fluff, a nice extra that can really be ignored unless you feel the need to try and find all the hidden objects.
Some had problems with it's story and I had the issue as well at first, but I discovered rather than trying to play it straight through as a continuous game, to instead play it like an episodic police procedural (Law and Order, Inspector Morse, Dragnet, etc) and to take it purely as once a week. That way the flaws, the annoyances, and issues presented at playing it aren't compounded by constant pressure upon you by them.
The interrogation was the big selling point of the game, both for facial motion capture and the "intensity" of the scenes. I was rather pleased with the puzzle aspect of it, but only when I realised to myself that it was okay to get things wrong or incorrectly guess at something and let it go. Some I noticed suffered because they felt they had to get a 100% and restarted and it suffered for them like having to rewind a video just so someone else can catch up to the story when you already know it, it just messes up with the pacing of your own experience.
It is not a great game, it is not an amazing game, but all in all I enjoyed it over the several weeks it took me to play it because I spaced it out and my girlfriend and I came to quite appreciate going through just as we would a basic crime show to pass the time. Taking a break between cases or during mid-points of the big cases helped to keep it from ever feeling repetitive, and trying to figure out where it was all going on our own helped as well.
Mavromatis
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Store is back.
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