Eh, don't believe the haters.
Just go into it with an open mind, remembering the fact that it's not a new game, and you'll do fine.
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Eh, don't believe the haters.
Just go into it with an open mind, remembering the fact that it's not a new game, and you'll do fine.
dark_inferno
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Just play it and judge for yourself. It might be your next GOAT. And no im not joking.
ashecitism
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This is what I'm wondering as well. Not just for HL3, but any next-gen Valve shooter. Off the top of my head they're the only major/AAAaaaaa dev who keep it oldschool, so will they "finally" move with the times or just follow their on way.
Well yeah, sure. As I said the HLs' reputation is also mostly for their presentation, but at least those games don't have clunky combat/control. Which given their roots would have been a massive fuckup on Valve's part if they did have those.
Syphon Filter
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Half Life 2 looks great to me still. Unless you mean gun mechanics and stuff? I prefer the older mechanics so its right at home for me.
The best story in any FPS game, arguably besides HL2.
Rickenslacker
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I agree with that, but also don't believe the lovers either. Play as much as you want of it and believe yourself.
It's not a bad game by any means, just that time has greatly degraded the impact it once had. There are a lot of games you can go back to for the first time and still have your mind blown, I don't think HL2 is one of those.
C00kie M0nster
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Super Mario Bros. 3
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time
Halo
Half-Life 1 and 2
Resident Evil 4
The Last of Us
Just a few timeless games in my opinion.
Edit: I do agree the impact isn't the same however. I simply meant timeless in that I enjoy replaying them as much as I did the first time.
dark_inferno
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I dont know. For me it felt like Bioshock has no good story. Just a world and nothing more. The "Story" is... you just get into the city... a guy helps you and wants your help to kill Andrew Ryan.
You kill Andrew but he gives you a hint that you got manipulated by the guy who helped you and now you have to kill him.
Everything else is not really important. There is too much small things that is not helping the real story out. They made a huge city with so much history but the real story for the game is just plain boring.
Half Life on the other hand is a bit different. I think the "real story" is not even definable. Because we simply know nothing about whats important and what is not. Is it about the G-Man who sends Gordon somewhere to solve problems? Is it about Gordon who gets teleported somewhere to solve problems for the G-Man? Is the G-Man Gordon? How are the incidents from HL1 and HL2 connected?
Maybe everything makes sense later when HL3 is out. Maybe HL1,HL2 and HL3 are connected. Maybe just by Gordon and G-Man. Maybe a bit more than just those two. They even could bring up stuff Bioshock did with Multiverse. Or they could be big jerks again and explain nothing all over again. So we hype for another Half Life game.
Well 80% (With Halo) are like that. There are only a few that stand out from the crowd.
corrosivefrost
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Good luck and be ready to suffer and restart several times because of piece of gold you grabbed that was hidden atop a tree or behind a column. Use your whip a lot
Probably the hardest achievement in Spelunky. I did it before going to hell and when I got it I had to so much training that hell was quite easy.
That's my plan, I think. I've heard that Speedlunky and Low Score are the hardest to get really... and besides that, I think I could get most of the rest of what I'm missing in 1 run to hell (vlad, vlad's cape, vlad's amulet, succubus, iron ball, yama, yama's demons for the guide)... getting to hell and beating the game that would would net me most of the rest...
I'm still missing the 500k achievement though.
I had low score working all the way to 3-3 or 3-4 and something random happened that threw me off the bottom and caused my run to end.
That sounds like Halo in my experience too.
corrosivefrost
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Edit: Whoops, double post.
Ripped off the plot twist from System shock 2 where the person helping you is the bad dude all along. Endings where you are an angel or hitler.
edit: Incase you didnt know, The same writer that wrote SS2 wrote Bioshock. Thats why its a crappy retread. It has an ever shittier ending than SS2. That shouldnt be possible.
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Shit is still bolted to the ground in damn near every game still. Some physics revolution there Half-Life 2.
....Nah. Just kidding I love that game. System Shock 2 ending is so bad it's good.
dark_inferno
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Did we ever got some ending like this one : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0884328/
Speedlunky's not bad at all, Low Scorer is definitely the hardest Spelunky achievement. Big Money is basically just a regular Hell clear assuming you don't just ignore gold.
I've played about an hour of Luftrousers and I can confirm that the game is fantastic. It has that "just one more game" thing where it's really hard to put the controller down. I used a 360 pad, but mostly because I avoid M/KB whenever possible (comfy couch). The game seems like it would be easier to control with the KB arrow keys. Either way, it handles extremely well. One of the game's central mechanics is that you have regenerating health, but it regenerates much faster when you're not firing. You can take a decent amount of hits before you die, but it's still easy to meet your end quickly if you're careless. There is a visual indicator when your health goes down where the screen lightens a bit outside the radius of a circle around your craft, which will get smaller the closer you are to death. It's a very smart alternative to something like a health bar which would have taken your focus away from the action.
Your scores will contribute experience for you to level up, which earns you new weapons, armor, and engines. There are also challenges which earn you skulls (which translate to exp... I think?) that are tied to these parts, so it encourages you to play around with different configurations. The different tracks I've heard in the game seem to be tied to these configurations as well. What I've heard of the soundtrack of the game so far has been excellent.
I only have two complaints about the game so far. The first is a minor annoyance; though I was playing with a controller all the prompts still referred to keyboard buttons. It was wasn't too hard to figure out what mapped to what though. The other problem I had with the game is that it renders in 4:3. So full screen = black bars.
The game comes highly recommended from me if you enjoy high score chasing, quick to learn yet hard to master, bite sized arcade games.
I also finished Arkham Origins yesterday. On one hand, I can see where a lot of reviewers were coming from in this game because I was pretty fatigued with its formula as well. I skipped more of the "side quests" in this game than I did in previous games. Though I didn't come close to completing the previous games either, especially City with all the tedious Riddler stuff. All that being said, I thought this installment was better than its predecessors when considering the complete package. So you can count me on #TeamOrigins.
For me: Origins > City > Asylum.
Your scores will contribute experience for you to level up, which earns you new weapons, armor, and engines. There are also challenges which earn you skulls (which translate to exp... I think?) that are tied to these parts, so it encourages you to play around with different configurations. The different tracks I've heard in the game seem to be tied to these configurations as well. What I've heard of the soundtrack of the game so far has been excellent.
I only have two complaints about the game so far. The first is a minor annoyance; though I was playing with a controller all the prompts still referred to keyboard buttons. It was wasn't too hard to figure out what mapped to what though. The other problem I had with the game is that it renders in 4:3. So full screen = black bars.
The game comes highly recommended from me if you enjoy high score chasing, quick to learn yet hard to master, bite sized arcade games.
I also finished Arkham Origins yesterday. On one hand, I can see where a lot of reviewers were coming from in this game because I was pretty fatigued with its formula as well. I skipped more of the "side quests" in this game than I did in previous games. Though I didn't come close to completing the previous games either, especially City with all the tedious Riddler stuff. All that being said, I thought this installment was better than its predecessors when considering the complete package. So you can count me on #TeamOrigins.
For me: Origins > City > Asylum.
toddhunter
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The reason probably starts with E and ends in A.
Atraveller
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But it's not on Origin either.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
All right then. I'll buy that game.
...how much was that monster apartment game in sale?
b&jy77VjiKn$#F
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nvm dumb post
EA ruins everything.
Stallion Free
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Damn, the knife fight aged like fine wine visually in RE4.
Lol you think EA gives a shit about their back catalog?
Lol you think EA gives a shit about their back catalog?
toddhunter
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That doesn't argue against the reason. If anything, it makes it fit better.
8 X 11 Printer Paper
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All the pain and suffering in this world of ours comes from one source, EA.
EA placed game shortcuts on Milamber's desktop
Alpha Centauri is on GOG (though I guess you guys know that).
EA has actually been pretty good in releasing their older games on GOG. Still need to get the Westwood titles and some others, but their catalog at GOG is pretty solid.
EA has actually been pretty good in releasing their older games on GOG. Still need to get the Westwood titles and some others, but their catalog at GOG is pretty solid.
Of All Trades
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EA cares about No-DRM gaming, hence
http://www.gog.com/game/sid_meiers_alpha_centauri
Most of the big ones are either on GOG or have been nearly free on Origin. I think the only things missing are the licensed titles like Blade Runner, Dune, or D&D games.
lol, it is both immensely amusing and disconcerting that you know so much about her personal life.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
I was going to go see Need for Speed this weekend at the theaters. Then I remembered that it's EA and decided it would probably be terrible.
OoOoOo.. used to play AC all the time back in the day.. now if MOO2 and Nuclear War were available I'd be set
Thanks for the heads up!
You're probably required to install Origin to get the previews to stop.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
I heard there was a mini feature after the movie (like in the Marvel movies) but you have to pay extra for the movie's DLC.
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Yes they brought AC to GOG to support no DRM, no way GOG pursued them.
Sorry, I meant rest of the Westwood titles. Yea, Blade Runner and the Dune games in digital stores would be awesome, but licensing likely precludes that.
Last Baron
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Slow drops on cards this evening. But at least CS:GO is awesome.
So I guess this will not be available on steam then...
They already integrated Bioware's DLC into Origin thankfully.
PixyJunket
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I had some doubts about it, but DuckTales Remastered is actually really solid.
It's not my fault I remember these things! I read something once and it just... sits there. This "talent" would be useful if it didn't apply only to Saoirse stuff and Valve stuff.
Backlogger
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I got a Borderlands 2 booster pack tonight. First booster pack in a long time
Eh. For Dragon Age Origins it seems to work weird, I get a white screen when I try to purchase something. But I imagine anything newer would be fine.
Haha, as nice as that would be I'm not overly fussed about getting a tag. If one day I get one, or I'm made a mod and can set one myself, then great; if not, oh well. Fishing for a tag, or throwing your name into a tag thread, seems like the wrong way to go about things to me as they defeat the sense of pride (or shame, as the case may be) that should come with getting one.
I wish. Only then* could Wheelman be mine!
* Maybe. Probably.
Jawmuncher
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Wait so I can buy the ME3 DLC without having to mess with bioware points and shit now?
Yes sir.
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