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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 III - Don't Believe The Tags
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a bunch of words no one will ever read and a number on the bottom
The more the better!
Excellent, I'm glad they made it over. Just need the other hopefuls to start working on their games in the near future.
my next ten minutes are gonna be this: http://www.ign.com/videos/2014/02/24/making-dark-souls-2-part-1-back-through-the-fog
man I can't wait for dks2
imagine if they end up releasing on like the same week
man I can't wait for dks2
imagine if they end up releasing on like the same week
Nice, I will play those again when they remove GFWL from them. It cursed me a lot when I played dow2
UnrealEck
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Compared to Dishonored it feels crippled. As a game on its own its just very linear, restricted, slow, boring, uninteresting, and glitchy. I hate how restrictive the movement is in the game. You can't traverse the environment with much freedom or fluidity. There's no room to explore or do anything creative, fun or interesting and the AI is absolutely laughable. I mean you can be chased by two guards, climb a couple of stacked boxes and they suddenly can't see you even though you're right in front and above them.
So depressing that one of the best game series of all time is reduced to this. I'm still hurting from Hitman too...
Stop doing this publishers ;_;
Just let these IP's rest in peace.
This is pretty much what Eat Children was saying earlier.
I don't want to out words in his mouth, but it sounds like a Dishonored game where you stripped out the elements that made it compelling.
Do what I did. Replay the original trilogy.
I have the same issue on the odd occasion with my Galaxy S.
Backlogger
Member
It will get there again eventually. I'm in no hurry
That is the kind of news I have been hoping to hear for a while. As those are the last two games I have still with GFWL.
I liked what I saw. Wasteland 2 was the first game I backed, but haven't really been following it closely at all. Between this and Pillars of Eternity I am pretty excited about the return of old school(not a fan of that term, but can't think of anything better) RPGs.
Not including any pre-purchase incentives was a great way to ensure that I just wait for a sale. It's a pity the expected inclusion of MoF HD didn't eventuate.
Buttonbasher
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Don't all Steam games release the afternoon of the day of release? I feel like midnight releases on Steam are fairly rare.
b&jy77VjiKn$#F
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Do people use png for like everything? For fuck's sake, compress the damn image!
Publishers can choose to release the game whenever they wish provided the initial build supplied to Valve passes what is essentially a small certification process. I recall Tomb Raider being a midnight release worldwide and so it unlocked in Australia well before anywhere else.
Ewww compression.
b&jy77VjiKn$#F
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I can see why one would use lossless format for artistic screenshots (cough bullshots cough) but I don't understand why png is needed for an image like the one I was talking about. 7.4 MB image showing a compressed image of a website, some words, some numbers, and nothing else. Why?
PNG is compressed. You're thinking of BMP (which, tbh, can also be compressed, RLE encoding tends to shave a few bytes here and there).
b&jy77VjiKn$#F
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I know png is compressed. I should have said lossy compression. 7.4 MB image showing a compressed image of a website, some words, some numbers, and nothing else is way beyond me.
oipic
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The 16 months or so since Dishonored's release perhaps didn't provide the Thief devs enough time to steal (pun intended?) its best elements, but gee... between Dishonored and ye olde Thief games, there was surely enough inspiration available to get closer to the mark with the reboot.
Perhaps if it wore another name, and had another protagonist, it would be looked at and received a little differently... but I'm not sure. I'll still play it at some point, and I'm looking forward to it actually, but it is saddening to read of the lost opportunity here.
Well, thanks, Viscera Cleanup Detail Santa's Rampage.
"Oh hai, you already have .net, so we'll just close this installer."
"Right, okay."
"And we're also going to reboot your PC now."
"Wait, what?"
Windows reboots.
ARE YOU FUCKING SHITTING ME?
"Oh hai, you already have .net, so we'll just close this installer."
"Right, okay."
"And we're also going to reboot your PC now."
"Wait, what?"
Windows reboots.
FUCK YOU MICROSOFT. FUCK EVERYONE THAT WORKED ON THIS PIECE OF SHIT .NET INSTALLER
"Oh hai, you already have .net, so we'll just close this installer."
"Right, okay."
"And we're also going to reboot your PC now."
"Wait, what?"
Windows reboots.
ARE YOU FUCKING SHITTING ME?
"Oh hai, you already have .net, so we'll just close this installer."
"Right, okay."
"And we're also going to reboot your PC now."
"Wait, what?"
Windows reboots.
FUCK YOU MICROSOFT. FUCK EVERYONE THAT WORKED ON THIS PIECE OF SHIT .NET INSTALLER
He should have used jpeg instead of png. png was a bad choice
corrosivefrost
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Why is SweetFX such a pain in the ass to get working on some of the more graphically intense games?
I've had 0 success with Borderlands 2 (Steam claimed my borderlands 2 was already running when I'd try to start the game) and Arkham Origins (I can't tell if there's anything working as trying to turn it on and off knocks the game out of fullscreen and puts it in an offcenter window).
I've had 0 success with Borderlands 2 (Steam claimed my borderlands 2 was already running when I'd try to start the game) and Arkham Origins (I can't tell if there's anything working as trying to turn it on and off knocks the game out of fullscreen and puts it in an offcenter window).
just delete all those directx and .net installers from its directory and run the game, it won't ask you to install them.
At least that's how I think it works
just delete all those directx and .net installers from its directory and run the game, it won't ask you to install them.
At least that's how I think it works
Yes, but I didn't do that beforehand and had to sit through 3 fucking reboots before I was quick enough to kill their autostarting and restarting piece of shit .net installer before it rebooted my pc again for nothing.
Sorry Visceral Cleanup team, but fuck you too.
CheesecakeRecipe
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hahaha holy shit I thought it was just me that ran into that annoying .net installer
I forget what game it was for but when it made my computer restart without even asking me I was like wait what the fuck
Chairmanchuck
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Its not a really fun "game". It really is just... a cleaning "FPS". I played the Shadow Warrior one and that was really a borefest.
I wanted to give it a spin from a purely gameplay mechanical point of view.
just delete all those directx and .net installers from its directory and run the game, it won't ask you to install them.
At least that's how I think it works
First-run setups are mandatory insofar that if the prereqs are missing Steam will just download an "update" to acquire them again... but you can get around this by editing the installscript.vdf files located in the folders of the prereq installers.
Yes purely gameplay. For science. No fun was to be had.
hmm I thought i got around it by deleting them because some games wouldn't launch with the installer failing, I usually just delete the installer and the game would run and ignore it, though it might've redownloaded them again without me noticing.
Ah, things may have changed since I last needed to skip an installation. I can't even remember the last time I ran into an issue. I mean, some installations take far longer than they should but they all get across the finish line eventually.
Jawmuncher
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Considering I loathed Dishonored, i'm still curious to try thief (at a summer sale price of 15 bucks). Wouldn't be surprised if I enjoyed it more than Dishonored. I have an odd spot for linear games and tend to enjoy them more than most anything else.
Ah, I see. Well if you ever play that section again just know that it becomes a cakewalk if you approach it with a Ghost playstyle.
Sadly, it's not that unexpected.
Atraveller
Banned
Looks like Derrick has never really left GAF.
It'll be some time before I play this game again, standalone Uplay is just insufferable, might just pick it up on Steam agian.
When you go to the Steam front page, the first thing you see is a bigass ad for Thief. Not the usual promo spot that cycles through various titles (that's below it), just a huge ad. What I want to know is why.
Money.
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