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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 IV - For me it was Tuesday
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It seems bizarre that of all the games they would release onto Steam, they choose Lococycle.
mcfishstick
Member
I'm guessing Microsoft lets Twisted Pixel port stuff themselves as long as all releases come out first on Xbone live. It's just a guess though.
FiveElementNinja
Member
Nice! I bet that will sell for a lot right now. I've been getting a lot of foils lately, but didn't get any for Mercenary Kings.
They put stuff on the Windows store that they want tablet users to (maybe) be able to access. That's not the answer to ALL their reasoning, but it is SOME of their reasoning.
Is Logocycle owned by Microsoft or a third party developer like Klei or Noogy
Viva Pinata is awesome. Its a sim game, so it is a bit time consuming, but its seriously very good. PC version would be great.
BinaryPork2737
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Twisted Pixel Games, the game's developer, is part of Microsoft Studios, if I recall correctly. That would make them first party.
You are correct, Twisted Pixel is owned by Microsoft. Been on my phone all day so haven't been able to verify myself.
DaBargainHunta
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Question about Indie Gala (indiegala.com).
I paid $1 to get the tier with Little Street Racers. I've decided I want the other games. Do I have to re-buy the bundle or can I pay the difference to upgrade and get the rest of the games (Gunman Clive, etc.)?
https://www.indiegala.com/special
I paid $1 to get the tier with Little Street Racers. I've decided I want the other games. Do I have to re-buy the bundle or can I pay the difference to upgrade and get the rest of the games (Gunman Clive, etc.)?
https://www.indiegala.com/special
derExperte
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PvZ
most of the Star Wars tables, especially Clone Wars (Boba Fett is hard)
Ms Splosion Man
Epic Quest
Spider-Man
I'm pretty sure the PC version exists already, but that it's just GFWL locked.
So, I want to go about raising my steam level (currently 11) some, what's the best way to do that?
Leon Belmont
Member
I want Hydro Thunder Hurricane on Steam!
derExperte
Member
The best way? Buy 2000 more games.
The cheapest? Idle for cards, buy/trade the rest and craft badges.
Mister Chippy
Member
Cards. Trade away the sets you don't want for the ones you do. Or, you can just buy the cards from the store. A complete badge costs around $0.50
Wait for the next great sale and go nuts with the cheapie event-specific cards.
I'll probably just have to do badges then, w/e.
ashecitism
Member
regarding Portal on Shield
http://www.polygon.com/2014/3/25/5546728/valve-bringing-portal-for-android-to-nvidia-shield
http://www.polygon.com/2014/3/25/5546728/valve-bringing-portal-for-android-to-nvidia-shield
FiveElementNinja
Member
Good point, didn't think about that. You could also do a special thanks in the credits with people's names that supported you or something. Dunno, it's hard to think of rewards for something that's more of a service rather than a product.
Falexandre
Member
It shows full price for me. Was it a glitch?
Wrapped this one just now. Lovely game and a massive improvement over the two earlier games, the dev said himself that he spend a 2-3 months on previous games, and this one took almost two year.
You still need to play the earlier games first, else the story won't make any sense, and this is very much a story driven game. Puzzles are almost non-existent, with most of game time being spent either on conversation or cutscenes.
Artwork is still 320x240, but it looks simply stunning, very much on par with late Sierra games (too realistic to compare with LucasArts output). Music is great as well, main motif gets arranged into various, mostly jazzy tunes. Only low point was the ending nu-rock song, which completely didn't fit the rest of the game.
Commentary mode has ~30 minutes of content, but I must say, I'd prefer if it wasn't as much focused on voice acting - roughly half of the entries deal with stories about that.
Terra_Ex
Member
Seems so, its now back up to full price. Glad I got in quick.
BoosterDuck
Banned
Is anyone else hyped for Wolfenstein the New Order?
The guns sound crispy and everything looks beautiful.
The guns sound crispy and everything looks beautiful.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Yeah I think it looks great.
Nabs
Member
Wrapped this one just now. Lovely game and a massive improvement over the two earlier games, the dev said himself that he spend a 2-3 months on previous games, and this one took almost two year.
You still need to play the earlier games first, else the story won't make any sense, and this is very much a story driven game. Puzzles are almost non-existent, with most of game time being spent either on conversation or cutscenes.
Artwork is still 320x240, but it looks simply stunning, very much on par with late Sierra games (too realistic to compare with LucasArts output). Music is great as well, main motif gets arranged into various, mostly jazzy tunes. Only low point was the ending nu-rock song, which completely didn't fit the rest of the game.
Commentary mode has ~30 minutes of content, but I must say, I'd prefer if it wasn't as much focused on voice acting - roughly half of the entries deal with stories about that.
Damn. If that game took him 2 years, how long did Blackwell Deception take?
Great series. I'm excited to play the new game once it's not $14.99.
RavenValor95
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I've had those games for a while now, you've really made me want to play them.
Wrapped this one just now. Lovely game and a massive improvement over the two earlier games, the dev said himself that he spend a 2-3 months on previous games, and this one took almost two year.
You still need to play the earlier games first, else the story won't make any sense, and this is very much a story driven game. Puzzles are almost non-existent, with most of game time being spent either on conversation or cutscenes.
Artwork is still 320x240, but it looks simply stunning, very much on par with late Sierra games (too realistic to compare with LucasArts output). Music is great as well, main motif gets arranged into various, mostly jazzy tunes. Only low point was the ending nu-rock song, which completely didn't fit the rest of the game.
Commentary mode has ~30 minutes of content, but I must say, I'd prefer if it wasn't as much focused on voice acting - roughly half of the entries deal with stories about that.
In which order do I play the games in order to understand the story?
Yeah, that game looks pretty fun.
I'm very interested to see how iD Tech 5 works on a game that isn't RAGE, fingers crossed for less texture pop-in.
IblisGinjo
Member
If it's a really solid FPS like The Darkness 2 was.....YEAH!
ashecitism
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HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Jive Turkey
Unconfirmed Member
Legacy, Unbound, Convergence, Deception, I believe. That's chronological as far as releases and the way they are meant to be played but the story is not in chronological order.
Garcia
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More_Badass
Member
Scourged up enough cards to cover the difference for Crusader Kings 2. Can't wait to really dig into the game; for some reason, I had overlooked Paradox's games, but that trailer and the demo sold me on CK2.
Hell yes!
TC McQueen
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You know, I'd love for Pinnacle Profiler's "apply Xinput emulation" thing to work with a first person game for once. Decided to give Shadow Warrior a go since it's been on my backlog for a while and for some reason, I can't get the game to recognize my gamepad. An Xbox 360 pad sending inputs through In-Home Streaming works (until the lag goes batshit insane and crashes the game), but a PS3/PC gamepad hooked directly to my rig doesn't work at all. And because there is no profile on Pinnacle's site (presumably because everyone else has it work right the first time), I'm stuck manually assigning commands to get the damn thing to work.
2007 is going to be awesome
RavenValor95
Member
I can get used to consistently bad textures, it's when they're low res and then fade in detailed textures constantly, that bugs me.Haven't noticed any in vids. Low-res textures up close though
Thanks!
I'm installing Legacy right now, it sounds real good and it's made by Wadjet Eye Games, they published Resonance one of my favourite Point and click adventure games and they also published Primordia(which I actually managed to get a pre-order exclusive boxed copy of! )
It's going to be interesting to see Portal Android and Portal PC-stream being played side by side on two Shields.
I've heard "poor man's Trine" being used to describe it. Not sure how apt that is.
FiveElementNinja
Member
Ha, I was just looking at the store page for it and reading the reviews. Didn't sound good.
Garcia
Member
It's all about the moneyz.
TheFightingFish
Member
I was super into the concept, but Frozen Synapse really was a miss for me when I tried to get into it. My big grip was that during the realtime execution phase so many things would happen that could not be accounted for in planning. And by that I don't mean tactical options, I like the idea of having to deal with my enemies moving around and whatnot. What I mean is more stuff like fields of vision not working as expected. Shots hitting corners that they should have gone around. Units not turning around to fire when expected. Combine that with enemies spawning in all over the place and I found my ability to reliably tactically plan really hampered. I played a few hours, but after borking a long mission at the end a few times due to issues that felt like game / AI hiccups or RNG smackdowns as opposed to incorrect tactical planning I just gave up on it. Might be just me that feels that way though, as lots of other folks like it.
Jive Turkey
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What's wrong with it? It seems like an interesting concept but it ran horribly on my laptop and I haven't gotten around to trying it on a real system.
Published Gemini Rue as well. Personally, I think the AGS engine they use is really antiquated, and in particular, mouse input has always felt clunky and not very smooth to me.
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