trailmix16
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war of the human tanks is cute. cool to see that quirky niche stuff. I guess we will see more from that doujin bundle pack soon?
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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 - To Next-Gen and Beyond!
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Backlogger
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PixelHorror
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Holding the analog stick during the Zandatsu section of the final boss makes it so easy. Just line up the line with with the squares and lift your thumb up. It doesn't even have to be that precise. I only figured out that you could control Zandatsu strikes during the Monsoon fight to hit his head. I was just swinging around like a dumbass before that.
Cozmogramma
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Steam\resource\layout - open gamespage_grid - set "interiorspacing" to -1.
dark_inferno
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Will wait for Indie Bundle then.
Jawmuncher
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I'm surprised to see Enslaved hit $5 on consoles before Steam/PC
It's been out on consoles for years.
Also, this is only in the US =p (Come on SCEE, you can do better!)
Yes, your groupees page got updated. (or at least, mine did)
corrosivefrost
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Practice makes perfect people; finally shaking that rust off and adjusting to a 360 controller...
Unfortunately, I couldn't do it on Revengeance since I had forgotten that unlocking Revengeance difficulty requires you to beat it on hard... whoops. I think there's an unlock, but I like the game enough that another playthrough on hard to sharpen my skills before the S-Rank all battles Revengeance run isn't a bad thing.
Unfortunately, I couldn't do it on Revengeance since I had forgotten that unlocking Revengeance difficulty requires you to beat it on hard... whoops. I think there's an unlock, but I like the game enough that another playthrough on hard to sharpen my skills before the S-Rank all battles Revengeance run isn't a bad thing.
Where was the original quote from?
On second thought, forget it. I don't want to know.
Jawmuncher
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Nice know what I can throw on to download for a week.
EA need more poop.
Ban Puncher
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Please don't inline that =p
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 bought it in the Bundle-In-A-Box. My guess is I'll probably never get a Steam key.
EDIT: Maybe I'm wrong... https://twitter.com/BundleInABox/status/422312840662249472
Stallion Free
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I'm surprised to see Enslaved hit $5 on consoles before Steam/PC
It's only 5$ when you pay a yearly fee. Would you like Steam and Amazon to start doing that?
Backlogger
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So I got to the second island on Far Cry 3 last night. I've already put a lot of time into the game going after lost letters and relics and working on other side stuff. I see what people mean now about that burned out feeling upon entering the second island. Without spoiling anything, it also feels like expansion material or a new game. I think I will take a break from it now and work on something else in my backlog. Still love the game, but its got a ton of content in it if you are a completionist.
I'm surprised to see Enslaved hit $5 on consoles before Steam/PC
1/4 the frame rate. 1/4 the price.
Imperial Edition, please!
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Just beat Binary Domain. I had played a bit of it on the 360, but not too much, so most of this was my first time going through it.
So some quick impressions.
I like it! I honestly think it's a steal at its sale-reduction price of $3.74. It's got fun gameplay, it has an interesting story with characters you come to like, it has good music, and it's not a bad looker either.I'm not saying it's the most amazing games ever or anything, but I felt it was a very confident third-person shooter, and better than a lot of other third person shooters I have played. Lasts about 9-10 hours, took over 10 myself but I was playing on the default hardest difficulty.
Gameplay is mostly typical third-person shooter fair. You have cover, you have guns, you have enemies... But there's a few fun twists introduced here. One sort of staple one is the roll dodge, but I liked how they executed it. You aren't invincible, and it isn't so fast or moves you so far its cheap. It's fairly balanced, and definitely useful when you master it, but takes a bit of practice to get it down. The enemies in the game are robots, and as such they are can be and are shot to pieces, usually involving you shooting their 'armor' and then their 'core'. Headshots aren't death for most robots, and instead will just make them 'mindless' so that they start shooting their comrades. It can be fun to cause enemies havoc by turning various enemies in the room in 'mindless' robots so that they all start attacking each other. There's 10 bosses in the game, and I had fun with all of them. Some of the later ones are kinda bullet-sponges (at least on hard difficulty), but I had fun regardless.
The game also has mechanics involving your team. You have various team members, and various times in the game you are allowed to pick who you go into a level with. But this doesn't just change things on a gameplay level, but also changes the complete dialogue and look into the characters you get into that stage. You can give commands to your team, either through voice commands with a mic or prompts you can choose between. And each team member has a certain liking of you, which is decreased or increased by how you respond to them, how you treat them, if you shoot them in gameplay, if you get headshots with them near, if you help them out, if they suggest an idea if you follow it or not, etc. This is also effected by choices that happen in the story. These Team Choices ultimately can make different characters and events transpire, change dialogue in stages (which is well done, in my opinion as they seem to have dialogue for every possible combination of characters), and change you between the game's three endings.
The story is also nice. I ended up liking every character, most of the cutscenes felt like a treat to watch, and there were some good funny moments and dramatic moments throughout. The story gets a bit hammy quite often, but in such a way its enjoyable, B-grade fair with some more intelligence and tact to it.
I'd say even if you have only a passing interest in third-person shooters to buy the game when it;s on sale for $3.74, it really is a steal for that price.
So some quick impressions.
I like it! I honestly think it's a steal at its sale-reduction price of $3.74. It's got fun gameplay, it has an interesting story with characters you come to like, it has good music, and it's not a bad looker either.I'm not saying it's the most amazing games ever or anything, but I felt it was a very confident third-person shooter, and better than a lot of other third person shooters I have played. Lasts about 9-10 hours, took over 10 myself but I was playing on the default hardest difficulty.
Gameplay is mostly typical third-person shooter fair. You have cover, you have guns, you have enemies... But there's a few fun twists introduced here. One sort of staple one is the roll dodge, but I liked how they executed it. You aren't invincible, and it isn't so fast or moves you so far its cheap. It's fairly balanced, and definitely useful when you master it, but takes a bit of practice to get it down. The enemies in the game are robots, and as such they are can be and are shot to pieces, usually involving you shooting their 'armor' and then their 'core'. Headshots aren't death for most robots, and instead will just make them 'mindless' so that they start shooting their comrades. It can be fun to cause enemies havoc by turning various enemies in the room in 'mindless' robots so that they all start attacking each other. There's 10 bosses in the game, and I had fun with all of them. Some of the later ones are kinda bullet-sponges (at least on hard difficulty), but I had fun regardless.
The game also has mechanics involving your team. You have various team members, and various times in the game you are allowed to pick who you go into a level with. But this doesn't just change things on a gameplay level, but also changes the complete dialogue and look into the characters you get into that stage. You can give commands to your team, either through voice commands with a mic or prompts you can choose between. And each team member has a certain liking of you, which is decreased or increased by how you respond to them, how you treat them, if you shoot them in gameplay, if you get headshots with them near, if you help them out, if they suggest an idea if you follow it or not, etc. This is also effected by choices that happen in the story. These Team Choices ultimately can make different characters and events transpire, change dialogue in stages (which is well done, in my opinion as they seem to have dialogue for every possible combination of characters), and change you between the game's three endings.
The story is also nice. I ended up liking every character, most of the cutscenes felt like a treat to watch, and there were some good funny moments and dramatic moments throughout. The story gets a bit hammy quite often, but in such a way its enjoyable, B-grade fair with some more intelligence and tact to it.
I'd say even if you have only a passing interest in third-person shooters to buy the game when it;s on sale for $3.74, it really is a steal for that price.
Dragon1893
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Is that actually what's being said during that scene?
MMBosstones86
Member
we are going down a dark hole
to community
That's gotten rid of the horizontal gaps (thank you!), but there's still vertical columns in between.
Edit: It's because of my resolution vs how zoomed out it was. Never mind.
I wouldn't know!
Can we... can we close the thread already? I'm starting to think Morningbus' words from 11 months ago are getting truer by the day :/
corrosivefrost
Member
Yeah, yeah, rub it in.
I thought the sections where you had to rapid fire (I've only gotten up to the area with the first gravity streams, I think -- got the achievement for secret room III)... but I can only imagine the precision + quickness required for later puzzles will increase, which is why I stopped playing... and then bought PGP so I could get controller support. Glad they added the native support but pissed off at the same time.
Jawmuncher
Member
Just beat Binary Domain. I had played a bit of it on the 360, but not too much, so most of this was my first time going through it.
So some quick impressions.
I like it! I honestly think it's a steal at its sale-reduction price of $3.74. It's got fun gameplay, it has an interesting story with characters you come to like, it has good music, and it's not a bad looker either.I'm not saying it's the most amazing games ever or anything, but I felt it was a very confident third-person shooter, and better than a lot of other third person shooters I have played. Lasts about 9-10 hours, took over 10 myself but I was playing on the default hardest difficulty.
Gameplay is mostly typical third-person shooter fair. You have cover, you have guns, you have enemies... But there's a few fun twists introduced here. One sort of staple one is the roll dodge, but I liked how they executed it. You aren't invincible, and it isn't so fast or moves you so far its cheap. It's fairly balanced, and definitely useful when you master it, but takes a bit of practice to get it down. The enemies in the game are robots, and as such they are can be and are shot to pieces, usually involving you shooting their 'armor' and then their 'core'. Headshots aren't death for most robots, and instead will just make them 'mindless' so that they start shooting their comrades. It can be fun to cause enemies havoc by turning various enemies in the room in 'mindless' robots so that they all start attacking each other. There's 10 bosses in the game, and I had fun with all of them. Some of the later ones are kinda bullet-sponges (at least on hard difficulty), but I had fun regardless.
The game also has mechanics involving your team. You have various team members, and various times in the game you are allowed to pick who you go into a level with. But this doesn't just change things on a gameplay level, but also changes the complete dialogue and look into the characters you get into that stage. You can give commands to your team, either through voice commands with a mic or prompts you can choose between. And each team member has a certain liking of you, which is decreased or increased by how you respond to them, how you treat them, if you shoot them in gameplay, if you get headshots with them near, if you help them out, if they suggest an idea if you follow it or not, etc. This is also effected by choices that happen in the story. These Team Choices ultimately can make different characters and events transpire, change dialogue in stages (which is well done, in my opinion as they seem to have dialogue for every possible combination of characters), and change you between the game's three endings.
The story is also nice. I ended up liking every character, most of the cutscenes felt like a treat to watch, and there were some good funny moments and dramatic moments throughout. The story gets a bit hammy quite often, but in such a way its enjoyable, B-grade fair with some more intelligence and tact to it.
I'd say even if you have only a passing interest in third-person shooters to buy the game when it;s on sale for $3.74, it really is a steal for that price.
Agree with everything you said. If you haven't played Binary Domain you need to. Game is absolutely great and the PC port is good SO LONG as you use a controller instead of KB&M. Some people had issues with the mouse movement.
So there's a new Hitman Collection in the registry and contained within is a currently-private app that's only included in two other subs particular to said app (one for the store and another for retail keys). Given the handful of depots attached to it, it's clearly a game rather than DLC, which leads me to assume it's Hitman: Contracts, infamously absent up to this point because of a licensing issue pertaining to a single track used in the game.
I need to put this on my Guinea Pigs cage.
AHA-Lambda
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MMBosstones86
Member
we're in a very strange place right now.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Really? I played with keyboard and mouse and I had absolutely no issues, but maybe I'm one of the lucky ones.
Wow, Contracts is finally coming to Steam?
It's just a guess, but the only other Hitman game it could be is the next-gen one currently being developed by IO and adding it to a franchise bundle now doesn't really make much sense.
Jawmuncher
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Steam thread has it's highs and lows.
I don't mind a bit of OT but it can get out of hand but eh that's a little bit of the charm of SteamGAF.
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I had no clue that Hitman Contracts wasn't on steam. Would have thought Square would have them all on there from the get go.
Terra_Ex
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I hope it is, some good levels in Contracts and having the incomplete collection on steam has always bothered me. Whatever issues there are were surely sorted out for that console hitman collection release from a while back.
Jawmuncher
Member
Nice. I need to get back and play some more myself as well as get the level 1 badge at least. Did you use a guide perchance? Can you link it if you did?
Yeah it was something about mouse acceleration or something else.
I know some people had issues with it since last time I brought the game up a few people stated as much. Also how you manage to play RE6 with a KB&M is beyond me.
the binary domain port look and run awesome, the ssao is kind of crap though
=o I really want to get all the achievements but it's tough to find out how to unlock some of the events in the game
=o I really want to get all the achievements but it's tough to find out how to unlock some of the events in the game
I remember bringing this up a while back, and I was told that out of the Hitman games on Steam (this was before Absolution), only one or two of them were worth playing (the others hadn't aged well or something).
Also, I have this same problem with one of the Splinter Cell games. Chaos Theory maybe?
GazzaScotland
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Prey has been dispatched! Fingers crossed it arrives tomorrow and works alright.
Yup, it's my most enjoyable TPS on Steam I've played so far. Reading your impression makes me feel like re-installing it since the first time I played it was with an AMD card which have some serious frame drops on the game.
Angelus Errare
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So...anyone excited AC:L:HD?
I keep asking people to stop doing this pointless, offensive shit, but most of them don't pay attention.
Sigh. I'm out for the rest of the day.
Someone else do the daily and the weekly deals.
Glass Rebel
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Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy
I really hope it's Contracts so I can wash the taste of Absolution out of my mouth.
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