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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 - To Next-Gen and Beyond!
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StAidan
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After seeing Sword & Sworcery on the daily, I decided to give it a try (already owned it from a bundle or something). What a strange game. I love the music and the graphical style, but the dialogue and gameplay / puzzles are a little too esoteric for me.
I've gone through the first 2 sessions, so I'll go ahead and finish the game out, but I hope the game's progression won't wholly rely on discovering random sequences of clicking in the environment (as the second Session seemed to).
I've gone through the first 2 sessions, so I'll go ahead and finish the game out, but I hope the game's progression won't wholly rely on discovering random sequences of clicking in the environment (as the second Session seemed to).
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
One of the Gobliiin games caused me to accidentally disable the sound from my first PC, a Packard Bell that came with a weird built-in version of Jurassic Park. Thing could barely play the Doom games and, while it it ran the demo just fine, it couldn't even run Duke 3d : / I had to return duke to best buy and got Killer Instinct instead.
Man, im kinda old.
Man, im kinda old.
Im playing Alan Wake´s American Nightmare...
I'm 80 minutes in and i just want it to end, is go from point A to point B, listen senseless dialogues (there are senseless things that are interesting and immersive but these ... not), it's very easy, I hope that as you go forward improve at least more action.
By the way Tropico 4 is identical to the third. Just take the first mission of the campaign, but I have a sense of Deja Vu, not that I did not like the first will actually invested about 20 hours, but I feel that even reused sounds, textures and everything.
I'm 80 minutes in and i just want it to end, is go from point A to point B, listen senseless dialogues (there are senseless things that are interesting and immersive but these ... not), it's very easy, I hope that as you go forward improve at least more action.
By the way Tropico 4 is identical to the third. Just take the first mission of the campaign, but I have a sense of Deja Vu, not that I did not like the first will actually invested about 20 hours, but I feel that even reused sounds, textures and everything.
MMBosstones86
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Wish they would just have a cheap upgrade if you have the normal version + season pass. Only a few games have done this in the past but I really like that feature. Didn't some Asscreed game do this?
ashecitism
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What point is there to get? This is just an option.
"Mimic the lifecycle of consoles"? Fixed, non-upgradeable configurations and annual updates sounds more like iThings to me.
Welcome to Alan Wake.
Nightmare is supposed to be the better of the two with better gameplay too.
(Haven't played it myself yet, got seriously burned out after the snoozefest of shit "combat" that was the original game)
C00kie M0nster
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Agreed, they're going after that crowd as well the crowd that is upset that the console cycles last so long
aka PS3/360/Wii
They're making annually released closed systems out of Steam Machines. It's a pretty shitty option
Stallion Free
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I kinda rage-quit my attempt at doing a no-stealth run in Metro: Last Light due to some mindbogglingly shit checkpointing, but I want to finish the game. I decided to get creative and back up my partial game progress that is 100% stealth/no kill and put that away for a day when I feel like trying to finish that again. And now some dudes about to get killed.
The combat differences are negligible and the level design in AW1 is infinity times better and more interesting to look at. The groundhog day approach in Nightmare is tedious and poorly implemented. I just had my GF skip it despite her loving AW1.
The combat differences are negligible and the level design in AW1 is infinity times better and more interesting to look at. The groundhog day approach in Nightmare is tedious and poorly implemented. I just had my GF skip it despite her loving AW1.
Dusk Golem
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I don't like American Nightmare compared to the original game. It does have improved combat mechanics and a larger variety of enemies, but the combat was never really the thing I liked the most about Alan Wake. The story is kind of silly and there's a few cool moments, but it sort of compares, though I also understand it was developed as a spin-off. And having to repeat each location three times is tedious.
HOWEVER, I will say that I do really enjoy the more hub-like levels in American Nightmare, and the Survival Score-based mode is actually a lot more fun than I was expecting. Helps the locations in the mode aren't in the campaign, its far more tense than the campaign, and utilized the more open levels better.
HOWEVER, I will say that I do really enjoy the more hub-like levels in American Nightmare, and the Survival Score-based mode is actually a lot more fun than I was expecting. Helps the locations in the mode aren't in the campaign, its far more tense than the campaign, and utilized the more open levels better.
ashecitism
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Then don't buy it?
Prior to CES, a lot of people said this would close to Android/iPhone model, so there.
Tizoc
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Neat how low can we expect it to be during the Sales?
Revelations has a Gold Edition but existing owners didn't receive a discount. Owners of the Black Flag DDE get 25% off the Season Pass as it's included in the Gold Edition, which is limited to the Americas (the DDE is used elsewhere), but of course this isn't quite the same thing.
Edit: Contracts just got patched.
Edit edit: And as expected, it fixes the missing audio:
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And people love that. I have zero issues dropping 500$ every two years on an iPad going forwards if the specs increase is a noticeable improvement.
Oh, wow.
Guess I'm never playing American Nightmare.
corrosivefrost
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Good luck guys
I can't believe I missed a shot at GG! Dammit!
Awesome giveaway.
"telling porkies"... huh? must be some sort of Aussie phrase...
Context says it means "telling lies" but can you explain where the phrase comes from by chance?
I was sold when I saw that IREM collection -- the Raiden game(s) are bonus.
Me too... it's what prevented me from buying IREM back on GMG during the holiday sales. However, I won't pass up this bundle on the chance that some magic happens (like the GG Isuka coming to steam and bundle owners getting keys).
I thought this was going to be alienware pricing themselves out of the normal range and I was going to make a comment about how "there's probably a niche market for a powerhouse steambox". And then I clicked the link.
That sounds moronic. I'm not sure about the other steamboxes, but one of the biggest draws that pulled me to PC gaming (outside of the gaming deals and huge Steam library I've amassed) was the fact that I should be able to upgrade parts of my PC as needed and not worry about the stuff that comes with new consoles any longer... adding a second graphics card in SLI, more ram, bigger HDD, etc.
So yeah, that won't end well.
Me too. However, I already copped the season pass cheap on one of the sales, so most of the DLC that's left is things I don't really care much for like outfits that don't appeal to me and "remixes" for the dubstep gun... If it goes dirt cheap somewhere at somepoint, maybe I'll grab the rest, but at this point, I don't really require that sort of thing for this game. I still think the idea is good and it'd be nice of publishers to offer solutions to those who bought the product earlier in the release cycle other than "buy a GOTY copy to get all the DLC cheap once it goes on mega clearance". :lol
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You basically go to area A, then B, then C. Then you go back to A, then B, then C. Then you go back to A, then B, then C.
Each time you return you do things a little different.
It is lame.
Jawmuncher
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Yeah I was pretty let down by it.
I still say its worth the play it's only like 3 hours, but it sure isn't worth ever going back to.
Just like an episode from pretty much every scifi show ever aired which is what they were going for. I liked it.
Sold, only when it's dirt cheap
ashecitism
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oh my goooooooooooooooooooood
I've never played RE4. I just didn't want to believe the Wii version was the only way.
It's time.
EDIT: inb4 Numpad for aiming.
JawesomeJaw
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I was just thinking that it had been a while since I had bought a version of RE4.
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Nice. Really should apply as a patch to owners of the shitty RE4 port too, but I doubt it will. That was just a horrible experience.
Taco_Human
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Holy shit triple dip time
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.
Yeah, I'm pretty disappointed in FF6 as well. I've played about 6 hours into the game - it's my all time favorite of the series. The graphics have barely been updated and the music hasn't been upgraded at all. The battle controls are also terrible, and the text lags on my Nexus 7.
Very disappointed in the port.
Cyberquake
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If I could redeem the boxed retail keys would be even more awesome!
It's an evolution of the British rhyming slang phrase "pork pie", which, as you deduced, means a lie (lie- > pie).
Yet another thing I can cross off my list of Things I Never Thought Would Happen (see also: Saw returning to the store and Anno 1404 being patched).
corrosivefrost
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Excellent, I was just saying this should happen with a couple other ports.
Now if we could only get Capcom to fix their GWFL bs.
wat
zephervack
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Hype through the roof
Holy shit, that's big if they make it right this time
NingenJanai
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waaaa? hope it's true !
You must be new when dealing with FF fans. You touch their music, you pay the cost.
MMBosstones86
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Seems more like mimicking the life cycles of the mobile market
That's the only reason I can see for them doing this. Marketing for the crowd that wants a Steam Machine, but doesn't want to 'tinker' and worry about opening the case and upgrading. Just pump and dump every few years.
For most of us, it's a very silly solution and not really practical.
The combat is pretty bad, I'm playing on easy mode just for the story and atmosphere. I like the endless supply of batteries and flash bangs they throw at me in easy more.
Capcom...PC support? What is this world i'm living in.
Baron von Loathsome
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I've been trying to find my Dad's Wii copy, but this is even better.
And GFWL!
But seriously, this is great.
I read it as devil may cry 4 and wasn't excited. Then I read it again and got excited! Really excited, too excited
it's... the official Capcom twitter... there's an official trailer on youtube... they even give a steam link even though the page isn't active yet... how could it not be true?
edit this is the most I've ever been quoted I'm so happy
It's not bad, but I tend to think that RE games are going to be better than they end up being.
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