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Nabs

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yuraya said:
Finally completed Dust: An Elysian Tail. What an amazing game and great ending. Its almost unfair to call it an indie game really good stuff.

Also after playing Guacamelee, The Swapper, and Dust I think the Humble indie bundle 11 should go down as GOAT. sogood.gif and those 3 games weren't even bta. amazing
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Yup.
 
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Ingueferroque

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yuraya said:
Finally completed Dust: An Elysian Tail. What an amazing game and great ending. Its almost unfair to call it an indie game really good stuff.

Also after playing Guacamelee, The Swapper, and Dust I think the Humble indie bundle 11 should go down as GOAT. sogood.gif and those 3 games weren't even bta. amazing
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Indie is not a derogatory remark.
 
corrosivefrost

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PixyJunket said:
A sick day well spent?

Perfect Game #21.

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Impressive.

Grief.exe said:
You should post the name of the game as well.
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Tiny Barbarian DX.

Rickenslacker said:
I haven't played the DLC so I can't say anything firsthand on how evocative 1998 is of Thief, but 1999 in the main game is... well, pretty much nothing. I played it nearly identically to my hard playthrough and thought the whole naming scheme was a farce. It was just another raise their numbers lower your numbers difficulty notch on a game that was altogether nothing akin to System Shock.

Being able to save anywhere (along with not being plagued with the save corruption bug) definitely makes the PC version easier to get into.

Malaria frequency isn't really a problem in that game and if you're not willing to accept that as a caveat within everything you do in that game then it's just not for you. The attacks occur every 30-40 minutes in realtime.
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What's so special about System Shock that it was trying to emulate?
 
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Chance Hale

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Anyone have thoughts on Gray Matter? Been meaning to play it for years and it's finally on steam. Imagine it's no Gabriel Knight at the least.
 
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Rickenslacker

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corrosivefrost said:
What's so special about System Shock that it was trying to emulate?
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Well that's just it, they didn't try to emulate anything looking at the end result. Although the naming scheme implies some sort of remixing of mechanics and fundamentals, it is just in reality "very hard" and essentially does nothing to callback to the game they pull the year of the mode from.

The games are so wildly far apart at this point that I don't even know what the point of doing that is, so much would have to be changed to just give it the semblance of that being true.
 
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zkylon

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corrosivefrost said:
What's so special about System Shock that it was trying to emulate?
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on 1999 specifically it was the limited resources that made upgrade paths have to be exclusive. like you can't upgrade all plasmids or all weapons (in system shock all psionics thingies and hacking thingies), so you have to choose and commit a bit more than on the main game

no idea what the difference is between 1999 and 1998 except fallout 2 was released in 1998 so it's the best year to ever grace mankind
 
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yuraya

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Ingueferroque said:
Indie is not a derogatory remark.
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I never said it was. Just a category. You can tell when certain games are budget constrained tho. Dust seemed to have it all especially the voice acting. I guess that made it stand out. I don't usually expect indie games to have voice acting. At least not so much of it like Dust did.
 
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CheesecakeRecipe said:
Something to the effect of "When I reach the end of my life, I will look back on all the time I wasted arguing" with an additional tragic hook at the end. It's been a while since I've seen it, but it was pretty damn great.
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PandaPedinte said:
I believe it ended with "let me talk about Dishonored"
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Oh right! Yeah I remember now. Poor guy never stayed around long. Blink and you'd miss him.
 
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RionaaM

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Nabs said:
Is it ctrl? I'm over here trying to figure out the jetpack.
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I don't think there's a method to that madness. Or is it?

Sajjaja said:
Poor Derrick....he was doomed the moment his tag was changed. He even called it too.
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I still think his ban was completely unfair and he had done nothing wrong, but whatever... It's a shame, but there's nothing that can be done about it now.
 
Nabs

Nabs

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RionaaM said:
I don't think there's a method to that madness. Or is it?


I still think his ban was completely unfair and he had done nothing wrong, but whatever... It's a shame, but there's nothing that can be done about it now.
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I don't know, but I finally got into the blue crate.
then the fucker knocked me out

His ban makes sense once you read the beginning of the South Park thread. It became Derrick |OT| once people realized he was banned. While it isn't completely his fault, we just don't know how to act around people with
bad
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Sajjaja

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Jive Turkey said:
What was it changed to? I mean before "banned".
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Before it was just Ying, but then it changed into something that echoed his sentiments on Dishonored and how he hated everything (which he didn't, and he had justified reasons), which inevitably became the subject of discussion and derailed threads he participated in leading to his ban, despite him not actually initiating any discussion regarding his tag.
 
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toddhunter

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PandaPedinte said:
Anyone else hyped for FTL expansion that is releasing today/tomorrow depending of your timezone?
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I've been playing it on ipad today and it is good to be back in (the port is excellent by the way).

I do miss the infinite space mod though. I wish they had added something along those lines officially as part of the expansion. I'm not sure there is enough new stuff to really draw me back for long (my fault for playing it out, but still...)
 
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toddhunter said:
I've been playing it on ipad today and it is good to be back in (the port is excellent by the way).

I do miss the infinite space mod though. I wish they had added something along those lines officially as part of the expansion. I'm not sure there is enough new stuff to really draw me back for long (my fault for playing it out, but still...)
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Are you enjoying the new race?

Sajjaja said:
Oh snap, that unlocks in like 12 mins for me. Too bad I can't play it right now, but I'll install it in preparation.
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I already installed it in preparation.

AsylumX said:
Wow, completely forget about that. Where can we see when it unlocks???
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No idea, I think the time is up to the devs to decide when push the update.
 
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Stumpokapow

listen to the mad man
Stallion Free said:
I just haven't noticed any real growth in the app selection on windows 8 thus far and I don't see the xbone as making a real difference on that growth. What's the incentive for company's like Adobe to embrace this new change?
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Adobe? None until Microsoft announces a good SaaS model for the Windows Store; but Adobe is changing aggressively and quickly to move to a SaaS model and will have pretty competitive web offerings over the next few years so it might be moot regardless. Photoshop isn't even sold as a piece of software anymore, it's sold as a subscription.
 
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Atraveller

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Sajjaja said:
Before it was just Ying, but then it changed into something that echoed his sentiments on Dishonored and how he hated everything (which he didn't, and he had justified reasons), which inevitably became the subject of discussion and derailed threads he participated in leading to his ban, despite him not actually initiating any discussion regarding his tag.
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I think his presence has more to do with his ban than his tag, even his lack of presence could somehow derail a thread.
 
Tizoc

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ricochetguro said:
Anyone have thoughts on Gray Matter? Been meaning to play it for years and it's finally on steam. Imagine it's no Gabriel Knight at the least.
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PnC GAF hold at a high regard, being one of the better PnC games released over the past few years.
Sadly Viva Media are NOT offering Steam codes for those that purchased it from Amazon.com or the like.
Which means in my case, Groupees or Humble Bundles will be my only way of getting the Steam ver. =P
 
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Atraveller

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Early in the secret of monkey island, I enjoyed a lot, it has some very funny writing. Too bad I can't play in classic mode with voice acting on, I'm not used to the silence.
 
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toddhunter

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Stumpokapow said:
Adobe? None until Microsoft announces a good SaaS model for the Windows Store; but Adobe is changing aggressively and quickly to move to a SaaS model and will have pretty competitive web offerings over the next few years so it might be moot regardless. Photoshop isn't even sold as a piece of software anymore, it's sold as a subscription.
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That is the key I think. Any holdouts on the mobile/tablet world will go web eventually which leaves us just with things that need to run locally...like games.

Who knows, maybe Valve will end up doing the same with streamed games to a chrome app one day.

Nabs said:


4/10 - $26.99
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Strange, I still haven't seen that movie. And I've read Unfinished Tales. All of it.
 
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catabarez

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Alright guys last two copies of Defiance for sale. $1 Paypal gifted or Amazon GC.

The very fist GAF 16 pack is about to come to an end.
 
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Knurek

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Stumpokapow said:
Adobe? None until Microsoft announces a good SaaS model for the Windows Store; but Adobe is changing aggressively and quickly to move to a SaaS model and will have pretty competitive web offerings over the next few years so it might be moot regardless. Photoshop isn't even sold as a piece of software anymore, it's sold as a subscription.
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Given that current desktop Windows apps can be run on 92% of desktop systems, I don't personally think any sane dev will want to limit their potential user base to 11% of people using desktops, 3% of people using mobile, and uhh, the coveted 30% of people playing Call of Duty (can't find any actual data on XBone market share).
 
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