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1.4 million actually. Around 100,000 haven't run the game by their estimates.
BinaryPork2737
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It might be unfair, but it's a really good example of why I'm beginning to really dislike Greenlight. There have been others like it that are out there as well, with probably just as many good games, or at the very least mediocre/average games, that have made it through the service.
It's definitely been way cheaper than $4.99 in the past, yes. I think the lowest it's ever been on Steam was $2.49 during one of the big sales.
woo and indeed hoo
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I'm one of the 100,000. I was pondering firing it up earlier but decided that I would try and clear a few, shorter games first. I've just spent weeks dedicated to XCOM so I really don't want to rush back into a similar obsession as I fear it will be when I finally try DS.
Hopefully.
And a million of that is in the past year. The legs are insane.
Hm. Well I'll wait then, considering sales are approaching and I'm not in any kind of rush. Thanks!
I think you should still buy it, even if it has been cheaper in the past.
It was seriously one of the best games that I played last year, and it already goes down as one of the best games I have ever played.
Stumpokapow
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That top 100 most played games on steam chart is amazing. When all is set and done Steam will definitely go down as the most diverse gaming platform ever made. Props to Valve. The only thing thats really missing from that chart is some sports games. If EA had half a brain they would release sports games on Steam.
Thanks and since I didn't get the e-mail it must be that, I don't really check my gamecount but it's not the first time that I remember seeing I have a game less than the previous couple of days or so, is good to know that Valve will let me know if they remove something from my account.
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spindoctor
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He was making a general point about the games getting greenlit. The Sea Will Claim Everything is truly one of the tragic stories of the Steam greenlight saga.
I would buy their sports games in a heartbeat. Really miss hockey and golf on pc.
You're really doing yourself a disservice by waiting. at any price, SS2 is worth the buy
Baron von Loathsome
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Won a "diplomatic" victory with Brazil. I was a few turns shy of an Order cultural victory too. Had to give up on the Order domination because I couldn't afford all of the unhappiness. I didn't want to risk losing any capitols to other empires. At -10 unhappiness you get random "barbarian" rebel units spawning around your empire, damaging your tiles. At -20 unhappiness, your cities start flipping to other empires.
If I was more of a consistent warmonger throughout the entire game I probably could've won a domination victory but I was Brazil so I wanted to try for a cultural victory. Civ decided to populate that particular game with a bunch of hateful, war-mongering assholes which made me change plans preeeeeeetty quickly.
Won a cultural victory as Brazil
on a low difficulty.
Odd problem I'm having. I'm trying to install and play Xotic, which I gratefully won from NingenJanai, but it seems to refuse to properly download. Not from an incomplete download nor an incomplete install as all the proper files are there, but rather the files are set to Hidden for some reason in Windows and Steam refuses to activate it for me to play through that. Attempting to change them from Hidden to Showing results in corrupted data according to Steam.
I see no settings in Steam or Windows that would turn anything to a hidden file, other games download just fine and are fully visible, but not Xotic.
I see no settings in Steam or Windows that would turn anything to a hidden file, other games download just fine and are fully visible, but not Xotic.
jaundicejuice
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I understand how culture and research costs increase with each city but Assyria is a war-monger and Persia can be as well, both were my immediate neighbours. Early game Persia settled a fuck-you city on my capitols border and I had Siam, Ethiopia and Assyria all declare war on me shortly after. I had to switch gears pretty quickly. At first I was on the defensive but I turned it around pretty quickly. It would've be nice if I was left to my own devices and just boost culture and research but the A.I. didn't give me that luxury.
Rio was still a monstrous cultural center though...
Pretty easy to get the theme bonuses when you control 4 empires worth of territory.
Cultural victory is awesome, prophet bombing other cities and pushing your religon across the world, gaining control of the world congress, getting a ton of art and organizing which pieces go in each building to maximize culture gains. so rad.
just got my first space win. gonna try for a 1v1 conquest victory next.
jaundicejuice
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Yup. For hidden antiquity sites you need the exploration policy track, I believe.
Baron von Loathsome
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It is, yes.
Played a little bit of Arkham Oranges.
The combat feels a little off somehow. Can't quite put my finger on it. Like, the timing or something is different from Arkham City, and it's messing me up.
Some of the city stuff feels weird as well, almost like the grapple range is shorter and I keep flying towards a building expecting to grapple it, but the icon never shows up and I just fly into a wall. It's weird, going to need some time to get used to it.
The combat feels a little off somehow. Can't quite put my finger on it. Like, the timing or something is different from Arkham City, and it's messing me up.
Some of the city stuff feels weird as well, almost like the grapple range is shorter and I keep flying towards a building expecting to grapple it, but the icon never shows up and I just fly into a wall. It's weird, going to need some time to get used to it.
Atraveller
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The rhythm, most of the enemies strikes too early, and a lot of them are special enemy types, meaning you can't chain your combos easily.
flaxknuckles
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There are a lot of buildings you can't grapple to. It's frustrating as hell
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So it is different and I'm not crazy, phew.
Angry bats is the best though.
Nabs
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I'm not 100% sure, but I think the counter hit timing is a little different. You can't just use Y to save you from every bad decision. You'll have to approach fights a little different in AO and think about every attack you throw out.
Atraveller
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oh yes I won, thank you!
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Haha wut. Combo-chaining honestly feels easier because once you enter crit mode you become a god in Arkham Origins.
Widdly Scuds
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Guess I'll go choke on it now.
jaundicejuice
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By boring you mean fun.
corrosivefrost
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Brothers had solid puzzle design? That's news to me. But I agree otherwise... haven't played Papo y Yo yet so I can't speak to that.
heh
Yeah, that's your fault.
There's definitely different timing... it takes awhile to adjust... the counter window is different (and if you don't have the indicators on, it's difficult to adjust)... there's some other changes, but as you play, it should be easy enough to adapt.
Atraveller
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But that's because you are in crit mode, you'll have to chain it before that.
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punch like 5 people and boom you are there.
Atraveller
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Spring-Loaded
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Speeds of everyone's attacks have been changed (Bats and enemies), generally enemies attack quicker/more frequently, some of new Batman attack animations are faster while others are slow (the enemy>vault>land on other enemy has an extra pound move added on the end, yet the move isn't a guaranteed K.O., making it last too long to justify the risk), the aerial attack (stun, then jump/jump) seems to cancel out surrounding enemy attacks as if you started an instant takedown and enemies "lock-on" is stronger (you can still break their lock-on like in past games, but they'll regain it faster). Mid-beat-down counters sometimes land batman in weird places in relation to the beat-down target which can get wonky in certain terrain. Batarangs that hit shield or armor guys breaks the combo. Because of the enemy lock-on change, stuff like the explosive gel cartwheel doesn't throw them off as much, so even if you do that perpendicular to an incoming attack rather than straight into it, you can still get hit.
All of these aspects of combat are just less balanced according to one another than all the systems in Arkham City. Origins is definitely harder in combat, but largely due to jank. When going for the harder medals/challenges, the flaws really get in the way; rather than being solid, if a bit easy, just to finish a single fight, Origins' combat more of a challenge to finish a typical fight, and having to deal with certain moves/systems clashing. The shock gauntlets are a great concept and in how they work, but they simply become too powerful and seem like they're being used as a bandage
There's definitely fun to be had in fights and there are times when it can click. I just hope that Arkham Knight keeps the combat at least as solid as City's on a base level. If the foundation is solid, then from there, the enemies can attack as quickly/rapidly as possible, so long as everything else is adjusted accordingly.
three hits to start the free-flow "zip across the room" attacks, 5 or 8 (depending on upgrades earned) to gain a combo move use, then 12 for the focus mode.
All of these aspects of combat are just less balanced according to one another than all the systems in Arkham City. Origins is definitely harder in combat, but largely due to jank. When going for the harder medals/challenges, the flaws really get in the way; rather than being solid, if a bit easy, just to finish a single fight, Origins' combat more of a challenge to finish a typical fight, and having to deal with certain moves/systems clashing. The shock gauntlets are a great concept and in how they work, but they simply become too powerful and seem like they're being used as a bandage
There's definitely fun to be had in fights and there are times when it can click. I just hope that Arkham Knight keeps the combat at least as solid as City's on a base level. If the foundation is solid, then from there, the enemies can attack as quickly/rapidly as possible, so long as everything else is adjusted accordingly.
three hits to start the free-flow "zip across the room" attacks, 5 or 8 (depending on upgrades earned) to gain a combo move use, then 12 for the focus mode.
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Did you not find the upgrade menu? Maybe it's just because I was coming right off a replay of Arkham City, but Arkham Origins on normal is incredibly easy.
Guess I'll go choke on it now.
Nicely done! Hoping to get there before playfire timer runs out.
MMBosstones86
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It is different than the other two. Takes a little getting used to
yup and this. Crit mode + shock gloves just decimates just about anything.
Guess I'll go choke on it now.
Just did that as well
with a guide
Guess I'll go choke on it now.
Are you a genius?
Thanks! I will look into that.
I don't really watch movies in Windows so I am not sure. However, when I am not using my TV or Steam, this is a non-issue.
oipic
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Guess I'll go choke on it now.
Nice one, well played.
I'm tackling Fez at the moment, too, and even with the occasional dip into a guide (really struggling to speak Fezian), I'm finding it a bit of a mind-blowing challenge.
I have the utmost respect for anyone that has 100% completed Fez under any circumstances, but those that have done so without guides etc are god-tier gamers in my book.
MMBosstones86
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Nice one, well played.
I'm tackling Fez at the moment, too, and even with the occasional dip into a guide (really struggling to speak Fezian), I'm finding it a bit of a mind-blowing challenge.
I have the utmost respect for anyone that has 100% completed Fez under any circumstances, but those that have done so without guides etc are god-tier gamers in my book.
completely agree. Some of those puzzles are just....what in the hell. Any of the
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There's probably 4 people that can claim that.
3 people that bought the game and Phil Fish.
Sgt.Pepper
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So I everytime I start RE6, there's this long ass black screen before I can even reach the menu. Like 30 secs-1 min or more.
The hell.
The hell.
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