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steam | April 2015 - Orange, you glad it’s morningbus? “No.”

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PetriP-TNT

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fantomena said:
Why have so many SteamGAFfers pre-ordered GTA? For all we know the port could be shit.
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Because

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Anteater

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discount and wanting to play it day 1, my friend also bought the social club version and he usually don't purchase shit until it's like a quarter.
 
Jawmuncher

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someguyinahat said:
Because the port for GTA IV was so damn good, Rockstar has earned a lot of PC gamers' trust.
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Well to be fair the Max Payne 3 port was pretty good.


Regardless of that, I have waited so long to play GTAV I can wait some more. Hell I might jur borrow the ps4 version off a friend. Since I really don't care about mods or anything. Will be a beat it and quit game like all the other GTAs.
 
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fantomena

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Anteater said:
I think GMG or something, he mentioned getting it for 40 something, don't know if it's just the regular discount coupon or specifically for GTA5 or him having playfire money though
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Yeah, GMG has a discount, but it hilarious shops don't give Steam codes due to most people would rather have it on Steam than Rockstars own service.
 
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it'll be dirt cheap, it's a rockstar/2k game on PC and it's coming out well after 4 different consoles received the game already. I don't see it hold a high price for too long.
 
Boss Doggie

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all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Huh speaking of Simpsons, I'm surprised at the lack of Simpsons-related games in Steam. I wouldn't mind the Simpsons game ported there.

zkylon said:
well yea if you played the game you would vote for less shit characters...
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I don't like moba in general, I just like the characters :/
 
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JaseC

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Boss Doggie said:
Huh speaking of Simpsons, I'm surprised at the lack of Simpsons-related games in Steam. I wouldn't mind the Simpsons game ported there.
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EA currently holds the licence and hasn't released a single game on the PC. The last Simpsons game to hit the PC was 2003's Hit & Run.
 
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BigAT

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zkylon said:
yeah, i dunno about samaritan paradox

there's something to be said for its michael clayton/constant gardener -esque political thriller stuff. it's intriguing in a way few videogames are and the music and the swedish setting and the writing work pretty well to sell that mood. the cryptography thing also makes sense within that context, and it's a cool little way of making sure that some of the puzzles "make sense" within the game's universe

the problem is that most of the puzzles themselves have been really awkward so far. the game boldly assumes you're not an uncultured dumbo like i am, which i guess is fine but it's not like it's asking you to do any sort of interesting deduction. it's like asking you what's the capital of x country but obfuscating that question a bit. while i'm not against the game treating you like a cultured, fully fledged adult (i'm not any of these things), it's not really taxing your brain, it's just random trivia, asked in a bit more cryptic way.

and some of the puzzles are just damn arbitrary. there's an early puzzle in which you have to turn a statue in the directions of some poem. apparently you're supposed to cycle between clockwise and counter clockwise but there was no indication anywhere of that, so i was stuck doing the right combination but in the wrong "way".

had to check up a guide only to find out about that. i end up looking up answers in a guide really often because most of the puzzles are like this. sometimes it's a more pixelhunty thing, or having to "use" instead of "look", something that should've just progressed with the puzzle either (the whole portal 2 ending left click/right click thing). or you'll have to talk to someone to exhaust their dialogue before the main character actually allows you to progress

you almost always solve it in your head, but there's something blocking you from progressing in how the puzzles are designed. you know, unless it's asking me for like musical trivia or that sort of crap.

it's pretty bad, really. it's hardcore in that shitty way that i don't think anyone ever really liked, and it's a pity because the story's actually really compelling so far. lots of mystery and intrigue and it sounds like it's going dark places which is not always the type of thing you'd expect from adventure games

imma keep playing, guide in hand, and at least comment on how the story unfolds.


well yea if you played the game you would vote for less shit characters...
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Just finished up Samaritan Paradox yesterday and I can't generally disagree with most of what you're saying. I thought the puzzle solving wasn't all that bad in the first half of the game, but boy did it get really obtuse sometimes in the later parts of the game. Like you said, there were too many times where I knew the solution but just couldn't execute it in whatever odd way the game wanted me to accomplish it.

It got frustrating pretty quick, to the point where I was really quick to reference a guide towards the end just because I wanted to quickly see the story through to its conclusion.
 
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Jawmuncher said:
I don't even want Ground Zeroes
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while it was shameless of them to try and sell it for $40, at the usual price of ~$10 you'll be getting a bang for your buck. There is like over an hour of audio tapes in the main menu alone that serves to bridge the gap between Peace Walker and MGSV and the actual gameplay that's there is pretty tight and enjoyable.
 
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Freedom = $1.05 said:
while it was shameless of them to try and sell it for $40, at the usual price of ~$10 you'll be getting a bang for your buck. There is like over an hour of audio tapes in the main menu alone that serves to bridge the gap between Peace Walker and MGSV and the actual gameplay that's there is pretty tight and enjoyable.
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ExoSoul said:
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lol people already forgetting how i won alien isolation back in the day. Too lazy to dig it up. Though I had bought the game after entering so that's probably the real factor that worked.
 
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JaseC

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PunishedSnake said:
Uhu, they didn't TRY. They DID it. They tried to sell it for 50 EURO, people complained and they lowered the price to 40€.
The fact on PC is 20€ is just because when they released PC version, on console the game was discounted already multiple times up to 70€ off.
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He's saying he disagreed with the launch price, not that it didn't happen.
 
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PunishedSnake said:
I tried to play San Andreas twice. Both the times I got bored when you have that stupid bike and you need to do stupid stuff around. I never understood why this game is supposed to be great. Only GTA I liked is Vice City.
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I enjoyed GTA2 to Vice with a little bit of 4. BOGT wasn't too bad think it was the better of the 4 lot.

But SA. Do not like.
 
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PunishedSnake said:
I tried to play San Andreas twice. Both the times I got bored when you have that stupid bike and you need to do stupid stuff around. I never understood why this game is supposed to be great.
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Whoa whoa whoa keep your crazy opinions to yourself man. San Andreas is amazing in scale and design.
 
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PunishedSnake said:
I tried to play San Andreas twice. Both the times I got bored when you have that stupid bike and you need to do stupid stuff around. I never understood why this game is supposed to be great. Only GTA I liked is Vice City.
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i first played it on the OG xbox when it came out. I just remember going to the gym to get super buff and not doing anything else.

Milamber said:
What ever happened to that mod that fixes all the bugs of San Andreas and adds more content?
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a lot of shit got borked when they did the recent update to the game. now you have to roll back a couple of updates and then apply a bunch of shit.

I gave up trying to play any of the older GTA games on the PC with a 360 controller as it became too much of a hassle. I guess when i finally decided to seriously play GTA San Andreas it'll be the kinda crappy ps2 version i have on the ps3.
 
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PunishedSnake said:
I tried to play San Andreas twice. Both the times I got bored when you have that stupid bike and you need to do stupid stuff around. I never understood why this game is supposed to be great. Only GTA I liked is Vice City.
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Why you don't like bike ? :) By the way my real bike was stolen last year so I need to get new.
 
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PunishedSnake said:
I tried to play San Andreas twice. Both the times I got bored when you have that stupid bike and you need to do stupid stuff around. I never understood why this game is supposed to be great. Only GTA I liked is Vice City.
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I played San Andreas real late. graphics are crap, controls are crap, shooting is crap. maybe it was a better game back then.
 
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dex3108

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I want to play GTA V but i don't want to support this R* bullshit with releasing game year and a half late. Also main concern that i have is that if i buy game later it will be hard to find people to play Heists and other MP missions.
 
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PunishedSnake said:
I tried to play San Andreas twice. Both the times I got bored when you have that stupid bike and you need to do stupid stuff around. I never understood why this game is supposed to be great. Only GTA I liked is Vice City.
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I was in Rome once and I love the city. For being such a huge and busy metropole the people were so frigging nice as well.
Really love Italy.

And with that post I love you as well :)
 
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toddhunter

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GTA SA was loved because it had the huge world (multiple big cities and areas in between!) and lots of fun things to do in it. GTA5 has mostly replaced that with the graphical update, but it was pretty mind blowing at the time and was basically as good as Vice City (ie identical missions) or better in just about every way.

Except the music sucked in comparison. Big time.
 
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Delusibeta

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So, my Crashplan sub will expire in a fortnight, and I'm not sure if I should renew or if I should switch to Backblaze (or some other online backup service). Opinions, please.
 
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