I think that, more or less, this is the general PC thread.
About that video, amazing stuff.
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I think that, more or less, this is the general PC thread.
About that video, amazing stuff.
Jawmuncher
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lawd
Are these just snippets from the GI video? No actual trailer yet?
lawd
Hello Motoko Kusanagi...
game informer trailer
basically just a bunch of people talking images from previous deus ex and some snippets of this new unreleased CG trailer
im sure we'll get the full trailer in a few hours
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well, just to clarify, i meant that it'll be a FFXV poster since it'll come out in the year 2235 or whenever the game is set.
Jawmuncher
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game informer trailer
basically just a bunch of people talking images from previous deus ex and some snippets of this new unreleased CG trailer
im sure we'll get the full trailer in a few hours
Looking forward to the full trailer because just like I said earlier, the first one was hype as hell. I would easily say it's my favorite trailer of all time.
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the ending of DXHR is literally you pressing one of 4 buttons and then watching a 20 second video.
it's about the journey, not the destination.
Se7enSword
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I've never played a Deus Ex game before, and i'm very hyped for this one. o_o
Jawmuncher
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Human Revolution is like 5 bucks every sale.
ANuclearError
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Fix that as soon as you can.
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Jawmuncher
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Derrick should be unbanned come the eve of the games release.
Stumpokapow
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What I'm about to say is super premature, some people would very right to quote me and say "Wow, how premature, we've only seen a tiny little bit, why are you so negative and cynical, jeez", but...
The Deus Ex reveal looks super underwhelming to me. It looks like more of the same. Same characters, same style locations, same piss filter, visually the pictures look like incremental improvements + bullshot level IQ. The Game Informer cover has awful art and a boring tag-line. Deus Ex is about choice, yes, but so are like 50% of the AAA games that come out now. Up the ante. What's the next level? If the next level is just more of the same, that's a disappointment. I like Deus Ex, I liked HR, and a new Deus Ex will be cool even if it's an expansion pack, but it's been 5 years so I was expecting it to be a home-run, not a single. Sequels designed to polish and iterate make a lot more sense when they're annual than when you're anticipating them for a long time.
Again, premature, maybe they're going to roll out the heavy hitters over the next weeks and months and in the run up to the game's no-doubt going-to-be-delayed launch.
The Deus Ex reveal looks super underwhelming to me. It looks like more of the same. Same characters, same style locations, same piss filter, visually the pictures look like incremental improvements + bullshot level IQ. The Game Informer cover has awful art and a boring tag-line. Deus Ex is about choice, yes, but so are like 50% of the AAA games that come out now. Up the ante. What's the next level? If the next level is just more of the same, that's a disappointment. I like Deus Ex, I liked HR, and a new Deus Ex will be cool even if it's an expansion pack, but it's been 5 years so I was expecting it to be a home-run, not a single. Sequels designed to polish and iterate make a lot more sense when they're annual than when you're anticipating them for a long time.
Again, premature, maybe they're going to roll out the heavy hitters over the next weeks and months and in the run up to the game's no-doubt going-to-be-delayed launch.
So no
Twin Peaks, but apparently HECK YEAH 17 new episodes of Arrested Development just lying around waiting for an official Netflix announcement!
Sorry for the OT, but who cares, Obama really did give us back Arrested Development, maybe even twice!
Thanks him, indeed!
EDIT: not really the best first post of the page ever...
Oh well, just remember everybody: cool kids play Cities: Skylines. Like right now. Or always. Be unemployed, be urban planner, live your dreams.
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Sorry for the OT, but who cares, Obama really did give us back Arrested Development, maybe even twice!
Thanks him, indeed!
EDIT: not really the best first post of the page ever...
Oh well, just remember everybody: cool kids play Cities: Skylines. Like right now. Or always. Be unemployed, be urban planner, live your dreams.
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All games coming to Steam, X-posting from Indie Thread.
My Quick Look on Hero Generations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjjdHXUshP4
My Quick Look on Don't Shoot Yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kMiXZmZCds
My Quick Look on Westerado: Double Barreled:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItZp400oB9M
My Quick Look on Hero Generations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjjdHXUshP4
Quick Impressions: The game bills itself as a 4x Strategy Roguelike RPG, with the enticing McGuffin being that each turn is one (1) year of time that has passed. It's an interesting mechanic when applied against average human life expectancy. There is always an urgency regarding your movement and what you set out to accomplish before going to the nearest town to have your next offspring.
The end goal of the game centers around how much fame (any particular generation) you've attained during their particular life-cycle. More or less, fame is your score and you're trying to get a high score, which are reflected against a leaderboard on the main menu.
These are the basics to the game, which fosters a very tight play-cycle on any particular generation lasting around three (3) minutes on average. There are methods to increase your life expectancy (which requires either time or luck) but the steady beat of time and unlucky battles widdles away what little life you have.
The game is very easy to pick up and learn with only a (optional) five minute tutorial to get you up to speed. Animations are crude but get the job done. Scaling up the game window to accommodate your display actually works against the game, especially during the battle sequences which can make the game (visually) seem not fully baked.
All told, Hero Generations is like witnessing a machine in action. All of the cogs and pieces have a purpose and fit together perfectly. But, at least for me, it never went further than a cold, calculated strategy machine and never really addressed the powerful metaphor of how our lives are short-lived.
The end goal of the game centers around how much fame (any particular generation) you've attained during their particular life-cycle. More or less, fame is your score and you're trying to get a high score, which are reflected against a leaderboard on the main menu.
These are the basics to the game, which fosters a very tight play-cycle on any particular generation lasting around three (3) minutes on average. There are methods to increase your life expectancy (which requires either time or luck) but the steady beat of time and unlucky battles widdles away what little life you have.
The game is very easy to pick up and learn with only a (optional) five minute tutorial to get you up to speed. Animations are crude but get the job done. Scaling up the game window to accommodate your display actually works against the game, especially during the battle sequences which can make the game (visually) seem not fully baked.
All told, Hero Generations is like witnessing a machine in action. All of the cogs and pieces have a purpose and fit together perfectly. But, at least for me, it never went further than a cold, calculated strategy machine and never really addressed the powerful metaphor of how our lives are short-lived.
My Quick Look on Don't Shoot Yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kMiXZmZCds
Quick Impressions:
You move your ship around in a confined space with your mouse. Moving fires bullets. If you stop moving, you will reload your bullets. You need to keep moving, while avoiding your bullets from hitting yourself. Hence the title of the game.
I really enjoy tiny games like this where the very core of the game design practically writes the rest of how the game should be developed. Self-evident game design.
You move your ship around in a confined space with your mouse. Moving fires bullets. If you stop moving, you will reload your bullets. You need to keep moving, while avoiding your bullets from hitting yourself. Hence the title of the game.
I really enjoy tiny games like this where the very core of the game design practically writes the rest of how the game should be developed. Self-evident game design.
My Quick Look on Westerado: Double Barreled:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItZp400oB9M
Quick Impressions: Before I begin, I wasn't aware that this game was a browser game first, you can find it here: http://games.adultswim.com/westerado-action-online-game.html.
With that out of the way, boy howdy! This game is REALLY good. It has the general plot device that sets up the story, but what Westerado does that I was actually surprised at was how important all of the NPCs were to the story. You start off with a clue as to who killed your brother and mother. But it's not much of a clue at all, because it basically only solves 50% of the population (maybe).
But the interesting thing is that dialogue trees are not limited to just different dialogue options. You can have actions be your dialogue options. The actions are pretty limited, you could either walk away from a conversation, to which the NPC you were talking with might get upset or find it strange but it could also be a tactic. The other dialogue action you can take it pointing your gun towards the person you're having a conversation with. This gets them nervous as they try to cool the situation. You can FURTHER push this action by cocking the hammer of your gun back which puts additional pressure on the NPC to act. Sometimes they'll just drop whatever money they have and run. Others will make a funny comment that manages to reflect the situation. Super refreshing and well designed.
There is an excellent map system/quest log/hint log that keeps you updated with where you left off and is executed perfectly. I never found myself wanting for information in any particular way and the presentation is just fantastic.
Speaking of presentation, while some of the character pixel-art is bordering on Atari 2600, the environmental artwork is truly something to behold. I realize that it may not be everyone's cup-of-tea, but damn do I enjoy it.
Normally, I don't comment on music, but holy shit these guys nailed it. Not only is it authentic, it's scripted magnificently. At each and every turn that there could have been a musical embellishment to heighten what was happening on screen, it was there. Whoever was responsible for creating the music and scripting it against the game did a master level execution.
If you can't wait for the Steam release, give the browser version a try.
Recommended. Very Recommended.
With that out of the way, boy howdy! This game is REALLY good. It has the general plot device that sets up the story, but what Westerado does that I was actually surprised at was how important all of the NPCs were to the story. You start off with a clue as to who killed your brother and mother. But it's not much of a clue at all, because it basically only solves 50% of the population (maybe).
But the interesting thing is that dialogue trees are not limited to just different dialogue options. You can have actions be your dialogue options. The actions are pretty limited, you could either walk away from a conversation, to which the NPC you were talking with might get upset or find it strange but it could also be a tactic. The other dialogue action you can take it pointing your gun towards the person you're having a conversation with. This gets them nervous as they try to cool the situation. You can FURTHER push this action by cocking the hammer of your gun back which puts additional pressure on the NPC to act. Sometimes they'll just drop whatever money they have and run. Others will make a funny comment that manages to reflect the situation. Super refreshing and well designed.
There is an excellent map system/quest log/hint log that keeps you updated with where you left off and is executed perfectly. I never found myself wanting for information in any particular way and the presentation is just fantastic.
Speaking of presentation, while some of the character pixel-art is bordering on Atari 2600, the environmental artwork is truly something to behold. I realize that it may not be everyone's cup-of-tea, but damn do I enjoy it.
Normally, I don't comment on music, but holy shit these guys nailed it. Not only is it authentic, it's scripted magnificently. At each and every turn that there could have been a musical embellishment to heighten what was happening on screen, it was there. Whoever was responsible for creating the music and scripting it against the game did a master level execution.
If you can't wait for the Steam release, give the browser version a try.
Recommended. Very Recommended.
I don't disagree
im kinda more excited for the CG trailer right now, but nothing about the reveal particularly excites me in terms of what the game is
hoping to be proven wrong
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Jawmuncher
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Yep salsa pretty much just covered what I was going to say. Hopefully the magazine details shine some more light on what's really going on with the game though.
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I also think the screenshots look fucking hideous, besides the one outside with the third person cover
I mean:
my eyes
you can tell it's for the console folks since the fov on that pic is like 10
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TheLetdown
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That was my reaction. Is it just me, or is there no discernible depth of field?
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Most magazine screens are pretty ugly but mostly due to restrictions.
I do think it's too early to judge.
I do think it's too early to judge.
FiveElementNinja
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I also think the screenshots look fucking hideous, besides the one outside with the third person cover
I mean:
my eyes
That enemy suit reminds me of the Iron Saint suit in SR4.
Jawmuncher
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I would love to see a CG movie at this point.
Artstyle reminds me a lot of Skulls of the Shoguns.All games coming to Steam, X-posting from Indie Thread.
My Quick Look on Hero Generations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjjdHXUshP4
Quick Impressions: The game bills itself as a 4x Strategy Roguelike RPG, with the enticing McGuffin being that each turn is one (1) year of time that has passed. It's an interesting mechanic when applied against average human life expectancy. There is always an urgency regarding your movement and what you set out to accomplish before going to the nearest town to have your next offspring.
The end goal of the game centers around how much fame (any particular generation) you've attained during their particular life-cycle. More or less, fame is your score and you're trying to get a high score, which are reflected against a leaderboard on the main menu.
These are the basics to the game, which fosters a very tight play-cycle on any particular generation lasting around three (3) minutes on average. There are methods to increase your life expectancy (which requires either time or luck) but the steady beat of time and unlucky battles widdles away what little life you have.
The game is very easy to pick up and learn with only a (optional) five minute tutorial to get you up to speed. Animations are crude but get the job done. Scaling up the game window to accommodate your display actually works against the game, especially during the battle sequences which can make the game (visually) seem not fully baked.
All told, Hero Generations is like witnessing a machine in action. All of the cogs and pieces have a purpose and fit together perfectly. But, at least for me, it never went further than a cold, calculated strategy machine and never really addressed the powerful metaphor of how our lives are short-lived.
Majukun
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what are you waiting for?
FiveElementNinja
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thanks for the happy birthday wishes and for the gifts y'all <3
yeah, but the game's quite sophisticated actually
really fun games, very much recommended
tons of spiders tho, i don't know how i managed to beat two of those
seems like good value tho, will prolly snatch it if it's cheapo on nuuvem
also more adam jensen i dunno how i feel about that
i mean i have the mind of a 15 year old at best so...
wait wait wait
yeah, but the game's quite sophisticated actually
really fun games, very much recommended
tons of spiders tho, i don't know how i managed to beat two of those
lol wtf that name
seems like good value tho, will prolly snatch it if it's cheapo on nuuvem
so many pictures of guns
also more adam jensen i dunno how i feel about that
Holy fuck you're old
I always thought you were like 18-20... I'm not sure if that says something about you or me...
Btw, "Holy fuck you're old" is my way of saying the "happy birthday" thing that people like to say. So happy "holy fuck you're old"!
i mean i have the mind of a 15 year old at best so...
yes
wait wait wait
Tizoc
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Just to be clear every version outside of Steam is GOG version and you need Steam Expansion Pass if you want Expansions on Steam.
yea those dx pictures look pretty lame
i was hoping for different protagonist and different look, as the whole icarus/gold filter/geometric shapes thing felt very much dxhr and not really deus ex as a whole
i feel like reeling it back to the blues and the more blocky shaps and dark, more traditional cyberpunk would've been a good direction for the series, or even coming up with something new
also i dunno, the deus ex formula isn't easy to convey in screenshots. a 10 minute playthrough or something tells you a lot, tho, so hopefully they'll do a few of those
well, it's cdpr, so will see
you get a gog copy with your steam copy tho, right?
i was hoping for different protagonist and different look, as the whole icarus/gold filter/geometric shapes thing felt very much dxhr and not really deus ex as a whole
i feel like reeling it back to the blues and the more blocky shaps and dark, more traditional cyberpunk would've been a good direction for the series, or even coming up with something new
also i dunno, the deus ex formula isn't easy to convey in screenshots. a 10 minute playthrough or something tells you a lot, tho, so hopefully they'll do a few of those
aw dang
well, it's cdpr, so will see
you get a gog copy with your steam copy tho, right?
That was only for W2 i think. You won;t get GoG version this time with your Steam copy as far as i know.
I really liked HR one of my fav games in recent times i really hope they don't turn it into a generic FPS with some decision crap bolted on top i mean some of the screens really remind me of.......
See what i mean.
Hopefully i'm wrong - tbh i would be happy with more HR but i would be gutted if they simplify it for the masses.
See what i mean.
Hopefully i'm wrong - tbh i would be happy with more HR but i would be gutted if they simplify it for the masses.
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I wish I got a STEAM version with my GOG version of W2 for the cheevos. I know it's been $5 before, but now I'm halfway through the game... Also my only regret about going GOG for W3, but it's a small price to pay to support the developer.
She's like the first and only anime character I totally had the hots for, and pretty sure I still do now. As an adult. That doesn't really watch anime. She's just that good.
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