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[Grief.exe]

Here is what I wrote in an earlier thread:

I knew what I was getting into with this game, but it's still really sad after Activision gutted High Moon. The new devs (Edge of Reality, Loadout) wisely use the gameplay framework from High Moon, but failed in pretty much every other department. It doesn't use the license well, the level design is just sad, the art direction is pathetic, and there are almost no worthwhile setpieces. War and Fall were really special games that I cherish my experiences with and they completely nailed all of those categories. The worst parts of Rise of the Dark Spark is definitely everything on earth. It doesn't tie into the movie at all other than character overlap and the visual direction required for an earth environment is clearly well beyond Edge of Reality's ability. At least on Cybertron they could crudely paste the High Moon assets together. There was one good level in the whole mess that was basically Descent with Transformers, but it was over far too quickly. I also had a bit of fun working on achievements in the horde mode, but it got old after a couple of hours.

Overall: I wouldn't recommend this game even if you were madly in love with the Transformers franchise. I am filled with sadness knowing I will never get the finish to the Cybertron series that I deserve.

I'm planning on snapping up War and Fall by the end of the year. Unless Activision greenlights development on another Transformers game, there is a strong possibility they will drop the IP on January 1st.

 

[X05]

Wake up this morning with an extra £3 in wallet funds, 12 more cards in the inventory thanks to Idle Masters, a long arse X05 post to save me reading the rest of the thread and a new episode of the Serious Stream to catch up on. This weekend is off to a great start already.

*tips top hat*
Glad to be of service.

should we create a new thread for x05

Just have him post all his recaps there.

Or have a "X05's 'X' thread recap thread" for each thread he wants to post in.

It could always be locked, like the ModBot thread, and only he would post in it. It would summarize all of SteamGaf, sort of like a greatest hits thread.

I'm not sure if this is a good idea, or a terrible one.

Sentris will launch on Steam Early Access August 22: http://timbreinteractive.squarespace.com/sentris/

I saw the videos and still have no idea how the game actually plays. Still interested in it (puzzle+music is always a nice combo!)

RDR PC is going to happen eventually. Same with Dragon's Dogma PC.

Don't play with my heart like that

I recently started playing Final Fantasy 7, and WOW, this game is really good, aside from Pokémon and Paper Mario, this is my first real turn based JRPG and GODDAMN, it's fun, although playing at 1080p it's REALLY makes it obvious whenever the game is using video files for its pre-rendered backgrounds, like....REALLY REALLY obvious, I'm sure back in the day it was a seamless transition but now it's super obvious and weird, lol.

I'm only 9hrs into the game and I haven't even gotten the achievement for completing the first part of the game!

And yes I do realise I'm about 17 years late to the FF7 is good party

Good thing is that it's not even the best FF, and definitely the worst of the PS1 era.

XO5 lost it huh?

Lost what, exactly?

well now I HAVE to stream it dont I?

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Blackbay Asylum btw

That's a pretty loaded warning, seems like it's missing a "you know what, don't play this at all"

Uh, wow. I just unpacked my first CS:GO crate for shits and giggles as I remembered I had two keys sitting in my inventory:

It's worth $80.

W.O.W.
That's quite lucky man!
Of course you are going to waste it on Ubi crap

It's a long-term fan-made mod, so it's still a work-in-progress with no ETA for a finished build. Capcpom would never go through the effort to painstakingly recreate the game with such dedicated accuracy.

I mean look at this sexy typewriter and tablecloth:

That's looking damn fine indeed, guess after I get the game I'll have to hold off my replay of it until that releases.

in RE4 was I supposed to kill the

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scorpion guy or just delay him until the elevator arrived

? Because

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I delayed it and got the fuck out of there when the elevator arrived

:/

Be a man and kill it, it's not that difficult

You're supposed to take the rocket launcher from the previous area, freeze him with a canister, then shoot the rocket. One is all it takes.

Like this!

Then it's helpful again in the

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El Gigante double fight, as using the lava pit will make it not drop money.

I bought the game several times but I only ever played up to that part on GC, shame that they changed it, but easy to see why.

New Steam thread Yay. I know I'm late...

Well, "late" in regards to post count only!

I think you might have a serious problem

Nah, he does not

Do you not watch the awesome webms that myself or quiche post?
It's both.

http://robotbrush.com/corrosivefrost/Crypt Of The NecroDancer part 1.webm
http://robotbrush.com/corrosivefrost/Crypt Of The NecroDancer part 2.webm

True... but you can bind the combo buttons to something else... and there's like 6 of those.
I have my controller set up to use d-pad for movement, and the the face buttons are any diagonals (up-left/up-right/down-left/down-right) and I put left-right on LB and up-down on RB.
Trying to press up and down at the same time seems... odd.

This game looks fucking amazing, guess I know what I'm buying next (even if it is Early Access which I try to avoid).

So intensive that an i7 3770K can't handle it? lol

Well, clearly you have something else wrong there, maybe a driver or another program is doing something it's not suppoused to.

Plus them making a blind guardian music video could've been money toward the game itself. I love the band but this is so...what's the word...hammy?

Blind Guardian is hammy by definition.

I still have good plans for improving Idle Master.

"every time improve idling IdleM@ster" ?

I have never heard of this game before: Nights into Dreams

what is this I don't even

Instead of looking for a certain string you could look for numbers using a regular expression.

And then he'd have 2 problems.

What is the best soccer game for PC? FIFA, PES, ...?

FIFA, although 14 is based on the old engine not the new one, so wait for 15 which will use it. Also none of the FIFA games are on Steam obviously, but mind that the "old" PES games get removed eventually when the new one is released so get it soon-ish if you want it.

I do wonder if Valve's attitude towards consoles will change. iirc both MS and Sony changed their policies, so no excuses now for abandoning those games. Or if you do, then don't bother releasing them there. Waste of everyone's time otherwise.

IIRC the problem is with the fact that game patches have to go through certification and some other stuff that Valve doesn't want to do, which is understandable given how frequently they patch and update their games. They probably thought at some point that they could skirt around that and MS/Sony said "lolno".

Serious Stream Wrap-Up

Brilliant, I'll watch the SS3 one later

Ah, I was worried for a second that you didn't have ES installed

My Bad Rats has been rejected.

I'm going to go eat ice cream and listen to break up songs.

D:
Don't worry, there are other ways to make the offer hard to reject...

Just imagine her saying "Nobody cares about the dildo collection you dredged up from the Atlantic you fishy bitch."

Now all I can think of is a sleepy, beasty degutter Sansa Romulan with cold tits and afro armpits.

Since I love you guys, wanted to give a heads up to anyone who liked the Arkham games

^THIS animated feature has nothing to do with the Batman Arkham games, BUT

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it's freakin' awesome so def. give it a watch if you can!

Forgot that this is out! Haven't watched it yet but it's in canon with the Arkham games though, between Blackgate and Asylum IIRC.

It just baffles me how a company that is in Valve's position is so bad at the user interface and user experience in general. The mobile app on Android is beyond ugly and the desktop client isn't a looker either. It wouldn't be so bad, if it wasn't slow as hell, too. Is there anyone at Valve that is responsible for it? Anyone one can talk to or send a mail to? It really doesn't have to be like this and I wish they'd actually care about their users.

Valve has no structure save for Gaben at the helm, so spam his email or something

I got the pussy the same day TiTs came out, so...

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Modbot Movie trailer.

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I was bored

Bwahahaha holy shit!
Brilliant!

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Also JaseC -> JohnC totally fits

depend on what you play, should be decent enough for most things, tf2/dota/csgo etc would run fine... some unreal games will probably be in lower settings and it's up to each games optimization of course..,

edit: I would never buy a gaming laptop... for a laptop I'd get something like you would get that gun run most things (except newer AAA games) and save the gaming machine for a desktop

To each it's own, I love being able to easily move my gaming rig in just a backpack

Ultrabook is never enough for gaming. And the fact that you can't upgrade your laptop would only make it worse.

True, unless you want to play old games.
Also upgrading laptops (even the ones that are somewhat upgradable) is not a particularly good idea.

 

[someguyinahat]

*tips top hat*
Glad to be of service.

Hey! Quit bitin' my style!

 

[Hugstable]

X05, I say this everytime, but I love you and your super posts! What's the most quotes you've ever done in a post?

 

[The Dear Leader]

This month on SteamGaf! Starring X05

 

[oipic]

Was only able to find Enclave but no free east india

East India appeared for me only after changing the site language to German (in the profile settings)- only Enclave was listed with this set to English.

 

[iosefe]

DLH.net seem to be geting hammered

 

[Gunstarheroes]

I'm gonna go live soon!

Quick notes: I do have a much better mic hooked up, but if the levels are not good, just let me know in the chat, and i'll adjust before i get too deep into gaming.

Speaking of, i plan to at least do Cave Story since i've never played it, and Shovel Knight because i should beat it....and maybe Bad Rats. Maybe.

 

[Beelzebubs]

East India appeared for me only after changing the site language to German - only Enclave was listed with this set to English.

Do it now, they're only giving 250 keys at a time.

 

[lashman]

I'm gonna go live soon!

Quick notes: I do have a much better mic hooked up, but if the levels are not good, just let me know in the chat, and i'll adjust before i get too deep into gaming.

Speaking of, i plan to at least do Cave Story since i've never played it, and Shovel Knight because i should beat it....and maybe Bad Rats. Maybe.

could you ... ummm ... up the quality a little bit? also - this is how your stream looks like right now (that's you playing the game - not browsing steam):

 

[Sajjaja]

X05 pls

 

[eek5]

Damn.. that empty feeling when you've gotten all available card drops. ;_;

 

[nbnt]

Instructions for participants:
I am giving away 3 Steam keys. To enter this giveaway, send a PM to ModBot with any subject line. In the body, copy and paste the entire line from the message below that corresponds to the game you want. (if you include more than one game, you will be blocked from entering). Confused? Watch this GIF tutorial or ask for help.

ModBot Basics:
- I really appreciate thank you messages, but please send them to me (nbnt, not ModBot!) via PM instead of in thread.
- Do not trade keys you win off-site to enrich yourself. Don't try to claim games you have no interest in collecting or playing. Don't claim games to give them to friends off-site.
- If the key is already taken you will not receive a reply. Replies may take a minute or two.

Rules for this Giveaway:
- If you are a lurker you are not eligible for this giveaway. You need five or more posts in either the current Steam thread or the previous one to be eligible
- This is a free for all! You can enter for multiple games on the list below. Send an individual PM for each game you'd like to win.
- This giveaway is a raffle. The winners will be selected by random draw 3 hours after the draw was created. Any games not claimed after that point will be given away first come first serve.



Transistor #2 -- MB-4E95349B0489456B - Taken by hitmon. 103 entrants total.
Transistor Plus Soundtrack -- MB-DC9F17E888A368C3 - Taken by JustLynx. 88 entrants total.
Transistor -- MB-B1EBBE0701F48E12 - Taken by ashecitism. 109 entrants total.

 

[MrTeachwell]

Damn.. that empty feeling when you've gotten all available card drops. ;_;

And not one of the 372 were foils!

 

[Gunstarheroes]

Alright, i'm about to go into Shovel Knight, should be good to go from here, i hope. For some reason Cave Story and Coin Crypt won't play nice with Xsplit.

 

[Turfster]

X05ing

These always give me a warm fuzzy feeling

 

[Atraveller]

True, unless you want to play old games.
Also upgrading laptops (even the ones that are somewhat upgradable) is not a particularly good idea.

And when the time you want to play more demanding comes, you would wish you've gotten a better laptop, I've been there before.

X05 pls

It's nice to have a recap

 

[iosefe]

lovely giveaway comrade.

 

[MarcoZombieCannon]

X05 pls

Come play with us.

 

[corrosivefrost]

Stop copying me, John.

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Nice giveaway, as always

 

[Stuggernaut]

Finally beat Dark Souls 2. I took my sweet ass time (114 hours played in all) playing a bunch of classes.

Was fun as hell though.

Now to play Dark Souls 1... when it goes on sale

 

[BHK3]

Blind Guardian is hammy by definition.

It's the kind of ham i'd put on a sandwich though. I guess just seeing them as npc's in a medicore game kinda makes me feel a certain type of way.

 

[FtHTiny]

Bought Shovel Knight and TiTS because of new month and stuff.
Got really hooked on Shovel Knight and played six hours yesterday but i still would like to map the use of the relics on a shoulderbutton instead of Up+X.

 

[iosefe]

Stop copying me, John.

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Nice giveaway, as always

i need your opinions. how worth is winning Transistor if it means i'm no longer eligible to potentially win D:OS?

 

[rtcn63]

i need your opinions. how worth is winning Transistor if it means i'm no longer eligible to potentially win D:OS?

Can't you just win Transistor, then give out another game (from humble or the sort) and qualify again? Don't see a no winners daily rule.

 

[Spring-Loaded]

i need your opinions. how worth is winning Transistor if it means i'm no longer eligible to potentially win D:OS?

It's like looking at this, but you're playing a neat game

That's how worth it is

 

[Nabs]

Bought Shovel Knight and TiTS because of new month and stuff.
Got really hooked on Shovel Knight and played six hours yesterday but i still would like to map the use of the relics on a shoulderbutton instead of Up+X.

You can change it from Up+X to a button in the menu.

 

[alr1ght]

Bought Shovel Knight and TiTS because of new month and stuff.
Got really hooked on Shovel Knight and played six hours yesterday but i still would like to map the use of the relics on a shoulderbutton instead of Up+X.

You can. They call it "button mode" or something.

 

[iosefe]

Can't you just win Transistor, then give out another game (from humble or the sort) and qualify again? Don't see a no winners daily rule.

i guess thats a possibility

It's like looking at this, but you're playing a neat game

That's how worth it is

that is beautiful

 

[Sarcasm]

How the heck do you get DLH.net to switch to german? I tried the drop down menu and hit the button but nothing happens and it stays in English...

 

[nbnt]

nvm, something about top of the page something.

 

[jblank83]

Thanks for the cool giveaway, nbnt

 

[ev0]

Wow awesome Transistor giveaway

 

[iosefe]

Hehe, thanks guys.

OT talk about giveaways, hope it's ok to share here:

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I won't be entering anymore giveaways because that Transistor giveaway is probably going to be my last until I get a job: https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3913/14628109609_5f7631878d_o.jpg and I just ordered an Oculus Rift from ebay because Oculus won't send to "freight-forwarding" companies and that costed me a fortune. So I'm pretty broke right now. Thanks for everything, bros.

honestly, you've done way more than you ever needed to do. i'm sure that Oculus is worth it

 

[Ventara]

X05, I say this everytime, but I love you and your super posts! What's the most quotes you've ever done in a post?

He'll reply to you tomorrow in his daily massive post. Don't miss it!

And not one of the 372 were foils!

Damn, that's bad luck. And I thought I had a bad foil rate with my 2/140 so far.

i need your opinions. how worth is winning Transistor if it means i'm no longer eligible to potentially win D:OS?

I'm sorry, but you're not gonna win either.

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;P

 

[iosefe]

I'm sorry, but you're not gonna win either.

Spoiler

;P

.

 

[The Dear Leader]

10 out of 10 giveaway nbnt, would be told what I can't do again!

 

[Reg]

This is beautiful. I would totally hang this on my wall.

 

[Atraveller]

This is beautiful. I would totally hang this on my wall.

I was never a big fan of Bastion's gameplay, but I want to play Transistor just for its art.

Edit: OT:

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I'm going to see the Grand Canyon on a chopper the day after tomorrow, can't wait!

 

[ev0]

Found a couple leftovers

Instructions for participants:
I am giving away 2 keys. To enter this giveaway, send a PM to ModBot with any subject line. In the body, copy and paste the entire line from the message below that corresponds to the game you want. (if you include more than one game, you will be blocked from entering). Confused? Watch this GIF tutorial or ask for help.

ModBot Basics:
- I really appreciate thank you messages, but please send them to me (ev0, not ModBot!) via PM instead of in thread.
- Do not trade keys you win off-site to enrich yourself. Don't try to claim games you have no interest in collecting or playing. Don't claim games to give them to friends off-site.
- If the key is already taken you will not receive a reply. Replies may take a minute or two.



GTR Evolution -- MB-8A1DE3F9A7E55AF8 - Taken by Asharakk

Humble Indie Bundle #3 (Desura) -- MB-FF08651E7C9EAC38 - Taken by SSPssp

 

[BinaryPork2737]

So I encountered my first bug in Trails

I'm not sure if this is a good idea, or a terrible one.

It's the best idea

"every time improve idling IdleM@ster" ?

Yes.

It's like looking at this, but you're playing a neat game

That's how worth it is

That picture looks more beautiful every time I see it.

 

[iosefe]

So I encountered my first bug in Trails

looks like your TitS have been censored

 

[Atraveller]

looks like your TitS have been censored

Ba dum tsss

 

[FtHTiny]

You can. They call it "button mode" or something.

Thanks alot. That´s what i get for overreading it. Tried to remap it but it didn´t let me because i didn´t see that extra option.
Should be even better to play now.

 

[toddhunter]

Rush for Glory - Competent tower defense game, if not an uninspired one. It feels like the type of game you might fall in love with if it had been your first exposure to the genre because everything is done well enough. But personally I've seen the same sort of game about 100 times now and there is just nothing to make it stand out.

Solid, but not exciting enough.

Vector - Level based endless runner (is that the right term?) with stylish enough graphics and a nice selection of moves (jump, slide, you know the stuff). My main issue, besides being derivative of several other games in the genre is I found it quite buggy, with quite a few crashes at the end of levels.
Still, the "being chased" rather than instant fail mechanic is a choice I like and I think it is worth a look if you like this style of game.

Worth a quick look

Spud's Quest - I never really liked Dizzy, so a Dizzy style game that isn't that great holds little appeal. It isn't terrible I suppose, but everything feels cramped and I couldn't get into it.

Might be enjoyable for "somebody"

Ionball 2: Ionstorm - Standard breakout clone with the main distinguising feature being an odd isometric view. Unfortunately this view makes the game extremely tough to play and kind of ruins what wouldn't have been that great anyway.

Nope.

Super Lemonade Factory - Pixel art puzzle platformer that requires you to push boxes with one character, jump higher with the other etc etc. It has been done many times before and the attempted "but charm" approach doesn't quite come off here.

Fun for two seconds.

 

[corrosivefrost]

Ba dum tsss

 

[Milamber]

 

[iosefe]

this makes me feel soemthing

 

[8 X 11 Printer Paper]

Still bummed UA got canceled.

 

[Infinite Justice]

hmmm

maybe i should try that idling program