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STEAM | August 2015 - Three versions of Windows since the last Half-Life
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Leafhopper
Banned
If it's like the GTA 4 one it will run poorly lol.
but it's pretty
Se7enSword
Banned
That looks really good. I bet my laptop can handle it.
Good thing I got Gsync...
freshVeggie
Member
Man, this looks nice.
Leafhopper
Banned
Hey I played games today!
Lying is not nice!
You are playing one right now :3c
Maybe!
It would probably explode instantly upon trying to run it lol.
Leafhopper
Banned
Oh RIP ;_;. Maybe you can get 10 FPS or somethin'
Still not quite sure what LISA is exactly. Looked like Earthbound but, the way the story plays out it looks like it's a bit more linear than that?
I'm going to wait until I have an actual gaming PC. ;o
Then I can go around stabbing people in photorealistic glory.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Raiden... aren't those PS1 games?
Not anymore.
To tell the truth it's been two console generations it's not anymore, and even in the PS2 generation there was a lot of "high level" programming (that's the exact opposite to code to the metal... high level means closer to human / far from "machine" comprehension).
Middlewares, frameworks, engines, means write your game code in high level language, while code to the metal - should - mean direct access to hardware asm coding, but today it's a term being used by PR as a marketing stunt.
High level language means portability, and in most modern engines it's just a mouse click: obviously if you want to manage graphical limits / options etc according to the platform, you have to work at it, and you can even fail in a very wrong way if you don't know what you're doing.
Nowadays it's pretty impossible to make games coding to the metal... It's impossible because the amount of coding would be something tragically enormous and hyper difficult. The modern hardware is so powerful and the amount of memory is so huge it's not even slightly recommended. Why spending a puzzling amount of thousands hours for the most simple things when you can achieve the same results with negligible differences for 1/1000 of the work?
Obviously you have to thank programmers coding libraries etc, but nowadays programming a game is a very different matter of what "programming heroes" had to deal years ago managing low resources in asm language. Ie, today there are indie games which tributes to old glories that are several hundreds of megabytes, while similar games would have fit a 512kb cartridge years ago...
I'm not saying it's a laziness matter: gaming is an industry that most of the times isn't dictated by abilities...
Leafhopper
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Syphon Filter
Member
what the... how is that possible.
Se7enSword
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corrosivefrost
Member
I'm not quite sure what you're trying to get at here, but I'm pretty sure it's not a counterpoint to what L.O.R.D. was saying about coding for a console vs. coding for PCs due to the number of permutations based on hardware configuration.
What I'm trying to tell is, you make your game programming it using a framework / engine / etc.
You "switch the target" from a console to PC and it works "out of the box" in most of the cases.
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Obviously if you're doing the right things you should enable community stuff (from PSN/XBL to SW), AND you should put a bit of options (audio / video enhancements, controller settings, etc), but many times - especially in japanese games ports - there's just a minimum effort once the game is "running" (low locked framerate and resolution, no adjustable FOV, poor AA and AF solutions, almost no options, etc...).
You don't have to write code for billions of pc hardware combo... the engine / framework / middleware etc will target for you: OS, minimum hardware and Direct X (or OpenGL).
Dsyndrome
Member
GOG and Steam am cry.
Dsyndrome
Member
Sorry, too easy.
topkek
There's a free one right now
DRIFTING LANDS - http://store.steampowered.com/app/322750/
The Demo for it is actually the beta of the game and it has come a long ways since it was first released. You might want to check it out since you want some R-Type.
THERE's also all of these from just skimming through the first 2 or 3 pages of Shoot'em ups.
Dandy - http://store.steampowered.com/app/381610/
Galacide - http://store.steampowered.com/app/356790/
Mobile Light Force (aka Gunbird) - http://store.steampowered.com/app/379370/
XII ZEAL - http://store.steampowered.com/app/364250/
Supercharged Robot VULKAISER - http://store.steampowered.com/app/349680/
Super Star Path - http://store.steampowered.com/app/375120/
Aces of the Luftwaffe - http://store.steampowered.com/app/353940/
Sky Force Anniversary - http://store.steampowered.com/app/355050/
Redux: Dark Matters - http://store.steampowered.com/app/336930/
Kamui - http://store.steampowered.com/app/283820/
RefleX - http://store.steampowered.com/app/281860/
ALLTYNEX Second - http://store.steampowered.com/app/283840/
Screen from SKYFORCE
Also Syder Arcade, a very pretty 2.5D horizontal shooter that's pretty decent. Note that the second hardest difficulty is still pretty easy to 1CC; the hardest difficulty is an obnoxious one-hit-gameover mode.There's a free one right now
DRIFTING LANDS - http://store.steampowered.com/app/322750/
The Demo for it is actually the beta of the game and it has come a long ways since it was first released. You might want to check it out since you want some R-Type.
THERE's also all of these from just skimming through the first 2 or 3 pages of Shoot'em ups.
Dandy - http://store.steampowered.com/app/381610/
Galacide - http://store.steampowered.com/app/356790/
Mobile Light Force (aka Gunbird) - http://store.steampowered.com/app/379370/
XII ZEAL - http://store.steampowered.com/app/364250/
Supercharged Robot VULKAISER - http://store.steampowered.com/app/349680/
Super Star Path - http://store.steampowered.com/app/375120/
Aces of the Luftwaffe - http://store.steampowered.com/app/353940/
Sky Force Anniversary - http://store.steampowered.com/app/355050/
Redux: Dark Matters - http://store.steampowered.com/app/336930/
Kamui - http://store.steampowered.com/app/283820/
RefleX - http://store.steampowered.com/app/281860/
ALLTYNEX Second - http://store.steampowered.com/app/283840/
corrosivefrost
Member
Ok...
Yes, on the beach where you start in the first chapter -- and it's more ninja than Raiden is.
Oh my...
I look forward to the moment I can $15 this game and start with mods from the very beginning.
There's a lot more I just didn't want to take the time.
Whoa....Gwent cards don't carry over?! Well.. I guess it's not like it's that hard to get them back once you know where to look I guess.
full list:
1. Will _________ item or item type carry over?
Equipment in inventory (weapons, armor including Witcher Gear)? - YES
Items in Stash? - Unknown but we assume the more general rules that apply to inventory also apply to stash.
Crafted alchemy items - YES
Consumables (food, drink) - NO
Alchemy crafting components in inventory - YES
Recipes/Schematics you have already found - YES
Book and letters - NO
Monster Trophies - NO
Quest Items - NO (these are things like Kiera's Lamp)
Money - YES
Gwent Cards - NO
So Quiet is (spoilers from the video)
Flash+Deadshot? Wut? That's so overpowered that I don't even know why is Big Boss needed for the mission lol
was bored, did a barebones port of zkyapp to unity html5 lol
it's a pretty shitty version so no fun stuff and it'll look like it's hung before it starts but took me like 10 minutes lol
unity is actually pretty neat for little stuff like this, i feel like porting my actual games to unity now
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
There's a free one right now
DRIFTING LANDS - http://store.steampowered.com/app/322750/
The Demo for it is actually the beta of the game and it has come a long ways since it was first released. You might want to check it out since you want some R-Type.
THERE's also all of these from just skimming through the first 2 or 3 pages of Shoot'em ups.
Dandy - http://store.steampowered.com/app/381610/
Galacide - http://store.steampowered.com/app/356790/
Mobile Light Force (aka Gunbird) - http://store.steampowered.com/app/379370/
XII ZEAL - http://store.steampowered.com/app/364250/
Supercharged Robot VULKAISER - http://store.steampowered.com/app/349680/
Super Star Path - http://store.steampowered.com/app/375120/
Aces of the Luftwaffe - http://store.steampowered.com/app/353940/
Sky Force Anniversary - http://store.steampowered.com/app/355050/
Redux: Dark Matters - http://store.steampowered.com/app/336930/
Kamui - http://store.steampowered.com/app/283820/
RefleX - http://store.steampowered.com/app/281860/
ALLTYNEX Second - http://store.steampowered.com/app/283840/
Screen from SKYFORCE
Thanks, though some of those reek of bullethell.
i didn't do them either, maybe i will in new game+!
You're a bit late, that video is a year old. But yeah, Quiet seems overpowered. I wonder how useful she will be in a no kill run though.
Hero Prinny
Member
She aint op, breh, its big boss, big boss fucks shit up and stuff he can totally beat quite cause... Cause... Uh... REASONS!!
Nah but i told my bro the same thing, she probably dies by sacrificing herself or something cause that woman can fuck everybody up without breaking a sweat
Atraveller
Banned
There's this thing called quick save.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
I was checking my Humble Bundle account and I 'have' Tropico 3 and 5 in there. It says I should redeem it before October. There's no key and I absolutely have no memory of actually purchasing anything Tropico in there.
Actually, the first arcade game was running on something similar to original PC AT with Adlib.
(V30, which is like a supercharged version of 8086 and YM3812+sample chip)
Max Payne 3 may as well be the pinnacle of TPP shooting.
But it's a terrible game about terrible people doing terrible things to each other in terrible cutscenes that makes you hate yourself for enjoying the shooting sections.
Whereas Spec Ops is a terrible shooter about terrible people doing terrible things to each other in terrible cutscenes that makes you hate yourself for enjoying any activity that would result in a loss of life in real world.
So, umm, yeah... Both games are terrible, but Max Payne 3 is so because someone at Rockstar watched Man on Fire too many time, while Spec Ops is terrible because Walt Williams wants you to question why do you really enjoy doing terrible things to simulacra of living people.
Just my $0.02
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
I think someone posted an Idle Master tutorial online somewhere or something and misrepresented how it works. Or maybe they just weren't aware.
I've had about 50 people email me today asking how to "Fix this bug" where Idle Master just says "Idling Complete" after they sign in. Some people even included a link to their Steam profile, where they own less than 10 games and have like 100+ hours in all of them.
I get so many Frequently Asked Questions about Idle Master, that I think I'm going to start building an online help-doc and hotlink certain parts of the application to the online help.
Sometimes developing software can be frustrating.
I've had about 50 people email me today asking how to "Fix this bug" where Idle Master just says "Idling Complete" after they sign in. Some people even included a link to their Steam profile, where they own less than 10 games and have like 100+ hours in all of them.
I get so many Frequently Asked Questions about Idle Master, that I think I'm going to start building an online help-doc and hotlink certain parts of the application to the online help.
Sometimes developing software can be frustrating.
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