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Wish that trailer showed more. Curious what the game play is going to be like
Still worth it for Teslagrad and a couple of +1s (and a couple of giveaways)
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STEAM | August 2015 - Three versions of Windows since the last Half-Life
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Wish that trailer showed more. Curious what the game play is going to be like
Still worth it for Teslagrad and a couple of +1s (and a couple of giveaways)
The aRPG guys from the studio(the ones who were making diablo 2) left then?
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.
That sounds like Valve alright. Why act when you can react?
ELI5 pls.
That wasn't intentional, though, which is what I specifically said.
Atraveller
Banned
What does he not look forward to?
Atraveller
Banned
Reading comprehension.
Chance Hale
Member
Why isn't Zombi up on the PC when both consoles have it. Ubi pls
The PC was misbehaving earlier and will now get the game later as punishment.
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.
TL;DR: If Valve made an official API that showed a user's available card drops, Idle Master wouldn't need you to log in to Steam. Also, the portable version of Idle Master never updates itself.
Satellite Reign launch trailer.
That city looks so good, and the music.. oh man. That's some real cyberpunk goodness.
That city looks so good, and the music.. oh man. That's some real cyberpunk goodness.
oh max show me your powers predict this by rewatching and redoing the same thing
hey max get me 5 bottles
bottle breaks
rewind time
move box to reach bottle and not break it
every character: HELLA BEEATCH FOR REALS TOTES
GAF: omg game of the year better than Witcher 3 and rocket league
👍
hey max get me 5 bottles
bottle breaks
rewind time
move box to reach bottle and not break it
every character: HELLA BEEATCH FOR REALS TOTES
GAF: omg game of the year better than Witcher 3 and rocket league
👍
Chairmanchuck
Member
Sounds like Shadows of Mordor, the mediocre mixup between AC and Batman.
Judging a game by its worst partis like judging a theme park by its toilet graffiti.
bobnowhere
Member
Damn, now I want this too. Kept almost buying it when it was EA.
My SSD might be dying, le sigh.
I left my computer running overnight, when I woke up, Windows was still running (mouse movement/desktop wallpaper still visible), but everything crashed, and both Ctrl-Shift-Esc and Ctrl-Alt-Del didn't produce anything. Had to shutdown power manually, on next boot it POSTed for a 3-4 times longer than usual.
Windows booted fine, and after another reboot everything went back to normal. I'm guessing system SSD shut down to conserve power and didn't wake up properly.
Or something else... Knowing my luck, something more serious.
Le sigh.
I left my computer running overnight, when I woke up, Windows was still running (mouse movement/desktop wallpaper still visible), but everything crashed, and both Ctrl-Shift-Esc and Ctrl-Alt-Del didn't produce anything. Had to shutdown power manually, on next boot it POSTed for a 3-4 times longer than usual.
Windows booted fine, and after another reboot everything went back to normal. I'm guessing system SSD shut down to conserve power and didn't wake up properly.
Or something else... Knowing my luck, something more serious.
Le sigh.
-MD-
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One episode of that was enough. Couldn't handle 4 more.
the cans part is the worst lol, took me so long to find the one in the bonfire
that's like a legit dark souls moment lol
it gets a lot better tho
texhnolyze
Banned
Looks amazing, as always.
I've been following this game since the kickstarter campaign started, but this month is pretty packed for me. I'll have to save it for later I guess.
ey man. im just playing the game, tho im just 2 eps in
so far theres stuff to like but shit is a chore. and the seeing outcome then rewind back and fix is like.. already done plenty on ep 1. why am I still doing it? I get it as a narrative tool of sorts but so far the game thinks its a fun mechanic or some shit considering how much I run into it, whereas its just.. slow.. and pointless.. and stakesless
also not really judging the game as much as the idea of it being goty over the fucking Witcher 3
but ey, opinions. ill still play this through the end I think. hoping it gets hella better cause.. yeah
the only aspect im enjoying thus far is the ambiguity of some of the choices, or at least that I so far give em the credit of doing something wih them
like, yeah I could write my name on this wall, and make us all friends, but writing straight up "I was here" can be pretty incriminating in the future if something happens here.. that sorta thing
thats what these type of games should do but im not encountering nearly enough of it and most stuff seem to be pretty obvious choices or just "oh no! this person got hit in the head! rewind back and warn them!"
how is that fun or even gameplay. cant understand why this hapoened more than once, let alone several times. it is not a choice, game doesnt give you the thingie where it counts as one. it is literally going through motions without any stake on any outcome. basically a QTE but worse cause it takes way more time than just pressing a button
like, yeah I could write my name on this wall, and make us all friends, but writing straight up "I was here" can be pretty incriminating in the future if something happens here.. that sorta thing
thats what these type of games should do but im not encountering nearly enough of it and most stuff seem to be pretty obvious choices or just "oh no! this person got hit in the head! rewind back and warn them!"
how is that fun or even gameplay. cant understand why this hapoened more than once, let alone several times. it is not a choice, game doesnt give you the thingie where it counts as one. it is literally going through motions without any stake on any outcome. basically a QTE but worse cause it takes way more time than just pressing a button
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
the bottle collection is the worst part of Life is Stange
It gets much better. I already loved it from the beginning but from episode 3 and on it gets fucking crazy. I would definitely stick with it.
Have you checked your SSD's SMART readout?
it's ubisoft game,,,forget it
Looks really unique.. I'm really intrigued by the mechanized aspects of the environments. It looks like they've done a good job of integrating it into a lush world.
Nearly bought Nekopara during the weekend sale, GAF what was I thinking?
Kicking myself over Talos though.... mumble mumble backlogs...
played a lot more witcha, got out of that first area and into the first "open world" part. i'm kind of surprised it's not like literally open world like skyrim and instead it's segmented into areas but i think it makes a lot more sense since this is like an entire continent rather than just a region or whatever. it's essentially bigger witcha 2 areas and that's about it, which is fine by me, i don't really think it makes much of a difference for my enjoyment
overall i like it a lot, i think the quests are cool, the story's good so far and the question marks aren't too terrible. they're still a hassle but it's not like assassins creed or whatever that feels like absolute work, even if it sort of feels like that, and half of the times it's not even worth the trouble. i tried toggling them off but then it's like i read a note that says "i hid the stash here" and i can't see where cos it's not marked on the map. which is also kind of lame cos they're all question marks so sometimes i just open a chest and it's like QUEST COMPLETE and i don't even know what i did
other than that, i feel like it's got a bit of like a systems overload thing, with like every 5 minutes adding another layer of mini systems that don't feel all that meaningful, at least so far. i feel like maybe if i didn't get a tutorial for each it'd be better, i guess, and it's still weird that some things are tutorialized while others aren't, like how u need a blacksmith to craft swords and an armorsmith for armor, which seems obvious, but at the time i had only met the one blacksmith and i didn't even know armorsmiths existed
i'm also not a big fan of the interface, i can already sense item management being a nightmare, specially since u have to manually tell it to sort things and also cos it's pretty annoying to navigate with a controller, with no quick button to jump item categories and stuff. but things like having the gwent deck thing be on select instead of start and how opening your inventory/map seems to be a bit more animated than it should so it takes a bit longer than i would like to really annoy me. other annoyances like not being able to zoom out as much as i'd like or having to go through three or four skipped dialogues to buy something at a shop or the gps thing being super unreliable are also pretty dumb. also they really fucked up the codex, i really hate that they did that
and also while i'd say this is definitely pretty fun to play, the combat is no dark souls or batman or whatever they were going for. it feels like a more nuanced witcha 2 which is fine but it's also pretty sluggish and clunky at times, and like, while dark souls has all that animation priority nonsense going on, it always feels super responsive and fair. here i feel like i'm always on like a milisecond of input lag or something, and i just have issues selecting who i want to lock-on to and stuff. just changing directions has that little turning animation that doesn't work great and sometimes doing ike tight corners can like get you face to the wall and stuff. and horse riding is kind of bad, i like the whole stick to roads stuff but again it feels unresponsive and slow and i just hate getting stuck on trees all the time lol. it's not great
but yeah, the quests are awesome and the story is pretty good (tho i guess less immediatelly intriguing as witcha2's story), and it's still witcha universe which is pretty much all i wanted out of this game, but it's not without issues and very apparent ones, at least for me.
also ciri's awesome i love her
there's a lot of filler stuff that i don't particularly love, tho it does work for world building and stuff. main characters get fairly rounded out by the end and i think it's in part thanks to seeing how they would react on different scenarios if u rewind again and again
like i remember having my first beer when i was like 14 and being like yuck but by age 18, cmon. like everyone in my highschool was getting drunk and/or high at age 18, i don't know who max's supposed to represent
in general i think a big problem with the game is that blackwell is like the most impossibly unbelievable school ever. like, why couldn't max just go to a regular school and go to photography school, why did they have to make every single student and teacher weird and unrelatable as fuck? wouldn't that actually make max actually stand out and make her feel weird and alone rather than everyone in the school being fucking creepos
it's like, chloe is kind of stereotype punk rock but at least i can sort of see my teenager self in her a bit i guess
but yeah they really overdid it with hipstersville
overall i like it a lot, i think the quests are cool, the story's good so far and the question marks aren't too terrible. they're still a hassle but it's not like assassins creed or whatever that feels like absolute work, even if it sort of feels like that, and half of the times it's not even worth the trouble. i tried toggling them off but then it's like i read a note that says "i hid the stash here" and i can't see where cos it's not marked on the map. which is also kind of lame cos they're all question marks so sometimes i just open a chest and it's like QUEST COMPLETE and i don't even know what i did
other than that, i feel like it's got a bit of like a systems overload thing, with like every 5 minutes adding another layer of mini systems that don't feel all that meaningful, at least so far. i feel like maybe if i didn't get a tutorial for each it'd be better, i guess, and it's still weird that some things are tutorialized while others aren't, like how u need a blacksmith to craft swords and an armorsmith for armor, which seems obvious, but at the time i had only met the one blacksmith and i didn't even know armorsmiths existed
i'm also not a big fan of the interface, i can already sense item management being a nightmare, specially since u have to manually tell it to sort things and also cos it's pretty annoying to navigate with a controller, with no quick button to jump item categories and stuff. but things like having the gwent deck thing be on select instead of start and how opening your inventory/map seems to be a bit more animated than it should so it takes a bit longer than i would like to really annoy me. other annoyances like not being able to zoom out as much as i'd like or having to go through three or four skipped dialogues to buy something at a shop or the gps thing being super unreliable are also pretty dumb. also they really fucked up the codex, i really hate that they did that
and also while i'd say this is definitely pretty fun to play, the combat is no dark souls or batman or whatever they were going for. it feels like a more nuanced witcha 2 which is fine but it's also pretty sluggish and clunky at times, and like, while dark souls has all that animation priority nonsense going on, it always feels super responsive and fair. here i feel like i'm always on like a milisecond of input lag or something, and i just have issues selecting who i want to lock-on to and stuff. just changing directions has that little turning animation that doesn't work great and sometimes doing ike tight corners can like get you face to the wall and stuff. and horse riding is kind of bad, i like the whole stick to roads stuff but again it feels unresponsive and slow and i just hate getting stuck on trees all the time lol. it's not great
but yeah, the quests are awesome and the story is pretty good (tho i guess less immediatelly intriguing as witcha2's story), and it's still witcha universe which is pretty much all i wanted out of this game, but it's not without issues and very apparent ones, at least for me.
also ciri's awesome i love her
i dont think anyone says lis is gonna be goty lol
well, the game is essentially those big choices alone, and just going through the world and engaging with it as much as you want. the warning the dumb girl with the dumb voice bit is for some reason in every single episode and it's terrible but when it comes to the big choices they're legit hard to make and not because they're like super dramatic or whatever (tho sometimes they are) but because they're usually presented really well with like both sides of the argument having some merit and in general there never being a better choice overall
there's a lot of filler stuff that i don't particularly love, tho it does work for world building and stuff. main characters get fairly rounded out by the end and i think it's in part thanks to seeing how they would react on different scenarios if u rewind again and again
yeah that's just dumb. and it gets kind of worse later on lol
like i remember having my first beer when i was like 14 and being like yuck but by age 18, cmon. like everyone in my highschool was getting drunk and/or high at age 18, i don't know who max's supposed to represent
in general i think a big problem with the game is that blackwell is like the most impossibly unbelievable school ever. like, why couldn't max just go to a regular school and go to photography school, why did they have to make every single student and teacher weird and unrelatable as fuck? wouldn't that actually make max actually stand out and make her feel weird and alone rather than everyone in the school being fucking creepos
it's like, chloe is kind of stereotype punk rock but at least i can sort of see my teenager self in her a bit i guess
but yeah they really overdid it with hipstersville
Chance Hale
Member
Unity ran far better than the console versions at least.
Is Volume worth looking into?
And Max is just into the hard shit. Vodka over piss water. Do think there are always kids who are sticks in the mudd though, if you're doing the partying generally you aren't going to run with their circles
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WinterDemons
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Also,
Two 26% off coupons for GMG (from me and one from beyond)
Expires 4PM UTC today August 18th
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and lose doto chocobo and moogle? are you insane?!
I kid I kid
It probably will have at least -33% discount during winter sale.
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
ashecitism
Member
Yup, a couple of Linux sites have been reporting the HW survey numbers and it's been on a steady decline. Hilariously they always come up with excuses. "The surveys never show up for me on Linux" "GTAV came out" "TW3 came out" "People just waiting for the Steam Machines launch" etc What went up is the game count.
Your second paragraph is like a perfect description of the witcher sense.
But yeah, opinions, not everybody likes everything, nothing wrong with that.
But it definetely does get better, the bottle searching is literally the worst part of the game so far.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Best Buy wished me a happy birthday.
So I guess I'm alive?
So I guess I'm alive?
texhnolyze
Banned
Yeah, it's weird.
I've been wondering about this as well.
Happy birthday, Wuvcraft~
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