someguyinahat
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Stealth-based precision platforming isn't really my cup of tea, but it's one of the new hot things kinda like Ronin. That said, touting your cutscenes as a big selling point is pretty weird.
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STEAM | August 2015 - Three versions of Windows since the last Half-Life
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Stealth-based precision platforming isn't really my cup of tea, but it's one of the new hot things kinda like Ronin. That said, touting your cutscenes as a big selling point is pretty weird.
Definitely depends on the field then.
We always have to keep up with everything during the semester, since at the end we have a test. And it's always a damn slaughter.
One example:
(I'm the 2.9/30 lol.)
Those tests account for 30% or so of the course.
It simply isn't possible for anyone to get good results in a lot of courses.
You study well? Damn shame, you still get fucked.
(I follow engineering with specialisation in ICT.)
The thing is: those tests are nowhere near a representation of the difficulty we will experience when we have work.
Work will be way easier than the sick things we have to be able to do in these tests.
I had a 640x480 monitor about 20-22 years ago and then by the late 90's had got a 1024x768 one. Even by the mid noughties 1280x960/1024 was pretty much what most monitors were and even then quite a few widescreen monitors started to show up and most laptop screens were either 1280x800 or 1366x768 so Ubisoft have always been a little odd it seems.
Castlevania, just the first game mind, has plenty of decent track in it let alone the whole series on the NES. Reading through a USGamer interview sounds like this might be the start if an imitative by Capcom and Digital Eclipse might also be looking at other partners to bring NES games to current and future systems and a roundabout way of preserving older titles from the past. A Castlevania Legacy Collection in the future would be awesome,
Castlevania, just the first game mind, has plenty of decent track in it let alone the whole series on the NES. Reading through a USGamer interview sounds like this might be the start if an imitative by Capcom and Digital Eclipse might also be looking at other partners to bring NES games to current and future systems and a roundabout way of preserving older titles from the past. A Castlevania Legacy Collection in the future would be awesome,
AssCreed LibHD really ought to auto-save more often than it does. I found out the hard way that completing a naval trade doesn't trigger an auto-save, unlike Black Flag and Rogue. Neither does looting guards (i.e. earning money in general), changing outfits or reducing notoriety. Buying something does the trick, though.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
Here are some Grandia 2 impressions
seems like an okay port. The lack of widescreen isn't surprising given that some of the magic spells are 4:3 prerendered videos but surely someone will find a way to hack 16:9 into the thing. Also, seems locked at 30 fps but i'm not terribly surprised by that either
you have a strong constitution to feel the need to play that. They do nothing with the main character and the whole thing feels like a half baked mess of a game.
seems like an okay port. The lack of widescreen isn't surprising given that some of the magic spells are 4:3 prerendered videos but surely someone will find a way to hack 16:9 into the thing. Also, seems locked at 30 fps but i'm not terribly surprised by that either
you have a strong constitution to feel the need to play that. They do nothing with the main character and the whole thing feels like a half baked mess of a game.
Q
Queen of Hunting
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grandia 2 goes up today right
Yeah, it's an exceedingly boring game.
lashman
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In every AssCreed game I make sure to do a collectable like a high point of flag/feather/animoose fragment if I'm about ready to quit because it pretty much always saves after finding one of them but I'm pretty sure Liberation doesn't half the time.
Isn't that a Green Day song.
I know it's not before someone wants to be a smart arse and tell me the exact title like the pedantic so and so you are!!!
Needs a beefy gaming PC to run a dreamcast game? Oh man, how did they screw it up so bad? Because otherwise it looks solid. The graphics look very clean.
Actually all this talk about 4:3 aspect ratios and resolutions from the past I might see if I can find a decent old CRT 4:3 monitor that isn't miles away or completely knackered.
Holy shit that took all of 5 minutes
Don't know if I really want to spend a couple of hundred quid though.
Holy shit that took all of 5 minutes
Don't know if I really want to spend a couple of hundred quid though.
Leafhopper
Banned
I guess so.
AHA-Lambda
Member
I finished it.
God knows why, stubbornness and OCD I guess, it certainly wasn't on the game's merits.
Link says £30 and $22, please tell me that's a typo :/
Yeah I would love for this to be trend. So many great games that just happen to have great music in them, even helping learn the guitar as I tried to work out how to play them. Capcom & Konami seemed to grab quite a lot of good ones, albeit it a bunch of the interesting ones are licensed properties so I doubt that those would get the treatment. Just some quick examples:
Mission Impossible
Monster In My Pocket
Gradius 2
The Dear Leader
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Every time I see a HD CRT like that it just blows my mind that a picture like that can come from a monitor like that. I would love to have one of those, the hertz on those things are insane with almost 0 input lag if I remember right.
lashman
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They probably didn't want to use too much time and money to port old game. It probably works on most current gaming PCs and much higher resolution than Dreamcast was.
MMBosstones86
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um yeah. Agreed.
Went through Engineering and it was a real party.
"Sorry man, can't go on Friday night...need to sit in a basement and write some code".
Wake Me Up When September Ends.
So no, then you'd miss MGS5. Duh.
Hey SteamGAF i am back from the bench 
While i was out i saw that you stared GOTY talk so i decided to see what can i do to make voting easier this year. So i tried to create Google Form and then use responses to calculate results. This is what i have for now. If you want to use it (i am looking at you jshackles ) or have some requests/suggestions etc. just write them in here.
This is the form you will need to fill. It contains 6 mandatory fields (Nick and 5 choices for games) and one optional field (mini review for your No1. Choice). Every choice will have drop down list of games you can choose from (i will try to enter every game you ask me to enter, last year there was around 150 unique games and i will try at least to match that number). And that's it, only thing you will need to do is choose your games and submit.
Now i will show you how back-end looks like.
First sheet is simply your responses recorded from form submissions. Nothing more, nothing less.
Second sheet is where things are getting interesting. Blue square marks list of games for drop down list in form with Genres. Then i created tables for every choice separately (red square). Every Choice is then compared to main list of games and unique names are displayed, genre is assigned and table then counts how much displayed name is repeated in that choice. After that table just multiplies count number with number of points. That is same for all 5 choices.
Third sheet is for Genre Points. Only genres are displayed and points that game in that genre got. I did it for every choice separately (red square) and then i made Total Points count (blue square). This is optional but I made it just in case somebody wants to see witch genre got most points.
Then we have sheet for Total point count and charts (in this case i used pie charts just to show how it can look). Red square shows game name, genre and total number of points that game got (sum of all points from choices tables). Blue square counts number of Genres so there can be chart that shows which genre has most entries. And you can see charts (in this case separate charts for every choice).
Everything is calculated in real time (well almost in real time, it takes 1-2 minutes for Google Sheets to calculate everything and display it) so there should be minimal work needed for those results to be presented on GAF.
Pros:
Cons:
Also i have something to confess to you. I became console peasant, i bought PS4. And worst ting i did is that i played FPS with gamepad (Black Ops 3 beta). Please forgive me (PS4 Short review: Nice piece of hardware that will offer you hours and hours of entertainment but there is big dark cloud above it called PSN).
P.S. Congrats to Salsa he is now proud Argie like Zky Also Mad Max rewview embargo is day before release.
While i was out i saw that you stared GOTY talk so i decided to see what can i do to make voting easier this year. So i tried to create Google Form and then use responses to calculate results. This is what i have for now. If you want to use it (i am looking at you jshackles ) or have some requests/suggestions etc. just write them in here.
This is the form you will need to fill. It contains 6 mandatory fields (Nick and 5 choices for games) and one optional field (mini review for your No1. Choice). Every choice will have drop down list of games you can choose from (i will try to enter every game you ask me to enter, last year there was around 150 unique games and i will try at least to match that number). And that's it, only thing you will need to do is choose your games and submit.
Now i will show you how back-end looks like.
First sheet is simply your responses recorded from form submissions. Nothing more, nothing less.
Second sheet is where things are getting interesting. Blue square marks list of games for drop down list in form with Genres. Then i created tables for every choice separately (red square). Every Choice is then compared to main list of games and unique names are displayed, genre is assigned and table then counts how much displayed name is repeated in that choice. After that table just multiplies count number with number of points. That is same for all 5 choices.
Third sheet is for Genre Points. Only genres are displayed and points that game in that genre got. I did it for every choice separately (red square) and then i made Total Points count (blue square). This is optional but I made it just in case somebody wants to see witch genre got most points.
Then we have sheet for Total point count and charts (in this case i used pie charts just to show how it can look). Red square shows game name, genre and total number of points that game got (sum of all points from choices tables). Blue square counts number of Genres so there can be chart that shows which genre has most entries. And you can see charts (in this case separate charts for every choice).
Everything is calculated in real time (well almost in real time, it takes 1-2 minutes for Google Sheets to calculate everything and display it) so there should be minimal work needed for those results to be presented on GAF.
Pros:
- Minimal work has to be done (probably only Response sheet check for nicks and entries)
- Simple form for members to fill
- Results are almost instantaneous
Cons:
- Games will be predefined (this is mandatory because names need to be exactly the same for calculations to work)
- There is no way to prevent people outside of SteamGAF to vote (we can share form with Email tag but people can share form after they get the link)
- I didn't find a way to remove game from the list in next choice if it was chosen in previous choice (this has to be checked manually in Response sheet)
- There are few "bugs" with genre (sometimes genre is not assigned to game in choices tables)
- Only one genre per game (if somebody knows how to make multiple genres per game feel free to write how to do it )
Also i have something to confess to you. I became console peasant, i bought PS4. And worst ting i did is that i played FPS with gamepad (Black Ops 3 beta). Please forgive me
(PS4 Short review: Nice piece of hardware that will offer you hours and hours of entertainment but there is big dark cloud above it called PSN).P.S. Congrats to Salsa he is now proud Argie like Zky
Also Mad Max rewview embargo is day before release.crazyrabbits
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I have enough to buy Grandia II HD, but the reviews sound mediocre at best (Hard mode is apparently lame, and there's a bug that can mess with your battle rewards). Will probably wait for the Winter Sale before jumping on it.
The_Super_Inframan
"the journey to a thousand games ends with bad rats. ~Lao Tzu" ~Gabe Newell
Is there more than that one impression from rpgsite.net?
crazyrabbits
Banned
Fair point. That being said, I'm not holding out much hope for this. From the sounds of that review, the port is kind of meh when it comes to what's been upgraded.
The_Super_Inframan
"the journey to a thousand games ends with bad rats. ~Lao Tzu" ~Gabe Newell
Sure but overall it seems like this will still be the best version available, I can live with that... And I'm just eager to play this again
Any word on whether they managed to get native 16:9? Or is it stuck in 4:3? The previews pointed to the latter, but their community manager alluded to the former.
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MMBosstones86
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Hey SteamGAF i am back from the bench
I like that.
Hardest part seems like coming up with a list. We could do something like pinging whoever is running this thing to get a game added that isn't there. Could result in a lot of pings though...
I think in past years there have been a TON of games to get just one vote or what not.
The_Super_Inframan
"the journey to a thousand games ends with bad rats. ~Lao Tzu" ~Gabe Newell
Damn, you're right. Green Day were way ahead of their time when they wrote that song.
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.
While i was out i saw that you stared GOTY talk so i decided to see what can i do to make voting easier this year. So i tried to create Google Form and then use responses to calculate results. This is what i have for now. If you want to use it (i am looking at you jshackles
Your list of cons are exactly the reason I didn't set up something like this last year. And even though the names entered could be checked against GAF users, there's no way to know that that GAF user actually submitted that vote. As in - anyone could go take that Survey, type in zkylon as their username then say Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon is their game of the year. Or just picking random usernames for people that may not even post here more than once every few months to try to boost their game of choice to the top.
And although there were only about 150 unique titles in the results last year, I'm expecting that to probably increase this year (as it did over the previous year as well). There are simply more games being released on Steam and (likely) more people voting. Entering each one before it can be selected is going to be almost as big a headache as tallying the votes by hand.
Thanks for the efforts though. However, without any kind of external GAF authorization mechanism (we don't have oAuth, right?) I think the only fair and honest way to conduct the vote is using the traditional PM system like we've done in the past.
Dsyndrome
Member
Arkham Knight #1? Your time away must've messed with your head.
Good job on the sheet, I'd use it.
Authorization is only real problem. It isn't big problem to generate list of games released on steam due to availability of API's.
Since PM's can be downloaded, parsing is fairly easy provided that users follows correct format, which reduces manual work.
Yeah we don't want another Watch Dogs and Watch_Dogs fiasco again. That's a bigger scandal than the some election recounts right there I tell you.
Whelp there goes my afternoon. To the archives of YouTube!
Well to be fair most modest CRTs you could feed a resolution higher than Full HD back before Full HD was even a thing thanks to their wonderful magic of how the tech works. My old FW900 could do about 2300x1440@60hz before being out of range but I could settle for a messly 1920x1200@100hz. This was 10 years ago mind as well.
If you posted this after reading my spoiler then I'm very, very disappointed.
Whelp there goes my afternoon. To the archives of YouTube!
Well to be fair most modest CRTs you could feed a resolution higher than Full HD back before Full HD was even a thing thanks to their wonderful magic of how the tech works. My old FW900 could do about 2300x1440@60hz before being out of range but I could settle for a messly 1920x1200@100hz. This was 10 years ago mind as well.
If you posted this after reading my spoiler then I'm very, very disappointed.
Not sure if it's been known before, Ethan Carter UE4 will be a stand-alone app and not just a patch. Free for two weeks after release for owners of the UE3 version.
https://twitter.com/TheAstroCrew/status/635829666608214016
https://twitter.com/TheAstroCrew/status/635829666608214016
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.
Yeah, I'm actually thinking about building a similar web form but then having is spit out a formatted PM that you can send me that will ensure your vote will be tallied with minimal effort.
I think two weeks refers to the launch windows, since the user asked when it will be released.
Se7enSword
Banned
Thanks for the giveaway!
I didn't read the preorder DLC part. :v
It's useless to me at the moment. What should I do?
The Dear Leader
Banned
I've always had crappy CRT monitors and TV's so seeing that is really cool.
That's great news, I guess I'll finally finish it once that comes out.
Yeah, that tweets makes it sound like the UE4 version will be out in 2 weeks.
If you can use form that i created some way feel free to send me PM and i will send you link
Well yeah, that would probably make more sense haha.
corrosivefrost
Member
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
some sad shit when I can have a better version of the game by using NullDC and hacking widescreen in.
But hey, this seems competent enough to pick up on sale somewhere down the line
Tales of Zestiria is at 20%, people!
I figured that'd be the case since the original release hasn't been touched in months, but it's nice to have confirmation.
corrosivefrost
Member
Depending on scripting interfaces and the like, you could always have something that scrubs your PM box for GOTY votes (or do like GAF GOTY and have a dedicated thread where posts can be scrubbed and data mined easily) and then try to feed that into the google form to make use of dex's work.
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