Baron von Loathsome
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Classy.
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STEAM | August 2015 - Three versions of Windows since the last Half-Life
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Classy.
That's lowercase omega, you uncultured swine
Let's be honest. Those are boobs.
Baron von Loathsome
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Considering that it's a "chest-expanding adventure," I wonder what capital omega boobs would look like.
Yeah I'm pretty shit when it comes to parting with my old PC's. I did give my mum my old P3 box almost 9 years ago which I think she still uses today.
I've always been the kind to only upgrade when there's something I want to play that my current hardware can't which at the moment really isn't anything. Work has driven me to more upgrades than gaming and if you do anything like rendering or video encoding that extra £100 outlay for an i7 mainstream CPU pretty much pays for itself in about a week and afterwards you make gains in less time spent waiting and more time being productive. Games though I can think of 3 off the top of my head that you get a meaningful big boost from Hyperthreading and that's MP in BF3 & 4 and late game Civ V.
I mean fair enough a few modern engines are showing some promise regards to parallel processing like Watch Dogs, AC Unity and Frostbite titles off the top of my head but none of them need an 8 core, 16 thread CPU to run above 60fps with every CPU dependant feature smacked up. And again extra physical core make a bigger difference than logical ones. But then you look at something like Far Cry 4 which hits the graphics driver hard and pretty much maxes out one core, about half load on another and barely touches the remaining cores so IPS is far more important than core count in titles like that. Maybe games might require 6+ cores in the future but the rate tech moves on when that time comes hopefully there will be a mainstream 8 core CPU.
But hey we all like new shiny things right? And if you need to upgrade then no point waiting for tomorrow if you actually need to and not just want to.
MMBosstones86
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I'm waiting for the context in relation to the story to determine if it's dumb or not. I think it's pretty clear the 'horn' or shrapnel or whatever it is is pretty integral to story on some metaphoric level.
Or it's just a fucking piece of shrapnel.
Jawmuncher
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The shrapnel has to be related to something because in mgs4
big boss has no scar from that. Might just be shitty writing and a retain though
Dragon1893
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Started up Binary Domain last night after finishing ep.1 of Walking Dead. I thought it will be a run-of-the-mill b-tier game but boy it is legit!
Visually very impressive, controls nice (switched from kb/m to DS3 and it feels right). From the screens I saw of the game I thought the enemy robots look bland but this game really needs to be played to see how unique and satisfying enemies and combat really is.They fall apart sooo good.
Loving the voice cast's work as well. Bo is already a cool guy in my book. Not using mic for commands but I like the pretty inventive system.
Yup, game is legit.
When I played it I had no idea it had multiple endings, kinda blew my mind when I realized. It's not just the ending, last fights and respective cutscenes change as well.
I ended up getting the ending where
the protag hooks up with Faye
Nanomachines, son.
freshVeggie
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BB's Shrapnel Horn™ is just like Tony Stark's Arc Reactor in his chest. Without it he'd be dead. Funnily if you look in the trailer released the other day in one clip it look much, much larger than in every other scene so don't know it that's Big Boss going nuts or if he's had a horn trimming at some point.
Something, something, nanomachines.
Kojima's midichlorians.
Edit: Damn it Dragon1893!
Something, something, nanomachines.
Kojima's midichlorians.
Edit: Damn it Dragon1893!
Jawmuncher
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I really hope he doesn't get that lazy again
freshVeggie
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Just watched the Cg trailer and gameplay footage of Mafia III. Dunno, I'd rather have classic Italian mafia but whatever.
Vietnam is a cool topic and I'd like to see more in games. Will be probably only flashbacks. Sadly.
Looks like a lot of action.
Vietnam is a cool topic and I'd like to see more in games. Will be probably only flashbacks. Sadly.
Looks like a lot of action.
Supposedly, using x360ce works for some people.
MMBosstones86
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Retcon, son
lashman
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hey, we don't know if he gets some sort of special surgery at the end of TPP to fix that thing. So it might not be a retcon yet!
Hero Prinny
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Didnt he say that mgs5 would retcon some stuff or something along those lines? Maybe thats one of them
Just watched the Cg trailer and gameplay footage of Mafia III. Dunno, I'd rather have classic Italian mafia but whatever.
Vietnam is a cool topic and I'd like to see more in games. Will be probably only flashbacks. Sadly.
Looks like a lot of action.
I like city atmosphere but i still don't feel Mafia vibe.
NingenJanai
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freshVeggie
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Yeah. Just rewatched Goodfellas a week ago, so I'd like a bit more "classic" mafia. But hey, it's just been revealed. They have to show snazzy stuff. Atmospheric, slow mafia footage will likely come later.
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Phawx
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Hello Steam friends. My quick look (mostly just to see if it's a decent port) of Fairy Fencer F just went up. You can find it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5WMBxbkxn8
They did a good job. Might still need some Durante magic, but at the very least you should be able to force some settings in nVidia or AMD control panel for things like AF and AA.
Edit: Oh, also I got beat on the additional steam code to give away. PR guy said that he would give it to another reviewer. Sorry!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5WMBxbkxn8
They did a good job. Might still need some Durante magic, but at the very least you should be able to force some settings in nVidia or AMD control panel for things like AF and AA.
Edit: Oh, also I got beat on the additional steam code to give away. PR guy said that he would give it to another reviewer. Sorry!
Just watched the Cg trailer and gameplay footage of Mafia III. Dunno, I'd rather have classic Italian mafia but whatever.
Vietnam is a cool topic and I'd like to see more in games. Will be probably only flashbacks. Sadly.
Looks like a lot of action.
Does the rear view mirror turn into action cam when there acre explosions?
I think Mafia III is looking pretty good and reminds me of Driver
Hopefully the on foot combat isn't half as bad as it was in those games.MMBosstones86
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I really hope this whole horn thing is one final Kojima troll and they ignore it's presence for the entire game.
And then in the epilogue he gets surgery to remove it.
I love how companies call things pre-alpha and they are damn near full blown working models. With voice professional voice acting and everything already implemented. These look more like mid to late stage alpha footage. That includes Scalebound or whatever it's called.
I think pre-alpha is a new buzzword for companies to cover their asses during presentations and so that their rabid fanbase can repeat that word to people who throw constructive criticism towards developers presenting their products publicly. I feel like if a company is willing to show alpha and beta footage they are open to criticism as well.
I'm part of a pre-alpha development since build 0. It's over 30 builds in and it's far from even being called an alpha. I don't know. Seeing the development of a game from the ground up really kind of opened my eyes a bit to some things.
I think pre-alpha is a new buzzword for companies to cover their asses during presentations and so that their rabid fanbase can repeat that word to people who throw constructive criticism towards developers presenting their products publicly. I feel like if a company is willing to show alpha and beta footage they are open to criticism as well.
I'm part of a pre-alpha development since build 0. It's over 30 builds in and it's far from even being called an alpha. I don't know. Seeing the development of a game from the ground up really kind of opened my eyes a bit to some things.
That's the issue. Reveal was really weak. And we won't see anything new until 2016.
Chairmanchuck
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I still dont understand why some fans even defend shitty trailers/"pre alpha gameplay". In almost all cases where the beta gameplay e.g. is already bad, fans will still say "still 4 months till its released. It will still change!"
Edit: I remember one year ago I said "The Division" wont look like that. It looks far too advanced for our current GPUs and people said that in 1 year when it would come out, it wont be a problem. Of course what they showed off is real! Hater!
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they when they have a real beta and it goes BOOM people whine about it because they feel their preorder entitled them to a perfectly playable beta.
I still can't get over how people got so pissed at the SFV beta.
I don't know. Constructive criticism is fine. It's what they want. But people whining about not being able to online and cursing Capcom's name missed the point of the test.
Jawmuncher
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For my ridiculous game series, stuff is just a bit too ridiculous.
Baron von Loathsome
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I haven't played any of them myself, but I've heard good things about Path of Exile, Titan Quest, and The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing.
Phawx
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Victor Vran
NingenJanai
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Path of Exile is free and quite long, you can give it a try.
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.
People seem to be liking Victor Vran. There is also The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing trilogy. Grim Dawn is still in Early Access, but coming along nicely.
Finally, Path of Exile is one of the best Diablo clones out there - and it's free.
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how about any good diablo clones with controller support? I had to pick up diablo 3 on my PS4 because there was no other way to play the game with a controller : /
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 haven't played it so I can't say if it really fits the bill or not, but Forced is an isometric action-RPG that you can play with a controller.
Also Victor Vran, as lashman mentions below
lashman
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i'll look into it.
Noted. I need to see some video on this to see if it tickles my fancy.
shit, i forgot i had that. But i remember the coop being really weird with that game.
NingenJanai
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Dungeon Siege III, I liked it quite a lot.
I played it coop and didn't had any serious problems, except for the camera going a bit wonky a couple times.
I've wasted a good chunk of the last 3+ years on Diablo III, on PC, with a controller for most of it, thanks to this:-
http://www.d3gamepad.de/content.php?lang=eng&content=downs
Need to set it up and map your keys mind but works like a charm.
http://www.d3gamepad.de/content.php?lang=eng&content=downs
Need to set it up and map your keys mind but works like a charm.
soo, dumb question for ppl who know computers stuff
if my motherboard was fine with a 560 gtx ti, it should be fine with a 960 gtx right? like pcie express and stuffs should be ok?
omg haha
if my motherboard was fine with a 560 gtx ti, it should be fine with a 960 gtx right? like pcie express and stuffs should be ok?
omg haha
MMBosstones86
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They've literally turned each stage of the development process into a feature. Amazing.
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