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[Spirited]

Its ok. For ~$7.50, its a good price for an average third person stealth game. The reviews were positive and there isn't anything really wrong or broken with the game. It doesn't feel like Thief 1 or 2. It doesn't have that sand box feel that those game have. Its not even as open as Dishonored. So fans were disappointed and it didn't have any appeal to the mass audience. Still a good game, worth the sale price.

Thi4f is $2 on nuuvem, just so you guys know!

 

[LurkerPrime]

Its ok. For ~$7.50, its a good price for an average third person stealth game. The reviews were positive and there isn't anything really wrong or broken with the game. It doesn't feel like Thief 1 or 2. It doesn't have that sand box feel that those game have. Its not even as open as Dishonored. So fans were disappointed and it didn't have any appeal to the mass audience. Still a good game, worth the sale price.

There will always be something better to spend that money on, be it on sale or not.

Y'all need to stop trying to trick people into buying mediocre games in this day and age.

 

[TheLight]

The general consensus on Thi4f is no, right? Who's actually played it here?

Not as good as dishonored but its fine overall. 7.50$ is a bit much for this game though.

 

[Grief.exe]

The Telltale Game of Thrones game is $30, so King's Quest is only $10 more. Each episode of GoT takes about 2 hours, so you're looking at a 12 hour experience. Each chapter of King's Quest should be easily 5+ hours, so you're looking at a 25 hour experience. You're essentially getting a game the length of The Walking Dead Season 1 and 2 combined, for less than the combined cost of those two games.

I'm not saying that the higher price point isn't hurting them, I'm just saying I think it's fair of them to want to charge more and that brand recognition is also hurting them. That being said, Game of Thrones is (obviously) a hotter franchise than King's Quest and most people who are unfamiliar with the specifics of either game will probably choose Game of Thrones every time for the brand recognition and lower price.

Seems logical to me. I guess we should point people towards your post if someone questions the business model.

Another down side to the Telltale games is their engine. Apparently the games perform terribly on consoles, are consistently buggy, and have hit or miss textures.

The general consensus on Thi4f is no, right? Who's actually played it here?

As a new game in the lineage of the granddaddy of first person stealth game, it's so bad it would have been disowned by the games that came before it, even the third one. And don't go putting the onus on the PC version, the PS3 version was just as shit (I tried it when it was PS+ to see if you "durr, use a controllar!" crowd were right. You're not.) and had the same sound bugs, etc.

The stealth is appallingly bad, the story is a bad frankenstein of 4 different plots, none of them resolved, the level design is split up into sections with no way of going back to previous sections, it's full of bullshit action movie "cinematic" sequences (in a stealth game? Really? Really?), the button-mashing loading screen coverups are way too frequent, the traversal is no fun at all.

The only "good" parts are the music and the general aesthetic, I guess.

Sounds like that would be a no then, however I haven't wasted my time with the game personally so I don't have any experience.

Have you played all of the stealth games available on Steam? Deus Ex, Thief I/II, Chaos Theory, Alpha Protocol,

Spoiler

Legacy Collection

, and I'm probably missing some great ones.

 

[titch]

Jeeze August already - thanks for the OP jshackles!!!!

 

[Turfster]

Have you played all of the stealth games available on Steam?

Yes.

Seriously, Thi4f is bad.
Hell, it makes 3 look like a masterpiece in comparison. Not that it was horrible, but it was a disappointment on launch when it was consoleised and cut up into stupid little XBOX has no memory lololol parts... which is less of a problem now with the Gold mod anyway.

So yeah, if you're considering getting Thi4f, get the trilogy instead and play that.

 

[Caerith]

The general consensus on Thi4f is no, right? Who's actually played it here?

The general consensus that nobody's realized yet is that the best game in the franchise would be Thief Go.

 

[morningbus]

Yes.

You may want to check again. A stealth game may be hiding in the dark corner of your Steam library.

 

[Baron_Calamity]

There will always be something better to spend that money on, be it on sale or not.

Y'all need to stop trying to trick people into buying mediocre games in this day and age.

its still a +1.

 

[corrosivefrost]

Dark Souls 2 Speedrun on SGDQ -- 2 players using 1 controller.

It's fsckin' bonkers.

 

[Karak]

Will post my Submerged video review once embargo is passed. Interesting title.

The Telltale Game of Thrones game is $30, so King's Quest is only $10 more. Each episode of GoT takes about 2 hours, so you're looking at a 12 hour experience. Each chapter of King's Quest should be easily 5+ hours, so you're looking at a 25 hour experience. You're essentially getting a game the length of The Walking Dead Season 1 and 2 combined, for less than the combined cost of those two games.

I'm not saying that the higher price point isn't hurting them, I'm just saying I think it's fair of them to want to charge more and that brand recognition is also hurting them. That being said, Game of Thrones is (obviously) a hotter franchise than King's Quest and most people who are unfamiliar with the specifics of either game will probably choose Game of Thrones every time for the brand recognition and lower price.

Yep exactly. I broke it down somewhat the same in the video review and have a lot of discussion around just that in particular. Its a completely justified price and in today's market well worth it. Perfectly priced really.
Doesn't hurt that KQ rights the boat back into gameplay and actually you know...runs ok on most systems and consoles.

 

[LurkerPrime]

You may want to check again. A stealth game may be hiding in the dark corner of your Steam library.

We don't go to Ravenholm.

 

[ashecitism]

Judging twitter Valve may have started to send out controllers to partners and devs.

 

[Kuroyume]

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SpeedRunners -- MB-5CB8EEF32C4A075D - Taken by Darth Kupi. 2 entrants total.

 

[Soulflarz]

*subs*

 

[ExoSoul]

I wonder where Ozium is, he hasn't posted in a while, hope he posts again.

Specially with the tone we last heard of him

 

[Red Hood]

Let's do this! I've finished Thief Gold yesterday and I'm going to start Thief II in the coming days. The general consensus is it's better in pretty much every aspect, right?

 

[Shadownet]

No, no it wasn't. Yes the writing was good but it wasn't more than a shallow imitation of the comic with no game play and Telltale's crippled engine.

Almost everything is worst than the original material it's based on, that's no surprise. Saying that it has no game play is a hyperbole at best. Also, I finished the game in 3 days, 100% it and didn't encounter a bug or anything.

 

[Turfster]

Let's do this! I've finished Thief Gold yesterday and I'm going to start Thief II in the coming days. The general consensus is it's better in pretty much every aspect, right?

Yes. It's a more polished game.

 

[Cheddahz]

No, no it wasn't. Yes the writing was good but it wasn't more than a shallow imitation of the comic with no game play and Telltale's crippled engine.

If you're going into a Telltale game expecting gameplay, then that's your fault

That being said, The Wolf Among Us is the only Telltale game besides The Walking Dead Season 1 I'll recommend to anyone

 

[zkylon]

Dark Souls 2 Speedrun on SGDQ -- 2 players using 1 controller.

It's fsckin' bonkers.

got a linky

 

[Spirited]

got a linky

http://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick

 

[Purkake4]

Gotta go fast.

 

[Chance Hale]

Not a massive fan of Telltale's modern games(The Sam and Max revival was amazing though) but they run well on PC at least. Pretty sure I played through Wolf and Walking Dead at 4K, 60 with no memorable issues.

 

[zkylon]

http://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick

only got the end, but i mostly like glitch speedrunning

 

[bronkonagurski]

Not a massive fan of Telltale's modern games(The Sam and Max revival was amazing though) but they run well on PC at least. Pretty sure I played through Wolf and Walking Dead at 4K, 60 with no memorable issues.

Wolf is the first Telltale game that I've played on PC and I'd agree it was so much smoother compared to the console Telltale games I've played (Borderlands & GoT).

I enjoyed playing Wolf. The Borderlands game is probably still my favorite. I have not played any Walking Dead games yet.

 

[corrosivefrost]

only got the end, but i mostly like glitch speedrunning

Gross.
Weirdo.
That's the worst kind of speedrunning.

 

[Spirited]

only got the end, but i mostly like glitch speedrunning

You should watch the pokemon blue speedrun, it was mostly glitches over and over again.

 

[Uzzy]

only got the end, but i mostly like glitch speedrunning

There's an amazing Dark Souls 2 glitched run they showed off at an earlier event.

 

[corrosivefrost]

I wonder where Ozium is, he hasn't posted in a while, hope he posts again.

He quit, remember?
Legitimately quit.
I'm paraphrasing here, but "Not like all those other people who announce their departure only to come back 3 hours later."

 

[Se7enSword]

He quit, remember?
Legitimately quit.
I'm paraphrasing here, but "Not like all those other people who announce their departure only to come back 3 hours later."

He said 10 hours.

But he did post again, a day later, i think, only to stop posting again after someone joked at him.

He keeps insisting about this poll and that no one wants to see him post. I've never seen a link for the poll though, or I must've missed it.

 

[Chance Hale]

I bought Sky Rogue ages ago on some site for like a dollar or something, how do I get my steam key?

 

[Khronico]

I feel like Ozium is the video game message board equivalent of performance art.

And I kind of miss his weirdness.

 

[Dongs Macabre]

I bought Sky Rogue ages ago on some site for like a dollar or something, how do I get my steam key?

You have to find the email they sent you and go to the download page. The Steam key will be there.

 

[corrosivefrost]

He said 10 hours.

But he did post again, a day later, i think, only to stop posting again after someone joked at him.

He keeps insisting about this poll and that no one wants to see him post. I've never seen a link for the poll though, or I must've missed it.

That'd be me.
Not sure about this poll though, as I have never seen it myself.

I bought Sky Rogue ages ago on some site for like a dollar or something, how do I get my steam key?

If it's indiegamestand, which is where mine was from, go to IGS and look in your game wallet. Find the game and click the request steam key button.

 

[BasilZero]

SteamGAF - we havent received a Sonic game at all in over a year - wonder if we'll get another one soon

 

[Chance Hale]

It was indiegamestand, thanks!

Is the game any good? Think I bought it during my dark "buy everything for game count" stage.

 

[Spirited]

SteamGAF - we havent received a Sonic game at all in over a year - wonder if we'll get another one soon

Sega said that ports were coming, lets see how everyone will react if it is a sonic boom port to PC.

 

[Shadownet]

SteamGAF - we havent received a Sonic game at all in over a year - wonder if we'll get another one soon

No thanks. Please bring back Megaman.

 

[Chance Hale]

Sega said that ports were coming, lets see how everyone will react if it is a sonic boom port to PC.

Treasure said they had more ports coming after Ikargua. That was a year and a half ago ;-;

 

[someguyinahat]

I'm not saying that the higher price point isn't hurting them, I'm just saying I think it's fair of them to want to charge more and that brand recognition is also hurting them.

The fact they're still using an old engine and their lack of support on broken saves is also hurting them. I should not have to be transferring files between directories to get my games working in 2014, and I sure as hell shouldn't have to in 2015 when the same problem inevitably arises.

 

[zkylon]

Gross.
Weirdo.
That's the worst kind of speedrunning.

i like it cos it exposes how the game is built which is like something i'm interested in

much more exciting to me to see the logic behind those glitches than someone performing incredible feats of skill like it's a performance or something

There's an amazing Dark Souls 2 glitched run they showed off at an earlier event.

cool, i've watched a few dark souls 2 glitched runs but i think they were on older patches, so maybe something new on this one

 

[Uzzy]

Sega said that ports were coming, lets see how everyone will react if it is a sonic boom port to PC.

We need Sonic 2006 first.

 

[ramoisdead]

Treasure said they had more ports coming after Ikargua. That was a year and a half ago ;-;

Don't remind me. I have to plug in the 360 in order for me to play some Radiant Silvergun and Guardian Heroes.

 

[BasilZero]

Sega said that ports were coming, lets see how everyone will react if it is a sonic boom port to PC.

I wouldnt mind it...or 2006 Sonic l0l

Although I would love to play Sonic Heroes. Considering it already came out on PC - porting it should not be hard...

No thanks. Please bring back Megaman.

Wat. Thats capcom though :/ - and Mega Man Collection is coming out later this month.

 

[corrosivefrost]

i like it cos it exposes how the game is built which is like something i'm interested in

much more exciting to me to see the logic behind those glitches than someone performing incredible feats of skill like it's a performance or something


cool, i've watched a few dark souls 2 glitched runs but i think they were on older patches, so maybe something new on this one

Maybe the TASbot runs that are up now would be interesting to you then?

Not exactly game logic glitches, but there's a lot of interesting stuff about frame data and manipulation (and the guys says there are glitches coming).

 

[BinaryPork2737]

Sega said that ports were coming, lets see how everyone will react if it is a sonic boom port to PC.

We at Sega are proud to announce the brand new Sonic All-Star Collection™, featuring fan favorites such as

• Shadow the Hedgehog
• Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)
• Sonic and the Black Knight
• Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood
• Sonic Runners
• That shitty kinect hoverboard racing game

Coming Winter 2015 for $49.99, please be excited.

 

[iosefe]

No thanks. Please bring back Megaman.

bruh

 

[corrosivefrost]

No thanks. Please bring back Megaman.

Megaman lives on in Mighty No. 9. Good enough for me.

 

[Dsyndrome]

Megaman lives in in Mighty No. 9. Good enough for me.

Coming 2016.