The Dear Leader
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That FOV is really low, I hope that's changeable on PC.
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STEAM | August 2016 - No Man's Sky will leave Mankind Divided
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That FOV is really low, I hope that's changeable on PC.
Last Baron
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So if I cancel my Humble monthly sub now I'll still get the September games besides Soma?
I'm not watching, but the good news is they are likely showing the PS4 version with their new patch.
You've already paid for the product, so you will still get the games.
i think i'm gunna finish fc3 first
So I decided to buy Doom from the Humble Store just before the offer ended since I still had a 10% discount coupon.
Geez, this will take forever.
doom is the shit
The Dear Leader
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Yeah it looks to be the PS4 version.
CecilRousso
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First attempt at the last boss in Headlander.
10h, 85% completion rate.
Definitely worth the $20 asking price.
10h, 85% completion rate.
Definitely worth the $20 asking price.
Mackenzie 92
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The NMS stream looks pretty boring.
If you like grind you will like NMS that is more-less all you do in that game.
UcchedavÄda
Member
Oh. I guess I'll wait for a sale then, stick it in my library, and occasionally tell myself that I should play it some day.
Fuck yeah Trillion. \o/
Good thing I didn't grab it yet, so no double dipping.
grats!
Fuck yeah Trillion. \o/
I just wish we were living in an alternative universe, where Idea Factory didn't support Steam, whereas Atlus did.
Man I love Trails in the Sky SC and all, but the Ramblin' Gambler achievement sucks. Luck based achievements aren't fun.
The only thing I'm missing for the achievement is getting 4 of a kind in poker at the casino. And I've probably played at least 5 hours of poker throughout the game. I have 300k medals and the most expensive thing to trade them for is 5k.
Thankfully playing poker is addicting in this game, because a 1 in 4165 chance to get something you need for an achievement is ridiculous.
The only thing I'm missing for the achievement is getting 4 of a kind in poker at the casino. And I've probably played at least 5 hours of poker throughout the game. I have 300k medals and the most expensive thing to trade them for is 5k.
Thankfully playing poker is addicting in this game, because a 1 in 4165 chance to get something you need for an achievement is ridiculous.
LurkerPrime
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I always preferred 'AoS' to 'MOBA,' but if we can transition to Mober I think I'll be OK.
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Now for a history lesson: Aeon of Strife was the original inspiration for Defense of the Ancients (better known as DotA), way back in Starcraft: Brood War. It was a custom map based on some Starcraft Protoss lore thing, with gameplay vaguely inspired by Dynasty Warriors IIRC. There were a few sequels; don't remember whether the authors were the same. AoS 2 was the most fun being competitive, but AoS (original) was uniquely difficult (and entirely vs. AI). Like many of Starcraft's user-made genres, games like it were de facto called an AoS.
Then came Defense of the Ancients on Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos (vanilla). It was a basic yet fun game, but the map editor didn't really allow for much beyond that so it became one of the most predominant maps played. Its one contemporary was Tides of Blood which was, as I recall, more popular at one point early on. DotA is vaguely based on a conflict from Warcraft lore (hence "the Ancients vs. "the Scourge."). When WC3's The Frozen Throne expansion launched and expanded the map editor, DotA: All Stars was born (because TFT maps don't run on vanilla RoC) to take advantage of the extra moddability. It completely took over the custom map scene and inspired legions of clones, and all but killed other kinds of custom maps (Starcraft 1 has a huge amount of incredibly clever custom maps, in spite of being waaay more restricted in the map editor). Bounds, Crash, LotRish games, DBZ (yes, both are a genre), madness, phantoms, etc, etc, etc, all but died off during the WC3 era, with but a scant few microMMOs being released every so often and little else.
Some time after it first premired, companies began to note the wild success of DotA. It was a huge reason to own WC3, and a game in its own right, after all. Eventually they began to release games inspired by DotA--I think the earliest was Demigod (which had some issues) and with "LoL" in beta shortly thereafter (everyone loved that acronym!). Then there was the uninspired Heroes of Newerth (HoN) which changed little from DotA. Coincidentally, League went free-to-play first and ended up exploding in popularity, no doubt partly in thanks to the cache from a DotA developer's (or two? Can't remember) involvement and partly in thanks to the more approachable and comprehensible gameplay. Perhaps interestingly, HoN was, at the time, seen as the legitimate competition to LoL, rather than DotA: All-Stars.
And then Valve ripped off Defense of the Ancients to make their wholly original 'Dota 2' (there is, legally, no relation. Hence the lowercase 'a.'). Suddenly the modder charm of the original was gone; no more Leoric the Skeleton King (Diablo); Lina Inverse (Slayers); and several elements taken from other sources, most notably Diablo 2 uniques as in-game items. But Ice Frog is working there so it's totally OK; and Valve is Lawful Good, so it is further OK. (*Ahem* I think I have some feelings here.)
This is also when major companies started realising the potential of the genre and flooded the market with MOBAs, from the weird, to the unexpected, to the completely insane.
And that's the story behind the birth of a gaming zeitgeist known as "Multiplayer Online Battle Arenas" which is really the worst acronym they could've gone with. (No one knew what ot call the "DotA genre" for a long time and there was some debate before it finally kinda fell on MOBA by default.)
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[self-inflicted MOBAtext]
I might be a masochist.
Starbreeze is solvent thanks to Payday: the Heist, and now they're making hardware--as in, their own VR helmet. Haven't really heard anything about it since the Vive and Oculus launched, but I'm guessing it's still in development.
Literally no one expected this from them.
Nyteshade517
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I'm interested in No Man's Sky...just not at $60
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Yep, I'd take the risk, but not at that price
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
No thanks.
For years I've tried to get into Atlus RPGs, but they've never clicked with me.
The last game of theirs I put a significant amount of time was Devil Summoner Raidou 2. I think I ended up hating it after awhile.
Fuck yeah Trillion. \o/
Awesome, how are the rest of the Neptunia ports on Steam?
I'd play the hell out of Etrian Odyssey regardless of the platform it was on. Himukai's art + Koshrio's music + top notch DRPG gameplay = amazing game.
InfiniteNine
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No clue but I don't particular care about the Neptunia games.
CecilRousso
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I would. I bought Fable 3 for $60, so I can always jump in and take the risk with games in that price range, because I know that there's very little chance it will be my worst such purchase.
BST thread on Gaf.
SteamGameSwap subreddit.
IndieGameSwap subreddit.
GameTrades subreddit.
SteamGifts website.
Any other good places to check out when trying to trade for games, or use Paypal to purchase games?
I'm looking for SOMA and wanna make sure i cover all my best options.
SteamGameSwap subreddit.
IndieGameSwap subreddit.
GameTrades subreddit.
SteamGifts website.
Any other good places to check out when trying to trade for games, or use Paypal to purchase games?
I'm looking for SOMA and wanna make sure i cover all my best options.
This guy knows what I'm talking about.
Also, on PC we can do this, no need for second, tiny screen:
Tizoc
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I do believe Durante has praised them for being good?
LurkerPrime
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Durante liked Risen 3. I'm revoking his Good Taste card.
Like, never have I played an open world RPG more replete with mediocrity. Even Dragon Age: Inquisition had more going for it.
Just another heads up for ya, this thread is the kind of worst-case-scenario for bad PSUs. It can be very unexpected or happen with little warning from everything I've heard (never actually had a PSU die on me... yet).
And now I've jinxed myself.
hey now, don't be mean, we can have both if Atlus was willing, what IF ever did to you?
all IF ports are good
imagine that
I can't understand how they can f-up this bad.
DF: Batman - The Telltale Series: Lowest Resolution of the Generation?
Sub 720p on X1 (1600x766 on PS4) with drops below 20 FPS.
DF: Batman - The Telltale Series: Lowest Resolution of the Generation?
Sub 720p on X1 (1600x766 on PS4) with drops below 20 FPS.
FYI, a few things. There are 3 core people with the credit towards DOTA.
1. EUL(Valve) - DOTA was created by this man and updated till FT.
2. Gusinoo(Riot) - Took over control after someone else combined them to create All Stars and got it to it's first "professional" level. Left back in 2005.
3. Icefrog(Valve) - Been the curator since 2005.
So the original creator and the fanbase curator since 2005 are at Valve. The only ones who are not would be Gusinoo and Meian. If anyone has a claim to "DOTA", it would be Valve.
HoN existed, because of the lack of community features in DOTA. Once DOTA 2 was announced, it died off. LoL continued to grow due to the accessibility, birth of F2P, and how it really is a different game than DOTA.
Bit more, the original issue came up when Valve announced DOTA. This was back when it was just announced with Blizzard and Valve. The term MOBA, was heavily pushed by Riot back in 2009, prior the genre was simply "DOTA". Ala, Doom to FPS. Unlike DOOM though, MOBA does not particularly make any sense since it fits a vast variety of games. Multiplayer Online Battle Arena. Which funny enough, can fit about any game that happens in an arena. Riot heavily pushed the term because them associating anyway with "DOTA" meant advertising the competition. The rest of it has been sort of a rewrite of history since.
The ports are pretty good. The game quality is up for people's taste.
My Hands intro > Max Payne 3
UcchedavÄda
Member
My PSU died just about a month ago, shortly after everything connected to the motherboard became electrified, including USB plugs. That was fun. But luckily it did not take anything with it when it died, and I just had to pop in a new PSU to get everything working again.
I like Falcom games as much as anybody, with exception maybe of se7en, but their missables and cheevos are too much even for me, and I'm very much 100% person.
so maybe... you know, try to play Neps and judge later?
IF games aren't bad, inspite of what some people say in the steam threads
That's the thing - they did nothing for me.
(Bought Nep1-3 and Fairy Fencer, still have not played any of them)
Atlus games (well, some of them, SMT3, DDS1-2, EO) make me all tingly inside.
I think I'm old enough to be able to just bitch about how things were better at my time, and how you whippersnappers can't really appreciate a proper jRPG.
but max payne 3 is poop
Baron_Calamity
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Telltale is pushing their engine to hard. They either need a new engine or scale back their scope to a more realistic level.
I've always liked the leonis lewis song
freshVeggie
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Gameplay was fun - in a similar way to MP 1&2 - and addition of destructible environment in bullet time was great.
Story, characters, cutscenes, all rock-bottom among the trilogy.
Poop I'd never call the game. Good action.
I'm just glad that most of the achievements don't require you to have everything in your inventory at the same time or filled out in case of the recipe book, but just require you to have it once/read it/cook it.
Because I've realized earlier that I missed a single recipe. I'm jut glad I have essentially a save file for every part of the story which makes going back to get the occassional overlooked thing register for an achievement not that cumbersome.
And yeah, IFI games are pretty fun (played the first Neptunia and Fairy Fencer)
electroflame
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Basically. I'd've probably gone for it if it was around $40, but $60 is too steep given the unknowns surrounding it.
Mankind Divided for $45 seemed like a safer bet, so I did that instead. I would've done both if No Man's Sky impressed me more, or if it was cheaper. The Sony marketing deal they've got where any PC talk has been muzzled is pretty offputting. Either the PC version is significantly better than PS4 (most likely) or the PC version has serious problems. I don't want to gamble and have it end up being the latter.
I thought you were cool freshveggie
pantsattack
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CAG Master Trade List thread.
someguyinahat
Member
This guy knows what I'm talking about.
Also, on PC we can do this, no need for second, tiny screen:
Four mages, a priest and a psionic? Are mages broken good in that game or something? In D&D, mages are only good if you have fighters who can ensure the mage doesn't get hit.
freshVeggie
Member
You didn't like Max Payne 1&2?! Well, nothing's in a vacuum I guess. It was eye-openingly glorious in its day.
That's a great addition to the list, thanks bud
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