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STEAM | August II 2014 - Kept you waiting, huh?
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That cheatin' bastard AI deserves it lol. Every time I lose I half-way expect to see Charlie Hunnam...er..Edward Kenway flipping out.
Darkroronoa
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Just finished Astebreed, fantastic shoot 'em up, one of the best i ever played.
Kinda short, took me 4 hours to finish the campaign in normal difficulty but i replayed a few times the first levels. It could help if they made it more difficult, last 2 bosses were really challenging (but fun, at first they may seem impossible but they are fair) but before that its really easy, its ok for me because i am not that good in that genre.
The action is amazing, there are bullets everywhere but you have a sword to cut through most of them (except red laserrs, these can be deadly), that sword is what makes the game fun because you can do close combat. Its a great twist.
One major flaw is that the game has a story (a pretty decent anime style one) that is narrated during gameplay, but the voice acting is in japanese and you have to read the subtitles while there is hell going on in the screen. But i really think its nice that the story is told like that because makes a better atmosphere, like you are part of the story constantly.
Kinda short, took me 4 hours to finish the campaign in normal difficulty but i replayed a few times the first levels. It could help if they made it more difficult, last 2 bosses were really challenging (but fun, at first they may seem impossible but they are fair) but before that its really easy, its ok for me because i am not that good in that genre.
The action is amazing, there are bullets everywhere but you have a sword to cut through most of them (except red laserrs, these can be deadly), that sword is what makes the game fun because you can do close combat. Its a great twist.
One major flaw is that the game has a story (a pretty decent anime style one) that is narrated during gameplay, but the voice acting is in japanese and you have to read the subtitles while there is hell going on in the screen. But i really think its nice that the story is told like that because makes a better atmosphere, like you are part of the story constantly.
Darth Kupi
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And they think this is actually effective?
Apparently I missed some modbot drama while I was asleep.
For anyone who had been wondering who won the Metro Redux Bundle giveaway, it was taco543. Congratulations taco!
Late response, I know. I don't know why people make such a big deal about the Mechromancer class and her being "girlfriend friendly".
When I played through BL2 in co-op with my friends, my one friend convinced his wife, who had never played a shooter before, to join in with us. The only reason she agreed to play was because there was a character designed for people who aren't experienced at shooters. And she had a ton of fun, and we had a ton of fun playing with her. So I'm personally glad they did that.
The character (at least one skill tree) is designed for people who aren't skilled at a aiming, but it isn't quite like it plays itself. The ricochet skill, even when maxed out, only reflects 50% of bullets, and reflected bullets only do 50% damage. So if you just aim wildly you will only do 25% of the damage any other person could do. Her class ability summons a pet (Deathtrap) who can fight with her, and is quite strong, but it has a really long cooldown time. Plus you still have all of the normal problems of taking just as much damage as anyone else when you get shot. Ultimately if you choose to play the class in "girlfriend mode", you are nowhere near overpowered, but you are able to contribute to the team even if your aiming skills are lacking.
But that's only one of her skill trees. Her other two skill trees have nothing newbie friendly about them. In fact, the one skill tree she has can make the game extremely difficult at the cost of drastically increasing her power. She's also my favorite character.
For anyone who had been wondering who won the Metro Redux Bundle giveaway, it was taco543. Congratulations taco!
Late response, I know. I don't know why people make such a big deal about the Mechromancer class and her being "girlfriend friendly".
When I played through BL2 in co-op with my friends, my one friend convinced his wife, who had never played a shooter before, to join in with us. The only reason she agreed to play was because there was a character designed for people who aren't experienced at shooters. And she had a ton of fun, and we had a ton of fun playing with her. So I'm personally glad they did that.
The character (at least one skill tree) is designed for people who aren't skilled at a aiming, but it isn't quite like it plays itself. The ricochet skill, even when maxed out, only reflects 50% of bullets, and reflected bullets only do 50% damage. So if you just aim wildly you will only do 25% of the damage any other person could do. Her class ability summons a pet (Deathtrap) who can fight with her, and is quite strong, but it has a really long cooldown time. Plus you still have all of the normal problems of taking just as much damage as anyone else when you get shot. Ultimately if you choose to play the class in "girlfriend mode", you are nowhere near overpowered, but you are able to contribute to the team even if your aiming skills are lacking.
But that's only one of her skill trees. Her other two skill trees have nothing newbie friendly about them. In fact, the one skill tree she has can make the game extremely difficult at the cost of drastically increasing her power. She's also my favorite character.
Is this the same as Steams The Eternity Clock? http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JFC6S0K/?tag=neogaf0e-20
PandaPedinte
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WTF!?
Then I clicked in the other neogaf thread linked, and I'm almost fell out of my chair when I did read the news.
Ah thanks, it's not like minors can't stay up until more than 22:00 xD.
Herpes Reasons
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Anyone know why my profile now shows about 100+ less games? I did that F2P trick which linked all F2P games to my account and while they're still showing the total number of games seems to reflect them not being there.
Fuck off!
I'm going to call you Fat Rat from now on
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I think someone asked this before. But is Metro game saves transferable to the new Redux version? Currently working through Last Light.
That happened to everyone. Something Valve did.
spindoctor
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Played a little bit further into Risen 3, almost completed one of the islands and the game still isn't grabbing me. The game has too much density without having any depth. Meaning everything you do is counted as a quest. Running into a notable NPC is a quest. Killing a pack of 3 wolves counts as it's own quest. And so they've found a way to pile on the 'content' without actually designing an interesting RPG. So far there's no problem solving or decision making and instead you're just going through rote tasks to check items off a list. And I've downgraded the voice acting quality from amateur to atrocious. I want to punch people in the face any time they start speaking :| And a side consequence of a fully voice acted game of course is that it severely limits the dialog choices. You'll rarely see any dialog box with more than 4 options in it.
This is just disappointing
This is just disappointing
F2P no longer count. I'd like to think it's to prevent multiaccounters(possible even scammers) etc. getting easily high-level steam accounts.
I don't know if we've gotten official confirmation, but the consensus is they probably won't. Last Light might be possible, but 2033 definitely won't transfer saves.
Woody Invincible
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Wow, Arkham City GOTY for $4, thanks GMG.
F2P games no longer count as owned. The Famaze dev used this to screw collectors over by changing the retail key/store sub to a FoD sub before yanking the game from the store. I registered a retail key to my account back in May, but the game no longer counts.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
No. Doctor Who The Eternity Clock is called Doctor Who The Eternity Clock. Doctor Who The Adventure Games is a separate series of games called Doctor Who The Adventure Games
DillonMabry
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So yesterday I made a post on the Dark Souls page on Facebook, asking for some GFWL news. This morning, I woke up to this friend request.
I wonder if he has any info... I guess we'll see, I accepted his request.
I wonder if he has any info... I guess we'll see, I accepted his request.
So yesterday I made a post on the Dark Souls page on Facebook, asking for some GFWL news. This morning, I woke up to this friend request.
I wonder if he has any info... I guess we'll see, I accepted his request.
At least you got something. I asked Epic about Bulletstorm but was ignored; ditto for Stainless and Carmageddon coming to Steam. Ignoring people is such a dick thing to do: it takes five seconds to respond to a message with "We have no such plans at this time."
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Stallion Free
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Maybe there are plans and they just can't talk about them? The guys who did Bioshock 2 pretended not to understand when asked way back when.
This. I understand that some people simply get an overwhelming amount of messages to respond to but it seems that even people that have time sometimes ignore you for seemingly no good reason. What does it accomplish I wonder?
I think there's an audience but not necessarily a big one. So many streamers these days too. If streaming is something you'd enjoy then I recommend giving it a go but if the primary goal is to acquire audience then it might be painful road. I'd watch something like that for sure. Too few streams about local multiplayer that aren't hosted by annoying people.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Personally I don't watch streamers because I don't like yelling or chat spam or the fixation on the streamer or the crass commercialization of it all. I also don't watch video let's plays for the same reason. So intuitively I would enjoy a quiet, respectful, useful streamer more. But honestly I can't see me being a frequent watcher of any streamer so maybe I'm not the person to ask
freshVeggie
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Disregarding when I sent the messages, "We have no plans at this time" is generally PR-speak for "We have plans but can't talk about them", so it works either way.
Gunstarheroes
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As a video editor/general broadcast nerd, the first thing you need to ask yourself is: Am i doing this because i enjoy doing it. If the answer is no, its probably not for you. I stream and make videos because its what i love to do, and even seeing a few people enjoy it makes me really happy, and i also love doing it. However, if you're looking to gain followers/become popular and such, and the enjoyment is secondary, i'm usually in the camp of "Set your expectations low". I like the idea though, i'd certainly give you guys a shot if decide to do it.
PandaPedinte
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I think there are an audience for that, there was a streamer I used to watch where serious discussion was common during his streamings, though the audience was already there because he is an occasional participant in a podcast. Since he started working on his master degree he stopped streaming though.
Mr. Luchador
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Yup, of course there is. I follow 2 that are pretty 'mundane' by twitch standards, but they get 100-300 viewers when they stream. I'm not THAT bodacious myself, and while I've never proactively 'advertised' my stream I've managed to pick up around 10-20 people who'll come and watch.
There's an audience for everything, you just have to find them.
What if you're asking the wrong people? What if the people you are asking are being asked by countless people every day? I wouldn't take it personally, you're just someone from the internet in the grand scheme of things.
It was just a term I sort-of made up (I'm sure it's in use) in reference to Gamer Dudes. I'm a woman in my mid-30s that honestly, embarrassingly, spends as much time reading Refinery29 as I do playing games.
Thanks all for the feedback. I think we'll do it and it should be fun. I'll update when we decide to give it a go.
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NingenJanai
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I wish I could stream my weird gaming habits, you all would have a laugh
How weird are we talking?
I don't take it personally. I just think it's unbecoming.
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 guess I'm in a pretty good place since I own every game on GMG's "50 games you must play before you die" list. And I've probably even played about 40 of them.
NingenJanai
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Haunted
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I mean, it's not as big of an audience as there is for the obnoxious personality streamers, but there are a couple of them out there just streaming for themselves/close circles of friends and having fun.
If you think you'd be having fun doing it, I don't see why it's important if there's even an audience for it (except if you want to make money, I suppose
).Since you are here now
Is it possible to add a minimize to tray to Idle Master? I asked about it earlier but didn't get a response
Mr. Luchador
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People would watch this tbh. They watch fish play Street Fighter. For as weird as you think you are, there's someone weirder on the internet.
I can understand it, but at the same time I wouldn't expect an answer. Whenever I have had to ask about stuff, I've found twitter to be useful and sometimes get replies depending on who you ask or if you've built a report with studios.
I'd play both The Longest Journey and Dreamfall: TLJ before going into Dreamfall Chapters (when it comes out). It appears to be more or less direct continuation of what happened in Dreamfall: TLJ.
Oh, haha. <3 QWOP
I thought you were talking about weird stuff you do in games. Like being OCD and having to collect all the things, or rolling everywhere you go for no reason. That's what I do.
I personally wouldn't want to stream anything. Mainly because I'm kind of a private person, but also because I think people would just get frustrated with how I play games. I always take significantly longer than average to beat games (going by what people post online anyway).
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.
Do you mean for the main program itself, or for the "You're now in-game" box? I think I can make it happen with the in-game program, but probably not with Idle Master itself.
Of course, you can always use something like RBTray to accomplish this for either.
NingenJanai
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Well, to be honest my problem is consistency, I'd stream a game for 20 min get bored and go to another game, then repeat ad infinitum.
The funny thing is, this is absolutely not true, that there is a law for that. Some TV shows can only be shown at a certain time, but here we're talking about buying a game in a shop. As a german I can't believe how stupid and uninformed some publishers/developers are.
At least there is some hope. Recently we had the problem that it was announced that even the foreign copies of Dead Rising 3 couldn't be used at a german Steam account. There is absolute no reason to make such a restriction and they listened to the gamers and checked the laws again and now you can activate a foreign copy. Germany is often far ahead in a lot of things, but with things like this we are in the stone age...
I don't expect an answer as historically I've had mixed success when it comes to general enquiries. I just feel that some sort of acknowledgement should be considered a common courtesy rather than a tall order. I mean, if Bethesda can take the time to respond to my big ET:QW e-mail with "Thank you for your feedback" then surely a developer that needed Kickstarter for its current game can do the same.
The issue people have with it isn't that they created a character with a lower skill floor, it's that they apparently felt the need to suggest which gender of player would need such a thing.
They could have just said that it was designed for players who want to enjoy the co-op aspect of the game but had a more casual play style than the rest of the group, and we all would have gotten the idea and suggested her to the appropriate people in our groups.
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