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Steam Holiday Sales 2013 |OT2| DIE HARD (AND HAPPY NEW YEAR)
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BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
It's down for the count for me.
Head of Vengarl
Banned
Wait, what? What's GFWL and why would it kill the game in July?
Tizoc
Member
A reminder of the giveaway I've made.
ModBot said:Instructions for participants:
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Cook, Serve Delicious -- MB-AEDD9EDB7963C992
Castle of Illusion HD -- MB-FDC0B3F9404FA51B
Annnnd... apparently SteamGuard is convinced I'm logging in from a new location or PC for some reason.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
namco probably plans on being able to make money off DS in the long term so I can pretty much guarantee they will
hell, i'll paypal you the $6 if they don't and eat my crow
MachoSuave
Neo Member
They toned it down, you can play whilst offline, you just can't access your ark. Your ark being a persistent storage unit that allows you to hold and transfer a handful of items between games. I am actually yet to use it having played the story and one (very long and still running) continuous mode game though, so how major a thing it is I don't know. I hear "quite major" from long time fans however.
Edit: Further googling has led me to the conclusion that the game was never always online and was always just the loss-of-ark if you went offline. The TAGES DRM however still seems to be there. Some claim it's gone but the only sources I can find say they only removed GPU changes counting as new installs, any other hardware change counts as a new PC. Maybe, not sure, no one seems sure.
Not sure if you already know this but Call of Juarez: Gunslinger is $4.99 over on Amazon right now and it includes a Steam key. Also, is Van Helsing worth it? It looks interesting.urgh, still waiting on a discount on Call of Juarez GUnslinger, Mark of the Ninja and Deadly Premonition
Dark Souls is 2013's best game of another year. Easily. If anyone is on the fence I can personally assure you that it's one of the best games ever made and with Durante's (tm) fix it looks pretty nice!
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
If you have issues getting Dark Souls to work with Windows 8, there is a solution in the dark souls community forums on steam.
maneil99
Member
Inventories are borked atm
Pestilence11
Member
Thanks very much for Organ Trail. Also a thank you making me learn how to track down posts on GAF lol
SO DUNGEON FUCKING KEEPER (THE BEST GAME OF ALL TIME) AND INTERSTELLAR MARINES (AN INTERESTING CONCEPT) BOTH LOSE TO THIS POS GAME THAT'S BEEN IN EVERY BUNDLE SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME.
FUCK THIS STEAM COMMUNITY, YOU DISGUST ME!
FUCK THIS STEAM COMMUNITY, YOU DISGUST ME!
NeoGAF, you guys/gals are pretty dope though.
AaronB
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I'd have to agree with the people who said the story in "Gone Home" is rather overrated - if you isolate the content of the story. In text form, the story wouldn't be anything that hasn't been done before. The way the story is told, however, is brilliant. The atmosphere, the voice acting, the flavor texts, and the design contribute a whole lot. This is how the video game medium can tell a story, and how the point-and-click adventure game can still be relevant. I'd say it's well worth experiencing for $5-7, though a lot of people feel the original $20 is too much for any 2 hour game.
Rickenslacker
Banned
People oversell it on being difficult or putting hair on your chest or whatever and I honestly think that misrepresents it. It's just fairly unique in that it doesn't patronize the player in the way every other game out there does; you play a short tutorial section that gives you some straight to the point control pointers then it throws you out into a dangerous world. Not dangerous in the way the typical game is dangerous -- where you can just mash your way through combat and just tough out damage because you're the super amazing player character who was designed to have a significant amount of combat leeway -- it's dangerous in that combat is relatively simple, but requires patience because even the "trash mobs" can catch you off guard and have you respawning. People get in vicious cycles where they get to a certain point, get killed, then try to rush to that point again only to get killed even earlier; but once you get the right mindset nothing is too difficult.
SkeptiMism
Member
Oh yay, got Dark Souls finally. Gonna have a lot of fun getting my ass kicked.
Bought Gone Home too. Interested in DmC too but I'll leave that one for later, got too much to play at the moment anyway.
Unepic I'll rather get for Wii U for off TV play when it comes.
Bought Gone Home too. Interested in DmC too but I'll leave that one for later, got too much to play at the moment anyway.
Unepic I'll rather get for Wii U for off TV play when it comes.
Gen.Grievous
Member
Up for me but steam refuses to accept my vote.
I own a copy of every version.
PC version is probably the best of them all thanks to Based-Durante.
Praise the Durante, for he is our light.
MulderWasTaken
Member
Do it. The game is from a Spanish developer. The spanish voice acting alone is worth the price in my opinion. I'm having lots of fun with it. And the single player mode is 100% done, only the multiplayer is still in development.
Berek Halfhand
Member
this happened to me. And when I went to get the new code I logged back in and didn't have to use it.
_illmatic_
Member
I have Dark Souls for PS3 (never finished it) but how is it for PC? Any mods that allow you to find friends online? Fixed fps? Will it take advantage of newer hardware?
masterkajo
Member
On Dark Souls and GFWL (Games For Windows - Live).
- Dark Souls uses GFWL.
- GFWL will shut down coming July and the online aspect of Dark Souls might not work anymore.
- The developers might issue a patch to resolve this. Nothing is known so far.
- Still, should it be the case that the online won't work anymore, I strongly urge you to play the game NOW to at least experience it once with the online component intact. It will be well worth the $6.
60FPS in glorious 1080p+. No more laggy Blighttown. Think about it.
- Dark Souls uses GFWL.
- GFWL will shut down coming July and the online aspect of Dark Souls might not work anymore.
- The developers might issue a patch to resolve this. Nothing is known so far.
- Still, should it be the case that the online won't work anymore, I strongly urge you to play the game NOW to at least experience it once with the online component intact. It will be well worth the $6.
60FPS in glorious 1080p+. No more laggy Blighttown. Think about it.
Nabs
Member
There's nothing wrong with that.
MakeshiftChef
Member
But does game boot you if your connection hick-ups?
GFWL is Microsoft's shit DRM with XBLive integration. They're pulling the plug on it in July.
Berek Halfhand
Member
Everybody needs to vote Spelunky.
SolarPowered
Member
Don't forget Okami HD, MvC2 HD, Darkstalkers Resurrection and Third Strike: OE.
Kacho
Gold Member
Games for windows live. As far as I know, DS will not function without it and that service is shutting down completely in July.
I only used Durante's fix for the graphics. It looks INCREDIBLE with everything bumped up. I didn't remember if there were any fps issues, I don't think so. I can't speak to anything else. I played through the game on PS3 and played through the dlc on pc.
Isn't the manual map description annoying as hell?
I really want to get it but the really similar levels and the map function are putting me off.
This one surprised me too, even if I await only backstabbing from steam community.
SparkleMotion
Member
I'm seriously pissed off. I haven't been able to play Max Payne 3 for days now. "Failed to contact key server". Fuck additional DRM. Fuck it to hell.
AHA-Lambda
Member
I don't want to buy anything from amazon US after hearing about people's amazon accounts getting locked for buying digital goods cross region, from the last thanksgiving sale.
Gen.Grievous
Member
You always have this discussion about certain games. Take Dear Esther for instance. I paid the launch price of 10 bucks for it and lots of people called me crazy. You paid ten bucks for a 2 hour mod that can be played for free was something I heard a lot after recommending it to people.
SourCinnamon
Member
Wow, Van Helsing is 21 GB. I guess I'll have to delete all my games to play it.
Don't blame the Steam community for not voting for a game that is a thesaurus away from being called "Space Marines." No matter how interesting you think the concept is. And nobody voted against Dungeon Keeper, they voted against War for the Overworld, a game that looks like a dungeon keeper knockoff.
Worst use of email tag ever.
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