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Steam Holiday Sales 2013 |OT2| DIE HARD (AND HAPPY NEW YEAR)
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I don't really disagree. I bought FC3 and played it to completion, I just don't think many of the changes they made were for the better. I really missed weapon degredation and the in-game map. Going in and out of the menu every 30 seconds to check the map or level up or craft or fast travel made the game feel really disjointed to me whereas in FC2 I could soak it all in and play for hours at a time wandering around looking for diamonds or doing the gun shack side missions. The games are different enough, I'm sure plenty of people would prefer 3 over 2 I just happen to not be one of them
MisterRoboto
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Skyrim is great, I really enjoyed playing it when it came out. But then I got Dark Souls and didn't beat Skyrim until a year later haha. If you've played Elder Scrolls before, it's similar in terms of gameplay and quite different in terms of the interface, worse IMO. Still fun game to play through. Screw Dragons.
Just started playing FC3 today actually and I'm having a blast. I'm surprised at how much there is to do and that it's actually all quite fun. I was just trying to clear a camp of enemies and decided to go the stealth route. So here I am crouched up waiting to strike when I hear a roar from behind me. I turn around and see 2 tigers walking towards the camp. I stayed in the bushes and just watched as the two of them just ravaged through all the guys I was trying to kill, and saw their futile efforts to slay the beasts. I then had to get rid of my feline helpers but I thought that was pretty cool.
Both great games, can't really go wrong, to me. But Far Cry feels like something different, which is good. But then again that could just be based on the fact that im playing it right now and enjoying it.
You shut your dirty mouth damn it! Alpha Protocol is a diamond in the rough, but a diamond nonetheless!
Destiny tho
We all know Destiny is coming.
He actually has been trying to work at Valve for a long time.
Doomedfool
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We are all voting for Volgarr, right?
Alpha Protocol is one of the best RPGs that came out this generation
Dreams-Visions
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DunderHassan
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That makes me sad to hear, especially considering how much the client actually sucks.
Well, all the luck to you on your job hunting, you're surely doing amazing work for the little people of SteamGAF.
I don't trash on FC3, but Skyrim is a better game just from its mods alone.
WAR recon zero
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We are all voting for Volgarr, right?
Yes
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.
Through a series of awesome events here on GAF, I was gifted Far Cry 3 a few days ago and had a few hours to play it. The game seems really solid, and quite fun. So far, I'm liking it.
Well, I've been playing through Crysis and Saints Row 3, and I plan to start Dark Souls soon, so I guess I've been overloaded with open world games, and I thought Far Cry 3 and Skyrim looked very similar. But I love games that give you the option to be stealthy or go in guns blazing, so I think I'll buy FC3 now and get Skyrim in a few months. Thanks for the advice!
if you want a janky rpg that is actually good just play the first risen game.
alpha protocol is so broken that even the people that like it suggest playing it only one way.
Jason Shackles' A Series of Awesome Events. Starring Jason Momoa.
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chickdigger802
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game is like 3 hrs long, would i really need it twice?
If nobody actually buys the game, they'll stop making great games and we'll get Call of Assassin's Battlefield cookie cutter shit until the end of time.
dreamer3kx
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Hows State of Decay, I really dont know what type of game it is, I see its open world but are there others players running around like mmo games?
You don't recommend the majority of RPGs for its combat anyway. AP was mindblowing from a story and dialog perspective, and how you could influence it by exploring the area and finding intel files.
Destiny tho
I can't believe they have still not announced a PC release for Destiny. Whats really sad about it is the fact that everything they've revealed so far about the game just screams "PC" and not consoles lol
Alpha Protocol is a very good game when it's flaws are accepted for what they are and what type of game play it is. They key of course is to remember like Deadly Premonition it is to be played for it's story, albeit one of your own making with dialogue choices and action choices (far better than Mass Effect), and that of course it's shooting is all based on dice rolls because it is a RPG. It's a game where trying to be the catch-all, get every ability, anything can do will result in a rather poor third person shooter, while a planned play style and skill forcus (e.g. stealth, master with pistols, sneaking around) will provide a rewarding experience that games like Fallout 3 and Deus Ex Human Revolution didn't really attempt to reach for role playing.
If you ever wanted a game where you could play as James Bond, the action heavy lady swooning, master spy who overcomes great challenges to save the day though he loses people close to him, you can with a wonderful story you create. You however can then take it the opposite way and play it as just a terrible human being who is only a spy because someone in a position of power forces it to happen, while constantly making terrible decisions like that of Archer. I personally recommend at least one play through as the world's worst spy who bumbles his way through everything and no one should ever trust him with an ounce of opportunity, but he somehow saves they day barely.
All perfectly valid ways to play as a spy and you get three different stories and dialogue paths out of it that more games should try to be like,
Far Cry 3. First of all, let me quote myself from before.
It's a game of immersion if you can get yourself into it, of tactics for how to best deal with enemies, just like Far Cry 2 was. Aye with a different focus and a more welcoming approach to more players, while less depth perhaps, but still good stuff if you can get into what it allows.
Put yourself in what they attempted to do with the main character; slowly become a master hunter. Don't grind, don't try to get everything at once, and from time to time just play it as a hunting game where you stalk an animal (man or beast) and take them out as a quick fun session of game play.
Fun can be had with both games despite their flaws, sometimes with their flaws, but by no means are they ruined because of their flaws unless it's just simply not for you. They are not terrible if they aren't exactly what you wanted them to be or one attempted to play them as a different game than to what they were. Simply don't like them, that is of course quite fair. I personally highly enjoyed both and look forward to replaying them both someday in the future.
Well Alpha Protocol at least. Hell if I know what happened to Far Cry 3, I think a shark ate it.
If you ever wanted a game where you could play as James Bond, the action heavy lady swooning, master spy who overcomes great challenges to save the day though he loses people close to him, you can with a wonderful story you create. You however can then take it the opposite way and play it as just a terrible human being who is only a spy because someone in a position of power forces it to happen, while constantly making terrible decisions like that of Archer. I personally recommend at least one play through as the world's worst spy who bumbles his way through everything and no one should ever trust him with an ounce of opportunity, but he somehow saves they day barely.
All perfectly valid ways to play as a spy and you get three different stories and dialogue paths out of it that more games should try to be like,
Far Cry 3. First of all, let me quote myself from before.
It's a game of immersion if you can get yourself into it, of tactics for how to best deal with enemies, just like Far Cry 2 was. Aye with a different focus and a more welcoming approach to more players, while less depth perhaps, but still good stuff if you can get into what it allows.
Put yourself in what they attempted to do with the main character; slowly become a master hunter. Don't grind, don't try to get everything at once, and from time to time just play it as a hunting game where you stalk an animal (man or beast) and take them out as a quick fun session of game play.
Fun can be had with both games despite their flaws, sometimes with their flaws, but by no means are they ruined because of their flaws unless it's just simply not for you. They are not terrible if they aren't exactly what you wanted them to be or one attempted to play them as a different game than to what they were. Simply don't like them, that is of course quite fair. I personally highly enjoyed both and look forward to replaying them both someday in the future.
Well Alpha Protocol at least. Hell if I know what happened to Far Cry 3, I think a shark ate it.
BennyBlanco
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i remember when people said this about gta v
WAR recon zero
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So, got Dust now................... GAME QUEUE RISING
I this this is the most recent development on that front. It's coming: you need to remember that GTAIV's PC release wasn't announced until months after the console releases also.
I thought they patched in the enemy outpost reset option?? So guards are always patrolling?
I've played Risen as well. Alpha Protocol is amazinger.
I thought skyrim had pretty good story lines and dialog options but that game also had really shitty combat so I have a really hard time recommending it. By my loose estimate combat is what you will be doing with at least 50% of your time in a rpg so I think it's fair to dismiss a game if it falls short in that area.
gta v is definitely coming
Garcia
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True.
You are correct. I never bothered with it, though, despite finding the world rather empty in "safe" areas. A better solution would have simply been to have small pockets of enemies occasionally respawn in safe zones; if you don't kill them off then your allies eventually do. Rinse and repeat.
bender
What time is it?
It was easily my favorite game this year. Glad you like it.
Edit: Sorted.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
i want to believe like fox mulder, but it's just been radio silence for so long
if they were planning an early 2014 release i think they have nothing to gain by not announcing it
also RDR happened
emiranda061288
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I'm waiting for a march release, at least may.
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