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I would love 2!
I actually played ME1 and 2 on PC and switched to controller on ME3. Played it for an hour and went back to KB+M. Just felt like I had greater control.
PixyJunket
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Hey, if anybody has Hammerwatch cards, feel free to look through my inventory and make me some 1:1 offers (except Snow Globes).
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I'm going to contrast it to Binding of Isaac since that seems to be popular thing to do and I'm lazy.
The general structure is start in an area, find the teleporter, activate it and survive until the teleporter finishes revving up as well as kill everything (including the boss that spawns when the teleporter is activated). The area is also littered with chest and capsules containing items, so there is a bit choice between getting powered up before tackling the area boss or rushing ahead before the difficulty gets too high. However, before you find the teleporter (and until it finishes revving up), enemies will continually spawn so best strategy is to find the teleporter right away. This is because longer the game session, the harder it will become and you can see the current difficulty on the top right. Chest also require money to open, which you get from killing enemies (and some capsules). Since you need to clear the level after revving up the teleporter anyways and money doesn't carry over between levels, spending time to farm up money at the start is a waste.
In short, it's less rogue-like-y BoI. Maps aren't really randomized, there are I think two variants of each level. Items are more stat modifiers of your abilities rather than things that augments or add to your own. There are also not as many "bad" or "great" items that can completely shape a playthrough. All this together makes every playthrough kinda the same. This is not really a knock, I still found the game fun but it's not something as replayable as BoI.
The variety comes from the classes, which you will have to unlock through specific challenges. They're not stat tweaks but characters with fairly different abilities. The general strategy is still the same, kite enemies but each class has a unique toolset. I haven't tried multiplayer but it seems like they could complement each other well.
Majukun
Member
sent you an offer,my #9 for your #2
Regret Truth
Member
ElectricBlue187
Member
I picked up Spelunky and The Swapper even though I have no time to play them. Ah steam sale, my old foe, you've bested me once more
Applesauce
Boom! Bitch-slapped!
15 games bought so far, 2 of which were gifts, less than $60 spent. I love PC gaming.
intheinbetween
Member
woa, Lego Marvel seems endless, I've been playing for 7 hours and I still have a lot to do
Blue Ninja
Member
I don't like playing with M + KB. I just enjoy a controller more, can't help it. Good thing I still have the Xbox versions of Mass Effect lying about.
I'm sitting at 398 games.
SO CLOSE
*bows politely* Might I suggest Secret of the Magic Crystal and Bad Rats, sah?
DXLelouch153
Banned
my damage so far
A.R.E.S.
BIT TRIP FATE
BIT TRIP RUNNER
BIT TRIP RUNNER 2
Bunny Must Die
DLC Quest
Dont Starve
Droid Assault
Dustforce
Rise of the Owlverlord
Left 4 Dead 2
Long Live The Queen
Metro 2033
Revenge of the Titans
Risen
Risk of Rain
Sacred Citadel
Skullgirls+Squiggly DLC
System Shock 2
Titan Attacks
Ultratron
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my guaranteed remaining damage
Volgarr The Viking
Super House of Dead Ninjas+DLC
Recettear:An Item Shop's Tale
and if i can get 4.99 left over after the above are bought sales or otherwise
either Gundemonium Collection or Earthworm Jim Collection
A.R.E.S.
BIT TRIP FATE
BIT TRIP RUNNER
BIT TRIP RUNNER 2
Bunny Must Die
DLC Quest
Dont Starve
Droid Assault
Dustforce
Rise of the Owlverlord
Left 4 Dead 2
Long Live The Queen
Metro 2033
Revenge of the Titans
Risen
Risk of Rain
Sacred Citadel
Skullgirls+Squiggly DLC
System Shock 2
Titan Attacks
Ultratron
-------------------------------------
my guaranteed remaining damage
Volgarr The Viking
Super House of Dead Ninjas+DLC
Recettear:An Item Shop's Tale
and if i can get 4.99 left over after the above are bought sales or otherwise
either Gundemonium Collection or Earthworm Jim Collection
Can anyone confirm this for me? If it's true I'll buy ME+ME2.
legacyzero
Banned
Blue Ninja
Member
I think you need to ask EA support, and they're not very happy to do it. The licenses you get from buying the Xbox versions are just that, licenses for the Xbox version.
For instance, this is my Licenses screen at BioWare social:
Rickenslacker
Banned
Yeah definitely, I wouldn't let my sole opinion sway anyone the other way as it seems like everyone else is singing its praises, but it just didn't leave much of an impression on me. Love the presentation of the game though, the aesthetic and music are wonderfully executed.
I'd recommend anyone curious about it to try the demo at least: http://www.indiedb.com/games/risk-of-rain/downloads/risk-of-rain-demo-v101
Oldschoolgamer
The physical form of blasphemy
Same. I'm in 17 hours and haven't stopped having fun with it.
Some of the other classes are really difficult to get a handle on. Monsoon difficulty is also really fucking hard if you don't have your game face on.
PixyJunket
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I love it (and hate it) and I do agree it's got some brilliance to it, but I do think it's completely overrated. Primarily, I don't think the game gets the flak it should for the extremely narrow margin of error the player has for success, ie: you can play extremely well and be very careful and cognizant of everything around you, but you can take ONE hit from something and it'll juggle you into seven different things like a Rube Goldberg Device eventually into some kind of instant death (spikes, pits, etc.).
To be fair, Bioware reworked the interface for kb/m in the PC versions of the ME games, and it's actually really good. (Some folks would go so far as to say that it's better than using a gamepad.) They didn't just skip the gamepad support and leave everything else the same.
I haven't bought much at all since Christmas:
Tetrobot & Co. ($2.99)
Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons (gift)
Ms. Splosion Man (gift)
Bit.Trip.Runner 2 (gift)
Stacking (gift)
Peggle Deluxe (gift)
Hitman Absolution (gift)
Left 4 Dead 2 (free)
Tomb Raider (gift)
A friend of mine bought me Brothers, Ms. Splosion Man, Runner 2, Stacking and Peggle. Hitman and Tomb Raider were gifts here on GAF and Left 4 Dead 2 was free for everyone. Tetrobot was on sale at the Humble Store. I do have $10 in my Steam account so I'm waiting for something good.
Tetrobot & Co. ($2.99)
Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons (gift)
Ms. Splosion Man (gift)
Bit.Trip.Runner 2 (gift)
Stacking (gift)
Peggle Deluxe (gift)
Hitman Absolution (gift)
Left 4 Dead 2 (free)
Tomb Raider (gift)
A friend of mine bought me Brothers, Ms. Splosion Man, Runner 2, Stacking and Peggle. Hitman and Tomb Raider were gifts here on GAF and Left 4 Dead 2 was free for everyone. Tetrobot was on sale at the Humble Store. I do have $10 in my Steam account so I'm waiting for something good.
well I find sometimes controls do not match what you would expect to do
for the lianas, for example, they are sometimes set in parallel above spikes so when you jump from one to another you have to keep pressing up, but at the same time as soon up as you catch one, your character starts moving up and sometimes it's not what you want to do, but you do that anyway because of the risk of falling on spikes
if you automatically grab a ledge, why not a liana ?
moreover to grab stairs/liana you can just go up, if you press down you will go through it
so, for example, if you want to jump on a liana and go down you have first to jump, press up, then down
I understand your point, in other games but also here it could cause some annoying situations (first coming to my mind is trying to escape from ghost and being slowed down because character keep grabbing liana), but they could just set option for:
1) automatically grab stairs/liana when jumping
2) automatically grab ledge when jumping
another example that I find counterintuitive is that when you duck you can't use the whip
anyway I don't want to bash this game or discourage people from playing it
buy Spelunky if you haven't already, it's a very nice and addictive game
emiranda061288
Banned
it is the same price at nuuvem,I bought it from them a few days ago.
So I see you already own The Swapper or you didn't buy it.
Argh! I hope it comes back.
derExperte
Member
Me for example, I mean if you're playing on the couch it's a problem but other than that I feel kb/m works best. And the console versions of ME1 (maybe 2, never tried) have many technical issues like totally unbearable load times.
Yeah, I started playing it on the day it released and still haven't finished all the story missions. I'm doing it all in co-op, though. I think I would've finished it by now if I could play on my own time.
I love this game. Before work today, I got on the meanest server I've encountered so far. The safezone was full of gankers. I had a dude in a Deadpool mask stalk me the entire time, hiding behind vans and shit. I told him in chat that I could clearly see him crouching behind the van, but he just kept on trying to hide from me. He was terrible at it. I lost him in a building and safely dropped of my courier package. Silly little shithead.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
I am going through every Steam game I either don't own or have wishlisted to see if there's anything I can add to my wishlist.
Since it's a console port, if they'd skipped the gamepad support and left everything else the same, there would be no input
OniBarubary
Banned
I love the Swapper but I also hate it because it made me realize that I have absolutely 0 ability to solve spatial puzzles. Holy shit, I had to look up solutions to almost a dozen puzzles and feel like such an idiot.
Hah, I don't know -- to me, if I was jumping from vine to vine above a pit of spikes, I'd be desperately trying to grab onto the vines as I swing by, and holding up the whole time just makes sense to me. The reason you can't whip while ducking is because that's the action to pick up items, of course, and Spelunky kind of has a lot of dedicated buttons already. But yeah, while the controls are perfect to me I can see why you might want a different setup, like a separate button for picking up items and an option to automatically latch on to ropes as you mentioned.
Blue Ninja
Member
True, but it would've been nice to have options.
CecilRousso
Member
They're really challenging. I did manage to beat all of them without looking up a solution, but boy, it was really close sometimes, and I did curse while playing it. But it's a fantastic game.
If you already own Spelunky and The Swapper, they might be. If you don't, they aren't.
nightstorm
Member
Voted for Arma III
Nabs
Member
They don't send out emails to everyone, so you'll have to join the Steam client beta and keep an eye out for the "Manage family sharing & devices" button in the main Settings window.
emiranda061288
Banned
just opt for the steam beta update.
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