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Steam Holiday Sales 2013 |OT2| DIE HARD (AND HAPPY NEW YEAR)
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looking at Prototype 2 deal reminded me of something I wanted to ask Gaf, if theres one place that should know is here. I tried playing Prototype 1 a few months ago and it ran like shit, especially this weird stutter that happened every few seconds, it wasnt dropped frames, its like the game froze for a milisec every few seconds.
Is that a known issue and if so, is there a known fix? My computer isnt amazing, but Im sure its more than enough to handle prototype if I run other shit at max
Is that a known issue and if so, is there a known fix? My computer isnt amazing, but Im sure its more than enough to handle prototype if I run other shit at max
It's not the best solution, but if you notice you're being invaded you cant alt+f4 and come back where you were. Or just play Hollowed the entire time, never finished it but the only time I wasn't Hollowed was when I used Maneater vs Quelaag.
Its on Origin as an exclusive.
legacyzero
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Keep your ass out of Anor Londo if you aren't Hollow LOL. I got invaded the MOMENT I reversed it.
Jimmyfenix
Member
Oh damn i am nearly there !
Oh ok, that's right. Are the saves from 1 and 2 on Steam compatible with 3 on Origin for continuous story?
sorry I'm sure this was big drama when 3 came out but I can't remember.
Artofwar420
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Anyone know if Risk of Rain is cheaper anywhere else?
firehawk12
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Yes they are.
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Jawmuncher
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I do find it funny the amount of EA games on steam that keep going on sale.
I mean geez at this point EA and Valve need to make up or something. I'll put up with Origin in game (We already are dealing with Uplay). If it meant the newer EA games coming to Steam.
I mean geez at this point EA and Valve need to make up or something. I'll put up with Origin in game (We already are dealing with Uplay). If it meant the newer EA games coming to Steam.
According to isthereanydeal.com, it's currently the cheapest on Steam.
Not sure if the site covers all places, but it's a decent way to check to see if a game is cheaper elsewhere.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Continuing my quest to look over every Steam game I don't own or have wishlisted right now. I also think I can confirm that the most popular subtitle for a war game sequel is 'Korea".
So...Might and Magic VI bought & installled. I decided to be a heretic and actually play it. Start it up and it insists on updating UPlay despite me using it this morning just fine. Speed is slower than dial up. An hour passes and I'm pissed off before I begin playing.
UPlay loads and I start the game. Get some crap about connecting to the Conflux when Its booted and eventually an empty News window appears, which was helpful.
I ended up rebooting the game, don't remember why, maybe changing an option to increase mouse sensitivity or something equally important. When it got to the about connecting to the Conflux I hit cancel because all it seemed to do before was fuck about for thirty seconds and then show me an empty window.
I play the game for an hour or so and come close to finishing the first tutorial map, but I wanted to know about some stuff that the tutorial didn't cover so I Alt-Tab to Google it.
During the search I come across a forum post about being in Online mode having the potential to eat saves and how even if you are online in single player mode and there is a server problem you can lose progress. So when I go back to game I save, exit. switch UPlay to offline and reboot the game.
I take note of the big writing on the page saying Offline saves are for offline mode only and think whatever, I was online just now, offline is safer for my saves anyway.
So, I kill the boss of the tutorial, get given an Ancestral Sword which is part of some Dynasty thing and move onto the next map. The first screen I see is about Dynasty bonuses to click on and I'm also surprised to see how I'm not allowed to click on them and use them because I'm offline. That special shit in my single player game is for when I am permanently online.
I exit game, turn UPlay back to online and reboot. Go to load my game and there's NO SAVES. Not even the ones I thought I had online before going offline. Turns out I was never online at all, despite loading the game with UPlay online, because I cancelled the Conflux menu before it had completed connecting me to specialsauceonline.com or whatever it was up to.
Once again, I go back to offline to make sure my offline saves show up, they do - no complaints there THANKS Ubi! Except of course you can't turn offline saves into online saves, nope you might be cheating or a pirate or something.
It also turns out there's a lot of Dynasty items, abilities, Heroes etc that you can ONLY use/get when online. Including the sword (my fathers sword apparently) that I was awarded when offline.
So, Ubi. You give me my fathers sword, tell me how fucking special it is then tell me afterwards I can't use it because I'm not online? Seriously?
Here's what the online only Dynasty system is - shamelessly stolen from another forum.
tldr: Don;t expect the full game or anything in Might and Magic 6 when you are offline because it has a fucking fantastic form of always-online drm by limiting your items/abilities/heroes. Oh want to to play offline? Sure - fucking thief - have most of a game.
Thanks Ubi! you amazingly thoughtless and ignorant dicks.
UPlay loads and I start the game. Get some crap about connecting to the Conflux when Its booted and eventually an empty News window appears, which was helpful.
I ended up rebooting the game, don't remember why, maybe changing an option to increase mouse sensitivity or something equally important. When it got to the about connecting to the Conflux I hit cancel because all it seemed to do before was fuck about for thirty seconds and then show me an empty window.
I play the game for an hour or so and come close to finishing the first tutorial map, but I wanted to know about some stuff that the tutorial didn't cover so I Alt-Tab to Google it.
During the search I come across a forum post about being in Online mode having the potential to eat saves and how even if you are online in single player mode and there is a server problem you can lose progress. So when I go back to game I save, exit. switch UPlay to offline and reboot the game.
I take note of the big writing on the page saying Offline saves are for offline mode only and think whatever, I was online just now, offline is safer for my saves anyway.
So, I kill the boss of the tutorial, get given an Ancestral Sword which is part of some Dynasty thing and move onto the next map. The first screen I see is about Dynasty bonuses to click on and I'm also surprised to see how I'm not allowed to click on them and use them because I'm offline. That special shit in my single player game is for when I am permanently online.
I exit game, turn UPlay back to online and reboot. Go to load my game and there's NO SAVES. Not even the ones I thought I had online before going offline. Turns out I was never online at all, despite loading the game with UPlay online, because I cancelled the Conflux menu before it had completed connecting me to specialsauceonline.com or whatever it was up to.
Once again, I go back to offline to make sure my offline saves show up, they do - no complaints there THANKS Ubi! Except of course you can't turn offline saves into online saves, nope you might be cheating or a pirate or something.
It also turns out there's a lot of Dynasty items, abilities, Heroes etc that you can ONLY use/get when online. Including the sword (my fathers sword apparently) that I was awarded when offline.
So, Ubi. You give me my fathers sword, tell me how fucking special it is then tell me afterwards I can't use it because I'm not online? Seriously?
Here's what the online only Dynasty system is - shamelessly stolen from another forum.
tldr: Don;t expect the full game or anything in Might and Magic 6 when you are offline because it has a fucking fantastic form of always-online drm by limiting your items/abilities/heroes. Oh want to to play offline? Sure - fucking thief - have most of a game.
Thanks Ubi! you amazingly thoughtless and ignorant dicks.
There's no bitter resentment between the two.
Steam didn't allow selling DLC content from within the games that didn't go through Steam.
EA doesn't want to do business that way so they made their own client.
More_Badass
Member
Tiny & Big is really good. It's more "action-y" than I expected, well at least the third level is. Dodging debris, slicing pillars in half as they tumble towards you, accidently slicing through the platform you're on, and then desperately platforming to a new one as it falls apart
I haven't had this much fun with destructible environments since RF Guerrilla
On that note, how is RF Guerrilla on PC? A good port?
I haven't had this much fun with destructible environments since RF Guerrilla
On that note, how is RF Guerrilla on PC? A good port?
If anyone needs Snow Globes, I have extra #2, #3, #4, #6, #5, #10.
Need #8
My SteamID is http://www.steamcommunity.com/id/ColdSun
Add me to trade or just for an extra gaming buddy.
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My SteamID is http://www.steamcommunity.com/id/ColdSun
Add me to trade or just for an extra gaming buddy.
Artofwar420
Member
Thank you, that will be pretty handy
Still unsure about Risk of Rain... Everyone loves it though. What to do. It's funny how a dollar less will make all the difference. It's the psychological effect of the sub 5 dollar price.
Gunstarheroes
Member
Does GamersGate offer steam keys? They have Sword of The Stars: The Pit Gold for 3.74, and its a game i'm really interested in
I was all set to buy M&MH VI until I read this, thanks for the heads up.
A user on one of Norwegians biggest gaming websites asked why the staff on the website didn't name CoD: Ghosts their GOTY.
So, why didn't they name COD: Ghosts as their GOTY?!?!
Jawmuncher
Member
I wonder if EA's foray into origin has proven successful for them money wise.
Sure they're keeping the profits but aside from stuff like BF4, I don't see them really coming out on top compared to how they did on Steam..
BoosterDuck
Banned
Origin's a really dumb name anyway.
What is it the origin of?
What is it the origin of?
Spelunky.
redundancy
Blue Ninja
Member
Evil.
JawesomeJaw
Member
Of all of your favorite EA provided PC fun times duh.
That game looks to be DRM-free only.
All their legacy games are still on Steam and they still sell gangbusters on sales I'd bet.
It's only stuff like Battlefield, Need for Speed, Dead Space, Mass Effect, the types of games that people dedicated to the franchise will use Origin for anyway.
Empty Space
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Freeza Under The Shower
Member
My preliminary review of Tomb Raider: the 25% of the game that isn't a quick-time event is pretty good.
The rest?
it's pretty fun in general. The QTE's are mild, and Lara doesn't do the whiiiiiiine routine outside of cutscenes (another game for the "cutscene and gameplay are completely different people" list). The game 'unlocks' after the mountain village, I would say. So basically when Lara becomes a psychopath.
Dragon1893
Member
It does have some shitty QTEs, it's still a solid action game though, they aren't mutually exclusive, just look at RE4.
jediyoshi
Member
They do front load a lot of it for its first impression. By the time the world opens up, it's smooth sailing for a while.
I always thought it was a callback to Origin Systems. Hmm.
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