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[Parsnip]

Having now played a bunch of REmaster, I think I never actually played REmake on normal or higher difficulties. Everything just takes more bullets, generally there seems to be more zombies than I recall, and not nearly as much red herbs. Having thought about it a little, I guess REmake wasn't really my RE game back in the day. I never speedran it or do anything nuts like knife only runs. RE2 was that game for me.

I was worried that I had gone casual since the game seemed harder, but turns out that maybe I was casual back then.

I'm sure there will be some interesting uses for this. Say where's Milamber?

I knew that someone would comment on my terrible attempt at a lewd joke.

 

[FiveElementNinja]

DLC and in-app purchases will be necessary and costly though...

edit: and don't forget the season pass.

Haha true, but he'll get tons of good background wallpapers.

 

[Grief.exe]

Having now played a bunch of REmaster, I think I never actually played REmake on normal or higher difficulties. Everything just takes more bullets, generally there seems to be more zombies than I recall, and not nearly as much red herbs. Having thought about it a little, I guess REmake wasn't really my RE game back in the day. I never speedran it or do anything nuts like knife only runs. RE2 was that game for me.

The last decade of mainstream games has certainly softened us up too.

 

[Jawmuncher]

The last decade of mainstream games has certainly softened us up too.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

+1 to the family count is complete.

Hell of a week, SteamBros. Hell of a week.

The DLC is expensive.

 

[Grief.exe]

You say that like it's a bad thing.

If REmake's release proves anything, it's just how disenfranchised I have become with the AAA industry.
Definitely not a fan of the shallow direction mainstream games have gone. Thankfully, we have Indies and kickstarters to bridge the gap, but I am slowly moving farther away from this hobby.

 

[ViviOggi]

+1 to the family count is complete.

Hell of a week, SteamBros. Hell of a week.

Congrats!

 

[zkylon]

Yeah, just looked into it. Seems the difference is fairly minimal in terms of looks, but still noticeable. The game seems stuck at 4:3. Personally I'd rather have black bars than the pattern. I'm glad they kept it looking as close to the original as possible though. There are some parts in the game that wouldn't be as good if they reimagined it too much.

Here's part of the remastering process that shows some of the differences - http://youtu.be/y4rOgZ3RINE?t=48s

yeah i mean, personally all i want is some very unobtrusive cleanup. i don't want normal maps and all that fancy stuff, i just want the smoothing on people's arms not to be all crazy like it was in 1998 lol

not that monkey island really needed the remake, but in grim fandango's case in particular, there's very little to actually remake, just polish up the characters who already have a lot of charm and that's it.

Yeah, I'm not really sure what Valve was thinking here... Usually I try to stay away from simple CSS edits if possible because they're things that typically get changed often on Valve's end. For example, if I fix this with Enhanced Steam then Valve fixes it for real, people with Enhanced Steam will have about 17 pixels less padding than Valve intended.

But in this case I might have to make an exception, as that's been there forever and it bugs me too.

you have to do it

for the sake of personal style and beauty!

 

[lashman]

 

[Jawmuncher]

If REmake's release proves anything, it's just how disenfranchised I have become with the AAA industry.
Definitely not a fan of the shallow direction mainstream games have gone. Thankfully, we have Indies and kickstarters to bridge the gap, but I am slowly moving farther away from this hobby.

Just sucks from a larger developer perspective, they just don't want to take risks like this anymore. Hopefully sales of REmake turn that around, and Dark Souls and such has shown a good game doesn't need all the trappings of the common AAA space to be good and profitable. I like my easy "mainstream" games, but I definitely want more of the uniqueness we saw during the PS2 era. True indies and kickstarter are starting to try and bridge that gap, but for me I wish the big players would try wetting their feet more even if it's all just digital only fare for now.

Wasn't that original Colonial Marines gameplay in action as well.
Just saying.

 

[Chariot]

I am at a point with Hexcells where I don't even care if the games are in sales. I bought Plus and Infinite on full price and even play them, I must be mad.

 

[Dr Dogg]

Good thing I've got 'terrible taste' as I wouldn't be able to enjoy half of this lot. Here's my gaming purchase plans for the year (if I don't cave in with my 'buy no more than five titles' plan):-

20-1-15 - REMake
Mid to Late Feb? - Lightning Returns
24-3-15 - GTA V
26-3-15 - Pillars of Eternity*
19-5-15 - The Witcher III*
2-6-15 - Arkham Knight
??? - Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
???, Maybe 16 - ZeldaU

*Bought before the turn of the year

I'll be surprised if Zelda doesn't get a delay plus Xenoblade Chronicles X is tempting but still no concrete 15 date in place and Ubi will no doubt screw the UK over again on Steam with AssCreed Victory but I'll be happy as a pig in the proverbial with that lot above.

 

[Knurek]

If REmake's release proves anything, it's just how disenfranchised I have become with the AAA industry.
Definitely not a fan of the shallow direction mainstream games have gone. Thankfully, we have Indies and kickstarters to bridge the gap, but I am slowly moving farther away from this hobby.

I am at a point with Hexcells where I don't even care if the games are in sales. I bought Plus and Infinite on full price and even play them, I must be mad.

thisisneogaf.gif

 

[Vazra]

Good thing I've got 'terrible taste' as I wouldn't be able to enjoy half of this lot. Here's my gaming purchase plans for the year (if I don't cave in with my 'buy no more than five titles' plan):-

20-1-15 - REMake
Mid to Late Feb? - Lightning Returns
24-3-15 - GTA V
26-3-15 - Pillars of Eternity*
19-5-15 - The Witcher III*
2-6-15 - Arkham Knight
??? - Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
???, Maybe 16 - ZeldaU

*Bought before the turn of the year

I'll be surprised if Zelda doesn't get a delay plus Xenoblade Chronicles X is tempting but still no concrete 15 date in place and Ubi will no doubt screw the UK over again on Steam with AssCreed Victory but I'll be happy as a pig in the proverbial with that lot above.

No Life is Strange or Dead or Alive 5 Last Round? *cries*

 

[FiveElementNinja]

I don't suppose there's a way to see which are the most graphically intensive games in your library is there?

 

[Nabs]

I am at a point with Hexcells where I don't even care if the games are in sales. I bought Plus and Infinite on full price and even play them, I must be mad.

You made the right decision. You'll see once you try to 100% Plus.

 

[zkylon]

I don't suppose there's a way to see which are the most graphically intensive games in your library is there?

ctrl+f arma

the one with the highest number wins

:>

 

[Dr Dogg]

No Life is Strange or Dead or Alive 5 Last Rpund? *cries*

Well I said to myself 'Enough is enough' and I have to stop buying every release left right and centre hence my plan to stick to buying no more than 5 games this year. But I've already caved and picked up RE REmastered when it wasn't on my planed list so we'll see. I own DOA5 on PS3 but I can see me grabbing it at some point in time for PC goodness among other things.

 

[FLD]

The last decade of mainstream games has certainly softened us up too.

That is definitely true. A few hours into REHD on normal and I felt like I was doing so poorly I started over. My current run is going a lot more smoothly but I'm being extremely careful and very stingy with my ink ribbons and healing items. If I feel like I can redo a section better I'll usually reload my last save.

It's kind of refreshing, tbh. But there are times when I do miss checkpoints a little bit.

 

[Chariot]

You made the right decision. You'll see once you try to 100% Plus.

Yeah, about that.

It involved a lot of cursing.

 

[Driw3r]

Besiege looks great, i should get it at some point.

 

[Nabs]

Yeah, about that.



It involved a lot of cursing.

I hope you enjoy cursing.

Besiege looks great, i should get it at some point.

I'm pretty close to pre-ordering it. I see it's at like v.00000001, but I wonder how much longer they plan on developing it.

 

[FiveElementNinja]

ctrl+f arma

the one with the highest number wins

:>

I only have Cold War Assault though. Dunno if that counts.

 

[zkylon]

I only have Cold War Assault though. Dunno if that counts.

well it has no numbers so no

 

[Dr Dogg]

I don't suppose there's a way to see which are the most graphically intensive games in your library is there?

Define intense. If you really wanted to blow the doors of you PC download Futuremark's 3DMark demo. I think the demo version (is the normal Basic Version) has the 4K test if not FireStrike is a bloody good work out.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/223850/

 

[Phawx]

This is at the 13:30 of my video on Besiege, but it truly shows how fast you can whip the UX. It's practically effortless.

 

[FiveElementNinja]

Define intense. If you really wanted to blow the doors of you PC download Futuremark's 3DMark demo. I think the demo version (is the normal Basic Version) has the 4K test if not FireStrike is a bloody good work out.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/223850/

Ah that's a good idea, I didn't think about that. Yeah I'm just looking for something to test out the capabilities of the machine. We may be getting Alienware laptops at work. They're requested a demo unit for us to test out and I was thinking of installing whatever is the most intensive game I have to see how it handles it.

 

[Kifimbo]

Didn't realize I bought this bundle twice back then.

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[L.O.R.D]

I laughed a bit.

what is this ?

edit : oh , nevermind

 

[Uzzy]

ctrl+f arma

the one with the highest number wins

:>

Nah, modded ARMA 3 wins. You can really break the back of any graphics card with that.

 

[Nyteshade517]

OUT OF THE PARK BASEBALL 16 DEBUTS OFFICIAL MLB LICENSE
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/01/23/out-of-the-park-baseball-16-debuts-official-mlb-license

"Out of the Park Baseball 16 is available to pre-order now for $35, which is $5 off its launch price. Fans who pre-order gain access to the game three days before it's out in March, plus a free Steam key."

 

[Zeliard]

Just beat Wolfenstein New Order, on Uber difficulty. Final boss is a bit of a slog but overall it was a great time.

As a pure shooter it's probably the best I've played since the original F.E.A.R (not to mention that it undoubtedly has the best shotgun since that game). The gunplay is precise and violent - enemies reacting physically to every individual bullet - and every weapon is enjoyable to use. Another thumbs up goes to the fact that there's no silly weapon limit, and along with the way the perk system works, it gives the player more encouragement to switch things up.

The stealth also feels pretty good. It isn't particularly robust but it does the job; enemy A.I. is competent enough and their vision cones never felt off. Knife takedowns are appropriately brutal and watching enemies just crumple after a clean silenced headshot never really got old.

What the game is really missing is some sort of Arcade mode just to go around blasting enemies. The guns feel great, and I just want to kill stuff in various challenges with no interference.

Characterization is solid as well. BJ is finely drawn. I think they did about as well as you could to give a gruff, lantern-jawed action hero who butchers scores of people some level of introspection and self-awareness.

 

[The Dear Leader]

Good lord, this game dropped in price fast, Lords of the Fallen + all DLC for $24.

http://www.bundlestars.com/all-bundles/lords-of-the-fallen-complete-bundle/

 

[CheesecakeRecipe]

OUT OF THE PARK BASEBALL 16 DEBUTS OFFICIAL MLB LICENSE
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/01/23/out-of-the-park-baseball-16-debuts-official-mlb-license

"Out of the Park Baseball 16 is available to pre-order now for $35, which is $5 off its launch price. Fans who pre-order gain access to the game three days before it's out in March, plus a free Steam key."

I dream for the day these guys can snag the official NFL license for their football title. It's quite silly that they're allowed to have the names of all of the official players, but they have to use fake team names and logos.

 

[Backlogger]

OUT OF THE PARK BASEBALL 16 DEBUTS OFFICIAL MLB LICENSE
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/01/23/out-of-the-park-baseball-16-debuts-official-mlb-license

"Out of the Park Baseball 16 is available to pre-order now for $35, which is $5 off its launch price. Fans who pre-order gain access to the game three days before it's out in March, plus a free Steam key."

Spreadsheets the Game (I'm not familiar with this IP, but the trailer reminds me of Earl Weaver Baseball that I played the heck out of when I was 15)

Just beat Wolfenstein New Order...

Great review. I have it on PS4 and not too far into it yet but wanted to echo what you said about how the perk system encourages you to try different things. I'm finding that (so far anyway) this aspect of the game is keeping it interesting for me.

 

[Shalashaska]

I dream for the day these guys can snag the official NFL license for their football title. It's quite silly that they're allowed to have the names of all of the official players, but they have to use fake team names and logos.

This never usually bothers me, as there's usually a mod that will fix the names upon release.

 

[Annubis]

I finally got down to playing the Zhenya DLC in Everlasting Summer.
It's actually great.

It makes you start playing as a Semion that has been looping for decades.

 

[CheesecakeRecipe]

This never usually bothers me, as there's usually a mod that will fix the names upon release.

I greatly look forward to it, then. I know it is a silly thing to get hung up on, but I guess I'm just so used to knowing that Footie Manager is a fairly complete package in terms of team details that I'm kinda sad with the state of the NFL game licencing.

 

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yo

 

[Hinomura]

Ok, had one go with Super Galaxy Squadron "getting" to the fourth boss.

I don't get it... it says "it's not a bullet hell" but there are hundreds of enemy bullets on screen. ???

My experience wasn't positive at all... I wasn't having fun and finally during the fourth stage my ship exploded but gfx bugs occurred and then the game didn't stop - had to alt+f4 to force quit...

Cons:

- Played with xinput pad and the player ships move just with the analogue stick - no digital control except for playing with keyobard (or mapping via joy 2 key). :/
- The framerate is not smooth at all
- Enemies and bosses patterns /attacks aren't very interesting
- Mostly everything on screen is a bullets sponge
- Player ship upgrades are very mitigated
- Player special weapon almost unuseful
- Music is potentially annoying (maybe I'm not "feeling it" now...)
- Bugs and overlooks, it seems a very very rushed project, not polished at all

Pros:
- I liked the gfx even if its quality is a bit inconsistent and there are a few bugs (ie starfield over objects and not below)
- There are several ships / game modes which should be theoretically interesting
- Child's Play Charity

I'll play it again and in the case it was just a bad first impression I let you know... meanwhile I hope they'll fix the bugs and the analogue-only control type :/

Anyone else played it?

 

[billmcdougal]

I'll have to try this You Have To Win The Game; looks similar to VVVVVVVV.

 

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[MMBosstones86]

OUT OF THE PARK BASEBALL 16 DEBUTS OFFICIAL MLB LICENSE
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/01/23/out-of-the-park-baseball-16-debuts-official-mlb-license

"Out of the Park Baseball 16 is available to pre-order now for $35, which is $5 off its launch price. Fans who pre-order gain access to the game three days before it's out in March, plus a free Steam key."

Awesome. So I won't have to random the team names a couple times to get the MLB names

 

[jshackles]

I'll have to try this You Have To Win The Game; looks similar to VVVVVVVV.

The game is amazing and probably the best free game I've played on Steam. Spoiler alert for the GOTY results:

Spoiler

I voted for it as one of the 5 best games I played on Steam last year.

Also - Bosstones - congrats man!

 

[rtcn63]

I've only ever listened to that one Bosstones song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIGMUAMevH0

 

[zkylon]

+1 to the family count is complete.

Hell of a week, SteamBros. Hell of a week.

missed this, congratulations!

 

[ashecitism]

http://www.re4hd.com/?p=1593

yummy yummy

 

[Mr. Doop]

I'll have to try this You Have To Win The Game; looks similar to VVVVVVVV.

It's really good actually. It's worth the low, low price of free.

 

[Kiru]

http://www.re4hd.com/?p=1593

yummy yummy

Love these updates. So good.

 

[someguyinahat]

I've only ever listened to that one Bosstones song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIGMUAMevH0

They had more than one?