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STEAM | January 2015 - Steam GOTY results: Delayed

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Arthea

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Dr Dogg said:
Yatch Club did a couple of articles on Gamasutra going over the look and feel of Shovel Knight and how closely they stuck to the limitations of the NES (and how they cheated slightly). I'd imagine it's lots and lots of layering and blending going on but being OpenGL and not able to get a frame dump with GeDoSaTo it's way beyond my ability to have a snoop around.

To be fair on FFIII it's a port of a mobile port of a DS game and done by DotEMU so it was never going to be the most demanding game ever. Also you'll notice a a fair few smaller titles either targeting Mac and Linux as well as stuff using Unity have a OpenGL renderer. From junk like Unearthed to more accomplished games like Transistor are OpenGL.
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Transistor is very demanding for some reason, though, not on the level of Talos Principle, no, but it is, also it has weird resolution and being not at the centre of the screen in full screen mode (or any mode tbh) issue.
 
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Arthea

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Loot Hunter is a pirate sim, mostly economic one as you are out to get rich, filthy rich of course, with some twist. The twist being that you have match three combat. That's not so original these days if not the fact that there are no combos in this game, only matches you do yourself count what makes it play very different from other genre mixes with match 3. The game is fairly easy and relaxing, also fun to play.
There is trading, rather extensive, side quests and certainly hidden pirate treasure hunting, no pirate game is complete without it. There are skills to buy, lands to acquire, riches to get and ships to plunder. What else one can want?
 
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Pix the Cat for PC is jsut as good as the Vita version which I played to death.

No embargo either, so Im gonna try to make a video for it today.
 
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Arthea

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fantomena said:
Pix the Cat for PC is jsut as good as the Vita version which I played to death.

No embargo either, so Im gonna try to make a video for it today.
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I would buy it no questions asked, it looks great and I haven't played it before, but timing is very wrong... because of Nep Nep, unless Pix is really cheap. How much is it on VIta btw?

Is it slow day today or what?

fantomena said:
I got the Vita version through PS+, so don't know the price, but I can't imagine it being more than 10$ though.
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that's much more than I'm willing to pay right after Nep nep tho
 
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fantomena

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Arthea said:
I would buy it no questions asked, it looks great and I haven't played it before, but timing is very wrong... because of Nep Nep, unless Pix is really cheap. How much is it on VIta btw?
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I got the Vita version through PS+, so don't know the price, but I can't imagine it being more than 10$ though.
 
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Knurek

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Dr Dogg said:
Yatch Club did a couple of articles on Gamasutra going over the look and feel of Shovel Knight and how closely they stuck to the limitations of the NES (and how they cheated slightly). I'd imagine it's lots and lots of layering and blending going on but being OpenGL and not able to get a frame dump with GeDoSaTo it's way beyond my ability to have a snoop around.
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If only Valve didn't antagonize seemingly the only person on the planet capable of writing an OpenGL debugger... If only...

Dr Dogg said:
To be fair on FFIII it's a port of a mobile port of a DS game and done by DotEMU so it was never going to be the most demanding game ever. Also you'll notice a a fair few smaller titles either targeting Mac and Linux as well as stuff using Unity have a OpenGL renderer. From junk like Unearthed to more accomplished games like Transistor are OpenGL.
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That's actually bad news for Team Red folk... Unless something changed in the last year, ATI's implementation of OpenGL is bad. Not Android level bad, but nevertheless bad.
 
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Arthea

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Chariot said:
Yes, 2 days and 5 hours. Which leaves me about 1.5 days to play Nep-Nep @.@
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good luck with that!
I think it took me more than 30 hours or so, not this version, but original one

KainXVIII said:
Here is some leftovers, i hope that keys still works!
And happy birthday for me (32 years is no joke, ouch)
http://new4.fjcdn.com/thumbnails/comments/Where+did+sally+go+after+the+explosions+_ed92bab8a0af810fa00b06572cbd957e.gif[/IMG[/QUOTE]

Happy birthday!
[SPOILER]still a joke, no worries ;)[/SPOILER]
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KainXVIII

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Here is some leftovers, i hope that keys still works!
And happy birthday for me (32 years is no joke, ouch)
Where+did+sally+go+after+the+explosions+_ed92bab8a0af810fa00b06572cbd957e.gif


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Knurek

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KainXVIII said:
Here is some leftovers, i hope that keys still works!
And happy birthday for me (32 years is no joke, ouch)
Where+did+sally+go+after+the+explosions+_ed92bab8a0af810fa00b06572cbd957e.gif
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You know it's going to get harder, and harder, and harder as you get older.
And in the end you'll pack up and fly down south,
Hide your head in the sand,
Just another sad old man,
All alone and dying of cancer.

Getting tired of that PBF image macro, so I'm trying something different this time
 
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redlacs

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Arthea said:
Loot Hunter is a pirate sim, mostly economic one as you are out to get rich, filthy rich of course, with some twist. The twist being that you have match three combat. That's not so original these days if not the fact that there are no combos in this game, only matches you do yourself count what makes it play very different from other genre mixes with match 3. The game is fairly easy and relaxing, also fun to play.
There is trading, rather extensive, side quests and certainly hidden pirate treasure hunting, no pirate game is complete without it. There are skills to buy, lands to acquire, riches to get and ships to plunder.
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interesting, call me grumpy ol pirate but i found no fun in this game whatsoever. there is no real importance in trading. lands you gain are also as important and useful as umbrella indoors. sometimes you can stare on the combat screen all day with no real solution for beating the high level ships so it fails as a puzzler. sadly its just a game of infinite fetch quests. difficulty 2/10. with that being said, the price just seems wrong to me. for example Tidalis was masterpiece in comparison, even with the creepy-ass characters

also, the game has quickload/quicksave which can superspoil any little-to-none survival tone the game has. well, use it anyway, you never know when youre gonna get stuck on shore with no way back (bug)

Arthea said:
What else one can want?
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path tracing for starters.

sorry, but with calling this "adventure/action/strategy/RPG/simulation" (store tags) we may as well call Pac-man a open-world racing game where you dont want the boogeymen to overtake you and kill you in the process

Loot Hunter it a casual match-3 game with pirates. nothing more, nothing less
 
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Arthea

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Knurek said:
You know it's going to get harder, and harder, and harder as you get older.
And in the end you'll pack up and fly down south,
Hide your head in the sand,
Just another sad old man,
All alone and dying of cancer.

Getting tired of that PBF image macro, so I'm trying something different this time
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iKkbf09KT6vA5.gif
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how is this better than that pic?
not funny, Knurek, not funny at all (._.)
 
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Baron_Calamity

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Arthea said:
Loot Hunter is a pirate sim, mostly economic one as you are out to get rich, filthy rich of course, with some twist. The twist being that you have match three combat. That's not so original these days if not the fact that there are no combos in this game, only matches you do yourself count what makes it play very different from other genre mixes with match 3. The game is fairly easy and relaxing, also fun to play.
There is trading, rather extensive, side quests and certainly hidden pirate treasure hunting, no pirate game is complete without it. There are skills to buy, lands to acquire, riches to get and ships to plunder. What else one can want?
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Cool. I've wish listed it so I can buy it once I hit the lottery (or sale or bundled.)
 
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someguyinahat

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Arthea said:
Loot Hunter is a pirate sim, mostly economic one as you are out to get rich, filthy rich of course, with some twist. The twist being that you have match three combat. That's not so original these days if not the fact that there are no combos in this game, only matches you do yourself count what makes it play very different from other genre mixes with match 3. The game is fairly easy and relaxing, also fun to play.
There is trading, rather extensive, side quests and certainly hidden pirate treasure hunting, no pirate game is complete without it. There are skills to buy, lands to acquire, riches to get and ships to plunder. What else one can want?
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But wait a minute! Does that mean I can't even set up my own combos, like if I do a match that I can see would cause a dropdown to match 3 more, do the 3 stay there until I match more with them? Do they not drop down at all? Or do they go away but I get no points for them? How does that work exactly?
 
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Arthea

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redlacs said:
interesting, call me grumpy ol pirate but i found no fun in this game whatsoever. there is no real importance in trading. lands you gain are also as important and useful as umbrella indoors. sometimes you can stare on the combat screen all day with no real solution for beating the high level ships so it fails as a puzzler. sadly its just a game of infinite fetch quests. difficulty 2/10. with that being said, the price just seems wrong to me. for example Tidalis was masterpiece in comparison, even with the creepy-ass characters

also, the game has quickload/quicksave which can superspoil any little-to-none survival tone the game has. well, use it anyway, you never know when youre gonna get stuck on shore with no way back (bug)

path tracing for starters.

sorry, but with calling this "adventure/action/strategy/RPG/simulation" (store tags) we may as well call Pac-man a open-world racing game where you dont want the boogeymen to overtake you and kill you in the process

Loot Hunter it a casual match-3 game with pirates. nothing more, nothing less
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you aren't very fair here, it's not a great game and I didn't say it is, but I never got stuck and if you can't move, you just need to move at the different angle in those instances, it's annoying yea, but there is always a way back.
Path tracing? Why would you even need that?
About no real importance of goals. It's a game we are talking about? What importance collecting feathers or finding pigeons or collecting scraps of paper or even killing millions zombies have? You don't find this game fun, fine, but the way you try to objectify it is wrong imo.
Tidalis is no good!, no bad but worse than this game for sure.

Now for high level ships, if you try to take on some ship ten levels higher than you, why do you even expect to win?

It is a casual game and a casual game is not a swear word you know, there is need for such games too. These help me relax much more than any other type of the game for example.

also pacman is a walking simulator, very fast walking sim, that's settled (><)

someguyinahat said:
But wait a minute! Does that mean I can't even set up my own combos, like if I do a match that I can see would cause a dropdown to match 3 more, do the 3 stay there until I match more with them? Do they not drop down at all? Or do they go away but I get no points for them? How does that work exactly?
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they drop, but no combos at all of any kind, and they don't clear, all you do while matching - counts, nothing that board does is of any significance, but you still can plan ahead only you have to think and plan differently.
edited: btw there are equitable skills that can make all the difference in the world too.
 
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Tizoc said:
2 days til life is strange is released rite?
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Yep. Wonder when GMG will get keys.

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InfiniteNine said:
No plans means later when we feel like announcing it.
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Yeah. 'No plans' is just leaving the door open should they announce it. Like when Atlus USA said they had no plans on localizing Catherine at the time, then announced it like a couple weeks later. Though, this was after people freaked the hell out and thought 'no plans' meant 'never'. Learn the world of PR speak!
 
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