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STEAM | January 2015 - Steam GOTY results: Delayed
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Seventy_X_Seven
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New to PC gaming. Have $100 in Amazon GC which I wanted to use for Steam GC. I've done this in the past except converted it to PSN GC. Anyways, apparently there is no option to do this on Amazon except for paying $60 for a $50 Steam GC? Or buy GameStop GC and convert there, except you can't buy GameStop GC with Amazon GC credit. So stupid.
Think I'm going to buy $100 worth of Steam GC for $120, but common sense is telling me no.
Think I'm going to buy $100 worth of Steam GC for $120, but common sense is telling me no.
NightmareTrigger
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Someone in the B/S/T thread might help you out with a direct exchange.
I got stuck pretty early on with a "Catch 3 Bulbfish" quest that stonewalled me for ages until I was able to catch the hat that gave an extra quest. And legendary hats are very random and very rare, I was about to give up on getting 100% when I finally got one.
Press the "M" key. You're welcome.
Personally I'd just hang on to it rather than trade at a loss, Amazon price matches most of Steam's major sales.
Jawmuncher
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or was it
An option would be to buy games from Amazon as steam keys. Amazon usually matches deals from Steam. (But not every game is available there).
Amazon sells a lot of PC games that are redeemable on Steam. In other words, you buy the game on Amazon and they email you a code that you type into Steam, and your game appears in your library. Since Amazon discounts games frequently, I would just keep the Amazon credit if I were you, rather than convert to Steam credit at such a bad exchange rate.
That is a bad idea. Amazon directly sells game keys that activate on Steam. As long as you aren't only interested in niche indie titles, you don't need to purchase a Steam GC.
AHA-Lambda
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Wait, you serious? Is MW3 actually not on Steam anymore?
Nabs
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It is. It took me two seconds to search and find it.
Tizoc
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Indeed it would, it's an adventure game with more freedom for exploration and interaction. It's a great take a break game and like Telltale's games a good 'get together' game to play for others to watch you play.
Jawmuncher
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It's pretty bad that I hear Life is strange has more exploration than a TT game and now I'm kind of less excited.
try filtering the results exactly as I did. steam omits MW3 from the results for me lol
its definitely still there, but its an interesting bug
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That's legit terrible that you feel that way. You should see a doctor.
Jawmuncher
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I just enjoy my linear experiences far too much. Unhealthy so I guess.
Yeah I'm pretty sure we're about the same age. My all time favorite games are linear so that doesn't help matters either .
But how will you be ready for the inevitable Dino Crisis MMO? capcom please
Tizoc
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Hmm I tried setting AA to x4 but that still gave me the same FPS drop, so MAYBE it's bloom, motion blur and AO...
YianGaruga
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its... beautiful
Jawmuncher
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I absolutely loathe MMOs so I would already be sucking.
It's amazing how often he shows up actually game devs. Pretty bad when they cant work in the stuff Durante does.
Techland/WB stahp, what are you doing?
I was expecting something smooth since the game didn't look all that demanding graphic wise instead I got some pretty weird performance.
I just tried it again and, apart from no weird freezes during the opening naval battle I was getting low fps as soon as I left the ship (26 at most walking around).
I tried to put each setting off or at the minimum possible to see if one of the settings would do the trick to let me get a smooth experience... I ended up with everything off/minimum and the game looking like this:
but my fps only going up to 46. Feels really weird and annoying.
Don't worry, it still is a very linear game. You really should give it a try.
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The game isn't open-world or anything, it's still linear. It just doesn't force-feed you dramatic choice every 3 minutes or so like Telltale does and it's not just a stream of cutscenes with 5 seconds of button mashing in between.
What kind of PC do you have? Why not try turning AA off completely. Vague performance complaints help no one.
Jawmuncher
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I already bought it and would have regardless just for DontNod and the subject matter.
Dunno if I can say the same thing about their vampire game though.
NingenJanai
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Telltale suck, they don't add multilanguage to their games and don't bother fixing any bugs.It is nice to see that TellTale got competition (Life is Strange)
Dio Brando
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Maybe i'm just on that stage of being too excited, like right after watching a movie, where you cant really critique it fairly, but i absolutely loved Life is Strange. It just felt so unique to me, thematically, at least in the world of gaming. And the fact that it's so mundane,
, is actually a plus for me. The only bad thing i can think about it is the lipsync, that is dreadful, although i totally forgot about it 1 hour in.
besides the rewind ability
Doesnt the first ep of WD season 1 still have really bad compressed audio?
Well, Vampyr is a long way off still.
We hardly know anything about it.
Dontnod already patched some stuff!
The name is enough to have me excited. Same name as a manga series I love which threat the vampire background in a different way compared to the usual vampire works. It's a flimsy reason to be excited but I want to believe in dontnod.
someguyinahat
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Not to mention saves can still break because it places savedata in one directory, then the next episode looks for it in another. You have to manually move your savedata from one directory to another between episodes for it to actually work. At least that was the case for me.
I'll never 100% any of the Saints Row games, since I have no interest in spending hours grinding out the co-op achievements. That and Saints Row IV's shitty "drive a million miles in a vehicle in a game where there is never a reason to get in a vehicle" challenge. I'm also not going to bother to idle Gat out of Hell to get the 20 hour achievement (I did everything else there is to do in just under 15 hours) since I wouldn't be able to get 100% of the achievements anyway.
And yeah, I hope the next game is more along the lines of SR3. I enjoyed the powers in the last two games, but they really half assed it, and the powers really trivialized most of the world. Make a new game, with a new engine, in a new city, and design it in a way that makes actually exploring the city meaningful. Save the powers for side content and/or DLC.
Tizoc
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I use a laptop, among the first things I did in the game was set the AA options from high to lowest but I kept getting the FPS middling between 40-50 FPS whenever there are other characters on screen, if it is only Max that's in an area the FPS remains a constant 60 FPS.
This is my specs btw
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 770M 3GB GDDR5 VRAM
Intel® Core i7 4700HQ Processor
DDR3L 1600 MHz SDRAM, up to 32 G
Oh damn, time to buy
I still don't understand how to use GeDoSaTo.
It's got English and French!
Also, it's not because a publisher is huge that they want to pump the same amount of money into every game.
It's not like it's a Final Fantasy, after all =p
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With MSAA off that desktop should be running 60 fps fine even with characters on screen. Are your drivers up to date? Does setting everything to low lock it 60 (since that's easy to test).
Since you are using laptop the game might be running off the integrated Intel GPU. Check Nvidia control panel.
There's a fuckton of flyers and
diary pages
Translators don't work for free...
Yeah, no.
You're probably looking at a lot more, depending on how the company charges.
NingenJanai
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3 videos for grim fandango remastered explaining how they mostly did nothing? amazingSo I didn't realise we now have a specific Video area in our Library.
2000 for a month seems to be too little, especially if there are more than one translator. And I don't think a month would be enough to translate a game. I might be wrong since I don't know how a translator works
I checked how much a translator earns in Sweden and it's around 3200 per month. That sum of money is what they would get from their employer
Tizoc
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OK will try it out then, thanks, although I do dislike turning off AA for the most part
My drivers are up to date actually, if it is a GPU thing, what can I do to have it improved?
3 videos for grim fandango remastered explaining how they mostly did nothing? amazing
I had no idea you could run the OG game on a system higher than Windows 2000 :V
Servizio
I don't really need a tag, but I figured I'd get one to make people jealous. Is it working?
3 videos for grim fandango remastered explaining how they mostly did nothing? amazing
It's an hour long montage of Double Fine employees shrugging sheepishly. Then you have the extended dance remix versions as a bonus.
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