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STEAM | January 2015 - Steam GOTY results: Delayed
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freshVeggie
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I did already. I am too slow to focus on enemy and healing. I am getting old ;_;You get to upgrade them later so they give you more than 5 fills per bonfire. Gargoyles also don't like fire.
Actually, I did throw fireballs at one Gargoyle and yeah, it did good damage. It just ain't good for me since I can't move while throwing them.
I think I will level up agility heavily. Gotta flank those bastards.
They remind me of the Maneaters in Demon's Souls. Hated them too.
Thanks. Will look up a Wiki maybe. So far I went in mostly blind though.
I did get it already :3
..but it needs 16 Strength. F that. I'm gonna dump everything into Agility and Dexterity.
Veeery useful stuff. Thanks!
What is the advised program to cap framerates at 30?
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PepsimanVsJoe
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Unless you have a specific build in mind I wouldn't ignore putting points into strength.
Grav seems like it could be fun, but I've spent more time messing about with the server stuff and getting friends into my server than I have actually playing it. x.x
The server list is broken and there isn't really much info around about the dedicated servers. Passwords don't seem to be supported, so people kept randomly joining a server I was hosting for a few friends and I to play on. >.< Would be fine, but PvP is enabled by default.
The server list is broken and there isn't really much info around about the dedicated servers. Passwords don't seem to be supported, so people kept randomly joining a server I was hosting for a few friends and I to play on. >.< Would be fine, but PvP is enabled by default.
The game is really great. I only managed to play like one complete round of online mode. There are a lot of problems with the online mode unfortunately like really bad netcode and regular desyncs and crashes.
I believe MSI Afterburner would be recommended, though I tend to use Radeonpro instead for some games.
There's an Anime themed sale going on. And right in time for me as I was wanting for some more Japanese game on steam.
Which ones are must have? Note that I already own and love the Falcom games.
thereisnoif
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What happens if a player dies during co-op?
Agarest games if you like Strategy RPGs and can tolerate the fan service. Naruto games if you like fighters and/or Naruto(Perhaps better off waiting for a better price on Ultimate Ninja STORM Revolution, though). King of Fighters and Blazblue if you like fighters(Be warned, Blazblue Calamity Trigger doesn't have online as far as I'm aware).
PepsimanVsJoe
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I've never done a Miracle build, so I can't really answer your question.
But the main reason Pyromancy is so praised in DS1 is that it does not scale in any way with stats, though it still does a ton of damage. You do need to upgrade the Pyromancy Flame to improve your damage, but it doesn't waste precious stat points that could otherwise be used elsewhere. As such, you can use Pyromancy in basically any build, provided you have a free hand to equip the flame in. You do still have to invest in spell slots though, but if pyromancy is just a compliment to your main build, you probably won't need to equip many.
As for why it is recommended to start as a Pyromancer, it is the only class that starts at level 1. This sounds like a bad thing, but you level up fast at the low levels and if you are concerned with an efficient character build, you want to not have a bunch of stat points wasted on stats that your final build doesn't need. Additionally, he starts with a Pyromancy flame, which is acquired later than other spell tools, so even if you wanted a miracle build you could start as a Pyromancer and acquire Miracles very early on.
Depends on what you mean by specific build. Strength is literally useless to you if you don't use a weapon that scales with Strength, beyond the minimum amount of STR needed to weild your weapon in the first place. I wouldn't go recommending people investing heavily in STR unless they are building in a way that would make use of it. Anyone using primarily daggers, curved swords, or katanas are not going to need much in the way of STR. And of course high STR is wasted when elemental weapons come into play.
Many players will need to pump some points into STR to effectively make use of their weapons, but a lot of players make the mistake of leveling up the stat thinking it is increasing their damage output, only to find out later that it only applies to weapons with STR scaling.
Crimsonclaw111
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Korra isn't an anime. lol
The remaining player can go on and the dead player gets revived after you reach the next area.
Don't know if they fixed it in the recent patch. Was really disappointed when I tried it some time ago.
The one time it worked it was a really enjoyable experience. You have to distribute the dropped items between the players and decide whether it is worth it to split up and clear the area fast or if you need the combined firepower to defeat strong enemies.
I already own KoFXIII, but I've since defected from arcade fighters to Smash Bros, as I seem to be getting too old for frame perfect links and intensive execution barriers.
What is the general opinion on Recettar?
We covered that earlier. It's more a cartoon, sure but while it's "American" a lot of it is done by a Korean studio. And you have to admit the art style leans toward Japanese. It's not too bad a game, either way, apparently.
General opinion? Buy it. Only so many managerial shop games out there.
legacyzero
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I am REALLY enjoying J.U.L.I.A: Among the Stars.
FANTASTIC stuff.
FANTASTIC stuff.
PepsimanVsJoe
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I'm just saying not to ignore it.
Since it's his first play-through he's going to need at least some STR to try out weapons until he finds something that works for him.
Crimsonclaw111
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Resident Evil HD is the number one top seller right now. Nice.
thereisnoif
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Ah, gotcha. Sounds reasonable.
Recettear is fantastic. Managing your own shop is a unique concept and the dungeoncrawling is also enjoyable.
Syphon Filter
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Hopefully they put the og version on Steam.
Games are getting greenlit so quickly no one's keeping an up to date list out there. And no updated top 100 lists to reflect all of 2014 yet, either.
The only one I can easily recommend is recettear. The others, like the visual novels, shmups, fighting games, and arena-beat'em ups, depend highly on your tastes.
Oh yeah, definitely.
I really liked how in DS2 you could see the full moveset for a weapon without meeting the stat requirement. That way you could actually try out a new weapon you picked up without having the waste a bunch of stat points only to realize you didn't really like the moveset anyway.
Yes! It really is a great game. I supported the IndieGoGo campaign after hearing they got stiffed by their old publisher. All things considered, for such a small budget and small team it's an impressive work.
The art is gorgeous and the puzzles are genuinely interesting and well-integrated within the story. Difficulty may be slightly on the easier side, and there were some tiny bugs, but overall I was thoroughly pleased. J.U.L.I.A. is a beautiful game, and I hope more people discover, play, and enjoy it. Store page.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
So Greenlight is basically dead. Something like 500-600 games have been Greenlit since the beginning of December, many after being listed for only a day or two. At this point it seems more like a basic sanity check against random people submitted pirated copies of Battlefield 3 or Minecraft than an actual process for voting in particularly well qualified games.
If I were a dev of a game that's been lingering in GL hell for a few years, I'd delete it and relist it from scratch. The hurdle is tiny. Stuff is being greenlit with 1000-2000 yes votes now (the first Greenlight batch was at about 100,000 yes votes; most of the batches last year were 10,000-15,000).
If I were a dev of a game that's been lingering in GL hell for a few years, I'd delete it and relist it from scratch. The hurdle is tiny. Stuff is being greenlit with 1000-2000 yes votes now (the first Greenlight batch was at about 100,000 yes votes; most of the batches last year were 10,000-15,000).
Bubbavelli
Banned
Watching the Episode 2 AGDQ speed run got me in my feels.
RIP Half Life
1998 - 2007
RIP Half Life
1998 - 2007
MakeshiftChef
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I am currently six hours into a play through of Shadowrun: Dragonfall Director's Cut. I have found it to be very accessible. You don't have to play it for hours on end to feel as though you've moved the story along. You can save anytime. I really like the setting and atmosphere and the story/writing has been well done.
aren't there rumors that greenlight is going to be fully retired in march?
I was mostly curious what all had gotten through as I buy a bunch of greenlight bundles. I am curious what type of system we will go onto next though... I mean heck if nothing else I doubt without greenlight that we would be having an anime sale on steam right now, as steam only really started letting stuff like visual novels on after people showed there was actually demand for them on greenlight. so it's not like greenlight has been all bad, somewhat bad.
-MD-
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I imagine a small portion of steam users even bother to vote at all so yeah it seems pretty pointless.
Chairmanchuck
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The rumored system are two storefronts. The one we have now and some storefront for all titles, that will have all the Steamfeatures like achievements and such. If a game on the second storefront is popular enough it could move to the normal one.
What I do not understand is, why Valve doesnt just employ more people to curate the games. I mean for GL there were 2 people working on it IIRC. We are talking about a multimillion dollar company now. I would not have any problem with Valve employees curating, if they do not refuse games because of shitty reasons like before (Point and click wont sell. VNs arent real games etc.)
Just release the games if they have a minimum quality and arent like Slaughtering Grounds...
Atraveller
Banned
Mass Effect, Dragon Age.
MakeshiftChef
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Two great examples here Speevy. Both are personal favorites.
ah, something like that could work, but yeah I agree they could easily afford more people. it's not like just steam sales are their only source of income. They also have plenty of team fortress money or dota 2 money, or heck even trading card money as they likely make a nice chunk of money off that tiny fee each time a card is sold when stuff like the winter sale goes on and the trades per item jump into the thousands.
autoduelist
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Two quick reviews:
Steam Marines -- I bought this ages ago expecting a turn based tactical shooter. It's more a squad based roguelike. You have 4 soldiers and explore a multi-level spaceship. Ammo and supplies are scarce. Tactics come into heavy play with positioning -- the game rewards 'at range' gunfire with 100% hit chance, as enemies get closer your accuracy actually decreases. Death comes quickly, so you really need to be careful how you push forward and explore. Game does some things really well, though also leaves something to be desired; it just needs some polish and such. Certain aspects feel really odd, like the randomized dungeon creates rooms you can't get to without busting down walls, which makes no sense on a spaceship.
Hexcells series --
Minesweeper++. It's very similar to minesweeper, except more positional info may or may not be given (ie, number of 'mines' in a column or diagonal, or number of mines 'within 2 spaces', etc). Unlike Minesweeper, which requires a random start, Hexcells puzzles are designed by hand and are always solvable.
I found the first game (Hexcells) far too easy, although the 5th world of Hexcells Plus is starting to show some challenge (requiring multiple vectors of deduction to solve a puzzle). I hear Infinite is even harder, which is good.
Great games overall.
Steam Marines -- I bought this ages ago expecting a turn based tactical shooter. It's more a squad based roguelike. You have 4 soldiers and explore a multi-level spaceship. Ammo and supplies are scarce. Tactics come into heavy play with positioning -- the game rewards 'at range' gunfire with 100% hit chance, as enemies get closer your accuracy actually decreases. Death comes quickly, so you really need to be careful how you push forward and explore. Game does some things really well, though also leaves something to be desired; it just needs some polish and such. Certain aspects feel really odd, like the randomized dungeon creates rooms you can't get to without busting down walls, which makes no sense on a spaceship.
Hexcells series --
Minesweeper++. It's very similar to minesweeper, except more positional info may or may not be given (ie, number of 'mines' in a column or diagonal, or number of mines 'within 2 spaces', etc). Unlike Minesweeper, which requires a random start, Hexcells puzzles are designed by hand and are always solvable.
I found the first game (Hexcells) far too easy, although the 5th world of Hexcells Plus is starting to show some challenge (requiring multiple vectors of deduction to solve a puzzle). I hear Infinite is even harder, which is good.
Great games overall.
Pyros_Eien
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Borderlands is kinda RPG-ish, I guess more like Action RPG with FPS view, but it's pretty cool, especially Borderlands 2. Buying the games with the DLC packs is A LOT of stuff to do.
There's Fallout too, both New Vegas and 3. The Witcher 1 and 2, though the first one was kinda weird imo and didn't like it much, but the 2nd one is great and you don't really need to play them in order, just kinda read on the story a bit before playing 2. 3 comes out this year and is a very hyped game.
Bunch of other stuff but I guess it depends on your definition of accessible. Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition(1 and 2), Dark Souls 1 and 2, Divinity: Original Sin, South Park, Y's(all of them) are all very good games but I don't know if I'd call them accessible.
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
Fallout 3 and new Vegas.
Oh my fucking god, I better hope this is not what will happen. Sending all the new games from not-big-publishers in a shit getho-store to die.
If there is anything we can learn from the XBLIG fiasco, is NOT to redo this again.
Atraveller
Banned
Actually most RPGs are very accessible now.
I'll give you another one, South Park from last year.
Zero-Crescent
Member
Yeah, with that recent kerfuffle, the odd stat brought up was that it only took 13,000 Yes votes for that game to rise to #7. Back in early 2013, going by the charts devs posted in the Greenlight thread, 13,000 Yes votes would have barely put a game onto the Top 100, and with only a few games Greenlit per month, there was a chance to be stuck in Purgatory if its voting pace slowed. Now with such a low bar to get into the Top 10, it would be easy for anyone to use simple brigade tactics to get into the top spots (Though even that's unnecessary unless the dev wants bragging rights, since large batches are still being quietly Greenlit).
Really shows how hard participation in Greenlight fell over the past year.
I found Planescape Torment to be very accessible(CRPG-lite). Baldur's Gate has been harder to get into due to a more heavier emphasis on combat.
If you want to cheese the gargoyles, just
reverse hollowing and summon. Try using one of those resins to electrify your sword, and go two-handed.
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