Se7enSword
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It was a nice run.
Please let there never be microtransactions in the series I love!
Happy birthday to you, sir.
Tomb Raider hype though? :V
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It was a nice run.
Happy birthday to you, sir.
Tomb Raider hype though? :V
Empty chest jokes 50 cents a pop.
Don't remember CV having that much ammo. Didn't nearly everyone complain about running out for the Tyrant boss on the plane. Unless CVX changed a lot.
bobnowhere
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freshVeggie
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Wish you both happy birthdays!Today's my birthday! 27 years old, don't feel a day over 30! Gonna get some sleep now, order a pizza later and play some video games all night, just like every other day...
That comic strip though, haha. Best version of it I've seen yet!
Se7enSword
Banned
Lol, I wasted all my MB coins here, I'm missing only one paid items for the scout plus colors. When I'll manage to take them for free, I'll probably start buying other Fobs...if Konami will be still in business.
Cold Steel doesn't have empty chest jokes
Not without the DLC!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-N1yJyrQRY
Now I remember when I heard that before. Although I have no idea who that anime girl is though, but the song is mesmerizing.
Anyways back to Steam stuff.
Happy Birthday!
Soooo, Dragon's Dogma is great. Last night I found a Drake and it flew away, never to be seen again. I reloaded and left it alone. For now.
Tonight I'll explore the catacombs.
I know there's a lot of folks around here that can't wait to vent their ire about microtransactions but let's just look at two games for a second and see the approach each is taking and tell me which you like more.
In the red corner with have Battlefront which is a $60 game with additional content provided over it's lifecycle by a $50 season pass. No details on what this additional content is but might be in line with the Battlefield series.
In the blue corner we have Rainbow Six Siege which is also a $60 game with additional content provided over it's first year for free and actually detailed what will be released and when it's scheduled but is supported by microtransactions in the way of XP boosters and such as well as a season pass that just provides early unlocks for $40.
In the red corner with have Battlefront which is a $60 game with additional content provided over it's lifecycle by a $50 season pass. No details on what this additional content is but might be in line with the Battlefield series.
In the blue corner we have Rainbow Six Siege which is also a $60 game with additional content provided over it's first year for free and actually detailed what will be released and when it's scheduled but is supported by microtransactions in the way of XP boosters and such as well as a season pass that just provides early unlocks for $40.
no amount of contemplating or analysing will change my opinion on microtransactions or season passes. OTOH we have indies, most of those are proper games, so high budget gaming can go to hell for all I care.
mostly because I consider it already dead
But as you pointed before, not all people share my views, so yeah, even if zombified it still live and will live most likely and it's OK.
BTW what content Rainbow Six Siege provided for free? A real question, I don't know
texhnolyze
Banned
I still don't quite get it.
If I can't buy it, how do I access it?
Today's my birthday! 27 years old, don't feel a day over 30! Gonna get some sleep now, order a pizza later and play some video games all night, just like every other day...
Happy birthday dear leader~!
accel
Member
Not enough data (for someone unfamiliar with both games).
So apparently GG AC+R being gone is an error, at least Shini doesn't know about it.
Edit: Yup, it's back.
Also, I kudos to Shini he is really active in their games' community forums.
Edit: Yup, it's back.
Also, I kudos to Shini he is really active in their games' community forums.
that's a relief
I really wish publishers and devs stopped doing that, not that keeping games on steam cost them money as far as I know.
Woho! That's great. I wonder why it was removed in first place
No need for me to be in hurry to buy the game anymore
Kurt Russell
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Today's my birthday! 27 years old, don't feel a day over 30! Gonna get some sleep now, order a pizza later and play some video games all night, just like every other day...
Happy birthday! Punch Death in the face!
Obviously value is subjective and sometimes quality of content trumps quantity of content.
R6 Siege's model reminds of a time before DLC and microtransactions were a thing. A time when developers provided free updates and support in the way of patches long after the game had released. That always helped with player engagement and had the potential to draw in lapsed players when new content has dropped plus unlike the additional cost map pack model doesn't split your player base up either. Christ I even go back to my Diablo obsession when a new patch comes out after some time away but with season passes I usually tend to wait until the whole thing is out or it's heavily reduced in price before dipping in.
Here's a data point to take away, while there's no way to get console or Uplay numbers for R6S to compare properly right now Battlefront has 3,046 online with a 9,872 peak over 24hr while R6S just on Steam has 5,068 online right now with a 11,397 24 hour peak. Be interesting to see which one has the longer legs on PC, especially when you consider the business models of the most popular PC titles at the moment.
Oh christ my backlog is stacking up and up. I know I didn't go in for alpha tier but I get the feeling I might have backed a tier with beta access
Atraveller
Banned
Hold off on playing it until official launch, there, less stress on your backlog.Oh christ my backlog is stacking up and up. I know I didn't go in for alpha tier but I get the feeling I might have backed a tier with beta access
Oh christ my backlog is stacking up and up. I know I didn't go in for alpha tier but I get the feeling I might have backed a tier with beta access
Another vote for ignore it until release.
I almost never play the alpha and beta access for more than 5-10 minutes. Grim Dawn was the only exception, as I did play the entire first chapter.
Murata da gawd
EDIT: OK for reals Capcom, Rashid's goatee didn't need to be that absurd.
new wallpaper for my desktop, thankyou.
bobnowhere
Member
Stuff I've been playing:
ARPG set post WW2 where Zombies have taken over New York. Lots of numbers govern your abilities but none of them are particularly well explained and tooltips/tutorials are at a minimum.
Companion AI is also fundamentally broken. Upon loading or area transitions they can become unresponsive and completely useless and in a game that seems to encourage backtracking and farming to keep up to date level wise it's unforgivable. I'm currently about 5 levels behind where I should be and am running out of energy to grind.
There is a very good game trying to get out from under a morass of poorly explained mechanics. It just needs a bit more work. The game has a great soundtrack as well.
Choose-your-own survival adventure game where your choices define who if anyone survives. A game over 10 days game time only took about an hour and there seems to be many wildly varying outcomes.
A disparate bunch of survivors crash land on an island and have to find the bunker or survive the smoke monster actually navigate a series of cliched character archetypes. Probably the most disappointing aspect is you play the only character, Rita, who has their shit together and you have to guide a conspiracy nut, a morose desk jockey, a "gamer" and a well meaning but useless older married couple. Some more interesting characters would have been nice.
The game does look fantastic and is well worth a play.
Boring Twin-stick about vikings with guns. Crap menus, poor controls and average graphics. Might be fun with multiple people, but no one else was playing it.
Nice little puzzler where you navigate a red cube through an escher-like line maze. Got through the first 25% of levels pretty quickly but they get more complex. Nice sharp graphics and 60 levels with the promise of more to come.
Roll a marble through a maze, plenty like it on steam. Inexact physics and average graphics, don't bother.
A new and special kind of terrible. Have you ever thought what it would be like to play Arkham in treacle with shocking input lag if it even registers a press at all? Well now you can!
No controller prompts, only keyboard and no controller scheme so I had no idea what I was doing until I started jabbing buttons at random. Enemies also take an inordinate amount of punishment, fights with 3-4 guys takes 5 minutes or more! Maybe I was doing something wrong or maybe the game just didn't tell me how!
The VO is the real star and you really need to experience it just to know just how bad VO can be. Kick-ass changed accents at least twice in the first level, Hit-girl is clearly a 30+ yo woman who needed a job and the first boss, I was laughing at his "performance" long after I'd quit the game, moved it to my terrible category and uninstalled.
The graphics are quite nice looking, cell shaded but every other part of the game is terrible.
Early, very early will need a lot of optimisation. Bullshots are bullshotted and a lot of the 2D backgrounds and interface screens are pretty average. 3D FTL, lots of promise but looks to be a long, long way away from launch.
ARPG set post WW2 where Zombies have taken over New York. Lots of numbers govern your abilities but none of them are particularly well explained and tooltips/tutorials are at a minimum.
Companion AI is also fundamentally broken. Upon loading or area transitions they can become unresponsive and completely useless and in a game that seems to encourage backtracking and farming to keep up to date level wise it's unforgivable. I'm currently about 5 levels behind where I should be and am running out of energy to grind.
There is a very good game trying to get out from under a morass of poorly explained mechanics. It just needs a bit more work. The game has a great soundtrack as well.
Choose-your-own survival adventure game where your choices define who if anyone survives. A game over 10 days game time only took about an hour and there seems to be many wildly varying outcomes.
A disparate bunch of survivors crash land on an island and have to
The game does look fantastic and is well worth a play.
Boring Twin-stick about vikings with guns. Crap menus, poor controls and average graphics. Might be fun with multiple people, but no one else was playing it.
Nice little puzzler where you navigate a red cube through an escher-like line maze. Got through the first 25% of levels pretty quickly but they get more complex. Nice sharp graphics and 60 levels with the promise of more to come.
Roll a marble through a maze, plenty like it on steam. Inexact physics and average graphics, don't bother.
A new and special kind of terrible. Have you ever thought what it would be like to play Arkham in treacle with shocking input lag if it even registers a press at all? Well now you can!
No controller prompts, only keyboard and no controller scheme so I had no idea what I was doing until I started jabbing buttons at random. Enemies also take an inordinate amount of punishment, fights with 3-4 guys takes 5 minutes or more! Maybe I was doing something wrong or maybe the game just didn't tell me how!
The VO is the real star and you really need to experience it just to know just how bad VO can be. Kick-ass changed accents at least twice in the first level, Hit-girl is clearly a 30+ yo woman who needed a job and the first boss, I was laughing at his "performance" long after I'd quit the game, moved it to my terrible category and uninstalled.
The graphics are quite nice looking, cell shaded but every other part of the game is terrible.
Early, very early will need a lot of optimisation. Bullshots are bullshotted and a lot of the 2D backgrounds and interface screens are pretty average. 3D FTL, lots of promise but looks to be a long, long way away from launch.
UcchedavÄda
Member
Murata da gawd
EDIT: OK for reals Capcom, Rashid's goatee didn't need to be that absurd.
That drawing makes Rashid look like some sort of cartoon villain.
Does the next illustration show him tying women to train-tracks?
Jawmuncher
Member
Murata da gawd
EDIT: OK for reals Capcom, Rashid's goatee didn't need to be that absurd.
Art Sucks, not as good as
/s
I'm still mad as hell thats the artwork they decided to go with for story mode.,
you just convinced me to give Dyscourse a chance, not sure when, not any time soon for sure, but I'll move it to my games to play queue.
thanks, btw
Ha same here
Was just thinking of what to play next. Finished three games so far in '16.
PetriP-TNT
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Obviously value is subjective and sometimes quality of content trumps quantity of content.
R6 Siege's model reminds of a time before DLC and microtransactions were a thing. A time when developers provided free updates and support in the way of patches long after the game had released. That always helped with player engagement and had the potential to draw in lapsed players when new content has dropped plus unlike the additional cost map pack model doesn't split your player base up either. Christ I even go back to my Diablo obsession when a new patch comes out after some time away but with season passes I usually tend to wait until the whole thing is out or it's heavily reduced in price before dipping in.
Here's a data point to take away, while there's no way to get console or Uplay numbers for R6S to compare properly right now Battlefront has 3,046 online with a 9,872 peak over 24hr while R6S just on Steam has 5,068 online right now with a 11,397 24 hour peak. Be interesting to see which one has the longer legs on PC, especially when you consider the business models of the most popular PC titles at the moment.
Kinda interesting how much "inspiration" Ubisoft has taken from CS:GO. The DLC is pretty much 1:1 compared to CS:GO operations
AHA-Lambda
Member
I believe it is
It's true. Andrew only wants to hold the gaming world ransom for one million dollars.
AHA-Lambda
Member
Westport Independent page is up, a Papers Please-like
Out later today, no price yet
Out later today, no price yet
When Mass Effect: Andromeda comes out, people will play it and realise it ends in a cliffhanger.
"Players: But where's the ending?"
"EA: You can choose an ending from our store for just 14.99$ each!"
Snakethesniper
Member
So the cheapest for SFV at the moment is GMG?
UcchedavÄda
Member
Nice little puzzler where you navigate a red cube through an escher-like line maze. Got through the first 25% of levels pretty quickly but they get more complex pretty quickly. Nice sharp graphics and 60 levels with the promise of more to come.
Took a look at the game-play video for that game, and wow, mind blown.
And luckily it's on sale for less than what I have in Steam pocket-change.
Nice little puzzler where you navigate a red cube through an escher-like line maze. Got through the first 25% of levels pretty quickly but they get more complex. Nice sharp graphics and 60 levels with the promise of more to come.
Is that a clone of echochrome?
bobnowhere
Member
Only took me about an hour to play, managed to get two people off the island. It took 10 days in game, might be longer or shorter depending on your choices but there were plenty of locations I could have gone to but choose another option.
My story:
Collected some supplies early, water and flares. Rains came and flooded the camp, had to choose between saving the conspiracy nut and the food/flares floating away. Choose the nut, immediately regretted it. Ran to a cave, found a cat. Once the rain stopped the gamer and the desk jockey left to find food. The gamer was killed off screen by a Jaguar who was helpfully led back to the cave by the desk jockey.
Said Jaguar then kills older man, wife not particularly concerned. Conspiracy nut mentions a light on the horizon so we build a raft, not enough room for everyone so the desk jockey has to stay behind. Bring the cat though.
Eventually we find the light is just a tsunami buoy, smash it with my frying pan and go back to the island. Nut dies of hunger on the way back then waves swamp the raft and the older woman is eaten by a shark.
Get back to the island with the cat and a helicopter lands to investigate the smashed buoy picking up me, the cat and the desk jockey!
Said Jaguar then kills older man, wife not particularly concerned. Conspiracy nut mentions a light on the horizon so we build a raft, not enough room for everyone so the desk jockey has to stay behind. Bring the cat though.
Eventually we find the light is just a tsunami buoy, smash it with my frying pan and go back to the island. Nut dies of hunger on the way back then waves swamp the raft and the older woman is eaten by a shark.
Get back to the island with the cat and a helicopter lands to investigate the smashed buoy picking up me, the cat and the desk jockey!
Charming game.
PetriP-TNT
Member
Pretty much yes. Looks good, might pick the Groupees bundle its included in:
https://groupees.com/miller1
edit: oh neat, Groupees tells when Steam keys have been added to games, had 6 new keys there
Eh, it all depends on the microtransaction system that is used. Like, MGSV one is absolute shit, Planta vs Zombies Garden Warfare is fine.
funny that you mention it, I was trying to remember yesterday clone of which game this is, cuz I was sure I already have played a game like this.
Bundle costs $2
Game costs €.49 on Steam.
Why would you buy the bundle?
We really need to make that Puzzle Game [OT] happen.
Happy bdayToday's my birthday! 27 years old, don't feel a day over 30! Gonna get some sleep now, order a pizza later and play some video games all night, just like every other day...
EdwardTivrusky
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That's what i'm doing, it's difficult as i'm desperate to play it but i can wait for it. I also didn't want to burn out during the development so to be honest i've kept away from the forums. I needed to add $20 to my donation to get Beta access according to my account profile and .... nah, i can wait.
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