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[LurkerPrime]

As an addendum to the above, I think it's Gran Soren where you level up, at an inn by the warp stone.

But again, it's been a while. I could be wrong.

I never quite understood how leveling and pawns interact in Dragon's Dogma. I initially "borrowed" 2 very high level ones from EmergentFocus and Coldsun(?) and cruised through the game. I then learned that that effects the rate that you earn XP so I borrowed 2 more my level from Dsyndrome and someone else and didn't really notice any change.

At that point I got a little bored with the design and aesthetic of the game and put it down.



Is it just when drawing from your bank account/CC or even when using your PP balance? I know a lot of people in the Group Buys group have trouble sending under $1. Apparently the seller can send you a paypal.me link to bypass the $1 minimum.

I think there's no cost for friend's pawns which kind of broke that economy. It's supposed to cost money to take out a pawn, and they're dismissed when they die IIRC. So it would be a bit of an investment for a really good, high-level pawn. On top of the XP stuff.

The true value of a pawn is as a teacher or guide for your pawn & party. Knowledgeable pawns teach your party stuff and can exploit enemy's weaknesses better than a vanilla pawn, and have better tactics and synergies with the party. Plus they can tell you secrets or solutions to quests. So you're supposed to develop a good, useful pawn that others use to maximise the amount of XP and knowledge they accumulate, and switch out the rented pawn when you feel you've learned everything they can, or there's a better match-up for your current challenges. It's a really, amazingly cool system.

Pawns and Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis System are two mechanics that really should be adopted more in games.

 

[Grief.exe]

Only reason I can imagine is they don't want to cannibalize 3DS sales. ""New"" game is hitting in March shortly after Switch. People will probably double dip if they announce a Switch port two or three months later.

I didn't realize they already had one announced for 3DS.

 

[darkwing-buck]

this shark always creeped me out as a kid in Tomb Raider 2

 

[derFeef]

this shark always creeped me out as a kid in Tomb Raider 2

Everything creeped me out in Tomb Raider back then, it had a great atmosphere somehow.

 

[darkwing-buck]

Everything creeped me out in Tomb Raider back then, it had a great atmosphere somehow.

yeah the butler was creepy

 

[InquisitorAles]

Okay, quick summary about games i recently played.

Far Cry Primal still keeps surprising me. I thought that winter environments will be as boring and shallow as FC4, but i was wrong again.

Also, story is great too,

Spoiler

vision when you need to shoot moon with your bow and moon explodes, holy shit!

My progress at 48% now, and still love it, amazing game.

Genesis Rising turned out really disappointing, so promising concept and story, but this game broken not just technically, but gameplay wise. I tired to play through campaign, but i gave up at 3rd mission, it simply doesn't work and fundamentally broken.

Beholder is indie game with great dystopian atmosphere and challenging gameplay, reminds me about "Neighbours from Hell" series. Finished it on easy difficulty, trying to finish it now in standard mode to get different endings and missed achievements. My only complain is about lack of manual saving functionality, sometimes it really annoying to doing same things again and again because of random deaths or missed phone call. Btw this game in steam bundle with This War of Mine and Orwell, if you like those games you should definitely check it out - http://store.steampowered.com/bundle/2236/

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is fucking garbage, shit port from PS2 with moronic QTEs and shallow sword fights. And Disney are so shameless they even advertise it on Steam with video from Xbox 360 version. 2007 was indeed tough time for PC market. Well, at least game has steam cards, and they are very pricey - http://www.steamcardexchange.net/index.php?gamepage-appid-301980

 

[bobnowhere]

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[D3RANG3D]

:3

Spoiler

LOL!

 

[Deques]

Is it just when drawing from your bank account/CC or even when using your PP balance? I know a lot of people in the Group Buys group have trouble sending under $1. Apparently the seller can send you a paypal.me link to bypass the $1 minimum.

I have money in my Paypal account. Or is Paypal trying to withdraw money from my bank account, despite that I have money in the balance?

 

[The_Super_Inframan]

:3

Spoiler

LOL!

 

[crimsonheadGCN]

:3

Spoiler

LOL!

I hope that game goes through. It's one of the most original games that I've ever seen.

 

[bobnowhere]

I have money in my Paypal account. Or is Paypal trying to withdraw money from my bank account, despite that I have money in the balance?

Possibly.

Looking into it it may be to avoid some sort fraud going on. People sending small amounts unsolicited and then charging back. Why? No idea. That would be why they allow paypal.me as those are basically people soliciting for a small amount.

Might also to not be worth the processing fees for paypal to process those small amounts as even though they are completely internal with paypal balance there is still probably some fraud reporting and auditing requirements for such small amounts in various locations.

 

[Deques]

Possibly.

Looking into it it may be to avoid some sort fraud going on. People sending small amounts unsolicited and then charging back. Why? No idea. That would be why they allow paypal.me as those are basically people soliciting for a small amount.

Might also to not be worth the processing fees for paypal to process those small amounts as even though they are completely internal with paypal balance there is still probably some fraud reporting and auditing requirements for such small amounts in various locations.

That kinda sucks. And awfully great! Paypal wants me to buy lesser games

 

[derFeef]

This looks neat, there is also a demo:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thepedestrian/the-pedestrian

 

[darkwing-buck]

I need to beat Metroid Fusion :/ god my back log has grown substiantially since winter started.

 

[Boss Doggie]

I'm triggered at how gaffers assume pricing on games.

 

[derFeef]

I'm triggered at how gaffers assume pricing on games.

The game has a comic style, should be only 15$.

 

[Nzyme32]

I'm triggered at how gaffers assume pricing on games.

Lol. Never ceases to be amusing. Such is GAF.

 

[Tizoc]

Bomberman for the Switch you mean?
I don't like the GBP 50 price tag but if the US ver. is cheaper I would've gotten that if I would get a Switch.

 

[Wok]

There is a store page for We are Chicago.

 

[someguyinahat]

:3

Spoiler

LOL!

Give them an A for effort to try and get an Advance Wars clone onto PC, but that battle screen looks like a bad flash game.

 

[chugen]

anyone else got an avast alert in the store?

 

[Jawmuncher]

This looks better than that other advanced wars style game that popped up

 

[crimsonheadGCN]

There is a store page for We are Chicago.

This looks interesting.

 

[Arthea]

any word from Indiegala about illegally removed Castle of Illusion?

 

[Nzyme32]

any word from Indiegala about illegally removed Castle of Illusion?

No - but from what we know, Sega claim the issue is a purely technical glitch with Genba, a logistics service that helps them do all the key distribution stuff with resellers. They say everyones keys will be reinstated within 24/48hrs. I imagine they will have to work with Valve to make that happen, but should be doable

 

[nightstorm]

anyone else got an avast alert in the store?

Are you using avast on win 10 ?

 

[yuraya]

I'm triggered at how gaffers assume pricing on games.

 

[chugen]

Are you using avast on win 10 ?

ye

 

[White Wolf]

$20 in 1990 is around $38 in 2017.

steamgaf redeemed

 

[Jawmuncher]

Wbacon, where is the RE7 preload at

 

[Vazra]

 

[InquisitorAles]

$20 in 1990 is around $38 in 2017.

steamgaf redeemed

Sounds about right, never paid for a game more than 35$.

 

[Tizoc]

$20 in 1990 is around $38 in 2017.

steamgaf redeemed

That is how much i got sf5 2017 edition on steam for!

 

[White Wolf]

Sounds about right, never paid for a game more than 35$.

That is how much i got sf5 2017 edition on steam for!

hear thee, hear thee. then i declare this to be the new steamgaf slogan.

 

[madjoki]

hear thee, hear thee. then i declare this to be the new steamgaf slogan.

There's website for this too

 

[Accoun]

Are there any fans of Gothic series here? Arhn.eu, Polish gaming YT channel has some footage of unreleased expansion/sequel to the first game that was cancelled in favor of what we know today as Gothic 2. Might be exclusive? They have a playable build of it and not sure if there are any other youtubers who have one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3djEYZ7_pBc

 

[derFeef]

Are there any fans of Gothic series here? Arhn.eu, Polish gaming YT channel has some footage of unreleased expansion/sequel to the first game that was cancelled in favor of what we know today as Gothic 2. Might be exclusive? They have a playable build of it and not sure if there are any other youtubers who have one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3djEYZ7_pBc

Speaking of Gothic. The "reloaded" mod got a demo. It's basically texture rework and some mesh updates. http://demo.gothic-reloaded-mod.de/

 

[Durante]

Another reason to be excited for Atelier finally coming to Steam - at least the meme play it gets will be more appropriate for the SteamGAF thread then

 

[Ban Puncher]

 

[anastef]

And no random system crash with avast ?

 

[White Wolf]

There's website for this too

damn, i'm obsolete already

 

[SunDimension24]

Not to get anyone's hopes up but the final cover for Nioh is out and it has no Playstation branding at all, which could mean in the future it might be going to other systems. Knowing the Playstaion publishing though it might be 1-2 years down the road.

Also my yakuza 0 got delivered early from best buy! Haven't played since yakuza 3 so hope I can get back into it. I do wonder if the series will come to PC though....SEGA!!

 

[Head of Vengarl]

Not to get anyone's hopes up but the final cover for Nioh is out and it has no Playstation branding at all, which could mean in the future it might be going to other systems. Knowing the Playstaion publishing though it might be 1-2 years down the road.

Please let this be true.

 

[Ban Puncher]

Hungry for console scraps.

Sad!

 

[KainXVIII]

Hungry for console scraps.

Sad!

 

[derFeef]

Hungry for console scraps.

Sad!

 

[Grief.exe]

Not to get anyone's hopes up but the final cover for Nioh is out and it has no Playstation branding at all, which could mean in the future it might be going to other systems. Knowing the Playstaion publishing though it might be 1-2 years down the road.

Also my yakuza 0 got delivered early from best buy! Haven't played since yakuza 3 so hope I can get back into it. I do wonder if the series will come to PC though....SEGA!!

How embarrassing that would be for the usual suspects who flood those threads.

 

[yuraya]

Hungry for console scraps.

Sad!

Hungry for Koei Tecmo ports?

Will probably run worse than the first Dark Souls.

 

[GhostTrick]

How embarrassing that would be for the usual suspects who flood those threads.

What do you mean ?