Spring-Loaded
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It is great.
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STEAM | July 2014 25TH THREAD EDITION (2008-2014)
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It is great.
I can see people enjoying it on sale but at its normal price point, maybe the negativity is sort of justified.
Compare The Wolf Among Us or Walking Dead which are at similar price points but offer so much more content.
Move up to famas/galil even. Cheaper and it'll teach you how to aim without spraying. I recommend playing aim maps against bots too if you really want to train yourself
corrosivefrost
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People just don't know how to write positive reviews...
http://steamcommunity.com/id/corrosivefrost/recommended/232430/
8 X 11 Printer Paper
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I don´t have it.
Likewise, was to lazy to buy it when it was on sale during the Steam Summer Sale....yes both times.
Jawmuncher
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Likewise, was to lazy to buy it when it was on sale during the Steam Summer Sale....yes both times.
You aren't missing anything.
Well nothing as big as the GOTY awards made it seem like.
phoenix296
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Playing on public servers, just attempt to join the game i'm in.
Server is full.
DontMindMe
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Wut?
It forces you to be shitty and then punishes you for it in the story. I didn't care for it.
Still thought it was more worth it than The Stanley Parable.
corrosivefrost
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I wish steam would let me purchase games already
Really dying to pull a Rhaknar, eh?
Did we ever find out how Rhaknar has as much money as he does?
You ever notice how some Steam GAFFERs disappear, never to be seen again?
Hero Prinny
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Another giveaway, yo. good luck. both are really good games. Dead Space is one of my favorite horror games out there.
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 -- MB-D79E49DFE0DEB1C5
Dead Space -- MB-128BEF005D1375EE
He is a pimp, drug dealer and anime body pillow seller.
I went ahead and reviewed Rogue Legacy. Games amazing.
I know it was SteamGAF GOTY, just wanted to throw my review in the mix for anyone who missed out on the game, or for people to discuss and/or fight my opinion.
TLDW: IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED ROGUE LEGACY GO PLAY IT RIGHT NOW. Or at least give it a shot. Please.
I know it was SteamGAF GOTY, just wanted to throw my review in the mix for anyone who missed out on the game, or for people to discuss and/or fight my opinion.
TLDW: IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED ROGUE LEGACY GO PLAY IT RIGHT NOW. Or at least give it a shot. Please.
He's secretly homeless and games from a cafe.
Hopefully these both work. I've been debating on registering DI:GOTY myself for a little while and decided not to. Deadly Premonition I got specifically to give away but have not yet.
ModBot said:Instructions for participants:
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ModBot Basics:
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Deadly Premonition --MB-CC8BDD76D0C94754- Taken by Wurst
Dead Island GOTY -- MB-823CAE6E351FF057
It's a lot more interactive and a lot better than Dear Esther. I played both for the first time today.
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So Free Season 2 is the reason he got all this extra cash.
Yeah. Has almost no replay value, definitely not worth full price. That said, I loved the story.
Sort of, yes, only much, much, much, much, much, much, much better.
You do more than just walk a set path, you actually interact with objects and solve puzzles.
Alpaca pillows are the hot thing now actually.
corrosivefrost
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Stop using junk drivers and use the original?
It's probably something similar to the DS4Windows bug with Dark Souls? Hiding the controller, I don't know I use my DS4 with SCP DS3 server.
Entirely. One game is a good experience. One is pretty much an old person walking simulator.
So Rhaknar gives to SteamGAF as penance?
I just want to get the Crysis maximum edition before it's goes off sale.
Kiru
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Is Dead Island from the Humble Bundle a while back?
The combination can be found
on the floor of the secret passage that leads to the guest room
you turn around from the safe and look at the wall
What's in it is
a letter, returned unopened, that is the keystone for figuring out the dad's story.
Nope. It's a key that I got elsewhere.
BinaryPork2737
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New Vegas aside, I feel like having endings where not everything goes perfectly isn't any different from passive media with the same endings such as books or movies. I personally think one of the main reasons why a lot of people always want perfect endings in video games is because they use games as a form of escapism, to get away from reality where most things usually don't end up being perfect. If anything, I blame the design of most game narratives for giving a generally happy outlook on things; I really blame games in which you, the player, are able to overcome all odds, no matter what they are, and succeed, feeling good because you won and did everything right.
I don't think anything about having endings that have negative elements to them is really bad. A really good example of this would be the ending to the video game version of I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. The short story has a real downer ending, and most of the game's endings stay true to that, no matter how well you think you did during the game. If you can pull off the "perfect ending" in IHNMAIMS, it's still a bit of a downer ending, but it's still more hopeful than the others. Another example of where this is pulled off sort of well would be the SMT franchise. Even if you go down the neutral path for the entries where it's available, you still end up having a somewhat downer ending for a lot of the games. In the original game, for instance, (big spoilers if you ever plan on playing SMT I and don't want spoilers stop now)
no matter what path you take, Thor still launches nukes at Tokyo, destroying almost all of it. Not only that, but the (more or less) canon ending, the neutral ending, eventually leads to SMT II, which begins with Earth in an even worse state than at the end of I and the protagonist of I dead because he didn't blindly obey orders
So all of that was sort of rambling, but I don't think that the form of media should matter when it comes to having endings with negative connotations. Sometimes "bad endings" in media feel like the right ending, whether they're interactive or not.
MMBosstones86
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Very disappointing. I was surprised to see the game handled the subject in a mature manner. Really like hearing the journals to see how the relationship was going to evolve.
Did the latter, but had a hell of a time reading the letter. See what was in there I was able to figure it out....anything important in the letter?
Doing to do the first now....sounds exciting.
tioslash
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Thanks for the replies.
I played Dear Esther a while ago, and got to say it isn´t my thing.
Kiru
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Ok, because the Humble Bundle one can only be redeemed if you own SR3 because it included the Full DLC for that game too^^
Chairmanchuck
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I was born in 87 and didnt like it. I enjoyed Dear Esther though.
Gone Home felt too shallow to me. In Dear Esther the whole world felt kinda real. The art direction and leveldesign make it feel like its some british Island.
Gone Home on the other hand didnt impress me. Neither the story, not the "gameplay".
Something was missing for me and while a lot of people praise the story
lesbian teen figuring out what she wants, parents with problems, uncle etc.)
Spring-Loaded
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Here, check out this thread I made a while ago. It's got a link to a seminar by Spec Ops' lead writer, discussing how the story was designed.
If you don't care for story, or for how it was made, that's one thing. To scoff at the notion of it being a well made video game story is another.
The letter, paraphrased,
is a plea from the uncle (who owned the house) to sam's dad's mother to acknowledge him as part of the family, even if his sin can never be forgiven. In it he says he's "removing all temptation" in an attempt to prove his sincerity.
There's unfortunately a very vocal and active minority of people on Steam who feel the need to attack anything that doesn't fit their definition of a game or what should be on Steam.
I was looking to see when the next episode of Super Game Jam comes out and there are people in that forum demanding that it be removed from their service.
you are not the first person to suggest I am or was a hitman
its all fun and games until you find out I actually am one
and youre next in line
Fair enough. I think what I really take issue with is the argument that games where things can't work out for the protagonist, where difficult moral decisions abound and there are no clear-cut solutions to anything, are objectively superior to ones where the solutions are more pat and your decisions don't tend to have unforeseeable bad consequences down the line. That such stories are inherently "more sophisticated", while the more straightforward narratives commonly found in games are an embarassment to the medium because they can't compare to books or television.
The problem, IMO, is that people are evaluating these stories out of context. What matters isn't how well a game's story stands up to a movie in the eyes of a passive observer. What's important is how that story makes you feel while you're playing it. Games often embrace narrative conceits that are regarded with contempt in other media because they make for more enjoyable, more fulfilling interaction. It's not that most game stories are written for and by idiots, as a lot of people seem to believe - I think they're the way they are because those "simplistic" stories have more impact when the character's success in the story is contingent on the player playing the game well.
I knew going into DX: HR that nothing I did would radically change the status quo in the end, given that whatever happened would eventually have to lead into the beginning of DX. That said, I was satisfied with it - I may not have been able to change what happened, but I felt like I had a degree of agency in how the world would eventually reach that point. I would've liked a Fallout-style slideshow ending showing the consequences of your actions and the fates of the major characters you encountered, though. Maybe next game. : )
I think finishing Old World Blues made me feel better about the ending of the main game, since now I know my character will
be around for at least another couple hundred years, working behind the scenes to shape the rebirth of civilization with the resources of the Big MT.
Also I can't believe I've posted in every thread.
I beat Assassins Creed IV after picking it up after hearing the recommendations here. Its good but it didn't really feel like an Assassin's Creed game. I've played I, II, Brotherhood, Rev, and III but I still think Brotherhood and III are my favorites. IV looked fantastic and the ship gameplay felt like it fit in better here than it did in III.
I beat Arkham Origin's as well. I enjoyed the game but I can see why some people didn't like it after City. It feels like they just needed to get a game out but the combat still felt good at least.
I also finished Tomb Raider(2013). I never played any other Tomb Raider game but I must say I really enjoyed the story and the gameplay. Game also ran as smooth as fucking silk. I am now really excited for the next game. I picked up Tomb Raider on a sale and I know I will pick up the next game as soon as it comes out.
I beat Assassins Creed IV after picking it up after hearing the recommendations here. Its good but it didn't really feel like an Assassin's Creed game. I've played I, II, Brotherhood, Rev, and III but I still think Brotherhood and III are my favorites. IV looked fantastic and the ship gameplay felt like it fit in better here than it did in III.
I beat Arkham Origin's as well. I enjoyed the game but I can see why some people didn't like it after City. It feels like they just needed to get a game out but the combat still felt good at least.
I also finished Tomb Raider(2013). I never played any other Tomb Raider game but I must say I really enjoyed the story and the gameplay. Game also ran as smooth as fucking silk. I am now really excited for the next game. I picked up Tomb Raider on a sale and I know I will pick up the next game as soon as it comes out.
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