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STEAM | July 2014-2 In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming
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MarcoZombieCannon
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I haven't even played TitS before but I want the PC release so bad because Falcom.
I want to get off but it's too late now. I just want more info that it is really, really, really coming this 2014.
To be fair, I'm only on the train because it wasn't clear that the OST would be released separately.
if that's the case, you are forgiven!
FC is definitely coming and soon, we were promised release date this week, but so far we haven't got it. SC is not coming this year, most likely, but it still can come in early 2015, if everything goes well.
edited: I'm amazed why nobody asks about Doggie being a driver
BinaryPork2737
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Well, at least being on the trains in the sky makes up for more... disappointing things.
Killer is Dead because Grasshopper.
I'd only recommend Blood Dragon if you enjoyed Far Cry 3 proper or haven't played it at all.
Just finished TimeShift. It was a great ride, and just about the ideal length, too - long enough to feel substantial, but not so long that it dragged. The plot was serviceable for an FPS, and the gameplay was solid. Regenerating health bar, hero can carry a limited # of weapons (3, plus grenades), no armor/shield bar or pickups (but that's what time manipulation's for). Movement felt tight, there was a decent variety of weapons (some of them pretty creative, like the combo incendiary bullet SMG/flamethrower), and levels were laid out well, with a fair amount of z-axis shooting. Enemy AI's pretty decent (they'll try to flank, get on turrets, etc.). It was surprisingly nice looking for a seven-year-old game, too. The retro-tech dieselpunk aesthetic was pretty neat, and I found myself wishing I could explore more of that alternate timeline.
As the title suggests, the game's big hook is the ability to slow, stop or reverse the flow of time. These abilities are a big part of combat and are also required to solve the occasional puzzle. Slowing time creates the classic "bullet time" effect, stopping time temporarily freezes your enemies (and anything else that happens to be moving, like platforms, rotating fan blades and the like), while "rewinding" time is used mainly to solve some of the puzzles the game throws at you. The time manipulation stuff is integrated nicely with the rest of the game - the situations where you have to use your time abilities to progress come off feeling natural in context, rather than, "Hey, look! We're setting up a situation for you to use your TIME POWERS!"
So yeah, enough of my stream-of-consciousness rambling. I waited a long time to play TimeShift, I've finally finished it, and it was fun. I recommend it to anyone who thinks they'd enjoy a short but sweet singleplayer FPS where you can stop time, headshot three enemy soldiers with explosive crossbow bolts, then hit "play" and walk off whistling while they all simultaneously explode.
Now I have to decide what to play next.
As the title suggests, the game's big hook is the ability to slow, stop or reverse the flow of time. These abilities are a big part of combat and are also required to solve the occasional puzzle. Slowing time creates the classic "bullet time" effect, stopping time temporarily freezes your enemies (and anything else that happens to be moving, like platforms, rotating fan blades and the like), while "rewinding" time is used mainly to solve some of the puzzles the game throws at you. The time manipulation stuff is integrated nicely with the rest of the game - the situations where you have to use your time abilities to progress come off feeling natural in context, rather than, "Hey, look! We're setting up a situation for you to use your TIME POWERS!"
So yeah, enough of my stream-of-consciousness rambling. I waited a long time to play TimeShift, I've finally finished it, and it was fun. I recommend it to anyone who thinks they'd enjoy a short but sweet singleplayer FPS where you can stop time, headshot three enemy soldiers with explosive crossbow bolts, then hit "play" and walk off whistling while they all simultaneously explode.
Now I have to decide what to play next.
Continue with the theme of Acti-published FPS games and fire up Wolf09 or Singularity.
I actually liked Far Cry 3 overal.
Some of the open world elements where the only bad thing i can think of right now.
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Deleted member 125677
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Ken is always greater than Ryu...
But if you want a shoto, there are tons of them.
I would try the first 5-10 trials of a character you're interested in... if it's not clicking, try the next.
Things you can learn that will translate to a large majority of characters and are "basics" that are not character specific:
(1) Learn how to use focus attacks... make sure you understand the properties of them because they play an important part in intermediate to advanced play.
(2) Learn the special input motions as these translate between similar characters (and even beyond); rolling motions are probably the most frequently occurring but learning to do the correct inputs for a charge character can be very useful too.
(3) Learn to dash. I still have problems with this as I was mainly a SSF2T player and didn't have a lot of experience with SF3 before SF4 released, so the concept of dashing is foreign to me.
(4) Learn to cancel normals into specials. If you're having trouble, consider the actual inputs necessary... for Ryu (and some of the other shotos, I think) crouching MK is a good poke and it cancels into hadoken. So use this as the start of your hadoken motion and if you see the foot connect, finish rolling to forward on your stick and hit your punch button.
(5) Other basics to worry about before you get into links/FADC/FADC>Ultra/combos/etc.: Spacing, poking, and anti-airs.
Before you put in a ton of time with a character, make sure they're the character you want to use. The more familiar you are with the moveset (normals, specials) the more skilled you will be able to use them for things I mention above.
Once you get all that down, then you can worry about links, combos, FADC, and all the fancier stuff.
And while sometimes characters are a bit odd compared the the rest, to this day I can at least competently use all characters from the original SF2CE competently (and even those from SSF2T to an extent).
Thanks for the tip, Frost.
I've come to conclude that I don't very much care for the charge based fighters like Chun-Li, Guile and Vega. But did some Ken and he felt good
all over my face
Then you'll probably appreciate the change of scenery more than I did.
Even though I have this enormous backlog I decided to play Mafia II again.
I'll always have a soft spot for the first one which I played through so many times. I still very much like the sequel with the only two downsides being the amount of driving. Every single mission requires the player driving. The driving itself is okay, and driving through the city just soaking up atmosphere is fine but it really becomes a chore towards the end.
"Hey Vito let's go to the other side of town again, let's take my car!"
"Okay!"
"You drive, Vito!"
"..."
The other thing I don't like would be the aspects of the plot. The pacing seems off and the ending is abrupt and unsatisfying. Some characters lack depth or plot lines resolution. I feel like content was cut rather than it was ineptitude of narrative on 2K Czech's part.
Other than that I pretty much love it. The characters, setting, gunplay, cars, driving, missions, music, atmosphere etc are all great and spot on. I really hope there will be a Mafia III.
I'll always have a soft spot for the first one which I played through so many times. I still very much like the sequel with the only two downsides being the amount of driving. Every single mission requires the player driving. The driving itself is okay, and driving through the city just soaking up atmosphere is fine but it really becomes a chore towards the end.
"Hey Vito let's go to the other side of town again, let's take my car!"
"Okay!"
"You drive, Vito!"
"..."
The other thing I don't like would be the aspects of the plot. The pacing seems off and the ending is abrupt and unsatisfying. Some characters lack depth or plot lines resolution. I feel like content was cut rather than it was ineptitude of narrative on 2K Czech's part.
Other than that I pretty much love it. The characters, setting, gunplay, cars, driving, missions, music, atmosphere etc are all great and spot on. I really hope there will be a Mafia III.
In Singapore? Its either an electrical fault, or they forgot to pay the bills
This is life mocking you so as to push you towards your true calling of GPU engineering. If you could make your own, you wouldn't be in this situation!
What is this madness? BD is one of my favorite games ever but I couldn't possibly care less about FC3. All they share is the name and the engine.
8 X 11 Printer Paper
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There must be a hidden message in there! Find it to get your GPU!
I'm sure they intended to write
Sorry, we are closed due to your needs, but then decided that's mean
Well AO is out now and I've already capitulated on two TitS FC playthroughs (bought it on PSP when it got release in Europe and then put that to the side when I got a Vita and picked up another copy of PSN and then put that to the side when I heard XSEED were going to bring FC and get SC translated for Steam) so have already
If only you knew how much of Monday I wasted being stuck on actual trains
Just as long as the TitS Hype Train doesn't stop at the same awful station here where all they sell is bloody fast food
(a daily food intake of Greggs for breakfast, McDonalds for lunch and then Burger King for dinner was probably the contributing factor to being shattered on Monday)
Cosmic Schwung
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Gah at the UK price of Saints Row IV:GotCE. Why does Deep Silver keep doing this to us? Did we run over their dog, or something?
The inclusion of the Child's Play pack is really cheeky given how they were pushing it. If the proceeds didn't go to charity I'd be seriously annoyed right now.
The inclusion of the Child's Play pack is really cheeky given how they were pushing it. If the proceeds didn't go to charity I'd be seriously annoyed right now.
I just mean that the two are hardly dissimilar in how they're structured and, personally, the stylistic shift wasn't enough to compel me to keep going. Blood Dragon is still very much Far Cry 3 at heart.
Edit: But having said that, I still plan on finishing BD eventually since I sunk a fair amount of time into it. I thought I'd allowed enough time to pass between my starting it and finishing Far Cry 3 proper, but apparently not.
It´s a quest. Go and start the generator in the basement full of psychos.
NingenJanai
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Not enough power to run all those Titan-Zs
Autofokus
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I only played ~1h of AO and I think it has potential, I share the common criticism though. Missing d-pad controls, slow turning and while the in-game vsync works for me, I get micro-stutters here in there with it - gonna try D3DOverrider the next time.
I get the feeling, that I should have waited for a sale. It's worth the pricetag, but I'll sit on it until they fixed all the unnecessary little kinks.
I get the feeling, that I should have waited for a sale. It's worth the pricetag, but I'll sit on it until they fixed all the unnecessary little kinks.
Sadly, Wolf09 isn't an option for me. So Singularity it is!
That's why it looks so hastily scribbled. "Shit, Wilflare's coming! Hurry up with that sign, man! Good, now tape it on the door, close the shutters, and hide 'til he leaves!" >.>
"Titan-Z" sounds like something from an old Super Robot anime. xD
This sounds mostly good, so I'll have to play it someday. Thanks for the impressions!
The_Super_Inframan
"the journey to a thousand games ends with bad rats. ~Lao Tzu" ~Gabe Newell
Good morning guys
Is there a good way to get Tomb Raider 1-6 cheap/near the russian prize? The trade prizes on TF2 Outpost are higher than the regular store prizes..which is kind of absurd...
And could somebody please invite me to the gaming nights group?
http://steamcommunity.com/id/godzillasushi/
Thanks!
Is there a good way to get Tomb Raider 1-6 cheap/near the russian prize? The trade prizes on TF2 Outpost are higher than the regular store prizes..which is kind of absurd...
And could somebody please invite me to the gaming nights group?
http://steamcommunity.com/id/godzillasushi/
Thanks!
Had exactly the same thing a year ago - PC crapped out a minute after booting after having it's fans cleaned.
Turns out I've somehow damaged one of CPU capacitors (how, I have no bloody idea). Hopefully nothing like this happened to you. :\
The RU pricing is ridiculous. Starter:
DDE:
The Starter Pack is only a few bucks cheaper and while the DDE fares better, relatively speaking, you're still looking at about $85.
Ah, what a nice oversight. $60 is certainly better but still much higher than what the RU price was ($46.50).
Yeah, if i knew they gonna bloody double the RU price woulda bought two of both standard and deluxe. Ah well, red 5 studios basically killed any chance they had of the game succeeding in russia.
Raising the price in Russia to combat trading is such a tremendously stupid thing to do considering the various region-locking options available. Squeenix did much the same thing with Nosgoth's packs.
Atraveller
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If you are feeling underleveled, try placing some elemental barrels strategically, it'll help a lot!
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Tizoc
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Killer is dead is shorter, play it on normal and apply the fix to get it to run at 60 FPS.
Feel free to replay it on Hard afterwards~
-MD-
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Why normal? Hard was pretty easy as is. I just finished my playthrough like 10 minutes ago, great game.
Also isn't Blood Dragon like 3-5 hours long? Killer Is Dead was like 10 for me.
If it were your PSU that needed exchanged...
Yeah, looks like someone stuffed up and priced the SE at only a buck more than the standard edition. Thanks for the heads-up.
Tizoc
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DunderHassan
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Not sure if this have been discussed in here (searched without results), but it seems like Opposing Force 2 Mod, an unofficial sequel to Opposing force, is due to release the next few days/next week.
Seems pretty cool and worth a try if you liked the first one, it requires Half-Life 2: Ep. 2 to play.
Opposing Force 2 Mod - Official Teaser
http://www.moddb.com/mods/opposing-force-2
Edit: My bad, it's just a release of code and assets, bummer.
Seems pretty cool and worth a try if you liked the first one, it requires Half-Life 2: Ep. 2 to play.
Opposing Force 2 Mod - Official Teaser
http://www.moddb.com/mods/opposing-force-2
Edit: My bad, it's just a release of code and assets, bummer.
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