PC has the best and widest selection of controller availability, certain genres (like platformers) are clearly designed for and ideal on controllers. I can't imagine any reason a PC gamer wouldn't own one or more controllers at this point.
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STEAM | July 2014-3 Let Off Some STEAM Bennett
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PC has the best and widest selection of controller availability, certain genres (like platformers) are clearly designed for and ideal on controllers. I can't imagine any reason a PC gamer wouldn't own one or more controllers at this point.
Easton Dark
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He probably likes to support indie developers.
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Did... did he just pull a Neo and knock that dude into the path of an oncoming train?
In any Eurofolk want the game at a better price, I'd recommend buying it from someone in a USD region with keys.
Gunstarheroes
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You guys always start too early. I wanna be home for a Speedrunners match.
Good god no. Ain't touching a platformer or a fighter with a keyboard. Terrible.
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
Agreed with both posts. I enjoyed the shit out of guild wars 1 because it didn't have the barrier to entry like wow.
Nabs
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I'd be down for one later on.
Two helpful allies in the first town, make sure you find them before heading out too far.
AHA-Lambda
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Actually, off topic kind of, but did anything come about with South Park: Stick of Truth getting DLC?
Back when it was still THQ it was supposed to be getting story DLC.
Back when it was still THQ it was supposed to be getting story DLC.
Last Baron
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Another Humble bundle for me to save money on, phew.
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Jawmuncher
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We ain't getting that on PC.
To quote Trey Parker, "Fuck that." What was cut from the script ended up forming the basis of episodes for the show.
I loved:
If this one is anything like those two, I'm buying it. Shame about no PC version tho :/
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i have a PS3, so its okay :3
Digimon World 2 was the GOAT
Okay, it was really slow and cumbersome and ugly and lots of engrish and weird mechanics and grindy and random but I love it irrationally.
Okay, it was really slow and cumbersome and ugly and lots of engrish and weird mechanics and grindy and random but I love it irrationally.
AHA-Lambda
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Hmm, interesting he'd say that when originally MS was supposed to get DLC first.
Then again, it's Trey Parker
Level up to 4 before leaving town.
Man I feel like a day trader or something. Plonking 200 odd listing on the market and slowly watching them come in and the wallet funds go up is satisfying thought. This would be murder without a numeric keypad
Awwwwww. I'd have liked an extra incentive to go finish it off. Completed the main story just need to find a few residents of South park and knock out a couple of side quests and that should be it for the achievements. One of my fav games I played this year.
Awwwwww. I'd have liked an extra incentive to go finish it off. Completed the main story just need to find a few residents of South park and knock out a couple of side quests and that should be it for the achievements. One of my fav games I played this year.
You're not the boss of me. *swings precariously from chandelier*
Kaleinc
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Mouse and keyboard combo doesn't cause me any trouble, why bother with a gamepad.
Digimon World 3 is way better. Still one of my favorite games ever
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I'm never going to get to play Digimon World Re
igitize Decode on my 3DS, or on anything for that matter, am I? I signed that petition for nothing.
On the bright side, Stone didn't rule out a sequel when asked about it earlier in the year ("We'll see how it's received").
Edit: Speaking of South Park, I'm still a little salty that my OT suggestion fell on blind eyes. "Bigger, Longer, and Censored in Europe" > "Bigger, Longer and Uncut (in select regions)". The latter doesn't even make sense considering it's censored in select regions. Hmph.
(I don't actually care, but I do think it's the better title. )
)rainking187
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Is Qube from the Humble Bundle the director's cut or not?
WinterDemons
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Not the director's cut.
StrangeTaco
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Wait really? I thought the original version wasn't available anymore.
WinterDemons
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Yup, it's the original game.
It's just not available on the store. Despite what Sega Support will tell you, it is indeed possible for publishers to request keys from Valve for games not sold on Steam itself.
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As far as I know, there is no way for Steam's servers to be able to distinguish this from actually launching the game in question.
*shrug* it's your loss. There's very few things you can spend so little on to increase your options and playability as a controller. The reality is, a large percentage of games are designed initially for consoles and therefore controllers. A perfectly good controller can be had for $15-$20, why have a $500+ pc system and gimp yourself to save so little?
StrangeTaco
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Gotcha thanks, well makes me somewhat glad I didn't jump on the Sci-Fi humble bundle then.
The sub hasn't been added to the store yet. 1C has a habit of doing this, that is adding store pages and slapping the current date on them but taking its sweet time adding the actual subs. It'll be up within the next few hours or so.
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Spring-Loaded
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I have this, but haven't tried it yet. Do you ever have to aim the grapnel/grappling hook? I remember playing Mark of the Ninja using both kb&m and controller. I came across situations where certain kunai targets were really close together that I could barely switch between using a joystick. The more involved character movement made using a gamepad preferable overall though.
Absolution really did have some considerable improvements even over Blood Money, but the disguise system was just too borked, some of the more scripted/actiony sequences were too frequent and the linear segments were too frequent with too few traditional levels to capture the appeal of Blood Money.
Would be a markedly better game if the disguise system was fixed. The idea of making them less than 100 percent reliable is great; there were situations in Blood Money that, because of how perfect disguises were, were less intense than they should be.
Having just anyone who's wearing the same outfit as you become suspicious is dumb though it does make parts of the game challenging, but in a way that doesn't make sense. If a game feature disguises so prominently and has relatively smaller scale levels with finite number of NPCs, it's not unreasonable to create a network of NPCs that know one another in each level. Chinatown chefs who don't even know there's an assassin prowling around shouldn't be suspicious enough of an unrecognizable chef to interrogate that person, let alone suspicious enough to sound an alarm. On the flipside, a small police strike force should know one another better and be harder to fool.
Expanding on ways to blend in (and not tying it to the "instinct" meter) would be much better. Same-clothes NPCs would become suspicious of you unless you were actively doing a non-suspicious gesture (scratching face, looking through pamphlets, Etc.) and there were times where I was surrounded and essentially trapped at a stove pretending to cook, since if I stepped away from it, people would immediately get irreversibly suspicious (on a harder difficulty) and non-suspicious actions outside of certain locations costs instinct that doesn't regenerate on harder difficulties. Having certain disguises require specific series of actions to be non-suspicious would be good, e.g. chefs only have to periodically cook, or be seen near cooking stations to be non-suspicious. Getting a limited number of chances to make up an excuse for suspicious behavior for a single NPC would be nice too in absolution, having someone come up to you to question you only has two ways to escape.
The game recognizing disguises with masks or helmets would help make that aspect of the game seem more fair too. in short, there's no good reason for this game to have so many flaws and incongruities with one its most prominent aspects of gameplay. I still give the game a bit of a pass because I appreciate how IO was willing to introduce non-traditional situations to the game (being hunted by other assassins/cops), I just think those segments don't require the level of scripting and linearity Absolution had in order to be fun/challenging.
Beelzebubs
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Speaking of Divinity, how do I stop everyone being pissed off with me, got caught stealing once as my stealth broke randomly and now everyone in town is at -5.
WinterDemons
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The Director's Cut version is in a bundle on BundleStars if you want to get it.
http://www.bundlestars.com/all-bundles/scorched-bundle/
It activates just the original game. There isn't an upgrade option on the page that I could see at the moment. Maybe they'll add it later with the influx of new owners?
fancy setting this conversation is taking place in
Crab Milk Mickey
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The ghost is more of a mental obstacle than anything else. There usually isn't much to explore in a Spelunky level anyways, and it moves so slowly that it's rarely a huge threat save for a few situations. She's a shock factor trick that can be overcome without much effort once you're used to its presence.
Kiru
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lol that huge ass pic
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