With the most recent rumours placing the 880 and 870 in Q4, I think it's too early for a formal announcement.
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STEAM | July 2014-3 Let Off Some STEAM Bennett
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With the most recent rumours placing the 880 and 870 in Q4, I think it's too early for a formal announcement.
That was really helpful, Dusk. You mention narrative in passing, that it is good, but also mention it's psychological game and mention Silent Hill, but also you mention Lone Survivor...
So it made me thinking
lemme ask this again (you probably already know what I'll ask before I even ask), how much of a story is there, how it is important for a game and is it mysterious and full of horrible secrets to uncover?
is it supposed to be Xcom clone?
It does look interesting, though
NingenJanai
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It's probably the shield tablet and accesories, it's a shame that it uses nvidia tegra k1 with android instead of windows 8.1, being an 8" tablet the windows 8.1 license would be free.
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have.... fun?
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If it costs the same as a standard gaming PC, then they can shove that up their big green asses.
NingenJanai
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I think it's supposed to be $299 / $399 depending on storage capacity, and yes, they can shove it up their asses. I ordered a couple days ago a 8" windows 8.1 tablet for $155.
I felt right at home, but that's because I played Eye of the Beholder and Lands of Lore back in the day. I can see how that can be tough to get into today, but I loved the fact that you move tile by tile and turn 90 degrees, just like in the classics. I also found it very atmospheric and immersive (especially with some SweetFX to really make the darkness dark) and the combat can be stressful even though it can, and probably should, be cheesed.
If you can specify what you had trouble with or disliked, I can go into more detail about it. I feel like I learned quite a bit about it as I played through.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Not fully episodic, it's split into two parts, Act 1 and Act 2. Act 2, the second half of the game, releases freely for all purchasers later this year.
Not a bad question, you caught onto the fact I was kind of tiptoeing around mentioning the story too much.
The narrative is fairly vague and passive in the first third or half of the game, but with hints on what its about and some confusion on what's going on from the beginning. However, the second half goes more into the narrative, and yes, it is mysterious and full of horrible secrets to discover. The game also takes advantage of symbolism, some more obvious and others more subliminal. The other thing I can mention is that the story is a tad multi-layered, there's more than one thing going on right now basically but its all related around something.
The narrative is not abundant, but definitely has presence. I also would say it felt satisfying, which I was surprised with as while I love many horror games, I find myself more often than not disappointing with how the stories develop, but I would say this was an exception even if it wasn't wildly new. I felt it had good pacing and delivery, despite no vocal dialogue, and was interesting. I've only seen the good ending though, not the other two endings.
Did the Shield good after all? Bud imported it since it's not available in Europe afaik and he likes it, but I don't really see a reason to get it and even less to get the tablet thing.
Dell Venue 8 Pro? I'm gonna get one soon too.
derExperte
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I just now read on a German newssite that the 'latest rumors' speak of an announcement during Gamescom. http://www.computerbase.de/2014-07/geforce-gtx-880-moeglicherweise-zur-gamescom/
I was genuinely shocked when Nvidia pulled the Titan-Z from its upcoming line-up following AMD's announcement of the far-more-reasonably-priced 295X, only for it to reappear with the same $3k pricetag -- which is twice that of the latter -- it had earlier.
Even that seems rather early unless Nvidia is prepping for a late August/early September launch.
Thanks for your impressions, sounds like a great game. I'm usually bad with horror games, but now I really want to play this. Would you say there were a lot of jumpscares?
NingenJanai
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No, it's a chinese tablet, the Voyo A1 Mini, costed me 116€, the Dell Venue 8 Pro costs 298€ here
The Voyo A1 Mini is basically the same with a newer CPU ( Z3735D instead of the Z3740D ) and much cheaper. Build quality is probably worse though, but I'm not paying 2.5 times as much for the Dell.
"Win". I am honestly annoyed now. We don't have a secret society here whose only purpose is to spam SteamGAF. Yes, it is the right decision to just talk about what ever you want to talk, its correct to tell people, if you get uncomfortable, but I honestly don't like the way to talk. We're not a war, we're not playing a meta game. We're a bunch of humans in a thread, no need for "if we don't fight, they'll win." You can talk to me, to shadownet, to anyone, you know? Do we look that unreasonable? Are we an mustache twirling force that threatens to destory everything out of pure malice?
I am sorry for drifting things up again, but I feel somewhat insulted.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Nope, the scares came more from a mood, sound, weird surreal "WTF is that!?" type, or the feel of being chased by something. There were a few of monsters breaking out of things, but nothing more than that, and a few unintentional startles as the monster AI can literally follow you all around the map if you let it.
This is a game I'm paying close attention to, just noticed it yesterday. Lookd interesting.
Perfect, I like this kind athmospheric horror so much more that being constantly shocked.
No, it's a chinese tablet, the Voyo A1 Mini, costed me 116€, the Dell Venue 8 Pro costs 298€ here
The Voyo A1 Mini is basically the same with a newer CPU ( Z3735D instead of the Z3740D ) and much cheaper. Build quality is probably worse though, but I'm not paying almost 3 times as much for the Dell.
Well shit, same as the Dell, cheaper, and it got its own HDMI slot. Wish I knew about this sooner.
EDIT: Oh wait, much smaller battery life at 4-6 hrs.
I'm playing the crappy ps3 version. It was so lame, I went down this broken ladder and when I jumped off I fell through the world and died. Both the auto save and the back up save I made no longer work.
If we don't collectively start exercising some self-restraint soon, someone's going to drop the hammer on us. It's bound to happen sooner or later at the rate we're going, and I'd really prefer not to see that.
I firmly believe we should keep things friendly and informal around here. There are some long-time regulars who I know would prefer these threads to be purely informational, and would like to see all the banter and little digressions weeded out (or shipped off to Community where they won't get in the way of the srs bsns.) I've repeatedly argued against changes in that direction whenever the matter's come up. I believe that would strip the Steam threads of personality, which is what makes them special. Unfortunately, it becomes harder for people to defend that position when we have regular posters abandoning the thread due to the sheer volume of way off-topic posts lately. : /
If you think you might be part of the problem, just try to rein yourself in a little. I'm not saying people should only talk about games and sales in the threads, or that things always need to be uber-serious. Just be mindful. If you think the conversation's going too far off track, try to steer it back towards a relevant topic. Resist the temptation to flood the thread with OT image spam and reaction .gifs - it's fun sometimes, but we should try not to let things snowball into waifunamis and alpacalypses if we can help it. That's all I'm asking.
I firmly believe we should keep things friendly and informal around here. There are some long-time regulars who I know would prefer these threads to be purely informational, and would like to see all the banter and little digressions weeded out (or shipped off to Community where they won't get in the way of the srs bsns.) I've repeatedly argued against changes in that direction whenever the matter's come up. I believe that would strip the Steam threads of personality, which is what makes them special. Unfortunately, it becomes harder for people to defend that position when we have regular posters abandoning the thread due to the sheer volume of way off-topic posts lately. : /
If you think you might be part of the problem, just try to rein yourself in a little. I'm not saying people should only talk about games and sales in the threads, or that things always need to be uber-serious. Just be mindful. If you think the conversation's going too far off track, try to steer it back towards a relevant topic. Resist the temptation to flood the thread with OT image spam and reaction .gifs - it's fun sometimes, but we should try not to let things snowball into waifunamis and alpacalypses if we can help it. That's all I'm asking.
I finished Claire. Here's some impressions I had.
Nice write up i'm personally having a hard time with the map find myself constantly looking at it.
Might have to finish it up tonight how long did it take you to finish it?
Dusk Golem
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A correction to my Claire review on the last page, I cite there are three endings, as an assumption as when you beat the game it shows your ending score and there's three areas. However, I've found out since then that there's actually at least six endings in Claire, and which ending you get is determined by being above or below a certain requirements, so adding that to my review on Steam at least.
Ah I see. Well it might be one of those play experiences that's hard to capture properly in a video trailer, and its usage could make more sense in practice. As you say, that's what focus testing is for
If you're not allergic to Uplay, please give Might & Magic X a chance.
Blows Grimrock out of water by not having a real-time fights, and by being open-world.
I think your screenshot problem is related to your resolution, at least it was when I had a similar issue with a daedalic game in the past. You could try taking screenshots at different resolutions to see which one works best =/
I never played any dungeon crawlers like Legend of Grimrock back in the day so starting it up was a bit jarring. I can't think of any specific examples since I tried it so long ago, but it felt like it wasn't made for novices to the genre!
I do like how old school it feels while at the same time, the game is gorgeous!
I just reinstalled it again to give it another go; it's only 720 MB. Maybe I'll be able to pinpoint exactly what set me off about it if I still can't get into it this time.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
There were a few areas I had to consult my map constantly to figure out where to go, but that's what I meant in being useful I guess. I did learn the layouts of most levels, but as there's so many paths through an area it can be a bit overwhelming when you first enter a new area.
My time likely will be longer than most as I was playing on the hardest difficulty and had to at a point load an earlier save to save more healing items as I got to a point where I desperately needed some.
I would say the game is about 4-7 hours long with probably a 5-6 hour average the first time, took me 8 personally but I had to redo several areas and reload a few points at an earlier save. The in-game clock said I beat the game in under four hours, but that's because it didn't count me dying/going back and going through areas I already went through but faster.
Blargh, it was indeed the Tablet stuff ugh
http://ultimate.nvidia.eu/en-gb?countdown=1
299,99€ or more loooooool
http://ultimate.nvidia.eu/en-gb?countdown=1
299,99€ or more loooooool
Thanks again, you told everything I wanted to know, to the wishlist it will go then.
I see it as main problem with most horror games, actually, and why I am rarely interested in playing, let alone finishing them. Scares and atmosphere are all good and needed but they can carry you just as far. Good story is what makes a good horror game and lots mountains of mysteries and secrets.
some mindfucking is necessary too, imo (><)
Also slow pacing is not my forte too, and horror games tend to overdo that for reasons
Well said. I get seriously creeped out by the anime stuff.
Thanks!
Weird, I don't think this game lets you change the fullscreen resolution, even though it lets you in windowed mode. Maybe all Daedalic games are like that? Weird!
Android too. Damn.
NingenJanai
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Yeah, battery life is probably better on the Dell, but not worthy to me to pay the premium price, I have no problem charging it every couple days.
YianGaruga
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Gonna throw my opinion into the ring as well. The bolded is exactly why it has become such a big problem. Every time the current state of the thread is discussed and criticized, some people answer with "It's not that bad", "It was only two pages of waifu pics" , "no fun allowed", "there was nothing Steam-related worth discussing anyway" etc and ignore that other people are annoyed by it. There is a group of a few people who are very very active and vocal and thus are able to drown out everthing else with OT chat and pages and pages of pictures about whatever, and don't see anything wrong with it. There is a SteamGAF chatroom which would be perfect for this kind of talk, but it's not used.
A strong SteamGAF community is great, but this thread should still be accessible for people who don't care about it too much or at all. I'm on the other end of the spectrum and would prefer if it would be kept to an absolute minimum, but maybe we can meet somewhere in the middle so we can all enjoy it. That this has been brought up again and again over the last weeks should be enough evidence that something should change.
Sorry if this offends anyone. I just want the old Steam threads back :/
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
And final Claire game thing, for a 2D game it has some fantastic lighting and retro art. I just thought I'd post a bit here but it looks pretty good, and has some good animation to it too, and interesting attention to detail like almost no two messages sprawled on the wall being the same or some minor sprite thing.
A few Steam screenshots I took, but some of these scenes looked beautiful in motion.
A few Steam screenshots I took, but some of these scenes looked beautiful in motion.
My GAF account was activated during the summer sale, so I'm not sure how things were in these threads before, but I like them to be informal as well. I don't think I would have made as many friends as I have if it was all serious business talk!
I hope I haven't annoyed anyone; let me know if I'm doing something wrong. :X
Drama Zed Nod
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Thanks for all the top info regarding Enhanced Steam and VPN purchases guys!
Super Helpful : D
Super Helpful : D
You've already made me aware of it with your previous posts, but I'm trying to not let my backlog spiral out of control. It looks good, but open world is a minus to me and I actually liked the stress of the real time in Grimrock, even though I'm certainly up for turn-based too. I do have it in mind.
I also have Coldfire Keep in my list, even though I hear that one sucks.
I did speak directly to Shadownet today and to Gravelord_Nito yesterday, about their spam posting. Shadownet responded by disappearing, Nito responded by telling me to shut up and "deal with it". I'd say both of those responses are unreasonable, yeah.
I started typing a post but there's just so many tips to give! You can go with the generic party, they're fine. Put the human and minotaur in front, rogue and mage in the back. Your rogue will get a bow and arrow on level 2 or 3, so she won't stay useless for long. Always look for secrets! Things that look odd or out of place, buttons on the wall, etc. The best loot is in secret rooms, and I'm not sure beating the game without finding most of the secrets is even possible.
To deal with combat, learn the square dance! Find 4 open squares and lead the enemy around by rotating, moving to the side, rotating, moving to the side... You can attack before they can get a chance to.
AHA-Lambda
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Well, tablets are really babby's first PCs.
It's ingenious how the tech companies are able to sell something despite the product 'vringing you 2006 PC performance for a 2014 PC price'.
I can't read that out of your original post. Don't know about nito, but Shadownet probably gone to sleep. Have you seen Lashys posts on the last page urging Shadownet to finally go to bed.
But anyways, the topic resolved around the two pages of anime and you just spoke about a undefined mass of "spammers".
I know that feel. Uplay is a pain for co-op games :/
lemme tell you it gonna die before the end of this year, there is no other way!
... wait, I said it the last year too, didn't I? and one year before that and... (._.)
Stallion Free
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Ghost recon was a joy to co-op through Uplay as well. We had to remove each other from the client and add each other through the in game FL.
-MD-
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Oh confession time?
I'm almost 24 and I've never owned a cell phone. I've never used a tablet either.
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Just got done playing like 3-4 hours of Garden Warfare, finally being able to play with my friends now that the mics are fixed, game is sooooooo good now.
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