The game has been sitting in the Steam registry for quite some time, remember, so a digital version of Halo 2 does exist.
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STEAM | June 2014 - Enhanced Electronics Edition
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The game has been sitting in the Steam registry for quite some time, remember, so a digital version of Halo 2 does exist.
Mavromatis
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Who is trolling GMG's Top Sellers list with High School Dreams?
corrosivefrost
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You, sir, kick ass.
As I said, should I actually win your giveaway, people can expect a decent giveaway from me in return.
I just think it's funny. It's not like I'm up in arms over it or anything. Though I would like to check the game out if it ever makes it to another platform I actually own.
Mario Kart, like a lot of Nintendo franchises, seems to vary little to little from entry to entry with a couple new twists and tweaks to try to freshen the core gameplay up. But for the most part in all the Mario Kart games I've played, the tracks are different, the graphics are different, but the majority of the gameplay is the same. MK, MK64, MKDS, MK Wii, etc. MKDD (GCN) might have been the most varied, but the general reception of that game seemed pretty negative, so I'm not sure they've strayed very far from the formula since then. I have but haven't played MK3DS because I just am kind of Mario Kart'ed out.
The new Zelda 3DS game did it right where it was close enough to being LttP but with enough variations that worked to make the game new and fresh. That and there hasn't been a classic 2D zelda since The Minish Cap, I think... so it's been awhile since we had a Zelda game like it. The DS games would count if you didn't have to use the stylus controls.
Thanks you both of you, amazing people. Like I mentioned earlier I do not run for the best visual experience since it could be a very expensive hobby for me but I do like a steady framerate. If all else fails I hope I can lower the graphics to maintain a 60FPS experience. If I'm not going to even get that then there's not much I can do unless I upgrade which is not an option currently. (Well, there's always window mode in a tiny window but I did that for a long time in the past...)
BinaryPork2737
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Who is trolling GMG's Top Sellers list with High School Dreams?
You mean you wouldn't want to buy it with quality graphics like this?
The Longest Journey screwed up my fonts for everything again, great.
Madrugador
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Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Who is trolling GMG's Top Sellers list with High School Dreams?
HA! I bought the game over a year ago, before it was cool!
Minimum is a HD7870?
I have a 7770
I'm curious as to how people with lower-end cards will fare. The 7870/570 minimum is being baulked at but there's a good chance that, with the game being built from the ground-up with the X1 in mind, those hundreds of zombies aren't going to come cheap.
Who is trolling GMG's Top Sellers list with High School Dreams?
I've always been sceptical of their top sellers list to be honest.
Well if seeing just a picture of Halo 2 on a tablet makes people think it's running on it I'm going to show you my copy of The Last Of Us running on my iPad. No for reals but you only get to see a static shot of the title screen ok?
As always take them with a pinch of salt until the game is out in the wild or a heavy does of sarcasm and just laugh them off
As always take them with a pinch of salt until the game is out in the wild or a heavy does of sarcasm and just laugh them off
someguyinahat
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I'm not balking. I'm lamenting. There's a difference.
derExperte
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Batman Blackgate is 5€ again at the Ubistore and it gives you a Steam key. And they're having an E3 sale with daily deals. http://shop.ubi.com/store/ubiemea/en_GB/pd/ThemeID.8605600/productID.300541000
Well, the thing with system requirement recommendations is that they're far from an exact science, so there is a distinct possibility that minimum refers to what you'd need for a pleasant experience at (mostly) high settings and recommended is the least you'd need for a pleasant experience at (mostly) max settings.
...I wasn't singling you out.
Ubisoft going all out with that 25%
I might just install that and give it a go.
Yes. Every internally-developed Ubi game beginning with AssCreed 2 uses Uplay, with the exception of Rayman Origins
this is a megaton, im not even joking
$5 on US store, which is tempting to me.
I don't see any mention of Steam on the page - are you sure?
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
It's a great way to experience Magic: The Gathering that doesn't require a significant investment like the physical cards do or Magic: The Gathering Online does.
I like that they've been able to capture M:TG in a format that is fun without being "Pay to Win". But speaking of pay to win, stay away from most of the DLC. All you want is the expansion pack and (optionally) the deck packs.
The rest of the DLC simply unlocks everything early which ruins the fun and completely eliminates the challenge.
NingenJanai
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It's showing as 10 here, is that with the 75% off applied?
My Full Bore foil finally sold for $3.99 ($3.48). Not the greatest price in the world but it's certainly better than 20c.
Nope.
Nope.
StAidan
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Thanks for Revenge of the Titans! I've been playing Ultratron recently, it's made me a believer in Puppy Games.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
Corpse Party was some bullshit on the PSP.
Did you just press X for over 7 minutes straight? cool, now here's a ghost in the room and if it touches you it's an instadeath sequence that, too, is several minutes long. Also: when retry be prepared to sit through ALL OF IT AGAIN. So while you press X to get past the 7 minutes of dialogue only to trial and error your way around the room, only to have the stupid ghost get you again and rinse/repeat the whole process...
Yeah, i gave up on this shit after not too long. And im not one of those visual novel haters: i beat 999, own the sequel, and LOVE snatcher. So yeah, Corpse Party was total dogshit.
Did you just press X for over 7 minutes straight? cool, now here's a ghost in the room and if it touches you it's an instadeath sequence that, too, is several minutes long. Also: when retry be prepared to sit through ALL OF IT AGAIN. So while you press X to get past the 7 minutes of dialogue only to trial and error your way around the room, only to have the stupid ghost get you again and rinse/repeat the whole process...
Yeah, i gave up on this shit after not too long. And im not one of those visual novel haters: i beat 999, own the sequel, and LOVE snatcher. So yeah, Corpse Party was total dogshit.
As always take them with a pinch of salt until the game is out in the wild or a heavy does of sarcasm and just laugh them off
I always do Doctor.
Which also come to this:That's right Jase and I could say I'm easy to please when it comes to find a pleasant experience regarding the visuals. I played games that were 4-5 years old on Steam recently and I was okay with what I got.
Which also makes me think about something interesting, which is: perception. There are PS3 games that are the equivalent of Low-Medium settings on PC these days. I think Crysis 3 is a good example of what I'm trying to explain. When I played the console version I thought it looked nice but then I played the same game (let's say Dirt 2) on PC and it was such a big difference for me. When I looked back I had a complete different perception. I don't know what to expect from a game like Dead Rising 3 and the Xbox One version is not the best game to showcase the console. Was it 720p 30 FPS? I would like to at least achieve that but again, Iet's wait and see.
Optimization also plays a very important role in all this, correct?
Yep. Just bought it and received Steam key by email.
Phew!
Mind that such a thing is *very* unlikely, remember that Nintendo doesn't seem to like games they've paid for to appear anywhere else (like that glorious Goldeneye 360 clusterfuck).
I disagree quite a lot with this, as the gameplay does vary and there are changes, new things and ways to play every iteration.
Would you say the Arkham games are the same? GTA? Gran Turismo? Street Fighter? Mortal Kombat? Halo? Half-Life? Every other gaming franchise ever?
But the game was new and fresh :/
It's a sequel to LttP and the similarities are mostly how it looks, not even the overworld(s) are the same.
Hopefully these are just for playing it safe rather than being the true minimum.
Mavromatis
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I guess this is another case of "sales goes down so skirt goes up" situation.
Anyway, guess I'll upgrade my Magic 2012 to 2014 at this price.
derExperte
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Yes, 100% sure. Some bought it the last time and got emailed a Steam key.
Well, with new consoles a jump in video requirements was expected, especially in this case since both Xbone's and PS4's GPUs are based on AMD's HD7000 series.
I was just hoping to scrape through
Absolutely. Max Payne 3 is a fine example of a game that looks great but demands surprisingly little to max out with a playable framerate (MSAA aside).
Can be got with 25% off plus 15% with UKJUN15OFF... still not sure if worth waiting till it's cheaper.. (At gamefly)
Ichi is coming this month!
This one button puzzle game was Apple's Editor's Choice. It was also features by Samsung, Google, Amazon, Apple and more. Finally it's coming to Steam!
Features:
www.ichi-game.com
This one button puzzle game was Apple's Editor's Choice. It was also features by Samsung, Google, Amazon, Apple and more. Finally it's coming to Steam!
Features:
- Level editor
- Online level sharing/rating/tagging
- Big picture mode
- Controller support
- PC/Mac/Linux
- Achievements
- Leaderboards
- Trading cards
- More than 19.000 levels!
- It's fun too!
www.ichi-game.com
Mavromatis
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I guess this is another case of "sales goes down so skirt goes up" situation.
Anyway, guess I'll upgrade my Magic 2012 to 2014 at this price.
They have changed the price.
Ah nice! Might wait for it to go a little cheaper though, along with the season pass.
The Grim Heaper
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Thanks for the input Jshackles!
For now, time for some more San Andreas
I don't know too much about the games, but they may be in an Activision situation where the products are too similar. Discounting the previous version just cannibalizes sales for the new versions.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
Batman Blackgate: Yeah or Nay? I haven't played City or Origins but something about 2d batvania that is appealing to me.
Feck. Should have read your post before buying the gold complete version instead of the gold game version :/
Can I remove some of the dlc from installing like we can in Sleeping Dogs?
Should take some videos using shadowplay!
560 ti
corrosivefrost
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I own like 80% of that (missing The Great JItters, The Guild II, and ArcaniA. I might bite for $1 to get 2/3 that I'm missing.
Yeah, JaseC guessed that... I couldn't follow what you were saying, friend-o. Sorry.
I honestly don't remember much of Outland. I played it once, got all the trophies, and proceeded to remove it from my PS3 as I had no intention of going back without trophies to work on. Guacamelee on the other hand I've completed 100% twice and overall 4 times including all DLC and all achievements/trophies. Like Mutant Blobs Attack, it's a great game with good core mechanics and it's fun.
My comments on the combat mostly pertain to how much variation you can get. I don't remember the combat in Outland very much, but it wasn't nearly as deep or flexible as Guacamelee. Guacamelee plays like an action game translated to 2D and did it better, IMO, than other games like Shank. All one needs to look to for proof, as far as I'm concerned, is the side mission that consists of combo challenges.
As far as challenge, yeah, you're right. It's not an extremely hard game... especially if you've meticulously searched for all the upgrades. The bosses are well designed in that that have various patterns and if you learn them you'll do very well, it's very old school in that regard. With Outland, the couple things that stand out in my memory trying to look back on it are:
(1) The final boss had some ridiculously frustrating polarity patterns that were very hard to deal with, even if you knew what was coming. It took me a good number of tries to finally beat him. But I remember finding it frustrating instead of rewarding, personally.
(2) I think this was the game with the hidden "score" or "money" sacks and there was an achievement for getting some ridiculous amount of currency... I felt like that was a chore and not overly rewarding.
(3) I remember I didn't like the sort of "tribal" aesthetic in the early game for some reason... I didn't like the luchador aspect of Guacamelee either at first, but Guacamelee grew on me, probably because it had so much character and personality, where as Outland is kind of mostly business. (It's got great design, I just wasn't a fan of some of it).
Guacamelee is one of the games I gush about, especially since it was on PS3/Vita as cross buy (and because Drinkbox made TfS:MBA, which was also fantastic on Vita).
But hey man, at least you enjoyed it some.
Yeah, but I'm guessing the vast majority of that isn't steam redeemable?
Oh look, it's on sale for 25% off here too?
Wonder what the RU pricing is then?
Magic is awesome. Then again, I'm one of the nerds who used to play it in high school -- I still have a small collection of cards around here somewhere. It's sort of like chess, but I find all the intricacies a lot more engaging.
It is a pretty new release though.
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