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STEAM | June 2016 - Dear Valve, E3 is here, please release Ricochet 2
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As tempting as that sounds, I imagine it'd be even more choppier with 2500k+960. Maybe in a year or so it'll be playable but I'd be surprised if we don't have native PC ports by then.
It's a simple but fun space sim (somewhat arcadey), well made, looks pretty, what's not to want?
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I hope it'll get a tad better discount during summer sale, although that's wishful thinking
these guys are a beast of a dev house
one of the most well known among the steam indie scene
truly remarkable what they have achieved
no man's sky tho
spindoctor
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I'm wondering if I should even bother to go to the trouble and expense of importing the watch editions of the handheld versions like I was going to. I've played Zero Escape on 3DS and I kind of wanted to finish the series there but it's going to be a world apart from the PC version in quality.
Anyway I finished off Doom yesterday. It was simply amazing. The combat feedback wasn't as good as I had hoped it would be but otherwise it was just really fun to have a large arsenal of weapons and run around in wide open areas killing tons of demons. I'm so glad they managed to hold on to the oldschool design choices with health packs, power ups, no limits on your weapon carrying capacity and stuff like that. The game sets the tone of the story very early on with one of the better intros I've seen in a while (not really a spoiler but it's a moment you should experience for yourself).
If there's one minor (and completely self inflicted) problem, I'd say that going after all the secrets and challenges can disrupt the flow of the game significantly. Of course it's all optional so you never have to do any of it but at the same time there are a lot of weapon and armor upgrades that are hidden away from the normal path. In retrospect, you kind of need to get some of those upgrades because you will be swarmed with difficult enemies later on the game. So if you have a tendency to search around for collectibles and stuff in games then you will end up with long gaps between two combat sections. Again, a totally avoidable problem except for those who feel compelled to be completionists while playing games.
I would recommend playing the game on nightmare difficulty. Anything lower than that and you will rarely be in danger of dying which removes a lot of the tension from the combat. Ultra nightmare difficulty (which unlocks after you finish the game once) is really bloody hard. I really wish the game had an NG+ mode which let you go through the campaign again with all your unlocked upgrades.
The multiplayer is still not very good, and at this point is also very dead. When I tried playing it once for the achievements I couldn't even get into a game. Steam stats said the daily peak was 10k and 6k were playing at the time, many of whom would be in the single player campaign. I actually had to ask a friend in Europe to invite me to his party to get the matchmaking to work.
Snap map is a cool idea and they've simplified a lot of the map creation and scripting but it's ultimately very limited. The biggest hurdle is that there is a hard limit on the number of assets you can add into a level at any point which makes it unlikely that we'll ever see any complex maps coming out of it. There are a few good ideas up already, but with the dwindling player numbers and the miniscule number of people who actually bother with mapping (2% according to Steam global stats), I don't see it taking off.
In any case, the campaign is the meat of the game and it is fucking amazing so everyone should play it. On my friends list only 4 people have finished the game
Also I cannot believe Mick Gordon's amazing soundtrack for the game is not available for purchase anywhere.
I feel kind of bad for them because the Summer Sale is going to drown out this release completely. At the same time, they decided the date a long time ago (it's virtually the same for all versions) and it would probably be troublesome to move it around now. This is just really bad luck for them that the sale landed on their release date.
GhostTrick
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DAY 0. IQ looks amazing.
delayed and expensive!
also it will be less gamey, I think
can't do, just started teh Witcher 3, it'll take a while
but! many steamgafers played and liked it
please buy rebel galaxy and tell me how it is
bobnowhere
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It's pretty decent but it's very grindy. I'm currently at the point where I need to make 100s of thousands of creds on boring missions to upgrade my gear to take on the next story mission and I don't really have the determination for it.
See you in 2017.
When buying the game just last night I expected all episodes to be kinda like the third one (first? The one in the empty summer camp). Fun sandboxes with a lurking slasher AI. Kind of a reverse Hitman actually. And then I was disappointed when I saw that wasn't exactly the case with most episodes. Also, I was really disappointed when in that first/third ep
at some point I noticed the red-haired guy swimming back and forth across the lake during the day and I went in for the kill with the axe just to find out that not only it's not possible but it's also a quick way of ending up killed yourself. Trying to run him over with the boat doesn't work either. I felt for a second like I had gained the upper hand by finding the guy and that I had found a creative way of killing him just to find out the game's actually a lot more restricted than it looks like. Something else I really disliked was how in the end it's more practical just to treat every character as an extra life and to hide them all.
Something I actually really like is how quickly it all can go FUBAR. By my fourth or fifth attempt I thought I had it, I readied everyone and I subsequently got everyone killed in a matter of seconds when the baby creature made its appearance in the way I could have least expected.
Something I actually really like is how quickly it all can go FUBAR. By my fourth or fifth attempt I thought I had it, I readied everyone and I subsequently got everyone killed in a matter of seconds when the baby creature made its appearance in the way I could have least expected.
So, GOG agreement changed because of Steam Connect, and people accepted it if they connected to Steam.
It's strange, I see no reason on why GOG is providing free games for Steam users, from a marketing point it makes no sense, since GOG is a competitor. It makes sense in the term a user who built a library on GOG, probably, hopefully will spend some money on GOG too, but otherwise I see no reason on doing what they are doing.
I hope GOG isn't in trouble.
It's strange, I see no reason on why GOG is providing free games for Steam users, from a marketing point it makes no sense, since GOG is a competitor. It makes sense in the term a user who built a library on GOG, probably, hopefully will spend some money on GOG too, but otherwise I see no reason on doing what they are doing.
I hope GOG isn't in trouble.
You say it makes no sense and then a sentence later describe the exact reason they are doing it. They want more traffic. By doing the whole "5 days" thing and constantly adding and dropping games they'll have a handful of people using their site more often than they normally do.
But how many of those were bought by prankster uncles?
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There are a couple of reasons why it makes sense from a marketing perspective:
- Reciprocity. When someone does something for you, you want to do something back for them. Say buy a couple of games from GOG in the next sale.
- It lowers the switching costs from steam tot GOG. Say you want to switch to GOG from steam for whatever reasons, but it's too discouraging as you will have to restart your games library from scratches. Now they give you a couple of games to kickstart your GOG library.
The downside:
They are losing sales to people who were willing to double dip to have a game on both platforms.
I don't see why GOG would do this if they were in trouble. If they are in a financial trouble they wouldn't do this as it would drive up the cost of maintaining the servers.
A couple of bundles worth of leftovers
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The missed opportunity is that GOG isn't having a sale on their exclusive titles. They have like 300 or so exclusives and none are on sale. They were smart to get Steam users to visit their store, but it's stoopid that they had nothing unique to sell the new visitors. And now I'm no longer willing to buy anything from them.
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Yeah.
The whole look is really cool, and the idea that you can make your money a number of different ways (pirating, mercenary work, trading) is a solid idea. But the missions too often boil down to a similar pattern of going to a distant station or asteroid field to have a skirmish, then fly back.
I wish the game took the reins off a little bit and gave it room to breathe in an open-ended sense without needing the side-mission structure.
Jawmuncher
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CongratsSo guys! Took me 72 hours
Now to put my save before NG+ back in and wait for DLC =D
Now what to play next....
Still think ill stick with my vita preorder
Endruen
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In case you guys were wondering if I've enjoyed Dark Souls III:
Thanks again, you glorious bastards.
That's more than I've played all the Souls games together. Glad you enjoyed it!
bobnowhere
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The Gog connect thing finally worked for me. It's doesn't specifically mention it on the page but Van Helsing 1 through 3 are also included in the deal alongside the complete version.
100 hours of covenant farming I bet lol.
That's weird, connect didn't recognise that for me - I have 8 came recognised, all a bunch of freebies I got from gleam etc.
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Cool. Hopefuly the whole series lands on Steam soon.
Nice. Congrats.So guys! Took me 72 hours
Now to put my save before NG+ back in and wait for DLC =D
Now what to play next....
Wish you best of success with your game.
Looks like GOG connect finally worked for me, 11 games added to the library.
Damn it, I should have probably backed up a NG endgame save as well for the DLC stuff.
Maybe I'll play through the game again once the DLC out, that seems like a thing I should do.
So guys! Took me 72 hours
Now to put my save before NG+ back in and wait for DLC =D
Now what to play next....
Damn it, I should have probably backed up a NG endgame save as well for the DLC stuff.
Maybe I'll play through the game again once the DLC out, that seems like a thing I should do.
Large Professor
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I've asked for a refund and it's taking unusually long to get confirmed. It has been almost two days now, normally it would take 2 tot 3 hours. I can't imagine my account has been flagged or something, because my last refund request was like 3 months ago.
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The price seems good, and I hope the whole series of card come to my country at a reasonable price.
I am waiting to see benchmarks.
Tizoc
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Dusk Golem, post if you're OK!
I'm hoping it's a pretty significant jump, especially over my 7950. I plan on selling that card and using that money (plus a bunch of Amazon credit) to upgrade.
NingenJanai
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D2 was great, never played D.
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The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine on a $375 PC - PC vs PS4 - The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine graphics test
- runs at 900p/60fps Low;1080p/30 High; 1440p/30 Medium details
Overall surprisingly well performance for such a demanding game.
- runs at 900p/60fps Low;1080p/30 High; 1440p/30 Medium details
Overall surprisingly well performance for such a demanding game.
Jawmuncher
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D being on GOG now is pretty cool. Didn't expect that.
You don't want to see my list of saves -.-
I actually forgot that I did make one manual backup at some point, maybe I'll use that. I don't remember where in the game I was for it though.
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Are you sure that's my mexican? That looks like someone saw your post and added you with the express intention to scam you (the mexican guy I recommended doesn't speak english normally, and he doesn't use g2a either)
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