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STEAM | March 2016 - This thread is badass

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Vazra

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For 2007 that is.
 
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morningbus

Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
RionaaM said:
Haha, your line has already been crossed 3 years ago.
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Careful now, quoting my old posts triggers people more than spiders and anime combined.

But man, that was a rough period for the Steam thread looking back on it, too, but for very different reasons than now.

During that period, there was a weird trend of building up a cult of personality around specific posters and the reigns changed hands a few times, generally with different, disastrous results. I remember the time when Salsashark could derail the thread for pages and pages with 3DS talk because he was the thread's chosen celebrity for the month.

Now, though, no one is specifically the star. No one person has the ability to derail the thread like before so we have all these minor thread-celebrities posting as pseudo-characters with weird interests and quirks that have been taken to an extreme bordering on fetish. I remember when a lot of you started posting in here and some of you used to be normal and that's really, really weird for me.
 
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Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
any
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word on the latest nvidia drivers?
 
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crazyrabbits

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morningbus said:
Now, though, no one is specifically the star. No one person has the ability to derail the thread like before so we have all these minor thread-celebrities posting as pseudo-characters with weird interests and quirks that have been taken to an extreme bordering on fetish.
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This is... surprisingly astute.
 
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xist

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RionaaM said:
Really? While the sequel is a great game and well worth killing my graphics card for, I still prefer the first one because of the fantastic atmosphere and plot, plus the gunplay feels a bit better. As a fan of both, may I ask your reasons why?
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Whilst the guns felt much better in the first game (in the second they just did the job, whilst in the first game they felt markedly different from each other and had "weight" if you know what I mean) I couldn't get over the repetition and sparseness of plot.

In F.E.A.R I felt like i was just going down corridor after corridor after corridor towards office cubicle/boiler room/slight different space which really wore me down. The story being told via the medium of the voice mail was nice but It didn't feel substantial enough...I actually enjoyed the pseudo escort bit because It felt like I was more involved in the story. The game just dragged a bit....

In the sequel because there was a lot more exposition and environmental variation it felt more immersive to me. I actually felt like I was achieving something....I'll remember the school level and the little plot details about the vitamin feeding programs for a while, but there was nothing comparable that stands out as a memorable section in the first game for me (although I'll remember the jump scare in the alley at the beginning of Perseus Mandate for a while! Also Steve Blum helped make Perseus Mandate memorable too)

I'm planning on Installing FEAR 3 tonight and playing through that to compare to the first two games despite all the bad press I've read...


Anteater said:
oh finished ds2
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Dead Space 3 beckons...
 
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Anteater

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Ucchedavāda;199434824 said:
It's nowhere near as good as 1 and 2, but IMO it's worth a play-through.
Many of the environments and the small stories told there are really good.
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i'm getting my friend to play it in coop, can't really be that bad
 
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shortsFortallPeople

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Finished Stealth Inc 2. I didn't care for the hub world stuff but it's fine, a decent followup to the first game.

most of you got it for free so i figured maybe one of you was thinking about playing it. It's decent!
 
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Parsnip

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Ucchedavāda;199411682 said:
Those are just "changenumber" changes, which probably do not mean anything:

https://steamdb.info/faq/#changenumber
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As long as the app is private/ownersonly, most changes will appear as "changenumber" change.
Only thing you can glean from private apps is that if there are a several changes in a short period of time, you can reasonably assume that they are doing something to it.
 
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mp1990

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zewone said:
It's not the worst game I've ever played, but it's extremely average.

It just seems worse because Dead Space 1 and 2 were so much better.
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The flak DS3 receives is way overblown. Not a great game by any means, especially considering the former entries (well, more especially the first one, DS2 is a bit weak), but if you judge it for what it is, and not for what you wanted it to be, I'm sure you'll take a lot of enjoyment from it. It's no Resident Evil 4 or anything like that, but worth playing imo.
 
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William Bonney

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Ucchedavāda;199435518 said:
I liked it much better after he got a voice, but I had also developed a chronic dislike of silent protagonists a while ago, so that's probably just me.
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I just felt like it lost alot of the horror element and I always felt that was part of the reason why. The atmosphere running around the Ishimura was top notch.
 
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Ucchedavāda

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Parsnip said:
As long as the app is private/ownersonly, most changes will appear as "changenumber" change.
Only thing you can glean from private apps is that if there are a several changes in a short period of time, you can reasonably assume that they are doing something to it.
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Ah, I did not know that. Thanks for the clarification.
Then I shall allow myself to be hopeful.
 
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RionaaM

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morningbus said:
Careful now, quoting my old posts triggers people more than spiders and anime combined.

But man, that was a rough period for the Steam thread looking back on it, too, but for very different reasons than now.

During that period, there was a weird trend of building up a cult of personality around specific posters and the reigns changed hands a few times, generally with different, disastrous results. I remember the time when Salsashark could derail the thread for pages and pages with 3DS talk because he was the thread's chosen celebrity for the month.

Now, though, no one is specifically the star. No one person has the ability to derail the thread like before so we have all these minor thread-celebrities posting as pseudo-characters with weird interests and quirks that have been taken to an extreme bordering on fetish. I remember when a lot of you started posting in here and some of you used to be normal and that's really, really weird for me.
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I've been out of the loop for over a year now, so I don't know the ins and outs of the thread anymore. I miss it sometimes (and some of you guys too), which is why every now and then I'll come back and take a quick glance at the latest posts, but very rarely can I follow a conversation/discussion well enough to participate in it. To me, the move to Community was a very negative thing.

xist said:
Whilst the guns felt much better in the first game (in the second they just did the job, whilst in the first game they felt markedly different from each other and had "weight" if you know what I mean) I couldn't get over the repetition and sparseness of plot.

In F.E.A.R I felt like i was just going down corridor after corridor after corridor towards office cubicle/boiler room/slight different space which really wore me down. The story being told via the medium of the voice mail was nice but It didn't feel substantial enough...I actually enjoyed the pseudo escort bit because It felt like I was more involved in the story. The game just dragged a bit....

In the sequel because there was a lot more exposition and environmental variation it felt more immersive to me. I actually felt like I was achieving something....I'll remember the school level and the little plot details about the vitamin feeding programs for a while, but there was nothing comparable that stands out as a memorable section in the first game for me (although I'll remember the jump scare in the alley at the beginning of Perseus Mandate for a while! Also Steve Blum helped make Perseus Mandate memorable too)

I'm planning on Installing FEAR 3 tonight and playing through that to compare to the first two games despite all the bad press I've read...
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Thanks for sharing this! While I don't share your feelings about the first game getting boring, I certainly understand where you're coming from. That game did feature very few different environments and many similar areas and rooms, and the plot was built around the phone messages and character dialogue, rather than level design. The sequel, as you said, mixed the plot with the areas themselves better, like the school level shows, and the increased variety of backgrounds is appreciated.

As for the plot itself, I enjoyed F.E.A.R. 2's but wasn't as much of a fan of it as I was 1's. The thing you disliked about the latter, getting very little pieces of information at a time instead of a whole lot of exposition, actually what made me care more for it, as I felt I was solving a mystery and slowly beginning to understand what happened. Learning the truth felt incredibly rewarding, and I couldn't stop thinking about it for several days after finishing the game. F.E.A.R. 2 fleshed out the world a bit more, by explaining some backstory and showing what happened after the original game (in the canon universe at least, as Extraction Point and Perseus Mandate take place in an alternate, non-canon timeline), but it never felt necessary. It doesn't reveal anything mind-blowing regarding past events, as most of these elements have been shown in the previous game, and it doesn't add any new ones of that sort either. The only thing about it that left an impression on me (apart from the intro which I had to replay many times due to my failing graphics card) was the ending, because it's such a twisted, disgusting, repulsive and bizarre scene (which I kinda enjoyed for the pure weirdness of it, but looking back it appears to come out of the blue and is something horrible to experience).

The single player mode of F.E.A.R. 3 is shit. Don't go through it alone. Get a friend to play it with you in co-op, preferently with a mic so you can talk about how bad the plot is, and have fun shooting the monsters because the gameplay is rather good (even if cover mechanics in an FPS don't make a lot of sense). Of course, if you do this the atmosphere will be ruined, but it's so bad anyway that you won't miss anything, and you'll gain a lot in sheer entertainment value. Trust me, I played it on my own twice, once per character, and it's awful. After you finish it, it gets worse the more you think about it, so the less attention you pay to the story the better. As a mindless shooter you'll have fun, especially due to Paxton Fettel playing a little different than the Point Man and the several challenges you can complete during the levels (which are stupid for single player, but suit the co-op campaign just fine, provided you skip the cutscenes).
 
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Vazra

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Hero Prinny said:
is that game really from 2007? is it unmodded and stuff too? cause if thats only using in game graphic settings I gotta agree with you, its pretty impressive for 2007
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No mods at all and using the ingame settings. The game was removed from Steam tho.

Mercury Steam giving visuals even before Castlevania Lords of Shadow.
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The AI of the partners is terrible leading you to constantly revive them, unexpected QTE o some areas and the levels can be a bit too closed at times but interesting game mechanics and interesting story.
 
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Hero Prinny

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Vazra said:
No mods at all and using the ingame settings. The game was removed from Steam tho.

Mercury Steam giving visuals even before Castlevania Lords of Shadow.


The AI of the partners is terrible leading you to constantly revive them, unexpected QTE o some areas and the levels can be a bit too closed at times but interesting game mechanics and interesting story.
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thats pretty damn impressive, shame it was removed from steam though, you got me interested in it.
 
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shortsFortallPeople

Banned
saw the giant bomb quick look of DoTT Remastered.

They sure nailed that update. it has everything you would want from it and even things i didn't think it would have, like object highlighting. the temptation is real
 
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Tizoc

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shortsFortallPeople said:
saw the giant bomb quick look of DoTT Remastered.

They sure nailed that update. it has everything you would want from it and even things i didn't think it would have, like object highlighting. the temptation is real
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Just go ahead and but it.
There's a reason it's a well recieved PnC game.
 
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shortsFortallPeople

Banned
Tizoc said:
Just go ahead and but it.
There's a reason it's a well recieved PnC game.
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no rush, i played it a few years back. Plus, it's double fine, i'll get it for free through PS+ or in a humble bundle before the year is over

just wanted to comment on it for folks who were wondering how that remaster ending up being. the answer is apparently good.
 
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