Yeah, it's still too much for me.
I have never played a Dragon Age game, so I'm considering the Ultimate Edition on sale on Steam. Also a bit in a mood for a RPG.
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Yeah, it's still too much for me.
I have never played a Dragon Age game, so I'm considering the Ultimate Edition on sale on Steam. Also a bit in a mood for a RPG.
way to make a good first impression wasting my time, killing floor 2 :3
BinaryPork2737
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Yeah, if you're going to do it, go Ultimate. DA's a great game, and the Ultimate Edition's a steal for the price - you get a ton of content.
At the time when these were all the rage (and the CDi was coveted by people seriously and not collectors of rubbish) I had a single speed CD drive, with a caddy as well. Massive downside to this was this was back in the day when 4mb of ram was a luxury so everything had to be buffered by the CD drive then played. So for a 2 minute section of video it took like 5 minutes to load, even in 320x240 as a tiny rectangle in the middle of the screen.
Just playing them off a hard drive now is going to be a new experience. I think my old 386 only had a 20md hard drive in '96. Kids today with their TB's full of pornography don't know they're born.
GardenSirens
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Agreed, the DLC for that game almost eclipses the original part of the game!
corrosivefrost
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So right now, there's no way for me to view the PC achievements for the game on the web... how helpful!
Orcs Must Die! 2 - Complete is the new HumbleBundle flash sale.
I meant to post this before but I couldn't get on GAF at the time.
Now up to 1,013. You would've thought I should stop one day and actually play more of my backlog, but no. Just bought the Bundlestars Intense Bundle because.
Now up to 1,013. You would've thought I should stop one day and actually play more of my backlog, but no. Just bought the Bundlestars Intense Bundle because.
You know what, I'm not even sure any more
YianGaruga
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You don't need the client. For everything else this thread has good information
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=801210
You constantly send them tickets for bugged rewards not unlocking.
Oh thanks for the link, I didn't think about the possibility of an OT :-S
Playfire manga? Maybe Milamber can hook you up. ; )
If you try hard enough you'll succeed! ganbatte!!!
BinaryPork2737
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My little Playfire can't be this cute
Reminds me of a video posted in that mod thread the other day before it was locked.
Kiru
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My little Playfire can't be this cute
lol
My little Playfire can't be this cute
uguu~
Kaleinc
Banned
I see an incoming brazzers gif
I meant to post this before but I couldn't get on GAF at the time.
Now up to 1,013. You would've thought I should stop one day and actually play more of my backlog, but no. Just bought the Bundlestars Intense Bundle because.
You know what, I'm not even sure any more
Glorious 10 year user. And I'm stuck with my poopy 9 year badge pfft. Not even at 500 games yet. I have much to learn
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.
So right now, there's no way for me to view the PC achievements for the game on the web... how helpful!
It's still possible using the "Valve approved" method. Click the "Community Hub" button at the top of the page, then select "View Stats", then select either to see your personal achievements or the global achievements.
It's a pain in the ass, but it works (even with this game and it's weird appid).
http://steamcommunity.com/my/stats/SSHD:SecondEncounter?tab=achievements
With the number of open world games I play these days I have been asking myself if we couldn't be long lost brothers for some time already.
( ^_^) JaseC, Milamber, Li Kao - AssCreed Bros ! ( ^_^)
Nothing is true, ever... oops, sorry guys, thrown up a little in my mouth (I like AC as much as I hate its shitty Z movie plot).
derExperte
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It was already at over 3€ when posted here, looks like they started higher.
Impressions for Continue?9876543210: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=111108931&postcount=5991
Which is the only one I'm really interested in. Okay, still need E3&4 of Cognition, mabye if they add E4 but then the price will be even higher.
DaBargainHunta
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Wasn't this just in a Humble Bundle with DLC?
toddhunter
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Subject 9 keys are up in the indiegamestand.
Snakethesniper
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I need to convince myself to put up an "endless" tag
This is excellent. Post-context anachronic review.
He's been doing much better reviews to be honest, couple of them made me laugh. He is not totally serious in some of the recent ones.
jaundicejuice
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Jedi Academy is weird, in some ways it's better than Jedi Outcast and in others it's worse. The fact that you start off Academy with a lighstaber and almost never have to use a gun while playing is great. You also get to create a character, choose their appearance with some limited customisation options (male, female, a few different species with 4 different options for heads, torso and pants), choose to skill their force abilities and make them light or dark side. I'm pretty close to beating the game but so far, aside from two points in the game where Luke and Kyle to at you after a mission briefing, my being light side hasn't really impacted the game at all. Midway through the game you also get to choose between using a single saber, dual sabers or a saber staff. Mechanically it's the most refined game in the series when it comes to combat and locomotion and Jedi Academy has waaaaaaay more melee encounters in it than Jedi Outcast. You spend a good majority of the game fighting members of the Cult of Ragnos and it's honestly a lot of fun. I haven't gotten tired of seeing that 360 camera pan that plays out after you cut a Dark Jedi down in a duel.
Academy has a mission structure. You choose between 5 missions and then have to play through a story mission. You only have to complete 4 out of 5 mission before unlocking the next story mission but completing the selectable missions gives you a force point. You only need 12 points to max out your light or dark side affinity, so you could skip every fifth mission if you wanted to progress the story quicker. There's ten selectable missions before you become a Jedi and five after you become one. The locations and scenarios you encounter in the selectable missions are pretty diverse. Some are long, some are short, some are vehicle based, they take place all over the galaxy and put in you all sorts of different scenarios.
And this is kind of where Jedi Academy is a kind of worse than Jedi Outcast, there's a very tenuous plot thread connecting all of these diverse missions and the story, what there is of it, isn't anywhere near as epic as Jedi Outcast. Jedi Academy feels way more fan service-y (oh hey look, you're on Tatooine and there's The Millennium Falcon and Chewbacca! Now you're on Hoth in the ruins of the old rebel base, look there's Boba Fett!), Jedi Outcast is more evocative of the original trilogy and the extended universe. The art style and design of the environments in Jedi Outcast is simply stronger. The A.I. in Jedi Academy seems worse than Jedi Outcast, the cloaking imperial officers in particular. They just kind of stand there and die. Even the lightsaber duels feel easier overall, there's only been a few fights where I had any difficulty.
Overall though Academy has been really fun to play and depending on how much of an impact my character being Light or Dark Side has on the game by the end will dictate if I play through it again as a Dark Side Jedi. It's probably just as basic as the kinds of crystals you get to use in your saber but I may still play it again to simply use dual sabers.
Academy has a mission structure. You choose between 5 missions and then have to play through a story mission. You only have to complete 4 out of 5 mission before unlocking the next story mission but completing the selectable missions gives you a force point. You only need 12 points to max out your light or dark side affinity, so you could skip every fifth mission if you wanted to progress the story quicker. There's ten selectable missions before you become a Jedi and five after you become one. The locations and scenarios you encounter in the selectable missions are pretty diverse. Some are long, some are short, some are vehicle based, they take place all over the galaxy and put in you all sorts of different scenarios.
And this is kind of where Jedi Academy is a kind of worse than Jedi Outcast, there's a very tenuous plot thread connecting all of these diverse missions and the story, what there is of it, isn't anywhere near as epic as Jedi Outcast. Jedi Academy feels way more fan service-y (oh hey look, you're on Tatooine and there's The Millennium Falcon and Chewbacca! Now you're on Hoth in the ruins of the old rebel base, look there's Boba Fett!), Jedi Outcast is more evocative of the original trilogy and the extended universe. The art style and design of the environments in Jedi Outcast is simply stronger. The A.I. in Jedi Academy seems worse than Jedi Outcast, the cloaking imperial officers in particular. They just kind of stand there and die. Even the lightsaber duels feel easier overall, there's only been a few fights where I had any difficulty.
Overall though Academy has been really fun to play and depending on how much of an impact my character being Light or Dark Side has on the game by the end will dictate if I play through it again as a Dark Side Jedi. It's probably just as basic as the kinds of crystals you get to use in your saber but I may still play it again to simply use dual sabers.
arts&crafts
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Oh I don't know, this gave me a chuckle.
Hey I am on there! I couldn't bad mouth it until I tried it. It tried it, it sucks.
toddhunter, wth?
Wizardy 6 review
lol, I love it. (Btw, when todd's not subverting Steam's review system, he's writing more serious reviews at his blog, which I adore as well.) It's what spurred my previous post. I'd still like to read reviews like this, though not highly-ranked in the default "most helpful" sort, rather under a separate "most entertaining" sort. By default I should see the most substantive reviews.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Got my DreadOut Steam key. Will have impressions of the game in several hours.
And shameless plug-in, going to be playing the game on stream in five minutes, which you can watch here: http://www.hitbox.tv/AestheticGamer
And shameless plug-in, going to be playing the game on stream in five minutes, which you can watch here: http://www.hitbox.tv/AestheticGamer
my reviews always get a lot of hate
it's only because they were written by you
edit: jk
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