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STEAM | May 2014 - every time improve protection Steam Guard
- Thread starter MRORANGE
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Discotheque
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....titanfall was better
MMBosstones86
Member
so now that i'm late jumping on the Game of Thrones bandwaggon....is the best GoT 'game' still modded CK2? If so, what mod is considered best?
my man.
my man.
Don't get me wrong, I'm excited for games coming out later in the year that will flesh out my top ten. May alone is looking stacked with games such as The Forest, Transistor, and a bunch more.
toddhunter
Member
Yeah but let's be honest, nobody really cares what their number 8 game is.
Actually I think I'd struggle to list more than a couple of games I've enjoyed so far this year. Maybe Escape Goat 2, Hearthstone and umm...
hmm.
ChimpanzeeThat
Member
Is Starbound worth getting yet? I have the cash in my GMG/Playfire account to get it but i'm just wondering how it's going as it's still in Early Access stage. How is it content wise in comparison to Terraria?
I caved and bought Dragon Age: Origins, and also Game Dev Tycoon and Super Meat Boy, so that should keep me busy this weekend.
I caved and bought Dragon Age: Origins, and also Game Dev Tycoon and Super Meat Boy, so that should keep me busy this weekend.
Atraveller
Banned
Mount and blade a clash of kings mod is also quite good.
toddhunter
Member
As is the Civ 5 mod through the workshop.
Hmm, you'd have to praise someone high up at Kadokawa Games, I suppose, since they own FROM Software now.GAF who do I gotta Praise for this masterpiece to be on Steam?
Because I would praise SO HORD to fuck up America as the President.
There's tons of good games coming next week and the week after (like Dreadout and Transistor, among others), I'd just wait until Monday to see what the asking prices are.
Atraveller
Banned
DA:O would take a lot more than a weekend to play.
MMBosstones86
Member
Thanks guys. Finishing up season 3 and need something to get my Westeros fix once all caught up.
DaBargainHunta
Member
GRRRRR! I saw this and got excited, thinking it was coming to Steam. Please don't play with my emotions like that.GAF who do I gotta Praise for this masterpiece to be on Steam?
Because I would praise SO HORD to fuck up America as the President.
I've wanted this game for YEARS!Dragoon En Regalia
Member
Dark Forces, I have beaten you!
...and it's dark.
Great game. I only wish the Concussion Rifle and Smugglers got more attention due to basically being double-edged hitscan that doesn't do a alleyway/corridor-based game much good. There are occasional moments on Hard where it seems like the level designers just wanted to fuck with the player, rather than engineer a constant upward grade in challenge. The Arc Hammer, thankfully, is a great map, linear but packed with great battles and a final boss more interesting than any other I've fought in a '90s FPS. The last three maps in general successfully incorporate most of the previous maps' gimmicks into an expansive endgame, though the Dianogas aren't present. After playing through the opening map one more time, I think the big difference in difficulty is mission length and prioritizing item pick-ups and routes through areas or event horizons. Using a lives system works well because there's an additional conflict between the player and the designer, in that finding secrets becomes even more imperative than normal. Some jumps are so daunting you can't help but clear out the other stuff first, only to realize the drop wasn't so rough.
If there's anything defining this game against Doom, Marathon, or Heretic from around the time of release, it's establishing a sense of place within a previously-built world, to the point that level design that would seem abstract in another game is perfectly natural for Star Wars. Marathon's gimmick is to let the player roam through conceptual map layouts with computer logs informing how they should imagine the space. Heretic and Doom both aim for a sense of space, that these environments could be inhabited with frequency, but still relies on their fantastic settings to justify how inefficient many of these structures are. Without logs or an original premise, Dark Forces' mapping is built around long build-ups and pausing in action, alternation between running around in spaces and zipping in and out of corridors, and the contrast between Imperial architecture and more organic layouts. A ridiculously-shaped Imperial ship just won't feel the same as a sewer system, or the patchwork pathways of Nar Shaddaa, or the cliffs outside enemy installations. Having a pulpy plot centering around the Dark Troopers also gives a thematic progression, which is an important step towards more story-based FPS games. One disconnect between the exciting story and game is Jabba's Palace, which, outside of the opening Kell Dragon punch-out (taking on four of them got pretty uninteresting after a while), is just too linear and easy a map compared to its brethren. What could have been an epic high point to Kyle's journey gets reduced to numerous long hallways that do not evoke a Hutt palace, something that even Nar Shaddaa avoids. Mid-game's still better and more interesting than the opening stages, but it transitions poorly to the late-game stages.
Condensed ammo pools for weapons, added in with distorted freelooking and vertical movement, also changes the game quite a bit. Jumping's used for precision, not quickly gliding over successive surfaces while trying to not to fall into a chasm. Crouching makes stealth more viable as a tactic (not a level strategy, as it were); I still wish one of the mappers would have put a secret in one of the computer terminals I had fun jumping into. Like later in Jedi Outcast, there's this passing between careful sniping from a range and graceful movement between groups of mooks that, at times, can be extreme. Unlike Outcast, the enemy AI's not as advanced, though still up there for its timeeach enemy type covers well the kinds of situations the designers were interested in, and diversity means little overlap. Some enemies, like the officers, seem vestigial (do they affect group coordination if they're killed?), but Grans, Prototype Dark Troopers, and Sentries respectively snuff you out of hiding, deflect shots and panic you in tight spaces, and roam around the playing area shooting from high and low. Weapon progression isn't as interesting, since the blaster shotgun and Concussion Rifle are either too tedious or too dangerous to use. I ended up relying on the Repeater for long-distance rapid-fire, the Bryar for sniping, and the Imperial Rifle because, well, the game forces you to, what with the abundance of ammo and need to fire lots of shots quickly. Alt-fires make this one stand out, though I think the items are more important. Marathon had dual-wielding and momentum-specific punching; Doom had the BFG's hitscan and highly specific uses for guns; Heretic supplemented a like weapon set with innovative items and a hotbar inventory. Dark Forces lets you drop t-dets and fire missiles from the Cutter, yet having to collect batteries for Kyle's tools to operate is built upon better through the late-game level design. Using the headlight in the dark and wearing infrared goggles even shows off the Jedi engine, which at the time must have been a stunner (set the stage for Build, even).
Above all, this is a high bar for Dark Forces II to beat. I've heard about how much more complex and Hexen-ish its map layouts are compared to this, which has me both excited and worried. Not that any of the maps in this game are confusing, but there's maps like the Detention Center where you have two elevators and the more immediate, attractive option to go down the second makes it difficult get back to the first! More stuff like this means a greater potential for error, though running Jedi Knight on recent Windows is probably the biggest misery people are dealing with. Being able to play at the proper resolution will be a step up from DOSBox, thankfully...
I only just noticed Kyle's wearing a modified Stromtrooper suit under his jacket
Great game. I only wish the Concussion Rifle and Smugglers got more attention due to basically being double-edged hitscan that doesn't do a alleyway/corridor-based game much good. There are occasional moments on Hard where it seems like the level designers just wanted to fuck with the player, rather than engineer a constant upward grade in challenge. The Arc Hammer, thankfully, is a great map, linear but packed with great battles and a final boss more interesting than any other I've fought in a '90s FPS. The last three maps in general successfully incorporate most of the previous maps' gimmicks into an expansive endgame, though the Dianogas aren't present. After playing through the opening map one more time, I think the big difference in difficulty is mission length and prioritizing item pick-ups and routes through areas or event horizons. Using a lives system works well because there's an additional conflict between the player and the designer, in that finding secrets becomes even more imperative than normal. Some jumps are so daunting you can't help but clear out the other stuff first, only to realize the drop wasn't so rough.
If there's anything defining this game against Doom, Marathon, or Heretic from around the time of release, it's establishing a sense of place within a previously-built world, to the point that level design that would seem abstract in another game is perfectly natural for Star Wars. Marathon's gimmick is to let the player roam through conceptual map layouts with computer logs informing how they should imagine the space. Heretic and Doom both aim for a sense of space, that these environments could be inhabited with frequency, but still relies on their fantastic settings to justify how inefficient many of these structures are. Without logs or an original premise, Dark Forces' mapping is built around long build-ups and pausing in action, alternation between running around in spaces and zipping in and out of corridors, and the contrast between Imperial architecture and more organic layouts. A ridiculously-shaped Imperial ship just won't feel the same as a sewer system, or the patchwork pathways of Nar Shaddaa, or the cliffs outside enemy installations. Having a pulpy plot centering around the Dark Troopers also gives a thematic progression, which is an important step towards more story-based FPS games. One disconnect between the exciting story and game is Jabba's Palace, which, outside of the opening Kell Dragon punch-out (taking on four of them got pretty uninteresting after a while), is just too linear and easy a map compared to its brethren. What could have been an epic high point to Kyle's journey gets reduced to numerous long hallways that do not evoke a Hutt palace, something that even Nar Shaddaa avoids. Mid-game's still better and more interesting than the opening stages, but it transitions poorly to the late-game stages.
Condensed ammo pools for weapons, added in with distorted freelooking and vertical movement, also changes the game quite a bit. Jumping's used for precision, not quickly gliding over successive surfaces while trying to not to fall into a chasm. Crouching makes stealth more viable as a tactic (not a level strategy, as it were); I still wish one of the mappers would have put a secret in one of the computer terminals I had fun jumping into. Like later in Jedi Outcast, there's this passing between careful sniping from a range and graceful movement between groups of mooks that, at times, can be extreme. Unlike Outcast, the enemy AI's not as advanced, though still up there for its timeeach enemy type covers well the kinds of situations the designers were interested in, and diversity means little overlap. Some enemies, like the officers, seem vestigial (do they affect group coordination if they're killed?), but Grans, Prototype Dark Troopers, and Sentries respectively snuff you out of hiding, deflect shots and panic you in tight spaces, and roam around the playing area shooting from high and low. Weapon progression isn't as interesting, since the blaster shotgun and Concussion Rifle are either too tedious or too dangerous to use. I ended up relying on the Repeater for long-distance rapid-fire, the Bryar for sniping, and the Imperial Rifle because, well, the game forces you to, what with the abundance of ammo and need to fire lots of shots quickly. Alt-fires make this one stand out, though I think the items are more important. Marathon had dual-wielding and momentum-specific punching; Doom had the BFG's hitscan and highly specific uses for guns; Heretic supplemented a like weapon set with innovative items and a hotbar inventory. Dark Forces lets you drop t-dets and fire missiles from the Cutter, yet having to collect batteries for Kyle's tools to operate is built upon better through the late-game level design. Using the headlight in the dark and wearing infrared goggles even shows off the Jedi engine, which at the time must have been a stunner (set the stage for Build, even).
Above all, this is a high bar for Dark Forces II to beat. I've heard about how much more complex and Hexen-ish its map layouts are compared to this, which has me both excited and worried. Not that any of the maps in this game are confusing, but there's maps like the Detention Center where you have two elevators and the more immediate, attractive option to go down the second makes it difficult get back to the first! More stuff like this means a greater potential for error, though running Jedi Knight on recent Windows is probably the biggest misery people are dealing with. Being able to play at the proper resolution will be a step up from DOSBox, thankfully...
Tizoc
Member
Those people are wrong because they are believing the lies of RICHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD.
GRRRRR! I saw this and got excited, thinking it was coming to Steam. Please don't play with my emotions like that.
Look at the bottom right of the image. This year is the game's 10th anniversary...
Atraveller
Banned
Is the PC port of Darksiders 2 still bad?
-MD-
Member
It's perfectly playable if that's what you're asking, has been since launch.
I didn't think it was bad in the first place aside from the fact Vsync didn't work, which caused my graphics card to run pretty hot.. That got patched, and I just forced it in the control panel before it did.
Atraveller
Banned
PandaPedinte
Member
And my weekend starts greatly with my father having his car and money being robbed. -_-
Shalashaska
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NingenJanai
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Good luck
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Tizoc
Member
Reduce Shadow Quality to 0 or Low if you find the frame rate isn't 60 FPS at max settings during gameplay after the intro.
Thanks!
FiveElementNinja
Member
Thanks for Skyward Collapse!
Chance Hale
Member
Only 11 more days until the GOAT comes out.
BorntoPlay
Member
Thank you!!, i love Shufflepuck Café on mac... Back in the day it was one of those game i always played... I never knew this "remake" exist until today...=D
Tizoc
Member
GOAT Simulator 2: GOAT Harder?
HalfwayOrb
Member
Prepare to cry (even better if you have a gf/wife).
derExperte
Member
Ikaruga got a demo on Steam. As did Running With Rifles.
They announced a release date for Killing Floor 2 while I was away? And so soon?
They announced a release date for Killing Floor 2 while I was away? And so soon?
Shalashaska
Member
You're welcome
BinaryPork2737
Unconfirmed Member
That feel when I realize 100% Orange Juice's release date on Steam was pushed back by a week.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
That's what they said about a lot of stuff. I only cry over dumb shit.
jaundicejuice
Member
Syphon Filter
Member
Dam that DreadOut game is scary as fuck. It legit scared me and i had to quit.
Took Gravity Badgers for the team...thanks!
RavenValor95
Member
Yeah, I tried the second thread with no luck. Half way through the first I found this http://www.wsgf.org/blog/skid/2013/...sformed-triple-monitors-eyefinity-surround-4k and now it works!
To add to this, if your account is restricted you also can't activate gifts or redeem keys (i.e. you can't obtain new games at all) and in some cases you may also be locked out of Steam Community entirely.
If only my CPU is strong enough to get constant 60fps on DS
After DS2 can't go back playing it at half silky and half smooth.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/vanguard-princess-netplay-dlc#home
They want 10K to develop Netplay for Vanguard Princess?
I won it from a Dupy i think. I refuse to play it at this stage with until it gets a Steamworks patch.
They want 10K to develop Netplay for Vanguard Princess?
I won it from a Dupy i think. I refuse to play it at this stage with until it gets a Steamworks patch.
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