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STEAM | May 2017 - Praeying for Dino Crisis

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Dio Brando said:
seeing both are platinum games, i can believe Nier still hasnt been patched because of SE.



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If this does what I think it does, megaton for users with low end pcs.

Kinda weird this got a patch before Nier though.

this patch is taking a really long time to install for some reason.
 
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data said:
Kinda weird this got a patch before Nier though.

this patch is taking a really long time to install for some reason.
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Sega paid Platinum, Square Enix didn't. Nothing weird about that.
Squeenix is just too busy making sure certain PS2 game remake fully uses PS4 resources to the fullest extent
 
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RootCause

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Nyteshade517 said:
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Happy birthday 🎂
 
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The Doctor Who game that is soon to be removed from steam is currently $2.99 on Bundlestars.

Happy Birthday one and all! It's my Birthday on Saturday, yay! Prepare thineselves for an onslaught of bundlejunk, well maybe not an onslaught as I've completely stopped buying those terrible indiegala bundles, more of modicum of bundlejunk.
 
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Annubis

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Knurek said:
Delta patching. 9 MB of patch data can result in gigabytes of files on your HDD having to be patched.
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That's something I've noticed.
How does Steam handle patching?

Sometimes it's CPU intense which would be delta patching but other times it's just downloading over new files.
I'm wondering how this is defined and by who.

I'd be interested in the inner workings of this if anyone knows about them.
 
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Nyteshade517 said:
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Aww, happy birthday :)

Durante said:
Which reminds me, yesterday was my birthday.

I'm no longer a 2^N age, and won't be for quite a while :(
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Happy belated birthday ^_^

def sim said:
Oh, GMG sent me a 50% off voucher for Andromeda. Hoping for lower by the time the last patch is out.

Anyway, HBD nyte & durante.
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Now that'd be a much more agreeable price for Andromeda
if it weren't for my backlog and playing Persona 5 right now :/
 
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Anyone know if it's possible to add a new lower 16:9 resolution in Bayonetta via registries?

(location is [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SEGA\Bayonetta])
 
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Much like everyone here I have a vast backlog of games in my Steam library, but many of those are games that I feel that I should have played, but missed out on the first time around. In order to balance things out a bit, I have played and finished GTA 3 and Assassin's Creed over the last 3 weeks. I really wish that I enjoyed both of these more.

GTA 3 hasn't aged poorly so much as been rendered completely obsolete by later games. The absence of a city map (I believe it was an insert in the original game packaging) and the lack of marker icons on your minimap make it immensely frustrating, the weapon targeting is rudimentary and the try and try again nature of some missions is just frustrating. Plus the plot was paper thin. I have only played San Andreas and the PSP games so I was not overly let down, and I can see how amazing it must have felt at the time but it's safe to say that I will never ever revisit it (or have fond memories of the experience).

Assassin's Creed was something that I really wanted to play despite being aware of how terrible people thought it was. For the first hour I thought it seemed great and that everyone was wrong.....now I'm done I can't believe that it even got a sequel. Perhaps if they'd have done all the missions in a city and then moved on things would have been better...then again given the nature of the gameplay perhaps not. I read the post about improving the experience which mainly involved ditching the map and location markers but in the interest of being done with the game I avoided doing that...>I can see how it might help but the overly repetitive nature of the game didn't make me want to stretch out the experience. I read that some people had issues with the instant death water sections in the docks, and was expecting problems, but ultimately had no issues at all due to the lock on jumping system. Aside from the repetitive tasks I think that my main issues were in the tail end of the game. The combat was shallow and being tasked to defeat hordes of fodder just got boring. Also, I persevered hoping for a revelation in the story.....how wrong I was.....I feel cheated out of a proper ending and annoyed that if anyone had actually put any effort into finishing it off I could have had the sense of closure I expected. Also the final bit with eagle vision in the real world was just plain unintuitive.

I probably enjoyed Assassin's Creed more than GTA3 in terms of gaming experience, but the bitter taste left from the whole package actually makes me loathe it a whole lot more. Next up I think I'm going to try Amnesia The Dark Descent. Are headphones mandatory for the experience?

Edit - I'm also really quite annoyed because I wrote a review for GTA3, which I tried to keep objective, but because it's a thumbs down and contradicts people's memories I feel like I get unfairly neg'd....
 
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does anyone have a copy of witcher 3 in their inventory they wanna trade for? id like to use steam money to grab it. why did i not grab the goty edition when it was on sale ;_; ;_; ;_;
 
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xist said:
Much like everyone here I have a vast backlog of games in my Steam library, but many of those are games that I feel that I should have played, but missed out on the first time around. In order to balance things out a bit, I have played and finished GTA 3 and Assassin's Creed over the last 3 weeks. I really wish that I enjoyed both of these more.

GTA 3 hasn't aged poorly so much as been rendered completely obsolete by later games. The absence of a city map (I believe it was an insert in the original game packaging) and the lack of marker icons on your minimap make it immensely frustrating, the weapon targeting is rudimentary and the try and try again nature of some missions is just frustrating. Plus the plot was paper thin. I have only played San Andreas and the PSP games so I was not overly let down, and I can see how amazing it must have felt at the time but it's safe to say that I will never ever revisit it (or have fond memories of the experience).

Assassin's Creed was something that I really wanted to play despite being aware of how terrible people thought it was. For the first hour I thought it seemed great and that everyone was wrong.....now I'm done I can't believe that it even got a sequel. Perhaps if they'd have done all the missions in a city and then moved on things would have been better...then again given the nature of the gameplay perhaps not. I read the post about improving the experience which mainly involved ditching the map and location markers but in the interest of being done with the game I avoided doing that...>I can see how it might help but the overly repetitive nature of the game didn't make me want to stretch out the experience. I read that some people had issues with the instant death water sections in the docks, and was expecting problems, but ultimately had no issues at all due to the lock on jumping system. Aside from the repetitive tasks I think that my main issues were in the tail end of the game. The combat was shallow and being tasked to defeat hordes of fodder just got boring. Also, I persevered hoping for a revelation in the story.....how wrong I was.....I feel cheated out of a proper ending and annoyed that if anyone had actually put any effort into finishing it off I could have had the sense of closure I expected. Also the final bit with eagle vision in the real world was just plain unintuitive.

I probably enjoyed Assassin's Creed more than GTA3 in terms of gaming experience, but the bitter taste left from the whole package actually makes me loathe it a whole lot more. Next up I think I'm going to try Amnesia The Dark Descent. Are headphones mandatory for the experience?

Edit - I'm also really quite annoyed because I wrote a review for GTA3, which I tried to keep objective, but because it's a thumbs down and contradicts people's memories I feel like I get unfairly neg'd....
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Consider clearing shorter games in ur backlog
Maybe u have some indies you can clear that can be beaten in under 10 hours fo example
 
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I'm guessing it was known already, if not posted already, but I don't exactly follow shmups stuff so excuse me if that's the case. Just saw a Degica email that said they have Senko no Ronde 2 coming to Steam this Summer.
 
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gurm3n

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xist said:
Much like everyone here I have a vast backlog of games in my Steam library, but many of those are games that I feel that I should have played, but missed out on the first time around. In order to balance things out a bit, I have played and finished GTA 3 and Assassin's Creed over the last 3 weeks. I really wish that I enjoyed both of these more.

GTA 3 hasn't aged poorly so much as been rendered completely obsolete by later games. The absence of a city map (I believe it was an insert in the original game packaging) and the lack of marker icons on your minimap make it immensely frustrating, the weapon targeting is rudimentary and the try and try again nature of some missions is just frustrating. Plus the plot was paper thin. I have only played San Andreas and the PSP games so I was not overly let down, and I can see how amazing it must have felt at the time but it's safe to say that I will never ever revisit it (or have fond memories of the experience).

Assassin's Creed was something that I really wanted to play despite being aware of how terrible people thought it was. For the first hour I thought it seemed great and that everyone was wrong.....now I'm done I can't believe that it even got a sequel. Perhaps if they'd have done all the missions in a city and then moved on things would have been better...then again given the nature of the gameplay perhaps not. I read the post about improving the experience which mainly involved ditching the map and location markers but in the interest of being done with the game I avoided doing that...>I can see how it might help but the overly repetitive nature of the game didn't make me want to stretch out the experience. I read that some people had issues with the instant death water sections in the docks, and was expecting problems, but ultimately had no issues at all due to the lock on jumping system. Aside from the repetitive tasks I think that my main issues were in the tail end of the game. The combat was shallow and being tasked to defeat hordes of fodder just got boring. Also, I persevered hoping for a revelation in the story.....how wrong I was.....I feel cheated out of a proper ending and annoyed that if anyone had actually put any effort into finishing it off I could have had the sense of closure I expected. Also the final bit with eagle vision in the real world was just plain unintuitive.

I probably enjoyed Assassin's Creed more than GTA3 in terms of gaming experience, but the bitter taste left from the whole package actually makes me loathe it a whole lot more. Next up I think I'm going to try Amnesia The Dark Descent. Are headphones mandatory for the experience?

Edit - I'm also really quite annoyed because I wrote a review for GTA3, which I tried to keep objective, but because it's a thumbs down and contradicts people's memories I feel like I get unfairly neg'd....
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I believe it's hard to play such an old game, even more after playing one of its sequels. Back when it got released, I had a blast playing GTA3, but looking back, I agree with most things you say. I tried to grab it again a few months ago and it was really painful to play. I even encouraged a friend to play it, poor soul...
 
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Dio Brando said:
seeing both are platinum games, i can believe Nier still hasnt been patched because of SE.


• Fixed an issue with excessive Steam client CPU usage
• Fixed the MSAA option
• Fixed the “picture-in-picture” graphical issue in the ‘film strip’ cutscenes at certain resolutions
• Adjusted Steam Cloud implementation
• Fixed an issue with the jump control in some situations when using keyboard and mouse
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Nice, AMD users can enjoy Bayonetta with the MSAA fix now. I'm glad everything worked out for everyone.

Hopefully Vanquish doesn't have any problems on release.
 
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Jawmuncher said:
That trailer told me nothing
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Oh yeah, this was written in the email
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Hey, this is sort of a meta question and not really Steam related, but does anyone else read "JaseC" as Jayski, the guy from the Quad City DJ's? Like in the Space Jam theme when it says "It's your boy Jayski". Thanks.
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GrinningColossus said:
Hey, this is sort of a meta question and not really Steam related, but does anyone else read "JaseC" as Jayski, the guy from the Quad City DJ's? Like in the Space Jam theme when it says "It's your boy Jayski". Thanks.
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Nah, I always read it as Saoirse.
 
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Why would mods shut down this thread? It was amazing.

http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1375620&page=1

"I'm a writer." I can't play Alan Wake because he's a pretentious douche bag.


I know the plot twist of Alan Wake and I've only played the first couple hours. It must all take place up his ass because that's where Alan Wake lives. You mean to tell me all the people in this backwoods podunk town are fans of this writer? I'd be surprised if the lot of them have read a whole book between them in the last ten years. Yeah, sure, the girl in the diner is going to recognize the writer just by looking at him. She even has a cardboard cut out of him because yeah, that's a thing. I've got cardboard cutouts of Herman Melville, John Kennedy Toole, and Cormac McCarthy chilling in my bedroom right now.

And he's got a sicophantic agent who licks his balls like he's some sort of rock star. But he's just so annoyed by it all. He needs to go to the woods to take a break from all the public adoration he gets.

Fuck this guy, man
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xist said:
Edit - I'm also really quite annoyed because I wrote a review for GTA3, which I tried to keep objective, but because it's a thumbs down and contradicts people's memories I feel like I get unfairly neg'd....
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It's okay, i wrote bunch negative reviews on some old titles, always tried to be as much objective as possible, but people still thumbed down most of them, even for bad games, even when i clearly said in review that my negativity only because of technical problems and not gameplay itself. You're lucky that nobody insulted you in comments because of that review, i got several very unpleasant comments in my direction after some of my reviews. I rarely had civil discussions in review comment sections, just don't take it too seriously.
 
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Why would mods shut down this thread? It was amazing.

http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1375620&page=1
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I'll be honest, when I read that thread before the lock, it didn't strike me as a bannable type of deal.

The start of Heroine Anthem Zero is definitely average, in a low budget kind of way, but it still feels like its heart is in the right place. Lots of cliché in it too but nothing that bothers me, as I found them charming more than anything.
 
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