corrosivefrost
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I beg to differ.
I haven't even played CQ2, but I'm sure it's better than Transistor.
Transistor was a HUUUUGE letdown after the excellence of Bastion.
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STEAM | November 2014 - Ride of the Valkyries
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I beg to differ.
I haven't even played CQ2, but I'm sure it's better than Transistor.
Transistor was a HUUUUGE letdown after the excellence of Bastion.
and finished Advanced Warfare. Kept its quality throughout and its easily the best COD since 4. Strangely, it doesnt end on a cliffhanger, unlike Ghosts, and I fucking hope if either gets a actual sequel, its AW, because it has the much better characters, both Gideon and Ilora were great. If you like the COd campaigns at all, its highly recomended
(technical stuff like crashes bummed me out, but for me it was only on 1 level near the end, I dropped the game down to "optimal settings" and managed to finish the level, put it back to max stuff for the rest and it never crashed again so /shrug?)
(technical stuff like crashes bummed me out, but for me it was only on 1 level near the end, I dropped the game down to "optimal settings" and managed to finish the level, put it back to max stuff for the rest and it never crashed again so /shrug?)
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
I've liked the Ghostbusters game myself. It's pretty fan service-y but bustin ghosts has been pretty enjoyable.
corrosivefrost
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For me Transistor is the game of the year. It's fantastic in nearly everyway, and much better than Bastion.
I'd love to hear your thoughts though, if you wanted to share them? Why did you feel that Transistor was a letdown?
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
Bustin' makes me feel good.
My GF doesn't really pay attention to whatever im playing but she was totally into Ghosbusters. It's partly due to the original voicecast not half-assing their lines, but she was also into the surreal stuff that happens in the game. So, it's GF approved. Go get you a lucky partner and enjoy a good time with slimer and co.
and people in that PC performance thread are saying that Unity performs better than ACIV. Not sure if that should be taken seriously or not but ACIV was pretty damn janky on my 770.
Lol, it was 1$ inthat Humble Origin Bundle.
You are probably better off not knowing, they have showed some stuff in the trailers that I wish I didn't know yet.
PetriP-TNT
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Big day today as an important AAA-title finally releases
I am of course talking about A
I am of course talking about A
game called Valkyria Chronicles
I enjoyed Bastion for the style, story, and feel of the game. I thought Transistor was a far superior game.
Jawmuncher
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21 Hours is too far away.
LurkerPrime
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Yes... "today."
PetriP-TNT
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lashman
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Well, in the next 24 hours, it might night very soon here
weeeeeeeeeeell ...
Jawmuncher
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corrosivefrost
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Narration
Supergiant seems to want to continue this "telling a story through one person's point of view and actions" that they started with the Narrator concept in Bastion. And while I could see that people might get annoyed by the narrator's voice or style in Bastion, I liked him and felt like I was actually being told a story.
With Transistor, not only is the story lacking (IMO, I guess?), but the method of delivery through one sided conversation had more than worn out it's welcome by the end of the game. Listening to the sword drone on and on did nothing less than annoy me and make me wish he would shut up already because he wasn't adding anything to the story.
Story
As I said above, the story in Transistor is something I found to be lacking compared to Bastion; the removal of a choice, the NG+ not being tied in as nicely, etc. I did like how the abilities were characters and it was both a positive and a negative that you had to continually use the abilities to unlock the full story on them... but in the end, I much preferred everything in Bastion in terms of story and delivery to Transistor.
Gameplay
Transistor borrows heavily from Bastion in that it works pretty much the same way -- you have a bunch of abilities you gain and can equip, you can upgrade them throughout the story, and you can get mutators to make the combat more challenging. However, Bastion's strength was the variety of the different weapons, from the machete to the spear to the rifle to pistols to RPG, etc. Transistor is kind of limited in that everything must stem from the sword, so the variety is already not as complex... but my main problem was that I wanted to play the game as an ARPG, much like Bastion was and in my experience the game just doesn't WORK when you ignore the turn based aspects of the game. I've tried a variety of skills and such to make it work, but there's just something off about trying that way and I don't feel like it works. For me, it's kind of like VATS in Fallout 3/Fallout NV; you could try to play the game without ever using those, but the game wasn't designed to be a FPS -- a lot of aspects of the game sort of rely on making use of the VATS system, even if it's mostly just a "pause the action and try to get a headshot because the main design focus of this game wasn't centered around FPS gameplay".
The main plus for Transistor was the art and the music... and while those are preferences based on personal taste and extremely subjective in nature, I found both of those to be lacking in comparison to Bastion as well.
For me, Transistor is an average game that would be fine on it's own, but after the wait for something new from Supergiant after the brilliance of Bastion, it's a giant letdown.
I actually played through NG+ purely as an ARPG without using the planning phase. I ended up enjoying the game significantly more that way.
Well yes, but I wanted to know if you can redeem the code from Origin on Uplay. SO I can skip Origin completely.
weeeeeeeeeeell ...
It's kinda sweet. He was the original OT topic creator way back when. Out of the three games mentioned on the petition, it was probably the least expected to be released first(or ever). Now it's here, and skilled dude gets it before most.
Kurt Russell
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It's already the 11th in half the world, Sega please
lashman
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Jawmuncher
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It's already the 11th in half the world, Sega please
Sucks its based off the default EST time.
Wish it was like Alien Isolation where we all got that early.
Robert J. Sullivan
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I though that spoiler was going to be A
licia Rush the video game
Really enjoyed Mission 14
where you only have use of 1 arm so you gotta go around and be swapping guns from whoever you kill. And of course the whole final mission where you just wreck shit with no worries in an AST
Jawmuncher
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I played both. Transistor is way better than Costume Quest 2.
Has anybody played Merchants of Kaidan? It caught my eye, as I used to love playing those Tradewinds games back in the day.
Kurt Russell
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Yeah, being that Sega released Isolation early I had hopes that we'd get VC early too. Too bad.
LurkerPrime
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abracadaver
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he's already been playing it for like a week now
Heh, probably better than Valkyria Khronicles.
Just is case people missed it, his VC OT was pretty sweet.
corrosivefrost
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I don't believe you.
Unless CQ2 is an utter pile of shit, there's no way this is possible.
CQ2 should be average in the least, but good to great at best.
Transistor is average at best.
great/good >= CQ2 >= average >= Transistor
If you're talking for ACU or Farcry 4 and you want to get it cheap, are okay with it not being on Steam, why don't you camp the B/S/T thread and see if you can buy a code from the nVidia promotion? I'm sure it's probably cheaper than you can get it from Origin India.
This does look interesting, but my wishlist is already huge!
It would be nice if someone who plays a game told us if issues are fixed and how is gameplay.
Mavromatis
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Wasn't this 49 an hour ago?
Mr. Luchador
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Wasn't this 49 an hour ago?
Yup.
well...every one is preloading something
i just hope they add this soon
unlike Evolve , there is now properties menu when you right click to the game in the list
Hero Prinny
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well if its anything like the uplay required games on steam then yea you should.
xBladeM6x
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These digital oceans are killing me.
Durante being on VC isn't fair, the AC:U pre-load is huge (37 GB), and apparently we're turning into StonerGAF again with these hallucinogenic gifs. Lol
I'm okay witht his.
Jawmuncher
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Just bought Dragon Age Inquistion with Mexico Origin.
42.69 is good, just wanted it to be cheaper than 45 bucks.
42.69 is good, just wanted it to be cheaper than 45 bucks.
With a 1GB HDD space requirement you're looking at a ~900MB download at the absolute most, anyway.
too good to be true?
Hero Prinny
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is jshackles planning on re adding the feature to hide free to play games? cause I'm sick and tired of my front page being littered with f2p games that steam keeps recommending to me. no steam, I don't want to play them. I don't care if they're free to download. stop it.
TheLetdown
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Not only does it fit the bill, it gets so much better from where you left off.
Symphonia and Vesperia on Steam would be hallucinogenic.gif
1 GB ?
lol , i read it 10 GB
my download speed sucks , that's why i wanted the preload when i thought it was 10 GB
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