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STEAM | November 2014 - Ride of the Valkyries
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CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
Hmm. Well, how did you like Myst, Dear Esther, Gone Home, those sorts of things? It doesn't borrow exactly from those, but they are the closest analogues around. It takes a slow pace telling a little sad tale like Dear Esther, but without the art house script that people tend not to like. It borrows from the ideals of Myst burying the puzzles into the surroundings, only it follows more natural logic. Where have I seen this advertisement before, and did it have a year listed on it for when the brewery was established? Ding, puzzle. Will you be alright with a story that is personal like Gone Home's? It isn't in the same vein, but it is still peeking into someone's skull in a way that feels like you almost shouldn't be that close to their thoughts.
Depending on your appreciation or dislike for any of the above, that should probably dictate what you do for Ether One. If you found any one of the above things less to your liking, then I wouldn't blame you for deciding to skip out. If you want my more in-depth thoughts on everything, I wrote out a full review earlier in the year.
Or maybe this will help someone decide, by taking away their need to do so in the first place!
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Kiru
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Seriously one of my favorite mangas. The OVA was so disappointing... I guess when James Cameron gets around to actually shooting the movie adaptation he wanted to do a lot more people will get to know this gem. Dude still waits for CGI technology to advance... Also he is busy with his Avatar sequels first...
I'm aware that they're revenue-based, but they should be also based on a period of time.
They don't seem to be weekly or daily, as I saw it changing several times in the last couple of days (especially in the lower half of the top10).
So even disregarding the eventual glitches, I really can't figure out how they're calculating that chart.
VG247 did a comparison of digital game prices on the XB1 and PS4: http://www.vg247.com/2014/11/12/ps4-xbox-one-digital-higher-prices/
If someone wants to make a thread, go ahead.
If someone wants to make a thread, go ahead.
I'm somehow shocked to see Myst in the same sentence with Dear Esther and even more with Gone Home. I don't see those as anything alike (><)
they aren't really calculating or updating, it's simply auto summing up price of every copy bought to the pile as it goes in real time, perhaps?
Or I misunderstood you yet again!
edited: I probably should play Ether One already too, to see for myself. Too many games too little time.
they aren't really calculating or updating, it's simply auto summing up price of every copy bought to the pile as it goes in real time, perhaps?
Or I misunderstood you yet again!
edited: I probably should play Ether One already too, to see for myself. Too many games too little time.
NingenJanai
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Yeah, one is awesome and the other two are crap.
crazyrabbits
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Better late than never.
AHA-Lambda
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I didn't like it too much, ignoring the optional puzzles the game is really a giant fetch quest out to find those ribbons.
Also story I fe left something to be desired, the VO woman is repugnant and I can't tell if you're supposed to hate or sympathise with her frankly!
It has got a good twist at the end but it's all I can really praise it for.
What game is this?
Happy Cake Day Deques!
Reading a few opinion pieces and watching the recent Bombing with Scoops vid, while I appreciate the sentiments of these folks trying to get a review out for either critique or purchasing advice for their audience, sadly I think they are so far detached for the buying public. I don't think they are aware that a lot of people will buy the game regardless if you have a review up a week before, they will have it preordered months before any embargo terms are laid out, they will even ignore reviews that don't go along with the opinion they themselves have already made up about the game they have only seen in marketing either publisher direct or parroted by said outlets. That is what these guys and girls should be trying to change.
Ah good, good. Hopefully that translates into something similar my end with a slight resolution bump. Of course now I play the waiting game...
Edit: And checking the PC Perf thread there appears to be a GFE update with dedicated SLI bits now. So hopefully they scale better than what I've seen. Feels good not to be an unpaid beta tester for once
Reading a few opinion pieces and watching the recent Bombing with Scoops vid, while I appreciate the sentiments of these folks trying to get a review out for either critique or purchasing advice for their audience, sadly I think they are so far detached for the buying public. I don't think they are aware that a lot of people will buy the game regardless if you have a review up a week before, they will have it preordered months before any embargo terms are laid out, they will even ignore reviews that don't go along with the opinion they themselves have already made up about the game they have only seen in marketing either publisher direct or parroted by said outlets. That is what these guys and girls should be trying to change.
Ah good, good. Hopefully that translates into something similar my end with a slight resolution bump. Of course now I play the waiting game...
Edit: And checking the PC Perf thread there appears to be a GFE update with dedicated SLI bits now. So hopefully they scale better than what I've seen. Feels good not to be an unpaid beta tester for once
CheesecakeRecipe
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Myst is basically my favourite "point and click" saga, I played all of them, enjoyed them all (in fact Cyan Complete Pack was one of my firth purchase in Steam). Otherwise I didn't like so much Dear Esther and Gone Home. Thanks for the giveaway, I entered for it so I can discover more about Ether One in case I'll win
Also, guys, have fun:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=138499252&postcount=1867
Loved Myst and Riven myself, never got around to the others except fooling around on Uru Live. Good luck!
With the comparisons I was trying to draw from the major elements that Ether One is built from. There's no one single game that I can compare it to because of the structure of story vs puzzle, as well as the artistic design and the integration of vital information into the background. The puzzles being very much like the way Myst required you to pay attention to your surroundings with less obtuse mechanisms. In that way, it takes from Gone Home's style as well, since the puzzles there are based off of something that actually exists in reality.
It takes on a maudlin tone, hence the comparison to Dear Esther. The focus on art design reminds me of DE's as well, in some way I find difficult to explain. It's a very personal tale much like DE's was. But instead of a stage actor reciting victorian manuscript it's all told through the environment and the extra pieces of the story you earn through completing puzzles. And much like Dear Esther, you can treat Ether One as an A-to-B walk in the park (mostly, barring a few up-beat sections) and ignore most of the puzzles. Or you can spend your time trying to 100% an area, which can be pretty damn satisfying.
It's a weird hybrid that takes from a lot of games that I frequently see contested, while not 100% copying what those games did. It is weird. And wonderful.
You didn't misunderstand me, and you aren't now.
But, if they're summing up in real time, an hypotetical chart would basically put the most expensive game on top, or even worse, it would show a completely different chart every second.
Like, at this point it would mean that every "second" (or whatever the period is), for every single copy of ACU sold, there are more than 3 copies of VC sold, around 7 copies of Five Nights, around 12 copies of Enslaved sold, and so on.
And like, no copy of CoD AW sold at all.
I mean, it seems really really wrong.
lashman
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A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
I could never figure out how to play Myst as a child. I was a dumb kid.
I think they've gone about it wrong, though. They've made a new sub that includes the remake app, but what they need to do is pull the previous sub, add the remake to it, and then put up the new sub minus the remake. Simply pulling the existing sub and putting up the new one as-is won't retroactively grant the owners of the previous sub the base game.
Anywho, somebody bought one of my NASCAR '13 spares today and I used one of those keys to buy myself a copy of the current sub, so we'll see what happens.
ashecitism
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the shit that makes your soul burn slow
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
I think a lot of those puzzles were cruel to drop on kids, especially since both Myst and Riven were installed on school computers as well as being sold at book fairs. Riven especially got cruel at times.
Though I'd say the best/worst was my friend who was tone deaf. He couldn't activate the rocketship to travel to the Selenitic age because the puzzle required you to mimic a series of notes on a musical instrument.
Hopefully this means Steam keys will be sent out soon.
gameplay trailer
It's mean that you used a Steam Banner size picture here. Very mean...
Wow! I've never heard of this, but it looks astoundingly beautiful!
Wha! This has been in a bundle or something I missed?
lashman
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Wha! This has been in a bundle or something I missed?
It was pre-purchasable with a 33% early bird discount via the official site for yonks. The deal expired at some point within the past few months and consequently the discount dropped to 10%.
ashecitism
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yeah that was not cool lashman smh
Kiru
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Jiggly Boobs Physics Confirmed!Gold Rush Anniversary
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lashman
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Oh well then it's fine. I'm way too cheapass to buy games for a mere 33% off.
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
I'd like that.
I remember that. Ah, I felt like a genius doing that.
Everyone hating on Unity, and I'm just sitting here enjoying it alot lol, runs well on my PC and I didnt have any gameplay related bugs yet after ~10 hours. Guess I was fortunate that my PC Copy ended up working a day before the reviews, so I could go in without having read a different opinion that maybe would've influenced my view on the game.
There's a good game beneath the technical mess, imo. Might end up my favourite AC game, I really disliked AC3 and AC4 - and this feels alot more like AC2/Brotherhood so thats nice.
There's a good game beneath the technical mess, imo. Might end up my favourite AC game, I really disliked AC3 and AC4 - and this feels alot more like AC2/Brotherhood so thats nice.
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*laughs at the irony*
As a matter of fact, my Avatar isnt AC related at all. And my name? Yeah, man. Sucks that I've been sticking to the same Username for over 5 years now. Obviously means I'm a giant fanboy.
Edit: Might want to add that I'm not. I didnt enjoy any Assassin's Creed game except 2 and Brotherhood. Kinda disqualifies me from that, seeing as I dislike most games in the franchise.
Problem? I like it, so Ill keep using it for a bit longer. It's not that Halloween related anyways lol
Atraveller
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Oh yeah you're still wearing your Halloween avatar.
This looks super neat.
lashman
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ubi gonna ubi xD
Oh gosh this is hilarious.
It's likely because the service is down (at least in the UK), so it temporarily does this as a backup
lashman
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well - it does the same for me ... and I'm not in the UK
you must admit one thing, at least it's really funny
Fantastapotamus
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Seriously Ubi, what are you doing?
Same here.
So when everybody thought Ubisoft will pull all it's games from Steam, they actually were planning to close their own store? (Probably not)
well - it does the same for me ... and I'm not in the UK
Same here.
So when everybody thought Ubisoft will pull all it's games from Steam, they actually were planning to close their own store? (Probably not)
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