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STEAM | November 2015 - Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty Never Changes
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http://www.pcinvasion.com/obsidians-north-carolina-project-re-purposed-and-signed-to-new-publisher
Obsidian announcing a new game in the next few months. #Hype.
Obsidian announcing a new game in the next few months. #Hype.
NingenJanai
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I bet the publisher is Paradox
bobnowhere
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Safe bet. They seem thrilled with PoE.
Wasn't NC some sort of card based RPG? I think that was the rumor. Though maybe the re-purposing is to make it a more traditional RPG.
texhnolyze
Banned
Omg, hype!
I wonder what will their next game be.
Love knows no boundaries.
Fallout 4: Albuquerque
toddhunter
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InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
It's been a while so I can only remember a bare bones list of things that made me drop it.
-Uninteresting characters
-Combat wasn't really engaging
-Choices felt paper thin most of the time to me.
-Didn't like traversing the land.
So basically I didn't really connect with anything which made it pretty boring to me and that's the worst thing a game can be to me which is why I hated the Tomb Raider reboot too.
Also thanks. o:
New Vegas addresses most of those. Well, half of those. Patrolling the Mojave might almost make you wish for a nuclear winter.
Steam says it unlocks in 14 hours, which is still Friday in some parts of the world.
maybe that's it, kinda odd though
YianGaruga
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Was that ever a fixed rule? Maybe Mangagamer just doesn't care! The game is out on their store already and they always do this weird staggered Steam release so that's probably the reason.
modders are going to have a field day.
I won't be satisfied until you can play a Fallout game inside of a Fallout game.
I always thought it's valve's rule, but maybe it isn't.
we need to go deeper
play fallout game where you can play fallout game where you can play fallout game
edited:
BTW, nobody posted it yet, I think
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth3 V Generation
Score rank: 99% Userscore: 98%
Owners: 25,206 ± 3,955
sales aren't even close to 2, not to mention 1.
edit2: it would be nice to know what IF thinks about steam sales, no?
edit3: while we are at it
Tales of Zestiria
Score rank: 79% Userscore: 91%
Owners: 90,743 ± 7,504
oh wow, 100k? Bamco must be happy
edit4: I can continue editing this post, it's totally not weird!
somebody kindly post something!
Posting more on gaming side is a tad eye opening. Apparently a game that has rendering stalls, even if only occasional is perfectly playable and a quick time event is defined by a button press even if that just so happens to be a central game mechanic without a prompt. Yeah...
Anywho Tomb Raider is the knees of the bee. Can definitely see where concessions have been made but that makes wanting to play it on my PC even more exciting.
To be fair games within games is something that happens rarely let alone previous entries in the series playable in a sequel. Day of the Tentacle stay winning.
Anywho Tomb Raider is the knees of the bee. Can definitely see where concessions have been made but that makes wanting to play it on my PC even more exciting.
To be fair games within games is something that happens rarely let alone previous entries in the series playable in a sequel. Day of the Tentacle stay winning.
Not seeing anything weird here.
Most of folks haven't finished the 1st game yet.
Also, 40% off instead of 50% off lost them some sales.
Also, Zestiria lost them some sales.
At least it sold better than SC.
Gaming side can be fun and werid
Are you waiting for the PC version to play it through or will you play it again? I am hovering over that buy button but then I have Battlefront coming up and still some games to finish. Plus a new graphic card was purchased so saving a little money is a good idea I guess...Chairmanchuck
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The game has been out for two weeks now and it didnt have a sale like 1+2 had (during the summer sale where they were like 8).
Besides that its the third game that is gameplaywise identical to the first two.
YianGaruga
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I get why, but sometimes I wish this thread had a bit less of an obsession with numbers and sales data
steamspy ruined everything
steamspy ruined everything
YianGaruga
Banned
yeah I know but at least it's easier to ignore sales threads on gaming side
Nep overload for me, I haven't finished 2 yet. With ToZ etc. I just couldn't justify picking 3 up. It'll have to wait.
SC is going to have to wait too. I can't mentally get myself through the last dungeon / boss of FC, soooo tedius...
texhnolyze
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Fallout 4 is a serious business.
It's a double-edged sword.
It's a nice thing to have, but also a tool for conflict.
It's a double-edged sword.
It's a nice thing to have, but also a tool for conflict.
Se7enSword
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It's still a discussion about steam, y'know.
SC is still the better game than all these combined!
Gaming side can be fun and werid
No chance on waiting for the PC version and at the rate I'm going I'll probably finish RotTR this weekend. I lost 5 hours playing it last night and about 12% on the in game progress tracker. It's more of an evolution of the previous game mechanically speaking. Though tombs have more than one puzzle, there are big tombs and smaller challenge tombs, which was biggest gripe with the past game. Resource gathering feeds into the crafting system now which has been expanded somewhat so you need more than just salvage to upgrade you gear and weaponry. This also make gathering stuff in the environment and hunting a lot more worth while this time. Which again feeds into exploration and the larger environments. There are still smaller areas which feed into larger open play spaces so set pieces and sight seeing kind of go hand in hand. Plus there's a raft of other modes in the Expedition side of the game which is geared towards replayability and challenges of the main content.
I had a trial kicking about for EA access so will probably have a look at Battlefront sometime this weekend too but the beta did more harm than good for me. Hopefully there's some other modes or maps that grab me but it's nice to have 10 hours and the full game to have a proper look. Who'd have thought EA would do something pretty sweet!
YianGaruga
Banned
I thought so at first, but the only thing it's used for here is "x sold less than y, it's a bomba", without any context or analysis.
Sure! Just saying it often overtakes much of the conversation without actually contributing anything meaningful. I like sales analysis, but that takes more than just posting numbers for three games and saying they're failures.
Tektonic
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Chairmanchuck
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The Fallout 4 "why isnt that criticised" thread is great.
I enjoy the game, but damn. Its the same janky, buggy Bethesda experience as always. And then people there saying "Its not buggy at all."...
I enjoy the game, but damn. Its the same janky, buggy Bethesda experience as always. And then people there saying "Its not buggy at all."...
I can live with janky-ness. I can not live with shallow RPG mechanics in what is supposed to be a RPG with choices and an engaging story.
Jankiness can be endearing at times but if a game is so twisted in its systems creaking under one another that through no fault of your own it blocks your progress, eats your save, items in your inventory, storage or in Fallout 4's case even your companions disappear into the ether never to be seen again, then it can certainly become more frustrating than fun no matter how good the rest of the game is.
SC is still the better game than all these combined!
It is.
That's the problem with Steam.
Boobs > Quality of game.
Compare, say, how much Sakura games sold vs infinitely superior Higurashi.
NingenJanai
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GOTY, 11/10, now with extra jankiness.
I'm not sure it's problem only with steam
IMHO Trails is so much better than any Bethesda RPG, it's not even funny
I mean Beth developed, of course
lashman
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Chairmanchuck
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But isnt that actually "normal" with western anime-fans. I mean I have been in the "scene" for like 15 years now, collecting manga, watching anime etc. and it seems the ones with fanservice/moe are always selling better/are more popular than lets say the more serious/mature ones.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
I think jankiness can be forgiven for other areas of ambition, it can be charming, and some games for better or worse can actually be better because of the jankiness.
Jankiness is such a hard thing to describe, you know it when you feel it in a game, but to word it is hard, there's not a single type of jankiness, but many, something that doesn't feel exactly fluid or perfect or polished. But can benefit some games in an odd way, or can be easily overlooked if other elements make up for it.
But it can also detract if it feels to contrast with what the game is trying to be. If a game is a hammy B-game which is somewhat ambitious in areas but maybe doesn't have some big budget but makes up for it in creativity, I think the jank can be part of the overall charm of the game. If it's trying to follow popular trends and compete in a market and is more, "Been there, done that," territory, the jankiness can stick out more as a negative point.
Of course, this is also all subjective like what we find funny or scary, I think different people have different tolerance levels, or even desired jankiness, to their games.
Jankiness is such a hard thing to describe, you know it when you feel it in a game, but to word it is hard, there's not a single type of jankiness, but many, something that doesn't feel exactly fluid or perfect or polished. But can benefit some games in an odd way, or can be easily overlooked if other elements make up for it.
But it can also detract if it feels to contrast with what the game is trying to be. If a game is a hammy B-game which is somewhat ambitious in areas but maybe doesn't have some big budget but makes up for it in creativity, I think the jank can be part of the overall charm of the game. If it's trying to follow popular trends and compete in a market and is more, "Been there, done that," territory, the jankiness can stick out more as a negative point.
Of course, this is also all subjective like what we find funny or scary, I think different people have different tolerance levels, or even desired jankiness, to their games.
Chairmanchuck
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Seriously...
How come they thought its a good decision to do that shit after the last uproar.
Indeed. State of Decay is incredibly janky and it's one of the best zombie/survival game I ever played. So good.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
The new people in charge of Overkill are idiots, apparently. Keep in mind the heads at Overkill now are not the heads of when PayDay 2 was released.
PetriP-TNT
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Someone said on the FFVII-SSB reaction thread that you can clearly see who has played FFVII when it came out and who has not, which lead me to realize that there is an substantial group of people on GAF that weren't alive when FFVII came out initially.
Is this what being old feels like? I am only in my late twenties for christs sake
Is this what being old feels like? I am only in my late twenties for christs sake
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