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STEAM | November 2015 - Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty Never Changes
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LurkerPrime
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InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
I like it too but it also knocked it down from #2 of the year to me to #5 since I wasn't really too satisfied coming off the back of the previous episodes.
Jawmuncher
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So my sister has a pretty whack PC but I don't exactly have the money to get her a whole new one. However it works fine so I think a upgrade would suffice. Just need some help as to what exactly I could put in it.
Windows 10
Motherboard: Inspiron 530
Bios: Phoenix-awardBIOS v6.00PG
Processor: Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5700 @3.00GHz (2CPUs), ~3.0GHz
Memory: 3072MB Ram
GPU:AMD Radeon HD 5700 1GB
Was wondering what I could push the Processor, memory and GPU to.
She doesn't need anything too intensive but at least slightly better/faster then what she is getting with these specs.
Windows 10
Motherboard: Inspiron 530
Bios: Phoenix-awardBIOS v6.00PG
Processor: Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5700 @3.00GHz (2CPUs), ~3.0GHz
Memory: 3072MB Ram
GPU:AMD Radeon HD 5700 1GB
Was wondering what I could push the Processor, memory and GPU to.
She doesn't need anything too intensive but at least slightly better/faster then what she is getting with these specs.
It's not great. I had fun in a few stages, most of them were boring and a few of them even cringeworthy (at least to me), but I was starving for Tenchu. If you're missing Tenchu it's probably the "best" recent game you can find nowadays (tried a few of recent dumbed down Tenchu - they're terrible). Anyway I wouldn't suggest you to buy a 360 just for it; but if you're interested in Dead Rising and Tales of Vesperia (I don't think you're a Halo worshiper since you haven't the 360 yet), and maybe you'd like to be disappointed by Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon (at least I was very disappointed, especially by attack-it-with-fire!-browse-infinite-menu-items-to-do-it-and-please-don't-fall-asleep-by-this-great-mix-of-plot-and-characters-and-veiny-tits-with-poor-renders-of-great-Takehiko-Inoue-art-Lost Odyssey), you can consider it.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
For a long time I thought they were prepping web redemption and oAuth to serve as a replacement for issuing "keys" like they do now. Maybe they're still working on it, who knows. My guess is they gave up and said "oh well fuck it we're still making loads of cash". Cases like this might make publishers demand it of them though, although Madjoki mentioned that individual keys can be region locked now without the need for different subs, so that's a step in the right direction.
Instead of being issued a key and required to redeem it on Steam, they would simply have your account on file and issue the license to you directly to your Steam account for that game. If oAuth redemption took off though, it'd be easy for a publisher (say, Activision in the case of the BLOPS controversy) to revoke the Steam API access of a particular site like GMG.
Of course in practice this would also mean higher prices all around, so as LurkerPrime mentioned, it probably wouldn't be a solution we would all be on board for.
Hero Prinny
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Nah it was at that sation that is optional for the silver shroud quest. I got the power armor that was there that activated the robot, totally cought me off guard
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
building the flexibility into the api call is probably generally good as we start having more of these edge cases in the future.
They're being accused of not liking the sun.
I imagine Valve are up to something. Lets see what the new year brings :/
They're selling not authorized keys along with authorized keys, it's like bingo!
Lost Odyssey is for you, absolutely! The veinest veiny tits ever!!!
rainking187
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Don't really like this change. I expect to see a lot of Android games filling up $1 tiers like the current weekly. I don't have an Android device or any plans to buy one so I'm really not interested unless it includes a Steam key.
Jawmuncher
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Same here.
Humble keeps getting worse.
How much does a mobile bundle sell vs a weekly bundle on average?
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Leafhopper
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Why the fuck did I buy Fallout 4?
You fell into blind hype like a lot fools did.
LurkerPrime
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Dead.
crazyrabbits
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Let's be honest here. They were always a total non-starter. The last Mobile Bundle I saw that gained any traction was the Artifex Mundi one, and that was only because Steam keys got added.
StarlordDial
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Atraveller
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For 40 bucks, I rather get Overwatch which looked infinitely more interesting, Battlefront is pretty though.
Fuck no, and let publishers have complete price control with Steam currency and region lock?
Jawmuncher
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Might as well stick to console used games if that happened.
Empty Space
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Valve would probably move into monopoly territory doing that and they probably don't want the federal government stepping in to correct that stuff. I imagine it would put a lot of the weird pseudo-gambling nature of a lot of their F2P cosmetic stuff and the gray market involving high value cosmetics under scrutiny, which they really don't want.
jediyoshi
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And here I thought we might finally get the Fireworks stage
Isn't part of the reason for region-locking because people in western ("more well off" countries circumventing their own regional pricing in order to get the cheaper version in another country, that was specifically cheaper to match the currency valuation for the people that live there?
Seems to me that region locking is a result of two things:
- loss of revenue from users that circumvent their own regional pricing to benefit from other countries lower prices - cutting into the profits of said company.
- wanting to prevent such circumvention, but also keep the increased sales and user base from the countries that can only afford to buy their games at a cheaper price that is more suitable to the state of that country's currency.
The reason why region-locking is a bigger thing in digital products is because circumvention of local prices is so much more prevalent and ridiculously easy to do. Due to this, it's a net lose for everyone with region locking; harder to get reduced pricing if you are in a higher priced country, and a locked game or ridiculously priced or no release of a game if you happen to be in a lower valued currency territory.
Basically, you can't expect gaming to be region free when you undermine the ability for them to sell to other countries. Either they sell to other countries and some how no one is compelled to circumvent pricing, or they region-lock everything, or they don't sell games to those poorer economies.
Indeed.
That doesn't look too bad, though I suppose the newer ones have made less.
IG / Groupees (maybe even bundlestars) bundles can't be making even close to $200k per.
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Chance Hale
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Hero hunt mode is kind of funny. Was huddled together with a few people and all of a sudden someone got force choked and thrown out the room and everyone scattered.
Atraveller
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But for region lock to be justified, THE GAMES HAVE TO BE CHEAPER FIRST.
Ask how many people are happy with the new currency roll outs. I know I'm not.
Jawmuncher
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I hope someone helps you out man, you seem like a cool guy.
They could host a tournament and invite all of the major resellers, taking the souls of each one as they're eliminated.
jediyoshi
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When in doubt, throw an SSD in there. Boom, it's a new computer.
Enter the Dragon Punch
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Nah. Just bring them into a remodeled high school and make them kill eachother.
ussjtrunks
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Does blops 3's story continue from 1&2 or can it be played without playing the earlier titles?
freshVeggie
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Suddenly... dinosaurs. Kind of. If only there was a rusted ring in DS2. Water is killing me ( ._.)
But hey, at least the atmosphere and design is one of the best in the whole game. Love the adventure vibe ancient ruins ooze. This is what Lost Izalith should have been
A new SSD should do the job.
Kurt Russell
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It can be played without playing the earlier titles (there are some references to stuff that happened in BO2 but it's nothing really important)
Upgrading the processor and memory (to a newer generation, like, i3 or i5 or AMD equivalent) would give that machine a pretty good boost, but it's basically building a new computer (as you'd also need a new mobo)
As others said, an SSD will give it a nice performance boost for everyday use apps. The nice thing about getting an SSD is that you aren't wasting money in an upgrade that will die with that machine.
Atraveller
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Only the background world setting that barely matters, no character returned.
texhnolyze
Banned
What kind of games does she play regularly?
My brother had a pretty similar setup to play Dota 2, a core2duo cpu with hd 5770.
I think ram and gpu upgrade would be enough, that mobo is pretty limited in cpu options.
Totally agree, but that was not the state of things when they originally rolled out currencies for eastern Europe. It was only after they were exploited that games either became region locked, extortionately priced, or unavailable in those regions in larger numbers
Obviously there are some important, "traditional" exceptions, for example - even when using USD, Australia gets fucked up the arse on pricing. No idea why. That conversation with the Adobe CEO when repeatedly questioned about Australian excessive pricing vs other countries, is still one of the only videos / audio recordings that makes me so fucking livid every time.
Tektonic
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Yes. Although it is an antiquated concept. When the prime minister of australia is advocating the use of vpn's to get around geoblocking of content, and circumventing regional price gouging... we are in a different age
Jawmuncher
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Yeah seems a SSD would be a good idea. Just I know she likes to hold a ton of pictures so I have to see about that.
Telltale Fare, Life is Strange and The Sims. She mainly just uses photoshop.
uncredited male
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I have been on a Borderlands 2 co-op bender lately. The public community is...interesting.
Have not played Dark Souls in a while. I am going to suck when I start PVPing again.
Have not played Dark Souls in a while. I am going to suck when I start PVPing again.
Enter the Dragon Punch
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Picked up some beer. Time for Always Sunny and some Binding of Isaac, me thinks.
Tektonic
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Disappointingly no. It might as well have had a different title. Blops 1/2 were tied together in hilariously amazing ways and they didn't even bother to try that here. No mention of numbers at all.
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