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STEAM | October 2014 - Proper PC gamers buy a Wii U and Bayonetta 2

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Dr Dogg

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Yeah it's not super deep or anything but it's certainly a lot more engaging than the MS conference demo made it appear.

Well it did look like the game played itself and considering it was first off a Kinect game it certainly seems a lot more interactive. Saying that I get the feeling once you've played a couple of hours of it that's pretty much the game mechanics laid out so you better like them or the vuury purddy environments. But I'm a fickle person so that's just fine and dandy for me.
 

dani_dc

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Looks like The Evil Within embargo is up? 8/10 from Videogamer.com

EDIT: Oh maybe I should have read the first few lines:

Note: the embargo for media that received The Evil Within from Bethesda is on October 14th, the day of release. As Bethesda declined to send us a review copy of the game (presumably due to the score we gave Wolfenstein: The New Order) we bought our own copy. As such said embargo does not apply, hence why the review is live now.

Embargos are awful and anti-consumer. Good on them for doing this.
 

Divius

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Is there any way to skip to idling a next game using Idle Master? I've been idling a game for hours and got nothing yet.
 

didamangi

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Man hopefully there's an option to change the aspect ratio (or remove the black bars?) for The Evil Within, really dislike playing with that huge black bars on my 16:9 monitor. Will wait for the port report before picking it up since the preorder bonus is pretty bad anyway.

Damn it >_<

You can buy a pretty cheap usb wifi adapter, like this one.
 

Anteater

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I wish Steam Overlay worked for me, so I could take some screenshots as well. Does anyone know a fix for this? Works in other games =/

weird, it works for me, i'm just using gedosato though since it's working now but you need to go through the trouble of copy and pasting them to the steam screenshots folder with the right file name.
 

dex3108

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Embargos are awful and anti-consumer. Good on them for doing this.

Only if embargo date is on release date. Even then they are not anti-consumer because you always have choice to not pre-order game. Embargo is there so there is no advantage for one journalist over the other.
 

Monooboe

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I'd imagine the fact that the uruk who killed you gets a promotion out of it is probably a factor. Personally, I channel that frustration into immediately getting revenge on the person who killed me, except occasionally when I let the rivalry fester for a while, and let the uruk think he's bested me, before I swoop in and cut his head off.

I used to do that but now I'm trying to do most of the sidemissions and dying on one of those just is a pain to redo them and the thing is that they aren't even hard, mostly one dies when a captain just happen to walk into the fight or when I just get careless because I'm trying to hurry thru the mission.
 

Phawx

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Send a PM to ModBot with the subject My Loot (what you put in the body doesn't matter). At the bottom of the PM ModBot spits back you'll see something like this:



If have 25 or more eligible giveaways, you're golden.

You have given away 83 games. (83 eligible for 'givers only' rules.)

I did my full loot, is there any way to see when games that were eligible for 'givers only' will go away?
 

Dr Dogg

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ff13 looks so good
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No... Way??? I just took a screenshot about 10 mins ago in the same place!

 

Grief.exe

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Looks like The Evil Within embargo is up? 8/10 from Videogamer.com

EDIT: Oh maybe I should have read the first few lines:

Note: the embargo for media that received The Evil Within from Bethesda is on October 14th, the day of release. As Bethesda declined to send us a review copy of the game (presumably due to the score we gave Wolfenstein: The New Order) we bought our own copy. As such said embargo does not apply, hence why the review is live now.

That's interesting.

Ended up the best case scenario for them as they are able to post that key first review and get the lion's share of the clicks.

I could see 20 base with 15 dollar preorder bonus or first week sale for GZ.

I was thinking along the same lines.
 

Asgaro

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I like your desktop theme.
It's basically like staring at a complete Super Hexagon playthrough compressed in a single frame.

(EDIT: the gray color in the picture you quoted actually looks bad, I know, but sadly I don't know if I can change that. Probably possible somewhere in WindowBlinds...)


This is the WindowBlinds skin I use: http://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds/7450/

Mind it's a paid for skin ("Master skin") but I find it to be worth it.

I customized it a bit: normally it's all black. And I found that to look a bit too dark in eg IDE's like Netbeans.
But I chose the light variant of the theme where some parts are white or gray, and also added some blur.
(This is all easily done via the WindowBlinds app itself.)

Default view:


My current view:



The only downside I have with using WindowBlinds in general, is that when I minimize and maximize Google Chrome it moves the window so a border becomes visible next to the taskbar and I have to move Chrome up again.

But it's the only program that does this. (It also happens on my laptop. Both are Windows 7 64 bits SP1.)
I assume it won't happen when the taskbar is in the normal horizontal stance.
And it could perhaps be related to the button in the title bar of Chrome next to the minimize/maximize/close buttons (that's titled "Asgaro" in the screen).



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Another great skin of the same skin author is this one. Though also paid for.

http://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds/7695/



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And finally a free one but that I also like greatly:

http://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds/6343/

 

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JaseC

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You have given away 83 games. (83 eligible for 'givers only' rules.)

I did my full loot, is there any way to see when games that were eligible for 'givers only' will go away?

Games that were claimed more than 90 days ago are not considered eligible.
 

tmarg

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You can by a wifi adapter and put it in one of the PCI slots on the motherboard if you really need wifi and don't want to spend too much for a built in one. Or some weird usb wifi adapter.

The one in my pc was only about $12, iirc. I can't see a reason not to go that route, unless you need all the slots for other things.
 

Shadownet

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thanks JaseC!

Can someone help me out? I don't have that much money left in the bank. GMG is selling The Evil Within with a 20% off coupon. Which bring the price down to $48. If you can help me buy it. I'll buy you a game or two on Steam that equal the price of what you paid ($48-50). Since I have some Steam Wallet money left. PM me if you think you can help me out. Thanks!
 

aku:jiki

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Are there any softwarez shitter than Geforce Experience. The utter slowness, always failing installer and ugliness on top of it all makes it practically unusable.
Oh, so that's a common thing? I haven't been using it for very long and this latest update just will not download... Been trying for days and the installer either immediately fails or freezes. WTF.
 

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Li Kao

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Mmh, can I annoy anyone just a little more ? :-x
I deactivated Liberation in-game vsync and planned to activate the thing at a driver level. But the nvidia control panel doesn't like noobs, it specifically said 'vsync ? no problem. Now choose one of these 4-5 options or GTFO."

The rude panel lets me choose :
Use the application 3d parameter
Activate
Deactivate
Adaptative
Adaptative (with half framerate)

What do I answer him ?
 

Dr Dogg

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Another day, another bunch of Final Fantasy XIII piccies

I wish Steam Overlay worked for me, so I could take some screenshots as well. Does anyone know a fix for this? Works in other games =/

It was a bit of a pain for me sometimes but alt tabbing away and back would sometimes fix it. It even locked up Afterburner's screenshot function. Durante's tool, GeDoSaTo is working with screenshots now if you are using that (which you should as it makes a pretty game look even prettier).
 

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Jesus I'm a wuss, I keep shitting myself when playing Legend of Grimrock. About 20 minutes into it, liking it so far, not played this type of RPG before, so it's rather interesting, kinda used to having a pause button though after all the Dragon Age Origins I played over the summer though, which has been fucking me over.

Also, the 'Nameless Things' challenge in Shadow of Mordor can go to hell.
 

Yakkue

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weird, it works for me, i'm just using gedosato though since it's working now but you need to go through the trouble of copy and pasting them to the steam screenshots folder with the right file name.


It was a bit of a pain for me sometimes but alt tabbing away and back would sometimes fix it. It even locked up Afterburner's screenshot function. Durante's tool, GeDoSaTo is working with screenshots now if you are using that (which you should as it makes a pretty game look even prettier).

Thanks a lot, works with GeDoSaTo!
 

Divius

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Lol luckily I sold a lot of the skins before I started losing too much. Lesson learned. I should just watch games for fun now.
Oh yes, me as well. I was selling all the lower value items on the market and building some wallet funds. I still have a few betting items left so I am trying to slowly build again :D
 

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XShagrath

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Wow borderlands is already coming out? I thought it came out in novemember or something. There's like no hype for that game. Personally I got burned out of borderlands like 3/4 into the 2nd game so I don't want the new one
Did it get pushed up? I thought I saw on Steam that it was the 17th, and now it's the 14th. I wonder what that means for my copy from Nuuvem? I probably won't get my key until Friday and all my friends will be way ahead of me and I won't be able to join in on the superior co-op experience then. :(
 
ATI's CCC.

I am starting to see a pattern here...

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Dr Dogg

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damn it now this screenshot isn't special anymore :(

Sorry :(

To be fair all the cutscene shots look special though. I've been resisting taking them as they're already framed for the spectacular so it's like cheating, but...

I might go nuts if Jim or someone hacks in a free cam.

Hmm, may I ask, what's the "light" thing on the left part of Lightning shoulder ? It's not present on Anteater shot. Motion blur ?

Oooh no idea? Might be becuase they are taken at slightly different times and that thing in the back is moving and fills the screen with light from it's eyes (well they're eyes to me).

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