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[Jawmuncher]

Nah, I'm fine. My laptop can run Dolphin in theory, but it's still not 100% smooth, so I'd rather not do it. Besides, the Wii games look good enough on my TV. I wish I could get a separate SDTV for older consoles, but I don't have the room for that.

Makes sense then. There's a few game that I prefer to play on my TV still over emulator such as RE Outbreak. Would be cool if I still had a SDTV around as well. But them being so heavy was horrible.

Probably both.

First Turfster's hand, and now this? We're starting to look like the walking wounded here.

Time to go play Kinect.

I think the mouse is just too small. I have a weird habit of putting my pinky on the mouse at a angle rather than resting it on the side.

I cut myself several months as well, it was not pretty (Blood warning).

The vampires had a feast.

 

[bestpersonevar]

https://github.com/jshackles/idle_master

Not a accelerator.
But allows you to idle the game while asleep or anytime you don't want to play something on steam. Thus this way you can come back to seeing cards.
You won't get banned for this and it really helps out a lot if you have a large amount to idle.

wow, this program seems great. thanks.

 

[Tellaerin]

I cut myself several months as well, it was not pretty (Blood warning).

Yikes. (And now I'm waiting for someone to point to this stuff as evidence that using keyboard and mouse leads to gruesome hand injuries, and that this is why consoles will always be the better choice, etc. etc. etc. )

 

[poopninjamvc3mk]

Ultra patch released...still trash

 

[Boss Doggie]

Grimrock 2!!!

 

[Shadownet]

First Turfster's hand, and now this? We're starting to look like the walking wounded here.

Tell me about it.

Also we're about a month away from Dragon Age Inquisition and 4 months away from Witcher 3!

 

[Tellaerin]

Grimrock 2!!!

Every time I see "Grimrock", I think of Grimlock from the Transformers. Now I want a game where you explore dungeons as a giant robot dinosaur. >.>

 

[BinaryPork2737]

How about a roommate Simulator/Visual Novel?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/317300/

Hmm, on the one hand, winter wolves. On the other hand, it's a visual novel. Will wait for it to be bundled/go on sale for 75% off.

 

[Tesseract]

Ultra patch released...still trash

no problems here

 

[InfiniteNine]

It's almost Halloween time so I'm wondering when Corpse Party is going to be released already or if they're going to miss releasing it in the horror season for a third time.

 

[Tenrius]

Hmm, on the one hand, winter wolves. On the other hand, it's a visual novel. Will wait for it to be bundled/go on sale for 75% off.

Check out Magical Diary while you're at it.

 

[JaseC]

Every time I see "Grimrock", I think of Grimlock from the Transformers. Now I want a game where you explore dungeons as a giant robot dinosaur. >.>

That's what mods are for.

 

[Jawmuncher]

Check out Magical Diary while you're at it.

Magical Diary was so good. Best $1 tier game I ever played.

It's almost Halloween time so I'm wondering when Corpse Party is going to be released already or if they're going to miss releasing it in the horror season for a third time.

Wouldn't surprise me if they missed the best chance to release it once again.

Every time I see "Grimrock", I think of Grimlock from the Transformers. Now I want a game where you explore dungeons as a giant robot dinosaur. >.>

Best part of T4

 

[Tenrius]

That's what mods are for.

That's like comparing actually being a giant robot dinosaur to playing a video game which features one.

 

[JaseC]

That's like comparing actually being a giant robot dinosaur to playing a video game which features one.

Beggars can't be choosers!

 

[someguyinahat]

Magical Diary was so good. Best $1 tier game I ever played.

Well it's by the same developer as Long Live the Queen. That's gotta count for something. $1 tier, huh? Too bad it's currently at $15.

 

[Tenrius]

Magical Diary was so good. Best $1 tier game I ever played.

I think I might have pre-ordered it, or maybe got at 50% off early on. It wasn't from a bundle, anyhow.

Beggars can't be choosers!

Giant robot dinosaurs most certainly can though.

 

[MQX]

Don't know if this was already posted, but meh .

SteamGAF. Tomorrow(October 16th. Thursday morning at 10AM Pacific). Payday: The Heist. Free. For 24 hours only.

 

[JaseC]

Giant robot dinosaurs most certainly can though.

They'll get what they're given and they'll like it.

 

[Miguel81]

How is this Batman Origins Blackgate? Reviews seem polarizing, is it the same with SteamGAF. It's cheap at Newegg atm.

 

[Fantastapotamus]

I hope fireaxis does XCOM EU 2 after Civ BE

Pretty sure the Civ team is not the Xcom team. At least the Xcom lead guy (forgot his name) is not working on Civ AFAIK. I think XCOM did pretty well, so I'm rather confident we'll see a sequel.

 

[BinaryPork2737]

Check out Magical Diary while you're at it.

I bought that humble bundle

Now I just need to actually get around to playing it.

 

[MMBosstones86]

bro gif

i love this gif so damn much. Really hope Better Call Saul delivers.

First Turfster's hand, and now this? We're starting to look like the walking wounded here.

Please don't talk about Turfs hand. I don't want those nightmare fuel gifs Rhaknar has to be posted again.

I cut myself several months as well, it was not pretty (Blood warning).

I think I'm secretly glad dropbox is blocked at work.

Also we're about a month away from Dragon Age Inquisition and 4 months away from Witcher 3!

my body is so ready. I'm on blackout for Inquisition for now and will probably play that the rest of the year. Moderately bummed I won't be able to play W3 at launch. No idea when I'll even be able to fire it up because

Spoiler

baby

 

[The_Super_Inframan]

So, why aren't more newer games using AMDs Mantle API?

I just tested the only two (as far as I know) "games" that support Mantle I own and that stuff is good!

(Sniper Elite everything on the highest option except for Super Sampling/Star Swarm Stress Test on Medium)

Are there any other games, besides BF4, that use Mantle?

 

[morningbus]

Anyone else get an unprovoked Gamersgate password reset email?

 

[JaseC]

Pretty sure the Civ team is not the Xcom team. At least the Xcom lead guy (forgot his name) is not working on Civ AFAIK. I think XCOM did pretty well, so I'm rather confident we'll see a sequel.

I don't think 2K has ever given out numbers, but there was this a few months following its release:

XCOM: Enemy Unknown, which was a bit of a bet considering it’s a turn-based strategy game, is “a commercial success” according to Zelnick. It produced particularly high digital sales, but Take-Two has yet to reveal sales numbers.

 

[MMBosstones86]

Mantle?

dafuq is Mantle?

 

[Shadownet]

i
my body is so ready. I'm on blackout for Inquisition for now and will probably play that the rest of the year. Moderately bummed I won't be able to play W3 at launch. No idea when I'll even be able to fire it up because

Spoiler

baby

Oh wow man you're expecting? or did I missed the big news already? Either way congratulation! Yeah I'm on media blackout for Dragon Age as well. I have no idea whats going on with the plot or who any of the new characters are. I saw one gameplay video earlier during the year and I'm tempted to buy it full price, day 1.

 

[Big_Al]

How is this Batman Origins Blackgate? Reviews seem polarizing, is it the same with SteamGAF. It's cheap at Newegg atm.

I played it for a few hours and ended up uninstalling it. Really disliked it, awful combat and traversal and I had very little fun with it tbh. If you get it at least pick it up cheap.

 

[JaseC]

So, why aren't more newer games using AMDs Mantle API?

For the same reason that only select games feature hardware-accelerated PhysX*: because it's proprietary.

* Technically, if you're on Team Red, you can use your CPU to achieve the same result... but doing so incurs a massive performance penalty.

Are there any other games, besides BF4, that use Mantle?

A handful. I don't think it'll take off more than it already has -- you'll notice that half of the games listed run on Frostbite.

 

[Hero Prinny]

You have a PC emulate it on Dolphin for the best experience.
Unless the "look" of it on the TV adds to the experience or your PC can't emulate.

where is that gif from?

 

[Rand6]

where is that gif from?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovqM72em1dA

 

[JaseC]

Mmh, is Volition releasing an enhanced edition for SR4?

http://it.ign.com/saints-row-gat-ou...ts-row-iv-gat-out-of-hell-arriva-con-un-po-di

I hope the patch will be free on PC, eventually.

It's a standalone expansion.

 

[Annubis]

I know, but the link says the game will be released WITH a modified version of SR4 on consolle.

Perhaps the game of the century edition?

 

[Jawmuncher]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovqM72em1dA

It's just about mandatory to put that link under the gif at this point.

 

[JaseC]

I know, but the link says the game will be released WITH a modified version of SR4 on consolle.

Oh, right, the "Re-elected" release. Volition hasn't said much regarding what will be different so I'll be a little surprised if it's even something akin to Sleeping Dogs: DE.

 

[Hero Prinny]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovqM72em1dA

haha that was really funny.

 

[Kurt Russell]

I think the Saints Row 4 rerelease is the same game we got, but on PS4/Xbone. At least that's what I understood from their press release when they announced it.

 

[Miguel81]

Game is not bad, but the level design is horrible. Basically you proceed, you stop because you don't know what you need to do, you backtrack all the way in the entrance of the area, you access a new zone from here.

I have a high tolerance for backtracking so maybe I'll just get it since it's cheap. If I start disliking it I'll just toss it aside.

 

[L.O.R.D]

just saw this game

wow, for a $0.99 game , that's a lot of features
and VAC ? for this game ?

 

[jshackles]

So I'm making some changes to how Enhanced Steam handles it's continuous scrolling feature to be a little more interactive and give the users an idea of whats happening.

When you scroll to the bottom of a search page (if you have continuous scrolling enabled) you'll now see this when Enhanced Steam is loading the next set of results:

Yes, this is animated!

This will be good especially for users who have a slow internet connection, who previously had no indication that Enhanced Steam was loading more results. If Enhanced Steam fails (for whatever reason) to get the next page of results, you'll now be presented with this error:

Pressing retry will try to load the next page of results again. This is good if maybe you get kicked offline (or Steam goes down) while you're trying to scroll through search results.

I tested this by loading the first few pages of results, then disabling my NIC completely to get the error message. I then re-enabled my NIC and pressed retry, and Enhanced Steam picked up right where I left off.

It's just a small thing (that most people won't even see but for a split second) but hopefully it'll help people troubleshoot and resolve issues like this in the future.

 

[legacyzero]

YAAAAAAY I get to play Evil Within tonight!

 

[The Dear Leader]

So, why aren't more newer games using AMDs Mantle API?

I just tested the only two (as far as I know) "games" that support Mantle I own and that stuff is good!

(Sniper Elite everything on the highest option except for Super Sampling/Star Swarm Stress Test on Medium)

Are there any other games, besides BF4, that use Mantle?

Battlefield 4
Battlefield Hardline
Thief
Star Citizen
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare
Civilization: Beyond Earth
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Mirror's Edge 2
Sniper Elite 3
Star Wars: Battlefront

That's all the ones that wikipedia says.

 

[PetriP-TNT]

Holy crap, I just noticed that I have a shitload of CS:GO cases that are actually worth something. I just made an euro in 6 seconds! Only if I had like million of those cases I would be moderately rich very fast

 

[Dr Dogg]

So, why aren't more newer games using AMDs Mantle API?

I just tested the only two (as far as I know) "games" that support Mantle I own and that stuff is good!

http://i.minus.com/iTeCfwPGAEYrz.png[IMG]
(Sniper Elite everything on the highest option except for Super Sampling/Star Swarm Stress Test on Medium)

Are there any other games, besides BF4, that use Mantle?[/QUOTE]

You could ask 'Why don't more devs use OpenGL' due to some calls being more efficient than D3D. Answer to both will be more than likely less knowledge and experience with the API libraries compared to everyone and their mums using D3D.

Other games I know of are [s]the Star Swarm benchmark[/s] which me being dopey just noticed you tested, Thief which gets a nice boost even on high end CPUs and I think Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare is set to get it latter on or might even be available now due to being Frostbite 3 based. Dragon Age Inquisition, Battlefield: Hardline and Mirrors Edge 2 might be worth keeping an eye on and I think both Civ Beyond Earth and Star Citizen have said they might look at support.

 

[Sendou]

Weird noises coming out of my PC (again) probably the fan dying (again). Part of the PC gaming I seriously don't love.

 

[Rhaknar]

streaming evil within chapter 4

 

[zkylon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovqM72em1dA

lol that was great

 

[opticalmace]

Battlefield 4
Battlefield Hardline
Thief
Star Citizen
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare
Civilization: Beyond Earth
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Mirror's Edge 2
Sniper Elite 3
Star Wars: Battlefront

That's all the ones that wikipedia says.

Is mantle something you have to turn on in a game?

 

[The Dear Leader]

Is mantle something you have to turn on in a game?

Yeah usually it's in the settings of a game, I know in BF4, Thief and SE3, you can just switch between DirectX and Mantle like any other graphics feature.