They ported the other mobile versions, pretty sure we'll see the game within the next 6-12 months.
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They ported the other mobile versions, pretty sure we'll see the game within the next 6-12 months.
Speaking of, the last game I tried to get some decent scores in (Iron Fisticle), some douche-hat hacked it and added himself to spot #1 with an impossible score. Every day for like a week, the devs would remove him and every day, he'd add himself back. Why would anyone spend their time doing this? In a completely irrelevant little indie shooter with a couple of hundred people on the leaderboard, no less.
WHY
That's so true, I'm now amazed I haven't thought of it before!
Chairmanchuck
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12 year old guy maybe.
Darth Kupi
Banned
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Probably just cause
"Man I can HACK this game, I'm so cool. Haha, "the man" can't stop me even if they try! I'll just hack the game again cause I'm such a super-awesome hacker!"
Yup, the battle speed put me off of the game. I'd like a Steam version with a speed boost so that I can play through it proper.
Atraveller
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Saw this gem in the comment section of RPS's Alien review:
I'm referring more to the disconnect between player and in-game character. Or something. Even though the controls are responsive, it doesn't actually feel like you're doing anything when you hit the buttons. Anything fun or purposed, at least.
PetriP-TNT
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hmm chance to upgrade my 100Mb connection to 350 and keep the same price or drop the 100 price to 10 euros a month. Decisions, decisions. Nevermind, the 100mbps is free for 6 months. Gimme.
Environmental Station Alpha on Greenlight looks pretty cool. Came across it when Olli Harjola (The Swapper) gave it a shout-out on Twitter.
Check the trailer for some pretty cool music. I have to say I have grown quite fond of that sort of "minimalistic" pixel art style.
it has to be mistake, you aren't really implying that there such prices exist somewhere.
It's really annoying. Defense Grid is one of the few score games I've actually tried to compete on leaderboards with, but when the top 100 are all impossible scores in the millions, there's not much of a point.
PetriP-TNT
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Fuck yeah Finland
Aww, I was hoping that it'd be a strategy game where I would run my own actual space terrarium.
The actual game does look sweet though.
That review never fails to make me laugh.
Wow, so 12 years after it was originally released, the criminally-overlooked Moonbase Commander just had cards released for it.
I only mention this because if anybody else out there has the game <listens for crickets>, I'd really love to get a match or two going.
I only mention this because if anybody else out there has the game <listens for crickets>, I'd really love to get a match or two going.
It's actually a bit deeper than that.
There were no proper video games in the Soviet Union (officially). When that monster thankfully fell in the early '90s, things started to change.
Historically, retail PC games were mostly localized and published in Russia by major local distributors like 1C, Buka and Akella who would buy the license from the actual publisher and handle the whole process (translation, testing, disc printing, distribution, etc) from that point onward. Those editions would feature very distinct, distributor-branded packaging and (almost always) a Russian-only version of the game (this is what the 1C-published edition of Mafia looked like, for example: http://ifolderlinks.ru/files/au40396/Mafia.jpeg, and this is Akella's Gothic II: http://psipsi.ru/images/Games/11/post_539.jpg).
In the very beginning, they sold those games in boxes for full (European) retail prices. However, by the start of the '00s the robust bootleg CD market became almost impossible to compete with in those conditions: every major city had dozens of places where you could buy any PC game for less than $10. Those games usually featured very poor machine translations, as well as bugs introduced by the lack of testing, but it was just that much cheaper. That's why the official distributors eventually had to settle down to lower their own prices to a similar range (it fluctuated over the years but never went over $10 from what I remember, taking exchange rates' fluctuations into the account), completely switching over to jewel cases in the process. The economy was booming during the following years and all the publishers were doing extremely well (apparently, their licence deals were cheap enough to still get significant profits from selling games at those low prices), heavily investing into local gaming industry. This was the time when dozens of horrible games that never saw a Western release were made, and then there was also a considerable number of actually interesting and innovative games (you might remember Nival Interactive who developed such games as Evil Island, Etherlords, Silent Storm, Blitzkrieg, HoMM V and more or some other releases like Space Rangers, the ever-elusive Sea Dogs game and its plethora of sequels with different names, the Space Rangers series, the Men of War series and more, most of these games are still on Steam). Then the financial crisis of 2007-2008 happened and most of that basically ended: the publishers lost a lot of money and a lot of developers went on to make cheap social/mobile games which fierst became viable at that point and gave them much higher return of their investments. The prices slowly went up (also being influenced by inflation and currency exchange rates) and stayed slightly below the current Steam price level, and the bootleg scene completely went out of business with the advent of high speed Internet access everywhere (ISPs in Russia typically offered their own torrent trackers with unlimited bandwith for their clients, back when bandwith limits still weren't almost nonexistent like they are today).
Then Steam became relevant. It had the same prices as the US until Fall 2011, when the switch to regional prices occurred and everyone in this thread knows the rest of the story. It's not that the people can't pay full retail prices for PC in Russia: they can and indeed do it (Steam was doing well here even before the RUR switch occurred and you much also know that the console games are typically more expensive here than the US or even Europe), but they just have a very good historical reason not to: they've been paying much less for those games for over a decade.
And this, kids, is why you can get cheap Steam games from people with names like Igor and Sergey living a cold and depressing place named Russia.
EDIT: Haha, the first post on the page (50 ppp people unite).
Stallion Free
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Damn, Alien: Isolation made me audibly gasp 3 times in one level. Great fucking sound design and tension building.
Stallion Free
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Yep, seems so. The store page has a regular purchase button.
Atraveller
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It makes the worn down sci-fi settings feel real, CA has done a great job.
Robert J. Sullivan
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here is a completely shitty webm that i made
on the plus side it's only 8mb for 2m of video with sound
on the other hand quality a shit
i really wish there was a proper webm tutorial that explains how to balance file size with quality
on the plus side it's only 8mb for 2m of video with sound
on the other hand quality a shit
i really wish there was a proper webm tutorial that explains how to balance file size with quality
Do you have the Full Dynamic Range ticked? It doesn't matter if it was speakers or headphones, it's like I was in the freakin' Alien film. CA nailed the presentation.
Man 50% seems like a lame discount for people who own the original.
Are the visual improvements worth it if you own all the DLC for the original and haven't played?
Stallion Free
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Yeah, I'm on full dynamic range with a set of Bose speakers. Setting off the emergency protocol thingie in mission 6 was audio heaven.
Krusenstern
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Very interesting insight. Thank you man.
Internet connections are dirt cheap in Finland, in urban regions anyway. That's just about the only cheap thing we have. I've had this 100/10Mbit connection for couple of years now, at 20.22 euros a month. Not shared bandwidth with others or any crap like that and decent latency at less than 10ms within Finland.
I guess the other cheap-ish thing we have is mobile phone plans. My mobile phone plan includes unlimited (although speed restricted) data and has a total cost of 2 euros a month no matter how much data I move (+obviously calling/texts have separate costs because otherwise 2 euros a month would be ridiculous but as I don't call that often, suits me fine).
Fare Godmace
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Saw this too, and I think it looks pretty great. Hoping they come out relatively soon.
YianGaruga
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I love reading stuff like this. Thank you
The slow speed is actually a bug on the battle speed options.
FF9 would do well with a steam release
SteveWinwood
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I lived in Ukraine for a few years in my childhood and I still have so many random bootleg games that my dad bought me off random tents on street corners.
There was a whole outdoor market and there was always this one table where the dude only sold flight sims with black and white photocopied paper covers and then random cuts of cow head. No joke. It was just a table filled with cd cases of f-22 raptor and then above it was a bunch of cow heads on hooks leaking.
Yeah, the pre-purchase discount had an expiry date of the 8th. The 50% loyalty discount lasts another few weeks.
Seems like a neat project! Funny thing with Kickstarter is that just yesterday I thought about backing a few projects but then I realized that I have backed three projects and regret all of them so I have no more of these thoughts. Still I'm excited to see how this game turns out. Mojo Bones' last game on 3DS was well regarded (Siesta Fiesta).
VG247 and Bundle Stars are giving away 500,000 Steam keys for open-world racing game Crash Time 2.
http://www.vg247.com/2014/10/08/free-pc-games-1-million-giveaway/
http://www.vg247.com/2014/10/08/free-pc-games-1-million-giveaway/
Widdly Scuds
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After almost 2 years on Steam I just bought my first game with keys- I feel so savy.
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you should warn it's facebook!
oh wait, I have it already
still, facebook warning must be issued every time
PetriP-TNT
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Sonera Valokuitu? My household has a free Sonera 2mbit which now turns to free 10mbit DNA one, but I couldn't upgrade after all because I am stuck with the Sonera one for 11 more months
This is really true.
I mean, Polish game companies seem to be the current indie darlings (and for a very good reason, considering standard production budget here), but Russian original output is massive and usually at the very least interesting (or, as often the case, interestingly broken).
It's like watching an animal family that was a result of a separate branch of evolution (hello Australia).
After almost 2 years on Steam I just bought my first game with keys- I feel so savy.
Good choice! Man, I can't wait for that game. So pumped.
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