ThirtyFour
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I visit the thread quite often I'm just a bit of a lurker mostly. Also I can be kinda tight with my money so i don't expect that number to shoot up at 24 games per week. I think that's a bit too optimistic!
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STEAM | October 2015 - You had me at "game ... comes to Steam".
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I visit the thread quite often I'm just a bit of a lurker mostly. Also I can be kinda tight with my money so i don't expect that number to shoot up at 24 games per week. I think that's a bit too optimistic!
Some games.
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Yeah, not feeling like investing in that early from what I have seen so far.
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That's so surprising that a veteran multiplayer developer of Dice's prestige would have something like that in one of their games.
Lol more like it would be a bigger surprise if they didn't have spawning clusterfucks like that.
Gipsy Danger
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Haven't they had similar issues in Battlefield? I know a lot of the CoD games have major issues with spawning. You would think the two biggest FPS franchises would be able to figure this stuff out.
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Atraveller
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The dropzone map plays like crap, chaotic like a CoD map but without the flow.
One team can spawn camp another team in BF when the skill gap is large enough, setting up capture-able thick armored heavy blaster behind spawn is entirely stupid
Give him a dapper hat or something else out of AssCreed.
GTA V is the game that I've been the most impressed with when it comes to worldbuilding. The attention to detail and the craft is unparalleled in my opinion. So I definitely think you should get it.
Aint got nuttin' on TW3.
And I also feel like the worldbuilding is a massive step back from the likes of San Andreas, atleast when it comes to actual interactivity with said world. It's just pretty damn empty compared to what it easily could've been.
They started the emphasis on a story in FPS' with HL1, and expanded heavily upon it in HL2. They surely didn't start the cinematic FPS genre, since they've focused on player agency and not taking the control away from the player instead of being cinematic and shooty-bang-bang. Having "interactable cutscenes" (Which, no, it's not cutscenes, it's just exposition within actual sections of gameplay, darn it!) or rather scripted NPC encounters with full player agency is the direct opposite of "cinematic" FPS'.
Wrong Leona.
Indiegamestand has anniversary daily deal
https://indiegamestand.com/deal/?ut...m_content=centerimage&utm_campaign=escapegoat
PWYW for Escape Goat (1$ for a steam key as usual), beat average ($1.81 now) to get two Soulcaster games (not on steam) and Escape Goat soundtrack.
edited: in other news if you are located in EU, IGS now requires your address, not sure how old this is, only noticed today. They kinda promise not to charge extra for VAT.
https://indiegamestand.com/deal/?ut...m_content=centerimage&utm_campaign=escapegoat
PWYW for Escape Goat (1$ for a steam key as usual), beat average ($1.81 now) to get two Soulcaster games (not on steam) and Escape Goat soundtrack.
edited: in other news if you are located in EU, IGS now requires your address, not sure how old this is, only noticed today. They kinda promise not to charge extra for VAT.
IF the Zestiria reward ends on 99% or below, I wonder how the fallout on GAF would play through. I imagine a lot of people blaming themselves for not reaching it while a few people here and there saying that it was all a ploy by Bamco to get the preorders but never fulfilling the final one.
They'll probably release Symphonia for $50 later too.
They'll probably release Symphonia for $50 later too.
I'm only 5 hours into TW3 so might be I change my mind. The thing that blew me away with GTA V was all the attention to small details. Sure might not have as much to do as in San Andreas but just the feel of the whole world was impressive.
Nice MG42 the imperials have there.
I believe the movies' prop dept. used modified ones as Imperial weapons, just to drive home the empire = Nazi theme
Atraveller
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It's also imbalanced as shit in the demo, if you have any other weapon, don't bother, you'll lose the gunfight every time.
Jawmuncher
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I enjoyed what I have played of it so far.
Jawmuncher
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Don't really get your comparison but to each their own. GTAV I thought was pretty fun and more than made up for GTAIV. Plus the movement is fine, it's just different from the standard since the want it weighted.
Not sorry for double post
Haunted
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I think I have finally identified why I could never get into Retro/Grade (a sad "indie dev with heart and passion risked everything to put out this quality product... and got punished hard" story) despite giving it several shots.
The music just fucking sucks. It's too slow, it's very chill, there is a certain rhythm but it's simply not engaging or exciting enough for a colourful space flight rhythm-based game. Maybe it should have had a custom soundtrack option like Beat Hazard, Audiosurf and Soundodger+.
The music just fucking sucks. It's too slow, it's very chill, there is a certain rhythm but it's simply not engaging or exciting enough for a colourful space flight rhythm-based game. Maybe it should have had a custom soundtrack option like Beat Hazard, Audiosurf and Soundodger+.
Jawmuncher
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First off if we're talking world building for a GTA game you should mention that 4 is where it took a dive. 5 brought it back, maybe not to what you wanted but far better than the previous game. Also with that said I don't think it's fair to compare a game which is supposed to represent "real life" to one which is fantasy. They're going for different things.
Sgt.Pepper
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Those fucking resident evil 5 cards are taking ages to drop.
Jawmuncher
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Those fucking resident evil 5 cards are taking ages to drop.
You're gonna be there for like 9-10 hours
I fully concur. It's not exactly the most direct nor logical comparison, although I do feel that TW3 has overall better world-building, but GTAV really did a lot of things much better than GTAIV, which is where it'd kind of gone to shit.
'Cept for the bowling ofcourse.
Sgt.Pepper
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TheLetdown
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Well, here's an open question to SteamGAF: instead of better or worse, which team do you think had it harder?
- Witcher 3: has the benefit of providing fantasy setting, which lends itself to leaps of imagination; had a somewhat sparse description of the cities and setting in the books; had to reconcile the easy pitfalls of standard fantasy worldbuilding
- GTA V: modern setting, so there's no end of reference material; opens itself to criticism from anyone with fingers or nubs of fingers to hit up Google Map; had to reconcile authentic urban development and what actually plays better
of course the Witcher, creating something from a scratch is always much harder and more time consuming than copying existing, not even a question.
edited: assuming we talk about the same level of detail, of course
Zesty is second bestselling game and we have more than a week to go, you can switch to 100% hype
I hope
That's only true if all you did were just the story missions and nothing else. If you got involved with all 3 characters Strangers and Freaks missions, Trevor's bounty, hunting and arms race missions, Michaels 'path to enlightenment' with Kifflom and sewage clean up missions, Franklin's repo missions and that weird dude who wants you to collect spaceship parts, Flight school trials, freaky triathlon lady and probably a fair few I've missed. Do them and you get to see pretty much all of the map various times.
Chirst in GTAV you can do down to the docks first thing in the morning, watch people turn up for work, see them doing their job operating cranes, moving shipping containers, getting on and off boats, watch them get in their car and follow them home if you want. Not quite as routine specific as say Red Dead but you see the world carries on quite happily without your interaction and input. Robberies and shoot outs happen as do car accidents without you stiring them up.
Leafhopper
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If you actually play them then you are a better man for it.
I think i did all of those Strangers & Freaks missions and many other but still i felt that map is not used properly. But i guess that is the issue when you do OW game in urban setting. Potential on every corner but very little of that potential is realized.
texhnolyze
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If only you can actually enter every single (or at least most) buildings in GTAV, it'll be the best open world game ever. But no, you can't, and it's totally killing my immersion. There's also only a handful of houses/apartements that you can buy.
I'd hardly say the car accidents are a good thing. They happen constantly, it's so often it becomes comical. I played the trite tennis minigame for a few minutes, and could see cars crashing into eachother with less than a minute inbetween just over the side of the fence. >_<'
I will!
Ban Puncher
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Zestiria is $70 USD on Steam here.
That's about $100 spider bux.
Sorry SteamGAF but I can't.
That's about $100 spider bux.
Sorry SteamGAF but I can't.
freshVeggie
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Yup, spawned many times right next to an enemy and vice versa. Pretty stupid oversight. They can not be not aware of this issue, so it'll be fixed imo.
Another stupid thing about spawns is that sometimes enemies get spawned behind you when in Walker mode there is a clear direction towards progress. Really got on my nerves when people got me from behind.
This looks interesting.
It's actually cheaper in Norway, you might wanna reconsider
I wish I knew before buying
Good thing things on Steam can be bought as a gift and you can get it from someone who sells it for cheaper
Ban Puncher
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Good thing things on Steam can be bought as a gift and you can get it from someone who sells it for cheaper
You're offering to gift me a copy?
Shucks, that's mighty generous of you Bernardo.
You forgot one.
It is honestly a good game. This coming from some one who didn't like San Andreas. World feels alive. Online is great if you have friends. Can't believe how much time I put in it. I am a person that has reach a point in my life that if the game can't hold me I drop it like a sack of potatoes, like Saints Row.
And this TW3 vs GTAV world is like apples to oranges.
MMBosstones86
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Maybe it's the whole based on reality thing, but I thought GTA5 had a more interesting world than W3. Not that W3's world was bad, there is just a lot of emptiness between small settlements. Still had a blast exploring it though.
ThirtyFour
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Not really...I guess in that respect I'm following the example you guys set in this thread
I normally just gravitate to one or two to play.
Tizoc
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Find a nude image of the blonde waifu Japan raged over and cover her naughty bits with our avatars :3
Anyone else have some hard to explain prejudice towards RPG Maker games? I don't know how to express it - the moment I see "RPG Maker" in the tags, I immediately think the game (a) is going to lack visuals, and (b) will try to be proud of that and will try to compensate with some pretense at "depth". I didn't even play any RPG Maker games, so that's somewhat irrational - am I missing much by automatically excluding these games from even being considered?
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