Oh shiiitt. I saw the pic and assumed it was the old one about Phantom Menace. I will need to go watch this now.
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STEAM | October 2016 - A month where 100 games launch rather than coming out earlier
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Oh shiiitt. I saw the pic and assumed it was the old one about Phantom Menace. I will need to go watch this now.
Crimsonclaw111
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Something spooky for the October bundle. The Evil Within? Lol nah.
BoosterDuck
Banned
Something spooky? it's probably a tecmo game
hardcastlemccormick
Banned
Yeah I'm never getting Humble Monthly (or any mystery bundle) again. They'd have to have years of solid games for me to trust them.
Speaking of, DOA5 Core Fighters later today. I know the port is bad, but free is free, I guess.
Jawmuncher
Member
If it is the evil within, I hope it has the DLC with it.
sixteen-bit
Member
Yeah, I'll definitely give it a try. With Tekken and DOA on Steam, I hope VF is next.
the_firewithin
Member
so i updated my windows today and now when i try playing Batman AA i only get like 20 or below fps?
coincidence?
coincidence?
Ill take this as a yes then >_>
Nomadic Sparks
Banned
Have been meaning to buy this for so damn long.
I think there needs to be an Official Thread for this game
someguyinahat
Member
I haven't done this in a while, so please be gentle...impressions for Sacra Terra: Angelic Night:
The story: You play a nameless dude - oh wait, not technically true, you choose your name at the beginning and it just uses that, because you see your name in a logbook - who wakes up in a hospital for reasons that aren't fully explained, and you aren't sure where you are. It's implied it's a mental hospital but contains rooms that make it look like a regular hospital...so who knows. You then discover that the hospital's three eminent doctors/psychologists invoked a ritual to summon demons, apparently for fun. So your job is to banish the seven demons (based on the seven deadly sins) and help the head doctor's dead daughter who's now an angel (and every time she shows up, she's accompanied by these whispering echoes that say "Angel, angel, angel..." which is really weird for several reasons.) Even overlooking the lapses in both research and catechism, the game is basically half a story. I was hoping the bonus chapter would shed some light on how you were brought there and what exactly is going on, but it's a "two days earlier" segment, where you....wake up in the same hospital. So the main chapter means he has no memory of the past few days. It raises more questions than it answers. The ending doesn't help either: Spoilers!
When you learn in the bonus chapter where exactly the hospital is, the ending becomes even less satisfying. Poorly thought out from beginning to end.
There was a subplot about how Angel died. You find evidence such as written confessions all over the place, and they're so blatant you'd wonder why anyone would ever even think of writing things like that. "I killed the mom, and the daughter's next!" It's so obvious, perhaps it's a reverse psychology thing that any police who find it would assume it's a frame job?
The gameplay and puzzles: The hidden object scenes do that thing I hate where they only have eight list items at any given time and replace them as you go. Each scene did have only one item that required an extra step, so that was okay. Some of the inventory puzzles were weird (recharge a battery using a defibrillator!) or fell into the trap of the too-similar item (I need to attach a blade to a pole to cut a wire. Can't use the knife, though...I had to wait until I had a SCALPEL. Buh-scuse me?) Most mini-games were familiar, and once again I skipped the one where you have to move nodes so that the wires don't cross - I have NO idea if there's any strategy for it - but there was a new one, and it was so easy it might not have bothered to be a puzzle at all.
The game contains "beyond objects" that are shape-shifting items in each screen. There are no achievements, though, and I have no idea if they unlock anything, so I'm not sure if there's any point in finding them whatsoever.
It did have a few minor bugs, such as the wrong success message being displayed, or telling you that you need something after you've already done it, letting you click on a mini-area after you've done all you can there, things like that.
The audio and dialogue: No voice acting outside of "Angel, angel, angel...". Dialogue was surprisingly un-janky, EXCEPT for the poems about the seven sins. Half rhymed, half were like "fuck it, we can't make this rhyme, good enough." One of the first sound effects you hear is a door opening and it's straight out of Daggerfall. The rest are unremarkable.
The graphics: Not too bad. Kinda standard for these sorts of games. Near the end of the game, you do get to see what you look like: you're a plain-looking dude in a hospital gown. It suddenly becomes pretty comical to imagine you doing everything you did while still in a hospital gown.
The length: 4.3 hours for both main chapter and bonus chapter. I played on expert mode but at times I had to use hints because I didn't notice an object in a room I needed. Partly my fault because duh, hidden object game; partly theirs to not make the important objects stick out more. Overall, not a bad length. Feel free to play on easy, get hints, skip puzzles, etc. because there are no achievements.
The verdict: If you're not playing for the story, the gameplay is average. It's nothing special, but nothing horrible, and has small but overlookable flaws as seen above. But the fact that the game's story is unpolished, incomplete, just plain all over the place with unanswered questions, I couldn't recommend it.
The story: You play a nameless dude - oh wait, not technically true, you choose your name at the beginning and it just uses that, because you see your name in a logbook - who wakes up in a hospital for reasons that aren't fully explained, and you aren't sure where you are. It's implied it's a mental hospital but contains rooms that make it look like a regular hospital...so who knows. You then discover that the hospital's three eminent doctors/psychologists invoked a ritual to summon demons, apparently for fun. So your job is to banish the seven demons (based on the seven deadly sins) and help the head doctor's dead daughter who's now an angel (and every time she shows up, she's accompanied by these whispering echoes that say "Angel, angel, angel..." which is really weird for several reasons.) Even overlooking the lapses in both research and catechism, the game is basically half a story. I was hoping the bonus chapter would shed some light on how you were brought there and what exactly is going on, but it's a "two days earlier" segment, where you....wake up in the same hospital. So the main chapter means he has no memory of the past few days. It raises more questions than it answers. The ending doesn't help either: Spoilers!
You wake up in the hospital AGAIN, only it looks brighter and more cheerful, sort of like you were in the Otherworld Alchemilla and now you're in the fog world one.
There was a subplot about how Angel died. You find evidence such as written confessions all over the place, and they're so blatant you'd wonder why anyone would ever even think of writing things like that. "I killed the mom, and the daughter's next!" It's so obvious, perhaps it's a reverse psychology thing that any police who find it would assume it's a frame job?
The gameplay and puzzles: The hidden object scenes do that thing I hate where they only have eight list items at any given time and replace them as you go. Each scene did have only one item that required an extra step, so that was okay. Some of the inventory puzzles were weird (recharge a battery using a defibrillator!) or fell into the trap of the too-similar item (I need to attach a blade to a pole to cut a wire. Can't use the knife, though...I had to wait until I had a SCALPEL. Buh-scuse me?) Most mini-games were familiar, and once again I skipped the one where you have to move nodes so that the wires don't cross - I have NO idea if there's any strategy for it - but there was a new one, and it was so easy it might not have bothered to be a puzzle at all.
The game contains "beyond objects" that are shape-shifting items in each screen. There are no achievements, though, and I have no idea if they unlock anything, so I'm not sure if there's any point in finding them whatsoever.
It did have a few minor bugs, such as the wrong success message being displayed, or telling you that you need something after you've already done it, letting you click on a mini-area after you've done all you can there, things like that.
The audio and dialogue: No voice acting outside of "Angel, angel, angel...". Dialogue was surprisingly un-janky, EXCEPT for the poems about the seven sins. Half rhymed, half were like "fuck it, we can't make this rhyme, good enough." One of the first sound effects you hear is a door opening and it's straight out of Daggerfall. The rest are unremarkable.
The graphics: Not too bad. Kinda standard for these sorts of games. Near the end of the game, you do get to see what you look like: you're a plain-looking dude in a hospital gown. It suddenly becomes pretty comical to imagine you doing everything you did while still in a hospital gown.
The length: 4.3 hours for both main chapter and bonus chapter. I played on expert mode but at times I had to use hints because I didn't notice an object in a room I needed. Partly my fault because duh, hidden object game; partly theirs to not make the important objects stick out more. Overall, not a bad length. Feel free to play on easy, get hints, skip puzzles, etc. because there are no achievements.
The verdict: If you're not playing for the story, the gameplay is average. It's nothing special, but nothing horrible, and has small but overlookable flaws as seen above. But the fact that the game's story is unpolished, incomplete, just plain all over the place with unanswered questions, I couldn't recommend it.
The Dear Leader
Banned
Don't fall asleep driving. That's a dangerous game friendo.
Played through the Batman: Arkham Knight season pass story stuff.
It's really thin, but I knew that before going in. Yet it was still surprising just how thin it is.
First I finished all the Arkham stories and had this feeling that there's no way that was it, and then looked at the DLC list on the client and was reminded of Season of Infamy. Almost missed it just because they put it in the main story instead of its own menu like the rest of them.
What a great looking game though. All the character models are just amazing.
I said wow.
It's really thin, but I knew that before going in. Yet it was still surprising just how thin it is.
First I finished all the Arkham stories and had this feeling that there's no way that was it, and then looked at the DLC list on the client and was reminded of Season of Infamy. Almost missed it just because they put it in the main story instead of its own menu like the rest of them.
What a great looking game though. All the character models are just amazing.
I said wow.
The Dear Leader
Banned
The amount of detail in the world and on the characters is just staggering.
Jawmuncher
Member
Only game I'm buying this month is gears 4.
Atraveller
Banned
Why? Your ISP has data cap?
Jawmuncher
Member
Only game I'm interested in this month.
Though the windows store is terrible and keeps resetting my download. So just gonna play on xb1 , sadly.
Backlogger
Member
Picked up Grimm Dawn from the BST thread, now I don't need to get this month's humble bundle
Love this genre!
Love this genre!
Atraveller
Banned
What ever happened to Deus Ex's 9/30 soundtrack release?
laserlaser
Member
Finally copped assualt android cactus. So good. Shame it didn't sell better. The name and android aesthetics don't help tho
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Why is it so fucking hard to get SOME service rep to admit Nvidia and Amazon were doing the Gears promo? I'm never getting my shit.
That's ridiculous. I'm sure I got an email about it from Nvidia so it shouldn't be this hard to pin them down on it.
oipic
Member
Yep, you can still subscribe (and receive Grim Dawn) now - up until it goes 'live' on the 7th, I believe.
If the characters cost $20 total, you are basically saving $40 for the story mode, since that'll be the only thing left locked from the free version IIRC.
That said, given how overpriced the DLC is on Steam, I expect them VASTLY overprice the F2P unlocks.
Yes. Just make sure that you have paid for the bundle before it's been revealed. If you haven't been charged and received the bundle in your purchase history you may have to use the pay early option.
I don't think it has been confirmed, but it was announced as a PS4 console exclusive and would follow the publishers strategy.
The Audio in RAGE is literally broken or is there something wrong on my end? It literally cuts out randomly while driving or walking. But not entirely, only footsteps and engine sound, it's driving me crazy
I'm playing on an Asus rog cuz i'm in canada for work, I've already tried to kill all the asus app and I've updated the realtek driver. I'm out of ideas now
I'm playing on an Asus rog cuz i'm in canada for work, I've already tried to kill all the asus app and I've updated the realtek driver. I'm out of ideas now
hooijdonk17
Member
It worked perfectly on my system when I played it last year; Realtek HD onboard.. Could be the game or windows is trying to output surround when you are only using 2.0/2.1
hooijdonk17
Member
What in the fucking what?..
NingenJanai
Member
what?
always good
Depending on what games are included.
Buying all crap bundle does you not good since it's building your already huge library with crap games that you never will play any way. Why not just spend less money on crap bundles and more on quality games instead?
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
bundles.
LurkerPrime
Member
Looks like Denuvo is completely cracked and my theory that the CPY cracking group are simply pacing out their releases every 2 weeks is true.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/55j583/mirrors_edge_catalyst_cracked_cpy/
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/55j583/mirrors_edge_catalyst_cracked_cpy/
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