Yea it's really enjoyable, but I don't last too long. Gotta work on getting more loot and upgrades early on.
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STEAM | October II 2014 - PC Gaming: Getting a D in Yoga class
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Yea it's really enjoyable, but I don't last too long. Gotta work on getting more loot and upgrades early on.
oh its not even a shitty single player shooter, like Legendary or something?
Nope, it's to join L4D 1, L4D 2, Killling Floor, Ghost Recon Phantoms and the like.
Haunted
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If you have a Teleglitch key left over, just wait a week and the keys might be in more demand again - now it's just going to overload modbot with all the untaken keys because you can literally get the game for free, right now, without using modbot. >_>
Risk of Rain is fantastic, btw. Kiting is the name of the game, no shame in playing on easy to get your bearings. General strategy should be to scour the first three or four levels for as much containers as you can find and hoof it through the rest (until you're an unstoppable one-man army). Also while I wouldn't say it's balanced for more people, it's certainly easier with a couple of friends playing coop.
Risk of Rain is fantastic, btw. Kiting is the name of the game, no shame in playing on easy to get your bearings. General strategy should be to scour the first three or four levels for as much containers as you can find and hoof it through the rest (until you're an unstoppable one-man army). Also while I wouldn't say it's balanced for more people, it's certainly easier with a couple of friends playing coop.
itllgrobak
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Just started playing Risk of Rain, and uh, I'm stuck on level 1. I killed the boss and I have to kill the Remaining enemies, but there's an invisible wall :
Glitch? or am I missing something obvious?
Glitch? or am I missing something obvious?
BinaryPork2737
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Since The Last Door is supposed to be in the Groupees horror bundle tomorrow, I decided to play it to get into the spooky Halloween spirit. And it turns out that it's pretty great.
The Collector's Edition is a compilation of the four episodes of the game's first season (season two is currently in development) and four different mini episodes. The game is a point and click adventure game with horror trappings that put it more into the realm of suspense thriller than anything. Set in Victorian England, you play as Jeremiah Devitt, a seemingly average man that's recently received a letter from his old boarding school friend and colleague Anthony Beechworth. Devitt travels to Beechworth's old mansion to determine the meaning of the letter and discover what's befallen his old friend. What follows is a homage inspired by authors like Edgar Alan Poe, HP Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, and others.
In terms of gameplay, it's basically your standard point and click adventure game. Most of the game is, shockingly, finding items, walking, talking to NPCs, reading notes/diaries/letters, walking some more, solving puzzles, and repeat. It tends to suffer from the same flaws as many other games in its genre in the form of having a few obtuse puzzles here and there that will probably take a while to solve. For example, (and I'll put this in spoilers if you don't want a late game puzzle's partial solution ruined)
towards the end of the game, you find an envelope that contains a photographic plate. To develop it, you need a darkroom, and there's one that you can use, mostly already set up. The problem is that you're missing a red light. You've got a normal light bulb in the room's lamp, though, so you take it, go outside to where you came from in the beginning of the episode, and find a dead deer that was apparently killed while you went inside this mansion. So you shove your hand and the light bulb into the deer's guts because its abdomen is ripped open, and you've got a red light bulb.
The narrative is well handled. It starts off sort of realistic, but progressively becomes more surreal over the course of the game; even the first episode/chapter experiments with a bit of surrealism at times. The game's filled with flashbacks throughout, and they're handled well, slowly revealing Devitt's past and his previous interactions with the supporting cast. Each episode has an opening scene that establishes the tone and major theme of each part; the first chapter's opening is probably the best of the bunch just because of how melancholy and dire it is. The extra episodes provide a bit more insight to the events of the game and develop the world a bit, offering a few hints as to what happened in some parts. The extra episodes are all very short, some of them under a minute in length, so they don't overstay their welcome. The game's overall length is roughly 2-4 hours, so you can finish it in a sitting or two. But be warned that the ending is slightly disappointing and that the game ends on a cliffhanger.
In terms of atmosphere, The Last Door manages to pull of a creepy atmosphere really well despite its 8 bit art style. The art style, by the way, is going to put some people off, but they're really missing out if they skip this for that reason. Despite the low fidelity art style, the game is easily able to get its imagery across without becoming too silly looking, for the most part; admittedly, there was one scene in the early part of the second episode that made me laugh, but it's more of an outlier. A lot of the imagery can be slightly unsettling, and often focuses on crows and eyeballs. There are also mild jump scares. If that's something you dislike, just know that this game's jump scares probably won't freak you out too bad. Just keep in mind that the game tends to rely more on creating a suspenseful mood than dropping jump scares on you every ten seconds. There are also some well hidden secrets in the game that add to the atmosphere as well, with most of them being creepy and offering no real explanation as to what happened other than psychological explanations. The music really adds to the Victorian theme of the game, often being driven by violins, pianos, organs, and cellos. The soundtrack just does a great job of adding to the melancholy, tension filled, suspenseful mood. It's just really easy to gush about how good the OST is.
What I'm getting at is that The Last Door is pretty great for what it is, and that everyone should buy and play it when it's in tomorrow's bundle.
I agree that giving away games that are currently free is a bit pointless, but is modbot really in any danger of being overloaded? I've definitely seen him busier than he is now, during megagiver giveaways or whatever.
Buttonbasher
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Because why be ALONE in the Dark when you can be Alone in the Dark with three friends.
This logic checks out.
Haunted
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That does look like a glitch. :/Just started playing Risk of Rain, and uh, I'm stuck on level 1. I killed the boss and I have to kill the Remaining enemies, but there's an invisible wall :
Glitch? or am I missing something obvious?
Never seen that one before, and I've cleared that game numerous times! (and played the first level god knows how often...
). Additional bad luck: you could still clear out those enemies with some of the other classes (that have verticality in their shots), but not the Commando.You're right, I shouldn't have worded it that way. Modbot's fine, but doing the giveaway now is still kinda pointless.
Just started playing Risk of Rain, and uh, I'm stuck on level 1. I killed the boss and I have to kill the Remaining enemies, but there's an invisible wall :
Glitch? or am I missing something obvious?
Yeah, I want to say that's a glitch, I don't think I've seen that before.
WinterDemons
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Probably a glitch since there's been a lot lately.
And since no one has this game...
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4lone in the Dark.
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
ForeverAloneInTheDark
Buttonbasher
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holy shit
itllgrobak
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10 minutes in and I hit a rare glitch, Figures
yeah but there were several times where it was on sale so I thought about grabbing it... glad I didn't
Tesseract
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you're breaking my heart.
I have the reaction speeds of a drugged slug, my friend.
Relaxed Muscle
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Why I didn't see this when I had MGR installed?
Stallion Free
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Well 100%ing Costume Quest 2 achievements are just as easy as the first game. Still feels pretty good though.
PLASTICA-MAN
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I hope they include the Enlighten dynamic GI for it, it would make the atmosphere more immersive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHbHOQ1NRuw&feature=youtu.be
MarcoZombieCannon
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I guess so. But I'm not gonna play it to find out, so meh.
Might help for some future list war thing I suppose. >_>
Haunted
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Goddamn nanomachines.
Just started playing Risk of Rain, and uh, I'm stuck on level 1. I killed the boss and I have to kill the Remaining enemies, but there's an invisible wall :
Glitch? or am I missing something obvious?
Glitch. Recent patch didn't seem to be tested particularly well beforehand and introduced a ton of bugs. The patch they released today fixed some issues and introduced a bunch more, including screwing up leveling past level 2. (If you're just playing the game for the first time and you're wondering if it's supposed to be this hard, no, it isn't. A lot of people are saying the difficulty curve is broken to the point of it being unplayable right now.)
InfiniteNine
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Oh wow, looking through that board I found a camera fix. Definitely a welcome mod!
Relaxed Muscle
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I know, just was pointing out that I didn't realized such mod existed.
Ah, right.
i might have to replay this now
Ban Puncher
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Atraveller
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I tried to play MGR's DLC the day before yesterday, then I got my ass handed back to me(is it just me? Or is Sam's parry window a lot shorter than Raiden's), then I realized I got other games to finish so I uninstalled it.
guess you dont want Jazzpunk. Fuck you then Punchy >_<
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Atraveller
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Another time, it's Witcher 1 and Alien now, might play some other games before Dragon Age comes.
The Dear Leader
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Not sure if this has been posted, but this AC Unity interactive trailer is really cool, apparently they had a thing going were you could design your own assassin and this trailer incorporates all those assassins, you can stop it whenever you want and look at the names on the people, it's really neat.
https://acunity-unite.com/trailer/
https://acunity-unite.com/trailer/
Just let me play the game already. I won't have a 970 in time but I can deal with "High" textures.
Spring-Loaded
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it's hard as hell, yes
During the final boss, if you're going for no damage, roll FORWARD at him while far away from the edges of the arena when he does his repeated charge attack
The Dear Leader
Banned
I'm in the same "waiting on a 970" boat, but I'm actually just going to hold off on playing it.
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
A dick shion.
if its anything like the ultra / high textures on Mordor, they will look the same
to me
I also cant tell a difference when I downsample either, either my eyes are broken or my monitor is shit. Its actually probably a mix of both
I can tell the difference between 30 and 60 fps at least >_>
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
I just always think of it as a digital way of penis compensation. I don't feel the need to max out games especially with diminishing returns. Gameplay alone should be driver.
You should have bought a Wii U, havent you heard? thats the new hotness, PS4 is old news
NingenJanai
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Can you play Bayonetta 2 in that?
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
Sounds like the states, really.
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